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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union has agreed to slash Russian oil imports in a tough escalation of the bloc’s campaign of sanctions to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. It’s a landmark decision that will hit Russian coffers in the long term, but could also hurt consumers across the European continent.
The move agreed late Monday at an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels comes amid soaring energy prices in Europe and could spark more rises, particularly later this year as nations compete for natural gas supplies to heat homes and fire industries, analysts say.
Just hours before U.S. markets opened Wednesday, benchmark U.S. crude had climbed $1.25 to $115.92 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Analysts say that amid high oil prices, the sanctions are unlikely to hit Russia hard soon, but they deprive Moscow of one of its most important customers for oil — likely for a long time to come.
WHAT HAS THE EU DONE?
European Union leaders agreed to cut Russian oil imports by about 90% over the next six months, a dramatic move that was considered unthinkable just months ago. The 27-country bloc relies on Russia for 25% of its oil.
The ban applies to all Russian oil delivered by sea. It contains a temporary exemption for oil delivered by the Russian Druzhba pipeline to certain landlocked countries in Central Europe. Germany and Poland have agreed to stop using oil from the northern branch of the pipeline.
Russian oil delivered by sea accounts for two-thirds of the EU’s oil imports from Moscow.
WHAT ABOUT GAS?
Russia has the world’s largest natural gas reserves and is the biggest global exporter, according to the International Energy Agency.
But don’t expect the 27-nation bloc’s leaders to sign off on a ban on Russian gas imports any time soon. The bloc imports 40% of its gas — used for everything from generating electricity to heating homes — from Russia, and finding alternative supplies is tougher than for oil.
“Russian oil is much easier to compensate … gas is completely different, which is why a gas embargo will not be an issue in the next sanctions package,” said Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
That doesn’t mean gas is immune from the geopolitical tensions. Russia is flexing its economic muscle and retaliating to other sanctions by cutting off or restricting gas supplies to some European nations.
Russian state energy giant Gazprom said this week it is halting the flow of gas to Dutch trader GasTerra and Denmark’s Oersted company and is also stopping shipments to Shell Energy Europe that were bound for Germany. Germany has other suppliers, and GasTerra and Oersted said they were prepared for a shutoff. Gazprom previously stopped the flow to Bulgaria, Poland and Finland.
“Who’s next?” said Lucia van Geuns, an energy expert from The Hague Centre for Security Studies. She said the tightening of the net by Moscow could leave EU countries competing for gas supplies from other sources to fill up storage facilities over the summer and to use next winter — a move that would likely drive up prices even further.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR CONSUMERS?
In short: Higher prices. Amid concerns about the devastating war in Ukraine and moves to punish Russia invading its neighbor, energy bills and gasoline prices have been high for months and governments have been cutting taxes in a bid to spare their citizens.
Even so, energy consumers — that’s basically everybody who flicks a light switch, takes a shower, looks at their phone screen or fills their car’s fuel tank — are feeling the pinch and looking for ways to cut costs where they can.
As oil prices rose again Wednesday, motorists in the eastern Netherlands were crossing the border in droves to refuel in neighboring Germany, where government tax cuts have made a liter of gasoline much cheaper than in the Netherlands. Dutch broadcaster NOS showed lines of cars with Dutch license plates waiting outside German gasoline sellers.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR RUSSIA?
Moscow is waging a hugely expensive war in Ukraine. Oil and gas exports go a long way to footing the bill. Last year they accounted for 45% of the federal budget, the International Energy Agency says.
Europe is Russia’s main energy customer, and once the 27 countries have stopped using its supplies, they may not go back.
Short term, the oil ban will likely not hurt Russia too much amid high oil prices that mean Moscow can sell at a discount to clients in Asia and still make a profit, said Chris Weafer, CEO at Macro-Advisory Ltd., a consulting firm. “The financial pain for Russia probably will come more next year or over the next couple of years if it still has to offer discounts,” Weafer told the AP.
Van Geuns said Moscow’s decision to cut off gas to European customers also will likely hurt Russia in the long term “because they are going to lose a large client and of course Europe is their biggest client as far as gas is concerned.”
WILL THIS HASTEN TRANSITION TO RENEWABLE SOURCES?
In the long term, probably, but in the short term it could actually have the opposite effect. Some lawmakers in the Netherlands have already voiced support for cranking up output from the country’s remaining coal-fired power stations, which are being phased out in an attempt to rein in carbon emissions, so that consumption by gas-fired power stations can be reduced.
Mads Flarup Christensen, secretary-general of Greenpeace Norden, urged the EU to mitigate the effects of the oil sanctions by using less oil.
“If the ban is to have the maximum effect on Putin’s war and on the climate crisis, then there must be immediate reductions in our oil consumption,” Christensen said. “It will require changes in the way we transport ourselves, such as a ban on short-haul routes, lower motorway speeds and cheaper public transport.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-06-01T22:37:54+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/explainer-effects-of-eu-russia-oil-ban-moscows-response/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level since November, driving up borrowing costs for would-be homebuyers at a time when the housing market is being held back by a near record-low inventory of homes on the market.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose to 6.79% from 6.57% last week. A year ago, the rate averaged 5.09%.
The latest increase marks the third in three weeks and lifts the average rate on a 30-year home loan to its highest level since it surged to 7.08% in early November.
The average rate on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with those refinancing their homes, rose to 6.18% this week from 5.97% last week. A year ago, it averaged 4.32%, Freddie Mac said.
High rates can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for homebuyers, limiting how much they can afford in a market that remains unaffordable to many Americans after years of soaring home prices and historically low levels of housing inventory.
Mortgage rates have ticked higher along with the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing loans. The yield hit 3.81% last week, its highest point since early March, reflecting uncertainty among bond investors over whether the federal government would be able to avoid a debt default and renewed worries that the Federal Reserve may not be done hiking interest rates.
“Mortgage rates jumped this week, as a buoyant economy has prompted the market to price-in the likelihood of another Federal Reserve rate hike,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. “Although there has been a steady flow of purchase demand around rates in the low- to mid-6% range, that demand is likely to weaken as rates approach 7%.”
The House of Representatives approved a deal on Wednesday to prevent a possible default on the U.S. government’s debt. But uncertainty over what the Fed will do at its upcoming interest rate policy meeting this month, and beyond, could keep the bond market on edge, driving more mortgage rate volatility.
Investors’ expectations for future inflation, global demand for U.S. Treasurys and what the Fed does with interest rates influence rates on home loans.
The Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate 10 times in 14 months in a bid to lower stubbornly high inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other central bank officials have recently signaled that the Fed may forego another interest rate hike at this month’s meeting of policymakers. Such a move would give the Fed time to evaluate the economic impact of its previous rate increases.
Still, a pause now doesn’t mean the Fed couldn’t resume hiking later this year. And other Fed officials continue to express support for more hikes, given inflation remains elevated. The consumer price index, which tracks inflation at the consumer level, rose 4.9% in April from 12 months earlier.
The U.S. housing market has been slow to regain its footing this year, with elevated mortgage rates and a thin inventory of homes on the market working to limit sales. As a result, home purchase loans were down 44.3% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to an analysis released Thursday by real estate data firm Attom.
The higher rates have sharply reduced demand for mortgage refinancing loans, which slumped 72.5% in the first quarter from a year earlier, Attom said. | 2023-06-01T21:25:43+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/business/ap-business/average-long-term-us-mortgage-rate-climbs-to-6-79-this-week-highest-level-since-november/ |
General Motors has already been abundantly clear that it sees its future—and a big business opportunity—in electric vehicles.
On Tuesday it confirmed that it plans to offer its first home energy system with the retail launch of the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV due to arrive in fall 2023. The system will have a preferred installation partner, SunPower, with optional solar.
That’s a small piece of the company’s wider ambition announced at the same time: the idea that it also sees itself as an energy manager directly involving EVs but also well beyond them.
Under a new overarching business unit called GM Energy, the company plans to incorporate its Ultium Charge 360 services with Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial.
Through these three areas, the company wants to be involved in “cohesive energy management for home, commercial, and EV customers, with solutions ranging from bi-directional charging, vehicle-to-home (V2H), and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications, to stationary storage, solar products, software applications, cloud management tools, microgrid solutions, hydrogen fuel cells and more.”
On one level, GM wants to be an energy broker, managing the sale of energy either from EVs or storage batteries back to utilities when it’s advantageous, potentially helping to avert power outages and lower costs, and compiling a list of Ultium Charge 360 solutions for fleets and consumers.
On another level, it will have a direct role in the on-the-ground hardware used for that. GM mentions SunPower for solar and says that a partnership with the company will provide integrated solar panels and home energy storage—allowing EVs to power the home in the event of a power outage, or to draw from stored energy during peak rate times, easing the load on the grid.
Management of such activities would be through an Energy Services Cloud, leveraging data tools and partnerships with utilities and energy companies.
One of those collaborations is the pilot program between GM and California utility PG&E last March—allowing a “small subset” of customers to receive power from their EV in the event of a power outage. GM reports that after initial lab tests, the program will start in 2023.
GM announced plans in July to form a 350-kw coast-to-coast charging network with Pilot and Flying J travel centers. And early this year it suggested that its Hydrotec hydrogen fuel-cell power generators could help support the grid or add EV charging where the grid can’t support it.
The Silverado EV won’t be the first electric pickup helping to backstop blackouts. The Ford F-150 Lightning is already available with a home energy system that allows home backup—vehicle warranty intact—with some of the function customers might get from a Tesla Powerwall. Ford’s partner on its system is Sunrun.
GM hasn’t yet detailed the system in the Silverado EV. Earlier this year a patent filing revealed that GM may be considering a dual-charge-port layout that might help make the most of the double-layer battery pack expected in some versions.
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MILAN (AP) — Giambarini Group’s plants in northern Italy must keep zinc baths that rustproof steel and iron parts super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as natural gas prices spike.
Methane to create molten zinc that forms a protective coating over high-rise support beams and wrought-iron fences used to take up just 3% of operating costs, but now it’s as much as 30%. The family-run company has passed some of the extra cost to customers, but business is uncertain as rising prices for raw materials freezes the construction industry that Giambarini supplies.
“We don’t know the future. We don’t know if it will get worse or better, since clients don’t know if they will have work,’’ said CEO Alberto Giambarini, the third generation in his family to run the business. He has orders for the coming 10 days, instead of through Christmas, like in the past. “We are living day to day.”
The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households — like those across Europe — is a top voter concern going into Sunday’s parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses, at least temporarily, and force household rationing by winter. Prices started going up a year ago and have only been exacerbated as Russia has cut back natural gas used to generate electricity, heat and cool homes, and run factories as Europe supports war-torn Ukraine.
Already in July and August, industrial energy use dropped by double digits mostly because of scaled-back production — which experts say could affect economic growth and employment in the coming months.
At the same time, three-quarters of Italian households expect even more pain this fall with higher bills, according to the SWG polling institute. Already, 80% report important sacrifices to pay energy costs, such as delaying vacations, major purchases and eating out.
Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point. Candidates have sparred over whether debt-laden Italy, which has already spent more than 60 billion euros to help families, businesses and local governments, should incur yet more debt to finance new relief. They’re also facing off on whether Italy should consider investing in new nuclear technologies.
But no party is discussing mandatory conservation measures, like many of Italy’s European neighbors.
“It is remarkable to see how much all these people are commenting on energy. Before the current situation, no one would mention the issue. But at the same time, they are neglecting if not ignoring completely the climate side of this,’’ said Matteo Di Castelnuovo, an energy economist at Milan’s Bocconi University. “No one is going to talk about rationing or reducing consumption.”
Most major parties, including Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy and Enrico Letta’s center-left Democratic Party, are largely following strategies pursued by the outgoing government of Premier Mario Draghi. They both advocate a European Union cap on natural gas prices, despite a failure to gain EU consensus in months of discussion, along with varying formulas to help families and offer tax breaks to businesses.
Pollsters and energy experts say these similarities have made it difficult for voters to be moved by energy policy.
Broadly, the campaign has focused on continued natural gas investments.
For the Democratic Party, plants that regasify liquid natural gas are positioned as a bridge to other technologies as it sets a target to add 85 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 in a country that for years has averaged just 1 gigawatt a year. The center-right coalition that Meloni’s party is leading wants to expand pipeline deliveries to Italy, which fits a longer-term strategy of making Italy a gas hub for Europe but does not address the EU goal of emission reductions by 2030.
The right-wing coalition and small centrist parties also advocate a return to nuclear power, which Italians have rejected in two referendums decades apart. In addition to societal resistance, the technology would take at least two decades to implement, too late to help Italy’s commitment with the Group of 7 wealthy economies to fully decarbonize by 2035, said Matteo Leonardi, executive director of the environmental think tank ECCO.
The political debate is largely focusing on lowering gas prices but not diversifying or discouraging households from consuming resources that would better support industry, Leonardi said.
“The response to this crisis, as they are saying in the rest of Europe, are renewables and efficiency,” Leonardi said. “You cannot face a war without arms. You cannot give the message that the state will take care of it, consume what you want.”
Italy’s famed textile industry, which gives French and Italian fashion houses their luxury edge, also is suffering. The small and medium operators that form the backbone of the system risk closure without a swift, systemic response from both Europe and Italy, said Sergio Tamborini, head of the SMI Italian Fashion System association.
“The bills that arrived in June and July were explosive,’’ Tamborini said.
Italy’s textile industry — along with leather and accessories accounting for revenue of 100 billion euros a year — is a luxury niche that Tamborini worries will be weakened by cheaper markets if costs aren’t reduced.
Dying and printing textiles is especially energy intensive, Tamborini said, and for some, “it is a problem of survival.”
“We should have had help already in September. We cannot wait for the next government to be active, because it could be Christmas or even after,” he said, given the fractured nature of Italian politics.
Meanwhile, Giambarini said his business has no immediate plans for short-term layoffs of 250 workers, but the outgoing government has been discussing new layoff programs to give businesses a way to avoid crippling energy costs.
Shutting down even temporarily would be devastating, taking months to relaunch, said Giambarini, adding he was still deciding which party to back.
“We are waiting for the election and hope we will get a government that will indicate a better road out of this period of crisis,’’ Giambarini said. | 2022-09-20T15:50:27+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-energy-crisis-key-to-italys-election-but-not-conservation/ |
The Tesla Model Y took the top sales spot in the German vehicle market in September, according to sales numbers reported by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) (via Electrek).
Tesla has achieved monthly bestseller status in other countries—such as Norway—but doing so in Germany is significant because the American firm is competing with the established German automakers on their home turf.
Tesla delivered 9,848 Model Y crossovers in Germany in September, making the Model Y the country’s bestselling vehicle that month. The Model Y beat the perennial favorite Volkswagen Golf, which managed just over 7,000 deliveries in September. In addition, German Model 3 deliveries totaled 3,878 units in September.
Tesla has been looking to grow sales volume in Europe with its Giga Berlin factory, which the automaker announced in 2019. The first production cars from this factory, located just outside the German capital, were delivered in March.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk saw the Model Y becoming a global bestseller in 2022—and this is a point that’s proving itself out. Tesla has arguably shaved away a big piece of the market previously held by German premium brands. It topped a 10% market share in California in the fourth quarter of 2021, and nearly a third of U.S. EV buyers are getting a Model Y.
Fleet buyers now make up a significant share of Tesla’s sales as well. Subscription service Autonomy and Hertz are among the companies that have added to Tesla’s EV sales lead. Established automakers generally discount fleet sales, considering them less important than retail sales. It’s unclear if Tesla or its supporters are making that distinction.
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(CNN) — Inflation in the United States may have subsided in recent months – it peaked above 9% last summer and declined to 4% this May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ widely used Consumer Price Index. But even at its worst, price increases were a drop in the bucket compared to what people in some less developed economies have been living with for years.
Several countries, including Venezuela, Argentina and Sudan have been saddled with skyrocketing costs for decades. Last year, consumer prices in Venezuela were more than four times as high as a year earlier, while in Argentina they were nearly twice as high as in 2021, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
By comparison, the highest inflation that several generations of Americans – both millennials and Gen Z – have ever experienced was that of the past years, the IMF data shows. Since 1982, the start of the millennial generation, annual inflation in the US averaged 2.9% and only topped 4% six times, including the 2007-2008 financial crisis and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
In advanced economies overall, inflation averaged 2.4% since the 1990s – the earliest aggregate data the IMF has available. But the period of ultra-low inflation ended in 2021, due to factors including the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to research by the Federal Reserve. In 2021, inflation in advanced economies – among them the European Union countries, United Kingdom and US – rose to 5.3%, and then to 7.3% in 2022.
And while Venezuela’s inflation has been continuous since at least the 1980s, according to the IMF data, it has been unprecedented in recent years. The Latin American country saw hyperinflation of more than 130,000% in 2018, when the government had to create a new currency, the Bolivar Soberano, worth 100,000 old bolivars, to simplify transactions. The price of a Coca-Cola can went from 2,800,000 “old” bolivars to 28 “new” bolivars.
In 2022, Venezuelan inflation was still 310%, the highest in the world that year.
Pensioners and public sector workers in the country have been affected the most, said Andrés Guevara, professor of economics at Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas and CEO of Omnis, a consultancy. The state pays pensions and civil servants’ salaries in the local currency, so as the bolivar devalues “it loses purchasing power and massively impoverishes these sectors of the population,” he told CNN.
“I can only buy a piece of cheese [with the pension],” Venezuelan pensioner Nelson Sánchez told CNN. He receives help from his children. “It took me a lot of time to adjust,” said Sanchez, who after 50 years of working began receiving money from his family.
Meanwhile, as prices rise in Argentina, wages have increased at a more frequent rate. “There are unions in some economic sectors asking for revisions every two months,” said Emiliano Anselmi, chief economist at Portfolio Personal Inversiones, an investment company based in Buenos Aires.
Another effect of inflation is people are spending their money as soon as possible. “Because everything will be more expensive tomorrow, people spend their money as they receive it, increasing the inflation,” Anselmi told CNN.
In the affected economies, credit is restricted, especially for the less affluent. “The credit market does not exist [in Argentina]. If you want to buy a house, you put it together dollar by dollar and pay it all at once,” Anselmi said.
As governments grapple with their finances, people have found ways to navigate these circumstances. One of the most common solutions is using a more stable currency, particularly the US dollar.
Using US currency for transactions is common in Venezuela, as people don’t trust the volatile local currency, according to Guevara. “There has been a factual dollarization of the Venezuelan economy,” he said.
Improving inflation in Venezuela requires better institutions with more transparency, Guevara said.
“There is no confidence, there is no rule of law and the institutional basis is quite weak. That is the underlying problem,” he said.
In Argentina’s case, Anselmi believes that after the 2024 elections, a new government will need to apply a stabilization plan to reduce the deficit and inflation. The plan could mean an increase in poverty and social conflict, especially in the first six months.
“In 2024, only blood, sweat, and tears await Argentina,” he told CNN.
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(NEXSTAR) – Can you name the richest person in your state? Unless you have a billion dollars in your bank account, we can promise it isn’t you.
As of 2023, nearly every state has a billionaire resident, according to Forbes, which released its list of the wealthiest people in the U.S. for the first time since 2019 on Thursday.
In North Carolina, the richest person is James Goodnight with an estimated $9.3 billion. Goodnight is the co-founder of SAS, which is an analytics software firm. In 1976, Goodnight and John Sall, another North Carolina billionaire, founded SAS. The two met at NC State University when Goodnight was a Ph.D. student.
Only three states are without a billionaire, as of June 2023: Alaska, Delaware and West Virginia. This wasn’t always the case for the latter, the outlet explains, pointing to Gov. Jim Justice, who lost his status as the result of heavy debts two years ago.
Lacking a billionaire isn’t a problem for other states, especially California, Florida, New York and Texas. According to Forbes, there are 179 billionaires in California, 130 in New York, 92 in Florida and 73 in Texas.
Texas earns an extra jewel in its crown, considering the richest person in the U.S. and the world — Elon Musk — now calls the Lone Star State home.
Including Musk, the five richest people in the report are Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Google’s Larry Page.
The youngest person on the list is Illinois’ 36-year-old Lukas Walton, who has gained his wealth as part of the family that owns Walmart. Alternatively, the oldest billionaire is 93-year-old Annette Lerner of Maryland, the widow of Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner. Forbes notes her source of wealth is real estate.
Lerner is one of nine women to make Forbes’ list. The wealthiest among them is Virginia’s Jacqueline Mars, granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, the founder of the Mars candy company.
Mars and more than half of the people on the list made their money in one of four industries, according to Forbes: food and beverage, technology, finance and investments, or fashion and retail.
Other notable names on the list include New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson, Nike’s Phil Knight and family (Oregon), and Chick-fil-A chairman Dan Cathy and his children, Bubba Cathy and Trudy Cathy White (Georgia).
Some notable names failed to make the list. Among those is Bill Gates, whose net worth of $116 billion wasn’t enough to edge out fellowing Washington state resident, Bezos. Also missing from the list is Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. As of Thursday, Forbes lists his net worth as $98 billion, Page — the richest Californian — and his $105 billion net worth.
You can view Forbes’ full list here.
Some states saw a shuffle in their top ranks. Late last year, Forbes released its list of the 400 richest people in the U.S. At the time, Florida’s wealthiest person was Thomas Peterffy, who made his $20.3 billion from Interactive Brokers. Ken Griffin, worth roughly $32.7 billion thanks to hedge funds, has since replaced Peterffy. | 2023-06-15T18:19:18+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/heres-the-richest-person-in-your-state-according-to-forbes/ |
LPD debuts new online reporting system
LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - The Lubbock Police Department is debuting a new online reporting system designed to make the filing of online police reports easier for the public, all while decreasing the time it takes for reports to be created and filed for non-violent crimes.
The system, called “Coplogic,” is located on the department’s website at www.Lubbockpolice.com under the “Reports and Forms” tab. The system replaces the former system of Ten8Tech.
Upon selecting “File Crime Report,” the system will take the user to a separate page, allowing them to select the incident type, while simultaneously giving a definition and example of each type of crime in order to help the reporting party more easily narrow down and select the appropriate category of crime. From there, multiple questions are asked about the crime, allowing as many details as possible to be gathered before the report is officially created within the department’s system.
Once a report is created by the user, a case number is assigned. The report then goes through the department’s records system before being assigned to the appropriate unit for investigation.
The online reporting system is designed for multiple types of crimes, including theft, fraud and other property crimes. In addition, house watch requests and drug tips can also be made through the new system. However, not all crime types will fit the criteria for online reporting.
While the LPD encourages the use of this new online reporting system, members of the public are always welcome to call the Lubbock Police Department’s non-emergency number at (806) 775-2865 to request to meet with an officer to file a report in person. They can also file a report at the front desk of police department headquarters, located at 916 Texas Avenue, or they can go to their local division station, which are located at the following addresses: East – 1901 East 19th Street, South – 14005 Indiana Avenue, North – 5910 Erskine Street and file a report at the front desk there.
Copyright 2022 KCBD. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-25T15:06:35+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/05/25/lpd-debuts-new-online-reporting-system/ |
Railroad unions push back threatened strike date
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business
The threat of a freight railroad strike has been pushed back to early December, as four major unions have agreed to coordinate the date on which they could potentially go on strike.
The third-largest railroad union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employe Division, had been prepared to strike as soon as November 20, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. But the group announced Wednesday that is has agreed to extend negotiations with the railroads until at least December 4, the deadline set by another union, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. The rank and file members of both unions have rejected the tentative agreements reached with the railroads in September, mostly over the lack of sick pay in the contracts.
A strike by any one rail union would lead to a shutdown of America’s major freight railroads, as all the other unions, even those that have ratified contracts, would honor the picket lines. That could cause severe economic problems, as 30% of America’s freight moves by rail, when measured by weight and distance traveled.
The two largest rail unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union, which represents conductors, are holding their own ratification votes, the results of which are due November 21. If one or both of those unions reject the deals, they would be prepared to strike December 9. If those contracts are voted down, the BMWED and Signalmen have agreed to further push back their strike deadline to that date.
The BMWED and Signalmen are engaged in negotiations with railroad management seeking deals that union leaders believe their members would ratify. The unions hope the extension will prevent Congress from imposing a contract or order them to keep working into the new year, when Republicans might be in control of one or both houses of Congress.
The unions want to maintain their ability to strike in order to increase their leverage with the railroads. Congress is due to return from recess next week.
Delaying the date of a threatened strike will “provide an opportunity to increasingly educate members of Congress — who have been out of session and consumed by the mid-term elections — about the railroad workers’ state of despair that management has created, and the railroad workers’ need for paid sick time off,” said the BMWED in a statement.
The unions are concerned that the November 20 strike threat would prompt the railroads to curtail services as soon as next week. The railroads did just that in the days before a marathon negotiating session averted a scheduled September 16 strike. The unions were also concerned that cutting service could prompt Congress, under pressure from freight rail customers, to rush through legislation to keep them on the job.
“With this extension, there is absolutely no reason for the railroads to discontinue services or threaten to discontinue their services,” the BMWED statement said. “There is now more than adequate time for the railroads to come to the bargaining table, engage in good-faith negotiations with us and reach a voluntary Agreement to provide all railroad workers with paid sick leave.”
But so far railroad management has rejected proposals by the rail unions for paid sick time out of hand.
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee, which negotiates with the unions on behalf of the major freight railroads, said it will “remain engaged with BMWED throughout the extended cooling off period.” But added that it will seek an agreement based on the framework of deals already ratified by the other unions.
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Robertson defensive lineman Bodie Schlinger, back, and linebacker Ace Gonzalez tackle Socorro quarterback Marcus Armijo for a safety in a Nov. 20 semifinal in Las Vegas, N.M. Gonzalez will be the Cardinals quarterback this season.
After one of the most unusual offseasons in program history due to the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, the defending state champs in Class 3A football aren’t exactly reinventing the wheel when mapping out the 2022 season.
Robertson returns most of its starting offensive line and a good portion of a defense that was second to none in winning the school’s fourth state championship last year. What’s more, it retains that blue-collar work ethic that has made the Cardinals the gold standard for 3Aprep football.
It translates into another year of huge expectations for a team that, on paper, appears primed and ready for another deep postseason run.
“No, no big changes or anything like that because we just do what we always do,” said Leroy Gonzalez, head coach of the Robertson Cardinals. “We just worked hard over the summer and we’re ready to do this.”
The Cardinals did more than work hard over the summer. A handful of players and coaches went about the business of rebuilding their lives after the devastating impact of the wildfire that forced hundreds of people in the Las Vegas area to evacuate.
Some, Gonzalez said, returned to charred ruins. Those who didn’t have had to deal with the floods after summer rains washed out the burn scars that used to be their homes.
“You know, nothing about it has been easy,” Gonzalez said. “These people around here have been through a lot.”
As for the team itself, learning to push forward after departed senior Mathew Gonzales practically carried the Cards to last year’s championship has been the name of the game during preseason camp. An all-state quarterback and defensive back, he’s the latest in what has been a long line of star players to line up under center for Robertson the last two decades.
Turns out, finding his replacement was only a matter of inches. Last year’s starting center is this year’s starting QB as senior Ace Gonzalez assumes his third position in as many years with Robertson’s offense. He was a starting tight end as a sophomore before shifting to the middle of the line as a junior.
The coach’s son, he took every change in stride.
“He never complained to me, not once,” Leroy Gonzalez said. “He may have said something to his mom, but not me. That’s just the way he is. He puts his head down and goes to work doing whatever the team needs from him.”
Also the team’s leading tackler at linebacker, Ace Gonzalez has the arm strength and mobility to stretch the Cardinals’ playbook with a more vertical passing attack. While the elder Gonzalez stopped well short of saying fans might expect a more versatile passing scheme with deep shots downfield, he did say that airing it out will be more of a viable option if the situation calls for it.
The running game will again feature Jesse James Gonzalez, a sophomore who burst onto the scene as a freshman by supplying big numbers for a ground-based offense. Taking Ace Gonzalez’s spot at center will be D’Mario Gallegos, the starting right tackle on last year’s team. His spot at tackle will be filled by Judah Gutierrez, a spot starter on the line last year.
“You can’t do what we do without an experienced line and we basically have all those guys back,” Leroy Gonzalez said. | 2022-08-13T06:10:39+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/sports/defending-champ-robertson-returns-loaded-team/article_25bc1a40-1a88-11ed-8032-078b901b63b8.html |
PARK CITY, Utah — The closely watched trial over a 2016 ski collision between Gwyneth Paltrow and the retired optometrist suing her for the injuries he sustained is expected to draw to a close Thursday, when attorneys give closing arguments and send the case to the eight-member jury.
Terry Sanderson, 76, is suing Paltrow, claiming she skied out of control and crashed into him, leaving him with four broken ribs and a concussion with symptoms that have lasted years beyond the collision.
After a judge dismissed his initial $3.1 million complaint, Sanderson amended and refiled the lawsuit seeking “more than $300,000” — a threshold that that provides the opportunity to introduce the most evidence and depose the most witnesses allowed in civil court. In response, Paltrow countersued for a symbolic $1 and attorney fees.
Paltrow’s defense team used most of their final full day in control of the witness stand to call medical experts to testify. Sanderson’s attorneys are expected to begin on Thursday morning by recalling their medical experts to rebut claims made by Paltrow’s. Each side will then have roughly one hour to give the jury their closing arguments.
Paltrow’s attorneys are expected to continue their two-pronged approach, both arguing that the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer didn’t cause the accident and that its effects aren’t as bad as Sanderson claims. They've painted him as an “obsessed” man pushing “utter B.S.” claims against someone whose fame makes them vulnerable to unfair, frivolous lawsuits.
Sanderson’s team will likely cite how the man claiming to be the sole eyewitness testified to seeing Paltrow hit their client and continue spinning the case as a contemporary David versus Goliath tale in which Sanderson suffered injuries and had the courage to take on a movie star.
Sanderson testified Friday that he had continued to pursue damages seven years after the accident because the cascading events that followed — his post-concussion symptoms and the accusation that he sued to exploit Paltrow's celebrity — added insult to injury.
“That's the purpose: to make me regret this lawsuit. It's the pain of trying to sue a celebrity,” he said on Wednesday in response to a question from his attorney about Paltrow's team probing his personal life, medical records and extensive post-crash international travel itinerary.
Though both sides have marshaled significant resources to emerge victorious, the verdict could end up being remembered as an afterthought dwarfed by the worldwide attention the trial has attracted. The amount of money at stake for both sides pales in comparison to the typical legal costs of a multiyear lawsuit, private security detail and expert witness-heavy trial.
With lengthy rosters of witnesses on call, attorneys have confronted difficult choices about how to juggle their hired experts with family members, doctors and testimony from Sanderson and Paltrow themselves.
Paltrow’s defense team picked mostly experts to mount their final defense on Wednesday. They chose to call four medical experts to testify rather than Paltrow's husband, television producer Brad Falchuk.
In the final hour of their last full day to call witnesses, they called Sanderson back to the witness stand. A day earlier, they read depositions from Paltrow's two children — Apple and Moses — rather than calling them to testify as they earlier indicated they had planned.
Among the most bombshell testimony has been from Paltrow and Sanderson. On Friday members of the jury were riveted when Paltrow said on the stand that she initially thought she was being “violated” when the collision began. Three days later Sanderson gave an entirely different account, saying she ran into him and sent him “absolutely flying.”
The trial has also shone a spotlight on Park City, known primarily as a ski resort that welcomes celebrities like Paltrow for each year's Sundance Film Festival.
Local residents have increasingly filled the courtroom gallery throughout the trial. They've nodded along as lawyers and witnesses have referenced local landmarks like Montage Deer Valley, the ski-side hotel-spa where Paltrow got a massage after the collision. At times they have appeared captivated by Paltrow's reactions to the proceedings, while at others they have mirrored the jury, whose endurance has been tested by hours of jargon-dense medical testimony. | 2023-03-30T17:46:38+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/nation-world/gwyneth-paltrow-ski-crash-trial/507-8212225b-d667-4789-bd71-6c22a49faa91 |
This game-changing integration provides free access for teachers to create collaborative, engaging lessons that reach students in the classroom and on their devices, wherever they are.
CALGARY, AB, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumio, the digital learning tool used by millions of teachers and students worldwide, is pleased to announce its integration with Canva for Education. This new integration allows teachers to seamlessly add Canva designs to Lumio, merging the power of Canva's visual communication platform with Lumio's ability to add interactivity for engaging, dynamic lessons.
The integration offers educators free access to export and upload Canva lessons, presentations, and other materials into Lumio to create interactive lessons with game-based activities, formative assessments, and more. Educators will also be able to access libraries from both Canva and Lumio to explore thousands of high-quality, ready-made templates and infographics.
"The Lumio team is excited to roll out our integration with Canva for Education," said Dan McMahon, Lumio Vice President of Software. "This collaboration reinforces our commitment to inspiring creativity, saving teachers' time, and creating an active learning environment that is accessible and collaborative for all."
Canva for Education makes it easy to create and communicate visually in the classroom and beyond. It allows educators to bring their ideas and lessons to life with thousands of ready-to-use educational templates. Lumio is an intuitive digital learning tool that transforms lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences that engage students on their devices, in class, or remotely.
"Empowering educators and students through creativity and collaboration are core values for both Lumio and Canva for Education," says Head of Canva for Education, Jason Wilmot. "We are thrilled to come together with Lumio to support both teachers and students and to provide them with the high-quality resources they deserve and need for fantastic learning experiences."
Lumio, created by global EdTech leader SMART Technologies, is also unveiling several new features aimed at making teaching easier and learning more engaging and accessible for students. The latest updates include:
- Ability to edit PowerPoint slides after they have been imported into Lumio with editing support for Google Slides and PDFs to follow. This feature is now live as a public beta.
- Access to OpenDyslexic, a typeface designed to support learners with a variety of dyslexia symptoms.
- New themes available for several Lumio game-based activities, including clean, simple versions that appeal to older learners.
Also, Lumio is showcasing a new Logic Model that highlights research demonstrating Lumio's effectiveness to enable leading teaching practices to drive student outcomes.
The Canva for Education and Lumio integration will be available for teachers to work with over the summer and for back-to-school, and other new features in Lumio are available for use today.
About Lumio
Lumio is an easy-to-use, digital learning tool that lets teachers transform lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences to engage students on their devices, wherever they are. With countless ways for students to engage and drive their own learning, Lumio is a perfect fit for educators who are looking for ways to increase interactivity, collaboration, and game-based learning. To learn more, visit www.golumio.com
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Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom and beyond. It's 100% free for K-12 districts, schools, teachers and their students. Bring your ideas to life with thousands of ready-to-use educational templates from presentations, posters, comic strips, book reports, infographics, newsletters, and more.
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Inside a debt ceiling standoff ‘far more dangerous than people will recognize’
By Jeremy Diamond, Lauren Fox, Melanie Zanona, Phil Mattingly, Arlette Saenz and Kevin Liptak, CNN
(CNN) — President Joe Biden ended the month of May the same way he began it: with a phone call to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. .
His first call invited McCarthy to the first in a series of meetings to negotiate an agreement on the debt ceiling and the budget. His latest came Wednesday night, after a bipartisan coalition in the House voted 314 to 117 to comfortably pass that agreement, moving the White House a critical step closer to dodging the kind of economic calamity that could derail two years of legislative progress – and a reelection campaign (the legislation now goes to the Senate where it’s expected to pass but timing for a vote is still unclear).
In between those events was a process that people involved acknowledged was far from certain to create the outcome it did. The weeks were defined by days of negotiations, several breakdowns, one slow-moving bike ride and, in the end, an effort that found two sides that started largely unfamiliar with one another unwilling to accept failure – and the sweeping repercussions that would bring.
It was an effort one White House official candidly acknowledged “was far more dangerous than people will recognize given the outcome.”
For each side, the process involved painful tradeoffs that earned them barbs from the right and left: Questions about why the process didn’t begin sooner, why alternative methods for raising the debt ceiling weren’t explored more fully and why the debt ceiling exists in the first place have all been raised in the aftermath.
But for now, with disaster likely averted, each side describes a process that proved illuminating in an era of diminishingly few bipartisan achievements.
“You’ve got two Irish guys who don’t drink,” Rep. Patrick McHenry, one of the Republican negotiators who helped serve the deal, said of the relationship between Biden and McCarthy. “The bonding opportunities are not the same as for an Irish guy like me.”
Negotiations kicked into higher gear on May 16, after Biden appointed his counselor Steve Ricchetti and budget director Shalanda Young to lead negotiations alongside Legislative Affairs Director Louisa Terrell.
Young’s appointment, in particular, drew an immediate nod of approval from McCarthy, who pivoted from his seat in the Oval Office to look back at Young.
“She’s well respected by both sides,” McCarthy said of the former longtime House Appropriations Committee staffer, according to White House officials. “I think she’d be great.”
It didn’t hurt matters that Young hailed from Louisiana, the same state as Rep. Garret Graves, one of the Republicans appointed by McCarthy to hammer out an agreement. During talks, the two joked about who made a better gumbo (“She conceded,” Graves joked) and that Young’s father and Graves work out at the same gym.
When Young arrived in the Capitol for one of the first meetings between White House staff and the speaker’s office, she was spotted by GOP Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a longtime appropriator.
He could barely contain his excitement – and relief.
“I feel so much better knowing you’re in the room,” Cole said, as he embraced Young in a big hug.
The newly appointed White House trio began meeting with McCarthy’s negotiating team that night and met in person nearly every day from that point on, at times shuttling between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue two to three times a day.
They shared late nights and meals, including a delivery of Call Your Mother bagel sandwiches during an especially critical four-hour long meeting last Thursday, courtesy of White House chief of staff Jeff Zients. Young and McHenry, who both have young children, called each other each morning while dropping off their children at daycare, White House officials said.
‘We were cut out, and they have work to do’
Throughout the negotiations, the trio of White House officials worked to keep the president, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries updated on a daily basis. Ricchetti, the senior-most member of the White House team, spoke regularly with McCarthy throughout the talks.
A veteran of three administrations who has been a constant presence by Biden’s side since his vice presidency, Ricchetti was also viewed as a critical conduit to and from Biden himself.
“It’s clear when he’s speaking, he’s speaking for the president,” a House Republican briefed regularly on the talks told CNN. “And when he’s listening, you know it’s going to get back to the president.”
Terrell was in constant contact with McCarthy’s chief of staff, Dan Meyer, a long-time Capitol Hill veteran who had already announced his intent to retire after the debt ceiling stalemate was resolved.
It was a team with experience, deployed in a carefully calibrated – and intentionally mapped out – series of options, breakdowns in talks and eventual path forward that would secure the sign off from Biden and, perhaps more critically, their House Republican counterparts.
But it was also a team that intentionally – much to the frustration of Democrats on Capitol Hill – kept the details of their work close to the vest. As McCarthy and his negotiators spoke daily, and often much more, to reporters as they sought to press their priorities, Biden and his team remained silent.
“Asking me about the communication (with the White House) implies there was communication,” one House Democrat said. “We were cut out, and they have work to do.”
But White House officials, while keenly aware of the work needed after the agreement was reached to read in Democratic members on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, said the posture was intentional – and driven by Biden.
“Their view is that there’s no upside to broadcasting the play-by-play,” another House Democrat, echoing widespread frustration inside the caucus, told CNN. “I happen to disagree with that view, but also recognize that they reached an outcome.”
White House officials also insisted, in repeated and painfully awkward public appearances, that they hadn’t deviated from Biden’s monthslong position of not negotiating over the debt ceiling.
That was exactly what they were doing, in large part because House Republicans had passed their own legislation despite significant skepticism – inside the White House and even among GOP members – that would be possible.
GOP negotiators believed they had room to cut deals with the White House, and they credit the speaker with giving them “the space” to do it. McHenry and Graves kept McCarthy constantly apprised, decamping to his office around the clock, walking with him to get Chipotle or in Graves’ case meeting up for a bike ride on the National Mall to hash out the details of what was on the table.
‘We had probably three major blowups’
Shortly after talks started, White House officials offered a proposal they knew would be rejected: A series of tax increases on high earners and corporations included in Biden’s budgets and a feature in his stump speeches on the debt limit that would bolster his deficit reduction bona fides.
Republicans, as they had long made clear, rejected the provisions – and any tax increases – out of hand and made little secret of their frustration over the play.
The back and forth elicited sharp responses from Republicans, who viewed the tactics as political and ignorant to the urgency of an acutely high stakes moment.
Negotiations broke down. And then broke down again.
White House officials were also faced with the reality of the presidency – and a scheduled three-stop foreign trip that landed right in the middle of the negotiations.
Biden ultimately decided to cancel two stops on the trip. But he viewed his travel to the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Japan, as too critical in the midst of a tenuous geopolitical moment to miss.
For the White House negotiators, that meant late nights and early mornings. During the particularly turbulent third weekend of May, following a sudden pause in negotiations that Friday, White House officials briefed Biden at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, reconvened for a 10 p.m. meeting, only to wake up and brief the president again at 4:30 a.m. the next morning, White House officials said.
Republican negotiators described tedious, long meetings where most of the time they “inched forward.”
On Friday, May 19, talks “blew up,” Graves remembered. The White House negotiators left Capitol Hill abruptly and for hours, it was unclear when the conversations would resume.
In one particularly tense moment, as the White House staff were deriding the GOP tax cuts bill and citing what Republicans felt was a questionable CBO score, one McCarthy staffer yelled across the table: “Bullsh*t.”
The White House contends Republicans offered up a proposal that amounted to a list of Republican positions that were nonstarters for Biden.
After the meeting, the negotiators decided to put a “pause” on the talks, giving everyone a much-needed opportunity to cool down.
“We had probably three major blowups in this negotiation, one of which was that Friday,” McHenry said.
At the time, Graves said the spending side of the negotiations were at a logjam. He and McHenry – despite their wide latitude in the talks — had been given an explicit order by McCarthy. They were to spend less money in 2024 than in 2023 on domestic priorities.
“The White House position at time is that they were going to spend more money,” Graves remembered. “Those things directly contradict. On that Friday, the White House took about two steps backwards in negotiations.”
The negotiations up until that point had been closely held.
“Our intention was just to negotiate in the room, work things out,” McHenry said.
But he recalled that it was around this time “we said publicly our private frustrations.”
As negotiations appeared to offer little path forward, Biden made plans to call McCarthy aboard Air Force One on his way back to the US.
The most powerful Democrat and Republican in the country both recounted the conversation as cordial and businesslike. Biden made a point of briefing McCarthy on the summit itself.
But it also marked a critical turn for the talks themselves. Quietly, White House negotiators had never actually stopped talking to their Republican counterparts. Methodically, with engagement both teams repeatedly called fair and professional, the groundwork was laid for the multi-day sprint ahead.
Where rank-and-file Democrats insisted they were kept in the dark, Biden insisted on maintaining a clear and united front with Democratic leaders, officials said.
When the negotiators reconvened after Biden’s return, White House officials suggested a change in venue. The Republicans were invited to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where Young has her office.
Over the course of four hours – and the sandwiches sent from Zients – the negotiators moved through the key pillars of the deal. After the meeting ended, McHenry stayed on campus, walking across West Executive Avenue and into the West Wing to continue meeting with Ricchetti for another hour.
Negotiators worked around the clock, but there were times when outside life events came calling. Graves had to attend a personal matter, forcing him to even miss a Monday night votes series. McHenry, who at times throughout the process had his small children in tow, attended his neighbor’s kid’s birthday party last weekend, which he jokingly described as a “two-year-old rager” when he returned back to the Capitol.
And during a critical moment in the negotiations, Graves and Young – both Louisianans – attended a White House event celebrating the LSU Tigers, the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball champs.
Graves confirmed that the two talked shop at the event, calling it “a very candid conversation about how we’re going to move forward, if we’re going to be able to come together and ultimately get a deal.”
The Saturday morning before the debt ceiling deal would come together, Graves met McCarthy on the National Mall for a bike ride to brief him on the emerging agreement.
“It was a meeting on wheels,” Graves said.
The ride was tedious, however, such that Graves, who shares his exercise data with members of his family, heard from his son, harassing him about “riding so slow.”
“He was hazing me about our speed,” Graves joked, pulling up data showing his 9.8 mile ride took him 45 minutes.
‘This was no easy task to get here’
As the negotiators worked through the final, and exceedingly thorny, issues outstanding, Biden started to turn his attention to calling key Democrats in search of votes and voices of public support. Over the weekend, he spoke with Rep. Jim Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat and close ally who helped save Biden’s 2020 campaign. Clyburn soon hit the airwaves to talk up the deal.
After Rep. Annie Kuster, the chairwoman of the 99-member strong New Democrat Coalition, endorsed the bipartisan deal in a statement Monday, Biden called to thank her for support, talking up the benefits of the deal and the key Democratic priorities he was able to protect from Republican spending cuts.
“We talked about how we would work together to get the votes to get it passed,” Kuster told CNN. “We both agreed that this was not an ideal circumstance to be in, but once we went to work and really put our shoulder to the wheel that the outcome in terms of protecting the programs that are so important to our constituents was very positive.”
While Biden made some key calls, a dozen senior administration officials hit the phones, making more than 100 one-on-one calls to Democratic lawmakers ahead of the House vote.
A series of briefings were set up for congressional Democrats, many still seething about their contention they were boxed out of the talks.
The blowback from progressives wasn’t a surprise, officials made clear. They both expected and – even if they viewed the deal as a positive outcome – understood.
As Biden’s senior officials gathered behind closed doors in the Capitol to brief House Democrats, the lawmakers proceeded to give Young two standing ovations for her efforts.
As for Young, she made clear she was looking forward to spending time with her young daughter again and, after being spotted by reporters with a Nordstrom Rack bag in an emergency effort to address a lapsed dry-cleaning routine, perhaps do some laundry as well.
There was work to do with Democratic lawmakers and the Appropriations process and its deadline would be bearing down soon enough. For the moment, however, the exceedingly real risk of economic – and political – devastation posed by default had been taken off the table.
“I can assure you that this was no easy task to get here, but what was on the line for the American people was real,” Young said this week. “I know I breathed a little easier – I called my parents, told them to breathe a little easier – that a deal had been reached. And that’s what this was all about.”
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Maine's plan to provide two years of free community college is going into effect.
The Maine Legislature approved a plan backed by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to provide free community college to students who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program applies to high school graduates from the classes of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The community college system said in a statement that the program also applies to students who recently earned the equivalent of a high school diploma, such as a High School Equivalency Test. It pays for up to two years of tuition and fees at Maine's seven community colleges after federal and state grant aid has been applied.
The system said students who qualify for maximum grant aid are allowed to use additional grant money to pay for expenses such as books and supplies. | 2022-06-04T14:42:00+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Maine-now-offering-free-community-college-for-17219572.php |
Applications for jobless benefits decline last week
By MATT OTT
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits came back down last week and continue to hover around levels suggesting the U.S. labor market has been largely unaffected by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes. Applications for jobless aid fell to 225,000 for the week ending Nov. 26, a decline of 16,000 from the previous week’s 241,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out week-to-week swings, inched up by 1,750 to 227,000. The Labor Department said Thursday that 1.61 million people were receiving jobless aid the week that ended Nov. 19, up 57,000 from the week before. | 2022-12-01T14:17:41+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2022/12/01/applications-for-jobless-benefits-decline-last-week/ |
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (KDVR) — Police said one person died in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night in Broomfield.
According to the Broomfield Police Department, it happened at the intersection of 144th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard. The police department tweeted about the crash just before 5:30 p.m.
Police said just before 9:30 p.m. that one person had died in the crash.
No other details were immediately available. | 2022-06-23T06:37:57+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/1-dies-in-motorcycle-crash-in-broomfield/ |
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced data demonstrating icIEF fractionation from their soon to be launched Maurice Flex™ instrument was presented at the 2022 CE Pharm conference. Data generated using customer and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) samples have been presented at multiple conferences in the last 20 months and the presentation at CE Pharm is a continuation of this work.
Ion-exchange chromatography (IEX) is typically used for fraction collection, although this method presents several challenges including a laborious and time-consuming workflow that can take days, weeks, or longer. Furthermore, there is a need for orthogonal techniques to compare and confirm the charge isoforms collected. As a case study, icIEF fractionation was performed on the antibody component of an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). In the data presented by ProteinSimple, a Bio-Techne brand, the Maurice FlexTM instrument was used to perform icIEF analysis on the ADC's parent mAb, followed by icIEF fractionation on the same instrument. The charge isoforms were then characterized using LC-MS and ZipChip-MS.
These data illustrated that the Maurice FlexTM instrument can address several limitations posed by current fractionation methods. The charge isoforms collected with the Maurice Fractionation cartridge matched the charge isoform profile of Maurice icIEF. The high purity fractions (80-100%) of single-run fractionation offer a faster pathway to intact mass spectrometry analysis of the charge peaks. Most importantly, this novel fraction collection solution offers scientists a flexible tool with the ability to select method(s) of their choice for downstream characterization of the charge isoforms. Fast and easy fraction collection also allowed for further characterization including peptide mapping, and these results correlated well with those in existing literature. The peptide mapping data presented at CE Pharm was based on a single collection, but multiple fractionation runs can be pooled if required.
The Maurice FlexTM instrument will be available for purchase in early 2023. "Developing the Maurice Flex instrument to streamline routine CE analysis and fraction collection is yet another step towards our goal of simplifying protein analysis," said Will Geist, President of Bio-Techne's Protein Sciences segment. "Instead of spending time and money on laborious technologies, Maurice Flex™ offers our customers an easy-to-use solution for in-depth protein analysis in addition to routine charge, size, and impurity assays. This new capability empowers scientists to perform this analysis early in the protein therapeutic development process, enabling them to make informed decisions faster."
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Contact: David Clair, Vice President, Investor Relations
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One day, while John Train was a graduate student in comparative literature at Harvard University, he encountered in an issue of Collier’s magazine the name of a man that would inspire a lifelong interest: Katz Meow of Hoquiam, Wash.
Mr. Train reported the discovery to friends and they began telling him about other unusual names, including Melissy Dalciny Caldony Yankee Pankee Devil-Take-The-Irishman Garrison, of Tryon City, N.C.
He would go on to write not one, not two, but three entire books devoted to the subject of “remarkable names of real people,” bringing to attention an Englishman called Strangeways Pigg Strangeways and the Ohio resident Mary Louise Pantzaroff.
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That was just one role Mr. Train played — the jocund hobbyist who ambled into bookish success. He helped found the literary quarterly The Paris Review with other Ivy Leaguers while bopping around Paris in the 1950s, and he wrote books on eccentric topics aside from names, like the cultural histories of oranges and Oriental rug symbols.
Yet he was also an operator in high finance and world affairs who, by one researcher’s account, had ties to U.S. secret services. Mr. Train founded and ran a leading financial firm devoted to preserving the money of rich families, and he worked to support the mujahedeen in their fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
The multifariousness of his career defies definition, but one quality did underlie his many activities. Mr. Train exemplified the attitudes and values of the exalted class he was born into: the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants of the postwar era. He was globe-bestriding but also self-effacing, erudite but also pragmatic, cosmopolitan but also nationalistic, solemn at one moment and droll the next.
“His WASPiness was so old school, and it’s long gone now,” his daughter Nina said. “Some of his friends were the last of that ilk. He lived and breathed it. He didn't change one bit, right through the ’60s.”
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Mr. Train died on Aug. 13 at a hospital near his summer home on Islesboro Island in Maine, Nina Train said. He was 94.
John Pell Coster Train was born on May 25, 1928, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His family traced its roots in America to the 17th century, and they lived in a town house whose plot is now occupied by the Buckley School, which he attended.
His father, Arthur, was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan who also wrote popular short stories for The Saturday Evening Post about a crafty lawyer named Ephraim Tutt. His mother, Helen, was a painter.
John graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in 1950 and earned his master’s degree there in 1951. He soon moved to Paris and began hanging out with George Plimpton, a fellow alum of The Harvard Lampoon.
“It was generally agreed that the best thing you could do was start a literary magazine in Paris,” Mr. Train told The Washington Post in 1980 about the era in which The Paris Review was founded. “It seems like a strange thing, but I promise you it is true.”
Mr. Train is credited with coining the magazine’s name and helping to establish its art-for-art’s-sake sensibility. He worked for a time in a role he labeled “so-called managing editor,” but he did not discover a lifelong métier in the work. “The poetry was usually handwritten and sometimes it smelled rather queer,” he told Newsday in 1981.
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Mr. Train joined the Army Reserve in 1951 and went on to active duty in 1954. He worked as a speechwriter for the Pentagon. After being discharged in 1956, he began working on Wall Street with the mutual fund investor Imrie de Vegh. In the late 1950s he opened his own firm, which had several names over time but was mostly known as Train, Smith Investment Counsel.
By his early 40s, Mr. Train was himself a white-haired master of the financial universe who wore a bow tie and pinstripe suit. But he had not grown up excessively. He was still capable, for instance, of defending his interest in names in a 1976 Paris Review article that argued that the North would have lost the Civil War if Ulysses Grant had been given a first name with less “panache.”
Mr. Train’s other oddball preoccupations that led to books included “remarkable words with astonishing origins,” “mots justes and indispensable terms” and “remarkable occurrences” (in 1895, for instance, only two cars existed in Ohio, and, Mr. Train claimed, they collided).
He treated his political interests less jokingly. A committed cold warrior, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal about military affairs. He became concerned that the conspiracy-monger Lyndon LaRouche was a “possible Soviet agent,” Mr. Train’s longtime assistant Sara Perkins said in a phone interview, and he convened meetings at his home for journalists, law enforcement agents and others in government to raise awareness about research he had done into LaRouche.
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Mr. Train’s activism provoked a ferocious reaction from LaRouche’s followers, who accused him in 1991 of serving as “chief propagandist in the ‘Get LaRouche’ drive.” In 2007, Washington Monthly wrote that LaRouche had encouraged his followers to believe that “they were the victims of mass conspiracies” that were “usually perpetrated” by Mr. Train.
A yet murkier side of Mr. Train’s political engagement was documented in Joel Whitney’s 2016 book, “Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers,” a history of connections between Paris Review founders and intelligence agencies.
Drawing on a collection of Mr. Train’s papers at Seton Hall University and two interviews with him, Whitney wrote that in the 1980s Mr. Train used a “shell nonprofit to foster schemes” furthering U.S. “intelligence and propaganda missions” in Afghanistan.
Mr. Train ran an organization, the Afghanistan Relief Committee, which presented itself as largely devoted to helping refugees and offering other forms of humanitarian aid, but a study by the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies found that its budget was spent largely on “media campaigns.”
“Finks” does not go into detail about the nature of these campaigns, but it does describe, among other things, a memo showing that Mr. Train planned to set up “TV propaganda against the Soviets” with the help of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who went on to become a warlord designated by the U.S. as a terrorist.
Mr. Train’s first marriage, to Maria Teresa Cini di Pianzano, ended in divorce, and in 1977 he married Francie Cheston, who survives him. In addition to her and his daughter Nina, from his first marriage, he is survived by two other daughters from that marriage, Helen Klebnikov and Lisa Train; a stepdaughter, Alix Tower Thorne; two stepsons, Harry Tower and Whitney Tower Jr.; six grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; and nine step-great-grandchildren.
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At his death, he lived on the same Upper East Side street where his family lived when he was born.
There is a consistent theme throughout Mr. Train’s seemingly disparate books: fondness for the elements of everyday life that may be overlooked — names, idioms, common fruits — and a demand for vigilance to appreciate them.
“Not many of us look at carpets carefully, or are able to interpret their extraordinary messages,” he wrote in “Oriental Rug Symbols” (1997), his study of motifs on carpets that adorn homes around the world. “In this respect carpets resemble stained-glass windows; one is moved by their beauty, but the experience is enhanced by understanding.” | 2022-09-21T20:41:54+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/21/metro/john-train-paris-review-cofounder-cold-war-operative-dies-94/ |
Biden invites thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals, singer Betty Who, to Pride Month celebration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has invited thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals to celebrate Pride Month on Thursday in a high-profile show of support at a time when the community feels under attack like never before and the White House has little recourse to beat back a flood of state-level legislation against them.
Biden announced new initiatives to protect LGBTQ+ communities from attacks, help youth with mental health resources and homelessness and counter book bans, though the impacts may be limited.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House press secretary, said Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses are strong supporters of the LGBTQ+ community and think that having a celebration is an important way to “lift up” their accomplishments and contributions.
She said LGBTQ+ people need to know that Biden “has their back” and “will continue to fight for them. And that’s the message that we want to make sure that gets out there.”
The White House was closely monitoring air quality due to hazardous smoke from Canadian wildfires to determine whether to proceed with plans for a Thursday night picnic featuring food, games, face painting and photos. Queen HD the DJ was handling the music; singer Betty Who was on tap to perform. The nation’s capital was under a “code red” air quality alert with authorities recommending that people limit their exposure to smoke, and District of Columbia schools canceled all outdoor activities for a second day Thursday.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer individuals, earlier this week declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ individuals in the United States and released a guidebook outlining laws it deems discriminatory in each state.
Just a few days into June’s Pride Month, the campaign said it acted in response to an “unprecedented and dangerous” spike in discriminatory laws sweeping statehouses this year, with more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced and more than 70 signed into law so far — more than double last year’s number.
Kelley Robinson, the campaign’s president, called for a “swift and powerful” response by people in power, including in government, business and education.
“This is a full-out crisis for our communities that demands a concerted response,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think this is kind of a national call to action and a call to arms to stand up and fight back.”
Biden was announcing that the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice and Health and Human Services departments, will partner with LGBTQ+ community organizations to provide safety resources and training to help thwart violent attacks.
Separately, HHS and the Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide resources to help LGBTQ+ young people with mental health needs, support in foster care and homelessness.
To confront a spike in book bans, Biden was announcing that the Department of Education’s civil rights office will appoint a new coordinator to work with schools to address that threat. The White House said banning books erodes democracy, deprives students of material needed for learning and can contribute to the stigma and isolation that LGBTQ+ youth feel because books about them are often the ones that are prohibited.
Hundreds of bills have been proposed restricting the rights of transgender people, including limiting their access to certain forms of health care, and LGBTQ+ advocates say they’ve seen a record number of such measures in statehouses.
The White House points out that Biden has a record of supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals, including appointing them to prominent positions in the federal government, such as Jean-Pierre.
After the Supreme Court last year overturned a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, Biden signed legislation to protect marriage equality. He continues to urge Congress to send him the Equality Act, which would add civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ individuals to federal law.
Polls show that public support for the rights of people who are gay and lesbian has expanded dramatically over the last two decades, with about 7 in 10 U.S. adults in polling by Gallup saying that marriages between same-sex adults should be legally valid and that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable.
But attitudes toward transgender people are complex: In polls conducted in 2022 by KFF and the Washington Post and by the Pew Research Center, majorities said they support laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in areas such as housing, jobs and schools.
At the same time, both polls found that a majority of Americans think that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by sex assigned at birth, and many also support restrictive policies aimed at people who are transgender, for example preventing transgender women and girls from participating in sports teams matching their gender identity, along with restrictions on access to medical treatment like puberty blockers and hormone treatment for transgender teens and children.
The Log Cabin Republicans, which represents LGBTQ+ conservatives, criticized the Human Rights Campaign’s declaration of a “state of emergency” as a “PR stunt so ignorantly detached” from the community’s progress over the past decade.
Charles Moran, the group’s president, noted the gay marriage legislation Biden signed, increased public support for equal rights for LGBTQ+ Americans and their higher visibility across society and accused the campaign of “destructively redefining” support for these individuals around trans surgeries for minors, biological men competing in women’s sports, and sex and gender identity lessons in kindergarten.
“While these issues can be emotional and complex, they in no way pose an unprecedented ‘state of emergency’ to the LGBT community, which has persevered through far worse,” Moran said.
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Associated Press writers Emily Swanson in Washington and Hannah Schoenbaum in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge Wednesday sentenced three people to more than 100 years each in prison for the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest following George Floyd's murder.
Marcus Anderson and Alijah Jones each were sentenced to 164 years in prison and Nakeyah Shields received a 108-year sentence in the May 2020 shooting death of businessman Chris Beaty. Anderson and Jones also were convicted of eight counts of armed robbery and Shields of seven robbery counts.
All three have said they plan to appeal their convictions.
Beaty, 38, was shot and killed May 30, 2020, in Indianapolis as he walked through an alley near his apartment building during violence that followed protests over Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
“I’m bout to walk around the block now to make sure my building is good,” Beaty texted someone moments before police found his body.
“Chris tragically lost his life while caring for others and his city," Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said in a prepared statement.
Beaty, a former defensive lineman, played for three state championship-winning teams at Indianapolis Cathedral High School before going on to play for Indiana University. He was known to some as Mr. Indianapolis because of his unwavering support and enthusiasm for the city. | 2023-06-22T15:12:04+00:00 | wlfi.com | https://www.wlfi.com/news/3-sentenced-to-more-than-100-years-for-killing-an-ex-indiana-university-football-player/article_ab0df010-10ff-11ee-abbc-fb8318c3cff0.html |
Department of Education to host admissions diversity summit after Supreme Court guts affirmative action
By Nikki Carvajal
(CNN) — The Biden administration later this month will host the National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education as it tries to find ways to support colleges that want to promote diversity after a Supreme Court ruling gutted affirmative action.
The summit is aimed at finding new ways to work diversity into the admissions process. In a statement, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the ruling “could undo decades of progress unless we work intentionally and collaboratively at every level to strengthen equal opportunity and equitable access to higher education.”
A senior Department of Education official went further.
“I think the Supreme Court decision was wrong and it misunderstood some of the most important features of our country, that our diversity is a great strength,” the official said. “But the most important thing we can do is not let that decision be the last word.”
The conference will bring together college presidents, researchers, K-12 educators and other experts in various aspects of college admissions and student success to discuss the fallout of the ruling and how to move forward after the Supreme Court’s decision.
“We’re bringing together leaders in higher education from across the country who are people who are committed to diversity and equitable opportunity for everyone,” Under Secretary for Education James Kvaal said. “These are all people who are experts in some aspect of this problem, who have done something that really works, and others can learn from.”
Kvaal called the issue an “all hands on deck situation.”
Last month, the Supreme Court made it unlawful for colleges to take race into consideration as a specific factor in admissions – shaking up the admissions process ahead of the fall semester.
“There’s no time to waste here,” the official said. “The decision was only a couple of weeks ago, and we immediately started inviting people to come here at the department to meet with the secretary and to chart a course forward together.
The Supreme Court decision came down just before another decision struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. It was a one-two punch to the department, which also handles those loans, and has also dealt with criticism from Republicans in Congress.
“It was a tough couple of days to hear those Supreme Court decisions, but it hasn’t shaken our determination,” the official said. “You know, the secretary has been really clear about what he expects from us, and that’s what we continue to focus on – the work that’s ahead of us.”
Changing more than just affirmative action
The decision has also shined a light on another admission’s practice: Legacy admissions, a policy that gives preference to college applicants who had parents who also attended the school.
On Wednesday, Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth announced the school would end the preference for legacy applicants, writing in an op-ed that “the time is right for Wesleyan (and other schools, I hope) to make this formal change in policy.”
Critics of the policy say it overwhelmingly benefits White students. Roth called for other American colleges and universities to promote “equitable and forward-thinking admissions processes” by “ending legacy preferences and expanding access to their educational programs.
“I’m sure that is a topic that will be discussed next week,” the senior Department of Education official said, asked about legacy admissions. “It’s a hot topic among college leaders and one that I expect the college leaders are in a careful look at. I think they should take a careful look at whether legacy preference is ours serving their goal of admitting a diverse student body that helps them sort of carry out their mission.”
Asked what message they want the summit to send, the official said the department wants to talk “to all aspiring students, especially students of color, and make sure that they know that we see them and we need you our country needs you.”
“There’s a place for you on college campuses, you belong on every college campus in the country,” the official said.
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"A Love Affair with Failure" by Dr. Akintoye Akindele and Olakunle Soriyan is released with Forbes Books
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Love Affair with Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes a Launchpad to Success by Dr. Akintoye Akindele and Olakunle Soriyan is now available. The book is published by Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes, and is available on Amazon today.
Troubled by the game-changing possibilities missed because of humanity's fear of failure, Akindele and Soriyan present a new theory of entrepreneurial success that draws a stark line between failure and failing. Failure is a noun that limits people to false ideas of final outcomes. Failing, on the other hand, is a verb. It's an outcome of action and effort that should be viewed as progress, or as a transition into something better.
With A Love Affair with Failure, Akindele and Soriyan aim to help emerging entrepreneurs prepare for the inevitable challenges ahead by urging them to be resilient in the pursuit of their dreams and embrace the idea of failing as both a prerequisite for achieving success, as well as a victory in itself because of the courage it signifies.
"We wrote this book because we do not believe in failure. We believe in failing," Akindele explained. "Failure is a destination; it is a windowless prison that confines, but it does not exist unless you accept that it does. Failing, on the other hand, is about embarking on a journey of new knowledge and new beginnings."
About Dr. Akintoye Akindele, DBA, CFA
Dr. Akintoye Akindele is Chairman of Platform Capital, CEO of Duport Midstream Company Limited, CEO of Atlantic International Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited, Co-Chairman of Liquidity Club, Director of Koniku Incorporated USA, and Founder of Synergy Capital Managers. Akindele is also an investor, best-selling author, and philanthropist who is passionate about enhancing Africa's role in the global economy. He earned a doctorate in Business Administration (Finance) from the International School of Management in Paris.
Akindele serves as a faculty member at the University of Lagos Business School, lecturing on finance and entrepreneurship.
About Olakunle Soriyan
Olakunle Soriyan is a mentor and executive coach for leaders across the globe. As Chief Knowledge Officer of Kenneth Soriyan Research and Ideas LLC, his work reinvigorates leaders to embrace what sets them apart in order to maintain personal and professional relevance. He is also the CEO of AFRICA HOUSE, an organization linking investors to entrepreneurs and innovators of African descent. Beyond his work with governments, individuals, and large corporations, Soriyan is the founder of Eshirya Africa, a 501(c)(3) Exempt Non-Profit focused on mobilizing and empowering 1% of the African population (who live in Africa) as well as people of African descent everywhere to function as a movement unlimited in thought and action.
Soriyan and his family are based in Texas.
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The U.S. Soccer Federation reached milestone agreements to pay its men's and women's teams equally, making the American national governing body the first in the sport to promise both sexes matching money.
The federation announced separate collective bargaining agreements through December 2028 with the unions for both national teams on Wednesday, ending years of often acrimonious negotiations.
The men have been playing under the terms of a CBA that expired in December 2018. The women's CBA expired at the end of March but talks continued after the federation and the players agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by some of the players in 2019. The settlement was contingent on the federation reaching labor contracts that equalized pay and bonuses between the two teams.
“I feel a lot of pride for the girls who are going to see this growing up, and recognize their value rather than having to fight for it. However, my dad always told me that you don’t get rewarded for doing what you’re supposed to do — and paying men and women equally is what you’re supposed to do," U.S. forward Margaret Purce said. “So I’m not giving out any gold stars, but I’m grateful for this accomplishment and for all the people who came together to make it so.”
Perhaps the biggest sticking point was World Cup prize money, which is based on how far a team advances in the tournament. While the U.S. women have been successful on the international stage with back-to-back World Cup titles, differences in FIFA prize money meant they took home far less than the men's winners.
The unions agreed to pool FIFA’s payments for the men’s World Cup later this year and next year’s Women’s World Cup, as well as for the 2026 and 2027 tournaments.
Each player will get matching game appearance fees in what the USSF said makes it the first federation to pool FIFA prize money in this manner.
“We saw it as an opportunity, an opportunity to be leaders in this front and join in with the women’s side and U.S. Soccer. So we’re just excited that this is how we were able to get the deal done," said Walker Zimmerman, a defender who is part of the U.S. National Team Players Association leadership group.
The federation previously based bonuses on payments from FIFA, which earmarked $400 million for the 2018 men’s tournament, including $38 million to champion France, and $30 million for the 2019 women’s tournament, including $4 million to the champion United States.
FIFA has increased the total to $440 million for the 2022 men’s World Cup, and its president, Gianni Infantino, has proposed that FIFA double the women’s prize money to $60 million for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, in which FIFA has increased the teams to 32.
For the current World Cup cycles, the USSF will pool the FIFA funds, taking 10% off the top and then splitting the rest equally among 46 players — 23 players on the roster of each team. For the 2026-27 cycle, the USSF cut increases to 20% before the split.
After missing the 2018 World Cup, the men qualified for this year's World Cup in Qatar starting in November. The women's team will seek to qualify this year for the 2023 World Cup, cohosted by Australia and New Zealand.
For lesser tournaments, such as those run by the governing body of North America, players will earn identical game bonuses. And for exhibition games, players will receive matching appearance fees and performance payments based on the match result and opponent rank. Players who don’t dress will earn a fee that is the equivalent of participating in a national team training camp.
The women gave up guaranteed base salaries which had been part of their CBA since 2005. Some players had been guaranteed annual salaries of $100,000.
“I think we’ve outgrown some of the conditions that may look like we have lost something, but now our (professional) league is actually strong enough where now we don’t need as many guaranteed contracts, you know, we can be on more of a pay-to-play model," Purce said.
Child care, covered for women for more than 25 years, will be extended to men during national team training camps and matches.
The women and men also will receive a portion of commercial revenue from tickets for matches controlled by the USSF, with bonuses for sellouts, and each team will get a portion of broadcast, partner and sponsor revenue.
Players will get a 401(k) plan and the USSF will match up to 5% of a player's compensation, subject to IRS limits. That money will be deducted from the shares of commercial revenue.
“There were moments when I thought it was all going to fall apart and then it came back together and it’s a real credit to all the different groups coming together, negotiating at one table," said federation President Cindy Parlow Cone, a former national team player who became head of the governing body in 2020. “I think that’s where the turning point really happened. Before, trying to negotiate a CBA with the women and then turn around and negotiate CBA terms with the men and vice versa, was really challenging. I think the real turning point was when we finally were all in the same room sitting at the same table, working together and collaborating to reach this goal."
Women ended six years of litigation over equal pay in February in a deal calling for the USSF to pay $24 million, a deal contingent on reaching new collective bargaining agreements.
As part of the settlement, players will split $22 million, about one-third of what they had sought in damages. The USSF also agreed to establish a fund with $2 million to benefit the players in their post-soccer careers and charitable efforts aimed at growing the sport for women.
Mark Levinstein, counsel for the men’s union, said the agreement ended “more than 20 years of federation discrimination against the USWNT players."
“Together with the USWNTPA, the USMNT players achieved what everyone said was impossible — an agreement that provides fair compensation to the USMNT players and equal pay and equal working conditions to the USWNT players,” he said. “The new federation leadership should get tremendous credit for working with the players to achieve these agreements.” | 2022-05-19T03:41:50+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nation-world/us-soccer-equal-pay/507-95c2bc59-ec86-4b83-a21e-19ee6d06a242 |
Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation declaring Sunday a day of remembrance.
Biden plans on commemorating the day at the Pentagon at a ceremony. Of the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 184 were at the Pentagon.
"On these National Days of Prayer and Remembrance, we come together to not only honor the memories of those lost but to build a future worthy of their dreams and to find light in darkness and strength in broken places,” Biden’s proclamation read. “The great and defining truth about America is this: We do not break. We never give in. We never back down.”
While Biden visits the Pentagon, Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the World Trade Center in New York City.
Meanwhile, there will be an observation Sunday at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. | 2022-09-09T17:18:05+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/president-biden-commemorates-9-11-anniversary-with-day-of-remembrance |
Parent company of the Toyota Financial Services and Lexus Financial Services brands attributes success to dedicated team members, strong relationships with dealers and effective partnership with Toyota Motor North America
PLANO, Texas, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When thinking of 1982, bright neon clothes, video arcades, early personal computers, VCRs and lively pop music might spring to mind. In this environment, perhaps even wearing iconic '80s outfits and listening to mixtapes, seven Toyota team members began planning a new venture. They were tasked with helping Toyota dealers finance their operations and enabling customers to purchase Toyota vehicles. In October 1982, these seven reached a milestone by establishing the Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). At the time, they couldn't possibly have known that their tiny operation would grow to be one of the largest financial institutions in the United States — that today celebrates 40 years of growth and success.
In 1983, just months after launching their venture, the team was ready to finance its first vehicle. It came in the form of a used Toyota Corolla sold by Burt Toyota in Denver, Colorado. From that point forward, the company continued a steady pace of expansion:
- 1984 – TMCC company opens its first branch office in Irvine, California
- 1985 – Dealer wholesale financing is introduced
- 1986 – The company expands its product lineup with the launch of Toyota Motor Insurance Services (TMIS)
- 1987 – Dealer real estate and capital lending programs are introduced
- 1991 – Lexus Financial Services is established
- 1996 – Toyota Credit de Puerto Rico begins operations
- 1998 – The company enters the digital age with the launch of its first online credit application
- 1999 – Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and Toyota Motor Insurance Services create the umbrella brand Toyota Financial Services (TFS)
- 2001 – The toyotafinancial.com website launches
- 2002 – The lexusfinancial.com site goes live
- 2004 – Partner entity Toyota Financial Savings Bank (TFSB) begins operations
- 2005 – TFSB introduces the Lexus Pursuits Visa® credit card
- 2007 – The company grows to over 3,000 team members
- 2008 – Toyota Rewards Visa® credit card launches
- 2012 – TMCC celebrates 30 years in business
- 2013 – TMCC issues the auto industry's first Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Bond, demonstrating that Toyota's commitment to diversity and inclusion permeates all aspects of its business
- 2014 – TMCC issues the auto industry's first asset-backed Green Bond
- 2017 – TMCC relocates its headquarters to Plano, Texas, partnering with Toyota Motor North America
- 2018 – The company introduces its IncomeDriver Notes® retail program for investors
- 2019 – The company rolls out private label financing with Mazda as its first client
- 2020 – Mazda Financial Services begins consumer retail and lease business
- 2021 – The company expands its private label business to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's
Now, in October 2022, Toyota Motor Credit Corporation — which operates under the brand names of Toyota Financial Services, Lexus Financial Services, Mazda Financial Services, Bass Pro Shops Financial Services and KINTO in the United States — enters its 40s with a portfolio of nearly 5 million customer accounts, over 10 million voluntary protection product agreements in force and assets in excess of $135 billion USD.
"We'd never have been able to achieve such phenomenal success or longevity without the incredible efforts of all our team members over the years," said Mark Templin, TMCC president and CEO. "Their efforts, coupled with exceptional support from our Toyota, Lexus and private label dealers, as well as our fantastic partners at Toyota Motor North America, have allowed us to thrive. We're looking forward to our next 40 years of supporting dealer needs and helping customers obtain the vehicle of their choice."
"Our goal has always been to provide the best possible service in every interaction," said Alec Hagey, senior vice president and chief operating officer. "Our value proposition to dealers is based on enhancing customer loyalty to the brand, and we do that by going the extra mile to keep customers satisfied."
As Toyota Motor Credit Corporation has grown, so has its commitment to supporting our communities. The company has received recognition from the Points of Light Foundation, repeatedly being included on the Civic 50 list of the most community-minded organizations in the nation. TMCC has long supported the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Junior Achievement. And, in 2021, it launched the Toyota Leadership Academy, created in partnership with the Lancaster Independent School District in North Texas. The Toyota Leadership Academy prepares students for personal, academic and professional success by providing a specialized curriculum designed to increase high school graduation rates; improve college, career and leadership readiness; and introduce students to job opportunities in the global workforce.
"Toyota Motor Credit Corporation isn't just a company – we're a group of individuals united by our shared values," said Ellen Farrell, chief legal and compliance officer, and sponsor of the Toyota Leadership Academy program. "We recognize that we only truly attain our full potential when we make a positive impact on those around us. Community involvement has been integral to our organization from the beginning. That's complemented by our commitment to diversity and inclusion as we strive to demonstrate 'Respect for People' in all that we do. These principles will continue to serve as cornerstones as we set our sights on the future."
For more information about Toyota Motor Credit Corporation's businesses, please visit:
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www.mazdafinancialservices.com
www.kinto-us.com
About Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC) operates in the United States to offer retail auto financing and leasing to customers through auto dealerships. TMCC has a range of products to meet dealers' financing needs and also offers extended service contracts and other vehicle and payment protection products through Toyota Motor Insurance Services (TMIS) and its subsidiaries.
TMCC offers its finance and protection products to Toyota and Lexus customers and dealers using the Toyota Financial Services and Lexus Financial Services brand names. Through its private label business, TMCC also offers other finance and protection products under the brands of Mazda Financial Services and Bass Pro Shops Financial Services.
As of March 31, 2022, TMCC employed approximately 3,700 team members nationwide, and had assets totaling $135 billion. It is part of a worldwide network of comprehensive financial services offered by Toyota Financial Services Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation.
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While longtime host, the Broken Sound Club’s Old Course, undergoes a renovation by Hall of Fame architect Rees Jones, this year’s TimberTech Championship will remain in Boca Raton, but the PGA TOUR Champions event will shift to Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club.
Other than the site change, it will be business as usual for the TimberTech Championship, the longest-running professional golf tournament in Palm Beach County. It will maintain the same dates, Nov. 4-6, as well as its spot as the second tournament in the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs, attracting the top 54 players on the 50-and-older circuit.
“We are thrilled to be able to keep the TimberTech Championship in Boca Raton while this renovation is being completed,” said Tournament Director Eddie Carbone. “We have been in this community for 15 years and it’s important we continue to showcase the best of the PGA Tour Champions.”
The primary beneficiary will remain the Boca Raton Regional Hospital; since its inception, the TimberTech Championship has generated over $2.4 million for local charities through the Boca Raton Champions Golf Charities.
“We are very fortunate to have this world-class golf tournament in our backyard, benefiting our community and more specifically our hospital,” said Lincoln Mendez, president and CEO of Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
The TimberTech Championship is expected to draw another stellar field, headlined by defending champion Steven Alker. The New Zealand native has won three times since his initial victory at Broken Sound last November and leads this year’s Charles Schwab Cup with over $2.5 million in earnings.
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Almost all visitors have been evacuated from Yellowstone National Park due to historic flooding, but superintendent Cam Sholly said in a press conference this afternoon that the park is considering how it can reopen later this season.
“We will likely not reopen the road between Gardiner and Cooke City - looking at the damage,” Sholly said. “So that will likely stay closed for the rest of the season.”
Sholly says the park plans to reopen its South Loop once potentially-damaged facilities including wastewater treatment have been cleared for use.
“Half the park cannot support all the visitation,” Sholly said. “So we are exploring a range of options including some timed entry, potential reservation-type systems that we would look to implement when the South Loop is safe to open.”
The park will start assessing damage to the South Loop once flooding has subsided. | 2022-06-15T01:49:24+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2022-06-14/yellowstone-national-parks-superintendent-says-the-park-is-exploring-how-and-when-to-reopen |
Pontotoc robbery suspect yet to be found
PONTOTOC, Miss. (WCBI)- A robbery suspect in Pontotoc has yet to be found and the Pontotoc Police Department needs your help in the investigation.
Images show the suspect inside the Treasure Loans on West Reynolds street in Pontotoc.
Police say around 1:45 Friday afternoon, the suspect pulled out a handgun and demanded money from the employees.
If you know who this may be or if you recognize the vehicle, call Crimestoppers of Northeast Mississippi or Pontotoc Police.
You can also use the P3 tips app.
Crime Stoppers will pay up to one thousand dollars for information that leads to an arrest. | 2022-12-27T06:08:56+00:00 | wcbi.com | https://www.wcbi.com/pontotoc-robbery-suspect-yet-to-be-found/ |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nikese Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see the text message from her sister.
All she knew at that point was that their brother and his wife, who live in the U.S., had landed safely in Haiti to visit ailing relatives and prepare for Rara, a colorful and boisterous festival born out of the dark days of slavery.
It wasn’t until Toussaint got home and her sister followed up the unread text with a phone call that she learned her warnings had materialized: their brother, an accountant; his wife, a social worker; and another person were snatched off a public bus amid a surge in gang-related kidnappings.
Toussaint took a deep breath. Not again, she thought.
Seventeen years earlier, gangs had kidnapped two of her cousins in the capital of Port-au-Prince. They were eventually released but remain traumatized.
This time, the gang that kidnapped her brother, wife and another person is demanding $200,000 — each.
“How are we ever going to come up with that money?” Toussaint told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday from the U.S.
The kidnapping occurred March 18, and since then, her brother, Jean-Dickens Toussaint, has been allowed to make only two brief calls.
All his family knows is that he and his wife, Abigail Michael Toussaint, are tied up. The phone calls are too brief to find out if they are being given food or water or treated generally well, Nikese Toussaint said.
The couple were on their way to Jean-Dickens Toussaint’s hometown of Leogane, which many Haitians believe organizes the country’s best Rara festival. Three pandemic years had gone by since he last led a Rara band through those streets, and the 33-year-old accountant was excited to resume his role as “colonel.”
Rara is similar to a carnival, with drums, bamboo instruments and metal horns accompanying singers as they parade through the town behind band leaders like Toussaint in an homage to the slave revolution that led Haiti to become the world’s first Black republic.
But the celebration was cut short.
The Toussaints, who are from Tamarac, Florida, never made it to Leogane.
Gangs stopped the public bus they were on as it tried to cross Martissant, considered ground zero for ongoing violence that has worsened since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
The gangs apparently noticed the suitcases in the bus and zeroed in on the couple and the person accompanying them on the trip, Nikese Toussaint said.
The family paid someone they trusted $6,000 to give to the gang, but the money vanished. It's not unusual for gangs in Haiti to refuse to release kidnapping victims even after they've been paid, but Toussaint believes it was a scam.
“That’s when we said, ‘Uh, oh, we have to get help,’” she recalled. “We didn’t know what to do at that point. We don’t want to take any more risks.”
Toussaint said her family is in touch with the FBI, which is helping with the case.
“To the gangs, I want to say, we want our family back. We are not rich over here,” Nikese Toussaint said.
A statement from the U.S. State Department said the agency was aware of reports of two U.S. citizens being kidnapped and was in regular contact with Haitian authorities.
The kidnappings are the latest to target U.S. citizens, although most victims are Haitian, ranging from wealthy business owners to humble street vendors. At least 101 kidnappings were reported in the first two weeks of March alone, with another 208 people killed in gang clashes during that period, according to the U.N.
The ongoing violence in Port-au-Prince and beyond also has displaced at least 160,000 people as warring gangs set fire to neighborhoods in their bid to control more territory.
More than a week has gone by since the Toussaints were kidnapped. Their family is trying to stay strong because the couple have a son who turns 2 on Tuesday.
“We’re trying to smile,” Nikese Toussaint said of their video calls with the boy. “We have to smile with him, and give him love, and at the same time we get a little smile (from him), and that’s when the pain gets a little harder.”
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Adidas expects to lose $1.3 billion in revenue due to ending its partnership with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
The company cut ties with Ye in 2022 after the rapper made numerous antisemitic remarks.
It's still unclear what the german apparel company will do with the existing Yeezy products. However, it says if they are not repurposed Adidas' operating profits could be lowered by an additional $500 million this year.
“The numbers speak for themselves. We are currently not performing the way we should”, said Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden. “2023 will be a year of transition to set the base to again be a growing and profitable company."
Adidas had a moderately successful 2022. The company reports that revenues increased by 1% in currency-neutral terms.
"We need to put the pieces back together again, but I am convinced that over time we will make adidas shine again. But we need some time," Gulden said.
News of the drop in revenue sent Adidas stocks tumbling on Friday. It was down by more than 1% before the market closed. | 2023-02-10T21:11:23+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/adidas-expects-major-losses-after-severing-ties-with-kanye-west |
BOSTON — Jayson Tatum scored 20 of his 41 points in the third quarter, and Jaylen Brown knocked down his shots — and knocked down Giannis Antetokounmpo — in the fourth on Sunday to help the Boston Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks 139-118 in a matchup of the top two teams in the NBA.
Brown scored 13 of his 29 in the fourth, and Antetokounmpo lost his temper after a hard pick sent him to the floor and retaliated by shoving the Celtics All-Star. Antetokounmpo, who fell hard on his hand on Friday night but was cleared to start, was given a technical foul and went to the bench; the teams played the last 3:41 without further incident.
Antetokounmpo added 27 points and had nine rebounds for Milwaukee, and Jrue Holiday scored 23.
The teams have the top two records in the NBA, but both have struggled lately. Boston had lost five of their last seven, and Milwaukee has now lost three in a row for the first time this season.
Still, Boston (24-10) has the best record in the league, followed by Milwaukee (22-11).
The Celtics led by 10 in the first quarter and 11 in the second, when Antetokounmpo fired up back-to-back bricks from 3-point range and in the middle got dunked on by Jayson Tatum.
Their lead was down to one point, 62-61, before Bobby Portis fouled Brown on a desperation 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer. Brown missed all three free throws; he missed another in the third quarter before hitting the second and finished 2 for 6 from the line.
Boston pulled away in the third, opening up a double-digit lead that Milwaukee only briefly chipped into.
The teams met in the second round of last year’s Eastern Conference playoffs, and the Celtics won in seven games en route to the NBA Finals. It’s their first meeting since then. Last Christmas in Milwaukee, the Bucks beat Boston 117-113.
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Antetokounmpo hurt his hand after a foul against the Nets on Friday night. X-rays were negative. ... Pat Connaughton, a native of nearby Arlington, Massachusetts, made his first start of the season and scored 15. … The Celtics made five of their first six 3-point attempts. … Khris Middleton sat out his fifth straight game with a knee injury. He also missed the first 20 games of the season. … Sam Hauser banked in a long 3-pointer at the first-quarter buzzer off an inbounds pass with 1.7 seconds left. … Derrick White hit a 3-pointer in the third quarter. He had missed 15 straight over six games.
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Bucks: Visit Bulls on Wednesday night.
Celtics: Host Rockets on Tuesday night.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has parlayed his country’s NATO membership and location straddling Europe and the Middle East into international influence during two decades in power. Like other world leaders with global ambitions, he finds his tenure imperiled by matters closer to home.
Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday are taking place amid rampant inflation and months after a catastrophic earthquake killed over 50,000 people in the country’s south. The government has come under criticism for mismanaging the economy and failing to prepare the quake-prone nation for February’s natural disaster.
Polls show Erdogan facing the toughest reelection race of his career. A six-party opposition alliance united behind the candidacy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the social democratic Republican People’s Party, promising to undo democratic backsliding, repatriate Syrian refugees and to promote the rights of Turkish women.
Here’s a look at the main domestic issues shaping the election, and where Erdogan and his challenger stand:
ERDOGAN’S ECONOMICS
Contrary to the mainstream economic theory of interest rate increases helping to keep consumer prices in check, Erdogan maintains that high borrowing rates cause inflation. The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, under pressure from the president, repeatedly slashed interest rates to boost growth and exports.
Instead, the value of the Turkish lira nosedived, and the rate cuts exacerbated a cost of living crisis. Inflation peaked at 85% in October. The official April figure was 44%, although independent groups say they think the actual rate is much higher.
To offset the impacts of inflation and win back votes, Erdogan has engaged in a public spending spree ahead of the elections, increasing the minimum wage and pension payments.
The opposition alliance has promised to restore the central bank’s independence and a return to orthodox economic policies, if Kilicdaroglu becomes president.
Erdogan reportedly has asked Mehmet Simsek, his internationally respected former finance minister, to return to the position, a sign that a new government may embrace more orthodox policies, if the Turkish leader wins a third presidential term.
RECOVERING FROM DISASTER
Turkey is grappling with a difficult recovery from February’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the deadliest quake in the country’s modern history. It destroyed or damaged more than 300,000 buildings. Hundreds of thousands of residents are sheltering in temporary accommodation like tents. Some 658,000 people were left jobless, according to the International Labor Organization.
The World Bank estimates that the earthquake caused $34.2 billion in “direct damages” — an amount equivalent to 4% of Turkey’s 2021 gross domestic product. The recovery and reconstruction costs could add up to twice that much, the international financial institution said.
Erdogan’s government, meanwhile, has been accused of setting the stage for the devastation with lax building code enforcement. Some people left homeless or struggling to earn money also found the government’s earthquake response to be slow.
The Turkish leader has centered his election campaign on rebuilding the 11 worst-hit provinces. Erdogan has pledged to construct 319,000 homes within the year and attended a number of groundbreaking ceremonies, trying to convince voters that only he can rebuild lives and businesses.
Kilicdaroglu says his government would give houses to quake victims for free instead of the 20-year repayment plan envisaged by Erdogan’s government.
REFUGEES NO LONGER SO WELCOME
Refugees, especially those fleeing civil war in neighboring Syria, were once greeted with open arms in Turkey, but anti-migration sentiment is on the rise amid the economic downturn. A shortage of housing and shelters in the quake-hit provinces has increased calls for Syrian refugees to go home.
The Kilicdaroglu-led opposition alliance and other opposition parties have vowed to repatriate Syrians within two years. Kilicdaroglu says he will seek European Union funds to build homes, schools, hospitals and roads in Syria and encourage Turkish entrepreneurs to open factories and other businesses there.
Under mounting public pressure, Erdogan’s government has begun constructing thousands of brick homes in Turkish-controlled areas of northern Syria to encourage voluntary returns. His government is also seeking a reconciliation with Syrian President Bashir Assad to ensure their safe return.
Officials say there are some 5 million migrants and refugees in Turkey, including around 3.7 million Syrians and 300,000 Afghans, but anti-migrant parties say the figure is closer to 13 million.
A MORE DEMOCRATIC TURKEY?
The coalition of six parties has declared a commitment to restore Turkey as a parliamentary democracy and to give citizens greater rights and freedoms should their alliance win the elections.
Erdogan succeeded in getting a presidential system of governance narrowly approved by referendum in 2017 and introduced in 2018. The new system abolished the office of the prime minister and concentrated a vast amount of powers in the hands of the president.
The alliance has outlined plans for a greater separation of powers, including an increased role for parliament and an independent judiciary.
Kilicdaroglu has also promised to do away with a law that makes insulting the president a criminal offense punishable by prison. He also has pledged to free former pro-Kurdish party co-chair Selahattin Demirtas and philanthropist businessman and human rights activist Osman Kavala from prison.
The six parties have also promised to abide by decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which has called for Demirtas and Kavala’s release.
WILL THE ELECTION AFFECT WOMEN’S AND LGBTQ+ RIGHTS?
Seeking to widen his support from voters, Erdogan has expanded his own political alliance of two nationalist parties to include a small Islamist party and also secured the backing of a radical Kurdish-Islamist party.
The parties newly recruited into Erdogan’s camp have Islamic agendas, which have raised fears about the future of women’s rights in Turkey. They want to scrap laws on alimony and domestic violence protection, arguing they encourage women to leave their husbands and threaten traditional family values.
Erdogan already has removed Turkey from a European convention that aims to prevent domestic violence – a nod to religious groups that claimed the treaty encourages divorce and LGBTQ+ rights. Pandering to his pious and conservative supporters, Erdogan and other members of his ruling party have called LGBTQ+ individuals “deviants.”
The Kilicdaroglu-led alliance has vowed to rejoin the European treaty and to uphold the rights of women and minority communities. Kilicdaroglu has also reached out to conservative women, assuring them they will be able to continue wearing Islamic-style headscarves that were once banned in schools and government offices under Turkey’s secular laws.
WHAT ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY?
The opposition alliance has signaled it would pursue a more Western-oriented foreign policy and seek to rebuild ties with the United States, the European Union and NATO allies.
The opposition says it would work for Turkey’s reinstatement to the U.S.-led F-35 fighter jet program, from which the country was ousted following the Erdogan government’s purchase of a Russian-made air defense system.
At the same time, a government led by the parties trying to oust Erdogan from power is expected to try to balance Turkey’s economic ties with Russia.
An opposition win also could result in Turkey ending its veto of Sweden’s request to join NATO. Erdogan’s government has blocked Sweden’s accession into the alliance, pressing the country to crackdown on Kurdish militants and other groups that Turkey regards as terrorist threats. | 2023-05-11T15:35:40+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/domestic-issues-give-turkeys-erdogan-a-tough-election-race/ |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper was back in the Phillies’ starting lineup for Friday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates after missing 52 games with a broken left thumb.
The NL MVP was batting cleanup as the designated hitter for his first game since getting plunked by San Diego Padres left-hander Blake Snell on June 25.
Surging Philadelphia is coming off a four-game home sweep of Cincinnati and is 32-20 since Harper last played. The Phillies began play Friday in the second NL wild-card spot.
Harper is batting .318 with 15 homers and 48 RBIs in 64 games. He went 5-for-8 with two homers, two doubles and six RBIs in a pair of rehab starts at Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Phillies had planned to keep Harper in Triple-A through Saturday, but his return to the big leagues was moved up after his walk-off double for the IronPigs on Wednesday night.
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STANFORD – It seemed like nothing could stop Stanford wide receiver Brycen Tremayne from finding the end zone.
As a redshirt freshman in 2019, Tremayne had more touchdowns (four) than receptions (three) – all three of his catches went for scores, and he recovered a blocked punt in the end zone.
Last season, he scored a touchdown in each of the Cardinal’s first five games. But that’s when Tremayne’s storybook run from walk-on to scoring machine took a devastating turn. In the fifth game, at home against Oregon, the Los Angeles product suffered a broken fibula and dislocated ankle, putting his Stanford career in jeopardy.
But Tremayne slowly regained his footing over the next 12 months, and last week reached the end zone twice in Stanford’s 28-27 loss to Oregon State.
Tremayne’s resurgence should give the Cardinal hope as they travel to Notre Dame on Saturday (4:30 p.m., NBC) seeking to break an 11-game losing streak against FBS competition – a streak that began right after Tremayne’s injury.
“It’s just when that ball goes up. I just want to catch it so bad,” Tremayne said. “It doesn’t matter if the ball’s behind me, in front of me, going into the DB’s back. I’m just doing whatever I can do to catch the ball.”
Though he’s now a fifth-year senior, this will be Tremayne’s first trip to South Bend, a reminder of his journey to get to this point. He was a member of the scout team who didn’t travel to road games in his first year on The Farm, when Stanford last went to Notre Dame (the 2020 game was canceled due to the pandemic).
Tremayne then played almost exclusively on special teams as a sophomore, but he did make three catches for a combined 22 yards – all for TDs, including one on the opening drive against Notre Dame. Tremayne is now on scholarship and has gone from role player to starter, but uses those first years as motivation.
“I keep that chip on my shoulder every day knowing that I was walking on, I had to work that much harder to just get myself on the team,” Tremayne said.
By last season, he was named preseason all-Pac-12 second team by Phil Steele and seemed poised to break out. He was the team’s leading receiver with five touchdowns and 240 yards through five games before suffering the season-ending injury.
His grueling recovery process began with walking, then jogging, then running, then going full speed. But he said the last 10% was the hardest – blocking drills with unpredictable motions, or hard cutting.
He didn’t participate in contact drills during training camp, so the first time he was tackled was actually in the season opener against Colgate. He started slowly, with four catches for 42 yards in Stanford’s first three games against FBS competition.
“Obviously I wanted to get in the end zone every week,” Tremayne said. “But I was talking to my parents and they just told me to stay optimistic, that the more games I go without a touchdown, the more likely the next game I’m going to get one, so I just had to keep that mindset.”
That time came last Saturday when Tremayne exploded for six catches for 82 yards and two TDs – all career highs – against the Beavers. The first TD was an acrobatic 21-yard catch over defensive back Alex Austin with 58 seconds left in the first half.
“Just felt like last year, same emotions being brought back,” Tremayne said. “My teammates obviously were hyping me up and everything. So it was just a great feeling to be back in the end zone.”
He was greeted on the sideline by coach David Shaw, who reminded him not to take his helmet off on the field – and then congratulated him on a great catch.
“Brycen is a special, special talent,” Shaw said. “Those downfield balls, the sideline catches, he’s been doing it for three years, just amazing. He has such uncanny body control and ability to make those catches with guys all over him. We’re going to need a lot more of that going forward. But proud to see him coming back from his injury, being back to where he was before.”
Tremayne’s storybook return was ruined when Oregon State had its own highlight-reel 56-yard TD reception with 13 seconds left. Tremayne said his touchdowns were overshadowed in his mind by a catch he didn’t make in the fourth quarter and some poor blocks. But he’s excited about what his performance could mean for the rest of the year.
“It definitely took me a little bit to find my groove this season, getting a few catches here and there,” Tremayne said. “But I feel like getting in the end zone finally, I was just like, ‘I’m here, I’m back.’ So that was awesome and I feel great.” | 2022-10-14T16:55:14+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/10/14/stanford-hopes-tremeynes-resurgence-can-lead-to-upset-of-notre-dame/ |
BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
The Northwest Association for Blind Athletes began facilitating sports for individuals who are visually impaired or blind in Vancouver, Washington, 15 years ago. The association has been providing similar programs to Idahoans from a distance since 2012.
Now the NWABA has solidified its presence with a new office located at 1444 S. Entertainment Ave. Suite 201 in Boise, holding a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new office on Thursday.
“For the past 10 years, program specialists have been traveling from the Vancouver office into the Boise area to provide these different adaptive sports events. For everything from hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, swimming, kayaking, paddleboarding, all kinds of adaptive sports. They’ve been flying from the office to host these events,” Program Manager Samantha Picciano. “We’re excited to be expanding programs across Idaho and Montana.”
Picciano, who previously worked as a teacher of the visually impaired and mobility specialist, said the office will allow for more growth and give the association more reach to those who are visually impaired. That reach will be through ongoing sports programming.
“Having an actual physical space and having team members on the ground in Boise is just going to help expand and scale those programs,” Picciano said.
She is expecting this expansion to help focus on quality “life-changing” programming for Idahoans who are blind or visually impaired.
“Right now we’re working with adult athletes, however, our organization targets all ages,” Picciano said. “We’re really tapping into that youth population. I’m looking forward to community partners like the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind, the Idaho Commission for the Blind, and really kind of tapping into those community partners.”
To help with that expansion, Picciano is looking to employ 12 more people in Idaho.
“We’re always seeking partners, volunteers who are looking to support our mission and programs,” she said. “We rely a lot on volunteers to, number one, assist with the safety of our programs because we do try to have a 1-1 ratio of volunteer or staff member to athlete.”
According to Picciano, as far as disabilities go, individuals who are blind or visually impaired are in the lowest incidence community, meaning the disabilities are less common within the general population. The NWABA is intended to not just be a service opportunity, but to also be educational and an immersive community for people to give back to, Picciano said.
“We are incredibly excited to have a permanent presence in Idaho. Our new office in Boise allows us to expand our life-changing programs and services,” said CEO Billy Henry in a news release. “This new location will support expansion of more ongoing weekly programs, development of new services, and deepen engagement with the individuals and families we serve across Idaho.”
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By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping revenue for popular shows — including a staggering new Broadway record for “The Lion King” — not lifting all strugglers.
Twenty-one of the 33 shows available broke the $1 million mark for the week ending Sunday, and “The Lion King” made history with the biggest haul ever — an astonishing $4,315,264 over nine performances for a 25-year-old show with no stars. It took the crown from “Hamilton, the first Broadway show to crack $4 million, which it did with eight performances at the end of 2018.
“The Music Man” was close behind with two high-wattage stars in Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman — $3,971,531 over nine shows — followed by “Wicked” with $3,152,679. The top average ticket price went to “The Music Man” with $285.80, just about a dollar more than “The Lion King.”
All shows bar one — “A Christmas Carol” — saw their numbers grow over the week ending Sunday. However, the usual bump was barely evident for “Topdog/Underdog,” with just $345,567 over eight shows, and “Ohio State Murders” pulling in just $311,893 to a half-empty theater over nine performances despite the presence of six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald. A revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy “Between Riverside and Crazy” starring the rapper Common pulled in just $260,085.
Box office numbers had been treacherous for new works even before the holidays — early closing notices were posted for shows like “Almost Famous,” “KPOP,” “A Strange Loop” and “Ain’t No Mo’.” The Broadway stalwart “The Phantom of the Opera” previously announced it would close in 2023 after 35 years. That announcement was met with a ticket spike.
The data is a reminder that Broadway has not fully rebounded from the pandemic, which wiped out live theater for 18 months and dried up its lifeblood — tourism.
Tom Kirdahy, a veteran producer behind the current starry revival of “The Piano Lesson” and the upcoming “New York, New York,” said audiences are steadily coming back and could be back to normal by spring.
“It’s very clear that buying patterns are different, but it’s equally clear that audiences are craving good work, and I think the challenge is to remind people that New York is actually a safe place to be and that theaters are safe places to be,” he said.
The 33 shows running on Broadway grossed $51,912,862 last week, the biggest seven-day period since the last week of 2019, when the box office earned $55,765,408. The holiday period is especially rough on performers and crew members who are usually asked to staff extra performances.
While January and February are among the bitterest months on Broadway, many producers were popping champagne after the latest numbers. The 26-year-old revival of the musical “Chicago” earned its biggest weekly total with $1,299,404 and “The Piano Lesson” starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks became the highest-grossing August Wilson play on Broadway in history last week.
The Lea Michele-led revival of “Funny Girl” set a new box office record at the August Wilson Theatre with $2,405,901. And the new musical “& Juliet” broke the box office record at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, grossing $1,639,788 for nine performances. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” broke the house record at the Lyric Theatre, grossing $2,671,191 for its eight-performance week.
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-01-05T00:43:02+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2023/01/04/a-lion-roars-on-broadway-as-box-office-hauls-reveal-winners-3/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says Donald Trump silently molested her on an airliner in the late 1970s testified Tuesday in support of the writer who alleges that a flirtatious 1996 encounter with the future president ended in a violent sexual attack.
Jessica Leeds, 81, of Asheville, North Carolina, said Trump accosted her with what seemed like “40 zillion hands.” She joined other witnesses who supported the testimony of E. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist who publicly aired her claims against Trump in 2019, when she published a memoir. Trump has repeatedly denied the claims, saying Carroll lied to sell books and disparage him.
The witnesses were meant to support Carroll’s testimony over three days ending Monday that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in midtown Manhattan.
Lisa Birnbach, a longtime friend of Carroll, testified that an emotional and hyperventilating Carroll telephoned her minutes after her encounter with Trump to report what occurred. She said she told Carroll that Carroll had been raped and urged her to go to the police, but Carroll refused, leading them to argue before Birnbach agreed never to speak of it again.
Leeds said she was in her late 30s and working in sales when she was invited by a flight attendant aboard a daytime flight from Dallas or Atlanta to New York to sit in the only empty aisle seat in the first-class cabin.
“The gentleman sitting by the window introduced himself as Donald Trump,” she said.
Conversation between the pair was mostly forgettable, Leeds recalled, as they ate a nice meal, before “all of a sudden Trump decided to kiss me and grope me.”
“There was no conversation. It was like out of the blue. It was like a tussle. He was trying to kiss me, trying to pull me towards him. He was grabbing my breasts. It was like he had 40 zillion hands. It was like a tussling match between the two of us,” she recalled.
Leeds said the standoff ended when she realized no aircraft employees were coming to the rescue and Trump seemed to get more aggressive.
“It was when he started putting his hand up my skirt that gave me strength. I managed to wriggle out of my seat and storm back to my seat in coach. I don’t think there was a word or a sound made by either one of us,” she recalled.
Asked to describe how long the encounter took, Leeds said “it seemed like forever, but it probably was just a few seconds.”
When the plane landed, Leeds recalled, she remained on the plane until everyone else had left to avoid running into Trump again.
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll and Leeds have done. | 2023-05-02T19:24:49+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/ap-us-news/trump-accusers-friend-says-e-jean-carroll-is-telling-truth/ |
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Over 2 million Muslims will take part in this week’s Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world’s largest religious gatherings returns to full capacity following years of coronavirus restrictions.
The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, and all Muslims are required to undertake it at least once in their lives if they are physically and financially able to do so. For the pilgrims, it is a profound spiritual experience that wipes away sins, brings them closer to God and highlights Muslim unity.
For the Saudi royal family, which captured Mecca in the 1920s, organizing the pilgrimage is a major source of pride and legitimacy. Authorities have invested billions of dollars in modern infrastructure, but the Hajj has occasionally been marred by tragedy, as in 2015, when over 2,400 pilgrims died in a stampede.
Here’s a look at the pilgrimage, which begins on Monday, and its meaning.
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE HAJJ PILGRIMAGE IN ISLAM?
The pilgrimage draws Muslims from around the world to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, where they walk in the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad and retrace the journey of Ibrahim and Ismail, or Abraham and Ishmael as they are known in the Christian and Jewish traditions.
As related in the Quran, Ibrahim is called upon to sacrifice his son Ismail as a test of faith, but God stays his hand at the last moment. Ibrahim and Ismail later are said to have built the Kaaba together. In the Christian and Jewish traditions, Abraham nearly sacrifices his other son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah, which is associated with a major holy site in Jerusalem.
The Kaaba was a center for polytheistic worship among pagan Arabs until the arrival of Islam in the 7th century, when the Prophet Muhammad consecrated the site and inaugurated the Hajj.
Muslims do not worship the Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure covered in a black, gold-embroidered cloth, but view it as their most sacred place and a powerful symbol of unity and monotheism. No matter where they are in the world, Muslims face toward the Kaaba during their daily prayers.
The Hajj has been held every year since the time of the prophet, even through wars, plagues and other turmoil.
In the Middle Ages, Muslim rulers organized massive caravans with armed escorts that would depart from Cairo, Damascus and other cities. It was an arduous journey through deserts where Bedouin tribes carried out raids and demanded tribute. A notorious Bedouin raid in 1757 wiped out an entire Hajj caravan, killing thousands of pilgrims.
In 2020, amid worldwide coronavirus lockdowns, Saudi Arabia limited the pilgrimage to a few thousand citizens and local residents. This is the first year it returns to full capacity.
HOW DO MUSLIMS PREPARE FOR THE HAJJ?
Some pilgrims spend their whole lives saving up for the journey or wait years before getting a permit, which Saudi authorities distribute to countries based on a quota system. Travel agents offer packages catering to all income levels, and charities assist needy pilgrims.
Pilgrims begin by entering a state of spiritual purity known as “ihram.” Women forgo make-up and perfume and cover their hair, while men change into seamless terrycloth robes. The garments cannot contain any stitching, a rule intended to promote unity among rich and poor.
Pilgrims are forbidden from cutting their hair, trimming their nails or engaging in sexual intercourse while in the state of ihram. They are not supposed to argue or fight, but the heat, crowds and difficulty of the journey inevitably test people’s patience.
Many Muslims visit Medina, where the Prophet Muhammad is buried and where he built the first mosque, before heading to Mecca.
WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE HAJJ?
The Hajj begins with Muslims circling the Kaaba in Mecca counter-clockwise seven times while reciting prayers. Then they walk between two hills in a reenactment of Hagar’s search for water for her son, Ismail, a story that occurs in different forms in Muslim, Christian and Jewish traditions.
All of this takes place inside Mecca’s Grand Mosque — the world’s largest — which encompasses the Kaaba and the two hills.
The next day, pilgrims head to Mount Arafat, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Mecca, where the Prophet Muhammad delivered his final sermon. Here, they stand in prayer throughout the day asking God for forgiveness of their sins in what many view as the spiritual high point of the pilgrimage.
Around sunset, pilgrims walk or take buses to an area called Muzdalifa, 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) west of Arafat. They pick up pebbles to use the next day in a symbolic stoning of the devil in the valley of Mina, where Muslims believe Ibrahim was tempted to ignore God’s command to sacrifice his son. The pilgrims stay for several nights in Mina in one of the largest tent camps in the world.
The pilgrimage ends with a final circling of the Kaaba and further casting of stones at Mina. Men often shave their heads and women clip a lock of hair, signaling renewal. Many will assume the title of “hajj” or “hajja” — a great honor, particularly in more traditional communities. Some paint murals on their homes with images of airplanes, ships and the Kaaba to commemorate the journey.
The final days of Hajj coincide with Eid al-Adha, or the festival of sacrifice, a joyous occasion celebrated by Muslims around the world to commemorate Ibrahim’s test of faith. During the three-day Eid, Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute the meat to the poor.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Kyrie Irving scored 15 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter, Kevin Durant had 26 points and a season-high 16 rebounds and the Brooklyn Nets won their 10th straight game, 108-107 over the short-handed Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night.
The winning streak is the longest in the NBA this season and the Nets’ longest since they took 10 in a row in 2005-06. The 2002-03 team also won 10 straight. The franchise record is 14, set in 2003-04 and matched in 2005-06.
Brooklyn (23-12) has won 14 of 15.
“For me specifically, when the fourth quarter hits, it's winning time," Irving said. “That's all I really know. When I'm out there with that group to start the fourth, I know K.D. is resting a little bit, so I just have to raise my aggression level and raise my efficiency up, and I'm grateful to have the trust of my teammates and coaching staff."
Yuta Watanabe’s layup in the final minute of the third made it 81-80 for Brooklyn’s first lead since it was 33-32. Durant closed the third with a pair of free throws, and the Nets never trailed again. Irving scored eight consecutive points early in the fourth to put Brooklyn up 93-82 and cap a 17-3 run, and the Hawks called timeout.
“I think the whole second half we were there for each other," Durant said. “We made a couple of adjustments on a couple of guys and we were able to execute that. We were able to slow them down just a little bit."
The injury-riddled Hawks (17-18) were without leading scorer Trae Young, leading rebounder Clint Capela and starting forward De’Andre Hunter. Young was scratched before tipoff with a left calf contusion. Capela and Hunter were ruled out long before the game began.
Dejounte Murray scored 24 points and John Collins had 21 for Atlanta, which tied it at 104 on Aaron Holiday’s 3 but never took the lead in the closing minutes of the fourth. Onyeka Okongwu finished with 18 points and a season-high 13 rebounds.
“I saw fight from our guys tonight," Hawks coach Nate McMillan said. “You can live with that. I thought from start to finish we stepped up and played. We didn't think about the guys that were out. The guys that were playing came out and played to win."
Murray missed a 27-footer with 0.1 seconds remaining as the buzzer sounded. He also missed a layup from the baseline with 50.6 seconds to go and one of two free throws with 29.9 seconds left that ended the scoring.
TIP-INS
Nets: Brooklyn is 14-4 against the Hawks since the start of 2017-18, the best record against Atlanta over that span. ... The Nets have won six straight on the road. ... Patty Mills scored all 12 of his points in the second quarter. ... Nic Claxton had a career high six blocked shots. ... Vaughn is 21-7 since taking over for Steve Nash.
Hawks: Coach Nate McMillan had no immediate update on Capela, who’s missed five of the last six games with a right calf strain. ... The timetable is equally unclear on Hunter, who’s missed two straight games with a left ankle sprain.
UP NEXT
Nets: At Charlotte on Saturday night.
Hawks: Host Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-29T04:39:59+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Nets-win-10th-straight-beating-short-handed-17682403.php |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The United Nations Security Council was evaluating options including the immediate activation of foreign troops to help free Haiti from the grip of gangs that has caused a scarcity of fuel, water and other basic supplies.
Such a force would “remove the threat posed by armed gangs and provide immediate protection to critical infrastructure and services,” as well as secure the “free movement of water, fuel, food and medical supplies from main ports and airports to communities and health care facilities,” according to a letter U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres submitted to the council on Sunday.
The letter, which was seen by The Associated Press and has not been made public, said one or several member states would deploy the force to help Haiti’s National Police.
It also states the secretary-general may deploy “additional U.N. capacities to support a ceasefire or humanitarian arrangements.”
However, the letter notes that “a return to a more robust United Nations engagement in the form of peacekeeping remains a last resort if no decisive action is urgently taken by the international community in line with the outlined options and national law enforcement capacity proves unable to reverse the deteriorating security situation.”
The letter was submitted after Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry and 18 high-ranking officials requested from international partners “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity,” to stop the “criminal actions” of armed gangs across the country.
The request comes nearly a month after one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs seized control of a key fuel terminal in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where some 10 million gallons of diesel and gasoline and more than 800,000 gallons of kerosene are stored.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators also have barricaded streets in Port-au-Prince and other major cities in recent weeks, preventing the flow of goods and traffic as part of an ongoing protest against a spike in the prices of gasoline, diesel and kerosene.
Gas stations and schools are closed, while banks and grocery stores are operating on a limited schedule.
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Henry, who announced in early September that his administration could no longer afford to subsidize fuel.
The deepening paralysis has caused supplies of fuel, water and other basic goods to dwindle amid a cholera outbreak that has killed several people and sickened dozens of others, with health officials warning that the situation could worsen.
On Sunday, Haitian senators signed a document demanding that Henry’s “de facto government” defer its request for deployment of foreign troops, saying it is illegal under local laws.
A spokesman for Henry could not be immediately reached for comment.
Haitian officials have not specified what kind of armed forces they’re seeking, with many local leaders rejecting the idea of U.N. peacekeepers, noting that they’ve been accused of sexual assault and of sparking a cholera epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people during their a 13-year mission in Haiti that ended five years ago.
The letter that the U.N. secretary-general submitted Sunday suggests that the rapid action force be phased out as Haitian police regain control of infrastructure, and that two options could follow: member states establish an international police task force to help and advise local officers or create a special force to help tackle gangs “including through joint strike, isolation and containment operations across the country.”
The letter notes that if member states do not “step forward with bilateral support and financing,” the U.N. operation may be an alternative.
“However, as indicated, a return to U.N. peacekeeping was not the preferred option of the authorities,” it states.
The letter also says the Security Council could decide to strengthen the police component of the current United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti known as BINUH, and to call on member states to provide additional equipment and training to local police, which are understaffed and lack resources. Only about a third of some 13,000 are operational in a country of more than 11 million people.
The secretary-general said the issue is a matter of urgency, noting Haiti “is facing an outbreak of cholera amid a dramatic deterioration in security that has paralyzed the country.”
The U.S. Embassy has granted temporarily leave to personnel and urged U.S. citizens to immediately leave Haiti. | 2022-10-10T19:12:26+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-un-mulls-quick-foreign-troop-deployment-to-ease-haiti-crisis/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has chosen Susan Cain's “Bittersweet” as her new book club pick.
“Bittersweet,” released last year, is the most recent work from the author of “Quiet,” the 2012 bestseller that contended introverted people had been misunderstood and overlooked.
“Susan started a revolution a decade ago with her book ‘Quiet’ about the power of being an introvert, and her latest book is a revelation on how embracing sadness and heartache can lead you to the path of creativity, connection and even love,” Winfrey said in a statement Wednesday.
“'Bittersweet' talks about a complicated truth around happiness and has the power to transform the way you see your life and even the world,” the statement said.
Winfrey is a longtime admirer of Cain, whose other books include “Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts” and “Quiet Journal: Discover Your Secret Strengths and Unleash Your Inner Power.” In 2013, Winfrey cited “Quiet” as one of 40 books to read before age 40 and she featured “Bittersweet” last spring in her online publication OprahDaily.com.
Cain noted in a statement that in “Bittersweet” she writes of Winfrey's “transformative” relationship with her mentor Maya Angelou, who died in 2014.
“Yet I never dreamed that Oprah would read the book, let alone select it for the Oprah Book Club. This is an honor of honors," Cain said.
Winfrey will interview Cain on March 9 for an interactive book club meeting held via OprahDaily.com. | 2023-02-15T14:20:14+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/oprah-chooses-susan-cain-s-bittersweet-for-book-17785575.php |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed again Sunday to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as she lambasted a U.N. Security Council meeting over the North’s first, failed launch.
The North’s attempt to put its first military spy satellite into orbit last Wednesday failed as its rocket crashed off the Korean Peninsula’s western coast. An emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council was still convened at the request of the U.S., Japan and other countries to discuss the launch because it had violated council resolutions banning the North from performing any launch using ballistic technology.
On Sunday, Kim’s sister and senior ruling party official, Kim Yo Jong, called the U.N. council “a political appendage” of the United States, saying its recent meeting was convened following America’s “gangster-like request.”
She accused the U.N. council of being “discriminative and rude” because it only takes issue with the North’s satellite launches while thousands of satellites launched by other countries are already operating in space. She said her country’s attempt to acquire a spy satellite is a legitimate step to respond to military threats posed by the U.S. and its allies.
“(North Korea) will continue to take proactive measures to exercise all the lawful rights of a sovereign state, including the one to a military reconnaissance satellite launch,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media.
In her earlier statement Friday, Kim Yo Jong said the North’s spy satellite “will be correctly put on space orbit in the near future” but didn’t say when its second launch attempt would take place.
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday it will likely take “more than several weeks” for North Korea to learn the cause of the failed launch but it may attempt a second launch soon if defects aren’t serious.
Washington, Seoul and others criticized the North’s satellite launch for raising international tensions and urged it to return to talks.
A military surveillance satellite is among a list of sophisticated weapons systems that Kim Jong Un has vowed to acquire amid protracted security tensions with the United States. Since the start of 2022, Kim has carried out more than 100 missile tests in what he called a warning over expanded military drills between the U.S. and South Korea.
Experts say Kim would want to use his modernized weapons arsenal to wrest concessions from Washington and its partners in future diplomacy.
North Korea was slapped with rounds of U.N. sanctions over its past nuclear and missile tests and satellite launches. But the U.N. Security Council failed to toughen those sanctions over North Korea’s recent testing activities because China and Russia, both permanent members of the U.N. council, blocked the U.S. and others’ attempts to do so. During the latest U.N. council session Friday, China and Russia again clashed with the U.S. over the North’s failed launch.
After repeated failures, North Korea placed Earth-observation satellites into orbit in 2012 and 2016, but foreign experts say there is no evidence that either satellite transmitted imagery and other data.
Also Sunday, North Korea threatened not to notify the International Maritime Organization of future satellite launches in advance to protest the group’s condemnation of North Korean missile tests.
The IMO’s maritime safety committee on Wednesday adopted a rare resolution denouncing North Korea for conducting launches without proper notification that “seriously threatened the safety of seafarers and international shipping.”
Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst in North Korea, said in a statement carried by state media: “In the future, IMO should know and take measures by itself over the period of (North Korea’s) satellite launch and the impact point of its carrier and be prepared to take full responsibility for all the consequences from it.”
Ahead of its recent spy satellite launch, North Korea told the IMO and Japan that a launch would occur between May 31 and June 11. | 2023-06-04T20:16:56+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/north-korean-leaders-sister-vows-2nd-attempt-to-launch-spy-satellite-slams-un-meeting/ |
NEW YORK — Rep.-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to misrepresenting his professional experience and educational history to voters, but said it would not deter him from taking office in January.
Santos, a New York Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, confirmed some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation into his background, but sought to minimize the falsehoods in his first remarks since the Times published its findings last week.
“My sins here are embellishing my résumé,” Santos told The New York Post in one of two interviews he granted on Monday to conservative-owned media outlets.
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“I am not a criminal,” Santos said, adding that he would still be an effective legislator. In a separate interview with WABC-AM radio, he said he still intended to be sworn in at the start of the next Congress.
The admissions by Santos served as a capstone to one of the more astonishing examples of an incoming congressman falsifying key biographical elements of his background — with Santos maintaining the falsehoods through two consecutive bids for Congress.
Yet even as Santos, whose victory helped Republicans secure a narrow majority in the next House of Representatives, admitted to some fabrication, his actions will still not prevent him, in all likelihood, from being seated in Congress.
Democrats — including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the next House Democratic leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York — have accused Santos of being unfit to serve in Congress. Top House Republican leaders, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, have largely remained silent.
The House can only prevent candidates from taking office if they violate the Constitution’s age, citizenship and state residency requirements. Once he has been seated, however, Santos could face ethics investigations, legal experts have said.
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Santos, through representatives, has declined multiple requests to speak with the Times. His interviews did not fully address the scope of the Times’ reporting, which also included omissions on his financial disclosure forms and a charity he claimed to have founded and registered with the IRS.
He also firmly rejected having been charged criminally anywhere in the world, but did not appear to explain the existence of records identifying him as being charged with check fraud in Brazil.
Over the course of his campaigns, Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in 2010 before working at Citigroup and, eventually, Goldman Sachs. A biography on the National Republican Congressional Committee website said he had attended both Baruch and New York University and received degrees in finance and economics.
But the colleges and companies could not locate records to verify his claims when contacted by the Times.
In Monday’s interview, Santos admitted to the Post that he had not graduated “from any institution of higher learning.” He also admitted that he never worked directly for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup, blaming a “poor choice of words” for creating the impression that he had.
Past statements of Santos are relatively clear however: An archived version of Santos’ former campaign website preserved by the Wayback Machine says that he “began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly advanced to become an associate asset manager in the real asset division of the firm.”
Instead, he told the Post, he dealt with both firms through his work at another company, LinkBridge Investors, which connects investors with potential clients.
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Santos told the Post that LinkBridge had “limited partnerships” with the two Wall Street companies.
The Times was able to confirm Santos’ employment at LinkBridge. But in a version of his campaign biography posted as recently as April, Santos suggested that he had started his career on Wall Street at Citigroup and that he was at Goldman Sachs briefly before his time at LinkBridge.
A spokesperson for Citigroup declined to comment. Representatives for Goldman Sachs and LinkBridge did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
Santos has not fully accounted for his employment during the years that he had claimed, until recently, that he was advancing on Wall Street. In his interview with WABC radio, he confirmed reporting by the Times that he had worked at a call center in Queens in late 2011 and early 2012.
The WABC interview itself was something of a political sideshow curiosity. Santos was interviewed by John Catsimatidis, a supermarket magnate and a big Republican donor, and Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who resigned in disgrace in 2011.
Weiner asked Santos about his claim, made in an interview last month shortly after his election, that a company he had worked for “lost four employees” at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June 2016. The Times reviewed news coverage and obituaries and found no evidence that could support the claim.
On Monday, Santos told WABC that those four people were not yet employees but instead were in the process of being hired.
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“We did lose four people that were going to be coming to work for the company that I was starting up in Orlando,” he said.
Santos did not name the company or provide additional information to support his statement. Public records show Santos was living in the Orlando area at the time of the shooting and that he was registered to vote there during the 2016 election.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times. | 2022-12-27T02:22:06+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/26/nation/new-york-representative-elect-george-santos-admits-lying-about-college-work-history/ |
Louisiana Tech vs. Florida Atlantic Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - March 4
Published: Mar. 4, 2023 at 7:49 AM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Saturday's game between the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters (18-11) and Florida Atlantic Owls (12-16) squaring off at FAU Arena has a projected final score of 68-62 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of Louisiana Tech, who is listed as the favorite by our model. The game will begin at 2:00 PM ET on March 4.
The Lady Techsters are coming off of a 69-62 win over Florida International in their most recent game on Thursday.
Louisiana Tech vs. Florida Atlantic Game Info
- When: Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
- Where: FAU Arena in Boca Raton, Florida
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Louisiana Tech vs. Florida Atlantic Score Prediction
- Prediction: Louisiana Tech 68, Florida Atlantic 62
Louisiana Tech Schedule Analysis
- The Lady Techsters picked up their best win of the season on January 5 by securing a 79-74 victory over the Rice Owls, the No. 84-ranked team in our computer rankings.
- Louisiana Tech has five losses to Quadrant 2 teams, tied for the 31st-most in the country.
Louisiana Tech 2022-23 Best Wins
- 70-65 at home over Western Kentucky (No. 125) on February 23
- 62-57 on the road over UTSA (No. 168) on December 29
- 71-52 over George Washington (No. 171) on November 27
- 57-44 on the road over North Texas (No. 206) on February 16
- 81-66 at home over North Texas (No. 206) on January 11
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Louisiana Tech Performance Insights
- The Lady Techsters have a +152 scoring differential, topping opponents by 5.3 points per game. They're putting up 66.1 points per game, 159th in college basketball, and are giving up 60.8 per contest to rank 83rd in college basketball.
- In 2022-23, Louisiana Tech has put up 64.9 points per game in C-USA play, and 66.1 overall.
- At home the Lady Techsters are scoring 68.8 points per game, 6.3 more than they are averaging away (62.5).
- In 2022-23 Louisiana Tech is allowing 0.8 fewer points per game at home (60.9) than away (61.7).
- While the Lady Techsters are scoring 66.1 points per game in 2022-23, they have improved that mark in their last 10 games, producing 66.9 a contest.
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Nietzsche’s, the Allentown club that has been a major component of the Buffalo live music scene for more than four decades, is for sale.
According to the listing, by realtor Gurney Becker & Bourne, the 3,500-square foot, 248-person capacity venue at 248 Allen St. is available for $650,000, with an estimated monthly mortgage of $4,336.
Proprietor Joe Rubino opened the club in 1982 and quickly established the reputation of Nietzsche’s as one of the few venues in town where patrons could enjoy live music seven nights a week.
The long, narrow room with a stage in the rear and a long bar and smaller performing area in the front hit its peak in the late '80s and '90s, becoming one of the premier clubs for local original music and on-the-rise regional and national acts.
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Over the years, Nietzsche’s has hosted bands like Phish, the Tragically Hip and the Goo Goo Dolls long before they broke into the mainstream.
Famously, Nietzsche’s also hosted Anthony Bourdain for a taping of the late celebrity chef and travel documentarian’s Travel Channel show “No Reservations,” in 2009.
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The club is widely known as the venue where indie-folk high priestess Ani DiFranco got her start, working at first with the help of the late folk artist and Monday Night Songwriter Showcase host Michael Meldrum.
Much of Nietzsche’s appeal as a music venue is due to the eclectic nature of the programming, which runs the gamut from acoustic folk, jazz and blues to full-blown indie-rock, alternative sounds and jam band offerings.
The club also boasts a strong community vibe, bolstered by Rubino’s presence at the end of the bar most nights during his tenure, and a consistent staff including familiar faces behind the bar and, for several decades, the late and much-loved doorman P.J. Barbalato in the front of the house.
Nietzsche’s doorman P.J. Barbalato always made me feel like I was a necessary part of the Buffalo music community," writes Jeff Miers. "And I am far from alone. Because P.J. made seemingly everyone he encountered on a regular basis feel special, as if they belonged there."
“I love the place, and I hope it continues, but after all these years, it’s just time to let go of the responsibility,” Rubino told Buffalo Business First.
According to the listing, sale of the building includes the property, the name and all equipment owned by the business, as well as the second floor, which housed the artist green room and a smaller living space throughout Rubino’s tenure.
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Video: Jeff Miers remembers Jeff Beck | 2023-01-17T19:48:19+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/music/nietzsche-s-longtime-hub-of-buffalo-live-music-scene-is-for-sale/article_d2814b48-9692-11ed-b009-4339667ed2d2.html |
Some local elections will be moved to even-numbered years under a bill passed by the New York State Legislature.
State legislators who supported the bill said the move was made to increase voter participation.
Elected officials in the middle of a term would be allowed to finish out their time in office, and those elected in an odd-numbered year after 2025 would have their term reduced so the office will be up for election again in the following even-year election.
The mandate would not apply to city elections, nor for specific elected offices protected in the state Constitution to be held in odd-numbered years, including county clerk, sheriff, district attorneys, local judges and others.
Chautauqua County Board of Elections Republican Commissioner Brian Abram said he could see there being voter confusion, “Candidates having their terms shortened is a concern. The size of the ballot and the amount of information that’s being digested by the voter on an even-year cycle will be a concern, so as we look forward at it we see some obstacles that will have to be ironed out.”
Abram said it’s unlikely that there will be any cost savings due to there still being county-wide elections in odd-numbered years and those elections come with fixed costs, “When you’re doing a county-wide process, a judge, family court judge, a supreme court, anything that you’re doing you’re open for every poll site, you’re open for early voting, you’re open and doing all your things, the major parties are involved, it’s a fixed cost and labor, it’s trucking, it’s ballot and machines.”
Abram said the only options to reduce costs would be to permanently close a polling site or not have early voting. He said there could even be potential added costs in even-numbered years if the size of the ballot has to be increased due to more offices being up for election that year, “In house, we print and we save Chautauqua County taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars every year by taking on that responsibility. You outsource that same ballot and the price probably goes up not double, triple, quadruple, but beyond that. In house printing is very cost effective. Sourcing it and buying from a vendor is very expensive.”
State Senator George Borrello voted against the bill, saying it won’t give “local races a higher profile. The reality would be the opposite: local candidates’ platforms and messages would be lost in the flood media coverage and paid ads for state and federal candidates.”
The bill still needs final approval from Governor Kathy Hochul and as of today, had still not been sent to the Governor’s Office for signature. | 2023-06-15T12:39:17+00:00 | wrfalp.com | https://www.wrfalp.com/some-local-elections-will-be-moved-to-even-numbered-years-under-bill-passed-by-nys-legislature/ |
- Uber Eats uses Checkout.com Identity Verification (IDV) to streamline delivery driver onboarding
- Businesses can now verify customers seamlessly in under 120 seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from every country in the world
- Powered by AI, trained on billions of data points, it reduces identity fraud by analysing documents over a video stream
LONDON, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Checkout.com, the global payments solution provider, today launches Identity Verification, its first product focused on improving the customer onboarding and identity verification process and expanding Checkout.com's impact on customers' digital experience.
Identity Verification utilises proprietary artificial intelligence and is trained on billions of identity and facial recognition documents. Built for businesses like Fintechs, Rental and Hiring companies, Gaming, and Government organisations, Identity Verification helps businesses scale by having a friction-free, compliant, and quick customer verification process. Developed on an expansive list of ID documents across 195 countries, Checkout.com Identity Verification can verify nearly every citizen in the world. In beta alone, it has verified over 10 million identities and identified over 1 million fraudulent identities.
Uber Eats Senior Operations Manager Baptiste Foulon, said, "We're delighted to be working with the Checkout.com Identity Verification teams to take full advantage of their expertise so that we can guarantee the authenticity of every document provided and the best delivery experience for all independent delivery drivers using the Uber Eats app."
AI-supported video-streaming to improve customer journey
Identity fraud is evolving, with deep fakes and deceptive documents growing in sophistication. Single-frame photos often fail due to poor image quality or are managed by a system that cannot keep up with new types of fraud. Checkout.com Identity Verification solves this problem by using 25 fps, 1000 images/flow video streaming. Using video mode on a mobile phone, customers now show an identity document and their face while the sophisticated AI guides users throughout the process, providing live feedback on how to show document authenticity and move their face so the AI can recognise them to combat fraud. It will also tell users if the document they are scanning is invalid, i.e. the wrong passport or driving licence.
"We deeply believe in the intersection between digital payments and online identity verification. Legacy systems requiring an appointment with a human being or limited to certain days a week are not conducive to the long-term growth of the digital economy. By utilising AI and algorithms trained on billions of data points alongside a video stream that simply requires an internet connection, we can now verify identity documents to facilitate customer onboarding and comply with KYC requirements quickly and accurately", said Meron Colbeci, Chief Product Officer at Checkout.com.
Checkout.com Identity Verification removes the complexity of requiring a specific app or software compatibility and now allows users to verify their identity anytime and anywhere, requiring only an internet connection. Businesses can direct users to an interface with their logo and branding to facilitate a seamless experience in less than 120 seconds. Businesses can now onboard users 24/7, 7 days a week, without human interaction, all while building trust in the brand.
"The fact that Checkout.com Identity Verification uses live video to verify users' face and identity document means that the process is simple, efficient, and very reliable for users. The user guidance provided by AI means that the KYC process is smooth and easy for our candidates as well", said Camille Six, General Manager at leading recruitment platform, StaffMe.
Overcoming ID fraud through AI and machine learning
Identity Verification's AI can quickly verify authentic identities across over 3000+ identity documents. By moving the identity document on the video, the AI can monitor hologram and colour changes common in most documents, as well as transparency and opacity. With the user doing a series of short and easy face movements, the AI can quickly identify possible deep fakes or fraudulent identity documents.
The platform's time to verify from start to completion is 120 seconds for 90% of users. 70% of identities are verified in less than 20 seconds, and any identities that can not be verified in that time are passed to a dedicated team for a systematic human review. These experts have been trained by customs police officers on ID document security features and the methodology to assess a face match. To date, Identity Verification has identified over 1 million fraudulent identities in beta alone.
"The Checkout.com Identity Verification experience performed better than our usual process for converting our prospects into customers. Their promise looked great on paper and lived up to it in practice", said Ophélie Robin, Director of Digital Innovation at Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance.
To learn more about Checkout.com Identity Verification, visit our website.
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Checkout.com is a global payments solution provider that helps businesses and their communities thrive in the digital economy. Purpose-built with performance, scalability, and speed in mind, its modular payments platform is ideal for enterprise businesses looking to integrate better payment solutions seamlessly. Checkout.com is trusted by global companies like Sony, Wise, GE Healthcare, and Shein. With an international team spread across 19 offices worldwide, it offers innovative solutions that flex to your needs, valuable insights that help you get smart about your payments' performance, and expertise you can count on as you navigate the complexities of an ever-shifting world. Find out more at www.checkout.com.
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SOURCE Checkout Ltd | 2023-07-11T06:19:58+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/07/11/checkoutcom-launches-identity-verification-video-based-ai-solution-that-verifies-customers-under-120-seconds/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — On a dusty field on the east side of Mexico’s sprawling capital, some 500 Ukrainian refugees are waiting in large tents under a searing sun for the United States government to tell them they can come.
The camp has only been open a week and 50 to 100 people are arriving every day. Some have already been to the U.S. border in Tijuana where they were told they would no longer be admitted. Others arrived at airports in Mexico City or Cancun, anywhere they could find a ticket from Europe.
“We are asking the U.S. government to process faster,” said Anastasiya Polo, co-founder of United with Ukraine, a nongovernmental organization, that collaborated with the Mexican government to establish the camp. She said that after a week’s time none of the refugees there “are even close to the end of the program.”
The program, Uniting for Ukraine, was announced by the U.S. government April 21. Four days later, Ukrainians showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border were no longer exempted from a pandemic-related rule that has been used to quickly expel migrants without an opportunity to seek asylum for the past two years.
Instead, they would have to apply from Europe or other countries such as Mexico. To qualify people must have been in Ukraine as of Feb. 11; have a sponsor, which could be family or an organization; meet vaccination and other public health requirements; and pass background checks.
Polo said U.S. government officials had told her it should take a week to process people, but it appeared like it was just beginning. Some of the first arrivals had received emails from the U.S. government acknowledging they received their documents and the documents of their sponsors, but she had heard of no sponsors being approved yet.
“These people cannot stay in this camp, because it is temporary,” Polo said. More than 100 of the camp’s residents are children.
Nearly 5.5 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded its smaller neighbor on Feb. 24, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Giorgi Mikaberidze, 19, is among the waiting. He arrived in Tijuana April 25 and found the U.S. border closed. He complained that the U.S. government had given so little notice, because many people like himself were already in transit. He went from being just yards from the United States to some 600 miles (966 kilometers) now.
When the U.S. government announced in late March that it would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, hundreds entered Mexico daily as tourists in Mexico City or Cancun and flew to Tijuana to wait for a few days – eventually only a few hours – to be admitted to the U.S. at a San Diego border crossing on humanitarian parole. Appointments at U.S. consulates in Europe were scarce, and refugee resettlement takes time, making Mexico the best option.
Traveling through Mexico was circuitous, but a loose-knit group of volunteers, largely from Slavic churches in the western United States, greeted refugees at the Tijuana airport and shuttled them to a recreation center that the city of Tijuana made available for several thousand to wait. A wait of two to four days was eventually shortened to a few hours as U.S. border inspectors whisked Ukrainians in.
That special treatment ended the day Mikaberidze arrived in Tijuana.
“We want to go to America because (we’re) already here, some don’t have even money to go back,” he said.
Mikaberidze was visiting relatives in Georgia, south of Ukraine, when the Russian invasion occurred and was not able to return. His mother remains in their village near Kharkhov in eastern Ukraine, afraid to leave her home because Russian troops indiscriminately shoot up cars traveling in the area, he said.
“She said it’s a very dangerous situation,” said Mikaberidze, who traveled to Mexico alone.
The Mexico City camp provides a safe place to wait. It was erected inside a large sports complex, so Ukrainians could be seen pushing strollers with children along sidewalks, playing soccer and volleyball, even swimming.
However, the refugees have been warned that while they are free to leave the complex, no one is responsible for their safety. Iztapalapa, the capital’s most populated borough, is also one of its most dangerous.
The Mexican government was providing security at the camp with about 50 officers, Polo said. The Navy had also set up a mobile kitchen to provide meals.
She said they felt safe inside the camp, but were asking the government about the possibility of moving the camp to a safer area.
Mykhailo Pasternak and his girlfriend Maziana Hzyhozyshyn, waited at the entrance to the complex Monday afternoon. Both suffering from an apparent head cold, they planned to move to a hotel for a day or two to try to get some sleep and recover before returning to the camp.
Pasternak had left the U.S. to help Hzyhozyshyn get in. The two had spent several days in Tijuana before flying to Mexico City and arriving at the camp Sunday.
The couple stood out on the streets of Iztapalapa and appeared to be withering under the relentless sun. The couple had known each other for six years.
“She’s my love,” Pasternak said.
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AP writer Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report. | 2022-05-04T11:05:55+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ukrainian-refugees-at-camp-in-mexico-city-await-us-action/ |
JAKARTA, Indonesia, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Persero), a state-owned limited liability company established in Indonesia (the "Company"), announces three concurrent, but separate, offers to purchase for cash, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated 15 July 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase") and subject to the offer restrictions described in the Offer to Purchase, any and all of (i) the outstanding U.S.$1,250,000,000 5.710% notes due 2023 issued by the Company (the "2023 Notes"); (ii) the outstanding U.S.$1,000,000,000 6.530% notes due 2028 issued by the Company (the "2028 Notes"); and (iii ) the outstanding U.S.$750,000,000 6.757% notes due 2048 issued by the Company (the "2048 Notes"), in each case from each registered holder of Notes (each, a "Holder" and, collectively, the "Holders"). The Company refers to the 2023 Notes, 2028 Notes and 2048 Notes collectively as the "Notes" and to each as a "series" of Notes. The Company refers to the offer to purchase each series of Notes as an "Offer" and the offers to purchase the Notes as the "Offers."
Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this announcement have the meanings given in the Offer to Purchase.
** CASH CAP **
The Company will accept Notes in the order of their respective Acceptance Priority Level (as outlined below), subject to the satisfaction of the Maximum Purchase Price Consideration Condition (as defined below). The Company's obligation to complete an Offer with respect to a particular series of Notes is conditioned on the aggregate Purchase Price Consideration (as defined below) for the Offers, excluding the applicable Accrued Interest, (after taking into account Notes of each series accepted for purchase with a higher Acceptance Priority Level) not exceeding U.S.$1.0 billion (the "Cash Cap"). The Cash Cap may be increased or reduced at the Company's sole discretion, subject to applicable law and regulation.
** FIXED PRICES AND ACCEPTANCE PRIORITY LEVELS **
Series of Notes / ISINs (RegS;144A) / Outstanding Principal Amount (as of 15 July 2022) / Acceptance Priority Level / Fixed Price (per U.S.$1,000 in principal amount of the Notes)
USD 750m 2048 Notes / USY7140WAD03; US74445PAD42 / U.S.$750,000,000 / 1st priority / U.S.$941
USD 1,000m 2028 Notes / USY7140WAC20; US74445PAC68 / U.S.$1,000,000,000 / 2nd priority / U.S.$1,032
USD 1,250m 2023 Notes / USY7140WAB47; US74445PAB85 / U.S.$674,233,000 / 3rd priority / U.S.$1,023
** PURCHASE PRICE CONSIDERATION AND ACCRUED INTEREST **
The consideration (excluding the applicable Accrued Interest) for each U.S.$1,000 in principal amount of each series of Notes, as applicable, validly tendered at or prior to the Expiration Time or the Guaranteed Delivery Date pursuant to the Guaranteed Delivery Procedures (as defined in the Offer to Purchase), and not validly withdrawn (such consideration, the "Purchase Price Consideration"), will be equal to the Fixed Price specified above for each respective series of Notes, in each case unless extended or earlier terminated with respect to an Offer by the Company in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law. In addition to the Purchase Price Consideration, Holders whose Notes of a given series are accepted for purchase will be paid accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes to, but not including, the Settlement Date (such amount, the "Accrued Interest").
** MAXIMUM PURCHASE PRICE CONSIDERATION CONDITION **
The Company's obligation to complete an Offer with respect to a particular series of Notes is conditioned on the aggregate Purchase Price Consideration for the Offers (excluding any applicable Accrued Interest) not exceeding the Cash Cap of U.S.$1.0 billion, unless waived by the Company as provided in the Offer to Purchase. Notwithstanding any other provision in the Offer to Purchase to the contrary, if at the Expiration Time for a particular Offer, the aggregate Purchase Price Consideration payable for such series of validly tendered Notes (together with the aggregate Purchase Price Consideration payable for all validly tendered Notes of each series with a higher Acceptance Priority Level and that are accepted for purchase), is greater than the Cash Cap, then the Company will not be obligated to accept for purchase such series of Notes and may terminate the Offer with respect to such series of Notes (the "Maximum Purchase Price Consideration Condition").
** NO PRO-RATION **
If any series of Notes is accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers, all validly tendered Notes of that series will be accepted for purchase. No series of Notes will be subject to proration pursuant to the Offers.
** RATIONALE FOR THE OFFERS **
The purpose of the Offers is to optimize financing costs and actively manage the Company's leverage by acquiring the maximum principal amount of Notes for which the aggregate Purchase Price Consideration (excluding the applicable Accrued Interest) for the Notes does not exceed the Cash Cap.
** PARTICIPATION IN THE OFFERS **
Holders must either validly tender their notes via the respective Clearing System or deliver a properly completed and duly executed Notice of Guaranteed Delivery (as defined in and attached to the Offer to Purchase) and other required documents pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures described in the Offer to Purchase and in the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery at or prior to the Expiration Time and tender their Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day following the Expiration Time (such date and time, as the same may be extended with respect to an Offer, the "Guaranteed Delivery Date") to be eligible to receive the applicable Purchase Price Consideration for such Notes. Notes validly tendered may be withdrawn at or prior to the Withdrawal Date unless the relevant Offer is extended or earlier terminated, but not thereafter.
** INDICATIVE TIMETABLE FOR THE OFFERS ** (all times are New York City time)
Commencement Date – 15 July 2022
Withdrawal Date – 5:00 p.m. on 21 July 2022
Expiration Time – 5:00 p.m. on 21 July 2022
Tender Results Announcement – as soon as reasonably practicable following the Expiration Time, currently expected to be on or about 22 July 2022
Guaranteed Delivery Date – 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the second Business Day following the Expiration Time, which is expected to be 25 July 2022
Settlement Date – promptly after the Expiration Deadline (and in any event within three Business Days of the Expiration Time) and expected to be on or about 26 July 2022
Guaranteed Delivery Settlement Date – expected to occur on the Business Day after the Guaranteed Delivery Date, i.e. on 26 July 2022
** DEALER MANAGERS **
BNP Paribas (liability.management@bnpparibas.com; dl.asia.syndicate@asia.bnpparibas.com / +852 2108 5228)
J.P. Morgan (liability_management_hk@jpmorgan.com / +852 2800 8019)
Mandiri Securities (msliabilitymgmt@mandirisek.co.id / +65 6589 3880)
** THE INFORMATION AND TENDER AGENT **
Morrow Sodali Limited (Email: mindid@investor.morrowsodali.com / Tender Offers Website: https://projects.morrowsodali.com/mindid / + 852 2319 4130 / +44 20 4513 6933 / +1 203 609 4910)
Questions and requests for assistance in connection with tendering Notes and participating in the Offers and the submission of a tender instruction should be directed to the Information and Tender Agent. Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the Offers should be directed to the Dealer Managers.
** DISCLAIMER **
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OR AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OFFERS. THE OFFERS ARE BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN OFFER TO PURCHASE, A COPY OF WHICH WILL BE DELIVERED TO HOLDERS OF THE NOTES, AND WHICH SETS FORTH THE COMPLETE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFERS. NOTEHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE OFFER TO PURCHASE CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISION WITH RESPECT TO THEIR NOTES.
NEITHER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT NOR THE OFFER TO PURCHASE AN OFFER TO BUY OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO SELL NOTES IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DO SO, AND TENDERS OF NOTES FOR PURCHASE PURSUANT TO THE TENDER OFFERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM NOTEHOLDERS IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS UNLAWFUL. IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS WHERE THE SECURITIES, BLUE SKY OR OTHER LAWS REQUIRE AN INVITATION TO TENDER TO BE MADE BY A LICENSED BROKER OR DEALER AND THE DEALER MANAGER OR ITS AFFILIATE IS SUCH A LICENSED BROKER OR DEALER IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, ANY INVITATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE MADE ON BEHALF OF THE OFFER BY THE DEALER MANAGER OR SUCH AFFILIATE, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AND NO INVITATION IS MADE IN ANY SUCH JURISDICTION WHERE THE DEALER MANAGER OR ITS RELEVANT AFFILIATE IS NOT SO LICENSED.
NEITHER THE OFFER TO PURCHASE NOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES AS A PUBLIC OFFERING OR PRIVATE PLACEMENT IN INDONESIAN UNDER LAW NO. 8 OF 1995 ON CAPITAL MARKETS AND ITS IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS (THE "CAPITAL MARKETS LAW") AND OJK REGULATION NO. 30 OF 2019 ON THE ISSUANCE OF DEBT-LINKED SECURITIES AND/OR SUKUK ISSUED BY WAYS OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT ("OJK REGULATION NO. 30"). THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE OFFER TO PURCHASE WILL NOT BE AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN INDONESIA OR TO INDONESIAN CITIZENS, WHEREVER THEY ARE DOMICILED, OR TO INDONESIAN RESIDENTS, IN A MANNER WHICH CONSTITUTES A PUBLIC OFFER OR PRIVATE PLACEMENT UNDER THE CAPITAL MARKETS LAW AND ITS IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS AND OJK REGULATION NO. 30.
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SOURCE PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Persero) | 2022-07-15T13:35:05+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/pt-indonesia-asahan-aluminium-persero-announces-usd-cash-tender-offers/ |
Whether you’re craving french fries, fried chicken or roasted vegetables, an air fryer is an increasingly popular tool. More than a third of all American homes now have an air fryer. This multipurpose appliance has much to offer, from recipe hacks to healthy snacks and time-saving desserts.
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Air frying vs. deep frying
Air fryers operate somewhat like convection ovens. They use heated air (400 degrees on average), fans, and a fine mist of oil to cook food quickly. Air fryers can give food the crisp texture of deep frying with almost none of the health concerns associated with it.
However, preparing your favorite freezer-aisle snacks in an air fryer isn’t healthier than using your oven. If you normally prepare your chicken nuggets in an oven, the nutritional facts won’t change when you use an air fryer. But, air fryers do use less oil and leave less fat in your food.
Air fryer types
While fryer-only models exist, you can also find air fryer toaster oven combo appliances. Specialized air fryers are good for smaller households because they’re more compact. Combo air fryers are larger but offer additional features such as toasting, dehydrating and even preparing rotisserie chicken.
Air fryer features
- Controls: Air fryers are available with analog or digital controls. Analog models tend to be more affordable and more user-friendly. Digital air fryers offer additional features such as cooking preset modes, memory and more precise cooking. A timer is an essential feature, especially if you want to try recipes like bread or cookies.
- Safety: Since they’re essentially tiny countertop ovens, safety should be a major consideration when you’re choosing an air fryer. Look for a model with automatic shutoff. Overheat protection, locking mechanisms and cool-touch handles are also useful safety features.
- Versatility: Air fryers can serve up more than fries. They can double as extra oven space or an additional burner. Their quick cooking makes them handy for small, quick dinners. Air fryers can even reheat your leftovers without turning them soggy.
- Size: Air fryers range in size from 2 quarts to more than 12 quarts, accommodating up to 4 pounds of food. Depending on how many people you’re cooking for — and how much storage space you have — you may prefer a small, 2- or 3-quart air fryer over a larger model.
Air fryer cost
Depending on the size and included features, air fryers can cost anywhere from $30 to $250. Good-quality budget air fryers cost around $50, while those in the $100 range offer features such as digital controls. Compact air fryers that offer digital controls cost $60 to $100.
Surprising air fryer foods
- Cookies: You probably got an air fryer to help you eat healthier, but it’s okay to treat yourself, too. An air fryer can deliver cookies that are crisp on the outside yet warm and gooey on the inside in about five minutes.
- Pizza: Make customized individual pizzas in your air fryer. Roll the dough to your preferred thickness and place it in the air fryer basket, then pile on your favorite toppings. These pizzas cook in 10 to 15 minutes.
- Apple chips: Air fryers aren’t good for kale chips. The lightweight greens get tossed around by the fan. If you want to make a healthy snack, make apple chips. Thinly slice an apple and arrange the slices in a single layer in the frying basket. Coat them in cooking spray and sprinkle on some cinnamon.
- Fried pickles: With a light and crispy batter made with cornmeal or panko, these snacks come together in minutes and don’t make a mess of your air fryer. They come together in less than 10 minutes.
- “Hard-boiled” eggs: No need to boil water. With a little trial and error, you can get eggs cooked perfectly to your preference. This hands-off method of cooking eggs takes less than 20 minutes.
FAQ
What can’t you cook in an air fryer?
A. While they’re versatile appliances, air fryers have their limits. Wet batter on foods such as homemade fish and chips will drip out of the basket and make a mess. Large, bone-in proteins such as whole chickens are challenging to cook evenly in an air fryer. Avoid using olive oil when air-frying at high temperatures because of its low smoke point. Lastly, be careful of how much cheese you put in the air fryer. Cheese can drip out and melt all over your air fryer’s interior.
Why does my air-fried food look pale?
A. Sometimes air frying can’t give food the golden, crispy coating we all love to see on our fried foods. To get better browning when air-frying, shake or flip your food halfway through cooking. Spritz food with a spray of cooking oil to amplify the golden color and the crispiness.
How do I clean an air fryer?
A. You need to clean your air fryer as soon as possible after using it to prevent buildup and odors. Check the owner’s manual for cleaning guidelines specific to your model. First, unplug it and let it cool. If your fryer’s basket isn’t dishwasher-safe, use warm, soapy water to clean it and the drip tray. Wipe down the heating coil and the fryer itself with a damp cloth to remove any residue.
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Man fatally stabbed during alleged road rage incident
CHICAGO (WLS) - A man was arrested after police said he allegedly fatally stabbed another man during a road rage incident in Chicago.
Alan Perez, 25, is behind bars tonight charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jeremy Walker, 36.
“He was just a big teddy bear. The sweetest person ever,” Walker’s girlfriend, Jessica Evans, said. “But he also had a very protective side of his family and of himself. And it’s just unfortunate that things transpired the way that they did.”
While relieved Perez was arrested, she’s still angry.
“Because it just doesn’t make sense,” she said.
Chicago police reported the two men got out of their cars during a road rage incident Tuesday evening. Investigators said Perez had a knife and allegedly stabbed Walker in the neck.
Walker later died at the hospital.
“This was a horrible, senseless act of violence that will not be tolerated within the city of Chicago,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said.
Officers located the suspect’s car the next morning and obtained a search warrant. Perez later turned himself in.
This stabbing adds to growing concerns about crime in the River North neighborhood of Chicago.
We’ve seen challenges with crimes that don’t normally occur,” Supt. David Brown with the Chicago Police Department said. “And we are focused with our resources and our strategies to improve and reduce those crimes in this area.”
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-27T20:11:10+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/08/27/man-fatally-stabbed-during-alleged-road-rage-incident/ |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Wednesday to greet the oldest living survivor of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor as he marked his upcoming 105th birthday.
"It feels great," Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, told reporters after posing for pictures with his great-grandson, who is about to turn 5, his 21-month-old great-granddaughter and six other World War II veterans, all in their 90s.
Eskenazi turns 105 on Jan. 30. He had boarded an Amtrak train in California on Friday for the journey to New Orleans. The other veterans, representing the Army, Navy and Marines, flew in for the event.
They were visiting thanks to the Soaring Valor Program, a project of actor Gary Sinise's charitable foundation dedicated to aiding veterans and first responders. The program arranges trips to the museum for World War II veterans and their guardians.
Eskenazi was a private first class in the Army when the attack occurred. His memories include being awakened when a bomb fell — but didn't explode — near where he was sleeping at Schofield Barracks, reverberating explosions as the battleship USS Arizona was sunk by Japanese bombs, and machine gun fire from enemy planes kicking up dust around him after he volunteered to drive a bulldozer across a field so it could be used to clear runways.
"I don't even know why — my hand just went up when they asked for volunteers," Eskenazi said. "Nobody else raised their hand because they knew that it meant death. ... I did it unconsciously."
He was at the Army's Schofield Barracks when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack began, bringing the United States into the war. About 2,400 servicemen were killed.
Eskenazi and his fellow veterans lined up for pictures amid exhibits of World War II aircraft and Higgins boats, designed for beach landings.
"Thank you guys for providing us a country that was worth fighting for," veteran Billy Hall, a who rose to the rank of major in the Marines after enlisting in 1941, shouted to well-wishers.
The museum opened in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and has expanded in size and scope since then. | 2023-01-12T04:54:12+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/oldest-living-pearl-harbor-survivor-marks-105th-birthday |
(NewsNation) — The state of Ohio is suing discount chain Dollar General, alleging the store charges shoppers prices higher than the ones advertised.
Ohio Attorney General David Yost said the state is suing the store on behalf of shoppers who have complained about being overcharged.
“They’ll put one sticker on the shelf, say $1 for shampoo. And when you get up to the register, they charge you $2,” Yost said.
Dollar General has been operating in Ohio since 2015, with 943 stores across the state. Ohio does allow stores to have an error rate of up to two percent when it comes to pricing.
Testing done by the auditor’s department in Butler County found error rates from 16.7% to 88.2% in Dollar General stores.
Yost said his office has received a number of complaints from shoppers who bring up the price discrepancy and are told there’s nothing the store can do.
“Well, you know, who’s gonna sue over $1, right? People just walk away grumbling. They know they’ve been ripped off, but there’s nothing they can do. The store is the one with all the power,” he said.
Ohio customers are being advised to check their receipts to see if they’ve been overcharged — if they have them.
“We have a number of similar complaints where they said that they had to ask for their cash register receipt, which might just be negligence on the part of the cashier, or it might be evidence that they know that their prices don’t match between the shelf and the computer,” Yost said.
Yost said he hopes Dollar General will be a good corporate citizen and make things right.
“We’ve got inflation out there. That’s right, you know, pushing prices up on everything. It seems like every day to have two separate pricing systems at Dollar General, which is, let’s face it, they’re serving people who don’t have a lot of extra disposable income,” he said.
The court documents are seeking an injunction to stop the store from charging customers more than the marked price, as well as seeking reimbursement for customers who have been overcharged.
Dollar General did not respond when NewsNation contacted them regarding the lawsuit. | 2022-11-02T23:16:22+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ohio-sues-dollar-general-claims-deceptive-pricing/ |
Should members of the K-pop supergroup BTS be forced to serve in South Korea's military?
That is the million-dollar question the country's lawmakers are scrambling to find an answer to.
In South Korea, all able-bodied men between 18 and 30 are required to serve between 18 and 21 months of military service, ABC News reported.
ABC News reported that the maximum age limit was raised from 28 to 30 in December 2020 after parliament in Seoul passed a bill that allowed global K-pop stars to put off enlisting in the military until they were 30.
The media outlet reported that the issue could reach a boiling point since Jin, the oldest member of BTS, turns 30 in December.
But, according to the law, some can be exempt from serving, ABC reported.
According to the news outlet, athletes and musicians can be given special exemptions if they win top prizes in specific international competitions because it enhances national prestige.
The Associated Press reported that this week, two government agency officials told lawmakers they'd want BTS members to serve because it would ensure fairness.
With pressure mounting, Culture Minister Park Bo Gyoon said his ministry would make a decision soon, the Associated Press reported. | 2022-10-07T21:37:32+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/entertainment/members-of-k-pop-group-bts-face-possible-military-conscription |
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese police have prevented a woman from returning to her home in Florida in an effort to compel her husband to return to China, she wrote in a letter he made public.
The case appears to be the latest example of Chinese authorities placing an “exit ban” on a person’s relatives to pressure them to return.
In an appeal to authorities, Fang Xie, 51, wrote that the police have told her that she is “innocent” but that she cannot leave until her husband, a former bookseller who left China after his store was shut down for political reasons, gives himself up.
She was barred from boarding a plane in Shanghai last August, her husband Miao Yu said, and hasn’t been able to leave China since.
Exit bans, which critics have likened to hostage-taking, have affected both Chinese citizens and foreigners. The U.S. government includes exit bans as a risk in its travel advisory for people going to China.
Yu declined to provide contact information for his wife, citing concerns about her safety. He did, however, arrange for an Associated Press journalist to join a call between them in which she confirmed that she wrote the letter but declined to comment further.
The Shanghai Public Security Bureau did not immediately respond to faxed questions Monday and a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said she was not aware of the case.
But Chinese prosecutors have previously described the practice of using exit bans on family members to pressure wanted people to return. Prosecutors, in notes about the case of a former Chinese businessman who was accused of stealing $6 million and had moved to Canada, wrote that they set up a special task force to “vigorously squeeze his survival” and placed exit bans on his son, daughter-in-law and ex-wife as part of a campaign to “control his relatives and shake his emotional support.”
Many countries can bar people accused of crimes or needed as witnesses to legal proceedings from leaving. But scholars say China’s use of travel bans exceeds these international norms.
Yu ran one of Shanghai’s best-known independent bookstores until 2018, when local authorities prevented his Jifeng Bookstore from renewing its lease, effectively pushing it out of business. At that time, Yu said, a representative of the public security bureau told him his shop had hosted “too many sensitive scholars” and “sensitive talks.”
The couple moved to America 2019, when Yu began a master’s degree in political science, and Xie came as the spouse of a student visa holder. They settled in Florida to accompany their children who go to school there. Yu is now studying journalism in Orlando and said he has not remained active in politics since going overseas.
Xie returned to Shanghai to care for her ailing mother in 2022, and Shanghai police told her about the ban two days before she planned to return home in August. Xie tried to leave anyway, but airport border officials stopped her from leaving, saying she was “suspected of endangering national security,” he said.
But police told her a different story, she wrote in an appeal to authorities that Yu published on social media about two weeks ago.
“You clearly told me that I am innocent,” she wrote. “Once my husband returns to China for an investigation then this can be exchanged for my freedom to leave.”
Yu, who had been planning a trip to China to visit relatives and friends after his wife’s return, canceled his own plans.
The couple believes that the issue is three pseudonymous articles which the police accuse Yu of publishing from the United States, about Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and those involved in China’s 1989 pro-democracy protest movement.
Yu said he is not the author of the articles, but the police told Xie that they traced them to an IP address associated with Yu.
Yu said his wife can live normally inside China and spends most of her time at her Shanghai home.
The couple speak daily, using the Chinese messaging service WeChat. But separation has been hard on them.
In her letter, Xie writes that she worries about her daughters, who are applying for university this year. “When adolescents lose their mother’s love, it will lead to lifelong regrets.”
Yu said he feels guilty that his work affected his wife, who did not work at the Jifeng Bookstore. It feels like having an “open wound,” Yu said in a video interview from their home in Florida. “I don’t know when I will be able to hug my wife and when I will be able to go back to my hometown safely and freely.”
Over the past six months, Yu said, he thought about going back to China in exchange for his wife’s freedom. He did not go ahead out of fear that his children would be left alone if the authorities banned both of them from leaving. Their twin daughters turned 18 years old this month, he added. They also have a 22-year-old son.
Yu published his wife’s letter on WeChat without telling her in advance, he said. It disappeared several hours after he first posted on WeChat but attracted attention from Chinese media outlets. A similar post on his Twitter account drew nearly 170,000 views.
The next day, local police told Xie that her husband’s move would make it more difficult to resolve the situation, he said.
Feng Chongyi, a professor of China Studies, University of Technology in Sydney who was prevented from leaving China in 2017, said Chinese authorities regularly make such threats, but argued that publicity through media campaigns played a key role allowing him and others to leave after exit bans.
Yu said he decided to speak to the media because he hoped to gain the U.S. government’s attention ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s early February trip to China. “It’s a very small hope. But now, I don’t have any other good hopes here,” he said. | 2023-02-01T04:36:44+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/ap-former-shanghai-booksellers-wife-hit-with-exit-ban/ |
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (AP)Quinten Post scored 22 points and Makai Ashton-Langston scored 21 and Boston College extended Louisville’s ACC futility, beating the Cardinals 75-65 on Wednesday night.
Jaeden Zackery added 15 points for Boston College which ended a three-game skid against the Cardinals.
El Ellis scored 17 points shooting 7 for 11 for Louisville, Jae’Lyn Withers scored 16, Mike James 15 and Sydney Curry 10.
Post made two foul shots, a 3-pointer and two more free throws in his own 7-0 run and the Eagles led 48-45 with 11:46 remaining.
Louisville responded when JJ Traynor made a 3 and followed with a dunk for a one-point lead. But BC’s Jaeden Zackery countered with consecutive 3s, Post added two more foul shots and the Eagles (10-11, 4-6) led the rest of the way.
The Cardinals (2-18, 0-9) built a 19-7 lead in the first 10 minutes of play before BC outscored Louisville 22-16 to close the half and trailed 35-29 at halftime.
Boston College moved its all-time record to 5-10 against Louisville and 2-8 versus the Cardinals in ACC play.
Louisville hasn’t beaten a conference foe since the first round of the ACC Tournament when it downed Georgia Tech 84-74 on March 8.
The Cardinals play at Notre Dame on Saturday. Boston College faces No. 7 Virginia on Saturday.
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More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 | 2023-01-26T21:13:30+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ncaa-mens-basketball/boston-college-downs-louisville-behind-post-ashton-langford/ |
BATON ROUGE – The LSU Men’s Basketball team defeated N.C. Central, 67-57, Tuesday night at the PMAC.
The Tigers will be back in action Saturday at 6 p.m. CT to host Winthrop University.
Derek Fountain led the way for the Tigers with a 17 point, 14 rebound double-double. KJ Williams posted his second double-double in a row with an 18 point, 12 rebound performance. Cam Hayes added on 14 points on 60% shooting to go along with 7 boards for LSU.
Justin Wright led N.C. Central in scoring with 14 points while tacking on 4 boards.
(Recap via LSU Athletics) | 2022-12-14T04:33:30+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/college-sports/geaux-nation/lsu-basketball-downs-nc-central-in-fourth-straight-win/ |
Subaru is clearly contemplating what comes next as an edgier alternative to the WRX.
One such possibility is the WRX by Prodrive, a thoughtfully upgraded performance version of the current model for track days and performance driving.
The edgy alternative at Subaru dealerships used to be the WRX STI, which the company announced in March 2022 wouldn’t ever come back in the same form. “In the meantime, a next-generation internal combustion engine WRX STI will not be produced based upon the new WRX platform,” Subaru said with startling finality.
That doesn’t mean the STI is dead. Subaru hinted in the same statement that the STI may come back with electrification. Consider how the fully electric Solterra STI concept shown last year might fit alongside models such as the Kia EV6 GT.
But that would be a very different car.
As I recently experienced at the UK’s Millbrook Proving Ground, with a little time in the driver’s seat, the WRX by Prodrive shows how Subaru might provide loyal enthusiasts with their fix, despite a changing landscape.
This trick WRX was put together by Prodrive, a UK firm known for tuning and motorsports support—and for creating the exclusive $600,000 Prodrive P25 supercar I also drove at one of Millbrook’s handling courses.
While I’m pretty much charmed by any WRX, this one starts on the right note. One of the most distinctive elements I lock onto from across the infield addresses a pet peeve with the current WRX. Body-colored wheel arches in this version replace the stock car’s black-lipped ones, which simply venture too far into Outback and crossover territory. The wheel arch extensions add more than an inch of overall width, which probably adds to the impression—and there’s a rear wing that looks similar to the P25’s. It also gets the same size wheels as the P25, wearing P255/35R19 Bridgestone Potenza Sport tires.
Prodrive says its WRX makes about 30 hp more than the stock WRX thanks to remapped engine management, putting total output just over 300 hp versus the standard WRX’s 271 hp. On the relatively tight road course, where I’m mostly in third gear with brief digs into second, it’s hard to feel that difference without a stock WRX on hand, but it feels robust and flexible in the midrange revs.
As I find in the same handling course where I drove the P25, there is one immediate, distinct difference versus a stock WRX: Its upgraded Sparco SPX front seats are a smart upgrade, as the car corners a lot flatter and they’re needed to hold occupants in place. Prodrive has boosted anti-roll bar stiffness front and rear, upgraded the suspension bushings, and uprated the specs for both the Bilstein dampers and springs.
The brakes have been upgraded, too, with a package similar to the P25 bringing 6-piston calipers in front and 4-piston calipers in back—larger all around, with sport pads. Only on my last lap do I begin driving this WRX hard enough to step hard into the brake pedal, and it’s more decisive than the stock WRX’s for sure.
While it’s hard to tell how much harsher this setup might ride on real-world roads, it doesn’t give the impression that it might make the WRX’s capabilities any less accessible. Like the best STI models—the 2008-2010 model in my mind—it opens up new potential.
The relative simplicity of the package and upgrades stands in contrast to the seemingly endless tuning changes and upgrades that STI models used to boast over the WRX. There’s no quicker-ratio steering, selectable center diff, or resonating exhaust, to name just a few.
If you can put some of those expectations aside, you’re not sure waiting for an electric STI is quite your thing, and you just want a better WRX, well, here it is.
Neither Subaru nor Prodrive will say if this might be sold as a package or a standalone car, by Subaru or by Prodrive, and price certainly isn’t mentioned. However, both insist that this represents a smart but relatively frugal set of accessories and improvements built on the stock Subaru WRX, which starts at $31,625 with a 6-speed manual (as this one has) for 2023. Seeing that Subaru of America got me out here, and it’s built on what’s essentially a U.S.-spec left-hand-drive car, it’s safe to say they’re interested.
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If you’re injured and have to fly somewhere soon, you shouldn’t fret over your ability to move through an airport or a plane. There’s a whole network of services to support you, and some of them are about to get an upgrade.
Most travelers with disabilities already know about these services, says Candy Harrington, editor of the accessible travel newsletter Emerging Horizons, “but passengers with an injury or a temporary disability may not be aware of them.”
What services do airports offer for travelers with injuries?
- Wheelchairs: They’re generally available to anyone who feels they need one. You can request a wheelchair through your airline or airport when you arrive, but it’s better to contact the airline in advance to reserve one. If you’re making a connection, don’t forget to ask for a wheelchair at your connecting airport.
- Early boarding and expedited screening: Most airports have a network of employees who can assist you to your gate, which includes getting you through security faster (and without you needing to stand up or move around too much). You can board the aircraft early, too — no platinum card required.
- Seat upgrades: People with injuries can, under certain circumstances, get a better seat. For example, United Airlines says it may help you find a seat with more legroom within the same class of service if you call in advance. As a passenger with a heart condition, travel coach Francesca Elisabetta Owens says she rarely has to worry about a seat assignment. “I know that after booking my ticket, I can call the disability desk for the specific airline to upgrade me for free under certain conditions,” she says. It’s not an automatic upgrade to business- or first-class, she says, but she often gets into premium economy, which has a little more legroom.
What services are changing?
Last summer, the Transportation Department compiled a bill of rights for passengers with disabilities, reiterating a federal law requiring airlines and airports to offer assistance and accessible facilities.
Although the list didn’t include any new policy, airlines quickly agreed to redouble their efforts to ensure passenger accessibility. That included improving passenger transfers and the handling of personal mobility aids such as motorized wheelchairs, as well as providing better training for employees.
Those efforts are now underway — and long overdue, say disability advocates. Last month, for example, San Jose International received an $11 million federal grant to make upgrades to the airport terminal and improvements to ensure that it complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Disability-related complaints are on the rise. For the first nine months of 2022, the government reported 1,495 complaints about airline disability services, a 64 percent increase from that span in the previous year. American Airlines had the most complaints among domestic airlines (207) over that time, and Malaysia Airlines had the most for a foreign carrier (41).
Tips for flying with an injury
Give yourself extra time
As someone who usually travels without any disability, I have to admit: I was clueless about the facilities offered to people who are temporarily incapacitated.
My accident was a combination of risky behavior, bad luck and dreadful conditions. One minute I was making turns in the early-season snow, the next minute I was lying on a patch of ice, unable to move.
A helicopter airlifted me to the Hospital Graubünden, where I underwent X-rays and CT scans. I didn’t have time to research airline disability policies. Fortunately, my college-age sons, traveling with me, took over and learned about the Zurich airport’s services for those with limited mobility.
Did I make it to Madrid? Just barely. I almost missed my train and then, after scrambling to find a wheelchair and an elevator, I almost missed my flight. I learned an important lesson about traveling with an injury: You have to give yourself plenty of time. Even with all the assistance provided, you need at least an extra hour to get to your gate.
I fumbled around on my crutches during preboarding and almost fell a few times. A kind flight attendant helped me to my seat. Fortunately, we had asked for wheelchair assistance in Madrid when we landed. An airport employee took us to the curb and helped me into the car.
Experts say I was smart to fly out of a large airport. William Rankin, a Florida Institute of Technology professor of airport management, says bigger airports such as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County and Reagan National have more resources to help travelers.
“They can deliver services on a greater scale,” he says.
Smaller airports may have a limited number of wheelchairs or staff that is not adequately trained to assist disabled passengers.
Ask for more legroom
Three weeks after my trip to Spain, I boarded a flight to Buenos Aires for a week and then another flight back to the States. This time, I had no excuse for not preparing. I knew I could call Air Europa’s special services department to ask about an upgrade to premium economy, but I was still in denial about the seriousness of my injury. I didn’t need any special treatment, I thought.
But I did. On the 13-hour overnight flight to Argentina, my broken bones really started to hurt after a few hours of sitting. The same thing happened with the flight from Argentina back to the U.S. I should have called United Airlines and asked for a seat with more room.
That’s lesson two about traveling with an injury: Don’t be a hero. Let your airline know about your injury at least 48 hours before your flight. Ask for everything you might need — any openings for an upgrade, a wheelchair and wheelchair assistance.
Also, let the Transportation Security Administration know you’re coming. One common mistake that injured airline passengers make is overlooking security, says Heather Ansley, associate executive director of government relations at Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA). She recommends contacting TSA to let the agency know you’ll be coming through the screening area.
You can contact TSA Cares through an online form or call 855-787-2227 to arrange assistance. PVA publishes a checklist for traveling with mobility impairments.
Don’t forget the paperwork
The most important thing to remember about airport disability services in the United States is that you don’t have to prove you’re disabled.
“No proof, no doctor’s note,” says Harrington. “That’s important because many people don’t avail themselves of the services available because they don’t think they qualify.”
But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. When I showed up on crutches for my flight from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, Argentina, a ticket agent asked me for a “fit to fly” note from my doctor. She insisted that it had to be written specifically for that flight. I had a doctor’s note from my Swiss hospital written in German. I showed it to her and after some negotiation, the airline ultimately allowed me to board. But gate agents can deny you boarding if you look too unwell to travel.
And here’s an insider tip: If you’ve purchased travel insurance, you should also review your policy before your flight. If you’re injured while traveling, the insurer may agree to provide a medical escort to accompany you on a commercial flight, says John Gobbels, chief operating officer of the air medical transport and travel security program Medjet. “You need to read your policy,” he says. “You may be covered.” | 2023-02-22T14:42:03+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/injury-help-airport-airline/ |
DENVER (KDVR) — Do you have your turkey yet? Thanksgiving is coming soon. A new study shows that while some people like traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey, others dislike them.
Travel site “The Vacationer” said they conducted a poll and learned that nearly 30% of American adults dislike turkey.
However, turkey is not the most disliked Thanksgiving food. The data also showed that cranberry sauce is the most disliked Thanksgiving food.
What is your most disliked Thanksgiving food?
We wanted to create a poll to see what our viewers think. You can choose as many options as want. You can also select “None of these. I like them all.”
Other results
Here is a look at the full results from “The Vacationer‘s” poll. Respondents could choose as many options as they wanted.
1. Cranberry Sauce — 30.51%
2. Turkey — 29.11%
3. Green Bean Casserole — 27.52%
4. Ham — 26.72%
5. Coleslaw — 25.32%
6. Sweet Potatoes or Yams — 25.12%
7. Stuffing/Dressing. — 22.33%
8. Pumpkin Pie. — 21.44%
9. Carrots. — 16.95%
10. Mashed Potatoes. — 15.45%
11. Corn. — 14.36%
12. Macaroni and Cheese. — 14.36%
13. Apple Pie. — 12.86%
None of these. I like them all. — 16.55%
Over 16% of people polled said they liked all of the Thanksgiving food options. | 2022-11-15T20:10:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/vote-which-thanksgiving-foods-do-you-dislike-most/ |
Big wildfires had started burning more often in California, creeping closer to Beth Pratt's home near Yosemite National Park. So Pratt did what homeowners in fire-prone areas are supposed to do: She added a metal roof, traded wood decking for laminate, installed a water tank and a fire hose, and cleared vegetation near her house. Pratt says she emptied her savings to make her "home for life" fire resistant.
But it didn't matter. Earlier this month, Pratt got a letter from Allstate, her home insurer of 31 years, saying her coverage was being dropped because of the threat from wildfires. "I get companies need to make money. I have no problem with that. Increase my rate," Pratt says. "But to just drop people — you know, it's scary. It leaves us feeling extremely vulnerable."
Pratt, like hundreds of thousands of other homeowners in California, now faces the state's growing climate threats with a weaker safety net. Over the past two years, several big insurers, including Allstate and State Farm, have scaled back their home insurance businesses in California to avoid paying billions for wildfire damage, or have halted sales of new policies altogether. Homeowners like Pratt are finding out that their longtime insurers have decided not to renew coverage.
California isn't alone. Insurance companies in states like Colorado, Louisiana and Florida are paring down business to shield themselves from ballooning losses as climate change fuels more-intense disasters. Earlier this month, the insurance arm of AAA announced it would not renew some "higher exposure" home insurance policies in Florida, and Farmers Insurance announced it will stop offering new home insurance policies in the state and won't renew thousands of existing ones, in part because of rising losses from hurricanes.
Nationwide, millions of homeowners are having to find different kinds of coverage, which typically come at a higher price with less protection.
If people can't get insurance, they can't get mortgages. And families who don't have adequate home insurance often struggle after disasters. Some have to move because they can't pay to repair their homes, or else they suffer long-term damage to their finances.
Several factors have converged to make adequate, reasonably priced home insurance harder to get. State agencies regulate the insurance industry, and they are trying to keep rates low for residents, even as weather gets more extreme from global warming. As a result, insurers say they can't increase rates enough to cover the damage occurring in the riskiest places.
Meanwhile, the cost of disasters keeps going up. People continue moving to coastal regions vulnerable to hurricanes and to rural, forested areas around the country that are prone to wildfires. When homes get destroyed, inflation is making it more expensive to rebuild. All the while, the rising temperatures driving disasters are caused primarily by burning fossil fuels that insurance companies themselves continue to underwrite and invest in.
The United States is "marching steadily towards an uninsurable future," says Dave Jones, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the state's former insurance commissioner.
Allstate wouldn't comment on Pratt's case.
The shrinking of home insurance options comes at a time when most American families have little in savings, and many can't get a loan to repair a house that's damaged or destroyed. So, when people can't get home insurance, or have inadequate coverage, the consequences can be profound.
"That impacts real estate, it impacts construction, it impacts lending. It's just ingrained with everything," says David Marlett, managing director of the Brantley Risk & Insurance Center at Appalachian State University. "Just as a human being, if you want to be able to stay where you live or where your job is or where your kids go to school, you want to be able to rebuild your house, you have to have a solvent insurance company that provides good coverage so that you can rebuild."
This crisis has been a long time in the making
American insurers already have a history of cutting back coverage in the face of disasters. The first big rupture in the U.S. insurance market happened decades ago when most companies stopped covering flooding.
Companies decided flooding was "uninsurable," says Don Hornstein, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. That's because it's complicated to figure out which places will flood and how often those floods will occur. "They didn't have maps or statistical basis to calculate what the premiums could be, which is the bread and butter of insurance, and partly because, I think, of an intuition — probably true — that if they could figure it out, no one would be able to afford it."
That led the federal government to create the National Flood Insurance Program in 1968, and it now provides the vast majority of residential flood insurance in the U.S. The program is backed by taxpayer dollars, but it is chronically in debt and is increasingly unaffordable for homeowners because it wasn't designed for the enormous climate risk that the U.S. now faces.
In the decades since the program's creation, climate change has made other types of disasters, like hurricanes and wildfires, more unpredictable and expensive too, which is slowly undermining private insurance markets state by state.
After Hurricane Andrew caused an estimated $26 billion in damage in Florida in 1992, the state's insurance market was "falling apart," Marlett says. Some insurers went bankrupt, others pulled back, and the price of insurance rose for homeowners.
Thirteen years later, Hurricane Katrina unleashed a home insurance meltdown in Louisiana. In both states, private insurance markets never fully recovered. That pushed more homeowners to rely on special state-run plans that are only available if you can't get home insurance any other way. Those state-run insurers of last resort were forced to take on billions of dollars in home insurance policies that no private company would accept.
A spate of devastating climate-driven hurricanes and wildfires in recent years has only exacerbated the problem, causing so much damage that many small insurance companies have gone bankrupt, and larger companies have continued to pull out of the riskiest areas. Wildfires have caused more than $30 billion in insured losses in California since 2017, according to the reinsurance company Munich Re.
In Florida, the state's insurer of last resort, known as Citizens Property Insurance Corp., expected to do more business in 2023 than it did in the previous two decades, mainly due to "continued instability within the Florida insurance market" following the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Ian last year.
The average price of home insurance has risen by 21% nationwide since 2015, says George Hosfield, senior director of home insurance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. That comes to hundreds of dollars more for the average homeowner's annual premium.
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States that are more vulnerable to climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes have seen even bigger increases. In Texas and Colorado, the average cost of home insurance has risen about 40% since 2015. In Florida, the statewide average is 57% higher than it was seven years ago. And in some of the hardest-hit areas, premiums have doubled or even tripled in the wake of major storms and fires.
The insurers Allstate, Chubb, American International Group (AIG), State Farm, AAA and Farmers declined interview requests.
"Obviously, insurance companies need to price insurance in a way that allows them to take in at least as much money as they pay out in claims," Hosfield says.
But those higher rates haven't stopped insurers from leaving some of the riskiest markets.
Insurers are looking for the exits
The problem, as insurance companies see it, is that they can't charge enough to cover their bills after a major disaster.
California was enduring yet another brutal wildfire season when Evan Greenberg, the chief executive of the insurer Chubb, said in late 2021 that the company had decided to shrink its home insurance business in parts of the state that were even moderately exposed to blazes. The year before, wildfires burned a record 4.3 million acres in California.
The state had kept Chubb from charging customers "an adequate price for the risk, and not by a small amount," Greenberg told Wall Street analysts. "So, someone else will have the pleasure of writing that business, unfortunately."
Other big insurers followed Chubb's lead, including AIG, Allstate and State Farm. State Farm, Allstate and Farmers, which is now limiting sales of new homeowners policies in California, accounted for more than 20% of the state's property and casualty insurance market last year. (Casualty insurance covers the costs of accidents that injure other people or damage their property, and it is often sold alongside insurance that covers a home or car.)
California's wildfires are becoming more intense as rising temperatures drive record drought and make forests more vulnerable to big, dangerous blazes. Insurers started seeing "a direct connection between climate change, the drought, a bark beetle infestation and the death of 120 million trees, and I think it's just maybe started to really crystallize the reality of the impact that climate change is having on their business," says Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a consumer advocate.
The property and casualty insurance industry is broadly profitable. But companies are worried about the growing cost of disasters in certain markets, due to climate change as well as things like inflation and rising property values.
In California, the industry pins a lot of blame on the state's efforts to keep insurance rates low. Under a ballot measure that voters approved in 1988, insurers have to go through public hearings to get rate increases of 7% or more. That's an expensive process, so insurance companies often ask for less, even if it's short of what they likely need to cover their losses, says Michael Young, a vice president at Moody's RMS, which does risk modeling for the insurance industry.
"Consumers feel like they're being protected," says Jim Tolliver, an insurance broker at Woodruff Sawyer. "But in reality, I'm not sure they are being protected. I think they're losing options on who can really write [insurance policies] in the state."
Mark Friedlander, a spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group, says insurers will stop writing policies if state regulators don't let them charge customers enough to cover the risks the companies face there. When that happens, "it's going to be harder for policyholders to find affordable coverage," Friedlander says.
Jones, the former California insurance commissioner, says state regulators have given insurance companies "just about every rate increase" they have asked for in recent years. The problem, he says, is that the risks and losses from wildfires keep growing.
When insurers leave, consumers get higher costs and less protection
That ever-growing risk, driven in part by climate change, means that even if insurance companies are allowed to raise their rates dramatically, it won't necessarily lead to plentiful or affordable options for homeowners.
That's been on display after recent major disasters. Even as the cost of home insurance has skyrocketed in Florida and Louisiana, their home insurance markets have crumbled in the face of hundreds of billions of dollars of hurricane damage. In a survey of Louisiana residents, 17% of policyholders said their home insurer canceled their coverage last year. In Texas, some insurers left the state following Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and winter storm Uri in 2021. And homeowners in Colorado are struggling to find insurance after a string of disastrous wildfires.
As insurers leave regulated state markets, many homeowners have to turn to state-mandated plans that provide coverage to property owners who can't get insurance elsewhere. Colorado created its own backstop insurer this year. But those policies are designed to cost more and only offer limited protection. Beth Pratt, the homeowner near Yosemite National Park, says she's paying twice what she did to Allstate.
"I love that California has a [state-mandated] plan, but it's a lot more expensive," Pratt says. "I mean, I've heard from friends that it's, you know, their insurance double, triple or quadruple."
Some states are looking for new ways to regulate insurance companies as the Earth gets hotter. New York and Connecticut, for example, are pushing insurers to come up with strategies for managing the risks associated with climate change by considering both current and future hazards. That's a change from the modeling that's used by most property insurers in the U.S., which is "primarily based on historical experience, even as the past is becoming less reflective of a future" shaped by global warming, the Treasury Department said in June.
That reliance on backward-looking data has created a disconnect, some experts say, between insurance companies in many parts of the U.S. and the businesses they rely on to mitigate their own risk. Reinsurers, which essentially sell insurance to insurance companies, can use forward-looking climate modeling to set their rates. Reinsurers are not regulated the way insurance companies are, so they can raise their rates more freely.
But when reinsurance rates soar, as they have recently, state regulators often don't give insurers leeway to raise their own prices based on the climate risks they're seeing in the future, says Marlett of Appalachian State.
"And that's why you see the insurance companies kind of throw their hands up and say, 'Oh, fine, we're just not going to provide coverage here,'" he says.
The reality, experts say, is that insurance rates may need to go up a lot more in vulnerable areas to reflect the risks people actually face living there. "Rates increasing is not something that we are in favor of, but if the benefit of that is that people understand more about their risk, then there's some benefit to it," says Beth Dwyer, Rhode Island's insurance commissioner. Those benefits could include spending money to make a home more resilient to disasters or choosing to move out of harm's way entirely.
There are fixes, just not easy ones
The biggest problem facing insurance markets in the U.S. is partly of the industry's own making. Temperatures are on track to increase to levels that will make climate impacts like storms and heat waves a lot more destructive. But insurers continue to underwrite and invest in fossil fuel companies anyway, despite criticism from lawmakers and activist shareholders.
In June, Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee said they were opening an investigation into the insurance industry's handling of climate change and its dealings with fossil fuel companies.
"It seems nonsensical at best — and complicit at worst — for State Farm to carefully factor climate risk from wildfires into its homeowner's insurance policies, refusing in some cases to provide such policies at all, while apparently ignoring the heightened climate risk that its investment portfolio is helping to create," Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in a letter to the company.
Given the near-certainty that the impacts of climate change will get worse, experts say it is critical to build homes that are more resilient. Roofs can be constructed to withstand hurricane-force winds and flying embers. Awnings can be designed so they don't act like sails during a storm, ripping away and causing substantial damage. And in areas prone to wildfires, homes can be built out of fire-resistant materials, and adjacent land can be cleared of flammable brush.
Michael Yaworsky, Florida's insurance commissioner, says making homes more resilient is "the key" in state's like his where almost everyone is vulnerable. "So many of our folks are so close to the coast," he says, "and it's really difficult to get away from the coast, even if you try."
The insurance industry and state regulators strongly support efforts to "harden" homes against physical threats. But they don't have the power to require them. Instead, insurers try to incentivize more-resilient buildings, or retrofits, by offering premium discounts to homeowners. Multiple states have programs to help pay for retrofits, and the federal government is trying to incentivize the building of more-resilient homes by making disaster-related funds more available to places that have stronger building codes. An Alabama initiative to upgrade roofs prevented so much hurricane damage that Louisiana is considering copying it.
Ultimately, though, it will be impossible to safely live in some areas. That's already true for dozens of neighborhoods and towns that are relocating away from rising seas and storms, from Alaska to Staten Island to South Louisiana.
In the future, slowing down or even stopping development in the riskiest areas is ultimately part of the solution to rising insurance losses, experts say.
"There could be parts of states that are just not suitable for insurance, because really they're not suitable for home-building," says Hosfield of LexisNexis.
But for now, restricting development isn't popular with most politicians.
"If you're looking at economic development and property taxes, the last thing you want to do is say, 'Well, don't build your multimillion-dollar house here on the coast or on the Outer Banks,'" Marlett says.
Dwyer, the Rhode Island insurance commissioner, says everyone should be paying attention to what's happening in places like Louisiana and Florida. Those states are often cast as outliers when it comes to climate risk and insurance market dysfunction. But Dwyer says other states could soon face similar upheaval.
"If you're on the coast in Louisiana, you're on the coast of Florida, there's no question, you probably have some of the highest risk in the country," Dwyer says. "But I hope that we've gotten to a point where it's not 'Hey, that's somebody else's problem.' Because it really isn't. It's gonna hit everybody in every part of the country."
That's increasingly clear to the millions who are already living in harm's way. For some, the risks they're facing are unlike anything they had seen before.
"We didn't used to have this many fires up here," says Pratt, the California homeowner. "The notion that, somehow, you know, we all built in this high-risk fire area — well, no, we didn't have major fires here every year."
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1 dead, 6 hurt in July Fourth block party shooting on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy was killed and six other people were injured in a shooting at a Fourth of July block party on Maryland’s Eastern Shore early Wednesday, according to the county sheriff’s office.
The Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a shooting in Salisbury shortly after midnight, according to a statement posted on social media. Salisbury is a city of about 33,200 people about 120 miles (193 kilometers) southeast of Washington, D.C.
Investigators determined that seven people were shot and one victim, a 14-year-old boy, died at a hospital, the sheriff’s office said. The other six victims were being treated at a hospital, but their injuries were not considered life-threatening.
No arrests have been made, but there was an active investigation, Capt. Timothy Robinson said by telephone.
The Salisbury shooting was one of several mass shootings over the holiday weekend, including fatal shootings in Baltimore, Fort Worth, Texas, and Philadelphia.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s “Flashdance,” has died. She was 63.
Her publicist, Judith A. Moose, announced the news on social media, writing that a cause of death was “currently unknown.” Moose also confirmed the death to an Associated Press reporter on Saturday. Cara died at her home in Florida. The exact day of her death was not disclosed.
“Irene’s family has requested privacy as they process their grief,” Moose wrote. “She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films.”
During her career, Cara had three Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Breakdance,” “Out Here On My Own,” “Fame” and “Flashdance … What A Feeling,” which spent six weeks at No. 1. She was behind some of the most joyful, high-energy pop anthems of the early ’80s.
Tributes poured in on Saturday on social media, including from Deborah Cox, who called Cara an inspiration, and Holly Robinson Peete, who recalled seeing Cara perform: “The insane combination of talent and beauty was overwhelming to me. This hurts my heart so much.”
She first came to prominence among the young actors playing performing arts high schoolers in Alan Parker’s “Fame,” with co-stars Debbie Allen, Paul McCrane and Anne Mear. Cara played Coco Hernandez, a striving dancer who endures all manner of deprivations, including a creepy nude photo shoot.
“How bright our spirits go shooting out into space, depends on how much we contributed to the earthly brilliance of this world. And I mean to be a major contributor!” she says in the movie.
Cara sang on the soaring title song with the chorus — “Remember my name/I’m gonna live forever/I’m gonna learn how to fly/I feel it coming together/People will see me and cry” — which would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award for best original song. She also sang on “Out Here on My Own,” “Hot Lunch Jam” and “I Sing the Body Electric.”
Allen took to Twitter Saturday to mourn, posting pictures of them together and calling Cara a “a gifted and beautiful genius. Her talent and her music will live forever! Forever remember her name!”
Three years later, she and the songwriting team of “Flashdance” — music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by Keith Forsey and Cara — was accepting the Oscar for best original song for “Flashdance … What a Feeling.”
The movie starred Jennifer Beals as a steel-town girl who dances in a bar at night and hopes to attend a prestigious dance conservatory. It included the hit song “Maniac,” featuring Beals’ character leaping, spinning, stomping her feet and the slow-burning theme song.
“There aren’t enough words to express my love and my gratitude,” Cara told the Oscar crowd in her thanks. “And last but not least, a very special gentlemen who I guess started it all for me many years ago. To Alan Parker, wherever you may be tonight, I thank him.”
The New York-born Cara began her career on Broadway, with small parts in short-lived shows, although a musical called “The Me Nobody Knows” ran over 300 performances. She toured in the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” as Mary Magdalene in the mid-1990s and a tour of the musical ”Flashdance” toured 2012-14 with her songs.
She also created the all-female band Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel and put out a double CD with the single “How Can I Make You Luv Me.” Her movie credits include ”Sparkle” and “D.C. Cab.”
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Forest treatments planned for 10,500 acres of Southern Oregon spotted owl habitat must be re-evaluated after wildfires tore through the area, according to a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken has ruled that federal wildlife biologists must again consult on species impacts from the two timber projects, which were approved shortly before 4,800 acres within their boundaries burned in 2019.
Federal officials argued another review was unnecessary because the original “biological opinion,” or BiOp, that assessed the projects was still valid despite fires that swept through spotted owl habitat.
While the government’s overall conclusions may remain unchanged, it’s still required to consider “new information concerning wildfires in and around the action area” under the Endangered Species Act, Aiken said.
Even before wildfires damaged the spotted owl’s critical habitat, the Poor Windy and Evans Creek projects weren’t properly studied by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the judge said.
Specifically, Aiken agreed with environmental advocates that federal officials arrived at conclusions that were contradicted by their own findings about competition between spotted owls and the more aggressive barred owls.
The BiOp laid out evidence that spotted owls are out-competed “with no known exception” in areas used for nesting, roosting and foraging, including 10,500 acres of habitat set to be reduced within the 16,000-acre project boundaries, the ruling said.
Despite these representations, the BiOP assumed without sufficiently explaining its reasoning that the negative influence of barred owls would be offset by untreated habitat that’s left available, the judge said.
“In offering an explanation counter to the evidence after considering important aspects of the problem, FWS ultimately minimized the effect of the action and its conclusions are not supported by the evidence,” Aiken said.
Likewise, the judge said that federal officials unlawfully authorized the projects based on factors that aren’t reasonably certain to occur, such as barred owl control efforts and the future development of desirable habitat.
The government’s determination that the projects will not cause any “incidental take” of spotted owls is undermined by its admission that 14 occupied sites would be adversely affected by planned forest treatments, she said.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Palantir Technologies Inc. ("Palantir" or the "Company") (NYSE: PLTR).
Class Period: November 9, 2021 – May 6, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 14, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Palantir investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Palantir's investments in marketable securities were having a significant negative impact on the Company's EPS results; (2) Palantir overstated the sustainability of its government segment's growth and revenues; (3) Palantir was experiencing a significant slowdown in revenue growth, particularly among its government customers, despite ongoing global conflicts and market disruptions; (4) as a result of all the foregoing, the Company was likely to miss consensus estimates for its Q1 EPS and Q2 sales outlook; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — One of the two women charged in the death of 5-year-old Cairo Jordan appeared in a southern Indiana courtroom on Monday.
It’s been seven months since the young boy was found dead inside a "Las Vegas" suitcase that was dumped in a wooded area of rural Indiana.
Dawn Coleman was booked into the Washington County Jail early Sunday morning after being extradited to Indiana from San Francisco, California, where she was arrested.
Coleman allegedly told police she had walked into a room to see Cairo’s mother, Dejaune Anderson, on top of the young boy with his face in the mattress.
“It was already done,” she told police.
Police discovered Coleman and Anderson were involved in Cairo’s death after a forensic evidence team found fingerprints on two of the trash bags wrapped around his body. A second set of fingerprints matched Coleman’s.
Both women are charged with obstruction of justice and neglect of a child resulting in death.
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While Coleman was in court Monday, Cairo’s mother, Dejaune Anderson is still on the run.
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Japan vs. Costa Rica: Women’s World Cup Group C Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 26
On Wednesday, July 26 at 1:00 AM ET, Japan and Costa Rica square off in Group C at the 2023 Women's World Cup, after defeating Zambia and losing to Spain, respectively, in their tournament openers.
In this group-stage match, Japan is -2353 to win and Costa Rica is +3633, with the draw at +1350. This match has an over/under of 3.5 goals. The under is available at -117, and the over is -114.
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Japan vs. Costa Rica Game Info
- Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Time: 1:00 AM ET
- Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
- Venue: Forsyth Barr Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 3.5
- Japan Moneyline: -2353
- Costa Rica Moneyline: +3633
Japan vs. Costa Rica World Cup Betting Insights
- The teams average five goals per game combined, 1.5 more than this match's total.
- Opponents of these teams average three goals per game combined, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Japan has been a moneyline favorite just one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Japan has never played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of -2353 or shorter.
- Costa Rica lost the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- Costa Rica has played as an underdog of +3633 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
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Japan vs. Costa Rica Recent Performance
- In 2022, Japan was 4-2-3 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +3. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 4-0-3 (+11 goal differential).
- Japan's last game was a victory, 5-0 over Zambia, taking 24 shots and outshooting by 24.
- Miyazawa for two goals in the match against .
- In 2022, Costa Rica was 2-1-7 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -10. This year its record against fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-2 (-2 goal differential).
- Last time out on July 21 versus Spain, Costa Rica endured a 3-0 loss, and was outshot 35 to one.
- Melissa Herrera led Costa Rica with one shot.
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VIENNA (AP) — A man killed a woman with an ax in a Berlin apartment early Sunday morning before being shot dead by police, German police said.
Police said that they were called to an apartment in Berlin's Lichtenberg neighborhood shortly before 8 a.m. As they arrived, they saw a man striking a woman with an ax.
Officers shot and killed the suspect, according to a police statement. The victim died on the scene of her injuries.
As of Sunday afternoon, police were still investigating the crime. They had not yet released details on the identities of the suspect or the victim, nor on the motive for the attack. | 2022-09-04T12:14:19+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-kills-woman-with-an-axe-in-Berlin-17418657.php |
No bond for ex-Mexico security official charged with bribery
By JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) - Mexico’s former top security official will be held without bond as he awaits trial on allegations that he accepted bribes from a notorious cartel. Genaro Garcia Luna was indicted in New York City for allegedly accepting a fortune in drug-money bribes from the Sinaloa cartel. A judge in Dallas on Tuesday ordered the 51-year-old be held on three counts of cocaine trafficking conspiracy and a false statements charge. Federal agents arrested Garcia Luna in Dallas last week. Prosecutors say they will seek his removal to Brooklyn, where Sinaloa kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was tried in 2018.
Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | 2022-10-13T10:51:53+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/no-bond-for-ex-mexico-security-official-charged-with-bribery-2 |
For months, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — an expected 2024 Republican presidential candidate — did his best to ignore former president Donald Trump, a declared 2024 Republican candidate.
And finally — faced with an onslaught of attacks and provocations from Trump and his allies — DeSantis got more direct in an interview with Piers Morgan set to air Thursday on Fox Nation.
DeSantis implicitly criticized Trump’s chaotic and ego-driven management style (“The way we run the government, I think, is no daily drama”), touted his own handling of covid compared with Trump (“I would have fired somebody like Fauci,” he said, referring to Trump’s covid czar, Anthony S. Fauci) and dismissed Trump’s chosen nickname of “DeSanctimonious” for him (“You can call me whatever you want, just as long as you also call me a winner”).
DeSantis’s halting three-step illustrates the Republican Party’s broader and continuing struggle with how to effectively take on Trump, the presumptive front-runner for the Republican nomination. The question of whether — and how hard — to go after Trump is particularly stark among the 2024 Republican hopefuls, underscoring the myriad risks and challenges still facing would-be rivals in attacking the de facto leader of their party.
DeSantis’s public evolution also mirrors the private discussions dominating his party in recent weeks, as large swaths of Republicans — outside groups, pollsters and strategists, presidential rivals — have scrambled to answer the question of how to handle Trump, quietly testing messages and discussing strategies to defeat him in their party’s upcoming presidential primary.
As Bragg’s possible indictment of Trump has dominated the news, Republican candidates, both declared and expected, have alighted on a range of responses to potential charges — from criticism (former New Jersey governor Chris Christie) to silence (former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, at least initially) to outspoken defense (former vice president Mike Pence and anti-woke crusader Vivek Ramaswamy).
In a Saturday radio interview, for instance, Pence — an expected 2024 contender — declared himself “taken aback” by the idea that Trump could be arrested and, referring to a special counsel probe during Trump’s presidency, said that Bragg’s investigation “reeks of the kind of political prosecution we endured in the days of the Russia hoax.”
Ramaswamy, a Republican who has already announced a 2024 presidential bid, also called Bragg’s investigation a “disastrously politicized prosecution” in a tweet Sunday, and called on several fellow Republican hopefuls “to join me in condemning the potential Trump indictment.”
And on Monday, Haley weighed in, telling Fox News that Bragg was looking to score “political points” and that any indictment would be “more about revenge than it is about justice.”
Trump has in many ways defied the rules of political gravity, and now those who would like to see their party move beyond him are discarding tactics that failed previously and considering a host of new options.
There is growing consensus that attacks on Trump’s character, like those deployed by the “Never Trump” movement, are not particularly effective, since he is already a well-known and deeply polarizing figure, Republican operatives, donors and strategists said.
Instead, pockets of the party are considering whether to forgo trying to peel away “Make America Great Again” stalwarts — who they fear may never abandon the former president — and how to entice Republicans who voted for him twice and still hold deep affection for his presidency, but may also be ready to consider Trump alternatives.
The most effective anti-Trump messages, these Republicans and strategists say, are appeals to Trump fatigue and the idea that he may no longer be the most electable candidate; subtle nods to his age and the idea that it’s time to consider a new generation of leaders; and attacks on his record, arguing that he failed to keep many of the promises he made — such as building a wall at the nation’s southern border and having Mexico pay for it.
Frank Luntz, a pollster and communications analyst, said there is a portion of the Republican electorate that is simply exhausted from the chaos and controversy that has become all but synonymous with the Trump brand — and for that group, the best message is: “Thank you, Mr. Trump. Thank you for you service. Just go away.”
“People who try to beat Trump come in with sledgehammers when they need to be brain surgeons,” Luntz said. “All it takes is a calmer, lighter, gentler approach that expresses appreciation for his courage and convictions, but then asks, ‘But is it time to move on?’”
In February, research firms Engagious and the Schlesinger Group conducted two focus groups for The Washington Post, focusing on 14 respondents in four early caucus and primary states who they identified as persuadable Republican primary voters. Rich Thau, the president of Engagious, said that when he asked the participants what is the ideal age to become president, the average response was 51 — and when he asked what is the oldest acceptable age to become president, participants said 68.
Republicans have long attacked President Biden, 80, over his age and what they claim is his diminishing mental acuity, but some who have tested this messaging say this means Republican voters are also primed to be receptive to similar concerns about Trump, 76.
“Both of these guys are decades beyond the ideal, so Americans are ready for a new generation, and Republicans are ready for a new generation,” Thau said.
But attacking Trump is a delicate balance, especially from fellow Republicans who need to simultaneously dislodge his grip on the party while also not alienating his loyal base.
Candidates who attack Trump — even if they are simply responding to attacks from him — usually come under immediate fire from the former president and his team. “While the entire conservative movement is united against the unjust indictment of President Donald Trump, Governor DeSantis is choosing to go off half-cocked and take shots,” Trump adviser Taylor Budowich, who runs his major super PAC, said Tuesday afternoon.
“It’s his policies are great, but he’s a flawed messenger who lost to a geriatric dolt, when any other Republican would have won last time,” said a DeSantis ally, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private thinking. “Electability is the number one issue right now. Ask any Republican in the country right now, and all they say is they want to get Joe Biden out of office, and we need someone who can definitely win.”
Pence has criticized Trump’s handling of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol, but otherwise has largely eschewed criticizing his former boss. Even in private, Pence has continued to tout the accomplishments of the Trump-Pence administration, people familiar with his comments said.
“Voters still have a lot of affection for his record, and they’re not as anxious to see that,” said Marc Short, a senior Pence adviser, referring to attacking Trump by name.
Many Republican donors and outside groups are also in the early stages of wrestling with the most effective way to take on Trump. Officials at the conservative Club for Growth, for example, have already signaled they plan to go up on the air this spring with a large ad buy in early states attacking Trump, and the network of activist groups and donors led by billionaire Charles Koch have also said they plan to oppose Trump for his party’s nomination.
The question of how to beat Trump also dominated conversations at elite gatherings in Sea Island, Ga., Palm Beach, Fla., and Austin, in recent months, as some of the party’s top donors gathered to discuss how to most effectively spend their money. At those gatherings — sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Club for Growth and Karl Rove’s group to engage Texas voters, respectively — potential and declared Republican candidates mingled with some of the party’s top benefactors.
At the Texas retreat, Christie offered a fiery denunciation of Trump and urged others in the party to call him out by name.
Calling the former president “the problem,” Christie argued that Trump “failed us on election night 2020, not by losing, but by standing in the East Room of the White House and saying the election was stolen when he had no evidence to prove that it was,” according to audio obtained by The Post.
Other likely and declared 2024 Republican candidates, including Haley and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, have argued, either overtly obliquely, that Trump is past his prime. Like Christie, Sununu has regularly attacked Trump by name in private, while Haley has largely tried to steer clear of mentioning the former president in conversations with donors and activists, people familiar with their comments said.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month, Sununu said that much of the party is looking for “an alternative” to Trump, who he claimed is “not going to be the nominee.”
“Thank you for your service — we’re moving on,” Sununu continued. “I just don’t believe the Republican Party is going to say the best leadership for America tomorrow is yesterday’s leadership.”
Mike Pompeo, Trump’s former secretary of state who is also considering a bid, has privately warned that the former president was erratic in office, according to people who have heard his comments, but has been less blunt publicly, offering instead an argument that it’s time to move on from the chaos of the Trump years.
“The moment for celebrity, the moment for stars, is not with us,” Pompeo said on “Fox News Sunday” earlier this month. While never referring to Trump by name, he added that the nation needs to “elect serious leaders” who are not denigrating the country, “not throwing out whoppers” and “not spending all their time thinking about Twitter.”
Trump’s team, for its part, believes the former president’s biggest weaknesses currently are fatigue with his chaos and controversies; his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen; and the poor showing by Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections, one top adviser said. The personality-based attacks, this person added, are less successful because concerns about Trump’s character are already “baked in the cake.”
“The message I think works against him is that there’s only one person who could lose to Joe Biden in 2024,” said a second longtime Trump adviser.
Republicans looking to beat Trump have begun considering — and in some cases testing — other messages, including some based on Trump’s record in office, according to several people familiar with the different efforts. The possible attacks include that he empowered Fauci, who became the face of covid prevention efforts and a target of right-wing anger; that Trump never finished building a wall at the nation’s southern border; and that Trump hired and elevated “woke” military generals.
Josh Holmes, a Republican strategist close with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said Republican rivals would be smart to focus on issues Republican voters care about, including where Trump may have fallen short as president.
“He ran on building the wall and didn’t get it done,” Holmes said. “There are practical components to him having a four-year record on the issues people care about.”
Scott Clement contributed to this report. | 2023-03-22T17:09:22+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/republicans-trump-challenge/ |
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s president on Friday officially opened a ruling party congress that is set to renominate him as the party’s presidential candidate for next year’s election, but soaring inflation and a government crackdown on dissent are fueling tensions in the southern African nation.
The ruling ZANU-PF party on Saturday will officially nominate President Emmerson Mnangagwa as its election candidate and party leader for the next 5 years, a choreographed step that all party organs have already endorsed him.
Yet the 80-year old is likely to face a strong challenge from 44-year-old popular opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, whom he narrowly beat in 2018.
Mnangagwa took over from his mentor, the late Robert Mugabe, following a coup in 2017 and subsequently won a disputed election the following year.
“Let us give him another five years…so that he propels our country to the land of our dreams. He is the one and only candidate we know,” vice president and former army general Constantino Chiwenga said to applause from hundreds of party supporters in the capital, Harare, many dressed in the party’s green, yellow and red colors emblazoned with the president’s face.
In turn, Mnangagwa promised a “thunderous victory.”
“We pronounce our readiness to yet again win another mandate to govern. Under our watch, ZANU-PF will continue to govern this land,” he said.
Zimbabwe’s electoral body says the general election should be held by August next year. But many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to that during Mugabe’s iron-fisted rule.
Dozens of people — including opposition supporters, political activists, journalists, church leaders, trade unionists and student leaders — have been arrested, detained or are appearing in court on charges that some legal experts equate to harassment.
Criticism of Mnangagwa’s government has been stoked by Zimbabwe’s inflation of 268%, currently estimated to be one of the world’s highest. Rising numbers of people are being pushed into informal trade such as street vending.
Mnangagwa blames sanctions imposed by the United States about two decades ago for his country’s economic problems.
In a tweet on Oct. 25, an annual date that Zimbabwe and the regional Southern African Development Community body have set to lobby against the sanctions, the U.S. Embassy in Harare said “the direct impact of sanctions on the average Zimbabwean is minimal compared to the economic devastation caused by years of corruption, poor policy choices, and economic mismanagement.” | 2022-10-29T12:52:21+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-zimbabwes-ruling-party-backs-leader-despite-huge-inflation/ |
‘Very high probability’ Mauna Loa lava will reach key highway, USGS says
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (KHNL/Gray News) - As the Mauna Loa eruption continues, the state is gearing up for a possible shutdown of Daniel K. Inouye Highway within days. The key thoroughfare connects Hilo and Kona.
The U.S. Geological Survey says there’s a “very high probability” that lava from the Mauna Loa eruption will reach the highway and is urging residents to be prepared.
“It’ll probably come around the north side of Pu’u Huluhulu, which is right at the Mauna Kea turnoff on Saddle Road,” said Ken Hon, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist-in-charge, at a news conference Wednesday.
If the lava flow continues at its rate of about 130 meters an hour, USGS said it could reach the road by Friday at the earliest.
But as of 7 p.m. Wednesday, Hon said the lava has entered flat terrain and slowed down to a rate of 24 meters per hour.
“The terrain is what is slowing it down. There’s no doubt about it also getting more distant from vent ... we’re seeing more crystal ... they get hard and, like, block start providing resistance,” Hon explained.
State and county officials say they’re getting ready to shut down the highway and divert traffic if needed.
Gov. David Ige said he plans to activate the Hawaii National Guard to help set up critical infrastructure and “support planning for alternative routes and help with making available bypass routes if that becomes necessary.”
“All the equipment necessary to shut down the road where it was necessary, to put a message board, so we can alert everyone in advance of the shutdowns, and that we can clear the Hamakua coast of any lane restrictions that we have on that area,” said Ed Sniffen, deputy director of highways for the state Department of Transportation.
Shutting down the highway, known locally as Saddle Road. will mean more traffic in communities along the Hamakua Coast, along with tourists flocking to Hawaii Island to see the eruptions.
A shutdown would also have a major impact on thousands of commuters. An alternative route takes much longer.
Talmadge Magno of the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said the highway has become the “main transit” between east and west Hawaii Island.
“So it’s very important,” he said.
Hon said the soonest it would reach the highway would be two days. But he added it would likely take longer than that.
“It’s just a question of timing, it’s not that it’s going to hit in two days, but that is the fastest time of right now that it could cover the road,” Hon said.
Magno added if the main highway closes, those seeking to get between Hilo and Kona would need to rely on coastal routes like Highway 19 and Highway 11. “They’re gonna be seeing an increase in traffic and it’s just going to cause congested areas to get more congested, which equates to safety as well,” he said.
Hawaii County is also creating a safe dedicated viewing area in a section within the Pohakuloa Training Area.
“There’s portions that Daniel K Inouye Highway doesn’t follow of the Old Saddle Road alignment,” Sniffen said. “So in the Pohakuloa Training Area, there’s a remnant of the Old Saddle Road that we didn’t follow. That portion is still paved, it still allows people to drive on, and there’s areas that could be safe for people to park on.”
The move comes as spectators flood the highway and increase the risk of accidents. Just a few hours after Big Island Mayor Mitch Roth banned parking alongside the highway, a car was hit as it was driving off the shoulder to the main road. Two people were treated for minor injuries.
It’s a $1,000 fine for illegally parked vehicles. County officials say police patrols and enforcement will continue along the highway throughout the eruption.
Officials are urging people to drive safely and stay alert, especially when driving in the dark.
Kim Rodrigues has been commuting between Hilo and the Waikola area for 19 years. She said the alternate routes aren’t meant for heavy traffic.
“We’re going to have to be patient,” she said.
Rodrigues wants the state to add temporary, left turn lanes or add passing lanes on the shoulder of Highway 19 to prevent backups if there are Saddle Road closures.
“It’s going to be quite an inconvenience but it doesn’t mean that our people will be cut off,” said Elena Cabatu, head of marketing at Hilo Medical Center.
The facility has 1,600 employees, and a handful of them commute from the west side.
“We are taking an inventory of our employees and where they live,” she said.
CONTINUING COVERAGE:
- Is there a way to stop a lava flow? Officials discuss diversion amid Mauna Loa eruption
- State develops action plan as lava approaches key Hawaii Island highway
- ‘It’s epic’: People flock to view Mauna Loa eruption as lava flow lights up sky
- Mauna Loa eruption comes after longest quiet period in recorded history
- PHOTOS: Hawaii Island residents awake to fiery spectacle of Mauna Loa eruption
- Hawaii Island schools remain open; DOE closely monitoring eruption impacts
Healthcare workers are essential so they will have to make the drive. Cabatu said they are helping those employees prepare for the added commute time.
Hawaii Island officials have had very preliminary discussions about whether there’s any possibility to divert the lava flow ― something that has been tried (with limited success) in other places.
Those conversations were not fruitful, Magno said, without elaborating.
At a news conference Wednesday, Ige also said diverting the flow would likely be impossible.
“There is no physical way or technological way to change the course of where the lava flows,” Ige said.
“The power of Mother Nature and Madame Pele overwhelms anything we can do. So we will monitor and make plans to ensure connectivity between east and west should the DK highway get overrun with lava.”
The state said closing the highway if the lava reaches it, could take about six hours. At this time, the highway remains open in both directions.
Meanwhile at the Pohakuloa Training area, the Army said lava has not entered a barracks section, and social media posts saying so are false.
They added that lava has only destroyed a fence in a remote area, and precautions are being taken to protect personnel and equipment.
Already, though, flows have crossed a private road, cutting off access and power to an important global climate monitoring station. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said lava also crossed Old Kona Highway at around 11 p.m. Tuesday. It’s a dirt road that crosses the Mauna Loa Forest Reserve.
Meanwhile, officials continued to stress the eruption does not pose a threat to downslope communities.
The Mauna Loa eruption started late Sunday after months of elevated earthquake activity.
The 13,681-foot Mauna Loa volcano had been rumbling more in the last several months, prompting many to believe an eruption was imminent.
Copyright 2022 KHNL via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-01T12:47:04+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/12/01/very-high-probability-mauna-loa-lava-will-reach-key-highway-usgs-says/ |
Realtors say the local housing market is hot despite the snow
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Home sales rose 14.5 percent nationally in February compared to January, according to the National Association of Realtors.
That’s the first monthly gain in a year, according to CNBC.
Realtors say the local market is heating up in the Bismarck/Mandan area, in part due to the low inventory.
Justin Sackman with Bianco Realty in Bismarck says the lack of available properties benefits sellers because it creates demand, and the buyers exceed the sellers.
Sackman says buyers are also warming up to the historically normal mortgage rates sitting at about 6 percent.
One reason realtors say there’s a low inventory in North Dakota is due to the snow.
They say buyers might be hesitant to put their homes on the market due to a fear of snow in listing photos deterring potential buyers.
“Sometimes when you see snow, people aren’t as aggressive to want to move and do things. We feel it with all the snow we have sitting, it’s hard to make decisions. Oh yeah, let’s put a sign out when there’s a big snow pile out there. But my suggestion to anyone willing to sell is don’t wait because the inventory is low. You have a better chance of selling it now then maybe later in the year when you think the time is right,” said Sackman.
Sackman says despite the snow, homes are selling fast with some local houses receiving upwards of five offers.
He says national projections indicate home prices will likely go up due to inflation.
However, Sackman says the North Dakota housing market has always been shielded from the national averages due to the amount of income streams our state has such as agriculture, government and energy, serving to protect home value.
Copyright 2023 KFYR. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-24T16:48:21+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/03/24/realtors-say-local-housing-market-is-hot-despite-snow/ |
TX Lubbock TX Zone Forecast for Friday, October 14, 2022
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National Weather Service Lubbock TX
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
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Lubbock-
Including the cities of Lubbock, Wolfforth, and Slaton
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy and much
cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Temperature falling into the
lower 50s in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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Childress-
Including the cities of Childress and Kirkland
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east after midnight. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with thunderstorms likely in the morning, then
showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Much cooler. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Parmer-
Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, and Farwell
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
slight chance of showers in the evening, then a chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Showers, breezy and much cooler. Near steady temperature in the
lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows
in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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Castro-
Including the cities of Dimmitt and Hart
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
slight chance of showers in the evening, then a chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning,
then showers likely in the afternoon. Breezy and much cooler.
Near steady temperature in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
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TXZ023-152115-
Swisher-
Including the cities of Tulia and Happy
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
slight chance of showers in the evening, then a chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning,
then showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ024-152115-
Briscoe-
Including the cities of Silverton and Quitaque
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then a chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the mid 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northeast
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning,
then showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
morning. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ025-152115-
Hall-
Including the cities of Turkey and Memphis
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with thunderstorms likely in the morning, then
showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Much cooler with highs around 60. Northeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ027-152115-
Bailey-
Including the city of Muleshoe
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming west after midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the
morning. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ028-152115-
Lamb-
Including the cities of Littlefield, Amherst, and Olton
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the
morning. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Near
steady temperature around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ029-152115-
Hale-
Including the cities of Plainview and Hale Center
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the
morning. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Near
steady temperature around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ030-152115-
Floyd-
Including the cities of Floydada and Lockney
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southwest after midnight. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning,
then showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Near steady temperature in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ031-152115-
Motley-
Including the cities of Matador and Roaring Springs
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning,
then showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Much cooler with highs around 60. Temperature falling
into the mid 50s in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Showers likely. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
morning. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ032-152115-
Cottle-
Including the cities of Paducah and Cee Vee
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely after midnight. Lows around 60. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Much cooler with
highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers likely after midnight.
Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ033-152115-
Cochran-
Including the cities of Morton and Whiteface
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler
with highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the
upper 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ034-152115-
Hockley-
Including the cities of Levelland and Sundown
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy and much
cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ036-152115-
Crosby-
Including the cities of Ralls and Crosbyton
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy and much
cooler with highs around 60. Temperature falling into the mid 50s
in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ037-152115-
Dickens-
Including the cities of Spur and Dickens
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler
with highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling into the mid 50s
in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ038-152115-
King-
Including the cities of Dumont and Guthrie
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then a chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest
after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler
with highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling into the upper
50s in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly
in the evening. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning.
Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ039-152115-
Yoakum-
Including the cities of Denver City and Plains
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler
with highs in the upper 50s. Temperature falling into the mid 50s
in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows in
the upper 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Near
steady temperature around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ040-152115-
Terry-
Including the cities of Brownfield, Meadow, and Wellman
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler
with highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling into the mid 50s
in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Lows in the
upper 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ041-152115-
Lynn-
Including the cities of Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler
with highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling into the mid 50s
in the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows around 50. Northeast winds around 20 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ042-152115-
Garza-
Including the cities of Post and Lake Alan Henry
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Much cooler with
highs in the lower 60s. Temperature falling into the upper 50s in
the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms after
midnight. Cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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TXZ043-152115-
Kent-
Including the city of Jayton
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Much cooler with
highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling into the upper 50s in
the afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms after
midnight. Cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 60. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ044-152115-
Stonewall-
Including the cities of Aspermont and Old Glory
330 AM CDT Sat Oct 15 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SUNDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Much cooler with
highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling to around 60 in the
afternoon. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
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Pipelines Build While Investors Remain Cautious in the Current Building Products M&A Market
CLEVELAND, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- While Building Products M&A activity has slowed, the pipeline of opportunities continues to grow as sellers await the opportune time to market their businesses amid uncertainties in the housing market and the broader economy, according to a new industry report released by the Building Products investment banking team of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL).
Read the BGL Industrials Insider— Pipelines Build While Investors Remain Cautious in the Current Building Products M&A Market: https://bit.ly/BuildingProductsInsiderbgl
The issue also features exclusive insights from executives at Validor Capital, Renovo Capital, Drum Capital, and Stax. The insights address diverse building products industry trends ranging from the demand outlook and operational challenges to M&A and valuations. Key takeaways include:
- The long-term outlook for the Building Products industry remains favorable.
- While market uncertainty has left some investors sidelined, strategic buyers are leveraging their capital and synergies to complete accretive add-on acquisitions at reasonable valuations.
- The financing market has pulled back leverage but continues to show appetite for high-quality assets.
- Consolidation is continuing, with technological innovation and supply chain management cited among the drivers of acquisition activity in the coming months.
Despite headwinds, buyers continue to seek high-quality building products acquisition targets with strategic buyers leveraging the current buying environment to acquire tuck-in opportunities and private equity firms looking for platform investments at attractive valuations.
About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market. The firm advises private and public corporations and private equity groups on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructurings, business valuations and opinions, and other strategic matters. BGL has investment banking offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York, and real estate offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Antonio. The firm is also a founding member of Global M&A Partners, enabling BGL to service clients in more than 35 countries around the world. Securities transactions are conducted through Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company Securities, LLC, an affiliate of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LLC and a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.
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SOUTHERN TIER, N.Y. (WETM) – With warmer and nicer weather approaching, motorcyclists are now more likely to hop on their bikes, and at this time, motorcycle safety is more important than ever.
According to Frekhtman & Associates Injury Lawyers, about 166 fatal motorcycle crashes happen each year in New York State. Though not as common as car accidents, motorcycle accidents are more likely to result in deadly injuries due to less protection.
“About 1,600 accidents a year happen in New York State,” said Bill Elfe, Professional Maintenance Team Lead for Rollin’ Dead Motorcycle Club. “About 10 percent of those accidents a year result in death.”
In Pennsylvania, however, about 200 fatalities a year are caused by motorcycle accidents. This is roughly 4 percent of about 5,000 motorcycle deaths that happen annually nationwide.
Riders between the ages of 20 and 24 suffer the most fatalities. Older riders have also begun incurring many more injuries in recent years.
To ensure motorcycle safety for all residents, cyclists should refrain from speeding on highways and traveling through busy intersections. All riders should also wear protective leather gear and a full-face motorcycle helmet at all times.
Frekhtman & Associates Injury Lawyers also remind motorcyclists to drive extra carefully when riding with a passenger. For residents planning to take an unusually long motorcycle ride this summer, it is important to consider riding with at least one or two others so everyone can watch out for each other’s safety.
For extra safety, it is recommended that riders take a defensive driving course. Many of these courses can be found online for beginners or for those with more advanced experience. | 2022-04-27T21:52:36+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/top-stories/motorcycle-safety-tips-for-new-york-residents-and-nationwide/ |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 16, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Denton County in north central Texas...
Northwestern Collin County in north central Texas...
Southeastern Cooke County in north central Texas...
Southwestern Grayson County in north central Texas...
* Until 315 AM CDT.
* At 226 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Lake Kiowa,
or 9 miles southeast of Gainesville, moving southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is possible.
* Locations impacted include...
Celina, Pilot Point, Collinsville, Gunter, Lake Kiowa and Tioga.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
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GREELEY, Colo., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JBS USA Lux S.A. (the "Company") today announced that it has commenced offers to exchange (each, an "Exchange Offer" and, together, the "Exchange Offers") any and all outstanding (i) 2.500% Senior Notes due 2027 and (ii) 3.625% Sustainability-Linked Senior Notes due 2032 (collectively, the "Existing Notes") issued by JBS USA Food Company (originally issued by JBS Finance Luxembourg S.à r.l.) for (1) up to U.S.$2,000.0 million aggregate principal amount of new notes (the "New Notes") to be issued by the Company, JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Finance, Inc. (collectively, the "Issuers") and (2) cash, in each case, as set forth in the table below.
The following table sets forth the Exchange Consideration, the Early Tender Premium and the Total Exchange Consideration for each series of Existing Notes:
In conjunction with the Exchange Offers, the Company is soliciting consents (each, a "Consent Solicitation" and, together, the "Consent Solicitations") to adopt certain proposed amendments to the indentures governing the Existing Notes to eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants, events of default and related provisions and definitions therein from such indentures.
Concurrently with the Exchange Offers, the Company commenced consent solicitations (collectively, the "JBS USA Consent Solicitations") from the holders of each of the Issuer's (collectively, the "JBS USA Consent Solicitations Notes") (i) 6.50% Senior Notes due 2029, (ii) 5.500% Senior Notes due 2030, (iii) 3.750% Senior Notes due 2031, (iv) 3.000% Senior Notes due 2029, (v) 3.000% Senior Notes due 2032 and (vi) 4.375% Senior Notes due 2052 to conform certain provisions and restrictive covenants (and definitions related thereto) of the indentures governing each series of JBS USA Consent Solicitations Notes to the corresponding provisions and restrictive covenants (and definitions related thereto) set forth in each indenture, dated June 21, 2022, governing the Issuers' 5.125% Senior Notes due 2028, 5.750% Senior Notes due 2033 and 6.500% Senior Notes due 2052.
Each Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation is conditioned upon the completion of the other Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation, although the Company, in its sole discretion, may waive such condition at any time with respect to an Exchange Offer. In addition, each Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation is conditioned on the satisfaction or waiver of certain other conditions, as described in the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement (as defined below), including the valid delivery (and no revocation) by holders of consents from a majority in aggregate principal amount of each series of JBS USA Consent Solicitation Notes prior to the applicable expiration time under the JBS USA Consent Solicitations, although the Company, in its sole discretion, may waive such condition at any time with respect to any one or more of the JBS USA Consent Solicitations.
The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are being made pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offering memorandum and consent solicitation statement, dated August 2, 2022 (the "Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement").
Holders who validly tender (and do not withdraw) their Existing Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 15, 2022, unless extended (the "Early Tender Date"), will be eligible to receive the applicable Total Exchange Consideration as set forth in the table above, which includes the applicable Early Tender Premium as set forth in the table above, for all such Existing Notes that are accepted for exchange. Holders who validly tender their Existing Notes after the Early Tender Date but prior to 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on August 29, 2022, unless extended (the "Expiration Date"), will not be eligible to receive the applicable Early Tender Premium as set forth in the table above and, accordingly, will only be eligible to receive the applicable Exchange Consideration as set forth in the table above on a settlement date. The early settlement date is expected to be within four business days after the Early Tender Date or as promptly as practicable thereafter. The final settlement date is expected to be within two business days after the Expiration Date or as promptly as practicable thereafter.
In addition, subject to the terms and conditions in the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, the Company will enter into a registration rights agreement (the "Registration Rights Agreement"), pursuant to which the Company will agree to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) file an exchange offer registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to allow holders to exchange Existing Notes of each series for the same principal amount of New Notes of the same series, which will have terms identical in all material respects to such series of Existing Notes, except that the New Notes will not contain transfer restrictions and (ii) consummate such exchange offer within 365 days of entering into the registration rights agreements.
Documents relating to the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations will only be distributed to eligible holders of Existing Notes who complete and return an eligibility form confirming that they are either (a) a "Qualified Institutional Buyer," as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or (b) a person that is outside the "United States" and is (i) not a "U.S. person," as those terms are defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act and (ii) a "non-U.S. qualified offeree" (as defined in the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement). The complete terms and conditions of the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are described in the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, copies of which may be obtained by contacting D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and the information agent in connection with the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations, at (800) 967-7574 (toll free) or (212) 269-5550 (banks and brokers). The eligibility form is available electronically at www.dfking.com/jbs.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or purchase, or the solicitation of tenders or consents with respect to, any security. No offer, solicitation, purchase or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful. The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are being made solely pursuant to the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement and only to such persons and in such jurisdictions as is permitted under applicable law.
The New Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state or foreign securities laws. Therefore, the New Notes may not be offered or sold absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or applicable foreign securities laws.
The Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement is not a solicitation of consents for the JBS USA Consent Solicitations Notes. Any solicitations of consents from the holders of the JBS USA Consent Solicitations Notes will be made solely on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in a separate consent solicitation statement that will be directed to holders of the JBS USA Consent Solicitations Notes.
Important Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about our perspectives and expectations, are forward looking statements. The words "expect", "believe", "estimate", "intend", "plan" and similar expressions, when related to the Company and its subsidiaries, indicate forward-looking statements. These statements reflect the current view of management and are subject to various risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on various assumptions and factors, including general economic, market, industry, and operational factors. Any changes to these assumptions or factors may lead to practical results different from current expectations. Excessive reliance should not be placed on those statements. Forward-looking statements relate only to the date they were made and the Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made.
About JBS USA Lux S.A.
JBS USA Lux S.A. is one of the world's largest producers of beef, pork, chicken and packaged food products. In terms of daily production capacity, JBS USA Lux S.A. is among the leading beef producers and the second-largest pork and chicken producer in the United States. In Australia, JBS USA Lux S.A. is the leading producer of beef, lamb and packaged foods and the second largest producer of salmon. JBS USA Lux S.A. prepares, packages and delivers fresh, value-added and branded beef, pork, chicken, and lamb products to customers in more than 150 countries on six continents. JBS USA Lux S.A. is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of JBS S.A., the largest protein company and the largest food company in the world in terms of net revenue.
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Skin care essentials to keep in your office desk drawer
Skin care is generally considered part of a morning or nighttime routine, though it should be a daylong effort. After all, even long-lasting products like lotions and moisturizers can wear off during the workday.
For that reason, it’s a good idea to stock up on office-friendly skin care essentials to keep in your desk drawer. While you won’t be able to engage in a full-skin care regimen on the clock, it’s worth investing in products like hand creams, cuticle oil or hydrating facial sprays to tide you over.
What to know before buying skin care products for the office
Why skin care throughout the day matters
Simply put, skin care products applied in the morning are bound to wear off during the day. This is often the result of environmental exposure, friction or touching your face and body.
As expected, reapplication is common, and to some extent, it’s necessary. It’s especially important if you’re managing certain skin care concerns, such as very dry skin or blemishes. When you keep a few essential skin care products in the office, you won’t need to run to your car or wait until you get home to continue managing these concerns.
Consider your co-workers
Before you bring new skin care products to the office, consider your co-workers. Certain lotions and creams have strong scents that others may find overwhelming. Or worse, the scent may trigger allergic reactions or headaches for some people.
Instead, consider investing in unscented or fragrance-free products. Vanicream Moisturizing Skin Cream, for example, is a low-odor option because it’s free of both fragrance and fragrance-masking ingredients.
Be prepared for cleaning
Even skin care products that absorb into the skin quickly may leave residue on your desk, keyboard or mouse. As a result, you’ll need to clean your desk a bit more often — likely on a daily basis — to keep these areas tidy and streak-free.
Multipurpose surface cleaners and cleaning wipes are effective in removing most product residue. However, make sure these products don’t seep between keys and buttons on your keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, the chemicals may cause permanent damage to devices.
Should you buy travel-size products?
It’s tempting to gravitate toward travel-size products for convenience reasons. While they’re certainly space-savvy, they’re rarely the most cost-effective way of buying skin care products. In fact, it’s often more expensive to buy smaller bottles of products than their regular-size equivalents.
Some people have enough room to store full-size products on their desks or inside drawers. Other professionals may be pressed for space, in which case TSA-approved bottles are a worthy investment. Not only are they refillable and fit easily in bags and desk drawers, but they also come in handy for air travel.
Best skin care essentials to leave at the office
Water mister
If you can’t splash water on your face in the middle of the day, a water mister is the next best thing. Evian Facial Spray delivers an ultrafine mist of pure Evian water that refreshes skin. It’s often used to revive makeup looks or cool down on warmer days.
Cuticle oil
Nails need a little tender loving care throughout the day. It’s a good idea to keep cuticle oil in your desk drawer, such as OPI Nail and Cuticle Oil. A salon-quality formula, this oil nourishes nails and cuticles and helps prevent drying and cracking.
Moisturizing hand cream
After plenty of hand washing and sanitizing, hands often become dry or cracked. Burt’s Bees Ultimate Care Hand Cream is a deep-moisturizing formula that soothes very dry skin with baobab oil. The naturally-derived, unscented formula is free of phthalates, parabens and SLS.
Restorative hand cream
Hands that need repair benefit from using a restorative hand cream, like O’Keefe’s Working Hands Hand Cream. In addition to soothing and smoothing over cracked, dry hands, it forms a protective layer that may boost moisture retention levels long term.
Blemish spot treatment
Sometimes, spots and blemishes pop up in the middle of the workday. It’s easy to get them under control while you type away with Murad Rapid Relief Acne Spot Treatment. Clear and discreet, this salicylic acid spot treatment reduces the appearance of blemishes within a matter of hours.
Tweezers
There’s no need to stress over that stray brow hair when you keep travel tweezers in your desk. The Tweezerman Petite Tweeze Set includes two mini tweezers and a travel case. The tweezers are made with stainless steel, making them durable and easy to clean.
Hydrating facial spray
Working in dry environments can leave your face dry and patchy, which may result in makeup flaking or fading. Refresh your look with Mario Badescu Facial Spray with Aloe, which is formulated with herbal extracts that revitalize skin and leave it with a dewy, upbeat radiance.
Unscented body lotion
If your arms and legs feel dry during the day, slather on a little body lotion. Cetaphil Advanced Relief Lotion is suitable for use at work since it has a neutral, low-odor scent. The quick-absorbing lotion, which includes shea butter, locks in moisture for up to 48 hours.
Sunscreen
When you keep sunscreen in your desk drawer, you won’t need to worry about burning at an impromptu outdoor lunch or work event. Neutrogena Beach Defense Sunscreen is a broad-spectrum formula with SPF 70 that is lightweight, oil-free and streak-free.
Protective lip balm
If you struggle with cracked or dry lips, be sure to keep a protective lip balm within arm’s reach. Palmer’s Coconut Oil Formula Lip Balm is known for its creamy, rich formula infused with vitamin E and coconut oil. The SPF 15 lip balm leaves lips with a light, glossy sheen.
Oil-absorbing tool
Control oil throughout the workday with an oil-absorbing tool, such as the Revlon Oil-Absorbing Volcanic Face Roller. It absorbs oil and has a mattifying effect without drying out the skin. As an added bonus, it can be used on a clean face or over makeup.
Makeup remover wipes
Whether you need to touch up makeup or refresh your face, moist towelettes, like Neutrogena Hydro Boost Cleansing Towelettes, are the way to go. Infused with hyaluronic acid, these towelettes gently cleanse skin while boosting hydration.
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The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has released a list of witnesses who will appear at Thursday's hearing on Capitol Hill.
That hearing is expected to focus on the pressure then-President Trump put on the Department of Justice while making unfounded claims of voter fraud.
The witnesses expected to testify on Thursday are, former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel, the Select Committee revealed.
Also on Thursday, British filmmaker Alex Holder is expected to go in to be deposed by lawmakers after he revealed on Twitter that he has complied with a subpoena from Congress to turn over all footage he shot while covering the final weeks of Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, as the Associated Press reported. | 2022-06-22T03:37:04+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/house-select-committee-investigating-jan-6-announces-next-hearing-witnesses |
Liverpool faces West Ham United in a Premier League match at Anfield in Liverpool, England, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 (10/19/22).
Fans can watch the match via subscription to Peacock.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: Premier League
Who: Liverpool vs. West Ham United
When: Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Time: 2:30 p.m. ET
Where: Anfield
TV: N/A
Channel finder: Verizon Fios, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice,Cox, DIRECTV,Dish,Hulu, fuboTV, Sling.
Live stream: Peacock
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Ukraine plans to resume competitive football in the country in August despite being under attack by Russia after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave approval.
Andriy Pavelko, the president of Ukraine’s football federation, revealed details to The Associated Press about his talks with Zelenskyy and the heads of FIFA and UEFA about finding a safe way of playing men’s and women’s matches on home soil.
Ukraine was forced to abandon its leagues in February when Russia began an invasion that, according to Zelenskyy, has led to “at least tens of thousands” of Ukrainian civilians dying and large swaths of many cities and towns being bombed into rubble.
But as Russian forces have been redeployed to the east and south, fighting has subsided in the area near the capital Kyiv and elsewhere. There is optimism sport can resume to lift the spirits of the nation, which is trying to qualify for the World Cup on Sunday by winning away at Wales.
“I spoke with our president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about how important football is to distract,” Pavelko said in an interview with the AP, surrounded by Ukraine jerseys and a tactics board in the team meeting room in Cardiff. “From the children to the old people, everyone is focused on the war. Every day they receive information about deaths, about the impact of the war.
“We spoke about how football has a very big power to help people think about the future because now people, of course, are not in a good mindset. They’re in the worst mood. We spoke about how it would be possible that football could help us to think about the future.”
That is a future with players being able to take to the field again in Ukraine to provide uplifting sports moments of joy.
“So we took the decision with the president that we would resume the Ukrainian championship in August,” Pavelko said through a translator. “In Ukraine we will play on every level. So the Premier League, and the first and second professional divisions, and women’s championship.
“At all levels we will start in August. The decision was taken with the president of Ukraine.”
Pavelko met Zelenskyy before leaving Ukraine for Glasgow to see the World Cup playoff semifinal win over Scotland on Wednesday. Pavelko then went on to see FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Paris and UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
“I informed them that we will resume the championships in the war time in Ukraine ... under the bombs and we count on their support,” Pavelko said. “We are discussing the details.”
The government prohibits men from 18 to 60 from leaving Ukraine to keep them available for war duties, although footballers have been allowed abroad to play for teams, and Pavelko has flown to key meetings. But he did broadcast live to the UEFA Congress in Vienna last month via his phone from a stadium in Chernihiv that had been attacked by Russia, to show the damage inflicted.
It is not yet clear which parts of the country will be used for league matches.
“We will speak with our military board and the government to discuss how to organize it safely,” Pavelko added.
Shakhtar Donetsk was leading the standings when the season was suspended in February and then officially declared over in April, giving it a place in the lucrative group stage of the Champions League next season.
Shakhtar has been living with uncertainty in exile for eight years. The team has not played in Donetsk since 2014 when forced out by a Russian-backed conflict in its home region of eastern Ukraine, which remains the scene of intense fighting.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta Schedule: Sunday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Tony Finau is atop the field at the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta after three rounds of play, with a score of -19. Play continues at Vidanta Vallarta in Vallarta, Mexico, watch the fourth round to see how the action plays out.
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How to Watch the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta
- Start Time: 10:35 AM ET
- Venue: Vidanta Vallarta
- Location: Vallarta, Mexico
- Par/Distance: Par 71/7,456 yards
- Thursday TV: Golf Channel
- Friday TV: Golf Channel
- Saturday TV: Golf Channel, CBS
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CA Current Conditions as of 11:00 PM PDT Monday, August 1, 2022
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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)
Alturas;Cloudy;66;NE;3;77%
Arcata;Mostly cloudy;59;NNE;1;90%
Auburn;Partly cloudy;71;NNE;2;65%
Avalon;Clear;71;WSW;3;56%
Bakersfield;Partly cloudy;87;NNW;6;42%
Beale AFB;Partly cloudy;72;Calm;0;69%
Big Bear City;Partly cloudy;54;Calm;0;100%
Bishop;Mostly clear;68;WNW;3;67%
Blue Canyon;Mostly clear;67;Calm;0;44%
Blythe;Cloudy;93;WSW;5;39%
Burbank;Mostly cloudy;72;SSW;2;70%
Camarillo;Mostly cloudy;68;W;5;75%
Camp Pendleton;Mostly cloudy;70;WSW;2;88%
Campo;Partly cloudy;68;WSW;3;59%
Carlsbad;Partly cloudy;72;S;5;78%
Chico;Partly cloudy;75;NNE;6;56%
China Lake;Partly cloudy;79;NW;4;64%
Chino;Partly cloudy;73;WSW;3;54%
Concord;Mostly clear;72;Calm;0;49%
Corona;Partly cloudy;74;WNW;3;57%
Crescent City;Mostly cloudy;59;N;5;93%
Daggett-Barstow;Mostly cloudy;81;WNW;4;49%
Edwards AFB;Partly cloudy;83;WSW;14;30%
El Centro;Mostly cloudy;93;SW;10;30%
Eureka;Partly cloudy;57;N;1;91%
Fairfield;Mostly clear;71;WNW;2;58%
Fresno;Mostly cloudy;80;NW;4;41%
Fullerton;Partly cloudy;74;Calm;0;63%
Hanford;Mostly cloudy;81;NW;7;48%
Hawthorne;Cloudy;70;W;7;81%
Hayward;Mostly clear;67;NNW;2;63%
Imperial;Mostly cloudy;93;SW;10;30%
Imperial Beach;Partly cloudy;70;W;5;87%
Lancaster;Partly cloudy;82;WSW;6;30%
Lemoore Nas;Mostly cloudy;83;NW;16;42%
Lincoln;Partly cloudy;66;Calm;0;77%
Livermore;Mostly clear;74;NW;2;37%
Lompoc;Mostly cloudy;61;W;9;87%
Long Beach;Mostly cloudy;71;WNW;6;75%
Los Alamitos;Partly cloudy;71;WNW;6;75%
Los Angeles;Mostly cloudy;68;SW;2;83%
Los Angeles Downtown;Mostly cloudy;68;SW;2;83%
Madera;Partly cloudy;77;NW;4;48%
Mammoth;Cloudy;68;ENE;3;65%
Marysville;Partly cloudy;71;N;2;79%
Mather AFB;Partly cloudy;75;NNW;5;64%
Merced;Partly cloudy;78;NW;6;41%
Merced (airport);Partly cloudy;78;NW;6;41%
Miramar Mcas;Partly cloudy;69;WSW;3;80%
Modesto;Partly cloudy;78;WNW;9;47%
Moffett Nas;Mostly clear;67;N;1;77%
Mojave;Mostly cloudy;84;WNW;17;36%
Montague;Cloudy;78;SW;6;47%
Monterey Rabr;Mostly clear;64;ENE;3;72%
Mount Shasta;Mostly cloudy;67;Calm;0;75%
Napa County;Mostly clear;69;Calm;0;72%
Needles;Mostly cloudy;94;NE;3;39%
North Island;Partly cloudy;71;WNW;3;80%
Oakland;Mostly clear;65;NW;2;84%
Oceanside;Partly cloudy;72;S;5;78%
Ontario;Partly cloudy;73;WSW;3;54%
Oroville;Partly cloudy;71;NNW;2;71%
Oxnard;Mostly cloudy;65;W;7;93%
Palm Springs;Mostly cloudy;95;NW;15;26%
Palmdale;Partly cloudy;83;SW;10;33%
Paso Robles;Mostly cloudy;76;SSW;8;37%
Point Mugu;Mostly cloudy;65;NW;6;90%
Porterville;Cloudy;83;NW;3;54%
Ramona;Partly cloudy;71;WNW;2;59%
Redding;Mostly cloudy;79;ENE;3;53%
Riverside;Partly cloudy;76;W;3;52%
Riverside March;Partly cloudy;75;W;3;49%
Sacramento;Partly cloudy;75;NNW;2;54%
Sacramento International;Partly cloudy;71;NNW;2;71%
Salinas;Mostly clear;67;NNW;6;67%
San Bernardino;Partly cloudy;79;W;7;34%
San Carlos;Mostly clear;65;NNW;2;71%
San Diego;Partly cloudy;70;WNW;2;85%
San Diego Brown;Partly cloudy;69;WNW;5;86%
San Diego Montgomery;Partly cloudy;71;WNW;3;75%
San Francisco;Clear;62;W;2;76%
San Jose;Mostly clear;71;WNW;5;62%
San Luis Obispo;Mostly cloudy;65;SW;3;77%
San Nicolas Island;Clear;62;ESE;3;86%
Sandberg;Mostly clear;75;SE;3;42%
Santa Ana;Partly cloudy;71;WSW;2;91%
Santa Barbara;Mostly cloudy;64;S;1;89%
Santa Maria;Mostly cloudy;61;WNW;3;89%
Santa Monica;Mostly cloudy;68;WSW;5;83%
Santa Rosa;Clear;68;S;5;67%
Santa Ynez;Mostly cloudy;70;Calm;0;68%
Santee;Partly cloudy;73;WNW;2;64%
South Lake Tahoe;Partly cloudy;62;SSW;3;64%
Stockton;Partly cloudy;78;NW;3;48%
Thermal;Partly cloudy;96;NNW;13;25%
Truckee-Tahoe;Cloudy;59;Calm;0;67%
Twentynine Palms;Mostly cloudy;82;WSW;3;58%
Ukiah;Mostly clear;74;Calm;0;66%
Vacaville;Mostly clear;73;Calm;0;63%
Van Nuys;Mostly cloudy;70;SW;2;78%
Vandenberg AFB;Showers;57;NNW;3;100%
Victorville;Partly cloudy;77;W;3;64%
Visalia;Partly cloudy;79;WNW;5;54%
Watsonville;Mostly clear;57;WNW;2;92%
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UVALDE, Texas (KETK/NEXSTAR) — Police in Uvalde, Texas, are investigating a shooting at the Uvalde Memorial Park on Thursday night, where police say people were injured. The Texas city has remained in international headlines since May 24, when 21 people — including 19 children — were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School.
According to a Facebook statement on Thursday, officers responded to a call around 5:30 p.m. The public is asked to avoid the area as the investigation continues.
Controversy has pervaded in Uvalde, which has about 16,000 residents, in the months following the school shooting, which is the third-deadliest in U.S. history. Questions about response time and actions of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department led to national outrage and the August 24 firing of police chief Pete Arredondo.
NOTE: While Thursday’s shooting happened in Uvalde, police have not given any indication of relation to the Robb Elementary School shooting. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Thursday the shooting is suspected to be gang-related, though that information is preliminary.
Uvalde Memorial Park is about 1.3 miles away from Robb Elementary, which is scheduled to be demolished.
This is a developing story. | 2022-09-09T00:56:43+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/police-shooting-at-uvalde-park-people-injured/ |
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A rare Harley-Davidson motorcycle built in 1908 has become the most expensive motorcycle ever sold at auction, according to data compiled by a website that tracks vintage motorcycle sales.
The Strap Tank Harley-Davidson was recorded on vintagent.com as being sold for $935,000 after auction fees last month at the Mecum Auction in Las Vegas, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday.
The bike was named Strap Tank because its oil and fuel tanks are attached to the frame with nickel straps. The bike is believed to be one of only 12 such models in the world.
A 1907 Strap Tank sold for $715,000 after fees but didn’t go for as much as the record-setting 1908 Strap Tank because it was never restored.
The record-breaking bike had many of its original parts, making it even more rare, said Greg Arnold, Motorcycle Division Manager at Mecum Auctions.
“We marketed the bike well and Harley is by far the most famous American motorcycle brand so we had a feeling it would do well in auction, but obviously you are surprised anytime you sell the most expensive bike ever,” he said. | 2023-02-12T20:48:07+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/weird-news/ap-harley-davidson-from-1908-becomes-priciest-bike-at-auction/ |
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OneSignal, the world's leading customer engagement platform, today announced it has been recognized by Deloitte as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in North America. The company ranked 235th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, making it the third consecutive year the business has appeared on the prestigious list.
Now in its 28th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 recognizes companies that disrupt the technology industry, and this year's winners were selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. OneSignal attributes the company's 648.8% growth to the emphasis modern businesses are placing on having a strong mobile presence and OneSignal's market-leading customer engagement solution, which addresses this growing demand. In 2021, OneSignal expanded its Email and SMS functionality and began offering automated customer journeys to provide a centralized omnichannel solution. Today, OneSignal's omnichannel customer engagement platform is used by 1.8+ million developers, marketers, and product managers across the globe to drive growth and engagement for over 1 million companies.
"We're seeing a huge shift happening in how businesses interact with users in a mobile first world, but a lot of the engagement tools out there are email only and not built for a mobile-centric world," said Josh Wetzel, OneSignal CRO. "This award validates OneSignal's mobile-first approach as we lead the charge in empowering businesses to deliver an omnichannel messaging experience that is hyper-personalized, relevant, and timely for their users.
"This year's Technology Fast 500 list is a true reflection of some of today's most determined and inspiring pioneers who have prospered by anticipating what's next, understanding what's needed to succeed and driving creativity forward," said Christie Simons, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP and industry leader for technology, media and telecommunications within Deloitte's audit and assurance practice. "Representing all facets of technology, the winners have shown they not only have the vision but can also expertly manage their companies through rapid growth. We congratulate each winner on their impressive achievements."
Overall, 2022 Technology Fast 500 companies achieved revenue growth ranging from 241% to 125,138% from 2018 to 2021, with median growth of 611%.
OneSignal is the market-leading customer engagement solution, powering omnichannel customer journeys across mobile and web push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, and email. The powerful and easy-to-use platform enables over a million businesses to deliver 10 billion messages daily. OneSignal supports 500,000 mobile applications - nearly 15% of all apps - enabling companies in 140 countries, including Zynga, USA Today, Bitcoin.com, Upwork, Tribune, and more. OneSignal was founded in 2014 as a mobile app development company by Y Combinator alums George Deglin and Long Vo, and is venture-backed by SignalFire, Rakuten Ventures, Y Combinator, HubSpot, and BAM Elevate. The company is based in San Mateo, California, with offices in London and Singapore.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods withdrew from the Masters before the resumption of the third round because of an injury Sunday, ending his streak of completing all 72 holes of every tournament he has played at Augusta National as a professional.
The tournament announced about 90 minutes before play began that Woods, who is still hobbled by the effects of the 2021 car accident that nearly cost him his right leg, had withdrawn. He'd limped through practice rounds early in the week and again during the first and second rounds, but the limp had become more pronounced as the weather worsened.
“I am disappointed to have to WD this morning due to reaggravating my plantar fasciitis,” Woods said on Twitter. “Thank you to the fans and to (at)TheMasters who have shown me so much love and support. Good luck to the players today!”
The five-time champion finished his second round in cold, driving rain on Saturday to make the cut on the number at 3 over, extending his Masters streak to 23 straight and tying Fred Couples and Gary Player for the longest in history.
The 47-year-old Woods headed back out for the start of the third round as temperatures struggled to reach 50 degrees, and it wound up being a water-logged slog. Wearing a gray winter hat over a baseball cap, he started on the 10th hole with a bogey, added another at No. 14, and then had back-to-back double bogeys after finding the water on Nos. 15 and 16.
It was the first time Woods has ever had consecutive double bogeys at the Masters.
By the time the horn blew ending play with rain still pouring and puddles beginning to stand at Augusta National, Woods was at 9 over and alone in last place among those that made the cut. That was 22 shots behind leader Brooks Koepka.
“I’ve always loved this golf course, and I love playing this event,” Woods said after his second round Saturday. “Obviously I’ve missed a couple with some injuries, but I’ve always wanted to play here. I’ve loved it.”
Woods also withdrew before the final round of last year's PGA Championship with what his agent, Mark Steinberg, described as pain and discomfort in his right foot. That came hours after the 15-time major champion limped to a 79 at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in similarly cold and windy weather; he had shot 69 in the second round.
Woods captured his fifth green jacket in 2019 when he finished one shot ahead of Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Xander Schauffele. It was his first major win in 11 years and, at age 43, Woods became the second-oldest player to win the Masters after Jack Nicklaus, who was 46 when he won his sixth green jacket in 1986.
Woods was injured in 2021 when his car careened off a suburban Los Angeles road at over 85 mph, crushing his right leg so badly that he said doctors considered amputation. Asked how much hardware held it together, Woods replied: “A lot.”
Woods recovered and made the cut at the Masters last year before shooting back-to-back 78s on the weekend.
The injuries have forced Woods to play a very limited schedule — the majors and a few select events. He shot two rounds in the 60s and finished tied for 45th at The Genesis Invitational at Riviera in February, but he skipped Bay Hill and The Players Championship so that he would be healthy and ready for a return to Augusta National.
The question now is whether Woods will play the PGA Championship at Oak Hill in May. The U.S. Open is at Los Angeles Country Club in June, not far from where Woods grew up, and the British Open is at Royal Liverpool in July.
“Yeah, mobility, it’s not where I would like it,” Woods said. “I’ve said to you guys before, I’m very lucky to have this leg — it’s mine. Yes, it has been altered and there’s some hardware in there, but it’s still mine. It has been tough and will always be tough. The ability and endurance of what my leg will do going forward will never be the same. I understand that.
“That’s why I can’t prepare and play as many tournaments as I like, but that’s my future, and that’s OK. I’m OK with that.”
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-09T13:06:37+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/woods-withdraws-before-completing-3rd-round-of-17886977.php |
RADNOR, Pa., March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Services LLC ("Phoenix Services" or the "Company") has received support from an Ad Hoc Group of lenders (defined below) for terms of a restructuring that (i) creates a path to emerge from chapter 11 mid-year, (ii) provides $45mm of new money to invest in the business, (iii) reduces over $500mm of funded indebtedness, (iv) positions the Company to be more profitable and competitive while continuing to provide best-in-class service.
Phoenix Services, a premier provider of mission critical services to leading, global steel, stainless steel, and iron ore producing companies, announced that lenders representing approximately 78% of the Company's debtor-in-possession indebtedness (the "DIP Facility") and approximately 76% of the Company's other prepetition secured indebtedness (collectively the "Ad Hoc Group") have agreed to support the Company's restructuring, subject to various approvals, conditions and final documentation.
The agreed timeline will allow the management team to finalize new contracts with existing customers ahead of the Bankruptcy Court's consideration of the plan of reorganization and disclosure statement that will implement the Company's restructuring.
"Today's announcement moves Phoenix a step closer to emerging from chapter 11 and creating customer relationships to take the Company into the future. We look forward to working with our customer partners and lenders to bring new equipment, manpower and expertise to safely and efficiently perform our necessary work," said Mark Porto, Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix Services.
The Board of Managers supports the restructuring terms and is pleased that the Company has reached this agreement with the Ad Hoc Group on a path to move forward.
Key Terms of the Restructuring Contemplate:
- New money investment of $45 million;
- Reduction in net leverage to approximately 2x on a pro forma basis (reduction in funded indebtedness of over $500 million);
- Pro forma indebtedness to include partial PIK-pay interest to position the Company to generate cash flow, reinvest in existing customer sites, and pursue new growth opportunities; and
- Path for the Company to (i) file a disclosure statement and plan of reorganization with the Bankruptcy Court on or around March 31, 2023, and (ii) emerge from chapter 11 mid-year.
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For an increasing number of people, "getting more fluids" has taken on new meaning as IV hydration bars and clinics pop up across the country and "clients" book time at these locations.
At spa-like clinics, patrons can receive intravenous (IV) fluids on demand, even when such hydration is not specifically recommended or prescribed by their doctor.
The IV drips can contain saline solutions or a blend of vitamins or electrolytes designed to counter the dehydration that can result from overexertion, flu-like symptoms or lack of fluids.
MISSOURI MAN DIES DAYS AFTER FALLING ILL DURING IV VITAMIN TREATMENT, REPORT SAYS
People often seek IV fluid treatment for relief of hangovers, jet lag and nausea. They do so for aesthetic reasons, too — such as improving the appearance of their skin, according to health professionals who work at these hydration stations.
"When dehydrated, a person’s electrolytes are off, and they can experience altered mental status, fatigue or constipation," Stephanie Lopez, a registered nurse who works at IV Bars in North Carolina, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
She added that IV hydration "is good for the skin, and supports organs and muscles."
The IV fluid hydration center is set up with a "spa-like" feel, as the person sits in a recliner in a relaxing environment, Lopez explained.
A licensed nurse or paramedic administers the IV into an arm vein using a sterile technique.
The hydration session typically lasts about 30 to 50 minutes, said Lopez.
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"Each client is screened [according to] our regulations and parameters before an IV is administered," she said.
"All clients are required to fill out a health assessment, which is then reviewed by the medical director through our EMR [electronic medical record] system."
Before the IV is administered, the facility’s trained and licensed RNs and paramedics perform an assessment of the clients to ensure they meet the approved parameters.
The benefits of IV hydration are countered by some degree of risk.
"There is always some risk when opening the skin, but we have paramedics and nurses who are already trained in IV administration and we keep it as aseptic as possible," Lopez told Fox News Digital.
Jennifer M., who asked that her last name be withheld, visited an IV hydration center in Annapolis, Maryland in early June.
"I read about IV therapy when my 80-year-old mom came to stay with me," she said.
"She was told by her physician that if she didn’t stay hydrated, she would get more confused and be more likely to have recurrent UTIs [urinary tract infections]. My friend suggested seeing an IV nurse. After getting the OK from her physician, we went."
Jennifer M. noticed a positive change in her mother after just one treatment, she said.
"That evening, her confusion, low energy and irritability took a turn for the better," she noted. "She also admitted to feeling more alert and her skin wasn’t as dry the next morning."
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The average cost of an IV hydration session currently ranges from $100 to $500, depending on the type of hydration chosen, according to those in the business.
Insurance does not cover the service.
Some companies offer mobile services — so the IV hydration clinic will come to your location.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a spike in IV spas nationwide as people developed a stronger interest in health and wellness, some hydration spa owners told Fox News Digital.
"COVID boosted our numbers threefold," said Aaron Roberts, the CEO and founder of IV Bars, a national chain of IV hydration spas based in Texas.
"The number of IV hydration clinics nationwide jumped to nearly 600 sites post-COVID."
He also said, "More people became aware of the importance of treating dehydration and boosting the immune system."
With the sudden growth of these spas came greater scrutiny by health care associations.
Connie Sullivan, president and CEO of the National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) in Alexandria, Virginia, shared a statement with Fox News Digital.
"The NHIA has serious concerns about the way states are allowing IV spas and hydration clinics to operate without appropriate licensure or oversight."
She added, "The vast majority of the compounded IV solutions being made and marketed by these entities have no scientific evidence supporting their safety or use in healthy individuals and potentially diverts drugs in shortage away from patients who have legitimate medical needs and require these products to live."
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In response to the pushback, Lopez — of IV Bars in North Carolina — released a statement to Fox News Digital about the controversy surrounding IV hydration bars.
"Even though vitamin supplements are not FDA-approved, we still adhere to medical board regulations when administering IVs to our clients," she said.
"We are licensed by the state and have medical director oversight at each of our locations."
Lopez said that highly trained, licensed registered nurses and paramedics staff the IV Bar locations.
"We also uphold standards when it comes to our vitamins, as we only use 503B compounding pharmacies that derive their vitamins from natural sources with no synthetic product or fillers," she added.
IV hydration services could help alleviate the strain on hospital emergency departments by preventing health issues caused by significant dehydration, said Lopez.
Still, hydration bars should not be used like hospital emergency rooms, Lopez said.
If patients appear to be in distress, they are immediately referred to their health care professional or to an emergency department.
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It is important for individuals to vet an IV fluid hydration spa before getting treatment, multiple health experts said.
That means ensuring that a licensed nurse, physician assistant or paramedic is administering the IV; asking about infection protocols; verifying that the vitamins and solutions are from a legitimate medical supply company; and asking whether a medical doctor oversees the site.
"While the IV hydration sites might make you feel better, they aren't FDA-approved," Dr. Fred Davis, an associate chair of emergency medicine at Northwell Health on Long Island, New York, told Fox News Digital.
"This means they are not regulated the same way medications would be," he went on.
"There are also no clinically validated studies that confirm IV hydration therapy actually does what it claims to do."
It is also important to recognize signs of dehydration, Davis noted.
These include fatigue, dry mouth, decreased urination and thirst. It can also lead to elevated heart rates in some cases.
To stay hydrated, Davis emphasized the importance of drinking plenty of water.
He recommends six to eight 8-ounce glasses per day for those who don’t have a medical condition that requires the restriction of fluids. | 2023-06-26T20:22:41+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/hydration-nation-clients-clamor-for-iv-therapy-on-demand-even-though-it-s-not-fda/article_ffc1f9af-1259-59f9-902a-da27d0b98d3d.html |
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) – We’re closing out the week feeling a little damp at times and muggy. We’ll clear both of those out in time for the weekend. Details below…
A quiet Friday overnight
Overnight remains quiet as we end up with clear to partly cloudy skies and seasonable temperatures. We’ll be seasonable with plenty of upper 50s to low 60s.
Improving weather over the weekend
In the wake of a cold front Friday, a disturbance in the jet stream winds aloft drops into Northern New York for Saturday. That is why we think there could be a couple of scattered showers to start the weekend northeast of Syracuse. The threat for any thunderstorms seems low at this point.
By Sunday, though, high pressure is building in from the west. That brings us better weather news to end the weekend. It looks like a generally sunny and seasonable day with lower humidity.
Humidity up early next week
Unfortunately, we can’t keep the humidity down into next week. Dew points are already climbing back into the 60s as early as Monday to go along with temperatures in the mid to upper 80s for most.
A cold front is also working in from the north Monday so we would expect it to work on the more humid air over us and cause at least some scattered showers and storms by afternoon.
This same front is near us Tuesday so the shower/storms threat will stay with us.
Keep checking the latest 7-day forecast. | 2023-07-22T03:01:43+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/weather/sunshine-highlights-upcoming-weekend-in-cny/ |
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — A man who had his charge connected to the shooting death of a man in 2009 dismissed after a grand jury declined to indict him, has been no billed by a grand jury again on his charge of evading arrest in April.
Jeremy Goines was arrested April 29, after police tried to stop a reported stolen Mercedes on Borton Street and the driver kept going, at one point going over a curb before coming to a stop. Officers say Goines told them he did not stop right away because he wanted to make a phone call.
Goines still has 5 other charges pending, including possession of a firearm by a felon, unauthorized use of a vehicle and 3 drug charges.
In 2009, Goines was charged in connection to the shooting death of an Abilene man and wounding of 2 others. Witnesses told police Goines fired into a crowd of people during a disturbance. Another suspect was charged with murder.
A grand jury later declined to indict Goines for the shooting. Of Goines’ approximate 40 cases filed, about a dozen have been dismissed. | 2022-11-11T03:27:37+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/evading-arrest-charges-dismissed/ |
FBI: 5 militia members charged with storming Capitol
(AP) - Five Florida men affiliated with a militia group called “B Squad” have been arrested on charges that they joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, disrupting Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory, federal authorities said Wednesday.
“B Squad” members stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while wearing riot gear and armed with metal batons, knives, chemical spray and walking sticks, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. Group members joined the mob in a “heave-ho” push against police officers trying to secure a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace, the affidavit says.
Officers ultimately repelled the mob after more than two hours of violence inside the tunnel. More than 100 police officers were injured at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The FBI says the five defendants charged together are self-identified adherents to the “Three Percenters” militia movement, which refers to the myth that only 3% of Americans fought in the Revolutionary War against the British. The men are members of a group called Guardians of Freedom and a subgroup called “B Squad,” according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.
A criminal complaint charges four of the defendants with a felony count of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder. They are Benjamin Cole, 38, of Leesburg; John Edward Crowley, 50, of Windermere; Brian Preller, 33, of Mount Dora; and Jonathan Rockholt, 38, of Palm Coast.
They and a fifth defendant — Tyler Bensch, 20, of Casselberry — also are charged with misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.
Crowley, Rockholt and Bensch were arrested in Florida, where a federal magistrate judge ordered them released after their initial court appearances Wednesday. Attorneys for the three men didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
Cole was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky. Court records didn’t immediately list an attorney for him.
Preller was arrested in Hardwick, Vermont, and ordered released after his initial court appearance in Rutland. A lawyer for Preller declined to comment on the charges.
A flier sent to “B Squad” members two weeks before the riot advertised a “March for Trump” bus trip to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, according to the affidavit. It says the flier encouraged Guardians of Freedom members to “deploy” and help protect people at the rally, where then-President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters.
A man identified by the FBI only as “B Leader” coordinated the group’s travel from Florida to Washington and reserved a block of rooms at a hotel near Capitol. He, the five defendants charged in the complaint and approximately 40 other “B Squad” members stayed on the same floor of the hotel on the eve of the riot, the FBI says. “B Leader,” who isn’t one of the five arrested defendants, also spoke at a rally at Washington’s Freedom Plaza on Jan. 5, 2021, according to the affidavit.
More than 850 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. The Justice Department says more than 260 defendants have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement at the Capitol.
Nearly 400 Capitol riot defendants have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a judge or jury after trials. More than 240 have been sentenced, with roughly half of them getting terms of incarceration ranging from seven days to over seven years.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Van Horn Automotive Group announced the launch of CloudLot at ShopCloudLot.com, a 100% online car buying experience for pre-owned vehicles. CloudLot puts the customer in full control of their deal from picking the car, to scheduling delivery, and everything in between. Deals are estimated to the penny, down payments can be accepted, and signatures can be done securely online.
Van Horn has been active in the online space for several years, and has always looked for new ways to make the car-buying process quicker, more transparent and pleasant for customers. CloudLot takes this process to the next level, enabling the user to find and purchase a vehicle in as little as 20 minutes, and set up delivery.
"As Wisconsin's only employee-owned auto group, we will continue to provide the same personalized car buying experience that our customers have loved for more than 55 years; but now with CloudLot, we can serve a new set of car buyers that are looking for a totally digital option," stated Adam Gaedke, Vice President of Dealership Operations, Van Horn Automotive Group. "The benefit of purchasing online through CloudLot is the backing of a 19-dealership auto group, dedicated employee owners and a network of service centers. We want the customer to feel empowered to manage their own purchase, but also know we're here to support them during and after the sale."
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It's been almost 45 years since Kathy Stolz-Silvis was in foster care in Pennsylvania. Stolz-Silvis was nine when her father died, making her and her siblings eligible for Social Security survivor benefits. But she didn't become aware of those benefits until decades later — after reading an investigation published by The Marshall Project and NPR.
The report, published last year, found that foster care agencies in at least 49 states and Washington, D.C., have been applying for Social Security on behalf of foster youth in their care who are eligible for death, disability or veterans' benefits. The agencies often keep the money, often without notifying the children, their family members or lawyers.
Stolz-Silvis followed a step-by-step guide to contacting the Social Security Administration included with the investigation, which was developed with information provided by the agency. This is where she hit a roadblock.
"Out of curiosity, I called them to find out what happened to my benefits when I was in foster care," Stolz-Silvis said. "The person on the other end of the line told me they were not allowed to give me that information."
In recent months, The Marshall Project and NPR have heard from dozens of former foster youth who described similar failed efforts to learn whether a state or local agency had applied to become their "representative payee," allowing the agency to receive their federal benefits, a process permitted by federal regulations.
Many said they tried to contact Social Security but have not been given answers. And those who learned that their benefits were taken said there seemed no clear course for getting that money back.
In an email, Darren Lutz, a spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, said that for those inquiring about past benefits: "We maintain records on the benefits we have paid and can answer their questions." The agency has "provided guidance and training to our employees on our rules and requirements for selecting representative payees, notifying the proper parties, and monitoring the performance of foster care agencies that serve as the representative payee for a child in foster care."
For current foster youth, Administration for Children and Families spokesperson Pat Fisher confirmed that both the agency and the Social Security Administration are developing joint guidance to state agencies about how to handle these cases, though there is no timeline for releasing it.
Jermaine Wilson, who was in foster care in Washington State, said he was supposed to receive disability benefits after he was hit by a car at age 15. He said he has attempted at least 10 times to get information about those benefits, but keeps getting "a big runaround" from Social Security.
Melody Masi said she was meant to receive Social Security benefits and Veterans Affairs death benefits after her father died while she was in foster care in Virginia. When she called Social Security, she said she was told by a representative that "she hears this stuff a lot" but that "unfortunately, there's nothing they can do about it."
Jayden Kiley was 17 and in foster care when her mother died, and she became eligible for death benefits from Social Security. But for eight months, between October 2019 and July 2020, she said, nobody told her about the benefits — or that her mother had even died. She found that out from a sibling.
"I didn't know any of this," Kiley said.
For two years, Kiley tried to get information from Social Security about her benefits, but she said that a representative told her that every time she called she was put at the bottom of a waitlist, so she stopped calling for a while. Eventually she found out the amount due to her is about $8,500, but said she hasn't received any of it.
Advocates could only point to isolated cases in the past where judges have restored a particular youth's benefits.
Amy Harfeld, national policy director for Children's Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of foster youth, expressed frustration with the agencies' failure to take action. "It is unacceptable to ignore the youth who have been at the forefront of the requests," she said.
In the original Marshall Project/NPR report, most child services agencies pointed out that it is legal for them to apply to Social Security to become the financial representative for foster children's benefits — though federal regulations state that a parent, foster parent, relative or family friend is preferred. Almost all agencies said they take kids' money as reimbursement for the cost of foster care.
In a landmark class action lawsuit in Alaska, a district court ruled that the state should notify foster youth before applying to receive their federal benefits. Appeals in the case are ongoing.
Meanwhile, lawmakers on the local, state and federal level have begun tackling the issue.
Last year, federal legislation that would prohibit state agencies from using foster youths' Social Security benefits in their budgets failed to advance in Congress. As the bill's lead sponsor, Democratic Rep. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, put it: "Yes indeed, we are still here after a year."
This summer, Davis said he plans to reintroduce the legislation that would make sure benefits go to youth while also maintaining federal support for child welfare systems. The bill would require agencies to interview foster children to identify any relatives who could be appointed as representative payees and who could set aside the money for the children once they are old enough to leave foster care.
"Aging out is a difficult period for many young people, it is most desirable that as much of the resources get into the hands of the foster children," Davis said.
Several states have taken action on this issue since the investigation was published, including Nebraska, Illinois, Connecticut, California and Minnesota. There are also plans for a bill next year in Hawaii.
On the local level, city leaders have passed or introduced legislation addressing the issue in New York City, Los Angeles County, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
But these state and local measures only apply to youth currently in the foster system. Kiley and Wilson and other former foster youth who have continuously called their Social Security offices about their benefits must wait for future guidance from federal agencies. Many others still may not even know their benefits were taken.
"The very nature of this practice and the reason it has been allowed to persist for so long, is that it all happens behind the backs of foster youth and their attorneys," Harfeld said. "It's very rare to find young people who know this happened to them."
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