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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — With spring travel in full swing, Kansas City airport officials said the new parking garage hit full capacity Tuesday.
In addition to the new Kansas City International (KCI) Airport terminal, crews built a new parking garage. Located just across the street from the terminal, it allows travelers to park and walk right over to check-in and security.
KC airport officials said the new garage has 6,200 spaces, and on Tuesday, they were all filled up. The old KCI garages had about 4,000 to 5,000 spaces, according to past reports.
KCI Airport tweeted that the surface parking lot also reached capacity Tuesday as well.
The new parking garage costs $25 per day, and the surface lot costs $18 per day.
KCI officials are asking any other travelers flying Tuesday to use economy parking, which costs $7.50 per day. You can find a coupon for one free day of economy parking here after parking for two days.
Economy parking saw some small updates when the new terminal opened last month, but it’s still available like normal for travelers.
The parking lots, most known as Economy A and C, were combined when the new terminal opened since they’re already next to each other.
The shuttle stops in the newly combined economy lot are now identified as E1 through E17.
The Blue Bus will still serve economy parking, and KCI officials said buses will pick up at shuttle stops every 20 minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
They’ll drop off and pick up at the new terminal’s commercial curb. From there, travelers can find check-in counters and security screening.
To access the economy lot, use the entrance closest to Mexico City Avenue or the entrance closest to Cookingham Drive.
KCI directed travelers to the parking section of its website for more information. | 2023-03-14T22:29:20+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/new-kci-parking-garage-hits-capacity-amid-spring-travel-rush/ |
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Ca. (KTLA) — An Asian American family is demanding justice after a man used racial slurs and attacked them in a caught-on-video incident last month in North Hollywood, California.
The man was cited and released, but failed to show up for a scheduled court appearance in Van Nuys Friday. The incident unfolded when the Roque family was in a NoHo McDonald’s drive-thru.
The driver behind them in line apparently bumped their car, and later pulled up alongside them. They recorded him making racial slurs, mocking them, and they say he threatened to kill them.
Video shared with KTLA shows the man saying “You’re so Asian” in an exaggerated accent.
Eventually, Gabriel Roque stepped in when the stranger tried to open the front door of the family’s car.
Things escalated into a physical altercation between the two men, and the victim’s wife, Nerissa Roque, was also attacked. She said the man choked her and she fell to the ground.
“I thought, ‘I’m gonna die,’” Nerissa Roque said.
Their daughter said she was left traumatized by the violent encounter.
“I see every man on the street, I still think it’s him,” Patricia Roque told KTLA. “I may not have been physically assaulted, but the mental and emotional trauma that he has brought to me might as well have been physical.”
Witnesses jumped in to help, giving the Roque family a chance to get away.
The man, identified as Nicholas Weber, was eventually cited with the promise to appear in court at a later date, said the family’s attorney, Sandy Roxas.
The Roque family, along with community members, stood outside the Van Nuys courthouse Friday demanding a full investigation into the incident. They are left wondering why Weber wasn’t arrested the night of the altercation.
“He should be apprehended for what he has done to me and my family, this is unacceptable,” Patricia Roque said. “And to think that he’s still roaming the streets, with no care in the world, I just find it really hard to accept.”
Court records show Weber was facing battery charges before he failed to appear in court.
A bench warrant has been issued for his arrest, and his bail is now set at $250,000.
Weber has a prior arrest for burglary in Alameda County, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. | 2022-06-21T21:44:51+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/video-man-attacks-asian-american-family-in-drive-thru/ |
Charitable activity at Deltek ProjectCon will benefit local Nashville families in need
HERNDON, Va., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses, announced today that it will partner with the Middle Tennessee Chapter of There With Care during its annual customer conference – Deltek ProjectCon 2022 – taking place at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Thousands of Deltek customers, partners and experts will gather for in-person networking opportunities, discussions on industry best practices, inspirational keynotes, and education on Deltek solutions and services.
Each year, attendees at Deltek's customer conference participate in a philanthropic activity during a networking reception. This year, the reception sponsored by SyncDog, will support the Middle Tennessee Chapter of There With Care, which provides a wide range of thoughtful and fundamental services to families and children during the critical phase of a medical crisis. Together, Deltek Project Nation will assemble activity care bags for children, toiletry care bags and parent care bags for families in need.
"We are looking forward to bringing Deltek Project Nation back together in person this year in Nashville," said Perry Hardt, Chief Marketing Officer at Deltek. "Deltek supports the communities where our employees live and work, and we are thrilled to be able to give back to the Nashville community during Deltek ProjectCon. A special thank you to our sponsor SyncDog for their generosity in partnering with us for this charitable event. Deltek ProjectCon and this philanthropic effort wouldn't be possible without our sponsor support."
Over 30 sponsoring partners will join Deltek at the Gaylord Opryland in the "XPO" – where attendees can connect with Deltek experts and fellow attendees to get hands-on with live demos, see partner solutions in action, and more. This year's sponsoring partners include Diamond Sponsor Baker Tilly, and Platinum Sponsors BDO USA LLP, Infotek Consulting LLC, Kinetek Consulting, NeoSystems LLC and Premier Consulting & Integration LLC.
Deltek also recently announced its headline entertainment for Deltek ProjectCon. The conference will wrap-up with a customer appreciation party featuring multi-platinum entertainer Sara Evans, Ken Block & Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel, Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts, and Steve Augeri, former lead singer of Journey – who will perform their greatest hits during a private 2-hour concert for attendees.
To learn more about Deltek ProjectCon and to register for the conference, visit deltekprojectcon.com.
Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organizations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management, and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximizes productivity and revenue. www.deltek.com
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Sepio's latest release enables organizations to manage their asset risks with flexible controls tailored to their specific needs
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sepio, the leading provider in Asset Risk Management, today launched the newest version of its namesake platform, enabling organizations to regain control of their complex and dynamic asset ecosystems. This product milestone gives customers the ability to manage their asset risks with granular controls based on Sepio's true Asset DNA, leveraging the platform's patented physical layer-based technology. Sepio seamlessly integrates with existing tools to enhance organizations' day-to-day cybersecurity operations with its field-proven technology.
Inflated digital complexities, spurred on by the proliferation of connected devices, the convergence of IT, OT, and IoT, and the growing trend of hybrid work, have made it increasingly difficult for organizations to manage their asset risks and maintain regulatory compliance. Organizations require a single, consolidated view of their entire asset ecosystem, which they can subsequently manage with granular risk-based controls that are automatically enforced.
"We understand the challenges that come with controlling asset risk and mitigating cybersecurity threats in a rapidly evolving digital business environment," said Yossi Appleboum, CEO and co-founder of Sepio. "We want to relieve security teams and IT managers of those challenges so they can manage their asset risks with confidence and ease. I am excited to release to the market the latest version of Sepio, which provides the necessary features to support security teams and IT managers in their mission, developed based on our years of real-world experience and invaluable feedback from our loyal customers and security analysts."
Asset visibility
Sepio's patented physical-layer based technology provides continuous, holistic visibility of all IT, OT, and IoT assets across an enterprise's network and endpoints, down to their peripherals – even those that lack unique identifiers and are difficult to detect using alternative methods.
Sepio's Asset DNA establishes trust in each asset's identity by analyzing unique characteristics that cannot be altered or spoofed by attackers, ensuring reliable device monitoring and detection of unauthorized or rogue devices.
The unparalleled visibility of IT, OT and IoT assets in a single pane of view, scaled across the entire asset surface, helps security teams better understand their complex asset ecosystem and serves as the crucial foundation to effective asset risk management.
Granular policies
Sepio offers flexible and granular policy creation, allowing organizations to control their asset risks according to their specific business needs and regulatory requirements. Customers can create multiple, differentiated policies based on various parameters, including asset hardware and software characteristics, such as device type or vendor; Sepio Asset Risk Factors; or custom tags for even greater versatility.
By establishing fine-grained scalable policies to manage asset risks, organizations can manage their diverse asset surface with flexibility, close control gaps, and uphold compliance requirements.
Automated enforcement
Sepio enables action at scale by automatically enforcing policies uniformly and definitively across the entire asset surface, allowing organizations to regain and maintain control of their dynamic ecosystem.
Automated policy enforcement saves organizations from the unreliability and inconsistency of manual enforcement, whereby policies may not be applied coherently. It also enables organizations to respond to threats faster, significantly reducing the mean time to remediation.
"Security teams and IT managers require a reliable asset inventory, upon which they can automatically enforce flexible, tailor-made risk-based policies. We're proud to bring such capabilities to the market in a single solution, making it easier than ever before for organizations to manage their asset risks", said Appleboum.
About Sepio
Sepio provides the first hardware asset risk management platform based on device existence. The company's solution offers customers actionable visibility, policy enforcement and mitigation capabilities, allowing them to confidently manage their asset risks. The solution does not require any traffic or activity monitoring – and as such is use case and device agnostic, whether it is IT/OT/IoT. If an asset connects to your infrastructure, Sepio will report it. At any scale, within less than 24 hours, you can see, assess and mitigate your asset risks and strengthen your cybersecurity posture. For more information, visit sepiocyber.com
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities are searching for a grandmother whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone and abandoned for two days in a locked car that was stuck in mud on a rural Alaska road.
The search for Mary Dawn Wilson, 69, is being concentrated around the community of Healy, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement. The abandoned Ford Focus was found Thursday on Stampede Road, just outside Healy and off the Parks Highway.
The child appeared to be in good health and was handed over to the state Office of Children’s Services, the statement said.
Officials said evidence in the car indicated that the child and car were abandoned Tuesday when the vehicle became stuck, troopers said. There were indications she tried to free the car, Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Tim DeSpain said.
Wilson was the last known person with the child, the statement said,
Troopers said it's believed she started walking, but in the opposite direction from the highway. Various law enforcement agencies, search dogs and the Alaska Wilderness Search and Rescue organization are looking for her near where the vehicle stopped.
Healy is located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Denali National Park and Preserve.
Stampede Road is famous for being the main thoroughfare that adventurers used to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless, a young idealist whose journey on the Stampede Trail ended with his death.
The trail road eventually ends and opens up to treacherous Alaska backcountry, where McCandless took shelter in an abandoned city bus after he became trapped by the swollen Teklanika River.
He died of starvation in 1992 and his life and death were made famous by the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer and then by the movie directed by Sean Penn.
Over the years, people trying to reach the bus that was located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Healy to pay pilgrimage to McCandless had to be rescued themselves or died. That prompted state officials to remove the bus from the backcountry in 2020.
The bus is currently being prepared for permanent outdoor display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. People can watch a livestream of the work being performed on the bus. | 2022-07-16T01:35:57+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/alaska-grandma-sought-after-child-abandoned-in-car-for-days/CCQ4ITYBXZAGBB2WFRSEF2WNS4/ |
Before barreling down the field, leaping over linemen and developing this scoring habit, Antwain Littleton II had to change. The young running back nicknamed Baby Bus leans on his power and physicality; that’s why defenders have such a hard time tackling him to the ground and how he manages to fall forward, past the first-down marker, for an extra few yards. But all these touchdown runs have roots that stretch back to over a year ago when Littleton decided to transform his body and committed to see it through.
If he hadn’t done so, “I’d probably still be on scout team trying to prove to the coaches that I could play or even be a running back in college,” Littleton said.
The Maryland redshirt freshman has shown he can excel at this position, reinforcing that belief each time he plows into the end zone. He arrived in College Park at 299 pounds and couldn’t pass the return-to-campus conditioning test. This season, he’s playing at around 240 pounds after overhauling his habits and revamping his mind-set.
The reward has come in the end zone: In the Terps’ 4-1 (1-1 Big Ten) start, Littleton has scored six times, picking up nearly seven yards per carry — a mark boosted by a handful of explosive runs. He also scored in last season’s bowl game, giving him the longest active streak of rushing touchdowns in the Football Bowl Subdivision, according to Maryland, and he could extend it Saturday at home against Purdue.
There’s no question now: He’s a running back — a dynamic and dependable Big Ten running back.
When Littleton enrolled at Maryland in the summer of 2021, he knew he would need to work on his nutrition and conditioning, even though he never expected this radical of a change. The coronavirus pandemic upended his normal routine and activity. His younger brother has asthma, so his mom wanted the family to be careful not to contract the virus, which can particularly effect people with respiratory issues. Littleton played only one game in a shortened spring season his senior year, so he had hardly spent time in shoulder pads as he prepared to begin his Maryland career.
“Before I came to college,” Littleton said, “I was very lazy.”
He played video games, binge-watched TV shows and snacked while hanging out with his dog, Seven. Like most high-schoolers, he had heard of the food pyramid, “but it’s never anything that you really paid attention to,” he said. Littleton loved sugary drinks, especially apple juice and fruit punch, and he would have pizza a couple of times a week: “Almost a whole box,” he said, describing his preferred pie as one with “chicken, bacon, spinach, things like that,” rather than “a bland pizza with just one topping.”
Littleton had always been a big, strong running back, playing at St. John’s College High at around 260 pounds, but his health deteriorated during that pandemic-altered senior year, just before he headed to Maryland.
Ryan Davis, the director of football strength and conditioning, “did nothing but keep it real for me from the start,” Littleton said. “He basically was telling me, ‘At this weight, at this level, you won’t be able to sustain the workouts or the practices.’”
So Littleton went straight to Lauren Antle, the director of football nutrition. She remembers Littleton, a freshman at the time, saying: “I want to get on top of this. I want to change. I know I came in heavier than everyone thought.” His desire to improve, she said, became the root of his success.
Before Maryland players are cleared to participate in team runs, they have to meet a certain threshold, determined by their position, on the PACER test — something that “98 percent of our team can come in the first day and they can do it in their sleep,” Davis said. After Jordan McNair died in 2018 from suffering a heatstroke during a summer conditioning workout, Maryland players take this test indoors after extended breaks away from campus because, if a player doesn’t pass, Davis said, it wouldn’t be safe for him to run with the others.
Littleton kept trying to pass every day — “one of the worst things I probably went through because it’s a real mental thing,” he said. When he finally reached the benchmark for running backs, he felt relief and wanted to cry. He called his mom, overjoyed he could participate in the full team workouts.
Davis focused on micro-level goals with Littleton. First: Pass the PACER test. Then: Develop consistency. Davis could tell the running back had a high upside because he didn’t have a history of regimented strength training. But for a while, when Littleton still clung to those inactive weekends on the couch, “I was like the bad guy chasing him around,” Davis said.
Eventually, Littleton settled into a groove. He never considered changing positions and instead remained devoted to changing himself. Antle, who plans all of the team meals, is often available in the cafeteria and always reachable via text or FaceTime. Littleton asked her constantly: “What do you think I should eat for breakfast today?” And then he would do the same for lunch and dinner.
“It was a very constant communication cycle,” said Antle, who focuses on guiding players through decisions so they can learn what foods make them feel and perform their best.
Littleton practiced with the scout team throughout last season, appearing in just two games. When he scored in the Pinstripe Bowl, he was around 260 pounds and already months into the slow transformation process. After that season, when he knew he would have a chance to grab a larger role, he dialed in on his mission.
The staffers who accompanied Littleton on this path shift all credit to the player. He decided he wanted to be a Power Five running back, and he turned into someone who would pop into Davis’s office to say hello early in the mornings. Davis thinks Littleton wanted to make sure his coach knew he had arrived early. Rarely does a player go through a change of this magnitude. It took a year, but that’s how he managed to lose the weight — and maintain his muscle — in a healthy way.
“I just never want him to forget how hard it was and how well he did it and how well he handled it,” Antle said. “I try to tell him that I'm proud of him all the time.”
This season, Littleton is working to replenish his body properly after practices so he can maintain his weight. He loves watermelon and knows it helps him stay hydrated, and if he has pizza, “I can’t even eat past three big slices.” The box sits in his refrigerator for the next couple of days. He talks about the benefits of stretching and how abandoning his “lazy habit” improved his mental state and his academic performance. When he returned to campus in the winter and again in the summer, he had no problem with the conditioning test.
Littleton embraces a phrase he adopted during high school: “last of a rare breed.” He knows his physical qualities make him special. A running back with size is hard to stop. And now that he learned how to optimize his abilities, he can thrive.
“It’s not great because you’re good at what you do,” Davis said. “It’s not great because you had a 100-yard game or you scored a touchdown. It’s great, to me, because you are doing the very thing that you said you wanted to do when you got here.” | 2022-10-08T02:03:34+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/06/antwain-littleton-touchdowns-weight-loss/ |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jon Daniels was the general manager of the Texas Rangers for their only two World Series appearances more than a decade ago. His 17 years leading the club ended with a string of really bad seasons.
Daniels was relieved of his duties as president of baseball operations Wednesday, when team owner Ray Davis informed him that his contract wouldn’t be renewed at the end of this season. Davis said he had been contemplating the move for several months.
“Bottom line is we’re not good, and we haven’t been good for six years,” Davis said. “To be competitive going forward, I felt that we needed to make a change.”
The dismissal of Daniels came two days after manager Chris Woodward was fired in his fourth season. It also occurred less than nine months after the Rangers committed more than a half-billion dollars to free agent infielders Corey Seager and Marcus Semien, and starting pitcher Jon Gray.
Daniels was the youngest GM ever in the majors when he got the job with the Rangers at age 28 in October 2005. He added the title of president of baseball operations in 2013, and held both roles until Chris Young was brought in as the team’s general manager in December 2020.
Young now assumes oversight of all aspects of the team’s baseball operations department. The former big league pitcher was a senior vice president for Major League Baseball before joining the Texas front office.
“I think Chris will come in with a new vigor and new enthusiasm and be able to build an organization that we can be consistent for many years,” Davis said.
Young was expected to speak to reporters on Thursday, and then go with the team on its trip to Minnesota this weekend to talk with players.
The Rangers went to the World Series in 2010 and 2011, then won AL West titles again in 2015 and 2016. They have since slipped into a rebuilding phase and the longest streak of consecutive losing seasons since moving to Texas a half-century ago.
After splitting their first two games under interim manager Tony Beasley, they would have to win 29 of their last 46 games to avoid another losing season.
Texas lost 102 games last year, after going 22-38 during the shortened 2020 season.
Addressing Woodward’s firing on Monday, Daniels said he took a lot of responsibility for the team’s performance over the last six years, and acknowledged that the Rangers haven’t been good enough in that span.
“But ultimately, this is a team effort. … When we were good, it wasn’t about me. It’s always been a team effort,” Daniels said. “We have a ways to go. We have a lot of good people here. As far as my personal accountability or situation, that’s something we’ll address down the line.”
That came Wednesday when Davis met with Daniels, whom the owner described as being surprised by the decision. Davis then spoke with Young to inform him of what was happening.
While Davis had already made up his mind on the bigger changes, he kept those plans to himself when Daniels and Young approached him Monday about the managerial change. The owner said he agreed on firing Woodward since Young was part of that decision.
“So I separated the two, and did Woody then and Jon now,” Davis said.
The 6-foot-10 Young is a Dallas native who played played baseball and basketball at Princeton. He pitched in 13 major league seasons with five teams. His big league debut was with the Rangers in 2004, and he won a World Series title with Kansas City in 2015.
Davis said he made the move now to give Young a head start on the offseason. The owner said the Rangers need a couple of front-end starters and a middle-of-the-lineup bat to go with last winter’s additions of Seager ($325 million, 10 years), Semien ($175 million, seven years) and Gray ($56 million, four years).
“I don’t plan on spending as much money as we did last offseason,” Davis said. “But we plan on spending some money.”
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-17T23:04:23+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/daniels-out-as-rangers-president-after-17-years-leading-club/ |
Biden administration seeks input on AI safety measures
(AP) - President Joe Biden’s administration wants stronger measures to test the safety of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT before they are publicly released, though it hasn’t decided if the government will have a role in doing the vetting.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday said it will spend the next 60 days fielding opinions on the possibility of AI audits, risk assessments and other measures that could ease consumer concerns about these new systems.
“There is a heightened level of concern now, given the pace of innovation, that it needs to happen responsibly,” said Assistant Commerce Secretary Alan Davidson, administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
The NTIA, more of an adviser than a regulator, is seeking feedback about what policies could make commercial AI tools more accountable.
Biden last week said during a meeting with his council of science and technology advisers that tech companies must ensure their products are safe before releasing them to the public.
The Biden administration also last year unveiled a set of far-reaching goals aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of AI systems, but that was before the release of ChatGPT, from San Francisco startup OpenAI, and similar products from Microsoft and Google led to wider awareness of the capabilities of the latest AI tools that can generate human-like passages of text, as well as new images and video.
“These new language models, for example, are really powerful and they do have the potential to generate real harm,” Davidson said in an interview. “We think that these accountability mechanisms could truly help by providing greater trust in the innovation that’s happening.”
The NTIA’s notice leans heavily on requesting comment about “self-regulatory” measures that the companies that build the technology would be likely to lead. That’s a contrast to the European Union, where lawmakers this month are negotiating the passage of new laws that could set strict limits on AI tools depending on how high a risk they pose.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-11T15:34:41+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2023/04/11/biden-administration-seeks-input-ai-safety-measures/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s stock exchange briefly halted trading Friday after its benchmark index plunged sharply following an announcement by the newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif that he was imposing a new, 10% tax on major industries.
Sharif, who appeared on the state-run Pakistan Television TV and almost all other stations in the country, warned that the economy was on the verge of bankruptcy. He said he was taking the measures to “save the country and avoid further taxes on the poor.”
The new tax would apply to industries such as cement, steel, sugar, banking, textile and others. There would also be new, graduated taxes on the wealthy. The measures are expected to go into effect on July 1, following approval by parliament.
Following the broadcast, the Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark index, known as KSE-100, plunged more than 2,000 points or 4.8%, sending the market into shock and forcing administrators to briefly halt the trading.
It was the last working day of the week before the market reopens Monday.
Jibran Sarfraz, a businessman in the port city of Karachi, where the stock exchange is based, said the market was reacting to the new taxes levied by Sharif’s government which are shaking up everyone’s confidence in the stock exchange.
The latest development came days after Pakistan’s currency, the rupee, started recovering after steadily plummeting to 212, an all-time low against the dollar, amid uncertainty about the success of talks with the International Monetary Fund. The rupee traded 208 to the dollar at market’s closing on Friday.
Pakistan is in crucial talks with the IMF to revive a $6 billion bailout package which has been on hold since former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government was ousted in April.
Sharif was elected after the parliament ousted Khan in a no-confidence vote — a move the former cricket star turned Islamist politician insisted was a U.S. plot. Washington and Sharif’s Cabinet have denied the allegation.
Sharif hopes his government will reach a deal with the IMF in the coming weeks.
Pakistan and the IMF originally signed the accord in 2019, but the release of a key installment had been on hold since earlier this year. That’s when the fund expressed reservations about a delay in Pakistan’s compliance with the conditions of the bailout by Khan’s government. | 2022-06-24T14:33:19+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/pakistan-stock-market-plunges-on-new-govt-tax-on-industries/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Two men who were active-duty members of the Marines Corps when they stormed the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Monday to riot-related criminal charges.
Joshua Abate and Dodge Dale Hellonen are scheduled to be sentenced in September by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes. Both pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Many Capitol rioters are military veterans, but only a few were actively serving in the armed forces when they joined a mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
A third active-duty Marine, Micah Coomer, also was charged with Abate and Hellonen. Coomer pleaded guilty to the same misdemeanor charge in May and is scheduled to be sentenced by Reyes on Aug. 30.
All three men face a maximum sentence of six months of imprisonment.
As of May 19, the Marines were still in the service. No additional information was available Monday.
David Dischley, an attorney for Abate, declined to comment on his client’s guilty plea. An assistant public defender who represents Hellonen didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Authorities arrested the three men in January: Abate at Fort Meade, Maryland; Coomer in Oceanside, California; and Hellonen in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Witnesses stationed with Coomer at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and with Hellonen at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina identified them in videos of the Jan. 6 riot, according to the FBI. A third witness — also a Marine — identified Abate from footage captured inside the Capitol, the FBI said.
During a June 2022 for his security clearance, Abate said he and two “buddies” had walked through the Capitol on Jan. 6 “and tried not to get hit with tear gas,” according to an FBI special agent.
“Abate also admitted he heard how the event was being portrayed negatively and decided that he should not tell anybody about going into the U.S. Capitol Building,” the agent wrote in an affidavit.
After the riot, Coomer posted photos on Instagram with the caption “Glad to be (a part) of history.” The angles of the photos and the caption indicated he had been inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI said. The phone number listed for Coomer in his military personal file matched the Instagram account.
Coomer drove to Washington on the morning of Jan. 6 from his military post in Virginia. He attended then-President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally with Abate and Hellonen before they entered the Capitol. Inside the Rotunda, they placed a red “Make America Great Again” hat on a statute before taking photos of it, prosecutors said. The three men spent nearly an hour inside the Capitol before leaving.
Less than a month after the riot, Coomer told another Instagram user that he believed “everything in this country is corrupt.”
“We honestly need a fresh restart. I’m waiting for the boogaloo,” he wrote, according to the FBI.
When the other user asked what that term meant, Coomer wrote, “Civil war 2.”
“Boogaloo” movement supporters use the term as slang for a second civil war or collapse of civilization. They frequently show up at protests armed with rifles and wearing Hawaiian shirts under body armor.
Over 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Approximately 600 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors punishable by maximum terms of imprisonment of six months or one year.
___ Associated Press writer Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-06-13T14:20:21+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/2-active-duty-marines-plead-guilty-to-capitol-riot-charges/ |
The new "Skilled to Secure" program enables partners to build up their competencies and deliver the increased ROI on security investments that customers are demanding.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infoblox Inc., the leader in cloud-first networking and security services, unveils its new partner program today, designed to maximize opportunities partners can secure and deliver. The Skilled to Secure trusted partner program reflects the changing security landscape and shifting customer requirements – and the need for providers of security solutions and services to adapt in response.
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Integrated into the security ecosystem, BloxOne® enables DNS data to be used to address blind spots in enterprise threat defense and security systems. Internal and external threats can be identified, prioritized, and remediated in a fraction of the time without significant additional investment in new solutions.
In the new program, partners will be assigned levels based on their acquisition of the competencies required to deliver BloxOne® and maximize its value for customers.
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MONTREAL (AP) _ Canadian National Railway Co. (CNI) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $1.04 billion.
The Montreal-based company said it had net income of $1.50 per share. Earnings, adjusted for pretax expenses, were $1.51 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.37 per share.
The railroad posted revenue of $3.4 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.17 billion.
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Today in Sports History-Week Ahead, Feb. 3-Feb.9
Today in Sports History-Week Ahead, Feb. 3-Feb.9, Two Takes
By The Associated Press=
Feb. 3
1944 – Syd Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores six goals in a 12-6 victory over the New York Rangers. Howe is the first player to score six goals in a game since Cy Denneny of the Ottawa Senators in 1921.
1956 – Austria’s Toni Sailer wins the men’s downhill to become first Olympic skier to sweep three Alpine events.
1976 – Washington’s Dave Bing, in his final NBA All-Star game apperance, wins the MVP and leads the East to a 123-109 victory over the West in Philadelphia. Bing has 16 points and four assists.
1980 – Larry Bird hits the first 3-point shot in the history of the NBA All-Star Game. Bird’ 3 came in overtime. The East wins 144-136.
1982 – Steve Mahre, twin brother of overall champion Phil Mahre, becomes the first American male skier to win a gold medal in an Olympics or world championship competition when he edges Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark in the giant slalom at the worlds.
1990 – Bill Shoemaker, the world’s winningest jockey, finishes fourth on Patchy Groundfog in his final ride at Santa Anita. The 58-year-old Shoemaker finishes his 40-year career with $123,375,524 in earnings, a record 8,833 wins, 6,136 seconds and 4,987 thirds in 40,350 starts.
1998 – Dino Ciccarelli becomes the ninth NHL player to reach 600 goals when he scores on a power play with 5:09 remaining in the third period to give the Florida Panthers a 1-1 tie against the Detroit Red Wings.
2000 – World Wrestling Federation mastermind Vince McMahon unveils his latest creation: the XFL, a new pro football league.
2001 – One year later, the XFL muscles its way onto the national sports scene with its first two games. With exuberant cheerleaders and trash-talking players, the Las Vegas Outlaws beat the New York/New Jersey Hitmen 19-0, while the Orlando Rage beat the Chicago Enforcers 33-29 before a crowd of 35,603 in Orlando.
2002 – Adam Vinatieri’s 48-yard field goal as time expires gives Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots their first Super Bowl title with a 20-17 win over the two-touchdown favorite St. Louis Rams.
2006 – Martin Brodeur becomes the third goaltender in NHL history to reach 100 shutouts when New Jersey blanks Carolina 3-0. Brodeur joins Terry Sawchuk (115) and George Hainsworth (102).
2008 – Eli Manning and the New York Giants end New England’s unbeaten season and pull off one of the great Super Bowl upsets. Manning throws a 13-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds left to beat the Patriots 17-14.
2013 – The Baltimore Ravens survive a power outage at the Super Bowl to edge the San Francisco 49ers 34-31. Jacoby Jones returns the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 28-6 lead. Moments later, lights lining the Superdome fade. When action resumes 34 minutes later, Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers score 17 consecutive points, getting as close as 31-29. Baltimore stops San Francisco on fourth-and-goal from the 5 with under 2 minutes left when Kaepernick’s pass sails beyond Michael Crabtree in the end zone.
2017 – Tara VanDerveer becomes the second NCAA women’s coach to reach 1,000 career victories when No. 8 Stanford beats Southern California 58-42 to give the Hall of Famer a milestone before a home crowd at Maples Pavilion.
2019 – Super Bowl LIII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA: New England Patriots beat Los Angeles Rams, 13-3; MVP: Julian Edelman, NE Patriots, WR; Patriots’ 6th SB victory
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Feb. 4
1861 – The Philadelphia Athletics beat Charter Oak 36-27 in a baseball game played on frozen Litchfield Pond in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the players wearing ice skates.
1924 – The first Winter Olympics close in Chamonix, France. Sixteen countries competed in 17 events from seven sports.
1932 – The Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, N.Y., the first Winter Games in the United States.
1957 – Joe McCarthy and Sam Crawford are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1969 – The 24 major league owners unanimously select Bowie Kuhn as commissioner for a one-year term at a salary of $100,000.
1971 – The Baseball Hall of Fame establishes a separate section for players from the old Negro Leagues. In July, commissioner Bowie Kuhn, along with Hall president Paul Kirk, announce a change of heart and scrap plans for the separate section.
1976 – U.S. District Court Judge John W. Oliver upholds the ruling of arbitrator Peter Seitz that declared Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents.
1977 – Rick Martin scores two goals in the third period, including the game-winning goal with under two minutes to play, to lead the Wales Conference to a 4-3 win over the Campbell conference in the NHL All-Star game at Vancouver.
1979 – Denver’s David Thompson scores 25 points on 11-of-17 shooting to lead the West Conference to a 134-129 victory over the East at the 1979 NBA All-Star Game in Detroit. Thompson also grabs five rebounds and is named the games MVP. Philadelphia’s Julius Erving leads all scorers with 29 points and san Antonio’s George Gervin adds 26 for the East.
1987 – The Sacramento Kings have the worst first quarter since the inception of the shot clock in 1954. The Kings set the NBA record with only four points in the opening quarter of a 128-92 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
1987 – Stars & Stripes, skippered by Dennis Conner, sweeps Kookaburra III 4-0 at Fremantle, Australia, to bring sailing’s America’s Cup back to the United States.
1991 – The doors of Cooperstown are slammed shut on Pete Rose when the Hall of Fame’s board of directors votes 12-0 to bar players on the permanently ineligible list from consideration.
1997 – Mario Lemieux scores his 600th goal, an empty netter, to help the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 6-4 win against the Vancouver Canucks. Lemieux is the first player to score 600 goals while spending his NHL career with one team.
2003 – Jaromir Jagr scores three goals, including his 500th, for his 11th career hat trick as Washington beat Tampa Bay 5-1.
2007 – Peyton Manning is 25-of-38 for 247 yards and a touchdown as he rallies Indianapolis to a 29-17 Super Bowl victory over Chicago in the South Florida rain. Tony Dungy becomes the first black coach to win the championship, beating good friend and protege Lovie Smith in a game that featured the first two black coaches in the Super Bowl.
2012 – Lindsey Vonn captures her 50th World Cup victory, winning the downhill with temperatures plunging to minus 13 on the demanding Kandahar course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
2017 – Gregg Popovich becomes the winningest coach with a single franchise in NBA history, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 121-97 victory over the Denver Nuggets. Popovich earns his 1,128th victory to pass former Utah coach Jerry Sloan for the mark.
2018 – The Philadelphia Eagles win a record-setting shootout between Nick Foles and Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. Foles, the backup quarterback, leads a pressure-packed 75-yard drive to the winning touchdown, 11 yards to Zach Etrz with 2:21 to go. Then the defense makes two final stands to win 41-33.
2022 – XXIV Olympic Winter Games open in Beijing, China.
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Feb. 5
1913 – The New York State Athletic Commission bans boxing matches between fighters of different races.
1919 – Charges against Cincinnati’s Hal Chase of throwing games and betting against his team are dismissed by National League president John Heydler. Two weeks later, Chase is traded to the New York Giants.
1948 – After landing the first double axel in Olympic competition, Dick Button becomes the first American to win the Olympic gold medal in figure skating. Gretchen Fraser becomes the first U.S. woman Olympic slalom champion.
1960 – Bill Russell grabs 51 rebounds in the Boston Celtics’ 124-100 victory over the Syracuse Nationals. Russell is the first player in NBA history to pull in 50 or more rebounds.
1972 – Bob Douglas is the first black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame. Known as ”The Father of Black Professional Basketball,” Douglas owned and coached the New York Renaissance from 1922 until 1949.
1976 – Austrian Franz Klammer wins the Olympic gold medal in the downhill at Innsbruck, Austria. Bill Koch wins a silver in the 30-kilometer cross-country race to become the first American to win a medal in a Nordic event.
1980 – Gordie Howe plays his 23rd and final All-Star Game. Howe doesn’t score, but sets up the final goal of the game, by Real Cloutier, in the Wales Conference’s 6-3 win against the Campbell Conference at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
1990 – Notre Dame bucks the College Football Association and becomes the first college to sell its home games to a major network, agreeing to a five-year contract with NBC beginning in 1991.
1991 – Dave Taylor of the Los Angeles Kings has two assists in a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers to become the 29th player in NHL history with 1,000 points.
1999 – Patrick Roy, at 33, becomes the youngest goalie in NHL history to earn 400 wins when he makes 26 saves in the Colorado Avalanche’s 3-1 win against the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.
2003 – Bode Miller of the United States captures his first major title, winning the gold medal in the combined at the world championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
2006 – Pittsburgh wins a record-tying fifth Super Bowl, but its first since 1980 with a 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks.
2009 – Tennessee’s Pat Summitt becomes the first Division I basketball coach – man or woman – to win 1,000 career games after her Lady Vols beat Georgia 73-43.
2011 – Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia wins the men’s 3,000 at the Boston Indoor Grand Prix, after losing his right shoe at the start of the race. Gebremeskel stays close to the lead throughout the race and takes over on the final lap to finish in 7:35.37. Britain’s Mo Farah finishes second in 7:35.81.
2012 – Eli Manning and the Giants one-up Tom Brady and the Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute score to beat New England 21-17 for New York’s fourth Super Bowl title.
2017 – Tom Brady leads one of the greatest comebacks in sports, let alone Super Bowl history, lifting New England from a 25-point hole to the Patriots’ fifth NFL championship in the game’s first overtime finish. The Patriots score 19 points in the final quarter, including a pair of 2-point conversions, then marches relentlessly to James White’s 2-yard touchdown run in overtime beating the Atlanta Falcons 34-28.
2022 – Six days before his 50th birthday, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater wins his 8th Pipeline title beating 22-year old Hawaiian Seth Moniz in the final
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Feb. 6
1943 – Montreal’s Ray Getliffe scores five goals to lead the Canadiens to an 8-3 triumph over the Boston Bruins.
1958 – Ted Williams signs a contract with the Boston Red Sox for $135,000, making him the highest paid player in major league history.
1967 – Muhammad Ali successfully defends his world heavyweight title with a 15-round decision over Ernest Terrell in the Houston Astrodome.
1970 – The NBA expands to 18 teams with the addition of franchises in Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland.
1981 – Wayne Gretzky scores three goals and three assists in a 10-4 Edmonton victory over the Winnipeg Jets, giving him 100 points in the season.
1985 – Seventeen-year-old Dianne Roffe becomes the first U.S. woman to win a gold medal in a World Alpine Ski Championship race, capturing the giant slalom in 2:18.53.
1988 – Chicago’s Michael Jordan wins the NBA Slam Dunk contest with a perfect score of 50 on his final dunk, in front of a hometown crowd at Chicago Stadium.
1990 – Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues scores his 50th goal, making him and his Hall of Famer father, Bobby Hull, the only father-son combination in NHL history to reach that milestone.
1993 – Riddick Bowe easily wins his first defense of his WBA and IBF heavyweight boxing titles by beating Michael Dokes in the first round of their championship bout held at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
2000 – Randy Moss sets records with nine catches for 212 yards, and Mike Alstott scores three touchdowns in the NFC’s 51-31 victory over the AFC, the highest-scoring Pro Bowl.
2000 – Pavel Bure records the 11th hat trick in All-Star history and goalie Olaf Kolzig plays a shutout third period as the World team routs North America 9-4 in the NHL’s 50th All-Star game.
2005 – The New England Patriots win their third Super Bowl in four years, 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles. It’s their ninth straight postseason victory, equaling Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers.
2011 – New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady becomes the first unanimous choice for The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award. Brady gets all 50 votes since the AP began using a nationwide panel of media members who cover the league.
2011 – Aaron Rodgers throws three touchdown passes and Nick Collins returns an interception for another score, leading the Green Bay Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl.
2022 – NFL Pro Bowl, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada: AFC beats NFC, 41-35; MVPs: Justin Herbert, QB LA Chargers; Maxx Crosby, DE LV Raiders
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CAIRO (AP) — The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they were imposing severe restrictions starting Saturday on U.N. and other humanitarian flights arriving in the capital, Sanaa.
The Houthi-run Civil Aviation Authority said no humanitarian flights would land in Sanaa between March 25-30. It said in a statement they would allow such flights in Sanaa only on Fridays.
The Houthis said their decision was in response to an alleged barring of commercial flights to and from the Yemeni capital, and a ban of booking flights from Sanaa.
The United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Sanaa International Airport was partly reopened for commercial fights last year as part of a U.N.-brokered cease-fire deal between Yemen’s warring parties. The cease-fire expired in October when the two sides failed to reach a compromise to renew the truce.
The Houthi move comes amid an escalation in fighting in the central province of Marib, where the Houthi rebels in recent days attacked government-held areas.
The escalation comes after Iran and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement earlier this month to restore bilateral relations, reviving hopes of a political settlement to Yemen’s conflict, where the two regional powerhouses support opposing sides.
Yemen’s war erupted in 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa and forced the government into exile in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-led coalition entered the conflict in March 2015 to try restoring the internationally recognized government to power.
The Houthi restrictions on humanitarian flights is likely to exaggerate the suffering of Yemenis in Houthi-held areas, including the capital.
Yemen’s conflict has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. More than 21 million people in Yemen, or two-thirds of the country’s population, need help and protection, according to the U.N. | 2023-03-25T14:00:24+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/yemen-rebels-restrict-humanitarian-flights-17859771.php |
BEIJING, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As China looks ahead to the future after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), let's recount how the world's most populous country has fared during the past decade in its journey of economic, political, cultural, social and environmental development.
Economy
An analysis of the last two Five-Year Plans (FYPs) shows that rapid and sustainable economic development as well as industrial restructuring emerged as two of the main focuses of the 2011-2015 period, while the 13th FYP (2016-2020) aimed to maintain a medium-high rate of growth.
While China's GDP more than doubled in the past decade, the contribution of its economic growth to the world economy stands at 18.5 percent.
Moreover, China made substantial leaps in scientific and technological development, building its own space station for future international collaboration and launching missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.
Politics
China adopted its first Civil Code in 2020 after a journey of 66 years. During the compilation, 1.02 million pieces of advice from around 425,000 people were solicited.
China also improved its security environment, with people's sense of security topping 98 percent, according to a survey.
Moreover, while the CPC membership went up, the participation of non-CPC entities, especially in the consultative process, increased as well.
Society
China achieved one of its "two centenary goals" of becoming a "moderately prosperous society" in 2021. One of the most significant of the struggles has been of eliminating the scourge of absolute poverty.
Speaking of health, China's average life expectancy increased from 74.83 years in 2010 to 78.2 years in 2021. While the mortality rates continued to dip, a large number of people were brought under the social security cover.
In the face of COVID-19, China prioritized human lives over economic gains through its dynamic zero-COVID policy and pushed vaccines as global public goods.
Furthermore, doubling of spending on the education sector in the past decade and universalization of free nine-year compulsory education could be part of the reason why China's literacy rate is only 2.67 percentage points shy of hitting an absolute 100 percent.
Culture
In the past decade, the government took a range of initiatives to not only meet people's contemporary cultural needs but also preserve history by building infrastructures like libraries, museums, and galleries.
China has also been going above and beyond in nurturing a strong culture of sports and fitness, forging ahead with its national strategies of Fitness-for-All, Healthy China Initiative, and Building China into a Country Strong in Sports.
Environment
China's promise to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 came hot on the heels of a decade of progress achieved in lowering its dependency on coal, shifting to alternative sources of energy, increasing forest coverage and biodiversity and taking a series of steps to mitigate climate change.
Visit "The Numbers of a Decade: A Journey through China's Modernization" for an in-depth account of China's journey in the past decade and insights on the way forward.
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A man’s body was pulled Monday evening from the Rio Grande by Albuquerque Fire Rescue, who said the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office will investigate the man’s death.
AFR Lt. Jason Fejer said just after 5 p.m., crews were on patrol on the river in an airboat and they spotted a man’s body just north of Rio Bravo.
The firefighters secured the man’s body and got him to shore, then turned the case over the BCSO. Fejer said there were no obvious signs of death and an autopsy will determine how the man died.
The man, who appears to be in his 30s, was obviously deceased and no life-saving measures were taken, Fejer said. Officials think he was in the water for one to three days.
He wasn’t wearing a life jacket and no recreational gear was with the body.
The Rio Grande on Monday was flowing at 279% of its normal level, according to snoflo.org.
Last week, the Corrales Fire Department officials said that the department has made dozens of water rescues in the Rio Grande so far this year, which is more than normal. They cautioned people to use proper gear and to be advised that the high water levels could erode shoreline and pull cottonwood trees or other debris into the river.
Rivers and lakes across New Mexico are seeing higher-than usual water because of the high snowfall totals throughout the state’s northern mountains. | 2023-05-30T20:56:46+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2602701/mans-body-pulled-from-rio-grande.html |
MESA, AZ — The Arizona Department of Transportation moved up its construction timeline for the U.S. 60 freeway by six months, and work will begin on the eastbound lanes, starting at Dobson Road, Friday night.
Drivers, however, still have bad memories from the first phase of the project.
When crews removed the worn, rubberized, asphalt from the U.S. 60 back in November of 2021, and ran out of funds to finish, the mess for drivers began almost immediately.
Dangerous debris caused damage to cars, and thick clouds of dust covered property at nearby homes, leaving residents with health concerns.
More than 150 damage claims were filed with the state, totaling some $85,000.
"I have contacted ADOT many times," said Mesa resident, Virginia Woolf.
The issue got so bad that Woolf went beyond the state, writing a letter to Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg and the Biden administration to see if they could help.
In part of the letter, Woolf wrote, "I've been part of the expansion of the road when it was first connected and made into a safe clean and beautiful highway... Now it's a death trap, unsafe at any speed."
Woolf never heard back from Buttigieg, and her concerns remained. So when a flyer arrived in the mail from ADOT about a week ago, saying construction would begin again on the U.S. 60, she couldn't help but be skeptical that the ride would be any smoother this time around.
"And now they say it's going to be done at night, and they're going to clean it up, and they're going to have controls and everything, but who really knows," she said.
Woolf was shocked to learn ADOT would again be using McNeil Brothers, the same contractor as before.
"Don't we deserve better?" Woolf said.
ADOT released the following statement addressing the construction and its use of McNeil Brothers:
ADOT and this contractor responded proactively to the situation in 2021 and results were significantly improved when the work near Gilbert Road was completed in early 2022. We will continue to work closely with the contractor in limiting the size of individual work zones to minimize debris and dust that this type of work can create. The project's goal in the coming months is to improve the driving surface of this busy stretch of US 60, making for a smoother ride for drivers.
The current project will cover a 14-mile stretch of the U.S. 60 between Loop 101 and Loop 202.
ADOT will be replacing the existing asphalt with a diamond-grind surface, of which Woolf is no fan.
"It grabs your tires and moves your car," she said.
ADOT anticipates construction on the US 60 should be complete in six months. | 2023-01-07T00:36:20+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/operation-safe-roads/adot-will-again-start-construction-on-the-us-60-conjuring-bad-memories-for-drivers |
DANVILLE, VA. (WGHP) – Ford’s planned electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility, similar to the one Toyota is building at the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, might have provided even more jobs to the northern reaches of the Piedmont Triad if not for an apparent intervention by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch and Danville Register & Bee cited two sources Thursday in reporting that Ford had chosen a site near Danville in Pittsylvania County before Youngkin told the company that the state was withdrawing because he was concerned about Ford’s relationship with a Chinese manufacturer.
Ford said later Thursday in response to the newspapers’ report that it had not made an official decision between pitches from Virginia and Michigan.
The battery plant would have meant a $3.5 billion investment and about 2,500 jobs for a parcel at the Virginia Mega Site in Berry Hill, which is across the Dan River from Rockingham and Caswell counties in North Carolina and only slightly farther from Greensboro (about 41 miles) than Toyota’s site near Liberty (about 28 miles).
Youngkin withdrew the state because of what he said were concerns about the Chinese government’s influence and that federal tax incentives might benefit the Chinese Community Party, and on Wednesday he dismissed as “fundamentally wrong” the newspapers’ report that Ford had notified Virginia about its selection.
The Register & Bee and Times-Dispatch reported that in a telephone interview Youngkin told reporters that “what you’re writing is wrong. … The fact set that you are navigating around is fundamentally wrong, and I just wanted to be able to explain to you why.”
But the newspapers said that Youngkin did not answer repeated questions about whether Ford had chosen Virginia. It’s also unclear what incentives the state might have been discussing.
The facility, although owned by Ford, would have been operated by the Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL). Bloomberg News reported in mid-December that Ford and CATL were considering Michigan or Virginia. Ford would own the plant, and CATL would operate the factory and own the technology, Bloomberg reported.
About five days after that report, The Daily Caller, a conservative news website, reported that Youngkin was removing Virginia from consideration, and he said in his “State of the Commonwealth address” last Wednesday that “he feared the plant would be a front for Chinese influence,” the Times-Dispatch reported.
Ford is investing about $5.8 billion to build a similar facility south of Louisville, Ky., but that arrangement is in partnership with a Korean company, SK Group. That plant will employ about 5,000.
NC’s investments in EVs
By comparison, North Carolina’s recruitment of Toyota’s facility to the site near Liberty, first announced in December 2021, included a $1.3 billion investment by the company to bring 1,750 jobs with a median minimum salary of $62,234 by December 2026.
The state (no mention of the federal government) invested about $271.4 million in incentives. Then in June the new budget adopted by the state included another $225 million for Phase II of the project, which would bring about 3,875 more jobs and another $3 billion from Toyota by 2034.
Toyota Motor North America announced on Oct. 18, 2021, that it would begin production in 2025, starting with batteries for hybrid electric vehicles. Toyota said it would invest $3.4 billion in the U.S. through 2030.
North Carolina also since has provided $854 million in incentives to lure the Vietnamese EV manufacturer Vinfast – a $4 billion investment to bring 7,500 jobs at $51,096 – to Chatham County.
And the microchip manufacturer Wolfspeed is receiving nearly $800 million in incentives to build a facility near Siler City that would make the semiconductors used in EV charging stations. Wolfspeed would invest about $5 billion by 2030 and employ 1,802 at an average minimum salary of $77,753.
A spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Commerce told WGHP that the state doesn’t discuss conversations officials might have about the site locations of companies until after announcements are made. There is no indication NC pursued Ford.
Unhappy in Danville
Danville/Pittsylvania County is home to about 100,000 residents and is the site of the new casino and convention facility that Caesars is building and plans to open temporarily this year and permanently in 2024.
The Register & Bee said that Democrats in Virginia and Pittsylvania County were incensed by the decision by Youngkin, a Republican who has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2024. The area is represented in Congress by Rep. Bob Good, an extreme conservative and conspiracy theorist.
“This area has voted heavily and consistently Republican and voted for Youngkin, and to have that happen is disgraceful,” said Roy Ford, chair of the Pittsylvania County Democratic Committee, told the Register & Bee.
“During his campaign, the Governor made a promise to bring economic development and manufacturing jobs to our communities that are struggling — especially in rural Virginia — to attract industries that offer competitive wages,” state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield) told the Register & Bee. “The Governor’s decision to pull Virginia out of the competition for the new Ford facility puts the Commonwealth at a severe disadvantage.” | 2023-01-19T23:00:44+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/youngkin-halts-talks-o-ford-ev-battery-plant-near-virginia-north-carolina-border-over-concerns-of-chinas-influence/ |
(The Hill) – Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, gave a voluntary interview Thursday with the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The interview with Thomas caps a months-long effort by the committee to speak with the conservative activist, who reportedly exchanged emails with John Eastman, the lawyer who drafted memos for the Trump campaign outlining how then-Vice President Mike Pence could keep then-President Trump in power, as well as with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Thomas’s attorney, Mark Paoletta, said last week that Thomas had agreed to meet with the panel and is “eager to answer the committee’s questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election.”
Thomas herself also told The Daily Caller in June that she was willing to speak with the panel and “clear up misconceptions,” though she did not detail what those might be. Still, later that month her attorney said he needed “a better justification for why Mrs. Thomas’s testimony is relevant to the committee’s legislative purpose.”
Paoletta did not respond to request for comment on Thursday.
Pressed in a Sunday interview on CNN on what the committee is hoping to hear from Thomas, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a member of the panel, pointed to her communications with Eastman.
“I don’t know what her answers will be, but clearly there were emails between her and Dr. Eastman that we’d like to explore with her. And she said publicly that she’ll come in and everything will be clear, so we hope that’s the case,” she said.
The release of text messages with Meadows show Thomas was engaging with the White House and encouraging efforts to keep Trump in power.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” Thomas texted to Meadows a week after the election.
Thomas’s activism has led to calls for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any cases with a nexus to Jan. 6.
Ginni Thomas’ interview comes as the committee delayed what could be its final public hearing due to Hurricane Ian.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-09-29T18:35:54+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/ginni-thomas-gives-interview-to-jan-6-panel/ |
Nursing home resident found dead outside facility after missing for 2 days
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - Ohio officials say a nursing home resident has died after she went missing from a facility.
WOIO reports the 82-year-old was found dead on Tuesday when staff located her body outside of the facility. Officials said the woman was missing for two days before her body was discovered.
According to the Summit County Medical Examiner, Joan Meredith went missing after last being seen on Nov. 6. at the Merriman Nursing Home in Akron.
On Tuesday, staff had reportedly contacted Meredith’s family to see when she would return.
The medical examiner said that the nursing home staff had presumed the woman had taken a leave of absence from the facility with family.
However, after the team learned that was not the case, the medical examiner said staff began searching the premises for Meredith.
Staff located the 82-year-old’s body in a wooded area behind the facility, according to the medical examiner.
The examiner said Meredith died of hypothermia with her death ruled accidental. According to officials, she had a history of dementia.
Copyright 2022 WOIO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-12T00:51:11+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/11/12/nursing-home-resident-found-dead-outside-facility-after-missing-2-days/ |
Woman says 2 Weinstein sexual assaults came 17 years apart
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman testified Monday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during the Toronto Film Festival in 1991, then did it again when she went to confront him in the same hotel during the same festival 17 years later.
On the witness stand at Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial, she said she was a 24-year-old aspiring actor at the 1991 festival and didn’t know who Weinstein was before she met him at a party. She said her friends there were abuzz about the man whose company Miramax had surged to the forefront of independent film and was making its mark at the Oscars.
She said she was charmed by Weinstein at first as they discussed books and films.
“We got along very well,” she said. “He was very intelligent. We had a wonderful conversation.”
She said the two of them left the party for a glass of wine at a nearby cafe, then she went with him to his room at the Four Seasons Hotel because he said he had a script for a film with a role that would be perfect for him.
Once there, she said he went into the bathroom and emerged wearing only an open shirt and holding a hot washcloth.
“It all happened very, very very quickly,” she said. “I was in shock. It was so unexpected.”
She said he pulled her skirt off, put the washcloth on her and told her “my wife loves this.”
She testified that she felt “nauseous, scared, terrified” and repeatedly told him “no” and asked “what are you doing?”
She said he held her down and sexually assaulted her with his mouth and his hand. He then climbed on top of her and started to rape her but she was able to slip away and leave the room.
Already serving a 23-year sentence in New York, Weinstein, 70, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of rape and sexual assault involving five women in Los Angeles and has denied engaging in any non-consensual sex.
He is not charged with the alleged assaults described in Monday’s testimony. The woman, along with three others, is being allowed to testify so prosecutors can attempt to show Weinstein’s propensity for the crimes he’s charged with.
The woman testified that she did not see Weinstein again until 2008, when she was 41 and temporarily living at the Four Seasons with her husband and children. She ran into Weinstein in the lobby during that year’s festival.
“My blood kind of stopped,” she said. “I was very angry.”
When Weinstein’s assistant came to her room to say he wanted to meet with her, she agreed.
“I wanted to confront him,” she said. “I felt like I was ready to give it to him.”
Once in his room, she remembered asking, “How does it feel to be in front of the one woman who said no to you.”
Weinstein then dismissed his assistant from the room, and quickly guided her toward a door. She said before she realized it she was in a closed bathroom with Weinstein, where he was blocking her way out.
She said Weinstein grabbed her breasts and masturbated in front of her before letting her leave the room.
The woman said she didn’t tell anyone about the second assault for years because of the “sheer embarrassment” of having it happen again.
“I was in shock,” she said. “So embarrassed, just so embarrassed.”
She remained composed and unrattled through her testimony, but began crying when asked what effect the two assaults had on her, replying “there are so many layers to that.”
The first, she said, drove her from acting.
“I never wanted to go through anything like that again,” she said.
The second had major personal effects.
“It hurt my marriage because I didn’t tell him,” she said. “It’s been really hard.”
Her testimony appears to be the first time she has told her story in a public setting.
Like similar witnesses in this and other trials, she at first told her story quickly and in plain language, but was asked to double back and provide more graphic, and more difficult, details.
Weinstein’s attorneys were set to cross-examine her on Tuesday afternoon.
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-31T21:22:10+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/10/31/woman-says-2-weinstein-sexual-assaults-came-17-years-apart/ |
MINNEAPOLIS – The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home is scheduled to be released from prison next week, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge.
Mohamed Noor, 36, is scheduled to be released from custody Monday, according to online Department of Corrections records.
Noor was initially convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual U.S.-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married. But last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed out his murder conviction and 12 1/2-year sentence, saying the murder charge didn't apply to the circumstances of this case.
He was resentenced to four years and nine months on the manslaughter charge.
In Minnesota, it’s presumed that a defendant with good behavior will serve two-thirds of a sentence in prison and the rest on supervised release, commonly known as parole. The DOC’s website says Noor will be on supervised release until Jan. 24, 2024.
Damond's father, John Ruszczyk, said Friday that the family was disappointed that Noor’s third-degree murder conviction was overturned.
“His release after a trivial sentence shows great disrespect to the wishes of the jury who represented the communities of Minneapolis and their wish to make a statement about the communities’ expectations of police behaviour and actions,” Ruszczyk wrote in response to emailed questions from The Associated Press.
After his conviction, Noor began serving his time at Minnesota's maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights, but the Star Tribune reported he was transferred to a facility in North Dakota in July 2019 for his own safety. Department of Corrections spokesman Nicholas Kimball said Noor is still out of state, but did not specify where.
“For safety reasons, we aren’t able to provide more detail than what is available on the public website, which is the scheduled date of release," Kimball said.
It wasn't clear whether Noor would return to Minnesota. His attorney, Tom Plunkett, declined to comment, saying, “at this point I just want to respect Mr. Noor’s privacy.”
Damond’s killing angered citizens in the U.S. and Australia, and led to the resignation of Minneapolis’ police chief. It also led the department to change its policy on body cameras; Noor and his partner didn’t have theirs activated when they were investigating Damond’s 911 call.
Noor testified at his 2019 trial that he and his partner were driving slowly in an alley when a loud bang on their police SUV made him fear for their lives. He said he saw a woman appear at the partner’s driver’s side window and raise her right arm before he fired a shot from the passenger seat to stop what he thought was a threat.
Damond was a meditation teacher and life coach who was killed about a month before her wedding. Her maiden name was Justine Ruszczyk, and though she was not yet married, she had already been using her fiance’s last name.
Her fiance, Don Damond, declined to comment on Noor's pending release, but said during Noor's resentencing that he had forgiven the former officer, and that he had no doubt Justine also would have forgiven him “for your inability in managing your emotions that night.”
Noor, who is Somali American, was believed to be the first Minnesota officer convicted of murder for an on-duty shooting. Activists who had long called for officers to be held accountable for the deadly use of force applauded the murder conviction but lamented that it came in a case in which the officer is Black and his victim was white.
Since Noor's conviction, former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was convicted of murder in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who was pinned to the pavement under Chauvin's knee. Chauvin's colleague, Thomas Lane, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting manslaughter, while two other officers are awaiting trial on charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter. All four have been convicted on federal charges of violating Floyd's rights.
In another case, former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter was convicted of manslaughter after she said she mistook her Taser for her handgun when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, during a traffic stop last year.
John Ruszczyk said in his email to the AP that his family believes state investigators and the Minneapolis Police Department did not fully cooperate with the investigation into his daughter's killing and he was disturbed by the agency's culture. He said he believes the department accepts using violence as a way to control challenging situations, which he said contributed to her death. He cited a recent report from the state Department of Human Rights which found that the agency has engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade, including using force more often on people of color.
“How could officers go out onto the streets in the roles of defenders of public safety and order with the attitude to their duties and obligations that allows them to shoot first and ask questions later?” he wrote.
Days after Noor’s conviction, Minneapolis agreed to pay $20 million to Damond’s family, believed at the time to be the largest settlement stemming from police violence in Minnesota. It was surpassed last year when Minneapolis agreed to a $27 million settlement in Floyd’s death just as Chauvin was going on trial.
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This story has been updated to correct Noor's sentence on the manslaughter count to four years and nine months, not 41 months. | 2022-06-25T01:02:27+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/national/2022/06/24/ex-minneapolis-officer-who-killed-911-caller-to-be-released/ |
With this acquisition, Hitachi will accelerate its offerings between shop floor operations and enterprise systems particularly in North America.
NEW YORK and TOKYO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, "Hitachi") today announced that on August 31, 2022 it acquired Flexware Innovation, Inc. ("Flexware Innovation ") which has been a leading manufacturing Systems Integrator (SI) since 1996. Flexware Innovation was a strategic acquisition for Hitachi due to its focus on the TOTAL SEAMLESS SOLUTION*1 that links "shop floor" and "top floor" with data and digital technology.
With this acquisition of Flexware Innovation, Hitachi will strengthen and enhance its business in the domain of MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), Software Development, Business Intelligence (BI), and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation capabilities in North America, and accelerate the digitalization with JR Automation*2 which engages in the robotic SI & automation. Further, through cooperation with Hitachi Vantara which has expertise in building and deploying Enterprise and Cloud applications*5, Hitachi will be able to provide TOTAL SEAMLESS SOLUTION from robotic SI & automation, MES, SCADA, BI, and ERP and help manufacturing leaders increase corporate value.
Background & Business Strategy
Hitachi's basic approach for the industry field is to globally develop TOTAL SEAMLESS SOLUTION that solves issues existing in the boundaries between shop floor, top floor and supply chain to create new business value, by taking advantage of having offerings ranging from products, OT (Operational Technology) and IT (Information Technology) systems integration capabilities.
Above all, it is expected that North America will continue to experience high growth and North America will continue to adopt advanced digital technologies, so Hitachi has positioned North America as a key market. In 2017, Hitachi acquired Sullair*3, which engages in the air compressor business, and it acquired JR Automation in 2019. Further, Hitachi formed Hitachi Industrial Holdings Americas*4 in 2020 to strengthen integrated business operations of industry field in the region. Under the Hitachi Industrial Holdings Americas leadership are Sullair, JR Automation, and Flexware Innovation, the newly acquired company. The global pandemic and resulting supply-chain challenges have caused a continued need for quality and productivity improvements across all industry sectors. Hitachi is uniquely positioned to provide TOTAL SEAMLESS SOLUTION by taking advantage of their global platforms such as Lumada*5 coupled with the strength of JR Automation and Flexware Innovation in the IT/OT space.
The Strategy Behind the Flexware Innovation Acquisition
Many technical firms focused on the manufacturing and industrial sectors are solely focused on a particular industry or are limited to the controls or machinery layer. Flexware Innovation is unique because they focused on the Manufacturing Execution Systems space beginning in 1996 and have proven that they can add value to their enterprise clients in many vertical industries such as Life Sciences, Food & Beverage, Utilities, Metal and Steel, and Automotive and Discrete manufacturing. Their capabilities range from controls engineering and safety assessments all the way up to ERP implementation. Having developed or implemented many complex enterprise MES solutions, Hitachi plans to leverage Flexware Innovation's expertise to compliment the capabilities of JR Automation, and Hitachi Vantara. Hitachi realizes that the North American market is a prime area for growth and is passionate about adding business value to its clients. This synergy with Flexware Innovation's history made this partnership an obvious choice. It is important to note that Hitachi plans to support and grow Flexware Innovation's current customer base which includes notable global brands.
"I am very happy to have Flexware Innovation as a new family member of the Hitachi Group. Moving forward, we will strive to solve customers' challenges and maximize their corporate value in North America through the combination of Hitachi's products, OT, IT, and Lumada which utilizes advanced digital technologies, the SI technologies and development capabilities of Flexware Innovation, the robotic SI & automation of JR Automation, and other resources," said Kazunobu Morita, Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of the Industrial Digital Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd.
"Our people are passionate about solving problems for our customers. This new partnership with Hitachi will allow us to do that on a larger stage, with strong vision and backing from a respected global technology company. We have developed a unique culture at Flexware Innovation that merges perfectly with Hitachi's Founding Spirit. I am genuinely excited for our future together." - Scott Whitlock, Founder and President & CEO of Flexware Innovation.
Whitlock will remain as President & CEO of Flexware Innovation in partnership with the leaders of Hitachi Industrial Holdings Americas.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society with data and technology. We will solve customers' and society's challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, under the business structure of Digital Systems & Services, Green Energy & Mobility, Connective Industries and Automotive Systems. Driven by green, digital, and innovation, we aim for growth through collaboration with our customers. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2021 (ended March 31, 2022) totaled 10,264.6 billion yen ($84,136 million USD), with 853 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 370,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.
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*1 TOTAL SEAMLESS SOLUTION is a registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. in Japan and US.
*2 Hitachi, Ltd. news release titled "Hitachi Agrees to Acquire JR Automation, a Robotic System Integrator in the U.S." announced on April 24, 2019. https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2019/04/190424.pdf
*3 Hitachi, Ltd. news release titled "Notice of Determination of Transfer Execution Date Associated with Acquisition of U.S.-based Air Compressor Manufacturer, announced on July 6, 2017.
https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2017/07/170706a.html
*4 Hitachi, Ltd. news release titled "Hitachi Announces Establishment of Hitachi Industrial Holdings Americas, Inc. to Strengthen the Industry Business in North America" announced on April 1, 2020
https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2020/04/200401a.html
*5 Lumada: A collective term for solutions, services and technologies using Hitachi's advanced digital technologies to generate value from customer data and accelerate digital innovation
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SOURCE Hitachi | 2022-09-06T12:50:34+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/09/06/hitachi-acquires-key-industry-40-systems-integrator-flexware-innovation/ |
A post that promises two free, roundtrip plane tickets from Southwest Airlines is making the rounds on Facebook.
VERIFY was unable to find the original post, but it appears to have originated from a page called “Southwest Air Fans” based on screenshots shared by other Facebook users.
“We’ve decided to celebrate our 69th anniversary by giving 2 round-trip tickets to everyone who types (Done) by 5pm Sunday,” one version of the post reads.
Another post that VERIFY found from the Southwest Air Fans page asked people to fill out a survey in order to receive free plane tickets.
This has led people to search on Google whether Southwest Airlines is really giving away free plane tickets.
THE QUESTION
Is Southwest Airlines giving away free roundtrip plane tickets for its anniversary?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Southwest Airlines isn’t giving away free roundtrip plane tickets for its anniversary.
WHAT WE FOUND
Southwest Airlines debunked the rumor in a post on its legitimate Facebook page, calling the free ticket giveaway a scam.
“Many of you may have seen this post from a fake account claiming to offer two roundtrip tickets. While we like great flight deals as much as the next airline, this one is unfortunately not real, and wasn't posted by Southwest Airlines,” the post reads.
It’s also worth noting that Southwest Airlines is celebrating its 51st anniversary this year, not its 69th, as the airline was founded in 1971.
The posts from the fake “Southwest Air Fans” page are classic examples of common social media giveaway scams. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) says this technique is called “like-farming” and has several different aims.
When a scammer collects enough likes and shares, they will sometimes edit the post and add something malicious like a link to malware, according to the BBB. Other times, scammers will “strip the page’s original content and use it to promote spammy products.”
Facebook also urges users to look for the blue checkmark next to a large company’s name to verify that posts are coming from an authentic account.
The BBB shared more red flags to watch for when you see a social media giveaway.
New accounts with very little other content apart from the giveaway, spelling and grammar errors, and a lack of terms and conditions from the giveaway organizer are often signs of a scam.
This isn’t the first time Southwest Airlines customers have been the target of a social media ticket giveaway scam. Southwest posted on Facebook about a similar scam in 2013, which promised to give away 70 plane tickets to Las Vegas. | 2022-05-25T15:10:03+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/verify/scams-verify/southwest-airlines-anniversary-free-tickets-scam/536-33b96393-b3b1-4344-a50a-b2e949f25c91 |
The origin story of the iconic computer game “Tetris” is more thrilling than you may think.
It involves border crossing, authority dodging, underhand deals, putting your house on the line and — finally — trying to secure the rights for the game from behind the Iron Curtain. And now it’s a film, releasing March 31, on Apple TV+.
After playing an early version of Tetris, game designer Henk Rogers (played by Taron Egerton) travels to the Soviet Union in 1988 to meet Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov (played by Nikita Efremov), hoping to secure worldwide distribution rights to the game. Rogers was driven by his love of Tetris and his eagerness for the world to experience it, but the transaction was not smooth.
Egerton says he doesn’t have the tenacity of Rogers, who potentially put his life on the line for the sake of the game.
“I have a more developed sense of my own frailty and vulnerability than he does, I think, whereas he’s got this kind of single-minded lack of, sense of self-preservation,” he said in a recent interview.
He added: “I really like his sort of single-minded, determined devil-may-care thing. It makes him an appealing hero, you know, his kind of cowboyishness. But yeah, I probably wouldn’t have done anything like what he did to get the rights to Tetris.”
The movie is directed by Jon S. Baird, who switched projects from action sequel “Kingsman 3″ because of the pandemic, bringing his leading man — Egerton — and producer Matthew Vaughn along for the ride.
“We were looking for something to do and the ‘Tetris’ script landed and we thought, ‘Right, that’s great let’s just move everything on to that.’ And that’s really what happened,” he said.
While the pandemic stopped Pajitnov and Rogers from being involved in the actual shoot, the duo was involved heavily in the scriptwriting and in detailing the imagery of Soviet Russia, much of which was recreated in Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland.
Baird said he was apprehensive about showing Pajitnov and Rogers the finished movie but was overjoyed at their response.
“I got a text from Maya, who’s Henk’s daughter, who’s obviously personified in the film, too and she was like, ‘They all love it. They all absolutely love the movie.’”
Egerton, known to many for portraying Elton John in “Rocketman,” says he finds playing a real-life person “odd.” However, he believes that the men he has brought to the screen have all enjoyed his portrayals, smiling that “it hasn’t blown up in my face yet!” | 2023-03-27T22:15:49+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/taron-egerton-slots-tetris-story-into-place-in-new-biopic/ |
Woman accused of posing as student at three high schools
BOSTON (WBZ) - A Massachusetts woman is facing charges after allegedly posing as a student at three Boston high schools.
Shelby Hewitt, 32, faces charges, including felony counts of forging documents. She is a former Department of Children and Families social worker.
Officials say during the 2022-23 school year, Hewitt attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School. She’s accused of falsely enrolling using the student transfer process and multiple pseudonyms.
“This is a quite, it seems, elaborate and unusually intensive case of fraudulent activity,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said.
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper said a district staff member found irregularities in the paperwork on file in mid-June, and the school immediately contacted police.
Hewitt has been ordered to stay away from the school district’s facilities. Police executed a search warrant at her home.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Copyright 2023 WBZ via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-29T10:03:16+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/06/29/woman-accused-posing-student-three-high-schools/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- REAL New York finished the year strong, reporting $176MM+ in sales transactions and over 3,000 rental transactions in 2022. REAL New York also announced the sellout of Milk Factory, located at 850 Metropolitan Avenue, at the near exact, full $34MM sellout price. In addition to selling all of the condos, REAL New York's sales team achieved the three highest price per square foot sales in East Williamsburg, at nearly $1,700 per square foot. Jennifer Carey, Director of Sales at REAL New York, commended the team, noting, "We were proud to have worked with 850 Metropolitan developers as their exclusive brokerage since before the project launched in late 2019."
Additionally in 2022, REAL New York launched sales at 66 Reade Street, Tribeca's newest boutique luxury condominium, and at The Avant, an art-inspired, new condo development in the East Village. Designed by ROART, a New York-based architecture and design services firm, 66 Reade Street is a landmarked property transformed into a six-story building with five exclusive contemporary residences and one penthouse, ranging from $5.995MM to $7.995MM. Residence #4 closed with a last asking price of $6.375MM. The Avant features one and two bedrooms, ranging from $1.24MM to $2.15MM, with unique outdoor spaces in select residences.
On the rentals side, the company similarly held steady, with a comparable volume of transactions as compared to the previous year, even in the face of ongoing economic uncertainty following the COVID-19 pandemic. REAL New York is the exclusive leasing and marketing agent for rental developments throughout the city–including 60 West 125th Street, 171 Chrystie, and 212 West 124th Street–and further secured exclusive partnerships with developers at 63 Pitt Street on the Lower East Side and at 200 East 23rd Street in Gramercy, which is set to launch in early 2023.
The company again exceeded yearly recruiting goals, having on-boarded new agents as well as grown and solidified all managerial departments, including operations, sales, and marketing. On the executive team, Jillian Vaccaro was named Chief Operating Officer. Seth Kessler was named Head of Commercial. Seth has over 16 years of commercial real estate experience – specializing in representing landlords, real estate developers, and retailers. The company's marketing division grows with the addition of Md Kamruzzaman. Md comes from a brokerage firm specializing in the marketing and sales of notable luxury new developments in NYC. As Marketing Manager, Md Kamruzzaman will contribute extensive experience bringing new developments to market under the REAL New York brand.
Regularly throughout the year, as part of their Landlord Forum, Co-Founders Robert Rahmanian and Louis Adler met with over 300 fellow landlords and developers to discuss the real estate market and issues facing building owners throughout New York City. Guest speakers included Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin, State Senator Joseph Addabbo, and Attorney Alexander Fotopoulos from KF Legal Group. Robert and Louis are optimistic about the future and looking forward to continued expansion in 2023. "Now more than ever our clients, agents, and owners are craving a forward-thinking, technology driven experience fueled by sincerity and transparency, and we're here to deliver that."
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KUALA LUMPUR – Badminton upheld its ban on Russian and Belarusian players in international competitions on Thursday, days before Olympic qualifying begins.
Badminton’s qualifying period for next year’s Paris Olympics starts on May 1 and uses a calendar-year ranking.
Meanwhile, modern pentathlon said it would set up a “pathway” for athletes from the two countries to return but didn't commit to a date.
The Badminton World Federation cited security concerns and the need for “more clarity” on the International Olympic Committee's “complex criteria” to admit some Russians and Belarusians as neutral athletes without national symbols but keep excluding others, such as military personnel or those who have supported the invasion of Ukraine.
The IOC also recommends allowing athletes from only Russia and Belarus to compete individually and not in team sports or “team events in individual sports.” That raises the prospect in badminton of players being allowed to play singles but not doubles as a national team, a point the BWF did not address directly in its statement on Thursday.
The recommendations from the IOC last month aren't binding on sports' governing bodies, which can implement them as they wish. The IOC has said it hasn't made a decision on what happens at the Paris Olympics.
Modern pentathlon's governing body, known as the UIPM, said it would follow the IOC's recommendations but didn't set any timetable. It will be up to an “independent panel” to decide when and how Russians and Belarusians are readmitted, the governing body said.
“It is our firm belief that sport should be politically neutral and now, more than ever, must act as a vehicle for peace and a symbol of solidarity between athletes,” the UIPM said.
Other Olympic sports which have followed the IOC and said they want to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutral athletes include wrestling, taekwondo and triathlon. Athletics, weightlifting and equestrian have all maintained bans.
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17th century shipwreck reveals a treasure trove of luxury goods
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
I’ll never forget reading “Treasure Island” as a kid.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel made me want to set out immediately on a tall-masted ship and seek adventure — and maybe a little buried gold, too. Surely, there was something out there that no one had ever found, waiting to be discovered.
Over time, I’ve realized that treasure is a relative term, and these days the answers to some of history’s many mysteries feel like the true reward at the end of a journey.
Now, shifting sands beneath the waves have revealed an unlikely time capsule that is a trove of insights about what life was like centuries ago.
Ocean secrets
A Dutch merchant ship filled with chests of luxury goods sank off the coast of Texel, the largest island in the North Sea, nearly four centuries ago.
Many of the recovered items, now housed at the Netherlands’ Museum Kaap Skil, are virtually as pristine as the day they went beneath the waves.
The unidentified ship has long since deteriorated, but chests protected lavish clothing, gilded leather book covers and silver items that likely once belonged to an affluent family on a voyage to live somewhere else.
Perhaps the most remarkable items are two virtually intact silk gowns, including a wedding dress interwoven with sparkling silver disks.
Across the universe
A ghostly occurrence is taking place in Saturn’s rings, and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the phenomenon in action.
Smudgy “spokes” have appeared in the planet’s rings as Saturn enters a new season. The fleeting spots that seem to skate along the rings usually appear during an equinox.
Hoping to solve the mystery, NASA scientists will use Hubble to continue observations as the autumnal equinox for the planet’s northern hemisphere, expected in 2025, approaches.
Meanwhile, a glowing new portrait of the sun captured by a trio of telescopes showcases our star’s hidden light. And the James Webb Space Telescope peered into a glittering megacluster of galaxies that pointed to even fainter objects in the distant universe.
Trailblazers
For years, scientists questioned how to fill a single square in the seventh row of the periodic table of elements.
Called Element 117, it would need to be created in a lab, like other superheavy elements that don’t exist in nature.
Nuclear chemist Clarice Phelps and her team at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began painstaking work in 2012 to create the element. Four years later, the element, officially named tennessine, was added to the periodic table.
Phelps became the first Black woman involved in an element’s discovery, and she has faced challenges and biases along the way, even when it came to getting recognition for her accomplishment. The obstacles only made her fight harder.
“I want to be that person for that little girl who’s looking for somebody that looks like them, doing things that people say they can’t do,” Phelps said.
A long time ago
Laser technology that can peer beneath the dense rainforests of Guatemala has revealed new insights into early Mayan civilization.
Researchers uncovered a previously unknown Maya site that included more than 900 settlements across 417 interconnected ancient cities, towns and villages.
Connecting these communities was a sprawling network of raised stone trails, called causeways, that rose above the swamps and dense forest of the Maya Lowlands.
“They’re the world’s first superhighway system that we have,” said archaeologist Richard Hansen of Idaho State University.
The Maya people made sure their causeways were visible even at night, using a technique that would reflect the moonlight.
Wild kingdom
Human relationships can feel difficult to navigate even on the best of days. For animals, courtship rituals can be even more bizarre.
The northern quoll, a carnivorous marsupial, has stumped researchers because the males die after a single mating season. Their demise might be the result of males being driven to find and mate with as many females as possible, with little rest in between.
Meanwhile, the tiny male deep-sea anglerfish, which can be one-sixtieth the size of a female, clings to his partner’s belly with pincerlike teeth.
And then there are female whiptail lizards, which have evolved to the point that they don’t need male mates at all.
Explorations
Get caught up in these fascinating stories:
— A rare dolphin in the Amazon River, a colossal whale shark and a marine jungle are just some of the highlights of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year competition.
— Researchers found a record-breaking footprint left by a carnivorous dinosaur that once stalked the coast of Yorkshire in the United Kingdom 166 million years ago.
— It’s not a bird, a plane or aliens. Here’s how high-altitude balloons, like those recently spotted in the skies over North America, are actually used.
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WEATHER WEDNESDAY: How does LIGHTNING form?
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Have you ever looked up to the sky during a storm to see a massive bolt of lightning and wondered how does that form? Well, the WITN WEATHER TEAM has you covered...
STEP #1: The cloud is negatively charged and the ground is positively charged. As per the “Law of Attraction” basics, negatively charged electrons are attracted to positively charged electrons. With that being said, the negatively charged electrons from the cloud will start to “travel” downward towards the positively charged electrons on the ground.
STEP #2: As the negatively charged electrons from the cloud “travel” down to the positively charged electrons on the ground, the opposite charges begin to attract each other. The positively charged electrons from the ground will begin to inch upward towards the negatively charged electrons from the cloud.
STEP #3: When the negatively charged electrons from the cloud and the positively charged electrons from the ground “meet” it allows for a rather powerful electrical current to flow.
STEP #4: When the positively charged electrons from the ground “travel” up the electrical current to the negatively charged cloud, this “return stroke” tends to be visible and travels at the speed of 60,000 mi/sec.
STEP #5: This process may be repeated numerous times along the same path and this is where you see the flicker or “lightning bolt.”
NOTE: STEP #1 through STEP #5 can be done in less than a second. (That’s pretty fast!)
And yes, there are different types of LIGHTNING! Take a look at the graphic below for those details and to find out which are the most common:
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Lego said Tuesday that profits increased by 5% in 2022 from a year earlier and sales rose even as it raised prices on higher-ticket toys.
The Danish toy company said net profit rose to 13.8 billion kroner ($2 billion) from 13.3 billion kroner. Sales were up 12%, while revenue grew 17% to 64 billion kroner ($9.2 billion).
CEO Niels B. Christiansen called 2022 “a milestone year” as the privately held company celebrated its 90th anniversary.
We “landed the year beyond expectations on the back of exceptional growth last year and despite challenging market conditions,” he said.
With inflation growing, Lego increased prices on about a quarter of its products, Christiansen said.
“The low-cost products were not affected. The increase was chiefly on our expensive products,” he said. “Despite that, we saw our sales increase.”
Lego said that there was growth in all markets, particularly in the Americas and Western Europe.
The company opened 155 stores worldwide last year to reach 904 locations. The colorful building bricks are sold in more than 130 countries.
Christiansen said 48% of the company’s products were new and that some top themes included Lego City, “Stars Wars” and Harry Potter.
He also highlighted collaborations, including one with Louis Vuitton to create windows and store displays for the Christmas season tied to the 200th birthday of the luxury fashion house.
“By doing a partnership with others, we can reach customers in a different way,” he said. “In the case of Louis Vuitton, we hope to reach women, mothers. We do hope to have more girls playing with Lego.”
This year, Lego expects single-digit revenue growth.
Headquartered in Billund, Denmark, Lego has factories on three continents, including what it says is a new carbon-neutral factory in Vietnam. There are plans for another carbon-neutral factory in Richmond, Virginia.
Lego was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen and its name is derived from the Danish words “leg godt,” or “play well.” | 2023-03-07T16:21:59+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/lego-posts-boost-in-profit-sales-as-it-raised-some-prices/ |
RICHLAND, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi shot and killed a woman who was holding another person hostage in a Walmart store as she said she needed help and demanded to speak to a news anchor.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a news release that the shooting happened Wednesday evening in the Jackson suburb of Richland. The person killed was Corlunda McGinister, 21, of West Helena Arkansas, department spokeswoman Bailey Martin said Thursday.
A video posted to social media showed a woman holding a gun in one hand and using the other hand to hold onto a person wearing a Walmart employee vest. The woman with the gun yelled that she needed help and wanted to talk to a news anchor. Another video on social media showed police telling the armed woman to put her hands up. The woman yelled that she was not trying to hurt anybody.
Richland police Chief Nick McLendon told WAPT-TV that no one else was hurt in the shooting.
"It's devastating for all parties involved — the officers, everybody that was involved in this situation," McLendon said. "You know, with the Christmas season coming, mental health is a big deal because of the stress involved in the Christmas season."
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is examining what happened, as it does with all shootings by or of law enforcement officers.
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Event hopes to help black-owned businesses thrive
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - As talks of a recession ramp up, a local group is working to help businesses survive through uncertain financial times.
“We have master classes happening all day from legal matters, to marketing, and business credit,” Torin Darling-Brazzle, CEO & founder of Ignite! Alabama said.
Darling-Brazzle, a business incubator specifically helping Black-owned and women-led businesses thrive, raved about the opportunities Ignite! was organizing at their yearly business summit.
“It’s literally going to be something there for everyone. No matter what stage of the business they are in, idea or they’ve been years in,” Darling-Brazzle said.
The Fourth Annual Empowerment Summit will be at Protective Stadium in Birmingham on October 25, 2022.
“We can bring together all the amazing organizations that can provide free services for our small business community. We believe that if we can empower the Black business community, they will not only be able to take of themselves, their families, and their businesses but also take care of their community,” Darling-Brazzle said.
The help is needed because statistically eight out of 10 Black-owned businesses fail within the first 18 months. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the issue.
However despite the challenges, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Black-owned businesses had spiked in recent years across all sectors.
“It was designed in a way that unfortunately the learning curve for the Black community is super steep. Once we make sure they know the table exists, we understand what they need to be able to be a viable business they get that wrap-around support so that when they get to that table, they are not only able to sit there but they are able to thrive and grow,” Darling-Brazzle said.
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World’s 2nd oldest gorilla dies at zoo at 64 years old
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - The Louisville Zoo said one of their beloved and oldest gorillas has died.
WAVE reports Helen, also named the “Grand Dame” of the gorilla world, had been on a quality-of-life watch due to declining health before she was euthanized on Friday.
“Letting go of a special gorilla like Helen is very hard, but it is often the last, best thing we can do for our animals,” Louisville Zoo Director Dan Maloney said.
Louisville Zoo representatives said Helen enjoyed good health for most of her life and first came to the zoo in 2002 from the Lincoln Park Zoo.
Helen was born in the wild in West Africa, and the zoo estimated that she died at 64 years old.
“Helen’s exceptional longevity is not only a testament to her personal constitution but also to the outstanding care provided,” Maloney said.
According to the zoo, the average life expectancy for a female zoo gorilla is 39 years.
Only one other gorilla has outmatched Helen’s longevity. Fatou, a gorilla at Zoo Berlin, is currently 65 years old.
“Helen was one of our most beloved ambassadors. Her fascination with human babies delighted families for decades. I know our friends and members will share in her loss and miss her greatly,” Maloney said.
Helen was a mother of three, a grandmother of 17, a great-grandmother of 21, a great-great-grandmother of eight and a great-great-great-grandmother of one.
Two of Helen’s progeny, Bengatui and Kindi, remain at the Louisville Zoo.
“Helen was a legend, and she deserved the best,” Louisville Zoo’s Senior Veterinarian Dr. Zoli Gyimesi said. “Helen taught us much about gorillas and geriatric gorilla care.”
Copyright 2022 WAVE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-14T23:41:20+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/10/14/worlds-2nd-oldest-gorilla-dies-zoo-64-years-old/ |
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities on Monday denied the country’s police system was hacked after local media reported that data on people being investigated for crimes was released from an Iranian hacking group.
Albanian media reported a leaked file with a list of suspected people, from allegedly the police database, who are being probed on different crimes.
Ervin Karamuco, a criminology professor, was quoted in social media as saying a channel called Homeland Justice had published 1.7 gigabytes of criminal data from the Memex police system.
State police denied its Memex system was damaged but urged local media not to publish data from hackers.
Interior Minister Bledi Cuci said that list had not come from the criminal police database. He said Microsoft and the FBI were helping Albanian authorities recuperate the affected systems.
Speaking at the Parliament, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the list aimed at creating social disturbances by issuing a “photo-edited list mixing criminals with politicians, with journalists.”
Last month Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran over a July 15 cyberattack that temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites. Rama called the disruption an act of “state aggression.”
After Tirana severed ties with Tehran, a second cyberattack from the same Iranian source struck an information system that records Albanian border entries and exits, creating delays for travelers.
NATO, the United States and the European Union denounced the attack and supported Albania’s move to cut diplomatic ties with Tehran. The U.S. government imposed sanctions on Iran’s intelligence agency and its leadership in response to the July cyberattack.
Albania, a NATO member, is being helped by the alliance, the U.S. and the EU to investigate and install better cyberdefenses. | 2022-10-04T17:18:56+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-albania-denies-police-system-was-attacked-by-iranian-hackers/ |
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Edwin Díaz was jumping for joy with his Puerto Rico teammates.
Then Díaz crumbled to the turf, and the party came to a sudden stop.
Díaz, an All-Star closer for the New York Mets, injured his right knee celebrating a 5-2 victory over the Dominican Republic on Wednesday night — a jarring scene that dashed the spirits of a club riding high from a berth into the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals.
The right-hander was jumping in the infield with teammates when he collapsed, and he was taken off the field in a wheelchair. Díaz’s brother, Reds pitcher Alexis Díaz, was also crying as Edwin was put in a chair and wheeled away. Mets teammate and Puerto Rico shortstop Francisco Lindor stood nearby with his hands on his head.
Díaz signed a $102 million, five-year deal to stay with the Mets in November, one of several moves Mets owner Steve Cohen hopes bring a championship to Queens.
Now, his season could be in jeopardy.
“It’s just a freak thing,” Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber said after the United States beat Colombia 3-2 in Phoenix. “You hate to see it, but that’s the risk you have in these things. Someone can get hurt.”
Díaz isn’t the first player injured while celebrating. Here are some others:
— After the Los Angeles Angels’ Kendrys Morales beat the Seattle Mariners with a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth in 2010, he took a big leap onto home plate and broke his leg. The bouncing scrum at home was subsequently banned by manager Mike Scioscia.
— Chicago Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster broke his big right toe in 2009 when his foot got caught in the dugout railing while he was trying to run out with his teammates to celebrate a win over the Brewers.
— In 2001, Denny Hocking of the Minnesota Twins broke his nose, compliments of his overzealous teammates, who kept smacking the bill of his helmet — and a few accidental face shots — after his first walk-off home run.
— After the San Diego Padres clinched their division in 2005, pitcher Jake Peavy broke a rib while getting a big hug from his teammates. The injury wasn’t discovered until weeks later when Peavy had an MRI following his forgettable postseason (eight hits and eight earned runs in 4 1/3 innings).
— Washington Redskins quarterback Gus Frerotte decided to head-butt the padded wall behind the end zone after scoring on a short run against the Giants in 1997. Stunned but unbowed, he was checked by the team trainers and continued to play before leaving later in the game. He was then transported to a hospital with a sprained neck.
— Arizona Cardinals kicker Bill Gramatica ended his rookie season in 2001 with an ACL tear. He was hurt jumping up and down after making a 42-yard field goal against the Giants.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-17T04:38:31+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mets-diaz-latest-on-list-of-freak-celebration-injuries-2/ |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDenta Corp. (OTCQB: IDTA) is a worldwide leader in the development of Field Detection and Home Diagnostic Testing Kits for Narcotics, Explosives and Unique Forensic Products in the Homeland Security and Consumer Markets. IDenta has developed a unique test kit to identify Fentanyl in Cocaine and Crack.
Mr. Amichai Glattstein, Chief Executive Officer, announced: "Illicit drugs, some purchased innocently online, may contain deadly levels of Fentanyl. It cannot be seen, tasted or smelled. It is nearly impossible to tell if drugs have been laced with Fentanyl unless the drugs are tested. IDenta understands the urgency to make a kit available to concerned citizens just as we equip worldwide security forces with a variety of the company's technologies. This kit will identify tiny amounts of Fentanyl contaminating a vast variety of drugs. The kit is sold under our Consumer Brand 'Touch&Know' through our company's website at www.touch-know.com as well as www.amazon.com. IDenta's test kit is inexpensive and gives results within minutes. This test can be the difference between life or death. "You never know when you need to know".
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Camilo is living the dream. There's no other way to succinctly summarize the 28-year-old Colombian superstar's life. In less than a year, Camilo's welcomed a baby, collaborated with Camila Cabello, dropped a new album and embarked on an ambitious world tour. But there's no realizing his dreams without the true architect behind making it all -- his wife, Evaluna Montaner.
During a recent break as he got ready to wrap the U.S. leg of his De Adentro Pa Afuera (or from the inside out) world tour, Camilo spoke to ET's Denny Directo about working with the "Havana" singer, how fatherhood inspired his new album, being beautifully grounded by changing diapers, and how Latin artists no longer have to subscribe to the old adage that an English hit is a prerequisite in order to have a successful crossover career.
Camilo, who in September dropped his third studio album with the 11-track banger De Adentro Pa Afuera, told ET that his collaboration with Cabello had been a long time in the making. In fact, it's all they talked about when the longtime friends would hang out. And finally, it happened.
"It was awesome because since we started talking, we talked all the time about doing a collaboration," he said. "I love her. Like, I'm a huge fan. My wife's a huge fan, and having a collaboration with her on this album, it's mind blowing. It's Camila Cabello, and for me it's a dream come true."
Camilo and Cabello collaborated on the "deconstructed" bachata ballad "Ambulancia." Camilo gushed over the process that went into making the song about a mystifying love connection.
"This song went awesome, the way we were able to engage both of the identities in one song," he explained. "It's kind of like a bachata but like deconstructed. I can remember the song how it was before she sent her vocals. And it was a completely different thing. And when she came in, it was like, daylight, you know?
De Adentro Pa Afuera -- out now and which also features GRAMMY-winning and Tijuana's very own, Grupo Firme -- quickly earned critical acclaim. Billboard lauded the Colombian singer, whose songs "breathe lyrically and sonically" while "putting listeners on a roller coaster of emotions with each track."
At its core, De Adentro Pa Afuera is inspired by his and Evaluna's first child together, Indigo, whom the couple welcomed this past January. But three months prior to Indigo's arrival, Camilo and Evaluna accomplished another life milestone -- homeownership. He says they closed on their house first and then came Indigo before putting the finishing touches on his album. The family encountered a lot of firsts, and Camilo says he wanted to convey that energy in the new album.
Nearly a year ago, Camilo told ET he was "clueless" about becoming a first-time father. Fast forward to now, Camilo's the first to admit he's figured out a way to better deal with the cluelessness.
"To be honest, I think I've become an expert on enjoying the nerves," he quipped.
One of the best parts about the new album is collaborating with his favorite artist and the inspiration behind his unparalleled drive, his wife, a Venezuelan singer. He joked that, with Cabello he worked with Cabello but with Evaluna he works for Evaluna, whom he also refers to as his creative director. They worked on several songs for the new album, which means she's not just tagging along for the world tour, she's also very much an integral part of it. And for Camilo, her presence and creative mind is reassuring.
"Evaluna is my creative director, to be honest. She is the last filter of everything that I release, everything that I put out," Camilo said. "She's the director of all my music videos. I don't feel secure with any of my [ideas] if it doesn't pass her filter, you know? Like, I have to see what's her reaction. 'What do you think about this chorus?' and seeing her react is like my thermometer to know what's gonna happen with the song."
Camilo, ever the romantic, couldn't help but gush over Evaluna, whom he married during an intimate Miami ceremony in February 2020.
"I work with her not because she's my wife. I work with her because I admire her so much," he said. "She's my favorite creative person in the world. And she's my favorite artist. So, we have three songs together, [which] means we're going to be traveling the entire world and performing together every night. So, that's a privilege for me."
Indigo has not quite yet turned one, but she's already a touring baby. She's been on the road with the family, which has led to moments that have truly grounded the rising star.
"It's crazy when you're, like, in a sold-out arena, right? And you come down from the stage and you're, like, full of, in a beautiful way, ego," he said. "I'm like, 'Wow.' And then you go to the greenroom like, 'Shhh! She's sleeping' and like, OK, and you have to change the diapers. I'm like, 'Yep, reality check.' I love it."
The self-proclaimed best diaper changer in the world says Indigo will come along when the De Adentro Pa Afuera world tour, which kicked off in May, heads overseas and eventually to Latin America. The opportunity to perform south of the border is one he's relishing, considering he couldn't perform there during his last tour due to the pandemic. But with the U.S. tour now wrapped, Camilo expresses that what he'll miss the most about touring in the States is the beautiful melting pot.
"The Latin audiences in the United states, there's a lot of people, a lot of different flags," he said. "Like, every city you go, there's a different flag -- Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Salvador, Venezuela, Argentina. You see all those flags. And when you go to Argentina, you go for the Argentina people. Go to Colombia, you perform for Colombia. But here in the States, it's mixed, which is beautiful. The energy is so different. It's super sacred to me. The Latin people, when they're far away from their country, they have a lot of passion and emotion and they have this beautiful craving of connecting with their people."
It wasn't so long ago when there was an unwritten rule that Latin artists had to sing in English in order to attempt a successful crossover. Those days seem long gone, what with the likes of Bad Bunny and Camilo himself setting a new industry standard by churning out Spanish tracks that catapult onto the charts.
"The best way to be global is to be very local," Camilo explained. "In the top 10 of every digital platform or radio or whatever in the world there's at least two or three Latin people singing in Spanish, which is awesome, because the idea of 'You have to become someone else for you to be global' is like out of the equation right now. You just have to be 100 percent yourself and 100 percent yourself for your people, and they're gonna put you there in the global picture."
He added, "It's a beautiful moment for the new generation to be 100 percent. And we are not a minority. We can impact the global picture, and that's so beautiful. I'm a Colombian artist singing in Spanish, and I'm doing a global tour, which is mind-blowing and beautiful."
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chinese billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in her Minneapolis apartment after a night of dinner and drinks with wealthy Chinese executives in 2018, attorneys for both sides announced late Saturday.
A settlement amount was not disclosed.
Richard Liu, who stepped down as the CEO of Beijing-based e-commerce company JD.com this year amid increased government scrutiny of China’s technology industry, has denied raping the woman, Jingyao Liu, and prosecutors never filed criminal charges. A joint statement from attorneys for both sides called the encounter “a misunderstanding.”
“The incident between Ms. Jingyao Liu and Mr. Richard Liu in Minnesota in 2018 resulted in a misunderstanding that has consumed substantial public attention and brought profound suffering to the parties and their families," the joint statement said. "Today, the parties agreed to set aside their differences, and settle their legal dispute in order to avoid further pain and suffering caused by the lawsuit.”
The settlement was announced just two days before the civil trial was set to begin Monday in a Minneapolis courtroom. On Friday, a jury of seven men and five women were picked to hear the case.
Richard Liu is a celebrity in China, part of a generation of entrepreneurs who created the country’s internet, e-commerce, mobile phone and other technology industries since the late 1990s. Forbes estimated his wealth at $10.9 billion on Saturday.
Jingyao Liu alleges the attack happened in 2018 while Richard Liu was in Minneapolis for a weeklong residency in the University of Minnesota’s doctor of business administration China program, geared toward high-level executives in China.
Jingyao Liu, a Chinese citizen, was at the university on a student visa and was a volunteer in the program at the time. The Associated Press does not generally name people alleging sexual assault, but Jingyao Liu has agreed to be identified publicly.
Jingyao Liu was 21 and Richard Liu was in his mid-40s at the time, the lawsuit said. They are not related.
Richard Liu, also known as Liu Qiangdong, was arrested on suspicion of felony rape in August 2018, but prosecutors said the case had “profound evidentiary problems” and declined to file criminal charges.
Jingyao Liu sued Richard Liu and JD.com in 2019, alleging sexual assault and battery, along with false imprisonment.
The case drew widespread attention at a time when the #MeToo movement was gaining traction in China. Richard Liu’s supporters and opponents waged an aggressive public relations campaigns on Chinese social media; censors shut down some accounts that supported Jingyao Liu for “violating regulations.”
Jingyao Liu said in her lawsuit that she had to withdraw from classes in fall 2018 and seek counseling and treatment. Her attorney said she has since graduated but has post-traumatic stress disorder. She sought compensatory as well as punitive damages from Richard Liu.
Her lawsuit said she was seeking more than $50,000, a standard figure that must be listed in Minnesota if a plaintiff intends to seek any larger amount. She was expected to ask a jury to award much more.
On the night of the alleged attack, according to the lawsuit, Richard Liu and other executives went to a Japanese restaurant in Minneapolis and one of the men invited Jingyao Liu at Richard Liu's request.
She felt coerced to drink as the powerful men toasted her, and Richard Liu said she would dishonor him if she did not join in, her lawsuit claimed.
According to text messages reviewed by The Associated Press and Jingyao Liu’s interviews with police, she said that after the dinner Richard Liu pulled her into a limousine and groped her despite her protests. She said he raped her at her apartment. At one point, she texted a friend: “I begged him don’t. But he didn’t listen.”
Her friend notified police, who went to her apartment. Jingyao Liu told one officer, “I was raped but not that kind of rape,” according to police. When asked to explain, she changed the subject and said Richard Liu was famous and she was afraid. She told the officer that the sex was “spontaneous” and she did not want police to get involved.
Police said they released Richard Liu because “it was unclear if a crime had actually taken place." In a later interview with an investigator, Richard Liu said the sex was consensual and the woman “enjoyed the whole process very much.”
Jingyao Liu told a police sergeant that she wanted to talk with Richard Liu’s attorney and threatened to go to the media if she did not, according to police. Richard Liu’s former attorney recorded the phone call, in which Jingyao Liu said she didn’t want the case to be in the newspaper and “I just need payment money and apologize and that’s all.”
A recording of the phone call was expected to be played as evidence at trial. Surveillance videos from the restaurant, the restaurant’s exterior and the halls of the woman’s apartment complex were also expected to be played for jurors. | 2022-10-02T07:14:37+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Chinese-billionaire-Richard-Liu-settles-US-rape-17481093.php |
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BOSTON, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, today announced that it plans to host a presentation and Q&A session reviewing business performance for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET.
The presentation details and webcast link will be available on Ginkgo's investor relations website at https://investors.ginkgobioworks.com, and a replay will be made available.
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We need leaders who work together to resolve the problems and challenges that we face. The county executive has a duty to work with the County Council and must work within the laws established by Cache County and the State of Utah. The county executive and the County Council don’t always have to agree. In fact, it is healthy if they don’t always agree. But they must follow the law and in the end they must come to an agreement on what is best for the County.
Cache County is currently experiencing far too many challenges due to inadequate leadership. That’s why I support Marc Ensign. He came forward to restore integrity, re-establish cooperation, regain confidence and return Cache County government to a leader we can trust. Marc Ensign is that leader. Marc has been a leader in business, learning the importance of hiring good employees, operating within a budget, making a payroll, and achieving success. He has learned the importance of listening to and cooperating with others to gain that success. He has accomplished that with balancing the needs and priorities of his family and serving others as well.
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The Red Sox will see a familiar face when they begin their nine-game, 10-day road trip in San Diego Friday night. It will be the first time the team sees former teammate Xander Bogaerts in his new surroundings after he signed an 11-year, $280 million deal in the winter with the Padres.
The Globe’s Peter Abraham caught up with Bogaerts in San Diego ahead of this weekend’s series.
Things have not gone according to plan for the Padres, who have lost nine of the last 11 games to drop four games below .500 into fourth place in the National League West, 7½ games behind the Dodgers in first. Here are the standings.
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By taking two of three against the Mariners, the Red Sox improved to 9-4-1 in series play. After this weekend’s set in San Diego, the Sox will head to Los Angeles for three games with the Angels. After a day off, they will close their trip with three games at Arizona.
Lineups
RED SOX (24-20): TBA
Pitching: LHP James Paxton (0-0, 3.60 ERA)
PADRES (20-24): TBA
Pitching: LHP Blake Snell (1-5, 4.61 ERA)
Time: 9:40 p.m.
TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7
Red Sox vs. Snell: Rafael Devers 1-9, Kiké Hernández 0-1, Rob Refsnyder 2-6, Raimel Tapia 2-6, Justin Turner 3-14, Alex Verdugo 1-5
Padres vs. Paxton: Xander Bogaerts 7-23, Matt Carpenter 1-5, Nelson Cruz 0-3, Adam Engel 1-2, Manny Machado 4-9, Austin Nola 0-1, Rougned Odor 7-28
Stat of the day: The Padres are hitting .196 with runners in scoring position, worst in the majors. The Sox are second with .294, trailing only the Rangers at .331.
Notes: Devers has 22 RBI in his last 23 games. … The Sox have scored at least nine runs in 10 games this season, good for second in MLB behind the Rays and Rangers, who have each done it 11 times. … Paxton is 1-1 with a 1.98 ERA, a 1.527 WHIP and a .241 opponents’ batting average in three starts against the Padres. … The Padres are 1-7 in Snell’s starts, but he has a 3.54 ERA in his last five outings. In 12 career starts vs. the Red Sox, he is 7-3 with a 2.59 ERA.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A former merchandizing agent for R. Kelly testified Tuesday that the singer offered him $1 million to find a VHS tape featuring Kelly as prosecutors sought to persuade jurors that Kelly was desperate to recover the missing recording, knowing it could land him in legal peril if it fell into the hands of law enforcement.
Based in part on that recording, which prosecutors say shows the R&B star sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl, Kelly faces charges that include production of child pornography. He is also accused of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and endeavoring to conceal video evidence.
Charles Freeman testified Tuesday that Kelly reached out to him in 2001 to ask him to hunt down the recording. Freeman, a 52-year-old from Kansas City, also explained how he pressured Kelly and his associates for years to pay him the full $1 million after Freeman found and returned the tape.
Freeman told jurors he didn’t know the contents of the video until after he retrieved it from a home in Atlanta in 2001 and then slipped it into a VHS player at a friend’s home later that day.
“I observed Robert Kelly with a young lady having sex,” he said.
When a prosecutor asked Freeman, who testified Tuesday under an immunity agreement, why it took him nearly two decades to turn the recording over to police that and other recordings of child phonography tied to Kelly, Freeman responded: “Because the police wasn’t going to pay me a million dollars.”
Kelly, 55, is already serving a 30-year prison sentence imposed by a federal judge in New York in June for his 2021 convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. If convicted in Chicago, he could see years added to that sentence.
At his 2008 trial, at which Kelly was ultimately acquitted, state prosecutors described Kelly lugging a duffel bag full of his homemade child pornography tapes everywhere he went. Despite Kelly’s efforts in the 1990s to keep them close, some leaked out or were stolen by disgruntled workers or friends, prosecutors said.
After acquitting Kelly in 2008, some jurors told reporters they had no choice but to find Kelly not guilty because the girl — who then was in her 20s — did not take the witness stand to confirm it was her in the video. Last week, she did testify at the federal trail in Chicago, saying she was the minor in the video and Kelly was the adult man.
But actually getting the $1 million Freeman said he was promised by Kelly became an all-consuming task that lasted years, he told jurors.
Soon after Freeman found the video, he met with two Kelly associates in 2001 at a Kansas City hotel expecting to receive the full payment, Freeman testified. When he walked into a room and saw two brown bags full of cash, he told jurors he knew right away it wasn’t enough.
“That ain’t no million dollars,” he recalled telling Kelly’s people.
Freeman said he ended up leaving with one paper bag stuffed with $75,000 in cash after being assured he’d eventually get the full $1 million. Even after turning over the tape and getting partial payment, Freeman retained enormous leverage over Kelly, including the possibility that he could go public with what he knew.
Freeman described himself stalking Kelly at concerts to demand he pay the balance of the $1 million, threatening to go public with what he knew and filing lawsuits to squeeze Kelly to pay. He said each threat and lawsuit typically led to Kelly associates throwing more money at Freeman, sometimes literally.
Another time at R. Kelly’s suburban Chicago home, Freeman said a Kelly associate and now co-defendant at the ongoing trial, Derrel McDavid, told Freeman to take off all his clothes and get into Kelly’s swimming pool so he could be sure Freeman wasn’t wearing a recording device for law enforcement.
“I ain’t getting in no pool naked,” Freeman recalled telling McDavid. Freeman said he eventually did take off his shirt to show he wasn’t wearing a wire.
Later, as he pulled out of a parking lot, McDavid gave Freeman another installment, tossing a brown bag with $100,000 in ten bundles of $10,000 through Freeman’s open car window.
McDavid and another Kelly associate, Milton Brown, are on trial with Kelly. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
Freeman testified that in late 2003 or early 2004, McDavid approached him again about recovering yet another tape that had gone missing from Kelly’s collection. He said he told McDavid, “If I gotta recover another tape, you gotta pay me another million dollars.”
Freeman is expected to take the stand again Wednesday, when defense attorneys will have their chance to cross-examine him.
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Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm and find AP’s full coverage of the R. Kelly trial at https://apnews.com/hub/r-kelly. | 2022-08-24T15:05:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/witness-desperate-r-kelly-offered-1m-for-return-of-video/ |
BERLIN (AP) — A Catholic diocese in Germany said Tuesday that a former priest has been convicted in a church trial of sexually abusing a minor over several years almost three decades ago.
The man, who wasn’t identified, was ordered to pay 10% of his income to a charitable organization that helps victims of abuse, the diocese of Limburg said.
While financial payouts have been included in confidential settlements between the church and victims of abuse, the announcement of a financial penalty against a priest as a result of a canonical investigation is unusual.
The male victim had filed a complaint about the abuse in 2018 following the publication of a study into sexual abuse within the church.
German prosecutors declined to open an investigation because the alleged crimes had passed the 20-year statute of limitations, but church authorities launched a probe.
The crimes were committed between 1986 and 1993 in the Limburg diocese.
After receiving a dossier from the diocese, the Vatican asked it to open criminal proceedings.
The diocese said that the church now considers the man to be a convicted sex offender. It said the man would have been defrocked as part of his conviction, but he left the priesthood during the trial.
The verdict can’t be appealed.
The Limburg diocese made news several years ago when Pope Francis removed its bishop following an uproar over his lavish spending on a new residence complex.
His successor became the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, which in 2020 announced a new system to compensate survivors of sexual abuse by clergy with up to 50,000 euros ($58,400) to each. | 2022-06-07T15:15:36+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/church-convicts-catholic-ex-priest-of-abusing-boy-for-years/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE: JELD), a leading global manufacturer of building products, announced today that it will release fourth quarter and full year 2022 results before the market opens on Tuesday, February 21, 2023. The company will hold a conference call to discuss the results at 8 a.m. ET that same day.
Interested investors and other parties can access the call either via webcast by visiting the Investor Relations section of the company's website at https://investors.jeld-wen.com, or by dialing 888-330-2446 from the United States or +1-240-789-2732 internationally and using the conference ID 1285715.
For those unable to listen to the live event, a replay will be available on the company's website approximately two hours following completion of the call.
To learn more about JELD-WEN, please visit the company's website at https://www.jeld-wen.com.
About JELD-WEN Holding, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., JELD-WEN is a leading global manufacturer of high-performance interior and exterior building products, offering one of the broadest selections of windows, interior and exterior doors, and wall systems. JELD-WEN delivers a differentiated customer experience, providing construction professionals with durable, energy-efficient products and labor-saving services that help them maximize productivity and create beautiful, secure spaces for all to enjoy. The JELD-WEN team is committed to creating safe, sustainable environments for customers, associates and local communities. The JELD-WEN family of brands includes JELD-WEN® worldwide; LaCantina™ and VPI™ in North America; Swedoor® and DANA® in Europe; and Corinthian®, Stegbar® and Breezway® in Australia.
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ROME (AP) — Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones: Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel steps from the Vatican.
Archaeologists have excavated deep under the walled garden of the Palazzo della Rovere since 2020 as part of planned renovations on the frescoed Renaissance building. The palazzo, which takes up a city block along the broad Via della Conciliazione leading to St. Peter’s Square, is home to an ancient Vatican chivalric order that leases the space to a hotel to raise money for Christians in the Holy Land.
The governor general of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, Leonardo Visconti di Modrone, confirmed during a news conference announcing the archaeological discovery that the incoming hotel chain was the Four Seasons. News reports have said the hotel is expected to be open in time for the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, when an estimated 30 million people and pilgrims are expected to flock to Rome.
Officials hailed the findings from the excavation as “exceptional,” given they provide a rare look at a stratum of Roman history from the Roman Empire through to the 15th century. Among the discoveries: 10th century glass colored goblets and pottery pieces that are unusual because so little is known about this period in Rome.
Marzia Di Mento, the site’s chief archaeologist, noted that previously only seven glass chalices of the era had been found, and that the excavations of this one site turned up seven more.
In addition, archaeologists found marble columns and gold-leaf decorated plaster, leading them to conclude that the Nero’s Theater referred to in texts by Pliny the Elder, an ancient Roman author and philosopher, was indeed there, located at the site just off the Tiber River.
Officials said the portable antiquities would be moved to a museum, while the ruins of the theater structure itself would be covered again after all studies are completed. | 2023-07-26T21:01:38+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/ap-ruins-of-ancient-neros-theater-discovered-under-garden-of-future-four-seasons-near-vatican/ |
QINGDAO, China, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hisense, the leading consumer electronics and home appliances company, is delighted to announce its official partnership with the Nations League Finals 2023. The sponsorship will be the third time Hisense has been a partner of the finals and comes in the wake of new sales figures that indicate Hisense's comprehensive sports marketing strategy to be succeeding.
The deal with UEFA will mean the giant screens in the stadium are branded with the Hisense logo and will provide Hisense with pitch-side and press conference exposure. The partnership also means the consumer electronics company will be the sponsor of the tournament's Skill of the Day content series, which highlights the most notable moments of individual flair at each game of the Finals.
During the tournament, Hisense will activate a bespoke campaign, 'Way to Glory', which reflects both Hisense's continued progress internationally and the journey that the four finalists will embark on in pursuit of victory in the Finals. Hisense will use the Way to Glory campaign to promote its ULED series TV, Laser TVs, refrigerator range, and air-conditioners.
The Way to Glory campaign and partnership with the UEFA Nations League Finals 2023 comes at a time of considerable international growth for Hisense. From January to April, Hisense experienced a TV sales increase by 71.14% year-on-year, and on washing machines by 63.73% in Europe, which the company attributes largely to its committed and ever-growing involvement in the world of sport.
Building strong relationships with consumers and partners by utilizing sports marketing to its full potential has been a focus of Hisense ever since it first started internationally. Not only does partnering with high-profile global sports properties give Hisense a presence at some of the world's most-watched cultural moments, but it also shows the company's commitment to being a world-class global brand.
Hisense currently has 66 overseas companies and offices, together with a regional sports marketing strategy that also plays an important role in supporting local business development. An important example is the partnership with Inter Milan, in which local fans tend to be particularly passionate. The Italian football club, also referred to as Internazionale or the Nerazzurri, has been a partner of Hisense's since August 2022, and is set to compete in the Champions League Final on Saturday 10th June for the first time in 13 years.
The deal signifies a mutual desire between the club and the company to constantly improve performance, aim for success, and nurture benefits that the two organisations can share with one another. Hisense has brought these three beliefs under one banner with its #alwaysbetter ethos, that accompanies all of Hisense's communications that relate to Inter.
Hisense also presents Chill Fridge Inter Limited Edition which features the club crest and team colours. Last month, Hisense opened a charity auction on eBay for a special version of the mini-fridge that is signed by the Vice President Javier Zanetti, and the proceeds will be donated to UNICEF. With the launch under the slogan I'M CHILL, the product is now available to Inter fans on Amazon and Euronics.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta will visit her counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing this week in the first trip by a New Zealand minister to China in four years, officials said Monday.
But the visit comes at an awkward time, with Chinese President Xi Jinping planning to visit Moscow this week, giving a diplomatic boost to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court announced it wants to put him on trial for alleged war crimes.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said New Zealand’s position on Russia remained unchanged.
“We are emphatically opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Hipkins said. “We are also very opposed to any suggestions that other countries might support Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.”
But Hipkins said it was nevertheless time to reestablish in-person ties with China after the easing of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
“China is a very important relationship to New Zealand and obviously travel between New Zealand and China has been quite restricted at the diplomatic level over the last few years,” Hipkins said. “So it is important we reestablish those in-person opportunities to engage.”
Mahuta said New Zealand’s relationship with China was complex and wide-ranging, and noted the two countries had recently marked 50 years of diplomatic relations.
“China is integral to New Zealand’s economic recovery but our relationship is far broader — spanning cultural, educational and sporting links,” Mahuta said in a statement.
China is New Zealand’s largest trading partner and New Zealand exporters rely on China to buy milk products and other agricultural goods.
Mahuta said that while she was in China, she planned to raise New Zealand’s concerns about human rights and security, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She also planned to discuss issues the two countries cooperate on, including trade and the environment.
She said that during her two days in Beijing, she would also meet with business leaders and hold a breakfast roundtable with female leaders.
Mahuta plans to leave for China on Tuesday. | 2023-03-20T08:41:39+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/new-zealands-foreign-minister-to-visit-counterpart-in-china/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
PHOENIX (AP) — It was the defining moment of the recently finished World Baseball Classic: Japan’s star pitcher Shohei Ohtani vs. United States slugger Mike Trout. Ninth inning. Two outs. One-run game.
Team USA pitcher Merrill Kelly said the storybook scene was just as dramatic for the players in the dugout as it was for fans watching. But he also admitted there was a thought that crept through his head.
“How are we possibly going to put a pitch clock on a situation like this?” Kelly said.
Well, we’re about to find out.
Major League Baseball’s new rules package is set for its regular-season debut Thursday when all 30 teams play their first game. For many fans, it’ll be the first time seeing the sport’s sizable list of rules changes, including a pitch clock, limits on infield shifts and bigger bases. They’ve been tested in spring exhibitions but weren’t used in the WBC.
“This is the next level — having the rules applied in games that matter,” said Diamondbacks three-time All-Star Evan Longoria. “Nobody’s getting numbers stamped on the back of a baseball card during spring training.
“I think this is going to be a huge adjustment.”
The good news for baseball is that the rules changes have been widely praised during spring training. Games move at a noticeably crisper pace: MLB says spring games averaged about 2 hours, 35 minutes through the first three weeks, 26 minutes shorter than spring games last season.
The limitations on the infield shift haven’t been a particularly big concern. The bigger bases — which could help curb collisions and injuries — have hardly been noticed.
MLB has also shown a willingness to listen to feedback from players. Last week, the commissioner’s office sent a memo trying to clarify some rules issues from spring training.
But everyone knows the real test begins Thursday.
“I think there will be a lot more gamesmanship during the regular season,” Cubs pitcher Drew Smyly said.
Some of that showed in spring training. New York Mets ace Max Scherzer and other pitchers tried weaponizing the pitch clock, hurrying hitters or waiting them out within the bounds of the 15-second timer — 20 seconds with someone on base — to mess with their timing.
“Really, the power the pitcher has now — I can totally dictate pace,” the three-time Cy Young Award winner said.
The cat-and-mouse game between pitchers and would-be base stealers will be particularly intriguing during the season’s opening weeks. Pitchers can only disengage from the rubber twice in each at-bat, meaning limited chances for pickoff attempts. If a pitcher disengages a third time and doesn’t record an out, a balk is called and all runners advance one base.
Stolen bases and stolen base attempts during spring training increased about 50% over the numbers from last year’s spring games.
And they could jump again in the regular season.
“We didn’t want to tip our hand, to be honest with you,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said of his team’s running strategy. “But trust me, we’re working on things behind the scenes.”
The emphasis on athleticism is at the core of what MLB wants in its 2023 games, and the sport has been aggressive in its marketing. A recent video on MLB.com — with the cheeky title “Get that shift … outta here!” — featured ‘Breaking Bad’ actor Bryan Cranston celebrating the changes.
So far, it seems players and coaches are cautiously optimistic the rule changes will be a good thing.
Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said the idea of a pitch clock was much more scary than the actual pitch clock.
“I find myself staring at it and thinking about it more than I probably need to,” the three-time NL Cy Young winner said. “As we get going into the regular season, I don’t think it will affect me.”
San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said he expects the new rules to take some of the mind games out of baseball.
“Before you could step out of the batter’s box and catch your breath, look up at the sky, take your time getting back in,” Kapler said. “The worst you would get is the umpire saying, ‘Let’s go’. Now there is a real penalty for it.
“Taking all the thoughts out of your head. I think it will be most advantageous for the athletes.”
The Ohtani vs. Trout showdown in the WBC — which ended with Ohtani striking out his Los Angeles Angels teammate to preserve a 3-2 victory for Japan — wasn’t subject to this year’s rules.
Would the pitch clock make that situation move a little more briskly? Sure.
But Lovullo — the Diamondbacks manager — said the good of the new rules outweighs the bad. He was watching the U.S. play Mexico during the WBC a few weeks ago when he felt the game dragging a little. At first, he thought it was the eighth inning.
Then he realized it was just the third.
Suddenly, a pitch clock didn’t sound so bad.
“I’ve adjusted and I think everyone’s adjusted,” Lovullo said. “I think the rules are really good.”
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AP freelance writer Gary Schatz in Arizona contributed to this report.
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Bugatti is close to completing the last of its Chirons, after which the company will start building the Mistral, a roadster sharing its platform with the Chiron and destined to be Bugatti’s last car powered by the quad-turbo 8.0-liter W-16 that first appeared in the Veyron almost two decades ago.
Bugatti presented the Mistral for the first time during August’s 2022 Monterey Car Week, and on Thursday the company said the car will be capable of reaching speeds in excess of 261 mph in its Top Speed mode—the speed at which the regular Chiron is capped.
Powering the Mistral is the same 1,578-hp version of the W-16 reserved for special models like the Chiron Super Sport 300+, and other Chiron-based low-volume cars. This means the Mistral will probably reach speeds much higher than 261 mph, as the Chiron Super Sport 300+ reached 304.8 mph in 2019.
Bugatti has said it plans to set a land-speed record for an open-top production car with the Mistral. The record stands at 265.6 mph, set by Hennessey’s Venom GT Spyder in 2016, and Hennessey will likely also be out to beat it with its new 1,817-hp Venom F5 Roadster.
According to Bugatti, keeping the Mistral stable at such speeds will be more of a challenge compared to the fixed-roof Chiron Super Sport 300+. According to Emilio Scervo, chief technological officer at Bugatti, controlling air flow so that optimal cooling and aerodynamic balance are achieved, all while maintaining the elegant looks, is critical.
The solutions include the extended front splitter, aerodynamic underbody elements, and an active rear wing that sits flush with the body when not in use. Another key change is to the Bugatti horseshoe grille; a new shape enables the engine’s radiator to be fully fed by the one central intake, leaving the two side intakes to focus only on providing air to the intercoolers.
Additional intakes are found in the headlights, designed to channel air around the car, and behind the headrests, to feed air to the engine. Air flowing underneath the car is guided by channels that end with a rear diffuser.
Bugatti will build 99 examples, each priced at 5 million euros (approximately $5.07 million). Deliveries will start in 2024 and all build slots have been claimed.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – People can fall for a scheme very easily on Valentine’s Day, whether you are buying someone a gift or looking for a new date.
This Valentine’s Day, which falls on Tuesday, is going to be big, according to projections by the National Retail Federation, which says that consumer spending will reach nearly $26 billion, according to the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
As you prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day, there are a few common schemes that you need to be aware of. Whether you’re hoping for a new relationship or buying gifts for loved ones, beware of these schemes that are regularly reported to BBB:
Imposter websites
Consumers should always be on the alert for impostor websites because schemers can easily copy official photos, sale promotions, and logos directly from the website of a popular jewelry brand. Those real visual elements can make a scammer’s website look like the real deal.
Other methods include fake online dating platforms crafted to steal personal data and credit card information. Some red flags to look out for are: products available at extreme discounts, a seller request that customers pay with cash transfer apps or cryptocurrency and unreachable customer service representatives.
Romance schemes
Some of the people most vulnerable to a romance scam are those who have recently suffered a breakup or some other hardship, according to the BBB. Schemers leverage that pain to establish a connection and to gain sympathy. Once they’ve created a bond with their victim, they begin pursuing the true goal, money.
A romance scam can be particularly devastating because victims not only lose thousands of dollars, but they are once again crushed emotionally. Some red flags are: the relationship moves very fast, you never actually meet the person and they ask for money.
Wrong number scam
It might even seem like the responsible thing to do when a strange text message pops up on your phone, but responding to say the other person has the wrong number might be just what a crook on the other side of the conversation is hoping for. Text messages could be the bait to lure you into a conversation. If you keep chatting with this person, they eventually try to get your personal information by directing you to sign up for an adult site, for example, the BBB says.
Red flags to look out for with this scam are: the messages don’t stop, the sender directs you to sign up for a website and they try to get your personal information.
Fake florist scam
The BBB has received several reports of shoppers who thought they were ordering flowers from an online florist, but either got nothing at all or a disappointing arrangement.
If you’re running late ordering that bouquet this year, don’t let panic lead you to overlook warning signs from a potentially sketchy “florist.”
Some other red flags to look out for are: the business has no or bad reviews, there’s no return policy, there’s no satisfaction guarantee and the deal is “too good to be true.”
If you encounter a Valentine’s Day scheme, cut off all contact with the perpetrator by blocking their accounts and phone number. Then, report your experience to BBB.org/ScamTracker. Dating site users should also report suspicious activity to the platform, so they can take action against the schemer account. | 2023-02-12T15:00:29+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/tips-to-avoid-common-schemes-on-valentines-day/ |
Texas police find 8 people injured by shooting at El Paso party, news report says
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A shooting at a party in Texas wounded eight people on Friday night, according to a news report.
Police in El Paso said the shooting happened on Swan Drive near the El Paso Country Club in the city’s Upper Valley area around 9:45 p.m., KVIA-TV reported.
No information was immediately available about the victims but KVIA reported that police said they were transported to a hospital.
An El Paso Fire Department dispatcher told the station that three victims suffered serious injuries and three others suffered minor injuries, while the conditions of the other two were not immediately known.
Police did not say if any arrests had been made, KVIA reported.
The combined communications division of the El Paso Police Department and fire department did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional information.
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BOULDER — Faculty zigged. The fans zagged. At times, getting the pieces of the CU Buffs football ecosystem together on the same page felt like herding cats in a hailstorm.
“I think people have wanted to get it back so bad, and this is the biggest ray of hope that they’ve had,” CU radio analyst and former coach Gary Barnett told The Post. “And they just look at what (has been) done — every season ticket’s gone, there was 5 inches of snow and 47,000 people at the spring game.
“They’ve jumped on board like never before. That’s an indication of just how hungry everybody is to have a major change here. And I think for the most part, everybody’s feeling the same way about the Big 12 (move).”
For the first time since Mel Tucker was hired in December 2018, the many subsets within Buffs Nation — fans, boosters, alums, students, administrators — appear to be pulling on the same rope. All while pulling in the same direction.
Joining the Big 12? So far, it’s been a unifying, public-relations hit, especially for boosters over the age of 40 who fumed that the Pac-12’s economic promises were never fully realized.
“It beats the alternative,” said Brock Huard, the Fox Sports football analyst and former Washington Huskies and NFL QB. “By a long way. Right now, by about $32 million.
“That opportunity for these schools — I was at Big 12 Media Day, and you (could) feel the vibe. This commissioner (Brett Yormark), he’s empowered, he’s got a vibe … and now CU is going to have that individual stability and they’re going back to a conference that fits them and where they are esteemed academically.”
Hiring Deion Sanders to coach the football team? A public-relations home run.
“Let’s be honest with ourselves,” former Buffs wideout/return man and Olympian Jeremy Bloom said, “and I’m a big fan of (athletic director) Rick (George) … there was no more balloon, let alone air in it.
“Then you hire Deion and then (the Big 12) happens. I don’t know if the Big 12 is that excited, and I love me some CU, if Deion wasn’t there. You’re looking at a 1-11 team that had been (among) the bottom of the FBS every single year. I don’t know if this deal gets done. I really don’t.
“People complain about how much money you’re paying this guy — look how much revenue he’s bringing. Sold-out tickets. Maybe he plays big (role) in them coming to the Big 12. Now he’s got to go win (games).”
Sources concur with Bloom, telling The Post that the short-term and economic impacts of the Sanders hire over the last seven months has opened eyes at the university all the way up to those of president Todd Saliman. It also gave George, who was under fire last October, the latitude to engage the Big 12 when officials from that league began courting CU in earnest earlier this year.
“I’m really not going to get into the details of the (Big 12’s courting) process,” George said after CU’s board of regents voted unanimously to leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12, reversing the university’s conference switch in 2010. “What I will tell you is that as we looked at this, during this process, it became clear that the Big 12 was the best fit for us.
“And again, (there were) multiple factors that were involved in that decision-making, but we feel really good about where we are today and what the future looks like for CU.”
The buzz around Sanders has created arguably one of the biggest, and most lucrative, “honeymoon” periods for a new coach in modern CU football history. Regents during their public vote Thursday spoke almost in lockstep about fond memories of Buffs football games in the Big 12 and Big Eight and of their hopes for renewed and sustained success at Folsom Field, which has been home to only one non-pandemic winning season since 2006.
From its transfer policy tweaks to ticket sales, CU purporting itself as a football school is cool again. It’s also a far cry from the university and administrative temperature in late 2005, when allegations against the program, including those levied by then-Buffs kicker Katie Hnida, eventually cost Barnett his job after seven seasons at the helm. He’s also, to date, still the last coach in CU history to leave his position with a winning record (49-38).
“When the (Hnida) stuff happened, and when Gary left, I think … (you saw) the support inside the university distance themselves from athletics, I think that’s fair to say,” recalled Bloom, who played for Barnett in 2002 and ’03. “I think that came back, in large part, when Rick George was hired (in 2013).
“I that Rick did a really good job re-energizing the base when he joined (CU) from the (Texas) Rangers. He put together a really thoughtful plan to go raise money to build facilities when the wins weren’t there. We’ve always had money in Colorado, we’ve always had great fans. They just don’t show up when (the Buffs) aren’t winning.
“I’m loving the honeymoon. This is great … talk about going from the basement to the top floor overnight.”
How long will the good vibes last? It depends, for the moment, on Sanders and his near-term results. George is on a roll, but at 62, the CU A.D. has talked about retiring from the position once his current contract expires in June 2026. DiStefano completed his 13th year as chancellor this past May and joined the university back in 1974.
“What happens on the football field is one thing, but in short order CU could find itself without a coach, AD and chancellor all at the same time,” Roger Pielke, a member of the Buffs’ faculty since 2001, told the Post. “They are rolling the dice hoping for a big score, but none of the key decision-makers will be around for the consequences if they crap out. Not an ideal set of incentives.”
Yet CU officials, be it with the hiring of Coach Prime from Jackson State or returning to a Big 12 that will no longer feature Texas, Oklahoma or Nebraska, seem ready to roll the dice.
“I cannot go anywhere without somebody asking me or saying something about CU football and what I think,” Barnett said.
“I don’t think there’s any question, when you look back at where things were (last) Thanksgiving, and even before Thanksgiving, and look at where we are now, it’s remarkable. It’s one of those stories you think could never happen and it does. They keep popping up. Things like this keep popping up. Anything’s possible, and this is a great example of that.”
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Eleven Mason City baseball players received Iowa Alliance North all-conference honors, the conference announced on Sunday.
Saint Ansgars stellar pitching duo blanks Lake Mills to advance to substate championship game. | 2023-07-16T04:33:11+00:00 | globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/luna/article_b3215c2c-a24b-56ff-8ed6-7639d721dcf4.html |
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CINCINNATI, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amplicore Inc., a Mason, OH-based, early-stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of minimally invasive therapeutic solutions for musculoskeletal disorders, today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared their first application for AM3101, a novel treatment to promote healing of acute meniscal tears. The move enables the initiation of a Department of Defense-sponsored phase 1/2b clinical study in concert with the University of Cincinnati.
The FDA clearance marks the company's transition into a clinical stage company. In addition to AM3101, the company's pipeline also includes AM1101, which is being developed for osteoarthritis, and AM2101, with an indication to treat degenerative disc disease.
"We are very proud to announce the clearance for AM3101," said Chief Executive Officer/Founder Dr. James Lin, "Despite their commonality, service men and women have limited treatment options for acute meniscal tears. While suturing is often the most frequent approach, the failure rate for surgery is quite high due to the limited reparative capacity of much of the tissue. Our research has found that our Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) provides pain relief and promotes regeneration of the meniscus, as well as several other structurally related joint tissues. In this way, the transition of Amplicore into a clinical stage company represents a critical development for all patients suffering from musculoskeletal conditions."
Amplicore also announced the addition of Steve Schrader to its advisory board. A high-impact financial leader with three decades of experience in corporate finance, Schrader has held Chief Financial Officer positions in a variety of industries, including an international auto glass company, a private healthcare company, a Fortune 500 public utility, and a NASDAQ-listed startup. Throughout his career, Steve has increased revenue and raised over $1.3 Billion in capital for companies. He has also taken two firms from start-up to manufacturing.
Schrader will advise on financial planning and fundraising efforts. "Amplicore is a leader in developing injectable therapeutics for musculoskeletal disorders. I am excited to join the board during this pivotal time as they work to close their Series A investment round, and I look forward to being a part of their future success."
Amplicore, Inc. is an early-stage biotech start-up company based on technology developed in the laboratory of CEO/Founder Dr. Chia-Ying (James) Lin at the University of Cincinnati. Headquartered in Mason, OH, the company is dedicated to developing novel injectable therapeutics to serve unmet medical needs for degenerative musculoskeletal disorders. Unlike current therapies that focus solely on palliative treatment, Amplicore is also taking a regenerative approach to treating these disorders. The company's lead products, AM3101, AM1101, and AM2101, address significant deficiencies in the current standard of care for the treatment of acute meniscal tear, osteoarthritis, and degenerative disc disease, respectively. Amplicore's overall mission is to translate scientific innovation into effective but minimally invasive products that can be easily delivered to patients.
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DAYTON, OH (KTVI) – Taco Bell will be testing a new menu item in Ohio next month: a meatless “steak” quesadilla.
The fast-food chain announced this week that the new item — the “Beyond Carne Asada Steak” quesadilla — will be available for a limited time at select Dayton-area locations beginning Oct. 13.
As the name implies, the item is made with a plant-based steak alternative developed in partnership with Beyond Meat, and comprised of ingredients including “vital wheat gluten and faba bean protein.” Taco Bell is also touting that the “category-disrupting protein” is made without GMOs or added hormones.
Both companies also claim the meatless “steak” tastes like the real thing.
“Designed to specifically complement the bold, savory flavors that Taco Bell is known for, Beyond Carne Asada Steak delivers the flavorful, delicious taste and texture of marinated, grilled steak with the added benefits of plant-based meat,” said Dariush Ajami, Beyond Meat’s Chief Innovation Officer, in a statement included in Taco Bell’s press release.
The meatless Beyond Carne Asada Steak will be priced the same as a traditional steak quesadilla. Customers at participating Dayton locations can also choose to swap out real steak for Beyond Carne Asada Steak in other Taco Bell items (burritos, breakfast quesadillas, etc.) at no additional charge.
The vegetarian-friendly protein option is expected to be available at select Dayton-area locations while supplies last. Taco Bell did not say when, or if, the item will appear on menus outside of Ohio. | 2022-09-23T20:16:59+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/watercooler/taco-bell-is-testing-a-meatless-carne-asada-steak-quesadilla-heres-where-you-can-try-it/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first three hearings, the House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection has laid out the beginnings of its case against former President Donald Trump — that his lies about the 2020 election, and his pressure on his vice president to overturn it, directly led to the violence on Jan. 6, 2021.
The committee’s June hearings — at least two more are scheduled — come after a yearlong probe and more than 1,000 interviews. The panel has featured both live witnesses and video, including from interviews with many of Trump’s closest advisers who tried to dissuade him from his efforts to stay in power. The committee has also showed video from the violent attack that day, some of which had never been seen before.
In methodically laying out their initial findings, members of the nine-member panel say they are trying to remind a weary public of what was at stake that day, and what could have happened if Vice President Mike Pence and others had not rebuffed Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat. They are also compiling a huge trove of evidence that the Justice Department wants to use in its own investigations.
A rundown of what we’ve learned so far from the public hearings of the select Jan. 6 committee — and what’s next:
PENCE UNDER PRESSURE
The committee’s Thursday hearing focused on Trump’s pressure on his vice president after all 50 states certified President Joe Biden’s win and courts across the country had rejected his campaign’s attempts to legally challenge the results. As the president ran out of options, he and a small group of allies turned toward the final congressional certification on Jan. 6.
The vice president presides over that session every four years in a ceremonial role. Prodded by a constitutional law professor named John Eastman, Trump pressured Pence to defy the law, and hundreds of years of precedent, by stepping in to object to or delay the count.
Greg Jacob, a counsel to Pence, said the vice president was resolute from the beginning that he would not carry out the plan. “Our review of text, history — and frankly, just common sense — all confirm the vice president’s first instinct on that point, there is no justifiable basis to conclude that the vice president has that kind of authority,” Jacob told the committee in live testimony on Thursday.
But Trump ramped up his pressure in the days before the certification, culminating with a call that aides described as “heated” between the two men on the morning of Jan. 6, a shout out for Pence to “do the right thing” at a huge rally of his supporters that morning and finally with a tweet saying that Pence did not have “courage” as a violent mob was already breaking into the building. The committee chronicled that timeline with video interviews from White House aides, clips from Trump’s speech and footage of the angry crowd calling for Pence’s assassination.
In one video played by the committee, a Trump supporter said he had heard reports that Pence had “caved,” and if he did they were going to drag “politicians through the streets.” The crowd called for Pence’s hanging as they broke into the building.
The panel also filled in new details about Pence’s hasty evacuation from the Senate as the rioting started. California Rep. Pete Aguilar, a Democrat on the committee who led Thursday’s hearing, told Jacob that the group was at one point only 40 feet from the rioters.
TRUMP AIDES SPEAK OUT
Though some of Trump’s top allies defied subpoenas to testify, the committee spoke to many of his top aides, including several who were in the White House that day and were in meetings in the weeks beforehand as Trump, Eastman and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, among a small group of others, pushed the scheme to overturn Trump’s defeat.
The panel played clips of video testimony in which the aides say they disagreed with the plan or tried to talk the president out of it – even though few of them spoke out publicly at the time.
Those efforts to persuade Trump started on election night, when the race was still too close to call and Giuliani pushed the president to declare victory. Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in one interview clip played by the panel that he told Trump it was “way too early” to make a prediction like that, but Trump went out to the press room and did it anyway, telling reporters that the early results were “a fraud on the American public” and that “frankly, we did win this election.”
The committee has also shown video from testimony by Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner. In a clip played from her interview earlier this year, Ivanka Trump told the panel that her father’s call with Pence the morning of Jan. 6 was “pretty heated” and had “a different tone than I had heard him take with the vice president before.” Others described vulgarities they said the president used.
The committee has not released the full transcripts of the interviews.
NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD
In Monday’s second hearing, the panel showed evidence that Trump’s claims of widespread fraud in the election were false. While election officials across the country certified the results and courts rejected Trump’s many lawsuits, the president and his allies repeatedly maintained that it was true.
The committee used video clips of testimony from former Attorney General Bill Barr, who resigned after telling the president his claims were “bullshit.” Barr said he had looked into the allegations and found no evidence that any of them were true. He described his interactions with the president as he tried to convince him of the facts, telling the panel that Trump was becoming “detached from reality.”
In-person witnesses at the committee’s hearing on Monday talked about Trump and Giuliani’s pressure to try to overturn the results in their states. BJay Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who resigned as Trump pressured Georgia officials, said his office investigated Giuliani’s “reckless” claims about fraud in the state and found them to be “simply untrue.”
WHAT’S NEXT
The committee has two additional hearings scheduled this month, and more are expected. A hearing on Tuesday is expected to focus on state officials who were contacted by Trump and the White House as he tried to overturn the results. Additional hearings will look at Trump’s pressure on the Justice Department to declare the election “corrupt” and on what was happening inside the White House as the violence unfolded.
After the hearings, the investigation will continue. The panel expects to issue final reports by the end of the year. Investigators still haven’t said whether they will try to call Pence or Trump to testify, either privately or publicly.
SHARING TRANSCRIPTS
The Justice Department has ramped up its own investigation, and has asked the Jan. 6 panel to provide transcripts from its 1,000 interviews. The committee has so far declined, but said it is engaged in a “cooperative process” with the department.
“We believe accountability is important and won’t be an obstacle to the department’s prosecution,” committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said in a statement on Friday.
In a letter Wednesday, the Justice Department said the panel was complicating its investigations by not sharing,
“It is now readily apparent that the interviews the Select Committee conducted are not just potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations, but are likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commended,” federal prosecutors wrote to Tim Heaphy, chief investigative counsel for the committee.
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, told reporters Thursday that lawmakers will formally respond to the prosecutors. But, he added, “We’re not going to stop what we’re doing to share information that we’ve gotten so far with the Department of Justice.”
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report. | 2022-06-18T16:13:12+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/jan-6-hearings-what-weve-learned-and-whats-next-2/ |
In 2011, a gorilla named Zola gained internet fame when the Calgary Zoo posted a video that showed him spinning in circles on his knuckles and heels with what appeared to be a huge grin on his face. Zola, the so-called break-dancing gorilla, returned in 2017, this time in a video showing him whirling around a kiddie pool with a level of wild enthusiasm rivaling the most committed human dancer at an all-night rave.
Humans’ love of spinning around in circles, especially during childhood, is evidenced by the enduring popularity of playground merry-go-rounds, revolving fun park rides and the irresistible draw of somersaulting down a hill. But new research suggests that humans are not alone in their pursuit of spin-induced buzzes.
According to findings published last month in the journal Primates, other great ape species also seem to regularly enjoy stimulating their senses through spinning, possibly even in pursuit of altered mental states.
“Spinning around to make ourselves dizzy is something we usually think of as a distinctly human activity,” said Marcus Perlman, a cognitive scientist at the University of Birmingham in England and an author of the study. “So it’s really cool to find that other primates do this, too, and that they seem to do it for the same reason that children do: Because it’s fun and exhilarating.”
After Perlman saw the videos of Zola, he turned to YouTube to investigate whether other apes engaged in the behavior. He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting. But the new paper focuses on clips of apes spinning on ropes or ropelike materials.
Perlman and Adriano Lameira, a primatologist and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Warwick in England, found 132 instances of rope-spinning across 40 videos involving orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos. The videos mostly featured captive apes, but several involved wild mountain gorillas on vines.
The researchers calculated the speed at which the apes spun. Most of the apes, they found, spun at an average rotation velocity of 1.43 revolutions per second — a speed rivaling professionally trained human dancers and aerialists. The longest spin session lasted 28 revolutions, and the fastest — achieved by a bonobo — clocked in at a brain-scrambling 4 revolutions per second.
The researchers observed that the longer an ape spun, the more likely it was to show signs of dizziness, such as letting go of the rope and immediately sitting or lying down. Apes tended to repeat the process of spinning and stopping, engaging in an average of three bouts of spinning per session.
The animals also often made “play faces” while spinning, Perlman said, implying that they were most likely having fun rather than only seeking a way to relieve themselves of boredom in captivity.
“There’s something about the experience they enjoy,” Perlman said.
Catherine Hobaiter, a primatologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who was not involved in the research, concurred. Based on her observations in the field, she said, “wild apes love to spin.”
Apes and some other animals are known to engage in other activities that can scramble the senses, including consuming fermented fruits containing alcohol and ingesting naturally occurring psychedelic substances. Whether this is done on purpose or by accident is debated, Perlman said. But studies such as this one can begin to provide data needed to explore behaviors that may be evolutionary precursors to the human desire to experience altered mental states.
Perlman is planning a larger study that will analyze hundreds of additional videos of nonhuman primates spinning. He has also started collecting evidence of other species, including grizzly bears and pandas, that appear to enjoy activities that may make them dizzy.
Marc Bekoff, an emeritus behavioral ecologist and cognitive ethologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who was not involved in the study, said researching such behavior was valuable “because there’s no a priori reason to think we’re the only animals who engage in behaviors that intentionally produce altered states of consciousness.” He added, “Systematic research will help us learn more about the taxonomy of getting high and not run around thinking we’re all that unique.” | 2023-04-29T14:36:48+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/why-do-apes-like-to-spin-maybe-for-the-same-reasons-as-people/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, June 26, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
147 PM PDT Sat Jun 25 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures in the 90s expected.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Coast Range of Northwest Oregon, Central
Coast Range of Western Oregon, Central Willamette Valley,
South Willamette Valley, Northern Oregon Cascade Foothills and
Cascade Foothills in Lane County. In Washington, Willapa
Hills, I- 5 Corridor in Cowlitz County and South Washington
Cascade Foothills.
* WHEN...Through 10 PM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
Rivers are running cold and fast, and will continue to do so
this weekend. Nearly every year, people die in rivers in
southwest Washington and northwest Oregon due to cold water
shock during the season's first heat wave. Hot temperatures
can make the cool water seem tempting, but river temperatures
in the 50s can easily result in cold water shock that can kill
in minutes.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Sunday will be the hottest day, with highs
generally in the mid to upper 90s. Nighttime temperatures are
expected to be in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
* WHAT...Temperatures 80 to 90 expected.
* WHERE...In Oregon, North Oregon Coast and Central Oregon
Coast. In Washington, South Washington Coast.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Main location of concern is for inland
areas away from the immediate coast. Sunday will be the hottest
day, with inland highs generally 85 to 95. Coastal communities
north of Newport are likely to reach the mid to upper 80s
Sunday. Overnight temperatures are likely to fall into mid 50s
to mid 60s.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Northern Oregon Cascades and Cascades in
Lane County. In Washington, South Washington Cascades.
generally in the lower 80s. However, the lowest valleys are
likely to be in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Overnight temperatures
will be in the mid 50s to mid 60s, but locally to 70 on mid and
upper slopes.
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures 90 to 100 expected.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Lower Columbia, Greater Portland Metro
Area, Upper Hood River Valley, Western Columbia River Gorge
and Central Columbia River Gorge. In Washington, Greater
Vancouver Area, Western Columbia River Gorge and Central
Columbia River Gorge.
* WHEN...Through 10 PM PDT Monday.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Sunday will be the hottest day with highs
in the mid to upper 90s, locally to 102. Maximum temperatures
Monday are expected to be 90 to 95. Nighttime temperatures are
expected to be in the upper 50s to upper 60s.
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What are the best Apple Watch screen protectors?
Like mobile phones, wristwatches get banged up and scratched. Considering their worth, it’s surprising that they don’t come in a titanium box. Yet most of us wear them without considering what would happen if the screen cracked.
There may be an emotional blow with analog watches, but when it happens to a smartwatch, the wrist-worn digital conduit to all our information is erased in a split second. So if you can’t bear the thought of being without your Apple Watch while the display is getting fixed, it might be an excellent time to start looking for a screen protector.
Screen protectors come in different sizes
Just as the Apple Watch comes in different sizes, so do the screen protectors. You must get the exact right size protector — if it’s too small, it will look awkward, and if it’s too big it will hang over the sides. The protectors aren’t made for a quick nip and tuck to make them fit, so don’t consider that as an alternative.
Consider a clip-on over a protective film
Depending on the look you;re going for, you might want to weigh your options between a clip-on cover and the traditional film protector.
- Film: A film protector is a less obvious-looking way of keeping your watch scratch-free. A thin layer of tempered glass is applied to the screen with delicate movements and a steady hand. It provides edge-to-edge protection from scratches, bumps or cracks. They are also made from thermoplastic polyurethane or polyethylene terephthalate.
- Clip-on: A watch case is a solid plastic piece with a built-in screen protector. It clips over the entire display and has a notch on the side to perfectly slip past the crown. There are different styles, so it’s also a quick way to change your watch’s color.
Best Apple Watch tempered-glass screen protectors
Dome Glass for Apple Watch Series 6
This tempered-glass protector uses liquid dispersion technology to cover the watch’s display evenly. It can also fill in small scratches and scuffs to make them invisible, and as it hardens, it creates a robust edge-to-edge layer. The protector comes with a handy installation kit and an ultraviolet curing light.
Sold by Amazon
Alinsea Screen Protector for Apple Watch
This case easily slips over the watch’s glass for all-around protection. It has a built-in tempered glass screen protector that minimizes the impact of drops and scratches. The glass is compatible with touchscreen functions, and no fog or moisture will be trapped in between.
Sold by Amazon
Misxi 2 Pack Hard PC Case with Tempered-Glass Screen Protector
With a built-in tempered-glass screen protector, this case ensures that your watch remains scratch-free. The case clips over the watch face, exposing the crown and side button for easy operation without you having to take the strap off.
Sold by Amazon
Fotbor Apple Watch Tempered-Glass Screen Protector 38mm
Fitting the smaller 38-millimeter watch, this three-pack of screen protectors is made from tempered glass and is scratch-proof. The protectors are treated with a hydrophobic and oleophobic coating, so you can operate your watch even if your fingers are wet.
Sold by Amazon
Goton Apple Watch Screen Protector Case
This display protector comprises three parts: a polycarbonate shockproof outer bumper, a hard PC frame and tempered glass that fits into the frame. The case is flexible and washable, while the glass prevents scratches and fingerprints. The crown and side button are exposed, so the case isn’t waterproof.
Sold by Amazon
OtterBox Alpha Flex Antimicrobial Screen Protector
This antimicrobial tempered-glass protector has a black trim on the outer edge and fits perfectly over the entire display. It has a crystal coating, giving it added strength and visual clarity. The antimicrobial coating helps protect you from many common bacteria. It comes with an easy-to-use installation kit.
Sold by Amazon
Goton Apple Watch Screen Protector Bling Case
There is always this blinged-out option when a plain black or see-through protection case won’t do. The outer edge of this watch case is adorned with a crystal rhinestone inlay, while the built-in screen protector is made from tempered glass. The buttons are exposed, and the rhinestones shouldn’t come off easily.
Sold by Amazon
Best Apple Watch film-screen protectors
MP Mall Screen Protector Compatible with Apple Watch 40mm Series 6
This six-pack of screen protectors is made from TPU and covers the entire surface of the 40-millimeter Series 6. The adhesive side is treated with an oleophobic coating so that no oil residue remains when you remove it. The protectors come with installation instructions and a link for a step-by-step guide.
Sold by Amazon
ArmorSuit MilitaryShield Screen Protector
Laser-cut for a precision fit, this TPU protector matches the contours of your watch and covers the rounded corners, too. The thin film is scratch-proof and won’t go yellow from UV exposure over time. ArmorSuit says that the protector is self-healing, eliminating small scratches.
Sold by Amazon
Yogre Apple Watch Series 6 Waterproof Case With Built-in Screen Protector
This rugged protective case and strap kit are compatible with wireless charging and other Apple Watch health functions. It completely encompasses the gadget and has additional layers to protect the crown and side button from moisture and dust. It is waterproof to a depth of 6.6 feet for an hour. The built-in screen protector is made from scratch-resistant TPU.
Sold by Amazon
LK Screen Protector for Apple Watch
These six screen protectors are made from TPU and are extremely thin, preserving the Apple Watch’s original touchscreen sensitivity. The protective film is self-healing, so any minor scratches or bubbles disappear in 24 hours.
Sold by Amazon
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MAYODAN – For the first time in program history, Providence Grove won a post season game in impressive fashion with a 48-14 victory over McMichael in the first round of the 2022 2A NCHSAA state playoffs Friday night at Macfield Stadium.
Patriots head football coach Calvin Brown told is team afterwards that they will now forever be known in the community as a part of something special.
“We’ve been through a lot of adversity over the years. This group has been through a huge amount of adversity and for them to get this first playoff win is huge for our community. Enough can’t be said about our team and our coaches. Our coaches, I’ll put them up against anybody. The game plan that they put together for our guys tonight, they executed it well and it was just a total team effort for us,” Brown said.
Thanks in large-part to the prowess of twin brothers Zander and Zane Cheek, who scored five rushing touchdowns between them, in addition to a nearly flawless defensive performance, the Patriots raced to an early 21-0 lead and the Phoenix never recovered.
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On their second drive of the game, Zander hit the right edge on a jet-sweep and turned on the speed and would go on to run 69 yards for a touchdown near the midway point of the opening frame for the 7-0 lead following the P.A.T.
The Patriots defense set the stage for the next score after stopping McMichael on fourth down. On the first play from scrimmage, quarterback Andrew Canter hit Zander Cheek on a wide open post route to bump the margin up to 14-0 with 3:32 to go in the first quarter.
The Providence Grove defense forced a punt on the Phoenix’ next possession, and following a five-play drive that set the Patriots up in the red zone, Zane got in on the scoring running for an eight yard TD to put McMichael in a three-score hole with 7:10 to go in the second quarter.
The Phoenix finally stopped the bleeding on their next drive. Quarterback Jace Dunn was flushed from the pocket near midfield and initially couldn’t find an open receiver. But just before being forced out of bounds, he spotted Zack Dalton near the goal line and lobbed the ball up for a 35 yard touchdown to cut the lead to 21-6 with four minutes to go in the half.
That was as close as McMichael would get however, and Zane Cheek scored on a 30 yard rush and Batten would tack on a 22 yard field goal in the final seconds for a 31-6 advantage in the final seconds of the half.
The Patriots defense continued to stymie the Phoenix offensively, basically shutting down McMichael’s bread-and-butter rushing attack led by Jayden Moore.
The Cheek twins kept up the pressure, each adding second half rushing scores to put the game out of reach.
The Phoenix did mount one last drive which culminated with a Deven McMillon score from 4 yards out, but the damage was done as Providence Grove basked in the glow of the programs first playoff win.
Despite the loss McMichael head coach Tony McCants said his team has a lot to be proud of after winning seven games and making the programs third-consecutive post season appearance.
“It wasn’t too long ago that this program was 0-23 and these guys are a part of a group that broke that losing streak and they are going to go out as one of the winningest groups in McMichael football history. They’ve done a lot of things that had never happened – broken some school records, so they should walk out of here with their heads held high. I just thanked them for their service for what they have done because of their commitment. It’s all about them. Players play and this group of seniors have played their tails off for four years,” McCants said.
UP NEXT: No. 17 seed Providence Grove (8-3) travels to take on No. 1 Reidsville (10-1) in the second round Nov. 11. The Rams won their first round game over Madison by a whopping 76-14 margin Nov. 4 at Community Stadium.
“We are going to have to play really, really, really dang good. Reidsville’s good – they are No. 1 in the state for a reason. I’m familiar with Reidsville from years past. Coach (Jimmy) Teague is one of the best coaches to ever do it in the state of North Carolina, so I know what they will be. But we’ve played a schedule that I feel has prepared us. We've played some really good teams this year and well go up there and give them our best shot,” said Brown. | 2022-11-05T16:30:00+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/community/rockingham_now/sports/providence-grove-locks-up-historic-win-over-mcmichael-in-first-round-of-playoffs/article_42f76504-5ce3-11ed-9f44-4374d7f40177.html |
MN School Safety Center says relationship rebuilding is key to school safety
(FOX 9) - As the school year gets started and pandemic restrictions ease, Randy Johnson, director of the Minnesota School Safety Center, part of the Minnesota Department of Safety, says he believes rebuilding relationships between schools, students and families is key to keeping schools safe.
The Minnesota School Safety Center works with schools and school districts giving them recommendations and guidance related to safety. This includes coming up with plans to respond to a natural disaster, updating school facilities and preparing for violent events.
Johnson says while violent events in schools are more rare than other safety threats they prepare for, it’s top of mind for many families, and certainly their office.
In Minnesota, the previous two school years came with many challenges for educators, students and families. Many were forced to stay home, learn online and only meet virtually. When students were in the classroom, many of them had to adhere to other restrictions like masking and social distancing.
Johnson says these challenges made it more difficult for educators, students and parents to connect and build strong relationships. He says that he hopes this school year people focus on rebuilding those relationships, as they are crucial to school safety.
"They’re reestablishing relationships that have been basically fractured over the past COVID-19 period of two years," Johnson said. "So it’s very much in a rebuilding, relearning within their education communities for everybody involved from students, to parents, to teachers and staff and administration and leadership and their public safety partners."
He says typically when a student or young person commits an act of violence, there are warning signs beforehand. He says the better support there is for students and the more communication between students, educators and families, the better the chance they can connect a kid to the help they need before violence occurs.
"What we’re really doing is focusing schools back on their main activities which is developing relationships with students with families and being able to not get into a place where we’re responding to a violent incident that has already occurred, but what are we doing on the front end to make sure we are providing supports for the families and the students," Johnson said.
Johnson says his biggest concern this school year is time. He says he’s hoping there is enough time in this school year to rebuild those relationships, and most importantly, make sure kids know they are valued and are capable of success.
"Everyone from the person in food service, to the bus company, to bus drivers, to principals and teachers have a very important role in developing relationships and making sure that kids are not invisible. They have to be recognized and recognized by name," Johnson said. | 2022-09-22T04:04:44+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-school-safety-center-says-relationship-rebuilding-is-key-to-school-safety |
Colson Montgomery had a productive 2022 while playing for three teams in the Chicago White Sox system.
A midback strain has delayed the top prospect’s start to 2023. The 2021 first-round pick continues to rehab, according to assistant general manager Chris Getz.
“It has improved a good amount here in the last week or two,” Getz said Thursday afternoon. “And we are increasing his activities and look forward to getting him back.
“He would have liked to be with an affiliate out of the gate, but this midback strain seems to be kind of in the rearview mirror and hope to get a good chunk of the season this year.”
Three of the top four prospects in the Sox system are in various stages of coming back from injuries.
Third baseman Bryan Ramos, the organization’s No. 3 prospect, is in extended spring training recovering from a groin-related injury.
“He’s (been a designated hitter), played third base,” Getz said. “He’s got a couple of more games in extended and shortly thereafter we will get him to (Double-A) Birmingham. Everything has been really positive for him physically.”
Ramos, 21, hit .266 with 22 homers and 86 RBIs between Class A Winston-Salem and Birmingham last season. He hasn’t played this season.
“He obviously would have liked to break with the Birmingham club,” Getz said. “Hopefully this injury is behind him and he’s strong and ready to go.”
Pitcher Noah Schultz, last year’s first-round pick out of Oswego East, was scheduled to throw two innings of live batting practice Friday as the left-hander makes his way back from a forearm strain.
“Next week we’ll build on that and continue to stretch him out,” Getz said. “He’s been mid-90s with a slider we are accustomed to. He’s attacking the zone throwing strikes, so things are trending in the right direction. We look forward to getting him to an affiliate soon.”
Getz said Schultz, the No. 4 prospect in the organization, has been “really impressive” during the rehab process.
“And beyond just trying to calm down his forearm, we’re also trying to build up a 19-year-old body,” Getz said. “We’re talking about 6-foot-9 and a left-handed pitcher that’s very projectable. So he’s established daily routines, whether it’s been in the weight room, arm-care program, long toss, catch play, during his side sessions, the consistency of his pitches.
“He’s throwing a four-seam, a two-seam and a slider and a changeup. There’s always something to focus on. I don’t think there’s been a time that he’s been on a mound that we haven’t been impressed with what he’s capable of doing. And just like any player that’s playing this game, it’s about consistency. As we continue to stretch him out and get him to an affiliate, get him into greater competition than what he’s experiencing right now, it’ll be very telling. We look forward to how he competes and responds to (Class A) Kannapolis competition.”
Montgomery, 21, had a 50-game on-base streak while with Kannapolis and Winston-Salem in 2022. He slashed .274/.381/.429 with 17 doubles, 11 home runs and 47 RBIs for Kannapolis (45 games), Winston-Salem (37) and Birmingham (14) last season.
“You want to continue to ride the momentum of his development,” Getz said. “He had an excellent first season and although he’s been dealing with an injury, my preference would be to be dealing with it on the front end of the year just so we can get a good chunk of production on the field and have a healthy offseason.
“There’s still plenty of season left, and we’ll look at some fall options for him as well. Hopefully just continue to build his trajectory toward the major leagues.”
Oscar Colás, the organization’s No. 2 prospect, is working back to the majors while with Triple-A Charlotte. He slashed .211/.265/.276 with one homer and seven RBIs in 25 games for the Sox before being optioned on May 2.
Colás has a .389/.443/.611 slash line with one home run and 12 RBIs in 13 games with the Knights.
“We’ve really focused on certain facets of the game,” Getz said. “We’ve sat down with Colás on a daily basis, at least the staff there in Charlotte, to go over the preparation needed to be a professional along with having to make in-game adjustments. He’s communicated really well with the staff and players and his execution is good.
“His execution has been productive as well. The evaluation is beyond just his numbers. It’s really what goes into being a major league player. When he comes back here to Chicago, we want him to be productive and sustainable to help us get our season back on track.” | 2023-05-19T12:07:18+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-chicago-white-sox-prospects-colson-montgomery-20230519-3tzjtvuvjffx3mrq4equxudxwy-story.html |
WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 23, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Hanford CA
856 AM PDT Sun May 22 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM
PDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Sustained west winds 20 to 30 mph, with gusts near 50
mph expected.
* WHERE...Mojave Desert Slopes.
* WHEN...From 6 PM PDT this evening until 6 AM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Blowing dust will reduce visibilities in some
locations. Travel will be difficult, particularly for high
profile vehicles.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways affected include, but are not
limited to Highway 14, Highway 178 through and below Walker
Pass, and Highway 58 through and below Tehachapi Pass,
including the town of Mojave.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school’s production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in the way she held herself in the classroom.
“My teachers actually gave me the part because whenever I did speak up, I was very animated and expressive,” Kim said. “When I did this play, I honestly think it’s one of the first times I actually felt seen and special in a way that I think I really hadn’t before that.”
Kim’s teachers subverted a problem that has frustrated many Asian Americans’ career trajectories, whether on screen, in political office or in an executive suite: receiving praise for being reliable, hard workers, but never quite being perceived as leadership material.
Across industries, Asian Americans have long been held back by unquestioned biases rooted in racial stereotypes. Employers often paint Asians as passive, lacking in gravitas or not a “cultural fit,” said Justin Zhu, co-founder of the advocacy group Stand with Asian Americans.
An all grown-up Kim (“Ballers,” “Good Trouble”) is now reveling in the thrill and facing the pressure of being the lead on a much bigger stage: She stars opposite Milo Ventimiglia in the new ABC drama, “The Company You Keep,” which premieres Sunday. A remake of the Korean drama “My Fellow Citizens,” it centers on the hot and heavy romance between Kim’s CIA agent and Ventimiglia’s con artist.
Given network TV’s woeful record of failing to cast Asian actors as main characters — and increased competition from cable and streaming services — there is an extraordinary number of recent shows that are making change. Other recent broadcast series with Asian or Asian American leads include “Quantum Leap” (Raymond Lee), “Kung Fu” (Olivia Liang), “The Cleaning Lady” (Élodie Yung), “NCIS: Hawai’i” (Vanessa Lachey) and “Ghosts” (Utkarsh Ambudkar).
Advocates are mixed on whether this rise in visibility is a sign that Asian Americans are actually gaining wider, meaningful representation. Over the last decade, there have been ups and downs: For two years, ABC even had two sitcoms with all-Asian casts — “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Dr. Ken” — but the latter, starring Ken Jeong, was nixed after only two seasons.
In 2019, after “Crazy Rich Asians” became a box-office hit, things looked promising, said Milton Liu, interim executive director of the Asian American Media Alliance, which puts out a diversity “report card” rating the broadcast networks. That same year, six TV pilots with at least one Asian lead were ordered but only one — sitcom “Sunnyside” starring Kal Penn — went to series, and it was canceled after 11 episodes.
Liu concedes that the current crop of shows indicate things are “improving slowly.” A member of the Writers Guild of America, he tempered that assessment with a reminder of how difficult it is just to get a TV pilot made.
Also, most of these broadcast shows don’t showcase an Asian main couple or all-Asian ensemble. The conventional wisdom that many industry executives still hold firm to is that casting a white actor as the lead will make a series relatable to more viewers, so it will be more profitable. Liu said that demographics for network viewers are trained to older audiences, which skew predominantly white.
“We understand that,” he said. “But we also understand the importance of having shows like ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ so that we aren’t just marginalized.”
A Nielsen Company study found that two-thirds of Asian Americans feel there is not enough Asian representation on TV. More than half say the depictions that do exist are inaccurate.
It was “The Company You Keep” executive producer Jon M. Chu, the director of “Crazy Rich Asians,” who suggested that agent Emma Hill be Asian American — and have an on-screen family with a Korean American father and Chinese American mother. The Hill family is also a political dynasty.
The character of Kim’s on-camera father (James Saito) is loosely inspired by former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, the first Asian American governor on the mainland. The former U.S. ambassador to China has no direct involvement, but called the connection “awesome” in an interview with the AP.
In past political roles — which include serving as commerce secretary under former President Barack Obama — Locke never lacked confidence in his ability to lead. It was anti-Asian racism that colored how he was perceived by others that was the problem, he says.
In 2003, the FBI learned he was the target of an assassination plot by a white supremacist and anti-government extremist who “specifically said that there’s no way that an Asian American could be a legitimate governor of the state of Washington,” Locke recalled.
Zhu, of Stand with Asian Americans, said that underestimating Asian Americans goes back to the 1800s, when Chinese laborers built the U.S. railroads.
“Asian Americans, since we’ve gotten to this place from working on the railroad, we’ve been paid a fraction of what we deserve and have been seen as sort of workers but not leaders,” Zhu said.
Locke believes seeing Asians and Asian Americans taking charge on-screen does have an impact in real life.
“Just seeing more more Asian Americans in all walks of life — even if it’s fictitious — is important because that may be their (viewers’) only exposure to Asian Americans in roles that they’re not accustomed to,” Locke said.
Kim feels like a “lucky chosen one” because she has a seat at the proverbial table with her new, leading character status. Seeing her name at the top of the call sheet is a brand-new experience. Despite the confidence she now has, sometimes the insecurities that once dodged that timid fourth-grader persist.
“Most of the time, I’m just like ‘How does everybody do this?’ I feel my imposter syndrome blaring louder than ever,” Kim said. “But I keep going because it’s all mixed in with that feeling a little kid dreams of” — of being seen and recognized as special.
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Terry Tang is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at @ttangAP. | 2023-02-17T08:17:01+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-rise-of-asian-leads-in-network-tv-shows-now-abcs-company/ |
(NerdWallet) – My favorite emails in the past few months have been the ones from my bank, letting me know that my savings annual percentage yield has gone up and that overdraft fees have been canceled. If you haven’t gotten either of those lately, then it might be time to open a new bank account with a different financial institution.
You don’t have to abandon your current bank if it’s useful to you. As both a banking nerd and a general consumer, I find it helpful to have accounts at several different institutions: a traditional bank, a credit union and an online bank.
Each account gives me something that the others don’t. A traditional bank offers some products or services I can’t find at my online bank, while my online bank pays much higher interest rates. So using a mix of institutions can help you keep — and earn — more money.
Here are a few clear signs that you might need to choose a new bank, or at least open a new bank account.
You’re paying unnecessary fees
What used to be a rare phenomenon — a bank account with few fees — is becoming more common. “There’s just too much competition in both the neobanking space and even in traditional banking nowadays to be paying really any fees — particularly overdraft fees or fees just to have the account,” says Ramona Ortega, founder of My Money My Future, which focuses on closing the racial wealth gap and providing quality financial advice.
There are plenty of fee-free accounts available without any hoops to jump through to waive a monthly fee. And more and more banks are eliminating or at least reducing overdraft fees, so you definitely shouldn’t be paying those.
Your savings APY hasn’t increased recently
Even if you haven’t been able to increase your savings contributions this year (thanks, inflation), you should be seeing a little more money added to your account. As we’ve seen several times this year, when the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate, banks generally also raise their rates. If your bank account hasn’t increased your savings interest rate this year, that’s a red flag (and a green flag to change banks).
The national average savings rate has increased from 0.06% at the beginning of 2022 to 0.13%[1] as of August 2022, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., but the best interest rates are now more than 12 times that (that’s around 1.65% and up).
Your bank’s customer service isn’t accessible enough
You should be able to get help easily for your banking woes, through a customer service channel you like using. Prefer to communicate online but your bank or credit union doesn’t offer online support? Look for a bank that answers questions and provides timely help over social media. Or, if the idea of sending a tweet to a bank makes you cringe, plenty of financial institutions offer more and different options. I prefer a live online chat, in-app messaging or a quick phone call after work, so I make sure my bank has all three options, plus extended customer service hours.
If you feel more comfortable speaking in a non-English language, shop around to find one where representatives speak it, says Elena Fairley, programs director at Mission Asset Fund, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that helps financially excluded communities access mainstream financial services. If you prefer to speak in Spanish, for example, consider a Hispanic American-owned bank or credit union.
You’ll need a loan
If your financial institution doesn’t offer the loans you’ll need at competitive rates, that’s a good sign that you should consider opening an account with a bank or credit union that does.
Don’t think you’ll need a loan for a while? Take this step now anyway because it can be helpful to have an account in good standing with a financial institution for a while if you’ll eventually need to borrow money.
“You generally get a better rate when you have a banking relationship at the institution,” Ortega says.
Opening a new bank account can take just a few minutes and the payoff could be priceless: saved time, better earnings for your money, more accessible help — and some peace of mind when it comes to your finances. | 2022-09-10T22:49:11+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/what-are-the-signs-that-i-need-a-new-bank/ |
Speranza Scappucci will become principal guest conductor of London’s Royal Opera starting with the 2025-26 season.
Her appointment was announced by the company on Monday.
The 50-year-old Italian, a graduate of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Juilliard School in New York, made her Royal Opera debut last year in Verdi’s “Attila.” The Royal Opera has not had a principal guest conductor since Daniele Gatti from 1994-97.
She will work alongside Jakub Hrůša, who succeeds Antonio Pappano as music director for the 2025-26 season. The house said Scappucci will be involved in works by Verdi and Puccini along with bel canto.
Scappucci was music director of Belgium’s Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège from 2017-22 and has debuted with the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, Milian’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opéra. | 2023-06-06T21:45:43+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/entertainment-news/speranza-scappucci-to-become-royal-operas-principal-guest-conductor/ |
By STAN CHOE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street roared in relief Tuesday after a report showed inflation cooled more than expected last month, raising the chances that the economy can avoid a recession.
The S&P 500 was 2.6% higher in early trading, adding to its strong last-hour rally from a day earlier built on anticipation of the inflation data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 547 points, or 1.6%, at 34,552, as of 9:53 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 3.6% higher. Besides stocks, prices also leaped for everything from bonds to gold to bitcoin.
The source of all the jubilation was data showing that U.S. inflation slowed to 7.1% last month from 7.7% in October and more than 9% in the summer. Even though inflation remains painfully high, and shoppers continue to pay prices well above levels from a year ago, Tuesday’s report offers hope that the worst of inflation really did pass during the summer.
More importantly for markets, the slowdown cements investors’ expectations that the Federal Reserve can ease up on its aggressive hikes to interest rates.
Such increases slow the economy by design, in hopes of cooling conditions enough to get inflation under control. But they also risk causing a recession if rates go too high, and they push down on prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments in the meantime. Smaller hikes to interest rates would mean less added pain to both the economy and to markets.
Tuesday’s inflation report is the final piece of data the Federal Reserve will get before it announces its next move on interest rates Wednesday. The widespread expectation is that it will hike its key overnight rate by 0.50 percentage points.
Usually, that size of an increase would be seen as a big deal because it’s double the typical move. But now that inflation is near its worst levels in generations, it would be a step down from the four straight mega-hikes of 0.75 percentage points that the Fed has approved since the summer.
Expectations for an easier Fed meant some of Wall Street’s wildest action was in the bond market, where yields tumbled immediately after the inflation report’s release.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.44% from 3.62% late Monday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, plunged to 4.15% from 4.39%.
Other central banks around the world, including the European Central Bank, are also likely to raise their own rates by half a percentage point this week.
Expectations for a slowdown in rate hikes may also be setting some investors up for disappointment. Even if it moves at smaller increments each time, the Fed may still ultimately take rates higher than markets expect.
Some investors also continue to make moves in anticipation of the Fed cutting interest rates during the second half of 2023. Rate cuts generally act like steroids for stocks and other investments, but the Fed has been insisting it plans to hold rates at a high level for some time to ensure the battle against inflation is won.
And even if inflation is indeed on its way down, the global economy still faces threats from the rate increases already pushed through. The housing industry and other businesses that rely on low interest rates have shown particular weakness, and worries are rising about the strength of corporate profits broadly.
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed from Bangkok and AP Business Writer Matt Ott contributed from Washington.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-12-13T16:11:46+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2022/12/13/stocks-leap-on-wall-street-after-cooler-inflation-data/ |
BERLIN (AP) — A 33-year-old man suspected of killing two teenagers and injuring seven other passengers on a train in northern Germany was released from pretrial detention a week ago and had previous criminal convictions, German news outlets reported Thursday.
The man, who was identified as a stateless Palestinian who came to Germany in 2014, allegedly stabbed multiple people Wednesday afternoon on a regional train traveling from Kiel to Hamburg. A A 16-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man died of their wounds, authorities said.
Other passengers overwhelmed the suspect, who was treated at a hospital for slight injuries and is in police custody, German news agency dpa reported.
German newspapers Bild and Welt reported that his criminal record included convictions for sexual assault, dangerous bodily harm, abuse of credit cards and shoplifting.
Police and prosecutors were investigating possible motives for the attack, which happened as the train approached the town of Brokstedt.
Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, the interior minister of Schleswig-Holstein state, where Brokstedt is located, said the parents of the two teenage victims had been informed of their deaths.
She said investigators were working under high pressure to “gather all the facts.”
The state parliament began its session Thursday with a minute of silence for the victims of the attack. | 2023-01-26T12:55:25+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-germany-victims-of-fatal-train-attack-identified-as-2-teens/ |
7 contemporary furniture design trends to look for in 2023
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7 contemporary furniture design trends to look for in 2023
Modern interior with green velvet sofa and gold accents.
Well-done furniture design is not simply alluring aesthetics, rather, it provides functionality while accentuating tasteful choices, adding elegance and beauty to a space. Furniture design has been a home staple seen as far back as the Neolithic era, or New Stone Age. Around 3100–2500 B.C., the people of Skara Brae built cupboards, dressers, and beds for their homes in the area now known as Orkney, Scotland. Whether functional, stylish, or a statement, furniture remains a necessity in modern-day society and a tool of expression for interior designers and buyers looking to elevate their spaces.
Contemporary furniture design is characterized by current trends and popular motifs, as opposed to classical or traditional styles. It often borrows from other decades and adopts the styles of various design eras.
Lazzoni Modern Furniture compiled seven trends driving furniture styles in early 2023 using research across the internet, including from Architectural Digest, Forbes, Vogue, and The Washington Post. Many trends show an increased number of consumers prioritizing ethical and sustainable practices when purchasing furniture and also returning to nostalgic designs from decades past, utilizing bold patterns and geometric shapes. Popular colors demonstrate a return to nature, with earthy and natural tones dominating color trends and natural resources like wood and cement used in design.
Continue reading to learn more about the coming trends.
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Sustainability standards go up a notch
‘PET Plastic upcycling’ product label tag on the sofa
Eco-awareness and sustainability have become popular trends in the design industry as climate change continues to challenge contemporary life. Popular companies such as Macy’s, Crate & Barrel, and Wayfair committed to a higher standard of sustainability practices in 2022 as eco-friendly design has proven to be a lucrative industry. Grand View Research’s findings in 2022 valued the eco-friendly furniture market at $43.26 billion, with an expected annual growth rate of 8.6% until 2030.
If environmental sustainability is a priority, The Washington Post recommends buyers research the ethical and sustainable practices of companies before purchasing. Websites like Minted Space, Wood Furniture Scorecard, and Spot can help buyers better understand the way their products are made and access furniture made with eco-conscious practices. Research can also help to differentiate between eco-focused brands and greenwashing, a tactic used by companies to misrepresent themselves as environmentally responsible, using common phrases such as “made with recycled content,” “all-natural,” and “LEED-certified.”
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Curves are making a comeback
Living room with beige, curved sofa and round rug.
Curved furniture hit the mainstream in the 1970s and continued in popularity throughout the ’80s, a welcome change from the hard edges of Bauhaus. This pull of the sensuous is best seen in Vladimir Kagan’s serpentine sofa, which debuted in 1950. Its curved, snakelike shape was expressly made to be a highlight of a room, placed away from corners and walls, leaving owners precious space to display artwork. The sofa revolutionized room arrangements and earned Kagan a place in design history.
Kagan wasn’t the only designer to take advantage of the human pull to the soft and sensual. Frank Gehry’s wiggle side chair, Ettore Sottsass’ Synthesis 45 office side chair, and David Mellor’s Abacus 700 chair are examples of how designers introduced curves in their designs, which created a more welcoming space. Expect to see furniture with softer and rounder edges, adding elegance and versatility to their spaces.
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1970s nostalgia combats an angst-ridden pandemic age
Yellow armchairs from the 70s in a living room.
Curved furniture isn’t the only trend making its way back from the 1970s. Fashion and design have seen a resurgence in the popular tones and styles of the decade updated for the 2020s. Trend followers can breathe a sigh of relief. Most garish aspects of 1970s design will likely stay in the past as designers focus on the decade’s finer aesthetics, such as bold geometric designs, a return to nature, browns and warm tones, and highlighting materials like wood and concrete.
The resurgence of ’70s design may be due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, according to 1stDibs Editorial Director Anthony Barzilay Freund, who theorized that as more people were working from home, there was an increased need for a relaxed environment. The warm color schemes, wide spaces, and sunken spaces of the 1970s were perfect comforting cues to combat the angst and anxiety of this pandemic age.
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Art deco touches add a hint of luxury
Green living room with velvet sofa and round gold coffee table.
Art deco remains a signature style in design with roots dating back to 1900s France and surged in popularity across the Atlantic during the 1920s and ’30s. Short for “arts decoratifs,” it received its name in 1925, when the design was first exhibited at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.
The style emphasizes geometric shapes, crisp edges, repetition, and strong linear designs such as chevrons or zigzags, which have attracted buyers between 20-40 especially, according to a 2021 annual survey by Asheford Institute of Antiques. Rather than go all out art deco, however, many have chosen to use it sparingly, adding a hint of opulence and glamour at strategic points in a room with metallic accents, geometric lines, and velvet textures.
“These days, we probably wouldn’t do a whole authentic art deco interior,” designer Jessica Lagrange told Architectural Digest. “But we like to use bits and pieces, which can be very timeless, and use them in a contemporary setting.”
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Vintage thrifting, an increasingly ethical and environmental choice
Retro orange armchair, vintage wooden light blue sideboard and old phonograph.
Furniture production can be easily compared to the fast fashion industry, where designs are easily purchased and just as quickly discarded for new, trendier pieces. The Environmental Protection Agency found that discarded furniture accounts for 12.1 million tons of municipal solid waste in American landfills in 2018—more than five times what it was in 1960.
As the COVID-19 pandemic upended supply chains, however, online secondhand furniture shops have seen an uptick in business, aided by more people redesigning their living spaces to fit a work-from-home lifestyle. The Washington Post reports that Chairish business was up 42% from 2020 and 2021, while in 2021, the searches for vintage or antique couches on Etsy increased 126% from 2019.
Choosing to buy vintage furniture leads to many positive outcomes. It can add statement pieces from history to a living space while saving them from landfills that continue to grow. It also often helps support small, independent businesses, as Etsy’s trend expert, Dayna Isom Johnson, pointed out to the Post.
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Greenery and green colors shore up mental and physical well-being
Three tufted green armchairs in classic interior with cozy space.
Color psychology explores the mind and body’s physiological responses to color and suggests colors are able to induce psychological reactions and affect mood and emotion. While the scientific validity of color psychology is often questioned, color remains a powerful tool in creating a space catered to one’s mental and physical well-being.
Green has become a huge trend in home design, as more and more earthy and natural tones make their way into interior spaces. Sometimes, customers are quite literally bringing greenery indoors. The flower and ornamental plant industry, valued at $27.2 billion in 2021, is expected to reach $45.07 billion by 2029.
Those looking to bring green into their space—whether to complement their indoor jungle or to perhaps make up for their lack of a green thumb—can explore varying hues of green in their furnishings instead, from muted to lush tones. The color is easy on the human eye and is charming in its duality being both peaceful and vibrant simultaneously.
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Biophilic design connects consumers to nature
Modern cozy living room with plants in winter.
Biophilic design is a return to nature in a modern environment, recognizing the human innate need to connect with nature to a constructed space or structure. “I think we become more aware of our very brittle relationship with nature, we will try to acknowledge it more and more,” design agency Alexander & Co. told Harper’s Bazaar Australia.
Biophilic touches can be as simple as more natural lighting via thoughtful window placement and alfresco dining to the more ambitious outdoor shower. Common materials in biophilic furniture design often make use of rattan, wood, cork, stone, bamboo, and linen, all naturally sourced materials. Natural shapes, colors, and patterns imitate environments found in nature, such as rock erosion, and moving water could also be added to evoke nature at home.
This story originally appeared on Lazzoni Modern Furniture and was produced and
distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio. | 2023-02-07T12:26:14+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/stacker-lifestyle/2023/02/06/7-contemporary-furniture-design-trends-to-look-for-in-2023/ |
Banks have faced criticism over neglecting lower-income communities, with few branches serving those neighborhoods.
Bank on Buffalo is taking an innovative tack, spending over $500,000 to create a mobile branch that will visit certain locations on a regular schedule.
The 34-foot-long "Bank on Wheels," offers the same services as a brick-and-mortar branch, including a walk-up ATM and two exterior teller windows. The interior includes a lobby, a teller window and an office for private conversations with an employee.
"It's almost like an RV-type of a structure, but it will be a full-service bank on top of a set of wheels," said Martin Griffith, chief of community banking for Bank on Buffalo's parent, CNB Financial.
The bank hopes to put the vehicle into service just after Labor Day, once regulators give it the green light.
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Bank on Buffalo has chosen three locations where the vehicle will make weekly visits: the Renovation Church at 567 Hertel Ave. in West Hertel neighborhood; the Peter Machnica Community Center at 1799 Clinton St. in Kaisertown; and the Doris Jones Community Resource Center at 3001 Ninth Street in Niagara Falls. Bank officials say they chose locations that were underserved by other financial institutions.
Griffith said the idea for a branch on wheels grew out of conversations Bank on Buffalo officials had with community leaders a few years ago, about how the bank could make its services more widely available.
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"In a lot of cases, I kept hearing that there was concern that brick and mortar wasn't the answer, because of transportation issues and people not having necessary transportation to even get to a bank," Griffith said.
Plans for a mobile branch, capable of going to multiple locations, were put in motion. But supply chain issues delayed the process of the vehicle getting built.
The bank was finally able to acquire a Freightliner diesel chassis, which would typically be for a delivery truck. A fabrication company in Indiana custom built the bank on wheels. It's now at CNB's headquarters in Clearfield, Pa., undergoing final preparations.
In addition to its regular stops, Bank on Buffalo will be able to bring its vehicle to events to promote financial literacy, said Michael Noah, Bank on Buffalo's president.
Griffith said Bank on Buffalo has been working with a firm to ensure the mobile branch will have good security for customers and employees alike when it's parked somewhere.
The bank expects to expand the number of places the bank on wheels visits, but wants to start out with a few locations to gather input, Noah said. He and Darnell Haywood, the bank's community responsibility officer, researched potential locations before settling on the first three.
"This was just a starting point for us," Noah said.
Meanwhile, Bank on Buffalo's network of brick-and-mortar branches continues to grow. It has 12 now, and plans to open a 13th early next year in Lancaster. Bank officials are scouting sites for yet another location.
KeyBank brought its "KeyBus," a retrofitted transit bus, to the Buffalo area in June for a series of appearances. Key's bus offers some features of a branch and has on-board computers for financial literacy programs and job hunting, and is traveling to other regions the bank serves. | 2022-08-02T20:38:14+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/business/local/branch-on-wheels-gives-new-meaning-to-mobile-banking/article_b681a4bc-11d4-11ed-8809-c3e3b0e65429.html |
Biden signs $40B in Ukraine aid after bill is flown to him during Asia trip; half the money is for Ukrainian military
Published: May. 21, 2022 at 5:40 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
(AP) - Biden signs $40B in Ukraine aid after bill is flown to him during Asia trip; half the money is for Ukrainian military.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-21T11:09:14+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/05/21/biden-signs-40b-ukraine-aid-after-bill-is-flown-him-during-asia-trip-half-money-is-ukrainian-military/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)Florida State standout defensive end Jared Verse, a projected first-round NFL draft pick, announced Saturday he is staying for another season.
After two stellar seasons at Albany in the Football Championship Subdivision, Verse was the most coveted player in the NCAA transfer portal in 2022. He landed in Tallahassee and proved he could play at the Power Five level.
He earned first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors after leading Florida State with 14 1/2 tackles for loss, including 7 1/2 sacks, despite missing one game because of injury and being limited in several others.
He joins quarterback Jordan Travis, leading rusher Trey Benson and leading receiver Johnny Wilson in returning to play for coach Mike Norvell – and it could make the Seminoles (10-3) potential title contenders in 2023.
”Obviously, the money is a big factor in it. But my biggest factor was, `What can I improve on?”’ Verse told ESPN after announcing his decision. ”I just have to look at myself and say, ‘OK, every day, I’ve still got a lot to improve on, I’ve still got a lot to be better at.
”I did what was best for me, and what was best for me was coming back and competing with my team.”
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NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ rolls with new broadcast crew
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Although NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” featured new faces in the booth and production truck before the season started, the broadcasts continue to deliver at a high level. “Sunday Night Football” is on pace to be prime time’s top show for the 12th consecutive year. Cris Collinsworth, NBC’s top analyst since 2009, remained in his role while Mike Tirico took over play-by-play after Al Michaels left. Melissa Stark became sideline reporter after Michele Tafoya moved on. Through last Sunday’s overtime game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Arizona Cardinals, the broadcast is averaging 19.8 million viewers, a 2% increase over last season. The season already had four games flexed, which tied 2018 for the most before the final week. | 2022-12-31T15:44:34+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/31/nbcs-sunday-night-football-rolls-with-new-broadcast-crew/ |
(Our Auto Expert) — The Toyota Crown was the first mass-produced car in Toyota’s fleet, dating back to 1955. It was a massive hit in Japan, and after 15 generations of success, America gets the newest, boldest version.
The Crown essentially replaced the Avalon, which was a perfectly fine car. The Crown is dancing the line of luxury with the Platinum trim, as it’s priced on the high end of the automaker’s lineup, with the loaded model breaking the $50,000 price point. The Crown is available in three trim levels: XLE, Limited, and Platinum, and all versions come standard with all-wheel-drive and hybrid powertrains.
The Crown XLE, starting at $41,045, comes with a hybrid setup that uses a 2.5-liter gasoline engine and makes 236 horsepower. The limited will set you back $46,645 and adds equipment like a panoramic sunroof, leather seats, and an upgraded audio system. Wireless phone charging in the Crown has improved as well. Toyota managed to force more juice into the phone, charging it faster without overheating your phone. These two versions of the Crown are also EPA-rated at 41 mpg combined.
The Crown Platinum gets a considerable jump up from the XLE and Limited. It has an option for a two-tone colorway that gives it just enough attitude and luxury that we love to see. It gets a significantly more powerful hybrid powertrain that Toyota calls Hybrid Max. This powertrain uses a turbocharged 2.4-liter inline-four gasoline engine, produces 340 horsepower, a 0-60 time of just 5 seconds, and is EPA-rated at a significantly lower 30 MPG combined. You’re going to get six different drive modes, including sport mode. The Platinum includes adaptive dampers, 21-inch wheels, and an upgraded park-assist system.
Toyota said the Crown will start arriving at U.S. dealerships in early 2023. | 2022-10-26T17:59:50+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/the-new-toyota-crown-is-headed-to-the-u-s/ |
Who gets freed?
Regarding the view that Paul Whelan be freed from prison in Russia instead of Brittney Griner (letter, “Not deserving,” Dec. 14):
Whelan has been accused of espionage and was reported to have been found with a USB drive full of state secrets. We don’t know if those are trumped-up charges or not, but to think spying does not happen is naive.
We do know that Whelan is an ex-Marine who was court-martialed and discharged for bad conduct in 2008.
He also holds citizenship in four countries. It could be that one of the other three countries may be able to work through the complicated international relations that come with charges of espionage.
Griner holds citizenship in one country and was charged with crimes that do not carry the same gravitas as espionage.
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Prisoner swaps are not always equal but they do require complex negotiations.
Whelan was arrested in 2018 and convicted in 2020, under a previous president who wasn’t able to secure his release, either.
As for Griner’s feelings about the national anthem, they are irrelevant. She has as much right to speak as the letter writer or me. And she is as much a U.S. citizen. I suggest the letter writer read the 14th Amendment.
Thomas Hefner
McLeansville
Missing Pitts
Regarding Leonard Pitts’ retirement (“Time to say good night, everybody!” Dec. 15):
I’ll miss him and his column. Often, I would have to skip his column after the first sentence. ... Pitts’ viewpoint differed greatly from mine. Other times I would be able to read his entire column and it would give me something to think about. Sometimes I would read his column and totally agree.
Always though, his columns were well-written and his points were clear and well-made. He is what the Opinion pages should be all about.
Fran Williams
Greensboro
Bad trade
The Biden administration’s gritty, hard-nosed negotiators have struck a great deal with Putin and Russia! Brittney Griner is coming home (after only 300 days)!
This seems like an even trade: We traded one America hater, Viktor Bout, the arms-dealing “Merchant of Death,” for another America hater, Griner, the “merchant of woke.” Griner, who opposed the national anthem being played at WNBA games in 2020, admits her guilt.
This must be the same crack team that negotiated the Afghanistan withdrawal and the blockbuster trade, from Biden’s VP days, when Obama exchanged five Taliban leaders for an American Army deserter, Bo Bergdahl.
America leaves Americans behind under Democrats: Ex-Marine Paul Whelan, who claims innocence, has been left in Russia (after 1,400 days). Apparently Whelan did not check enough woke boxes. Griner plays for the WNBA (Woke National Basketball Association). Whelan is an ex-Marine. So sorry, Paul!
One person who must be happy about this trade is Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson. This deal makes his acquisition by the Broncos seem like a master stroke of genius!
Steve O’Connell
Greensboro
Animal cruelty
Please, please have your animals spayed or neutered.
Our neighborhood has had to put up with so many animals being dropped off, which is very cruel to these pitiful creatures. Most recently, kittens were abandoned near our neighborhood and we are trying to rescue them during two days of rain.
My wish is to apprehend someone dropping off kittens or puppies, take them into the woods, strip them naked and blindfold them, and then tell them to go find food and shelter. That’s what they’re doing to these animals.
It’s not only unfair to the animal, it’s unfair to those who save these animals, provide medical help for them and soothe their distrust of humans.
If you own an animal, it’s your responsibility to get it fixed. There are low-cost spay/neuter clinics in our area; you can find them on your phone or laptop. It’s your responsibility; don’t neglect it.
Don’t just leave them somewhere to starve, get soaked or freeze to death. And don’t have an animal in the first place if you don’t intend to fix it.
Trish McDermott
Browns Summit
Equal time
There are many government-funded ads on television regarding getting a COVID shot, a flu shot and a COVID booster shot but not much on Fentanyl, which can kill you by injection, by mouth or by breathing in. Let’s spend some of our money on advertising about this threat to our health, which is killing more young Americans than COVID.
Kathleen Flanigan
Greensboro | 2022-12-16T12:35:57+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/opinion/letters/fridays-letters-december-16-2022/article_75dc794a-7c8d-11ed-8281-8b36d0609a42.html |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-1-9-3
(three, one, nine, three) | 2022-07-01T00:57:29+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17278007.php |
India’s Modi to visit White House in June as Biden seeks stronger ties amid competition with China
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House next month. Biden is aiming to court an Indo-Pacific leader with whom he’s sought stronger ties at a time when the United States looks to blunt China’s growing assertiveness in the region. U.S.-India relations under Biden have been warm, but also complex. Biden is working to improve U.S. relations with the world’s largest democracy while at the same time looking to counter China’s growing economic and military assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. India, unlike nearly every other major U.S. ally, hasn’t imposed sanctions on Russia and has offered only limited criticism of its invasion of Ukraine. Russia is India’s biggest supplier of military hardware. | 2023-05-10T21:49:37+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/05/10/indias-modi-to-visit-white-house-in-june-as-biden-seeks-stronger-ties-amid-competition-with-china/ |
The world's largest information management conference delivers insights and innovations to gain the information advantage
WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX) today announced the programming highlights for the world's largest information management conference, OpenText World 2022, being offered in-person and virtually. Registration is now open for the three-day interactive event being hosted live from The Venetian Hotel Resort Las Vegas from October 4–6.
OpenText World 2022 brings together the brightest minds in information management, leading technology experts, exciting guest speakers, industry professionals, and strategic partners to showcase how information is driving change. Keynote highlights include OpenText CEO & CTO Mark J. Barrenechea, EVP and Chief Product Officer Muhi Majzoub, and Alex Honnold, the first person to free-solo climb El Capitan and founder of the Honnold Foundation, who will set the stage for three days of inspiring insights and endless learning.
"Today more than ever, companies are utilizing new digital capabilities to succeed in a world of hybrid work, modern supply chains, integrated machines, information security, and sustainability and ESG pledges," said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO & CTO. "OpenText continues to open the door and lead the conversation surrounding the information advantage and how it can be used to expand, disrupt, and transform any industry – OpenText World 2022 is the perfect place to continue that journey."
In his keynote, OpenText CEO & CTO Mark J. Barrenechea will explore the state of the industry across the globe, the future of information management, and the path to information advantage. He'll also make some exciting announcements surrounding OpenText Project Titanium, the future platform in the cloud. Alex Honnold, one of the world's most recognized rock climbers, will join Mark to discuss managing risks, problem solving, and the ability to focus in extreme situations. Lastly, Mark will be joined by two OpenText customers: Mike Savage, Vice President, Total Rewards and Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) at ULTA Beauty and Denise Hemmert, Vice President, Enterprise Enablement Services at Cardinal Health.
OpenText EVP and Chief Product Officer Muhi Majzoub will showcase the newest OpenText innovations announced in Cloud Editions 22.4 as well as share the vision and timeline for Project Titanium and how the OpenText roadmap aligns to meet the future. As part of the Technology Innovation Keynote, Muhi will be joined on stage by Shyam Pitchaimuthu, Manager ESS, Document Management & Asset Lifecycle at Chevron.
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- Enfuse at OTW 2022 where experts come together to discuss the evolution of digital blind spots and how they can be eliminated.
- The OpenText Developer Summit will explore the latest OpenText Developer Cloud Application Programming Interface (API) services and tools through interactive, hands-on sessions.
- Google Cloud will be joining OpenText Executive Leaders on stage during OpenText World to discuss industry innovations.
- Deloitte is a valued OpenText GSI Partner and Top Tier Innovator sponsor for the OpenText World conference. Deloitte will be hosting in-person and virtual breakout sessions and much more.
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- Interactive labs will provide an opportunity to experience the latest OpenText innovations, complete training courses, and contribute to product roadmaps.
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California church must pay $1.2 million for breaking COVID rules
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large, unmasked religious services must pay $1.2 million in fines, a judge has ruled.
Calvary Chapel in San Jose was fined last week for ignoring Santa Clara County’s mask-wearing rules between November 2020 and June 2021.
The church will appeal, attorney Mariah Gondeiro told the San Jose Mercury News.
Calvary was one of several large California evangelical churches that flouted state and local mask-wearing and social distancing rules designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during its deadliest period.
That has led to a tangled web of court rulings and challenges.
Calvary Chapel sued the county, arguing the health orders violated its religious freedom. Various courts have ruled either in favor the church or the county.
The church and its pastors were previously held in contempt of court and fined for violating limits on indoor public gatherings. But a state appellate court reversed those decisions last year, saying that the restrictions on indoor worship services were stricter than for secular activities such as going to grocery stores.
The county continued to seek fines for violations of mask-wearing regulations.
“It should appear clear to all — regardless of religious affiliation — that wearing a mask while worshiping one’s god and communing with other congregants is a simple, unobtrusive, giving way to protect others while still exercising your right to religious freedom,” Superior Court Judge Evette D. Pennypacker wrote in the April 7 ruling imposing the fines.
The church, she said, flouted public health orders “and urged others to do so ‘who cares what the cost,’ including death.”
County Counsel James Williams said the ruling showed the court “once again saw through Calvary’s unsupported claims and found them meritless.”
“The county’s response to the pandemic, including the health officer’s public health orders and enforcement against entities that refused to follow the law, saved thousands of lives and resulted in one of the lowest death rates of any community in the United States,” Williams said.
More than 101,000 Californians have died from COVID-19, according to state public health figures. Death and infection rates have fallen since the height of the virus’ spread, and Gov. Gavin Newsom officially ended the state’s coronavirus emergency several months ago.
Last week, the California Department of Public Health ended masking and coronavirus vaccination requirements in high-risk settings, including health care facilities and prisons.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-14T07:42:51+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2023/04/14/california-church-must-pay-12-million-breaking-covid-rules/ |
McCleary, Joan Marie, 87. Tulsa, Retired RN Certified Diabetes Educator. Died Thursday, September 15. Rosary will be 7:00 p.m., Friday, October 21, and Mass of Christian burial will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 22, both at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church. Cremation Society of Oklahoma
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CEUTA, Spain (AP)The World Cup knockout game between Spain and Morocco will bring millions of fans on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar together around screens in bars and living rooms to see which country will keep alive its dream of soccer glory.
Nowhere will loyalties likely be more blurred than in Spain’s tiny North African territory of Ceuta where identities, both national and religious, often mix in unpredictable ways that confound the easy categories of sports fandom.
Sulaika Hosain, a 26-year-old Ceuta native, feels ”100% Spanish,” yet when the game kicks off on Tuesday in Qatar, her sympathies will tilt toward Morocco, the land of her grandfather.
”I am a Spaniard and want Spain to win, but I am rooting for Morocco. … When Morocco plays, something moves inside me,” she said at the indoor playground where she works. ”Let them win something, so people can say, `look, Morocco is not just a poor place.”’
Some World Cup games become supercharged with layers of political symbolism, such as the match between United States and Iran last week. Spain and Morocco are far from geopolitical rivals, but their long and complex relationship will no doubt be part of the backdrop to the game in Al Rayyan.
Ceuta, perched on an isthmus with a promontory historically considered the lesser of the Pillars of Hercules of antiquity, has been a Spanish possession since 1580. Its mixed population of Christians and Muslims, Spanish and Moroccan residents and day workers, live in relative harmony behind a border fence that many desperate migrants from across Africa see as their last barrier to a better life.
However, the city of 85,000 recently became the flashpoint of the biggest diplomatic crisis in recent memory between Madrid and Rabat.
In May 2021, the Moroccan government dropped its border controls and let thousands of young migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan countries pour into Ceuta, which Morocco does not officially recognize as Spanish territory.
The move was interpreted as Morocco’s retaliation for Spain’s decision to allow a pro-independence leader from the disputed Western Sahara region to be treated for COVID-19 at a Spanish hospital. That, combined with a border closed by Morocco for two years to control the pandemic, damaged the economy on both side of the frontier. Tensions were only calmed and the border reopened after Spain’s prime minister met with Moroccan King Mohammed VI in April.
But for many people like Hosain, who live or work in Ceuta, the game won’t tear them in two.
It is more like a win-win scenario: They will be happy for either Spain or Morocco to reach the quarterfinals and will pull for the winner to go all the way and lift the World Cup trophy in Qatar.
Mohamed Laarbi, 28, manages a bar in Ceuta that is showing all the World Cup matches. He is a third-generation Spaniard and is fully backing Spain. Regardless of the result, he does not expect the game to lead to any serious problems like the riots in Belgium and the Netherlands after Morocco beat Belgium in the group phase.
”Morocco is playing well, but when they meet Spain they will hit a wall,” he joked. ”And then the game is over. That is it.”
Even so, Laarbi acknowledged that he and other Muslims from Ceuta or the other Spanish territory of Melilla further east on the coast are caught in an no-man’s land.
”Moroccans say that we are not Moroccan, that we are sons of Spaniards, while Spaniards from the (Iberian) Peninsula say that we are not Spaniards,” he said. ”There are people from the peninsula who when you say you are from Ceuta, you have to show them where it is, and they say `that is Africa.”’
Morocco’s team is a reflection of the links with Spain, where Moroccans make up the single largest foreign community with 800,000 residents in a country of 47 million. Several Moroccan players play for Spanish clubs, including Sevilla striker Youssef En-Nesyri and goalkeeper Yassine Bounou. Talented right back Achraf Hakimi, a Paris Saint-Germain player, was born in Madrid.
For Mohamed Et Touzani, a 35-year-old hairdresser in Ceuta, the message is clear: just enjoy the game.
Originally from central Morocco, Et Touzani has lived in different parts of Spain for 15 years and said it is ”like my home.” He has a house, like many people with Moroccan roots, across the border. He plans to watch the game with Spanish friends at what he called a ”Christian” bar in Ceuta. He will cheer for Morocco.
”Soccer is soccer, and politics are politics. So we are going to play a soccer game and have a good time, but with respect. That is the most important thing,” he said. ”Morocco has red and green (in its flag), Spain has red and yellow. We have this in common. We are neighbors, and we must live like we were brothers.”
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Joseph Wilson reported from Barcelona, Spain.
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2022-12-05T19:59:04+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/spain-or-morocco-world-cup-passions-blur-in-spanish-exclave/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In the final hours of the 113th General Assembly, Tennessee Republicans passed two bills that target the transgender community and put the state at risk of losing billions in federal funding.
One of the bills would allow teachers and public school employees to not use a student’s preferred pronouns, which could violate the U.S. Department of Education’s 2022 rules on gender identity, sexuality and sex-based discrimination.
The other bill would define the word “sex” in Tennessee Code as, “a person’s immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.”
According to the fiscal notes provided by the Tennessee General Assembly Fiscal Review Committee, the state could lose more than $2 billion in federal funding this upcoming fiscal year as a result of the bills being in violation of federal requirements.
“Tennessee’s federal awards for education total $1,293,583,239,” according to Fiscal Review Committee Executive Director Krista Lee Carsner. In addition to risking Dept. of Education funding, the bill could jeopardize $750,000,000 in federal grant funding from the Dept. of Health, according to the fiscal note.
Rep. Mark Cochran (R-Englewood), however, claimed a recent court decision makes Tennessee exempt from the Biden Administration’s 2022 rules on gender identity and sexuality.
“I refer you to Tennessee v The Department of Education,” said Cochran, who co-sponsored both bills, when asked about the funding risk.
Responding to Cochran’s claims, Rep. GA Hardaway (D-Memphis) said Cochran is mistaken.
“It seems the Fiscal Committee didn’t get that memo because federal dollars would be at risk, so they evidently disagree with you,” Hardaway said.
While Democrats say the first bill would allow teachers to bully transgender students, Cochran said that is not the intention of the legislation.
“It does protect our teachers from bullying from some of the greatest perpetrators of the act in human history: the ‘woke left,'” Cochran said.
Cochran’s Republican colleagues not only voted for the bill but also applauded him for fighting for the legislation.
“Legislation like this to protects individual rights, honors God, promotes a Christian world view. It’s why Tennessee is growing economically and by population,” said Rep. Rusty Grills (R-Newbern).
Regarding the legislation defining the word “sex” in the Tennessee code, sponsor Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) said it is “good policy.”
“What this bill does is it recognizes the importance of the family, which is the bedrock of our society and civilization and attempts to undermine the family through legislation is frankly at the root of this plague of violence that is throughout our entire nation right now,” Bulso said.
However, Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville) said that Bulso’s views on “family” aren’t relevant to his legislation.
“His theological views are not pertinent to the definition of ‘sex’ in this context,” Rep. Clemmons said.
Both pieces of legislation passed with more than 70 votes in the House out of a total of 99 members. They now head to the governor’s desk. | 2023-04-22T18:42:37+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/tennessee-gop-passes-bills-targeting-trans-community-risks-more-than-2b-in-federal-funds/ |
CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia’s main island on Monday. Terrified residents fled into the street, some covered in blood and debris.
Many of the dead were public-school students who had finished their classes for the day and were taking extra lessons at Islamic schools when they collapsed, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said as he announced the latest death toll in the remote, rural area.
Hospitals were overwhelmed by injured people, and the toll was expected to rise further. No estimates were immediately available because of the area’s far-flung, rural population, but many structures collapsed, and residents and emergency workers braced for grim news.
“Buildings were completely flattened,” said Dwi Sarmadi, who works for an Islamic educational foundation in a neighboring district.
Roughly 175,000 people live in the town of Cianjur, part of a mountainous district of the same name with more than 2.5 million people. Known for their piety, the people of Cianjur live mostly in towns of one- and two-story buildings and in smaller homes in the surrounding countryside.
Kamil said that more than 13,000 people whose homes were heavily damaged were taken to evacuation centers.
Emergency workers treated the injured on stretchers and blankets outside hospitals, on terraces and in parking lots in the Cianjur region, about three hours drive from the capital, Java. The injured, including children, were given oxygen masks and IV lines. Some were resuscitated.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Cianjur regional hospital building, waiting for treatment
“I was working inside my office building. The building was not damaged, but as the quake shook very strongly, many things fell. My leg was hit by heavy stuff,” Sarmadi said.
Sarmadi was waiting near a tent outside the hospital after some overwhelmed clinics were unable to see him. Many people were coming in worse shape.
“I really hope they can handle me soon,” he said.
Hasan, a construction worker who, like many Indonesians, uses one name, is also one of the survivors that is being taken to the hospital.
“I fainted. It was very strong,” said Hasan.
“I saw my friends running to escape from the building. But it was too late to get out and I was hit by the wall.”
Residents, some crying and holding their children, fled damaged homes after the magnitude 5.6 quake shook the region in West Java province in the late afternoon, at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). It also caused panic in the greater Jakarta area, where high-rises swayed and some people evacuated.
In many homes in Cianjur, chunks of concrete and roof tiles fell inside bedrooms.
Shopkeeper Dewi Risma was working with customers when the quake hit, and she ran for the exit.
“The vehicles on the road stopped because the quake was very strong,” she said. “I felt it shook three times, but the first one was the strongest one for around 10 seconds. The roof of the shop next to the store I work in had collapsed, and people said two had been hit.”
Twenty-five people were still stuck buried in the debris in Cijedil village, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Abdul Muhari said earlier in the day.
Several landslides closed roads around the Cianjur district. Among the dozens of buildings that were damaged was a hospital, the agency said. Power outages were reported.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency recorded at least 25 aftershocks.
“The quake felt so strong. My colleagues and I decided to get out of our office on the ninth floor using the emergency stairs,” said Vidi Primadhania, a worked in the capital, where many residents ran into the streets and others hid under desks.
The country of more than 270 million people is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
In February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed at least 25 people and injured more than 460 in West Sumatra province. In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people and injured nearly 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.
A powerful Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed nearly 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia. | 2022-11-22T04:54:16+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-earthquake-shakes-indonesias-java-island-damages-buildings/ |
European Union makes Ukraine, Moldova candidates for EU membership
The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU membership, acting with uncharacteristic speed and unity to pull the embattled country further away from Russia’s influence and bind it more closely to the West.
Meeting at a summit in Brussels, leaders of the EU's 27 nations mustered the required unanimous approval to grant Ukraine candidate status. That sets in motion a process that could take years or even decades.
The EU also granted candidate status to the tiny country of Moldova, another former Soviet state that borders Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pronounced it a "good day for Europe."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted his gratitude and declared: "Ukraine's future is within the EU."
Ukraine applied for membership less than a week after Moscow invaded on Feb. 24. Thursday’s decision was unusually rapid for the EU. But the war and Ukraine’s request for fast-track consideration lent urgency to its cause.
To gain EU membership, countries must meet a detailed host of economic and political conditions, including a commitment to the rule of law and other democratic principles. Ukraine, among other things, will also have to curb entrenched government corruption and adopt other reforms.
The European Parliament endorsed Ukraine's bid hours before the summit started, passing a resolution that called on EU governments to "move without delay" and "live up to their historical responsibility."
"It will strengthen Ukraine, it will strengthen Europe. It is a decision for freedom and democracy and puts us on the right side of history," European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said ahead of the final announcement.
The EU's nations have been united in backing Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion with money and weapons, adopting unprecedented economic sanctions against the Kremlin.
EU candidate status doesn't give an automatic right to join the bloc and doesn't provide any immediate security guarantees.
Once a country gains membership, however, it is covered under an EU treaty clause that says if a member falls victim to armed aggression, the other EU countries are obligated to assist it by all the means in their power.
The main benefits of EU membership, though, are economic, since it gives access to a market of 450 million consumers with free movement of labor, goods, services and capital.
Ukraine has long aspired to join NATO, too, but the military alliance is not about to offer an invitation, in part because of governmental corruption, shortcomings in the country's defense establishment, and its contested borders.
Before the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine never be allowed to join NATO, which he has condemned for its eastward spread toward Russia's flank. But earlier this month, he did not seem bothered by Ukraine's determination to get closer to the EU, saying it is not a military pact and thus "we have no objections."
The membership process can be long and tortuous.
Turkey, for example, applied for membership in 1987, received candidate status in 1999, and had to wait until 2005 to start talks for actual entry. Only one of more than 30 negotiating "chapters" has been completed in the years since, and the whole process is at a standstill as a result of various disputes between the EU and Turkey.
Similarly, several Balkan countries have been seeking without success for many years to join the EU.
European officials have said that Ukraine has already adopted about 70% of the EU rules and standards, but they also have pointed to corruption and the need for deep political and economic reforms in the country.
"Considerable efforts will be needed, especially in the fight against corruption and the establishment of an effective rule of law," Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said. "But I am convinced that it is precisely the (postwar) reconstruction of Ukraine that will provide opportunities to take important steps forward." | 2022-06-23T19:43:15+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/ukraine-moldova-candidates-for-eu-membership/40395881 |
For the second week in a row Ohio reported fewer than 14,000 COVID-19 cases.
The state added 13,895 weekly cases on Thursday and 13,047 on Dec. 29, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Prior to Dec. 29, Ohio recorded more than 16,000 coronavirus cases for four consecutive weeks.
Ohio reported 709 coronavirus hospitalizations in the past week. It’s the sixth straight week the state had more 600 hospitalizations, but the first time since July 28 it surpassed 700 weekly hospitalizations.
There were 1,384 people hospitalized with COVID in Ohio Thursday and 197 with the virus in the state’s ICUs, according to the Ohio Hospital Association.
Of those hospitalized, 136 were in west central Ohio and 213 were in southwest Ohio.
Southwest Ohio — which includes Butler, Warren, Hamilton, Adams, Brown, Clermont and Clinton counties — reported a 7% increase in patients hospitalized with the virus compared to last week and a 73% increase compared to 60 days ago.
It was a 6% increase in COVID inpatients compared to the previous week in west central Ohio and a 56% increase from 60 days ago, according to OHA. West central Ohio consists of Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties.
There were 16 ICU patients with coronavirus in west central Ohio and 23 in southwest Ohio as of Thursday.
West central Ohio saw a 33% increase in ICU patients with virus over the last week and a 60% increase in the past 60 days.
For southwest Ohio, it was an 8% decrease compared to the previous week but a 35% increase compared to 60 days ago, according to OHA.
The state health department reported 45 weekly ICU admissions.
Ohio added 105 coronavirus deaths Thursday, bringing its total to 41,033, according to ODH.
About the Author | 2023-01-05T20:16:46+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-records-fewer-than-14000-covid-cases-for-2nd-straight-week/KMVLVIWRRJC7HH6D5MG6Y2ZQIM/ |
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's leader launched the country’s first home-grown COVID-19 shot Thursday to help reduce the world’s fourth most populous nation’s dependency on imported vaccines.
President Joko Widodo announced the vaccine brand, IndoVac, as a new milestone of Indonesia’s pharmaceutical industry that will manufacture primary series vaccines, booster vaccines and vaccines for children, which have been in development since November 2021.
“From now on, we can produce our own COVID-19 vaccine,” Widodo said in an unveiling ceremony in West Java’s Bandung city. “And so we have independence in vaccine matters.”
During the ceremony, 15 residents who had not received any COVID-19 vaccine got their first IndoVac jabs.
Indonesia’s Food and Drug Authority greenlighted emergency use authorization of IndoVac in September, with an efficacy above 80% after two shots. The vaccine passed an audit by the country’s highest Islamic body that the shot is fit for consumption by Muslims — a particularly important factor in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
IndoVac, made by inserting the genetic code for the antigen into yeast cells, is developed by state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma in collaboration with U.S.-based Baylor College of Medicine, a private, independent health sciences center in Houston, Texas.
Widodo said Bio Farma plans to produce 20 million doses of primary series vaccine this year and 40 million doses next year as the company expands its facilities. In 2024, production may further increase to 120 million doses per year, depending on demand and the market.
As of Thursday, 73% of Indonesia’s 234.6 million people eligible for shots were fully two-dose vaccinated, and about 27% had a first booster dose while just 0.3% had a second booster.
Indonesia had largely recovered from its delta surge, which was among the worst in Southeast Asia. Last July, a then-record of about 56,700 daily new cases saw the delta variant overwhelming hospitals on the main island of Java. In February, omicron set a new high of over 63,900 new infections.
Though cases dropped steeply at the end of March and into April, they have recently been rising again with around 1,800 cases a day in the past week.
Overall, Indonesia has reported more than 6.4 million infections and 158,263 deaths from COVID-19. The actual numbers are widely believed to be higher. | 2022-10-13T16:08:31+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Indonesia-launches-its-first-home-grown-COVID-19-17506621.php |
Company provides anticipated impact to second quarter 2022 financial results due to recently completed business development transactions
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sanofi's stake in Libtayo® (cemiplimab), providing Regeneron with exclusive worldwide development, commercialization, and manufacturing rights to the medicine originally discovered in Regeneron's laboratories. The intent to purchase Libtayo was announced on June 2, 2022.
In 2015, Regeneron and Sanofi entered into the Immuno-oncology License and Collaboration Agreement whereby the companies split Libtayo's worldwide operating profits equally and co-commercialized Libtayo in the U.S., with Sanofi solely responsible for commercialization outside the U.S. With today's closing, Regeneron will now record 100% of global net sales and expenses for Libtayo.
Regeneron intends to update its full year 2022 financial guidance to reflect the Libtayo purchase during its second quarter 2022 earnings announcement in early August.
There is no financial or accounting impact to second quarter 2022 financial results as a result of the Libtayo transaction.
On May 31, 2022, Regeneron announced that it had successfully acquired Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a total equity value of approximately $250 million. As a result of the Checkmate acquisition, Regeneron expects to record in the second quarter of 2022 an acquired in-process research and development (IPR&D) charge of approximately $195 million, which would negatively impact GAAP and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share by approximately $1.70. This acquired IPR&D charge and its resultant impact on diluted earnings per share represent unaudited estimates that have not been subject to Regeneron's quarterly financial statement closing procedures, and therefore actual amounts could differ from what the Company currently anticipates.
Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that invents life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for nearly 35 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to nine FDA-approved treatments and numerous product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune®, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.
For additional information about the company, please visit www.regeneron.com or follow @Regeneron on Twitter.
This press release includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties relating to future events and the future performance of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Regeneron" or the "Company"), and actual events or results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Words such as "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "estimate," variations of such words, and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include, among others: risks related to the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the restructuring (the "Restructuring") of the Company's Immuno-oncology Collaboration with Sanofi related to Libtayo® (cemiplimab-rwlc) and/or the acquisition (the "Acquisition") of Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Checkmate") discussed in this press release, including the possibility that the expected benefits from the Restructuring and/or the Acquisition will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period and that Checkmate will not be integrated successfully; the impact of the Restructuring on Regeneron's business, operating results, and financial condition, as well as effects of the consummation of the Restructuring on the market price of the Company's common stock; future costs associated with the Restructuring and/or integration of Checkmate; the impact of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic) on Regeneron's business and its employees, collaborators, and suppliers and other third parties on which Regeneron relies, Regeneron's and its collaborators' ability to continue to conduct research and clinical programs, Regeneron's ability to manage its supply chain, net product sales of products marketed or otherwise commercialized by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Products"), and the global economy; the nature, timing, and possible success and therapeutic applications of Regeneron's Products, product candidates being developed by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Product Candidates") and research and clinical programs now underway or planned, including without limitation Libtayo; uncertainty of the utilization, market acceptance, and commercial success of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates and the impact of studies (whether conducted by Regeneron or others and whether mandated or voluntary) on any of the foregoing or any potential regulatory approval of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the likelihood, timing, and scope of possible regulatory approval and commercial launch of Regeneron's Product Candidates and new indications for Regeneron's Products (such as Libtayo); the extent to which the results from the research and development programs conducted by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees may be replicated in other studies and/or lead to advancement of product candidates to clinical trials, therapeutic applications, or regulatory approval; the ability of Regeneron's collaborators, licensees, suppliers, or other third parties (as applicable) to perform manufacturing, filling, finishing, packaging, labeling, distribution, and other steps related to Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the ability of Regeneron and/or its collaborators to manufacture and manage supply chains for multiple products and product candidates; safety issues resulting from the administration of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates in patients, including serious complications or side effects in connection with the use of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates in clinical trials; determinations by regulatory and administrative governmental authorities which may delay or restrict Regeneron's ability to continue to develop or commercialize Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; ongoing regulatory obligations and oversight impacting Regeneron's Products, research and clinical programs, and business, including those relating to patient privacy; the availability and extent of reimbursement of Regeneron's Products from third-party payers, including private payer healthcare and insurance programs, health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit management companies, and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; coverage and reimbursement determinations by such payers and new policies and procedures adopted by such payers; competing drugs and product candidates that may be superior to, or more cost effective than, Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; unanticipated expenses; the costs of developing, producing, and selling products; the ability of Regeneron to meet any of its financial projections or guidance and changes to the assumptions underlying those projections or guidance; the potential for any license, collaboration, or supply agreement, including Regeneron's agreements with Sanofi, Bayer, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (or their respective affiliated companies, as applicable), to be cancelled or terminated; and risks associated with intellectual property of other parties and pending or future litigation relating thereto (including without limitation the patent litigation and other related proceedings relating to EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection, Dupixent® (dupilumab), Praluent® (alirocumab), and REGEN-COV® (casirivimab and imdevimab)), other litigation and other proceedings and government investigations relating to the Company and/or its operations, the ultimate outcome of any such proceedings and investigations, and the impact any of the foregoing may have on Regeneron's business, prospects, operating results, and financial condition. A more complete description of these and other material risks can be found in Regeneron's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and its Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022. Any forward-looking statements are made based on management's current beliefs and judgment, and the reader is cautioned not to rely on any forward-looking statements made by Regeneron. Regeneron does not undertake any obligation to update (publicly or otherwise) any forward-looking statement, including without limitation any financial projection or guidance, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Regeneron uses its media and investor relations website and social media outlets to publish important information about the Company, including information that may be deemed material to investors. Financial and other information about Regeneron is routinely posted and is accessible on Regeneron's media and investor relations website (http://newsroom.regeneron.com) and its Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/regeneron).
This press release includes non-GAAP net income per share, which is a financial measure that is not calculated in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). This non-GAAP financial measure is computed by excluding certain non-cash and/or other items from the related GAAP financial measure. The Company also includes a non-GAAP adjustment for the estimated income tax effect of reconciling items. The Company makes such adjustments for items the Company does not view as useful in evaluating its operating performance. Management uses this and other non-GAAP measures for planning, budgeting, forecasting, assessing historical performance, and making financial and operational decisions, and also provides forecasts to investors on this basis. Additionally, such non-GAAP measures provide investors with an enhanced understanding of the financial performance of the Company's core business operations. However, there are limitations in the use of such non-GAAP financial measures as they exclude certain expenses that are recurring in nature. Furthermore, the Company's non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable with non-GAAP information provided by other companies. Any non-GAAP financial measure presented by Regeneron should be considered supplemental to, and not a substitute for, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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SOURCE Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2022-07-01T12:31:15+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/01/regeneron-completes-purchase-sanofis-stake-libtayo-cemiplimab/ |
Police looking for man who tried to record girl in Hawaii high school bathroom
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – Police in Hawaii are looking for a man who they say tried to record video of a high school girl using the restroom.
According to Honolulu police, the man followed the student into the restroom at Punahou School last week.
Surveillance footage from the school shows the man loitering at the bottom of a staircase before walking up the stairs.
Upon being noticed, the man ran away, the school said.
Punahou School security said it filed a police report and warned students to be alert. Surveillance footage was also sent to families on Tuesday.
An investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police or make an anonymous tip to Punahou Security’s Helpline by calling (844) 513-8110.
Copyright 2022 HawaiiNewsNow via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-13T22:41:20+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/07/13/police-looking-man-who-tried-record-girl-hawaii-high-school-bathroom/ |
EU chief celebrates ‘immense achievements’ of member Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The chief of the European Union has visited Croatia to celebrate the “immense achievements” of the newest EU member nation. Croatia switched to using the euro and joined the world’s largest passport-free travel area on New Year’s Day. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met Sunday with leaders of Croatia and Slovenia at the Bregana border crossing between the two Balkan countries, which became obsolete in the first minutes of 2023 as the Schengen Area was expanded to include Croatia. Croatia also relegated its national currency, the kuna, to history and changed to the euro, the common currency used by 347 million Europeans, | 2023-01-01T17:36:36+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/01/01/eu-chief-celebrates-immense-achievements-of-member-croatia/ |
Carlson’s 26 points allows Utah to hold off Idaho St. 70-58
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Branden Carlson scored 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds and Utah held off a late surge to post a 70-58 win over Idaho State on Monday night.
The Utes’ 7-foot center converted 9 of 18 shots from the field, hit 1 of 4 from distance, was a perfect 7-for-7 from the free throw line and blocked four shots.
Utah took a 38-31 lead at intermission and quickly pushed the lead into double digits to open the second half. But the Bengals rallied. Austin Smellie drilled a 3 with 9:39 left to pull Idaho State within one, 53-52, but the Bengals did not score again until Kolby Lee scored at the basket to make it 59-54 with 5:39 left. Brandon Carlson turned a three-point play and scored at the basket down the stretch to help the Utes seal the victory.
Utah (3-0) held a decided advantage on the boards, out-rebounding the Bengals 44-29 while dishing out 13 assists on 24 made baskets.
Lee finished with 15 points to lead Idaho State (1-2). Brock Mackenzie and Miguel Tomley added 13 and 11 points, respectively.
Utah continues its homestand by hosting Sam Houston on Thursday.
Idaho State returns home to play host to Denver on Friday.
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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 | 2022-11-15T07:46:00+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-utah/2022/11/14/carlsons-26-points-allows-utah-to-hold-off-idaho-st-70-58/ |
NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports the latest updates on Hollywood's labor negotiations led by writers and the strike authorization vote by SAG-AFTRA, the union representing screen actors.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports the latest updates on Hollywood's labor negotiations led by writers and the strike authorization vote by SAG-AFTRA, the union representing screen actors.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-07T09:16:40+00:00 | wboi.org | https://www.wboi.org/2023-06-07/contract-negotiations-for-tv-and-movies-are-stealing-the-spotlight-in-hollywood |
- Dedicated plant for electric purpose-built vehicles (PBV) with yearly capacity of 150,000 units
- The plant to mass produce battery-electric PBVs in second half of 2025
- Plant to showcase flexible production by adopting smart innovations, such as efficient 'cell method' of manufacturing
- An innovative factory that pursues low carbon footprint, intelligence, and human-centered principles
- Hyundai Motor Group announces aim to become one of the world's top 3 EV manufacturers by 2030
- The Group also outlines plans to invest KRW 24 trillion in the domestic EV industry by 2030
SEOUL, South Korea, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia held a groundbreaking ceremony today for its dedicated plant for the production of battery-electric purpose-built vehicles (PBV). The ceremony was held at Kia's Hwaseong plant, located in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, and was attended by over 200 people, including government officials, Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung, Kia's Global President and CEO Ho Sung Song, and other employees from Hyundai Motor Group and the automotive parts industry.
Kia President and CEO Ho Sung Song, on behalf of Hyundai Motor Group, highlighted in a greeting, "Hyundai Motor, Kia, and Hyundai MOBIS together plan to invest KRW 24 trillion in the domestic electric vehicle industry by 2030, with the goal of making South Korea one of the top three players in the global EV market. Our focus is to enhance the competitiveness of the entire electric vehicle ecosystem, including research and development, production, and infrastructure, and to lead the way in driving change and innovation in the new global automotive industry."
Cutting-edge smart factory with annual production capacity of 150,000 units
Kia will invest around one trillion won (approximately USD 758 million) to secure 99,000 acres of land, with the company planning to start mass-production in the second half of 2025. It plans to produce 150,000 units in the first full year, with the potential to expand in line with future market conditions.
The new PBV plant will be built as an eco-friendly plant that applies future innovative manufacturing technologies while minimizing carbon emissions. It will also seek efficiency and intelligence with Hyundai Motor and Kia's smart factory brand 'E-FOREST technologies'[1] such as digital manufacturing systems.
One of the innovative manufacturing processes to be implemented at the new PBV plant is known as the 'cellular (or cell) method,' which allows vehicle production based on diverse customer demands.
The cell method is a process layout strategy that groups together machines or workstations that are used to produce similar products or parts. The goal of the cell method is to create a more efficient and flexible manufacturing process by reducing the distance that materials and products need to travel during production. Under the cell method, machines are arranged in a way that optimizes the flow of materials and products between workstations, with the aim of minimizing downtime, reducing costs and increasing productivity.
The PBV plant's cutting-edge manufacturing system unifies the new cell method with the original mass-production conveyor system to allow flexible production with more customization of various product types.
In addition, the PBV plant will be built as a low-carbon factory by operating a dry booth, a nature-friendly construction method, during the painting process of vehicle manufacturing, and reducing carbon emissions by about 20 percent compared to existing factories by utilizing natural light and streamlining the manufacturing process.
Kia will also apply innovative technologies such as automation of facilities using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), automation of painting quality inspection under the vehicle, automation of installation of parts such as glass, vehicle name, and company logo, and real-time automatic measurement quality data analysis to autonomously correct and install the vehicle body in real time.
The new facility will be a 'human-friendly' plant by pushing automation in heavy-duty work and tasks that require looking up at the ceiling, while enhancing the feeling of 'openness' and also reducing noise levels.
First battery electric PBV production set for 2025
Kia plans to show SW (project name), the first model in the company's dedicated PBV lineup, in 2025. The model will be a mid-sized PBV and will be based on the "eS" platform, a dedicated skateboard platform for battery electric PBVs, enabling various types of vehicle bodies to be flexibly combined.
SW has been developed to respond to various business demands such as delivery, ride hailing, and business-to-business (B2B) transactions thanks to its excellent load structure and spacious indoor space that reaches the height of an adult.
After launching the mid-sized SW PBV, Kia plans to expand its product lineup to large-sized PBVs that can be used for logistics, fresh food delivery, multi-seat shuttles, and mobile offices and stores as well as small-sized PBVs and mid-sized robotaxis applied with autonomous driving technology.
For more information, visit the Kia Global Media Center at www.kianewscenter.com
[1] * E-FOREST is a smart factory ecosystem that pursues innovation in manufacturing systems by organically connecting everything to realize customer value. For more information, visit: https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/story/CONT0000000000003696
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(The Hill) – Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Sunday that the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is “fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena” for Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, if she won’t testify before the committee voluntarily.
“The committee is engaged with her counsel. We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not,” Cheney told CNN “State of the Union” co-host Jake Tapper. “I hope it doesn’t get to that. I hope she will come in voluntarily.”
Thomas has been under scrutiny for her political affiliations and communications with the Trump administration about overturning election results.
She attended the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally just before rioters stormed the capitol, and she communicated with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and and Trump attorney John Eastman to talk overturning the 2020 presidential election results.
Cheney said Sunday that the committee has heard from “numbers of people who are similarly situated in terms of the discussions that she was having,” and stressed the importance of hearing Thomas’ testimony.
Thomas reportedly said in early June that she was eager to appear before the panel, but her lawyer later said he didn’t see a need for her testimony. | 2022-07-24T21:45:05+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/cheney-says-jan-6-committee-prepared-to-consider-subpoena-of-ginni-thomas/ |
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas before he was shot and wounded by sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.
Just before 11 p.m. Monday, a man opened fire on Potter County deputies working off-duty at the fair in Amarillo, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said.
Thomas said the “male suspect opened fire on the deputies, striking a deputy and an off-duty firefighter, also working at the fair, and a bystander.” Deputies returned fire, wounding the suspect.
The deputy, firefighter and bystander were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said. The gunman was taken to the hospital with injuries that were described as life-threatening.
Thomas did not identify any of the victims or the suspect. He did not offer a motive for the shooting, which is being investigated by the Texas Rangers.
Amarillo is about 365 miles (587 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. | 2022-09-21T01:08:19+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-gunman-shoots-3-at-texas-fair-before-being-shot-by-deputies/ |
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