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Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion
San Francisco — It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations.
The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California's $300 billion annual budget, and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average life span. Nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing Black businesses, two other harms the task force says the state perpetuated.
Black residents may not receive cash payments anytime soon, if ever, because the state may never adopt the economists' calculations. The reparations task force is scheduled to discuss the numbers Wednesday and can vote to adopt the suggestions or come up with its own figures. The proposed number comes from a consulting team of five economists and policy experts.
“We’ve got to go in with an open mind and come up with some creative ways to deal with this,” said Assembly member Reggie Jones-Sawyer, one of two lawmakers on the task force responsible for mustering support from state legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom before any reparations could become reality.
In an interview prior to the meeting, Jones-Sawyer said he needed to consult budget analysts, other legislators and the governor’s office before deciding whether the scale of payments is feasible.
The estimates for policing and disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination are not new. The figures came up in a September presentation as the consulting team sought guidance on whether to use a national or California-specific model to calculate damages.
But the task force must now settle on a cash amount as it nears a July 1 deadline to recommend to lawmakers how California can atone for its role in perpetuating racist systems that continue to undermine Black people.
For those who support reparations, the staggering $800 billion amount economists suggest underscores the long-lasting harm Black Americans have endured, even in a state that never officially endorsed slavery. Critics pin their opposition partly on the fact that California was never a slave state and say current taxpayers should not be responsible for damage linked to events that germinated hundreds of years ago.
Task force recommendations are just the start because ultimate authority rests with the state Assembly, Senate and the governor.
“That’s going to be the real hurdle,” said Sen. Steven Bradford, who sits on the panel. “How do you compensate for hundreds of years of harm, even 150 years post-slavery?”
Financial redress is just one part of the package being considered. Other proposals include paying incarcerated inmates market value for their labor, establishing free wellness centers and planting more trees in Black communities, banning cash bail and adopting a K-12 Black studies curriculum.
Gov. Newsom signed legislation in 2020 creating the reparations task force after national protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. While federal initiatives have stalled, cities, counties and other institutions have stepped in.
An advisory committee in San Francisco has recommended $5 million payouts, as well as guaranteed income of at least $97,000 and personal debt forgiveness for qualifying individuals. Supervisors expressed general support, but stopped short of endorsing specific proposals. They will take up the issue later this year.
The statewide estimate includes $246 billion to compensate eligible Black Californians whose neighborhoods were subjected to aggressive policing and prosecution of Black people in the “war on drugs” from 1970 to 2020. That would translate to nearly $125,000 for every person who qualifies.
The numbers are approximate, based on modeling and population estimates. The economists also included $569 billion to make up for the discriminatory practice of redlining in housing loans. Such compensation would amount to about $223,000 per eligible resident who lived in California from 1933 to 1977. The aggregate is considered a maximum and assumes all 2.5 million people who identify as Black in California would be eligible.
Redlining officially began in the 1930s when the federal government started backing mortgages to support homebuying, but excluded majority Black neighborhoods by marking them red on internal maps. The racial gap in homeownership persists today, and Black-owned homes are frequently undervalued. Redlining officially ended in 1977, but the practice persisted.
Monetary redress will be available to people who meet residency and other requirements. They must also be descendants of enslaved and freed Black people in the U.S. as of the 19th century, which leaves out Black immigrants.
In their report, the consultants suggest the state task force “err on the side of generosity” and consider a down-payment with more money to come as more evidence becomes available.
“It should be communicated to the public that the substantial initial down-payment is the beginning of a conversation about historical injustices, not the end of it,” they said. | 2023-03-29T14:59:16+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/29/reparations-for-black-californians-could-top-800-billion/70058992007/ |
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Vermont nursing home over allegations that it allowed patients to racially abuse Black staff members.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Burlington says the long-term care facility Elderwood at Burlington violated federal law by allowing Black nurses and nurse assistants to be subjected to what the suit describes as ongoing and egregious racial harassment.
The suit says that starting in 2020, certain white residents of Elderwood repeatedly directed offensive racial slurs and physically assaulted Elderwood’s Black nurses and nurse assistants.
“This harassment was especially grotesque, and should have been addressed quickly but was allowed to continue,” Timothy Riera, acting director of the EEOC's New York District Office, said in a news release. “An employer cannot ignore egregious racial harassment simply because the harassers are long-term care facility residents.”
In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, Elderwood spokesperson Chuck Hayes said the company was aware of the EEOC suit but could not comment on ongoing legal matters.
“We strongly emphasize that Elderwood at Burlington does not tolerate harassment of any kind, and prides itself on promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion,” the statement said. “All reports of inappropriate resident behavior are investigated and addressed. We will vigorously defend our efforts to protect our staff from racial harassment.”
The EEOC lawsuit says the harassment was carried out by a white male resident and female residents. The workers noted the harassment in resident care notes and one employee reported multiple complaints through Elderwood's employee hotline.
Elderwood managers observed the workers being subjected to the racial harassment, but did not stop it and they attended a meeting in August 2020 where the affected employees complained about the harassment, the suit says.
The suit says unsuccessful efforts were made to move the white male resident to another facility. After the alleged abuse was reported by the Vermont weekly newspaper Seven Days in October 2020, Elderwood officials told state officials they tried to move the white male resident to another facility, but no such transfer occurred.
The EEOC tried to reach an agreement with Elderwood to settle the charges, but was unable to do so, the suit says. The suit is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for the affected employees and the prevention of future workplace racial harassment. | 2022-09-07T17:24:16+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/EEOC-sues-Vermont-nursing-home-over-racial-abuse-17424783.php |
Avast researchers discover new zero-day exploits, and changes in attack vectors since Microsoft Office macros have been blocked
PRAGUE, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avast (LSE: AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy released its Q2/2022 Threat Report today, revealing a significant increase in global ransomware attacks, up 24% from Q1/2022. Researchers also uncovered a new zero-day exploit in Chrome, as well as signals how cybercriminals are preparing to move away from macros as an infection vector.
After months of decline, global ransomware attacks increased significantly in Q2/2022, up 24% from the previous quarter. The highest quarter-on-quarter increases in ransomware risk ratio occurred in Argentina (+56%), UK (+55%), Brazil (+50%), France (+42%), and India (+37%).
"Consumers, but especially businesses should be on guard and prepared for encounters with ransomware, as the threat is not going anywhere anytime soon," explains Jakub Kroustek, Avast Malware Research Director. "The decline in ransomware attacks we observed in Q4/2021 and Q1/2022 were thanks to law enforcement agencies busting ransomware group members, and caused by the war in Ukraine, which also led to disagreements within the Conti ransomware group, halting their operations. Things dramatically changed in Q2/2022. Conti members have now branched off to create new ransomware groups, like Black Basta and Karakurt, or may join other existing groups, like Hive, BlackCat, or Quantum, causing an uptick in activity."
Avast researchers discovered two new zero day exploits used by Israeli spyware vendor Candiru to target journalists in Lebanon, among others. The first was a bug in WebRTC, which was exploited to attack Google Chrome users in highly targeted watering hole attacks, but also affected many other browsers. Another exploit allowed the attackers to escape a sandbox they landed in after exploiting the first zero-day. The second zero-day Avast discovered was exploited to get into Windows kernel.
Another zero-day described in the report is Follina, a remote code execution bug in Microsoft Office, which was widely exploited by attackers ranging from cybercriminals to Russia-linked APT groups operating in Ukraine. The zero-day was also abused by Gadolinium/APT40, a known Chinese APT group, in an attack against targets in Palau.
Microsoft is now blocking VBA macros by default in Office applications. Macros have been a popular infection vector for decades. They were used by threats described in the Q2/2022 Threat Report, including remote access trojans like Nerbian RAT, a new RAT written in Go that emerged in Q2/2022, and by the Confucius APT group to drop further malware onto victims' computers.
"We have already noticed threat actors beginning to prepare alternative infection vectors, now that macros are being blocked by default. For example, IcedID and Emotet have already started using LNK files, ISO or IMG images, and other tricks supported on the Windows platform as an alternative to maldocs to spread their campaigns," continued Jakub Kroustek. "While cybercriminals will surely continue to find other ways of getting their malware onto people's computers, we are hopeful that Microsoft's decision will help make the internet a safer place."
The full Avast Q2/2022 Threat Report can be found here: https://decoded.avast.io/threatresearch/avast-q2-2022-threat-report/
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bombing at a crowded bazaar in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday killed at least five people and wounded 16, authorities said amid a surge in violence in this South Asian nation.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Barkhan, about 600 kilometers (360 miles) northeast of Quetta, the provincial capital.
Sajjad Afzal, the local police chief, said the bomb was apparently rigged to a motorcycle and was detonated by remote control. Apart from inflicting casualties, the bombing also left several shops at the market badly damaged. Rescuers took the wounded to hospital, Afzal said.
Baluchistan has long struggled with a low-level insurgency by the Baluchistan Liberation Army and other small separatist groups demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad.
Authorities claim to have quelled the insurgency but violence has persisted. The restive province has seen attacks by both the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic State group.
Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, the chief minister of Baluchistan, condemned the bombing, describing it as a terrorist attack.
“Terrorists are trying to create uncertainty through such attacks to achieve their nefarious goals, but we will not allow these anti-state elements to succeed, “ he said without specifically blaming anyone. | 2023-02-26T07:08:22+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/bombing-in-crowded-bazaar-in-southwestern-17806497.php |
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, today announced it will continue its partnership with the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) as a sponsor and will attend the SMISS Annual Forum '22 held September 29 to October 1, 2022 in Las Vegas.
"SMISS and NuVasive share a common belief in the importance of research and education to advance less invasive surgery," said Chris Barry, chief executive officer at NuVasive. "With multiple approaches to enable patient-specific, optimized surgical outcomes, it is important to select the right procedure, create a patient-specific surgical plan, and utilize enabling technologies for more intelligent surgery. We look forward to showcasing our clinically backed X360 portfolio, enabled by Pulse®, at SMISS."
Visit booth #201/203 for live demonstrations of Pulse and conversations with NuVasive leadership around X360 and thoracolumbar posterior procedural solutions. NuVasive will name the Pioneer in Lateral Access Award recipient during the SOLAS session on Thursday, September 29.
About NuVasive
NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) is the leader in spine technology innovation, with a mission to transform surgery, advance care, and change lives. The Company's less-invasive, procedurally integrated surgical solutions are designed to deliver reproducible and clinically proven outcomes. The Company's comprehensive procedural portfolio includes surgical access instruments, spinal implants, fixation systems, biologics, software for surgical planning, navigation and imaging solutions, magnetically adjustable implant systems for spine and orthopedics, and intraoperative neuromonitoring technology and service offerings. With more than $1 billion in net sales, NuVasive operates in more than 50 countries serving surgeons, hospitals, and patients. For more information, please visit www.nuvasive.com.
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The move reflects Fingerpaint Group's commitment to innovate its capabilities as clients' needs evolve.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fingerpaint Group announced the rebranding of its market access solution, formerly known as 1798, to Fingerpaint Market Access, a highly integrated end-to-end consultancy offering strategy development through creative execution.
A leading healthcare solutions company, Fingerpaint Group partners with global pharmaceutical companies to develop and execute integrated marketing strategies, then measure and optimize those omnichannel efforts in every market. Its people-first culture attracts and retains the best and the brightest talent in the industry.
"The industry's expectations of market access consultancies have evolved—and so have ours. This relaunch is in line with Fingerpaint Group's relentless commitment to deliver optimized commercialization solutions that span the full product life cycle," said Brannon Cashion, President, Specialty Services at Fingerpaint Group, which includes Fingerpaint Market Access. "Ensuring access in all forms is critical in today's landscape, especially when you look at it through the lens of specialty products and personalized medicine."
Fingerpaint Market Access is built on a foundation of firsthand experience from seasoned experts who have been involved in more than 30 launches in just the past three years. With its very own design studio, Fingerpaint Market Access offers everything from tactical support to collateral material development.
"Fingerpaint Market Access is positioned to ensure strategies are not just created, but pulled through, which offers clients consistency and continuity," said Troy Hampton, Managing Director, Fingerpaint Market Access. "As part of Fingerpaint Group, Fingerpaint Market Access is able to tap into best-in-class integrated marketing solutions to coordinate a connected, end-to-end program."
About Fingerpaint Group
Results Measured in Humanity™.
We are an integrated collection of healthcare companies. Our creative solutions are fueled by the deep human and scientific insights that drive change. Informed by data and driven by innate curiosity and creativity, Fingerpaint Group solves the business and human challenges that hinder positive health experiences. We believe everything we do can help paint a healthy future.
Fingerpaint Group is composed of marketing services including Fingerpaint, Fingerpaint Multicultural, and Engage; and specialty services including Fingerpaint Market Access, Leaderboard Branding, MedThink Communications, MedThink SciCom, and Parsons Medical Communications. Collectively, its companies have been named Agency of the Year 5 times; honored by the Lisbon International Health Festival, DTC National, D&AD, the Clio Awards, and the Webby, Telly, and Global Awards; acknowledged as a DE&I Champion; named Best Places to Work twice by Ad Age; and included on Inc. Magazine's list of the 5,000 Fastest-Growing Companies for 10 consecutive years. Visit Fingerpaint Group at www.fingerpaint.com.
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As temperatures heat up and hordes of Americans begin spending their days at the beach or pool, they'll be thinking of that quintessential summer treat to help them keep cool: ice cream.
While you may have your go-to order etched into your brain in the chance that an ice cream truck rolls down your street, you might be surprised to find a whole new world of options at your local grocery store or ice cream shop.
Thanks to the popularization of plant-based diets, non-dairy ice cream has become a huge industry, catering to people with all types of palates, dietary needs, and curiosities for where the world of ice cream may be going.
Brittany Martin is an editor of Vegetarian Times, which focuses on plant-based food and the lifestyle that comes along with it.
"There's been an amazing explosion in the availability of vegan ice cream, and also the quality of it as well," Martin said. "Market reports say that there's been something like a 300% increase just since 2018."
She theorizes that there are a few factors behind this boom.
Firstly, there's been a surge in people who have adopted vegan or vegetarian diet in the past few years. Second, people have become more open-minded about trying these alternatives, whether it be for their health, environmental reasons, or just because it tastes good.
"People used to think that vegan ice cream is lesser-than, or not as delicious, not as creamy," she said. "But between people just being more creative ... and some of the technology innovations, the quality is really there."
These innovations can span from intriguing new flavor combinations, to better textures than vegan options that came before. And ultimately, to a product that feels much more familiar to the average consumer.
Alicia Kennedy, a vegetarian food writer, said that until recently there were just a handful of little-known brands selling vegan ice cream. Now, big companies have entered the game.
"You're gonna see Ben & Jerry's non-dairy in the aisles of a Walgreens or any old supermarket," she said. "It's been a real shift from an aisle at the natural grocer."
These days, you also can find ice cream made from all types of milk — cashew, oat, hemp, and more, each offering a distinct flavor and texture.
While Kennedy and Martin both say plant-based ice cream probably won't replace the dairy option anytime soon, Martin said it wasn't about competing — it's just about having more options available for everybody.
"This is not weird, you're not missing out on anything," she said. "It's just as great and it's gonna fill all of those same cravings you have"
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-05-31T16:10:34+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2022-05-31/heres-the-scoop-on-vegan-ice-cream-and-why-its-everywhere-now |
La. legislative leaders ask Gov. Edwards to postpone special session until matter resolved in courts
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Senate president and House speaker are asking Gov. John Bel Edwards to step back from his call for a special session about redrawing Congressional District maps until the matter makes its way through the courts.
Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, and Speaker of the House Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, issued the following joint statement on Friday, June 10:
“The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has issued a stay of the June 6 district court’s ruling regarding congressional redistricting rendering the Governor’s proclamation calling and convening the Legislature into a special session unnecessary and premature. Until the courts have made a final determination on the congressional maps as they were passed by a super majority of the Legislature, we are asking the Governor to rescind his special session call. Before the judicial redistricting process is complete, any special session would be premature and a waste of taxpayer money.”
A federal judge ruled on June 6 that the Louisiana Legislature must redraw the maps by June 20 to include an additional majority-minority district. The day after the ruling, Gov. Edwards called for a special session to begin on June 15.
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BEVERLEY, William R. "Bill"
Age 94, passed away peacefully on August 30, 2022, surrounded by family. A life-long resident of Dayton, Bill was born on September 2, 1927, to the late Robert and Mary (Topie) Beverley. He attended Wilbur Wright High School, graduating in 1945. Bill was a WWII Navy veteran. He retired from the National Cash Register Company after 40 years.
Bill was preceded in death by his first wife, Elizabeth 'Tip' Clayton and his second wife, H. Jane King Owens. He is survived by his loving daughters: Karen Beverley, Kristi Beverley, Kathy (Don) Saunders, Kim (Michael) Bruno, Karyl Taulbee, and step-sons, Mike (Jill) Owens and Rob Owens. He was preceded in death by his step-daughter, Kathy (Ted) Brannan. Bill also leaves behind 19 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Bill was an active gardener well into his 90's. He always had the best kept gardens. He had a passion for golf and was an active member of the NCR Country Club for over 25 years. His other hobbies included fishing, hunting, traveling and volunteering. Bill was always the life of any party and was loved by all who knew him. He will be dearly missed.
The family would like to thank the staff at The Preserve and Day City Hospice of Dayton for their loving kindness and attention to all of Bill's medical and personal needs.
Family will receive guests from 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at Newcomer Funeral Home, (3940 Kettering Blvd, Kettering, OH 45439). A funeral service will begin at 11:00 a.m. Interment with military honors will follow the service at Calvary Cemetery, Dayton.
In lieu of flowers, the family is suggesting a donation in Bill's name to Day City Hospice, 8039 Washington Square Dr., Suite 110, Centerville, OH 45458.
To share a memory of Bill or leave his family a special message, please visit www.newcomerdayton.com.
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Newcomer Funeral Home - Kettering Chapel | 2022-09-04T06:08:10+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/beverley-william/SWQR2KNGORHMFKRDFYL6YNVDQM/ |
SALEM, Va. (WNCT) — The Down East Wood Ducks took down the Salem Red Sox on Friday night, 7-4, thanks to a seven-run second inning.
The game remained scoreless after the first inning, but the Wood Ducks blew it open in the second, plating seven runs without a home run. The scoring started with a passed ball, then a fielders choice by Zion Bannister, a sacrifice fly by Gleider Figuereo and three singles.
The Red Sox didn’t score until the bottom of the third thanks to a single by Juan Chacon. They then cut the lead to five in the bottom of the sixth on a groundout. They tried to come back in the bottom of the ninth with a home run by Allan Castro, but closing pitcher Jackson Leath got them out of the jam and they walked away with a win.
The two teams will face each other again on Saturday night. | 2023-06-24T17:46:18+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/down-east-wood-ducks/down-east-wood-ducks-defeat-salem-red-sox-7-4/ |
Tuesday stood as a day of juxtaposition for the Miami Heat. On a day Kevin Durant appeared more available than ever on the NBA trade market, the Heat disappeared from a pair of lists of potential suitors for the disgruntled Brooklyn Nets forward.
At least in the eyes of some of the wiseguys.
As they are wont to do amid such heavily publicized sports moments, a pair of offshore books updated their odds of potential landing spots for the 12-time All-Star.
The Heat were nowhere to be found.
SportsBetting.ag listed 12 possible landing spots for Durant, the day after a report from The Athletic of Durant insisting on regime change in Brooklyn for him to stay.
The list of that dozen teams had the Boston Celtics as a robust favorite, at minus 175. Next closest on that list were the Phoenix Suns, Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors, all at plus 400. The list also included odds for the Portland Trail Blazers (+900), Memphis Grizzlies (+1200), Los Angeles Clippers (+1400), Atlanta Hawks (+1600), New York Knicks (+1600), Los Angeles Lakers (+1800), Chicago Bulls (+2200) and Oklahoma City Thunder (+2200).
At BetOnLine.ag, the Celtics also were listed at minus 175 (4-to-7 odds) as the favorite to land Durant, followed by Suns +350 (7-to-2), Warriors +400 (4-to-1), Raptors +400, Trail Blazers +900, Grizzlies +1200, Clippers +1400, Hawks +1600, Knicks +1600, Lakers +1800, Bulls +2200 and Thunder +2200.
Those numbers represent a dramatic shift since Durant’s initial trade request on June 30, when ESPN reported that the Suns and Heat were his preferred landing spots.
Since that initial request, the Suns lost center Deandre Ayton as a possible trade chip, after he was re-signed by Phoenix as a restricted free agent and became ineligible to be dealt. In that same time frame, the South Florida Sun Sentinel confirmed that one high-ranking member of the Heat vetoed a potential Heat trade bid with center Bam Adebayo.
In the interim have come reports of a willingness by the Celtics to include former All-Star guard Jaylen Brown into a potential Durant trade package, the biggest name reported to have been offered for Durant.
Amid speculation last month about the potential availability of Durant and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, the Heat put out word that they were content with their current roster, one that lost only veteran power forward P.J. Tucker from the core that finished within one game of last season’s NBA Finals.
But then came the latest salvo from Durant, 33. with the report that the only path for his return to the Nets would be the dismissal of Brooklyn coach Steve Nash and general manager Sean Marks, the former Heat center.
Against that backdrop, Nets owner Joe Tsai posted Monday night on Twitter, “Our front office and coaching staff have my support. We will make decisions in the best interest of the Brooklyn Nets.”
Even if the Heat were to up the ante by offering Adebayo, it would remain a tricky proposition for the teams’ front offices. Because teams can only have on their roster one player acquired in a trade who is on a maximum rookie-scale extension, the Nets would have to offload Ben Simmons in order to acquire Adebayo, with both signed to such deals. Simmons was acquired by the Nets in February in the trade that sent James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers.
In the absence of Adebayo, the best Heat offer likely would center around Tyler Herro, with a variety of other contracts needed to match Durant’s $44 million 2022-23 salary. Among Heat options in that regard could be Duncan Robinson or Kyle Lowry, who recently acknowledged dealing with trade rumors. Durant is under contract through 2025-26.
Nonetheless, The Athletic’s report on Durant’s latest iteration of his trade request said, “The Celtics, Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat remain the most significant candidates to acquire Durant, sources said.”
The Heat were among the finalists for Durant’s services in 2017 free agency, before he opted to move from the Thunder to the Warriors.
The most significant twist to the Durant drama is there now appears to be a definitive deadline for action by the Nets. With NBA teams holding their annual media day on Sept. 26, a day ahead of the start of training camp, it would appear that would be a drop-dead date for the Nets to either deal Durant or move on from Nash and Marks.
() | 2022-08-09T20:22:54+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/08/09/has-kevin-durant-situation-become-clearer-for-heat-or-even-cloudier-odds-are-it-remains-confusing/ |
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana’s celebration began hours before tipoff Sunday as throngs of students and fans gathered outside Assembly Hall.
Inside, the party continued as the program's first home sellout crowd finally watched a long-awaited net-cutting ceremony. It could be just the start for the Hoosiers.
Mackenzie Holmes scored 20 points, Grace Berger added 14 points and 10 assists and No. 2 Indiana routed Purdue 83-60 to clinch a share of its first Big Ten regular-season championship since 1982-83, the first season of league play.
Indiana has never won an outright title — yet — but players and coaches basked in the moment as they collected the trophy with music blaring in the background.
“I was just so focused on the game, I didn’t even realize when I came out that we had won the championship,” Berger said. “I think Mackenzie told me. Once I realized it, it was really special.”
The scene was yet another significant step Indiana's nine-year ascent under coach Teri Moren.
Indiana (26-1, 16-1) already has broken the single-season school record and now, with 14 straight victories, it's also tied the second-longest streak in school history. They’ve won 18 consecutive home games and Moren, who became the Hoosiers’ career wins leader earlier this season, is two wins away from No. 200 with the Hoosiers and three away from No. 400 overall.
But what Sunday revealed most about these Hoosiers (26-1, 16-1) is that they've done more than win games.
On the day they honored the 40th anniversary of the only other women's regular-season championship team, Indiana also played in front of a fourth record crowd this season, 17,222. And they did it the pep band blaring, with fans repeatedly bouncing up and down, wearing players’ numbers and a deafening roar as the final seconds ticked off the clock.
The combination doomed Purdue’s party-crashing hopes.
Lasha Petree scored 23 points and joined the 2,000-point club. Abbey Ellis added 12 for the Boilermakers (17-8, 8-7). It wasn't nearly enough to avoid a ninth consecutive loss in this rivalry and second-year coach Katie Gearlds is looking to the Hoosiers as a model for her own program.
“Teri, in nine years, what she’s done here ahs been remarkable, something we’d like to duplicate in West Lafayette,” the second-year coach said. “We understand it’s going to take some time, but huge congrats to Indiana today.”
The Boilermakers still made it tough on Indiana.
They closed the first half on a 7-0 run to cut a 10-point deficit to 37-34 and were still down five early in the second half.
Then Berger and Holmes combined for six straight points and Chloe Moore-McNeil added a midrange jumper to make it 52-39 with 4:19 left in the third quarter.
Purdue threatened to keep it close by answering with five straight only to give all those points backs back on one play — with Moore-McNeil making a 3-pointer and a foul called as the ball went through the net. Sydney Parrish hit both throws to give Indiana a 60-44 with 1:15 left in the third quarter and the only lingering question was long the postgame celebration would last.
“We knew this was going to be another test, another challenge but there was this mindset of if we can do it in front of our home crowd what a great moment that would be,” Moren said after twirling the net toward the crowd. “To do it in front of 17,000 fans, our friends, our families makes it extra special.”
BIG PICTURE
Purdue: Gearlds has revived the Boilermakers program. Despite hanging around for a half, Purdue ran into a perfect second-half storm. Better days are ahead Gearlds and her program, maybe even this week, as they try to make their NCAA Tournament case.
Indiana: It's been a dream season for the Hoosiers. They've broken records on and off the court and now they've ended their title drought. But they insist they're not finished yet. Winning their first outright conference crown should set up Indiana for a deep run in the conference tourney and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
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Nobody can quibble with the Hoosiers' ranking. They're 9-0 against ranked teams, perfect at home and one win away from matching the school's longest winning streak. But unless defending national champion South Carolina's perfect season ends, Indiana will remain No. 2.
UP NEXT
Purdue: Hosts Penn State on Wednesday.
Indiana: Gets a six-day break before facing No. 7 Iowa next Sunday.
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McMaster University enables new innovative capability in multi-length scale experiments for materials across diverse research fields through a new partnership between the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy and ZEISS, featured in a workshop premiering March 6-7.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and HAMILTON, ON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM), located at McMaster University, recently acquired a ZEISS Crossbeam 350 laser FIB-SEM and a next-generation Versa 3D X-ray microscope. This opens new innovative approaches to science by correlating high-resolution non-destructive 3D X-ray imaging with FIB-SEM 3D imaging aided by integrated femtosecond laser for precise machining. This enables high-resolution 2D and 3D analysis at sites within millimeter volumes of materials.
These advancements will be demonstrated in an upcoming free workshop March 6-7 scheduled as a hybrid event with international speakers. Register here to join virtually or in person: https://ccem.mcmaster.ca/events/correlative-workflows-and-applications-characterization-from-x-rays-to-electrons-workshop/
The new capabilities provide experimental efficiencies allowing a higher number of experiments than previously possible, accelerating the rate of scientific discovery. The faster sample preparation enabled by the femtosecond laser is causing a paradigm shift in the types of experiments that can be done as well as their frequency. In addition, the study of materials across length scales can be well supported with statistically valid data captured in context of the larger specimen.
"Our new instruments are key to advancing materials important to society today, such as batteries, semiconductors, and metal alloys," said Nabil Bassim, Scientific Director of CCEM, McMaster University. "With a high-resolution 3D X-ray microscope and integrated laser FIB-SEM system, we have a suite of tools for correlated workflows needed to explore large material volumes and examine nanoscale features or defects. We have already completed experiments that were not possible before."
About CCEM
CCEM is located at McMaster University and was opened in 2004. Between 2014 and 2023, the CCEM was funded by the CFI Major Science Initiatives (MSI) program as one of 17 national research facilities in Canada. CCEM houses 19 best-in-class electron, ion, and X-ray microscopes for 2D and 3D microscopy at length scales from the mm to atoms. Research and Development is supported by a team of 15 full-time professional expert staff performing microscopy and consulting services, as well as training and educating users and the public in materials characterization. CCEM has a diverse, national user base of more than 500 users resulting in more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles annually. CCEM serves users from academia and industry, from all over Canada and internationally. The research projects range from biology to chemistry, geology to engineering. Our goal is to enable our users and partners to solve tomorrow's material problems.
For more information go to: https://ccem.mcmaster.ca/
About McMaster University
McMaster University is a research-intensive Canadian university consistently ranked as one of the world's Top 100 universities. Together, our researchers, students and staff advance human and societal health and well-being, creating a Brighter World.
For more information go to: https://www.mcmaster.ca/
About ZEISS
ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling 8.8 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets (status: 30 September 2022).
ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions
ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions is the world's only one-stop manufacturer of light, electron, X-ray and ion microscope systems and offers solutions for correlative microscopy. The portfolio is comprised of products and services for life sciences, semiconductors, materials and industrial research, as well as education and clinical practice. The unit is headquartered in Jena. Additional production and development sites are located in Oberkochen and Munich, as well as in Cambourne (UK) and Dublin (USA). ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions is part of the Industrial Quality & Research segment.
For more information go to: www.zeiss.com/microscopy
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman accused of killing a close friend in 2019 who had just given birth and abducting the baby as part of an elaborate scheme to pass the infant off as her own pleaded guilty to murder charges Thursday, prosecutors said.
Magen Fieramusca, 37, was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the death of Heidi Broussard, 33, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza announced in a statement. Fieramusca waved her right to appeal.
The conviction follows a crime in Austin, Texas, that began with the disappearance of a 3-week-old baby girl and was followed with widening interest as the investigation unfolded and police zeroed in on Fieramusca. Police say the child was later found alive at a home in the Houston area along with Broussard’s body in the trunk of Fieramusca’s car.
According to an arrest affidavit at the time, Fieramusca abducted Broussard on Dec. 12, 2019, and packed her into a black duffel. Broussard had last been seen dropping off an older child at an elementary school in Austin. Her death was ruled homicide by strangulation.
The baby, Margot Carey, was returned to her father.
“We are hopeful that this outcome will bring some closure to the Broussard and Carey families and help them continue their healing process,” Garza said.
Fieramusca and Broussard were friends who met about a decade ago at church camp, according to court records. At one point, Fieramusca had a key to Broussard’s apartment and the women discussed being pregnant together, even considering that they might give birth on the same day, the court record states.
Broussard’s fiance told investigators that she told him on Dec. 8 or 9 that Fieramusca had given birth to a baby girl, but he never saw any photos of the child. Fieramusca told a Texas Ranger that she went to the beach with a cousin on the day Broussard was abducted. But she later told the same officer that she gave birth on that day, although she was unable to provide specifics of her delivery, according to the affidavit. | 2023-02-03T20:57:13+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-texas-woman-accused-of-killing-friend-taking-baby-sentenced/ |
Saturday, July 22nd 2023, 7:02 pm
A nine-year-old Oklahoma boy who loves fishing is making a business out of his passion.
Weston has been fishing since he was two or three years old.
He and his dad started making their own lures to share with family and when his mom posted about it on Facebook, it went viral.
So under the watchful eye of his parents, Weston's business "Ginger Baits" was born.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TAG Oil Ltd. ("TAG Oil" or the "Company"), (TSXV: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF) is pleased to announce that it was formally awarded a petroleum services agreement (the "PSA") on September 11, 2022 by Badr Petroleum Company ("BPCO") to develop the unconventional Abu Roash "F" reservoir ("ARF") in the Badr Oil Field ("BED-1"), a 107 km2 (26,000 acres) concession located in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Over the last several months, TAG Oil completed an evaluation of the data package provided by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ("EGPC") for BED-1. After extensive negotiations with EGPC, the Company submitted its final letter of intent on May 29, 2022 (the "Letter of Intent") to develop the ARF formation in the BED-1 concession.
The Company received a confirmation letter on August 24, 2022, referencing the Letter of Intent, which confirmed that EGPC had commissioned BPCO to conclude the PSA with TAG Oil. The final draft of the PSA has been completed and initialed by all parties, and the Company anticipates that it will become effective shortly upon TAG Oil posting a performance letter of guarantee for US$6.0 million.
The Badr Oil Field was discovered in 1982 by a joint venture between Shell Oil and EGPC (Bapetco). There has been significant historical production across the concession from conventional reservoirs of light oil and associated natural gas through primary development of the Kharita, Bahariya and certain Abu Roash sandstone formations. The ARF reservoir produced conventionally from some wells with considerable initial oil rates but has declined rapidly as this is the nature of such tight reservoirs.
TAG Oil has conducted a detailed technical analysis of the geologic, geophysical and well production data of the target ARF zone, which is a deep, tight, low porosity, low permeability carbonate reservoir with varied fluid characteristics across BED-1. TAG Oil has determined that there is a high probability for successful commercial development of the ARF reservoir by applying proven technologies including long-reach horizontal wells, hydraulic fracture stimulation and potentially other enhanced oil recovery production techniques. These methodologies have been successfully implemented by TAG Oil's management team expertise in the past in reservoirs in Canada, Albania and Egypt, and by other operators in analogous properties in Canada and the USA.
The data provided to TAG Oil by EGPC indicates that the ARF contains significant volumes of oil in place in the BED-1 concession and tested medium gravity crude oil without stimulation. Production profiles from these wells demonstrated high initial rates with rapid decline consistent with the nature of primary depletion in tight, low porosity reservoirs. The ARF zone has not been commercially developed under conventional completion technology by previous operators. To verify the resource potential of the oil in place volumes and assess TAG Oil's proposed development plan for this play, the Company has engaged the services of an independent engineering firm, RPS Energy Canada, to evaluate the oil resources associated with the ARF zone in the BED-1 area.
Accordingly, the Letter of Intent includes a proposal to develop the ARF reservoir unconventionally in 3 phases.
Phase 1: Evaluation Period, which is considered as a pilot development stage.
Phase 2 & 3: Commercial Production stages that will be commenced once the pilot stage is successful.
Production Revenue Entitlement Fee. BPCO shall pay the Company a service fee, which is a percentage of the gross revenues generated from the project, to compensate the Company for assuming 100% of the capital and operating expenditures required for the ARF development at BED-1. The Company shall receive an entitlement fee for all production established and sold during the term of the PSA, including the piloting period.
Abdel Fattah ("Abby") Badwi, Executive Chairman of TAG Oil said, "We are pleased to have reached our first important agreement in Egypt to develop this significant project. While the agreement contemplates a piloting period to prove its concept, the type of reservoir and anticipated development plan has previously delivered successful results in more challenging oil and gas reservoirs in Canada and the USA." He added, "TAG Oil is strategically well positioned to pursue other oil and gas exploration and development opportunities that are currently being investigated in Egypt and other areas of the Middle East. The Company will keep you apprised of its progress in these initiatives as they arise."
Further details of the project are included in a presentation available on the Company's website.
TAG Oil (http://www.tagoil.com/) is a Canadian based international oil and gas exploration company with a focus on opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa.
Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Statements contained in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainty affecting the business of TAG Oil. Such statements can generally, but not always, be identified by words such as "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "forecasts", "schedules", "prepares", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. All statements that describe the Company's plans relating to operations and potential strategic opportunities are forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. These statements address future events and conditions and are reliant on assumptions made by the Company's management, and so involve inherent risks and uncertainties, as disclosed in the Company's periodic filings with Canadian securities regulators. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, and the assumptions underlying the forward-looking information, actual results could differ from those currently projected, and there is no representation by TAG Oil that the actual results realized in the future will be the same in whole or in part as those presented herein. The Company does not assume the obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required by applicable law.
Exploration for hydrocarbons is a speculative venture necessarily involving substantial risk. The Company's future success in exploiting and increasing its current reserve base will depend on its ability to develop its current properties and on its ability to discover and acquire properties or prospects that are capable of commercial production. However, there is no assurance that the Company's future exploration and development efforts will result in the discovery or development of additional commercial accumulations of oil and natural gas.
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First Alert Weather: Hot conditions Sunday with highs near 95-degrees in some areas
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A storm complex with heavy rain and intense lightning moved south through West Alabama during the pre-dawn hours. Otherwise, cloudy, warm, humid conditions continue through the early morning.
Expect gradual clearing with hot conditions through the day with highs near 95-degrees in some areas. Drier air will continue moving into the state which will drop humidity with ongoing rain chances shifting into South Alabama. As a result Heat Index Values will remain below Advisory Criteria across the area.
Next Big Thing: With an area of low pressure in place tomorrow isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible through the afternoon. By Tuesday the hot high pressure ridge will begin expanding east bringing little-to-no rain chances and afternoon temperatures approaching triple digits and allowing Heat Index Values to be near or above 105-degrees each afternoon through Friday.
The ridge will begin to weaken and shift east allowing a return to a northwesterly wind flow with disturbances riding along the wind low and chances for thunderstorms again impacting the area going into the upcoming weekend.
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15-year-old girl killed in head-on crash in Ocala, police say
OCALA, Fla. - A 15-year-old girl was killed in a crash in Ocala early Tuesday morning, according to police.
Police say two teens were driving in a Toyota Yaris around 5:15 a.m. at NE 14th Street and NE 25th Avenue. A driver in a Mitsubishi Montero was stopped at an intersection when the teens went through the intersection, crossed over the center into the southbound lanes and hit the Montero head-on, police said.
The driver of the Montero had no serious injuries. Both teen in the Toyota were taken to UF Shands Children's Hospital in Gainesville.
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"Sadly, the passenger later died from her injuries about two hours after her arrival at the hospital," Ocala police said.
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Stock prices took off Friday morning, about the time the Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of Roe v. Wade.
No, Wall Street wasn’t applauding the decision.
Investors don’t care about anything that doesn’t affect the bottom line. That includes the high court’s rejection of the right of a woman to have an abortion while affirming on Thursday the right of Americans to carry hand guns wherever they damn please. At Fenway Park, no problem. On the T, the same.
Two separate legal issues, I know. Two rights with different origins.
Rather, investors were cheered Friday by the latest results of a University of Michigan survey on the outlook for inflation. The report — which hit the wires about 10 minutes before the abortion news — showed a modest pull-back in how much households expect consumer prices to climb over the next five years.
That’s considered positive because inflation can become a self-fulfilling prophecy: If enough people believe prices are going to rise, they will act in ways that will drive prices upward, such as by seeking higher wages and spending more.
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Earlier in the morning James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said fears of a recession in the United States were premature because consumers have plenty of cash and the economy continues to expand.
“I actually think we will be fine,” Bullard said in a speech in Zurich. “It is a little early to have this debate about recession probabilities in the US.”
Bullard’s words carry weight because he’s one of the Fed’s staunchest anti-inflation zealots. If he’s not worried, why are we? Maybe the Fed won’t have to jack up rates as high as we thought?
Investors are grasping at straws. We are a long way from calling all-clear on inflation or a recession. Still, after retreating into bear market territory last week, stocks recouped a bit of this year’s losses.
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The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 5.7 percent for the week at 2 p.m. The tech-laden Nasdaq gained 6.5 percent. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which has been climbing in anticipation of more Fed rate increases, eased back one-third of a percentage point to 3.12 percent.
I know that investors are acting rationally by the rules of market capitalism.
But the juxtaposition of the back-to-back Supreme Court opinions was dismaying. At least for anyone who worries that an American house bitterly divided can’t stand in the long run — and definitely can’t support a fair and thriving economy.
I have no data to back up this fear. It’s a gut feeling, and I hope I am wrong.
I hope we will be fine.
Larry Edelman can be reached at larry.edelman@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeNewsEd. | 2022-06-24T20:16:19+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/24/business/pay-no-attention-six-judges-behind-curtain/ |
NEW YORK , March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcade Beauty, a leading global beauty company providing both retail and sampling solutions, today announced that it has concluded a recapitalization with the support of 100% of its lenders and shareholders. The transaction strengthens the company's financial foundation and positions the business for continued long- term success and growth. As part of the recapitalization, the company extinguished a substantial amount of debt and received a new capital infusion. Arcade Beauty is now owned by a consortium of leading global investment firms.
"This is a tremendous result, and we are elated by the support from our existing stakeholders who believe in the unique value proposition we offer our customers. As a result of this fully consensual transaction, we are well positioned to execute on our business strategy, invest in our future growth and drive value for all of our stakeholders," said Carl Allain, Chief Executive Officer of Arcade Beauty.
"This transaction will enable us to better serve our customers and partner more effectively with our supplier base to continue to deliver innovation, quality and high service levels. We are very excited to embark on this new chapter with a supportive board of directors and engaged investor base," added Jorge Garcia, Chief Financial Officer of Arcade Beauty.
The new board of directors issued the following joint statement regarding the transaction:
"We are excited to support Carl, Jorge and the company's broader management team in this new chapter of growth for Arcade Beauty. We believe the company's global capabilities, strong customer value proposition and best-in-class product innovation will be meaningfully enhanced with a newly recapitalized balance sheet and a highly aligned investor base. We look forward to partnering with the company to create significant value for all stakeholders."
Arcade Beauty was principally advised by Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Stibbe Avocats, and Rothschild & Co. An ad hoc group of lenders was advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg S.A R.L. and FTI Consulting, Inc.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that relate to future results and events that are not facts and constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Arcade Beauty's current expectations, estimates and assumptions and, as such, involve certain risks and uncertainties. The ability of Arcade Beauty to predict results or the actual effects of its plans and strategies is subject to inherent uncertainty. Actual results and events in future periods may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements because of a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including statements containing the words "intends," "believes," "expects," "will," and similar expressions, are statements that could be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In addition, the forward-looking statements represent Arcade Beauty's views as of the date as of which they were made. Arcade Beauty anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause its views to change. However, although Arcade Beauty may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Arcade Beauty's views as of any date subsequent to the date hereof.
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Arcade Beauty is a leading provider of solutions to the beauty industry, including sampling and retail solutions. The company has a global footprint, with its 12 facilities servicing 400+ beauty brands worldwide. Arcade Beauty was formed in September 2014 via the merger of Arcade Marketing and Bioplan, two prominent sample packaging businesses based in New York and Paris, respectively.
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Virtual Mentorship Masterclass Series held as part of the beauty brand's Building Beautiful Futures initiative, in partnership with the NAACP
NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On National Mentorship Day, Thursday, Oct 27, 2022, at 5:00 PM ET, Dark & Lovely, a leader in Black beauty for the last 50 years, will host a Mentorship Masterclass titled "A Black Girl's Guide to: Building Your Personal Brand" as part of it's Building Beautiful Futures initiative. The virtual session hosted by L'Oréal Marketing Director Tenaj Ferguson will feature beauty & style expert and BrainTrust Founders Studio Head of Community Blake Newby and will provide actionable advice to young Black women about how personal branding can influence one's career track. The event is open to everyone and free of charge. To register, please visit: https://hopin.com/events/buildyourbrand
In addition to the career conversation, Blake Newby will also announce a $5000 pitch competition on behalf of Dark & Lovely and BrainTrust Founders Studio. Participants will be invited to pitch their vision for the future of the beauty industry and share their ideas for how the beauty industry can support and inspire Black women and professionals. The winner will win a $5,000 grant and a trip to Dark & Lovely's headquarters in NY to go behind the scenes of what it takes to build and grow a brand.
"I credit my entire career to the power of mentorship. As I've matriculated through this industry, it's been the impact of other dynamic Black women who took me under their wing that has cultivated me into who I am today. That's why I'm so excited to be paying it forward with Dark & Lovely. I hope that those who attend walk away feeling empowered, encouraged and better equipped to grow and scale their own personal brands." says Blake Newby.
The Dark & Lovely Building Beautiful Futures Mentorship Masterclass series is a curriculum-based mentorship initiative created in partnership with the NAACP. The session is part of an ongoing mentorship training series that engages young Black women in college or early career professionals with actionable tips and tools while inspiring them to achieve their higher education and professional goals. Earlier this year, the brand held "A Black Girl's Guide to Mentorship," hosted by MSNBC's Symone Sanders, where speakers Storm Reid and NAACP's Yumeka Rushing discussed the power of mentorship and advised young Black women on how to navigate their academic and career journeys.
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A Nevada Democratic U.S. senator is looking to Congress to ensure mining companies can use established mineral claims to dump waste on neighboring federal lands as they always had before a federal appeals court adopted a stricter interpretation of a 150-year-old law.
Environmentalists widely praised the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ more restrictive ruling, which blocked the Rosemont copper mine in southern Arizona last year because the company hadn’t proven it had mineral rights on the adjacent land where the waste rock was to be buried.
The ramifications of the ruling are worrisome, however, for President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda and for key projects to mine lithium, cobalt and other materials needed to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles.
In response, Nevada U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto drafted a bill she intends to introduce Tuesday with Republican Sen. James Risch of Idaho, her office told The Associated Press on Monday. The bill would amend a 1993 budget reconciliation act but primarily clarifies definitions of activities and rights central to the 1872 Mining Law.
The language is intended to insulate mines from the more onerous and likely most expensive standards imposed on the industry by the 9th Circuit ruling, which was a significant departure from long-established mining practices that environmentalists have fought for decades.
Two U.S. judges in Nevada have since enforced it — one in a complicated way that nevertheless allowed construction to begin at what would be the largest lithium mine in the nation near the Oregon line.
Without congressional action, Cortez and other senators say critical mineral projects across the West are threatened, including those needed to expedite the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and to bolster national defense.
“This misguided decision would force all mining activities, even the storage of waste, to happen on mineral-rich land, which could impede critical mineral production all across the country,” Cortez Masto said in a statement emailed to AP.
Nevada is the biggest gold-producing state and home to some of the nation’s largest lithium deposits.
Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, an independent, have signed on to the bill as co-sponsors.
The measure is sure to meet staunch opposition from conservationists who consider the Rosemont ruling and its ripple effects one of their biggest victories in years.
While they generally embrace Biden’s efforts to speed the transition to renewables, they continue to challenge even so-called green energy projects with lawsuits accusing the government of violating laws protecting endangered species, water resources and cultural and historical sites.
The Rosemont ruling upended the government’s long-held position that the 1872 Mining Law — the nation’s premier regulation of mining since the Civil War — conveys the same rights established through a valid mining claim to adjacent land for the disposal of tailings and other waste.
The 9th Circuit held that instead, the company must establish — and the government must validate — that valuable minerals are present under such lands for a claim to exist.
Based largely on that ruling, U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno ruled in February that the Bureau of Land Management had violated the law when it approved Lithium Americas’ plans for the Thacker Pass mine near the Nevada-Oregon line. But she allowed construction to begin last month while the bureau works to bring the project into compliance with federal law.
The 9th Circuit has scheduled oral arguments June 26 on environmentalists’ appeal of Du’s refusal to halt the mine even though she found it was approved illegally.
Last month, U.S. Judge Larry Hicks in Reno also adopted the Rosemont standard in his ruling that nullified Bureau of Land Management approval of a Nevada molybdenum mine and prohibited any construction.
“BLM cannot skirt the Mining Law requirement that valuable mineral deposits must be found in order to occupy the land,” he wrote March 31. | 2023-04-24T22:59:50+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/planned-senate-bill-would-counteract-mining-law-ruling/ |
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The state Board of Land and Natural Resources on Tuesday approved a contested case hearing for a North Shore property owner who faces $92,000 in fines for modifying the beach in front of his two oceanfront homes and refusing to remove sandbags and other debris littering the public beach.
The hearing process, approved by the five members present at Tuesday’s meeting, is likely to delay the case for months.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources will now choose a hearing officer and schedule a time when
Ke Nui Road oceanfront homeowner Todd Dunphy can formally dispute the fines being levied against him.
Board member Vernon Char urged DLNR to expedite the matter due to the notoriety of the case.
Dunphy, who owns two neighboring properties on the beach at Rocky Point, is accused of using an excavator to illegally push massive amounts of sand on the beach to construct a berm fronting his houses and building an erosion control structure made of sandbags and strong synthetic fabric.
Dunphy says he took action when a neighbor’s home collapsed onto the beach when 30- to 40-foot waves battered the North Shore in February.
First, he placed sandbags in front of both his parcels to prevent damage from the waves. A few week later, with the blessing of his neighbors, he used a construction excavator to move sand to support his property and his neighbor’s, he said.
In a formal request for a contested case hearing, Dunphy’s attorney, Myles Breiner, wrote that DLNR’s Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands failed to give his client guidance to protect his property after he
urgently asked for help. He said Dunphy was told only to devise another option.
“This response was
entirely unacceptable, negligent, and emblematic of the institutional and bureaucratic paralysis rampant throughout the DLNR and OCCL,” Breiner wrote.
Dunphy ended up doing the kind of emergency “sand push” that was previously authorized by DLNR in January 2014, March 2015, March 2018 and February 2021, he said.
According to Breiner, Dunphy was notified that any form of self-help remediation was not acceptable only after he started moving the sand with the excavator.
DLNR is also accusing Dunphy of failing to remove debris from past erosion control structures after being ordered to do so. This comprises the bulk of the fine — about $77,000, calculated at $1,000 a day going back to February when he received a letter on the matter from DLNR.
But Breiner said Dunphy is being falsely accused. His client was in prison when the sandbags were originally installed in January 2014 and wasn’t released from federal custody until almost a year later.
Dunphy, a former martial arts champion, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison in 2012 for conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cannabis, according to court documents.
Breiner said photos used as evidence for DLNR’s fine are linked to Dunphy merely because the depicted beach debris is fronting his property.
The proposed fine is not the only penalty Dunphy has faced in recent years for alleged violations at the two properties. He’s also been accruing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines from the city for failing to correct shoreline violations that date back to 2006.
For example, Dunphy built unauthorized decks, a hot tub and cabana within the shoreline area that he still hasn’t removed, according to the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting.
The fine that was imposed in 2013 now totals $168,900, and the department placed liens on the property in 2018.
Dunphy’s properties are among many on the North Shore threatened by seasonal coastline erosion exacerbated by sea level rise and linked to climate change.
At Rocky Point the beach at times has become marred by illegal sandbags, heavy black tarps and boulders as homeowners fight the changes that are threatening their properties.
Meanwhile, politicians and land managers have come under increasing pressure in recent years to protect Hawaii’s beaches from further erosion and beach loss caused by hardening of the shoreline with structures such as seawalls and revetments.
A 2018 study by University of Hawaii scientists pointed to a trend of beaches dwindling in size and, in some cases, disappearing altogether as shoreline development and man-made structures, such as seawalls, have proliferated in recent decades. | 2022-06-01T10:29:36+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/01/hawaii-news/north-shore-homeowner-gets-hearing-over-92k-fine/ |
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he plans to protest a two-point loss to Golden State after a confusing sequence led to an uncontested basket for the Warriors on Wednesday night.
Kevon Looney had an easy dunk on an inbounds play with the Mavericks lined up on their offensive end after a timeout late in the third quarter of Golden State’s 127-125 victory.
The Mavericks thought they had the ball after official Andy Nagy pointed in Golden State’s direction for possession but then quickly pointed to the Dallas bench to indicate a timeout.
Looney protested when Nagy pointed toward the Dallas bench, but Nagy appeared to explain that he was signaling the timeout. The public address announcer also indicated Dallas was awarded possession.
After the break, the Mavericks lined up on their offensive end, giving Looney the easy dunk with no defenders around as the Warriors took a 90-87 lead with 1:56 left in the third.
Cuban said he planned to protest after posting on Twitter that he thought the sequence was the “Worst officiating non call mistake possibly in the history of the NBA.”
According to NBA rules, a written protest must be filed within 48 hours of the end of the game, and the Warriors would then have five days to respond and submit their own evidence. Commissioner Adam Silver then has another five days to issue a ruling.
Protests are rarely upheld in the NBA — or most major professional sports.
Dallas coach Jason Kidd’s contention was that official Michael Smith must have thought the Mavericks had possession because he was on the same end of the floor as the Mavs.
“There was quite a few people out of position,” Kidd said. “It’s correctable, but you first have to admit there was a mistake.”
Crew chief Sean Wright said officials never indicated Dallas had the ball, and Nagy can be seen telling the Mavericks the second signal was for the timeout.
“Initially on the floor the original signal was in fact Golden State ball as this can be seen on video,” Wright told a pool reporter. “There is a second signal but that signal is for a mandatory timeout that was due to the Mavs.”
Dallas star Luka Doncic subbed out of the game during that timeout, while Looney had come in for Stephen Curry about two minutes earlier. Jordan Poole threw the inbounds pass.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” said Looney, who had 12 points and 12 rebounds. “I’m just glad JP passed to me because all of us were open and I needed that to get to my double-double.”
Doncic said he thought officials should have huddled to straighten things out when they saw the teams on opposite ends of the court, including Smith among the Mavs.
“I was surprised,” Doncic said about Looney’s free dunk. “I was like, ‘What is that?’ I’ve never seen that happen in my life.”
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said his first reaction was to question whether his team was shooting on the end where they lined up. But that reaction didn’t last long.
“When they were down at the other end, I had to stop and think, ‘Is this right?’” Kerr said. “I thought it was pretty clear that it was our ball, and that’s why I was drawing up a play out of bounds on the baseline.”
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-23T18:33:10+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/mavs-owner-cuban-plans-protest-over-free-bucket-for-warriors/ |
ROME (AP) — With the return of calm seas, migrant smugglers launched dozens of boats from Tunisia during the weekend and some 1,200 people ended up on a tiny Italian island while several were reported missing at sea, the Italian Coast Guard said Monday.
Coast guard officials said in a statement that they responded to 35 boats that had left Tunisia, three of which came to grief.
In one shipwreck some 20 nautical miles off Lampedusa island coast guard and border police vessels said three migrants were missing. In a second, in Malta’s search-and-rescue area, survivors said some 20 people were missing, while in the third, also in Malta’s rescue area, Italian rescuers recovered a man’s body, the Coast Guard said.
Some 20 more boats crowded with migrants were in the sea Monday night, it said.
The coast guard said air and naval assets of the Coast Guard, the Border Police, the European border protection agency Frontex as well as a humanitarian organization were involved in the assistance.
Dozens of the migrants sat Monday morning near Lampedusa’s port, awaiting transfer to the island’s overcrowded shelter or eventually to Sicily or the Italian mainland.
Earlier Monday, a Tunisian fishing boat off Lampedusa aided a distressed migrant boat carrying 34 people and a body, and the survivors were later transferred to an Italian coast guard vessel, Italian news reports said.
On Sunday, with seas calm after four days of rough conditions, a total of 640 migrants reached Lampedusa, and hundreds more on Monday.
Last week, Italian authorities used commercial ferries and military vessels to transfer migrants from Lampedusa to Sicily or the mainland — bringing Lampedusa’s migrant center below its approximately 400-person capacity. But with the slew of boats arriving from Sunday, the number of migrants there quickly swelled, and authorities were scrambling anew to make arrangement for more transfers off the island.
Separately, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said its rescue vessel Geo Barents came to the aid of 75 migrants — including 40 minors — in a wooden boat foundering in international waters off Libya on Monday.
The rescue vessel must now wait for Italian authorities to assign it a port to disembark the migrants. The right-wing government has been sending charity vessels to ports in northern Italy, far from the rescue area, to try to limit their time at sea. Government officials contend that the vessels encourage illegal migration by providing safety to the smugglers’ passengers.
Although far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has led a crackdown both on smugglers and on the charity vessels, migrants keep risking dangerous voyages in the Central Mediterranean — departing from Tunisia, Libya and Turkey — in hopes of finding work or relatives in Europe.
According to Italian Interior Ministry figures, by Monday morning more than 36,600 migrants had arrived in Italy since the start of the year. That’s more than four times the number for the same period in each of the two previous years.
Italy rejects most of their asylum bids because they are fleeing poverty, not war or persecution. But, since barely a handful of countries have repatriation accords with Italy, the migrants who lose asylum bids often stay on for years in a legal limbo, or try to make their way to northern European countries.
Italy’s pleas to fellow European Union nations to take on some of the migrants have largely gone unheeded for years now.
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Follow AP’s coverage of global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2023-04-25T07:29:13+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/hundreds-of-migrants-reach-italian-isle-20-reported-missing/ |
NORMAL — At 5 years old, Eleanor Schenk already knows when she’s met her match.
“I had three pawns and a king, so I had to call it quits,” she reported to her father, Andrew Schenk, following her first Monday morning chess game at the 2023 Martin Luther King Scholastic Chess Tournament.
But Eleanor wasn’t discouraged. The kindergarten student at Thomas Metcalf Elementary was stoked for several more games that day, as 152 young contestants convened at the Illinois State University Bone Student Center to put their minds to the test.
The event returned for its 36th year on the national holiday recognizing the civil rights leader, a date tournament director Jeff Smith said was chosen by its founder to honor King’s legacy.
Smith said the tournament was founded in 1988 by late Normal Town Councilman Garrett Scott, who Smith said had attended MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. Scott, who died Aug. 8, taught chess to thousands of children, according to previous Pantagraph reporting.
Smith said the event’s organizers want the kids to focus on their similarities, treat each other with respect, play a game and “hopefully have a hobby for life.”
Games were disrupted shortly after 1 p.m. Monday when a power outage at the university put the tournament on hold. About 20 minutes later, games resumed under emergency lights, he said.
The tournament was later cut short by one round for most players, Smith said. Junior high players only made it to the fourth round, and all other divisions had the tournament called at the fifth round.
Father Andrew Schenk agreed that the game of chess, with its mental challenges and life lessons, makes a great learning experience for his young daughter.
Smith said the game teaches children sportsmanship — how to win or lose — as well as critical thinking and planning ahead.
While some of the participants may be little, he said, they’ll be concentrating big-time on their game.
Zach Borne, a sixth grade student at Chiddix Junior High School, made quick work in his first round, declaring “checkmate!” in about 15 minutes. He said it was one of the fastest games he ever played.
Zach said his opponent was moving fast and not controlling their pieces well, so he took advantage. He said he usually likes to take his time in a game.
His first pieces to advance were his knights and pawns. Zach said that’s a good way to open up the board.
“When you bring your pieces out in a game, you can attack better,” he said.
With his queen having secured an early forward position, Zach said he marked his first check on his adversary.
He chalked up the quick win to being matched with a lower-ranked opponent. He said there’s a few kids in the tournament who are rated higher than he is, and they’re “a lot of fun to play.”
Gabriel Wells, a first grader at Metcalf Elementary, entered Monday for his first chess tournament. He said it’s a hard game, but challenging himself is great.
His mother, Rachel Wells, noted her son gets to have fun with his friends too.
There was also Mariah Walter, an eighth grader at Chiddix Junior High School. She won her first game, taking only five of her adversary’s pieces.
Mariah said she enjoys the challenge of the game, and has been playing for about seven years. She plans to return to an all-girls chess tournament in April.
The best life lesson chess has taught her: “Always be prepared.”
Dhananjeyan Rajkumar, first grader at Benjamin Elementary School, made moves as well on Monday. He said he likes how challenging the game is, and learning how other people play.
Dhananjeyan placed third in the lower primary section, behind only Oscar Finkin and Jeremy Wang with Hickory Grove Elementary School in Dunlap.
Another Benjamin Elementary School student at the tournament was Aadhav Kumar. His mother, Amaravathy Chinnakannu said her second grade son gets to learn about competition in the game. She said the participating children will find that winning and losing doesn’t matter, and that realization will make them stronger.
The event was co-organized by Amy Green, president of the Bloomington-Normal Area Scholastic Chess club. She estimated over 300 students in both Bloomington School District 87 and McLean County Unit 5 schools are studying the game through their organization.
She said her son, Austin Schillage, now a junior at Bradley University, started playing in kindergarten. Green said her son set a model for other students that shows how chess helps in other areas in life, including athletics. She said he played baseball and football in school.
The game also gave her son the discipline to take things seriously. Green said he once told her: “I can’t believe I could sit still for an hour and 30 minutes.”
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Gabriel Wells competes against Sithara Dheeravath during round 1 of the Bloomington/Normal Area Scholastic Chess annual Martin Luther King Tournament on Monday at Bone Student Center.
Six-year-old Misri Shah, left, and Eleanor Schenk, 5, compete during the Bloomington/Normal Area Scholastic Chess annual Martin Luther King tournament on Monday at Bone Student Center. Shah has competed before and this was the first tournament for Schenk.
Sana Salavath, left, and Kavin Sivagnanam compete during round one of the Bloomington/Normal Area Scholastic Chess annual Martin Luther King tournament on Monday at Bone Student Center.
Sixth-grader Zach Borne, left, competes during the Bloomington/Normal Area Scholastic Chess annual Martin Luther King tournament on Monday at Bone Student Center. | 2023-01-17T02:38:13+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/kids-learn-strategy-sportsmanship-at-annual-mlk-chess-tournament/article_dc13568c-95df-11ed-97d2-3bb15d17c247.html |
A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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RAISING AWARENESS
Susan G. Komen and Major League Baseball are teaming up in the fight against breast cancer, and Komen’s “Share a Moment with Mom” campaign will debut a Mother’s Day video. The video will be released on the organization’s social media channels and website. It will also appear in stadiums and feature players such as Pete Alonso, Tim Anderson, Carlos Correa, Carlos Rodón and Mike Trout with their mothers.
MAKING THEM UP
After rain wreaked havoc with the baseball schedule this weekend, there are 18 games on tap, including three doubleheaders.
Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies host the New York Mets, Cedric Mullins and the Baltimore Orioles host the Kansas City Royals, and Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees host the Texas Rangers in the three twinbills.
That comes after six postponements Friday and three more Saturday. The Rangers are making their only scheduled trip to play the Yankees this season, and the same is true for the Royals in Baltimore. After doubleheaders Sunday, those two series are now extending into Monday.
DEBUT
George Kirby, baseball’s fifth-ranked right-handed pitching prospect according to MLB Pipeline, makes his big league debut for the Seattle Mariners against Tampa Bay.
Kirby was competing with Matt Brash for the final spot in the rotation during spring training. Now Brash is going to be converted to a reliever.
The Mariners took Kirby in the first round of the 2019 draft. He began the season at Double-A Arkansas, where he’s gone 2-0 with a 1.82 ERA in five starts.
HELP ON THE WAY
Oakland outfielder Ramón Laureano is eligible to return from his 80-game drug suspension. Athletics manager Mark Kotsay said he was traveling to Minnesota on Saturday to join the team. Laureano played 10 games with Triple-A Las Vegas.
The cellar-dwelling A’s have lost eight in a row heading into their game against the Twins. Minnesota leads the AL Central but might have to deal with an absence of its own after star outfielder Byron Buxton left Saturday’s game with right hip tightness.
ON A ROLL
Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros have won six in a row — the last three by one run each over the Tigers. Houston now goes for a four-game sweep of Detroit.
Miguel Cabrera and Dusty Baker both achieved milestones Saturday. Baker won his 2,004th game as a manager, passing Bruce Bochy for 11th on the career list. Cabrera doubled in the third inning, joining Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols as the only players with at least 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 600 doubles.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-05-08T12:17:16+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/leading-off-3-mothers-day-doubleheaders-on-rainy-weekend-2/ |
Here’s a look at how the Miami Dolphins (8-5) and Buffalo Bills (10-3) match up in six key areas ahead of Saturday’s Week 15 game at Highmark Stadium (8:15 p.m., NFL Network; WFOR-TV/Ch. 4 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties):
When the Dolphins run: It could be a huge X-factor in the inclement weather expected in Buffalo if Miami is able to do something it’s not expected to do well: Run the football. An added challenge, however, is the possibility of trying to establish a run game against the league’s fourth-ranked run defense without Jeff Wilson, after he was listed as a non-participant Tuesday and Wednesday on the injury report for a hip ailment.
Outside of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s three scrambles for 28 yards last game against the Los Angeles Chargers, the Dolphins had 4.0 yards per carry on runs with their tailbacks, 64 yards on 16 attempts. It wasn’t a bad number and something the Dolphins can continue to expand upon after rushing just eight times against San Francisco the week prior, especially if Tagovailoa continues to struggle through the air.
Buffalo hit a rough patch stopping the run in the middle of the season but has since held opponents under 100 yards on the ground in four consecutive games. Starting linebacker Matt Milano and rotational defensive tackle Jordan Phillips have their status in question ahead of Saturday’s game, but the Bills have a number of other run stoppers in their defensive front, including linebacker Tremaine Edmunds and defensive tackle Ed Oliver. Edge: Bills
When the Bills run: The Bills’ eighth-ranked rushing attack goes against Miami’s seventh-ranked run defense. The Dolphins have consistently been stout against the traditional run game but have struggled against scrambling quarterbacks.
Buffalo’s Josh Allen is very capable on the ground with 628 rushing yards and six touchdowns. American Heritage-Delray High grad and FAU alum Devin Singletary has run for a team-leading 642 yards, at 4.4 yards per carry, and four touchdowns. Rookie and Miami Central High product James Cook has a 5.1 average on his 64 rushing attempts this season.
Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins has been unblockable by opposing offensive lines of late. Jaelan Phillips, in addition to his pass rush, has also been effective against the run. The linebacker tandem of Jerome Baker and Elandon Roberts has 83 and 81 tackles, respectively, entering this game. Edge: Dolphins
When the Dolphins pass: A trip to the West Coast has turned Tagovailoa from arguably the hottest quarterback in the league to the one facing the biggest struggles over the past two weeks. He has completed 28-of-61 passes (45.9 percent) for 440 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions over road losses to the 49ers and Chargers. Now, he has to go into the frigid north and perform against the Bills defense in the wind and snow, elements which have given him trouble in the past.
Buffalo can look into what San Francisco and Los Angeles did to stop the Miami passing game and add their own flavor to it. Since the Dolphins last faced the Bills in Week 3 with Buffalo’s entire secondary out, they have gotten safety Jordan Poyer and cornerback Tre’Davious White back and added veteran Xavier Rhodes, so it will be a much more talented secondary than Miami faced won it won, 21-19, on Sept. 25. Buffalo, however, did lose star pass rusher Von Miller for the season.
Tyreek Hill, fresh off breaking the Dolphins’ single-season receiving record, takes his 100 catches and 1,460 yards into this matchup after he scored both of Miami’s toucdowns on Sunday in L.A. as the Dolphins’ lone saving grace to keep them competitive. Jaylen Waddle will be in search of a bounce-back effort after the Chargers shut him down, without a catch until the fourth quarter at SoFi Stadium. Tight end Mike Gesicki, without a catch in the past month, is not being utilized in the offense. Edge: Bills
When the Bills pass: Allen has gotten over his midseason interception rut and has only been picked off once in the past four games. He is completing 63.8 percent of passes for 3,553 yards, 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in leading Buffalo’s No. 6-ranked passing attack. He also has plenty of experience performing in cold weather.
Star wide receiver Stefon Diggs is having another stellar season with 94 receptions for 1,239 yards and 10 touchdowns. He and Gabriel Davis (38-696-6), slot receiver Isaiah McKenzie (38-380-4) and tight end Dawson Knox (37-368-3) form one of the most formidable pass-catching tandems. The Bills also signed veteran slot Cole Beasley to the practice squad this week and he may immediately get elevated to debut this season with Buffalo.
Cornerbacks Xavien Howard and Kader Kohou will have their hands full. Safety Jevon Holland may not have either Eric Rowe or Elijah Campbell alongside him. The pass-rushing trio of Bradley Chubb, Phillips and Melvin Ingram will be critical. Edge: Bills
Special teams: Dolphins special teams units had a decent outing in L.A. after struggles throughout the year. Kicker Jason Sanders made his lone field goal attempt, a 55-yarder to keep Miami alive late. Thomas Morstead was reliable in the punting game.
Bills kicker Tyler Bass has been exceptional, making 26 of 29 field goals. Buffalo has gotten a boost in the return game from the trade deadline acquisition of Nyheim Hines. Edge: Bills
Intangibles: So many factors line up for Buffalo. They’re at home. They’re accustomed to the cold weather. The Dolphins are not. Miami travels on a short week, getting back to South Florida from a week and a half and two losses in California on Monday morning to fly out to Western New York on Friday for a Saturday night game.
The Dolphins have a five-game losing streak at Buffalo. The Bills will have it out for the Dolphins after Miami won the early-season meeting in the opposite climate. The Dolphins have a five-game losing streak to opponents currently with a winning record. Buffalo is on a four-game winning streak. Miami is on a two-game losing streak. Edge: Bills
PREDICTION: Bills 27, Dolphins 12
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The Chicago White Sox are in desperate need of reversing a recent trend and avoiding a four-game series sweep by the Baltimore Orioles.
They might be sending the right guy to the mound to get things right Sunday in Chicago.
It’s right-hander Dylan Cease’s turn in the White Sox’s rotation for a team trying to shed a four-game losing streak. The last three defeats have come to the Orioles, who won 6-2 on Saturday.
“Whenever we’ve pitched well, they’ve pitched better,” White Sox manager Tony La Russa said. “Whenever we hit, they hit better. You get outplayed, you lose games.”
The Orioles have a season-high four-game winning streak. Completing the series sweep would be another bonus.
“I’m seeing guys that are playing with a ton of energy, playing to win, playing with some confidence right now,” Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said.
During the four-game streak, the Orioles have yielded a total of three runs. Hyde said the strong pitching has allowed many things to fall into place.
“When your starting pitchers keep you in the game, and then your bullpen has been doing what they’ve been doing all year, it’s a great mentality,” Hyde said. “You feel like you can finish games off.”
During Baltimore’s winning streak, outfielder Austin Hays has hit for the cycle and racked up a four-game hitting streak while driving in seven runs.
“We come to the park every day and expect to win,” Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini said. “That’s not a feeling we’ve had here in a long time.”
Cease (5-3, 2.68 ERA) hasn’t permitted an earned run in his last five starts, a stretch spanning 27 1/3 innings. Yet he’s just 1-1 during that period, which includes allowing 10 total runs as shoddy defense has let him down.
Cease is coming off six innings of one-hit pitching with 11 strikeouts against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday. He has made two career starts against Baltimore, going 1-0 with a 2.45 ERA.
The Orioles will counter on Sunday with right-hander Jordan Lyles (4-6, 4.92). During the same stretch of Cease’s plummeting ERA, Lyles has surrendered 20 runs, with 19 of those earned.
Lyles is 1-2 with a 5.74 ERA in five career outings against the White Sox.
The Orioles will check during Sunday’s pregame on Mancini after he was hit on the left hand by a pitch in the seventh inning on Saturday. He stayed in the game. Hyde said at least it wasn’t the right hand that had been ailing last weekend after he was hit by a pitch.
The White Sox are hurting in numerous ways. La Russa said several position players are under instructions from the team medical staff to tread carefully on the base paths as they deal with various ailments.
“You can’t sit them (out of the lineup because) they’re key offensive guys,” La Russa said. “So as long as the fans understand it, they’re not lazy.”
Until this series with the last-place Orioles, the White Sox had been 13-12 against American League East opponents.
–Field Level Media | 2022-06-27T04:07:20+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/behind-dylan-cease-white-sox-aim-to-avoid-4-game-sweep-by-orioles/ |
BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Tuesday that it will allow health insurance companies to pay more for pediatric medications that are in short supply in the country.
Germans have scrambled to find basic drugs such as painkillers in recent weeks amid delivery bottlenecks and higher-than-usual demand.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said insurers that form the backbone of the German public health system will be able to pay 50% more than the legally set price for patent-free medicines. If such drugs aren’t available, they can fall back on more expensive branded drugs or make liquids preferred for pediatric use out of tablets.
Germany, where the prices insurers pay for generic drugs are capped, is a less attractive market for some pharmaceutical companies than neighboring nations such as the Netherlands.
Lauterbach said Germany would also try to tackle a shortage of antibiotics and cancer drugs by giving preference to suppliers that produce key ingredients within the European Union and requiring them to keep several months worth of stocks.
German authorities say the country has a critical shortage of more than 50 drugs, most of them generics. The problem is caused by slim margins for some medications, a concentration of suppliers in certain non-EU countries, heightened demand and quality control issues. | 2022-12-21T11:49:10+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/health-2/ap-health/ap-germany-to-pay-more-for-child-medicines-amid-supply-shortage/ |
Zhizhen Zhang vs. Daniel Altmaier: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Zhizhen Zhang (No. 79 ranking) will meet Daniel Altmaier (No. 61) in the quarterfinals of the Hamburg European Open on Friday, July 28.
In the Quarterfinal, Altmaier is favored over Zhang, with -210 odds against the underdog's +160.
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Zhizhen Zhang vs. Daniel Altmaier Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Quarterfinals
- Date: Friday, July 28
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Zhizhen Zhang vs. Daniel Altmaier Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Daniel Altmaier has a 67.7% chance to win.
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Zhizhen Zhang vs. Daniel Altmaier Trends and Insights
- By defeating No. 45-ranked Yannick Hanfmann 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday, Zhang reached the quarterfinals.
- Altmaier won 6-2, 6-2 versus Andrey Rublev in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
- In his 46 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, Zhang has played an average of 25.7 games (23.7 in best-of-three matches).
- On clay, Zhang has played 14 matches over the past year, totaling 26.7 games per match (26.6 in best-of-three matches) while winning 50.0% of games.
- Altmaier has played 35 matches in the past year across all court surfaces, averaging 25.4 games per match (22.3 in best-of-three matches) and winning 49.7% of those games.
- In 19 matches on clay surfaces in the past year, Altmaier has averaged 24.5 games per match (22.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.7 games per set, winning 53.8% of the games.
- This is the first time that Zhang and Altmaier have played in the last five years.
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Hatback Bar & Grille, Steelheads Alley and outdoor Beer Garden to open Aug. 23
SEATTLE, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Mariners announced the grand opening date for Hatback Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley, the new Sodo restaurant and taproom concepts opening across the street from T-Mobile Park. Both venues will open to the public at 4 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2022, with an official grand opening celebration.
The community is invited to the grand opening of Hatback and Steelheads Alley and will have the first chance to try the restaurant's elevated menu of American pub classics such as burgers, pizza and wings, as well as Pacific Northwest favorites including oysters, steamed mussels and Skiyou Ranch ribeye. On tap, Hatback will offer local favorites such as Pike Brewing Co. and Georgetown Brewing Co., while at Steelheads Alley, Métier Brewing Company will provide some of their popular brews including the MBC Pale Ale, 'Double Play' (Helles) Lager and Black Stripe Coconut Porter. Those attending the celebration will have the opportunity to win free Hatback, Steelheads Alley and Mariners branded gear, gift certificates and a VIP game-day viewing experience for eight people.
On August 23, an outdoor Beer Garden will also open to the public. The new space will offer two Hatback food trailers, along with a handful of beer selections. The Beer Garden will be open for all Mariners, Seahawks and Sounders games, weather permitting.
To stay up to date on these new spaces, follow their social media accounts and website:
- Hatback Bar & Grille – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
- Steelheads Alley – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
About Hatback Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley
Opening August 23, 2022, located in the heart of Seattle's Sodo district, Hatback Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley will be the city's premier dining, brewing and sports entertainment destinations. In 2023, a 9,500-square-foot flexible event space will open. From weddings and company parties to community events, the new venue will offer a customizable experience to fit each occasion. For more information, visit http://www.hatback.com.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After years of setbacks, abortion-rights supporters in Republican-leaning Kentucky thought they achieved a breakthrough in November, when voters defeated a measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion.
But their hopes that the state's sweeping abortion ban might be relaxed vanished well before the GOP-dominated Legislature ended its annual session.
After years of making anti-abortion policies a cornerstone of their agenda, Republicans skipped over the issue this year, leaving intact a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy while it's hashed out in the courts. Instead, social conservatives focused on enacting legislation aimed at transgender youths during the session that ended Thursday.
A handful of abortion bills, including proposals to restore abortion rights or add rape and incest exemptions to the sweeping ban, either failed to get a committee hearing or never were assigned to a committee.
For most states, this was the first legislative session since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and lawmakers on both sides have dug in. Republicans are moving to make abortion restrictions tougher, while Democrats are seeking to protect access.
In Kentucky, beleaguered abortion-rights proponents had hoped momentum would swing in their direction, only to be left frustrated.
Democratic state Rep. Lindsey Burke filed legislation to restore abortion access, saying she believed "Kentucky voters spoke loud and clear last November."
“If passing my bill was not possible, then I definitely think more should have been done to carve out at least some exemptions,” Burke added.
Republicans pointed to legal uncertainties surrounding Kentucky's ban that allows abortions only to save a woman's life or prevent disabling injury. That has largely been in place since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in their ruling last June. In February, Kentucky's Supreme Court refused to halt the law while sending the case back to a lower court to consider larger constitutional questions about whether abortion should be legal in the state.
"I still think there's a desire to wait for more clarity from the courts before we move forward," said Republican Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer, a staunch abortion opponent who even before the legislative session began had predicted it would be difficult to persuade anti-abortion senators to add more exceptions for when a pregnancy could be ended.
Abortion-rights supporters trumpeted the defeat of the anti-abortion ballot measure in November as a clear mandate from voters. But key Republican lawmakers didn't see it that way.
“I saw it more as the opposing campaign ran a better campaign that scared people into voting ‘no,’” Thayer said.
The abortion debate drew widespread attention during the campaign, when both sides mounted grassroots efforts, but it turned to silence during Kentucky's ensuing legislative session.
One bill briefly received attention when it was introduced in late February, nearly a week after the state Supreme Court opinion. That measure would have permitted abortions caused by rape or incest for up to 15 weeks of pregnancy. Another exemption would have allowed abortions if two doctors determined that a fetus has an "abnormality that is incompatible with life outside the womb."
The bill's lead sponsor was Republican state Rep. Jason Nemes, the House majority party whip, but the measure was never assigned to a committee.
“That’s something I believe in and I’ll fight for," Nemes said in recent days when discussing his bill. "But I don’t think there’s a mandate across Kentucky either way” on the abortion issue.
Democratic state Rep. Rachel Roberts, who unsuccessfully pushed for rape and incest exceptions last year, said she wasn’t surprised the exemptions bill went nowhere.
“The voters’ rejection of the anti-abortion constitutional amendment meant nothing to their party, which is as tragic as it is unsurprising,” said Roberts, the House minority party whip.
Other failed abortion bills this year ran the gamut — from a Republican freshman's bill to allow illegal abortions to be prosecuted as homicides to the bill to restore abortion access.
Abortion came up in casual conversations during the session, but House Republicans didn’t formally discuss abortion measures in caucus meetings, said Nemes, a chief House GOP vote-counter who called it a “divisive issue.”
Kentucky's GOP lawmakers instead focused on another issue that's energized the party's base across the U.S. — restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Republicans overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto to enact a bill that bans access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youths and restricts the bathrooms they can use in schools.
“With access to abortion care currently unavailable in Kentucky, those individuals needed another political football,” said Angela Cooper, communications director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. “Sadly, they chose to sit on the wrong wide of history and attack trans youth.” | 2023-04-03T16:44:39+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/abortion-bills-gain-no-ground-in-kentucky-with-ban-in-place/MBJYVCJVQVDDRHM26NDAEM7ETA/ |
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A man was arrested in Denver following a hit-and-crash that killed a bicyclist Friday night in Lakewood.
Steven Bielas, 30, was arrested by Denver officers shortly after the crash and notified the Lakewood Police Department that the suspect and vehicle were located.
According to police, the victim, an adult male, was riding a motorized bicycle in the southbound lanes of traffic on Wadsworth Boulevard, just north of 6th Avenue, when he was struck and killed by a 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser.
After the crash, the driver of the Toyota took off eastbound on 6th Avenue, according to police. A Medina Alert was issued but was deactivated Saturday morning after authorities located the vehicle and suspect.
The victim’s identity has not been released.
Bielas was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on the charges of failing to remain at the scene of a crash resulting in death.
Police said they are attempting to determine the fault as well as if drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash. | 2023-04-09T17:51:03+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/suspect-arrested-in-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-bicyclist-in-lakewood |
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentice AB (publ) a leading supplier of high-technology solutions for simulation in the medical sector with focus on endovascular procedures, announces that the nomination committee for the company's Annual General Meeting 2023 has been appointed.
At the Annual General Meeting held on 27th of April 2022, it was resolved to adopt instructions and rules of procedure for the nomination committee to which the nomination committee shall consist of the chairman of the board of directors and three ordinary members representing the three largest shareholders by 30th of September.
The following members have been appointed to Mentice nomination committee for the 2023 Annual General Meeting:
Lawrence D Howell, appointed by Karin Howell,
Sophie Hagströmer, appointed by Bure Equity
Anna Sundberg, appointed by Handelsbanken Fonder
Magnus Nilsson, Chairman of the Board from December 30th 2022
Sophie Hagströmer is convening the first meeting.
The nomination committee represents approximately 56% of the total number of shares and votes.
The Nomination Committee shall prepare and present proposals for resolution by the Annual General Meeting regarding:
- Election of a Chairman of the meeting
- Decision on the number of Board members
- Decision on remuneration to the Board members and to the Auditor
- Election of Board members and Chairman of the Board
- Decision on principles for appointing Nomination Committee.
The Annual General Meeting will take place in Gothenburg on May 11th, 2023. Shareholders who have proposals for the Annual General Meeting are asked to submit these to the nomination committee by email to info@mentice.com, or by letter to: Mentice AB (publ), The Nomination Committee, Odinsgatan 10, 411 03 Gothenburg. In order for the nomination committee to process the received proposals with sufficient care, proposals must be submitted no later than March 24, 2023.
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Göran Malmberg, CEO, Mentice
Email: goran.malmberg@mentice.com
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Miles of brittle, uprooted almond trees lay dead on their sides on parched farmland in Coalinga, California, as an intensifying drought, new restrictions and skyrocketing water prices are forcing farmers to sacrifice their crops. Roadside signs warn against watering front lawns as residents brace for higher water bills as the precious resource disappears.
This is what a city on the brink of running out of water looks like.
"We can't continue this. It's not sustainable for our community," Coalinga city councilman Adam Adkisson told CNN.
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Coalinga usually gets its water through an aqueduct which runs from the San Luis Reservoir, about 70 miles northwest of the city. But as the West's megadrought pushes reservoir levels to precarious new lows, the US Bureau of Reclamation this year reduced the amount of water Coalinga could take from the reservoir by 80%, city officials told CNN.
The restriction left Coalinga short about 600-acre feet of water through March 2023, which is nearly 200 million gallons, and the equivalent of about 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
With the city on track to run out of water by mid- to late November, officials turned to the increasingly expensive open market to make up the difference. They finalized a purchase from a California public irrigation district last week.
The city's price tag for life's most basic necessity was roughly $1.1 million dollars. Adkisson tells CNN the same amount of water used to cost $114,000.
The Nasdaq Veles California Water Index, which tracks water transactions in the state, showed the price has gone from around $200 in 2019 to more than $1,000 today for the amount of water it would take to fill half of an Olympic-sized pool.
"I was just floored," Adkisson said of their water purchase. "I could not believe they could sell water at that price — but that was actually a cheap rate, that's the cheapest rate we found."
The biggest concern is for the residents of Coalinga. It is the water residents use for life's basic activities; to bathe, cook and clean. The city announced Monday the state approved a grant request to help offset its million-dollar water bill, which will likely ease residents' costs.
"We are a very poor community," Adkisson said. "These people out here that you see walking by, driving by, cannot afford a 1,000% increase in their water bills."
This is the first time Coalinga has had to buy water on the open market. But as the climate crisis intensifies the West's drought and rainy winters become few and far between, local leaders fear they are heading into a financially unsustainable future, where water can be sold to the highest bidder.
"Sure, there is supply and demand," Adkisson said. "But for the basic needs of humans we need the water to be at an affordable rate."
California's soaring water prices are squeezing the farmers around Coalinga, too. Many are fallowing farmland to save water which has become unaffordable.
Farmers Deedee and Tom Gruber told CNN their water allocations have decreased to amounts insufficient to grow their 11 crops, which include thirsty walnuts and almonds. The Grubers estimate the water needed to grow just one of their crops next season — walnuts — would cost them $40,000.
"It would cost us more for water than what we will get for our walnuts," Deedee Gruber told CNN.
California farmers say water scarcity, tightening water restrictions and now skyrocketing water prices are making it impossible for farmers to grow crops at all. The Grubers believe it will culminate in two ways: bankrupt farmers and higher food prices at the nation's groceries.
From protests at the California's state capitol this week to a living room full of worried farmers, California State Senator Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat who represents part of California's southern Central Valley, has been listening to farmers' stories about how drought and high water prices have affected them.
In an August letter, Hurtado and a bipartisan group of California legislators urged the US Justice Department to investigate "potential drought profiteering." Hurtado suspects there could be price gouging in drought-stricken western states.
In an email response to Hurtado's letter, the Justice Department said in October the complaint was "forwarded to the appropriate legal staff for further review." The agency declined comment to CNN on what if any investigative actions it might take.
"People are making money off of less water availability," Hurtado told CNN. "And that's hurting real people — real farmers and real communities."
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DENVER (KDVR) — Police were investigating a shooting Tuesday night in Aurora, where they say a man was shot during an attempted car theft.
It happened just before 10 p.m. in the 18000 block of East Kentucky Avenue, according to the Aurora Police Department. The area is east of South Buckley Road, near East Alameda Parkway.
Police say the man “interrupted what appeared to be a group of teens trying to steal his vehicle.” He was shot in the leg and hospitalized in stable condition. The suspects ran off.
Officers were in the area to look for the suspects, talk to witnesses and get surveillance video.
Police asked anyone with information on the shooting to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 (STOP). | 2023-06-14T06:15:02+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/man-shot-by-attempted-car-thieves-in-aurora/ |
Adam Laxalt concedes to Cortez Masto in US Senate race
Published: Nov. 15, 2022 at 8:26 AM PST|Updated: 27 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Adam Laxalt on Tuesday conceded to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in the United States Senate race, several days after the race was called for her.
In a statement on Tuesday, Laxalt said that while the 2022 election cycle “didn’t go as we hoped,” he said he was “proud of the race we ran.”
Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto won election to a second term representing Nevada on Saturday.
Laxalt said in his statement that, “moving forward, we need to better adjust to our new election laws or we need to work to fix them.” He added, “But I am confident that any challenge of this election would not alter the ultimate outcome.”
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Which bakeware set is best?
Bakeware is arguably one of the foundational tools of a well-equipped kitchen. These pieces let cooks explore a variety of world cuisines in baked goods, casseroles and even slow braises and stews. In many ways, the quality of your bakeware dictates the quality of your finished product.
The All-Clad Pro-Release Nonstick Bakeware Set is a great choice for professionals and highly skilled home cooks. These durable, versatile pans are easy to use and clean and last for years of delicious meals.
What to know before you buy a bakeware set
Type of pans
Bakeware sets include different pans, depending on the number of pieces. If you focus on baked goods, you might want a set that includes, at a minimum:
- Cake pan
- Loaf pan
- Baking sheet
- Muffin/cupcake tin
- Baking tray
More elaborate bakeware sets might also include pie pans, baking dishes and ramekins. It is important to consider what you will cook when selecting your set. There’s no sense in getting a large set full of pans that will never see the light of day.
Materials
Bakeware comes in five basic materials.
- Aluminum: Aluminum bakeware is lightweight and affordable. But it is also thin and promotes uneven baking. These pieces are also not as durable as some of the other materials.
- Carbon steel: If you are looking for a heavy-duty, durable set of bakeware, carbon steel is a good choice. It’s naturally nonstick. These sacs can be pricey, and carbon steel does not always bake evenly either.
- Cast iron: Cast iron heats evenly and retains heat, but it is heavy and requires special care.
- Ceramic: If you are looking to bake cakes, ceramic will not be your best choice, as most of this bakeware is best for casseroles and braises. On the other hand, most of these can double as serving pieces and also store food well in the freezer.
- Ovenproof glass: Oven-proof glass pie plates and rectangular baking dishes allow you to see when food is cooked from all angles. It does not conduct heat as well as some of the other options.
Nonstick vs. regular
Nonstick pans are perfect for bakers and cooks who don’t want to mess with greasing their pans before baking. It is crucial to pay attention to what is used to create the nonstick coating. PTFE-coated bakeware offers an ultra-slick surface and is deemed safe by the U.S. Consumer Safety Commission.
If you would rather avoid chemical coating of any kind, look for properly seasoned cast iron and carbon steel pans. With practice and regular use, these pans are just as slippery as treated bakeware.
What to look for in a quality bakeware set
Easy care
If you’re not a fan of manual scrubbing, look for bakeware that can go in the dishwasher. Aluminum, glass and ceramic bakeware are the best bets.
Freezer-, oven-, microwave and dishwasher-safe
Another feature to look for is a bakeware set’s versatility. Some ceramic and glass bakeware can do everything from meal prepping in the freezer to baking in the oven and serving at the table.
Lids
Lids that are either oven-safe or good for food storage are a bonus. Most metal bakeware for cookies, cakes and muffins don’t include these, but ceramic and glass pans might.
Handles
Wide handles on baking sheets and trays make removing hot baked goods from the oven easier. These may be designed with special grips, or they may be an extension of the rim of the bakeware.
How much you can expect to spend on a bakeware set
The price of a bakeware set can vary depending on the material and the number of pieces in the set. Expect to spend $50-$300 for a set of eight to 10 pieces.
Bakeware set FAQ
Can you get replacements if a piece of bakeware breaks?
A. Although it is generally more affordable to buy a set of bakeware, most companies offer individual replacements if a piece breaks.
Does bakeware require special care?
A. This depends on the material of your set. Check with the manufacturer to see if there are any specific care instructions.
Do not use metal utensils on nonstick bakeware, and do not stack bakeware. This can result in scratching or breakage. Otherwise, regular cleaning and seasoning as required will increase the life of your set.
What’s the best bakeware set to buy?
Top bakeware set
All-Clad Pro-Release Nonstick Bakeware Set
What you need to know: If you want to stock your kitchen with what the pros use, this is the set for you.
What you’ll love: This 10-piece set includes a half sheet, cookie sheet, muffin tin, cooling rack, round cake pan and loaf pan. Every piece is made from heavy gauge aluminized steel that is nonstick for easy release.
What you should consider: It is expensive. If you don’t bake frequently, you may not need something quite so professional.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top bakeware set for the money
CorningWare French White 10-Piece Ceramic Bakeware Set
What you need to know: This classic French ceramic bakeware turns out perfect casseroles, crisps and crumbles.
What you’ll love: It comes with two glass lids for serving and three plastic snap-on lids for food storage. These pieces are microwave, oven, dishwasher and freezer safe. They are easy to clean.
What you should consider: They are not naturally nonstick and are heavier than other choices.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Circulon Total Nonstick Bakeware Set
What you need to know: These are sturdy, durable nonstick pans that give bakers a lot of options in the kitchen.
What you’ll love: Raised circular bottom on each piece promotes even heating and baking. The 10-piece set is nonstick and features a bread pan, cookie sheet, baking tray, baking sheet, cake pan and muffin/cupcake pan. The handles are wide for safety in and out of the oven, and the construction is strong.
What you should consider: Steel is prone to rusting, and users report slight warping at high temperatures.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MSP to increase speed enforcement beginning Saturday, June 17
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Over the last couple of years, the Michigan State Police (MSP) has seen an increase in crashes and accidents due to high speeds.
Starting Saturday, MSP will be conducting increased speed enforcement. The MSP studies the trends of crashes and fatalities every year. Recently they have been finding that speed is a big issue, so troopers will be tailoring their focus to speed.
The MSP said there are urban legends that state you can go over the speed limit a certain amount and the police won’t stop you, but that is not the case.
Lt. Mark Giannunzio, Michigan State Police Public Information Officer said in 2021 there were roughly 237 speed-related fatalities on Michigan roads. That’s an increase of over 18% from 2020.
“We study these findings every year and we look for trends. If there are trends where speed is a reason for a lot of crashes and fatalities, we’re going to tailor our patrols and have our troopers focus on speed because it’s a problem,” said Giannunzio.
The speed enforcement will take place from June 17 to 25.
Copyright 2023 WLUC. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-16T23:00:40+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/06/16/msp-increase-speed-enforcement-starting-saturday-june-17/ |
Records fall as Northwest swelters under multiday heat wave
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Free transportation to cooling centers and garbage pickup well before sunrise were among the steps being taken in the Pacific Northwest as the region hit the peak of a multiday heatwave.
Temperatures soared to 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 Celsius) in Oregon’s largest city on Tuesday, which is expected to be the hottest day of a scorching spell that will be unusually long for this part of the United States. It was also a new daily record for the city for July 26, besting the previous mark set in 2020.
Seattle also reported a new all-time daily high of 94 F (34.4 C), breaking the previous record of 92 F (33.3 C) from 2018, according to the National Weather Service.
Elsewhere in Washington state, record daily temperatures were also registered in Bellingham and the capital, Olympia, which experienced 90 F (32.2 C) and 97 F (36.1 C) respectively.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency across much of the state, warning the extreme temperatures may cause utility outages and transportation disruptions. Temperatures aren’t expected to cool in western Oregon and Washington until the weekend.
Under the sweltering heat, Matthew Carr spent his lunch break in a fountain in downtown Portland, Oregon. The 57-year-old works outside picking up trash for the city and had to find a way to cool off.
“This is pretty hot,” Carr said. “I can just take my uniform off, jump in there with my shorts for my break, and hang out for a good 10 or 15 minutes.”
Oregon health officials say there has been an uptick in the number of people reporting heat-related illness in emergency departments, and the number of those calling emergency services numbers for similar symptoms.
“Heat-related illness daily visits are above expected levels statewide,” said Jonathan Modie, lead communications officer at the Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division. He said there were 32 such visits to emergency rooms on Monday compared to three to five per day before the heat wave began.
Portland officials have opened cooling centers in public buildings and installed misting stations in parks. TriMet, which operates public transportation in the Portland metropolitan area, will allow passengers who cannot afford fares to ride for free when heading to cooling centers.
Most of Portland’s garbage companies began earlier pick-ups on Tuesday morning, starting as early as 4 a.m. to reduce drivers’ exposure to heat and health risks. The early rounds will likely continue through Friday morning.
Multnomah County, which includes Portland, planned to open four overnight emergency cooling shelters starting Tuesday night so people who can’t get cool on their own could spend the night. The locations can accommodate a total of 245 guests, said Multnomah County spokesperson Kate Yeiser.
“We’re going to find space for anybody who needs it,” Yeiser said, adding that the sites have a “no-turn-away policy.” She said the county may open an additional overnight center on Wednesday if there’s high demand.
Many libraries are extending their hours, staying open until 8 or 9 p.m. to allow people more time to cool off.
Residents and officials in the Northwest have been trying to adjust to the likely reality of longer, hotter heat waves following last summer’s deadly “heat dome” weather phenomenon that prompted record temperatures and deaths.
In response, Oregon passed a law requiring all new housing built after April 2024 to have air conditioning installed in at least one room. The law already prohibits landlords in most cases from restricting tenants from installing cooling devices in their rental units.
About 800 people died in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia during a 2021 heat wave that hit in late June and early July. The temperature at the time soared to an all-time high of 116 F (46.7 C) in Portland and smashed heat records in cities and towns across the region. Many of those who died were elderly and lived alone.
While temperatures this week are not expected to get that high, the anticipated number of consecutive hot days has raised concerns among officials.
The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat warning for large swaths of Oregon and Washington state.
Officials in Seattle and Portland have issued air quality advisories from Tuesday through Saturday, warning that smog may reach levels that could be unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Cooling sites are open throughout Seattle, greater King County and throughout western Washington
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AP photographer Craig Mitchelldyer contributed.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-27T16:30:53+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/07/27/records-fall-northwest-swelters-under-multiday-heat-wave/ |
US inflation and consumer spending cooled in December
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge eased further in December, and consumer spending fell — the latest evidence that the Fed’s series of interest rate hikes are slowing the economy.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 5% last month from a year earlier, down from a 5.5% year-over-year increase in November. It was the third straight drop.
Consumer spending fell 0.2% from November to December and was revised lower to show a drop of 0.1% from October to November. Last year’s holiday sales were sluggish for many retailers, and the overall spending figures for the final two months of 2022 were the weakest in two years.
The pullback in consumer spending will likely be welcomed by Fed officials, who are seeking to cool the economy by making lending increasingly expensive. Still, the decline in year-over-year inflation matches the Fed’s outlook and isn’t likely to alter expectations that the central bank will raise its key rate by a quarter-point next week.
On a monthly basis, inflation ticked up just 0.1% from November to December for a second straight month. Energy prices plunged 5.1%, and the overall cost of goods also fell.
“Core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.3% from November to December and 4.4% from a year earlier. The year-over-year figure was down from 4.7% in November, though still well above the Fed’s 2% target.
Friday’s figures are separate from the better-known inflation data that comes from the consumer price index. The CPI, which was released earlier this month, has also shown a steady deceleration.
The Fed has been seeking to slow spending, growth and the surging prices that have bedeviled the nation for nearly two years. Its key rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, is now in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, up from near zero last March. Though inflation has been decelerating, most economists say they think the Fed’s harsh medicine will tip the economy into a recession sometime this year.
The Fed is in an increasingly delicate position. Chair Jerome Powell has emphasized that the central bank plans to keep boosting its key rate and to keep it elevated, potentially until the end of the year. Yet that policy may become untenable if a sharp recession takes hold.
Friday’s data may heighten concerns that the economy’s primary driver, the American consumer’s willingness to keep spending freely, is starting to crack under the weight of higher prices and interest rates.
On Thursday, the government reported that the economy grew at a healthy clip in the final three months of last year but with much of the expansion driven by one-time factors: Companies restocked their depleted inventories as supply chain snarls unraveled, and the nation’s trade deficit shrank.
By contrast, consumer spending in the October-December quarter as a whole weakened from the previous quarter, and business investment dropped off sharply. Overall, the economy expanded at a 2.9% annual rate in the October-December quarter, down slightly from a 3.2% pace in the previous quarter.
If consumers remain less willing to boost their spending, companies’ profit margins will shrink, and many may cut expenses. That trend could lead eventually to waves of layoffs. Economists at Bank of America have forecast that the economy will grow slightly in the first three months of this year — but then shrink in the following three quarters.
More frugal consumers would threaten to send the economy into a recession. But they can also help reduce inflation. Companies can’t keep raising prices if Americans won’t pay the higher costs.
Last week, the Federal Reserve’s beige book, a gathering of anecdotal reports from businesses around the country, said: “Many retailers noted increased difficulty in passing through cost increases, suggesting greater price sensitivity on the part of consumers.”
A raft of big companies, mostly in the technology sector, have announced sweeping layoffs in recent months, fueling concerns that a recession might be nearing. But those job cuts haven’t yet been enough to raise the unemployment rate, which remains at a half-century low.
In fact, the number of people seeking unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs — declined last week to 186,000, a very low level historically. And Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, said it would raise its minimum wage, from $12 to $14 an hour, to help it keep and attract workers.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-27T15:22:05+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/01/27/us-inflation-consumer-spending-cooled-december/ |
BOSTON (AP) — Three former executives of a company that makes machines that test lead levels in humans deliberately concealed a problem with the devices that produced falsely low results for tens of thousands of children, federal prosecutors in Boston said Wednesday.
The children, as well as pregnant people and others, faced serious health risks because of the inaccurate test results, prosecutors said.
Amy Winslow, Reba Daoust, and Mohammad Hossein Maleknia — all former executives at Magellan Diagnostics Inc. — were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud an agency of the U.S., and introduction of misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston.
Winslow, 51, of Needham, is the former CEO; Maleknia, 64, of Bonita Springs, Florida, is the former chief operating officer; and Daoust, 66, of Amesbury, is the former director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs.
“We allege that these defendants deceived customers and the FDA about the reliability of medical tests that detected lead levels,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement. “By doing so, we assert that they endangered the health and lives of incredibly vulnerable victims.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no safe level of lead in the blood, Rollins said.
Children can be exposed to lead through old paint, contaminated dust and drinking water that passes through lead pipes. The metal accumulates in the body, and at high levels, it can damage organs and cause seizures. Even at lower levels, it can harm brain development and lead to attention and behavior problems.
BJ Trach, an attorney for Winslow, called the charges “misguided.”
“She did not commit any crimes, and this prosecution, inexplicably initiated so many years after the events at issue, should never have been brought,” he said in a statement. “We look forward to Amy having her day in court, and we are confident she will be vindicated.”
He called her an effective leader through difficult times who left the company amicably five years ago.
An email was left with an attorney for Daoust. No attorney was listed for Maleknia in court records.
The devices in question, marketed under the names LeadCare Ultra, LeadCare II and LeadCare Plus, tested lead levels through blood draws or fingersticks and accounted for more than half of all blood lead tests conducted in the U.S. from 2013 through 2017, prosecutors said.
The three former executives knew of the problem as far back as 2013 but released the products to the market without informing customers or the FDA, prosecutors said.
“We believe these executives knew about this malfunction for years but failed to come clean to their customers and the FDA about it in order to boost their company’s bottom line,” said Joseph Bonavolonta, head of the FBI’s Boston office.
One reason was because Winslow and Maleknia thought a possible sale of Magellan would be jeopardized if the malfunction were known, prosecutors said. Magellan, based in Billerica, Massachusetts, was acquired by Meridian Bioscience Inc. for $66 million in 2016, and only then did the defendants notify customers and the FDA about the problem, prosecutors said.
Winslow received a bonus of approximately $2 million, and Maleknia received a bonus of about $448,000 from the sale.
The FDA issued a recall of the faulty products.
Cincinnati-based Meridian in a statement Wednesday said it has cooperated with investigators, is involved in settlement discussions with the Justice Department and that the company itself has not been charged.
The company’s current line of LeadCare products have been cleared by the FDA and remain available for clinical use, the company said. | 2023-04-06T20:12:10+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/health/ap-health/former-execs-accused-of-marketing-faulty-lead-test-devices/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kliff Kingsbury is joining Lincoln Riley’s coaching staff at Southern California as a senior offensive analyst.
USC announced the addition Tuesday of Kingsbury, who was fired by the Arizona Cardinals in January after four seasons as their head coach.
Kingsbury went 28-37-1 at Arizona, making one playoff appearance. Before that, he spent six seasons as Texas Tech’s head coach and earned a reputation as one of football’s most innovative offensive minds.
Riley and Kingsbury were briefly teammates at Texas Tech when Riley walked onto Mike Leach’s Red Raiders roster during Kingsbury’s senior season in 2002.
Speaking after the Trojans’ latest spring practice Tuesday night, Riley said he reconnected with Kingsbury about a month ago. Kingsbury took a break to travel after his dismissal by the Cardinals, but Riley floated the idea of working together when Kingsbury visited Los Angeles.
“He thought about it for a little bit, and I think it just ended up being a great fit for both sides,” Riley said. “He’s got great familiarity with our offense. He’s got familiarity with a lot of people on our staff, so that made a lot of sense. His experience on the offensive side, to have another set of eyes, will be very helpful. … It’s always great to have another opinion and kind of an outside perspective that isn’t tied to one position.”
Between his two head coaching jobs, Kingsbury spent about one month at USC as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Clay Helton before the Cardinals surprisingly hired him for their top job in January 2019.
Kingsbury is rejoining USC at a time when the Trojans’ quarterback room is loaded with talent. Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams is returning for presumably his final college season, backed up by former four-star recruit Miller Moss and incoming freshman Malachi Nelson, who is widely considered one of the nation’s top quarterback prospects.
Before coaching Kyler Murray in Arizona, Kingsbury coached several top quarterbacks in college, including Patrick Mahomes, Johnny Manziel and Case Keenum.
The Trojans went 11-3 in Riley’s first year in an immediate rebound from several unimpressive seasons under Helton. They missed out on the College Football Playoff only when they lost the Pac-12 championship game to Utah, and they lost the Cotton Bowl on a late comeback by Tulane.
USC is wrapping up its spring practice this week, with the Trojans’ spring game scheduled for the Coliseum on Saturday.
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AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-04-12T11:26:48+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national-sports/kliff-kingsbury-joins-usc-staff-as-senior-offensive-analyst/ |
BOISE, Idaho — Rolling Hills Public Charter School hosted an event for physical education (PE) teachers, providing them a time and place to share different methods and activities that work for their schools with their students.
The Physical Education Teacher "Think-Tank" Professional Development is a PE teacher collaboration event that allows for the teachers to brainstorm and discuss the different strategies implemented at various schools in the region.
The five-hour function took place at the charter school in Boise from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8.
In a statement, Rolling Hills Public Charter School said it is the only school in the Treasure Valley area that hosts such an event.
Over 50 PE teachers were expected to have been in attendance, some from as far as Pocatello, Sun Valley, Twin Falls and even Oregon.
Online Physical Education Network (OPEN) National Trainer and Georgia PE Teacher of the Year, Brian Devore, was the guest speaker at the event - where he hosted session about OPEN's physical education curriculum and introduced cutting-edge interactive equipment.
Rolling Hills Public Charter School said their mission is to develop "educated and engaged citizens through high expectations for student behavior and academic success in a small, safe, structured environment."
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The plans to build a children’s museum here on the High Desert are moving along.
Children’s Museum of Central Oregon board president Kenady Wilson tells us they are halfway through their fundraising goal thanks to a few recent commitments.
The board will bring a team to design the museum and are in the process of looking into three potential locations for the museum — on the east side, west side and north side of Bend.
“So we’re going to really evaluate and design what the museum is going to look like from the inside and the outside. The visitor experience, potential exhibits, how we’re going to incorporate Central Oregon into kind of the theme of the museum,” said Wilson.
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Wilson says they plan on creating a bigger capital campaign to bring in funds for the project.
According to the board, their time frame is to break ground on the museum by March 2024 and open by 2026.
Watch our reporting on the effort from November in the player below. | 2023-02-22T06:40:13+00:00 | centraloregondaily.com | https://centraloregondaily.com/central-oregon-childrens-museum-location-search/ |
AUSTIN, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The dog days of summer and triple digit temperatures have women all over the country stripping and taking selfies for a good cause: to show the world that women of a certain age have nothing to be ashamed of. No matter what society tells them, their bodies are worthy of love and appreciation.
"That scene should be a public service ad," Jeannie Ralston, founder of NextTribe, wrote on social media in reference to Emma Thompson's radical full-frontal performance in the new movie, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. "And a pivotal moment in our own acceptance of our less-than-perfect bodies."
Ralston was already thinking of ways NextTribe could reinforce the validating message Thompson's scene conveyed when she read this quote by the 63-year-old actress: "So if you want the world to change, and you want the iconography of the female body to change, then you better be a part of the change."
Today, NextTribe is launching the Real Body Challenge on Instagram, which will publish photos of women over 45 standing naturally without clothes or without their face showing. NextTribe will blur the photo at appropriate places and post each anonymous shot on its Instagram account, with the woman's age and a quote about how she felt while capturing the photo and her reason participating in this challenge.
The first photo, of a 61 year old, was published today. Her comment: "It's hard not to pose or suck in my stomach, but I'm trying to view my body as my longtime home, through a lens not tainted by society's judgment or expectations."
Hoping to encourage women to view their bodies in a more positive light (and the world to see women as they really are), NextTribe will post images under the hashtag #NextTribeRealBodyChallenge.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to set aside his political troubles and focus on economic ties and the war in Ukraine during a long-delayed official trip to India.
Johnson is due to visit the western state of Gujarat and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on the two-day trip that starts Thursday.
He hopes to strike new economic deals between Britain and its huge former colony, and to coax India away from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Modi has called the situation in Ukraine “very worrying” and has appealed to both sides for peace. But India has stood back from international efforts to criticize President Vladimir Putin, abstaining when the U.N. General Assembly voted this month to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
Modi has so far responded coolly to pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden and others to curb imports of Russian oil and gas.
India receives little of its oil from Russia, but has ramped up its purchases and bought 3 million barrels of crude last month, just as other democracies tried to isolate Putin with economic sanctions. India is also a major customer for Russian weapons, and recently bought advanced Russian air defense systems.
Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, said Britain would “work with other countries to provide alternative options for defense procurement and energy for India to diversify its supply chains away from Russia.”
But he stressed that the U.K. wouldn’t “lecture other democratically elected governments on what course of action was best for them.”
Johnson’s office said the two countries will announce new deals on defense, green energy, jobs and science partnerships during the prime minister’s trip.
Britain is seeking to tighten ties with Asian nations as part of an “Indo-Pacific tilt” to its foreign policy following its departure from the European Union in 2020. Johnson hopes to nudge forward negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal between Britain and India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Talks started in January, but the prime minister’s spokesman played down chances of a quick deal, saying “we don’t want to sacrifice quality for speed.”
The trip may also provide the British prime minister with a brief respite from a scandal over lockdown-breaching government parties during the coronavirus pandemic.
Johnson was fined by police last week for attending his own surprise birthday party in 10 Downing St. in June 2020, when people in Britain were barred from meeting with friends and family outside the home. It is one of a dozen gatherings in government buildings being investigating by police for possible lockdown breaches in a scandal that has become known as “partygate.”
On Tuesday Johnson offered lawmakers in Parliament what he said was a ”wholehearted” apology, but insisted he didn’t knowingly break rules, and brushed off calls to resign.
The trip means Johnson will miss an opposition-triggered vote in the House of Commons Thursday on whether he should be investigated for allegedly misleading Parliament when he denied violating any pandemic restrictions.
Johnson originally planned to visit India in January 2021, but the trip was canceled because of surging coronavirus cases in Britain. A second date in April 2022 was called off as a new coronavirus variant hit India. | 2022-04-20T16:07:11+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Johnson-heads-to-India-to-meet-Modi-escape-17101745.php |
New Ebola outbreak declared after single case confirmed in Congo's west Equateur province
A new Ebola case has been confirmed in Congo’s northwest Equateur Province in the city of Mbandaka, Congo health authorities said Saturday, declaring an outbreak nearly four months after the last one ended in the central African nation.
The one case was confirmed in a 31-year-old man who began experiencing symptoms on April 5 and sought treatment at a health facility after more than a week of being taken care of at home, the World Health Organization said. He was admitted to an Ebola treatment center Thursday for intensive care but died the same day.
“Time is not on our side,” said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. “The disease has had a two-week head start and we are now playing catch-up. The positive news is that health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have more experience than anyone else in the world at controlling Ebola outbreaks quickly.”
Congo has experienced 13 recorded Ebola outbreaks since the virus was first discovered in the conflict-ridden country in 1976. This is the third in the Equateur Province since 2018.
WHO says the patient received a safe and dignified burial and that efforts to stem the outbreak are underway. Authorities have begun testing and contact tracing. Vaccinations will begin in the coming days, WHO said.
“Many people in Mbandaka are already vaccinated against Ebola, which should help reduce the impact of the disease,” said Moeti. “All those who were vaccinated during the 2020 outbreak will be revaccinated.”
Ebola is transmitted by coming into contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. However, the early symptoms of fever and muscle aches resembles other common diseases like malaria. In addition to vaccinations, there is now effective treatment available that, if received early, can improve chances of survival significantly.
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Petesch reported from Dakar, Senegal. | 2022-04-23T19:02:23+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/new-ebola-outbreak-declared-after-single-case-confirmed-in-congos-west-equateur-province/39803717 |
Respect Tyleek finished with 17 points, five rebounds and four steals to help pace Jackson Memorial to a 48-37 win over Brick Memorial in Brick.
Charlie Meglio put up 10 points and eight rebounds and Mekhi Cherry had 10 points for Jackson Memorial (9-2), which has won six of its last seven games.
Dorian Alston led Brick Memorial (9-3) with 13 points while Brian Starrett and Eric Sliazis each had 10 points.
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Activists from both sides of the abortion issue gathered outside the Supreme Court today. Some were celebrating. Some were protesting.
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Activists from both sides of the abortion issue gathered outside the Supreme Court today. Some were celebrating. Some were protesting.
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Red Sox prospect Triston Casas, who has been on a rehab assignment in Fort Myers while working back from a high right ankle sprain suffered on May 17, is likely to return to Triple-A Worcester this week.
Casas, 22, played four games in the Florida Complex League on a rehab assignment prior to the midseason minor league break, which coincided with the MLB All-Star break.
He went 6-for-14 with a homer and three doubles, three walks, and two strikeouts for a .429/.529/.857 line in 17 plate appearances. He tested the ankle by playing in back-to-back-to-back days, with two of these three at first base and one at designated hitter.
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“We’re happy obviously with the progress he made,” said Red Sox farm director Brian Abraham. “This week, hopefully he’ll be active [in Worcester].”
Casas was hitting .248/.359/.457 with six homers in 36 games for the WooSox before his injury. But while those numbers look modest, evaluators were impressed with his increased willingness to drive the ball (rather than a pronounced two-strike approach focused on putting the ball in play), with Casas showing immense increases in his average exit velocity this year.
“He’s murdering the ball,” one scout recently observed.
The determination that Casas is ready to return from the injured list is noteworthy given the yearlong struggles of Red Sox first basemen in the big leagues. The Red Sox rank in the bottom five among all teams in several offensive categories at first, including average (.205), OBP (.280), and slugging (.341). Franchy Cordero, after showing considerable promise at times this year, limped into the break in an 0-for-16 slump with 15 strikeouts over his last five games.
Meanwhile, rehabbing righthander Thaddeus Ward — who underwent Tommy John surgery in June 2021 — is expected to move up to High-A Greenville coming out of the minor league break. In four rehab outings thus far (two in the Florida Complex League, two in Single-A Salem) the 25-year-old, who had cracked the Red Sox top 10 prospects list prior to surgery, has thrown 11 shutout innings, allowing just three hits while striking out 19 and walking one.
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MARENGO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 4-year-old girl and two men have been killed and four others injured in a wrong-way crash in southern Michigan.
A pickup truck traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 94 in Marengo Township collided head-on about 12:30 a.m. Monday with a minivan, state police said.
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The 42-year-old driver of the pickup died at the scene. The 46-year-old minivan driver and a girl in that vehicle also died at the scene.
Another adult and three other children in the minivan were taken to hospitals with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, police said.
State police said at least three children in the minivan were not in child safety seats or wearing seatbelts.
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The names of the victims were not immediately released.
Marengo Township is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Detroit. | 2023-04-03T21:13:11+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/girl-2-men-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-on-michigan-17876359.php |
Report Highlights Company's Progress on ESG Objectives
CHICAGO, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grainger (NYSE: GWW), the leading broad line distributor of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products serving businesses and institutions, today announced the release of its 2023 Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Report on www.GraingerESG.com.
"Grainger has long been an industry leader in ESG, with the goals of bettering our communities and running more sustainable operations," said D.G. Macpherson, Chairman and CEO. "As we've done for nearly 100 years, we will continue to do the right thing to positively impact the lives of our team members and carry out our responsibility to help our customers meet their ESG objectives."
The report, which covers the fiscal year that ended Dec. 31, 2022, highlights how Grainger's purpose-driven culture directly supports its ESG initiatives. The report also emphasizes Grainger's focus on four key priorities: Customer Sustainability Solutions, Supplier Diversity, Energy and Emissions, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
Customer Sustainability Solutions. Starting with the customer is one of Grainger's core principles. Grainger drives value for customers and helps them meet sustainability goals through its diverse portfolio of environmentally preferable products (EPP), services and resources. In 2022, EPP represented more than $1 billion in sales revenue for the company.
Supplier Diversity. Grainger helps customers diversify their supply chains and achieve their diversity procurement goals through its Diversity Solutions Programs. The programs, which include the Reseller Diversity Program and the Supplier Diversity Program, provide support for small and minority-owned businesses, working with them as authorized resellers and suppliers to Grainger's broadline offering.
Energy and Emissions. Grainger is committed to environmental stewardship, operating its business and supply chain sustainably, and mitigating its climate impact. Since 2018, the company has reduced global absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 26%, nearing its goal of a 30% reduction by 2030. Additionally, through implementation of innovative solutions, Grainger continues to reduce its distribution center waste year-over-year, reaching a 94% recycling rate across the U.S. network in 2022.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Grainger strives to be a welcoming workplace and invests in DEI-focused programs and training for team members, including the sponsorship of eight Business Resource Groups to support diverse perspectives. In addition, the company expanded self-identification categories for team members to include gender and LGBTQ+ identity.
To learn more about Grainger's ESG programs and its 2022 highlights, including facts about Grainger's team member volunteer hours, its 100% team member completion rate of Business Conduct Guidelines training, and its expansion of solar energy across its network, visit www.GraingerESG.com.
To find your way with Grainger and explore career opportunities, visit jobs.grainger.com.
About Grainger
W.W. Grainger, Inc., with 2022 sales of $15.2 billion, is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. Grainger achieves its purpose, We Keep The World Working®, by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with innovative technology and deep customer relationships. The Company operates two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers more than 2 million maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products and several services, such as technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment, Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 12 million items, and MonotaRO.com provides more than 20 million items. For more information, visit invest.grainger.com.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — You know…Dasher, Dancer, and all of the others.
But, do you recall…that you’ve been saying a few of them wrong? You’re not alone if you answer no.
In fact, we all have been for quite some time, it turns out. It all goes back to that poem.
Depending on when and where you went to grade school, you may have had to recite the poem or even sing it. Who could forget something that begins with such a strange contraction like T’was?
A Visit from Saint Nicholas, which you may know more commonly as The Night Before Christmas was released in 1823 in an issue of the Troy Sentinel newspaper in New York.
If you ever get to view the original manuscript of the poem, you will see two very different reindeer names from the ones we all grew up with. Dunder and Blixem.
Dunder, which some of us normally associate with the first half of a name of a fictional paper company, is actually a Dutch word that means a sound like thunder. Blixem is a little more complicated but appears to be a phonetic spelling of the Dutch word Bliksem.
It makes sense because if you put them both together you get Thunder and Lightning
Interestingly enough, in Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa, which is derived from Dutch, Bliksem is now considered a swear word. They use Weerlig instead when talking about lightning, and not trying to insult someone.
Back to the poem. When it was submitted to that Troy, New York newspaper in 1823, it was submitted anonymously. In 1836, it was finally attributed to Professor of Divinity, Biblical Learning, Oriental and Greek Literature, Clement Clarke Moore.
Moore, whose farm and homestead currently make up the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, neither confirmed nor denied authorship of the poem. At least in the beginning.
He eventually took credit, and the famous Christmas poem was included in an anthology of his poetry that was published 21 years later. In recent years though, a debate began as to who actually wrote the poem.
Several scholars attribute the poem to Henry Livingston Jr., a Major in the Revolutionary War, who was also a poet, and artist, of Dutch and Scottish heritage. Livingston’s family had always believed he had penned the poem.
In fact, it wasn’t until after Livingston’s death that the poem was attributed to Moore. Livingston also happened to be a distant relative of Moore’s wife.
Some of the supporting evidence for Livingston being the author includes his Dutch and Scottish heritage, which made him more likely to know the words Dunder and Blixem, as well as his description of Santa Claus, which was in line with Dutch and Scandinavian tradition.
So, you’re probably asking, “I don’t care about any of this, why have I been saying the wrong names? When did that happen?” Well, that happened all the way back in 1823 when the poem was originally printed in the Troy newspaper.
The original manuscript of the poem includes the original spellings of Dunder and Blixsem. When the poem was published in the Troy newspaper, the names were somehow changed to Donder and Blitzen.
Donder at the time was the English way of pronouncing Dunder and Blitzen is the German word for lightning. Of course, Blitzen also rhymed a bit better with Vixen.
Later, sometime between the 1830s-1840s, the names transitioned to Donner and Blitzen. No one can say for sure when exactly it happened.
The debate over who wrote the poem will probably rage on for some time. Given that everyone who would know for sure has been dead for quite some time, it likely will never be solved.
Does it really matter if we’ve been saying the names all wrong for the better part of two centuries? Not really.
That’s the nature of language and traditions. With time, they all change. Just as Blixsem is now a swear word in Afrikaans, words change, traditions change, and no one really seems to notice after enough time has passed.
Although, it does make one wonder what other holiday traditions we might be getting wrong. | 2022-11-30T21:19:01+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/home-for-the-holidays/so-weve-probably-been-saying-those-reindeer-names-wrong/ |
- Outlander CYTD sales up 43.3%
- Eclipse Cross marks best-ever September and best Q3 retail-only sales, up 20.5% CYTD
- Port and dealership closures due to Hurricane Ian further tighten supply amidst ongoing industry-wide supply constraints
- All-new 2023 Outlander PHEV, starting at $39,845, garners early praise
FRANKLIN, Tenn., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) today reported third quarter 2022 sales of 16,782 vehicles, with volume tempered heavily by supply constraints of the most in-demand vehicles and trims. Despite the challenges, Outlander and Eclipse Cross continued to lead year-to-date sales performance for the brand across the quarter – up CYTD 43.3% and 20.5%, respectively. Outlander's 30,481 sales this year represent the second-best year-to-date performance in the nameplate's history, and the strongest performance ever year-to-date when considering retail-only sales.
Port closures due to Hurricane Ian toward the end of the quarter further hampered the brand's ability to meet sales projections for its most highly sought-after models. To help those who suffered complete losses of vehicles as a result of the storm, MMNA is offering a $500 incentive – valid from October 4 until January 3, 2023 – toward the purchase of any new 2022 or 2023 Mitsubishi vehicle, valid at Mitsubishi Motors dealer partners located in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina1.
Having sold the last of the 2022 Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV)s in July, MMNA anticipates substantial sales increases for the model as the next-generation flagship 2023 Outlander PHEV enters showrooms in November 2022.
News and Notes
- MMNA recently announced pricing and trim specifications for the all-new 2023 Outlander PHEV. Based on the same platform as the award-winning 2022 Outlander and boasting more power, all-electric and overall range than its predecessor, the seven-passenger Outlander PHEV will start at $39,845 when it arrives in showrooms this November2.
- MMNA placed second in the "2022 Automotive Reputation Report" from Reputation, an annual analysis of customer experience that includes 35,000 automotive OEM brands, dealer groups, and dealerships across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Mitsubishi's second-place rank was the culmination of a steep three-year rise that saw the brand climb from 17th among 19 mass-market automotive brands in 2020.
About Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc.
Through a network of approximately 330 dealer partners across the United States, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., (MMNA) is responsible for the sales, marketing and customer service of Mitsubishi Motors vehicles in the U.S. In its Environmental Targets 2030, MMNA's parent company Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has set a goal of a 40 percent reduction in the CO2 emissions of its new cars by 2030 through leveraging EVs — with PHEVs as the centerpiece — to help create a sustainable society.
MMNA has its headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee, as well as corporate operations in California, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, Florida and Virginia.
For more information on Mitsubishi vehicles, please contact the Mitsubishi Motors News Bureau at 615- 257-2698 or visit media.mitsubishicars.com.
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1. Excludes Outlander Sport "S" trim. Customers must provide proof of vehicle damage related to Hurricane Ian from their insurance provider. More details available at Mitsubishi Motors dealers.
2. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. Excludes destination/handling, tax, title, license, etc. Retailer price, terms and vehicle availability may vary. Vehicle MSRP does not include Destination/Handling Charge of $1,345 (Alaska/Hawaii $1,470). Mirage Destination/Handling Charge is $1,045 (Alaska/Hawaii $1,170). Pricing at the time of this news release. Prices are subject to change without notice. Features, packages and additional equipment are based on the latest information available at the time of this release and are subject to change without notice.
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DENVER — Another year is putting us further from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as 2022 provided additional solutions. Chief medical officer Dr. Jaya Kumar at Denver's Swedish Medical Center has been at the forefront of this virus since its inception.
"We've seen an evolution, not just in the virus itself, but in the way we think of COVID-19 as an illness and the way we treat it, the way we diagnose it and how we look forward to the new year," Kumar said. "Now we have rapid sequencing of viral genomes. So any virus you see, you could sequence it, duplicate it, make a treatment or a vaccine against it; that is huge."
She points to some of the biggest advances made in 2022.
"We saw a new antiretroviral drug come in like paxlovid, which is a pill which you can give as an outpatient," Kumar said.
That is something Dr. Scott Joy, the chief medical officer of HealthOne's Physician Services Group, says has kept patients out of the hospital.
"On a weekly basis, we're doing, myself personally, about six to 10 prescriptions of paxlovid a week, and I have yet to see a patient whose been admitted really in the last six months of 2022," Joy said.
The last year has also expanded experts' knowledge.
"So, for example, so we are seeing an RSV or Flu serge. Things have become like a piece of cake for us. We know what to do," Kumar said. "And we had our surge protocol ready in 30 minutes while this would have taken us hours and hours of hard work two years ago."
However, while these successes are worth celebrating, both doctors say it's essential to acknowledge the hurdles.
"I think one of the challenges moving forward after the pandemic is patients' trust in the vaccines," Joy said. "I'm just a little concerned that vaccines are the tip of the iceberg and are going to start getting questions about data around cancer screenings and questioning about cholesterol medicines to reduce risk of heart attack and stroke and I think we've opened up a little bit of a pandora's box."
Health care staffing has become an issue too.
"I think the biggest challenge we have moving forward is really the workforce. I think that's going to be a big challenge for us in the next year or two," Joy said.
These experts emphasize that people are still not caught up on necessary medical exams and screenings, which could lead to more significant health complications.
"I do think we've held back, and we are still seeing people come in with advance stages of illnesses. We still see people in the hospitals who have postponed medical care," Kumar said. "I think we need to do a lot of catching up in the next few years."
We must pinpoint where we currently stand with COVID-19 to understand what is next.
"The concept of never getting COVID is something that we need to get over," Joy said.
"We could potentially enter into an endemic stage, but that'll take some time. An endemic stage is where you see predictable surges like flu," Kumar said. "But for now, I think people still need to be on their watch and make sure you are getting your vaccines."
The years to come will allow us to be more informed on the effects of the COVID-19 virus.
"We're still in the infancy stages of this pandemic. Although it seems like it's been years but long-term effects are still unknown," Kumar said. "So the next few years, we'll be building upon the technology, investing more in basic science research, and be better prepared for any more pandemics that we may see in the future." | 2022-12-27T21:17:05+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/news/national/the-future-of-covid-19-what-we-learned-in-2022-and-what-we-can-expect-in-the-new-year |
From the outside, the residential high-rise on Manhattan's Upper West Side looks pretty much like any other luxury building: A doorman greets visitors in a spacious lobby adorned with tapestry and marble. Yet just below in the basement is an unusual set of equipment that no other building in…
NEW YORK — From the outside, the residential high-rise on Manhattan's Upper West Side looks pretty much like any other luxury building: A doorman greets visitors in a spacious lobby adorned with tapestry and marble.
Yet just below, in the basement, is an unusual set of equipment that no other building in New York City — indeed few in the world — can claim. In an effort to drastically reduce the 30-story building's emissions, the owners have installed a maze of twisting pipes and tanks that collect carbon dioxide from the massive, gas-fired boilers in the basement before it goes to the chimney and is released into the air.
The goal is to stop that climate-warming gas from entering the atmosphere. And there's a dire need for reducing emissions from skyscrapers like these in such a vertical city. Buildings are by far the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions here, roughly two-thirds, according to the city buildings department.
New York state’s buildings also emit more air pollution than any other state's.
So building owners must make dramatic cuts starting next year or face escalating fines under a new city law. About 50,000 structures — more than half the buildings in the city, are subject to Local Law 97. Other cities such as Boston and Denver followed suit with similar rules.
As a result, property managers are scrambling to change how their buildings operate. Some are installing carbon capture systems, which strip out carbon dioxide, direct it into tanks and prepare it for sale to other companies to make carbonated beverages, soap or concrete.
“We think the problem is reducing emissions as quickly as possible," said Brian Asparro, chief operating officer of CarbonQuest, which built the system. “Time is not on our side, and this type of solution can be installed quickly, cost-effectively and without a major disruption.”
Yet critics, many of them representing environmental groups, say building managers should be going much further: They argue that to achieve meaningful reductions in emissions, buildings should be significantly upgraded and switched to renewable-powered electricity instead of continuing to burn fossil fuels. They also express concerns about the safety of storing large amounts of carbon dioxide, an asphyxiant, in a densely populated community.
“Carbon capture doesn’t actually reduce emissions; it seeks to put them somewhere else,” said Anthony Rogers-Wright, director of environmental justice at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. “The emissions still exist. And we should be clear that the only way to reduce emissions ... is to stop emitting.”
It’s still unclear whether carbon capture technology will even be recognized by New York City as a qualifying emissions reduction; the city has yet to decide.
In the basement of the Upper West Side apartment building, two hulking 500-horsepower boilers rumble, burning natural gas and releasing carbon dioxide. The boilers, which are expected to last another 10 or 20 years, produce roughly half the building's emissions, Asparro said. The carbon capture system, Asparro said, is trapping about 60% of the boilers' emissions.
Carbon capture technology has existed on an industrial scale for decades. But now a handful of green tech companies and building owners are trying for the first time to deploy this technology on a much smaller scale on residential buildings. Without action, similar high-rise buildings could face fines of nearly $1 million annually starting in 2030.
Nearly 70% of New York City’s large buildings have steam boilers that run on natural gas or oil, according to NYC Accelerator. Many have heating systems more than a half-century old, and often they’re under-maintained, said Luke Surowiec, director of building decarbonization at ICF, a consulting firm which manages NYC Accelerator.
Over in Brooklyn, the floor rattles and shakes as yellow machines churn at Glenwood Mason Supply Company Inc., a concrete maker unrelated to Glenwood Management Corp. Grey blocks rattle down a conveyor line under a din of metal gears and motors. Somehow, birds have moved in and fly between towering piles of blocks.
One main ingredient of concrete is cement, which contributes about 7% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, according to a study by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
Many environmental groups remain skeptical of carbon capture and instead favor investing in a transition to renewable energy. They also fear that it could be unsafe to store carbon dioxide, which in extreme concentrations can lead to suffocation or death, in a residential dwelling.
After a carbon dioxide pipeline ruptured in Satartia, Mississippi, in 2020, 45 people sought medical attention at hospitals, including people who had been caught in a vapor cloud while driving. Proponents of carbon capture technology respond that there are safeguards to prevent such scenarios.
“We have carbon dioxide everywhere in cities,” he added. “Hospitals, restaurants, breweries — all utilizing carbon dioxide. And it’s being done in a fairly safe and manageable way.”
Brian Asparro, chief operating officer of CarbonQuest, stands in a production room where liquid carbon dioxide is converted from a byproduct of a natural gas fired water boiler to a salable industrial product on April 18 in New York. New York is forcing buildings to clean up, and several are experimenting with capturing carbon dioxide that is emitted, cooling it into a liquid and mixing it into concrete where it turns into a mineral.
A liquid carbon dioxide pipe is labeled in a production room of The Grand Tier luxury apartment building, where the carbon byproduct of a natural gas fired water boiler is repurposed for industrial sale, on April 18 in New York.
Josh London, senior vice president at Glenwood Management Corp., peers into the port hole of a natural gas fired boiler, located in the basement of The Grand Tier luxury apartment building, that his company uses to produce liquid carbon dioxide, April 18 in New York.
A worker stands beside the mixing machines at the start of a production line creating concrete blocks designed with liquid carbon dioxide as an ingredient at the Glenwood Mason Supply Company, on April 18 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. | 2023-05-22T01:50:41+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/nyc-skyscrapers-turning-to-carbon-capture-to-lessen-climate-change/article_8a3f73a1-345c-5d46-9401-c86bfcf2aef9.html |
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. ("Vintage" or the "Company") (NYSE: VWE). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Vintage and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On September 13, 2022, Vintage disclosed that certain of the Company's previously issued financial statements should no longer be relied upon and should be restated due to the identification of an accounting error related to the treatment of interest rate swap agreements.
On this news, Vintage's stock price fell $2.23 per share, or 40.33%, to close at $3.30 per share on September 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) _ National Presto Industries Inc. (NPK) on Friday reported third-quarter earnings of $8.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based company said it had net income of $1.26.
The diversified production company that makes everything from household appliances to munitions posted revenue of $69.7 million in the period.
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After Kathy Coleman and her husband became the primary caregivers to their six grandchildren in Baton Rouge, she found a way to temper her hunger pains.
Eugene Vickerson also stepped in to care for grandchildren — one 7 years old, the other 16 months — when they came to live with him just as the housing crisis hit. He had a predatory mortgage with an adjustable rate, and soon his Atlanta home became unaffordable. For a time, until he could get his lender to modify his loan, he stopped paying the mortgage, partly to ensure the children were fed.
In households across the country, many grandparents are struggling to feed the children in their care. And inflation has only made that harder: The cost of food has jumped 11.2 percent in the past year, according to the September report on the consumer price index released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Coleman experienced what researchers call “food insecurity.” Such households are uncertain how to or unable to get enough food to meet all of their family’s needs, because they don’t have enough money or other resources.
The number of Americans who fall into this category is staggering: In 2021, about 34 million people lived in food-insecure households, Agriculture Department data shows.
Food insecurity is far worse for Americans who have taken over the raising of their grandchildren than those who haven’t, according to a new report by Generations United, an organization dedicated to helping what it calls “grandfamilies.”
I interviewed Coleman and Vickerson for a panel discussion on food insecurity. And they both illustrated one figure in the Generations United report that resonated with me, having been raised by my grandmother from the time I was 4, along with four siblings.
Roughly a quarter of grandparent-headed households experienced food insecurity between 2019 and 2020. That’s more than twice the national rate.
The stories the caregivers shared in the report are heartbreaking.
“Sometimes people would give us food that had been in their refrigerator for two weeks, but it was better than nothing,” said a Wyoming woman who raised two grandchildren. “Someone gave us a bag of oranges and we ate nothing but oranges for four days.”
One finding, in particular, stood out: In 2019, only 42 percent of low-income, grandparent-headed households with grandchildren younger than 18 participated in the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
There are a lot of reasons these families don’t seek those benefits.
Grandparents who responsibly accumulated assets don’t always meet the low-income eligibility in their state to qualify for SNAP. About 46 percent of grandparents responsible for raising their grandchildren are 60 or older.
“Children shouldn’t go hungry because their caregivers were careful financially,” said Donna Butts, the executive director of Generations United.
One way to improve access to assistance would be to create a “child-only” SNAP benefit based on the needs of the child as opposed to household income, the report recommended.
Grandparents often aren’t aware they qualify for federal food assistance, because they mistakenly believe they must have legal custody of the children to qualify.
“I hear from the grandfamily caregivers that they don’t want to be a part of ‘the system,’” Keith Lowhorne, vice president of kinship with the Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, said in the report. “They worry that applying for food and nutrition programs would cause someone to come and take the children away if they don’t have legal custody, or go after the parents for child support, which would cause problems.”
Unlike many other public benefit programs, federal nutrition programs such as SNAP don’t require caregivers to obtain legal custody to receive aid.
The Biden administration held a summit on combating hunger and later released a 44-page report that included improving outreach and countering misconceptions about the government’s food programs.
“We need to improve outreach for existing federal nutrition programs like SNAP and to better reach more grandfamilies and connect them to benefits that they’re eligible for and should be receiving,” said Alexandra Ashbrook, director of root causes and specific populations at the Food Research and Action Center, which contributed data to the report.
But there’s another reason families don’t apply for SNAP benefits: embarrassment.
My grandmother, Big Mama, hated using food stamps, what SNAP was previously called. It wasn’t her fault my parents failed at parenting. Nonetheless, she felt shame in asking for help and would try to shop at times when she was less likely to see someone she knew.
She would try to slip the food stamps to the cashier without anyone in line behind her noticing. But even as a child, I could see the judgmental glares she received.
Eventually, she stopped reapplying for food stamps. The stigma was just too much for her. Somehow she made do with the money she had.
Whenever you may be tempted to judge families facing food insecurity and their need for assistance, think about Coleman and her strong cups of coffee. | 2022-11-04T11:22:32+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/04/grandparents-report-food-insecurity/ |
MILAN (AP) — Police in Italy arrested an Italian man in the slaying of a Nigerian vendor whose brutal beating death on a busy beach town thoroughfare was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.
Video footage of the attack has circulated widely on Italian news websites and social media platforms, eliciting outrage as Italy enters a parliamentary election campaign in which the right-wing coalition has already made immigration an issue.
“The murder of Alika Ogorchukwu is dismaying,’’ Enrico Letta, the head of the left-wing Democratic Party, wrote on Twitter, naming the vendor who died Friday. “Unheard of ferocity. Widespread indifference. There can be no justification.”
Ogorchukwu, 39, was selling goods midday Friday on the main street of Civitanova Marche, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea coast, when the aggressor grabbed a crutch the vendor used to walk and struck him down, according to police.
Video shows the assailant then wrestling the victim to the pavement as the victim fought back, eventually subduing Ogorchukwu with the weight of his body.
Police chief Matteo Luconi told Italian news channel Sky TG24 that onlookers called police, who responded to the scene after a suspect had fled and attempted to administer aid to the victim. It was not clear if he died at the scene.
Police used street cameras to track the assailant's movements and detained a man identified as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32.
Ferlazzo was being held on suspicion of murder and theft, the latter for allegedly taking the victim’s phone when he fled.
Luconi told Sky TG24 the assailant lashed out after the vendor made “insistent” requests for pocket change. Police were questioning witnesses and have taken into evidence videos of the attack. They said the suspect has made no statements.
Ogorchukwu, who was married with two children, resorted to selling goods on the street after he was struck by a car and lost his job as a laborer due to the injuries he suffered, said Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for immigrants in the Marche region's Macerata province.
The accident left him with a limp, and needing crutches, Amanza said.
Amanza gave a different version of what had preceded the assault, saying the aggressor became infuriated when Ogorchukwu told the man's companion she was beautiful.
“This compliment killed him,’’ Amanza told The Associated Press.
“The tragic fact is that there were many people nearby. They filmed, saying ‘Stop,’ but no one moved to separate them,’’ Amanza said.
Macerata was the site of a 2018 shooting spree targeting African immigrants that injured six. Luca Traini, 31, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the shootings, which Italy’s highest court confirmed qualified as a hate crime. | 2022-07-30T15:37:12+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Video-of-fatal-attack-on-African-immigrant-shocks-17340111.php |
Police: July 4 mass shooting thwarted in Virginia’s capital
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police in Richmond, Virginia, said Wednesday that they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns.
Authorities announced the alleged plot in a news release, but did not release any additional information. Chief Gerald Smith planned a news conference for Wednesday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the police department did not immediately respond to a call seeking additional details of the planned shooting.
The announcement came just two days after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on a July 4 parade in the affluent Chicago suburb of Highland Park, killing seven people and injuring more than three dozen.
Robert E. Crimo III was charged with seven counts of murder Tuesday. The shooting sent hundreds of people fleeing in fear and set off an hourslong manhunt. Authorities have not yet identified a motive.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-06T15:06:54+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/07/06/police-july-4-mass-shooting-thwarted-virginias-capital/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party’s election-year attempt to craft a scaled-back version of the economic package that collapsed last year, Democratic aides told The Associated Press.
Democrats expect to submit legislative language on their Medicare plan to the Senate’s parliamentarian in the next few days, the aides said. It was yet another sign that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., could be edging toward a compromise the party hopes to push through Congress this summer over solid Republican opposition. Manchin scuttled last year’s bill.
Under the latest proposal, people earning more than $400,000 a year and couples making more than $500,000 would have to pay a 3.8% tax on their earnings from tax-advantaged businesses called pass throughs. Until now, many of them have been using a loophole to avoid paying that levy.
That would raise an estimated $203 billion over a decade, which Democrats say would be used to delay until 2031 a shortfall in the Medicare trust fund that pays for hospital care. That fund is currently projected to start running out of money in 2028, three years earlier.
Most U.S. businesses are pass throughs, which include partnerships and sole proprietorships and range from one-person law practices to some large companies. Owners count the profits as income when they pay individual income taxes, but such companies do not pay corporate taxes — meaning they avoid paying two levels of taxation.
Democrats this week also sent the parliamentarian a separate 190-page piece of the emerging Schumer-Manchin compromise aimed at lowering prescription drug costs for patients and the government. Provisions include requiring Medicare to negotiate drug prices, limiting beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs to $2,000 annually and increasing federal subsidies for copays and premiums for some low-income people.
With November elections for control of Congress approaching, Democrats hope the two proposals will be a remedy for a campaign season that so far looks bleak. Republicans are favored to win a majority in the House and could do the same in the Senate.
Democrats say both plans will show voters they are battling to curb health care costs and protect the widely popular Medicare program, positions they say will be dangerous for Republicans to oppose. Polls show widespread public alarm over recent months’ historically high inflation rates, supply chain problems and other economic issues that along with President Joe Biden’s dismal popularity ratings are pushing voters Republicans’ way, the GOP says.
Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted that the Kentucky Republican told constituents this week that Democrats would make inflation “considerably worse” by reviving their economic bill.
“From an economic point of view, I can’t think of anything they haven’t screwed up,” McConnell said.
Schumer and Manchin have been bargaining privately for weeks on a package aides say could include around $500 billion in spending and tax credits, more than paid for with about $1 trillion in revenue and other savings. Schumer has described the talks as productive but acknowledged that some issues remain unresolved.
Energy and environment programs, corporate taxes, IRS budget increases to strengthen tax enforcement and a renewal of soon-to-expire federal subsidies for people buying health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law are also under discussion, aides say.
It remains uncertain what will emerge from the talks. The aides described the latest proposals and status of negotiations only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information by name.
The suggestions of progress were emerging seven months after Manchin derailed a roughly $2 trillion, 10-year social and environment bill, dealing a stunning blow to a cornerstone of Biden’s domestic agenda.
The Democratic-run House approved the measure in November, but Manchin abruptly announced he could not support the legislation because of its cost and his worries that it would fuel inflation. Similar provisions lowering pharmaceutical prices and raising taxes on some upper-income people were in that bill.
The West Virginian’s backing remains crucial in the 50-50 Senate. Democrats are using special procedures that would let them pass the pared-down package over expected unanimous GOP opposition with the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Democrats are expected to unanimously back the Medicare solvency and prescription drug plans, one Democratic aide said. Manchin spokesperson Sam Runyon said the lawmaker “has always supported pathways” to keep Medicare solvent, and said his backing for lowering pharmaceutical costs “has never been in question.”
Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough will have to certify that the new bill’s provisions adhere to the chamber’s budget rules. Last year, she ruled that language making it easier for immigrants to remain in the U.S. had to be removed because it violated prohibitions against using the special procedures to enact significant policy changes.
Medicare has 64 million beneficiaries. Its trust fund covering hospital services, called Part A, is financed largely from taxes deducted from peoples’ paychecks.
That trust fund gained two years of solvency, until 2028, in last month’s report by the program’s board of trustees. It attributed the improvement to the economy’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic-spawned recession.
But both Medicare and Social Security face long-range financing problems, and the trustees suggested that lawmakers act “sooner rather than later” to strengthen them. Without congressional action, Medicare’s hospital trust fund would be able to pay only 90% of its costs in 2028 and less thereafter, the trustees said.
The proposal to increase taxes on some wealthier Americans would raise $203 billion over the coming decade, according to information examined by the AP that Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation provided to Senate Democrats. Federal actuaries told the Democrats that such financing would delay the trust fund’s shortfall until 2031, another document showed. | 2022-07-07T21:27:17+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/dems-want-to-tax-high-earners-to-protect-medicare-solvency/ |
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The deadline to apply for a fall scholarship through the Single Parent Scholarship Fund (SPSF) is approaching.
It is a common story for parents around the region.
“It’s sometimes maybe a mom, has been married, had a couple of kids. Maybe started her education when she was younger and now finds herself divorced, single, and needing to provide and make a living for her family,” Krystal Goodwin, SPSF NWA Public Relations Director, said.
So SPSF started to help foot the bill for higher education. 40 years ago, it gave out five scholarships of $150. This year, nearly 170 students got scholarships for anywhere between $650-$2,500 each semester.
“One has been with us through his bachelor’s degree. Now, he’s working on getting his doctorate, and he’s going to become a doctor in our area,” Goodwin said.
It helps fill vital roles in our community, whether someone has time to get a doctorate or wants to learn a trade and get right back into the workforce.
“A lot of those trade jobs, once you get your education, get out and start working, you’re making $60-$70 thousand a year,” Goodwin said.
It helps the community while also breaking a cycle of poverty for families.
“These single moms and dads understand that they need to get this education to get a good job to bring them and their families out of poverty and they’re making that generational change for them and their families,” Goodwin said.
Applications for the fall semester need to be in by June 15th. To apply, click here. | 2023-06-13T03:03:30+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/community/doing-good/doing-good-scholarships-available-for-single-parents/ |
JENNINGS, La. (KLFY)– Jennings Police in Louisiana carried out a welfare check at a truck stop on Feb. 8 after receiving a call concerned about a juvenile.
When officers arrived at the truck stop, they found Daniel Myers and Kyla Hosea of Conroe, Tx. inside a RV-camper with their four children. The children were between 2 and 10 years old.
According to officers, living conditions were extremely poor in the RV. The camper emitted a foul smell. When they entered, officers found human and animal feces throughout the camper. There was no electricity, running water, or bedding for the children.
Officers say the only food in the camper was partial loaves of bread and sliced cheese. The children had poor hygiene, dirty clothes, and improper footwear for the hazardous living conditions.
Myers admitted to staying inside the camper with the children and exposing them to deplorable living conditions. He also admitted the children lacked proper medical care, nourishment, and education. Hosea denied all allegations.
Both parents were booked into the Jeff Davis Jail on four counts of Cruelty to Juveniles. Child Protective Services took custody of the children | 2023-02-14T17:39:27+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/kids-living-in-deplorable-rv-parents-arrested/ |
Statistics after 8 games
- Bay Area to see rain, coldest temps of the season so far
- A Bay Area theme park is closing, but some plan to resurrect it
- Horoscope for Monday, 10/31/22 by Christopher Renstrom
- A dog came home covered in blood. Its owner's body was just ID'd
- Drummer of legendary SF punk band dies at 63
- Man gets jail for trying to rape sleeping Yosemite co-worker
- Musk unlikely to pay 'golden parachutes' for fired Twitter execs
- Suspect in murder-for-hire of Oakland dentist dies in jail
- Christian McCaffrey basically single-handedly beat the Rams
- Four arrested on suspicion of robbery at Bay Area bakery, grocery
- American student killed in Seoul was on 'first big adventure,' father says
- 49ers fans take over SoFi Stadium once again against Rams | 2022-10-31T15:12:13+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/New-England-Patriots-17546523.php |
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Luke List shoots Even-par 72 in round three of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday
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Luke List makes birdie on No. 15 at the Memorial
In the third round of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday 2022, Luke List makes birdie on the par-5 15th hole.
Luke List hit 13 of 18 greens in regulation during his third round at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, finishing at 6 under for the tournament. List finished his day tied for 7th at 6 under; Billy Horschel is in 1st at 13 under; Cameron Smith and Aaron Wise are tied for 2nd at 8 under; and Jhonattan Vegas, Daniel Berger, and Francesco Molinari are tied for 4th at 7 under.
On the 210-yard par-3 fourth, List's tee shot went 187 yards to the right side of the fairway and his chip went 16 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 1 over for the round.
After a drive to the left side of the fairway on the 455-yard par-4 sixth hole, List had a 128 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved List to even for the round.
After a drive to left rough on the par-5 seventh, List hit his 133 yard approach to 7 feet, setting himself up for a birdie. This moved List to 1 under for the round.
On the 200-yard par-3 eighth, List's his chip went 19 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to even-par for the round.
On the 588-yard par-5 11th hole, List reached the green in 3 and sunk a 10-foot putt for birdie. This moved List to 1 under for the round.
At the 180-yard par-3 12th, List hit a tee shot 164 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 27-foot putt for birdie. This moved List to 2 under for the round.
After a 318 yard drive on the 561-yard par-5 15th, List chipped his third shot to 4 feet, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved List to 3 under for the round.
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There were moments in the first three quarters Sunday when Zach Wilson showed flashes of the playmaker the New York Jets thought they were getting when they drafted him No. 2 overall last year.
And then came the fourth quarter.
Wilson was masterful in the clutch, leading the Jets to a 24-20 comeback victory over the Steelers in Pittsburgh.
“He was very electric,” safety Lamarcus Joyner said.
With rookie Kenny Pickett giving the Steelers a spark after stepping in for Mitchell Trubisky, the Jets found themselves down 20-10 with 13:36 left.
It turned out to be plenty of time for Wilson. After completing just eight of his first 24 passes for 124 yards through three quarters, he went 10 of 12 for 128 yards while leading two touchdown drives — capped by Breece Hall’s 2-yard run with 16 seconds left.
Throw after throw, Wilson exuded confidence and expressed as much in the huddle on that last possession when he told his teammates it was time to score a touchdown.
“We felt like we were going to go down there and win that game,” tight end Tyler Conklin said. “I felt Zach was really resilient, really confident, and throughout the whole game.
“But I think really in that fourth quarter, he really settled in and he said, ‘I’m going to help lead us to victory’ — and he did that.”
With young quarterbacks, statistics are often used as a measuring stick for progress. With success comes confidence and the belief a player can achieve at the NFL level.
Handling adversity and winning is another story.
Wilson is still just 14 games into his pro career, and the ups and downs are to be expected. But he showed the entire franchise and fanbase — even if it’s just one game — he can take over in the clutch and lead the Jets to victory.
“You look at Zach and he was just hanging in the pocket, very poised, very calm, throwing the ball — throwing darts, throwing lasers — exactly where they needed to go,” coach Robert Saleh said.
The key now is for Wilson to use this as a catalyst, an opportunity to solidify all the optimism and confidence by stringing together a few more winning performances.
“He never shut down,” Hall said after the game. “He never turned it off. You can just tell he believes in himself.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur said last week the Jets’ offense would be “a hair different” with Wilson back at quarterback. It turned out it was a whole head of hair different — and because of Wilson’s athleticism.
The best example came in the second quarter when LaFleur conjured up some trickery on a double-reverse with Wilson catching a touchdown pass from Braxton Berrios. Wilson became the first QB in team history with a TD reception.
Conklin also said Wilson was “slippery” while routinely getting out of trouble and avoiding pressure in the pocket.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The offensive line. The big guys up front can’t seem to catch a break. Because of injuries to George Fant and Duane Brown, second-year guard Alijah Vera-Tucker moved from right guard — after being a left guard as a rookie — to start at left tackle. Saleh said he was “fantastic” while being an unheralded star of the victory.
But the Jets have another big question mark after rookie right tackle Max Mitchell was carted off the field with a knee injury that will sideline him at least a few weeks. Conor McDermott, Cedric Ogbuehi or Mike Remmers (currently on the practice squad) could replace him at right tackle.
STOCK UP
Lamarcus Joyner. The veteran safety had a rough start to the season after missing most of last year with a torn triceps, but was all over the field Sunday. He had two interceptions, including the game-sealing pick as time expired. He also had six tackles and four passes defensed.
STOCK DOWN
C.J. Uzomah. The tight end, who signed a three-year, $24 million deal in the offseason, has been an afterthought in the passing game. He has just one 5-yard catch in three games this season. Uzomah played just 31 of 70 offensive snaps Sunday, with Conklin (57 snaps) getting the bulk of the work at tight end.
INJURIES
Saleh said the Jets will know more about Mitchell’s prognosis in the next few days, but placing him on injured reserve is a possibility. ... Brown (shoulder) and DE Vinny Curry (hamstring) are eligible to come off IR this week, but Saleh said the team will make a decision by Wednesday whether to activate them and start the 21-day window in which they can return.
KEY NUMBER
4 — The number of takeaways by the Jets, their most since Week 1 of the 2019 season against Buffalo. In addition to Joyner’s two interceptions, Michael Carter II and Jordan Whitehead had picks in the win over the Steelers. It was also the first time since the season opener against Detroit in 2018 that New York had four INTs in a game.
NEXT STEPS
At 2-2, the Jets are at least .500 through four games for the first time since 2017. They opened that season at 3-2, and they’ll be trying to match that next week at home against the AFC East-rival Miami Dolphins.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-10-03T22:46:01+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/wilsons-solid-performance-in-clutch-a-great-sign-for-jets/2022/10/03/9aaee526-4369-11ed-be17-89cbe6b8c0a5_story.html |
NASCAR warned its teams it was serious about stamping out a culture of cheating that stretched back to its roots and let illegitimate race winners often walk away unscathed with nothing worse than a fine or a few docked points for the team.
But the drivers always kept the trophy and added the number in the win column.
No more and not again. NASCAR carried out its stiffest punishment against a race winner in more than 60 years when it stripped Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin of his Pocono Raceway victory and teammate Kyle Busch of his runner-up finish.
JGR didn't bother to fight the penalties, declining Monday to take the matter to an appeals panel.
Message received.
“What you’ve seen here is a reaction to kind of a new way of doing business,” said Scott Miller, NASCAR's senior vice president of competition.
The JGR Toyotas flunked postrace inspection Sunday night when NASCAR found issues in both cars that affected the aerodynamics. Miller said Monday on Sirius XM the exact issue was “extra layers of vinyl” found under the wrap of the car — more commonly known as the paint scheme — that essentially modified that area of the lower nose on each car.
Joe Gibbs Racing apologized in a statement and said changes were underway to make sure it did not happen again.
“This change in our build process was not properly vetted within our organization and we recognize it is against NASCAR’s rules,” said Wally Brown, director of competition for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Hamlin was the first Cup winner to be disqualified since April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis’ victory at Wilson Speedway in North Carolina was thrown out because of an oversized fuel tank. Hamlin was stripped of his third Cup Series win of the season and a track-record seventh at Pocono.
Chase Elliott finished in third place and was awarded the win without the Hendrick Motorsports driver ever leading a lap in his No. 9 Chevrolet.
NASCAR introduced a new car this year that spent years in development and was designed to cut costs and essentially attempt to level the playing field. The 2022 version is pretty much a kit car; teams get all the same pieces from varying vendors and have detailed instructions regarding how to put it together.
And many of the pieces that fit under the car, items that used to cost hundreds of thousands annually to develop, are now spec parts that are essentially bought off store shelves. They’re the same for everyone and not allowed to be manipulated.
Four years after NASCAR first threatened to tighten up inspection rules, it doubled down this season on going after potential rule benders.
NASCAR’s three manufacturers — Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota — and their race teams never stop trying to find that extra edge that can give them more speed. They look for gray areas and wiggle room that give them an advantage yet keep them under the inspection radar.
“One of the early directives was that NASCAR was going to have to inspect these cars at a level that previously had never been done before,” Miller said. “It's critical that we inspect at the level that we do and it's critical that we react when we see something that wasn't agreed on on the Next Gen concept.”
Toyota Racing Development President David Wilson said the manufacturer stood by NASCAR's decision.
“As we’ve stated throughout the Next Gen process, we applaud NASCAR’s hyper-vigilance when it comes to policing the rules on this new race car,” Wilson said. “We have been in close communication with Joe Gibbs Racing and they have acknowledged that the tape added to the front facias of the #11 and the #18 was not permissible by NASCAR’s rules.”
NASCAR's inspection team usually tears down the first- and second-place cars at the track, and third- through fifth-place cars (such as Elliott's Chevrolet) are also inspected. All cars go through a prerace inspection and multiple failures can result in the car losing its starting spot and getting sent to the back of the field.
NASCAR said the Toyota infractions were not caught in the prerace inspection because the wrap was not removed from the cars until after the race.
“This is not akin to a big engine or soaked tires or anything like this," Miller said. "This is more about the integrity of what was agreed on between NASCAR and the teams and protecting the integrity of the Next Gen inspection process.”
Were the JGR teams the first to push changes on the car beyond what is allowed in the rulebook?
No way.
First ones to get caught? Yup. And NASCAR can only hope the punishments are a big enough deterrent for the rest of the garage to stay away from any funny business.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-25T22:08:17+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/sports/2022/07/25/jgr-accepts-penalties-given-to-hamlin-busch-apologizes/ |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs says an iron ore mine in northern Minnesota will close in a few years if it doesn’t get mineral rights from a nearby project that hasn't been completed.
Hibbing Taconite, which is owned by Cleveland-Cliffs, is expected to run out of iron ore around 2025. Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves said Thursday that his company needs the rights from the Mesabi Metallics project to keep the operation going, the Star Tribune reported.
The state of Minnesota terminated Mesabi Metallics’ mineral rights after the company missed the deadline for a $200 million down payment to finish the taconite plant near Nashwauk. The state plans to reassign the leases.
Goncalves said if Cleveland Cliffs secures the leases, the Hibbing mine’s operations will be extended by about 27 years.
“I believe we are getting close," Goncalves said at a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce event in Minneapolis. “I believe we are one Supreme Court decision away.”
Mesabi Metallics has asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to review a state Court of Appeals’ ruling that favored terminating the company’s leases. If the Supreme Court declines to take the case, the state Department of Natural Resources would reassign the leases. U.S. Steel has also shown interest.
The DNR said it hasn't decided how it will release the Nashwauk ore.
In an interview with reporters after his speech, Goncalves said that “if the Minnesota Supreme Court does not take the case — we expect that to happen — I believe the next thing will be sitting down with the DNR to finalize a deal ... If they put to bid, I am not even going to bid. So whoever wins, I don’t give a rat’s behind.”
He said any winning bidder will simply tie up the land and its minerals and do nothing with them.
Hibbing Taconite, an economic anchor in Minnesota’s Iron Range, employs 750 people. | 2022-11-18T16:05:18+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cliffs-CEO-Minnesota-mine-will-close-without-17594981.php |
Bethany Lakes, Del.- A single-family home was 'heavily damaged' after a fire broke out Tuesday morning in Bethany Beach, officials said.
Authorities responded to reports of a possible fire at around 9:30 a.m. in the 31000 block of May Drive in the Bethany Lakes community.
"The Millville Volunteer Fire Department arrived on the scene and found smoke and flames coming from a dwelling structure," the updated press release said.
The home was occupied at the time of the fire, though everyone was able to escape without injury.
The fire was determined to be accidental in nature and was caused by an electrical malfunction in the exterior pool equipment area.
Multiple fire crews assisted in getting the fire under control, including crews from Ocean City, Bethany, Dagsboro, Millville, Rehoboth, Selbyville, Roxanna and Frankford.
Officials said the cost in damages is estimated at $500,000. | 2022-07-13T02:34:17+00:00 | wrde.com | https://www.wrde.com/news/home-heavily-damaged-after-fire-breaks-out-in-bethany-lakes/article_cb392700-01f7-11ed-9439-4311d91cec91.html |
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A 17-year-old pilot became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed on Wednesday in Bulgaria, where his journey kicked off five months ago.
Mack Rutherford, a Belgian-British dual national, landed on an airstrip west of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, to complete his task and to claim two Guinness World Records. Along with becoming the youngest person to fly around the world by himself, Rutherford is the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe in a microlight plane.
Rutherford said he hoped his achievement would inspire young people to pursue their dreams.
“Just follow your dreams, no matter how old you are – work hard and move forward to achieve your goals,” he said after he stepped out of the aircraft.
His sister, Zara, who finished her own trip global flight in January at age 19, previously held the ultralight record. Mack Rutherford took the age record from Travis Ludlow of Britain, who was 18 when he made a solo flight around the world last year.
The journey, which began March 23, took Rutherford through 52 countries over five continents. He turned 17 during the trip. To set a mark recognized by the Guinness World Records, he crossed the equator twice.
Born into a family of aviators, Rutherford qualified for his pilot’s license in 2020, which at the time, made him the youngest pilot in the world at the age of 15.
His solo trip flying around the world kicked off in Bulgaria because his sponsor, the web hosting company ICDSoft, is headquartered in Sofia and loaned him the plane.
Like his sister, Rutherford flew a Shark, one of the fastest ultralight aircraft in the world with a cruising speed reaching 300 kph (186 mph). Normally a two-seater, it was modified for his long journey by replacing the second seat with an extra fuel tank.
Initially planned to take up to three months, the trip lasted longer because of several unexpected obstacles along his way, including monsoon rains, sandstorms and extreme heat.
But most of the delays were caused by waits to obtain permits and other documents required for further flight or having to alter the scheduled route if they were rejected.
The flight took him through Africa and the Gulf region to India, China, South Korea and Japan. He crossed the northern Pacific and landed after 10 uninterrupted hours in the air on a volcanic island near the Bering Strait.
From there, he headed to Alaska and down the West Coast of the United States to Mexico. Rutherford then headed north again along the U.S. East Coast to Canada, and across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
On Wednesday, a huge crowd of people had arrived at the airport to welcome Rutherford and to celebrate his achievements. Among them were the three members of his immediate family.
His father, Sam Rutherford, said he was extremely happy and proud of his children’s achievements. He told reporters that such an event is especially encouraging for children to follow their dreams and parents to support them in their endeavors.
His sister, Zara Rutherford, said she kept in close touch with her younger brother during his journey.
“While he was flying, I constantly tried to keep in touch and help him. Our parents called him every day, and I joined in those conversations. I gave him advice on the route, on the flight, so that I could be useful to him,” she said.
Mack Rutherford said he will now focus on his education.
“The next thing I’m going to do is to go back to school and catch up as much as I can,” he said. | 2022-09-23T05:03:03+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/teen-pilot-sets-age-record-for-solo-flight-around-world/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — On President Joe Biden ‘s first day in office, he handed Congress a legislative plan to modernize the nation’s immigration system.
It went nowhere, just like so many past overhaul attempts.
Meanwhile, the number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border climbed to record highs and so did the backlog of cases in the nation’s immigration court system. Title 42 emergency health powers that allowed border officials to turn away many migrants were sure to end as the coronavirus pandemic eased. And Congress couldn’t agree on even simple questions like whether the U.S. should let in more people, or fewer.
So administration officials went looking outside the U.S. for solutions, seeking to portray immigration not as one of America’s most intractable problems, but as an issue for the entire Western hemisphere to address.
It was a shift in focus that plays to Biden’s faith in the power of global diplomacy, and one that also may hold more promise for making progress, particularly as smuggling networks increasingly steer migrant families from around the world up through the dangerous and often deadly Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama.
“No nation should bear this responsibility alone.” Biden said last year as he summoned the leaders of 23 nations attending a Summit of the Americas to come up with a shared plan on migration and security. “The economic futures depend on one another. Each of our futures depend on one another. And our security is linked in ways that I don’t think most people in my country fully understand.”
If the solutions for Biden are international, the politics are still domestic.
He’s running for reelection, and the border is a top issue for Republicans who portray him as soft on security. His involvement in immigration policy before he became president was relatively light. Prior to this year’s visit, he’d only been down to the 1,951-mile U.S.-Mexico border for a few hours during a 2008 campaign stop, and he played no significant role in past reform efforts in the Senate when he served there.
His foreign policy experience, though, stretches back decades from his years on the Hill and through his two terms as vice president, and that carries weight internationally.
“No other president who has sat in the Oval Office has the mileage, the understanding, the engagement that Joe Biden has had in the region. It’s just a fact,” said Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. from 2007 to 2013. “That is an important add that Biden brings to the table.”
Sarukhan said Biden’s approach has focused on engagement and negotiation, by sending top leaders to the region for discussions, and through invitations to Washington. “Biden hasn’t put the gun to anyone’s forehead,” he said.
But immigrant advocates worry there’s a cost to the new approach that will likely be paid by migrants who are fleeing persecution and poverty in their homelands.
“I do think they are trying to manage migration, rather than end migration,” said Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. “But managing migration can also have human rights, terrible human rights, consequences. There’s a moral distancing — the possibility for wiping your hands of a problem if it isn’t at your door anymore.”
The makeup of those migrating has changed dramatically over the past two decades, bringing new challenges as well.
Those crossing the border used to be mostly Mexican men who were coming for work and could be easily sent back. Now, families are increasingly arriving from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, fleeing drought brought on by climate change as well as oppressive regimes.
It reflects a larger trend. UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, estimates 103 million people are displaced globally — more than 1% of the world’s population.
“We are finding ourselves in a unique moment and we do have to understand it’s not a domestic issue, but a regional and global one,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, head of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which helps migrants and refugees in the U.S.
The number of illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings has been declining since new rules were put into place by the Biden administration on May 11, but it’s not clear yet whether the administration’s approach will be effective in the long term or whether it can survive legal challenges and a possible administration change in 2024.
Under the new rules, migrants are barred from asking for asylum if they cross through another country on their way to the U.S. without seeking protection there or fail to make an appointment to come to the U.S. through a new government app. If caught crossing illegally, they are barred from returning for five years and face criminal charges if they do.
But up to 30,000 Venezuela, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans per month will be allowed into the U.S. to work legally if they come with sponsors. And as many as 100,000 immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia will be allowed in if they have family members who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
The leaders of Mexico and several other nations had boycotted the June summit in Los Angeles over a decision to exclude authoritarian leaders. Still, it ended with a signed pact and set of principles that included legal pathways to enter countries, aid to communities most affected by migration, more humane border management and coordinated emergency responses.
Administration officials then set to work on new immigration rules that would take effect once Title 42 ended, with new directives that aim to expand legal pathways for entry while cracking down on illegal crossings, intertwined with actions by Guatemala, Ecuador and Colombia. They negotiated with Mexico. Canada and Spain to take in migrants who would otherwise be bound for the U.S.
Guatemala and Colombia will open regional hubs where people can go to make claims, with as many as 100 opening regionally. But Colombia and Guatemala fear the hubs might draw millions to their shores, and other nations are reluctant to sign on to host hubs for that reason.
Meanwhile, many migrants remain in limbo. Last week, advocates said the new migrant app was having major problems and that people were unable to get the OK to cross – some who desperately needed to get into the U.S., who were sexually assaulted and beaten by their captors over the border.
”Understand that what the people who are terrified to return to their home countries who are seeking asylum, they want to do this the right way so badly that they wait for an app that does not work,” said Priscilla Orta, an immigration attorney at Project Corazon. “And that is a lottery for their lives.” | 2023-05-23T19:15:58+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/ap-biden-leaning-into-global-diplomacy-to-manage-migration-at-us-mexico-border/ |
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A Springdale, Arkansas, man was sentenced on Aug. 30 to 13 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Arkansas, court documents say on Oct. 19, 2021, detectives with the Fourth Judicial District Drug Task Force (DTF) received information that Ronnie Wayne Cain, 51, was in possession of a large quantity of methamphetamine and that Cain had a search waiver on file.
The release says detectives conducted surveillance at Cain’s home. A parole search resulted in detectives finding:
- Around 200 grams of methamphetamine
- A set of digital scales
- Three more containers of methamphetamine
- Packaging material and utensils
- A drug ledger
- Two loaded firearms
- $2,410 in cash
Cain, a multi-convicted felon, was out on bond for a similar arrest at the time of the offense, according to the release. | 2022-08-30T22:52:22+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/arkansas-man-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison-for-drug-trafficking/ |
Air quality alert issued for several MN regions due to wildfire smoke
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KEYC) - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued an Air Quality Alert for several regions of the state, due to wildfire smoke.
Fine particle levels are expected to reach the orange air quality index (AQI) category, a level considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, and could aggravate heart and lung diseases as well as cardiovascular and respiratory conditions.
Symptoms can include chest pain, shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, and fatigue.
The regions included in the alert include southern, east central, and northeast Minnesota. The alert will be in effect from Tues., June 27, until Thurs., June 29, at midnight.
The affected area includes the Twin Cities metro, Albert Lea, Marshall, Worthington, Rochester, Hinckley, Winona, Mankato, Two Harbors, Hibbing, Ely, Duluth, and the tribal nations of Upper Sioux, Prairie Island, Mille Lacs, Grand Portage, and Fond du Lac.
Smoke from wildfires in Ontario and Quebec moved into eastern and southern Minn. late Monday, and ground-level smoke continued through early Tuesday morning.
Copyright 2023 KEYC. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-27T17:21:11+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2023/06/27/air-quality-alert-issued-several-mn-regions-due-wildfire-smoke/ |
Excluding significant items, quarterly earnings per common share of $0.25 (1)
Second quarter dividend of $0.085 per common share
TORONTO, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. (Canaccord Genuity Group, the Company) (TSX: CF) today announced its financial results for the second fiscal quarter and six months ended September 30, 2022.
"In light of the very challenging conditions that continue to grip markets around the world, I am pleased with how our business has performed," said Dan Daviau, President & CEO of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. "Steps we have taken to reduce our reliance on underwriting activities and increase contributions from our wealth management and M&A advisory businesses have contributed to our resilience, and we are very well positioned to reclaim leadership in our core underwriting sectors when market conditions improve."
Second fiscal quarter and six-month fiscal year-to-date highlights:
(All dollar amounts are stated in thousands of Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated)
- Second quarter revenue excluding significant items(1) of $381.8 million, a decrease of 19.6% over the same period in the prior year
- Second quarter net income before taxes excluding significant items(1) of $50.6 million, a decrease of 47.1% compared to Q2/22 ($39.0 million and a decrease of 55.2% on an IFRS basis)
- Diluted earnings per common share excluding significant items(1) for the second fiscal quarter of $0.25 per share (diluted earnings per common share of $0.14 on an IFRS basis), a decrease of 56.9% compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2022
- Diluted earnings per common share excluding significant items(1) for the first six months of fiscal 2023 of $0.36 ($0.02 on an IFRS basis)
- Capital markets advisory revenue increased by 22.2% compared to the previous quarter, reflecting quarter-over-quarter increases in both the US and Canada
- Total client assets(1) in our global wealth management business were $88.6 billion at September 30, 2022, a year-over-year decrease of 9.7%, reflecting year-over-year decreases of 5.7% in Canada, 13.1% in the UK & Crown Dependencies and an increase of 1.3% in Australia. Decreases were primarily attributable to the decline in market values from September 30, 2021 partially offset by the additions of new assets in connection with the acquisitions of Punter Southall Wealth Limited (PSW) and Adam & Company
- Despite the reduction in client asset values, global wealth management revenue for the second fiscal quarter increased by 1.8% year-over-year reflecting increases in commissions & fees revenue of 1.3% year-over-year and interest revenue of 206.8% year-over-year partially offset by a decrease in new issue revenue
- On August 17, 2022, the Company, through its UK & Europe capital markets business completed its acquisition of the business of Results International Group LLP (Results), an independent advisory firm focused in the healthcare and technology sectors
- Second quarter common share dividend of $0.085 per share
- Fiscal year-to-date capital deployment initiatives including dividends and share buybacks totaled $22.0 million or 39.7% of adjusted net income for the six-month period.
Core business performance highlights:
Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management
The Company's combined global wealth management operations earned revenue of $169.3 million for the second fiscal quarter, a year-over-year increase of 1.8%. Net income before taxes excluding significant items(1) for this segment decreased by 12.6% year-over-year. When measured on a year-to-date basis, revenue amounted to $331.5 million, a decrease of 8.2% compared to the first six months of the prior fiscal year.
- Wealth management operations in the UK & Crown Dependencies generated second quarter revenue of $81.0 million, an increase of 10.4% compared to Q1/23 and an increase of 7.8% compared to the same period last year. Measured in local currency (GBP), revenue was £52.7 million in Q2/23 compared to £43.3 million in Q2/22, an increase of 21.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Net income before taxes excluding significant items(1) for this business was $18.1 million in Q2/23, down 8.2% year-over-year, partially due to higher interest expense on additional bank loans obtained to acquire PSW and Adam & Company.
- Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management (North America) generated $73.4 million in second quarter revenue, a year-over-year increase of 1.5% compared to Q2/22. Second quarter interest income in this business amounted to $11.1 million, an increase of 145.3% year-over-year due to the higher interest rate environment. Excluding significant items(1) net income before taxes for this business was $9.7 million in Q2/23, which represents a year-over-year decrease of 1.6%.
- Wealth management operations in Australia generated $14.9 million in second quarter revenue, a decrease of 20.6% compared to the second quarter of last year. Excluding significant items(1) net loss before taxes for this business was $0.1 million in Q2/23, down from net income of $2.1 million in Q2/22.
Total client assets in the Company's global wealth management businesses at the end of the second fiscal quarter amounted to $88.6 billion, a decrease of $9.5 billion or 9.7% from Q2/22.
- Client assets in the UK & Crown Dependencies were $50.0 billion (£32.3 billion) as at September 30, 2022, a decrease of 4.2% (decrease of 2.8% in local currency) from $52.2 billion (£33.3 billion) at the end of the previous quarter, and a decrease of 13.1% (decrease of 3.9% in local currency) from $57.5 billion (£33.6 billion) at September 30, 2021, primarily attributable to the decline in market values, partially offset by net inflows and new assets from our acquisitions of PSW and Adam & Company.
- Client assets in North America were $33.7 billion as at September 30, 2022, a decrease of 0.3% from $33.9 billion at the end of the previous quarter and a decrease of 5.7% from $35.8 billion at September 30, 2021 due to the decline in market values, partially offset by net new inflows and new assets from existing IAs and new recruits.
- Client assets(1) in Australia were $4.9 billion (AUD 5.5 billion) at September 30, 2022, an increase of 3.9% from $4.7 billion (AUD 5.3 billion) at the end of the previous quarter and an increase of 1.3% from $4.8 billion (AUD 5.3 billion) at September 30, 2021. In addition, client assets(1) totalling $13.3 billion (AUD 14.9 billion) are also held on record in less active and transactional accounts through our Australian platform.
Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets
Globally, Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets earned revenue of $205.7 million for the second fiscal quarter, a year-over-year decrease of 32.5%. The decrease primarily reflected substantially lower investment banking revenues in all geographies in connection with the significant decline in industry-wide new issue activity. Advisory revenue for the three-month period was $100.9 million, an increase of 22.2% sequentially and a year-over-year decrease of 27.4%. Net income before taxes excluding significant items(1) for this segment was $26.2 million for the quarter, a year-over-year decrease of 64.0%.
CanaccordGenuity Capital Markets participated in 157 investment banking transactions globally, including led or co-led, raising total proceeds of $9.0 billion fiscal year-to-date.
The Company's US capital markets business was the largest contributor of revenue for the three-month period, with revenue of $128.8 million, or 62.6% of total global capital markets revenue. This business contributed advisory fees revenue of $75.2 million for Q2/23, a decrease of 27.5% from the same period in the prior year, and an increase of 18.7% compared to the previous quarter. Commissions and fees revenue for the three-month period increased by 6.8% year-over-year, to $21.9 million. Investment banking revenue for the three-month period decreased by 79.7% to $5.4 million when compared to the second quarter of the prior year because of reduced new issue activity. Principal trading revenue also decreased by 8.8% from the prior year to $25.5 million in the second quarter due to lower trading volume, volatility, and activity. Excluding significant items(1), the pre-tax net income contribution from this business amounted to $21.9 million for the three-month period.
Second quarter revenue of $32.3 million in our Canadian capital markets business decreased by 43.3% when compared to Q2/22. Second quarter investment banking, advisory, and commissions and fees revenue declined by 64.4%, 36.9% and 34.4% respectively when compared to the same period in the prior year. Notably, advisory revenue in this business increased by 231.8% compared to the previous fiscal quarter. Our Canadian capital markets operations generated a loss before income taxes of $4.5 million in Q2/23, a decrease of 131.8% from income before income taxes of $14.1 million generated in the same period in the prior year.
Revenue in our UK & Europe capital markets operations decreased by 32.9% for the three-month period driven mainly by lower investment banking revenue. Advisory revenue in this business decreased by 18.4% year-over-year to $15.2 million for the second quarter. Excluding significant items(1), our UK & Europe capital markets business earned pre-tax net income of $4.7 million for the second quarter, and $8.1 million fiscal-year-to-date, year-over-year improvements of 25.6% and 18.6% respectively.
Second quarter revenue earned by our Australian capital markets business decreased 36.8% year-over-year, reflecting a 37.0% decrease in investment banking revenue when compared to the same period a year ago. Net income before income taxes for the quarter was $4.2 million compared to net income before income taxes of $9.2 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2022.
Summary of Corporate Developments
- On August 5, 2022, at the Fiscal 2022 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, Michael Auerbach was elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Auerbach is an entrepreneur, investor, business consultant, and private diplomat with deep experience in financial services, strategic intelligence, advisory and risk management.
- On August 17, 2022, the Company completed its asset purchase agreement to acquire the business of Results International Group LLP ("Results"). Results is an independent advisory firm headquartered in London, UK, focused in the technology and healthcare sectors. This transaction complements recent investments by the Company to expand its global Advisory business with the acquisitions of Petsky Prunier (2019) and Sawaya Partners (2021) and expands its European domain expertise in the Healthcare and Technology sectors.
- On August 18, 2022, the Company filed a notice to renew the normal course issuer bid (NCIB) to provide the Company with the choice to purchase up to a maximum 4,959,281 of its common shares during the period from August 21, 2022, to August 20, 2023, through the facilities of the TSX and on alternative trading systems in accordance with the requirements of the TSX. The purpose of the purchase of common shares under the NCIB is to enable the Company to acquire shares for cancellation. The maximum number of shares that may be purchased under the current NCIB represents 5.0% of the Company's outstanding common shares at the time of the notice.
Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2023 were impacted by the following significant items:
- Reversal of fair value adjustments on certain warrants and illiquid or restricted marketable securities recorded for IFRS reporting purposes in prior periods net of adjustments recorded in the current period, but which are excluded for management reporting purposes and are not used by management to assess operating performance
- Amortization of intangible assets acquired in connection with business combinations
- Acquisition-related costs in connection with the acquisitions of PSW and Results
- Certain incentive-based costs related to acquisitions
- Certain development costs in Corporate & Other
- Certain components of the non-controlling interest expense associated with CGWM UK
Summary of Results for Q2 and YTD Fiscal 2023 and Selected Financial Information Excluding Significant Items(1):
Diluted earnings per common share ("diluted EPS") is computed using the treasury stock method, giving effect to the exercise of all dilutive elements. The Convertible Preferred Shares issued by Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management Holdings (Jersey) Limited are factored into the diluted EPS by adjusting net income attributable to common shareholders of the Company to reflect our proportionate share of CGWM UK's earnings on an as converted basis if the calculation is dilutive. For the quarter and six months ended September 30, 2022, the effect of reflecting our proportionate share of CGWM UK's earnings is anti-dilutive for diluted EPS purposes under both IFRS and as determined excluding significant items(1). When the calculation is anti-dilutive the non-controlling interest reflects dividends paid on the Convertible Preferred Shares rather than the as-converted proportionate share of CGWM UK's earnings.
Financial Condition at the End of Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 vs. Fourth Quarter of Fiscal 2022:
- Cash and cash equivalents balance of $946.6 million, a decrease of $841.7 million from $1.8 billion
- Working capital of $693.5 million, a decrease of $100.9 million from $794.4 million
- Total shareholders' equity of $1.1 billion, a decrease of $98.2 million from $1.2 billion
Common and Preferred Share Dividends:
On November 2, 2022, the Board of Directors approved a dividend of $0.085 per common share, payable on December 15, 2022, with a record date of December 2, 2022.
On November 2, 2022, the Board approved a cash dividend of $0.25175 per Series A Preferred Share payable on January 3, 2023 to Series A Preferred shareholders of record as at December 23, 2022.
On November 2, 2022, the Board approved a cash dividend of $0.42731 per Series C Preferred Share payable on January 3, 2023 to Series C Preferred shareholders of record as at December 23, 2022.
Non-IFRS Measures
Certain non-IFRS measures, non-IFRS ratios and supplementary financial measures are utilized by the Company as measures of financial performance. Non-IFRS measures, non-IFRS ratios and supplementary financial measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies.
Management believes that these non-IFRS measures, non-IFRS ratios and supplementary financial measures allow for a better evaluation of the operating performance of the Company's business and facilitate meaningful comparison of results in the current period to those in prior periods and future periods. Non-IFRS measures presented in this earnings release include certain figures from our statement of operations that are adjusted to exclude significant items. Although figures that exclude significant items provide useful information by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of the Company's core operating results, a limitation of utilizing these figures that exclude significant items is that the IFRS accounting effects of these items do in fact reflect the underlying financial results of the Company's business. Accordingly, these effects should not be ignored in evaluating and analyzing the Company's financial results. Therefore, management believes that the Company's IFRS measures of financial performance and the respective non-IFRS measures should be considered together.
Non-IFRS Measures (Adjusted Figures)
Figures that exclude significant items provide useful information by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of the Company's core operating results. Financial statement items that exclude significant items are non-IFRS measures. To calculate these non-IFRS financial statement items, we exclude certain items from our financial results prepared in accordance with IFRS. The items which have been excluded are referred to herein as significant items. The following is a description of the composition of the non-IFRS measures used in this earnings release (note that some significant items excluded may not be applicable to the calculation of the non-IFRS measures for each comparative period): (i) revenue excluding significant items, which is composed of revenue per IFRS less any applicable fair value adjustments on certain illiquid or restricted marketable securities as recorded for IFRS reporting purposes but which are excluded for management reporting purposes and are not used by management to assess operating performance; (ii) expenses excluding significant items, which is composed of expenses per IFRS less any applicable amortization of intangible assets acquired in connection with a business combination, acquisition-related expense items, certain incentive-based costs related to the acquisitions and growth initiatives in CGWM UK, and the US and UK capital markets divisions and costs associated with the redemption of convertible debentures; (iii) net income before taxes excluding significant items, which is composed of revenue excluding significant items less expenses excluding significant items; (iv) income taxes (adjusted), which is composed of income taxes per IFRS adjusted to reflect the associated tax effect of the excluded significant items; (v) net income excluding significant items, which is net income before income taxes excluding significant items less income taxes (adjusted); (vi) non-controlling interests (adjusted), which is composed of non-controlling interests per IFRS less the amortization of the equity component of non-controlling interests in CGWM UK; and (vii) net income attributable to common shareholders excluding significant items, which is net income excluding significant items less non-controlling interests (adjusted) and preferred share dividends paid on the Series A and Series C Preferred Shares.
A reconciliation of non-IFRS measures that exclude significant items to the applicable IFRS measures from the interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 can be found above in the table entitled "Summary of results for Q2 fiscal 2023 and year-to-date fiscal 2023 and selected financial information excluding significant items".
Non-IFRS Ratios
Non-IFRS ratios are calculated using the non-IFRS measures defined above. For the periods presented herein, we have used the following non-IFRS ratios: (i) total expenses excluding significant items as a percentage of revenue, which is calculated by dividing expenses excluding significant items by revenue excluding significant items; (ii) earnings per common share excluding significant items, which is calculated by dividing net income attributable to common shareholders excluding significant items by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding (basic); (iii) diluted earnings per common share excluding significant items which is calculated by dividing net income attributable to common shareholders excluding significant items by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding (diluted); and (iv) pre-tax profit margin which is calculated by dividing net income before taxes excluding significant items by revenue excluding significant items.
Supplementary Financial Measures
Client assets are supplementary financial measures that do not have any definitions prescribed under IFRS but do not meet the definition of a non-IFRS measure or non-IFRS ratio. Client assets, which include both assets under management (AUM) and assets under administration (AUA), is a measure that is common to the wealth management business. Client assets is the market value of client assets managed and administered by the Company from which the Company earns commissions and fees. This measure includes funds held in client accounts as well as the aggregate market value of long and short security positions. The Company's method of calculating client assets may differ from the methods used by other companies, and therefore these measures may not be comparable to other companies. Management uses these measures to assess operational performance of the Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management business segment.
ACCESS TO QUARTERLY RESULTS INFORMATION
Interested parties are invited to listen to Canaccord Genuity's second fiscal quarter results conference call via live webcast or a toll-free number. The conference call is scheduled for Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time, 5:00 a.m. Pacific time, 12:00 p.m. UK time, 8:00 p.m. China Standard Time, and 11:00 p.m. Australia AEDT. During the call, senior executives will comment on the results and respond to questions from analysts and institutional investors.
The conference call may be accessed live and will also be archived on a listen-only basis at: www.cgf.com/investor-relations/news-and-events/conference-calls-and-webcasts/
Analysts and institutional investors can call in via telephone at:
- 416-764-8609 (within Toronto)
- 888-390-0605 (toll free in North America outside Toronto)
- 0-800-652-2435 (toll free from the United Kingdom)
- 0-800-916-834 (toll free from France)
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Attendance — 2,676 at Prince Albert. | 2023-02-26T04:52:14+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/hko-whl-sums-saskatoon-prince-albert-17806338.php |
CANNES – “Pedro! Pedro!” shouted the Cannes crowd before Pedro Almodóvar unveiled his latest film, “Strange Way of Life,” a 31-minute Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as cowboys and former lovers.
There's nothing quite like the fervor that greets a new film from Almodóvar, one of the world’s most beloved filmmakers. But that may have been doubly so for “Strange Ways of Life” even though it’s a quarter the length of his usual output. So frenzied was the scene that many ticketholders never got in.
When Almodóvar introduced his all-male cast on stage at the film's Cannes Film Festival premiere, some in the audience had to cool themselves. John C. Reilly, president of this year's Un Certain regard jury, kindly reached across the aisle with his hat to fan one excited moviegoer.
“I was not sure that I’d make a Western in my life but at least I made a short,” Almodóvar said smiling the next day in an interview on a hotel terrace overlooking the Croisette.
The 73-year-old Spanish auteur has been edging closer to working in English. He's done it now in two shorts — “The Human Voice,” with Tilda Swinton, and “Strange Way of Life," sponsored by Saint Laurent — and is preparing to make his first English-language feature after abandoning “A Manuel for Cleaning Women,” a film he had prepared to make with Cate Blanchett.
“Strange Way of Life” again suggests Almodóvar works just as effortlessly in English as he does in Spanish. Pascal (who had to miss the film's premiere) and Hawke play a pair of former gunslingers who meet up 25 years years after a torrid affair. They briefly rekindle their love for another, but one's stubborn insistence that a life together is an impossibility leads to a violent climax.
Almodóvar, a deeply knowledgeable film buff who has consciously worked in melodrama, noir and screwball genres before, discovered his love of Westerns in his early 20s. He lists John Sturges, Henry Hathaway, Anthony Mann and Howard Hawks among his favorites. “John Ford is unlimited,” he says.
But the genre goes even deeper than that for Almodóvar. He remembers his father trying to teach him as a boy how to ride a horse. ("And I was so afraid that he couldn’t," he says.)
“The Western was born at the beginning of the century with cinema. What Hollywood did was create the American epic and also stylize their reality,” says Almodóvar, speaking alongside Hawke. “But their reality was very dusty and very ugly. It was not glamorous. They created a style which was completely American and also a completely male genre. I thought that if there were that many men, some of them could desire each other.”
Almodóvar has come closer before. In the early ‘90s, he sought the rights to adapt Tom Spanbauer’s “The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon,” but says a Western with gay cowboys and Native Americans was a tough sell. Almodóvar also turned down “Brokeback Mountain,” which Ang Lee made in 2005. He wanted to make a more full-fledged Western, with gunfights. Just with holsters slung over the bed post.
“For me, ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ they have the hats, the iconography of the Western. But they were sheepherders. They were not cowboys. They were not hired killers” says Almodóvar. “The past of (my characters), for me, they were part of a gang like ‘The Wild Bunch’ of Sam Peckinpah. And they have an affair.”
“Strange Way of Life,” which Sony Pictures Classics will release later this year, was shot on some hallowed Western ground, in Almeria, Spain, where Sergio Leone made some of his classic spaghetti Westerns.
“You feel yourself a part of the legend of cinema history,” says Hawke. “To be in Spain, with Pedro, making an American Western, it was very meta.”
And it's delightful to see Almodóvar at work in a new genre, yet just as at home, filling the frame with pops of color (Pascal's character wears a lime green jacket) and flourishes of emotion. To him, much of Hollywood history can be reexamined through a queer lens with a little imagination.
“There is some vast territory to explore because they didn’t explore it before," says Almodóvar. "I sometimes make an exercise — it’s not an obsession —where I change the sexuality of the main character. It could be that and be the same movie in noirs and thrillers.”
The 1949 James Cagney gangster film “White Heat," for instance, Almodóvar says, would be just the same if Edmund O'Brien's undercover inmate was gay.
But whatever the genre, “Strange Way of Life” extends yet another vibrant chapter in Almodóvar's filmography, now in its fifth decade, following the exquisitely autobiographical “Pain and Glory” (2019) and the 2021 politically tinged hidden-past drama “Parallel Lives.”
“Every movie is an adventure and this is part of the addiction,” Almodóvar says. “The uncertainty is the word that defines it. Even though I’ve made 22 movies and two shorts, I don't feel like I know I how to do this. Because every movie is different.”
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For more on this year’s Cannes Film Festival, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/cannes-film-festival ll | 2023-05-19T22:40:53+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/2023/05/19/pedro-almodovar-rides-into-the-western-in-a-cannes-short-about-gay-cowboys/ |
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Skeletal remains found in Tennessee nearly 40 years ago have been identified as a young female, and authorities know what happened to her.
Authorities say Tracy Sue Walker went missing from the Lafayette, Indiana, area in 1978. Her remains were found in Campbell County, Tennessee, in 1985.
This year, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a sample of Walker's remains was sent to a lab that analyzes human DNA.
The lab provided investigators with a possible relative, who was living in Indiana.
Investigators say they located potential family members, obtained their DNA and determined Walker was related to them.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation still doesn't know how Walker got to the state or the circumstances surrounding her death.
Anyone who can assist with the investigation is asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND. | 2022-08-31T18:17:04+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/national/dna-match-helps-authorities-identify-remains-of-indiana-girl-after-nearly-4-decades |
Nice warming trend after a frigid start
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Bundle up as you head out the door this morning! A very cold start to our Monday across the ArkLaTex with many of us waking up to temperatures in the mid to upper 20s! A Freeze Warning remains in effect until 9AM so make sure and keep any sensitive plants covered up for the next several hours.
As we head into the afternoon, a south breeze will kick in and this will help warm temperatures to around 60 for many. Clouds will be increasing from the west but no rain is expected today.
Later tonight and into early Tuesday, a weak disturbance will approach from the west and a warm front will also move in from the south and this will trigger some scattered showers, mainly along and north of I-30.
After the warm front passes, much warmer air will arrive from the southwest with highs Tuesday climbing into the low and mid 70s which is much closer to normal for this time of year.
Even warmer air will then arrive Wednesday into Thursday with temperatures soaring 10 to 15 degrees above normal. Highs Wednesday will reach into the low 80s and by Thursday, readings will soar into the mid and even upper 80s! What a turn around from what we are seeing now!
Looking ahead to Friday, our next cold front will arrive from the west and this will bring the next round of widespread showers and storms. As this front slams into the very warm and unstable air sitting across the ArkLaTex, there will be the potential of some severe weather. We will have more updates on this throughout the week as we get closer.
Have a great day!
-Matt Jones
Copyright 2023 KSLA. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-20T10:35:51+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/03/20/nice-warming-trend-after-frigid-start/ |
American flag found in Florida river after Hurricane Ian now flies high above water
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - A U.S. flag now flies high and dry above the St. Johns River after it was rescued from the swollen river by Central Florida deputies during the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office posted a video on Monday showing its deputies rescuing the flag that had fallen in the high waters near the community of Osteen.
In the video, a small portion of the American flag is seen just barely above the water level of the river.
"This shows you just how high the river is right now," the sheriff's office wrote. "Some homes along the [St. John's River] are inches away from flooding due to a boat wake."
On Thursday morning, the sheriff's office shared photos online of deputies draping the flag between two trees, high above the water, with the caption: "The memorial flag pulled out of the St. Johns River has been replaced high and dry by request!"
U.S. Flag Code states that the American flag, a symbol of the country and its people, should be treated with respect and honored when on display. It should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise. | 2022-10-06T19:11:39+00:00 | wogx.com | https://www.wogx.com/news/american-flag-found-in-florida-river-after-hurricane-ian-now-flies-high-above-water |
99-year-old woman’s medic alert necklace saves her from home invasion attack, officials say
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) – A 99-year-old woman has her medic alert necklace to thank for potentially saving her life during a home invasion that left her wounded.
The Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a 911 call around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.
When they arrived at the home, deputies found the 99-year-old victim with a stab wound to the hand.
They said someone broke into her home, robbed and assaulted her. During the attack, the suspect also cut the cord to the victim’s house phone, preventing her from calling for help. That’s when her medic alert necklace came in handy.
The victim pressed the help button on the necklace, which alerted 911.
“The call actually came in from a medic alert necklace. The victim was able to make the call herself,” said Corey Webb with the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman was flown to a Roanoke hospital where she received seven stitches in her hand. She is now back home safely with her family.
Wallace Wimbush, the victim’s son, said he hopes his mother can get over the trauma.
“She’s hurt. She doesn’t understand why someone would do something to her, and she’s 99 years old. She doesn’t bother anyone,” Wimbush said. “You’re going to come in and mess up her entire life where she’s going to be hurt, anxiety that’s going to follow her for a lot of days.”
The suspect is still on the loose. K-9 units are helping with the investigation.
“Whoever you are, I hope we find you. I’m going to be out there. I’m putting money out there for reward. Whoever did this, we want to catch you,” Wimbush said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Pittsylvania County Crime Stoppers at 800-791-0044. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest.
Copyright 2022 WDBJ via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-25T19:16:04+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/07/25/99-year-old-womans-medic-alert-necklace-saves-her-home-invasion-attack-officials-say/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday the U.S. should step up support for Ukraine, marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion with calls for more and faster military aid that put him out of step with some of his likely 2024 presidential rivals.
“Make no mistake: This is not America’s war. But if we falter in our commitment to providing the support to the people of Ukraine to defend their freedom, our sons and daughters may soon be called upon to defend ours,” Pence told an audience at the The University of Texas at Austin. “If we surrender to the siren song of those in this country who argue that America has no interest in freedom’s cause, history teaches we may soon send our own into harm’s way to defend our freedom and the freedom of nations in our alliance.”
Pence, who is is widely expected to launch a bid for the White House in the coming months, also threw a dig at some in the GOP who have sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war that has upended the lives of millions.
“While some in my party have taken a somewhat different view, let me be clear: There can be no room in the leadership of the Republican Party for apologists for Putin. There can only be room for champions of freedom,” Pence said.
Pence used a similar line in October after former President Donald Trump, Pence’s former boss and potential primary rival, was criticized for calling Putin “savvy” and “smart” in the early stages of the invasion.
The speech highlighted the growing divide between declared and likely Republican presidential candidates on a slate of issues, from Ukraine to abortion to whether reforms to Social Security and Medicare should be on the table.
Trump, who launched his campaign in November, has repeatedly called for an end to hostilities in Ukraine and claimed that, if he were to return to the White House, he could end Europe’s biggest war since WWII “within 24 hours.”
Trump, in an interview with conservative commentator Glenn Beck Friday morning, complained about U.S. spending on military assistance and warned, “We’re going to end up in World War III.”
“Now you have to get people in a room, you have to knock heads, you have to get it done,” he said, suggesting both sides would have to make concessions after Russia’s unprovoked invasion. “So that would mean saying things to Putin and saying things to Zelenskyy that they’re not going to want to hear and getting ’em into a room and getting it done.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another potential contender, was viewed as a foreign policy hawk who embraced tough rhetoric against Putin while he served in Congress. But he has increasingly adopted a similar tone as he courts Trump’s populist base ahead of a likely 2024 presidential run.
“I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China, getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea,” DeSantis said on Fox News this week as he downplayed the Russian threat.
“It’s important to point out the fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all of that and steamrolling that is not even coming close to happening. I think they’ve shown themselves to be a third-rate military power,” he said. “I don’t think that they are the same threat to our country — even though they’re hostile — I don’t think they’re on the same level as a China.”
Pence reached out to the university Monday afternoon, after DeSantis’s appearance on “Fox and Friends.”
DeSantis’ and Trump’s positions stand in sharp contrast to Nikki Haley, who served two years as Trump’s United Nations ambassador and launched her campaign for the White House earlier this month.
Haley has called for the U.S. to be more proactive in its assistance to Ukraine, tweeting in November 2021 — ahead of Russia’s invasion — that “Our friend and ally Ukraine is crying out for help as Russia amasses nearly 100,000 troops at their border.”
After the invasion, she appeared frequently on Fox News, accusing the Biden administration of failing to take the threat seriously. Since then, she has paired her criticism of Russia’s military action with arguments in favor of support for Israel.
“We’ll stand with our allies — from Israel to Ukraine — and stand up to our enemies — in Iran and Russia,” she said during her campaign launch speech in Charleston, South Carolina, last week.
During a subsequent campaign swing to New Hampshire, Haley called the invasion “a war on freedom.” She said winning it didn’t mean sending U.S. troops or that “we write checks,” calling instead for more military support for Ukrainian forces.
In his Friday speech, Pence said there was “increased urgency” for nations to continue providing military equipment to Ukraine. “The fastest path to peace is to help Ukraine win the war,” he said.
“Time is of the essence. We need to provide tanks and resources in months, not years to the people of Ukraine so they can defend their country,” he said.
The speech comes as Pence, who served in Congress and as Indiana governor before joining Trump’s 2016 campaign, has been staking out policy positions ahead of an expected presidential run.
Looking to appeal to conservatives in early-voting states like Iowa, he has been highlighting his fierce opposition to abortion rights and launching initiatives opposed to gender-affirming policies at public schools and ESG, an investment movement that considers environmental, social and corporate governance issues when deciding where to invest pension and other public funds.
Pence also said this week that reforms to Social Security and Medicare have to be put “on the table in the long term,” suggesting ideas like raising the retirement age or encouraging personal savings accounts for younger Americans to keep the programs solvent.
That stands in sharp contrast to Trump, who has warned his party against touching entitlement programs in an effort to avoid alienating voters.
“Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security,” he said in a recent video, part of a series he has released outlining his stances on issues ranging from crime to energy.
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Colvin reporter from New York. Associated Press writer Steve Peoples in New York and Meg Kinnard in Charleston, South Carolina, contributed to this report. | 2023-02-25T01:04:23+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/ap-pence-urges-ukraine-support-as-gop-hopefuls-split-on-us-aid/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began making calls and eating doughnuts — one frosted, one glazed — as he tries every page in the political playbook to deliver votes for Democrats.
“What a governor does matters,” Biden said in a pep talk to volunteers who were making Friday night calls for gubernatorial hopeful Tina Kotek and other candidates. “It matters! It matters, it matters, it matters!”
Before leaving Portland on Saturday, the president planned to attend a reception for Kotek and give a speech about his administration’s efforts to bring down costs for Americans.
It was the final stop on a four-day swing through Oregon, California and Colorado that has encapsulated Biden’s strategy for turning out voters on Election Day, Nov. 8: flex the levers of government to help boost candidates, promote an agenda aimed at strengthening an uncertain economy and haul in campaign cash.
And this: show up for candidates when Biden can be helpful, steer clear of places where a visit from a president with approval ratings under 50% isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Throughout the trip, Biden had to compete for the spotlight and contend with a troubling new inflation report and rising gas prices.
In Oregon, Democratic officials hope that Biden can help consolidate the party’s support behind Kotek. The party is in danger of losing the governor’s race in the traditional Democratic stronghold as Betsy Johnson — who has quit both the Democratic and Republican parties — has run a well-financed race against Kotek and the GOP nominee Christine Drazan.
The settings throughout the president’s trip were tailor-made for him.
In Los Angeles on Thursday, at a construction site for an extension on the city’s subway line, he spoke about his massive infrastructure law. Giant cranes rose up behind him as he stood before bulldozers and excavators. Many on hand were hard-hat workers in construction orange.
The stop neatly combined many of Biden’s agenda’s successes: investments in infrastructure, job creation, fighting climate change by promoting mass transit.
“When you see these projects in your neighborhood — cranes going up, shovels in the ground, lives being changed — I want you to feel the way I do: pride,” Biden said. “Pride in what we can do when we do it together. This is what I mean when I say we’re building a better America.”
But his remarks came as the government reported that consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, jumped 6.6% in September from a year ago — the fastest such pace in four decades. Biden acknowledged that people were being “squeezed by the cost of living. It’s been true for years, and folks don’t need a report to tell them they’re being squeezed.”
Democratic candidates have been far more likely to appear with Biden at official White House events underscoring their achievements than at overt campaign events. In California, Biden was joined by state lawmakers and the city’s mayor, and he called them out individually. Rep. Karen Bass, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, made a takeout run with Biden to a taco shop.
Biden raised $5 million at a fundraiser in the Brentwood backyard of TV producer Marcy Carsey. Guests included fashion designer Tom Ford and actor-filmmaker Rob Reiner.
In Colorado, the president designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site, with a group of Democrats by his side. His audience in a canyon of stunning views, tall pines and bright yellow aspens included Sen. Michael Bennet, who is facing a tough reelection campaign and had worked for the new monument. Democrats hope the designation, popular in the state, will boost Bennet’s numbers.
Early voting is underway in California and begins next week in Oregon and Colorado. The president notably stayed away from states where his presence could hurt Democrats, so far skipping Nevada and Arizona, where Democratic senators are tough races.
Democrats are trying to retain power in the face of widespread economic uncertainty and the traditional midterm headwinds against the party in power. Republicans, aiming to regain the House and Senate, think they can capitalize on gas prices, inflation and the economy.
During his taco stop, Biden’s chicken quesadilla order ran to $16.45, but he handed the clerk $60 and asked him to use the change to pay the next patron’s bill.
It was the kind of personal connection Biden loves. But while the moment was unfolding, the headlines in Los Angeles focused on a bitter City Council clash over racist remarks, while in Washington, it was all about how the House voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump on his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/ap_politics | 2022-10-15T18:25:35+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/bidens-late-push-across-west-aims-to-deliver-votes-for-dems/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
OXFORD — The city of Oxford turned out with all the ruffles and flourishes at City Hall Thursday afternoon for the occasion of the 70th annual National Day of Prayer.
Led with the colors of the Oxford Police Honor Guard and the music of the Oxford High School choir, the ceremony was focused on those who serve the public and those who are served. Prayers were offered for families, those serving in the military and in government, churches, education, businesses, first responders and the arts.
Mayor Alton Craft called the day “emotional” before reading the resolution marking the occasion.
“This is my biggest day as the mayor,” Craft said. “This is so important to me. You don’t understand the blessings this city gets every day.”
Craft said no matter how chaotic things may become during certain days “the Lord always takes care of it.”
“The people that always write me and [Police] Chief [Bill] Partridge letters about praying to God and we have to ceased and desist — they live in a certain state that’s always in turmoil,” Craft said. “You look here and, I’m not saying we’re not going to have problems, but the Lord protects us and I do appreciate that.”
Oxford School Superintendent Dr. Shannon Stanley said everyone in the school system appreciated prayers for the work they do and the students they serve.
“Every day, we receive those prayers,” Stanley said.
Julio Barreto, Director of Music Education at the Oxford Performing Arts Center, prayed the nation would “use the creativity you have given us in the arts as a mechanism to build a better future for our young people and successfully grow in love as a community and a country.”
“Father, let our artistic creations find those things we have in common in a world obsessed with finding those things which divide us,” Barreto said.
Hobson City Mayor Alberta McCrory, in her prayer for government leaders, asked that leaders understand “it’s not about party, it’s not about the left or the right, but it’s about right and wrong.”
Fire Chief Gary Sparks, upon hearing a siren in the distance, noted approximately 100 firefighters die in service nationally each year.
“These men and women that serve in the fire service don’t know what’s going to happen at each call,” Sparks said. “I ask each of you when you see a fire truck going down the road, say a quick prayer to protect them.”
Partridge put a coda on the afternoon, saying he felt the nation had lost its way “because we have taken God out of our major institutions.”
He then recited from a prayer given by President George Washington in 1783.
“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have the United States in his Holy protection,” the prayer reads. | 2022-05-06T14:13:32+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/oxford/oxford-commemorates-national-day-of-prayer/article_ea27a520-cce5-11ec-88fe-63ff3ef77cff.html |
Robert Molleda was one year into his career at the National Weather Service in Miami when Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida. Molleda was young and excited to experience his first hurricane. Miami had not seen a hurricane make landfall since Hurricane Betsy in 1965, 27 years prior. But as the storm rapidly intensified, the excitement dissipated.
It was late on a Saturday when it became clear Andrew was going to hit Miami. On Sunday, Molleda rested, helped his family get set up for the storm, and went to work at the NWS office. Andrew passed through Miami overnight and into the next morning. "We could see the winds picking up, 100, 120, 130… it went up and up and up," Molleda said. Then, a loud bang. Molleda worried that the roof had caved in. But after a minute, he and the other meteorologists realized the radar monitoring scope had gone black.
"That was it, we lost the radar. That sound we heard was the radar's dome collapsing and shattering into a million pieces."
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Today, Molleda is still with the National Weather Service in Miami as the Warning Coordination Meteorologist. The storm serves as a reminder, especially to those who lived it, to always be prepared. "The legacy and takeaway from Andrew is that we need to be ready in Florida," Molleda said.
On August 23, on the anniversary of the storm's landfall in Florida, Governor DeSantis and FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie commented on how Florida became a "national leader in emergency management." But 30 years after Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Miami as a Category 5 storm, there are many lessons learned and lessons we are still learning about these powerful storms and the way their impact.
READ MORE: On anniversary, officials observe Hurricane Andrew's devastation — and its modernizing effects
From the way buildings are constructed with hurricanes in mind, to community organization, to emergency communication, Andrew's legacy was a widespread change in the way Florida prepares for and responds to hurricanes. With its 157 miles-per-hour plus winds and a 17-foot storm surge, Andrew's well-documented destruction was nothing short of devastating to Miami-Dade County, especially the southern portion where the storm made landfall.
"We started to hear stories from friends and family in that area, about their homes being really damaged and, in some cases, they lost everything," he said, "that's when it started to sink it that things were really bad." Molleda and colleagues from the NWS drove around to the areas most affected to help clean up. "We were there just to help pick up the pieces," Molleda said, "furniture lying out in the front yard, gaping holes in the roof of some homes, total destruction in some neighborhoods."
Aug 24, 1992 @ 5:05 AM - Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in mainland South Florida at Fender Point in Biscayne National Park just ENE of Homestead AFB. By this point, the Miami WSR-57 was lost but the then-new WSR-88D in Melbourne captured this image of the hurricane. #Andrew30 pic.twitter.com/jgvf7Sa8zq
— NWS Miami (@NWSMiami) August 24, 2022
Miami's community response after Andrew is something that still makes an impact on those who lived it. "It was the neighborhood that got together" to help each other said Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, remembering the way her neighbors shared food and resources after the storm. She recalls experiencing Andrew with her three children from a walk-in closet, protected under a mattress.
"I have never heard such a bad sound," she said, "it felt like a train was actually passing through our house. We were so afraid." Her home in Coral Gables was spared from substantial damage, though she lived without electricity for several weeks. According to Molleda "as bad as Andrew was, it would have been much worse if it had hit just a few miles northward in more heavily populated areas."
The areas that were heavily impacted include Homestead, Culter Ridge and Florida City, suburbs and agricultural centers of the community. Gonzalez-Levy, who currently works at Florida International University in Strategic Partnerships, was with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce at the time. When they were able to get back to work, "we then with Dade County, police, and the firefighters, we visited the Homestead area. It looked like a war zone. We were blessed there weren't more deaths."
She credits Alvah Chapman, president of the Miami Herald, for creating a community response group known as "We Will Rebuild." The Chamber then organized food and water delivery down to the affected areas, home to many farmers and agricultural workers. "We realized they lost everything. It was going to be an economic disaster," she said. "We helped them, and the small businesses get back on their feet."
But Miami's homes and structures also needed to be built back up, literally. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an architect, urban planner and faculty member at the University of Miami School of Architecture. She recalls the sea change in how structures were built after the storm. "Hurricane Andrew proved to be not so much a testing ground, but a kind of pilot project" for better building methods, she said. Plater-Zyberk said architects in the community came to her after Andrew. "This is our field, we should be able to do something," she said. A planning group was formed to investigate how rebuilding could be encouraged, and even made better. "In the end, we had about 100 volunteers, in a vocational school that had remained standing," she said.
READ MORE: 'Remembering Andrew': Revisit WLRN's documentary 30 years after the devastating storm
According to the Insurance Information Institute, 250,000 were left homeless in Miami-Dade County, 25,524 homes were destroyed and another 101,241 were damaged after Hurricane Andrew. Many homes were made cheaply, with weak structural connections and poor materials not fit for high winds. "The most important thing is to strap the building down," she said, "we all worry about holding the building up, so it stays up, but in Florida now the building codes have very strict rules."
Those rules are the Florida Building Code, activated in 2002, which is known to be one of the most thorough in the country. "Under scrutiny, you'd see buildings are being built better, they're more expensive," Plater-Zyberk said, "but they can withstand extreme weather." Despite that added cost, what Florida has gained on top of safer homes, is industry and innovation built around storm safety. Hurricane straps, a piece of metal hardware that reinforce the roof's connection to the house, are now used in construction. Reinforced openings are also important. Once wind enters a house, it makes it a whole lot easier for the roof to blow off, which is why it is so important to protect "A whole industry of hurricane-tested windows had to be invented," she said.
And that technology is still being tested. Florida International University operates the Wall of Wind test facility on its South Florida campus. This towering wall of 12 super-powered fans can produce Category 5 winds used to test life-sized structures. According to FIU, the Wall of Wind was directly inspired by Andrew's power.
"I always thought what Hurricane Andrew did was it woke up Florida," said Erik Salna, Associate Director at the International Hurricane Research Center at FIU, "it reminded us we are the hurricane capital of the United States." If Andrew had an upside, it's that it changed Florida for the better, according to Salna. "We became the leader in emergency management, hurricane research and mitigation, and we are an example to the rest of the country," Salna said, "and all that comes back to Andrew."
One of the biggest improvements made after Andrew was how emergency managers strengthened their network and their outreach. "The Florida Division of Emergency Management in Tallahassee then worked very closely with the counties, which then worked closely with the cities and municipalities within the county," he said, "then at the county and city level, they go out and educate everyone and get them ready." Salna also praised the building methods enacted after 2002, such as the aforementioned hurricane straps and also the ring shank nail, which has threads around the shank that help hold onto wood during high winds. "With every $1 spent on mitigation," he said "$7 or $8 can be saved in recovery and cleanup. It makes good fiscal sense to build our structures stronger."
Salna said there is a new facility in the works, with winds that can go up to 200 miles per hour. The new facility will also include a water tank, which the wind will blow over, in order to replicate storm surge. "The hurricanes we have had in recent years, like Hurricane Dorian hitting the Bahamas at 180 miles per hour" necessitate this new level of testing Salna said. The inclusion of water in testing is also very important, according to Salna, since the vast majority of fatalities in hurricane events are due to storm surge.
But there is one problem neither Salna nor anyone else has been able to quite crack: complacency from the public. As the saying goes, it only takes one storm to cause significant damage to life and livelihood, and Salna said, it doesn't even have to be an Andrew-strength storm. "Each and every storm is dangerous," he said, "it's the old 'just a' phrase... it's 'just a' tropical storm. Oh, it's 'just a' Category 1. If it's a tropical storm or hurricane headed our way, we need to prepare in every way that we can."
Molleda, Gonzalez-Levy, Plater-Zyberk and Salna all expressed some level of concern for newcomers to Florida. Though Florida has seen many strong hurricanes after Andrew, few have had that pivotal, life-changing effect that Andrew had on those who lived through it. Salna gives a lot of credit to emergency managers and other hurricane educators, but "it's human behavior, social behavior, and how everyone will respond that will get us to do what we need to do before a storm hits."
"That's the ongoing challenge," Salna said, "to get people educated, to get people to understand what it is they need to do to get ready."
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- WuXi Biologics will provide an exclusive license to GSK for one preclinical bi-specific T cell engaging (TCE) antibody and the option of three additional bi-/multi-specific TCE antibodies developed using WuXi Biologics' proprietary technology platforms
- WuXi Biologics will receive an upfront payment of $40 million and tiered royalties on net sales
SHANGHAI, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi Biologics ("WuXi Bio") (2269. HK), a leading global Contract Research, Development, and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO), today announced a license agreement with GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) under which GSK will have exclusive licenses for up to four bi- & multi-specific TCE antibodies developed using WuXi Biologics' proprietary technology platforms.
Under the terms of the agreement, GSK will be granted an exclusive global license for the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of a pre-clinical bispecific antibody that crosslinks tumor cells and T cells by targeting a tumor-associated antigen (TAA) on tumor cells and CD3 expression on T cells and up to three additional pre-clinical TCE antibodies currently at an earlier discovery stage. WuXi Biologics will receive a $40 million upfront payment and up to $1.46 billion in additional payments for research, development, regulatory and commercial milestones across the four TCE antibodies. WuXi Biologics is also eligible to receive tiered royalties on net sales.
Dr. Chris Chen, CEO of WuXi Biologics, commented, "This license agreement with GSK represents an important validation of our potential best-in-class CD3 platform and WuXiBody® platform, the 'R' in our CRDMO business model. This also demonstrates our efforts in offering global open-access technology platforms with premier quality and excellent execution. We are looking forward to enabling GSK to bring these potentially life-saving therapeutics to more patients worldwide."
John Lepore, Senior Vice President, Head of Research GSK, said, "This agreement with WuXi Biologics builds on our oncology portfolio of tumor cell targeting agents by providing GSK with access to potential best-in-class T-cell engaging antibodies that have been optimized for effective tumor killing with a desirable safety profile, offering the potential to address significant unmet medical need in patients with multiple tumor types."
About WuXiBody®
WuXiBody® is a leading proprietary bispecific antibody platform developed by WuXi Biologics. It can effectively break through the discovery and CMC barriers for the development of many bispecific antibodies with high expression yield, high stability, good solubility, and easy purification to homogeneity, expedite the process by 6-18 months and significantly reduce manufacturing costs, a limitation still faced by many other current bispecific platforms. WuXiBody® platform enables almost any mAb sequence pairs to be assembled into bispecific constructs, which are expected to have low immunogenicity risk and longer in vivo half-life. WuXiBody® platform also has a unique structural flexibility, which makes it convenient to build various formats with different combinations of valencies (1+1, 1+2, 2+2) to meet the requirements of different target biology.
In addition to WuXiBody®, WuXi Biologics also developed a suite of proprietary bispecific and multispecific antibody platforms including VHH antibody-based SDArBodyTM, stabilized scFv-based SkyBodyTM, and have access to OmniFlic® rats to generate common light chain-based bispecific antibody through collaboration with Ligand. These platforms together with the flagship platform, WuXiBody®, enable WuXi Biologics to make various bispecific and multi-specific antibodies to meet various biology needs of the company's clients, including to support development of assets in the GSK license agreement.
About WuXi Biologics
WuXi Biologics (stock code: 2269.HK) is a leading global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) offering end-to-end solutions that enable partners to discover, develop and manufacture biologics – from concept to commercialization – for the benefit of patients worldwide.
With over 10,000 skilled employees in China, the United States, Ireland, Germany and Singapore, WuXi Biologics leverages its technologies and expertise to provide customers with efficient and cost-effective biologics discovery, development and manufacturing solutions.
WuXi Biologics views Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) responsibilities as an integral component of our ethos and business strategy, and we aim to become an ESG leader in the biologics CRDMO sector. Our facilities use next-generation biomanufacturing technologies and clean-energy sources. We have also established an ESG committee led by our CEO to steer the comprehensive ESG strategy and its implementation, enhancing our commitment to sustainability.
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TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signed off on Canada dropping the vaccine requirement for people entering the country at the end of September, an official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Canada, like the United States, requires foreign nationals to be vaccinated when entering the country. No change in the mandate is expected in the U.S. in the near term.
Unvaccinated foreign travelers who are allowed to enter Canada are currently subject to mandatory arrival tests and a 14-day quarantine.
The official said that Trudeau has agreed to let a cabinet order enforcing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements at the border expire Sept. 30. The official said earlier this week the prime minister need to give final sign off. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Trudeau’s Liberal government is still deciding whether to maintain the requirement for passengers to wear face masks on trains and airplanes.
Unvaccinated professional athletes like major league baseball players would be allowed to play in Toronto in the playoffs should the Blue Jays make the postseason. They currently are not allowed to cross the border into Canada. | 2022-09-23T13:50:47+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-canada-to-drop-vaccine-mandate-at-border-sept-30/ |
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Mexican officials are proposing a special pathway to eliminate traditionally long northbound border waits for pedestrians at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
The plan is modeled after the Cross Border Xpress, which quickly delivers air travelers from the U.S. side, via a bridge, into the Tijuana International Airport for a fee.
Figures show that on average, 20,000 people walk into the U.S. on a daily basis through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, where most mornings require two-hour waits.
This plan calls for a special pathway to be built on the Mexican side of the port of entry.
It would require border commuters on foot to pay a fee.
They would be pre-screened and given quick access into the U.S., especially those with tickets to ride the San Diego Trolley, which has a stop just outside the border crossing in San Ysidro.
This mode of transportation is widely used by pedestrians from Mexico once they walk into California.
“We have to figure out ways to innovate, ways to get people across the border, this is one of those projects that could be very helpful,” said Gustavo de la Fuente, a Smart Border Coalition board member. “Any individual who would use the trolley would find it easier to plan their day, not around spending an hour or two in line, but really getting to where they need to be.”
De la Fuente said the state of Baja California came up with the idea but it has yet to be presented to counterparts north of the border.
“There’s been a feasibility study done on it, there are a couple of private companies looking at it, so it’s well past the conceptual stage,” he said.
De la Fuente believes many will be willing to pay a fee in exchange for faster crossing times.
“For some of them at least, crossing faster and paying to cross faster would be an advantage and we know there are individuals who would pay.”
De la Fuente also believes this would improve the quality of life for thousands who work, go to school or visit family in the U.S.
“Imagine getting two hours of your life back every day, you could get in line later in the morning,” said De la Fuente. “It would also be a benefit to employers, if their employees are less tired, it would make them more productive.”
De la Fuente says the concept could get the green light later this year on both sides of the border, with construction beginning in 2024.
As for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, it has not said anything about the plan, or how it might affect its operations while processing some pedestrians in a much faster way.
A spokesperson for CBP told the San Diego Union-Tribune last week “it is aware of the proposal,” but that “it’s too early to comment on CBP operations.” | 2023-02-17T03:03:38+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/border-report/fee-for-faster-pedestrian-crossings-being-considered-at-california-port-of-entry/ |
Red Bull have never started a Formula One season so well and are wondering what happened to rivals like Ferrari and Mercedes, team boss Christian Horner said on Sunday after five wins in five races.
Four have been one-two finishes, with two-time world champion Max Verstappen now on three wins for the season after coming from ninth on the grid to finish top in Miami, while Mexican teammate Sergio Perez has two.
"Five races, five wins plus the sprint [in Baku], four one-two finishes. We've never ever had a start like this. And we're kind of wondering where are the others?" Horner told Sky Sports. "We've made a normal step ... over the winter and it's more where did Ferrari and Mercedes go?
"They are working hard on I'm sure big upgrades for [coming races in] Europe and with the penalty we have to develop the car later in the year it's important for us to get as much fresh air as we can between ourselves and the opposition at this stage."
Champions Red Bull were last October handed a 10% reduction in wind tunnel time as a result of a "minor breach" of the cost cap in 2021.
Ferrari and Mercedes have yet to come close to winning a race this year, with Aston Martin now second overall albeit by a hefty distance.
The extent of Red Bull's domination in Sunday's race at the Hard Rock Stadium was laid bare by the margins between them and previous strong rivals.
Verstappen started ninth, two places behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. The Dutch driver ended the race first and a whopping 52.988 seconds clear of the Monegasque. Aston Martin's third-placed Fernando Alonso was 26.305 seconds behind Verstappen.
"Definitely the race pace advantage, I think, is quite big at the moment," Verstappen said.
Horner said Red Bull's rivals had big upgrades coming and he expected convergence later in the year, saying the team needed to put as much "fresh air" as possible between themselves and the opposition in a 23-round season. | 2023-05-08T14:13:33+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/37564150/christian-horner-questions-rivals-amid-red-bull-dominance |
Workers Demand Art School Bargain Strong Contract in Good Faith
PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Workers at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) represented by Teamsters Local 251 were forced onto the picket line at 4 a.m. on Monday, April 3, after college officials failed to bargain in good faith with its unionized workforce.
All this week, workers picketed across RISD's campus, including at President Crystal Williams' $2 million home and the local facility of a scab labor company. On Tuesday, workers and the inflatable "Greedy Pig" protested outside the president's multimillion-dollar estate that she occupies rent-free while collecting $600,000 per year. Meanwhile, Williams and RISD management claim the fair wages and benefits workers seek are "excessive."
Workers also protested outside Dependable and Affordable Cleaning, which RISD contracted with to outsource Teamster labor.
"It is abundantly clear that RISD executives are out of touch with reality and the struggles of working people," said Matt Taibi, Local 251 Secretary-Treasurer and Teamsters Eastern Region International Vice President. "Our members do not want to strike, but RISD's repeated refusal to bargain left them with no choice. We commend the workers on their determination and unity in fighting to secure a strong first contract."
For the last several months, more than 60 workers at the college have remained focused on obtaining an agreement while RISD has refused to bargain in good faith. Most recently, RISD ignored workers' proposals submitted March 18.
Workers will be on the line on Friday and keep picketing until RISD comes to the table.
Teamsters Local 251 represents over 6,300 workers in a wide variety of industries throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. For more, go to TeamstersLocal251.org.
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Kaiser Permanente study showed patients in home-based cardiac rehabilitation had fewer hospitalizations than those in center-based cardiac rehabilitation
PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients who participated in in-home cardiac rehabilitation had fewer hospitalizations over 12 months than patients who participated in center-based cardiac rehabilitation, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published August 25, 2022, in JAMA Network Open.
"The remarkable thing we found in this study of more than 2,500 diverse patients was that health advantages of home-based cardiac rehabilitation applied to both patients with low and moderate risk, as well as those with higher risk due to poor health, age, or chronic health conditions," said lead author Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, a cardiologist at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, a clinician investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation, and an assistant professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.
Cardiac rehabilitation in a hospital-based setting is a well-studied, effective way to improve health after cardiac issues such as heart attacks, cardiac surgery, and stable angina. Despite this knowledge, many people don't take advantage of rehabilitation, especially women, members of certain racial and ethnic groups, and individuals with multiple chronic illnesses. Home-based cardiac rehabilitation was developed to increase the diversity of participants by improving accessibility. Kaiser Permanente's 8-week home-based program in Southern California includes weekly nurse calls, education, and unsupervised exercise monitored with a smart watch.
Prior studies have suggested that participation in home-based and center-based cardiac rehabilitation results in similar clinical outcomes in patients with low-to-moderate risk. However, outcomes from demographically diverse populations and patients who had other chronic illnesses and other medical complexities had not been studied.
This study tracked 2,556 patients who participated in cardiac rehabilitation from April 1, 2018, to April 30, 2019. The patients had a mean age of 67 and were about 30% women and 45% nonwhite, and 47% had a combination of health factors that would put them in a medically high-risk category.
In the study, 48.5% of patients participated in home-based cardiac rehabilitation and 51.5% participated in center-based cardiac rehabilitation.
- Patients who participated in home-based cardiac rehabilitation had a 21% less chance of experiencing a hospitalization in the 12 months after cardiac rehab compared to patients who participated in center-based rehabilitation, but similar:
- Patients who participated in home-based cardiac rehabilitation typically lived farther from their nearest available center-based rehabilitation center.
- Patients who participated in home-based cardiac rehabilitation were more likely to complete their program.
Study senior author Tad Funahashi, MD, who is Kaiser Permanente's chief innovation officer for Southern California, led the development of the in-home cardiac rehabilitation program, collaborating with a technology company to develop the app for a customized smart watch.
"The success of this home-based program demonstrates that healthy behaviors begin where patients live, work, and play. Our technology-enabled care solutions in combination with our integrated delivery system can keep track of the patients, almost as though somebody's calling them every day, all the time, to see what's going on," Dr. Funahashi said. "If a patient isn't exercising or is failing to meet other expectations of the program, health care providers can follow up in person or over the phone. Importantly, these care solutions help provide equitable, convenient, and quality care to all patients over challenges they may have with in-person visits."
Doctors or nurses can review data, including step counts and heart rate to check exertion, through a dashboard on Kaiser Permanente's electronic health record system, and adjust the patient's rehabilitation program as needed.
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has a mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve approximately 12.6 million members in 8 states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal Permanente Medical Group physicians, specialists, and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery, and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations clinical research, health education, and the support of community health. For more information, go to about.kp.org.
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Expect to see a large increase in holiday sales this year
Published: Oct. 10, 2022 at 12:43 PM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
(CNN) - If you are looking for a good deal leading into the holidays, you are in luck.
According to Adobe Analytics, consumers are going to see a sharp increase in discounting this holiday season due to inventory growth and a decrease in supply chain issues.
The company predicts the biggest discounts in electronics at 27%, up from 7% last year.
The average toy discount will be 22%.
Adobe said you will find the biggest discounts right around Thanksgiving with Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The company is also forecasting a stark slowdown in consumer spending for the remainder of the year, from over 8% in growth in 2021 to 2.5% in 2022, making it the slowest growth on record.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-10T17:32:49+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/10/10/expect-see-large-increase-holiday-sales-this-year/ |
FORTY-FORT, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— It’s been a good weather day for an annual event aimed at helping local cancer patients.
A huge crowd turned out Saturday for the 26th Annual Candy’s Place fundraising walk in Luzerne County.
A mild, cloudy day was a big improvement compared to last year when it poured.
The two-mile fundraising walk supports Candy’s Place which provides free social and emotional support services to cancer clients and their caregivers.
Among those participating Saturday, was the Pink Loti running team which had nearly half of its 23 members on hand.
“We all have a special place in our hearts for Candy’s Place and so we decided to come out and walk today and support their great cause,” said Diane Cowman of the Pink Loti running team
“It’s great to see all of our clients, our supporters getting together, especially without masks now, and celebrating a great organization,” added Thomas Ruskey the Director of Candy’s Place.
PA live! co-host Chris Bohinski served as emcee at the Candy’s Place Walk.
Eyewitness News was a proud media sponsor of this year’s event. | 2023-05-13T23:47:40+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/luzerne-county-26th-annual-candys-place-walk/ |
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