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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court is considering whether it was within a trial judge’s power to unilaterally order taxpayer money be sent to government agencies to address stubborn educational inequities.
The state Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments on Wednesday in another chapter of a decades-long legal struggle over public education spending and a constitutional requirement to ensure access to sound schooling for all.
A judge last year said it was proper that he move the money to carry out portions of a multibillion-dollar education remedial plan. Superior Court Judge David Lee cited in part the failure of legislators and governors to provide fully for children the “opportunity for a sound basic education." That language stems from previous Supreme Court rulings in the “Leandro” litigation -- named for a plaintiff in the original 1994 lawsuit.
Republican legislators say Lee got it wrong because only the General Assembly has constitutional authority to appropriate funds. | 2022-08-31T08:32:12+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/NC-s-highest-court-again-weighs-in-on-school-17409257.php |
Toddler hospitalized after shooting himself with gun left on bed, police said
BLUEFIELD, W. Va. (WVVA/Gray News) - Authorities in West Virginia say a child suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound after finding a gun inside a bedroom.
According to the Bluefield Police Department, officers were called to a home regarding a 2-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg Thursday night.
Det. Kenneth Adams said the boy suffered severe bleeding and trauma to his leg. The toddler was transported to the hospital with stable vital signs.
According to Adams, the boy’s self-inflicted gunshot wound came from a 40-caliber handgun, which was left on a bed the toddler and others were playing on.
Two other children, 4 and 6 years old, also live in the home. Adams said they have since been placed in the care of another family member following a response from child protective services.
Authorities said the child’s parents will likely be facing charges stemming from the shooting.
According to Bluefield police, the incident remains under investigation.
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Paris Mountain State Park another step closer to 270 acre expansion
On Tuesday, Greenville County Council approved a second reading for funding to approximately 146-acres, what’s officially called the Shiloh Ridge at Paris Mountain Project. Another approximately 124-acres of land to be transferred to the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism is owned by the Naturaland Trust.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Paris Mountain State Park is a 1,700 acre park that generates a lot of revenue for the county. It’s also doubled in visitors over the last few years which has resulted in a united front by conservationists, landowners and officials to expand it by 17-percent.
Gary Fain comes to park for mountain biking every other day.
“I do it quite often,” Fain said. “For my health and mentality.”
Just like a lot of other people who live and visit this part of the Upstate.
“It comes in waves. A busy weekend is pretty normal,” said Dan Neary, Paris Mountain State Park ranger. “The job of a ranger is a hard one to answer. We wear many hats.”
And behind the scenes are landowners, conservationists, government officials and others working to make an expansion happen. On Tuesday, Greenville County Council approved a second reading for funding to approximately 146-acres, what’s officially called the Shiloh Ridge at Paris Mountain Project.
“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect Shiloh Ridge to add approximately 146-acres to essentially the center of urban Greenville County to the state park,” said Carlton Owen, Greenville County Historic and Natural Resources Trust chair.
Created in 2020, the trust is an arm of the Greenville County Government tasked to look for opportunities to preserve land. By budget ordnance, the trust also needs special authority from Greenville County Council to exceed a $200,000 amount on an individual project.
“It’s a matter of human health,” Owen said.
Another approximately 124-acres of land to be transferred to the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism is owned by the Naturaland Trust.
“The good Lord isn’t making any more mountains in the Upstate of South Carolina,” said Frank Holleman, Naturaland Trust president. “We have to put together the legal transaction, we have to do the survey, we have to do the appraisal, we have to do the environmental inspection, we have to do all the grant applications, and then we have to pay fair market value or reduced fair market value to the landowner.”
Visitors like Gary Fain would like to see the expansion, he also wants to see improvements.
“More trails and trail restoration,” Fain said.
In two weeks, county council will hold a third reading on the Shiloh Ridge at Paris Mountain Project, and a vote will be held. According to the Greenville County Historic and Natural Resources Trust if the vote is successful the transaction could close as early as Nov. 15th.
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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado county clerk accused of allowing an unauthorized person to break into her county’s election system in search of proof of the conspiracy theories spun by former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case on Wednesday.
Tina Peters entered her plea in Grand Junction before Judge Matthew Barrett, who scheduled a trial for her in March.
Peters is charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, one count of identity theft, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with the secretary of state.
Peters denies she did anything illegal and contends the charges are politically motivated. She has issued reports purporting to show suspicious activity within voting systems, but those have been debunked by various officials and experts.
Last month, Peters’ former chief deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors in connection with the case under a deal that requires her to testify against Peters. She was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation. A third employee from Peters' office has also been charged in the scheme.
Prosecutors alleged that Knisley worked to get a security badge for a man Peters said she was hiring in the clerk’s office. Peters then used it to allow another, unauthorized person inside the room to make a copy of the election equipment hard drive during an update to election equipment in May 2021, it said. That other person has not been charged.
A judge prohibited Peters from overseeing last year’s and this year’s elections in Mesa County, a western region of the state that is largely rural and heavily Republican. Trump lost Colorado in 2020 but won the majority of the vote in this county.
Peters lost her bid to become Colorado’s top elections official in June, losing a primary election in which she sought to become the Republican candidate to challenge Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold in November’s election. Peters alleged fraud in the primary but a recount she paid for confirmed that she lost.
On Tuesday, a judge threw out her lawsuit challenging the way the recount was conducted, saying she waited until after the recount was finished to ask for it to be stopped so he did not have the authority to consider it.
Her lawyer in the case, David Wilson, said some recount observers reported that election machines were tested with test ballots instead of actual ballots cast by voters before they were used to conduct the recount. According to the secretary of state’s office, its election rules require scanning machines to be tested with a set of test ballots that contain every potential configuration of ballot marking, which it says is the most reliable way to make sure the machines are operating correctly. | 2022-09-07T23:28:38+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Colorado-clerk-pleads-not-guilty-in-election-17425990.php |
BALLERUP, Denmark, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiqTech International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIQT), a clean technology company that manufactures and markets highly specialized filtration products and systems, today announced the receipt of an order for a wastewater treatment system for the metal processing industry in Denmark. The project will deploy a complete filtration system solution leveraging LiqTech's silicon carbide (SiC) membrane that has unique technical advantages for treating this type of wastewater.
Wastewater from the metal processing industry contains many demanding substances, including lubricating oils, suspended solids, various raw metals, surfactants, corrosion inhibitors, antifoam agents, biocides, and others. From an operational point of view, an efficient treatment of this wastewater will help the industry significantly by reducing water usage and decreasing the costs associated with the handling of polluted water effluent. Also, the use of LiqTech's SiC membrane-based water treatment systems will enable customers to much easier comply with strict environmental regulation of their polluted water effluent.
Fei Chen, CEO of LiqTech, commented, "We are very pleased to have received a new system order for this important application. It is a potentially large addressable market for the company. Polluted water effluent from metal processing has been a longstanding challenge for the industry. By leveraging LiqTech's proprietary SiC membranes that can filter heavy metals and other demanding substances and toxins, customers can now overcome the challenges that they have historically faced. We look forward to delivering this initial order and believe that the success of this system is an important step in validating LiqTech's water treatment system for this new application in a new end market."
ABOUT LIQTECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
LiqTech International, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is a clean technology company that provides state-of-the-art ceramic silicon carbide filtration technologies for gas and liquid purification. LiqTech's silicon carbide membranes are designed to be used in the most challenging purification applications, and its silicon carbide filters are used to control diesel exhaust soot emissions. Using nanotechnology, LiqTech develops products using its proprietary silicon carbide technology, resulting in a wide range of component membranes, membrane systems, and filters for both microfiltration and ultrafiltration applications. By incorporating LiqTech's SiC liquid membrane technology with the Company´s extensive systems design experience and capabilities, LiqTech offers unique, turnkey solutions for the most difficult water purification applications.
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Red Cross: Yemen rebels, Saudi coalition begin prisoner swap
By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An exchange of more than 800 prisoners linked to Yemen’s long-running war began Friday, the International Committee for the Red Cross said. The United Nations-brokered deal, in the works for months, comes amid concerted diplomatic efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.
It is most significant prisoner exchange in Yemen since both sides freed more than 1,000 detainees in October 2020. Thousands of people are believed to be held as prisoners of war by all sides since the war erupted.
In the three-day exchange, flights will transport prisoners between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, long held by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, said Majed Fadail, a deputy minister for human rights for Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
Other flights will bring prisoners between Sanaa and other Yemeni cities controlled by the internationally recognized government, he said. The Red Cross said that on Friday, there would be two rounds of simultaneous flights between Aden and Sanaa to transfer prisoners.
Yemen’s conflict began in 2014 when the Houthis seized Sanaa and much of the country’s north. Yemen’s internationally recognized government fled to the south and then into exile in Saudi Arabia.
The Houthi takeover prompted a Saudi-led coalition to intervene months later. The conflict has in recent years turned into a regional proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the United States long involved on the periphery, providing intelligence assistance to the kingdom. However, international criticism over Saudi airstrikes killing civilians saw the U.S. pull back its support.
The war has killed more than 150,000 people, including fighters and civilians, and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
The prisoner exchange had been scheduled to start earlier in the week but was delayed because of apparent logistical reasons.
“With this act of goodwill, hundreds of families torn apart by conflict are being reunited during the holy month of Ramadan, a glimmer of hope amidst great suffering,” Fabrizio Carboni, the Red Cross’ regional director for the Near and Middle East, said in a statement. “Our deep desire is that these releases provide momentum for a broader political solution, leading to even more detainees returning to their loved ones.”
The deal tentatively calls for the Houthis to release more than 180 prisoners, including Saudi and Sudanese troops fighting with the Saudi-led coalition, and four Yemeni journalists. The journalists were detained in recent years and sentenced to death by a Houthi-controlled court in a trial described by Amnesty International as “grossly unfair.”
The deal also will see the release of top military officials held by the Houthis since the start of the war. Those include Maj. Gen. Mahmoud al-Subaihi, who was the defense minister when the war erupted; Nasser Mansour Hadi, the brother of former Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi; and relatives of late strongman President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In return, the Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni government are scheduled to release more than 700 Houthi prisoners, the rebels said.
Saudi Arabia has already freed 13 Houthi detainees who returned to Sanaa on April 9 ahead of a trip by Saudi ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed bin Saeed al-Jaber, to the Yemeni capital. Including those detainees, the deal will see a total of 869 prisoners released, the Red Cross says.
Al-Jaber visit to Sanaa was part of Oman-brokered talks between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, aiming to revive a nationwide cease-fire that expired in October and relaunch inter-Yemeni peace talks to end the conflict.
A deal last month between Saudi Arabia and Iran to restore ties has boosted negotiations between the kingdom and the Houthis and invigorated hopes of a negotiated settlement to the Yemeni conflict.
However, some analysts fear that Saudi Arabia’s withdrawal could see a new version of the conflict erupt between Yemen’s rival governments. Then there are also secessionists who want to restore a separate country of South Yemen, which existed from 1967 to 1990.
“I see prospects for temporary peace between the Saudis and the Houthis but escalation of violence within Yemen,” said Nadwa Dawsari, a nonresident scholar with the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think-tank.
She said that the Houthis have not shown themselves to be willing to compromise to reach peace with other Yemeni groups.
“That is their ideology, they feel they are entitled to rule,” she said.
Yemen also remains home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, viewed by Washington as a dangerous offshoot of the Islamic extremist group.
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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. | 2023-04-14T09:11:52+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/04/14/red-cross-yemen-rebels-saudi-coalition-begin-prisoner-swap/ |
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The main group working to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota has more than a half-million dollars to press its case, far more than the mostly shoe-leather effort they relied on four years ago. Meanwhile, a major oil industry group that helped fund opposition last time says it will sit on the sidelines this time.
The North Dakota Petroleum Council will not contribute to fight the pot legalization effort that will appear on the November general election ballot, said Ron Ness, the group’s president.
“It’s one of those things where we only have so many resources,” said Ness, whose group represents several hundred companies.
Ness said one in five North Dakota jobs are directly or indirectly tied to the state’s oil industry. Most oilfield jobs require drug testing, and legalizing pot would likely shrink the employment pool, he said.
The energy group contributed $30,000 to the failed statewide ballot effort in 2018 to legalize recreational marijuana. It was among a group of lawyers, law enforcement and business leaders that pushed opposition.
The Greater North Dakota Chamber, the state’s largest business organization, contributed $64,000 to oppose the measure in 2018. CEO and President Arik Spencer said the group hasn’t decided whether it will help fund — or even support — another opposition effort. It did so four years ago “largely because of workforce impacts,” he said.
Many, including Spencer, said legalizing recreational marijuana in North Dakota may be inevitable, as public support for legalization increases despite being illegal at the federal level.
Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana. Supporters think the state’s 2016 vote allowing medicinal marijuana suggests they can win in conservative North Dakota.
Legalization proposals also are on the ballot so far this fall in South Dakota, Missouri and Maryland.
“It’s kind of moving in in the states around us and Canada, and you know North Dakota is probably not too far down the line,” Spencer said.
North Dakota voters in in 2018 soundly rejected a marijuana legalization initiative that also included a provision that would wipe out past pot-related convictions. David Owen, who has led past pro-legalization efforts and also the current, believes the measure could pass this time.
“We’re a viable campaign that has a good chance of success,” he said.
Four years ago, North Dakota pot advocates raised little money for their effort and got only token help from national legalization groups. Now, the North Dakota legalization group has gotten most of its more than $520,000 from the New Approach Advocacy Fund and the Marijuana Policy Project, both Washington, D.C.-based pro-pot groups.
The New Approach initiative on the ballot in November would allow people 21 and older to legally use marijuana at home as well as possess and cultivate restricted amounts of cannabis.
With the exception of growing pot at home, the measure is “basically word for word” that in a bill approved by the North Dakota House last year but later killed in the Senate, said GOP Rep. Jason Dockter, the legislation’s prime sponsor.
Dockter said the ballot measure has a chance of passing, and even if it doesn’t, similar legislation could be introduced when the Legislature reconvenes in January.
“If it’s anywhere close it’s going to be a wake-up call and you’re going to see bills coming,” Dockter said.
Mark Friese, a prominent North Dakota defense attorney and former police officer, opposed the ballot measure four years ago due to the provision expunging pot-related convictions — which he said was badly written and might have led to more serious crimes being wiped away. With that gone, he’s now treasurer for the pro-legalization group.
Friese said legalization could hurt his livelihood since he sometimes gets business representing people charged with marijuana offenses. But he noted that people charged with low-level pot offenses often can’t find jobs or housing because of their criminal record.
“We hurt society a lot with this criminalization,” he said. | 2022-08-23T23:38:50+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/whats-different-about-2022-nd-marijuana-vote-money/ |
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say crushing temperatures that blanketed Europe last summer may have led to more than 61,000 heat-related deaths, highlighting the need for governments to address the health impacts of global warming.
In their study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers examined official mortality figures from 35 European countries and found a marked increase in deaths between late May and early September last year compared with the average recorded over a 30-year period.
The increase in heat-related deaths was higher among older people, women and in Mediterranean countries, they found. But the data also indicated that measures taken in France since a deadly heatwave two decades ago may have helped prevent deaths there last year.
“In the pattern of summer mean temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2022, we don’t see borders,” said co-author Joan Ballester of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. The highest temperatures were recorded across a swath of the southwestern Europe, from Spain to France and Italy.
“But when we look at the heat related mortality, we start to see borders,” Ballester told The Associated Press. While France had 73 heat-related deaths per million inhabitants last summer, Spain’s rate was 237 and Italy’s was 295, the study found.
“Possibly France drew lessons from the experience of 2003,” he said.
France’s warning system includes public announcements with advice on how to stay cool and encouraging people to drink water and avoid alcohol.
Not all of the heat-related deaths calculated across Europe last summer were linked to climate change. Some would have occurred even if summer temperatures had stayed in line with the long-term average. But there is no doubt that the intense heat in 2022 — which saw numerous European records tumble — led to higher mortality rates, as other studies on heat deaths have also shown.
The authors calculated that there were over 25,000 more heat-related deaths last summer than the average from 2015 to 2021.
Without appropriate prevention measures, “we would expect a heat-related mortality burden of 68,116 deaths on average every summer by the year 2030,” the authors said. They forecast that figure would rise to over 94,000 by 2040 and more than 120,000 by mid-century.
Governments in Spain and Germany recently announced new measures to address the effects of hot weather on their populations. In Switzerland, a group of seniors is citing the danger posed to older women by intense heat in a court case seeking to force the the government to take tougher climate action.
One difficulty for researchers is that heat-related deaths are often happening in people with pre-existing conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, said Matthias an der Heiden of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute, who was not involved in the study. This means that heat is not the underlying cause of deaths and therefore not recorded in the cause of deaths statistics. This can cloak the significant impact that heat has on vulnerable people, with up to 30% more deaths in certain age groups during periods of hot weather.
“The problem is going to get more acute due to climate change and medical systems need to adjust to that,” he said.
An der Heiden also noted that the Nature study estimated almost double the number of heat deaths in Germany last year than his institute. While the discrepancy can be explained by the different threshold values for heat used, it indicates the need for a more detailed description of heat-related mortality that distinguishes between moderate and intensive heat, he said.
According to co-author Ballester, the impact of heat depends greatly on the overall health of the population, particularly with regard to heart and lung disease.
Other measures, already being implemented in countries such as France, include raising awareness about the dangers of high temperatures and identifying individuals who need special attention during heatwaves, he said.
“These are cheap, cost effective measures,” said Ballester.
He dismissed the suggestion that rising temperatures around the globe could, on balance, be beneficial due to fewer deaths during the winter months, noting the manifold risks posed to human civilization by rapid climatic change.
“In my opinion and the opinion of all the climate scientists, the less the climate is modified, the better,” said Ballester. “That’s why it’s so important that we start, as soon as possible, mitigating climate change and reducing vulnerability.”
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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-07-11T01:29:58+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/health/ap-as-temperatures-soared-in-europe-last-year-so-did-heat-related-deaths-study-finds/ |
NEW YORK (WPIX) — More than 50 years after the body of 23-year-old Diane Cusick was found duct-taped in the back seat of her car at a local mall, a notorious serial killer from New Jersey will be charged with her murder, sources told WPIX on Tuesday.
Three sources independently confirmed a sealed indictment against 75-year-old Richard Cottingham for Cusick’s 1968 death. Cottingham has been in various New Jersey prisons since 1980 for five other murders.
Sources told WPIX that DNA was preserved from the crime scene in the Green Acres Mall parking lot in Valley Stream, New York, and a sample from Cottingham linked him to Cusick’s murder. However, Cottingham has retained an attorney and plans to plead not guilty, according to sources.
Just last year, Cottingham confessed to the 1974 murders of two teens from North Bergen, New Jersey: Mary Ann Pryor and Lorraine Kelly. He had picked them up on their way to the Garden State Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, he said, and then raped and tortured them at a hotel for three days before drowning them.
Criminal historian Peter Vronsky, author of “American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950 to 2000,” said Cottingham told him he’s killed between 85 and 100 women. Vronsky and Jennifer Weiss, the daughter of Deedeh Goodarzi, who was brutally dismembered and set on fire inside a Times Square hotel in 1979, have encouraged Cottingham to come clean on his crimes before he dies.
Cottingham was a married father of three, working at Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance firm in Manhattan, New York, and living in Lodi, New Jersey, when he was arrested.
Last year, Vronsky said Cottingham “wanted me to locate a particular drive-in. He wanted to know whether that drive-in was in Nassau or Queens.” The Sunrise Drive-In was a popular outdoor movie theatre located next to the Green Acres Mall on Sunrise Highway in the 1960s and 1970s.
Cusick, a dance teacher and divorced mom, was suffocated by a 2-inch-wide adhesive tape that was wrapped around her mouth and neck. She was dressed in a black leotard, a skirt, a red blouse, and white boots. She told her family she was stopping at the mall after work to buy shoes.
Her body was found on Feb. 17, 1968, in the back seat of her car in the mall parking lot. She had been raped before she was killed.
Ever since Cottingham’s arrest, law enforcement in six different jurisdictions in New York and New Jersey have been working on cold case murders they believe are linked to the serial killer.
Retired chief Robert Anzellotti, who worked in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, has extracted six murder confessions from Cottingham over a 20-year period. | 2022-06-22T14:53:18+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/torso-killer-linked-to-1968-cold-case-murder-at-ny-mall-sources/ |
With the only fully customizable, fully configurable Messenger on the market and new messenger-first support ticketing, Intercom helps businesses engage and support their customers in entirely new ways
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intercom, the Engagement OS, today is launching the company's biggest updates to the Messenger, the heart of its customer communications platform and a cornerstone for more than 25,000 businesses' customer support and engagement strategies. The next-generation Messenger will have the best user experience design on the market, the ability to handle more business-critical actions all within the Messenger, and is customizable and configurable to match any company's brand experience.
Intercom is also announcing several additional new features, including messenger-first tickets—a highly-anticipated launch that delivers the future of customer support ticketing. Tickets enables businesses to funnel the most complex support requests through the Messenger and into the Intercom platform, eliminating the need for additional support workflows and tools. For a business' customers, it delivers a more personal, modern and richer support experience.
"Intercom has earned the loyalty of our customers because we provide the solutions they need to increase customer retention, which is a challenge facing every business," said Paul Adams, Chief Product Officer at Intercom. "We believe the answer is better customer communication, which is why we pioneered the Messenger eleven years ago. Today we've reinvented it for the next decade, when in-product messaging will become the primary channel for businesses to engage with customers."
In this time of economic uncertainty, the relationship between businesses and their customers is paramount. It determines how fully engaged customers are, and whether or not businesses can retain them and grow. Today's launches give Intercom's customers, including industry leaders like Amazon, Atlassian and Microsoft, stronger and more advanced features to build and nurture these relationships through messaging within a product, app or website. Messaging is the best channel to communicate with customers and helps decrease costs and increase customer satisfaction and engagement.
The Next-Generation Messenger
Redesigned from the ground up to be able to do more within the in-product channel, Intercom's Messenger features a new user experience that companies can tailor to their customers' journey including:
- Visual customization and new designs with a variety of styles, colors, sizes and more, so companies can fully customize the Messenger to make it feel native to their product.
- Full configurability so customers can set up and target the Messenger for different parts of the customer journey, depending on who the customer is. For example, companies can offer different versions of the Messenger for free users and paid users.
- Spaces such as home, messages, help, news, and tasks makes it more intuitive for end-users to navigate conversations, self-serve help resources, company news and more in the Messenger.
- News tab to share product launches, feature updates, company news, events, promotions, and more directly in the Messenger.
- Enhanced machine learning-driven article suggestions for businesses to give customers more relevant article suggestions within the Messenger.
- Checklists to onboard and activate users by guiding them through a set of actions.
- Compact Messenger that lets customers provide just the right level of information to their users.
- Web and Mobile Messengers, thoughtfully designed for the best user experience across web and mobile.
With these updates, Intercom's Messenger is not only customizable and configurable, but it is versatile, flexible, fast and designed for modern businesses.
"We use Intercom to power our customer communications, from driving checkout conversions to ongoing customer engagement and delivering personalized support," said Geronimo Chala, Chief Consumer Officer at Rebag. "The Messenger is the heart of this strategy and will become even better with the revamp and new features. We're excited to be able to fully customize the Messenger to match our brand's look and feel, which will have a huge impact in delivering a consistent and personalized experience to meet our customers' needs and grow our business."
Basic customization, Messenger spaces, machine learning article suggestions, and updated settings are all available now, with the rest to follow over the coming months.
Messenger-first tickets
Today's standard ticketing solution is often a form for a customer to fill out, followed by email back and forth to solve the issue—a slow and impersonal customer experience. Intercom tickets offers the only messenger-first, native customer experience for both live and asynchronous support, enabling companies to handle their customers' most complex issues within the Messenger without switching to a separate channel. With tickets, companies can deliver a faster and stronger customer experience, setting a new industry standard for customer support.
Tickets also lets businesses:
- Use bots to collect customer information, removing back and forth steps to collect information.
- Clearly set customer expectations and show ticket progression through a transparent and personal experience, reducing new inbound queries.
- Send customers proactive notifications to keep them up to date and let them know when further information is needed.
- Continue to leverage industry-standard support channels, like email, but with the flexibility to meet customers in their preferred channel.
"At Copper, we're all about helping our customers build authentic business relationships with their own customers—and this is mirrored in how we operate as a support team," said Erik Wantland, Director of Support at Copper. "We were previously using Intercom for support chat and Zendesk for support ticketing, but have now moved all support requests and workflows into Intercom since participating in their tickets beta program. We're not only saving both money and agent time by consolidating to one support platform, but we're also delivering a faster and more personalized experience to our customers."
Intercom built messenger-first tickets to work within its new, next generation Inbox, which launched earlier this year. The feature is available now.
Lastly, the company is announcing two additional new products:
- Visual bot builder: an intuitive and frictionless way for businesses to build more powerful bots and workflows within Intercom. This easy-to-use builder will help increase the amount of customer questions that businesses can resolve through automation, give customers faster answers, and enable more powerful automation. Visual bot builder is the next iteration in the evolution of Intercom's bots, following the launch of Custom Actions and Custom Objects, which enables customers to integrate bots within the Messenger to other back-end systems. Visual bot builder is available to most customers today.
- Tooltips: non-disruptive and contextual messages that serve as a layer of help within a business' product, triggered by the customer at the time that makes most sense to them. Businesses can apply Tooltips to any part of their product to help educate customers and drive adoption, and they are code-free so they can be designed and managed by anyone, not just product or engineering teams. Tooltips is available today.
Intercom is seeing increased demand for its platform as more businesses look to build relationships with their customers through messenger-based experiences. Forrester recently recognized Intercom as a Strong Performer in The Forrester New Wave™: Conversation Automation Solutions, Q3 2022. According to the report, "Intercom offers differentiated capabilities in native delivery channels including product, producing rich first-party intent signals." And in August, Intercom was included in the Forbes Cloud 100 list for the sixth consecutive year.
To learn more, visit www.intercom.com.
Intercom is redefining how businesses connect with their customers. More than 25,000 global organizations, including Atlassian, Amazon and Lyft Business, rely on Intercom to deliver unparalleled user experiences at any scale. Intercom's platform is used to send over 500 million messages per month and enables interactions with over 600 million monthly active end users.
Founded in 2011 and backed by leading venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital, Intercom is on a mission to make internet business personal.
CONTACT: Lindsay Life, lindsay.life@intercom.io
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UFC fighter Michael Chandler will demonstrate the ultimate strength training & recovery regimen at the IHRSA Convention
CHICAGO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Speede Fitness, a Chicago-area strength training startup that is launching a revolutionary connected fitness machine in fall 2022, has announced a partnership with Hyperice to create a unique, cross-booth trade show experience at the IHRSA Convention in Miami Beach from June 23-24. Speede Pro Athlete and equity holder Michael Chandler will train on the machine's Nemesis Mode—which offers intense isokinetic training—then immediately recover with state-of-the-art tools by Hyperice, including the Hypervolt and Normatec systems.
"With Speede's efficient and effective training modes, your muscles reach a fatigued state in a fraction of the time compared to traditional workouts," said Dan Mooney, Co-Founder of Speede. "After completing just five reps on the machine, even professional athletes like Michael Chandler are ready to rest and recover. We invite all IHRSA attendees to watch Mike's intense workout at our booth and then head to the Hyperice booth to see his recovery regimen in action."
Speede's new machine, the Speede Challenger, is the first connected fitness machine to combine isotonic, isokinetic, and max eccentric training for a challenging workout that leads to faster strength gains. Speede has earned praise from athletes across major sports leagues, including Justin Fields, Cole Kmet and Jaylon Johnson from the Chicago Bears, Justin Simmons from the Denver Broncos, Marquez Valdes-Scantling from the Kansas City Chiefs, Mason Plumlee from the Charlotte Hornets, professional soccer player Lauren Sesselmann, and 2x NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer, all of whom have become equity holders in the company.
"Just as Speede is a breakthrough in strength training, Hyperice products push the boundaries of innovation to better serve athletes everywhere," said Michaela Raagas, Manager of Digital Fitness & Education at Hyperice. "Whether you need to relieve tension, unlock sore muscles, or prime your mind and body to perform your best, Hyperice can help you do what you love to do—more. We look forward to showing our IHRSA guests how to move better, live better and be better."
The Speede and Hyperice experience with Michael Chandler begins at 3:00 pm on Thursday, June 23 at the Speede booth, Booth #1807. Guests can also stop by the Speede or Hyperice booths throughout the show to be entered to win a Speede Challenger machine plus Hyperice gear.
"With the pairing of Speede and Hyperice, you can train smarter and recover faster," said Greg Tepas, Co-Founder of Speede. "If you're an athlete, a high performer, or just someone who cares about their health and wellness, you owe it to yourself to visit Speede and Hyperice at the IHRSA Convention and discover the future of training and recovery."
To learn more about Speede,Contact: Co-Founder Dan Mooney at dan@speede.fit.
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Indian River County - Wednesday June 7, 2023: An off-duty Martin County prison guard has been accused of attempting to murder a woman who was shot and injured at the Walker Woods apartment complex on 26th Street near Vero Beach Wednesday morning.
At an afternoon news conference Wednesday, Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers said the woman was shot several times inside her car as she was attempting to flee the apartment complex where she lived. She was flown to HCS Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce where she was last reported to be in stable condition on Wednesday afternoon.
Sheriff Flowers said the suspect, 31-year-old Wilner Cyprien, fled the scene after the shooting in a red Dodge Durango SUV, and lead Deputies on a chase into St. Lucie County that ended at park off Delaware Avenue in Fort Pierce. He suggested a love-triangle involving the woman, Cyprien and another person may have been the motive for the shooting. The name of the injured woman is not being released said the Sheriff because she invoked Marsy's Law.
St. Lucie County Sheriff Deputies arrested Cyprien who, according to Sheriff Flowers, was subdued by a stun gun after an apparent suicide attempt when he pointed his handgun at his head. SLC Sheriff detectives interviewed Cyprien who "confessed to these crimes," said Sheriff Flowers.
Cyprien is being held at the St. Lucie County Jail.
Sheriff Flowers said his office is working with the state attorney's office and Cyprien is likely to face charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and fleeing and eluding law enforcement officers. | 2023-06-08T15:17:36+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-06-08/ircso-prison-guard-accused-of-attempted-murder |
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) ("Frontera" or the "Company") announces the preliminary results of its substantial issuer bid (the "Offer") pursuant to which the Company offered to purchase from shareholders for cancellation up to CAD $65 million (equivalent to US$50 million) of its outstanding common shares (the "Shares"). The Offer proceeded by way of a "modified Dutch auction" procedure with a tender price range from $11.00 to $13.00 per Share. The Offer, as amended by the notice of variation dated July 25, 2022 (the "Notice of Variation"), expired at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern time) on August 8, 2022. All dollar amounts are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified.
Gabriel de Alba, Frontera's Chairman of the Board Commented:
"I am very pleased with the preliminary results of Frontera's oversubscribed Offer. Frontera continues to deliver on its commitment to return value to shareholders. The Company looks forward to completing the Offer in the coming days and anticipates recommencing share repurchases under its NCIB on August 10, 2022."
In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Offer and based on the preliminary calculation of Computershare Investor Services Inc., as depositary for the Offer (the "Depositary"), Frontera expects to take up and pay for approximately 5.42 million Shares (approximately 5.84% of the total number of Frontera's issued and outstanding Shares as of June 30, 2022) at a price of $12.00 per Share (the "Purchase Price"), representing an aggregate Purchase Price of approximately CAD $65 million. After the cancellation of the Shares taken up and paid for by the Company, Frontera anticipates that approximately 87.26 million Shares will be issued and outstanding.
Approximately 6.51 million Shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to auction tenders at or below the Purchase Price and pursuant to purchase price tenders and proportionate tenders. Since the Offer was oversubscribed, shareholders who made auction tenders at or below the Purchase Price and shareholders who made, or were deemed to have made, purchase price tenders will have the number of Shares purchased prorated following the determination of the final results of the Offer (other than "odd lot" tenders, which are not subject to proration).
Frontera currently expects that shareholders who made auction tenders at or below the Purchase Price and shareholders who made, or were deemed to have made, purchase price tenders will have approximately 83.3% of their tendered Shares purchased by the Company. Shareholders who made auction tenders at a price in excess of the Purchase Price should not expect to have any of their Shares purchased by the Company. Approximately 609 Shares are anticipated to be taken up and purchased pursuant to proportionate tenders.
The number of Shares to be purchased, the "proration factor" and the Purchase Price are preliminary, remain subject to verification by the Depositary, and assume that all Shares tendered through notice of guaranteed delivery will be delivered within the two trading-day settlement period. Upon take up of the Shares validly tendered to the Offer, Frontera will issue a press release disclosing the final results, including the final proration factor, the final Purchase Price, the estimated paid up capital per share and the "specified amount" for purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
Promptly after such press release, payment for the Shares accepted for purchase will be made in accordance with the terms of the Offer and applicable law, and the Depositary will return all other Shares tendered and not purchased.
The terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the offer to purchase and issuer bid circular dated June 24, 2022, letter of transmittal, notice of guaranteed delivery, and Notice of Variation, copies of which were filed and are available without charge on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
In connection with the Offer, the Company suspended purchases of Shares pursuant to its normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") which commenced on March 17, 2022 and ends March 16, 2023. In connection with the completion of the substantial issuer bid, the Company intends to recommence purchases of Shares pursuant to the NCIB on August 10, 2022.
This news release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Shares.
Frontera Energy Corporation is a Canadian public company involved in the exploration, development, production, transportation, storage and sale of oil and natural gas in South America, including related investments in both upstream and midstream facilities. The Company has a diversified portfolio of assets with interests in 33 exploration and production blocks in Colombia, Ecuador and Guyana, and pipeline and port facilities in Colombia. Frontera is committed to conducting business safely and in a socially, environmentally and ethically responsible manner.
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This news release contains forward-looking information or forward-looking statements (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements as to the Purchase Price and the aggregate Purchase Price Frontera expects to pay following take up of the Shares validly deposited under the Offer, the number of Shares issued and outstanding following completion of the Offer, the anticipated proration due to oversubscription, expectations for shareholders who have made auction tenders at a price in excess of the Purchase Price, the number of Shares to be taken up and paid for pursuant to proportionate tenders, further communication regarding completion of the Offer, the payment for Shares in accordance with the Offer, the return of Shares not purchased but deposited under the Offer and the recommencement of Share purchases under the NCIB. Any such forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to us and are based on assumptions and analyses made by us in light of our experience and our perception of historical trends and current market and other conditions. Readers should also refer to the risk factors set forth in the Company's annual information form and management's discussion and analysis for the year ended December 31, 2021, each dated March 2, 2022, available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. There can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which forward-looking statements are based will be realized. Actual results may differ, and the difference may be material and adverse to the Company and its shareholders.
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SOURCE Frontera Energy Corporation | 2022-08-09T11:26:17+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/08/09/frontera-announces-preliminary-results-substantial-issuer-bid/ |
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (AP) — Shy Odom helped lead Howard past Buffalo on Saturday night with 14 points off of the bench in a 63-59 victory at the Paradise Jam.
Odom added six rebounds for the Bison (3-4). William Settle added 12 points while shooting 3 for 9 (1 for 5 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free throw line, and he also had eight rebounds. Elijah Hawkins shot 4 of 10 from the field and 4 for 5 from the line to finish with 12 points.
Curtis Jones led the Bulls (1-4) in scoring, finishing with 22 points. Buffalo also got 17 points from Zid Powell. Armoni Foster also put up nine points and three steals.
Hawkins scored eight points in the first half and Howard went into the break trailing 29-24. Howard outscored Buffalo by nine points in the second half. Marcus Dockery led the way with 10 second-half points.
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Up next for Howard is a Saturday matchup with Austin Peay on the road, while Buffalo hosts Canisius on Sunday.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-11-20T04:22:33+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Odom-scores-14-as-Howard-takes-down-Buffalo-63-59-17598473.php |
The United States is fortunate to have strong, independent courts. Our judicial system, while imperfect, is generally free to uphold the law and promote public safety without political interference.
That began to change in several unnerving ways during the Trump administration. Among the most concerning has been meddling from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in local court proceedings.
Since 2018, federal ICE agents have been hanging around municipal and state courtrooms, arresting suspected undocumented immigrants who are appearing as witnesses or defendants. This interference is weakening our institutions, sowing distrust of our justice system and making it harder for local law enforcement to do their job.
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In some cases, ICE has detained and deported defendants being charged with violent crimes. These individuals then, instead of getting convicted, are sent to their country of origin, where we lose track of them.
In other cases, ICE has detained and deported witnesses mid-trial, frustrating prosecutors. If a key witness in a gang-violence case gets deported, the entire case can be put in jeopardy.
Increased ICE activity at courthouses discourages victims from even reporting crimes in the first place. As the Trump administration pressured federal ICE agents to interfere more with local justice systems, cities around the country found immigrants were less likely to report domestic violence.
The practice of courthouse arrests also badly complicates the lives and futures of residents who are non-citizens. Even minor, unresolved misdemeanor charges can prevent individual immigrants from obtaining visas to return to the United States, while the faintest rumor of ICE enforcement can spread panic throughout communities.
None of this supports justice. None of this makes us safer.
Having ICE present is a painful affront to victims and witnesses who come to our courts in search of justice. It is massively disrespectful to the local police, prosecutors and judges who are sworn to administer that justice.
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Courts in Rhode Island should be supported as the independent institutions they are. They must be protected from interference that complicates their ability to ensure public safety.
That is why we are sponsoring legislation (2023-S 0621, 2023-H 6199) that would ban ICE from arresting individuals who are acting in good faith and attending court on behalf of themselves or a family member. That will ensure more trust, a stronger court system and safer streets for all of us.
Local law enforcement has known for years that trust from all communities, including our immigrant neighbors, is crucial. Police chiefs, prosecutors and judges understand that when people are afraid of appearing in court, it weakens their ability to ensure justice.
Strong, independent courts are vital to promoting public safety.
Donald Trump may no longer be president, but his attack on our local justice system continues. It’s time for Rhode Island to tell ICE to stop undermining our courts and let our local public safety institutions do their job, without interference.
Senator Meghan E. Kallman is a Democrat representing Senate District 15 in Pawtucket and Providence. Representative José F. Batista is a Democrat representing District 12 in Providence. | 2023-04-05T10:32:55+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/05/metro/strong-independent-courts-are-vital-public-safety/ |
J.D. Duggan//June 7, 2023
Land Bank Twin Cities has appointed Thomas Streitz as its interim executive director.
He was one of the original founders of Land Bank Twin Cities more than 13 years ago and most recently served as its board chair. His appointment comes after Sandy Oakes retired after 10 years as the organization’s president.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to lead Land Bank Twin Cities and work with the many passionate, talented and influential members of our board and staff,” Streitz said in a press release.
Land Bank works with nonprofit developers like Project for Pride in Living, Aeon and others to produce thousands of affordable housing units throughout the Twin Cities metro area. The organization has also taken on cultural restoration and preservation projects, like the Victoria Theater in St. Paul.
Since its founding, Land Bank has acquired and sold over $200 million in real estate to service families, local businesses and cultural assets in low-income neighborhoods.
Streitz says his top priority at Land Bank is to launch a comprehensive strategic planning process to build on the organization’s success.
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Growth Lesson
I’ve taught my children how to spot wild asparagus, looking for the tall plant that’s gone to seed (“Asparagus With Zale,” April 16). My grandmother did the same with me growing up in rural Indiana. Thanks [to writer Erin M. Fischell] for bringing back memories [in this Connections].
Penny4Thoughts
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My wife was reading Fischell’s piece when she mentioned the Navesink River. I spent some time growing up in Fair Haven, New Jersey, so that was very cool to hear. I also have two granddaughters that we take care of two days a week so this piece warmed my heart.
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David Hammond
Malden
Here’s to the Zales of the world, who take the time to listen and offer encouragement to a child.
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Skipping Town(s)
I think the Globe missed the boat in the Top Spots to Live 2023 write-up about Groton (“West of Boston,” April 23). It’s great that the writer mentioned the town’s boarding schools and eateries. But culture also boosts the quality of life in any “top spot.” Not mentioned was the new (and extraordinary) Groton Hill Music Center. It’s an exceptional music school, world-class performance center, and stunning piece of architecture in its own right (executed by the same firm that gave us Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performance Center). Check it out — it may well be the Tanglewood of Eastern Massachusetts!
David Powell
Westford
I want to thank the Globe Magazine for NOT including my city on its Top Spots to Live list this year — again. Thanks to responsible multifamily development, home price appreciation here has been lower than in neighboring towns. Lucky for me, I would trade “sprawling, homogeneous, and overpriced” for “dense, diverse, and affordable” any day.
Sascha Hernandez
Woburn
Your Best Life
Jon Gorey makes some great points [in Perspective] about the housing situation and life expectancy in Massachusetts vs. other states (“No One Should Have to Choose Between an Affordable Home and Longer Life,” April 23). Life expectancy, on average, is lower than it should be in the United States because of unprecedented rates of cancer and diseases. Toxicity is a huge contributor: Over 1,600 chemicals used in the United States in personal care products are banned in the EU and other countries. Many food ingredients that are banned in the EU are consumed regularly in the US. Until we ban harmful toxins, the death rates will continue to climb. Of course, bans on these chemicals will likely never happen as long as industries are allowed to fund political parties and candidates.
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Jodi Burwick Franklin
Natick
Would I live in Tennessee or another state that’s overwhelmed with guns and encourages people to use them (“stand your ground” laws)? Heck, I am unlikely to even visit them. Officials and politicians in those places don’t care for a liberal Massachusetts resident like me, but they sure would like to have my tourist dollars. They won’t get them.
Janet Steins
Somerville
“We urgently need to permit and build more and denser housing throughout Greater Boston, until everyone who wants or needs to live here can do so affordably.” How does the author suggest we do this while managing the health of environment, our transportation capacity, the quality of our public services, etc.? The unfortunate truth is, Massachusetts is too small to house everyone who wants to live here. Density at the scale proposed here would degrade everyone’s quality of life.
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Angels Among Us
I very much enjoyed Cathy Ching’s Connections (“Grandpa, Is That You?” April 23). She touched on much that I had thought about as I wrote an essay a few years ago [about the power of believing in the unseen — specifically, the magic of Santa]. Mine was written primarily to address the questions of my grandchildren, and hers...the child in each of us. And as a believer in such things, I can assure her that the pigeon was, indeed, Grandpa.
Barbara Harting
Framingham
The author’s revelation reminded me of many incidents in my life when I was in trouble and I wondered who was looking out for me. I think it was my grandmother. She died when I was 11 years old, and although we didn’t speak much growing up — she spoke Yiddish — I understood what she was saying, but I couldn’t reply. So thanks, Grandma, for looking out for me.
Shel Segal
Hull
You have a rich career ahead in journalism, Cathy Ching! This piece is so insightful, inspiring, and universal. This reader, with at least 50 years more in corporeal form than Ching, could not help but rapidly identify with her wisdom and experience the poignance of her story.
Patricia Fuller
Holliston
My mom passed away in winter 2012. My son and daughter-in-law were married that September. The ceremony was outdoors at the Cathedral of the Pines. When we arrived, there was a pigeon milling about. As the bride started down the aisle, the pigeon moved to a position in front of her and proceeded down the aisle. When the pigeon reached the front, “she” gracefully moved to the side and hung out there. My mom always loved family celebrations; my siblings and I are sure that that was Mom wanting to be part of one more. The caretakers there had never before seen a pigeon hanging out at the cathedral.
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Jane Rabbitt
Lunenburg
At a Tipping Point
I respectfully disagree with Miss Conduct, though I agree on the inequity of pay to service workers (“Gratuity Advice,” April 23). Businesses need to charge prices that allow them to pay competitive wages and not pass wage costs on to customers. If a cup of coffee should be $4.50 to pay the barista a living wage, [business owners need to] price it accordingly instead of hoping they can embarrass enough customers to “chip in” on labor costs. Tipping in the way Miss Conduct suggests is actually contributing to unfair labor practices.
Tama Zorn
Brookline
People are tired of getting nickeled and dimed for tips every place we go and then getting shamed for not tipping 25 percent to the person who put a pre-made sandwich into a bag.
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We should still tip for outstanding service without the burden of knowing that our tip is being relied on.
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Owners of establishments where tipping is expected (many of which are corporations) are exploiting their workers and their customers, guilting us, the customers, into compensating for underpaying their workers. This is also, effectively (as Miss Conduct recognizes), pitting workers and customers against one another: What’s better for you is more costly for me. Starbucks and other direct service workers have seen that the solution is unionization and collective bargaining power. Many chefs and restaurant owners have upped prices and/or tacked on a general surcharge to pay their teams more fairly. So, tip what you feel like, but do not cross picket lines or grumble about high prices or surcharges — those folks are looking to better solutions than tip jars!
Irene Maksymjuk
Boston
CONTACT US: Write to magazine@globe.com or The Boston Globe Magazine/Comments, 1 Exchange Place, Suite 201, Boston, MA 02109-2132. Comments are subject to editing. | 2023-06-09T17:38:59+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/09/magazine/letters-editor-globe-magazine/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for DRUG, KPRX, FCEL, ATHX, and NERV.
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Dissident pulled off plane by Belarus gets 8 years in prison
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian court has convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country. The court sentenced Raman Pratasevich to eight years in prison on Wednesday. Pratasevich’s dramatic arrest in May 2021 elicited outrage in the West. Some leaders said the plane’s diversion was tantamount to state-sponsored hijacking. Belarusian flight controllers ordered the Ryanair jetliner traveling between Greece and Lithuania to land in Minsk. They told the crew that there was a bomb threat against the flight. No explosives were found on board. Pratasevich was detained once the plane was on the ground. His Russian girlfriend was also arrested. | 2023-05-03T12:59:14+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/05/03/belarus-dissident-journalist-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison/ |
US: Iranian troops in Crimea backing Russian drone strikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that the U.S. has evidence that Iranian troops are “directly engaged on the ground” in Crimea supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian population.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Iran has sent a “relatively small number” of personnel to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in contravention of international law in 2014, to assist Russian troops in launching Iranian-made drones against Ukraine.
“The information we have is that the Iranians have put trainers and tech support in Crimea, but it’s the Russians who are doing the piloting,” Kirby said.
The U.S. first revealed this summer that Russia was purchasing Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles to launch against Ukraine. Iran has denied selling its munitions to Russia.
U.S. officials believe that Iran may have deployed military personnel to assist the Russians in part because of the Russian’s lack of familiarity with the Iran-made drones. Declassified U.S. intelligence findings showed that Russians faced technical problems with the Iranian drones soon after taking delivery of the weapons in August.
“The systems themselves were suffering failures and not performing to the standards that apparently the customers expected,” Kirby said. “So the Iranians decided to move in some trainers and some technical support to help the Russians use them with with better lethality.”
The Biden administration released further details about Iran’s involvement in assisting Russia’s war in Ukraine at a sensitive moment. The administration has levied new sanctions against Iran over the government’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests in recent weeks spurred by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in Iranian security custody.
Morality police had detained Amini last month for not properly covering her hair with the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, which is mandatory for Iranian women. Amini collapsed at a police station and died three days later.
Her death and the subsequent unrest have come as the administration tries to bring Iran back into compliance with the nuclear deal that was brokered by the Obama administration and scrapped by the Trump administration.
But Kirby said that the administration has little hope for reviving the Iran nuclear deal soon.
“We’re not focused on the diplomacy at this point,” Kirby said. “What we are focused on is making sure that we’re holding the regime accountable for the way they’re treating peaceful protesters in their country and supporting those protesters.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-20T19:17:20+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/10/20/us-iranian-troops-crimea-backing-russian-drone-strikes/ |
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Cameron Smith made eight birdies on the final day of the British Open. His 8-under 64 was the lowest closing round at St. Andrews by the champion golfer of the year. His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course.
What defined this tough-as-nails Australian in his greatest moment was a par.
Smith already had done the hard part by running off five straight birdies to start the back nine Sunday, ending the amazing streak with a two-putt from 90 feet over a massive mound that fed to the hole on the par-5 14th, giving him a one-shot lead over Rory McIlroy.
That was the score when Smith was on the 17th hole. He was in the fairway some 65 feet from the pin with the notorious Road Hole bunker in the way. Smith used his magic touch with the putter to run it along the edge of the bunker onto the green and made the 10-footer for par.
“He had to be very decisive with that one, because if you’re wondering about if the play he’s making is correct, I think it’s a really hard one,” said Cameron Young, who played with Smith and finished one shot behind him.
“I think it’s just another example of why he’s one of the very best,” Young added. “He made a really good decision and executed it perfectly. Today kind of just is more proof that he is that good, and he is one of the very, very best players in the world.”
And now Smith has a trophy to show for it.
McIlroy couldn’t make a 15-foot birdie putt in the group behind him — he couldn’t make anything all day — and Smith effectively ended it with two putts from 80 feet on the final hole to claim his first major.
Even with the claret jug on the table next to him, it all felt so surreal to the 28-year-old Smith. He was working hard on his fitness and his game. He was hopeful of results. He just wasn’t necessarily expecting three wins this year, each one raising his profile that speaks to his No. 2 world ranking, a career-best.
The question put to him Sunday evening made him laugh. Assuming someone knew nothing about golf, could he explain the difference between the TPC Sawgrass, where Smith won The Players Championship, and the Old Course?
It might be greater than the difference between filet mignon and haggis.
Smith did his best to go along in describing the Stadium Course, with its island green and deceptive shots, and a centuries-old links course that this week was so brittle and brown the balls rolled faster on the fairways than the greens.
But he also explained his quality as a player.
“I think you have to be two completely different golfers to contend at both of those golf courses,” Smith said.
And he won on both of them — one the strongest field in golf, the other the oldest major in golf. His third win this year came at Kapalua on the Plantation course with its wild changes in elevation and big greens with high wind. He beat Jon Rahm, the No. 1 player in the world.
“I think that’s just where I’m at at the moment,” Smith said. “Towards the end of last year, I had a lot of chances and really didn’t get over the line. I think that made me more eager, I guess, at the start of the year to really knuckle down and try and get over the line.
“For it to happen three times this year is pretty unreal,” he said. “I really wasn’t expecting that. I would have been happy with one.”
This was a big one. And it was a big disappointment for McIlroy, who along with Viktor Hovland started the final round tied for the lead. Smith and Young were four behind and by the end of the day, one had the silver claret jug and the other had a silver medal. Young made a 15-foot eagle on the 18th hole for a 65, tied for the lead for as long as it took Smith to tap in for birdie.
McIlroy did very little wrong and hardly anything right. He didn’t have many close looks at birdie and the few times he did, they slid by the hole.
The cheers were for McIlroy, immensely popular worldwide and especially this week, the 150th Open at the home of golf, as he tried to end his eight-year itch of watching someone else celebrate a major championship.
He knew Smith had pulled ahead with those five straight birdies.
“I had to dig deep to make birdies. And I just couldn’t,” McIlroy said. “I got beaten by the better player this week. To go out and shoot 64 to win the Open Championship at St. Andrews is a hell of a showing. Hats off to Cam.”
As McIlroy spoke to the media, he had to pause every now and then. The 18th green was behind him. There were cheers from a record crowd as Smith walked onto the green to accept the claret jug and be introduced as “champion golfer of the year.”
“There’s a worthy winner right on the 18th green right now,” McIlroy said.
After a performance like that on the Old Course — all year, really — no one could dispute that.
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 2, 2022
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With product innovation lagging, Silicon Valley bets on a fresh coat of paint
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business
When Google unveiled its new Pixel 7 smartphone lineup earlier this month, the devices looked largely the same as the year prior. But there was at least one subtle change: the colors.
Whereas the Pixel 6 had come in sorta seafoam (a light blue) and kinda coral (a pale pink), the Pixel 7 now comes in lemongrass (a green) and snow (off-white). Google has also swapped the stormy black (a stormy black) option on the Pixel 6 for obsidian (still black) on the Pixel 7.
The emphasis on a new color palette for devices isn’t unique to Google. As tech companies showed off their latest smartphones, tablets and laptops at splashy press events over the last two months, many of the products had only limited changes on the outside but boasted elaborately named color options.
Microsoft launched its Surface Pro 9 tablet in shades such as sapphire (blue) and forest (green), and its Surface Laptop 5 comes in metal (silver), sage (green) and sandstone (tan). Apple’s new iPhone 14 lineup comes in Starlight (a champagne color) and midnight (black), and the company has previously unveiled two shades of green (“green” and “alpine green”) and purple (“purple” and “deep purple”).
Purple, in particular, has been having a moment in tech. Earlier this summer, Samsung unveiled a “bora purple” color for its flagship Galaxy S22 smartphone — the word “bora” in Korean translates to “purple,” effectively dubbing the color “purple purple.”
At a time when many of the biggest upgrades to smartphones and other gadgets are under the hood, drumming up consumer interest with a fresh coat of paint may be easier in some ways than getting people excited about faster processors.
“The quality of all phones is so high, it’s getting difficult for consumers to even notice what ‘better’ is anymore,” said Kelly Goldsmith, professor of marketing at Vanderbilt University. “As a result, tech brands need to adopt new strategies. Introducing different, niche colors is just one way to do it.”
For consumers, there can be a real value to a broader range of colors. “Devices — whether they’re smartphones, wearables, PCs, or tablets — are an extension of the user’s persona, both in terms of who they are and who they aspire to be,” said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at IDC Research. “Introducing a different color is a way for devices and their owners to distinguish themselves.”
But just as basic black, white, gray and silver are the top colors in the automobile industry, these colors tend to resonate most with smartphone owners, according to Peggy Van Allen, a color anthropologist for the Color Marketing Group. Still, she noted, a shift has been underway toward stronger colors.
Apple famously brought “Bondi Blue” to its Mac line in the late 1990s after Steve Jobs’ return to the company (it was a huge success). More recently, it created a splash with the introduction of the rose gold iPhone in 2015.
“Warm metallics went away and then came back in style, and rose gold really reached mass appeal,” Van Allen said. “It peaked at a time when social media influencers were gobbling it up, and the popularity of Millennial Pink also helped to usher it in.”
Both pinks lasted longer than most forecasters would have predicted, she said. “It was carried along by other trends of the time that enforced the desire for personalization and female empowerment.”
The names of more recent colors have become increasingly esoteric in the last year or so. This is also likely a strategic play, according to Barbara Kahn, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
“Color names that are descriptive but odd can spark positive reactions because the consumer likes being able to ‘solve the puzzle,'” she said. “Color names that are ambiguous also spark attention and customers work to figure out what the meaning might be.”
But for all the varied colors out there, it’s important to remember customers still overwhelmingly keep their phones in a case, essentially covering up the color that once helped entice them to upgrade.
“There are some transparent cases available from both first and third parties,” said Eric Abbruzzese, research director at market research firm ABI Research, “but at least anecdotally, they don’t seem as popular as regular cases.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rallying Friday after a strong report on the U.S. job market helped ease Wall Street’s worries about a possible recession.
The S&P 500 was 1% higher in early trading and on pace for a third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 372 points, or 1.1%, at 33,433, as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 1% higher.
They got a boost after a report showed employers unexpectedly accelerated their hiring last month. It’s the latest signal that the job market remains remarkably solid despite much higher interest rates, and it offers a big pillar of support for an economy that’s begun to slow.
Perhaps more importantly for markets, increases for workers’ pay also slowed even as hiring strengthened.
While that may discourage workers trying to keep up with prices at the register, investors believe slower wage gains should mean less upward pressure on inflation across the economy. That in turn could allow the Federal Reserve to take it easier on its hikes to interest rates, which are aimed at lowering inflation by slowing the economy and have already caused damage in the banking and manufacturing industries.
The unemployment rate also rose by more than expected last month, moving up to 3.7% from a five-decade low. That implies a bit more slack in the job market and seems to conflict with the gangbusters hiring numbers, whose data comes from a separate survey.
“The reality is probably somewhere in between,” said Brian Jacobsen, chief economist at Annex Wealth Management.
“One thing that is striking is that if you compare aggregate payrolls today to the pre-COVID trend, we still have more than a four million job hole to fill-in,” he said. “COVID led to strange times, a strange recovery and an even stranger slowdown.”
Following the report, traders were largely expecting the Fed to hold interest rates steady at its next meeting in two weeks. If it does, that would be the first time it hasn’t hiked rates in more than a year.
A pause on rate hikes would offer breathing room for an economy that’s already seen manufacturing contract sharply for months.
Higher rates have also hurt many smaller and mid-sized banks because their customers have pulled deposits in search of higher interest by money-market funds. The Fed’s furious flurry of hikes, meanwhile, has also hurt the value of investments banks made when rates were low.
Several high-profile bank failures since March have shaken the market, leading Wall Street to hunt for the next possible weak links. Several of those under heavy scrutiny rallied following the jobs report. PacWest Bancorp rose 5.8%, for example, to trim its loss for the year to roughly 69%.
But Fed officials have also warned recently that a pause on rate hikes in June wouldn’t necessarily mean the end to hikes.
Traders are increasingly expecting the Fed to follow up a June pause with a July hike to interest rates, according to data from CME Group. That helped push Treasury yields higher.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 3.63% from 3.60% late Thursday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year Treasury yield, which moves more on expectations for Fed action, rose to 4.41% from 4.34%.
Also helping to support Wall Street was the Senate giving final approval late Thursday to a deal that will allow the U.S. government to avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt.
The move was widely expected by investors, and the deal moves next to President Joe Biden for his signature.
Stock markets abroad were also mostly higher.
In Europe, France’s CAC 40 jumped 1.7%, and Germany’s DAX returned 1.1%.
In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Sang soared 4%, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.2%.
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France — which has made headlines for forbidding lots of things, like outdoor heaters and smoking in forests, in an attempt to curb climate change — became the first country to ban short-haul flights this week, cutting several domestic routes that can be easily reached by train.
The law outlaws any domestic plane travel that could be accomplished by a train trip taking 2½ hours or less — a move that sounds sweeping but is modest in reality. Because the law targets only domestic flights, the final rule is expected to affect just three routes: Trips between Paris-Orly and Bourdeaux, Nantes or Lyon.
The law came from France’s novel experiment in 2019 to task 150 randomly selected people with making climate policy in a “citizens’ assembly.” It proposed banning any flights that could be accomplished in less than four hours by train, but France’s legislature watered down the plan.
So the new ban will not dramatically cut France’s aviation emissions. Dan Rutherford, program director at the International Council on Clean Transportation, said in an email that the law would reduce them by less than 3 percent.
But the ban could have political power. “It’s a shot across the bow of the aviation industry,” Rutherford said.
And at a larger scale — or in a bigger country — ending short-haul flights could make a real difference.
Short-haul flights have long been seen as a bit of a climate scourge. Long-haul flights — such as transatlantic trips from the United States to Europe — are carbon-intensive but also don’t have good alternatives. (Not everyone is going to be Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and travel across the Atlantic Ocean by high-speed sailboat.) And medium-haul flights, often defined as those taking three to six hours, can emit less carbon dioxide than trains covering the same distance that run on diesel.
Short-haul flights, on the other hand, damage the climate without offering much more convenience than a train ride. Airplanes burn large amounts of fuel on takeoff and when climbing to altitude, making short-haul air travel much less energy-efficient. Aviation accounts for over 2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and short-haul flights — defined as covering distances less than around 930 miles — make up about one-third of that.
Rutherford says there’s a sweet spot: For trips of less than 500 miles, replacing a flight with high-speed rail could put a dent in air travel. Flights of less than 500 miles make up about a quarter of the United States’ domestic air traffic.
Take the less than 300-mile journey between D.C. and New York City, for example. According to a study published in 2021, a single passenger taking the train round-trip instead of flying on that route will prevent between 100 and 150 kilograms of CO2 from spewing into the atmosphere — equivalent to preventing around 10 to 15 gallons of gasoline from being burned. (The train between D.C. and New York is electrified, not diesel, which helps.)
These short flights continue to shuttle back and forth. On a random weekday in June, there were well over 40 nonstop flights a day between D.C.’s two major airports and New York City’s three.
Would the United States ever ban them? It’s unlikely. Congress has shied away from taking any steps that would make climate policy seem inconvenient or burdensome for peoples’ lives, and the Environmental Protection Agency has stopped short of issuing strict regulations on aircraft emissions. And Amtrak is far from being a high-speed rail — even the Acela is only about half as fast as bullet trains in other countries.
But France’s action is a tiny step toward changing the way people think about flying. When there’s a good alternative — which takes the same amount of time and is responsible for fewer carbon emissions — why not just take the train? | 2023-05-25T10:51:30+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/05/25/france-short-flights-ban/ |
The new chapter for AFC professionals comes as part of ACAMS' ongoing commitment to support the fight against illicit finance throughout Korea
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ACAMS, a leading global membership organization dedicated to ending illicit finance, is strengthening its support for anti-financial crime professionals in Korea with the creation of a new ACAMS chapter and a scholarship program for Korean anti-financial crime (AFC) professionals. The new chapter—the 64th in the ACAMS network—will serve as a platform for ongoing education, knowledge-sharing, and networking for AFC practitioners engaged in financial-crime prevention in Korea's public and private sectors.
Attended by AFC professionals from Korea, the launch in Seoul featured opening remarks by Korean Member of Parliament Yun ChangHyun and a special keynote address by Joshua Johnson, Senior Sanctions Coordinator for the Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation at the U.S. Department of State.
As part of the launch, the chapter convened a panel of experts to discuss building public-private partnerships to fight illicit finance, featuring speakers Ryu YoungHo, Team Leader at the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), Kendrick Yeung, Deputy Attaché for U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Jean Chung Managing Director, Regional Head, CFCC Advisory, at Standard Chartered, and Hwang SeokJin, a professor at Dongkuk University.
At the event, ACAMS separately announced 6 winners of the CAMS Scholarship for Korean compliance practitioners in the AFC space. In addition to receiving a one-year membership to ACAMS, the scholarship winners will seek to become Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS) with a full waiver of associated fees for study materials.
Widely viewed as the global gold standard certification for anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, the CAMS program trains applicants on the international standards for detecting, investigating, and reporting suspicious financial activity and illicit money flows.
"As a platform for cross-sector collaboration in the AFC space, our chapters reflect the core belief of ACAMS that we are more effective in preventing illicit finance when we work together," said ACAMS COO Mariah Gause. "The new ACAMS Korea Chapter will help drive conversations on how to fight financial crime more effectively and foster a community of dedicated AFC professionals who will share best practices on safeguarding the financial sector and saving lives."
"We're also proud to award our CAMS Scholarship to 6 remarkable Korean professionals to support their compliance journeys," she said. "As our first scholarship designed for a national market, this initiative reflects the commitment shared by ACAMS and the recipients to prevent criminals from exploiting Korea's private sector. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for these talented scholarship recipients."
Find out more about the ACAMS Korea Chapter, including how to join, here: https://www.acams.org/en/chapters/apac/korea-chapter
Learn more about the CAMS Scholarship program and the new winners here: https://www.acams.org/en/resources/diversity-equity-inclusion/scholarships
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ACAMS is a leading international membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities for anti-financial crime (AFC) education, best practices, and peer-to-peer networking to AFC professionals globally. With over 100,000 members across 180 jurisdictions, ACAMS is committed to the mission of ending financial crime through the provision of anti-money laundering/counterterrorism-financing and sanctions knowledge-sharing, thought leadership, risk-mitigation services, ESG initiatives, and platforms for public-private dialogue. The association's CAMS certification is the gold- standard qualification for AFC professionals, while its CGSS and CCAS certifications are for sanctions professionals and AFC practitioners working in the crypto space, respectively. ACAMS' 60+ Chapters globally further amplify the association's mission through training and networking initiatives. Visit acams.org for more information.
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Feral hogs have overrun nearly the entire state of Texas, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage annually in spite of widespread attempts to eradicate them, including traps, contraceptives, and hunting.
Will Reneau is a fourth generation rice farmer in the state and grows long and medium grain rice on 1,900 acres. He says feral hogs plodding through his paddies is impacting the bottom line of his business.
"I started in 2008 and my number one issue is feral hog damage," he told Scripps News. "Our number one problem causer."
Reneau's rice grows in standing water, and because pigs don't sweat, they seek out places like this to cool off from the summer heat.
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says the pernicious wild pigs have spread and can be found in every single county of Texas except El Paso. But it's not just farms that are feeling the impact. Feral hogs have also been spotted around golf courses, suburban subdivisions, and even cemeteries.
Researchers at Texas A&M University say a conservative estimate for the number of feral hogs in the state is 3 million to 4 million.
"Feral Hogs were introduced to the Americas from the explorers," said Jamie Sugg with the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension. "They brought them over here as a food source ... seems like lately they've really exploded."
And it's that explosion of feral hogs that has people like Reneau going to war.
SEE MORE: Data shows more farmers are trading in tractors for drones
In Texas you don't need a permit to hunt wild hogs — just the farmer's permission. Hunters also trap feral hogs around the state and have found a market for them.
"What I'll call the upscale operators — those that operate at a high level — such as retailers in Europe, they prefer U.S. wild boar because of all the food safety features," said Pat McGowan, vice president at Broadleaf Game. "We test animals for trichinosis. We test animals for salmonella. We test animals for e-coli. We have all the same criteria as if we were processing a domestic pig."
However, even with no restrictions on hunting, trapping, or contraception to prevent breeding, the plurality of pigs on the pastures is proof that humans can't control everything in nature.
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Anne Heche is under investigation by the LAPD for misdemeanor DUI and hit-and-run, in relation to the fiery car crash that left her hospitalized and in critical condition.
LAPD officials told ET on Monday that investigators obtained a warrant for a blood draw on Friday, the day of the crash, and are investigating what role drugs or alcohol may have played in the frightening collision.
Heche is believed to have struck a garage structure at an apartment complex in Los Angeles on Friday morning, TMZ reported. She then allegedly left the scene of the crash and sped down the street before crashing into a residential home nearby.
According to the LAPD, once the results of the blood draw are determined and the investigation is completed, the case will be handed over to the LA City Attorney's office.
The news of the investigation comes amid an update on the actress' condition. The actress' rep told ET on Monday, “At this time Anne is in extreme critical condition. She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention."
The rep continued, “She is in a coma and has not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident."
ET has learned that by Monday evening, Heche had been moved to the Grossman Burn Center in West Hills.
Video captured by CBS Los Angeles showed the carnage left behind after Heche crashed her car into a home. Another video showed the blue Mini Cooper speeding down the street before crashing.
Per the LAPD, the vehicle became engulfed in flames and she was transported to a local hospital for medical treatment by an ambulance.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Fire Department said that the vehicle struck and came to rest well within a 738-square foot two-story home, causing structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire prior to LAFD's arrival.
In a since-deleted episode of Heche's Better Together podcast, reportedly posted on Friday morning, hours before her crash, the actress claimed to have been drinking vodka "with wine chasers" after being "rocked" by a "very bad day."
However, in a statement to ET, podcast producer Ryan Tillotson said that the episode was, in fact, recorded earlier that week.
"The episode was recorded on the Tuesday before the episode was released, and has been removed due to inaccurate reporting. Any reports that she recorded that episode on the day of the accident are false," Tillotson said.
Heche previously shared, during a June 2021 episode of her podcast, that she was sober.
The incident remains under investigation.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Andrii Vladyka, technical product manager for the company's broadband business, will be honored with the 2022 SCTE® Wilt J. Hildenbrand Jr. Award. Vladyka is receiving the award for making key contributions to the cable industry, including operationalizing Network Function Virtualization, pioneering vCMTS and cutting-edge developments in vOLT and vCPE.
"I am honored to be chosen for this prestigious award and would like to thank the SCTE Foundation for recognizing me," said Vladyka. "The cable industry is continuously pushing the limits of technology innovation, inspiring me to focus on virtualized broadband technologies that answer the evolving needs of operators."
In his role at Harmonic, Vladyka has been instrumental in optimizing the operations and deployment aspects of the company's market-leading CableOS® Cloud-Native Core Platform. He has over 10 years of experience in the telecom industries, including leadership roles with customer-facing and operations-centric engagement. Vladyka has a Master of Science degree in telecommunications from the Kharkiv University of Radioelectronics in Ukraine.
"Andrii is extremely deserving of this award," said Nimrod Ben-Natan, senior vice president and general manager, broadband business, at Harmonic. "Over the years at Harmonic, Andrii has demonstrated a unique combination of problem solving and product definition skills while maintaining a hands-on approach to engineering solutions and overseeing their implementation in large-scale, real-world deployments."
The SCTE Wilt J. Hildenbrand Jr. Award celebrates a rising star in the cable industry, 40 years old or younger, who has made the most significant contributions to the innovations of the cable industry. The award is managed by the SCTE Foundation® in memory of Wilt J. Hildenbrand Jr., a technology pioneer and industry legend.
Vladyka will receive the award at the SCTE Awards Luncheon taking place on Sept. 21 during the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® in Philadelphia.
Further information about Harmonic and the company's solutions is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in virtualized broadband and video delivery solutions, enables media companies and service providers to deliver ultra-high-quality video streaming and broadcast services to consumers globally. The company revolutionized broadband networking via the industry's first virtualized broadband solution, enabling cable operators to more flexibly deploy gigabit internet service to consumers' homes and mobile devices. Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software platforms, or powering the delivery of gigabit internet cable services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and on-demand content on every screen. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that noted technology strategist Jack Shaw will join Technology & Innovation North America 2022 as keynote speaker. Shaw will speak live at Forrester's Technology & Innovation North America in Austin, Texas, Thursday, September 29, and will discuss how tech leaders can harness emerging technologies to manage disruptions and fuel their organization's growth.
Named one of the world's top five technology futurists, Shaw's expertise in designing, developing, and implementing emerging technologies has made him a leading authority on artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, and the internet of things and how they impact business and society. Shaw has spent more than 30 years helping leaders transform their organizations to anticipate and manage strategic disruptions. His experience in driving innovation, change management, and transformational leadership has led to him advising trade associations, professional societies, and key decision-makers at several Fortune 500 corporations.
"To be successful, tech leaders must become catalysts of change who create resilient, adaptive, and creative strategies to drive long-term success," said Lisa Riley, senior vice president of global events at Forrester. "Jack's knowledge and experience in the worlds of emerging technology and innovation are invaluable to technologists striving to transform businesses during a disruptive time. We look forward to having Jack present his insights at Technology & Innovation North America."
Additional speakers at Technology & Innovation North America include City of Dallas CIO Bill Zielinski, who will discuss current examples of tech-driven innovation, and Jam3 Director of Strategy Rachel Noonan and VMLY&R Chief Innovation Officer Brian Yamada, who will both share insights about the current state and future potential of the metaverse, NFTs, and Web3.
At the Forum, North American firms successfully executing customer-obsessed tech strategies to manage disruption and address changing customer needs will be honored as recipients of Forrester's Technology Awards.
Taking place September 29–30, 2022, in Austin, Texas, and digitally, Technology & Innovation North America is designed to empower tech leaders, including chief information officers, chief technology officers, and chief digital officers, to accelerate growth. In-person attendees will experience facilitated discussions, consulting workshops, and special sessions. They will also have access to special programs, including the Women's Leadership Forum; the Executive Leadership Exchange; and several talent management sessions. Digital attendees can access all conference sessions and sponsors via the event platform. Forrester will also host an Analyst Relations (AR) Forum on September 28 to help AR leaders better understand Forrester's unique value proposition, research methodologies and frameworks, and long-term product roadmap.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 1, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
1049 PM PDT Thu Jun 30 2022
...Cooler and Breezy 4th of July Weekend...
* Noticeably cooler with high temperatures 5-15 degrees below
average Sunday and Monday. Highs in the low to mid 80s are
expected in the lower valleys with upper 60s to low 70s in
Sierra valleys. This may feel like an abrupt change for many,
especially in mountain communities.
* Enhanced westerly wind gusts 30-35 mph and dry conditions are
expected areawide Saturday, with lighter but still gusty winds
Sunday and Monday. Avoid causing sparks near dry vegetation. As
always, follow local fire and firework restrictions.
Additionally, expect some boating impacts Saturday and Sunday
afternoon as area lakes will be choppy.
* Showers and thunderstorms are possible Sunday afternoon through
early Monday across far northeast California and northwestern
Nevada. Make sure to stay up-to-date with the most recent
forecast and plan your outdoor activities accordingly.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Thanks to growing excitement and strong sales, Mega Millions says its jackpot is up to $830 million for Tuesday night's drawing, or $487.9 million if the winner picks cash instead of the 30-year annuity.
It's the third largest jackpot prize in the game's history and the fourth largest for any game. Only two billion-dollar jackpots have been higher for Mega Millions.
The prize money has quickly climbed in the last couple of weeks, but the odds of winning remain the same — a staggering one in 302.5 million. You have better odds of a smaller payoff, like winning $1 million for matching five regular numbers but missing the Mega Ball. Even that is one in 12.6 million.
That's not stopping the building excitement for this jackpot, which recently swept up Raising Cane's CEO Todd Graves. He said he bought 50,000 Mega Millions tickets in hopes of sharing the jackpot with employees of the chicken finger chain.
"Buying 50,000 lottery tickets is harder than you think!" Graves said on Twitter. At $2 a ticket, it cost at least $100,000.
If no one wins Tuesday night, there's a chance it could eventually set a new record. In the game's 20-year history there have only ever been two billion-dollar jackpots.
The world record for a jackpot remains $1.586 billion, which was a Powerball prize awarded in 2016.
Last year, a Mega Millions jackpot cracked the $1 billion mark for just the second time. A four-member suburban Detroit lottery club won that $1.05 billion jackpot and chose the lump sump, receiving $557 million after taxes.
The Mega Millions drawing is on Tuesday, July 26 at 11 p.m. ET. The game is played on Tuesday and Friday nights in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | 2022-07-26T20:05:50+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/mega-millions-jackpot-up-again/507-87c75517-6740-44c4-beda-b2756730d442 |
Sacramento County Superior Court said in a release on Wednesday that they are warning county residents of a “jury duty phone scam”. The release said that the scam involves someone calling another person, impersonating an officer of the court, and convincing them that money is owed because the target failed to report for jury duty. Scammers are instructing their targets to buy debit cards and read back the numbers on the card, Sacramento County Superior Court said. They also said that in some instances targets of these scams are being threatened with arrest warrants if they do not comply. According to the release Sacramento County Superior Court received two envelopes within the past two weeks that contained used $500 money cards. The value of the cards in each envelope totaled over $3,000.Jury commissioner Ginger Durham said that Sacramento County jurors are never contacted by phone when failing to report to jury duty and that this particular phone scam is something Sacramento Superior Court warns about on their website. "No court staff or Sacramento County Sheriff’s staff will ask past or prospective jurors to pay a fine or provide financial details including credit card numbers, bank account, social security numbers or other personal information,” Durham said.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County Superior Court said in a release on Wednesday that they are warning county residents of a “jury duty phone scam”.
The release said that the scam involves someone calling another person, impersonating an officer of the court, and convincing them that money is owed because the target failed to report for jury duty.
Scammers are instructing their targets to buy debit cards and read back the numbers on the card, Sacramento County Superior Court said. They also said that in some instances targets of these scams are being threatened with arrest warrants if they do not comply.
According to the release Sacramento County Superior Court received two envelopes within the past two weeks that contained used $500 money cards. The value of the cards in each envelope totaled over $3,000.
Sacramento County Superior Court
Debit cards used in a jury duty scam. Sacramento County Superior Court said their jury office received multiple envelopes containing debit cards that totaled more than $3,000
Jury commissioner Ginger Durham said that Sacramento County jurors are never contacted by phone when failing to report to jury duty and that this particular phone scam is something Sacramento Superior Court warns about on their website.
"No court staff or Sacramento County Sheriff’s staff will ask past or prospective jurors to pay a fine or provide financial details including credit card numbers, bank account, social security numbers or other personal information,” Durham said. | 2022-12-30T03:36:23+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-court-jury-duty-money-scam-dec-29/42364936 |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Omari Moore scored 26 points as San Jose State beat Air Force 82-52 on Tuesday.
Moore had six assists for the Spartans (13-8, 4-4 Mountain West Conference). Robert Vaihola scored 18 points while shooting 9 of 12 from the field, and added 10 rebounds. Alvaro Cardenas Torre was 5 of 10 shooting (2 for 4 from distance) to finish with 12 points.
The Falcons (12-9, 3-5) were led by Camden Vander Zwaag, who recorded 11 points. Jake Heidbreder added nine points for Air Force. Rytis Petraitis also had eight points.
San Jose State took the lead with 13:33 left in the first half and did not relinquish it. Moore led his team in scoring with 19 points in the first half to help put them up 46-31 at the break. San Jose State pulled away with a 13-0 run in the second half to extend a 15-point lead to 28 points. They outscored Air Force by 15 points in the final half, as Vaihola led the way with a team-high 10 second-half points.
NEXT UP
San Jose State's next game is Saturday against San Diego State on the road, and Air Force visits New Mexico on Friday.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Over 18,000 Louisiana residents have died from COVID-19 since it was first reported in March of 2020, according to the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH).
“The magnitude of loss due to a virus that has only been with us for 30 months is difficult and painful to grasp, but it is what focuses and drives our continued efforts to preserve human life,” said LDH State Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter in a press release. “We have made critical progress in the fight against COVID-19 and are on the right track. Case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths are on the decline. Though we have come far, it is likely new variants will continue to emerge, and there may be a fall or winter surge. The good news is that we know how to protect ourselves and communities, getting vaccinated and boosted, testing when exposed or sick, connecting people who are infected and at higher risk for severe disease with evidence-based treatments like Paxlovid, and utilizing prophylactic treatments like Evusheld in those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised.”
LDH says COVID-19 has been the third-leading cause of death in Louisiana since 2020 behind heart disease and cancer.
“Today we mark a tragic and sobering milestone in Louisiana as we recognize the more than 18,000 loved ones from every corner of this state who are no longer with us because of COVID-19. My prayers today and every day are with the grieving families and communities forever altered by this pandemic,” said Governor John Bel Edwards. “We have come a long way in combating this virus, and I remain hopeful that we will see fewer deaths in the months and years to come. While we continue to come down from our sixth and longest surge to date, the reality is that this virus is still very much with us. Staying up to date on our vaccines, including taking the new bivalent COVID-19 booster when you are eligible, is the best way to stay safe, protect the progress we have made and ensure there are brighter days ahead.”
LDH reports that over two million people in the state have completed their COVID-19 vaccination series. Updated COVID-19 booster shots are available across Louisiana. LDH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend anyone six months and older get vaccinated. Find a vaccination site near you.
568 cases have been reported to the state since Thursday. 143 of those cases are reinfections. | 2022-09-23T18:42:40+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/coronavirus/la-exceeds-18000-deaths-from-covid-19-ldh-says/ |
CIMARRON HILLS, Colo. — Authorities say the Sunday wildfire in Cimarron Hills broke out under suspicious circumstances.
On Sunday, the Cimarron Hills Fire Protection District responded to a fast-moving wildfire, along with 13 other agencies.
They were able to hold the fire at 5.4 acres despite strong winds, low humidity and extremely dry fuel conditions. No injuries or property damage were reported.
The fire was 100% contained and extinguished on Monday.
Read more at our partner, Denver7. | 2023-04-04T19:35:41+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/04/04/cimarron-hills-wildfire-cause-suspicious/ |
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writers
Stocks slid on Wall Street Tuesday as the market remains gripped by uncertainty over pervasive inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession. The S&P 500 fell 2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6%, and the Nasdaq fell 3%. The Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in June to its lowest level in more than a year, driven by concerns over inflation including rising prices for gas and food. Energy stocks rose along with the price of crude oil. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, rose to 3.20%.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
Stocks fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as the broader market remains gripped by uncertainty over pervasive inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession.
The S&P 500 fell 2% as of 3:07 p.m. Eastern, with roughly 85% of the stocks in the benchmark index in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 484 points, or 1.5%, to 30,957 and the Nasdaq fell 2.9%.
The Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in June to its lowest level in more than a year, driven largely by concerns over inflation including rising prices for gas and food. The results were also much weaker than economists expected.
“Confidence is going to continue to shrink as long as inflation remains high,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance. “It all comes back to inflation, it’s ultimately driving reaction from the Fed and impacting the market and consumer confidence.”
Investors face a pervasive list of concerns centering around rising inflation squeezing businesses and consumers. Supply chain problems that have been at the root of rising inflation were made worse over the last several months by increased restrictions in China related to COVID-19.
Businesses have been raising prices on everything from food to clothing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February put even more pressure on consumers by raising energy prices and pumping gasoline prices to record highs.
Consumers were already shifting spending from goods to services as the economy recovered from the pandemic’s impact, but the intensified pressure from inflation has prompted a sharper shift from discretionary items like electronics to necessities.
Stubborn inflation pressures have driven a stark shift in policy from central banks, which are raising rates to try and temper inflation after years of holding rates down to help economic growth.
Now, they are trying to slow economic growth, but investors are worried that they could go too far and actually push the economy into a recession as key economic indicators are already showing a slowdown in things like retail sales.
Investors are awaiting remarks expected for midweek by central bank leaders including Fed Chair Jerome Powell and European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde. They will also get another update on U.S. economic growth on Wednesday when the Commerce Department releases a report on first-quarter gross domestic product.
Wall Street is also preparing for the latest round of corporate earnings in the next few weeks, which will help paint a clearer picture of how companies are dealing with the squeeze from rising costs and consumers curtailing some spending.
Athletic footwear and apparel giant Nike fell 6.7% after giving investors a cautious update on the potential hit to revenue because of lockdowns in China. The company relies on China for roughly 17% of its revenue, according to FactSet.
Wynn Resorts rose 3.3% and Las Vegas Sands added 4.2%. The companies, which have major gambling businesses in China, got a boost after China eased a quarantine requirement for people arriving from abroad.
Energy stocks also made solid gains as U.S. crude oil prices rose 2%. Hess rose 4.1%. Those gains were checked by losses for big technology companies. Microsoft fell 3.1% and Apple slipped 2.9%.
Treasury yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, rose to 3.20% from 3.19% late Monday. Overseas markets rose.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, announced today that members of its management team will be presenting at the following financial community event:
Goldman Sachs TMT Conference
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
11:30 a.m. PDT
Additional information about upcoming investor event participation and a live audio webcast of each presentation will be accessible from the "Investors" section of the Palo Alto Networks website at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
ABOUT PALO ALTO NETWORKS
Palo Alto Networks is the world's cybersecurity leader. We innovate to outpace cyberthreats, so organizations can embrace technology with confidence. We provide next-gen cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally, across all sectors. Our best-in-class cybersecurity platforms and services are backed by industry-leading threat intelligence and strengthened by state-of-the-art automation. Whether deploying our products to enable the Zero Trust Enterprise, responding to a security incident, or partnering to deliver better security outcomes through a world-class partner ecosystem, we're committed to helping ensure each day is safer than the one before. It's what makes us the cybersecurity partner of choice.
At Palo Alto Networks, we're committed to bringing together the very best people in service of our mission, so we're also proud to be the cybersecurity workplace of choice, recognized among Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces (2021), Comparably Best Companies for Diversity (2021), and HRC Best Places for LGBTQ Equality (2022). For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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Juneteenth 2023: Here's where to celebrate in metro Detroit
Metro Detroit is gearing up for upcoming gatherings to commemorate the 158th anniversary of Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day. This annual holiday celebrates equal rights and the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, federal troops freed remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas, enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation several years after its initial signing. It was months after the Confederacy's surrender.
The day was officially designated as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.
Juneteenth events throughout southeast Michigan will include live music, films, food and opportunities to support Black-owned businesses and acknowledge what’s considered the longest-running African American holiday.
Here is a list of upcoming events to acknowledge and celebrate the holiday. Email bhightower@freepress.com to add your event to the list.
Through June 20: Wayne State University will host a series of campus events to celebrate Juneteenth. The series will include an art exhibition; panel discussions; keynote address by University of North Carolina Professor Ronald Williams II, a noted expert in African American studies, and a performance by neo-classical pianist BLKBOK at the Willis Show Bar, 7:30 p.m. June 20. More at wayne.edu.
Through June 30: The Detroit Public Library will offer a wide range of programs from storytelling, craft-making, spoken word performances, music, a parade and more to celebrate Juneteenth at all of its locations in Detroit. More at detroitpubliclibrary.org.
Through June 29: Emagine Entertainment will host a Juneteenth Film Festival to honor Black actors/actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers in films that present compelling stories and educational content on racism and Black history at Emagine Royal Oak. Net proceeds will benefit the United Negro College Fund. $5.
June 14: The Downtown Detroit Partnership will feature a free outdoor movie screening of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" as part of DDP’s Movie Nights in the D series. Prior to the movie there will be specially themed activities courtesy of the N’Namdi Center including African drum ciphers, African dance and poetry readings from Nandi Comer, the Poet Laureate of Michigan. 6 p.m. at Campus Martius Park in Detroit. Movie starts at 7 p.m.
More:Michigan names first state poet laureate since 1950s
June 14: Oakland County will host its first Juneteenth celebration honoring the memory of Elizabeth Denison Forth, the first Black landowner in Oakland County. She purchased 48 acres of land in Pontiac in 1825. The celebration will include musical performances, food trucks, giveaways and more. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the south entrance lawn of the Oakland County Circuit Court Building, 1200 N. Telegraph in Pontiac.
June 16: Join the Sterling Heights African American Coalition for their second annual Juneteenth Celebration with live music, entertainment, food trucks, vendors and family-friendly fun. 5:30-9 p.m. at Dodge Park Farmers Market Pavilion. Free admission.
June 17: Madison Heights Juneteenth Food Truck Rally will feature African American-owned food trucks, live music, vendors, educational exhibits, petting zoo and pony rides, a 25-foot climbing tower, bounce houses and more. Noon to 6 p.m. at Civic Center Park, 360 W. 13 Mile in Madison Heights. Free admission and free parking.
June 17: Four-time Grammy winning pianist Robert Glasper makes a Detroit debut with an array of guests to celebrate Juneteenth at the Russell Industrial Center, 1600 Clay in Detroit at 9 p.m. Purchase $40 tickets at meanredproductions.
June 17: Juneteenth Jubilee: Bring lawn chairs and enjoy performances that include spoken word hosted by Joel Fluent Greene, a performance by the Impulse Dancers and the Levey Marching Band and a Step Show featuring the Southfield Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the Tau Kapp Kappa Chapter of Omega Psi Phi at this event hosted by Southfield Parks and Recreation. The event will include food trucks, yard games, a marketplace with more than 30 Black vendors, a beer and wine tent for attendees 21 and over, music by DJ Deezy D and the headliner will be WeeBone Entertainment, closing the night with a two-hour concert that begins at 7 p.m. The celebration will be 4-9 p.m. on Southfield's Municipal Campus front lawn.
June 17: Mayor's Juneteenth Walk: Join Southfield's Mayor Dr. Kenson Siver from 10-11:30 a.m. beginning at the Southfield Municipal Campus front circle as he leads participants on a 2.5-mile walk to Red Pole Park and back to City Hall, where he will discuss Southfield history and the achievements of African Americans in Southfield.
June 17: Juneteenth Community Celebration at Canton Township's annual Liberty Fest will include crafts and a reading corner that features children's books by African American authors. There will also be a Black History 101 Mobile Museum from 1-6 p.m.; and a 2.5 Block Walk at 2:30 p.m. to commemorate the 2.5 years Texas slaves waited for their freedom. A stage program is scheduled to start at 3 p.m., led by Mistress of Ceremonies Pamela Osborne, a WDIV-TV (Channel 4) anchor, along with presentations by Jack and Jill of America Incorporated — Ypsilanti Chapter. Music performances will start at 4 p.m.; hustle demonstrations from 7-8 p.m., and performances by C3 and the Third Generation Band from 8-10 p.m. at the Amphitheater Stage at Heritage Park in Canton.
June 17: Juneteenth Jubilee Stroll on the Livernois Historic Avenue of Fashion (between 6 and 8 Mile roads) will include discounts, entertainment, an HBCU tailgate with a Greek stroll off competition, a mural reveal and more. Each registered patron will receive a free tote bag and map card to navigate the stroll. The first 50 participants to complete the stroll will be eligible for a prize. Check-in at 19474 Livernois in Detroit. Noon to 6 p.m.
June 17: Juneteenth Freedom Day Event in downtown Pontiac will include food, entertainment and fireworks. A Bagley Street celebration featuring activities, history and storytelling is set for noon-4 p.m.; a parade from Bagley to downtown Pontiac will take place 4-5 p.m., and downtown activities and fireworks are planned 5-10 p.m.
June 19: Juneteenth Jubilee and Member Appreciation Day at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: There will be food trucks, live performances, storytelling, pony rides, hustle lessons and more. Noon to 6 p.m. at 315 E. Warren in Detroit.
June 19: Oakland County Parks and Recreation Free Entry Day in honor or Juneteenth offers visitors a chance to enjoy free daily park entry with access to trails, dog parks, playgrounds, beaches at Addison Oaks County Park, Groveland Oaks County Park, Highland Oaks County Park, Independence Oaks County Parks, Lyon Oaks County Parks and Lyon Oaks Dog Park, Orion Oaks County Park, Orion Oaks Dog Park, Red Oaks Dog Park and Rose Oaks County Park.
June 21: Juneteenth Jazz and Blues Concert is a free outdoor concert sponsored by The Friends of the Southfield Public Library. The concert will feature African American artist Gwen Pennyman-Hemphill. 6-8:30 p.m. at the Southfield Public Library.
June 22: The Detroit Branch NAACP will host a Freedom Summit at the northwest campus of Wayne County Community College District, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with discussions surrounding voter mobilization, registration, protection, the civil rights movement, labor and other topics.
June 23: The Detroit Branch NAACP will have a special ceremony to unveil a permanent, commemorative statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in collaboration with the City of Detroit. The statue will be unveiled in Hart Plaza at 10 a.m.
June 24: Register for the Detroit Branch NAACP's 60th Commemorative Freedom Walk down Woodward Avenue in Detroit. The walk will commemorate 1963's "Walk to Freedom" led by Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered an early version of his "I Have a Dream" speech in Detroit after the march. The walk begins at 10 a.m. at Woodward Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. proceeding south along Woodward towards Hart Plaza. A freedom walk rally takes place at noon.
June 25: The Detroit Branch NAACP's 68th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, featuring Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock as the keynote speaker, will take place at 5 p.m. at Huntington Place, 1 Washington Blvd. in Detroit. Register at detroitnaacp.org.
Brendel Hightower is an assistant editor at the Detroit Free Press. Contact her at bhightower@freepress.com. | 2023-06-14T18:58:58+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/nightlife/2023/06/14/juneteenth-2023-events-metro-detroit/70302810007/ |
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hosts at Fox News had serious concerns about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election being made by guests who were allies of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.
“Sidney Powell is lying,” about having evidence for election fraud, Tucker Carlson told a producer about the attorney on Nov. 16, 2020, according to an excerpt from an exhibit that remains under seal.
The internal communication was included in a redacted summary judgment brief filed Thursday by attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems.
Carlson also referred to Powell in a text as an “unguided missile,” and “dangerous as hell.” Fellow host Laura Ingraham, meanwhile, told Carlson that Powell is “a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy,” referring to former New York mayor and Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani.
Sean Hannity, meanwhile, said in a deposition “that whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second,” according to Dominion’s filing.
Denver-based Dominion, which sells electronic voting hardware and software, is suing both Fox News and parent company Fox Corporation. Dominion said some Fox News employees deliberately amplified false claims that Dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election, and that Fox provided a platform for guests to make false and defamatory statements.
Attorneys for the cable news giant argued in a counterclaim unsealed Thursday that the lawsuit is an assault on the First Amendment. They said Dominion has advanced “novel defamation theories” and is seeking a “staggering” damage figure aimed at generating headlines, chilling protected speech and enriching Dominion’s private equity owner, Staple Street Capital Partners.
“Dominion brought this lawsuit to punish FNN for reporting on one of the biggest stories of the day— allegations by the sitting President of the United States and his surrogates that the 2020 election was affected by fraud,” the counterclaim states. “The very fact of those allegations was newsworthy.”
Fox attorneys also said in their own summary judgment brief that Carlson repeatedly questioned Powell’s claims in his broadcasts. “When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her,” Carlson told viewers on Nov. 19, 2020.
Fox attorneys say Dominion’s own public relations firm expressed skepticism in December 2020 as to whether the network’s coverage was defamatory. They also point to an email from Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the election, in which Dominion’s director of product strategy and security complained that the company’s products were “just riddled with bugs.”
In their counterclaim, Fox attorneys wrote that when voting-technology companies denied the allegations being made by Trump and his surrogates, Fox News aired those denials, while some Fox News hosts offered protected opinion commentary about Trump’s allegations.
Fox’s counterclaim is based on New York’s “anti-SLAAP” law. Such laws are aimed at protecting people trying to exercise their First Amendment rights from being intimidated by “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” or SLAPPs.
“According to Dominion, FNN had a duty not to truthfully report the President’s allegations but to suppress them or denounce them as false,” Fox attorneys wrote. “Dominion is fundamentally mistaken. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press would be illusory if the prevailing side in a public controversy could sue the press for giving a forum to the losing side.”
Fox attorneys warn that threatening the company with a $1.6 billion judgment will cause other media outlets to think twice about what they report. They also say documents produced in the lawsuit show that Dominion has not suffered any economic harm and do not indicate that it lost any customers as the result of Fox’s election coverage.
Superior Court Judge Eric Davis is scheduled to preside over a trial beginning in mid-April, but granting summary judgment to either side would obviate the need for a jury trial that could stretch over five weeks.
In its 192-page brief, Dominion said the judge should rule in its favor because “no reasonable juror could find in Fox’s favor on each element of Dominion’s defamation claim.” Dominion attorneys also assert that no reasonable juror could find in favor of Fox’s “neutral reportage” and “fair report” defenses.
“Recounts and audits conducted by election officials across the U.S. repeatedly confirmed the election’s outcome, including specifically that Dominion’s machines accurately counted votes,” Dominion’s filing states. “That evidence alone more than suffices for summary judgment on the falsity of the claims that Dominion rigged the election and its software manipulated vote counts.”
Fox News attorneys argue the network’s coverage and commentary are not defamatory.
“Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that Dominion could point to any statement that could be actionable defamation, this court should grant Fox News’ summary judgment motion for the independent reason that Dominion lacks clear and convincing evidence that the relevant individuals at Fox News made or published any statement with actual malice,” the attorneys wrote.
Davis ruled last month that, for the purposes of the defamation claims, he will consider Dominion to be a public figure. That means Dominion must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the Fox defendants acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth.
Attorneys for Fox Corp. joined in the brief filed by Fox News, while also asserting that the parent company is independently entitled to summary judgment because Dominion has not produced any evidence needed to hold it liable. | 2023-02-17T22:55:31+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-fox-hosts-didnt-believe-2020-election-fraud-claims/ |
Deputies searching for missing NC man last seen on Saturday
Published: Jun. 27, 2022 at 12:55 PM EDT|Updated: 6 hours ago
MCDOWELL COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office said deputies are searching for James Lee Larry, a missing 53-year-old from Marion, NC.
Deputies said Larry was last seen near White Oak Flats in Marion on Saturday, June 25, 2022.
Anyone with information regarding Larry is asked to call Detective Michael Vaugh at 828-652-2237.
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'I thought it was an April Fools’ joke': North Carolina man wins $120,000 lottery prize
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A North Carolina man won a $120,000 jackpot in Monday’s Cash 5 drawing four years after his father's death, according to North Carolina Lottery officials.
Thomas Workman said the game was a father-son tradition.
“My dad used to play them and, after he died, I told myself I’m going to keep playing them,” Workman said.
He said their mutual love of sports inspired the lucky numbers.
“It’s jersey numbers from some favorite players like Scottie Pippen and Shaquille O’Neal,” he said.
According to lottery officials, the 47-year-old maintenance worker bought his lucky $1 Cash 5 ticket from a grocery store in Winston-Salem. He matched all five white balls Monday night to win the jackpot.
“I thought it was an April Fools’ joke,” he said. “I was flipping out a little bit.”
Workman said he told his girlfriend many times that he would one day win the lottery.
“I truly believe in karma,” Workman said. “I just felt that one of these days, something like this would happen to me.”
Workman arrived at lottery headquarters Tuesday to collect his prize and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $85,500.
He said he will use the winnings to pay off his car and look into buying a home with his girlfriend.
The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598. | 2023-04-05T23:02:55+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/north-carolina-man-wins-lottery-prize/43523410 |
Yuma announces new police chief after predecessor retires
The city of Yuma announced its new police chief Monday following the retirement of his predecessor.
Thomas Garrity was chosen to replace Chief Susan Smith who has served with the Yuma Police Department for 30 years and has been police chief since 2019. According to the city, Susan was the first female in YPD history to hold positions in the following ranks: lieutenant, captain, deputy chief and chief.
Garrity, a U.S. Army veteran, is currently a commander in the Prince William County, Virginia Police Department and oversees the violent crime and investigation bureaus, according to his LinkedIn profile. He will begin his new role in Yuma on Jan. 9.
Garrity began his career in the same department 32 years ago, working his way up to Captain in 2019. He is originally from Paxinos, Pennsylvania, according to a Yuma press release.
He holds a bachelor of science degree from George Mason University and a master’s in Public Administration from National University. He also is graduating from the FBI National Academy in 2021 as well as completing crisis intervention training, among other schooling and training experiences.
“Words cannot express how honored and humbled I am to be selected to serve as the next Chief of Police for Yuma,” Garrity said in the news release. “The women and men of this department are dedicated to partnering with the community to make Yuma a great place to work, live and play. Together we will continue this important work. My family and I are excited to be a part of the future of Yuma as the community continues to grow.”
According to the press release, his experience includes a variety of roles including being a part of his county’s first community police project, leading an internal team and collaboration with local stakeholders to plan and build a new policing district.
He was also the lead detective for his county’s investigation and prosecution of the “D.C. Snipers” who randomly killed 10 people throughout Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia in 2002.
Garrity was chosen out of three finalists, with the other two including Richard Jessup, chief of police of the San Luis Police Department in Arizona and Philip Smith, chief of police of the Roswell Police Department in New Mexico.
“I am extremely impressed with Tom and his more than 30 years of professional policing experience,” said Jay Simonton, acting city administrator in the news release. “I really believe he is up to the challenge and will be a great leader for the men and women in the police department. I’m really looking forward to working with Tom and think he will be a great addition to our leadership team.” | 2022-12-13T03:11:18+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/2022/12/13/yuma-announces-new-police-chief-after-predecessor-retires/69722769007/ |
In reaction to Devin McCourty retiring after 13 seasons, a number of teammates came out to congratulate the longtime New England Patriots captain on a tremendous career.
Others came out to playfully roast him, something that falls in line with McCourty’s famous dry sense of humor.
McCourty announced his retirement Friday afternoon in a video on Instagram in an interview with his twin brother, Jason McCourty. If you look through the comments, you’ll see a long list of Patriots teammates current and past reacting to the news.
Here’s some of the best, with linebacker Matthew Judon leading the way:
Patriots LB Matthew Judon: “This is a load of crap no one talk to GM JUDON. Unretire it’s been done before”
Patriots QB Mac Jones: “Congrats Dev!! Great teammate and person! #Legend”
Former Patriots WR Julian Edelman: “My brother. Always led by example. On the field, off it, wherever he was, DMac was always who we looked to. Love ya bubs, congrats on a legendary career. #FoxboroForever”: “My brother. Always led by example. On the field, off it, wherever he was, DMac was always who we looked to. Love ya bubs, congrats on a legendary career. #FoxboroForever”
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Patriots WR DeVante Parker: “Congrats OG!!!”
Former Patriots DB Jason McCourty: “I’m just happy Dev’s retiring because now he can’t say he played more seasons than I did!!! Congrats (Devin) on one hell of a career! Love you bro! Born leader! Can’t wait to see what TV network you end up on!”
Former Patriots RB James White: “Congrats my guy!”
Patriots LB Mack Wilson: “Appreciate you for everything Dmac. Hell of a career OG!”
Patriots DL Davon Godchaux: “Congrats on a great career DMac!! Enjoy retirement 🙏🏾💪🏾”
Patriots DB Joejuan Williams: “Congrats bro ‼️🐐”
Former Patriots DB Justin Bethel: “Congrats bro was! Glad I got the chance to play with a legend!
Patriots DL Daniel Ekuale: “OG!! Much respect Uce! It’s an honor to share the field with you these past two seasons! Enjoy retirement and congrats on all your success 🤙🏽🤙🏽”
Patriots QB Bailey Zappe: “Congrats!! Thank you for everything”
Former Patriots DB Adrian Colbert: “Congratulations on a helluva career Dmac! It was an honor to be in the room with you for the time I was there!”
Former Patriots receiver Brad Hawkins: “Congrats on a great career 🔥🔥”
Patriots receiver Lynn Bowden Jr.: “Kongrats brudda much love 💪🏽🖤”
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Former Patriots LB Jabaal Sheard: “Congrats cap!!”
Former Patriots DB Obi Melifonwu: “Congratulations SLAP on one hell of a career!!!”
Former Patriots CB Sterling Moore: “Congrats my guy!!”
Patriots DB Brenden Schooler: “Legends never die!! All respect big dawg”
Patriots TE Hunter Henry: “Congrats Legend! Thankful for our years together! Can’t wait to see what’s next.”
Former Patriots LB Kyle Van Noy: “Red and Gold Coat!!!!”
Former Patriots QB Matt Cassel: ‘Congratulations to (Devin McCourty) on a great career with the Patriots. One of the best Patriots DBs of all-time. Enjoy retirement!”
Former Patriots DB Jamal Perry: “Congratulations my guy!! Was a pleasure”
Patriots DB Jabrill Peppers: “Was a privilege learning from you and playing with you OG!”
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MassLive’s Sophie Weller contributed reporting to this article. | 2023-03-10T21:32:15+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2023/03/patriots-players-toast-and-roast-devin-mccourty-as-he-retires-unretire-its-been-done-before.html |
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Ryan Sanders, co-founder and outgoing CPO, remains co-chair of board of directors
LINDON, Utah, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BambooHR®, the industry's leading cloud-hosted software provider dedicated to powering the strategic evolution of human resources, today announced it has appointed Brian Crofts as its new Chief Product Officer. Co-founder and outgoing CPO, Ryan Sanders, will take a step back from daily operations after 14 years to focus his time and attention as co-chair of the company's board of directors.
"I am honored to join BambooHR as its next Chief Product Officer, and I look forward to working with our tremendous customers, partners, and product and engineering teams to continue to grow our ecosystem of innovative products," said Crofts. "In past roles, I had the opportunity to develop a deep appreciation for HR and people leaders, and I believe BambooHR has an opportunity to build solutions that address the many evolving challenges our customers face each day."
Crofts is a seasoned product expert with deep experience in bringing B2B products to market, with a focus on growing teams and businesses. He served in CPO roles at both Auditboard and Pendo. Prior to Pendo, he spent 11 years at Intuit where he developed well-known products like QuickBooks and TurboTax Personal Pro Business.
"Brian's experience has given him a rare combination of expertise and skills - he can both create and execute at a high level, while also evangelizing a vision and strategy for product development. This, along with his passion for both HR and growing businesses, makes him the perfect fit as our next CPO," said Brad Rencher, CEO of BambooHR. "As a product-led organization, he's the leader we need to drive the innovation required to build solutions to meet today's HR and business challenges. I couldn't be more excited to have him on the team."
For many small and medium-sized businesses, it can be difficult to balance day-to-day operations with an increasingly difficult talent retention environment. BambooHR fills a gap in the market for these businesses by providing an affordable HR solution that includes features they'll actually use. With more than 27,000 customers, BambooHR leads the market and will continue to build products that make the company a trusted partner to HR and business leaders.
"After fourteen years of building BambooHR, I'm proud of the work the team has done to create a product that provides solutions to HR managers' most significant challenges," said Ryan Sanders, co-founder of BambooHR. "We have an amazing opportunity in front of us to capitalize on the product we have built, and I've decided the time is right for me to step away from day-to-day product management. I strongly believe Brian Crofts is the right leader to elevate our product strategy as we focus on innovation and growth moving forward."
In the last five years, BambooHR has grown over five times to become a profitable, self-sustaining business with annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million. Crofts' appointment follows several recent executive hires including Justin Judd as CFO and Anita Grantham as head of people.
About BambooHR®
BambooHR is the world's leading HR and payroll platform for growing businesses. We're on a mission to empower the nearly three million employees across more than 27,000 organizations by giving them intuitive HR tools, insights, and support to curate an exceptional employee experience. The company was founded in 2008 by Ben Peterson and Ryan Sanders, who created a values-focused, award-winning internal culture that then provided inspiration for BambooHR's product and features. BambooHR customers include Asana, Foursquare, Stance, Change.org and Postmates. To find out more, visit bamboohr.com, follow @bamboohr or come join 30,000 other HR change agents at our annual HR Virtual Summit.
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Here is the updated AFC playoff picture before Sunday night's NFL game:
Sd. Team Overall Conf. Week 14
1. Bills 10-3 7-2 Beat Jets, 20-12
2. Chiefs 10-3 5-3 Beat Broncos, 34-28
3. Ravens 9-4 5-4 Beat Steelers, 16-14
4. Titans 7-6 5-4 Lost to Jaguars, 36-22
Wild cards
1. Bengals 9-4 6-3 Beat Browns, 23-10.
2. Dolphins 8-4 6-2 Sunday night vs. Chargers
3. Jets 7-6 5-5 Lost to Bills, 20-12
* Chargers 6-6 4-4 Sunday night vs. Dolphins
* Patriots 6-6 5-3 Monday at Cardinals | 2022-12-12T01:31:09+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/where-bills-stand-in-afc-playoff-picture-before-week-14s-sunday-night-game/article_ea9fdaea-7997-11ed-b246-dff3112411c3.html |
Ian made landfall Wednesday in southwest Florida, lashing the area with heavy rains and 150-mph winds. It had already torn into Cuba, killing two people and leaving the country without power.
First responders and relief organizations geared up to respond, preparing supplies and getting people to shelter — about 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate. With forecasts of the storm's path shifting, many prepared for the worst.
"We don't know the type of destruction we're going to be dealing with, the magnitude we're going to deal with," Red Cross spokesman Evan Peterson said before the storm made landfall. "We know that this is a catastrophic storm... and that there's going to be a very serious path of destruction."
For those far from Ian's winds and rain, there are ways to help. This list will be updated.
Red Cross
The Red Cross said it is prepared to help as many as 60,000 people after moving blood, cots, blankets and relief supplies into the region.
As blood has a relatively short shelf life and takes days to test and process, the organization says supplies must be replenished constantly. Appointments to give blood can be made using redcrossblood.org.
"It is so important for people outside of the storm area to keep those blood appointments, make those appointments, so we can continue making sure that our supplies are open and ready to go," Peterson said.
He also encouraged people to donate to the organization's relief efforts. A form on the Red Cross's donation page allows donors to choose what efforts to support, including one for Hurricane Ian relief. People can also donate by calling 1-800-RED CROSS, or texting the word IAN to 90999.
Florida Disaster Fund
The Florida Disaster Fund, the state's official private fund that supports disaster response activities, was activated Wednesday.
"We greatly appreciate the kindness and generosity of organizations and individuals from across the country looking to support Floridians, thank you," Florida first lady Casey DeSantis said in a statement.
Donations to the fund can be made through the Volunteer Florida website.
Checks can be made out to “Volunteer Florida Foundation” and include “Florida Disaster Fund” in the memo line. They can be mailed to Volunteer Florida Foundation at 1545 Raymond Diehl Road, Suite 250, Tallahassee, FL 32308.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army says its Florida chapter has one field kitchen and nearly 30 mobile feeding units ready, along with bulk disaster supplies in Tampa. It says people can donate online or by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY.
It says the best way to help is through financial donations, as money can be used more readily in disaster situations than supplies.
Children's Emergency Fund
The fund, organized by Save the Children, donates child-focused items to kids preparing for and recovering from disasters in the U.S. and around the world. The organization said it has prepared supplies and mobilized an emergency response team to help Florida families.
"Children are always among the most vulnerable when disaster strikes, and our thoughts and hearts go out to kids and families in the pathway of this dangerous storm," said Hurricane Ian response team leader Barbara Ammirati in a statement.
Donations can be made through the organization's website.
Project HOPE
Project HOPE, a nonprofit humanitarian relief organization, says it has a response team in Florida prepared with medicine, water and other supplies. It accepts donations through its website.
The organization said in a statement that other teams spent the last week responding to Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and remain on the ground there.
Project HOPE said its teams will work with local partners and health care workers, particularly focusing on the elderly, people with disabilities and other vulnerable communities. | 2022-09-29T14:33:26+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/weather/hurricane/hurricane-ian-how-to-help/507-547056b4-8409-47a9-9401-0ba231f6374c |
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SpaceLink, the company that is building the Communications Superhighway for the Space Economy™, announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Under the agreement, the organizations will work together to explore alternative space communications pathways that ensure resiliency and reduce sensor-to-shooter latency.
SpaceLink is building a satellite relay system in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), with both optical and RF links to speed the flow of remote sensing data and augment the U.S. national security space architecture. SpaceLink provides secure, continuous, high-bandwidth communications between spacecraft and U.S. Earth Stations or tactically deployed ground terminals. The collaborative research and simulations will provide a baseline of interoperability between Government systems and the SpaceLink network.
"We are honored to work with USASMDC-TC to assure that our development efforts meet the Army's needs," said Dave Bettinger, CEO of SpaceLink. "Sharing facilities, intellectual property, and expertise will elevate solutions for both the warfighter and industry, ultimately enhancing national security and U.S. dominance in space."
The cooperative agreement will help SpaceLink better understand the U.S. Army concept of operations and adjust its technology roadmap to meet customer needs. For the Army, it will provide the empirical modeling and simulations needed to support interagency requirements development for commercial remote sensing tactical downlink timeline requirements.
Because of its location in MEO and optical/RF communications relay capabilities, the SpaceLink network has continuous line of sight to LEO, MEO and GEO satellites and high-altitude airborne assets. It also has continuous connectivity to its dedicated Gateway Earth Stations. It is designed to support real-time tasking and downlink of data needed for military operators to make tactical decisions.
SpaceLink will help advance humanity to a new age of space commerce, exploration, environmental awareness, and security. The Always in Sight™ data relay system provides global coverage to empower space system operators to maximize use of their assets. SpaceLink Corporation is headquartered in the Washington DC area and has offices in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited, a public company traded on the Australian stock exchange.
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U.S. federal agencies positioned to move to the cloud securely with leading cloud customer experience orchestration platform from Genesys
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesys®, a leader in AI-powered experience orchestration, has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) authorization at the Moderate Impact level for the Genesys Cloud CX™ platform. According to the Genesys State of Customer Experience Report, more than two-thirds of customer experience (CX) leaders at government agencies plan to implement a CX platform that integrates systems within the next two years. Now, with FedRAMP authorization, Genesys Cloud CX U.S. public sector customers can access the most innovative platform for orchestrating experiences, while protecting their mission, assets and resources.
"Government agencies are under tremendous pressure to modernize their infrastructure to provide personalized, empathetic experiences, all while facing limited budgets and compliance mandates unique to the public sector," said Olivier Jouve, Chief Product Officer at Genesys. "Genesys Cloud CX provides the secure and compliant, open platform they need to meet the changing needs and increasing expectations of their customers."
With Genesys Cloud CX, state and federal agencies will have access to a powerful set of set of digital, voice, artificial intelligence (AI), workforce engagement management (WEM), analytics and unified communications and collaboration (UCC) capabilities built to orchestrate the customer experience across every touchpoint. Key benefits of the platform include:
- Improved Customer Experience: Genesys Cloud CX allows U.S. public sector customers to deliver exceptional experiences through real-time access to interactions and data which provides better insights into citizen needs and visibility into journey management metrics to identify opportunities for improvement, track progress towards goals and more.
- Improved Employee Experience: U.S. public sector customers can use Genesys Cloud CX to tap into employee behavior to understand, predict and learn what employees need to unleash their best potential and reduce turnover.
- IT System Modernization: With access to Genesys Cloud CX service from anywhere with an internet connection, government employees can work remotely or in the field. This provides state and federal agencies with the ability to deliver services to constituents anytime, anywhere.
- Enhanced Security and Compliance: The Genesys Cloud CX platform strictly complies with FedRAMP requirements, delivering critical system confidentiality, integrity and availability for government agencies and customers.
"Government agencies continue to plan for, and execute on, a move to the cloud to better serve and protect citizens," said Sheila McGee-Smith, President and Principal Analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics, LLC. "Genesys Cloud CX FedRAMP authorization communicates to both governmental and enterprise decision makers the company's ongoing commitment to provide a secure and compliant cloud-based platform that enables them to provide mission-critical services and support to constituents around the country and the world."
FedRAMP is a U.S. government-wide program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies and federal agencies. FedRAMP enables the federal government to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by creating transparent standards and processes for security authorizations that help accelerate procurement and streamline adoption of cloud-based solutions.
Genesys supports government agencies of a variety of functions and services including State of Missouri, NAVAIR, a state unemployment agency, and more.
The Genesys Cloud CX FedRAMP authorized solution is available for procurement through Carahsoft Technology Corp., the Trusted IT Government Solutions Provider, on multiple state, local and federal contract vehicles.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal Tuesday for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid-June.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Pakistan’s flooding, caused by weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains, were a signal to the world to step up action against climate change.
“Let’s stop sleepwalking toward the destruction of our planet by climate change,” he said in a video message to an Islamabad ceremony launching the funding appeal. “Today, it’s Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country.”
Guterres will visit Pakistan on Sept. 9 to tour areas “most impacted by this unprecedented climate catastrophe,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced Tuesday. The U.N. chief meet displaced families and witness how U.N. staff are their humanitarian partners are supporting government efforts to provide assistance, Dujarric said
More than 33 million people, or one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the catastrophic flooding, which has devastated a country already trying to revive a struggling economy. More than 1 million homes have been damaged or destroyed in the past two and half months, displacing millions of people. Around a half million of those displaced are living in organized camps, while others have had to find their own shelter.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the floods badly destroyed crops, and his government was considering importing wheat to avoid any shortage of food.
Sharif said Pakistan was witnessing the worst flooding in its history and any inadvertent delay by the international community in helping victims “will be devastating for the people of Pakistan.”
He promised funds from the international community would be spent in a transparent manner and that he would ensure all aid reaches those in need. “This is my commitment,” he told reporters, saying his country is “facing the toughest moment of its history.”
Pakistan says it has received aid from some countries, and others were dispatching aid too.
On Tuesday, the U.S. government said it would provide $30 million in assistance to help victims of the flood. According to a statement released by the U.S. Agency for International Development, this aid will be given to Pakistan through USAID. It said the United States is deeply saddened by the devastating loss of life and livelihoods throughout Pakistan.
According to initial government estimates, the devastation caused $10 billion in damage to the economy.
“It is a preliminary estimate likely to be far greater,” Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal told The Associated Press. More than 243 bridges and more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) of road have been damaged.
Although rains stopped three days ago, large swaths of the country remain underwater, and the main rivers, the Indus and the Swat, are still swollen. The National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday warned emergency services to be on maximum alert, saying flood waters over the next 24 hours could cause further damage.
Rescuers continued to evacuate stranded people from inundated villages to safer ground. Makeshift tent camps have sprung up along highways.
Meteorologists have warned of more rains in coming weeks.
“The situation is likely to deteriorate even further as heavy rains continue over areas already inundated by more than two months of storms and flooding. For us, this is no less than a national emergency,” Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said Tuesday, urging the international community to give generously to the U.N. appeal.
“Since mid-June, in fact, Pakistan has been battling one of the most severe, totally anomalous cycles of torrential monsoon weather,” he said. Rainfall during that time was three times the average, and up to six times higher in some areas, he said.
The U.N. flash appeal for $160 million will provide food, water, sanitation, health and other forms of aid to some 5.2 million people, Gutteres said.
“The scale of needs is rising like the flood waters. It requires the world’s collective and prioritized attention,” he said.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Asim Iftikhar told U.N. correspondents at a virtual press conference that Turkey, China, United Arab Emirates and Qatar all offered relief supplies, some of which has already arrived. More important will be the next reconstruction and rehabilitation phase where requirements are going to be “huge,” he said.
A day earlier, the International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the release of a much awaited $1.17 billion for Pakistan.
The funds are part of a $6 billion bailout agreed on in 2019. The latest tranche had been on hold since earlier this year, when the IMF expressed concern about Pakistan’s compliance with the deal’s terms under the government of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan was ousted through a no-confidence vote in the parliament in April.
Pakistan has risked default as its reserves dwindle and inflation has spiraled, and to get the IMF bailout, the government has had to agree to austerity measures.
The flooding catastrophe, however, adds new burdens to the cash-strapped government. It also reflects how poorer countries often pay the price for climate change largely caused by more industrialized nations. Since 1959, Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions blamed for climate change. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the EU 15%.
Several scientists say the record-breaking flooding has all the hallmarks of being affected by climate change.
“This year, Pakistan has received the highest rainfall in at least three decades,” said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member of Pakistan’s Climate Change Council. “Extreme weather patterns are turning more frequent in the region and Pakistan is not an exception.”
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Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Geneva and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. | 2022-08-31T04:06:17+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-un-to-seek-160-million-in-emergency-aid-for-pakistan-floods/ |
Frustrated by Lack of Federal Action to Stem Escalating Gun Violence Crisis
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a bipartisan group of 162 mayors in the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) sent a letter to Congress urging action on gun safety legislation. Despite mass shootings at Michigan State, in Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park, Uvalde, Buffalo, Nashville, Louisville, Dadeville and hundreds of other communities in the past year, Congress has failed to take action on key provisions that could help to reduce gun violence. While America's mayors and police chiefs are doing what they can locally to stem gun violence, they need federal help and are calling on Congress to pass gun safety legislation, including expanded background checks and a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. In the letter, the mayors write in part:
"How many children must die, how many adults must die before our nation takes action to reduce gun violence? We must and we can do more to protect people from this senseless slaughter. Mayors and police chiefs are doing everything they can to prevent and reduce gun violence in their cities, although local ordinances are often preempted by state legislatures. The time is now for Congress to act. Our children deserve better."
The full text of the letter to Congress can be found here and below:
April 17, 2023
An Open Letter from the Nation's Mayors to the United States Congress Urging Immediate Action on Gun Safety Legislation
Dear Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate:
Again and again and again, Americans are stunned by senseless acts of violence involving guns. The March 27 shooting that took the lives of three nine-year-old children and three adults in a Nashville elementary school was horrific but not isolated. It was the third school shooting in seven days, following ones in Arlington (TX) and Denver. And there have been hundreds of mass shootings that occurred over the last year, including those In Louisville, at Michigan State, and in Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park, Uvalde, Highland Park, Buffalo, and many other cities. Too many times, mayors have expressed shock at a mass shooting. Much more frequently, many of us must cope with the gun violence that occurs on the streets of our cities.
For more than 50 years the U.S. Conference of Mayors has been calling for sensible gun laws to protect the public. In December nearly 70 mayors from across the country whose cities had experienced a mass shooting in 2022 sent a letter to Senate Leaders urging the Senate to pass bipartisan gun safety legislation that had already passed the House: S.736, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022, and S.529, the Background Check Expansion Act.
Today we repeat their message and urge you to immediately pass and send to the President legislation to ban assault weapons and large capacity magazines and to strengthen the background check system, bills that could have prevented what happened in Louisville and Nashville and so many other cities from happening in the future.
How many children must die, how many adults must die before our nation takes action to reduce gun violence? We must and we can do more to protect people from this senseless slaughter. Mayors and police chiefs are doing everything they can to prevent and reduce gun violence in their cities, although local ordinances are often preempted by state legislatures. The time for Congress to act is now. Our children deserve better.
Sincerely,
About the United States Conference of Mayors -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are more than 1,400 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s second-quarter profit surged to nearly three times more than a year ago to $1.92 billion on stronger sales and revenue.
Pretax losses at Model e, the company’s electric vehicle unit, increased to more than $1 billion, but they were offset by strong profits in the commercial and internal combustion vehicle businesses.
Ford Blue, the internal combustion unit, made $2.3 billion before taxes, while Ford Pro made $2.39 billion on commercial vehicles.
Excluding one-time items, Ford made 72 cents per share. That beat Wall Street estimates of 54 cents. Revenue rose 12% to $44.95 billion, beating the $43.17 billion expected by analysts polled by FactSet. | 2023-07-27T21:12:59+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/ap-ford-2q-profit-surges-on-strong-revenue-earnings-per-share-top-estimates/ |
Chris Christie's niece reportedly kicked off plane, injured six deputies in Thanksgiving disturbance
A woman reported to be a niece of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was arrested on Thanksgiving morning after allegedly causing a disturbance on an airplane and injuring six deputies.
Captain Jason Rivarde of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office confirmed to Fox News that Shannon Epstein was arrested at approximately 6 a.m. that morning after being removed from a plane at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. According to NOLA.com, Epstein is Christie's niece and the flight was headed to New Jersey.
"She was removed from the flight after causing a disturbance which included asking a family she believed was Latino if they were smuggling cocaine," Rivarde said in an email to Fox News. "When deputies initially made contact with her on the jet bridge, she became extremely combative. During her arrest, she injured 6 deputies, biting one and kicking another in the groin."
Rivarde said Epstein "was eventually secured in a wheelchair" and taken from the scene.
NEW ORLEANS REVERSES FACIAL RECOGNITION BAN TO HELP POLICE FIGHT CRIME: PRIVACY EXPERTS ARE WARY
Rivarde did not confirm that Epstein is the niece of the former New Jersey governor, but he did say that "she repeatedly stated that they would lose their jobs or be arrested because of her familial relationships."
NEW ORLEANS SHOOTING ON BOURBON STREET LEAVES 5 PEOPLE WOUNDED, POLICE SAY
Epstein was arrested on charges of remaining after forbidden, resisting a police officer with force, and multiple counts of battery on a police officer. She was placed in custody but released the same day after she posted bond.
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New economic and sovereign insights complement S&P Capital IQ Pro's deep sector data, offering an enhanced and comprehensive desktop workflow solution
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Market Intelligence, a provider of information services and solutions to global markets, today announced the launch of Country Risk Scores and Economic data and insights on its S&P Capital IQ Pro platform. This new enhancement will include high level country risk scores, country summaries and macroeconomic indicators on the division's flagship workflow solution and data platform. Originally developed by IHS Markit, the addition of the sovereign and economic insights onto S&P Capital IQ Pro is one of the many product launches resulting from its merger with S&P Global.
S&P Capital IQ Pro users can now access and explore new global risk and economic indicators and insights including:
- Forward-looking country risk scoring system that measures the foreign direct investment environment in 200 countries and territories;
- An overall country score as well as aggregate scores that measure the geopolitical, economic, operational and security risk;
- Enhanced historical and forecast datasets on more than 40 global macroeconomic indicators for more than 200 countries and territories.
"Our customers seek easy access to information and insights to better understand the global economic environment and mitigate risks during volatile market conditions," said Warren Breakstone, Head of Desktop & Channel Solutions, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "The addition of Country Risk Scores and Macroeconomic datasets and analyses, coupled with the broad financials and deep industry data currently on S&P Capital IQ Pro, provide our clients with the context and tools necessary to make informed decisions."
The enhancements include workflow improvements, data visualizations for trend analyses, embedded mapping applications and inclusion in screener/Excel apps. Additional enhancements in the coming year will include the addition of the S&P Global Purchasing Manager Index™ (PMI), as well as other macroeconomic indicators and insights. The Country Risk and Economic data and insights will also be further enhanced with advanced data visualization and charting capabilities from ChartIQ, a premier charting provider for the financial services industry, that was acquired by S&P Global earlier this year.
"Economic uncertainty will continue well into next year, with likely recessions in both Europe and North America and further monetary policy tightening by central banks in their efforts to combat historically high inflation rates, while the continuation of geopolitical uncertainty and instability will continue to impact global financial markets," said Ken Wattret, Head of Europe-Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Insights & Analysis, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "Access to timely, accurate economic, political and operational risk forecasts is essential to navigate through these global markets."
S&P Capital IQ Pro is S&P Global Market Intelligence's flagship data and analytics platform offering access to deep, meaningful data on the global financial markets, companies, and industries that help market participants make informed decisions. It also provides proprietary research and in-depth analysis from thought leaders and industry experts and condenses more than 135 billion raw data points a year into actionable intelligence. The Country Risk Scores and Economic data are also available on the S&P Global Marketplace platform.
About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming north 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
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.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 20s. Northwest
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5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to 20 mph in the
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mid 30s. Highs around 70.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph
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.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 20. Highs
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
lower 30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
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upper 20s. Highs in the lower 60s.
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Including the cities of Dumas, Four Way, and Masterson
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20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest
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.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around
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.TONIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around
40. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.TONIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 70s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts up
to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds 10 to
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 20s. East
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.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
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in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
lower 30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
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lower 40s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
lower 30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
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.TODAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around 60. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
around 60. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest 10 to
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.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
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mid 30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 30s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest 10 to
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.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs in
the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 30s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming west 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph
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in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in
the mid 40s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around 60. West winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows around 30. West winds 10 to
20 mph, becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
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.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
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Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 20s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming north 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
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around 60. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. West
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10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower 60s. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
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.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
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lower 40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around 60. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east with
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
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mid 30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the mid 70s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming north 5 to 10 mph after
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.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast
with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30. East winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph
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in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
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30s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 30s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
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in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
mid 30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Clear, windy. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows around 30. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds
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10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
upper 20s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
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30s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in
the mid 40s. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 30s.
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211 AM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows around 30. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
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.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
upper 20s. Highs in the mid 50s.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
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.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
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the upper 40s. Highs in the lower 80s.
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LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk said Twitter would reverse its ban of former President Donald Trump if his purchase of the social media company goes through, signaling just how permissive the platform could become toward free speech under his ownership.
Speaking virtually at an auto conference, the Tesla CEO said Tuesday that Twitter’s ban of Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.”
“I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice,” said Musk, adding that he preferred temporary suspensions and other narrowly tailored punishments for content that is illegal or otherwise “destructive to the world.”
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey voiced his agreement in a Tuesday tweet in which he said “generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don’t work.”
Shares of Twitter dropped 1.5% Tuesday to $47.24 per share. That’s 13 percent below the offer of $54.20 per share — or $44 billion — that Musk made on April 14, a reflection of Wall Street’s concerns that the deal could still fall through. Musk emphasized Tuesday that it is “certainly not a done deal.”
Musk has repeatedly criticized Twitter’s content moderation decisions, including banning Trump for “incitement of violence,” but had mostly avoided saying what he would do about Trump’s account. He was pressed for more details Tuesday by Peter Campbell, an automotive correspondent for the Financial Times, which hosted the auto conference.
“If Musk is concerned that many people were upset that Trump was banned, he should see how many more people would be upset if Trump was not banned,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. “Musk only appears to be worried about the opinion of a small group of individuals who incite violence or perpetuate hate speech.”
Trump has previously said that he had no intention of rejoining Twitter even if his account was reinstated, telling Fox News last month that he would instead focus on his own platform, Truth Social, which has been mired in problems since its launch earlier this year.
Musk appeared to take those claims at face value, saying Tuesday that Trump will be going to Truth Social along with a “large part” of the U.S. political right, creating a situation that’s “frankly worse than having a single forum where everyone can debate.”
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment in response to Musk’s remarks.
While Trump was president, his Twitter persona functioned as a mix of policy announcements, often out of the blue; complaints about the media; disparagement of women, minorities and his perceived enemies; and praise for his supporters, replete with exclamation marks, all-caps, and one-word declarations such as “Sad!”
He fired numerous officials on Twitter and his posts, like his speeches at rallies, were a torrent of misinformation.
In announcing its ban of Trump in 2021, Twitter said his tweets amounted to glorification of violence when read in the context of the Capitol riot and plans circulating online for future armed protests around the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Musk’s remarks Tuesday raise questions about whether those banned besides Trump could also return. The longlist of people banned from Twitter includes QAnon loyalists, COVID deniers, neo-Nazis and former reality star Tila Tequila, who was suspended for hate speech.
Other Trump allies kicked off Twitter include Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was permanently banned in January for repeatedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccine safety.
White supremacist David Duke and the often violent Proud Boys organization have been banned, along with far-right trolls like one who goes by the name Baked Alaska, who promoted anti-Semitic tropes and faces charges stemming from his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack.
Alex Jones, the creator of Infowars, was permanently banned in 2018 for abusive behavior. Last year, Jones lost a defamation case filed by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting over Jones’ repeated claims that the shooting was fake.
Twitter, Musk said Tuesday, currently has a strong bias to the left, largely because it is located in San Francisco. This alleged bias prevents it from building trust in the rest of the U.S. and the world, he said: “It’s far too random and I think Twitter needs to be much more even handed.”
Twitter declined to comment on Musk’s remarks.
Earlier on Tuesday, Musk said he supported a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met with the bloc’s single market chief.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he outlined to Musk how the bloc’s online regulations aim to uphold free speech while also making sure whatever is illegal “will be forbidden in the digital space,” which Musk “fully agreed with.”
In a video Breton tweeted late Monday, Musk said the two had a “great discussion” and that he agrees with the Digital Services Act, which is expected to get final approval later this year. It will make big tech companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook parent Meta police their platforms more strictly for illegal or harmful content like hate speech and disinformation or face billions in fines.
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O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.; Krisher reported from Detroit. Associated Press writer David Klepper contributed from Providence, Rhode Island.
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Southern Gas Association awards company highest honor in Environmental, Social & Governance category
ATLANTA, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of its efforts to encourage the evolution within the natural gas industry toward a sustainable future, Southern Company Gas has been honored with the 2022 Southern Gas Association Environmental, Social & Governance Award.
Southern Company Gas' Next Generation Natural Gas Initiative leverages the company's leadership voice, collaborative spirit, and low-carbon ambitions to rally industry peers to work together to accelerate meaningful emissions reductions across the natural gas value chain. The company convened a collaborative of natural gas distribution companies working to grow and support the market for responsibly sourced, low emissions, differentiated natural gas products by identifying best practices and sharing knowledge and experiences.
"Differentiated natural gas is an opportunity within our industry to support emissions reductions across the natural gas value chain. By encouraging greater use of Next Generation Natural Gas, natural gas distribution companies like ours can support the reduction of the carbon intensity of the natural gas supply chain for the benefit of our customers," said Joanne Mello, vice president of corporate sustainability for Southern Company Gas. "We are proud to be honored by the SGA and to be among such esteemed companies that are doing important work in sustainability."
The SGA Awards recognize individuals and teams for their technical contributions, professional excellence, career achievement, service to colleagues, industry leadership and community service. In all, six member companies were selected for awards out of 68 submissions, with more than 2,000 votes cast from Southern Gas Association members. Since Southern Company Gas helped convene the Next Generation Natural Gas collaborative effort in 2021, the group has grown to 11 companies dedicated to advancing environmental transparency and sustainability in the natural gas industry. With a commitment to continuous improvement and market transparency, the group continues its groundbreaking work through collaboration and educational efforts.
Complete details on the award winners can be found here.
Southern Company Gas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE:SO), America's premier energy company. Southern Company Gas serves approximately 4.3 million natural gas utility customers through its regulated distribution companies in four states with approximately 600,000 retail customers through its companies that market natural gas. Other nonutility businesses include investments in interstate pipelines and ownership and operation of natural gas storage facilities. For more information, visit southerncompanygas.com.
Founded in 1908, the Southern Gas Association is the leader in natural gas training and professional development. SGA is a community of natural gas professionals across the U.S. and Canada. Representing the industry from drill bit to burner tip, SGA's membership comprises more than 200 operators across the distribution, transmission, and gas supply marketing sectors and more than 350 industry partners. Through digital and in-person engagement, SGA members share ideas, resources, and best practices to develop people, relationships, and solutions.
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VIENNA, Va., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Omega Integration and their CTA partner Dynamo Technologies (Team DAO) have won an $86 million contract with the USDA Office of the Chief Information Officer to provide mission critical cyber security operations support across the USDA enterprise. Team DAO will support the USDA's mission through the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Division and Cyber Defense Operations Division by delivering services such as cyber defense, incident response and operations, detection & monitoring, network security, system security, and cybersecurity architecture.
"Alpha Omega's IT research and development initiatives along with our interest in keeping abreast of new cyber threats and state of the art defensive technology will prove indispensable on this opportunity to monitor and protect the nation's Agriculture mission assets. We are grateful to the USDA and ISC for giving us the opportunity to support them with cutting edge, mission-critical, automated cybersecurity expertise," said Gautam Ijoor, CEO for Alpha Omega.
"IT systems are mission critical. The USDA OCIO ISC diligently serves and supports all the various USDA Bureaus and Offices by helping to protect their mission-critical assets and information, thereby securing our country's diverse food, agriculture, rural and natural resources. Team DAO is committed to do our part to ensure the highest levels of security and integrity of the USDA's enterprise systems," said Dr. Vivek "Vick" Taneja, President of Dynamo Technologies.
Alpha Omega provides high quality, collaborative IT and business consulting services, with the expertise and capabilities to serve customers. We are committed to quality and continuous process improvement, demonstrated by our Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level-5 (ML-5) for Development and Services, as well as ISO/IEC registration for 20000-1:2018, 27001:2013, and 9001:2015. It is our commitment to customers to integrate best practices and standardization in the areas of quality, service management, and security into everyday operations. Alpha Omega is a mission-focused, client-centric, results-driven organization. For more information, visit https://alphaomegaintegration.com/aoi-contract-usda/.
Dynamo is a full lifecycle digital transformation company providing best-in-class technology and mission support services to the U.S. federal government. Dynamo's mission is to lead the digital transformation industry and provide best-in-class solutions to its clients with a truly human touch. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in the National Capital Region (NCR), Dynamo serves CONUS and OCONUS missions across the defense, diplomacy, environmental, financial, and law enforcement markets. Dynamo delivers excellence through talented personnel, in-house innovation labs, and partnerships with leading cloud/platform technology providers. Dynamo is CMMI-DEV v2.0 Level 3 appraised, and maintains ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, ISO 27001 and AS9100D quality certifications.
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Which Uncommon Goods dinnerware is best?
Founded in 1999 by Dave Bolotsky, Uncommon Goods connects artisans and craftspeople with consumers looking for high-quality, unique home goods. More than 200 artists create and deliver handmade items to households across the globe.
If you’re looking for new dinnerware, its website is a great place to start. For an elegant touch with a rustic flair, the Handmade Wavy Speckled Dinnerware is a perfect choice. It provides a beautiful backdrop for a wide variety of dining room styles.
What to know before you buy Uncommon Goods dinnerware
Materials
Setting the table is almost as personal a statement as choosing a favorite necklace or watch. Part of this journey begins when you select the material for your dinnerware. Uncommon Goods has dinnerware made from:
- Ceramic
- Porcelain
- Marbled glass
- Clay
Colors
Uncommon Goods offers a wide variety of colors for every palette. From neutrals to bright splashes and decorative designs, it’s easy to customize your dinnerware to your overall color scheme and preferences.
Number of pieces
The number of pieces you purchase depends on the number of people in your household and whether or not you plan to entertain routinely. Uncommon Goods offers both sets of dinnerware with two or four place settings as well as individual stock. Purchasing individual stock allows you to buy more of the dinnerware you use most.
What to look for in quality Uncommon Goods dinnerware
Beautiful handiwork
Uncommon Goods partners with craftspeople who are skilled in their trade. Each piece is handmade and beautifully constructed, with textures and finishes applied with exceptional craft and skill.
Microwave- and dishwasher-safe
While some dinnerware requires hand-washing, you can clean most Uncommon Goods pieces in the dishwasher. They are also microwave-safe, and some can also be used in the oven and freezer (check with each piece individually).
Community-minded
Uncommon Goods partners with nonprofit organizations with their Better to Give program. Each purchase you make is eligible for a donation to organizations that include American Forests, International Rescue Committee and The Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Environmentally friendly
Wherever possible, artists utilize reclaimed or recycled materials in their work. Each piece is packaged in eco-friendly packing materials, too.
Even the Uncommon Goods catalog is good for the environment; it’s printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper.
How much you can expect to spend on Uncommon Goods dinnerware
Handmade goods with a community focus are not inexpensive. Expect to spend $10-$70 per piece.
Uncommon Goods dinnerware FAQ
What is the return policy at Uncommon Goods?
A. Because each piece of Uncommon Goods dinnerware can be slightly different from the illustration, you may find that they are not what you expected. Uncommon Goods understands this, and they offer a “forever” return policy. If you are unsatisfied with your purchase at any point, you can return it with the following guidelines and restrictions:
- Refunds are applied to the payment method used (or you can opt for a gift certificate).
- If you choose to get your money back, it can take five or more days to post to your account.
- Emailed gift certificates are delivered within 24 hours, but hard copies can take up to a week.
- Shipping charges will not be refunded.
- If you are returning a gift, select the “return a gift” option. This prevents the purchaser from getting a notification that you are returning their gift.
- For gift returns, you’ll receive a gift certificate or replacement. The price can also be refunded to the purchaser.
- The only items not eligible for returns are customized pieces.
What are Uncommon Perks?
A. Uncommon Perks is a membership option that costs $19.90 a year. It comes with a host of benefits, including:
- Free standard shipping
- First access to new products, deals and sales
- Two $5 credits (can be used for six months)
Even better, when you have an Uncommon Perks membership, Uncommon Goods doubles its donation to nonprofit organizations with everything you order.
This annual membership renews automatically, with benefits that continue for as long as you’re a member.
Not sure if it’s the best option for you? Uncommon Goods offers a risk-free 30-day trial.
What is the best Uncommon Goods dinnerware to buy?
Top Uncommon Goods dinnerware
Handmade Wavy Speckled Dinnerware
What you need to know: These are great if you’re looking for dinnerware with a substantial, rustic feel that is anything but plain.
What you’ll love: They are made to order and come in generously sized dinner plates, side plates and bowls. Each piece is handmade and glazed with a neutral cream glaze, with a wavy edge and speckled detail for a one-of-a-kind finish.
What you should consider: These are very expensive, and they are not available as a set. Each piece is ordered individually.
Where to buy: Sold by Uncommon Goods
Top Uncommon Goods dinnerware for the money
Japanese Miso And Rice Bowl Set
What you need to know: This handmade set is a great option if you’re looking for unique pottery on a budget.
What you’ll love: This set of six bowls is perfect for rice, soups and even small desserts. Each bowl is 4.25 inches wide and 2.75 inches tall. Each is hand-glazed with an individual design.
What you should consider: They are too small to be used as cereal bowls.
Where to buy: Sold by Uncommon Goods
Worth checking out
Color Drip Handmade Dinnerware
What you need to know: These kiln-fired, vibrant sets add interest and movement to your tablescape.
What you’ll love: These are available in sets of four each of dinner plates, side plates, low bowls and small bowls. They are available in six glaze options and are handmade in Utah. They are safe in the microwave and the dishwasher.
What you should consider: There is no guarantee that the glaze option you choose will match the vision in your head. Select carefully.
Where to buy: Sold by Uncommon Goods
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RENTON, Wash. (AP)Even with nearly all the quarterback prospects still available, the Seattle Seahawks decided the second day of the NFL draft was too early to try to find a potential replacement for Russell Wilson.
The Seahawks instead addressed specific needs by selecting edge rusher Boye Mafe from Minnesota with the No. 40 pick and running back Kenneth Walker III from Michigan State at No. 41 on Friday night.
The Seahawks came back in the third round and selected a likely right tackle in Abraham Lucas from Washington State at No. 72 overall, providing a bookend to what Seattle did in the first round. Seattle got its left tackle of the future when it took Charles Cross from Mississippi State with the No. 9 overall pick in the first round. It was Seattle’s highest pick since 2010, when it selected left tackle Russell Okung at No. 6.
It was a very focused and targeted first two days by the Seahawks which reinforced that despite trading Wilson, Seattle wasn’t interested in any of the quarterbacks that were still available.
Selecting Mafe made sense for Seattle, which is looking to bolster its pass rush with an athletic edge rusher as the Seahawks adjust to more of a 3-4 defensive scheme.
But drafting Walker immediately raises questions about the health of running back Chris Carson after he underwent neck surgery last season. Seattle re-signed Rashaad Penny as the likely primary running back.
Mafe was a third-team All-Big Ten selection and led Minnesota in tackles for loss and sacks last season. At 6-foot-4, 260 pounds, Mafe has impressive speed and athleticism, running a 4.53 40-yard dash at the NFL combine and posting a 41+-inch vertical leap at his pro day.
Mafe played in a 3-4 scheme at Minnesota and made a visit to Seattle in the pre-draft buildup.
”Talking to the coaches, it was great. We talked about ball a lot. They taught me a couple of things,” Mafe said. ”The culture that they were trying to instill there I could understand it and I could buy into that.”
Walker’s resume makes it hard to argue with the selection, especially if Carson is unlikely to return to full health. Walker was a first-team AP All-American, the Big Ten running back of the year, and he won both the Doak Walker and Walter Camp awards. Walker finished second in the country with 1,636 yards rushing and 18 rushing touchdowns last season. He finished sixth in voting for the Heisman Trophy.
Walker said he met with the Seahawks at the combine but otherwise had limited contact with them. Getting the phone call from the Seahawks was a bit of a shock.
”Actually, I am very surprised,” Walker said. ”But at the end of the day, it’s a blessing to be on this team. I’m grateful for them giving me that phone call and it means a lot.”
Lucas grew up a Seahawks fan and was a four-year starter during his career across the state in Pullman. Lucas started 42 consecutive games for the Cougars and was a first-team All-Pac-12 selection in his final season.
Cross and Lucas played part of their college careers in the offense of Mike Leach, which limited their opportunities as run blockers.
”It’ll certainly be a challenge, but everything is a challenge on this level and in the game of football,” Lucas said. ”It’ll be something that I can excel at as much as I did with the Air Raid stuff in college. So I’m excited about the opportunity.”
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Despite an attempt to delay the closure and clearing of Hunnell and Clausen roads on Bend’s north side, it will proceed as planned starting Tuesday.
A group of homeless living there took the City of Bend to court last week to delay the clearing, saying it was too rushed. Now, many of those people were supposed to be out by midnight Monday night.
“People are just scrambling, trying to get out of here. And the other ones that don’t get it will tomorrow,” said former Hunnell Road resident Stacy Ray. “You know, because there are a few that say, ‘Oh no, I am not moving,’ but they’re going to move. We lost in court today.”
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Hunnell Road residents and a few friends who were helping them Monday night reacted to the news they had to leave.
“Well, I just found out about it five minutes ago,” said Dan Mooney. “I am just here helping my friends pack their things up, helping them out. But they don’t know where they are going. They got no idea. They are scared.”
Several on Hunnell Road said they were unaware of Monday’s court decision and that they had to leave that night.
The City stated they’d been notified, saying;
“The City’s communication with people living out there has been very consistent and thorough and has said that we would close the area as of midnight tonight.”
The City said it is giving about two dozen people an extra seven days after they requested an extension due to disabilities.
Several, if not all, of the RVs on the roads do not run or work.
“You see,” said Ray. “There is nobody out here and people have to be gone by midnight. And there is no one saying, ‘Hey, here is drug rehab. Here is a job fair. Here is mental health or any of that.”
The full cleanup could take weeks. | 2023-07-18T16:35:07+00:00 | centraloregondaily.com | https://centraloregondaily.com/bend-homeless-hunnell-road-closure-residents-react/ |
A judge in Russia has left Brittney Griner's verdict in place, upholding on Tuesday the US basketball star's conviction on drug smuggling charges and reducing only slightly her nine-year prison sentence.
Griner's sentence will be modified to count the time she spent in pretrial detention after her February 17 arrest at a Moscow airport, the judge ruled, with each day in pretrial custody counting as 1.5 days toward her prison sentence. It was not immediately clear exactly how much that would reduce the sentence.
The decision came after an appeal hearing Tuesday at which Griner, whom the US considers wrongfully detained, again apologized as she and her attorneys asked the court for a more lenient sentence, arguing the verdict was unfair and unjustified under Russian law. The attorneys urged the court to acquit her, calling her sentence disproportionate and the previous court ruling wrong in saying Griner had criminal intent.
"I've been here almost eight months, and people with more severe crimes have been given less than what I was given," Griner said Tuesday, appearing at the hearing via video link from her detention center, Correctional Colony No. 1 in Novoye Grishino, north of Moscow.
"I really hope the court will adjust this sentence," she said before the judgment, "because it has been very, very stressful and very traumatic to my mental and my psyche and being away from my family, not being able to communicate."
Griner's attorneys expressed disappointment after the hearing, saying in a statement the verdict "contains numerous defects" and they feel "the punishment is excessive."
US officials have tried to secure the release of Griner and Paul Whelan, another American imprisoned in Russia, by proposing a prisoner swap with Russia. Those efforts have continued in recent weeks, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday in a statement that called the latest hearing a "sham," adding, "President Biden has been very clear that Brittney should be released immediately."
But with her appeal unsuccessful, Griner, a two-time US Olympic gold medalist, is concerned she will have to serve out the remainder of her sentence in Russia, her attorneys said, if the United States and Russia can't strike a deal for a prisoner swap.
"She had hopes for today," the lawyers said, "as each month, each day away from her family and friends matters to her."
The US State Department has maintained Griner is wrongfully detained, and her case has prompted concern she is being used as a political pawn amid the backdrop of Russia's war against Ukraine. That has not changed, the most senior American diplomat in Moscow told reporters Tuesday outside the Moscow Regional Court.
"Nothing in the previous sentence, nothing in the result of today's appeal changes the fact that the United States government considers Griner to be wrongfully detained," US Embassy Charge d'Affaires Elizabeth Rood said.
Griner was initially taken into custody days before the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- when authorities accused her of trying to smuggle less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. Griner plays in Russia during the WNBA's offseason.
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The All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury pleaded guilty to drug charges, telling the court during her trial that vape cartridges containing the cannabis oil were in her luggage because she had packed her bags in a hurry.
In court Tuesday, defense attorney Maria Blagovolina cast doubt on the Russian examination of Griner's alleged drug use, calling the results of that examination "doubtful and unconfirmed." "Continuous narcotic substance use is incompatible with a career as a professional athlete," added Blagovolina, a partner at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan, Dyakin and Partners law firm.
"No lawyer will be able to say in all honesty that this verdict is in line with Russian judicial practice," Griner's other attorney, Alexander Boykov of the Moscow Legal Center, said.
Both attorneys previously indicated they felt Griner's nine-year sentence was extreme, with Blagovolina calling it "very severe for this type of crime and this amount of this substance."
Ahead of the hearing, Blagovolina and Boykov called Griner a "strong person" with a "champion's character" who was nevertheless "severely stressed being separated from her loved ones for over eight months."
The court hearing the appeal could have left Griner's verdict in place, overruled it and sent it back to the lower court, or reduced her prison term, her lawyers said.
"She is very nervous waiting for the appeal hearing," they added in a written statement to CNN. "Brittney does not expect any miracles to happen but hopes that the appeal court will hear the arguments of the defense and reduce the term."
US officials work to secure Griner's release
While Griner's case plays out, US officials have separately proposed a potential prisoner swap with Russia, offering to exchange convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for Griner and Whelan, an American citizen who's been held by Russia for alleged espionage since 2018. Whelan, who has consistently denied the charges, was convicted and sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison.
Despite the "pretty persistent" pace of discussions between the US and Russia to secure the Americans' release, a senior administration official told CNN last week the Biden administration has yet to receive a serious counteroffer from the Russian side.
"They're not nonresponsive. I would say that they continue to respond with something that they know not to be feasible or available," the official said of the Russian response.
Former Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico -- whose namesake center works on behalf of families of hostages and detainees, and who recently traveled to Russia to discuss the possible release of Griner and Whelan -- recently said he was "cautiously optimistic" the two Americans could be released.
Richardson, who also served as US ambassador to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton, said he's working with both their families and coordinating with the White House to work toward their releases. The former governor played a role in the release of Trevor Reed, an American veteran detained in Russia for three years before his release in April.
Meanwhile, Griner's wife Cherelle and their supporters have continued to highlight her case and maintain support and pressure to ensure she's brought home, starting a #WeAreBG campaign on social media.
The WNBA on Tuesday reiterated its desire to see Griner brought home, saying in a statement the outcome of her appeal "is further verification that BG is not just wrongfully detained -- she is very clearly a hostage."
"We must unite and support the stated public commitment of the Biden Administration and Congressional leaders to do everything possible to get her home," the statement said, adding, "No athlete should be used as a political pawn."
After months of pushing, Cherelle Griner met last month with Biden, telling CNN the meeting illustrated the administration's commitment to bringing her wife home.
"It wasn't a meeting where the President told me the news that I want to hear," Cherelle Griner said. "It wasn't that, but it was one of those still pivotal meetings where ... it allowed me to have confidence in what he's doing right now."
As for Griner, she turned 32 last week, celebrating her birthday in a cell in the suburbs of Moscow, her attorneys told CNN. They spent a few hours with her in an effort to "cheer her up" as much as they could, relaying birthday messages from around the world.
"Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home," Griner said in a message shared by her attorneys. "All the support and love are definitely helping me."
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i9 Fact Checker: Ad correct on expanding mental health services
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - One political ad argues Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-01) improved mental health services for veterans in rural areas.
Rep. Hinson is running against State Senator Liz Mathis (D-Cedar Rapids).
Source: Ashley Hinson for Congress and the National Republican Congressional Committee
Ashley Hinson for Congress is the name of Rep. Ashley Hinson’s campaign, according to documents from the Federal Election Commission. The campaign is spending $2 Million on ads until Election Day.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, according to its website, is a campaign arm for the Republicans to increase the number of party members in the House of Representatives. Its chairman, who is a current congressman from Minnesota, is elected by Republican representatives and serves in House Republican Leadership.
Claim #1: “Ashley Hinson helped lead the fight to expand mental health services for veterans. It’s now law.”
Analysis: This ad refers to legislation President Joe Biden (D) signed into law in 2021 called the Sgt. Ketchum Rural Veterans Mental Health Act of 2021.
The law, according to the congressional research service, requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to create three Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) Programs in places with a need for mental health care for veterans.
The RANGE Program provides intensive care management services, including homeless outreach, to seriously mentally ill Veterans in rural areas. The law also requires the Government Accountability Office to research if the VA has enough resources to serve rural veterans with severe mental illness.
This piece of legislation is named after Sgt. Brandon Ketchum, an Iowan who died from suicide after being denied access to mental health services at a VA facility in Iowa. The Congressional Budget Office said implementing the law will cost about $4 Million from 2021 to 2026.
The bipartisan legislation was sponsored by Rep. Cindy Axne (D-03) and includes the rest of Iowa’s congressional delegation as original cosponsors including Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-01).
Conclusion: Politicians try to take credit for all sorts of new programs while in office. Regardless, this was a bipartisan piece of legislation Rep. Hinson originally co-sponsored with multiple other lawmakers. That’s why this gets an A.
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CDC warns of salmonella outbreak linked to flour
(CNN) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning about a salmonella outbreak linked to flour.
Investigators are working to identify which brands are included.
As of Thursday, a dozen people have been sickened across 11 states. Three of them had to be hospitalized.
The CDC warned that any unbaked flour can have germs in it, like salmonella.
The agency said you should not eat raw dough or batter and that even a small amount can make you sick.
The CDC said to be sure to cook your foods thoroughly. It’s even warning against homemade playdough using raw flour. It said to use heat-treated flour instead.
Signs of salmonella illness include high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-31T20:22:27+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/03/31/cdc-warns-salmonella-outbreak-linked-flour/ |
LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has announced a major investment in hopes of preventing veteran suicides in Michigan.
At $1.2 million, the investment is considered the largest of its kind in the state, according to the Michigan’s governor’s office.
Governor Whitmer was joined by Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) Director Zaneta Adams when she made the announcement Wednesday morning.
“Veteran suicide remains a persistent problem in Michigan and nationwide, and we must use every resource and tool we have to protect the lives of our former service members,” says Governor Whitmer. “Today’s investment will expand funding for suicide prevention efforts in Michigan and build on the ongoing efforts of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency to keep veterans and their families safe and healthy.”
The state says the MVAA will work with businesses and organizations to help veterans access resources by directing them to the MVAA’s hotline at 1-800-MICH-VET.
“I will work with anyone to ensure that they have high-quality mental and physical health care and economic and educational opportunities,” Whitmer adds. “Let’s keep delivering for our veterans and their families.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing thoughts of suicide, please connect with the National Suicide Prevention Hotline by texting or calling 988. | 2022-09-21T18:07:24+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/governor-whitmer-announces-1-2m-investment-in-veteran-suicide-prevention |
Mark Nakamitsu and Rick Farrar among latest Cetera affiliations, on top of $1B Harvest Wealth Team from Merrill Lynch earlier this month
LOS ANGELES, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cetera Financial Group, one of America's largest networks of financial professionals, announced today two advisory teams, managing nearly $600 million in combined assets, have affiliated with Cetera. Mark Nakamitsu, CFP®, has joined Cetera's branch community – Cetera Investors – in the Twin Cities. He was formerly affiliated with Fidelity Investments, where he worked as a wealth planner, financial consultant and regional planning consultant. He manages wealth for high-net-worth families and individuals, providing multifaceted financial planning. In addition to Nakamitsu, Rick Farrar has joined Totus Wealth Management within the Cetera Advisors community from Lincoln Financial Advisors. His practice provides wealth management, business continuity, and sophisticated wealth transfer strategies. Located in Birmingham, AL, he provides holistic financial planning and advice to business owners, executives, foundations and non-profit organizations.
"The highly collaborative and community-oriented culture at Cetera Investors is a welcome change for my practice, and I value the opportunity to embrace independence," Nakamitsu said. "Cetera provides the backing of a large firm with a small-firm feel and culture, which is a unique and empowering combination. I am optimistic about the future for my clients and for my business and am proud to call Cetera home."
"We welcome Mark to Cetera Investors, and look forward to collaborating to achieve shared success," said LeAnn Rummel, president and CEO of Cetera Investment Services. "Mark embodies Cetera's client-first values and mindset, and we appreciate the opportunity to partner to help his clients achieve their version of financial wellbeing. We are proud that Mark has chosen Cetera and know that his business will thrive for years to come."
Rick Farrar has joined the Cetera Advisors community from Lincoln Financial Advisors. His practice provides wealth management, business continuity, and sophisticated wealth transfer strategies. Located in Birmingham, AL, he provides customized financial planning and advice to business owners, executives, foundations and non-profit organizations.
"These affiliations are the latest examples of how Cetera thrives in meeting advisors where they are so they can affiliate their businesses their way," said John Pierce, head of business development for Cetera. "Mark and Rick will benefit from Cetera's leading growth resources, marketing capabilities, technology and support, which will provide countless benefits for their practices and for their clients. We welcome them to Cetera and anticipate a prosperous future."
The latest recruiting wins follow the recent announcement that the $1 billion Harvest Wealth team joined Cetera from Merrill Lynch.
Cetera Financial Group (Cetera) is a leading financial services firm whose purpose is to enable the delivery of best-in-class financial advice to as many Americans as possible. Cetera empowers its financial professional communities to help clients achieve their version of financial wellbeing through the Advice-Centric Experience®. Cetera proudly serves independent financial professionals, tax professionals, banks and credit unions in providing wide-ranging financial planning and wealth management services.
Cetera oversees approximately $353 billion in assets under administration and $122 billion in assets under management, as of December 31, 2021.
Visit www.cetera.com, and follow Cetera on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
"Cetera Financial Group" refers to the network of independent retail firms encompassing, among others, Cetera Advisors LLC, Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors), Cetera Financial Specialists LLC, and First Allied Securities, Inc. All firms are members FINRA/SIPC. Located at: 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101.
Individuals affiliated with Cetera firms are either Registered Representatives who offer only brokerage services and receive transaction-based compensation (commissions), Investment Adviser Representatives who offer only investment advisory services and receive fees based on assets, or both Registered Representatives and Investment Adviser Representatives, who can offer both types of services.
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AL WAKRAH, Qatar (AP) — Born in Cameroon but playing for Switzerland, of course Breel Embolo would score when those two countries met at the World Cup.
Embolo promised he wouldn’t celebrate if he scored for the Swiss team against his country of birth on Thursday, and he kept his word. It turned out to be the only goal of the match as Switzerland beat Cameroon 1-0.
“I would have liked him to be on my side,” said Cameroon coach Rigobert Song, who played in four World Cups for his home country, “but that’s not the way it went.”
The crowd waited and watched for Embolo’s reaction after he scored his 12th goal for Switzerland in the 48th-minute off a low pass from Xherdan Shaqiri.
He stood still in the goalmouth and first held his arms out wide, then raised his hands in a gesture of apology. He put his hands over his month as if realizing how profound the moment was as his Swiss teammates rushed toward him near the penalty spot.
Embolo then pointed toward the Swiss fans behind the goal where he had scored, and then to the Cameroon fans at the opposite corner of Al Janoub Stadium.
Even Song felt pride in the 25-year-old forward, who was born in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde but played for Swiss national youth teams before getting a passport from his adopted country when he was 17.
“I am happy for him and also proud of him. He’s my little brother. We’ve often spoken to each other on the phone,” said Song, who was asked what he said to Embolo on the field after the game. “I thought he played a great game and I wanted to tell him. We’re still brothers at the end of the day.”
Switzerland coach Murat Yakin said he had offered some advice to Embolo about dealing with his emotions.
“You can be friendly up to kickoff,” Yakin said, “and after that they are our opponents.”
Embolo left Cameroon with his family when he was 5. They spent time in France before settling in Switzerland, the country he is now representing at a second World Cup.
Embolo spoke to Swiss television after the match and wished Cameroon luck for the rest of the tournament.
It could be a short World Cup for Cameroon, which still has to face Brazil and Serbia in Group G and has lost eight straight games at the tournament dating back to 2002.
MILLA TIME
Cameroon great Roger Milla was paraded on the field before the game. Fans were shown a video montage of his goals at the 1990 World Cup, where Cameroon became the first African team to reach the quarterfinals.
Milla was joined by Samuel Eto’o, Cameroon’s greatest player who now runs the country’s soccer federation. Eto’o scored the only goal when Cameroon last won a match at the World Cup — a 1-0 victory over Saudi Arabia in 2002.
QUIET DAY
Referee Facundo Tello had a quieter day than when he sent off 10 players in Argentina just before coming to Qatar. He showed red cards to seven Boca Juniors players and three from Racing Club after an extra-time brawl. In Qatar, Tello showed three yellow cards and no red cards.
UP NEXT
Switzerland will next play Group H favorite Brazil on Monday in Doha, the same day Cameroon faces Serbia.
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-11-24T23:56:50+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-embolo-scores-switzerland-beat-cameroon-1-0-at-world-cup/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, asphalt and humanity itself.
New research estimates the city’s landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, something referred to as “subsidence.”
That natural process happens everywhere as ground is compressed, but the study published this month in the journal Earth’s Future sought to estimate how the massive weight of the city itself is hurrying things along.
More than 1 million buildings are spread across the city’s five boroughs. The research team calculated that all those structures add up to about 1.7 trillion tons (1.5 trillion metric tons) of concrete, metal and glass — about the mass of 4,700 Empire State buildings — pressing down on the Earth.
The rate of compression varies throughout the city. Midtown Manhattan’s skyscrapers are largely built on rock, which compresses very little, while some parts of Brooklyn, Queens and downtown Manhattan are on looser soil and sinking faster, the study revealed.
While the process is slow, lead researcher Tom Parsons of the U.S. Geological Survey said parts of the city will eventually be under water.
“It’s inevitable. The ground is going down, and the water’s coming up. At some point, those two levels will meet,” said Parsons, whose job is to forecast hazardous events from earthquakes and tsunamis to incremental shifts of the ground below us.
But no need to invest in life preservers just yet, Parsons assured.
The study merely notes buildings themselves are contributing, albeit incrementally, to the shifting landscape, he said. Parsons and his team of researchers reached their conclusions using satellite imaging, data modeling and a lot of mathematical assumptions.
It will take hundreds of years — precisely when is unclear — before New York becomes America’s version of Venice, which is famously sinking into the Adriatic Sea.
But parts of the city are more at risk.
“There’s a lot of weight there, a lot of people there,” Parsons said, referring specifically to Manhattan. “The average elevation in the southern part of the island is only 1 or 2 meters (3.2 or 6.5 feet) above sea level — it is very close to the waterline, and so it is a deep concern.”
Because the ocean is rising at a similar rate as the land is sinking, the Earth’s changing climate could accelerate the timeline for parts of the city to disappear under water.
“It doesn’t mean that we should stop building buildings. It doesn’t mean that the buildings are themselves the sole cause of this. There are a lot of factors,” Parsons said. “The purpose was to point this out in advance before it becomes a bigger problem.”
Already, New York City is at risk of flooding because of massive storms that can cause the ocean to swell inland or inundate neighborhoods with torrential rain.
The resulting flooding could have destructive and deadly consequences, as demonstrated by Superstorm Sandy a decade ago and the still-potent remnants of Hurricane Ida two years ago.
“From a scientific perspective, this is an important study,” said Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a senior researcher at Columbia University’s Climate School, who was not involved in the research.
Its findings could help inform policy makers as they draft ongoing plans to combat, or at least forestall, the rising tides.
“We can’t sit around and wait for a critical threshold of sea level rise to occur,” he said, “because waiting could mean we would be missing out on taking anticipatory action and preparedness measures.”
New Yorkers such as Tracy Miles can be incredulous at first.
“I think it’s a made-up story,” Miles said. He thought again while looking at sailboats bobbing in the water edging downtown Manhattan. “We do have an excessive amount of skyscrapers, apartment buildings, corporate offices and retail spaces.”
New York City isn’t the only place sinking. San Francisco also is putting considerable pressure on the ground and the region’s active earthquake faults. In Indonesia, the government is preparing for a possible retreat from Jakarta, which is sinking into the Java Sea, for a new capital being constructed on the higher ground of an entirely different island. | 2023-05-30T04:27:24+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/ap-as-rising-oceans-threaten-nyc-study-documents-another-risk-the-city-is-sinking/ |
Washington, D.C. (WAND) – Senator Dick Durbin calls Republican efforts making dramatic budget cuts before raising the nations debt ceiling a “MAGA Manifesto.”
The Democratic Senator from Illinois made his comments on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. He pointed out cuts will cripple many vital programs in his home state.
“The Republican proposal would force 13,000 children in our state to lose childcare and preschool. It would strip food assistance from 55,000 women, infants and children,” Durbin stated. “It is a MAGA Manifesto. It is a ransom note to the American people.”
Congress is facing a July 1, 2023 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Republicans in the House have been holding it up demanding massive cuts before voting to raise the debt ceiling. | 2023-05-06T00:50:10+00:00 | wandtv.com | https://www.wandtv.com/news/durbin-refers-to-budget-cuts-as-maga-manifesto/article_f72b0b2a-eb8b-11ed-b26d-43eb4d377c39.html |
LONDON (AP) — On a blustery November day last year Britain's future king stood before world leaders to deliver a rallying cry that they should "act with all despatch, and decisively” to confront a common enemy.
The clarion call — in the vast, windowless hall of a Glasgow convention center at the opening of the U.N. climate conference — concerned an issue long dear to the heart of the then-Prince Charles.
Climate change and loss of biodiversity were no different from the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe, he said. “In fact, they pose an even greater existential threat, to the extent that we have to put ourselves on what might be called a war-like footing.”
He warned leaders that time was running out to reduce emissions, urging them to push through reforms that are “radically transforming our current fossil fuel-based economy to one that is genuinely renewable and sustainable.”
“We need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector," he said, adding that the trillions at businesses' disposal would go far beyond what governments could muster and offered "the only real prospect of achieving fundamental economic transition.”
It was a fierce call to arms quite unlike the gentle appeal delivered by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in a video message that evening.
For decades, Charles has been one of Britain's most prominent environmental voices, blasting the ills of pollution. Now that he’s monarch, he is bound to be more careful with his words and must stay out of politics and government policy in accordance with the traditions of Britain’s constitutional monarchy.
“Charles will have very little freedom of maneuver now that he is King," said Robert Hazell, an expert on British constitutional affairs at University College London.
“All of his speeches are written or vetted by the government,” said Hazell. "If he makes an impromptu remark which seems at odds with government policy, the press will pounce on him to point out the inconsistency, and the government will rein him in; he will have to be far less outspoken than he has been in the past.”
Still, many say it’s unlikely he will abruptly stop discussing climate change and the environment – not least because they are issues that are above political ideology.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week that it would be "perfectly acceptable" for the monarch to advocate for climate action, even though his role is meant to be apolitical.
“It’s important that the monarchy distance from party political issues,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “But there are issues like climate change where I think if he chooses to continue to make statements in that area, I think that is perfectly acceptable.”
“It should be something that’s above politics, the need to act on climate change,” he added.
Keeping mum on climate may be particularly tricky for Charles in light of the current Conservative government’s ambivalent stance. While the government says it remains committed to the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to ‘net zero’ by mid-century, Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg says Britain should keep burning the fossil fuels at its disposal.
“We need to be thinking about extracting every last cubic inch of gas from the North Sea,” he said in a recent radio interview, citing the need for energy security.
In the past Rees-Mogg has spoken out against building more on-shore wind farms in Britain and questioned the effect that rising carbon dioxide emissions are having on the climate, even though experts say the warming effects of increasing CO2 levels are clear.
Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss likewise favors exploiting the country’s natural gas reserves, including by exploring fracking in parts of the UK to boost the country’s domestic gas supplies and reduce dependence on international gas prices. Earlier this month, Truss’s government lifted a 2019 ban on the controversial practice of fracking for shale gas in England.
As environment secretary in 2014, Truss called large-scale solar farms “a blight on the landscape” scrapped subsidies for farmers and landowners to build them.
Speaking in a 2018 BBC documentary marking Charles’ 70th birthday, his sons William and Harry revealed the frustration their father feels at the world’s failure to tackle environmental challenges. They recalled how, as teenagers, Charles would make them go litter picking during the holidays and obsess over the need to turn off lights.
Such small actions pale in comparison to the air miles the monarch has racked up over a lifetime of jetting around the world — though he claims to have converted his Aston Martin to run on surplus white wine and cheese.
Charles’ lament that many people “simply pay no attention to science” on climate change has also been called out by those who point out that he has long been an advocate of unproven naturopathic therapies.
Some of Charles’ subjects want him to continue the fight against climate change, even as king.
Yet the new king himself has acknowledged that his role as eco-warrior cannot last, at least in its current form.
"I’m not that stupid," he told the BBC four years ago on being asked whether he would continue his activism as before.
The battles of a prince are not those of a king, he explained, but made clear that they can still be fought by the next in line, Prince William.
In his first address as sovereign to the nation on Sept. 9, Charles emphasized that, saying “it will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply.”
“But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others,” he added.
Like Charles, William, 40, has made climate change one of his main advocacy topics, and last year he made his mark by awarding the first Earthshot Prize, an ambitious "legacy project" the prince founded to award millions of pounds in grants for environmental initiatives around the world over the next 10 years. His efforts, however, have been undermined by criticism that his conservation charity invested in a bank that is one of the world's biggest backers of fossil fuels.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Nailing down a playoff berth was first thing on the Philadelphia Eagles’ wish list for the season. They want more and, with the league’s best record and way they continue to blow out opponents, who’s going to stop them?
Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as the Eagles clinched their second straight playoff berth and fifth in six years with a 48-22 win over the fading New York Giants on Sunday.
“We got way bigger goals than this one,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said without referring to the NFC East title, the top playoff seed or the Super Bowl. “On to the next one. It’s nice to get this win here because this is a good football team. It’s nice to come out here and play well on the road.”
Hurts improved his MVP credentials by throwing for 217 yards and hitting DaVonta Smith on a 41-yard fourth-down TD strike and A.J. Brown on a 33-yarder as the Eagles (12-1) scored on their first three possessions. The third-year quarterback also ran for 77 yards, highlighted by a 10-yard TD scamper late in the third quarter.
Hurts became the first QB in NFL history to rush for at least 10 touchdowns in consecutive seasons. Like most of the Eagles’ players, he said he is just hoping to improve from week to week.
“The most simple thing we’ve done is to try and grow and execute,” said Hurts, who was 21 of 31 passing. “It’s good that we prepared in a way that we’ve been able to execute at a high level. We just want to continue to do that. That’s the name of the game.”
Miles Sanders ran for 144 yards, scored on runs of 3 and 40 yards and hit the 1,000-yard mark for the season (1,068) as the Eagles handed the Giants their worst loss under first-year coach Brian Daboll. Jake Elliott kicked two field goals and the defense finished with seven sacks, including three by Brandon Graham.
“We’re not done yet,” Graham said. “I feel great, just us reaching our goals: making the playoffs, postseason. We’ve got so much more game and ball to go. We’ve got to make sure we finish like we want to. A great first step.”
Daniel Jones and Tyrod Taylor threw touchdown passes for the Giants (7-5-1). They have one win in their last six games (1-4-1) and their hopes of their first playoff berth since 2016 are slipping with four games remaining.
Daboll said his team has to learn from this game and move on quickly.
“I think that’s something that we’ve stressed since day one: There’s no room for excuses. There are a bunch of explanations. We got beat. They outcoached us. They outplayed us,” Daboll said. “And we got to get ready to go soon; the season’s winding down here, and we got an important one on Sunday.”
The Eagles, who have the league’s second-ranked defense and third-ranked offense, dominated from the start. They sacked Jones twice on the opening series and Hurts then took over, driving them 84 and 91 yards for touchdowns.
The Giants’ third possession had a comical conclusion. Jamie Gillan lost the ball as he went to punt. The ball bounced and he kicked it 15 yards to the Eagles 42. It was an illegal kick and the Giants were penalized 10 yards with a loss of down. Hurts hit a wide-open Brown for a 21-0 lead on the next play.
Hurts, Sanders and Brown each have scored 10 touchdowns for the Eagles, who have scored at least 30 points in each of the last three weeks.
NO BACKUP
An ankle injury to punter Arryn Siposs forced the Eagles to get creative on special teams. Punt returner Britain Covey took over as the holder on extra points and field goals, and placekicker Elliott punted once for 35 yards.
INJURIES
Eagles: The win was costly. Siposs left the locker room using crutches and a walking boot. S Reed Blankenship (knee) and backup LB Kyron Johnson (shoulder) also left the game. T Lane Johnson left late with an abdominal injury. After the game, he said he tweaked a muscle.
Giants: Top DL Leonard Williams missed the game with a neck injury. He was doubtful coming in. TE Daniel Bellinger (ribs) and LB Micah McFadden (ankle/neck) left the game.
UP NEXT
Eagles: At Chicago next Sunday.
Giants: At Washington next Sunday night. The teams, which played to a 20-20 tie last week, are now tied in the standings with the Commanders on a bye this week.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) _ Amgen Inc. (AMGN) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $2.14 billion.
The Thousand Oaks, California-based company said it had profit of $3.98 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $4.70 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $4.43 per share.
The world's largest biotech drugmaker posted revenue of $6.65 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $6.57 billion.
Amgen expects full-year earnings in the range of $17.25 to $17.85 per share, with revenue in the range of $26 billion to $26.3 billion.
Amgen shares have risen 18% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has declined 22%. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $265.65, a climb of 22% in the last 12 months.
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Experts are warning that there will be a surge of COVID-19 cases after the holidays. If you’re traveling during the holiday season or hosting a family party, you can take steps to protect yourself by wearing a mask and by testing for COVID before you start to rock around the Christmas tree. And right now, you can get COVID-19 testing kits for free.
In an attempt to decrease the post-holiday surge in COVID cases, the Biden administration has reinstated the U.S. government’s free at-home testing program. The program ended in September, but as hospital beds reach capacity with flu, RSV and COVID patients, Americans can once again receive free at-home COVID-19 tests.
In order to receive your free tests, click here to visit the government’s COVID test website. Click Order Free At-Home Tests, then just fill out your name and address. If you give your e-mail address, you’ll receive shipping notifications from the U.S. Postal Service. Then click Check Out Now — your order is free, so it’ll show $0 due to USPS.
Free COVID-19 tests start shipping out today, Dec. 19. Each household can receive four free tests, so let your friends and family know so they can stock up and stay safe, too.
Along with testing, the Biden administration is also urging Americans to get their COVID-19 booster. Dr. Ashish Jha, White House’s COVID-19 coordinator, sat down with ABC’s “This Week” to emphasize the importance of getting the updated bivalent vaccine.
For those who might think, “But I just got my COVID shot earlier this year,” Dr. Jha says we need to rethink the way we consider COVID-19 shots, saying they’re something we will need regularly, just like the flu shot.
“I got my flu shot last year. I don’t expect that to protect me this winter,” he said. “I go out and get my flu shot every winter, in the same way people have to go out and get their COVID shot.”
While Dr. Jha says he believes it is safe to gather for the holiday season, he says if Americans get their COVID-19 booster ahead of holiday celebrations, it will help to reduce the strain on hospitals.
“The good news here is that we can prevent those infections from turning into serious illness if people go out and get that updated bivalent vaccine,” Dr. Jha told ABC on Sunday.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Anthony Santander hit a two-run double to spark Baltimore's three-run first inning, Spenser Watkins and four relievers scattered six hits and the Orioles extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
It's the Orioles' longest winning streak in a single season since they won 13 in a row from Sept. 7-22, 1999.
According to ESPN Stats & Info, the only team with a longer current drought without a double-digit win streak in a season is Miami, which has never had one.
With the victory, the Orioles (45-44) also went over the .500 mark for the first time since April 8, 2021, when they were 4-3. Baltimore finished off the game to chants of “Let’s Go O’s!” at Wrigley Field, where the Orioles were playing their first series since 2014.
The Cubs lost their sixth consecutive game, their longest skid since dropping 10 straight games June 4-16.
Watkins (3-1) limited the Cubs to four hits in five-plus innings. Watkins is 3-0 with a 1.19 ERA in his last four starts since being recalled from Triple-A Norfolk on June 25. He allowed a single to Ian Happ to start the sixth and was lifted in favor of Dillion Tate.
Tate, Cionel Perez, Joey Krehbiel and Bryan Baker combined to allow two hits the rest of the way.
Meanwhile, Cubs starter Justin Steele (3-6) — pitching on eight days rest after his girlfriend gave birth Monday to the couple’s first child — retired the final 11 batters he faced over six innings.
But the damage was done in the first two innings. Three of the first four batters reached base, prompting pitching coach Tommy Hottovy to make a mound visit after Santander’s double. But Austin Hays followed with a single, and Santander scored after left fielder Happ misplayed the hit.
The Orioles extended their lead in the second when Trey Mancini hit a double to score Rougned Odor and Cedric Mullins, who was initially ruled to have beaten the relay throw from shortstop Nico Hoerner to catcher Willson Contreras. But a replay overturned the safe call on Mullins, and Steele got Ryan Mountcastle to ground to short to end the inning.
The Cubs scored their lone run off Watkins in the fifth when Christopher Morel tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Rafael Ortega.
The Orioles added three runs with two outs in the eighth on a double by Adley Rutschman, a single by Odor and a balk by reliever Daniel Norris.
HENDRICKS OUT INDEFINITELY
Cubs ace Kyle Hendricks will need at least two or three weeks before he can consider playing catch, manager David Ross said. Hendricks hasn’t pitched since July 5, when he threw only three innings at Milwaukee because of a right shoulder strain.
Hendricks, 32, missed a start in early June because of shoulder fatigue but still leads the team with 84 1/3 innings pitched.
HAPP HUMBLED BY EPSTEIN TEXT
Happ was moved by a congratulatory text message on his All-Star selection from Theo Epstein, the Cubs’ former president of baseball operations who oversaw his selection as the ninth overall pick in the 2015 draft.
“And I thanked him for giving me the chance here and to be able to do it in front of these fans and this city,” Happ said of Epstein, now a consultant with Major League Baseball.
Happ rebounded from a miserable 2021 season, when he had a slash line of .175/.284/.318 on Aug. 11.
“He’s becoming an all-around player, and I don’t know I could have said that last year,” Ross said.
RETURN OF THE STOLEN BASE
Jorge Mateo (22) and Mullins (18) have accounted for 40 of the Orioles’ 55 stolen bases, and manager Brandon Hyde will continue to give them the green light.
“Those two guys are such elite base stealers, it’s weapon for us, and a weapon for them,” Hyde said. “I still think it’s an important part of the game.”
MOVES
Cubs: Norris was activated from the 15-day injured list. RHP Matt Swarmer was optioned to Triple-A Iowa.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: INF Nick Madrigal (left groin strain) will spend the rest of the week building strength and volume with the training staff in Chicago. ... RHP Ethan Roberts underwent Tommy John surgery in Arlington, Texas.
UP NEXT
The Orioles haven’t named a starter for Friday’s series opener against the Rays.
The Cubs will start RHP Keegan Thompson in Thursday’s series opener against the Mets. Thompson allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings Friday in a 4-3 loss to the Dodgers.
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On March 8, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office announced the state government would stop doing business with Walgreens because of the company's stance on the abortion pill mifepristone. The announcement came after a growing number of people online, including filmmaker Michael Moore, called for a boycott of the company.
The outrage about Walgreens started after letters from a Walgreens executive were posted online saying the company would not provide the abortion pill mifepristone in some states where medication abortion is legal. This has not only sparked protests from women’s rights groups, and others claiming the company was pressured by conservative lawmakers, but has led to confusion about Walgreens’ policy on distributing the pills nationwide.
One tweet with more than four million views says Walgreens decided to stop selling the abortion pill solely in GOP states. Other tweets suggest Walgreens has changed its policy on mifepristone more broadly.
According to Google Trends, people have also been searching if the abortion pill is at Walgreens and where it might be banned.
THE QUESTION
Does Walgreens currently distribute mifepristone?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Walgreens doesn’t currently distribute mifepristone in any state.
WHAT WE FOUND
Mifepristone, along with misoprostol, are two drugs used for medication abortions. Taken in sequence within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, they are FDA-approved for ending a pregnancy.
Previously, doctors had to administer the pills directly to patients, rather than prescribing them through pharmacies, because of a federal requirement. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed that requirement in January, allowing pharmacies with a special certification to distribute the pills with a prescription.
Walgreens has applied but has not been approved to distribute mifepristone, and therefore hasn’t started distributing the pills in any state, as some of the viral social media posts claim. Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies have said they have also sought approval to distribute the abortion pills.
The controversy around Walgreens stems from a letter penned on February 1 and signed by 20 state attorneys general warning Walgreens that in several states, abortion pills made available by mail are illegal.
On February 17, Walgreens responded with a letter to each of those 20 states assuring them they would not provide abortion pills in the state. The letter said Walgreens had not received approval to distribute the abortion pill by pharmacy or through mail. It also said: “Walgreens does not intend to dispense mifepristone within your state and does not intend to ship mifepristone into your state from any of our pharmacies. If this approach changes, we will be sure to notify you.”
This language was included in letters to state lawmakers where the abortion pill is legal, including Alaska, Montana, Iowa and Kansas. The Alaska House Coalition, composed of several members of the state’s House of Representatives, wrote their own letter on March 6 to Walgreens informing them the Alaskan constitution makes medication abortion legal in the state.
“No company should willingly eliminate access to life-saving medication in response to the political demands of a few Attorneys General, particularly when the action directly undermines Constitutional rights in our state,” the letter from the Alaskan lawmakers said.
That same day, on March 6, Walgreens issued a statement with an apparent clarification on their position on the abortion pill. The statement contradicts what the letters sent to states had indicated, as it relates to the states where medication abortion is currently legal.
“We want to be very clear about what our position has always been: Walgreens plans to dispense mifepristone in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so. Once we are certified by the FDA, we will dispense this medication consistent with federal and state laws. Providing legally approved medications to patients is what pharmacies do, and is rooted in our commitment to the communities in which we operate,” the statement said.
In order for Walgreens, or any other pharmacy, to become certified with the FDA, it needs to complete a certification form from the manufacturer of the pills. In this case, it needs to complete the form for Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, the two manufacturers of mifepristone.
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Idaho killings suspect Bryan Kohberger is expected back in court today
By Dakin Andone, CNN
The man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students is scheduled to appear in court for a status conference Thursday — his second time in an Idaho court since his extradition from Pennsylvania after his arrest late last month.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is being held without bail in the Latah County jail in Idaho, where he faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the fatal stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.
After a night out, the four undergrads were found dead November 13 in an off-campus home, according to police, fraying nerves in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, along the Washington state border.
Authorities arrested Kohberger almost seven weeks later, taking him into custody at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, where an attorney said he had traveled for the holidays. And while it took almost two months for authorities to publicly name a suspect, police — who faced mounting criticism while the investigation outwardly appeared at a standstill — had begun focusing on Kohberger as a suspect weeks earlier.
Among the most notable pieces of evidence was a witness account from one of the victims’ surviving roommates, who told police she saw a man dressed in black inside the house the morning of the killings, according to a probable cause affidavit released last week. The witness described the man as about 5-foot-10 or taller and not very muscular but athletically built with bushy eyebrows, it said.
Investigators were also drawn to a white sedan seen in local surveillance footage in the area around the home. By November 25, they had told local law enforcement to look out for the car, by then identified as a Hyundai Elantra.
Days later, officers at Washington State University, where Kohberger was a PhD student in criminal justice, found such a vehicle and discovered it was registered to Kohberger, the affidavit says.
When investigators searched for his driver’s license information, they found it consistent with the description of the man dressed in black provided by the roommate, the affidavit says, specifically noting his height, weight and bushy eyebrows.
Kohberger got a new license plate for his car five days after the killings, the affidavit says. When he was arrested in Pennsylvania last week, a white Elantra was found at his home, according to Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar, who represented the suspect in his extradition.
Other evidence listed in the affidavit included phone records showing Kohberger’s phone had been near the victims’ home at least a dozen times since June. Records also show the phone near the site of the killings hours later, between 9:12 a.m. and 9:21 a.m., the document says.
Additionally, trash authorities recovered from Kohberger’s family home revealed a DNA profile linked to DNA on a tan leather knife sheath found lying on the bed of one of the victims, the affidavit said. The DNA recovered from the trash is believed to be that of the biological father of the person whose DNA was found on the sheath, it said.
Kohberger was also surveilled for four days before his arrest, a law enforcement source told CNN. During that time, he was seen putting trash bags in neighbors’ garbage bins and “cleaned his car, inside and outside, not missing an inch,” according to the source.
A court order prohibits the prosecution and defense from commenting beyond referencing the public records of the case.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Police identified the 43-year-old man who killed three students and wounded five at Michigan State University, saying Tuesday that a tip from the public led to a confrontation with officers miles from campus, where the gunman fatally shot himself.
Investigators still were sorting out why Anthony McRae fired inside Berkey Hall and the MSU Union -- a popular place to eat and study -- shortly before 8:30 p.m. Monday. The shootings led to a campus lockdown and a manhunt that ended roughly three hours later.
"We have absolutely no idea what the motive was,'' said Chris Rozman, deputy chief of campus police, adding that McRae was not a student or Michigan State employee. He said police confronted McRae before he killed himself.
Overnight, the school announced that all campus activities, including athletics, were canceled for at least 48 hours. This would affect the Spartans' men's basketball team, which was scheduled to host Minnesota on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET, and the men's tennis team, which was scheduled to host Drake on Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET.
It was unclear if the women's basketball team, which is scheduled to play at Purdue on Wednesday night, would be impacted.
Interim university President Teresa Woodruff said it would be a time "to think and grieve and come together.''
"This Spartan community -- this family -- will come back together,'' Woodruff said.
University of Michigan president Santa Ono said in a statement that "our hearts are broken" with the MSU family and that many in the UM community "are reeling from this tragedy."
The Detroit Lions offered "prayers and support" to the community.
"Last night our state and community were once again impacted by an act of senseless violence," the team posted on social media. "Our prayers and support as an organization are with the Michigan State community."
The dead and injured all were students, Rozman said. Five remained in critical condition at Sparrow Hospital, said Dr. Denny Martin, who fought back tears during a news conference.
"Our Spartan community is reeling today,'' Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Michigan State graduate, said at the briefing.
President Joe Biden pledged his support during a phone call, she said.
"We mourn the loss of beautiful souls and pray for those continuing to fight for their lives. ... Another place that is supposed to be about community and togetherness shattered by bullets and bloodshed,'' Whitmer said.
Michigan State has about 50,000 students, including 19,000 who live on campus.
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France is far less dependent on Russian fuel than some other European countries, but the government is still urging business to conserve energy this winter to prevent the need for rationing.
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Tory Lanez convicted in Megan Thee Stallion’s shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion that left her wounded with bullet fragments in her feet.
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for one day before convicting the 30-year-old Canadian rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. The counts could lead to up to 22 years in prison.
Lanez showed no visible reaction as the verdict was read. He was handcuffed while in the courtroom.
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that Lanez fired a handgun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding in the Hollywood Hills in the summer of 2020. She said the two had gotten into a dispute that got especially heated when she began insulting his music.
She needed surgery to remove bullet fragments from her feet.
The shooting set off a storm of cultural issues and arguments that peaked during the trial, including the reluctance of Black victims to speak to police, the protection of Black women, gender politics in hip-hop, and online toxicity.
In closing arguments, prosecutors emphasized the courage it took for Megan come forward and the vitriol the 27-year-old has faced for it. They said she had no incentive to tell anything but the truth.
“Why would she lie?” Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott said. “She’s been subjected to a stream of hate. For what? For coming forward as a victim of domestic violence?”
Lanez’s lawyer alleged in his closing argument that the shots were actually fired by Megan’s then-best friend Kelsey Harris in a jealous fight over Lanez, who tried to stop the shooting. The attorney, George Mgdesyan, argued Megan created a more sympathetic narrative by pinning the shooting on Lanez.
“Megan Pete is a liar. She lied about everything in this case from the beginning,” Mgdesyan said. “She lied under oath here.”
Harris denied being the shooter and previously identified Lanez as the one holding the gun. Her attorney, in an email, declined to comment on her involvement.
Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major-label albums. His last two reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
Megan Thee Stallion was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting, and her prominence has surged since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and had No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with her own song “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé, and as a guest on Cardi B’s “WAP.”
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Evidence is mounting from the experiences of hospitals large and small, urban and rural that telehealth is having a positive effect on staffing, patient safety, clinical services and hospital revenue, Equum Medical reports.
The company, a leading provider of innovative telehealth services, has released the Equum Medical Lighthouse Series™. These customer success stories showcase the transformative power of telehealth in addressing key challenges faced by health systems and hospitals worldwide. The Series is intended to highlight real-world examples of how a complete acute care telehealth service using remote physicians, nurses and monitoring technologists supplements current hospital staff, provides specialist expertise and quickly moves patients to the most appropriate sites for care.
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, health systems and hospitals are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. The Equum Medical Lighthouse Series brings to the forefront some of the most pressing challenges faced by healthcare providers, including ED capacity, ICU mortality and length of stay, physician and nurse burnout, and rural hospital specialist access. Telehealth offers a promising solution by increasing access to care in underserved areas, alleviating the shortage of clinicians and reducing costs to make healthcare more accessible and affordable.
Dr. Scurlock, CEO and Founder of Equum Medical, emphasized the importance of sharing these success stories: "We are thrilled to launch the Equum Medical Lighthouse Series. By showcasing real-world examples of how telehealth has successfully addressed critical challenges, we aim to encourage broader adoption of telehealth and the dissemination of information on successful strategies."
The series aims to provide healthcare leaders with actionable insights and evidence-based strategies to navigate their own telehealth implementations by demonstrating the tangible benefits that can be achieved by embracing telehealth and leveraging its potential to drive positive change in healthcare delivery.
Healthcare providers, administrators and industry professionals can gain a valuable resource for understanding the diverse applications of telehealth and the significant impact it can have on healthcare delivery, patient outcomes and the overall well-being of both patients and providers.
"We are going to continue to grow the Lighthouse Series as we get additional results from our engagements," said Karsten Russell-Wood, MBA, MPH, Equum's Chief Marketing Officer. "We want this to be a resource for innovators and evidence of what our model of care can do to ease the pressure on hospitals and health systems in this time of profound change for our industry."
Equum Medical is an active member of the American Telemedicine Association and the National Rural Health Association, through which participating hospital systems can access thought leadership and engage with Equum Medical executives to expand telehealth understanding and applications.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — White House economists on Wednesday warned of “severe damage” to the U.S. economy in the event of a debt default, warning that a prolonged default could cause 8.3 million job losses and the stock market to tumble 45%.
But the new report from the Council of Economic Advisers shows that even less severe scenarios would hamper the U.S. economy, evidence that the political showdown over the debt limit carries major financial costs. Without a deal in place between Congress and the White House, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the federal government will lack the accounting tools to keep borrowing and potentially begin to default as soon as June 1.
The first and most dangerous scenario is a “protracted default.” The second is a “short default” in which Congress acts swiftly to allow the nation to borrow again after defaulting. The third is “brinkmanship,” in which lawmakers take the country’s full faith and credit to the wire, but avert default. All three would hurt the economy, the experts said.
President Joe Biden has a May 9 meeting with congressional leaders to try to find a way to resolve the approaching crisis.
House Republicans are insisting on spending cuts as part of any plan to allow the country to resume borrowing. Biden says he will not allow the country to be “taken hostage” by such demands and will only negotiate with the GOP on spending as part of the budgetary process. The president and Democratic lawmakers are seeking a “clean” increase to the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt limit.
A spokesman for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., sent out an email Wednesday that blamed Democrats for the stalemate.
“There is no good reason other than political malpractice for the U.S. to default on its debt,” wrote McCarthy spokesman Chad Gilmartin. “Plenty of revenue is flowing in to pay interest on the debt.”
That statement treats default as solely pertaining to federal borrowing, but administration officials warn that missed payments to contractors, Social Security recipients, federal employees and others would also constitute a default.
The White House analysis warned that a protracted default could cost more than 8 million jobs in the third quarter of 2023, raising the prospect of “an immediate, sharp recession on the order of the Great Recession.”
The report said the government, unable to borrow money, would lack the traditional tools it uses to temper the impact of economic downturns, namely economic stimulus and social support.
“Because the government would be unable to enact counter-cyclical measures in a breach-induced recession, there would be limited policy options to help buffer the impact on households and businesses,” the White House said. “The ability of households and businesses, especially small businesses, to borrow through the private sector to offset this economic pain would also be compromised.”
A short default would also inflict damage with 500,000 fewer jobs. Even the “brinkmanship” approach, where lawmakers reach a deal at the eleventh hour, could cost about 200,000 jobs and shave 0.3% off the annual gross domestic product, according to the analysis.
There are already signs of market stress from the showdown as the cost of insurance for nonpayment of U.S. Treasury notes has risen. The U.S. economy is also in a fragile state as Federal Reserve efforts to lower inflation have stoked concerns of a downturn. | 2023-05-04T19:58:21+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/white-house-warns-of-recession-as-debt-limit-fight-drags-on/ |
Columbia, Ashland, Moberly, Fayette and much of the listening area remain under a winter weather advisory through noon today (Tuesday).
National Weather Service (NWS) St. Louis meteorologist Jared Maples tells 939 the Eagle that the system started as rain last night in Columbia, before changing to a rain/snow mix and then to all snow.
“We did see accumulations overnight generally one to two inches on elevated and grassy surfaces. There are some thin areas of slush on some roadways,” Maples says.
He says ground temperatures last night were in the 40s, which helped. He’s urging you to be cautious when you drive to work this morning.
“It’s not going to be running at the clip that we saw earlier this morning and later last night, but nonetheless be advised that you could still run into some areas where you might pick up to maybe a half-inch to as much as an additional inch in that advisory area,” says Maples.
Keep your radio tuned to 939 the Eagle for updated weather forecast information. | 2022-11-16T03:04:40+00:00 | kwos.com | https://kwos.com/2022/11/mid-missouris-winter-weather-advisory-runs-through-noon-tuesday/ |
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Nick Taylor shoots 2-over 72 in round four of the Wyndham Championship
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Nick Taylor makes birdie on No. 15 in Round 4 at Wyndham
In the final round of the 2022 Wyndham Championship, Nick Taylor makes birdie on the par-5 15th hole.
In his final round at the Wyndham Championship, Nick Taylor hit 10 of 14 fairways and 15 of 18 greens in regulation, finishing at 3 over for the tournament. Taylor finished his day tied for 81st at 3 over; Joohyung Kim is in 1st at 20 under; Sungjae Im and John Huh are tied for 2nd at 15 under; and Ben Griffin is in 4th at 14 under.
On the 545-yard par-5 15th hole, Taylor reached the green in 3 and sunk a 5-foot putt for birdie. This moved Taylor to 1 under for the round.
On the 174-yard par-3 third, Taylor's tee shot went 185 yards to the left rough and his chip went 9 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 2 over for the round.
At the 428-yard par-4 fourth, Taylor got on in 2 and missed his par putt from 5 feet, finishing with a 3-putt bogey. This moved Taylor to 3 over for the round.
After a 310 yard drive on the 529-yard par-5 fifth, Taylor chipped his third shot to 1 foot, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved Taylor to 2 over for the round.
At the 423-yard par-4 sixth, Taylor got on in 2 and missed his par putt from 4 feet, finishing with a 3-putt bogey. This moved Taylor to 3 over for the round.
On the par-4 eighth, Taylor's 78 yard approach to 7 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Taylor to 2 over for the round.
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The University of California, Berkeley's law school on Thursday joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report's rankings over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds.
Deans of all three law schools said the magazine’s influential ranking system is biased against programs meant to increase socioeconomic diversity, support lower-income students and encourage the pursuit of public service.
“We have reached a point where the rankings process is undermining the core commitments of the legal profession,” Yale Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken wrote in a blog post Wednesday.
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U.S. News executive chairman and CEO Eric Gertler said the rankings are meant to help students make the best decision in choosing a law school.
“We will continue to fulfill our journalistic mission of ensuring that students can rely on the best and most accurate information in making that decision,” Gertler said in a written statement. “As part of our mission, we must continue to ensure that law schools are held accountable for the education they will provide to these students and that mission does not change with these recent announcements.”
In a later statement, U.S. News said it would continue to rank all fully accredited law schools, regardless of whether they submit their data.
Some critics have seen the U.S. News rankings as more a measure of privilege than educational quality.
While elite universities have enough prestige to forgo the rankings, other schools often feel pressure to compete, said Walter Kimbrough, interim executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College. They then pursue metrics that may not serve prospective students well.
“The way you move up in the rankings is that you become more selective, which means you’re keeping more people out, particularly a diversity of people,” he said.
Addressing the root causes of inequity, at law schools and in higher education more broadly, Kimbrough said, requires institutions to go further. Smaller schools that serve a high proportion of lower-income, disadvantaged students do not get the same recognition and philanthropic support that elite schools receive.
“HBCUs live that work every day and don’t get the same kind of rewards, both in terms of kudos and in terms of financial resources to do that work,” he said.
Not long after the Yale announcement, Harvard Law School Dean John Manning wrote in his own blog post Wednesday that he and other law school leaders had previously expressed concerns to U.S. News about the rankings. In particular, he said the prioritization of LSAT scores and college grades encourages law schools to use scholarships to attract higher-scoring candidates, directing resources away from need-based financial aid that would help less affluent students.
Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote in a letter published online Thursday that there is not a benefit to participating in the rankings that outweighs the costs.
There are other rankings systems, such as one published by Washington Monthly, that assign more weight to factors such as social mobility, research, and promotion of public service.
“If you measure something, that’s what people will value,” said Harry Feder, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, which has criticized the use of standardized testing in admissions. “If they’re measuring how much graduates from law school make, what do you think that does to the public interest part of the law school?” | 2022-11-18T03:50:14+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/3-top-law-schools-pull-out-of-us-news-world-rankings-over-equity-concerns/3000143/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CRKN, LHDX, ENVX, SFT, and IQ.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When lawyers argue before the Supreme Court, a small white light goes on to tell them when their time is almost expired and then a red light signals when they should stop. But arguments this term are extending well beyond the red light's cue.
Arguments that usually lasted an hour in the morning have stretched well beyond two, and on many days it's long past lunchtime before the court breaks.
The lengthy arguments have to do with a change the justices have made to their argument style, a switch tied to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to the justices asking more questions. Justices have said in the past that lawyers' written briefs, not oral arguments, most influence their decisions, so it's unclear if the extra time is really helping them decide cases. Whether that trend will continue is also an open question.
In December, an argument about whether a Colorado graphic artist can refuse to create wedding websites for same-sex couples lasted two hours and 25 minutes. And an important elections case that was scheduled for an hour and a half clocked in at two hours and 53 minutes. Already, a handful of arguments have been longer than any argument the high court heard in the term that ended in June — and that term included major cases on abortion and guns.
In the graphic artist case on Dec. 5, Justice Neil Gorsuch engaged in friendly banter with attorneys about the length of arguments.
“Good morning, Mr. Olson," Gorsuch said around 11:30 a.m., after arguments had been going on for nearly an hour and a half.
“Is it still morning?” responded Colorado lawyer Eric R. Olson.
“Just barely," Gorsuch replied to laughter from the audience. “It must not feel like it standing where you are.”
“I'm here all day, Justice Gorsuch,” Olson said.
The reason high court arguments are running longer goes back to a change the justices made in 2020. After the pandemic began, the justices decided to hold arguments by telephone and abandoned their typical free-for-all style of questioning. Instead, each justice got a few minutes to ask questions in order of seniority.
When the justices moved back to in-person arguments in their courtroom more than a year and a half later, they returned to the largely free-for-all questioning. Now, however, at the end of each lawyer's time, the justices each get a chance to ask any remaining questions, again in seniority order. That switch led to an average of 18 extra minutes per case last term, said lawyer William Jay, who's been tracking the extra time.
Jay said by email the longest argument so far this term was a case involving the adoption of Native American children, which ran three hours and 13 minutes. Jay said his sense is that the justices seem more comfortable with the format this term and that the questions are longer. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who replaced retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, is also a “considerably more active questioner” than her predecessor, Jay said.
According to Adam Feldman, the creator of the Empirical SCOTUS blog, Jackson has spoken about 36,000 words this term while her most vocal colleague, Justice Elena Kagan, has spoken only about 24,000.
The justices' new format has tripped up some lawyers who are used to the old way of doing business and have moved to sit down when the red light on their podium went on.
“Don't go. Not so fast,” Chief Justice John Roberts told one lawyer who tried to sit prematurely.
Longer arguments are, in fact, a return for the court. Early in the court's history, cases could take days to argue.
During the 1800s, when the justices heard arguments from noon to 4 p.m. without a lunch break, tables were set up behind the bench and the justices would leave one or two at a time to eat.
“The audience could not see them eating, but they could very distinctly hear the rattle of the knives and forks,” court history expert Clare Cushman has written.
The length of arguments shrank over the years until in 1970, under Chief Justice Warren Burger, it became 30 minutes per side. The court’s website claims that’s still the case. “Typically, the Court holds two arguments each day beginning at 10:00 a.m., each lasting one hour,” it says.
These days there's no leaving the bench to eat during arguments, though justices sometimes duck out to go to the bathroom. In October, when the court heard back-to-back arguments in two affirmative action cases, it took a brief break between cases. The court had scheduled two hours and 40 minutes of arguments in the two cases. They took nearly five hours.
That's compared with an hour and 27 minutes for Bush v. Gore in 2001. In 2012, arguments over President Barack Obama's health care law stretched for approximately six and a half hours over three days.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who was chief from 1986 to 2005, was known for cutting off lawyers and even fellow justices when the lawyer's red light went on.
Seth Waxman, a veteran of more than 80 Supreme Court arguments, once remarked that for Rehnquist: “The red light ended everything — absolutely everything."
Roberts, who became chief after Rehnquist's death, is less strict, but before the pandemic, arguments were still generally an hour.
In the graphic designer case, after the third and final lawyer stood up to argue, Gorsuch couldn't resist revisiting the argument's length.
“I think, at the end of two hours -- we are now in the afternoon, by the way,” Gorsuch told Biden administration attorney Brian Fletcher.
“Good afternoon,” Fletcher replied.
It was only the first of two cases scheduled for the day. | 2023-01-02T16:44:21+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/At-the-Supreme-Court-it-s-taking-longer-to-hear-17689791.php |
CARACAS, Venezuela — At the start of 2019, as President Nicolás Maduro was claiming reelection in a vote widely condemned as fraudulent, the head of the country’s legislature stood before an electric crowd of thousands in John Paul II Plaza here in the Venezuelan capital and presented himself as the country’s rightful leader.
‘’We will stay on the street,’’ Juan Guaidó vowed, ‘’until Venezuela is liberated!’’
The then-35-year-old head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly was swiftly backed by the Trump administration and governments around the world on the reasoning that he was now the highest-ranking democratically elected official in the country.
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A rare unifying figure among the historically fractious opposition, Guaidó said he would serve as the country’s ‘’interim president’' until Maduro stepped down — or, at least, agreed to hold free and fair elections.
But nearly four years later and with little to show for the effort, the experiment appears to be coming to an end. The opposition lawmakers who once rallied behind Guaidó are expected to end his mandate and eliminate his interim government. They approved those moves in a 72-23 preliminary vote last week.
‘’After four years, we should not continue to maintain a system that has not given results and is a bureaucratic burden,’’ Nora Bracho, a member of one of the three main opposition parties voting to end the interim government, told The Washington Post. ‘’We have to reinvent ourselves and advance in our fight.’’
At stake is not only the prospect of competitive elections under Maduro’s authoritarian socialist state and US engagement with the country but also the control of key government assets abroad. Under US and other sanctions, the interim government has administered Houston-based Citgo Petroleum Corp. and gold stored at the Bank of England.
Lawmakers who support removing Guaidó say they would establish a committee to protect those assets and manage expenses. The National Assembly, elected in 2015, would continue through 2023, but only to legislate on issues related to the assets.
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The assembly was scheduled to meet on Thursday for a second and final vote. But Wednesday evening, its Twitter account, which is controlled by Guaidó's office, announced that the session had been postponed until Jan. 3.
The opposition parties Justice First and Democratic Action, who favor ousting Guaidó, responded that they hadn’t been consulted, and the session would proceed as scheduled. Then the assembly account tweeted that the assembly can’t meet without the president.
Guaidó, now 39, told The Post last year he would remain interim president ‘’until there is a free and fair presidential election. . . . That is my constitutional mandate.’’
Sergio Vergara, an opposition congressman for Popular Will, the only major party that still supports Guaidó, warned that removing him would amount to recognizing Maduro.
‘’My question to all those promoting this is if the international community would agree with a violation of the constitution,’’ he told The Post. He said some assembly members might still be persuadable.
The Biden administration plans to recognize whatever body the opposition comes up with, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal policy discussions.
‘’If they change their name or whatever, we’ll still call them the interim government, for the purpose of promoting talks’' with Maduro’s government, and keeping sanctions in place as a means of leveraging negotiations over new elections, the official said.
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‘’Our point is that we kind of hold all the cards here at this point in terms of sanctions policy,’’ the official said. ‘’If [Maduro] wants us to change that approach and lift sanctions, what we need to see are democratic outcomes.’’
As Maduro’s grip on power has proved durable, the Biden administration has shown a willingness to deal with him. US officials made a rare trip to the presidential palace in March to discuss energy sanctions and secure the release of two detained Americans.
After an initial round of negotiations between the opposition and Maduro’s government last month, the administration allowed Chevron to reopen its oil production facilities in Venezuela, on the conditions that all oil produced is sold to the United States and all royalties and taxes due to Venezuela are used to pay down its US debt.
Officials have said they would ease sanctions further if the talks moderated by Norway in Mexico City continue and bear results, but they have little confidence that Maduro is serious about the possibility of relinquishing power through free and fair elections.
But diplomatic engagement could accelerate, analysts say, after decisive Republican wins in Florida in the midterm elections have diminished the state’s value as a battleground. Biden administration officials, less concerned about trying to win the support of Maduro’s opponents in the Sunshine State, might see less cost to dealing with him, Tulane University sociologist David Smilde said.
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The European Union has stopped recognizing Guaidó as interim president, as have many countries in Latin America. Many have declined to recognize anyone as president of Venezuela. | 2022-12-30T00:03:27+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/29/world/end-an-era-venezuelas-opposition-moves-end-guaid-experiment/ |
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama said she struggled with a “crushing sense of hopelessness” after the 2020 presidential election that was brought on by the death and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a summer of political and racial unrest and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“I was in a low place,” she said. Then she got an idea.
“Everyone was searching for some answers of how to cope. And for some reason they were asking me, ‘What do you do?’ I had to start thinking about that,” the former first lady told People magazine in an interview pegged to Tuesday's release of her second book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times." She is set to open a six-city book tour in Washington on that day.
In the book, former President Barack Obama's wife, who is one of the world's most famous women, tells how she steadies herself during these anxious times and how she works at overcoming her lifelong fear of change and doubts about herself.
“Over the 58 years that I've lived, I can look back and I can say, ‘This is how I deal with fear. These are the things I say to myself when I need to pick myself up. This is how I stay visible in a world that doesn’t necessarily see a tall Black woman,'" she said. “This is how I stay armored up when I'm attacked. The book is that offering.”
“I think people learn not through edict, but through stories,” she said. People posted a report on the interview on its website on Thursday, and it will appear in the magazine's Nov. 21 issue, available nationwide on Friday.
Mrs. Obama, the mother of Sasha and Malia Obama, opens up in the book about everything from how awkward it is to make new friends to her experiences with racism, marriage, parenting and even menopause.
She also writes about leaning on a “kitchen table” of close girlfriends, led by her 85-year-old mother, Marian Robinson. The group includes Kathleen Buhle, a hiking and yoga pal who is the ex-wife of President Joe Biden's son Hunter and the mother of Maisy Biden, Sasha Obama's best friend.
In 2018, Mrs. Obama released her best-selling memoir, “Becoming,” and embarked on a U.S. and international book tour to promote it. The book has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide, surpassing the sales of any memoir by a previous first lady or modern president, including her husband.
In her new book, the former first lady describes looking in the mirror and only seeing her flaws, and how she practices being kind to herself.
She said she also copes by indulging in what her husband calls “lowbrow TV.”
“You name it, I watch it," she said, naming HGTV, anything on the Food Channel and dating shows like “Married at First Sight" among her viewing choices.
The former first lady described herself as an informed citizen who reads the newspaper, gets briefs, sits with her husband every night and knows what's happening in the world.
But she said that “when I’m by myself, I need to be able to turn my head off and think about wallpaper.” | 2022-11-10T15:22:11+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/michelle-obama-new-book/507-70729170-c1e5-4c2f-b9fa-7d471560e73e |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding after a five-day clash that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel.
The latest round of Gaza fighting was sparked Tuesday when Israeli jets killed three top commanders from the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to earlier rocket launches from Gaza. Those killings set off a barrage of militant fire and the conflagration threatened to drag the region into another all-out war until an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took hold late Saturday.
While the calm appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza’s 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years.
In Gaza, residents surveyed the latest damage caused to their surroundings, with gaping holes left in the apartments serving as what Israel said were hideouts for the six senior Islamic Jihad members killed during this round. Gaza’s main cargo crossing with Israel reopened Sunday after warnings that keeping it closed would force Gaza’s sole power plant to shut down, deepening a power crisis.
Israel was gradually lifting restrictions on residents in southern Israel, which had borne the brunt of the rocket fire.
Israeli officials have expressed satisfaction with the latest battle, having eliminated many of Islamic Jihad’s top brass in what it says were pinpointed strikes based on solid intelligence. But at least 13 of those killed in Gaza were civilians, among them children as young as 4 years old, as well as women.
Israel has faced criticism in the past from rights groups over the civilian casualties in its bombardments in Gaza. Israel says it does its utmost to avoid harming civilians in its strikes and says militants operate from within the territory’s densely populated areas to fire rockets indiscriminately at Israeli communities.
Throughout the fighting, Israel’s repeated airstrikes targeting Islamic Jihad and its command centers and rocket-launching sites showed no signs of stopping the rocket fire, prompting Islamic Jihad to declare victory and sending cheering Palestinians out into the streets late Saturday.
The Israeli military reported over 1,400 launches throughout the fighting, with some rockets reaching as far as the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas. Israeli jets struck more than 400 targets, according to a preliminary military tally, which also showed about a fifth of the rockets were misfired and landed in Gaza, while most of the rest were either intercepted or landed in open areas.
An 80-year-old woman and a Palestinian laborer who was working inside Israel were killed by rocket fire. A Palestinian human rights group said three people, including two children, were killed in Gaza by errant rockets.
It was the latest in a long series of battles between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of the seaside territory in 2007. Israel and Hamas have fought four wars, and there have been numerous smaller flareups as well.
The more powerful Hamas has praised Islamic Jihad’s strikes but remained on the sidelines during the latest round of fighting, limiting the scope of the conflict. As the de facto government held responsible for the abysmal conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Hamas has recently tried to keep a lid on its conflict with Israel. Islamic Jihad, on the other hand, a more ideological and unruly militant group wedded to violence, has taken the lead in the past few rounds of fighting with Israel.
Saturday’s deal did not address many of the causes of the repeated fighting, including Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza, the large arsenals of weapons possessed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim all three areas for a future state. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but Hamas subsequently overran the territory and expelled forces loyal to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority.
Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade over Gaza in what Israel says is a policy aimed at preventing Hamas from arming. The Palestinians and international rights groups say the policy, which restricts the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, amounts to collective punishment.
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Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2023-05-14T08:23:45+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cease-fire-between-israel-and-militants-in-gaza-appears-to-hold-after-days-of-fighting/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The City of Buffalo is honoring the 4th of July, with what it's calling a patriotic light display.
Mayor Byron Brown announced that starting Friday Night, a patriotic exterior light display will illuminate the front of Buffalo City Hall. Each of the columns will be lit up in red, white, or blue through July 4th.
Mayor Brown said, “I want to wish City residents and visitors a safe and happy Fourth of July weekend in Buffalo, but also, I hope they pause to remember that freedom is not free - it’s paid for by all the people who serve our community and country to make our world a better place. The large columns at Buffalo City Hall, designed in the shape of tightly bundled reeds, were built to represent strength in unity. As we illuminate them this holiday weekend in patriotic colors, we are asking our community to come together to recognize the progress made by those who came before us as we continue to work together to promote freedom, equity, and opportunity for everyone.”
In addition to the light display on the columns, from Friday through Tuesday, the top of City Hall will be lit up in red, white, and blue. Mayor Brown is asking the same be done for landmarks across the city. | 2023-07-01T14:30:46+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/buffalo-4th-of-july-light-display/71-7cb63ef7-7265-48a2-93cf-c64ba27172db |
NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Val Kleyman, a partner at the Kleyman Law Firm, and a top-rated divorce and family law attorney in New York City explained what parental alienation is and the danger it poses in the context of family law.
According to attorney Val Kleyman, the term parental alienation rises out of a psychological term called Parental Alienation Syndrome (or PAS), which was devised in the 1980's. Parental Alienation Syndrome occurs when a parent unduly influences or "programs" the child into a campaign of denigration against the other parent. The second component is the child's own contributions that dovetail and complement the contributions of the programming parent.
"Your 15-year-old son asks if you can buy him a pair of hard-to-find sneakers for his birthday. If you respond by telling him to choose to live with you and not the other parent in exchange for buying him sneakers, you may have just conducted a form of parental alienation" said Kleyman.
While the act of buying a gift for a child does not automatically mean the parent is actively "alienating" the child against the other parent, the parent's intent may determine the buying of a gift as "parental alienation". For example, if the alienating parent reminds the child that they buy more gifts than the other parent, or if the alienating parent tells the child that if they buy a gift, then they must live with them and not with the other parent, that can be construed as parental alienation.
"Courts have held that a finding of parental interference or alienation by one parent against the other parent constitutes one fact, albeit an important one, in determining the best interests of the child, which is the standard courts use in New York to determine who will have custody of the child" said New York divorce lawyer.
Parental alienation also has a profound negative psychological impact on the child. "We strongly advise and caution our clients to be mindful that children are not pawns in their bitter divorce game".
Val Kleyman is a partner at the Kleyman Law Firm, handling divorce and family law matters in New York. The Kleyman Law Firm is located at One Rockefeller Plaza, 11th Floor, New York, NY. For more info go to https://nyc-divorcelawyer.com, email: vkleyman@kleymanfirm.com or call 212-401-1977.
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As the Patriots enter the 2023 offseason, it’s expected that we’ll see plenty of changes coming off a disappointing 8-9 season where the team’s offense was among the worst in the NFL.
By now, it’s clear that Bill Belichick should reevaluate how he handled replacing former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. However, it remains to be seen if the Patriots coach will reevaluate his quarterback position.
On Monday, in his final press conference of the 2022 NFL season, Belichick was noncommittal when asked if he envisioned Mac Jones being his starting quarterback in 2023.
“I think Mac has the ability to play quarterback in this league,” Belichick said. “We have to all work together to try to find the best way as a football team — which obviously quarterback’s an important position — to be more productive than we were this season. So that’s incumbent on all of us. We’ll all work together on that, and again, look for better results.”
The Patriots have Jones, rookie Bailey Zappe and veteran Brian Hoyer under contract for the 2023 season. According to Overthecap.com, the Patriots are projected to have the fourth-most cap space in free agency. They’re also set to have pick No. 14 in the 2023 NFL Draft.
After a rookie season, in which he was among the NFL’s top 15 quarterbacks in passing yards (3,801) and touchdowns (22), Jones looked like he regressed in 2022. The Patriots second-year quarterback finished with 2,997 yards to go with 14 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in a season that saw him miss three full games due to a high-ankle sprain.
It was a disappointing second season for Jones, who was named a Pro Bowler as a rookie and landed on the NFL Network’s Top 100 players of 2022 list at No. 85. The question now is whether Belichick believes that Jones is his starting quarterback in 2023 or if the Patriots coach will look to add to the position this offseason.
Jones did make some improvements throughout this season. In the second half of the NFL season, Weeks 9-to-18, Jones was 11th in the NFL in passing yards and 16th in passing touchdowns. Prior to getting injured, Jones started the season 11th in passing yards in the first three weeks. However, he was also tied for the NFL lead with five interceptions at that time.
In the end, the Patriots took a big step backward on offense in 2022. They finished the regular season ranked 26th in yards, 24th in rushing, 20th in passing, 21st in interception rate, 19th in sacks per pass attempt, 28th in first downs, 27th on third downs and dead last in red zone efficiency.
In the end, the Patriots 2022 offense scored 31 touchdowns after scoring 48 touchdowns in 2021.
When asked what he learned about Jones in 2022, Belichick wouldn’t say.
“I think every year, you learn everything. You learn the players, the team, how certain teams handle or react to certain things,” Belichick said. “What things are easy for some teams and what things are hard for some teams. Sometimes that includes players, certainly signal callers, operations and so forth. Again, we’ll look at everything and continue to try to find the best ways to operate. A lot of things were streamlined and became more efficient during the season, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement so we’ll continue to look at those and address them.” | 2023-01-09T15:49:47+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2023/01/bill-belichick-doesnt-commit-to-mac-jones-as-patriots-2023-starting-qb.html |
BEIJING (AP) — An open pit mine collapsed in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday, killing at least two people and leaving more than 50 missing, state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency said people were buried under debris at the mine in Alxa League. Rescuers brought out three people, two of whom showed no signs of life.
Other state media reports gave the total number of missing at 57 and said numerous vehicles were also buried in the collapse.
Inner Mongolia is a key region for mining coal and other minerals in China, which critics say has ravaged the original landscape of mountains, grassy steppe and deserts.
China overwhelmingly relies on coal for power generation, but has strived to reduce the number of deadly mine accidents through a greater emphasis on safety and the closure of smaller operations that lacked necessary equipment.
Most mining deaths are attributed to explosions caused by the buildup of methane and coal dust, or to drownings caused when miners break into shafts that had been abandoned due to flooding.
China has recorded a slew of deadly industrial and construction accidents in recent months as a result of poor safety training and regulation, official corruption and a tendency to cut corners by companies seeking to eek out profits. The economy has slowed, partly as a result of draconian lockdowns and quarantines imposed under the now-abandoned “zero-COVID” policy. | 2023-02-22T14:13:31+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-at-least-2-dead-more-than-50-missing-in-china-mine-collapse/ |
MILWAUKEE — An 11-month-old boy drowned near 30th and Burnham in Milwaukee on Monday, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
What they described as a probable drowning happened just before noon that day. The victim was pronounced dead on Tuesday. An autopsy is pending and Milwaukee police are investigating.
The location where the boy died is not near the lake or Milwaukee's rivers, suggesting he died on the property of one of the homes in that area.
No other details were released.
This is a developing story and will be updated when we learn more. | 2022-10-12T15:12:40+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/11-month-old-boy-drowns-near-30th-and-burnham-in-milwaukee-me-says |
Will help law enforcement strengthen response tactics for Hobbs Municipal School District (NM), Rancocas Valley Regional HS (NJ), South Side Area School District (PA)
PHILADELPHIA, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroEyes, Inc., creators of the only A.I.-based platform focused on weapons detection that holds the US Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation, today announced a roadshow to support active shooter training events at multiple U.S. schools. The company will conduct demonstrations and discussion sessions to educate schools and law enforcement on how to prepare for and respond to active shooter scenarios by leveraging A.I. gun detection software supported by real-time threat intelligence.
ZeroEyes is planning training events with several schools, and will begin its roadshow at the following locations:
- Hobbs Municipal School District (Hobbs, NM) - July 20
- South Side Area School District (Beaver County, PA) - July 28
- Rancocas Valley Regional High School (Mt. Holly, NJ) - August 17
The Gun Violence Archive has recorded more than 300 mass shootings in 2022, averaging 1.7 mass shootings a day. School districts remain a prime target, as evidenced by the recent shooting in Uvalde, TX. Active shooter training events are designed to improve active shooter prevention tactics and boost first responder and police response to future gun threats.
As part of the drills, law enforcement will test their response times for real-world active shooter scenarios both with and without the ZeroEyes platform. Additional school districts and businesses will be invited to attend lunch and learn sessions, hear law enforcement speak about ZeroEyes' technology, and see a demonstration of the platform.
"When we conducted an active shooter drill in 2019, it took law enforcement three minutes to reach the active shooter without ZeroEyes, and only 30 seconds with ZeroEyes," said Dr. Christopher Heilig, Superintendent, Rancocas Valley Regional High School. "ZeroEyes provides invaluable situational intelligence that helps first responders rapidly locate the person with the weapon and minimize casualties."
ZeroEyes' A.I. gun detection platform integrates with existing security cameras and utilizes hundreds of thousands of proprietary images to detect the brandishing of a gun and alert a potential gun threat. The gun detection is then sent to the ZeroEyes Operation Center (ZOC) for human verification, and a timestamp, keyframe image, and location are dispatched over desktop and mobile applications to faculty, staff and first responders within 3-5 seconds.
"I believe ZeroEyes to be a response multiplier that allows students and staff to remain safe and respond quicker when an individual decides to carry out an attack," said Gene Strickland, Superintendent, Hobbs Municipal Schools. "ZeroEyes performs as billed and is an essential component of our Safety and Security Ecosystem within Hobbs Municipal Schools."
"ZeroEyes is an integral and central part of our proactive approach to school security," said Alan R. Fritz, Jr., Superintendent, South Side Area School District. "In the event of an emergency, time is of the essence and the AI technology provided by the ZeroEyes system provides us with extra time to deploy our security measures."
"Our research has found that the average police response time for an active shooter event is approximately twelve minutes," said Mike Lahiff, CEO and co-founder of ZeroEyes. "When it comes to saving lives, response time is crucial and can have a significant impact on lives saved. By participating in active shooter training events across the U.S., we hope to demonstrate how threat intelligence provided by ZeroEyes can help schools and law enforcement respond to gun-related threats more swiftly and efficiently."
Learn more about ZeroEyes and its mission to mitigate gun violence by visiting ZeroEyes.com.
ZeroEyes delivers a proactive, human-verified A.I. gun detection software solution that integrates into existing security cameras and mitigates mass shootings and gun-related violence by reducing response times, providing actionable intelligence with images and delivering clarity among chaos – ultimately saving lives. ZeroEyes has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a promising anti-terrorism technology and is the first video analytics technology to receive SAFETY Act DT&E Designation.
Founded by Navy SEALs and Special Operations military veterans, ZeroEyes delivers accurate and real-time actionable intelligence about the brandishing of a gun near or in an occupied area or building, to local staff and law enforcement with an image of the shooter(s) and location of the threat, within 3 to 5 seconds from the moment the gun is detected. The ZeroEyes team also provides tech consulting, installation assistance and practice drills for active shooter events to enhance safety at schools, corporate and government facilities. Headquartered in the Greater Philadelphia area, the company's affordable and effective gun detection solution has been adopted by the US Department of Defense, leading public K-12 school districts, colleges/universities, commercial property groups, manufacturing plants, Fortune 500 corporate campuses, shopping malls, big-box retail stores and more. Learn more about ZeroEyes at ZeroEyes.com.
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A Live Events Leader Evolves and Grows, Uniting Brands and Moms Nationwide
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mom Media, the creator of Mom 2.0, North America's largest parenting media events company and home to the nation's longest-running and farthest-reaching community of parenting influencers, has emerged from the pandemic as one of the fastest-growing marketing firms in the USA and is a key source of income and opportunity for thousands of mom influencers nationwide.
Since 2008, the focus had been on live, in-person events and experiential marketing. This included its annual Mom 2.0 Summit, parenting media's flagship event for brand marketers, parenting creators, and traditional media. Sponsors included major brands like Google, Best Buy, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, Kia, Unilever, and many others.
When in-person gatherings were halted, Mom Media adapted and evolved. The business that emerged from the pandemic provides a transformed suite of offerings that has seen non-event-related revenue grow by over 1000%. Today, Mom Media leads some of the nation's most important influencer campaigns, with clients ranging from the White House to global CPG brands to Hollywood studios.
"The pandemic was like a chrysalis for us," said John Pacini, Mom Media CEO. "We entered March 2020 as mostly a live events and experiential marketing business, and emerged in 2022 as a multi-dimensional firm with deep capabilities and the industry's most experienced team. Add our fifteen-year history of working with the world's biggest brands, and we're able to compete and win on a huge scale. Exponential growth just becomes a matter of resources and time."
This also means a steady flow of vetted opportunities for parent creators, overseen by the Mom Media team. Mom 2.0 is a trusted name with the nation's leading parenting influencers in its community that reaches over 250 million consumers around the world. "In recent months alone we've put nearly a million dollars into the hands of hardworking parent content creators," said Carrie Pacini, Mom Media co-founder.
The Mom 2.0 Summit returned in April, with over 700 top parenting media live in person, an online audience of over 66 million, and over 183 million media impressions.
All this translates into a powerful ROI for Mom Media clients and sponsors. A campaign for Sprout Pharmaceuticals achieved over 44 billion impressions, and another for GSK exceeded that brand's marketing goals by over 40%. Mom Media and its community have also helped increase family moviegoing for major theatrical releases, have been a key player in the White House / HHS Covid-19 vaccine outreach, and a lead influencer firm for March of Dimes.
As Money Magazine detailed, the Mom 2.0 community launched today's $11 billion influencer marketing industry. "The effects of the pandemic may have changed how moms have to work, but it didn't dampen the drive or the resourcefulness of our community." said Laura Mayes, Mom Media co-founder. "As the industry, the platforms, and the community are evolving, we'll evolve and adapt alongside them. They keep creating thoughtful content while we keep connecting them with more brands and more opportunities."
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
John Pacini
832.380.5540
john.pacini@mom2.com
About Mom 2.0
Owned by Mom Media Enterprises, LLC and founded in 2008, Mom 2.0 is North America's #1 organization for parenting content creators, marketers and media. It is home to compelling content, engaging relationships, and memorable campaigns.
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