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Ohio State Sen. Michael Rulli criticized Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for his response to the East Palestine train derailment saying, "he has not even come close to being near ground Zero." The Republican also suggested on "The Faulkner Focus" that residents keep a health and environmental data journal" because the statements from public officials on air and water safety are "hard to believe."
OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT: EPA ADMIN SAYS HE WOULD LET HIS CHILDREN DRINK THE WATER IF IT WERE TESTED BY THE STATE
STATE SEN. MICHAEL RULLI: I think the secretary of transportation needs to resign. I think Marco Rubio was point-on. I think his response to this is the last straw. He's already proven over the last two years that he's incompetent at this job. They call him Pothole Pete for a reason. He should not be in this position. He has not even come close to being near ground Zero. And he should be ashamed. | 2023-02-18T00:57:27+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/pete-buttigieg-is-incompetent-and-needs-to-resign-says-ohio-lawmaker/article_066a0643-9a42-527f-b1a1-c90864b62417.html |
Boat carrying 71 Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia
By RISKA MUNAWARAH and YAYAN ZAMZAMI
Associated Press
ACEH BESAR, Indonesia (AP) — A boat carrying 71 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims fleeing from refugee camps in Bangladesh has landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province, Fifteen-year-old Shorif Uddin, who was on the boat with his parents, says two or three people died while they were at sea because of a lack of food. He says the Rohingya had been unable to find work or achieve higher education in the refugee camps and decided to leave Bangladesh for Indonesia. He says his parents paid money to board the boat along with other refugees, but the captain fled the vessel as it was passing India. | 2023-02-16T13:44:49+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/16/boat-carrying-71-rohingya-refugees-lands-in-indonesia/ |
GRAPHIC: Man charged with beating blind man in wheelchair to death
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (KMOV/Gray News) – A blind man who used a wheelchair was beaten to death inside an Illinois home over the weekend, according to investigators.
Police said around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, 30-year-old Blake Streeb attacked two people inside a home in Granite City.
One of the victims, identified as 25-year-old Michael Reay, later died from his injuries. The second victim was hurt, but officials did not clarify the extent of injuries.
Streeb was arrested on the scene.
According to Reay’s uncle, Gary Reay, an accident as a teenager left Michael Reay blind and in a wheelchair. The family said he was defenseless when he was brutally attacked Sunday.
“Our understanding is (Streeb) showed up to the place and he beat Michael to a pulp, clearly from the picture here. He was beat beyond recognition and stomped,” Gary Reay said.
Photos from the hospital show Michael Reay on life support and with facial injuries beyond recognition.
The family said Michael Reay was visiting a friend the night of the attack. The family said they do not know Streeb.
Investigators with the Madison County Sheriff’s Department said this was not a random attack, although they are not yet sharing further information on a motive.
Investigators said Streeb lived nearby and was an acquaintance of the people who live in the house where the attack happened. The other victim who was injured lived at the home.
Capt. Brian Koberna said investigators believe Streeb was intoxicated at the time of the attack. The second victim was able to get away and call 911.
Investigators said they have responded to that house in the past for disturbance calls.
Michael Reay was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries. His family said some of his organs were donated.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the Reay family with funeral expenses.
Streeb remains behind bars, facing first-degree murder and battery charges. His bond was set at $1 million.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s Kristóf Milák thrilled home fans by lowering his own world record in the men’s 200 butterfly at the swimming world championships on Tuesday, when American swimmers claimed another three gold medals.
The 22-year-old Milák produced a stunning swim to clock 1 minute, 50.34 seconds and earn Hungary its first gold medal of the competition.
“Now it hurts a lot, I don’t feel my legs,” said Milák, who shaved 0.39 seconds off the previous record he set at the last worlds. “I think I pushed a bit harder over the first 100 meters, that’s why it was so painful at the end but I really wanted this world record, wanted it more than anything.”
Milák was 3.03 quicker than Léon Marchand, who improved on the French record he set in the semifinals. Japan’s Tomoru Honda was third.
The 20-year-old Marchand later set another national record of 1:55.75 as he was fastest in the semifinals of the men’s 200 individual medley.
“Two great times today!” Marchand said.
American swimmer Bobby Finke also set a national record of 7:39.36 as he produced a sizzling finish to win the first gold of the evening in the men’s 800 freestyle.
Ukrainian swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk looked headed for victory but Finke, who was fourth going into the last 50 meters, swam it in only 25.93 seconds to overtake both Romanchuk and Germany’s Florian Wellbrock for the victory.
“I was just thinking in my head it is just a 50 left. It is only like 26 seconds of pain and if I can pull off a win, it is worth it. I’ll settle through the pain,” Finke said.
Third-place Romanchuk finished just 0.69 seconds behind. He nearly didn’t make it to Budapest and spoke afterward about his father fighting in Ukraine.
China’s Yang Junxuan won the women’s 200 freestyle, clocking 1:54.92 to finish just ahead of Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan, who claimed her first individual medal at a worlds. Another Chinese swimmer, Tang Muhan, was third.
Nic Fink then took advantage of Adam Peaty’s injury-enforced absence to win the men’s 50 breaststroke in an American record of 26.45 seconds, edging Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi and American compatriot Michael Andrew.
“I didn’t see anything over the last five meters,” Fink said.
Fink later claimed his second gold of the night by helping American teammates Hunter Armstrong, Torri Huske and Claire Curzan to victory in the mixed 4×100 medley relay ahead of the Australian and Dutch teams.
It was the 10th gold for the United States at this worlds, where American swimmers have also claimed three silver and nine bronze.
Up-and-coming Romanian star David Popovici set a junior world record in the semifinals of the men’s 100 freestyle – 47.13 seconds – though he rued defending champion Caeleb Dressel’s surprise late absence.
It’s unclear what’s ailing Dressel and if he’ll be able to take part in 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly races later in the worlds.
Another rising star, 15-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh, was fastest with a junior world record of 2:05.79 in the semifinals of the women’s 200 butterfly.
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LONDON, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Tetragon has released its Monthly Factsheet for August 2022.
- Net Asset Value: $2,708m
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- Share Price (TFG NA): $10.30
- Monthly NAV per share total return: 0.3%
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- Most recent quarterly dividend: $0.11
- Dividend yield: 4.2%
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Aaron Judge has already accomplished a myriad of things with the Yankees.
By smacking his 16th and 17th home runs of the season on Monday night, he reached another impressive feat, something that Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Reggie Jackson never did.
With 17 homers through the team’s first 42 games, Judge joined an exclusive list. Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez and Tino Martinez are the only other Bombers to ever hit 17 home runs in the team’s first 42 games of a season.
The 17 round-trippers also give Judge the current Major League lead, by far. Entering Tuesday, the next closest player is Houston’s Yordan Alvarez with 12. Judge is also hitting .325 — well above his career average of .279 — and trails only Mike Trout for the league lead in OPS. By Wins Above Replacement, only Manny Machado has been better this season.
With two home runs, three RBI and a walk on Monday, Judge had a better night than some hitters have in a week. Nobody understands just how hot he is quite like the men who share a dugout with him, and they are just as dumbfounded as the rest of us. When asked about the current run that Judge is on (he has an .829 slugging percentage in the month of May, clobbering 11 homers in 20 games), Gerrit Cole couldn’t hold back an appreciative smile.
“Sometimes I feel like he’s salivating for something, gets it, and drills it,” Cole said of Judge’s approach at the plate. “And then sometimes I feel like he’s just being a good baseball player, staying up the middle, and then drills it the same way.”
Of his 49 hits, 24 are singles, eight are doubles, and 17 have cleared the wall, including six that went to right or right-center field.
“He’s not looking for slug all the time, he’s just putting better swings on balls than guys are throwing,” Cole said.
“It’s really special,” Aaron Boone said, repeating that sentence twice. “I sometimes take him for granted, I think. But not right now. He’s really carrying us offensively right now.”
The Yankees have hit their first true obstacle of the year, not only losing three games in a row for the first time in 2022, but also losing several key players. They will, barring a medical miracle, not get indispensable reliever Chad Green back from Tommy John surgery for at least 12 months. Two guys they look to for stability in the back end of the bullpen, Aroldis Chapman and Jonathan Loaisiga, have been treated very unkindly by opposing hitters. Injured pitchers Domingo German and Zack Britton have not pitched for the Bombers at all this season.
And on the heels of his “Jackie” saga — which certainly affected the clubhouse, even if the Yankees downplayed it — Josh Donaldson joined Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka on the COVID injured list on Monday.
In other words, the Yankees are not at full strength right now. With three of their regular position players all going on the COVID IL in the same week, Isiah Kiner-Falefa was forced to hit fifth on Monday night. The shortstop known mostly for his glove had not started a single game for the Yankees above the seventh spot until this avalanche started.
This presents a perfect example of why it helps so much to have Judge, who is neck and neck with Trout in the early race for American League MVP. Adding to the list of mind-blowing Judge statistics, he is the only player in franchise history to have nine three-RBI performances in the team’s first 42 games. He is the second player to have four multi-homer games in the first 42, an honor he shares with Ruth.
“I got a job to do at the top of the lineup,” Judge said. “I got a lot of great hitters around me, which makes my job a lot easier.”
In 2017, Judge’s best full season in the big leagues, the protection immediately after him in the lineup was often Matt Holliday, Didi Gregorius and/or Starlin Castro. As a result, Judge ran an 18.7% walk rate, the tenth-highest of any qualified Yankee hitter in the integration era. Teams rarely had an incentive to pitch to him, as they knew that the quality of the Bombers’ lineup dropped off as soon as he left the box.
Now, as Judge has settled into the two-hole with Anthony Rizzo and Giancarlo Stanton usually behind him, the price of walking No. 99 becomes steeper. Teams can’t afford to pitch around him nearly as much as they used to, and because of this, Judge is walking 11.0% of the time he comes to bat this season. That’s a good thing for the Yankees in many ways. First, an 11% walk rate is still elite (league average right now is 8.5%), but the Yankees would also definitely rather watch him jog around all four bases than just to one of them.
Getting their best player more pitches to hit is a tasty recipe for success and one of several reasons why the team came into Tuesday with the second-best overall offense in the AL, trailing only Trout’s Angels.
If Judge continues at this pace, the Yankees won’t be trailing any team for much longer, whether it’s on the statistical leaderboards, the scoreboard during games, or in the fight for baseball’s best record.
() | 2022-05-24T16:42:41+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/24/aaron-judge-joins-the-likes-of-mickey-mantle-babe-ruth-with-17-home-runs-in-first-42-games/ |
- U.S. new-vehicle sales in July are forecast to finish down year over year as supply remains low.
- Annual new-vehicle sales pace in July is forecast to finish near 13.2 million, up from last month's 13.0 million seasonally adjusted pace but 10% lower than last year's 14.7 million level.
- July sales volume is expected to fall to 1.12 million units, down 13% from one year ago and down 2% from last month.
ATLANTA, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- July U.S. auto sales are expected to show very little change from June's results as a lack of supply continues to batter the new-vehicle market. According to the Cox Automotive forecast released today, the seasonally adjusted rate (SAAR) of new-vehicle sales in July is expected to rise slightly to 13.2 million, up from last month's 13.0 million pace but fall well below last year's 14.7 million level.
The sales volume in July is forecast to finish near 1.12 million units, down 13% from last year's volume of 1.29 million and lower by 2% from June. With 26 selling days in July, the same as last month and one less than last year, the volume decline is mainly attributed to the continued lack of available product.
"As we move into the second half of 2022, there are plenty of headwinds pushing against a notable recovery in sales volumes," said Cox Automotive Senior Economist Charlie Chesbrough. "Rising interest rates and low consumer sentiment are keeping many potential buyers out of the market. At the same time, higher prices for both gasoline and vehicles are making affordability an even greater challenge. Tight supply, however, continues to be the biggest obstacle over the near term, and there is little evidence of supply returning to normal."
Most industry forecasters, including Cox Automotive, expect the chip shortage and other supply chain problems to improve throughout the second half of this year. Still, the pace of that recovery will be varied and volatile. Notes Chesbrough, "Industry observers are likely going to have to wait until the fall for any of these issues to show improvement."
July 2022 Sales Forecast Highlights
- In July, light new-vehicle sales are expected to fall 13.4% from July 2021 and fall 2.1% from last month.
- The SAAR in July 2022 is estimated to be 13.2 million, below last year's 14.7 million level but up from June's 13.0 million pace.
- Only one segment – Compact Car – is forecast to see a month-over-month sales increase.
- There are 26 selling days in July 2022, one less than July 2021 but the same as June 2022.
July 2022 New-Vehicle Sales Forecast
All percentages are based on raw volume, not daily selling rate.
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Willi Castro Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - July 4
Published: Jul. 4, 2023 at 9:24 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Minnesota Twins, including Willi Castro (.419 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 99 points above season-long percentage), take on starting pitcher Zack Greinke and the Kansas City Royals at Target Field, Tuesday at 2:10 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he went 1-for-2 against the Royals.
Willi Castro Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Tuesday, July 4, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Zack Greinke
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +165)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Willi Castro At The Plate
- Castro is batting .253 with nine doubles, five home runs and 13 walks.
- Castro has gotten a hit in 34 of 60 games this season (56.7%), with more than one hit on 12 occasions (20.0%).
- In 6.7% of his games this season, he has hit a home run, and 2.4% of his trips to the dish.
- Castro has driven in a run in 13 games this season (21.7%), including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- In 41.7% of his games this year, he has scored at least once. And he's had four games with multiple runs (6.7%).
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Willi Castro Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Royals has a collective 8.3 K/9, which ranks 23rd in the league.
- The Royals' 5.19 team ERA ranks 28th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Royals pitchers combine to surrender 97 total home runs at a clip of 1.1 per game (to rank 19th in baseball).
- Greinke makes the start for the Royals, his 18th of the season. He is 1-8 with a 4.74 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 87 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Thursday, the right-hander went six innings against the Cleveland Guardians, allowing two earned runs while surrendering 11 hits.
- This season, the 39-year-old ranks 57th in ERA (4.74), 44th in WHIP (1.282), and 60th in K/9 (6.3) among pitchers who qualify.
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(NEXSTAR) – The days of 40-person bidding wars and offers that are six figures over asking may be over, according a recent analysis of the 2023 real estate market.
The national median home price rose 17.6% in 2021, then another 10% in 2022. Those soaring prices over the past several years made home sellers happy, but now steep mortgage rates are slowing things down.
“Median prices have declined on a monthly basis since mortgage rates doubled between January (2022) and October, and are likely to decline further in many markets across the country in 2023, reducing profitability for home sellers,” Rick Sharga, with real estate data tracker Attom, told the Associated Press.
Knock, a home loan company, created a Buyer-Seller Market Index to evaluate the state of the housing market in 100 U.S. metro areas. A year ago, all 100 markets analyzed by Knock favored sellers, the company said. At the start of 2023, 13 markets favored buyers, 43 were neutral and 44 favored sellers. Knock predicts more markets will continue to shift toward favoring buyers over the next 12 months.
One North Carolina city remains an exception, according to the report. Fayetteville, with its population of around 200,000, is the only market that didn’t move toward benefiting buyers in 2022.
The top markets for buyers in 2023, according to Knock, will be:
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas
- Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, Arizona
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, Georgia
- Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Florida
- Tucson, Arizona
- Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, Colorado
- Killeen-Temple, Texas
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, North Carolina-South Carolina
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Memphis, Tennessee-Mississippi-Arkansas
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Michigan
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa
Even for markets where things are growing more favorable for buyers, Knock had some words of caution: “Home shoppers will not see significant price declines in a majority of the 100 largest housing markets. Rather, prices will decline, mostly by small amounts, in just 16 large markets over the next 12 months.”
The company’s real estate forecast expects 20 of the 100 largest markets to still see median sales prices rise by at least 10%.
The top markets for sellers will be:
- Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Rochester, New York
- Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, Connecticut
- Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- New Haven-Milford, Connecticut
- Syracuse, New York
- Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Pennsylvania-New Jersey
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wisconsin
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Salisbury, Maryland
- Portland-South Portland, Maine
- Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island-Massachusetts
The report includes a forecast for 100 real estate markets around the country. See the full analysis here.
To create its Buyer-Seller Market Index, Knock considered six data points in each market: the average sale-to-asking price ratio, the number of homes sold, number of active listings, the median days a home sits on market, the median sale price and the monthly home inventory. | 2023-02-19T18:16:17+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/will-your-city-favor-buyers-or-sellers-real-estate-report-makes-predictions-for-2023/ |
Only 1 Texas Republican in Congress voted to protect same-sex marriage
Almost all U.S. House Republicans from Texas on Tuesday opposed formally codifying the right to same-sex marriage into federal law.
Rep. Tony Gonzales of San Antonio was the only Texas Republican to vote for the legislation. Rep. Brian Babin of Woodville did not vote.
The final vote was 267-157, with 47 Republicans joining all 220 Democrats in a rare show of bipartisanship. Republicans typically balk at many Democrat-led bills — particularly those pertaining to social issues.
It’s unclear whether the bill has any chance to pass the Senate, where 10 Republican Senators would have to support the legislation. At least one Republican supports it: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is a sponsor of the legislation.
The bill effectively codifies into federal law the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that prohibited same-sex marriage bans nationwide. The legislation would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 bill Democratic former President Bill Clinton signed into law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. The bill would also require states to recognize same-sex marriages if they were valid in the state they were performed.
The vote is one of several that House Democrats have planned in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark and deeply polarizing decision last month to overturn Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion nearly 50 years ago. In that ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that the court should consider reversing rulings that said it was unconstitutional for states to ban same-sex marriage, criminalize homosexuality and restrict access to contraception, alarming Democrats.
“I believe this law is key to rejecting the interpretation of Justice Clarence Thomas,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, said on the House floor Tuesday morning. “We should not jeopardize someone’s right to love who they want to love.”
Texas voters overwhelmingly voted to ban same-sex marriage in 2005, but several district court rulings had declared that unconstitutional. The state GOP has also condemned same-sex marriage in every one of its biennial platforms, and this year’s platform included a plank that said “homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice.” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said last week that the 2015 decision prohibiting same-sex marriage bans was “clearly wrong” and represented overreach by the nation’s highest court.
Approval of same-sex marriage keeps increasing in the U.S. A Gallup poll from May found 71% of Americans support same-sex marriage, an all-time high.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, on Tuesday said it would be difficult for the Senate to have enough time to schedule votes on same-sex marriage and contraception rights. The Senate is slated to go on a four-week recess in August.
“We have more priorities than we have time,” Durbin told reporters on Tuesday.
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Oklahoma legislators vote against bill to protect gay marriage through federal law | 2022-07-22T03:39:08+00:00 | gosanangelo.com | https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2022/07/21/only-1-texas-republican-in-congress-voted-to-protect-same-sex-marriage/65378812007/ |
FedEx is rolling out a new system for evaluating its delivery contractors that rank them like Olympic medal winners, and those designated as the lowest level, “bronze,” will be more likely to lose their service areas, according to a company memo.
The evaluations are based on measures of service, safety and customer experience, FedEx said in an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg. The so-called “Service Provider Results Summary” will be updated monthly based on an algorithm that crunches the data. A contractor with a bronze rating could face forfeiture of the standard contacts that permit exclusive delivery rights in a given area, the document said.
The contract changes are part of an effort to increase efficiency — and a signal to the company’s army of more than 6,000 independent contractors that the package-volume boom times are over. FedEx didn’t provide details of the program but said it’s in the process of rolling out a data-driven dashboard for evaluating its contractor partners.
“To enhance the quality of ongoing business discussions and negotiations with independent service provider companies, FedEx Ground is launching a new data-driven approach to communicating contract-specific results via an online dashboard,” the company said in a statement. “This approach is part of how FedEx Ground is adapting its business to evolving market dynamics and customer needs, and has been informed by input from many service provider businesses.”
Chief Executive Officer Raj Subramaniam, who took the top job in June and faces pressure from an activist investor, has pledged to cut some $3.7 billion in costs to better align the company with falling demand for its services and boost profit margins. The new evaluation system also comes as FedEx aims to improve its competitiveness with rival United Parcel Service, which benefited from its unionized workforce’s fixed wages but now faces tough negotiations this year with the Teamsters.
Some of FedEx’s own contractors sought to organize themselves last year and demand higher payments after two years of elevated package deliveries and aggressive price hikes. But FedEx quickly crushed that revolt — which wasn’t aligned with any trade union — even as it sought ways to cut costs and cope with a rapid drop in package volumes.
Contractors rated as “gold” or “silver” also face new challenges to keep their routes. They will only have 14 days to accept an offer from the company to bid on service-area renewals. If they don’t reply within that time frame, FedEx reserves the right to have already begun negotiations with other contractors for competing bids to those exclusive delivery service areas. FedEx calls this an Independent Service Provider Agreement.
“If negotiations do not result in a tentative acceptance of the negotiated terms for a new ISPA within the two-week time period, the service provider will forgo the OFA and any outstanding offer or proposal by FedEx Ground will be revoked,” the document said. “FedEx Ground will then extend to other candidates an opportunity to execute an ISPA.”
FedEx also is curbing payments that cover extra expenses such as lodging and meals when contractors are dispatched temporarily to help out on other routes, according to at least three contractors who have been informed of the changes. For some contractors, contingency work was a major source of income. The company is instead allowing local contractors to handle higher volumes themselves, the contractors said, raising FedEx’s exposure to a single contractor but reducing the expense of bringing in crews from afar.
The contractors say the medals system will make their contracts more volatile, reducing the equity value in their businesses and creating hurdles for financing. The shift away from long-distance contingency work will hurt those contractors that had dedicated contingency teams and were making more money doing that work than servicing their own areas.
The Memphis, Tennessee-based delivery giant struggled with service issues during the pandemic when a tight labor market pushed up wages and made it difficult to find enough workers to operate sorting operations at capacity. The surge on delivery demand also put pressure on its independent contractors, who faced higher costs for drivers, fuel, maintenance and vehicles.
Contractors’ frustration at the company — and its new leadership team’s promises to cut costs — boiled over in the fall, when some threatened to walk off the job on Black Friday. FedEx resisted demands for increased compensation and the lead organizer of the group was stripped of his delivery contracts with the company, which at one time included 225 routes across 10 states.
CEO Subramaniam, who succeeded founder and current chair Fred Smith, is trying to regain footing at its ground unit, where the operating margin has sunk below 10% in nine of the last 13 quarters. Before that period, the margin had been at 10% or higher going back to 2008 and in some quarters reaching 20%. | 2023-01-31T22:47:32+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/fedex-to-use-olympic-style-rankings-to-weed-out-delivery-contractors/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — The Oakland Police Department has launched an investigation into an incident in which a couple allegedly engaged in a sex act in the stands of an Oakland Athletics game on Sunday. The incident, first reported by TMZ, was seemingly captured on camera by a social media user at the game and posted to Twitter.
In the footage, an isolated couple is seen alone near the top of section 334 engaging in what appears to be a sex act. KRON4 reached out to OPD, which confirmed it was looking into it.
“The Oakland Police Department was not alerted to this incident until after the game and we were advised that A’s staff/cameras did not capture video of this during the game. We have initiated an investigation. However, the parties have not been identified and no one has been cited/arrested at this time. The violation is 647(a) PC. Lewd acts in public,” said OPD Public Information Officer Candace Keas in a statement to KRON4.
If charged and convicted, the couple could be penalized with up to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000.
In other news, the A’s won Sunday’s game, defeating the Seattle Mariners 3-5. | 2022-08-22T21:43:49+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/couple-allegedly-engaging-in-sex-act-at-as-game-being-investigated-by-police/ |
Kori Segich finished with 20 points to power the 10th-seeded Ocean City High boys’ basketball team to a 73-50 victory over 15th-seeded Clearview in the quarterfinals of the NJSIAA South Jersey, Group 3 Tournament Wednesday in Ocean City.
Omero Chevere added 19 points while Patrick Grimley chipped in with 10 points as the Red Raiders advanced to face 11th-seeded Absegami Friday in the semifinals.
Kaprice Stewart (12), Daulton Phalines (11) and Luke Andres (11) scored in double figures for the Pioneers (8-20).
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STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Relatives of a man arrested in Pennsylvania in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the victims’ families but also vowed to support him and promote “his presumption of innocence.”
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is eager to be exonerated and plans to tell a judge Tuesday in Pennsylvania that he will not fight extradition to Idaho, said his public defender, Jason LaBar.
Moscow, Idaho, police Capt. Anthony Dahlinger said that would speed up the process of bringing Kohberger to Idaho to face charges, but that he wasn’t sure yet when that might happen.
Kohberger, a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was taken into custody early Friday by state police at his parents’ home in Chestnuthill Township in eastern Pennsylvania, authorities said.
His parents, Michael and Maryann, and his two older sisters, Amanda and Melissa, said in a statement released Sunday by his attorney that they “care deeply for the four families who have lost their precious children. There are no words that can adequately express the sadness we feel, and we pray each day for them.”
The family said that relatives will continue to let the legal process unfold, and that “as a family we will love and support our son and brother.” They say they have fully cooperated with law enforcement to try to to “seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.”
LaBar, the public defender in Monroe County, Idaho, urged people not to pass judgment until a fair trial has been held.
“Mr. Kohberger has been accused of very serious crimes, but the American justice system cloaks him in a veil of innocence,” LaBar said in a statement. “He should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise — not tried in the court of public opinion.”
Capt. Dahlinger told The Associated Press on Saturday that authorities believe Kohberger was responsible for all four murders. “We believe we’ve got our man,” he said.
Bill Thompson, a prosecutor in Latah County, Idaho, said during a news conference Friday that investigators believe Kohberger broke into the University of Idaho students’ home near campus “with the intent to commit murder.” The bodies of the victims were found Nov. 13, several hours after investigators believe they died.
The students — Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington — were members of the university’s Greek system and close friends. Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle lived in the three-story rental home with two other roommates. Kernodle and Chapin were dating, and he was visiting the house that night.
Autopsies showed all four were likely asleep when they were attacked. Some had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times. There was no sign of sexual assault, police said.
Christina Teves, a spokesperson for the Chapin family, declined to comment Monday on the Kohberger family’s statement. Shanon Gray, a lawyer for the Goncalves family, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Latah County prosecutors have said the affidavit for four charges of first-degree murder in Idaho will remain sealed until he is returned. He is also charged with felony burglary in Idaho. Many details of the case are expected to be released after Kohberger’s first appearance in an Idaho courtroom, Dahlinger said. | 2023-01-02T20:03:42+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-family-of-idaho-slaying-suspect-expresses-sympathy-support/ |
Mauricio Garcia’s life in Texas amounted to what he once described online as “a stinking dead end.”
When he showed up to an outlet mall in Allen, Tex., on May 6, heavily armed and wearing a “Right Wing Death Squad” patch, Garcia’s rage had festered for more than a decade, according to diary-style social media posts attributed to him by extremism monitors and investigative journalists. As early as 2013, when Garcia was in his 20s, the posts expressed violent, hateful views that only hardened in the years leading up to the shooting in which eight people were killed, plus the gunman.
The collection of intimate, detailed posts offer a rare and disturbing look into the radicalization of a mass shooter. The mix of fringe beliefs fits into what extremism monitors call a pattern of recent attacks fueled by multiple violent ideologies, primarily those associated with the far right.
But the writings, alternately self-aggrandizing and self-loathing, stop short of answering why a man who seethed for at least 10 years finally exploded this month. The hundreds of online missives The Washington Post reviewed didn’t explain the timing or say why he zeroed in on Allen Premium Outlets.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said Tuesday that the motive remains unclear but that the shooter harbored “neo-Nazi ideation.” Garcia, 33, had no criminal history and was not on law enforcement’s radar before the massacre.
“His personal demons alone might have driven him to the crime,” Mark Pitcavage, an extremism researcher at the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in an analysis of the posts that called Garcia a “disturbed, hateful man,” but concluded that no overarching motive could be discerned.
Though many assailants publish glory-seeking screeds or live-stream their attacks, few come close to the “voluminous writings” Garcia left behind, according to the ADL report. The diary-style entries, many scribbled on notebook paper and posted online, chronicled the bleak life of a Dallas-area man who bounced from job to job, despised Asians and other people of color, saw himself as a woman-hating “incel,” and yearned for an apocalyptic race war.
“Everything I’ve seen shows that this is about the most textbook mass shooter you’ll ever find, and he tells you about it every step of the way,” tweeted Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler in a detailed thread about the posts. “He’ll be a reference point for decades on mass shooters because he shared so much.”
Garcia posted hundreds of photos of handwritten diary entries, dating back to 2013, and other materials to his account, since removed, on a Russian social media platform. One photo was of a notebook with “Diary of a psychopathic man child” scrawled on the cover. In the weeks leading up to the shooting, according to the dates on the posts, Garcia visited the Allen outlet mall and used Google to figure out when it was busiest. He also gave a video tour of his apartment and filmed a dramatic “face reveal” clip in which he peels off a “Scream” mask and speaks unintelligibly with a voice distorter.
In much of the diary, which begins in 2013, he describes creepy, stilted interactions with women in their workplaces, especially nude dancers at the adult entertainment clubs he frequented.
Garcia also reposted content from a forum dedicated to “incels” — or “involuntarily celibate” men, who believe they are unfairly deemed unattractive and who often blame their problems on women. The movement is linked to a spate of attacks in the last few years.
Some of the stories Garcia recounted in the posts presaged violence, with women singled out for rape and attack fantasies. On some occasions, he wrote, he brought that desire to terrorize women into real-life encounters.
In 2014, for example, he wrote that he asked a young female bank worker if she knew what a psychopath was and told her that he wanted to work as an assassin.
“Killing people is how I want to make my living,” he wrote. The woman “was smiling at me like I was joking. But I was dead serious.”
In 2017, Garcia described harassing a female fast food worker by acting out a mock arrest and referencing a sexual act. He returned to the restaurant multiple times to try to talk to her, he wrote, making the worker uncomfortable.
In one entry, he described running into women who attended high school with him and who had gone on to university. “It made me feel so small,” Garcia wrote, referring to the women with a misogynistic term and adding that he now felt superior to them. In reality, however, Garcia appeared to be struggling, lamenting in several posts about being laid off from a string of low-wage jobs.
Neo-Nazi ideology was another central theme of the writings, with swastikas showing up alongside band logos and anime-style drawings from at least 2013. At some point in recent years, according to the photos and notes, he tattooed Nazi symbols on his chest and arm.
Amid the fraught politics surrounding mass shootings, Garcia’s affinity for white-supremacist movements was seized upon by right-wing commentators to discredit the idea of racial animus as a motive. How, they asked their millions of followers, could “the left” expect Americans to be persuaded into thinking that a Brown man could be a murderous neo-Nazi?
But recent years have seen a rise in Black and Brown extremists who embrace far-right movements for reasons linked to identity and power, terrorism analysts say. Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Afro-Latino former leader of the far-right Proud Boys who was convicted this month of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is perhaps the most notable of many examples.
Garcia wrestled with his own ethnicity, at times openly wishing he weren’t Hispanic. In one entry, Garcia said he walked around a local grocery story wearing a shirt that proclaimed, “It’s Okay To Be White,” a slogan used frequently by white-supremacist groups. In another instance he described in his writings, someone asked whether he was Hispanic, and Garcia said he replied, “Yuck don’t remind me.”
Still, the posts also revealed moments when Garcia spoke affectionately about his family and expressed pride in “la raza” — “the people” — though his assertions of Hispanic identity struck some as clumsy or performative. A reporter attempted to interview Garcia’s relatives at a family residence, but they did not respond.
“The weird dude,” recalled Jorge Nila of Jorge’s Barber Shop, where Garcia went for haircuts. He said that something about Garcia seemed off, so he kept their interactions to small talk, nothing deep. He said they chatted about dogs or work — benign topics that never signaled that Garcia was brimming with hate.
Nila recalled that Garcia would make a show of saying goodbye in Spanish on his way out, loudly calling out, “Viva la raza!”
Nila hadn’t noticed the Nazi tattoos but said his son had spotted them, an observation shared only after authorities had identified Garcia as the shooter.
“I was like — why didn’t you tell me that?” Nila said. “He’s already weird as it is. That would’ve been like, ‘Hold up, what the hell is wrong with this dude?’” | 2023-05-12T20:20:04+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/12/allen-texas-shooter-gunman-diary/ |
Tips on boosting productivity: A guide to a fruitful lifestyle
Productivity is an essential aspect of our daily lives, whether we are working or pursuing personal goals.
One benefit to productivity is that it allows us to accomplish tasks at a quicker rate. When we are productive, we can complete our tasks in a more structured manner and move on to other important activities. The sense of accomplishment kicks in and the motivation for completing other tasks can help us finish our remaining goals.
Another benefit of being productive is that it can help reduce stress and anxiety. A study by professors Baumeister and Masicampo from Wake Forest University showed that, while tasks we haven’t done distract us, just making a plan to get them done can free us from this anxiety.
Stress and anxiety are common obstacles in productivity. Stress can feel so overwhelming that it hinders our daily routines.
However, when we have a clear plan for completing our tasks, we can avoid feeling overwhelmed about what needs to be done. This can help improve our mental health and reduce the negative effects of stress on our bodies.
A common struggle is taking the first step. There is no need to jump in full force to your tasks. It’s okay to begin things at your own pace. Being productive means achieving one’s goals efficiently and effectively within a set time frame. It requires a combination of focus, discipline and motivation.
“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
― Leo Babauta, author of the Zen Habits book and Essential Zen Habits
Here are a few tips to help boost your productivity on a day-to-day basis.
Set clear goals and priorities: Establish clear goals and priorities for each day or week, and make a list of tasks to accomplish. Use tools like to-do lists, calendars and reminders to help you stay organized and focused. Using reminders can help eliminate distractions. By doing so, you can maintain concentration and avoid wasting time on unimportant activities.
Eliminate distractions: Turn off notifications and avoid interruptions during work hours. Try to work in a quiet and clutter-free environment. Visiting a library or a public workspace can give you the peaceful and distraction-free environment you need to focus. The simple act of eliminating distractions at home can be the start to a productive day. If your task remains at home, turn your phone on “do not disturb” as the notification ringtone can hinder your focus or enhance temptations.
Use technology to your advantage: Although technology can be distracting at times, productivity apps and tools such as time-tracking apps and task management software can help you stay organized and focused. Evernote helps many people stay organized through reminders and different format tools. The Notion app is another way to maintain a balanced life. The app allows users to create folders, reminders, lists and connect your Google calendar to the app. Whether you need to create a grocery list, errands, reminders, or goals. It’s a personalized app to make stressful tasks easier one step at a time. Technology was made to make our lives easier, so don’t be afraid to take advantage!
Prioritize the most important tasks: Most people feel overwhelmed by the immense number of different tasks. Learning to prioritize the most important ones over the easiest ones can reduce stress and anxiety. Focus on completing the most important tasks first. This will help you stay on track and avoid feeling overwhelmed.
Stay healthy: Take care of your physical and mental health by getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet and exercising regularly. You may be tired of being told to “eat a healthy diet” but it’s so commonly advised because it’s true. A healthy diet feeds your body nutrients that give you the energy you need to live a productive lifestyle.
By setting clear goals, prioritizing tasks, eliminating distractions and maintaining good physical and mental health, we can increase our productivity and accomplish more in less time. Whether you are pursuing personal or professional goals, being productive can help you achieve success and fulfillment in all areas of life.
Daisy Beltran can be reached at [email protected] | 2023-05-18T21:38:28+00:00 | theorion.com | https://theorion.com/95177/opinion/tips-on-boosting-productivity-a-guide-to-a-fruitful-lifestyle/ |
WALLDORF, Germany, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced today that AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), a leader in high-performance and adaptive computing, has successfully migrated to SAP S/4HANA® Cloud, private edition. This marks a major milestone in the AMD digital transformation journey and strengthens the two companies' long-standing strategic partnership.
The move is part of the AMD cloud strategy and its work to consolidate onto a single enterprise platform. Driving on the success it has seen using SAP® Ariba®, SAP Signavio® and SAP SuccessFactors® solutions and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), AMD selected the RISE with SAP solution to deliver on its promise of digital transformation to customers. AMD EPYC™ server processors have already delivered exceptional CPU performance and energy savings to some of the world's largest companies in collaboration with SAP.
"AMD needs software that can scale with our business and provide the necessary resilience across our mission-critical applications. RISE with SAP was the perfect solution," said Hasmukh Ranjan, CIO, AMD. "It's a catalyst to productivity that removes barriers to innovation and helps us strategically position our technology investments for the future."
RISE with SAP will help streamline the AMD infrastructure into a single enterprise platform, bundling and consolidating applications, platforms, tools and services to foster continued growth and innovation for the SAP customer of nearly 25 years. The organization looks to future-proof their business with SAP with improvements in intelligent spend, human experience management and digital supply chain.
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The university will be cutting checks as a result of a $5 million class-action lawsuit settlement that accused CU of breaching its contract with students by charging fees during the COVID-19 pandemic for services it didn't provide. Eligible students from CU Boulder can expect to receive $102; $58 will go to CU Denver students; $37 goes to students from CU's Colorado Springs campus (UCCS); and students at the Anschutz Medical Campus will get a whopping $12, according to Igor Raykin, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the suit.
News of their payday was delivered by email late last month with the subject line "CU Covid Refund - Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement."
According to the email, plaintiffs of the lawsuit "alleged the University breached a contract when it transitioned to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic." Plaintiffs also "alleged that the University's shift to remote learning gave rise to claims of unjust enrichment.
"Plaintiffs sought a refund of a portion of their tuition and fees for the Spring 2020 semester," the email continues. "The University denies all allegations of wrongdoing, and there has been no finding of liability in any court. However, considering the interests of both the University and its students in prompt resolution of the matter, the University and Plaintiffs have agreed that the University will pay $5,000,000 into a Settlement Fund to resolve the Action."
According to cucovidsettlement.com, which offers additional information about the lawsuit, people receiving money can opt out of the settlement and preserve any individual legal claims they may have against CU related to the transition to online school in 2020. Otherwise, that $5 million fund will be divided up and distributed to thousands of CU students by check or through an online payment vendor such as PayPal.
Considering that the group set to receive this money is made up of recent college grads, soon-to-be graduates or recent dropouts, news of the summer payday is sure to lead to cheers — and ideas on how to spend it. Here are Westword's suggestions for what settlement class members could do with the extra dough, even if it's just $12:
CU Denver ($58): A Pretty Long Scooter Ride
New high-tech Lyft scooters hit the streets this week. A CU Denver student could afford to ride one of those bad boys for approximately 154 minutes at 37 cents per minute (minus a $1 unlock fee).
With a max speed of fifteen miles per hour, that's 38.5 miles — enough to get you to CU's Folsom Field for our next suggestion.
CU Boulder ($102): A Ticket to See DeionWith a max speed of fifteen miles per hour, that's 38.5 miles — enough to get you to CU's Folsom Field for our next suggestion.
While single game tickets technically aren't on sale yet for the Buffaloes' upcoming football season, the ticket office says that it expects entry to cost between $75 and $150 on average this season. With the team now under the leadership of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, the Buffs will likely be one of the most exciting sports teams to watch in Colorado — if not the nation.
Despite winning a national championship in 1990, the program has a notorious track record for poor performance as of late, but Sanders and his star quarterback son, Shedeur, hope to turn everything around.
More than 47,000 people showed up to watch the team's spring practice game in Boulder, and CU has managed to record its first complete sellout of season tickets since 1996 — and only ninth of all time, according to the Buffs' official website.
The first home game is coming up on September 9 against Nebraska, and will be well worth putting $102 toward.
CU Colorado Springs ($37): Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
The most expensive ticket to the Colorado Springs Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (adult, summer weekends) is $34.75. The typical cost of a lettuce wrap to feed to a purple-tongued giraffe is $3.
Don't have an extra $1 to spend? Head to the zoo on a weekday, when adult tickets are just under $30.
For those who don't know, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has been around since 1926 and is considered one of the best zoos in the country. The facility provides many opportunities for up-close animal encounters; visitors can feed elephants, rhinos, tropical birds and more, in addition to the giraffe experience. There is truly nothing better to spend $37 on in Colorado Springs.
Anschutz Medical Campus ($12): Pre-Game $3 Beers at Coors Field
While it would not be worth spending your hard-earned class-action lawsuit money on Colorado Rockies tickets for the purpose of actually watching the team right now, spending the money on the country's cheapest baseball beers could be worthwhile.
As long as you're there before the first pitch, the Rooftop deck at Coors Field serves 12-ounce drafts of Coors and Coors Light for $3 a pop — and 16-ounce craft beers for $6!
That's enough for an Anschutz settlement class member to guzzle down at least four silver bullets or a pair of Blue Moon tallboys. If you factor in the cost of a ticket, which goes for as little as $6 some games, an Anschutz student could still afford at least two drafts or one tallboy. But then you'd have to watch the Rockies relatively sober. | 2023-05-08T18:09:50+00:00 | westword.com | https://www.westword.com/news/heres-how-cu-students-could-spend-class-action-covid-settlement-money-16755195 |
Opponents file lawsuit targeting medication abortions
AUSTIN, Texas - Abortion opponents who helped challenge Roe v. Wade filed a lawsuit Friday that takes aim at medication abortions, asking a federal judge in Texas to undo decades-old approval of the drugs that have become the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S.
Even before the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion earlier this year, the use of abortion pills had been increasing in the U.S. and demand is expected to grow as more states seek abortion limits.
The lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. The lawsuit argues the U.S. Food and Drug Administration erred in approving the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol and overstepped its authority in doing so.
Reached for comment, the FDA said it does not comment on pending or ongoing litigation.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Amarillo, Texas. The state banned abortion after the Roe decision and is among the states where GOP lawmakers have banned mail delivery of the pills.
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The number of medication abortions has increased since regulators started allowing them and now account for roughly 40% of U.S. abortions. The medication can cost as little as $110 to get by mail, compared with at least $300 for a surgical abortion. Research has shown the pills are safe.
However, people seeking abortion pills often must navigate differing state laws, including bans on delivery of the drugs and on telemedicine consultations to discuss the medication with a health care provider. And until Democrat Joe Biden became president, U.S. government policy banned mail delivery nationwide.
Abortion medication is approved for use up to the 10th week of pregnancy. The pills may be taken in a doctor’s office or clinic, where patients sometimes have an ultrasound or lab tests beforehand.
Mifepristone is taken first, swallowed by mouth. The drug dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
Misoprostol, a drug also used to treat stomach ulcers, is taken 24 to 48 hours later. The pill is designed to dissolve when placed between the gums and teeth or in the vagina. It causes the uterus to cramp and contract, causing bleeding and expelling pregnancy tissue. | 2022-11-20T22:20:54+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/opponents-file-lawsuit-targeting-medication-abortions |
Just before the year 2000, musicians Laura Carter and Andrew Rieger found “Elyse,” a 1960s psychedelic folk rock album by Elyse Weinberg in a thrift store bin in Missoula, Montana. The record caught their eyes with its striking cover art of detailed, colorful sketches. The pair had no idea that the find would lead to the start of their own record label.
Carter and Rieger are members of the popular Athens based band, Elf Power, and quickly fell in love with Weinberg’s album. However, they soon discovered that it had been out of print for quite some time.
“We were like, man, more people should hear this. But nobody knows who this is,” Rieger said.
This began a year-long quest to track Weinberg down, finally ending when they found her living in Oregon, surprised anyone still cared. Because Weinberg did not own her master tapes, Carter and Rieger eventually remastered “Elyse” off of a vinyl record.
“It’s all we had to work with, so you can actually hear the needle hit the record,” Rieger said.
While this provided a challenge, the remastering ended up enhancing the record’s old, authentic feel. That’s when Carter and Rieger realized they enjoyed pursuing personal projects helping albums reach a larger audience. Thus, Orange Twin Record Label was born.
Much like its origin story, Orange Twin is far from typical. Today, the label’s office sits five miles outside of Athens on 155 acres of land called the Orange Twin Conservation Community. The property offers a swimming hole, amphitheater and even houses goats.
Such a large office space provides the record label with a sense of musical and environmental freedom. According to the Orange Twin website, their mission is to support “community growth through experimental and natural building.”
Though unconventional, the label has found great success in the music production industry. In the past 20 years, Orange Twin has put out close to 60 albums, according to Rieger. But it hasn’t been easy.
“Being a small, two-person label is a lot of work,” Rieger said.
Rieger’s relationship with Carter as bandmates and business partners for decades, along with their joint interest in Orange Twin’s productions, has allowed them to keep doing what they love.
As musicians themselves, Carter and Rieger’s company has a different approach to handling business and the pair prides themselves in taking good care of their artists. Few label owners know what it feels like to be on a stage and play for a crowd. Considering the artists’ personal wants and needs, Carter and Rieger give their artists regular financial statements and payments.
“Some of our artists have been like, ‘man, we’ve been on a bunch of different labels and nobody ever pays us on time,’” Rieger said.
The label has not only become a place for reissuing obscure or forgotten albums, but works with current local bands as well, like Neutral Milk Hotel, Nana Grizol and David Barbe. Barbe serves as the head of the University of Georgia’s Music Business Certificate Program, where Rieger works as a part-time lecturer.
Barbe got serious about his music career when he was a college student at UGA.
“I saw R.E.M. play in a club for $2 and decided a life in rock ‘n’ roll is what I needed to do instead,” Barbe said.
Barbe has been making music ever since, and has worked on multiple projects with Orange Twin Records.
“You want a label that does cool stuff. You want association with cool stuff. And I like all the stuff they put out, so I think the world of Andrew [Rieger] and Laura [Carter],” Barbe said.
Rieger attributes much of Athens’ reputation as a music hub to bands like R.E.M. and The B-52s inspiring other musicians to associate such a small town with musical success.
“We’ve got a pretty rich musical heritage as a town and I feel like Orange Twin is a part of that,” Rieger said.
While an important part of Athens’ past, Orange Twin also has plenty of plans for the future. According to Rieger, the business partners intend to remaster and reissue two Elf Power albums, including bonus tracks that were previously excluded.
Orange Twin is not the only group with big plans. Elf Power is still very much active and will perform with Portland, Oregon group Eyelids in Athens on March 25 and Flicker Theatre & Bar.
In addition, Elf Power is touring the West Coast this summer and according to Rieger, the group is even playing in European music festivals.
“Even though we’ve been around forever, we’re still pretty much as active as ever,” Rieger said. “We feel thankful that there’s enough people around the world that care enough to come see us. We’ll keep doing it as long as people are into it.”
For Rieger, the most important part of Orange Twin is how the label began in the first place — finding music that more people should hear and making it happen.
“It just feels good to have given people so much joy from putting that stuff out there,” Rieger said. “That’s definitely rewarding.” | 2023-03-18T19:28:18+00:00 | redandblack.com | https://www.redandblack.com/culture/orange-twin-record-label-a-fixture-of-athens-music-s-past-present-and-future/article_88bb2982-c506-11ed-80b4-7f37077c9870.html |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, of necessary information or misrepresented details about its business. Musk originally made those charges to justify his attempt to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social platform, which he later claimed was infested with much larger numbers of “spam bots” and fake accounts than Twitter had disclosed.
That fate of that acquisition, which Musk agreed to without taking the time to examine the details of Twitter’s business, now rests with a Delaware court where Twitter sued to force Musk to complete the deal. The case is scheduled to go to trial on October 17.
The court’s decision could ultimately determine the future of a social platform used daily by 238 million people around the globe — a small audience by the standards of Facebook and other major platforms, but one that include political leaders, major entertainers and experts on a variety of subjects. Until January 2021, it was also home to the then-U.S. president, Donald Trump.
In an unexpected twist, Twitter was able to file its response to Musk before Musk’s own counterclaims have surfaced in public. A judge ruled on Wednesday that Musk’s counterclaim will be made public by Friday.
Parts of Musk’s counterclaim, however, was included in Twitter’s response. These include accusing the company of fraud and “delay tactics” and only providing Musk “sanitized, incomplete information” in answer to his questions about spam accounts and other company metrics. While Twitter has claimed that Musk is inventing reasons to get out of buying the company, Musk’s lawyers say that Twitter is the one holding back the deal by “dragging its feet” and providing insufficient data to the billionaire’s requests.
In a reply filed Thursday in Delaware Chancery Court, Twitter calls Musk’s reasoning “a story, imagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement that Musk no longer found attractive.”
“The Counterclaims are a made-for-litigation tale that is contradicted by the evidence and common sense,” Twitter’s response says. “Musk invents representations Twitter never made and then tries to wield, selectively, the extensive confidential data Twitter provided him to conjure a breach of those purported representations.”
At the same time, the response says, Musk also accused Twitter of breaching their agreement by “stonewalling” his information requests.
Representatives for Musk did not immediately return a message for comment Thursday, although Musk briefly talked about Twitter at Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting Thursday.
He told an audience at Tesla’s factory near Austin, Texas, that Twitter fit into the grand vision for his holding company. He said that since he uses Twitter a lot, with more than 100 million followers, he knows what to do with it.
“I do understand the product quite well,” he said. “So I think I’ve got a good sense of where to point the engineering team at Twitter to make it radically better,” he said.
Attorneys for Musk had wanted to file a public version of their answer and counterclaims in Delaware court Wednesday. But Twitter attorneys complained that they needed more time to review and potentially redact Musk’s sealed filing, saying it refers “extensively” to internal Twitter information and data given to Musk.
Musk, the world’s richest man, agreed in April to buy Twitter and take it private, offering $54.20 a share and vowing to loosen the company’s policing of content and to root out fake accounts. Among other things, Musk said he would restore Trump — who was banned from Twitter following the January 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol — to the platform.
But Musk said in July that he wanted to back out of the deal, prompting Twitter to file a lawsuit to hold him to the “seller-friendly” agreement.
Musk says Twitter has failed to provide him enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service. Twitter argues that Musk, CEO of electric car maker and solar energy company Tesla Inc., is deliberately trying to tank the deal because market conditions have deteriorated and the acquisition no longer serves his interests.
Either Musk or Twitter would be entitled to a $1 billion breakup fee if the other party is found responsible for the agreement failing. Twitter wants more, however, and is seeking a court order of “specific performance” directing Musk to follow through with the deal.
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Associated Press Writer Randall Chase contributed to this story from Dover, Delaware. | 2022-08-05T04:42:29+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/twitter-responds-to-musks-claims-calls-them-excuses/ |
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — As explosions and gunfire thundered outside, Sudanese huddled in their homes for a third day Monday in the capital Khartoum and other cities, while the army and a powerful rival force battled in the streets for control of the country.
At least 97 civilians have been killed in the crossfire of gunbattles in the streets, airstrikes and bombardment. Shelling has hammered hospitals and several humanitarian aid groups have suspended vital operations that growing numbers of Sudanese rely on.
The sudden explosion of violence over the weekend between the nation’s two top generals, each backed by thousands of well-armed fighters, trapped millions of people in the capital and its adjoining city Omdurman in their homes — or wherever they could find shelter. For many, supplies were running out, and some reported looting.
“Gunfire and shelling are everywhere,” Awadeya Mahmoud Koko, head of a union for thousands of tea vendors and other food workers, said from her home in a southern district of Khartoum.
She said a shell stuck a neighbor’s house Sunday, killing at least three people. “We couldn’t take them to a hospital or bury them.”
In central Khartoum, sustained gunfire erupted and white smoke rose near the main military headquarters, a major battle front. Nearby, at least 88 students and staffers have been trapped in the engineering college library at Khartoum University since the start of fighting, one of the students said in a video posted online Monday. One student was killed by clashes outside and another heavily wounded, he said. The group does not have food or water, he said, showing a room full of people sleeping on the floor.
Even in a country with a long history of civil strife, the scenes of fighting with tanks, machine-guns, artillery and warplanes in the densely populated capital were unprecedented. The fighting comes just days before Sudanese were to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.
The fighting threatens to throw Sudan into a wider civil conflict at a time when Sudanese were trying to revive their drive for a democratic, civilian government after decades of military rule. The clashes are part of a power struggle between Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the commander of the armed forces, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group. The two generals are former allies who jointly orchestrated an October 2021 military coup that derailed Sudan’s transition to democracy.
Both men have dug in, saying they would not negotiate a truce, instead engaging in verbal attacks and demanding the other’s surrender.
Dagalo, whose forces grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias in Sudan’s Darfur region, portrayed himself in a statement on Twitter on Monday as a defender of democracy and branded Burhan as the aggressor and a “radical Islamist.”
Pro-democracy activists have noted that both generals have a long history of human rights abuses. At the same time, both men have powerful foreign backers, making them potentially susceptible to mounting diplomatic pressure to end the fighting.
Since fighting erupted Saturday, 97 civilians have been killed and hundreds have been wounded, said the Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate, a pro-democracy group monitoring casualties.
There has been no official word on the number of fighters killed.
On Sunday, the warring sides agreed to a three-hour pause in fighting to allow civilians to stock up on necessities. Compliance was spotty, and there were reports of casualties during the pause.
The military on Monday claimed to have secured the main television building on the Nile River in Omdurman, after days of fighting with RSF fighters trying to seize the building. State-run Sudan TV resumed broadcasting, airing footage of residents celebrating with army troops in the streets.
Earlier in the day, footage posted online purported to show RSF barracks in Omdurman. The bodies of dozens of men in camouflage uniforms were seen sprawled on beds and the floor of a medical ward and in a sandy outdoor area.
The authenticity of the videos could not be confirmed independently, but they surfaced after the military said it has targeted RSF bases with airstrikes. Mohmed al-Mokhtar al-Nour, an RSF adviser, told the Al Jazeera satellite network Sunday that RSF forces have withdrawn from the camp.
The Doctors’ Syndicate said Monday that health care facilities in Khartoum and elsewhere across the country have sustained significant damage. At least two major hospitals in the capital have shut down after being hit by shelling, it said.
The fight for control between the military and RSF spread to most major centers in the country, including in the western Darfur region and parts of the north and the east, by the borders with Egypt and Ethiopia.
The battles created more hardships for Sudan, where about 16 million people, or one-third of the population, depend on humanitarian assistance.
Over the weekend, the World Food Program suspended operations in Sudan after three employees were killed in Darfur. On Monday, the International Rescue Committee also said it was halting its work because of the conflict, with the exception of a refugee camp in the southeast.
Top diplomats urged the sides to stop fighting, including the U.S. secretary of state, the U.N. secretary-general, the EU foreign policy chief, the head of the Arab League and the head of the African Union Commission. The U.N. Security Council was to discuss the developments in Sudan later on Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed his call for a truce and a return to negotiations during a meeting of the Group of Seven wealthy nations in Japan on Monday.
“People in Sudan want the military back in the barracks,” he said. “They want democracy. They want the civilian-led government, Sudan needs to return to that path.”
In recent months, negotiations had been under way to get back on a path to democracy. Under international pressure, Burhan and Dagalo agreed to a framework agreement with political parties and pro-democracy groups.
However, the deal was vague on key points of dispute, including how the RSF would be integrated into the armed force and who would have final control. The signing of the deal was put off repeatedly as tensions rose between Burhan and Dagalo.
The fighting marks a deadly setback for Sudan, a resource-rich nation strategically located at the crossroads of Africa and the Arab world. Only four years ago, Sudan inspired hope after a popular uprising helped depose long-time autocratic leader Omar al-Bashir. ___ Magdy reported from Cairo. | 2023-04-17T14:08:08+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2591435/sudan-battles-intensify-on-3rd-day-civilian-deaths-reach-97.html |
International charity leverages cloud-native communications solution to engage donors, adapt to distributed work and improve efficiencies globally
WATERLOO, ON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), today announced Christian Blind Mission has implemented its leading Customer Communications Management (CCM) software, OpenText Exstream™, to personalize and automate hundreds of thousands of essential donor communications, increasing efficiency and improving donor relations around the world.
Christian Blind Mission (CBM) is an international non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in the poorest countries in the world. Processing more than $80 million in donations annually, CBM generates and sends a variety of communications ranging from thank-you letters, custom postcards, tax receipts and more to over 500,000 active donors each year, most of which require some level of personalization.
By implementing OpenText Exstream in the cloud, CBM can ensure its donors will receive highly accurate communications via an array of channels and media while also benefiting from improved operations, access to ongoing support, business continuity and the ability to seamlessly adapt to remote work and continue operations during a global pandemic.
"Each of our donors receives some type of communication every year, resulting in hundreds of thousands of different documents and templates that need to be properly managed, updated, stored and distributed," said Alexander Kindinger, Head of IT at Christian Blind Mission. "OpenText Exstream is a key part of our strategy, allowing us to design complex documents, set up templates with variable content, update Salesforce and better manage our digital and print assets, all from within a robust cloud environment, to help us save time and money through lower operating costs and trusted expertise."
Enabling personalized, cloud-native, omnichannel communications to help foster customer engagement, brand loyalty and simplified maintenance, OpenText Exstream helps to create highly engaging customer experiences, leveraging data and existing content to deliver communications through the digital and print channels that best reach and engage customers. Backed by OpenText's flexible-first approach which enables customers to deploy its suite of information management solutions on-premises or in the cloud of their choice, OpenText Exstream integrates with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, like Salesforce, to provide an enterprise scale solution.
"Christian Blind Mission needed a cloud-native CCM solution in place to support their growing mandate, seamlessly adapt to today's distributed work model and enable a scalable donor relations program," said Muhi Majzoub, EVP and Chief Product Officer at OpenText. "We are proud to play an essential role in this organization's essential work. By leveraging OpenText Exstream, CBM has been empowered to elevate its communications strategy, explore new ways of work without interruption and continue to drive their global objectives forward, helping persons with disabilities to achieve their full potential."
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In southern Pakistan, this year's unprecedented floods have left people homeless, sick and struggling. A lake 70 miles wide has submerged entire villages.
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In southern Pakistan, this year's unprecedented floods have left people homeless, sick and struggling. A lake 70 miles wide has submerged entire villages.
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- New mobile/PC game utilizing the IP of MIR2, featuring three captivating professions and a large-scale war called the "Sabuk Castle Siege," among other features
- Plans to provide services in more than 170 countries through a global blockchain gaming platform "Wemix Play"
SEOUL, South Korea, June 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ChuanQi IP, the subsidiary of Wemade (CEO Henry Chang), has unveiled the teaser site for the blockchain-based new MORPG title MIR2M : The Dragonkin today (26th).
MIR2M : The Dragonkin is a mobile/PC MORPG developed by XFun Games Ltd. using Wemade's representative IP The Legend of Mir 2. ▲It features three attractive professions: Warrior, Mage, and Taoist. ▲The game includes large-scale wars such as the "Sabuk Castle Siege" to determine the strongest player on the server. ▲It also offers clan content like "Clan Protection" and "Clan Escort," where players can cooperate to defend their turf or transport prisoners.
This game is scheduled to be serviced in over 170 countries worldwide through Wemade's global blockchain gaming platform Wemix Play.
For more detailed information about MIR2M : The Dragonkin, it can be found through Wemix Play and the teaser site.
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- MIR2M : The Dragonkin teaser site: thedragonkin.mir2m.world
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COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared the first quarter dividend of $0.42 per share, payable on March 1, 2023, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2023. This represents a 5.0% increase over the previously declared fourth quarter dividend.
Additionally, its Board of Directors authorized the purchase of up to 100 million shares of its common stock. This authorization is in addition to the 25.6 million shares as of September 30, 2022, that remained under the August 11, 2020 authorization, bringing the total number of shares available for purchase to approximately 125.6 million. The company anticipates that the repurchase of shares will be conducted from time to time in open market or negotiated transactions, depending on market conditions.
Commenting on the announcements, Aflac Incorporated Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Daniel P. Amos said: "I am pleased with the Board's action to increase the first quarter 2023 dividend. We treasure our record of 40 consecutive years of dividend increases, and our dividend track record is supported by the strength of our capital and cash flows. As an insurance company, our primary responsibility is to fulfill the promises we make to our policyholders. At the same time, we are listening to our shareholders and understand the importance of prudent liquidity and capital management. We remain committed to maintaining strong capital ratios on behalf of our policyholders and balance this financial strength with tactical capital deployment."
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Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products1. Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year. Also in 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was included on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
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The company cautions readers that the following factors, in addition to other factors mentioned from time to time, could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements:
- difficult conditions in global capital markets and the economy, including those caused by COVID-19
- defaults and credit downgrades of investments
- global fluctuations in interest rates and exposure to significant interest rate risk
- concentration of business in Japan
- limited availability of acceptable yen-denominated investments
- foreign currency fluctuations in the yen/dollar exchange rate
- differing judgments applied to investment valuations
- significant valuation judgments in determination of expected credit losses recorded on the Company's investments
- decreases in the Company's financial strength or debt ratings
- decline in creditworthiness of other financial institutions
- concentration of the Company's investments in any particular single-issuer or sector
- the effects of COVID-19 and its variants (both known and emerging), and any resulting economic effects and government interventions, on the Company's business and financial results
- the Company's ability to attract and retain qualified sales associates, brokers, employees, and distribution partners
- deviations in actual experience from pricing and reserving assumptions
- ability to continue to develop and implement improvements in information technology systems
- interruption in telecommunication, information technology and other operational systems, or a failure to maintain the security, confidentiality or privacy of sensitive data residing on such systems
- subsidiaries' ability to pay dividends to the Parent Company
- inherent limitations to risk management policies and procedures
- operational risks of third party vendors
- tax rates applicable to the Company may change
- failure to comply with restrictions on policyholder privacy and information security
- extensive regulation and changes in law or regulation by governmental authorities
- competitive environment and ability to anticipate and respond to market trends
- catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, as a result of climate change, epidemics, pandemics (such as COVID-19), tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, war or other military action, terrorism or other acts of violence, and damage incidental to such events
- ability to protect the Aflac brand and the Company's reputation
- ability to effectively manage key executive succession
- changes in accounting standards
- level and outcome of litigation
- allegations or determinations of worker misclassification in the United States
Analyst and investor contact - David A. Young, 706.596.3264 or 800.235.2667 or dyoung@aflac.com
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DELTONA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida high schooler and his mother were arrested in an identity theft scheme that affected people across the nation, according to authorities.
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office said a 14-year-old boy and his mother stole personal and financial information belonging to 17 people.
Deputies said the Deltona High School student was initially investigated in May after threatening to kill a fellow student who didn’t pay money for the 14-year-old’s pyramid fraud scheme.
Further investigation found that the teen was buying people’s stolen personal and financial information online, including their social security numbers, credit card numbers, and logins for various banks and websites, the sheriff’s office said.
According to deputies, the underage suspect also had instructions on how to make forged money orders.
The sheriff’s office found 17 total victims of identity theft and grand theft from different parts of the country. Fifteen of the victims decided to press charges.
In addition, deputies said messages between the teen and his mother, 38-year-old Selena Wallace, showed her telling her son that while she wished he would use his abilities to make money legally, he needed to raise his prices for higher profits.
A search of their home found 12 laptops, four printers, four cell phones, several gaming systems and other technology, according to the sheriff’s office.
The teen was charged with 15 counts of identity theft, obtaining property by fraud, illegal use of credit cards and unlawful use of a two-way communication device. His mother was also arrested on principal charges for each count and a charge for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Other charges are pending further investigation, deputies said. | 2022-08-22T12:47:58+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/florida-14-year-old-mom-charged-in-national-identity-theft-plot-deputies-say/ |
GEMBLOUX, Belgium, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Full-Life Technologies (Full-Life), a fully integrated global radiotherapeutics company, today is pleased to announce that it has closed on an important land purchase in Wallonia, Belgium, and signed a purchase agreement to build a state-of-the-art, manufacturing facility to produce radiopharmaceuticals to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards.
"Production capability and capacity, as well as logistics challenges have been major bottlenecks to radiotherapeutic discovery and development," said Philippe van Put, General Manager of Full-Life Technology Europe. "The advanced GMP manufacturing facility we are building at this 17,000 square meter site, will provide us with an internal, integrated manufacturing solution and a strong competitive advantage." He noted that Wallonia in Belgium was selected for its strategic geographic location, advanced infrastructure, and excellent transportation network.
The region is a leading hub for radiopharmaceutical production, and Full-Life will leverage its expertise and the local ecosystem to accelerate the facility's construction and GMP drug production.
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Full-Life Technologies Limited ("Full-Life") is a fully integrated global radiotherapeutics company with operations in Europe, the United States and China. We seek to own the entire value chain for radiopharmaceutical research & development, production & commercialization in order to deliver clinical impact for patients. The company plans to attack core issues affecting radiopharmaceuticals today through innovative research that targets the treatments of tomorrow. We are comprised of a team of fast-moving entrepreneurs and scientists with a demonstrated track record in the life sciences, as well as radioisotope research and clinical development.
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BOISE, Idaho — A bipartisan group of attorneys general is asking Albertsons to delay a $4 billion payout to its shareholders until they can complete a review of Kroger's planned acquisition of the grocery chain.
Kroger earlier this month announced it was paying $20 billion to buy Albertsons. The deal is expected to close in early 2024, if it is approved by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and survives any court challenges.
The merger agreement included a special dividend of up to $4 billion – or $6.85 per share – that Albertsons is scheduled to pay its shareholders on Nov. 7.
In an open letter sent to Albertsons this week, six attorneys general said the dividend – which equals nearly one-third of Albertsons’ $11 billion market value – would deprive the company of the cash it needs to operate while regulators review the merger.
The letter also said it’s unclear if the deal will be approved, since federal and state laws forbid mergers that substantially lessen competition. Together, Albertsons and Cincinnati-based Kroger would control around 13% of the U.S. grocery market,
“Should any regulatory challenge to the merger succeed, or should the parties abandon the transaction, Albertsons would have to continue to compete with other grocery stores, a goal that its decision to enrich its shareholders to the tune of $4 billion will have made significantly more difficult to accomplish,” the letter said.
The letter was signed by the Democratic attorneys general of the District of Columbia, California, Illinois and Washington and the Republican attorneys general of Arizona and Idaho. Albertsons is based in Boise, Idaho.
In a statement, Albertsons said the merger announcement and special dividend mark the successful completion of a strategic review begun in February of the company’s future. The company had nearly $29 billion in assets at the end of September, including $3.4 billion in cash and cash equivalents.
“We are confident that we will maintain our strong financial position as we work toward the closing of the merger,” Albertsons said.
The attorneys general asked Albertsons to respond by Friday to its letter. A spokesperson for District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine wouldn’t say Thursday if Albertsons had responded because the office doesn’t comment on investigations.
But Racine said the attorneys general will consider litigation to stop the dividend payment if Albertsons doesn’t agree to a delay. Attorneys general can also sue to block a merger, alone or alongside the Department of Justice, as they did in 2019 when T-Mobile bought its smaller rival Sprint.
Among those who could gain the most from Albertsons' dividend payment is Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm. Cerberus led a consortium of investors that bought Albertsons in 2006. It helped finance Albertsons’ 2015 purchase of the Safeway chain and took Albertsons public in 2020. Cerberus owns nearly 30% of Albertsons shares.
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BOSTON (AP) — Heat guard Tyler Herro has been ruled out Game 4 of Miami’s Eastern Conference finals matchup with the Bostic Celtics because of a strained left groin.
Miami made the announcement ahead of Monday night’s game. Herro missed the final eight minutes of the Heat’s 109-103 victory in Game 3 after sustaining the injury. He is averaging 13.5 points and 4.1 rebounds during the playoffs.
Herro is one of several Miami players who left the game nursing ailments.
All-Star Jimmy Butler sat out the entire second half with swelling in his right knee. He is questionable for Game 4 along with Kyle Lowry (strained left hamstring), Max Strus (strained hamstring), Gabe Vincent (strained left hamstring) and P.J. Tucker (left knee irritation). All will warm up with the intent to play, the Heat said.
Miami leads the best-of-seven series 2-1.
Boston All-Star Jayson Tatum (nerve impingement) is probable. Marcus Smart (sprained right ankle) and Robert Williams III (left knee soreness) are both questionable.
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Justice Samuel Alito did not disclose a luxury trip he took in 2008 with hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer nor did he recuse himself from cases that the businessman later had in front of the Supreme Court, a new report from ProPublica alleges.
The report says that after this trip, Singer's hedge fund brought at least 10 cases to the high court. This included a case from 2014 involving a dispute between Singer's hedge fund and the country of Argentina. The court, and Alito, voted with the 7-1 majority, along with the court's liberals, in favor of Singer — netting his hedge fund, Elliott Management, $2.4 billion, the publication found.
Alito didn't respond to ProPublica's questions directly. Instead he took an unusual step to publish a preemptive op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, refuting the allegations saying, "I had no obligation to recuse in any of the cases that ProPublica cites."
He adds he was unaware of Singer's connection to the entities involved in the cases brought before the court and even if he had, "recusal would not have been required or appropriate."
This new story comes after an April report from ProPublica that revealed a 20-year relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow. During this decades-long connection, Crow provided the justice with luxury trips, tuition payments for Thomas' family members, rides on the billionaire's private jet and cruises on a mega yacht, among other gifts, ProPublica found. Thomas did not disclose any of this on his financial disclosure forms and later said that he had been advised that gifts from personal friends did not have to be disclosed. He pledged to disclose them in the future.
That reporting spurred a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Supreme Court's ethics and a call by critics to establish a stronger set of rules for justices.
The court, however, has maintained that its members voluntarily follow a code of conduct used for lower courts.
In response to a request to appear before Senate Judiciary, for which he declined to appear, Chief Justice John Roberts sent a "Statement on Ethics Principles and Practices" signed by all nine members of the court that seemed to say the judge's feel they are covered by existing ethics rules and don't need anything more.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Cyrus Mistry, an Indian-born Irish businessman and former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in an accident on Sunday after his car crashed into a road divider in western India, police said. He was 54.
The crash occurred on a river bridge in Maharashtra state’s Palghar district near Mumbai, police officer Prakash Gaekwad told reporters.
Mistry served as Tata Sons chairman for five years until he was removed by the board in October 2016. He challenged the board’s decision, but India’s top court upheld his dismissal.
Politicians and business leaders reacted with shock to news of Mistry’s death.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Mistry was a promising business leader who believed in India’s economic prowess. “His passing away is a big loss to the world of commerce and industry,” he said.
“I was convinced he was destined for greatness,” said Anand Mahindra, an Indian business leader. “If life had other plans for him, so be it, but life itself should not have been snatched away from him.”
Mistry owned an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons through his company, Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd. In 2018, his net worth was approximately $10 billion.
Mistry joined the family construction company, Shapoorji Pallonji and Co. Ltd., as managing director in 1991.
He is survived by his wife and two sons. | 2022-09-05T12:56:35+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-prominent-indian-business-leader-cyrus-mistry-dies-at-54/ |
TORONTO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Talisker Resources Ltd. ("Talisker" or the "Company") (TSX: TSK) (OTCQX: TSKFF) announces that the Company is in receipt of TSX approval for its request to extend the date for its annual and special meeting of shareholders which has been set for Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 10:00 am Toronto time at the offices of the Company located at 350 Bay Street, Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario (the "Meeting"). The proxy materials, including the notice of meeting, management information circular and form of proxy are available on the Company's SEDAR profile at www.SEDAR.com and on the Company's website at the link included below. Shareholders of record as of May 31, 2021 will be entitled to vote at the Meeting. Given continued public health concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, shareholders are encouraged to vote by proxy in advance of the Meeting and not attend the Meeting in person.
Meeting Materials are available at the following link: https://taliskerresources.com/investors/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Struggling Bed Bath & Beyond warned on Thursday that the home goods retailer may need to file for bankruptcy as sales continue to drop and it struggles to attract shoppers.
The Union, New Jersey-based company said that it’s looking at several options including selling assets or restructuring its business in bankruptcy court, but it acknowledged that even those efforts may not be successful. Shares lost a quarter of their value on the news to trade at $1.82, their lowest level since November 1992.
“There is substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” the retailer said in a statement.
The company’s assessment came as its dismal performance continued through the holiday season.
Bed Bath & Beyond expects to report net sales of $1.26 billion for the third quarter ended Nov. 26. That would be a 32% drop from a year earlier. It also anticipates a net loss of roughly $385.8 million for the third quarter, wider than its loss of $276.4 million in the year-earlier period.
The company’s recently-appointed CEO and president, Sue Gove, blamed the poor performance on inventory constraints and reduced credit limits that resulted in shortages of merchandise on the shelves.
In August, Bed Bath & Beyond announced it would shutter stores and lay off workers in a bid to turn around its beleaguered business. It closed about 150 of its namesakes stores and slashed its workforce by 20%. It estimated those cuts would save $250 million in the company’s current fiscal year. It also said in August that it had lined up more than $500 million of new financing.
Mired in a prolonged sales slump, the company also announced back in August that it would revert to its original strategy of focusing on national brands, instead of pushing its own store labels.
That reversed a strategy embraced by its former CEO Mark Tritton, who was ousted last June after less than three years at the helm. It said it would get rid of one-third of its store brands, which had started to be rolled out in the last year or so. Besides Bed Bath & Beyond, the company also runs the buybuy Baby and Harmon chains.
Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, wrote in a report Thursday that Bed Bath & Beyond is “too far gone to be saved in its present form.” He noted that the company could restructure under Chapter 11, but it would still need to come up with a credible plan to reinvent the business, and that is going to be challenging, particularly in a weakening economic environment.
“A catalogue of missteps has run the company into the ground and has made it increasingly irrelevant,” he wrote. “Only very radical action will allow it to survive and even if it does, it will be a shadow of its former self.”
The company is set to release final third-quarter results on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in March, suggesting that the economy remains on solid footing despite the nine interest rate hikes the Federal Reserve has imposed over the past year in its drive to tame inflation.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, just above the 53-year low of 3.4% set in January.
At the same time, some of the details of Friday’s report from the Labor Department raised the possibility that inflationary pressures might be easing and that the Fed might soon decide to pause its rate hikes. Average hourly wages were up 4.2% from 12 months earlier, down sharply from a 4.6% year-over-year increase in February.
Measured month to month, wages rose 0.3% from February to March, a tick up from a mild 0.2% gain from January to February. But even that figure marked a slowdown from average wage increases in the final months of 2022.
In another sign that might reassure the Fed’s inflation fighters, a substantial 480,000 Americans began looking for work in March. Typically, the bigger the supply of job seekers, the less pressure employers feel to raise wages. The result is often an easing of inflation pressures.
In its report Friday, the government also revised down its estimate of job growth in January and February by a combined 17,000.
“The labor market continues to soften,” said Sinem Buber, an economist at the job firm ZipRecruiter. ”That should reduce inflationary pressures in the coming months and give the Federal Reserve greater confidence regarding the inflation outlook.”
Last month’s job growth was led by the leisure and hospitality category, which added 72,000. Among that sector’s industries, restaurants and bars gained 50,000.
State and local governments added 39,000, healthcare companies 34,000. But construction companies cut 9,000 jobs, that sector’s first such decline since January 2022. And factories reduced payrolls slightly for a second straight month, reflecting a slowdown in U.S. manufacturing.
Though unemployment remains higher for people of color than for white Americans, the unemployment rate for Black workers fell last month to 5% — the lowest jobless rate for African Americans in government records dating to 1972.
With job growth still brisk across the economy, many employers are still struggling to fill positions.
In North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Clark Twiddy said his family company, which sells property and helps homeowners rent to vacationers, still faces what he calls “the tightest job market of anyone’s lifetime.’’
Twiddy & Co. has sharply raised entry-level pay for seasonal workers — it hires 500 to 600 a year — to $18-$20 an hour from $13-$14 in 2019.
Service companies like his, Twiddy said, have to treat employees just as respectfully as they do customers, knowing that the best ones have ample job opportunities elsewhere.
“There’s no algorithm that cleans up a bathroom or a kitchen,’’ he said. “We have to pay more. We have to train more. We have to engage more.’’
For Twiddy’s 175 full-time employees, he has offered perks — from allowing flexible work-at-home schedules to taking the staff on group trips to Nashville and Las Vegas.
His business is still booming, thanks to Americans’ pent-up demand to take vacations. Despite his higher costs, he said, “I’m making more money at what I’m doing than I’ve ever done.
More than two years of labor shortages have led some companies to turn, by necessity, to machines to try to improve efficiency. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and private employer, has embarked on a big push toward automation.
By the 2026 fiscal year, the company says it expects roughly two-thirds of its stores to be served by automation, with a majority of items that are processed through its warehouses to move through automated facilities. The change will involve robotic forklifts that unload goods from truck trailers instead of having workers do the manual work. Walmart said such moves will require roles that demand less physical labor yet could provide higher pay.
Despite last month’s healthy job growth, the latest economic signs suggest that the economy may be slowing, which would help cool inflation pressures. Manufacturing is weakening. America’s trade with the rest of the world is declining. And though restaurants, retailers and other services companies are still growing, they are doing so more slowly.
For Fed officials, taming inflation is Job One. They were slow to respond after consumer prices started surging in the spring of 2021, concluding that it was only a temporary consequence of supply bottlenecks caused by the economy’s surprisingly explosive rebound from the pandemic recession.
Only in March 2022 did the Fed begin raising its benchmark rate from near zero. In the past year, though, it has raised rates more aggressively than it had since the 1980s to attack the worst inflation bout since then.
And as borrowing costs have risen, inflation has steadily eased. The latest year-over-year consumer inflation rate — 6% — is well below the 9.1% rate it reached last June. But it’s still considerably above the Fed’s 2% target.
The Labor Department on Thursday said it had adjusted the way it calculates how many Americans are filing for unemployment benefits. The tweak added nearly 100,000 claims to its figures for the past two weeks and might explain why heavy layoffs in the tech industry this year had yet to show up on the unemployment rolls.
The department also reported this week that employers posted 9.9 million job openings in February, the fewest since May 2021 but still far higher than anything seen before 2021.
The Fed has expressed hope that employers would ease wage pressures by advertising fewer vacancies rather than by cutting many existing jobs.
The March numbers are the last jobs report the Fed will see before its next meeting May 2-3. But its policymakers will gain a clearer view of inflationary pressures next week, when the Labor Department will issue reports on prices at the consumer and wholesale levels.
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AP Retail Writer Anne D’Innocenzio in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-04-07T15:13:37+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/are-inflation-pressures-easing-jobs-report-may-offer-clues/ |
BROOKLYN (PIX11) — A man was fatally shot in the face near the set of “Law & Order” in Brooklyn Tuesday morning, according to law enforcement sources.
Authorities found the 31-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the face inside a red car parked near 229 North Henry St. around 5:15 a.m., sources said. Three shell casings were found inside the vehicle, sources said.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The man works for Broadway Stage Company and was reserving parking spots to film a new episode of “Law & Order,” said an NYPD spokesman.
A witness said he was sleeping in his vehicle across the street from the incident when he was awoken to the sound of three gunshots, according to sources. The witness also saw an unidentified man fleeing the scene, sources said.
There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
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Retailers try to curb theft while not angering shoppers
NEW YORK (AP) — When the pandemic threat eased, Maureen Holohan was eager to scale back her online shopping and return to physical stores so she could more easily compare prices and scour ingredients on beauty and health care products for herself and her three children.
But that experience was short lived. In the past six months or so, CVS, Target and other retailers where Holohan shops have been locking up more everyday items like deodorant and laundry detergent as a way to reduce theft. And the 56-year-old Chevy Chase, Maryland resident is now back to shopping online or visiting stores where she doesn’t have to wait for someone to retrieve products.
“I know they’ve got to do something, but locking the stuff up definitely just has me walking by that aisle,” said Holohan, a business consultant.
Across the retail landscape, businesses have been putting items under lock and key as a quick way to stop thieves. Some are considering extreme measures, including Rite Aid Corp., whose chief retail officer Andre Persaud told analysts on an earnings call late last year that it’s looking at “literally putting everything behind showcases to ensure the products are there for customers who want to buy it.” It’s also considering using off-duty police officers at some of its stores.
But by trying to solve one problem, these businesses may be creating another: turning off shoppers with overreaching measures.
“Everything has changed. We used to be catered to,” said Sheila Schlegel, 43, of Queens, New York.
But now, “if you’re coming to the store, there’s one person at that store, and that person you can tell has been there for 15 hours,” said Schlegel, who recalled an incident where she waited for a sales clerk to unlock an item only to be told he didn’t have the key. “You don’t want to ask them for something if you don’t have to.”
For consumers of color especially, the stepped-up security measures risk alienating a population that already feels overpoliced. That could unravel some of the inroads that chains like CVS, Sephora and Walmart made in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, when they promised to avoid racially biased practices like locking up products only for Black customers.
“Whenever there’s a push toward greater criminalization, whenever there’s a narrative of increased crime and things like that, it is always consumers of color that are going to be bearing the brunt,” said Tiffany Gill, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, and an expert in African American Women’s History, fashion and beauty culture.
CVS Health Corp. and Sephora declined to comment for the story. Walmart said that its position of not locking up beauty products for women of color remains the same. Target confirmed it was locking up more products but instead of targeting certain items, it locks up entire categories.
It’s unclear how much money retailers are losing due to organized retail crime -- or if the problem has substantially increased. But the issue has received more notice in the past few years as high-profile smash-and-grab retail thefts and flash mob robberies have garnered national media attention.
The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, said its latest security survey of roughly 60 retailers found that inventory loss -- called shrink — clocked in at an average rate of 1.4% last year, representing $94.5 billion in losses.
The greatest portion of shrink — 37% — came from external theft, including products taken during organized shoplifting incidents, the trade group said. It also noted retailers, on average, saw a 26.5% uptick in organized theft incidents last year.
But while high theft in stores depletes inventory and limits sales, locking up items also reduces sales — by 15% to 25%, according to Joe Budano, CEO of Indyme, a technology company that sells retailers security devices.
John Catsimatidis, who owns the New York supermarket chains Gristedes and D’Agostino’s, said the chain has locked up more products like aspirin and deodorant in the past year but not as many as his drug store chain rivals. His chains have also doubled the number of security guards at some of its stores
He acknowledged that the move has resulted in some lost sales from impulse shopping, but the added security has made shoppers more comfortable and has helped reduce theft, although he’s not sure by how much.
“This is not an exact science,” he said.
Store workers, meanwhile, face the pressure of trying to do their jobs while also monitoring theft. Isabela Burrows, 20, a manager at pet supplies chain PetSmart in Howell, Michigan, noted that her store in recent months has had to lock up more items like diffusers to calm dogs and cats and electric shaving shears. But while she feels more comfortable, she’s also had to deal with shopper annoyance.
“I feel overwhelmed,” Burrows said. “They’re frustrated with me, and I have to find the item.”
In what could be a sign of the overall challenges, drugstore chain Walgreens acknowledged that it might have overblown the shoplifting threat and gone too far in its security measures.
“Maybe, we cried too much last year,” James Kehoe, global chief financial officer at Walgreens told analysts during an earnings call last month. “Probably we put in too much and we might step back a little bit from that.”
But a Walgreens spokesman cautioned that while the company is pleased to see retail theft levels starting to stabilize, they are “still a serious national problem affecting all retailers.”
Some retailers are coming out with less intrusive solutions to store theft. Home improvement retailer Lowe’s has followed Home Depot in testing technology that unlocks power tools when shoppers buy them at the cash registers instead of resorting to keeping the items in cages.
Anat Shakedd, the CEO and co-founder of Nexite, a company that makes tiny Bluetooth tags that can go on items, says her company has partnered with a top department store in the U.S. and other brands across Europe and Israel to help them monitor their inventory without locking things up.
The Freedom Case, developed by Indyme, asks shoppers for a cell phone number to opt into its service. The shoppers then receive a text message with a four-digit code that lets them open the case. Customers can retain their self-service privileges as long as they show normal shopping behaviors. But if they exhibit suspicious behaviors, store workers will be notified to provide assistance, he said.
Holohan said she doesn’t mind extra security guards, but she’s not interested in giving out her phone number.
“It’s invasive,” she said. “If they’re going to make it that hard to buy something, I’ll find somewhere else to buy that.”
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AP Retail Writer Haleluya Hadero in New York contributed to this report.
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Elkhorn standoff, man found dead
ELKHORN, Wis. - A man was found dead in Elkhorn Thursday, June 22, ending a standoff at an apartment complex on N.W. Street near Gorman.
Law enforcement responded around 9:30 a.m. for reports of an individual who was suicidal, threatening to harm himself with a gun in the presence of children.
The children were rescued by the Walworth County SWAT Team.
Police said the man did not communicate with law enforcement during the standoff.
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Concerned for his welfare, law enforcement eventually entered the home and found the man dead in a locked bathroom. | 2023-06-22T22:57:23+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/elkhorn-standoff-man-found-dead |
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – An Amherst man was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and a single count of witness intimidation.
According to a news release from Northwestern District Attorney’s Spokesperson Laurie Loisel, the case involved two children, both of whom were younger than 12 years old at the time of the
assaults, which occurred from 2013-2015.
A jury convicted 41-year-old Jorge Castillo on Wednesday after a five-day trial followed by three days of deliberations in Hampshire Superior Court jury of five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and a single count of witness intimidation.
Castillo was acquitted on a single count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and the jury was unable to reach a verdict on two counts of aggravated rape and abuse of a child and one count of open and gross lewdness.
Castillo is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday, February 13th.
“The survivors showed tremendous courage by coming forward and testifying in Court,” said ADA Covington. “We appreciate the hard work of the jury and would also like to thank the Amherst Police Department for their work on this investigation.” | 2023-02-09T15:22:55+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/amherst-man-found-guilty-of-indecent-assault-and-battery-on-a-child/ |
Several election deniers running for key election administration posts have lost their contests, but it's too early to call notable races in Arizona and Nevada.
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Several election deniers running for key election administration posts have lost their contests, but it's too early to call notable races in Arizona and Nevada.
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Sabrina Prata had two hits, including a home run and four RBIs as unbeaten Cranford — No. 17 in the NJ.com poll — scored five fifth-inning runs to beat Dayton 6-1. Madi Jones added a pair of singles in Cranfords seventh win of the season.
Giulia Olear scored twice and drove in a run without a hit for Cranford.
Deanna DuBois knotted the score at 1 in the top of the fifth inning with a solo home run as Dayton fell to 4-3 on the season.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government said Friday it will introduce a bill next week to override parts of the Brexit trade treaty it signed with the European Union before the U.K. quit the bloc in 2020. The move will be a major escalation in a festering U.K-EU dispute over trade rules for Northern Ireland.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman, Jamie Davies, said “the bill has been agreed by the relevant cabinet committees and will be introduced to Parliament on Monday.”
The legislation, if approved by lawmakers, would scrap parts of a trade treaty with the EU that Johnson signed less than two years ago, by removing checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
The EU has threatened to retaliate, raising the specter of a trade war between the two major economic partners.
Some legal experts say the move is unlawful but the U.K. government says it will “publish a summary of the legal advice” it has received about the legislation.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with an EU country, Ireland. When Britain left the European Union and its borderless free-trade zone, the two sides agreed to keep the Irish land border free of customs posts and other checks because an open border is a key pillar of the peace process that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
Instead, to protect the EU’s single market, there are checks on some goods, such as meat and eggs, entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
British unionists in Northern Ireland say the new checks have put a burden on businesses and frayed the bonds between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. — seen by some unionists as a threat to their British identity.
Britain’s Conservative government says the Brexit rules also are undermining peace in Northern Ireland, where they have caused a political crisis. Northern Ireland’s main unionist party is blocking the formation of a new power-sharing government in Belfast, saying it won’t take part until the Brexit trade rules are scrapped.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-8-2
(eight, eight, two)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-8-2
(eight, eight, two) | 2022-12-06T20:14:52+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17635452.php |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — A pair of senators is teaming up to try to get more healthy food on the table for families who need it most.
Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst are working together to try to pass the “Farm Fresh Food for Families Act.” They say the bill would help boost nutrition for kids while also benefiting local famers.
“To access fresh, locally grown produce, grown by farmers in our state,” Ossoff said.
“Making sure those mothers, those children have access to that and the nutrition that brings, very, very important,” Ernst said.
The legislation would update the existing WIC Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program, which gives moms and young children extra coupons for food from farmer’s markets.
“Childhood nutrition is the foundation for success in life, for performance in school, for physical health and mental health,” Ossoff said.
The bill doubles the minimum assistance that families can get through the program and removes the maximum cap. It would also expand eligibility on the sales side to include more farmers and produce vendors.
“It’s not just that we are providing locally grown fresh produce for those families, but it also supports our farmers,” Ernst said.
With support from both sides of the aisle, they think their bill has a good chance.
“Hopefully we see it pass over the threshold and get signed into law by the president this year or early next year,” Ernst said.
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In the past six months, I’ve taken on a gluttonous trek, bouncing from the state capital in Olympia up to Bellingham to eat tacos.
I sampled grasshoppers and lamb kidney tacos. I devoured more than 500 corn and flour tortillas stuffed with different stewed, steamed, grilled and fried meats.
I hit 150 taquerias and food trucks — from a 100-mile day trip to check out a new seafood taqueria in Bow, to a five-hour taqueria binge around Tacoma (because you can’t spell Tacoma without “t-a-c-o.”)
Along the way, I’ve developed a knack for spotting from a great distance “2 for 1 birria special” feather flags as well as guerrilla pop-ups at Home Depot lots (with folding tables and stacks of Igloo coolers.)
It’s become a burden, my new superpower.
Tacos have become my obsession because while home cooks were baking bread during the pandemic, I kneaded batches of tortillas in my kitchen after noticing our taco scene has gotten so much better, partly because the tortillas taste better. Gone are the days of many restaurants serving cheap tortillas that reek with a limey-preservative taste, bland discs that were mere workhorses to transport the carnitas to your mouth.
As author Jorge Gaviria puts it in his definitive “MASA” cookbook, we’re in the “third wave” of the masa movement, where many restaurants — of every size, from corporate chains down to and mom-and-pop operations — are committed to the painstaking process of nixtamalizing, or steeping corn in alkaline for better flavors and then grinding these kernels in-house. This Play-Doh-like masa gets balled up, pancaked and tossed onto a griddle to sizzle. These discs bloom, fragrant with corn. A good tortilla with heirloom maize can add aromatics and elevate a taco to gourmet status.
But a taco doesn’t have to be swaddled in a fresh tortilla to make my cut. I like street-style tacos that have some smokiness or char, and stews with clarion chili flavor.
For chef-driven tacos, I do look for housemade tortillas that are pliant with earthy, maize flavors and toppings that aren’t overworked. I want flavors that showcase, not overwhelm, the main ingredient, whether that be meat, veggies or seafood.
But for all my love for tacos, this roundup was more born out of my insomnia and wanderlust.
In driving across the state on road trips, usually late at night, the best and sometimes only dining option was a taco stand, often at a gas station. It’s not a stretch to say these late-nite taquerias provide a community service by being the only game in town at midnight.
The pandemic essentially shut down our late-night dining scene, and many restaurants don’t even bother opening on Mondays and Tuesdays anymore. Taquerias are heroes that fill those voids.
Tacos have also replaced the heat lamp chicken tenders and Jojo potatoes at many roadside convenience stores. After racking up 1,000 miles driving around Western Washington doing research for this story, I can say with great certainty that if all you did was watch for Chevron and Exxon signs, chances are good you’ll find a taco truck parked underneath the sign, or a taqueria located in the gas station’s store or next to it. These stands have legit taco cred. Many gas station Mexican eateries made my list of best tacos.
The other secret for scoring great tacos is to hit a weekend barbacoa, or Mexican barbecue feast. On Saturday and Sunday mornings — and a few do Fridays too — some Mexican restaurants roast whole lambs or parts of a cow overnight to serve with tortillas and consommé made from the juice and fat drippings of those meats. Three barbacoa feasts (in Tacoma, Mount Vernon and Greenwood in Seattle) made my best-of list.
My quest to taste Western Washington’s best tacos took me everywhere from gas station parking lots to white-tablecloth restaurants and everything in between. But, overall, the best taco I ate happened to be one of the cheapest, $1.95 each and located in Skagit County. It’s a simple construct of skin and meat and not mucked with much seasoning, a clean bite with a kaleidoscope of flavors and textures. The fillings are so fatty and crunchy, they hold up well if you eat on the run, whereas other tacos often turn mushy in those takeout containers that double as steam chambers.
Will you disagree with my choice for best taco? Quite possibly, especially if you don’t like lard or you shun meat. This roundup isn’t meant to be a 30-tacos-to-try-before-you-die checklist, but a guide that celebrates all the tacos from different regions in Mexico that we have in our backyard. Hopefully it will inspire you to find your best taco.
I’d like to hear about your favorite taco or taqueria. Or which spot you think I missed. I have yet to find a decent goat birria taco, but maybe you have. You can call or email me with tips or complaints. Operators are standing by.
Western Washington’s Best Taco is …
The chicharron taco ($1.95 each) at Tacos Tecalitlan
702 N. Burlington Blvd., Burlington; 360-224-5849; tacostecalitlan.com
When a sunbeam splashed across my plate of freshly-arrived food at Taco Tecalitlan, I should have seen it for a sign. Glistening in the light, those chicharron tacos looked mighty appetizing, with their sparkling pork skin and their jewels of juicy belly bits. This taco was essentially filled with pork cracklings and porchetta, plus some raw onion and cilantro stems on top to trick my palate into thinking the taco wasn’t as gluttonous as it appeared. So I ate four chicharron tacos. Then, five more — all in one sitting, which seemed perfectly reasonable at the time.
Other fried chicharron around the area tend to sound one-note — they’re either all crunch, like pork rinds, or else simply tender meat, and lacking snap. This Burlington taqueria wisely asks, “Why choose?” and includes both glories of the pork belly. There’s the bubbled pork skin and also strips of juicy white meat layered with fat — sometimes attached to the same bit. When fried, these bits become firm yet melty to the tooth, coating the mouth in lard and pork salt. Add just a few drops of the green tomatillo salsa to brighten the chicharron, and you have the best taco in Western Washington, and for only two bucks!
This taco was unrivaled in greatness as I ate my way through the area, but here are the rest that made my top-30 list, grouped by protein type.
Tacos that made our top 30 list
Lamb | Pork | Beef | Chicken | Seafood | Meatless | Miscellaneous
Lamb tacos
The lamb rib taco (3 for $5.99) at La Conasupo Taqueria & Snack Shop
8532 Greenwood Ave. N.; Seattle; 206-706-2759; laconasupo.net
The Mexican American community in North Seattle knows this place has the best secret taco in the Emerald City. The lamb rib taco is only available on weekends, and it is sold out the back of a storefront in Greenwood that hawks Lucha Libre masks and cowboy boots.
Every Saturday and Sunday at 3 a.m., Daniel Sanchez steams two entire lambs, then breaks down the animals into different cuts for taco fillings before opening his family shop at 9 a.m. You can request lamb head tacos. But the best cut (request it, because no patrons or kitchen staff will tell you about it) is the succulent rib meat pulled off the bone and dropped over a plate of overlapping corn tortillas. A green salsa with chunks of avocado is served with the lamb special, but the fiery red salsa is what these ribs call for. Set your alarm clock, because the ribs sell out before noon.
The lamb barbacoa taco ($4 each) at La Oveja Negra Eatery
806 72nd St. E. Tacoma; orderlaovejanegraeatery.com/index.php
If I’m within 10 miles of this Tacoma taqueria on weekends, I will always — I mean always — make a pit stop for lamb tacos at this corner strip mall eatery. It’s the best lamb barbacoa you can get north of Los Angeles. The bad news: The lamb is available only Fridays through Sundays, and sometimes sells out by 3 p.m.
The taquero stuffs tortillas with pancita, which is a Mexican version of haggis, lamb stomach filled with liver, kidneys, chilis and jalapeño peppers, then sewn shut and steamed. If that makes you skittish, go for the more popular lamb taco. It’s made from a medley of leg, shoulder, loin, shank and skirt meat that gets scrubbed in garlic, onions and herbs, bathed in orange juice and then slow-roasted with agave and banana leaves for eight hours for a luscious bite that’s not aggressively gamey. You’ll want some of the bright capsaicin salsas that the couple Ruth Pichardo and Luis Castro rise at dawn to grind. Or, buy a barbacoa tray ($26 per pound) and a stack of housemade tortillas ($2.50 for six) to assemble the tacos at home. You also want a Styrofoam cup of their famous lamb consommé ($6.50 for 16 ounce, and $11.50 for 32 ounce).
Pork tacos
Al pastor de trompo ($3.75 each) at Los Cuervos
Offered only after 5 p.m. Fridays to Sundays; 11109 Pacific Highway S.W., Lakewood; facebook.com/tacomixlakewood.wa
Eduardo Lomeli seduces passersby at his strip-mall taco shop by roasting a golden hive-shaped hunk of pork on a vertical spit out front. Once you step on the brakes to watch his staff cook, he knows he’s reeled you in. There’s no way you won’t buy his al pastor. The cook waits until the pork drips with fat and the edges are singed and lacy before he carves shards off the rotating trompo cylinder. Your juicy, charred al pastor will be served “planchado,” on downy corn tortillas made by Lomeli’s mother.
Notables: Tacortiz, in Rainier Valley, Seattle, is one of the few food trucks that roasts al pastor on the vertical spit on weekdays. After 4 p.m., the family deal is 15 al pastor tacos for $30. Taqueria El Ranchito in Kent does al pastor de trompo on Fridays and Saturdays starting at 6 p.m., until sold out.
Sakura pork belly taco ($10 each) at Cantina Monarca
504 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue; cantinamonarca.com
With its thatchy décor and Yucatán color scheme, this agave bar channels the warmer latitudes of Tulum, Mexico. So why, oh why, did the menu not include the cochinita pibil pork taco this region is known for? Oh well. All is forgiven now that I’ve devoured Cantina Monarca’s Sakura pork belly, a marbled slab from the prized heritage-bred hog the restaurant showcases on a fresh heirloom blue corn tortilla. The pork — it’s sorta inspired by cochinita pibil — is braised in Jarritos Mandarin soda and smeared with achiote paste and topped with mezcal-infused pineapple chunks and other tropical relish toppings. Beware: The fiery serrano peppers lurking in the taco’s tropical foliage may startle your taste buds.
Tacos Acorazados ($4.99 with meat) at Tacos El Patron food truck
16402 Military Road S., SeaTac; facebook.com/tacoselpatronllcwa
This unheralded taco originated in Morelos, Mexico, which is also the original home of the owners of this food truck. Historically the acorazados was an affordable, portable working-dish meant to fortify workers for a long day’s labor. It contained cheap fillers encased in a big tortilla. This version is stuffed with mayo, rice, fried onions, fried green peppers and a mashed up soft-boiled egg. But I would splurge on the extra 50 cents to swap out the egg for the adobada pork to give this a meatier, spicy bite.
The carnitas taco ($2.25 each) at Taqueria La Estrella food truck
No address, 253-258-4873
The best-kept secret for great carnitas tacos is … on hiatus. At press time, the family who owns this food truck in Kent is currently looking for another lot. Stay tuned. Most carnitas around town skew either too crispy or too stew-y. La Estrella’s gets the right balance of juicy confit pork and charred strands.
Notable: Taqueria El Asadero in Rainier Valley is one of the most popular food trucks for good, cheap carnitas.
Beef tacos
The beef rib tacos ($7 each, or 2 tacos with a side and two sauces for $17) at Jack’s BBQ
Two Seattle locations: Sodo at 3924 Airport Way S., and in South Lake Union at 228 Ninth Ave. N.; jacksbbq.com
This is on the secret menu every Friday starting at 11 a.m. at Jack’s BBQ in Sodo, South Lake Union, Bellingham, Algona and Lakewood, until they sell out. If you get a good taquero in the kitchen during your visit, you’ll get the greatest hits of the beef rib in one bite — burnt ends and surface meat for that mesquite aroma and the salt and pepper rub; ribbons of juicy meat and rendered fat for richness; and some strands of membrane and connective tissue for texture (they’re chewy, but tender). The rest is up to you. I add jalapeño and onions, along with chimichurri sauce.
Smoked brisket breakfast taco ($8) at Good Morning Tacos
Currently a pop-up, but starting a food truck by June. goodmorningtacos.com
The prized post-oak smoked brisket at Jeff’s Texas Style BBQ in Marysville makes every pitmaster’s list of best barbecue in the Puget Sound. You can sample that prized meat in chef Kinga Borkowski’s Austin-inspired breakfast tacos served at pop-ups around Seattle and on the Eastside. That brisket joins lumps of fluffy eggs, black beans and pickled jalapeños in a warm flour tortilla bookended with melted cheddar and Colby Jack on the bottom and topped off with a lava of Hatch chile queso. This taco is evil, just pure evil.
The rib-eye tacos (4 for $19.99) at Asadero
Two locations: 5405 Leary Ave. N.W., Seattle, and 310 Washington Ave. N., Kent; asaderoprime.com
The waft of mesquite smoke that greets you when the front door swings open hints you’ve stepped into a Northern Mexico-style restaurant. Sure, you can get a buttery rib-eye at any high-end steakhouse, but only at Asadero does your Prime-grade cut, seasoned with salt, possess that intense, earthy, smoky perfume that is unmistakably carne asada, by way of Sonora and Nuevo León. Go easy on the free salsas. This beef is so good, and so fragrant, it doesn’t need to be dressed with much.
Notable: D’ La Santa on Capitol Hill also serves marbled steak rib-eye tacos, but it’s a wetter version with more sauces and seasonings.
The street-style carne asada ($4) at Birrieria La Santa Tacos & More
18205 Des Moines Memorial Drive, SeaTac; 206-257-0764; facebook.com/birrierialasantatacosandmore/
I swear I can pick owner Maria Maravilla’s street-style carne asada out of any food truck lineup. She uses a fattier chuck roast than the traditional skirt steak and imbues her beef with a pronounced chargrilled fragrance and a mix of secret seasonings. The grilled bits are splayed over a single 6-inch tortilla, instead of the traditional two-ply taco, for a better meat-to-masa ratio. Request some complimentary grilled onions and charred jalapeño peppers to amplify that smoky, street-food flavor. When the cashier asks which of the four sauces you want with your order, the correct answers are the creamy habanero sauce and the orange (arbol chili) salsa.
Notable: The street-style carne asada at Carmelo’s Tacos in Seattle is one of the better deals on Capitol Hill.
The taco de suadero ($3.99 each) at El Catrin
9641 15th Ave. S.W., White Center; 206-708-6341; orderelcatrin.com
Mexico City’s al pastor is so popular that many people forget about its sibling, the suadero taco, which rarely appears on menus around the Seattle area. I get my fix in White Center. Chef Jared Velazquez braises the cow’s trapezius muscle to tender up this lean cut before searing the meat on the sombrero-shaped pan. The beef tastes like a denser, meatier version of pork carnitas. The meat gets chopped into much thicker cubes than what I’m used to, but this is Velazquez’s kitchen, and the man declares that’s the way to best showcase the salty, savory bite of this Mexico City street food.
Brisket suadero taco ($11 each) at Pancita at Pair
5501 30th Ave. N.E., Seattle; 206-526-7655; pairseattle.com
For a more contemporary take on the suadero, check out the work of chef Janet Becerra, who interned at the famous Michelin 3-star restaurant Pojol in Mexico City. She cures a brisket for two days before confit-ing then searing the meat to create a bite that mimics the dense texture of a skirt steak but has the unctuousness of a rib-eye. The chopped-up beef is served on an aromatic tortilla made from heirloom red corn that the chef grinds before dinner service.
Hard-shell beef “Mama’s taco” (2 for $7.50 during happy hour, and 3 tacos with beans and rice for a $17.50 dinner plate) at Bang Bang Kitchen
4219 S. Othello St., Seattle; 206-420-3146; bangbangseattle.com
I’m convinced that if those prefab, cardboard, pockmarked, yellow shells served in school cafeterias were a smidge better, then crunchy tacos would have a better reputation. Exhibit A of how good a crispy taco can be: Bang Bang’s crispy shell gets fried in-house. The result: You can taste the sweet masa crumbs in your mouth when the tortilla disintegrates; notice, too, the different texture. The hard shell is stuffed with ground beef that has been simmered with pureed San Marzano tomatoes and eight other herbs and spices before getting topped with the usual suspects (shredded lettuce, shredded cheddar, Roma tomatoes and sour cream) for an irresistibly crunchy, tangy bite. It’s the taste of nostalgia, only better.
Notable: TacosLand in Kent serves a meaty beef version of the classic crispy taco.
Tripas tacos ($3 each) at Tacos Los Potrillos No. 1 food truck
6815 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle; 206-451-3768; facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075930398064
Do you have the guts to try tripas? It’s usually the most interesting item on the food truck menu, and it’s so popular now that it’s become a staple along with carne asada. To the uninitiated, it’s chopped cow intestines boiled with garlic and herbs and then finished on a flatiron grill. It’s also the most diverse taco filling. Request that the intestines be fried extra crispy, and you’ll get a flavor that’s somewhere between fried pig ears and cracklings. Request it soft or mildly crispy, and you get an elastic texture along with a musky, liver-like flavor.
I prefer the version served at this Rainier Valley food truck — crunchy on the surface with a gelatinous, buttery interior — because it’s the most consistent, whether I order it for lunch, or late at night when I get the munchies. It’s never under- or overcooked.
Notables: the extra crispy tripas at Tacos San Juan food truck in Kent/Des Moines; the tender tripas with the house mole at Carnitas Michoacan on Beacon Hill, Seattle.
The queso birria taco ($4 each) at Birrieria Tijuana
1111 S.W. 128th St., Burien; 253-259-9465; birrieriatijuana.com
The hit before the birria boom, this O.G. still holds up well in a crowded field. The corn tortilla gets filled with a scoop of shredded beef and mozzarella and folded over, each side ladled with beef juice skimmed off the fatty surface of the pot. Then it’s fried until the cheese not only coats the beef strands but turns gooey enough to stretch out in between bites. Eat this taco like a French dip sandwich, dunking it in the Styrofoam bowl of consommé to soak up the beef tallow and the smoky flavors from the ancho chiles and other peppers. I doctored mine with a squeeze of lime and a mound of pickled onions and tomatillo sauce to cut into the cheesy richness.
Notable: Pub 70 in Seattle serves a glammed-up version with fancy Painted Hills beef cheeks and chuck roast stewed with the Indian spice garam masala and roasted coriander seeds.
Lengua beef tongue taco ($3.29 each) at Taqueria la Fondita
10050 15th Ave. S.W., Seattle; 206-551-0529; taqueria-la-fondita.business.site
If the thought of eating beef tongue makes you queasy, this White Center food truck may convert you. The muscle is cooked textbook-perfect. The braised beef tongue is springy and has a flavor that’s a cross between filet mignon and pate. It’s not as gamey as other versions around town.
Oaxacan-style brisket barbacoa taco ($6.50 each) at Gracia
5313 Ballard Ave. N.W., Seattle; 206-268-0217; graciaseattle.com
Chef Chester Gerl simulates the traditional earthen pit barbecue by grilling his brisket in applewood before wrapping the meat in maguey and avocado leaves to slow-roast. It’s one of the few beef barbacoa tacos I’ve tasted that has an earthy-smokiness. His barbacoa taco, plumped out with guacamole, onion, cilantro and radish, is spiced with pasilla sauce, a smoky-sweet Oaxacan version of a chipotle salsa. An early evangelist of nixtamalized corn tortillas, Gerl serves a variety of tacos inspired by different regions of Mexico, from the Yucatan-style cochinita pibil pork to Michoacan-inspired carnitas. Go during happy hour when all his tacos are discounted.
Beef barbacoa taco ($4.50 each) at Cocina Sabores
(On weekends only!) 810 W. Division, Mount Vernon; 360-899-5631; cocina-sabores-and-catering.business.site/
A large chunk of the Mexican population around Mount Vernon hits this taqueria for the mouthwatering beef barbacoa that’s served only on Saturdays and Sundays, starting at 7 a.m. The fattiest barbacoa I’ve tasted in the region, this hulking meat gets steam-bathed until the slab turns tender and shreds, and then gets dropped on the sizzling flatiron to blacken. Request the fresh, handmade tortillas, which are pliant yet muscular enough to hold up to the collagen-rich chuck roast. The taqueria often sells out of beef barbacoa by 2 p.m. Sundays. For the late risers, your consolation prize is the excellent chili verde pork burrito.
Chicken tacos
The salsa verde chicken ($6 each) at Comal
This is a pop-up around Seattle, Edmonds and, soon, in Renton; comalseattle.com
An evangelist for chicken-thigh tacos, Steven Aguilar braises his dark meat with just salt in the simmering water so you taste only the same pronounced poultry flavors as you would in a comforting chicken soup. To finish, he adds a reduction sauce (tomatillo, jalapeño, serrano, green onions and cilantro), but those verdant notes remain subtle so as not to upstage the main attraction — the thigh meat, the most flavorful part of the chicken — over his lard flour tortilla. If you’re lucky, you might catch Aguilar on a good day when he has time also to make mole poblano chicken tacos.
Oaxaca mole chicken taco ($2.50 each) at El Costeno
2015 E. Union St., Seattle; 206-476-0334
Street-style chicken tacos are the weakest of all the food truck offerings around the greater Puget Sound area. They’re often stringy and dry, especially the white meat. This truck by Chuck’s Hop Shop in the Central District is a rare standout. Shards of grilled white meat get smothered in a dark sauce that tastes like a hybrid between a red and a black mole, with peppery, cocoa and raisin-y flavors.
Queso taco with chicken ($4 each, or 3 for $13 with consommé) at El Mariachi Birria Y Tacos
6100 Evergreen Way, Everett; 425-512-9024; facebook.com/lostamaahles
Chef Hugo Carranza learned how to make tacos from two of the best cities in North America for birria: he ate his way around his hometown Los Angeles, and he spent two months in Tijuana studying guisado stew dishes and taking notes on how locals made their tacos. The big winner in his R&D is the city of Everett, where Carranza and his wife Viviana García Zuniga have opened one of the best taquerias in the North End. His beef taco is a bestseller, but the chef is just as deft with the chicken taco — tangled strands of braised thigh and breast meat brimming with smoky chipotle and sautéed onions. The meat, coated in cheddar and queso Asadero, is served in a corn tortilla that’s been fried in an oil-infused with guajillo peppers, anise star and fall spices.
Seafood tacos
Cod tacos ($11 for 2) at Burien Fish House
133 S.W. 153rd St., Burien; 206-294-3506; theburienfishhouse.com
This shack dresses up your fish in every conceivable way. Choose halibut, salmon or cod. Pick grilled, blackened or fried. If you choose the deep-fryer, decide whether the fillet gets coated in a panko crust or beer batter. And how to decide between a corn or flour tortilla? I’ll save you the trouble of deciphering all the scenarios: Just order the thick cod fried in a beer batter, and served in a pillowy flour tortilla. Dashes of the vinegary hot sauce and a squeeze of lime finish your work. It’s tastier, and a better value, than the many flimsy tilapia tacos served in the Seattle area.
Tacos gobernadora de camaron ($17.99 for 3 tacos with rice) at Carnitas Michoacan
2500 Beacon Ave. S., Seattle; 206-323-3688; carnitas206.com
Snobs who abide by the “no cheese on seafood” rule are missing out on the “Governor shrimp taco” made famous in Sinaloa in Northwest Mexico. In this taco, melty mozzarella clings to snappy shrimp, the cheesiness cut by pimiento peppers and a mango-habanero sauce. It all forms one of the more unique seafood taco flavors. The ingredients are creamy and sweet, yet without overwhelming the delicate prawn, instead adding a milky richness to what otherwise would have been a light, tropical taco.
Notable: Tacos and Beer in Crown Hill, Seattle, does a gluttonous take, essentially fried onions and prawn with cheese in a fried tortilla.
Grilled shrimp tacos ($19.50 for 2 with Cuban black beans and Spanish rice) at Azul Restaurant & Lounge
15118 Main St., Mill Creek; 425-357-5600; azullounge.com
This bustling Latin American restaurant with a long waitlist also runs a popular taco happy hour in Mill Creek. But its prized shrimp taco is never discounted, a signal to you that it’s special. Paprika-dusted shrimp are first made smoky from the grill, then creamy from the chipotle mayo and, finally, brightened with a mango salsa. It’s worth the splurge.
Notable: The Baja taco at El Sirenito in Georgetown with deep-fried prawn is one of the most popular shrimp tacos in Seattle.
Meatless options
The smoked carrot taco ($4 each) at Standard Brewing
Vegan and gluten-free; 2504 S. Jackson St., Seattle; 206-535-1584; standardbrew.com
One of the most talented cooks I’ve met in Seattle, Evan Bolling, now resides in Ashland, Oregon, where he is turning heads as the chef de cuisine at MÄS, one of the hottest new restaurants in America. I can say I knew Bolling when, at this Central District taproom in 2018, he built the best vegan taco I’ve ever had. The smoked carrot taco is still so good that it remains on the menu, though Bolling’s version has been tweaked.
The current vegan version, by chef Wiley Frank, formerly of the critically-acclaimed Little Uncle restaurant, features alderwood-smoked carrots and a creamy chickpea fritter with tahini sauce, and it’s topped with cilantro, green onion, sumac and lime. This riff still resembles Bolling’s original — bright, tangy Mediterranean flavors with layers of creamy and crunchy textures. It’s simply the best vegan bite you can get in Seattle for under five bucks.
Rajas con crema tacos ($4.25 each) at Xochi Tacos
145 N.W. Gilman Road, Issaquah; wearexochi.com
Several years ago, Sandra Diaz moved from Mexico City to Washington state to be close to her daughter, who had enrolled at the University of Washington. The elder Diaz then started a food truck in Issaquah that serves some of the best tacos on the Eastside. So let’s take a moment to thank her daughter for the culinary gift that rolled into Issaquah in 2018. The wait for Diaz’s guisada or stewed tacos can run up to 30 minutes. Go after the lunch rush (2 to 3 p.m.) if you have no patience for lines. Diaz’s stewed meats are popular, but Xochi is unique for its varied lineup of five meatless versions including the standout “rajas,” roasted, then braised, poblano peppers with dulcet onions and a sour-creamy finish.
Kentucky Fried Cauliflower taco ($6.25 each) at Lifted Taco
17255 135th Ave. N.E., Suite 1040, Woodinville; 425-419-4322; liftedtaco.com
These florets are battered and then dropped into a deep fryer until craggy, after which they’re dusted with seasonings that mimic The Colonel’s secret recipe of herbs and spices. A zingy slaw and a creamy sauce with a vinegary tang top this vegetarian taco, which has pushed its way from being an occasional special at Lifted Taco to being part of the regular taco lineup in April.
Notable: The cauliflower taco at Laz’s Tacos in Issaquah has all the prerequisites of a beer sponge — deep-fried crunchy, salty and creamy.
Miscellaneous other tacos that defy categorization
Steak and shrimp taco ($3.50 each at The Oyster Shuckers: Oyster Bar & Taqueria)
17026 Allen W. Road, Bow; 360-399-1537; facebook.com/TheOysterShuckers/
Surf-and-turf on a tortilla reeks of a gimmick, but I will gladly eat my words along with this taco. This campechana, or mixed taco, comes with lean steak seasoned on the salty side to play off the plump, sweet shrimp. The meat and seafood sit on a sheen of melted mozzarella caramelized onto the corn tortilla to create that umami Maillard reaction.
Chapulín or roasted grasshopper tacos (3 for $15.99) at Casa Mixteca
452 S.W. 153rd St., Burien; 206-244-2572; facebook.com/casamixteca
In 2017, the Mariners made what sounded like a dare — try a grasshopper? — into a bestselling ballpark munch. An Oaxacan delicacy, these roasted grasshoppers taste like fried shrimp shells that are dusted with salt and chili powder and cut with a pleasant, lemony tartness. It’s augmented with a dollop of guacamole to pack some moisture and monounsaturated fat into those dry, jerky-like bugs. The critters are quite tasty … if the antenna heads and razor legs tickling the roof of your mouth don’t freak you out. Bon appétit! | 2023-04-15T13:29:00+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/our-food-critic-ate-500-tacos-around-western-washington-to-pick-his-top-30/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Financial planning and tax professional with nearly $25 million practice joins Cetera's tax-oriented community from Avantax
LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cetera Financial Group (Cetera), the premier financial advisor Wealth Hub where financial advisors and institutions can optimize professional control and value creation, announced today that Jacob Turley* has joined the West division of Cetera Financial Specialists. Turley, who provides financial planning services to clients with nearly $25 million in assets**, was previously affiliated with Avantax Investment Services.
"Jacob's passion for guiding his clients to achieve their ideal financial future through manageable, tax-smart steps ensure he'll fit in well at CFS," said Ron Krueger, president of CFS. "CFS is an excellent home for professionals looking to grow both their tax and wealth management business – and we have no doubt Jacob will thrive with us. I look forward to working together to benefit Jacob's clients and to help grow his business."
Turley has more than a decade of experience in the financial industry, starting out as a CFP® professional and CPA at American Financial Services before moving to Avantax Investment Services in 2012. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Utah and a Master of Taxation from Weber State University.
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Home to more than 8,000 financial professionals and their teams, Cetera oversees approximately $330 billion in assets under administration and $116 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2023. In a recent advisor satisfaction survey of more than 21,000 reviews, Cetera's Voice of Customer (VoC) program vigorously measures advisor experience and satisfaction 24/7. Currently, it's ranked 4.8 out of 5 stars.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Titans wide receiver Robert Woods and cornerback Caleb Farley worked together on their own individual drill Monday during a special teams period at training camp.
In full pads. No knee braces protecting repaired left ACLs.
It's a very welcome sight for the Tennessee Titans with both expected to start this season and both making impressive recoveries from the torn ACLs that ended the 2021 season for each.
Woods tore his left ACL at practice Nov. 12 while with the Rams. Farley tore his left ACL on Oct. 18 that ended the first-round draft selection's rookie season.
That put them on similar timelines for their recoveries. So they started working together not long after the Titans traded for Woods.
The veteran and the cornerback practiced with the team during the offseason program and were on the field to start training camp last week — without knee braces — and practiced Monday in the team's first session in pads.
And they've had pretty much a “full workload” aside from a couple of drills, according to Titans coach Mike Vrabel.
“I didn’t give it much thought,” Vrabel said. "I just wanted to make sure that what they’re doing is helping them and that they’re progressing and they keep responding well to the work that they’re doing.”
Farley has been benefitting not only from having a rehab partner, but almost a master class picking the brain of a receiver going into his 10th NFL season.
“It helps me think better, play better, be more comfortable,” Farley said. “It gets my confidence up. All those different dynamics, it helps me play better.”
Both Woods and Farley share a track background so part of their routine became running a hill next to a parking lot once a week. They also pushed each other as they worked to strengthen each knee.
“He’s a resource for me as well," Woods said of Farley. "I know he’s a young player, but he’s young, talented, strong, fast, quick.”
Woods says he started training without the brace after the Titans' offseason program ended, focusing on track work to help regain his explosion. His work was tested last weekend when the receiver went up for a pass from Ryan Tannehill with Farley defending, and Woods came down with the ball on that left leg.
ACL recovery is not easy and is different for every player.
Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan admitted to reporters in June he struggled throughout the 2021 season after tearing his ACL in October 2020. Linebacker Bud Dupree tore his in December 2020 and said in June he felt like himself for just one game: the Titans' divisional playoff loss in January.
“People talk about it, and we know the timetable,” Dupree said. "We know how long it really takes. The doctor can say one thing. Your body got to tell you something else.”
Woods is targeting being ready for the season opener as the Titans host the New York Giants on Sept. 11.
“My biggest objective is being ready for Week One,” Woods said. “I’m honing in on everything we’re doing, every practice, trying to get some reps with Ryan. ... If Coach asks me to go out there I’ll be ready to go.”
The Titans also are counting on Woods to be one of their new starting wide receivers. Tannehill has been working with Woods since the offseason program building chemistry and timing thanks to Woods' quick healing.
“He’s so smooth,” Tannehill said of Woods. “That’s one thing I noticed immediately is he’s so smooth with his routes. He’s able to transition really well. And, you know, it looks like he’s going 100%, but he’s not. He’s able to transition extremely well. So for a quarterback, that makes it easy to throw the ball to.”
Farley is expected to start opposite Kristian Fulton this season, replacing veteran Janoris Jenkins who was a salary cap casualty in March. Woods noted Farley picked off two passes when the Titans had only rookies, quarterbacks and injured players start camp a few days before the veterans reported.
“I’m expecting big things from Caleb," Woods said.
NOTES: TE Tommy Hudson passed his physical and was activated off the physically unable to perform list Monday. That leaves rookie K Caleb Shudak and LB Monty Rice on the PUP list. ... Rookie CB Roger McCreary broke up four passes Monday.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) — It wasn’t the thrill ride they expected.
A day at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, turned scary after riders got stuck on a rollercoaster for nearly 45 minutes Friday.
Brandon Allen said he was on the “Flying Cobras” ride when it stopped moving.
“My very first experience at a theme park on a roller coaster,” said Allen. “And I got stuck.”
As the amusement park thrills turned to chills, Allen said, “I personally watched my tears fall from the sky. It was terrifying.”
Allen described the ordeal, saying, “We go to the very top where they’re backing you up, and he was doing a countdown. He goes, ‘We’re sorry, we’re having some technical difficulties,’ and we thought he was joking because of the surprise element or something.”
Allen said the minutes of being stuck felt like hours.
“We were told anywhere between 35 to 45 minutes,” Allen said. “Which may not be major, but it’s a big deal when you’re just facing the ground completely. There were parents trying to talk to their children screaming, ‘It’s going to be okay!'”
Carowinds released the following statement:
“On Friday, April 29, Flying Cobras, located in County Fair at Carowinds, had an unexpected ride stoppage on the lift. The park’s maintenance team responded quickly, and at no time were guests in danger. All guests were returned safely to the station and unloaded within 30 minutes. The safety and security of our guests and associates is Carowinds’ top priority.”
“I probably would’ve panicked a lot worse if not for them,” Allen said. “They did their best to keep everyone calm.”
Last month, riders got stuck on the Electro Spin ride.
“It seems like this is happening so often now,” Allen said. “A few weeks ago, it was another one. It’s almost like it continues to happen, and that’s what is so scary about it.”
Riders were each given two fast pass vouchers.
According to the Carowinds website, rides are licensed and inspected by the North Carolina and South Carolina Departments of Labor.
Carowinds’ on-site associates also monitor and inspect rides daily. | 2022-05-03T20:13:51+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/terrifying-riders-get-stuck-on-nc-rollercoaster-for-45-minutes/ |
City of Houston Councilwoman, Sallie Alcorn and County Judge Hidalgo's Senior Advisor, Chris Chu de Leon Spoke at Ceremony Introducing One of the Largest Solar Installations in Houston
HOUSTON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, unveiled the completion of its landmark solar energy parking canopy at its Houston operational headquarters, one of the largest commercial solar installations in Houston to date with a ribbon cutting ceremony on September 7. Additionally, TGS announced its recent acquisition of Prediktor, a data- and asset- management system designed for the future.
"Solar is the fastest growing energy source, is progressively affordable, and will provide TGS with significant cost savings for the future," said TGS Chief Executive Officer Kristian Johansen. "In addition, it provides business opportunities as the world is moving towards net-zero ambitions and we could not be more excited to be leading the movement in Houston. Thank you to City of Houston Councilwoman, Sallie Alcorn and County Judge Hidalgo's Senior Advisor, Chris Chu de Leon for aligning with TGS as we unveiled this much awaited solar carport installation."
TGS's recent acquisition of Prediktor will further accelerate its ambitions of becoming an integrated provider of all types of energy data. Prediktor has already installed its production optimization software on some of the largest solar plants in the world and will, under TGS ownership, target increased market presence in this rapidly growing market, which is essential to reach the world's climate targets.
The ribbon-cutting, held beneath the new carport solar installation, featured a time lapse video of the complete solar project construction from start to finish and an energy calculator highlighting the energy produced by the panels in real time. The program included remarks by TGS CEO, Kristian Johnson; City of Houston Councilwoman, Sallie Alcorn; County Judge Hidalgo's Senior Advisor, Chris Chu de Leon; and Freedom Solar CEO, Bret Biggart. Guests included the TGS board of directors, the Norwegian Consulate, EnerGeo Alliance, the RMR Group, TGS employees and Freedom Solar executives.
Alcorn and de Leon remarked on the project's alignment with the city's Resilient Houston and Climate Action Plans and the hope for more Houston companies to execute these types of projects in the coming years. de Leon presented TGS with a proclamation from the city of Houston and congratulated TGS for having one of the largest and most innovative solar projects in Houston to date. Bret Biggart, Freedom Solar CEO, touched on the design and installation of the landmark solar project, highlighted the importance of TGS' sustainability and renewable energy commitments and TGS's aggressive goals to be a net-zero company by 2030. Additionally, he touted Freedom Solar is offering TGS employees rebates on solar panel projects further solidifying Freedom's partnership with TGS.
The TGS installation consists of 15 solar arrays made up of 1,650 modules covering 210 spaces in the employee parking lot. The system will produce some 901,710 kilowatt hours (KWh) of energy annually and it is estimated the canopies will provide almost 60% of the Houston facility's daily energy consumption and costs, enabling TGS to slash its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.4 million pounds annually, the equivalent of planting nearly 11,000 trees a year, and helping to create a more stable, resilient Texas electricity grid.
In early 2021, TGS announced its commitment to being net zero in its Scope 1 emissions and 2 emissions by 2030. Transitioning the company's offices to renewable energy is critical to achieving this objective. TGS has undertaken significant sustainability efforts in other locations globally and recently began composting organic waste in its Houston headquarters and has diverted an astounding 21,799 pounds of waste from area landfills to date.
TGS conceptualized the Houston project and undertook it in partnership with The RMR Group, which manages the building that houses the TGS Houston headquarters. Austin-based Freedom Solar, the leading turnkey solar energy installer in Texas and the nation, designed and installed the solar canopy.
"Solar energy is progressively becoming more affordable and will provide TGS with tremendous cost savings year over year," said Johansen. "With the support of quality partners like RMR Group and Freedom Solar, we have been able to complete this project and make real progress toward greenhouse gas emissions and attaining our global net-zero goals."
TGS provides scientific data and intelligence to companies active in the energy sector. In addition to a global, extensive and diverse energy data library, TGS offers specialized services such as advanced processing and analytics alongside cloud-based data applications and solutions. In addition to the company's operational headquarters in Houston, Texas, TGS has offices in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Rio de Janeiro, Botofogo, Brazil; Woking, UK; Oslo, Norway; and West Perth, Western Australia. For more information, visit www.tgs.com.
Founded in 2007, Freedom Solar is the nation's leader in turnkey solar installations, providing high-quality, cost-effective, reliable solar solutions for residential and commercial markets nationwide. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Freedom Solar also has operations in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia. Tesla Powerwall Certified Installer and the only SunPower® Master Dealer in Texas, the firm has installed more than 154 megawatts of solar panels since 2007, ranking as the 10th-largest solar installer in the U.S and the 3rd-largest in Texas. Freedom Solar has completed projects for numerous national and multinational corporate clients, including Whole Foods Market, Shake Shack, Office Depot, Holiday Inn Express, Home2 Suites by Hilton, The University of Texas at Austin and numerous automotive dealerships, such as Alfa Romeo, BMW, Chevrolet, Ford, Maserati, Subaru and Toyota. For more information, visit https://www.freedomsolarpower.com or follow @freedomsolarpwr on Twitter and @freedom_solar_power on Instagram.
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TEL AVIV, Israel and NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apiiro, the leader in Cloud-Native Application Security, today announced it is a platinum sponsor of Cloud Native SecurityCon, an event designed to foster collaboration, discussion and knowledge sharing of cloud native security projects to address security challenges and opportunities.
The in-person event takes place October 24-25, 2022 in Detroit, MI and will showcase breakthrough technology and advances in modern cybersecurity approaches including secure software development and supply chain security.
Cloud Native SecurityCon is co-located at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship conference. Apiiro executives including VP of Security Research Moshe Zioni will be in attendance to discuss how Apiiro is accelerating secure software delivery by addressing critical risks in cloud-native applications. KubeCon attendees can also meet with Apiiro executives to learn more about the code risk platform by visiting booth SU63.
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LINDENHURST, N.Y. (WPIX) – A 13-year-old boy was stabbed in the hallway of a Long Island, New York, middle school and airlifted to a hospital, police and a district official said Monday.
Suffolk County police were called to Lindenhurst Middle School around 12:30 p.m.
The boy was stabbed in the leg near the upper groin area by a 12-year-old male student, according to police. The victim was airlifted to a local hospital in critical but stable condition, police said. The boy lost a lot of blood and underwent surgery at the hospital, authorities said.
The stabbing happened in the second-floor hallway during a dispute between the two students, which is currently under investigation, according to Suffolk County Police Deputy Inspector Sean Beran.
Eighth-grade student Lucas Leguizamon told WPIX he saw the stabbing.
“I was going to my class and there was a kid and they were fighting. And then he pulled out the knife and he stabbed him in the leg and there was blood everywhere … Everyone was screaming and the teachers were running around,” Leguizamon said.
A school staff member quickly applied a tourniquet to the boy’s leg to help prevent further blood loss, police said.
The 12-year-old boy was taken into custody and charged with juvenile delinquency, Beran said. Police are investigating how he was able to bring the 6-inch knife into the school.
In a statement addressed to “Lindenhurst school families,” Superintendent Anthony J. Davidson said there was an altercation involving a knife between the two students in a hallway. The building was immediately placed under lockdown and police were called. The lockdown was lifted over an hour later.
“Please know, all other students are remaining in their classrooms and are safely in the care of our staff, Davidson said in the statement. “I recognize that hearing about today’s isolated incident is concerning for all. Be assured, that the safety and security of our students and staff is our top priority.”
Extra police will be on patrol in the coming days near schools in Lindenhurst, authorities said.
The stabbing happened less than two hours after three children and three adults were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, according to police. The Nashville Fire Department said the shooting happened at The Covenant School, a private Christian school, just before 10:15 a.m.
When police entered the school’s first story, they heard gunshots coming from the second floor, Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said. They immediately “went to the gunfire,” he said, where they found a woman armed with two assault rifles and a handgun who was firing.
Three children and three adults were shot and killed, police confirmed in a press conference. The three adult victims were staff members.
Nashville police reported that officers shot and killed the suspect, who was described as a 28-year-old woman from Nashville.
Nexstar affiliate station WKRN contributed to this report. | 2023-03-28T17:53:40+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/12-year-old-accused-of-stabbing-13-year-old-at-ny-middle-school-police/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s food insecurity has flared as its top leaders prepare to discuss the “very important and urgent task” of formulating a correct agricultural policy.
Unconfirmed reports say an unspecified number of North Koreans have been dying of hunger. But experts say there is no sign of mass deaths or famine. They say the upcoming ruling Workers’ Party meeting is likely intended to shore up support for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he pushes ahead with his nuclear weapons program in defiance of intense U.S.-led pressure and sanctions.
“Kim Jong Un can’t advance his nuclear program stably if he fails to resolve the food problem fundamentally because public support would be shaken,” said Lim Eul-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul. “The meeting is being convened to solidify internal unity while pulling together ideas to address the food shortage.”
An enlarged plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party is slated for late February. Its specific agenda is unknown, but the party’s powerful Politburo earlier said that a “a turning point is needed to dynamically promote radical change in agricultural development.”
The meeting will be the party’s first plenary session convened just to discuss agricultural issues, though they often are a key topic at broader conferences in North Korea. Raising grain output was one of 12 economic priorities the party adopted during a plenary meeting in December.
It is difficult to know the exact situation in the North, which kept its borders virtually closed during the pandemic. Food shortages and economic hardships have persisted since a famine killed an estimated hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1990s.
In his first public speech after taking over from his father as leader in late 2011, Kim vowed that North Koreans would “never have to tighten their belts again.”
During the first several years of his rule, the economy achieved modest growth as Kim tolerated some market-oriented activities and increased exports of coal and other minerals to China, the North’s main ally and biggest trading partner. More recently, however, tougher international sanctions over Kim’s nuclear program, draconian pandemic-related restrictions and outright mismanagement have taken a severe economic toll.
South Korean estimates put North Korea’s grain production last year at about 4.5 million tons, a 3.8% decrease from a year earlier. Annual grain output has plateaued at about 4.4 million tons to 4.8 million tons in the past decade.
North Korea needs about 5.5 million tons of grain to feed its 25 million people, so it’s usually short about 1 million tons each year. About half of the gap is typically offset by unofficial grain purchases from China. The rest is an unresolved shortfall, said Kwon Tae-jin, a senior economist at the private GS&J Institute in South Korea.
Kwon says curbs on cross-border trade due to the pandemic have likely hindered unofficial rice purchases from China. Efforts by North Korean authorities to tighten controls and restrict market activities have also worsened the situation, he said.
“I believe this year North Korea is facing its worst food situation since Kim Jong Un took power,” Kwon said.
Koo Byoungsam, a spokesperson at the South Korean Unification Ministry, said that an unknown number of North Koreans have died of hunger, but said the problem is not as serious as the mid-1990s famine, which stemmed from natural disasters, the loss of Soviet assistance and mismanagement.
The current food problem is more an issue of distribution than of an absolute shortage of grain since much of the grain harvested last year has not yet been eaten, ministry officials said. Food insecurity has worsened as authorities tightened controls over private grain sales in markets, instead trying to confine the grain trade to state-run facilities.
Severe steps taken by the Kim government to contain the pandemic provided effective tools for imposing a tighter grip on the kinds of market activity that earlier helped foster stronger economic growth but might eventually erode the government’s authoritarian rule, analysts say.
Kwon said current food shortages are unlikely to cause mass deaths because food is still available in markets, though at high prices. During the famine in the mid-1990s, grain was hard to come by, he said.
North Korea monitoring groups have reported increases in the prices of rice and corn — the two most important staples — though the price of corn has stabilized recently in some regions.
“If North Korea indeed sees people dying of hunger and faces a chaos, it won’t publicly say things like ‘a very important and urgent task’ for an agricultural policy,” said Ahn Kyung-su, head of DPRKHEALTH.ORG, a website focusing on health issues in North Korea.
The North’s plenary meeting is “typical propaganda” meant to show Kim is working to improve living conditions and comes at a time when the leadership needs new fodder to burnish his image, on top of the nuclear program and assertions of a victory over the pandemic, Ahn said.
During the plenary meeting, Kwon said that leaders will likely pressure local farm officials to raise grain output without presenting any effective solutions for the food crisis. Targets will be set and officials may be punished for failing to meet them if food shortages worsen, Ahn said.
Yi Jisun, an analyst at the state-run Institute for National Security Strategy in Seoul, said in a report in January that North Korea recently imported large amounts of rice and flour from China, though it is unlikely to accept food assistance from the United States, South Korea and Japan.
While declaring that food problems must be improved at any cost, the state-run media in the North have continued to tout its longstanding policy of “self-reliance,” a strategy that shuns Western help.
“The assistance by imperialists is a trap for plundering and subjugation meant to wrest 100 things after giving one,” the North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary Wednesday. “Building up the economy by receiving this ‘poisoned candy’ would be a mistake.” | 2023-02-25T13:09:30+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-n-korea-food-shortage-worsens-amid-covid-but-no-famine-yet/ |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 14-year-old Buffalo boy is in stable condition after being shot overnight just west of Eggert Road.
The shooting happened around 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the 100 block of Congressional Walk, near Eggert Road and the 33, Buffalo Police said. The boy was taken by ambulance to Oishei Children's Hospital, where he was treated.
Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at (716) 847-2255.
Another shooting happened earlier, on Saturday night. A Buffalo man was listed in critical condition following a shooting on Wilson Street. He was taken to ECMC to be treated, according to police.
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SBA taking applications for 6 month intensive program in Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - If you’re looking to transform your small business, time is running out to apply for a free opportunity to do that.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is bringing a federally funded opportunity to Baton Rouge aiming to help businesses grow over the next few years.
A spokesperson with the SBA said they have surveyed hundreds of small businesses who reported their biggest challenges: growing their team, increasing productivity, and driving sales.
The lack of these key business skills often limits growth and that’s why they are offering a free, 6-month entrepreneurship training & coaching program called SBA T.H.R.I.V.E. Emerging Leaders Reimagined.
30 spots are available for small business owners in Baton Rouge.
“In fiscal year 22, our preliminary numbers show that approximately $2 billion was awarded to small businesses in Louisiana, and approximately 54% of that went to small businesses,” said Jo Lawrence, Deputy District Director for the SBA Louisiana District Office. “So we’re encouraging the small businesses to seek the federal certifications that will assist them and take advantage of that $650 billion marketplace that the government has.”
There’s taking applications until Wednesday, May 10.
Participants will get a coach to help them develop a strategic plan. The free intensive hybrid format will run from June 20 to December 20.
“Know that SBA is evolving, we’re looking for more ways to assist our small business community,” said Lawrence. “And we are committed to your growth and development and resiliency.”
If you’re interested in this free program, you can find the link here.
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DALLAS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossroads Impact Corp (OTCQX: CRSS) ("Crossroads" or the "Company"), a holding company focused on investing in businesses that promote economic vitality and community development, reported financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2022.
Following a transformational year for the company in 2021, a blossoming partnership with Enhanced Capital Group, the unwinding of PPP at Capital Plus Financial, and growing Rise Line Business Credit acquisition, 2022's second fiscal quarter was quite eventful. Total revenue from operations was $16.6 million for the quarter ended April 30, 2022, compared to $476.5 million for the prior fiscal year's quarter ended April 30, 2021. This decrease can be attributed to the reduction in the one-time PPP fee income earned of approximately $461.5 million.
Net operating income before taxes and non-controlling interest for 2022 fiscal second quarter was $5.1 million, compared to $150.3 million the prior year. Net earnings per share from operations before taxes and after non-controlling interest for the quarter was $0.83 and was $25.14 for the same period of 2021.
At a time of economic uncertainty and surging inflation, now is not the time to forget our obligation to minority and women-owned businesses. At Crossroads, we know these businesses will lead us forward as small businesses always have. It is our privilege to support the businesses at the engine of our economy this quarter and beyond.
During the second quarter of 2022, we further extended our impact loan portfolio, adding $20M during the quarter and bringing the year-to-date total to $70M, with no delinquencies to date. We continue to see the significance these loans have on recipients' impact within their communities and beyond. Among our proudest impact loans are bridge loans with Vertical Harvest and 64 Centre Avenue in New Rochelle, New York. In partnership with Enhanced Capital, Crossroads provided Vertical Harvest a bridge loan as the company's Series A neared its closing. A woman-owned and managed, Wyoming-based business, Vertical Harvest grows local produce in urban areas to address food insecurity and climate change through vertical hydroponic greenhouses. In addition to making an impact on environmental sustainability, Vertical Harvest also employs historically underrepresented populations – namely those with physical and or intellectual disabilities. Crossroads also provided an $8.9 million bridge loan for the environmental remediation of sites located at 64 Center Avenue and 8 Westchester Place in New Rochelle, New York. This project will eliminate environmental contamination in soil and water at the site. The project includes a 16-story tower with 144 apartments of affordable rental housing in a middle-income area with 73.6% minority residents and a 19.5% poverty rate.
We applaud the modernization of CRA. Between our Texas based CDFI and the national environmental and social lending program at Crossroads, we are well situated to deliver meaningful partnerships to banks to solve their CRA, ESG and community development initiatives while delivering transformative impact to underserved communities.
Though rising interest rates have cooled the housing market from an inferno to a steady blaze, inventory has not recovered to match demand. As home sale revenue dipped below that of 2021, our mortgage portfolio remained at $133M with a steady performance of 90-day delinquency of 0.94%.
Our PPP loan portfolio is currently at approximately $1.5B. We continue processing loan forgiveness, which currently sits at 76%. We are confident the remaining loans will also be forgiven. The portfolio generates a net interest margin on 65 BPS and saw a net contribution of $2M for Q2, and $3.8M year-to-date. The outstanding loans will start coming due during June 2022.
2022 Fiscal Second Quarter Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Highlights for the quarter:
- PPP loan balance reduced to approximately $1.5B, with 76% of loans forgiven
- Addition of $20M in impact loans on the quarter ($70M year-to-date)
- Impact loans generated $1.5M of income for the quarter ($2.2M for the year)
- Book value per share is $8.69 as currently reported, $11.15 upon the recognition of deferred PPP income
Crossroads Impact Corp (OTCQX: CRSS) Crossroads Impact Corp's mission is to promote economic vitality through community development and equitable access to capital; harnessing the power for good to tackle systemic issues within underserved communities. Building on our history of serving minority individuals and small businesses through environmental and responsible social lending, we look to be the leader in providing innovative and sustainable lending solutions.
This press release includes forward-looking statements that relate to the business and expected future events or future performance of Crossroads Impact Corp and Capital Plus Financial involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause its actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Words such as but not limited to, "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "targets," "likely," "will," "would," "could," and similar expressions or phrases identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about Crossroads Impact's and Capital Plus Financial's ability to implement their business strategy, and their ability to achieve or maintain profitability. The future performance of Crossroads Impact and Capital Plus Financial may be adversely affected by the following risks and uncertainties: economic changes affecting homeownership in the geographies where Capital Plus Financial conducts business, developments in lending markets that may not align with Capital Plus Financial's expectations and that may affect Capital Plus Financial's plans to grow its portfolio, variations in quarterly results, developments in litigation to which we may be a party, technological change in the industry, future capital requirements, regulatory actions or delays and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described or anticipated by these forward-looking statements. For a more detailed discussion of these factors and risks, investors should review Crossroads Impact's annual and quarterly reports. Forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and Crossroads Impact undertakes no duty to update this information to reflect future events, information, or circumstances.
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Bringing together best-in-class product offerings, technology solutions and global footprint to offer unprecedented client experience
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. and BURR RIDGE, Ill., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIRVA, Inc. ("SIRVA") and BGRS, leading global relocation and moving providers, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine into a new organization initially named SIRVA BGRS, Inc. ("SIRVA BGRS"). The transaction is expected to close within the next 90 days and is subject to regulatory approvals.
By bringing together two of the world's leading relocation companies, the combined business will deliver unparalleled support to clients through:
- Diverse product offerings and robust technology solutions. Clients will benefit from having access to the richest breadth of relocation and household goods service options, leading program flexibility and best-in-class technology solutions.
- Expanded global presence and a talent pool steeped in mobility expertise. SIRVA BGRS's global footprint will include 4,000 employees across 66 offices in more than 170 countries – providing extensive local coverage and offering clients exposure to a larger, combined supply chain, whose increased scale will help create efficiency in the market.
Tom Oberdorf, Chairman and CEO of SIRVA, said, "This is a natural combination that allows us to meet the expanding and evolving mobility needs of our clients around the world. We look forward to combining our complementary industry expertise, footprint, and technological resources to create a single entity with greater efficiency, scale and local experience, well-positioned to shape the future of mobility and deliver greater value to customers."
Traci Morris, CEO of BGRS, added, "Both SIRVA and BGRS have a common customer-focused approach that drives everything we do, and we are thrilled at the prospect of joining forces. Together, we will create a differentiated leader with a truly unique set of value-added products, dedicated resources to invest in technological innovation and an unmatched global footprint."
The combined company will be headquartered in the Chicago Area, and Tom Oberdorf will serve as Chief Executive Officer. Traci Morris will be retiring after a successful transition period.
Following the closing of the transaction, existing SIRVA and BGRS owners, funds managed by Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC and Relo Group, Inc., respectively, will maintain interests in the new organization.
Kirkland and Ellis, LLP is serving as legal counsel to SIRVA. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated is serving as financial advisor to BGRS, and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP are serving as legal counsel.
About SIRVA, Inc.
SIRVA is a global leader in moving and relocation services, offering solutions for mobility programs to companies of every size. With 59 owned locations and more than 1,000 franchised and agent locations servicing 177 countries, we offer unmatched global breadth supported by localized attention and innovative technology that strikes the right balance of self service and human support. From relocation and household goods to commercial moving and storage, our portfolio of Brands (SIRVA, Allied, northAmerican, SIRVA Mortgage and SMARTBOX) provides the only integrated moving/relocation solution in the industry. By leveraging our global network, we deliver a superior experience that only a "one-stop shop" can provide.
About BGRS
BGRS develops and implements comprehensive mobility solutions for corporate and government clients worldwide. By combining deep industry experience and unparalleled insights on the future of mobility, we design products (BGRSflex™, TripWise™) and administer programs that align with our clients' organizational, and talent needs and reflect our focus on a customer experience that includes the choice and flexibility required for today's global talent. With more than 1,300 people across six continents, and service coverage in 185 countries, we blend global perspective with local market strength.
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About two weeks ago, Rich Osthoff was watching the news when suddenly he saw a familiar face.
The man had dark hair and glasses, and he was walking outside the U.S. Capitol, surrounded by reporters.
"I didn't recognize him right away, but I knew he'd crossed me in the past and he had done something awful to me," Osthoff, a Navy veteran from New Jersey, told NPR.
Then suddenly a reporter on the screen yelled something along the lines of "What's your name today?" Osthoff said. And that's when it struck him.
The man on television was someone he'd been introduced to in 2016 as Anthony Devolder — a man Osthoff says took thousands of dollars of money from a GoFundMe account that was meant for a lifesaving surgery for his beloved service dog. A man now known as the newly elected Republican Rep. George Santos of New York, who has been caught in a slew of lies and deceptions about his résumé, family heritage and personal life and who is now under investigation.
"I just keep thinking, 'How is he a member of Congress? How does somebody that low rise so high?'" Osthoff said.
A veterinary technician suggested Anthony Devolder's charity to help the dog
In May 2016, Osthoff was living through one of the darkest periods of his life, he told NPR. His story was first reported by Patch.com.
He told NPR that he was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop. He said he was suicidal and his service dog — an 80-something-pound, caramel-colored pit bull named Sapphire — was the only thing keeping him alive. Then she got sick.
Panicked, Osthoff scraped together whatever cash he could and headed to a nearby veterinarian in Howell, New Jersey. Sapphire had a 10-pound tumor and needed an operation. The surgery would cost $3,000.
"When I heard that, I didn't know what I was going to do," Osthoff recounted, adding that he's now on medication and in group therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.
"At least two times when I had Sapphire, she saved me from killing myself. I could not think about hurting myself and then leaving her in this world to live with anybody else."
With no way to pay for the procedure on his own, it seemed like a miracle when a veterinary technician at the clinic had the idea to connect Osthoff with a supposed nonprofit charity called Friends of Pets United that was run by a man named Anthony Devolder.
The name is one of several that the new congressman has gone by in the past. In 2019, The Queens Gazette wrote about George Anthony Devolder Santos announcing his first campaign bid for New York's 3rd Congressional District, in northeast Queens and Long Island — the seat he now holds. The article also states that he "founded and ran a nonprofit 501(c)3 called Friends of Pets United (FOPU) from 2013 – 2018."
NPR has found no records of a registered nonprofit under that name.
Santos also appears to identify himself as Anthony Devolder, the founder of a group he calls United for Trump, during a Q&A session at an LGBTQ event in 2019.
According to Osthoff, the two never met in person, but with the veterinary tech acting as a go-between, Santos acted quickly to set up a GoFundMe page for Sapphire. Osthoff posted a link to the account on Facebook: "Click here to support sapphire The Veteran rescue! by Anthony Devolder," the headline read.
Donations poured in, and by the end of June, the goal had been met. Osthoff was elated.
"But then that's when everything went wrong," Osthoff said.
With the money tied up, Sapphire's condition worsened
Santos closed the GoFundMe account and refused to transfer the money to Osthoff "and I really couldn't understand why," he said.
Eventually, Osthoff got Santos' phone number from the veterinary tech and began calling and texting a phone number that NPR has since connected to Santos.
"Hi Anthony, I'd like to deal directly with you from now on regarding my baby dog. If that's OK. Her lump is growing to the point where it's really scaring me," Osthoff texted Santos.
Santos was initially responsive, although he insisted that he needed to remain in control of the money. He also insisted that Osthoff take Sapphire to a veterinarian in Queens, N.Y., explaining that the charity organization, Friends of Pets United, often worked with the clinic and had some sort of "credit" there. Osthoff said it remains unclear to him why Santos couldn't pay a veterinarian with the thousands of dollars raised from the GoFundMe fundraiser.
It was a big ask for Osthoff, who was still homeless and doesn't drive. But Osthoff finagled a ride with the veterinary tech and enough money to cover the tolls. Once there, he said, the Queens veterinarian said Sapphire was not a good candidate for the surgery — "which was the opposite of what the other vet in New Jersey said."
The relationship with Santos devolved shortly afterward.
Osthoff shared with NPR several screenshots of messages that he says are between him and Santos. In them, Osthoff pleads with Santos to let him take Sapphire to a local veterinarian. In September and then again in October, a desperate Osthoff forwarded Santos the name, phone number and address of a local animal hospital.
Then, in a message dated Nov. 13, 2016, Osthoff wrote, "My dog is going to die because of god knows what. ... I'm sick of being jerked around. I'll take her to another vet, but that cash was raised on her behalf."
The replies from Santos' phone number read in part: "Remember it is our credibility that got Gofundme ... to contribute! We are audited like every 501c3 and we are with the highest standards of integrity. ...
"sapphire is not a candidate for the surgery the funds are moved to the next animal in need and we will make sure we use of resources [sic] to keep her comfortable!"
GoFundMe did not respond to NPR's requests for comment.
Osthoff said he became so desperate that he enlisted the help of a friend. Michael Boll is a retired Marine Corps veteran and Union Township, N.J., police sergeant. He launched a nonprofit for veterans called the New Jersey Veterans Network.
"When I first got involved, I thought it was a simple misunderstanding that could be fixed with a simple phone call," Boll told NPR.
But when he got Santos on the phone, he said, Santos claimed he planned to give the donations to another charity group. Boll said he told Santos he couldn't do that — if he didn't want to give the money to Osthoff, he should return it to the individual donors.
"After that, he refused to take any phone calls and basically ghosted me because he knew that he was doing something wrong," Boll said.
Boll and Osthoff said they thought about going to the police, but "we had such limited information, we weren't able to do anything."
Sapphire died on Jan. 15, 2017.
"I had to panhandle and beg just to get the money to euthanize and cremate her. It was awful," Osthoff said.
The congressman calls the allegations a distraction
Calls to Santos' office by NPR went unanswered, but on Thursday he addressed the allegations on Twitter.
"The reports that I would let a dog die is shocking & insane," Santos tweeted. "My work in animal advocacy was the labor of love & hard work."
He added: "Over the past 24hr I have received pictures of dogs I helped rescue throughout the years along with supportive messages.
"These distractions won't stop me!"
The reports that I would let a dog die is shocking & insane. My work in animal advocacy was the labor of love & hard work. Over the past 24hr I have received pictures of dogs I helped rescue throughout the years along with supportive messages.
— George Santos (@Santos4Congress) January 19, 2023
These distractions won’t stop me!
Santos is being investigated after a series of lies
Among colleagues in the House, Santos has been held at arm's-length as a cascade of revelations about his fabricated biography continues to come to light. Constituents in his district staged several rallies early this month, demanding Santos' resignation. Meanwhile, local Republican leaders have described him as a pariah and a pathological liar.
Santos has admitted to lying about graduating from Baruch College (he has not graduated from any college); working at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup (he now says he worked with a company that worked with the financial giants); owning 13 properties (he owns none); and his Ukrainian grandparents being Jewish and having fled the Holocaust (in fact, both grandparents were born in Brazil, and he was raised Christian).
On Wednesday evening, The New York Times reported that Santos lied about his mother having escaped from the World Trade Center on 9/11. According to the Times, immigration documents show that she was living in Brazil at the time of the attacks.
The 34-year-old faces federal, state and local investigations. Santos' federal campaign records show that he loaned his campaign more than $700,000, but the source of that money has yet to be explained.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has not supported calls for Santos to resign, saying, "The voters have elected George Santos." And on Tuesday, Santos was appointed to the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the Small Business Committee.
Life after Sapphire's death
Osthoff is apoplectic over Santos' political career and seeming success.
While he holds Santos responsible for Sapphire's death, he said, he tries not to spend too much time thinking about him. That has been harder lately given how often Santos appears in the news, he said.
"It'll just send me to a dark place, and I don't want to go there."
Osthoff's life is stable these days. He has a home, a job and two new dogs that, he said, "make me so happy."
"My life is good," he said, which is why he now feels obligated to warn others about Santos.
He added: "The dog's already gone, and I'm not expecting to get any money back. I just want to see him never do this to anybody else again. I don't want somebody else to feel that way."
NPR's Will Chase contributed to this report.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writers
Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, deepening their losses for the week, as central banks around the world raised interest rates to fight inflation. The S&P 500 fell 0.8% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about half as much, and the Nasdaq composite lost 1.4%. Central banks in Europe and Asia increased rates a day after the Federal Reserve made another big rate hike and signaled more were on the way. The goal is to cool down economies by making it more expensive to borrow money. The yield on the 2-year Treasury, which tends to follow expectations for Fed action, rose significantly.
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Stocks fell on Wall Street in afternoon trading on Thursday and added to weekly losses for major indexes as central banks around the world hiked interest rates to fight inflation.
The S&P 500 fell 0.4% as of 3:53 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered from an early slide to add 16 points, or 0.1%, to 30,200 and the Nasdaq fell 0.9%. Every major index is solidly on track for weekly losses.
The losses were broad and led by retailers, banks and industrial companies. Starbucks fell 3.9%, American Express dropped 3% and UPS slid 2.9%.
Health care stocks were among the few bright spots. Johnson & Johnson rose 2.2%.
Smaller company stocks fell more than the broader market in a sign that investors were worried about the economy. The Russell 2000 fell 1.9%.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 2-year Treasury, which tends to follow expectations for Federal Reserve action, rose significantly to 4.11% from 4.02% late Wednesday. It is trading at its highest level since 2007. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, jumped to 3.69% from 3.51% from late Wednesday.
Investors are worried that the Fed could get even more aggressive on interest rates, but if prices stabilize that won’t need to happen, said Barry Bannister, chief equity strategist at Stifel. It could take more than a year for that process to play out, he said.
“The question is, what’s the patience level for both the Fed and the market,” he said.
Central banks in Europe and Asia raised interests a day after the Federal Reserve made another big rate hike and signaled that more were on the way.
Britain’s central bank raised its key interest rate by another half-percentage point. Switzerland’s central bank raised its benchmark lending rate by its biggest margin to date, 0.75 percentage points, and said it couldn’t rule out more hikes. Central banks in Norway and the Philippines also raised interest rates.
The Fed and other central banks are raising interest rates in to make borrowing more expensive. The goal is to slow economic growth enough to tame inflation, but not so much that economies slip into a recession. Wall Street is worried that the Fed may be pumping the brakes too hard on an already slowing economy, which makes steering into a recession more likely.
On Wednesday, Fed chair Jerome Powell stressed his resolve to lift rates high enough to drive inflation back toward the central bank’s 2% goal. Powell said the Fed has just started to get to that level with this most recent increase. The U.S. central bank lifted its benchmark rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%. That is the fifth rate hike this year and up from zero at the start of the year.
The Fed also released a forecast known as a “dot plot” that showed it expects its benchmark rate to be 4.4% by year’s end, a full point higher than envisioned in June.
Companies are closing in on the end of the third quarter and preparing for the next big round of earnings reports, though some early reports have trickled out. Homebuilder Lennar rose 2.6% after reporting strong financial results for its fiscal third-quarter. Fellow homebuilder KB Home fell 4% after a warning about supply chain problems and a mixed financial report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Crystal Powers began a new job remotely in February 2022 as a medical records supervisor. She has yet to meet two of the five people who report to her in person and has found it challenging to bond with her fellow managers online.
“I was used to that face-to-face of going into people’s cubicles and talking with them one-on-one. It just doesn’t translate as well to a remote environment,” said the 42-year-old Powers, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Just 2 in 10 adult U.S. employees say they definitely have a “best friend” at work, according to a quarterly Gallup survey done in June 2022. The percentage under age 35 dropped by 3 points when compared to pre-pandemic 2019, to 21% from 24%, said Gallup workplace and well-being researcher Jim Harter. There was no such change for workers 35 and up, he said.
Having a best friend at work has become even more important since the dramatic rise in remote and hybrid employment, Harter said.
“We’re seeing in the data that younger people in general are feeling more disconnected from their workplaces,” he said. “You can attribute some of that potentially to remote work. If they’re less connected to their workplace, they have fewer opportunities to connect with other colleagues and to develop those kinds of friendships that they might have had in the past.”
For many employees during the pandemic, particularly parents, educators and frontline workers, such friendships offered social and emotional support at a critical time, Gallup said.
They also benefited employers. Gallup found a strong link between workers with best friends on the job and profitability, safety, inventory control and retention.
Employees who have a bestie at work are significantly more likely to engage customers and internal partners, get more done in less time, support a safe workplace with fewer accidents, and innovate and share ideas, according to the research.
Karen Piatt started a new job with a medical relief nonprofit just a few weeks into the pandemic lockdowns of 2020. She did all of her interviewing for the post online and works remotely full time.
“It’s the first time in my 25-year career that I was hired for a job without meeting the hiring manager in person,” said the 52-year-old Piatt, who lives just outside Seattle. “It was nearly two years until I met my colleagues face-to-face.”
When she finally did, at a retreat last year, “it was really special,” she said. “We hugged and talked as if we had known each other for years. In fact, we had.”
Best friends on the job are just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to workers’ well-being and added value to employers, Harter said. Without strong positive feelings for an employer, “You can have friendships at work that are likely to be dysfunctional and probably turn into gripe sessions.”
Powers said her team is mostly nearing retirement age. One is younger than she is. She is the only manager hired since the pandemic who is handling a full-time remote staff. Team building has been challenging.
“They’re not super-interested in doing icebreaker-type stuff or things like trivia get-togethers,” she said.
Most of her staff live about 45 minutes away from the office and were commuting in before the pandemic. Powers knows her team has casual, digital get-togethers without her. She does biweekly check-ins with each.
“It’s been more challenging than it has been in past positions to get buy-ins on things and earn the trust in me as a supervisor, because they still don’t really know me,” she said.
Yet Powers likes working remotely.
“I’m hopeful that over time we’ll come up with strategies to better engage both with our colleagues and with our subordinates to make it successful,” she said.
Henry Crabtree, 26, in London, said that when you have work friends, “You’re not only working with each other but for each other.”
He was hired in December 2021 onto a small marketing team for a software company that has workers around the globe.
“Seeing each other outside work, especially when colleagues are over from other countries, really helps forge these friendships,” he said.
Harter draws a distinction between levels of trust among work besties and more casual work friends.
“It’s a lot more difficult to establish close kinds of relationships when you’re more distant,” he said.
Johnny C. Taylor Jr., president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, cites many benefits to work friends from all standpoints. Worker retention is on the top of his list.
“Secondly, what we found is it fosters workplace harmony. I’m not talking about sexual relationships. When you’re at work, we have an interest in ensuring that `family’ life is calm, peaceful and doesn’t have drama. So from an employee relations standpoint, when I get heated and upset about something, that person sitting next to me who’s my bestie can say, `Johnny, chill out.'”
He, too, draws a distinction between close friendships and more distant ones at work.
“If there’s a disagreement between besties, time will usually heal,” Taylor said. “That’s not always true for other friendships.”
Gallup found that workers sometimes “need the OK” from leaders to develop close friendships on the job. Taylor agrees.
More companies, he said, are actively encouraging friendships. His organization, with nearly 500 employees around the world, is one of a growing number of employers that buy lunches for people who invite somebody they’re not close with to a meal as a way to foster new ties.
“From a diversity, equity and inclusion standpoint, we’re trying to get people together who have different sets of experiences, lived experiences, backgrounds, etc.,” Taylor said. “The idea is, you go to lunch with a stranger and make them a friend.” | 2023-02-07T18:31:56+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/just-2-in-10-u-s-employees-have-a-best-friend-at-work-survey-finds/ |
Stellantis’ Ram brand has been hinting for several years that while there may be a fully electric truck in the future, it sees a plug-in hybrid truck as part of the plan, too.
With the debut of the Ram 1500 Revolution Concept at CES on Thursday, and the confirmation that a production version will bow within months and be delivered in 2024, the EV is now a given. Ram CEO Mike Koval confirmed to Green Car Reports that the the plug-in hybrid has a place on the brand’s timeline, as well.
“Let’s face it, it’s going to have white-knuckle performance in terms of acceleration and horsepower,” Koval said of the electric truck. “The driving dynamics and characteristics are phenomenal.”
That said, Koval was quick to admit that there’s a sticking point for electric trucks.
“Let’s call out the elephant in the room, and that’s real world range, especially under towing,” he said. “So when we talk about the Range Extended Paradigm Breaker (REPB)…it will carry all of those characteristics that are outlined but will also provide class-leading real-world range.”
Offering a plug-in hybrid as part of the Ram truck lineup will help distinguish it from Ford, Chevy, GMC, and Toyota, Koval argued.
“When I talk about the portfolio of solutions—the optionality—that’s really what’s going to help differentiate Ram within the segment,” he said.
What Ram hasn’t yet explained is whether such a plug-in hybrid truck will look like the traditional gasoline pickup or the radically different Ram 1500 Revolution Concept. If it’s any hint, a 2021 teaser showed the REPB following a futuristic profile that looks more like that of the concept truck.
The layout of the PHEV truck hasn’t yet been detailed either. But in 2020, head of global propulsion Micky Bly suggested that it had a good set of building blocks with the plug-in hybrid system featured in the Jeep Wrangler 4xe and Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe—a system that might be applied to other trucks in the automaker’s roster.
Meanwhile, Koval explained that electrified members of the Ram family won’t mean compromise.
“This truck still has to do truck things. Electrification cannot be a limitation. I can’t stress that enough,” he said. “Our customers are willing to come with us, but they do not want to sacrifice, they do not want to compromise on those core attributes.”
Koval said that starting with the Ram BEV there will be a full suite of electrified solutions “able to push past what our competitors have announced in terms of performance, towing, range, charge time, as well as payload.”
Although the fully electric truck may not be at the top in all of those categories versus gasoline models, Ram may end up showing, in a way that other vehicle makers haven’t, that daily electric driving and weekend towing aren’t mutually exclusive.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Summer will continue Monday as high pressure moves offshore into the Atlantic and a front works its way in from the west. Folks can expect partly sunny skies in the afternoon with temperatures that will be well above average. The high will be 86 in the city, and in the mid to upper 80s in the suburbs.
Tuesday will be partly cloudy and not as warm as high pressure will bring air in from the west. The high temperature will be 81 in the city, and in the low 80s in the suburbs.
Wednesday will be mostly sunny and still above average as high pressure will move east of the area bringing air in from the Gulf of Mexico. The high temperature will be 82 in the city, and in the low to mid-80s in the suburbs.
Thursday will be partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms developing later in the day as a cold front will move through the region. The high temperature will be 80 in the city, and in the low 80s in the suburbs.
Friday will be mostly sunny and noticeably cooler for the first full day of fall as high pressure will bring air into the area from Canada. The high temperature will be 67 in the city, and in the upper 60s to near 70 in the suburbs. | 2022-09-19T12:55:53+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/weather/ny-nj-forecast-unseasonably-warm-day-with-highs-in-upper-80s/ |
Submission for traditional approval follows FDA accelerated approval of LEQEMBI on the same day, and is based on data from the confirmatory Phase 3 Clarity AD clinical trial
TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB, Corporate headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, CEO: Christopher A. Viehbacher "Biogen") announced Eisai has submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supporting the conversion of the Accelerated Approval of LEQEMBI™ (lecanemab-irmb) 100 mg/mL injection for intravenous use to a traditional approval. This sBLA is subject to validation of whether the FDA accepts the application for review. LEQEMBI is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody directed against aggregated soluble ("protofibrils")* and insoluble forms of amyloid beta (Aβ), approved under Accelerated Approval Pathway by the FDA on January 6, 2023, for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Treatment with LEQEMBI should only be initiated in patients with the mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease and confirmed presence of Aβ pathology.
Accelerated Approval of LEQEMBI was based on Phase 2 data that demonstrated LEQEMBI reduced the accumulation of Aβ plaque in the brain, a defining feature of AD. Continued approval for this indication is contingent upon verification of LEQEMBI's clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial. The sBLA for LEQEMBI is based on the data from the Phase 3 confirmatory Clarity AD clinical trial. In Clarity AD, LEQEMBI met the primary endpoint and all key secondary endpoints with highly statistically significant results, and the profile of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) incidence was within expectations. In November 2022, the results of the Clarity AD study were presented at the 2022 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) conference, and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine, peer-reviewed medical journals.
"We deeply appreciate the cooperation of people living with Alzheimer's disease and healthcare professionals who participated in LEQEMBI's Phase 3 Clarity AD clinical study, which enabled us to submit this sBLA. Alzheimer's disease causes significant impairment and burden to both the people living with this disease and their families, as well as having a profound impact on society," said Haruo Naito, Chief Executive Officer at Eisai. "The fact that Eisai was able to file LEQEMBI's supplemental Biologics License Application for traditional FDA approval on the same day we received accelerated approval demonstrates our commitment to the Alzheimer's disease community and is a major step forward in ensuring access for all those in the U.S living with this disease in need of this medicine. We will continue to actively cooperate with the FDA's review."
Eisai has initiated submission of data for BLA to the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China in December 2022. Eisai plans to file for marketing authorization applications of lecanemab in Japan and EU by the end of Eisai's FY2022, which ends March 31, 2023.
"Today's filing is an important milestone for people living with Alzheimer's disease, demonstrating the resilience of the scientific and medical communities in their fight against this terrible disease despite the many setbacks and the challenges they've faced," said Christopher A. Viehbacher, President and Chief Executive Officer of Biogen. "We commend Eisai for their leadership on the development of lecanemab and for the speed in which they were able to complete this filing, which is based on important new data from the pivotal late-stage Clarity AD study."
Eisai serves as the lead of LEQEMBI development and regulatory submissions globally with both Eisai and Biogen co-commercializing and co-promoting the product and Eisai having final decision-making authority.
* Protofibrils are large Aβ aggregated soluble species of 75-500 Kd. 1, 2
To learn more, visit www.LEQEMBI.com.
INDICATION, DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION, AND IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION IN THE U.S
INDICATION
LEQEMBI is indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Treatment with LEQEMBI should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials. There are no safety or effectiveness data on initiating treatment at earlier or later stages of the disease than were studied. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on reduction in amyloid beta plaques observed in patients treated with LEQEMBI. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities
- LEQEMBI can cause amyloid related imaging abnormalities-edema (ARIA-E) and -hemosiderin deposition (ARIA-H). ARIA-E can be observed on MRI as brain edema or sulcal effusions, and ARIA-H as microhemorrhage and superficial siderosis. ARIA is usually asymptomatic, although serious and life-threatening events, including seizure and status epilepticus, rarely can occur. Reported symptoms associated with ARIA may include headache, confusion, visual changes, dizziness, nausea, and gait difficulty. Focal neurologic deficits may also occur. Symptoms associated with ARIA usually resolve over time.
ARIA Monitoring and Dose Management Guidelines
- Obtain recent (within one year) brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to initiating treatment with LEQEMBI. Obtain an MRI prior to the 5th, 7th, and 14th infusions.
- Recommendations for dosing in patients with ARIA-E and ARIA-H depend on clinical symptoms and radiographic severity. Depending on ARIA severity, use clinical judgment in considering whether to continue dosing, temporarily discontinue treatment, or permanently discontinue LEQEMBI.
- Enhanced clinical vigilance for ARIA is recommended during the first 14 weeks of treatment with LEQEMBI. If a patient experiences symptoms suggestive of ARIA, clinical evaluation should be performed, including MRI if indicated. If ARIA is observed on MRI, careful clinical evaluation should be performed prior to continuing treatment.
- There is no experience in patients who continued dosing through symptomatic ARIA-E or through asymptomatic, but radiographically severe, ARIA-E. There is limited experience in patients who continued dosing through asymptomatic but radiographically mild to moderate ARIA-E. There are limited data in dosing patients who experienced recurrent ARIA-E.
Incidence of ARIA
- In Study 1 (Study 201), symptomatic ARIA occurred in 3% (5/161) of LEQEMBI-treated patients. Clinical symptoms associated with ARIA resolved in 80% of patients during the period of observation.
- Including asymptomatic cases, ARIA was observed in LEQEMBI: 12% (20/161); placebo: 5% (13/245). ARIA-E was observed in LEQEMBI: 10% (16/161); placebo: 1% (2/245). ARIA-H was observed in LEQEMBI: 6% (10/161); placebo: 5% (12/245). There was no increase in isolated ARIA-H for LEQEMBI compared to placebo.
- Intracerebral hemorrhage >1 cm in diameter was reported after one treatment in LEQEMBI: 1 patient; placebo: zero patients. Events of intracerebral hemorrhage, including fatal events, in patients taking LEQEMBI have also been reported in other studies.
Apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE ε4) Carrier Status and Risk of ARIA
- In Study 1, 6% (10/161) of patients in the LEQEMBI group were ApoE ε4 homozygotes, 24% (39/161) were heterozygotes, and 70% (112/161) were noncarriers.
- The incidence of ARIA was higher in ApoE ε4 homozygotes than in heterozygotes and noncarriers among patients treated with LEQEMBI. Of the 5 LEQEMBI-treated patients who had symptomatic ARIA, 4 were ApoE ε4 homozygotes, 2 of whom experienced severe symptoms. An increased incidence of symptomatic and overall ARIA in ApoE ε4 homozygotes compared to heterozygotes and noncarriers in LEQEMBI-treated patients has been reported in other studies.
- The recommendations on management of ARIA do not differ between ApoE ε4 carriers and noncarriers.
- Consider testing for ApoE ε4 status to inform the risk of developing ARIA when deciding to initiate treatment with LEQEMBI.
Radiographic Findings
- The majority of ARIA-E radiographic events occurred early in treatment (within the first 7 doses), although ARIA can occur at any time and patients can have more than 1 episode. The maximum radiographic severity of ARIA-E in patients treated with LEQEMBI was mild in 4% (7/161) of patients, moderate in 4% (7/161) of patients, and severe in 1% (2/161) of patients. Resolution on MRI occurred in 62% of ARIA-E patients by 12 weeks, 81% by 21 weeks, and 94% overall after detection. The maximum radiographic severity of ARIA-H microhemorrhage in patients treated with LEQEMBI was mild in 4% (7/161) of patients and severe in 1% (2/161) of patients; of the 10 patients with ARIA-H had mild superficial siderosis.
Concomitant Antithrombotic Medication and Other Risk Factors for Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Patients were excluded from enrollment in Study 1 for baseline use of anticoagulant medications. Antiplatelet medications such as aspirin and clopidogrel were allowed. If anticoagulant medication was used because of intercurrent medical events that required treatment for ≤4 weeks, treatment with LEQEMBI was to be temporarily suspended.
- Most exposures to antithrombotic medications were to aspirin; few patients were exposed to other antiplatelet drugs or anticoagulants, limiting any meaningful conclusions about the risk of ARIA or intracerebral hemorrhage in patients taking other antiplatelet drugs or anticoagulants. Because intracerebral hemorrhages >1 cm in diameter have been observed in patients taking LEQEMBI, additional caution should be exercised when considering the administration of antithrombotics or a thrombolytic agent (e.g., tissue plasminogen activator) to a patient already being treated with LEQEMBI.
- Patients were excluded from enrollment in Study 1 for the following risk factors for intracerebral hemorrhage: prior cerebral hemorrhage >1 cm in greatest diameter, more than microhemorrhages, superficial siderosis, evidence of vasogenic edema, evidence of cerebral contusion, aneurysm, vascular malformation, infective lesions, multiple lacunar infarcts or stroke involving a major vascular territory, and severe small vessel or white matter disease. Caution should be exercised when considering the use of LEQEMBI in patients with these risk factors.
Infusion-Related Reactions
- Infusion-related reactions were observed in LEQEMBI: 20% (32/161); placebo: 3% (8/245), and the majority of cases in LEQEMBI-treated patients (88%, 28/32) occurred with the first infusion. All infusion-related reactions were mild (56%) or moderate (44%) in severity. Infusion-related reactions resulted in discontinuations in 2% (4/161) of patients treated with LEQEMBI. Symptoms of infusion-related reactions included fever and flu-like symptoms (chills, generalized aches, feeling shaky, and joint pain), nausea, vomiting, hypotension, hypertension, and oxygen desaturation.
- After the first infusion, 38% of LEQEMBI-treated patients had transient decreased lymphocyte counts to <0.9 x109/L compared to 2% on placebo, and 22% of LEQEMBI-treated patients had transient increased neutrophil counts to >7.9 x109/L compared to 1% on placebo.
- In the event of an infusion-related reaction, the infusion rate may be reduced, or the infusion may be discontinued, and appropriate therapy initiated as clinically indicated. Prophylactic treatment with antihistamines, acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or corticosteroids prior to future infusions may be considered.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
- In Study 1, 15% of LEQEMBI-treated patients, compared to 6% of placebo-treated patients, stopped study treatment because of an adverse reaction. The most common adverse reaction leading to discontinuation of LEQEMBI was infusion-related reactions that led to discontinuation in 2% (4/161) of patients treated with LEQEMBI compared to 1% (2/245) of patients on placebo.
- The most common adverse reactions reported in ≥5% of patients treated with LEQEMBI (N=161) and ≥2% higher than placebo (N=245) in Study 1 were infusion-related reactions (LEQEMBI: 20%; placebo: 3%), headache (LEQEMBI: 14%; placebo: 10%), ARIA-E (LEQEMBI: 10%; placebo: 1%), cough (LEQEMBI: 9%; placebo: 5%), and diarrhea (LEQEMBI: 8%; placebo: 5%).
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1. About LEQEMBITM (lecanemab-irmb)
LEQEMBITM (lecanemab-irmb) is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody that is directed against aggregated soluble ("protofibrils") and insoluble forms of amyloid-beta (Aβ). LEQEMBI is indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the U.S. Treatment with LEQEMBI should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials. There are no safety or effectiveness data on initiating treatment at earlier or later stages of the disease than were studied. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on reduction in Aβ plaques observed in patients treated with LEQEMBI. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial.
LEQEMBI is the result of a strategic research alliance between Eisai and BioArctic. Eisai has been initiated submission of data for the BLA to the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China in December 2022. Eisai plans to file for marketing authorization applications of lecanemab in Japan and EU by the end of Eisai's FY2022.
Since July 2020, Eisai's Phase 3 clinical study (AHEAD 3-45) for individuals with preclinical AD, meaning they are clinically normal and have intermediate or elevated levels of amyloid in their brains, is ongoing. AHEAD 3-45 is conducted as a public-private partnership between the Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Consortium that provides the infrastructure for academic clinical trials in AD and related dementias in the U.S., funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, Eisai and Biogen.
The Tau NexGen clinical study for Dominantly Inherited AD (DIAD), that is conducted by Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been ongoing since January 2022. Eisai has completed a LEQEMBI subcutaneous bioavailability study, and subcutaneous dosing is currently being evaluated in the Clarity AD (Study 301) OLE.
2. About Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA)
ARIA is an important adverse event of amyloid-lowering therapies that is critical to monitor and manage during treatment. ARIA is most commonly seen as temporary swelling/effusion (ARIA-E) in areas of the brain that usually resolves over time. Some people may also have small spots of bleeding in or on the surface of the brain (ARIA-H) with the swelling. Although most people with ARIA-E do not have symptoms, some people may have symptoms such as headache, confusion, dizziness, vision changes and nausea.
3. About the Collaboration between Eisai and Biogen for AD
Eisai and Biogen have been collaborating on the joint development and commercialization of AD treatments since 2014. Eisai serves as the lead of lecanemab development and regulatory submissions globally, with both companies co-commercializing and co-promoting the product and Eisai having final decision-making authority.
4. About the Collaboration between Eisai and BioArctic for AD
Since 2005, Eisai and BioArctic have had a long-term collaboration regarding the development and commercialization of AD treatments. Eisai obtained the global rights to study, develop, manufacture and market LEQEMBI for the treatment of AD pursuant to an agreement with BioArctic in December 2007. The development and commercialization agreement on the antibody LEQEMBI back-up was signed in May 2015.
5. About Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai's Corporate Concept is "to give first thought to patients and people in the daily living domain, and to increase the benefits that health care provides." Under this concept (also known as the human health care [hhc] concept), we aim to effectively achieve social good in the form of relieving anxiety over health and reducing health disparities. With a global network of R&D facilities, manufacturing sites and marketing subsidiaries, we strive to create and deliver innovative products to target diseases with high unmet medical needs, with a particular focus in our strategic areas of neurology and oncology.
In addition, we demonstrate our commitment to the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which is a target (3.3) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by working on various activities together with global partners.
For more information about Eisai, please visit www.eisai.com (for global headquarters: Eisai Co., Ltd.), and connect with us on Twitter @Eisai_SDGs.
6. About Biogen
As pioneers in neuroscience, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological diseases as well as related therapeutic adjacencies. One of the world's first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 by Charles Weissmann, Heinz Schaller, Sir Kenneth Murray, and Nobel Prize winners Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp. Today, Biogen has a leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and developed the first and only approved treatment to address a defining pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Biogen is also commercializing biosimilars and focusing on advancing one of the industry's most diversified pipelines in neuroscience that will transform the standard of care for patients in several areas of high unmet need.
The company routinely posts information that may be important to investors on its website at www.biogen.com. To learn more, please visit www.biogen.com and Follow Biogen on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, about the potential clinical effects of lecanemab; the potential benefits, safety and efficacy of lecanemab; potential regulatory discussions, submissions and approvals and the timing thereof; the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; the anticipated benefits and potential of Biogen's collaboration arrangements with Eisai; the potential of Biogen's commercial business and pipeline programs, including lecanemab; and risks and uncertainties associated with drug development and commercialization. These statements may be identified by words such as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "possible,"" "potential," "will," "would" and other words and terms of similar meaning. Drug development and commercialization involve a high degree of risk, and only a small number of research and development programs result in commercialization of a product. Results in early-stage clinical studies may not be indicative of full results or results from later stage or larger scale clinical studies and do not ensure regulatory approval. You should not place undue reliance on these statements or the scientific data presented.
These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such statements, including without limitation unexpected concerns that may arise from additional data, analysis or results obtained during clinical studies, including the Clarity AD clinical trial and AHEAD 3-45 study; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs or delays; the risk of other unexpected hurdles; regulatory submissions may take longer or be more difficult to complete than expected; regulatory authorities may require additional information or further studies, or may fail or refuse to approve or may delay approval of Biogen's drug candidates, including lecanemab; actual timing and content of submissions to and decisions made by the regulatory authorities regarding lecanemab; uncertainty of success in the development and potential commercialization of lecanemab; failure to protect and enforce Biogen's data, intellectual property and other proprietary rights and uncertainties relating to intellectual property claims and challenges; product liability claims; third party collaboration risks; and the direct and indirect impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on Biogen's business, results of operations and financial condition. The foregoing sets forth many, but not all, of the factors that could cause actual results to differ from Biogen's expectations in any forward-looking statement. Investors should consider this cautionary statement as well as the risk factors identified in Biogen's most recent annual or quarterly report and in other reports Biogen has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on Biogen's current beliefs and expectations and speak only as of the date of this news release. Biogen does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enertiv, the operational intelligence platform for commercial real estate, has announced the launch of its Capital Planning module to support deep carbon reductions in the built environment. This module, now part of Enertiv's connected SaaS platform, will help owners and operators intelligently allocate the estimated $18 trillion necessary to decarbonize the industry.
With building operations responsible for 28% of all global carbon emissions, landlords are under increasing pressure to translate high-minded goals into action. With the Capital Planning module, Enertiv has become the first software platform capable of delivering portfolio-level ESG reporting, real-time optimization of existing systems, and long-term plans for deploying capital improvements and deep reductions.
Enertiv powers the Capital Planning module with a dataset that includes 20 billion hours of building management system, equipment-level energy monitoring, and environmental IoT sensor data; the thousands of maintenance workflows performed on the Enertiv App daily; and the nameplate information of over 60,000 pieces of equipment. This data advantage, as well as the accumulated insights from industry-leading real estate portfolios, is allowing Enertiv to hone in on the most efficient and effective equipment from an ongoing performance perspective. These insights will lead directly to eliminating wasteful spend, de-siloing the budgeting process, ensuring capital is deployed in line with carbon reduction plans, and providing greater transparency for owners and asset managers.
"Enertiv has spent the last decade solving the toughest challenges related to operational efficiency in commercial real estate: figuring out how to connect disparate workflows and real-time data into a central platform, and then to transform that data into asset value. However, there will still have to be significant investments into the critical infrastructure to reach the goals that have been laid out in corporate boardrooms, the federal government, and by municipalities across the country. This module is a big step towards arming the industry with the insights they need to deploy capital in a smart, effective and data-driven way."
The release of the Capital Planning module follows Enertiv's $9 million funding round announced in May 2022, co-led by Commonweal Ventures and Groundbreak Ventures to fuel rapid growth as the first end-to-end ESG platform for commercial real estate. This new module is only the next step in a vision to build an in-house, fully integrated platform that delivered transparency and insights into every driver of ESG results: utility costs, equipment performance, on-site staff activity, and tenant consumption,
Enertiv is a connected SaaS platform that digitizes, streamlines and enhances operational workflows in commercial real estate. The software enables owners and operators to directly increase NOI and asset value, do more with less, decarbonize assets, and ultimately gain transparency from the boardroom to the boiler room.
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IT plays a crucial role in assisting educational leaders to maximize the potential of generative AI and improve student outcomes.
TORONTO, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Generative AI, a powerful technology known for content creation and discovery, has gained significant attention in recent months. Its use within the education sector has raised concerns, especially in relation to cheating. Educational institutes are struggling to address these challenges: plagiarism prevention tools are ineffective, and blocking AI tools such as ChatGPT is not a viable option. To help IT professionals support educational leaders in navigating the challenges posed by generative AI and harnessing its potential to enhance education, Info-Tech Research Group has released its new advisory deck, titled Understand the Implications of Generative AI in Education.
Info-Tech's resource highlights ChatGPT as a standout generative AI tool that goes beyond standard chatbots, creating new content based on user inputs rather than just executing basic workflows. However, ChatGPT has been blocked by several prominent institutions, preventing innovative teachers from using this tool for increased productivity. Additionally, plagiarism prevention tools commonly used by educational institutions present privacy issues and may result in a breakdown of trust. This mistrust can go both ways, as students may question the validity of their instructors' feedback, just as instructors often question the quality of students' writing.
"Generative AI technology can potentially transform the classroom just as calculators, the internet, and digital assets changed how we taught and learned in the past," says Mark Maby, research director at Info-Tech Research Group. "Educators may have no choice but to embrace generative AI and leverage its strengths to enhance learning and development."
The firm advises a positive approach for the use of generative AI tools in education: Rather than banning them, institutions can use the tools to benefit the educational sector. One way to achieve this is by encouraging students to take ownership of their writing by using an AI tool to learn editing skills while personalizing their output. Faculty members can leverage generative AI to reduce administrative burdens and focus on other important aspects of teaching, ultimately improving student learning outcomes. Generative AI can also be used as a 24/7 chatbot to answer questions from prospective students of post-secondary institutions about the admissions process, academic programs, and campus life, reducing the workload of admissions officers and providing a cost-effective solution for managing the intake process.
In the new advisory deck, Info-Tech recommends that IT leaders in educational institutions implement the following framework to determine how they can use generative AI most effectively:
- Identify capabilities that support key business processes.
- Build a heatmap to highlight areas where a generative AI solution could be effective, using a framework to determine if a process is repeatable, generative, and valuable.
- Choose the most suitable process and capability for generative AI intervention.
- Outline a high-level business case that answers how generative AI would reduce manual work. Consider what its output would look like, what the expected benefit would be, what the potential drawbacks are, and how much it would cost.
- Identify crucial functionalities and integrations that AI solutions must have.
- Review different generative AI options available on the market that can be purchased for enterprise use.
- Compare requirements with options, then select a solution and begin piloting.
Educational leaders are encouraged to remember that virtual assistants may not always provide accurate and reliable responses, especially in situations involving complex or sensitive information.
For additional insights on the use of AI in education, download the Understand the Implications of Generative AI in Education advisory deck.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former state lawmaker who once served as Wisconsin’s tourism secretary has been sentenced to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to failing to pay nearly $200,000 in employment taxes.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson sentenced former state Sen. Kevin Shibilski on Tuesday. Shibilski, 61, pleaded guilty last year to willfully not paying about $197,500 in federal employment taxes for two companies linked to an electronic equipment recycling operation he ran about 10 years ago, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
In exchange for Shibilski’s guilty plea, the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed to dismiss all other charges on which a grand jury indicted him in September 2020, including eight counts of wire fraud and storing and disposing of hazardous waste without a permit, according to court documents.
Shibilski, a Democrat from Merrill, represented the 24th Senate District from 1995 to 2002, when he unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. He later served as state tourism secretary under Gov. Jim Doyle.
Under sentencing guidelines, Peterson could have given Shibilski a sentence shorter than 33 months had he thought the former elected official had taken responsibility for his misconduct.
But during Tuesday's sentencing hearing, Shibilski grew combative and blamed his former business associates and the IRS for the events that led to his prosecution.
“He has blamed everybody but himself,” Peterson said of Shibilski, calling his avoidance of paying taxes “blatant theft from the United States.” | 2023-02-22T16:29:25+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/politics/article/ex-legislator-gets-33-months-in-employment-tax-17798707.php |
Twitter has ditched the bird logo for an X. Elon Musk says the change is a step toward turning the platform into an app that offers other services. It's a tall order considering Twitter's finances.
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Twitter has ditched the bird logo for an X. Elon Musk says the change is a step toward turning the platform into an app that offers other services. It's a tall order considering Twitter's finances.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The test couldn't have been much easier — and Facebook still failed.
Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
The hateful messages focused on Ethiopia, where internal documents obtained by whistleblower Frances Haugen showed that Facebook's ineffective moderation is "literally fanning ethnic violence," as she said in her 2021 congressional testimony. In March, Global Witness ran a similar test with hate speech in Myanmar, which Facebook also failed to detect.
The group created 12 text-based ads that used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia’s three main ethnic groups — the Amhara, the Oromo and the Tigrayans. Facebook’s systems approved the ads for publication, just as they did with the Myanmar ads. The ads were not actually published on Facebook.
This time around, though, the group informed Meta about the undetected violations. The company said the ads shouldn't have been approved and pointed to the work it has done “building our capacity to catch hateful and inflammatory content in the most widely spoken languages, including Amharic.”
A week after hearing from Meta, Global Witness submitted two more ads for approval, again with blatant hate speech. The two ads, again in written text in Amharic, the most widely used language in Ethiopia, were approved.
Meta did not respond to multiple messages for comment this week.
“We picked out the worst cases we could think of," said Rosie Sharpe, a campaigner at Global Witness. "The ones the ones that ought to be the easiest for Facebook to detect. They weren’t coded language. They weren’t dog whistles. They were explicit statements saying that this type of person is not a human or these type of people should be starved to death.”
Meta has consistently refused to say how many content moderators it has in countries where English is not the primary language. This includes moderators in Ethiopia, Myanmar and other regions where material posted on the company's platforms has been linked to real-world violence.
In November, Meta said it removed a post by Ethiopia's prime minister that urged citizens to rise up and "bury" rival Tigray forces who threatened the country's capital.
In the since-deleted post, Abiy said the "obligation to die for Ethiopia belongs to all of us.” He called on citizens to mobilize “by holding any weapon or capacity.”
Abiy has continued to post on the platform, though, where he has 4.1 million followers. The U.S. and others have warned Ethiopia about “dehumanizing rhetoric” after the prime minister described the Tigray forces as “cancer” and “weeds” in comments made in July 2021.
“When ads calling for genocide in Ethiopia repeatedly get through Facebook’s net — even after the issue is flagged with Facebook — there’s only one possible conclusion: there’s nobody home," said Rosa Curling, director of Foxglove, a London-based legal nonprofit that partnered with Global Witness in its investigation. “Years after the Myanmar genocide, it is clear Facebook hasn’t learned its lesson.” | 2022-06-09T13:35:48+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/facebook-fails-again-to-detect-hate-speech-in-ads/VTNYTQWSJZHW7EJ6OJ2CIRWSOE/ |
A win by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in next week’s Senate runoff would hand Democrats a crucial 51st vote in the upper chamber, along with something else they’ve been seeking: breathing room.
Some room to exhale could do wonders for a party that has been forced to navigate the tricky waters of a 50-50 Senate. No longer could a single Democratic member — including Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — derail a contentious nominee or long-sought legislative item, handing Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) a boost in the process.
“It’s night and day,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told The Hill. “Being able to lose one is 100 times better than not being able to lose one.”
A win for Warnock, coupled with Republicans retaking the House, would serve as a one-two punch that would drastically reduce the pressure on and influence of both Manchin and Sinema, the two foremost moderates in the Senate Democratic caucus.
In addition to being able to lose a Democratic vote on legislation, reconciliation bills, which require only 50 votes and have been the center of Democrats’ hopes for major legislation and frustration with Manchin and Sinema, would no longer be possible with the House in GOP hands, nor would passing bills simply by getting rid of the legislative filibuster.
“There’s pressure on everybody, but the focus on any one or two members dramatically reduces, which makes Schumer’s job so much easier,” Kaine added.
“It means all the difference in the world,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) added.
Of all the Senate Democrats, perhaps no one claims to be happier about a possible Warnock victory than Manchin himself. The West Virginia moderate, along with Sinema, is also up for reelection in 2024, raising the stakes on the next two years for him personally as he seeks to appeal to both Democrats broadly and more conservative voters in his home state.
“I wouldn’t wish 50-50 on anybody,” Manchin told The Hill.
Democrats appear to be in the driver’s seat heading into Tuesday’s runoff. Warnock topped Republican Herschel Walker by more than 36,000 votes on Election Day. According to the latest RealClearPolitics average of surveys, Warnock leads by 3.2 percentage points over the former University of Georgia running back.
A 51st Senate Democrat would also be a godsend on the committee level. Gone would be the power-sharing agreement between the two parties that has forced a time-consuming process just to bring some nominees to the Senate floor for votes. Once again, the party in power will be able to pass partisan nominees without the minority side having the opportunity to gum up the works.
“It’s an extra seat on committees. It makes things flow better,” said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). “On committees like Judiciary, for example, it’ll make a big difference.”
And an extra vote will almost certainly be key simply because absences from the Senate floor, whether for health issues or other reasons, are not uncommon. Over the past two years, Senate Democrats were down at least one vote on a number of occasions, including because of positive COVID-19 results that sidelined members. Two senators — Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) — even suffered strokes that temporarily kept them out of action.
Couple those concerns with possible health issues for older members, and that 51st vote will almost certainly prove crucial during the 118th Congress.
“It means a huge difference in our ability to operate,” said Van Hollen. “It gives you a little more operating flexibility.”
An upset win by Walker, however, would not only stymie Democratic hopes for the next two years but also give Republicans a major boost heading into what they believe could be a winning cycle for the party. Of the 33 seats up for reelection, 23 are held by Democrats, including a number in red or purple states that will give the party a prime chance at winning back the upper chamber.
“Well, we could put this one in the hole for 2024 when we expect to have a pretty good map,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). “There’s no reason to go backward,”
However, there’s trouble at play for the GOP in the Peach State. On top of his own personal issues, Walker will not have the benefit of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on top of the ticket as he did last month. Kemp defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams on Election Day, winning 2.1 million votes — roughly 203,000 more than Walker earned.
Due to Democratic wins in Pennsylvania and Nevada, Walker and Republicans have also been deprived of having the race decide the majority, which the party was counting on as being their biggest get-out-the-vote calling card.
“Warnock has all the advantages. I think Herschel might even be the favorite if this was to determine the majority. … It’s not going to be close,” one GOP operative told The Hill. “Our people just have no motivation to vote. Herschel Walker and his campaign are not a motivation for people to vote.” | 2022-12-04T18:56:36+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/senate-democrats-seek-51st-vote-and-some-breathing-room-in-georgia-runoff/ |
UK tabloid group admits it unlawfully gathered info on Harry
LONDON (AP) - The publisher of British tabloid the Daily Mirror has acknowledged and apologized for unlawfully gathering information about Prince Harry in its reporting, and said it warrants compensation, at the outset of the prince’s first phone hacking trial Wednesday.
The admission was made in court filings outlining Mirror Group Newspapers’ defense.
The group continued to deny that it hacked phones to intercept voicemail messages, and said that Harry and three less-well-known celebrities brought their claims beyond a time limit.
But it acknowledged there was “some evidence of the instruction of third parties to engage in other types of UIG (unlawful information gathering) in respect of each of the claimants,” which includes the Duke of Sussex. It said this “warrants compensation” but didn’t spell out what form that might take.
“MGN unreservedly apologizes for all such instances of UIG, and assures the claimants that such conduct will never be repeated,” the court papers said.
The publisher said its apology was not a tactical move to reduce damages but was done “because such conduct should never have occurred.”
The trial is Harry’s opening salvo in his legal battle against the British press. Harry and the other celebrities are suing the former publisher of the Daily Mirror for alleged invasion of privacy.
The case is the first of the duke’s three phone hacking lawsuits and threatens to do something he said his family long feared: put a royal on the witness stand to discuss embarrassing revelations.
The activities in question stretch back more than two decades, when journalists and private eyes intercepted voicemails to snoop on members of the royal family, politicians, athletes, celebrities and even crime victims. A scandal erupted when the hacking was revealed.
Harry is expected to testify in person in June, his lawyer has said. It won’t be his first time in the High Court, following his surprise appearance last month to observe most of a four-day hearing in one of his other lawsuits.
He did not show up for opening statements in the trial. Harry breezed through London for Saturday’s coronation of his father, King Charles III, before leaving immediately after the ceremony to fly back to California to be with his family for his son’s birthday.
The prince has waged a war of words against British newspapers in legal claims and in his best-selling memoir “Spare,” vowing to make his life’s mission reforming the media that he blames for the death of his mother, Princess Diana. She died in a car wreck in Paris in 1997 while trying to evade paparazzi.
Harry has also sued the publishers of the Daily Mail and The Sun over the phone hacking scandal that metastasized after a year-long inquiry into press ethics in 2011 revealed that employees of the now-defunct News of the World tabloid eavesdropped on mobile phone voicemails.
Harry has outlined his grievances against the media in court papers, saying the press hounded him since his earliest days and created a narrative that portrayed him as “the ‘thicko,’ the ‘cheat,’ the ‘underage drinker.’” His relationships with girlfriends were wrecked by “the entire tabloid press as a third party.”
“Looking back on it now, such behavior on their part is utterly vile,” he said in a witness statement in a similar case.
His lawsuits could further roil family relations that have been strained since Harry and his wife, Meghan, left royal life in 2020 and moved to the United States after complaining about racist attitudes from the British press.
Mirror Group Newspapers and other publishers have primarily defended themselves by asserting that Harry failed to bring his cases within a six-year year time limit. The duke’s lawyer has argued that an exception should be applied because publishers actively concealed the skullduggery.
In a stunning revelation last month that dredged up an embarrassing chapter in his father’s life, Harry blamed his delay in bringing suit, in part, on his family.
He asserted he was barred from bringing a case against The Sun and other newspapers owned by media magnate Rupert Murdoch because of a “secret agreement” — allegedly approved of by Queen Elizabeth II — that called for reaching a private settlement and getting an apology.
“The reason for this was to avoid the situation where a member of the royal family would have to sit in the witness box and recount the specific details of the private and highly sensitive voicemails that had been intercepted,” Harry said in a witness statement against News Group Newspapers.
“The institution was incredibly nervous about this and wanted to avoid at all costs the sort of reputational damage that it had suffered in 1993,” he said, alluding to a transcript of a leaked recording — published in the Sunday Mirror — of an intimate conversation his father, then Prince of Wales, had with his paramour, now Queen Camilla, in which he compared himself to a tampon.
Harry said his brother, Prince William, had quietly settled his own hacking claims with News Group for “huge sum of money” in 2020. He also claimed his father had directed palace staff to order him to drop his litigation because it was bad for the family.
Murdoch’s company denied there was a “secret agreement” and wouldn’t comment on the alleged settlement. The palace hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
Harry has alleged that reporters at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People used illegal methods to gather material from his family and friends for nearly 150 articles. The newspaper has said he is wrong about how its reporters got information, saying they used legal methods for many articles.
In 2015, publishers of The Mirror printed a front-page apology for phone hacking and tripled its fund to 12 million pounds ($15 million) to compensate victims.
Mirror Group said more than 600 of some 830 claims had been settled. Of the remaining 104 cases, 86 were brought too late to be litigated, it said in court papers.
“Where historical wrongdoing has taken place, we have made admissions, take full responsibility and apologize unreservedly,” a spokesperson for Mirror Group Newspapers said in advance of the trial. “But we will vigorously defend against allegations of wrongdoing where our journalists acted lawfully.”
The lawsuits were combined as a test case that could determine the outcome of hacking claims also made against Mirror Group by former Girls Aloud member Cheryl, the estate of the late singer George Michael, and former soccer player Ian Wright.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-10T10:31:40+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/05/10/uk-tabloid-group-admits-it-unlawfully-gathered-info-harry/ |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)Pittsburgh beat first baseman Ji-Man Choi in salary arbitration on Friday while Seattle outfielder Teoscar Hernandez and St. Louis pitcher Genesis Cabrera went to the last two hearings of the year.
Choi got a raise from $3.2 million to $4.65 million instead of his $5.4 million request in a decision by Jeanne Charles, Allen Ponak and Melinda Gordon, who heard the case a day earlier. The 31-year-old hit .233 with 11 homers and 52 RBIs for Tampa Bay and made $3.2 million, then was traded to the Pirates in November for a minor leaguer.
Teams hold an 8-5 lead with six decisions to be issued Saturday.
Hernandez will set a record win or lose for highest salary awarded in arbitration, though there have been larger deals in negotiated agreements. He asked for a raise from $10.65 million to $16 million, and the Mariners argued for $14 million in a case heard by Mark Burstein, John Woods and Howard Edelman. The previous high for an arbitration award was $13.5 million by pitcher Gerrit Cole in his 2019 win over Houston and by pitcher Max Fried in his loss to Atlanta this year.
An All-Star in 2021, Hernandez hit .267 with 25 home runs and 77 RBIs in 131 games last season for Toronto, then was traded to Seattle in November for right-hander reliever Erik Swanson and minor league lefty Adam Macko. Hernandez, 30, is eligible for free agency after this year’s World Series.
Cabrera asked for a raise from $719,200 to $1.15 million, and the Cardinals argued for $950,000 during a hearing before Jules Bloch, Scott Buchheit and Fredric Horowitz. The 26-year-old left-hander was eligible for arbitration for the first time after going 4-2 with a 4.63 ERA in 39 relief appearances.
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Hunter Renfroe ($11.9 million vs. $11.25 million) and infielder Gio Urshela ($10 million vs. $8.4 million) will learn the decisions of their cases on Saturday along with Tampa Bay relievers Ryan Thompson ($1.2 million vs. $1 million) and Colin Poche ($1.3 million vs. $1,175,000).
The 19 hearings this year were up from 13 last year and the most since 22 in 2018.
Arizona pitcher Josh Rojas lost his case on Thursday and will get $2,575,000 rather than $2.9 million. Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen attended the hearing.
”Even the fact he was there, that’s a rarity,” Rojas said Friday. ”GMs and front office people try to stay away from that situation, just because it’s tough to bash a player when you’re paying them to perform on the field. So it meant a lot for him to show up.”
”There’s definitely some playing with the numbers, some things they throw out there you disagree with, but that’s what they’re in there to do. They’re there to show the judges that you are worth less than the middle number. Our job on our side is to show we’re worth more than the number. When you sign up for the process, you know what you’re signing up for.”
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2023-02-18T21:28:52+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/hernandez-mariners-hearing-will-set-arbitration-record/ |
- Valour's Binance Exchange Traded Product becomes the 10th ETP offered by Valour and the 2nd ETP offering exposure to BNB globally.
- Valour Binance (BNB) EUR (CH1149139672) will enable retail and institutional investors to gain exposure to the BNB token simply and securely via their bank or broker.
- The ETP will be first available on Börse Frankfurt, the largest exchange in Germany
TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Valour Inc. (the "Company" or "Valour") (NEO: DEFI) (GR: RMJR) (OTC: DEFTF), a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets, Web3 and decentralized finance, announced today that it will debut its new Binance Coin Exchange Traded product ("ETP") on Börse Frankfurt. Trading of Valour (BNB) ETP begins today, August 24, 2022.
The Valour Binance (BNB) EUR ETP (CH1149139672) precisely tracks the price of BNB, the native token behind the BNB Chain. It primarily serves to 'fuel' transactions across the BNB Chain, as well as acting as a governance token for the network. BNB Chain is a decentralized, open-source, multi-chain platform that is being used to build parallel virtual ecosystem infrastructure. The permissionless, smart contracts network is shaping and scaling the growth of MetaFi (the intersection of DeFi infrastructure with GameFi, SocialFi, the Metaverse, Web3 & NFTs).BNB is currently among the top five cryptocurrencies in the world by market capitalization, at USD$48.052M as of August 23, 2022.
"BNB is a dynamic digital asset. By offering exposure to this token on Börse Frankfurt, Valour is enabling investors to safely and securely gain exposure through a distinguished and reputable exchange," said Russell Starr, CEO of Valour. "I am confident that our low fee model will drive interest in our Valour (BNB) ETP as more investors seek to diversify with digital assets."
"By gaining exposure to digital assets via Valour, investors benefit from the standardisation, risk reduction and operational efficiency of a centrally cleared product listed on a regulated stock exchange", continues Marco Infuso, Chief Sales Officer of Valour.
Valour offers fully hedged digital asset ETPs with low to zero management fees, with product listings across European exchanges, banks and broker platforms. In addition to Binance Coin (BNB) Valour's existing product range includes Valour Uniswap (UNI), Cardano (ADA), Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), Cosmos (ATOM) and Enjin (ENJ) ETPs with low management fees. Valour's flagship products are Bitcoin Zero and Ethereum Zero, the first fully hedged, passive investment products with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as underlyings which are completely fee free.
Learn more about Valour at https://valour.com/
Valour Inc. (NEO: DEFI) (GR: RMJ.F) (OTCQB: DEFTF) is a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance. Founded in 2019, Valour is backed by an acclaimed and pioneering team with decades of experience in financial markets and digital assets. Valour's mission is to expand investor access to industry-leading Web3 and decentralized technologies. This allows investors to access the future of finance via regulated equity exchanges using their traditional bank account and access.
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to the trading of Valour (BNB) ETP; the regulatory environment with respect to the growth and adoption of decentralized finance; the pursuit by Valour and its subsidiaries of business opportunities; and the merits or potential returns of any such opportunities. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company, as the case may be, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but is not limited to the acceptance of Valour ETPs by exchanges, including the NGM, Frankfurt and Euronext; investor demand for Valour's products; growth and development of DeFi and cryptocurrency sector; rules and regulations with respect to DeFi and cryptocurrency; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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NEW YORK – The Indiana Fever are just focusing on this season and not dwelling on the past.
Indiana (0-2) lost its 20th consecutive game dating to last year with Sunday's 90-73 loss to New York. That tied the Tulsa Shock for the longest losing skid in WNBA history. Indiana also owns the third-longest losing streak
“We poured our mess out in our first team meeting,” Indiana first-year head coach Christie Sides said. “We’re not talking about last year. We've got to figure out how to find that win.”
Indiana hopes that victory comes next Sunday in its next game when the Fever visit Atlanta.
“(We're) 0-2. That’s all that matters,” Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell said. “I can’t help what history says. (Stinks) to be a part of it. I feel we are in transition and changing and I do my best to lean on that.”
Mitchell was part of the team last season that lost its final 18 games. She already feels a shift in the organization.
“Culture has been big for our program and organization,” she said. “I think from an internal standpoint, we've changed in such a positive way.”
With nine first- and second-year players on the roster, including No. 1 pick Aliyah Boston, the Fever are excited for the future. Boston, who had a tremendous amount of success in college playing for Dawn Staley at South Carolina, had 15 points in Sunday's loss.
“I’d say there is nothing but positivity around here right now,” said Fever second-year forward NaLyssa Smith, who had 16 points and 12 rebounds Sunday. “Everyone is excited for our future.”
While the team knows the future is bright, Sides wasn't happy with the present. Indiana got off to another slow start for a third straight game.
The Fever trailed New York by 22 after one quarter. That came after Indiana was down by nine at the end of the first quarter against Connecticut in the opener Friday. Indiana also struggled in a preseason game against Dallas, getting off to a slow start as well.
“This is our third straight start where we got off to a bad start in the first quarter,” Sides said. “We can’t keep digging ourselves a hole in the first quarter.”
Sides also wasn't happy with the defensive effort of her team.
“If you can’t play defense you can’t play for the Fever,” she said. “At this point, we've got to establish our defense at the defensive end of the court. That's what we're going to do and there's going to be five people that are gonna play in the game that can do that.”
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AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-22T14:52:23+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/sports/2023/05/22/young-indiana-fever-focusing-on-present-during-20-game-skid-and-not-their-losing-past/ |
IRVING, Texas and MONROVIA, Calif., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, and Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ: XNCR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered antibodies and cytokines for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced an expansion of their collaboration to research, develop and commercialize novel XmAb® bispecific and multi-specific antibodies directed against novel targets, identified and proposed by Caris, for the treatment of patients with cancer.
Building upon the initial August 2022 agreement, this expanded collaboration will increase the number of targets and cancer types that Caris will interrogate with its proprietary, multi-omics discovery engine platform, Caris Discovery. Novel targets and their accompanying validation packages will serve as the substrate for drug candidate development through Xencor's XmAb platform.
"Xencor has an impressive track record of advancing drug development programs from early discovery through to the clinic, and we are excited to bring forward additional novel targets for their team," said David Spetzler, M.S., Ph.D., MBA, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Caris Life Sciences. "The aggregate strength of Caris' platform permits the unlocking of otherwise inaccessible targets, and we look forward to realizing our shared goal of bringing novel antibody-directed therapies to patients with cancer."
"We are committed to leveraging our XmAb bispecific antibody platforms, building an internal portfolio of novel drug candidates and advancing potentially transformational treatment options for patients," said John Desjarlais, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Xencor. "Our new agreement with Caris expands a progressing collaboration centered on their innovative target discovery and precision oncology capabilities."
Under the terms of the new agreement, Xencor will receive exclusive worldwide rights to research, develop and commercialize products directed to up to three targets discovered under the collaboration. Caris will receive an upfront payment and will be eligible to receive up to $187 million in development and commercial milestone payments. Caris will also be eligible to receive royalties on net sales of commercialized products resulting from the collaboration as well as future rights for molecular profiling and companion diagnostics.
Caris Discovery leverages the aggregate strength of Caris' unmatched platform, combining insights generated from the molecular interrogation of primary patient tissues using ADAPT™, the company's exclusive aptamer-based proteomic profiling platform; a robust validation pipeline; and the company's proprietary real-world data platform that integrates Caris' extensive catalog of molecular and clinical data. Learn more about Caris Discovery here.
XmAb® is a registered trademark of Xencor, Inc.
Caris Life Sciences® (Caris) is the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare and improve patient outcomes. Through comprehensive molecular profiling (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing) and the application of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, Caris has created the large-scale clinico-genomic database and cognitive computing needed to analyze and unravel the molecular complexity of disease. This information provides an unmatched resource and the ideal path forward to conduct the basic, fundamental research to accelerate discovery for detection, diagnosis, monitoring, therapy selection and drug development to improve the human condition.
With a primary focus on cancer, Caris' suite of market-leading molecular profiling offerings assesses DNA, RNA and proteins to reveal a molecular blueprint that helps patients, physicians and researchers better detect, diagnose and treat patients. Caris' latest advancement is a blood-based, circulating nucleic acids sequencing (cNAS) assay that combines comprehensive molecular analysis (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing from blood) and serial monitoring – making it the most powerful liquid biopsy assay ever developed.
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Caris has offices in Phoenix, New York, Denver, Tokyo, Japan and Basel, Switzerland. Caris provides services throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and other international markets. To learn more, please visit CarisLifeSciences.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
Xencor is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered antibodies and cytokines for the treatment of patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases. More than 20 candidates engineered with Xencor's XmAb® technology are in clinical development, and three XmAb medicines are marketed by partners. Xencor's XmAb engineering technology enables small changes to a protein's structure that result in new mechanisms of therapeutic action. For more information, please visit www.xencor.com.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the first time, a Santa Fe Police officer has completed the prestigious FBI National Academy. Lt. Thomas Grundler was one of the 235 officers from across the country to graduate from the program last week in Quantico, Virginia.
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Fewer than one percent of officers qualify. The 10-week academy provides courses on advanced communication, leadership, and fitness training that they can take back to their departments. Grundler has been with Santa Fe Police since 2004. | 2022-09-20T21:39:05+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/santa-fe-police-officer-completes-fbi-national-academy/ |
South Carolina State University has updated plans for the long-awaited completion of the James E. Clyburn Transportation Center to present to the Federal Highway Administration.
About $13 million in federal funding, along with a $2.5 million match from the state, is available to build out the center on the Russell Street side of campus.
The Clyburn Transportation Center’s mission is to assist federal, state and local agencies in meeting their goals to develop a highly skilled workforce to meet the future needs in transportation.
S.C. State hopes to have the 35,000-square-foot project out for bid by summer.
Four other major projects also are under development at S.C. State. They are:
• Queens Village Renovation – S.C. State will refurbish seven vacant residential cottages this spring.
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The Queens Village apartment complex, which was built in the mid-1970s, will undergo its first major renovation.
Formerly used as married student housing, each of the seven buildings will have four two-bedroom, one-bath apartments. Each room will be single occupancy. The project is slated to bid later this month with work to begin in late April.
The Queens Village project will add 56 beds to S.C. State’s residential capacity – a much-needed addition given the university’s enrollment growth.
• Student Outdoor Pavilion: The pavilion will be a 50-foot by 80-foot concrete pad with a 50-foot by 40-foot structure covering the end closest to the Student Center.
The structure will be lighted and be outfitted with Wi-Fi and bleacher seating for students to enjoy outdoor concerts or movies. Basketball goals also will be installed.
The outdoor pavilion also will include amenities made possible by a grant from Home Depot’s Retool Your School social media competition.
• Kirkland W. Green Student Center Renovation: S.C. State will soon release specifications for the Kirkland W. Green Student Center renovation.
This $4.4 million project will completely update the interior to include more technology and life safety infrastructure, while also providing a new roof, windows and doors for the exterior. The renovation is slated to bid in April with construction starting in May. Completion is expected in 2024.
S.C. State also has $20 million in state funding to continue the Student Center upgrade by adding 30,000 square feet, giving the university 62,000 square feet of modern space specifically for student life activities.
S.C. State expects to put that phase of the renovation out to bid in 2024.
• Sojourner Truth Hall Renovation: On March 2, S.C. State received initial approval for the renovation of Sojourner Truth Hall from the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.
The $10 million project was funded through a state allocation in the 2022-23 budget.
The renovation will allow the university to retrofit Truth Hall with fire-suppression sprinkler systems and complete other upgrades. The university has been able to house students only in the tower’s lower floors in recent years because the upper floors are inaccessible to firetrucks.
S.C. State says the Truth renovation is an essential infrastructure component necessary to accommodate the university’s enrollment growth. It will bring more than 200 beds back online for student housing.
S.C. State administrators estimate work will begin this November or December, making the additional residential capacity available in August 2024. | 2023-03-15T00:32:49+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/news/local/clyburn-transportation-center-plans-updated-s-c-state-upgrades-take-shape/article_60315a5d-ff2b-5d46-b135-871471785737.html |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 24, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
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* Until 930 PM EDT.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A single legislative vote is all that stands now between a proposal aimed at making it tougher to amend Ohio's constitution and a statewide vote.
The politically fractured Ohio House has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution that would ask voters to decide whether to raise the threshold for passing future amendments from the simple majority in place since 1912 to a 60% supermajority.
Backers' immediate goal is to thwart a constitutional amendment headed toward November ballots that would enshrine abortion rights in Ohio's constitution.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling guaranteeing abortion rights last year, other states' amendments involving the procedure have shown voter support for legal access to abortion is between 50% and 60%, whether in conservative Kansas, Democratic-leaning Michigan or Republican-leaning Kentucky. But no vote has exceeded 60%.
AP VoteCast polling last year found 59% of Ohio voters say abortion should generally be legal.
Whether the resolution containing the 60% question has enough votes to clear the Republican-led House is yet to be seen. The chamber's 32 Democrats all oppose the measure, and a number of Republicans also have raised various objections. A three-fifths majority of the 99-member House — 60 votes, if two vacancies are filled first — is required in order to place the question before voters.
Among maneuvers used to get the resolution past its GOP opposition was to remove language Tuesday that would have sent the question to an August ballot. Opponents of that strategy bristle at that fact that it was only in January that a new election law was signed eliminating most August special elections.
State Rep. Sharon Ray, who offered the amendment pushing the 60% question to Ohio's next scheduled general or special election, said an August election would add “another level of complication” to the already tough job of local election workers.
“I made a promise to our board of elections,” the Republican said. “Remember, these are our neighbors and friends that work very hard to provide flawless elections for us — most of them volunteers, they get paid a mere stipend — and, I guess, I appreciate their sacrifice.”
Without the guarantee that the vote will be held in August, however, the resolution is unlikely to pass House muster, according to the person who's leading the charge to muscle it through the chamber.
“Probably a significant amount of the support” would fall off in that case, said Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis, “because what people signed their name to — their family name to — was 60%-with-August election. And we wouldn't want them to vote for something other than what they agreed to vote for in the first place.”
Gonidakis has gathered signed pledges for “yes” votes as part of a pressure campaign to get the measure passed. Ohio Right to Life, the state’s oldest and largest anti-abortion group, has added the issue to its election-season scorecard, which determines lawmakers’ coveted “pro-life” records. The Buckeye Firearms Association has done the same thing with its “pro-gun” scorecard, as it promotes a 60% threshold as a way to fend off potential gun control constitutional amendments in the future.
Republican House Speaker Jason Stephens said he anticipates an amendment will be offered on the floor to reinsert the August election back into the resolution.
That would mark merely the latest twist in the dramatic journey the resolution has taken since it was first unveiled in December, during last year's lame duck session. Separate legislation creating and providing $20 million for an August special election also has died in the House, with representatives now contending it was never needed in the first place. Its sponsor, state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, testified that a tweak to existing law was needed in order for General Assembly-initiated constitutional amendments to appear on August ballots.
Stephens declined to guess whether that amendment on August elections — or the resolution itself — would pass, but he portrayed scheduling the vote as delivering on his promise to conservatives within his divided caucus.
“I think it's important that we have deliberated and discussed this issue for some time now here in the House, because it is an important issue, because it is our constitution," he told reporters Tuesday. He said there remained “more than a couple” ifs headed into the day.
House Minority Leader Allison Russo, whose caucus helped lift Stephens to his surprise speakership, expressed disappointment that the 60% vote was going forward. She said citizens have been “loud and clear” that they will defeat the issue, whether it appears on an August or November ballot.
“The problem is we’re going to create confusion, we’re going to create costs that now we’re going to push off to the counties and to our boards of elections in order to conduct that — and all to cater to extremists," she said. "I ask the members of the majority party who I know are opposed to this, are you going to cave to extremists or are you going to stand with the people of Ohio?"
Opponents planned to continue their fight ahead of the scheduled vote. A broad coalition of voting rights, faith, labor, civil rights and community groups planned a massive protest ahead of Wednesday's vote. It's the second in a week. Every living ex-governor of the state, and both Republican and Democratic former attorneys general, also oppose the constitutional change, as does the Ohio Libertarian Party.
Representatives are expected to fill two House vacancies before voting on the resolution Wednesday, allowing the two new members to participate in the vote. | 2023-05-10T16:46:58+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/ohio-house-vote-could-send-constitutional-18091009.php |
FRANKLIN, Wis. — FlexRide Milwaukee, which connects people who live in Milwaukee to jobs by offering on-demand rides to and from work, is expanding its service to Franklin.
"We've got the jobs. We just need the people," said Franklin Mayor Steve Olson.
The expansion of the popular ride service could help.
"We need this program to be successful because we've got 1,100 more jobs coming online over the next 18 months down in our corporate park, on top of probably 2,000 jobs available here in this business park," said Olson.
Thanks to a $4.2 million grant from the State of Wisconsin and $1.3 million in American Rescue Plan funding from Milwaukee County, FlexRide Milwaukee will help bring people from the city's south side to the suburban business park for work.
"It's all about equity and economic development," said Dave Steele, Executive Director of Mobilise, which oversees FlexRide Milwaukee.
He explains FlexRide Milwaukee as a program that works similarly to a rideshare app.
"It's a ride that you can call on your phone. It will come pick you up near your house," he said.
Steele adds that expanding specifically to Franklin opens up tremendous opportunities.
"It's the largest concentration of blue-collar, warehousing and manufacturing jobs in all of Milwaukee County and you know, it's a 30 to 40-minute drive from the heart of Milwaukee," he said.
The program is expected to break a transportation barrier.
"It's really about access. About 20 percent of households in the City of Milwaukee lack access to even a single car, let alone more than one car. And the majority of the jobs in our region exist outside of the scope of bus routes," said Steele.
The program already serves people on Milwaukee's north side by offering rides out to Menomonee Falls. The program has been breaking ridership records.
Just last week, 785 complete rides were given and more than 17,000 rides have been given since the program launched in 2022.
"It now opens a whole new group of potential employees to the businesses here in the city that need employees. Good quality employees," said Olson.
FlexRide Milwaukee's service to Franklin is expected to start on April 17.
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Available for download on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and more. | 2023-03-27T21:57:23+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/project-drive-safer/flexride-milwaukee-to-expand-service-to-frankin |
JONES, June
Age 92, of Tipp City, passed away Thursday, December 22, 2022, at Hospice of Miami County. She was born on June 3, 1930, in Barbourville, Kentucky, the daughter of Garrett and Sudie (Hubbard) Cobb. She was very active and served in many roles at several churches in the area over the years.
She is survived by her children Keith (Barb) Jones, Frances Stumbo, Pam (Mike) Jones and Vonda (Jerry) Gardner; 12 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; 8 great-great-grandchildren; brother Garrett W. Cobb and several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband John G. Jones; son-in-law Alfred A. Stumbo; 4 brothers and 7 sisters. She was a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend and will be missed by all who knew her.
A gathering of family and friends will be held on Friday, December 30, 2022, from 11:00 am 1:00 pm at the ZERKLE FUNERAL HOME, 11900 N. Dixie Dr., Tipp City. A funeral service will be held on Friday at 1:00 pm at the funeral home with Pastor Tim Young officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens, Tipp City. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.zerklefh.com.
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Zerkle Funeral Home - Tipp City | 2022-12-24T06:52:24+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/obituaries/jones-june/JZQYBXUEQVBVJF5JFCNSMTFVNA/ |
Black-owned, female-led and values-driven menstrual health company meets high standards for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
NEW YORK, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Here We Flo, the company revolutionizing the period, bladder, and sexual wellness category is proud to announce that it has achieved recognition as a Certified B Corporation™ ("B Corp"), becoming one of the few menstrual health companies in the world to earn this prestigious designation.
B Corporation certification is awarded to companies that meet rigorous social and environmental performance standards, and are committed to using business as a force for good. To become a Certified B Corporation® you must score at least 80 points. Here We Flo achieved 109.9 points. By meeting these standards, Here We Flo has demonstrated its commitment to making a positive impact on the world and to being a leader in the menstrual health industry.
Founded six years ago by Susan C. Allen and Tara Chandra, Here We Flo is on a mission to challenge shame and disrupt the period, bladder, and sexual wellness markets with its organic and vegan products, including tampons, pads, bladder pads, and condoms.
"Becoming a B Corp™ is a dream come true for us. Our vision for Here We Flo was to create a business that did good from cradle to customer and B Corp™ is proof that we're succeeding in that vision," said Susan C Allen. "Achieving our B Corp status has only intensified our motivation to continue being sustainably funny, feminist and fierce, and creating a world where our messiest bodily moments inspire laughter rather than feelings of shame and stigma."
Here We Flo's B Corp certification is the result of a rigorous assessment process which measures a company's impact on its employees, customers, community, and the environment. Globally, Here We Flo has saved 17 million tampons/pads and over 2 million bladder pads from landfills.
Here We Flo also uses sustainable materials, such as bamboo and sugarcane to make their products, increasing awareness of plant-based manufacturing. They offset CO2 emissions while working to integrate regenerative practices into their supply chain, sourcing regenerative rubber and producing with solar power.
In addition to meeting these standards, Here We Flo has also implemented a number of initiatives to promote sustainability and social responsibility. These include using eco-friendly materials in its products, partnering with nonprofit organizations to provide menstrual products to those in need, and advocating for menstrual equity. The company donates 5% of profits to charities that help people and the planet and to date has donated over 58,000 period pads to those in need through its incredible charity partners like Bloody Good Period.
About Here We Flo:
Here We Flo is a women-of-color owned, purpose-driven, sustainable period care and sexual wellness company that offers "shamelessly natural care for life's messiest moments". Each of their brands - FLO (period care), glo (bladder care), + XO! (sexual wellness) - are vegan; cruelty-free; 100% organic; CO2 neutral; biodegradable and donate 5% of profits to people + planet. Here We Flo products can be found in national retailers like Target; Whole Foods; HEB, Bed, Bath & Beyond and more.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Don’t miss today’s edition of cleveland.com’s exclusive online show, “Sports 4 CLE,” brought to you by Tri-C, live each weekday at 4 p.m. You also can find previous shows here.
On today’s show:
Dan Labbe and Hayden Grove of cleveland.com join as we break down the latest from the start of Browns training camp. We will also hear from Kevin Stefanski and players from today’s media availability. We will also discuss any news on Deshaun Watson.
More Browns coverage
Denzel Ward, Jack Conklin to miss start of training camp
Bengals QB Joe Burrow to miss some practice time
Breaking down the 53-man roster ahead of camp
Could the Browns bring back Garrett Gilbert? Hey Terry!
Will young Browns DTs be able to stop the run? Film review
Why decision on Deshaun Watson is dragging: Podcast
How Browns backup QBs compare league-wide: Podcast
Schwartz reflects on a tumultuous rookie season
Will Watson be permitted in Berea during suspension? Hey, Mary Kay!
Talking to myself after the Rosen signing: Pluto
Why Browns’ backup QBs might be among NFL’s best: Podcast
High school roots still go deep for Hunt, Ward, Stefanski
Is secondary the best in the league? Key questions for 2022
Watson practices with QBs, rookies while waiting on decision
Rosen must improve accuracy, anticipation: Film review
How does Brissett stack up against other NFL backup QBs?
Bell placed on active/PUP with a foot injury | 2022-07-27T19:31:16+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2022/07/talking-start-of-browns-training-camp-with-dan-labbe-hayden-grove-wednesdays-sports-4-cle.html |
Lions notes: Detroit's offseason moves on defense generating buzz
Allen Park — After the Lions finished last season as the NFL's worst defensive team, general manager Brad Holmes vowed to make offseason upgrades to the unit. He started that process in free agency, inking three likely starters for the team's secondary, while bringing back several key pieces at other spots.
Defensive tackle Alim McNeill compared the team's approach to a video game.
"It's like we're playing 'Madden,'" McNeill said. "We're adding some pieces, for sure. I'm excited to see what we can do. It's going to be crazy. Just want to see how everybody, we jell together. It's been exciting to see. I can't wait."
It's the time of year where optimism is running high for all 32 of the league's franchises, but maybe more so for the Lions after finishing the previous season winning eight of the final 10 games. With the defense, specifically, there's nowhere to go but up.
"I think we can be a ton better," McNeill said. "Just getting another year under (defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn), as well. And adding pieces, adding dogs like that, that have been through other places and already know what's going on. They've got experience, they've seen it all. Then just to be able to add them into the fire? I think it'll be pretty good."
Those defensive additions have Detroit's offensive players excited, as well.
"I already know it’s an upgrade," wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown said. "I can tell just who we have watching some of those guys work already. I’m excited to see what our defense does."
Quarterback Jared Goff expects the ramped up competitiveness on the practice field to make everyone better.
"The overall competition is going to be fun, man," Goff said. "It’s going to be really fun. "(Cam) Sutton, (Emmanuel) Moseley and C.J. (Gardner-Johnson), the three that we’ve added are three good veteran players who have had really good success and will come with leadership skills and the ability to push people, not only on their side of the ball but certainly on our side of the ball. It’ll be fun. I’m sure it’ll be chippy at times in camp and that’s always fun. I’m excited to compete with them."
Mum's the word
As fans soak up every tidbit of information attempting to decipher Detroit's plans in the upcoming draft, it's worth a reminder the team doesn't always tip its hand.
In 2021, McNeill barely had any contact with the Lions leading up to the draft.
"Actually, I had only talked to the Lions once," he said. "It was like way early in the process. After that, I never spoke to them again."
St. Brown had a similar experience.
"I didn’t talk to Brad at all," St. Brown said. "I actually just had a Zoom meeting with (wide receivers coach Antwaan Randle) El. I remember that one. It was a brief 30 minutes. That was it. I had no idea the Lions were going to select me. But I think that’s what it is for most guys in the draft. Unless you’re a top-five pick, you probably don’t know where you’re going."
International flavor
Despite reports to the contrary, the Lions are still in the mix to play internationally next season. The team's road matchup against Kansas City remains in consideration for one of the league's contests to be held in Germany.
St. Brown, who has a German mother and speaks the language fluently, is keeping his fingers crossed.
"I wish we (could). I hope we do," St. Brown said. "I don’t know. I heard we’re not. I heard we might still be able to, but I’m not ruling anything out until it’s official."
Whether or not the Lions get the call to go overseas in 2023, the team is expected to be on national television more frequently than just its annual Thanksgiving game. The league has yet to announce its schedule release date, but it has come out in the first half of May the past few years.
New numbers
Detroit's offseason additions have been assigned uniform numbers. They are as follows:
▶ Marvin Jones, No. 0
▶ Gardner-Johnson, No. 2
▶ Moseley, No. 4
▶ Montgomery, No. 5
▶ Sutton, No. 6
▶ Jalen Reeves-Maybin, No. 42
▶ Jake McQuaide, No. 50
▶ Graham Glasgow, No. 60
Family feud
St. Brown and Gardner-Johnson recently filmed an episode of "Family Feud," where the two teammates met for the first time.
"My agent just told me that 'Family Feud' would like to have me on and I was like, 'Sure,'" St. Brown said. "Then I found out he was going to be on it. Once we got there, I met him, we talked, cool dude. He did a good job, so you’re gonna have to watch him. He did a really good job."
"Family Feud" airs locally on CBS 62. A run date for this year's NFL episode has yet to be announced.
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Twitter: @Justin_Rogers | 2023-04-19T17:30:23+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2023/04/19/detroit-lions-notes-offseason-moves-on-defense-generating-buzz/70129650007/ |
LONDON (AP) — English soccer player Chioma Ubogagu is serving a nine-month suspension for failing a doping test after medication for a skin condition contained a prohibited substance.
Ubogagu, who scored on her England debut in 2018, joined Women's Super League team Tottenham last year. She was initially provisionally suspended in January but details of the case and verdict were announced only on Thursday.
Canrenone, a masking agent, was detected in an out-of-competition test in October. It was in anti-acne tablets that Ubogagu had been prescribed by her dermatologist in Texas where she played for the Houston Dash in 2018.
U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo received a public warning on Monday from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after she tested positive for the banned substance Canrenone in a urine test. In 2012, Solo also received only a public warning from the USADA after Canrenone was detected in her urine test.
An English Football Association regulatory commission found there were no intentional doping rule breaches by Ubogagu to improve performances and that she was taking the medication for a recognized condition.
“I want to make clear that the medication had no performance-enhancing effects for me, but I still made the mistake of not being as diligent as possible, and as a result I am unable to play the game I love until I serve my suspension," Ubogagu said in a statement. “While my dermatologist is aware of my profession, it is also my responsibility to know more about the medications I am prescribed.”
Ubogagu can't play again until October.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-05-19T11:11:24+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Soccer-player-Ubogagu-banned-for-unintentional-17183678.php |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and pounded a key village in the southeast that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing two missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, marked Ukraine’s Statehood Day by reaffirming the country’s sovereignty — a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who used his claim that Ukraine didn’t exist as a nation to justify his invasion.
“Now, like more than a thousand years ago, our civilizational choice is unity with the world,” Zelenskyy said in a speech on a square outside St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv. “To be a power in world history. To have the right to its national history -– of its people, its land, its state. And of our children -– all future generations of the Ukrainian people. We will definitely win!”
He also honored servicemen and handed out first passports to young citizens as part of ceremonies. The holiday coincides with commemorations of the adoption of Christianity on lands that later became Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian missile in the city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometers (about 24 miles) east of the border with Ukraine, and local officials reported 20 people were injured, identifying the epicenter as an art museum.
Debris fell on the city, the ministry added, alleging the missile was part of a “terror attack” by Ukraine.
Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, blamed Russian air defense systems for the explosion.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it downed a second Ukrainian missile near the city of Azov, which like Taganrog is in the Rostov region, and debris fell in an unpopulated location.
Earlier in the day, a Ukrainian drone was shot down outside Moscow, the Defense Ministry said, in the third drone strike or attempt on the capital region this month. The ministry reported no injuries or damage in the latest incident, and it didn’t give an exact location where the drone fell.
Since the war began, Russia has blamed Ukraine for drone, bomb and missile attacks on its territory far from the battlefield’s front line. Ukrainian officials rarely confirm being behind the attacks, which have included drone strikes on the Kremlin that unsettled Russians.
The strikes have hit Russian ammunition and fuel depots, as well as bridges the Russian military uses to supply its forces, and military recruitment stations. The attacks have also included killings of Russian-appointed officials on occupied Ukrainian territory.
Three months ago, a Russian warplane accidentally dropped a bomb on Belgorod, injuring two people, in an incident where Ukraine was initially suspected.
In Dnipro, an apparent Russian missile attack wounded nine people in the area of a newly constructed and as yet unoccupied 12-story apartment building, as well as an unoccupied adjacent Security Service of Ukraine building. “Russian missile terror again,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
Video showed the apartment building’s upper floors in ruins, with gray smoke billowing from them, and flames raging in the night at ground level, where shattered concrete and glass littered a courtyard.
Russia has often struck apartment buildings during the conflict, while denying it intentionally targets civilians.
Meanwhile, the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, Col.-Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, said his troops were pushing forward in parts of eastern Ukraine occupied by Russia and meeting stiff resistance as the war drags into its 18th month.
“The enemy fiercely clings to every centimeter, conducting intense artillery and mortar fire,” he said in a statement.
Recent fighting has taken place at multiple places along the more than 1,000-kilometer (more than 600-mile) front, where Ukraine deployed its recently acquired Western weapons to push out the Kremlin’s forces. However, it is attacking without vital air support and faces a deeply entrenched foe.
A Western official said Thursday that Ukraine had launched a major push in the southeast. Putin acknowledged that fighting has intensified there, but insisted Kyiv’s push has failed.
Zelenskyy posted a video Thursday night in which Ukrainian soldiers said they had taken Staromaiorske in the Donetsk region. Russian military bloggers said artillery fire at the Ukrainian troops had effectively razed the village and reported more barrages Friday.
Capturing the village, which in 2014 had a population of 682, would give Ukraine a platform to push deeper into Russian-held territory, the bloggers noted.
The area has been a focus of Ukraine’s counteroffensive since June, and its troops have previously captured several other villages there as they slowly work their way across extensive Russian minefields.
It was not possible to verify either side’s claims about what is happening in the war zone.
Syrskyi said fighting that targets the enemy’s artillery as well as its command and control structure is a priority as his troops probe Russian lines for weaknesses.
“In these conditions, it is crucial to make timely management decisions in response to the situation at hand and take measures for maneuvering forces and resources, shifting units and troops to areas where success is evident, or withdrawing them from the enemy’s fire,” he said.
Russia is trying to hold on to the territory it controls in the four provinces it illegally annexed in September — Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson and Luhansk.
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Heintz reported from Tallinn, Estonia. Andrew Katell in New York contributed.
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An earlier version corrected that Oleksiy Danilov is Ukraine’s secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, not defense minister.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-07-29T01:32:05+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-russia-says-a-ukrainian-drone-was-shot-down-outside-moscow/ |
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We thought there should be a way to amplify the voice and provide more effective verbal communication when wearing a face mask," said one of two inventors, from Ludington, Mich., "so we invented the G. T. MEGA MASK. Our design helps to prevent miscommunications and frustration for mask wearers."
The invention provides an improved face mask designed to enhance communication. In doing so, it allows the user to speak and communicate clearly. As a result, it eliminates the need to lower the mask when talking and it enhances safety, communication and convenience. The invention features an effective design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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Chrissy Teigen announces pregnancy nearly two years after miscarriage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy loss.
Teigen made the announcement Wednesday on Instagram where she posted two photos of her baby bump. She wrote that joy has “filled our home and hearts again” in a post that comes after she had a miscarriage in 2020.
“We have another on the way,” wrote the 36-year-old model and cookbook author, who shares two children — Luna and Miles — with Legend. She touched on her fertility journey and being too nervous to unveil her pregnancy.
“Every appointment I’ve said to myself, ‘ok if it’s healthy today I’ll announce’ but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I’m just too nervous still,” she wrote. “I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves but so far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing.”
The couple delivered a heart-wrenching post in 2020 after both announced the lost of their son, Jack, at 20 weeks of her pregnancy. She was hospitalized with excessive bleeding before the miscarriage.
In the same year, Teigen wrote in an essay explaining that doctors diagnosed her with a partial placental abruption. At the time, she urged people to share their stories and “please be kind to those pouring their hearts out.”
Legend and Teigen were married in 2013.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-04T13:29:52+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/08/04/chrissy-teigen-announces-pregnancy-nearly-two-years-after-miscarriage/ |
After the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday expanded gun rights by upending a century-old New York law, Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed to fight back and said she was prepared to call the State Legislature back into session "to deal with this."
That's exactly what she's doing.
Hochul late Friday said she was convening an extraordinary session of the Legislature at noon Thursday in Albany in an attempt to pass new gun safety legislation in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision.
"The Supreme Court's reckless and reprehensible decision to strike down New York's century-old concealed carry law puts lives at risk here in New York," Hochul said in a statement. "Since the decision was released, I have been working around the clock with our partners in the Legislature to craft gun safety legislation in response to this ruling that will protect New Yorkers. My No. 1 priority as governor will always be to keep New Yorkers safe."
Upending a New York State law that had stood for a century, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed a major expansion of gun rights – prompting Gov. Kathy Hochul to say the state will fight back with new gun control measures.
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The New York law had mandated people show "proper cause" to get a permit to carry a gun outside the home, and five other states – California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey – have similar laws.
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in a statement Friday said the Supreme Court's decision makes "a mockery of the recent tragedies in Uvalde and Buffalo" and undermines the ability of states to protect residents from gun violence. He vowed to work with the Legislature to expand the number of places where firearms cannot be carried.
In its 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said the New York law is a clear violation to the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms.
"We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his opinion in the case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
The decision was welcomed by gun rights advocates. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, called it a "landmark win for constitutional freedom and the NRA."
Aside from the decision coming in the aftermath of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, it also occurred as senators from both parties agreed on major gun safety legislation for the first time in three decades. That legislation, which won approval in Congress on Friday and was signed by President Joe Biden on Saturday, enhances background checks for gun buyers aged 18 to 21, urges states to enact red flag laws and eliminates the so-called "boyfriend loophole" that allows people who abused their partners to have guns if they are not married.
In New York, Hochul on Thursday said her legal team is looking to draft legislation that restricts the right to carry weapons in sensitive locations, changes the permitting process and bolsters training requirements for those carrying guns in public. The state is also considering ways in which businesses and private property owners could "protect themselves" in a new era when people can routinely carry guns in public.
Jon Harris can be reached at 716-849-3482 or jharris@buffnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ByJonHarris. | 2022-06-25T15:16:33+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/hochul-calls-back-legislature-to-address-gun-laws-in-aftermath-of-supreme-court-decision/article_09c0a83a-f489-11ec-894e-2384e0c6f992.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will be back at work in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and extended treatment for a concussion.
The longtime Kentucky senator, 81, has been recovering at home since he was released from a rehabilitation facility March 25. He fell after attending an event earlier that month, injuring his head and fracturing a rib.
He visited his office Friday, the first time since his injury, and is expected to be working a full schedule in the Senate this week.
“I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday,” McConnell tweeted on Thursday. “We’ve got important business to tackle and big fights to win for Kentuckians and the American people.”
McConnell returns to the Senate ahead of a busy stretch in which Congress will have to find a way to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and negotiate additional aid for the Ukraine war, among other policy matters. And he comes back as several other senators have been out for medical reasons, raising questions about how much the Senate will be able to achieve in the coming months with a 51-49 split between the parties.
Already, the GOP leader’s absence, along with those of Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and John Fetterman, among others, have added to the Senate’s lethargic pace in the first few months of the year. Unlike the last two years, in which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was able to push through key elements of President Joe Biden’s agenda with the help of a Democratic-led House, the Senate has been significantly slowed with Republicans now in charge in the House. And absences have made even simple votes like nominations more difficult.
One immediate question for McConnell upon his return is whether to help Democrats temporarily replace Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee as she continues to recover in California from a case of the shingles. Democrats have become increasingly frustrated as the Democrat’s more than six-week absence on the panel has stalled confirmation of some of Biden’s nominees, and Feinstein has asked for a short-term substitute on the committee.
Democrats can’t do that, though, without help from Republicans, since approval of the process would take 60 votes on the Senate floor. Republicans have so far been quiet about whether they will object.
It is unclear when Feinstein, 89, will return to Washington. Her office has so far declined to say.
Also returning to the Senate on Monday is Fetterman, who was hospitalized for clinical depression in February. He was treated for six weeks at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and his doctors say his depression is now “in remission.”
Fetterman’s announcement that he was checking himself into the hospital earlier this year came after he suffered a stroke last year and has struggled with auditory processing disorder, which can render someone unable to speak fluidly and quickly process spoken conversation into meaning. The Pennsylvania Democrat, 53, now uses devices in conversations, meetings and congressional hearings that transcribe spoken words in real time.
In a statement when he was released from Walter Reed late last month, Fetterman said the care he received there “changed my life.”
“I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves,” said Fetterman, who won praise for his decision to seek treatment.
When McConnell visited his Capitol office on Friday, video captured by NBC News showed him walking into the building without assistance as aides kept close by.
This was the second major injury for McConnell in recent years. Four years ago he tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, causing a shoulder fracture that required surgery. The Senate had just started a summer recess, and he worked from home for some weeks as he recovered.
McConnell had polio in his early childhood and he has long acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in climbing stairs. | 2023-04-17T14:01:53+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/politics/ap-politics/gop-leader-mcconnell-returning-to-senate-after-head-injury/ |
TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Thursday, March 23, 2023
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers with patchy
drizzle in the morning, then showers with a chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may be severe.
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Highs around 80. Temperature falling into the mid 70s in the
afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
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the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph
in the evening. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the lower 80s. West
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph after
midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Temperature
falling to around 70 in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around
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.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
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Hardin-
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers with patchy
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drizzle in the morning, then showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80. Temperature
falling into the mid 70s in the afternoon. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after
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midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
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winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
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60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
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thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
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327 PM CDT Thu Mar 23 2023
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15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then
showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs around 80. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Cooler with lows
in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after
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midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
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partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
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likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
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showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
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60s. South winds around 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Patchy
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thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. South
winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph, increasing to 40 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
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becoming southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
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.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
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.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then
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showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs around 80. Temperature falling into the mid 70s in the
afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph,
increasing to 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
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thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
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20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest
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winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
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60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the
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upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
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60s. Highs around 80.
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327 PM CDT Thu Mar 23 2023
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around
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15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph, increasing to
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40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
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20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
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partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
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likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
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showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Lows around 60.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the upper 70s.
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10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers with patchy
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drizzle in the morning, then showers with thunderstorms likely in
the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may be severe. Highs around 80.
Temperature falling into the mid 70s in the afternoon. South
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
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90 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Some thunderstorms may be severe. Cooler with lows in the mid
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50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the
evening. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the lower 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
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likely in the afternoon. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Temperature falling into the upper 60s in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
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Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 60.
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thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
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.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then
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showers with thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may be severe. Highs around 80. Temperature falling
into the mid 70s in the afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph, increasing to 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance
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of rain 90 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Some thunderstorms may be severe. Cooler with lows in the mid
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50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the lower 80s. West
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph after
midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
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sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to
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15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then
showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs around 80. Temperature falling into the mid 70s in the
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afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
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Cooler with lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up
to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s. West
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winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
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in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Highs
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in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 60s.
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.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
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.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then
showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
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Highs around 80. Temperature falling into the mid 70s in the
afternoon. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph,
increasing to 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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.SATURDAY...Sunny. Less humid with highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
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50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-03-23T21:23:28+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/tx-lake-charles-la-zone-forecast-17856874.php |
LUBBOCK, Texas — Thursday night, the Lubbock Planning and Zoning Commission voted in favor of building a new student residence close to Texas Tech University’s campus.
The high-rise housing complex would be seven-stories, hold 700-beds and sit between 14th Street and 15th Street on Avenue X.
However, not all the people living in the nearby South Overton neighborhood are happy about the decision.
“I didn’t sleep last night. We were up talking about it until three or four in the morning,” John Lafreniere, a 10-year resident of South Overton said.
Lafreniere was at Thursday night’s meeting to oppose the new high rise.
“There’s cars driving by the street all day long. You put 700 more residents and all their friends driving up and down this block with a right-turn-only stop sign up here, and only one or two ways out of there … That’s a lot of cars,” Lafreniere said.
Lafreniere said he’s not opposed to other housing options like a new apartment complex, but he is opposed to a seven-story dorm since he doesn’t see there being enough space for it.
But for Ken Abraham, the developer who created the proposal, it’s been a long-time dream.
“When students come in and look at Texas Tech, they come to look at the housing and this is first class housing, in my opinion. There’s absolutely no way in the world this can hurt anything,” Abraham said at Thursday’s meeting.
Others at the meeting agreed with Abraham, thinking the area would be a great place for students to live and beneficial to the community.
But a group of South Overton residents disagree.
Jenna Lafreniere, a South Overton resident, thinks there are many other places that would work for student living.
“Texas Tech is already adding additional housing for those students, so why interrupt this beautiful neighborhood?” Lafreniere said.
A few things some residents of South Overton are worried about are traffic, water pressure and the integrity and preservation of their historic neighborhood.
However, they also said that they haven’t given up on advocating for their neighborhood and they’re hopeful about what’s to come. They said what they need now is community support.
The Lubbock City Council will meet in a few weeks to talk about this proposal. | 2023-07-29T02:25:28+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/south-overton-residents-worry-as-high-rise-student-housing-proposal-moves-to-next-steps/ |
Lawmaker presses new idea for curbing gun violence
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - In the wake of massing shootings across the country and several shootings in the Charleston area, State Representative Wendell Gilliard (D-111) is willing to try just about anything to curb gun violence.
“It’s good to push the envelope because we cannot just stand idly by as gun violence continues to increase day by day,” Gilliard said.
This week, Gilliard is trying a new approach. He says he wants cities to consider enacting ordinances that requires new development to provide security measures to protect tenants.
Some of those security arrangements would include things like security cameras and paid security officers. He is specifically talking about new, multi-family housing complexes, like apartments.
“The apartment complexes, all these companies that own these complexes, they should be held accountable and liable as far as safety for their residents,” Gilliard said.
His proposed ordinance would also require apartment complexes to maintain viable neighborhood associations to help prevent crime.
He wants to see developers include security details in plans when their project is considered by city councils.
“That would be an awesome move from the local municipal part to go ahead and create an ordinance to make them more accountable for safety in these apartment complexes,” Gilliard said.
Gilliard says these measures would prevent criminal activity that leads to shootings.
“Nothing is a solve-all, but I think this would help,” Gilliard said.
In addition to the ordinance, Gilliard has also said he would like to ban all guns from apartment complexes. He says tenants would be allowed to keep weapons inside their units, but they should be required to disclose how many and what kind of guns they have as part of the tenant approval process.
Others argue that the proposal would simply contribute to Charleston’s gentrification problem and send rent prices even higher.
Charleston resident Donald McLoryd says extra security measures will not address the root problems associated with gun crimes, but a strong emphasis on community associations could help.
“People need to know their neighbors and be a community,” McLoryd said. He says he remembers a neighbor would yell at him when he was doing something wrong as a child. He says she kept him out of trouble.
Gilliard says he is working with lawmakers to work out the exact language of a potential ordinance.
Copyright 2022 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-08T21:48:48+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/07/08/lawmaker-presses-new-idea-curbing-gun-violence/ |
No one won the big Powerball drawing from Saturday night. So tonight, Monday, Feb. 6 at 10:59 p.m. EDT — you’ll have another chance to win millions more! Below is how you can livestream and find out how much the lottery is (really).
How long do I have to buy a ticket for tonight’s lottery?
You reportedly have until Monday, Feb. 6 at 10:59 p.m. EDT to grab a ticket.
How much can be won tonight?
The Powerball is now worth $747 million, but with a cash value of $403.1 million.
Where can Powerball be played?
People living in Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah can’t play Powerball. Though, folks in the other 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands all can play.
Where can I watch the Powerball?
You can catch the livestream at Powerball.com at 10:59 p.m. ET tonight. Also, the LotteryHUB app shows the Powerball drawing as well as other lotteries like the Mega Millions. You can download the app via iTunes if you’re an iPhone user or Google Play if you’re an Android user.
Another way of watching is catching the lottery on your TV screen. Pennsylvania Lottery has a list of outlets across Pa. broadcasting tonight’s lottery:
“• Erie: WJET Ch. 24 Lottery Results at 11:20 p.m.
• Harrisburg/Lancaster/York: WGAL Ch. 8 Lottery Results at 11:20 p.m.
• Johnstown/Altoona/State College: WTAJ Ch. 10 Lottery Results at 11:20 p.m.
• Philadelphia: WTXF Ch. 29 Lottery Results at 11:00 p.m.
• Pittsburgh: WPXI Ch. 11 Lottery Results at 11:11 p.m.
• Wilkes-Barre/Scranton: WNEP Ch. 16 Lottery Results at 11:00 p.m.”
Powerball’s YouTube channel also has every drawing, just in case you miss one. Catch up here.
How often can you catch the Powerball?
The Powerball is every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 p.m. EDT. Are you the next Powerball winner?
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- Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts featured on Louisiana Hot Sauce bottle | 2023-02-06T21:53:49+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/02/powerball-747-million-jackpot-020623-when-and-how-to-find-out-if-youve-won.html |
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A joint warning is being issued from the West Springfield Police Department and West Springfield Department of Public Works for residents to be vigilant of water testing scams, amidst the current water boil order.
West Springfield Police have received reports from residents that individuals are visiting homes unsolicited, offering water testing at a cost of $150 to be released from the boil water order. The Town of West Springfield said in a release sent to 22News, to be advised that the water testing service is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Town of West Springfield and they urge all residents in the affected area to continue to follow the boil water order until otherwise officially notified by the Town of West Springfield.
To avoid falling victim to this scam, the Town of West Springfield says to keep the following in mind:
- Beware of unsolicited offers to do water testing. Calmly but firmly tell the solicitors you are not interested and tell them to leave your property. If they refuse your instructions, call the police.
- Do not let solicitors inside of your home.
- Be vigilant on behalf of your neighbors; scams often target senior citizens.
- Call the police if you have questions, or if unfamiliar people or companies appear at your door or in your neighborhood. All solicitors are required to register with the police department.
Any questions or concerns regarding the order, please contact the Water Department at (413) 263-3233. | 2023-04-19T21:51:49+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/beware-of-water-testing-scams-amidst-west-springfield-boil-water-order/ |
CONQUEIROS, Portugal — The world's oldest dog recently celebrated his 31st birthday, according to Guinness World Records.
Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo, a breed of Portuguese dog, celebrated during a party Saturday at his home in the Portuguese village of Conqueiros, where has lived his entire life.
More than 100 people attended the “very traditional” Portuguese party, owner Leonel Costa said.
Local meats and fish were served to up to 100 guests, with extra for Bobi, who only eats human food. A dance troupe also performed with Bobi participating in one of their routines.
Costa has owned several old-age dogs in the past, including Bobi’s mother, Gira, who lived to age 18. However, Costa said he never imagined any of his dogs would reach their 30s.
“We see situations like this as a normal result of the life that they have, but Bobi is one of a kind,” Costa said.
One of the biggest contributing factors to Bobi’s longevity is the “calm, peaceful environment” in which he lives, according to Costa.
Throughout his life, Bobi has freely roamed the forests surrounding the Costa house. He has never been chained or leashed.
The “very sociable” dog was never lonely because he grew up surrounded by many other animals, Costa said.
Now in his senior years, Bobi finds it difficult to walk, so he prefers to hang out at home in the yard. His eyesight has gotten worse, meaning he often bumps into things when he walks. Just like old-age humans, Bobi sleeps a lot. He immediately lies down in bed after eating, although on cold days he chooses to nap by the fire, his owner said.
Bobi’s birth date has been confirmed by the Veterinary Medical Service of the Municipality of Leiria, which registered Bobi in 1992.
His age also has been verified by a pet database authorized by the Portuguese government.
Costa, now 38, was just 8 years old when Bobi was born. For him, Bobi is a living reminder of the past, he said.
“Bobi is special because looking at him is like remembering the people who were part of our family and unfortunately are no longer here, like my father, my brother, or my grandparents who have already left this world," Costa said. "Bobi represents those generations.” | 2023-05-15T15:48:24+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/worlds-oldest-dog-31st-birthday/507-08b6ed3a-0be9-458b-b239-d68de3d54dc0 |
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- August saw no IT jobs growth with overall IT jobs effectively flat, down 0.05% in August compared to the prior month, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the Technology Staffing and Solutions Industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment was up a meager 0.19% from July 2021, adding a net of only 10,500 jobs. The Engineering sector showed a year-over-year job growth rate of 4.04%, with the addition of 106,100 jobs over the course of the year.
"There is plenty of demand and positions open, but there are just not enough IT professionals around to meet the needs of businesses," said Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance. "Our members are constantly educating their clients about the necessity of making quick hiring decisions, offering competitive benefits and compensation, and being flexible on where the work is performed wherever possible. Despite the talk of recession and pockets of layoffs, it is still an employee's market in IT with many candidates receiving multiple competing job offers."
The following table presents information about the total number of jobs in certain sectors that provide a significant amount of employment for IT and engineering professionals.
Technical note: TechServe Alliance's IT Employment Index and Engineering Employment Index are the first specific measurements of IT and engineering employment. These unique measurements of total IT and engineering employment are created monthly by studying the ongoing staffing patterns of a dozen IT and computer related occupations in 22 industries and industry sectors employing significant numbers of IT workers and nearly two dozen engineering occupations in 30 select industries and industry sectors employing significant numbers of engineering workers. Both the monthly IT Employment and Engineering Employment Indices are based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, which is subject to monthly revisions, and is revised accordingly. Both indices are also subject to periodic revisions and annual revisions / benchmarking that includes revisions to several years of employment data, which also may incorporate new occupational definitions. Both indices were revised / benchmarked going back several years starting with January 2022 data and published in February 4, 2022. In addition, both indices are subject to minor revisions to March and April data. The next major revision will be published in February 2023.
About TechServe Alliance
TechServe Alliance is the national trade association of the IT & Engineering staffing and solutions industry. IT & Engineering staffing and solutions firms count on TechServe Alliance to keep their leadership informed, engaged, and connected. TechServe Alliance serves as the voice of the industry before the policymakers and the national and trade press. By providing access to the knowledge and best practices of an entire industry and tapping the "collective scale" of its members, TechServe Alliance supports its members in the efficient delivery of best-in-class IT & Engineering staffing and solutions for clients and exceptional professional opportunities for every consultant.
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SOURCE TechServe Alliance | 2022-09-09T00:54:00+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/09/plenty-demand-lack-talent-means-tech-employment-remains-flat/ |
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray has a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the season.
Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury confirmed the extent of the injury during his Tuesday news conference.
The news is not a surprise after the 25-year-old injured his knee on the third play of Monday night’s 27-13 loss to the New England Patriots.
The fourth-year quarterback was flushed out of the pocket and running to his right when he tried to juke past a Patriots defender, but tumbled to the grass in obvious pain.
Players from both teams surrounded the quarterback before he was carted off the field with a towel draped over his head.
The Cardinals and Kingsbury feared that Murray had a serious injury after Monday’s game with Kingsbury admitting it “doesn’t look good.”
Further tests on Tuesday confirmed that pessimism.
Murray was replaced by backup Colt McCoy, who will likely remain the starter for the rest of the season. The Cardinals (4-9) have lost five of six, including their past three.
The Cardinals posted to social media “Minor setback for a major comeback. We know @K1 will be back and better than ever. Heal soon QB1.”
Arizona’s recent hopes as a franchise have revolved around the development of Murray, who was taken with the No. 1 overall pick out of Oklahoma in 2019.
The quarterback’s fourth season has been a tough one. And that was before Monday’s injury.
The two-time Pro Bowl selection signed a $230.5 million contract during the offseason that could keep him with the franchise until 2028, but that was when a steady stream of unwanted headlines started.
Murray took a lot of ridicule after it was discovered his new contract mandated at least four hours of “independent study” during game weeks, which was unusual for an NFL quarterback. The clause was later removed, but the damage to his reputation was done.
Murray also battled a bout of COVID-19 during training camp which kept him out for about a week and he recently took criticism from former teammate Patrick Peterson, who said on his “All Things Covered” podcast that “Kyler Murray don’t care about nobody but Kyler Murray.”
Now he has to deal with the most serious injury of his professional career. In 11 games this season, he finished with 2,368 yards passing, 14 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-12-14T17:45:49+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national-sports/ap-cardinals-qb-kyler-murray-out-for-season-with-torn-acl/ |
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