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Christmas vacations: 15 of the best places to go for holiday spirit
Video above: Christmas light displays in New Mexico
Anyplace can put up a few lights and call it a holiday celebration, but travelers who really love Christmas want more.
Many places have plans to return to a livelier season after two years of subdued or canceled festivities because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Finland to Mexico, these 15 destinations around the world traditionally offer up some of the best holiday atmosphere for a Christmas-themed vacation:
Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
While popular lore would have us believe the North Pole as the official home of Santa Claus and his jolly missus, the Finns would have us believe otherwise.
For them, Rovaniemi is Christmas HQ, located just north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland. Children here make gingerbread cookies with Mrs. Claus, enroll in Elf School or take a calligraphy class and compose their Christmas wish lists with a traditional quill.
You may also want to visit the Ranua Wildlife Park, home to baby polar bears, wolverines and moose.
The Arktikum is a science center where the mystery of the northern lights is revealed.
Those in search of a truly frosty experience can stay in the Arctic Snow Hotel, made entirely of snow and ice, but equipped with saunas and hot tubs in which to thaw.
Video above: Nearly 140 Christmas trees line Milwaukee's Cathedral Square Park
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Close to Philadelphia and New York City, Bethlehem offers a smaller-city Christmas escape.
Settled in the 1700s by Moravian colonists, Bethlehem is justifiably proud of its Live Advent Calendar, which can be enjoyed starting at 5:30 p.m. from Dec. 1 to 23.
It is a free, family-friendly event in which a town crier rings a bell up and down Main Street to call visitors to the Goundie House (the oldest house on Main Street). A child from the crowd is invited to come knock three times, and then a local business comes out with a surprise for everyone.
"The Christmas City" also has added new decorations, including a giant LED star, life-sized toy soldiers and thousands of lights strung up all over the place.
Bath, England
This historic city in southwest England celebrates both the birth of Jesus and the birth of Jane Austen with plenty of fanfare.
The Jane Austen Centre -- and on-site Regency Tearoom -- is the best place to learn about the city's most famous resident.
The Theatre Royal, which Austen mentions in "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion," has a varied program of holiday drama, musicals, opera and concerts.
The Bath Christmas Market has a multitude of wooden chalets selling distinctively British handmade crafts in a quaint Georgian setting. Straddled between the imposing Bath Abbey and the venerable Roman Baths, the market offers a festive way to discover the character of this historic city.
Bath on Ice is a great excuse to bundle up and lace up skates.
San Fernando, Philippines
If Asia were to have a Christmas capital, San Fernando in the heavily Roman Catholic Philippines would be a top nomination.
The city, northwest of Manila, is renowned for its Giant Lantern Festival, which starts on Dec. 17 and ends Jan. 1. San Fernando's lantern-making tradition dates back to the late 18th century.
The highlight of a visit here is the parol, a colorful, electric Christmas lantern that symbolizes the Star of Bethlehem. The parols recall psychedelic kaleidoscopes, brilliant stained glass windows, prismatic pinwheels or oversized snowflakes.
Video above: Cheviot, Ohio, Christmas display may be brightest on west side
Barcelona, Spain
Anyone who can manage to extend their holiday until the 12th day of Christmas -- aka Three Kings Day or Epiphany -- can catch up with Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar in Barcelona.
On the evening of Jan. 5, the kings (also known as the "three wise men") arrive in bearded and velvet-robed splendor at the city's port on the Santa Eulalia, their very own ship.
Cannons are fired, fireworks are set off, and as the mayor hands them the keys to the city, the magic of the Magi officially commences.
They parade through the streets in a magnificent cavalcade of floats that includes camels, elephants, giraffes and dazzling costumes.
New York City
Rockefeller Center lies at the core of the New York Christmas. Its famed ice rink has been around since 1936; the decorated tree has been a holiday tradition since 1931.
Nearby Radio City hosts the annual Christmas Spectacular, starring the Rockettes.
On the southwest corner of Central Park, Columbus Circle hosts more than 100 vendors selling clothes, gifts, snacks and drinks at the Holiday Market.
Fashion's biggest labels join in the festivities, making appearances in elaborate Christmas displays at Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's Herald Square flagship store and other department stores.
Nairobi, Kenya
The magic of Christmas is in the holiday chaos of the Kenyan capital.
Visitors will find boisterous carol music blaring in different languages at various stores, on public transportation and in the long lines at restaurants and supermarkets.
A visit to a friend's house or popular eatery might mean a plate heaped with chapati (flat bread), a spicy rice known as pilau and grilled meat -- or nyama choma in Swahili -- just to name a few.
Revelers can burn off the calories with a hike at the scenic Karura Forest Reserve, a haven for outdoor enthusiasts made popular by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai.
Iconic Nairobi National Park offers safari options for visitors to see rhinos, lions, giraffes, and other animals within a backdrop of the sprawling city.
For Christmas gifts, the bustling open-air markets such as Maasai offer authentic African paintings, jewelry, clothes and fabrics unique to Kenya.
Video above: Hundreds pack downtown Plattsburgh for tree lighting
Nuremberg, Germany
The Nuremberg Christmas market (Nurnberger Christkindlesmarkt) is a German institution, traditionally pulling in more than 2 million visitors each year. It has a lot of history behind it -- its first known written mention dates to 1628.
In "the little city of wood and cloth," visitors to market booths can find traditional, often handmade Christmas decorations, wooden toys and all sorts of food and drink.
Adults can enjoy Nuremberg spicy gingerbread and mugs of mulled wine.
And for families with the kids along, there's the Toy Museum.
Bogotá, Colombia
Colombia's high-altitude capital brightens up each year with Christmas lights galore.
In Bogotá, there's the tradition of "Ruta Navideña," or the Christmas Route. Celebrants stroll popular spots around the city to take in the dazzling displays. Click here for some of best places to go, including breathtaking Monserrate, a high mountain that dominates the city.
Día de las Velitas (Little Candles' Day) is celebrated on December 7, which is the eve of the Immaculate Conception. It officially marks the start of Christmas in Colombia. People light small candles and paper lanterns, placing them on windowsills and balconies.
Christmas is sweet here. Natilla is a custard dish that resembles a flan or pudding and is eaten alongside other festive favorites such as buñuelos (fried dough balls served hot)
There's a travel bonus to coming to Bogotá at Christmastime: It's the beginning of the dry season.
Malta
While December is off-season, this heavily Roman Catholic island in the Mediterranean Sea has a festive and spiritual vibe at Christmas.
Visiting presepju, or nativity scenes, is an integral part of Christmas here. Every year, residents proudly open their shutters, and sometimes even their garage doors, to display their holy crib confections to the public.
Downtown Valletta is home to a lively holiday spirit, with carolers singing outside the Baroque St. John's Co-Cathedral during Advent. See a dizzying display of Christmas lights on Republic Street.
A visit to the privately owned Malta Toy Museum, featuring dolls, soldiers, train sets, and clockwork tin trinkets dating as far back as the 1790s, is a heartwarming homage to childhood.
Video above: A look at the 2022 Washington Monument Lighting
Quebec City, Canada
A haven for environmentally friendly, outdoor enthusiasts, Quebec bustles with winter activity, offering holiday programs for all tastes.
Old Quebec is turned into a picturesque Christmas village. Sausage and roast chestnut lovers can browse the wares at the German Christmas market. The more religiously inclined can wander an exposition of nativity scenes from around the world.
The nearby Sentier des Caps de Charlevoix offers family-friendly hiking, snowshoeing and skiing.
Speed devils can zoom around in a snowmobile from Nord Expe.
Can't make it for Christmas? There's still the Quebec Winter Carnival from February 3 to 12, 2023.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Piñatas, posadas and ponche sum up the festivities in this colorful town in central interior Mexico, where Christmas is both a solemn and celebratory affair.
Leading up to Dec. 24, visitors are likely to stumble upon Mary and Joseph strolling the streets, as locals make pilgrimages from home to home, singing to beg for "posada" (or "shelter") as they reenact the journey to Bethlehem.
Piñatas and ponche (a mulled fruit drink) cap a long evening of peregrinations around this cobblestoned city, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its wealth of grand churches, well-preserved architecture and grand zocalos.
Salzburg and Oberndorf, Austria
Birthplace of Mozart and filming location for "The Sound of Music," Salzburg is chocolate-box perfect. Think snow-capped mountains, baroque architecture and traditional Christmas markets.
It's even the home of "Silent Night." The popular hymn was performed for the first time in nearby Oberndorf bei Salzburg on Christmas Eve 1818.
The town also plays host to a more unusual Yuletide tradition.
Across Austria and Bavaria (in nearby Germany), people dress up as a terrifying Alpine beast known as Krampus and rampage through the streets in search of naughty children in need of punishment. The Krampus runs in Salzburg are held on various dates in December.
Video above: Watch Boston's official Christmas Tree lighting
Strasbourg, France
Get both French and German flavors of Christmas in this border city that feels the influences of both cultures. Dating back to 1570, Strasbourg claims to be the oldest Christmas market in France and one of the oldest in Europe.
Strasbourg's series of themed Christmas villages morph the city into a visual and gastronomic wonderland. Hundreds of stalls are spread out in numerous locations.
Make photographic and visual memories with a 30-meter-tall (98-foot-tall) Christmas tree that is brought to the central square of Place Kléber each year and decorated with ornaments and lights.
Alongside the traditional market, there's the OFF alternative Christmas fair, featuring live music and a street art trail.
Queenstown, New Zealand
The traditional Christmas colors of red, green and white take on an entirely new meaning in New Zealand.
Here, red represents the pōhutukawa (New Zealand's ruby-red flowering Christmas tree). White represents the pristine sandy beaches. And green? The kiwi, of course!
Sun-lovers who want to join Santa in his surf shorts should definitely head to Queenstown, where warm summer temperatures mean folks can jetboat, river surf or paraglide on Lake Wakatipu.
Or visitors can simply set up camp along the lakefront and enjoy a hearty Christmas meal of lamb, seafood and chicken on the barbie. | 2022-12-05T06:52:04+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/christmas-vacations-best-places-to-go-for-holiday-spirit/42147141 |
Mat Ishbia’s career statistics at Michigan State went like this: He averaged 0.6 points, 0.3 rebounds and 0.3 assists per game.
Not exactly record-setting numbers.
But this is the number he’s about to be known by in the game — $4 billion. Ishbia’s offer to buy the majority stake of the Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, valuing them at $4 billion, is the biggest such deal in NBA history. The agreement means that embattled owner Robert Sarver’s era leading those franchises is about to end, once the league signs off on the sale.
A look at the sale, and the process that awaits:
WHO IS MAT ISHBIA?
Ishbia, who turns 43 on Jan. 6, is a basketball junkie. At only 5-foot-10, he was a good high school player, the top scorer on his Birmingham (Michigan) Seaholm High team as a senior in 1997-98 with a flair for dramatics — like a 36-point game and making both ends of a 1-and-1 late in regulation to help his team get into overtime and beat a crosstown rival.
He walked onto the team at Michigan State, played the last few seconds of the Spartans’ 2000 national championship game win over Florida and became so important to coach Tom Izzo that by the end of his career Ishbia was seated next to Izzo on the bench — serving as a de facto assistant coach.
He’s bled Michigan State green ever since. Several of his former teammates — Mateen Cleaves among them — have worked for Ishbia at United Wholesale Mortgage, the company his father founded and Ishbia now runs. And his $32 million gift to the school in 2021 helped, among other things, fund football coach Mel Tucker’s $95 million contract.
Some will say that he was given the keys to a company his father built, which is true. It should also be noted that Ishbia came up through the ranks and wasn’t immediately ushered into the CEO suite. UWM had fewer than 20 employees when his father asked Ishbia to join the company, and he told the Detroit Free Press in a 2020 interview that his first salary was $18,000.
UWM now has about 8,000 employees; Ishbia’s salary package was just under $8 million last year and his wealth is estimated by Bloomberg to be $5.26 billion.
His company went public in January 2021 and is a rival to Quicken Loans — the company that has Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert as its founder and chairman. Gilbert, like Ishbia and Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores, is also a Michigan State alum.
“My business is not designed to make my competitors like me,” Ishbia told CNBC in 2021. “That’s not how I’m going to do things. I’m going to win for my shareholders and team members and brokers.”
WHY IS THE PHOENIX FRANCHISE WORTH $4 BILLION?
It probably is not, though Ishbia clearly believes otherwise. It’s an investment and likely a very smart one.
The most recent valuation of the Suns franchise was listed by Forbes at $2.7 billion. Sports franchise values are skyrocketing, and in the NBA, a new media rights deal is on the way that could be worth three times the current $24 billion, nine-year pact.
That will make teams even more valuable, and NBA business is booming — league revenue topped $10 billion last season for the first time.
WHAT DOES THE DEAL MEAN FOR NBA EXPANSION?
Expansion is coming to the NBA, once the next Collective Bargaining Agreement — something that should be done in the next few months — and media rights deal gets completed. With this sale, and valuing the clubs at $4 billion, the NBA could easily command $5 billion or more as an expansion fee to the next groups who want to buy into the league.
“We need to renew those … then we will turn to expansion,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said last week. “As I’ve said in the past, it’s, I feel, our manifest destiny to continue to grow and not just grow in the United States but grow outside the United States as well.”
It’s not imminent. It’s hard to see the NBA expanding before 2025, at the earliest.
WHY DID THE SUNS NEED TO BE SOLD?
On paper, Robert Sarver would have been welcomed back as an owner once his one-year suspension ended in September 2023. But the reality was the suspension doomed him, as did the damning report that was commissioned after ESPN first reported about his years of boorish conduct.
Put simply, there was no way he could come back. Sarver quickly realized he had to sell and began courting buyers.
Sarver was the managing partner, which meant he could agree to the sale even though there are limited partners involved as well.
Ishbia and his brother Justin Ishbia are buying all of Sarver’s stake, plus some of what the limited partners own, and will control more than 50% of the team once the sale is approved.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
Ishbia will be scrutinized by the NBA. The league will look for any red flags in his personal finances, in his company’s finances, in his personal conduct and more.
Once that process is complete, the league’s Board of Governors will vote to ratify the sale. The most likely timeline has Ishbia being approved to take over the Suns and Mercury by February or March.
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Rangers vs. Tigers Game Info
- When: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:05 PM ET
- Where: Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas
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- He has two appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 15 chances this season.
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- Semien has 93 hits with 23 doubles, two triples, 11 home runs, 32 walks and 55 RBI. He's also stolen seven bases.
- He has a .281/.342/.462 slash line on the year.
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- He has a .258/.327/.492 slash line on the year.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Just as Mexican journalists prepared to protest the killing of a journalist last week, word came Monday that two more were shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, raising to 11 the number of such killings in the country this year.
The Veracruz State Prosecutor’s Office said via Twitter that it was investigating the killings of Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, the director and a reporter, respectively, of the online news site El Veraz in Cosoleacaque.
Veracruz State Prosecutor Verónica Hernández Giadáns said the investigation would be exhaustive, including considering their journalism work as a possible motive in their killing.
The State Commission for Attention To and Protection of Journalists said the two women were attacked outside a convenience store.
“We condemn this attack on Veracruz’s journalism profession, give it prompt monitoring and have opened an investigation,” the commission said.
Their killings came on the heels of the ninth slaying of journalist this year, in the northern state of Sinaloa. Prosecutors there said Thursday that the body of Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos was found on a dirt road near a junkyard in the state capital, Culiacan.
Prosecutors said that his body was wrapped in black plastic and that he died from multiple blows to the head.
Ramírez Ramos’ news website, “Fuentes Fidedignas,” or “Reliable Sources,” said that he had been abducted near his house hours earlier.
The dizzying pace of killings has made Mexico the deadliest country for journalists to work outside of war zones this year.
On Monday evening, Griselda Triana, wife of Javier Valdez, a journalist slain in 2017, spoke to some 200 journalists gathered at Mexico City’s Angel of Independence monument. The demonstration had originally been scheduled to protest the killing of Ramírez Ramos and those who preceded him.
Valdez, one of Mexico’s best-known journalists killed in recent years, was an award-winning reporter who specialized in covering drug trafficking and organized crime in the northern state of Sinaloa.
“In all this time I haven’t stopped thinking about how easy it is for them to kill a journalist in Mexico,” Triana said. “I feel hurt each time they take the life of so many colleagues.”
“There’s so much anger, indignation, powerlessness knowing that we come here to protest the murder of Luis Enrique Ramírez, (that happened) a few days ago in Culiacan, Sinaloa, and the news of the killing of two women journalists in Veracruz reaches us here,” Triana said. “It’s a whirlpool. The crimes against freedom of expression keep occurring every day. We shouldn’t tolerate it. We have the authority to ask the authorities to put a stop to this slaughter of journalists.”
The victims, like those killed Monday, are most often from small, hyperlocal news outlets. El Veraz operated a Facebook page and appeared to almost exclusively post notices about events or public information from the municipality’s government. El Veraz’s motto was “Journalism with Humanity.”
The phone number listed for El Veraz rang to what appeared to be Mollinedo Falconi’s cell phone, according to its message.
Cosoleacaque is just off a major east-west route in southeastern Veracruz. Organized crime is present in the area and involved especially in migrant smuggling, but there was no immediate indication of who could have been responsible.
Veracruz Gov. Cuitláhuac García said a search was underway for those responsible.
“We will find the perpetrators of this crime, there will be justice and there will not be impunity like we have said and done in other cases,” García said via Twitter.
Journalists had already scheduled a demonstration for Monday in Mexico City to protest killings of their colleagues, most recently that of Ramírez Ramos in Sinaloa.
Mexico’s state and federal governments have been criticized for neither preventing the killings nor investigating them sufficiently.
While organized crime is often involved in journalist killings, small town officials or politicians with political or criminal motivations are often suspects as well. Journalists running small news outlets in Mexico’s interior are easy targets.
Mexico has a protection program for journalists and human rights defenders, but it was not immediately known whether either Mollinedo Falconi or García Olivera were enrolled.
Participants receive support, such as electronic devices or “panic buttons” to alert the authorities to any threat; surveillance systems in their homes; even bodyguards in some cases. Often authorities recommend that threatened journalists move to another state or the capital to lessen the threat, but that means separating them from their work, livelihood and families.
While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised a “zero impunity” program to investigate such slayings, journalists’ murders, like most homicides in Mexico, are never resolved by authorities. López Obrador has also kept up his regular verbal attacks on journalists critical of his administration.
In February, the Inter American Press Association called on the president to “immediately suspend the aggressions and insults, because such attacks from the top of power encourage violence against the press.”
In March, the European Union approved a resolution that “calls on the authorities, and in particular the highest ones, to refrain from issuing any communication which could stigmatize human rights defenders, journalists and media workers, exacerbate the atmosphere against them or distort their lines of investigation.”
Late Monday, presidential spokesman Jesús Ramírez said via Twitter that the federal and state governments would work together to investigate the killings. “The commitment is that there is not impunity.” | 2022-05-10T19:46:18+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/2-journalists-killed-in-mexico-10th-and-11th-of-the-year/ |
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For the better part of two decades since the NHL instituted a salary cap, enjoying turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes were synonymous with feeling pretty good about making the playoffs.
Dating to 2005-06, with lockout- and pandemic-related seasons excepted, 76% of teams in a playoff spot by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday wound up qualifying. It became such a popular narrative it began to seep into coaches' offices and locker rooms based on the odds alone.
Maybe not this year. Thanks to the season starting later than normal, many contenders still trying to find a groove amid various injuries and expansion to 32 teams also makes it inherently harder to make the playoffs.
The Christmas break may be a better for barometer for who's playing for the Stanley Cup beginning in April.
“This is the year where I don’t know if it’s going to correlate — I think there might be a little bit of a wrench in that,” longtime player and coach Rick Tocchet said. “This is a little goofy season. I don’t think you can have that barometer. I think you have to wait a little bit longer.”
Already in the week since Thanksgiving, the top eight teams in the Western Conference have changed out, with Calgary and St. Louis for Edmonton and Minnesota. While New Jersey is starting to look like the real deal, Detroit remains a bit surprisingly in a playoff spot in the East — with Washington, Florida and others on the outside looking in.
Capitals coach Peter Laviolette acknowledged the history of teams riding a good Thanksgiving spot into the playoffs. But, he points out, “I know teams have made it to the playoffs and played for Cups from behind the line.”
He did it with Philadelphia in 2009-10, inheriting the 22nd-place team in the league in December and taking it to the final. But the reality is that's more the exception than the rule.
“There’s something to it,” Washington center Lars Eller said. “You don’t want to be chasing. You want to be in a good position early. You have a bad stretch like we had (recently), you can’t have two or three of those a season (or) you’re not going to make the playoffs.”
Make the playoffs first is the focus of defending champion Colorado, which like Washington and Philadelphia has been ravaged by injuries early in the season.
Coach Jared Bednar's theory is to stay in the mix and keep pushing until reinforcements arrive, and he knows other teams are going through similar struggles and transitions; there were 10 new coaches on the bench as the season began. That's why he thinks the first 15 or so games of the season is not enough to start making judgments.
“Some teams have a lot of new players, new coaches all around the league,” Bednar said. “It takes some time to get dialed in exactly the way you want to go, so I think this year with all the movement through the league now last couple years — lots of coaches moving — I think it can take time for teams to find their footing.”
Tocchet, now a Turner Sports analyst, also points to the number of comebacks as a reason for uncertainty. There were 22 multi-goal, third-period comeback wins in the first quarter of the season, according to NHL Stats, the most at that point in league history.
“Nobody's ever out of it anymore,” Tocchet said.
Lengthy winning and losing streaks also play into the fluctuation of standings. The Devils won 13 in a row and Vegas nine, while St. Louis has a seven-game winning streak and an eight-game losing skid already.
“Teams move up in the standings, teams move down,” veteran Avalanche forward Andrew Cogliano said. “It’s just the parity of the league. It speaks to how good the teams are now. Any team can beat any team any night, and I think that’s why it’s such a hard league.”
And why it makes it so hard to tell which teams will make the playoffs next spring.
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Preschool teacher accused of throwing chair at toddler
WARTRACE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A preschool teacher in Tennessee is facing child abuse charges after deputies say she threw a metal chair at a 3-year-old girl, hitting her in the head.
The Bedford County Sheriff’s Department said the alleged incident happened on Dec. 28 at the Stay-N-Play Learning Preschool in the Bell Buckle area. The accused teacher, 22-year-old Camryn Faye Hunter, was arrested on aggravated child abuse charges.
Deputies said Hunter first told her bosses the girl fell and hit her head, but the classroom security cameras showed a very different story, WSMV reports.
“There were children in each area of the room,” Detective Savanah Martin said. “The victim was behind a table. The teacher just stood up and picked a chair up over her head and threw it straight at the little girl.”
Martin said the girl had a bruise and knot between her eyes from being hit with the chair. She had to be taken to the hospital.
“I was speechless,” she said about watching the video. “I couldn’t believe it and couldn’t understand why because it didn’t look like the child was doing anything out of the ordinary that she shouldn’t have been.”
Investigators were not able to get Hunter to give a reason for throwing the chair.
“I don’t believe it was an accident at all,” Martin said. “There is no way it could’ve been an accident.”
Preschool owner Tammy Craig released a statement about the incident that said, “We followed every state protocol. The teacher was terminated immediately from the daycare. We turned it over to authorities immediately, and they are handling the rest of the case.”
Martin said the preschool is fully cooperating with the investigation and even called the Department of Children’s Services to report the issue themselves.
Hunter had been asked to leave the school before deputies could arrive on scene, but she was arrested for her actions later in the afternoon.
Craig said the preschool remains open and is committed to caring for its children. A DCS source tells WSMV the preschool is in good standing and has no previous violations.
“There was no way they could’ve known when they hired her that that was going to happen,” Martin said. “There are bad employees at every workplace.”
Hunter was taken into custody and has been released on a $10,000 bond. She is due in court on Jan. 18.
WSMV reached out to Hunter for this story but did not receive a response.
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Microsoft brings Bing chatbot to phones after curbing quirks
By MATT O’BRIEN
AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.
The company said Wednesday it is bringing the new AI technology to its Bing smartphone app, as well as the app for its Edge internet browser.
Putting the new AI-enhanced search engine into the hands of smartphone users is meant to give Microsoft an advantage over Google, which dominates the internet search business but hasn’t yet released such a chatbot to the public.
In the two weeks since Microsoft unveiled its revamped Bing, more than a million users around the world have experimented with a public preview of the new product after signing up for a waitlist to try it. Microsoft said most of those users responded positively, but others found Bing was insulting them, professing its love or voicing other disturbing or bizarre language.
Powered by some of the same technology behind the popular writing tool ChatGPT, built by Microsoft partner OpenAI, the new Bing is part of an emerging class of AI systems that have mastered human language and grammar after ingesting a huge trove of books and online writings. They can compose songs, recipes and emails on command, or concisely summarize concepts with information found across the internet. But they are also error-prone and unwieldy.
Reports of Bing’s odd behavior led Microsoft to look for a way to curtail Bing’s propensity to respond with strong emotional language to certain questions. It’s mostly done that by limiting the length and time of conversations with the chatbot, forcing users to start a fresh chat after several turns. But the upgraded Bing also now politely declines questions that it would have responded to just a week ago.
“I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation,” it says when asked technical questions about how it works or the rules that guide it. “I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.”
Microsoft said its new technology will also be integrated into its Skype messaging service. | 2023-02-22T14:19:02+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/02/22/microsoft-brings-bing-chatbot-to-phones-after-curbing-quirks/ |
HOUSTON — Why could inflation kill the ice cream truck?
They are a beloved sign of summer, the ice cream truck rolling down the road playing a cheerful tune that alerts children blocks away that sweet treats have arrived.
According to the New York Times, inflation is taking a big bite out of ice cream truck profits forcing some owners to put the brakes on operations. Now, some are wondering if the future of this time-honored business is in jeopardy.
Although fuel prices are falling, diesel, which fuels most ice cream trucks, is still above $5 nationwide. That’s compared to around $3.30 a year ago.
That’s not the only big price increase. A gallon of vanilla ice cream now costs around $13, while a 25-pound box of sprinkles is around $60, double what it cost a year ago, according to the Times.
Inflation is not the only trend taking a bite out of profits. Changing tastes are taking a toll as well. Garages that used to house just ice cream trucks are now full of food trucks.
People looking for a convenient sweet treat can now turn to food delivery apps without even walking out the door.
All this adds up to ice cream trucks disappearing faster than a snow cone in summer. | 2022-08-01T12:56:53+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/money/why-inflation-could-kill-the-ice-cream-truck/285-c38f5dd8-4bfd-4511-8314-b7458cd4373e |
Jay Leno broke his collarbone and several other bones in a motorcycle accident last week, the comic revealed in an interview published Thursday night. The revelation comes less than two months after he suffered second-degree burns in a car fire in his Burbank garage — and at the same time “Jay Leno’s Garage” would be ending its run on CNBC.
While preparing for his March return to stand-up comedy on the Las Vegas Strip, the former “Tonight Show” host told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the November gas fire was only the first of his recent grisly mishaps.
“That was the first accident. OK? Then just last week, I got knocked off my motorcycle,” the 72-year-old TV icon said. “So I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.”
“But I’m OK!” Leno said. “I’m OK, I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”
The motorcycle accident happened Jan. 17 while the “Jay Leno’s Garage” host was working on another vintage vehicle, he said. The car and bike enthusiast told the Review-Journal that he was test-driving a 1940 Indian motorcycle and noticed the scent of leaking gas.
“So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” he added. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.... The bike kept going, and you know how that works out.”
The comedy legend said he didn’t mention the accident because of the whirlwind of coverage that accompanied his accident in November, when a car fire at his garage landed him in the hospital with burns on his face and elsewhere.
“You know, after getting burned up, you get that one for free,” he joked. “After that, you’re Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You just want to keep your head down.”
Last November, Leno said he had been working to repair a clogged fuel line on his 1907 White steam car — one of many vintage cars in his collection — when gas shot out and ignited.
“And my face caught on fire,” Leno said in December on NBC’s “Today” show.
The longtime late-night TV fixture was hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles, where he underwent multiple surgeries and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
“Eight days later, I had a brand new face,” he wrote in a column for the Wall Street Journal about his reconstructive procedures. “And it’s better than what was there before.”
Leno’s motorcycle accident revelation comes amid CNBC’s decision not to renew “Jay Leno’s Garage” for another season as the cable network doubles down on its business news and personal finance information content, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Friday. Meaning, the longtime NBC star will end his 30-year run at NBCUniversal, as first reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
Leno’s reality show “Jay Leno’s Garage,” which has been a prime-time offering on the cable network since 2015, will be pushed out of the lineup as CNBC launches a new program called “Last Call,” anchored by Brian Sullivan, and business-centered shows (and reruns of) “Shark Tank” and “Undercover Boss.” The network will also offer original business documentaries, according to a Thursday employee memo obtained by the L.A. Times.
“Taken together, this lineup will deliver our audience a fast paced, inside look at market movers and influencers throughout the day,” KC Sullivan, president of CNBC, said in the memo.
Representatives for Leno did not immediately respond Friday to the L.A. Times’ request for comment.
Leno, who hosted two tenures at NBC’s “Tonight Show” from 1992 to 2014, landed at the sister cable channel after his departure from late-night TV. “Jay Leno’s Garage” featured the comedian working on vehicles while also interviewing celebrity guests, the likes of which included Tim Allen, Gabriel Iglesias, Elon Musk and President Joe Biden.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call family and friends.
The legislation clarifies that the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire, can set limits for fees on audio and video calls inside corrections facilities.
Phone calls from prisons and jails are a lifeline for those incarcerated, but the cost varies widely and can be a financial drain on families already struggling to make ends meet with an adult behind bars. Right now, Kentucky has the highest cost for a 15-minute call, at $5.70, and $9.99 for a cellphone call, while New Hampshire charges only 20 cents for the same amount of time.
There are more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and tens of thousands more are incarcerated in jails nationwide awaiting trials or sentencings.
The COVID-19 pandemic froze prison visits, forcing inmates to rely heavily on phone calls, and the health crisis spotlighted the disparities in state and federal phone charges. Studies by prison reform advocates and academics have shown that visitation and phone calls with loved ones decrease the likelihood that a person will commit crime again.
The legislation makes good a campaign trail promise by Biden, who also recently signed into law a bill requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul outdated security systems and fix broken surveillance cameras. Earlier last year he signed an executive order meant to improve accountability in policing.
“Meaningful communication and connection with loved ones helps promote rehabilitation, and it also reduces recidivism, which makes our communities safer,” said Vanessa Chen, Special Assistant to the President for Criminal Justice and Guns Policy.
The bill was sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and just retired-Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. It was named in honor of Martha Wright-Reed, a retired nurse who tried for more than two decades to get more affordable rates because she could not afford to call her incarcerated grandson at the cost of more than $100 per month.
“No family member should ever have to choose between staying in touch with an incarcerated loved one and paying the bills,” Duckworth said in a statement, adding that the new law will help ensure that phone rates are “reasonable.”
The FCC must still go through the rule-making process before the changes can be officially made. In 2013, FCC caped rates at 25 cents per minute, which meant a 15-minute call cost $3.75; before that it was roughly $17 on average, about 10 times more than the average per-minute rate. Prison telecommunication companies challenged the decision in court, claiming the FCC didn’t have the right to regulate the calls.
In 2015, then-FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn told lawmakers she supported measures to cap the costs. “Incarceration is a family matter, an economic matter, a societal matter. The greatest impact of an inmate’s sentence is often on the loved ones who are left behind,” she said.
In 2017, under President Donald Trump, the FCC abandoned the fight to lower the cost for prison phone calls. A federal appeals court eventually ruled the FCC didn’t have the authority to cap the rates.
The legislation signed by Biden gives the federal agency the authority that the appellate court ruled it lacked, the White House said. | 2023-01-06T14:15:45+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/politics/ap-biden-signs-bill-to-ease-costs-for-prisoner-calls-to-family/ |
NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. (NYSE: FHS).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased FHS American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 11, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) the new rules, regulations and policies to be implemented by the Chinese government following the Two Sessions parliamentary meetings were far more severe than represented to investors and posed a material adverse threat to the Company and its business; (b) contemplated Chinese regulations and rules regarding private education were leading to a slowdown of government approval to open new educational facilities which would have a negative effect on FHS's enrollment and growth; and (c) as a result, representations made in connection with the Company's initial public offering regarding FHS's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis.
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Police: 1 killed, 5 wounded in Denver shooting
Published: Nov. 1, 2022 at 6:45 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
DENVER (KKTV/Gray News) - One person was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting that happened on the east side of Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday, according to authorities.
Police said four men and two women were shot. One of the men died at the scene.
It isn’t clear if the victims are all connected, or if this was a random shooting.
Police shared a photo of a vehicle that may belong to the suspect or suspects.
“Investigators are working to develop suspect info,” Denver police tweeted.
At one point in the investigation, Denver police provided an update stating they believed only five people had been shot, then provided another update confirming there were six victims.
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With nearly 30 years of banking experience and a partnership history with NEF, Arroyo joins the trusted Board of Directors to help bring affordable and supportive housing to the nation.
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vicky Arroyo has joined the National Equity Fund Board of Directors. Currently, Arroyo is the president and COO of The Resurrection Project, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to community investment through innovative development and advocacy services.
Arroyo's extensive background spans commercial real estate, mortgage lending and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) financing. Prior to joining The Resurrection Project, Arroyo worked diligently at banks such as BMO Private Banking and MB Financial Bank to develop strategies and fulfill their Community Reinvestment Act investment goals. While at those banks, Arroyo worked with NEF as a limited partner on multiple deals and managed the banks' charitable efforts, employee volunteer initiatives and special loans programs, creating sustained community impact.
"I am thrilled to have been appointed to the NEF Board after having worked closely with the organization for more than 15 years across both of my career tracks in banking and the nonprofit affordable housing developer space," said Arroyo. "Transitioning from the lender side to the developer side has provided me insight to the challenges that affordable housing developers face every day, especially as inventory is low, resources are competitive and often complex, prices of construction are skyrocketing and community needs are not being met. I hope to provide a 'boots-on-the-ground' perspective so that NEF can be part of the solution in the industry."
NEF has history working with The Resurrection Project, which was founded in 1990 to advocate for a safer, cleaner and more inclusive community in Chicago's southwest neighborhoods. For more than 25 years, NEF has partnered with The Resurrection Project to complete six developments across the area, creating more than 400 affordable homes for vulnerable populations. Recently, The Resurrection Project was recognized with a Chicago Neighborhood Development Award (CNDA), winning the 2022 Polk Bros. Foundation Affordable Rental Housing Preservation Award for Casa Veracruz, a joint development with NEF.
"The wide range of Vicky's experience – at The Resurrection Project, in collaboration with NEF, and in banking – brings forth a valuable understanding of both investor and client relations, which will empower Vicky to help us strengthen and expand our impact with partners across the country," said Matt Reilein, president and CEO at NEF. "Our team has seen firsthand how Vicky and The Resurrection Project share our values in providing access to affordable housing and supportive services to both individuals and families in need."
Arroyo joins 15 other board members with expertise and credentials ranging from local nonprofits to national banks and accounting firms. The Board is dedicated to helping communities grow responsibly, especially in a time when affordable and supportive housing is needed most due to rapidly rising rent costs.
"This is a crucial time for affordable housing as there is already a shortage of 6.8 million units for extremely low-income families who pay over 70 percent of their income on rent," said Arroyo. "During this economic cycle where a recession could occur, it is critical to help provide clean, safe affordable housing for those that could be the most impacted."
About National Equity Fund, Inc. (NEF)
National Equity Fund, Inc., is a leading nonprofit Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) syndicator and pioneer in affordable housing with a mission to create and deliver innovative, collaborative financial solutions to expand the creation and preservation of affordable housing. Through its diverse multi- and single-investor funds, NEF generates opportunities rooted in its vision that all individuals and families across the country have access to stable, safe and affordable homes that provide a foundation for them to reach their full potential. Since being founded by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in 1987, NEF has invested more than $20.6 billion, which represents 215,500 new affordable homes for individuals, families and communities in need across the country. NEF is Chicago-based and has donated more than $210 million in grants to support LISC's nationwide community development work. To learn more about NEF's impact, innovative financial solutions and opportunities, visit www.nefinc.org.
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HANGZHOU, China, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yunji Inc. ("Yunji" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YJ), a leading membership-based social e-commerce platform, today announced that it received a notification letter (the "Compliance Notice") from the Listing Qualifications Department of the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. ("Nasdaq") dated July 5, 2023, indicating that the Company has regained compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (the "Minimum Bid Price Requirement") and the matter is closed.
On January 11, 2023, Yunji received a notification letter (the "Deficiency Notice") from the Nasdaq indicating that the closing bid price for the Company's American depositary shares ("ADSs") was below the minimum bid price of $1.00 required for continued listing under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) for 30 consecutive business days. According to the Deficiency Notice, if at any time during the 180 day compliance period, the closing bid price of the Company's security is at least $1.00 for a minimum of ten consecutive business days, Nasdaq will provide the Company written confirmation of compliance and the matter will be closed. According to the Compliance Notice, the closing bid price of the Company's ADSs has been at $1.00 per ADS or greater for 10 consecutive business days from June 20, 2023 through July 3, 2023, and the Company has regained compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement and the matter is closed.
About Yunji Inc.
Yunji Inc. is a leading social e-commerce platform in China that has pioneered a unique, membership-based model to leverage the power of social interactions. The Company's e-commerce platform offers high-quality products at attractive prices across a wide variety of categories catering to the day-to-day needs of Chinese consumers. In addition, the Company uses advanced technologies including big data and artificial intelligence to optimize user experience and incentivize members to promote the platform as well as share products with their social contacts. Through deliberate product curation, centralized merchandise sourcing, and efficient supply chain management, Yunji has established itself as a trustworthy e-commerce platform with high-quality products and exclusive membership benefits, including discounted prices.
For more information, please visit https://investor.yunjiglobal.com/.
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Man sentenced after traveling to NC to meet 10-year-old for sexual acts
HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Dena King, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced that a man was recently sentenced for traveling to North Carolina to engage in sexual acts with a 10-year-old.
Officials said 30-year-old Stephen Wargo, formerly of Dallas, Georgia, was sentenced to 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release today. Officials added that Wargo will also have to register as a sex offender and pay $13,200 in restitution.
According to court documents and proceedings, Wargo began communicating with the 10-year-old victim using Discord in September 2021. Officials stated that Wargo had extensive conversations with the victim and sometimes made inappropriate romantic overtures.
Court records showed that the victim’s parents eventually discovered the conversations and gave the cell phone to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office. From there, a detective took over the victim’s discord account and continued to message Wargo, who started to send increasingly sexual messages.
Soon after, Wargo planned to meet the child in Henderson County to engage in a sexual act with the victim. However, he was taken into custody when he arrived at the predetermined meeting location.
“Every child has the right to a childhood free from sexual abuse and trauma. Identifying and prosecuting predators like Wargo is at the forefront of our efforts to combat child sexual exploitation and keep our most precious resource, our children, safe from those who wish to cause them harm,” said U.S. Attorney King.
On February 27, 2023, Wargo pleaded guilty to crossing state lines with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person less than 12 years of age.
“There is nothing more precious than our children. I am proud of the extraordinary efforts put forth by the men and women of the Sheriff’s office, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to remove this dangerous criminal from society,” said Henderson County Sheriff Lowell Griffin. “We will continue to work collaboratively to hold those accountable that choose to prey on the most vulnerable.”
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 1, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
1124 AM PST Thu Dec 1 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...
Snow has ended across the Blue Mountains. Therefore the winter storm
warning has been cancelled.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Snow has ended across the Cascades and Okanogan Highlands. Therefore
the winter weather advisory has been cancelled.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Blowing and drifting snow. Winds gusts 20 to 40 mph. The
strongest gusts will be up towards the Canadian border. Winds will
decrease through the afternoon.
* WHERE...Brewster, Omak, Bridgeport, Oroville, Disautel Pass,
Mansfield, Nespelem, Okanogan, and Badger Mountain Road.
* WHEN...Until 4 PM PST this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers passed up the chance Friday to become the first state to approve new legislation restricting access to abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month removing its protected status as a constitutional right.
The Republican-dominated Senate adopted its version of a bill along with amendments, one of which removes criminal penalties for physicians who perform illegal abortions. Late Friday night the House of Delegates, which passed its bill Wednesday, refused to concur with the Senate amendments, instead asking for a conference committee to iron out differences among the bills.
Both chambers then adjourned until they are called back sometime next month.
Several GOP-led states had "trigger" abortion bans in place in advance of the court ruling, but West Virginia lawmakers are taking action because of legal uncertainty over whether a ban from the 1800s that was upended by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision could be enforced now.
As in other states dominated by socially conservative lawmakers, there's not much question about whether abortion will be banned generally now that states have the power to do so — but whether the ban will apply to pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
In South Carolina, a ban without the exceptions has been introduced. In Arkansas, outgoing GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson would prefer to add them to the ban that's already in effect, but he has balked at asking lawmakers to address the issue in a special session.
The high-profile example of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio, a state without an exception for rape in its abortion restrictions, who traveled to Indiana for an abortion has amplified the debate.
Tension over the question gripped the Indiana Senate in a session that began Thursday and finally wrapped up after midnight. A final vote there is expected Saturday on the bill, which includes exceptions for rape and incest.
The West Virginia bill, which some lawmakers have complained was not vetted by any Senate committees, would ban abortions except in case of rape or incest.
The Senate approved an amendment sponsored by a physician, Kanawha County Republican Tom Takubo, that removes criminal penalties of three to 10 years upon conviction for any medical provider who performs an abortion.
Takubo said the bill already would subject a physician to the difficult loss of their license for performing an illegal abortion. He also said West Virginia already has problems retaining medical professionals, and if the criminal penalties are retained it could have a chilling effect on the practice.
Another approved amendment offered by Greenbrier County Democrat Stephen Baldwin would allow a minor to report a rape to someone covered as a "mandated reporter," such as a pastor or school counselor, who would be required to report the case to authorities. The House version requires law enforcement to be directly contacted.
The measure allows exemptions for victims of rape and incest up to 14 weeks of pregnancy. The bill also provides other exceptions for an ectopic pregnancy, a "nonmedically viable fetus" or a medical emergency that could kill or cause a substantial and irreversible injury.
A dozen of the 34 senators gave impassioned speeches before the 21-10 vote. Three senators were absent. Some who said they supported the bill also indicated they weren't happy with it. Some Republicans wanted a blanket ban on abortion. Others wanted the criminal penalties for physicians restored.
The state's only abortion clinic initially stopped offering abortions after the latest ruling, but resumed this month as it mounted a court challenge on whether the old ban applied. On July 18, a Charleston judge barred the state from enforcing the ban, ruling it had been superseded by a slew of conflicting modern laws such as a ban on abortion after 20 weeks.
Republican Gov. Jim Justice called the special legislative session to consider an abortion ban. He didn't indicate whether he would sign either bill, and the governor's office didn't immediately return an email Thursday requesting comment.
On Friday, people seated in the packed galleries above the Senate chamber shouted "shame on you" when the afternoon session went into recess almost as soon as it started.
When the debate finally began hours later, Democrats complained that they did not have a final version of the Senate's bill prior to the start of Friday's session that included a dozen amendments.
"This has been a slow-motion train wreck," Senate Democratic leader Stephen Baldwin of Greenbrier County. "This bill would put doctors in jail for doing their job and for following their oath."
In Indiana on Thursday, there was a nearly four-hour delay in a Senate session as lawmakers met privately to discuss the exceptions, which were ultimately left in over strong objections from some conservative lawmakers.
"Exceptions equal death for unborn innocent children," said Sen. Mike Young, the Republican who filed an amendment that would only allow abortions to protect the life of the mother.
Eighteen Republicans ultimately joined 10 Democrats in voting to keep the rape and incest exceptions in the proposal. But the votes of many of the Republicans who voted for eliminating the exceptions will be needed for the bill to advance to the House. If not enough switch, it could keep abortion would remain legal in the state for now.
A final vote there is expected Saturday.
While legislative battles over abortion have begun, much of the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision has played out in the court system. In Louisiana, enforcement began of a near-total ban but was halted by a judge earlier this month. On Friday, a judge ruled enforcement could resume — though it was not immediately clear when.
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For AP's full coverage of the Supreme Court ruling on abortion, go to https://apnews.com/hub/abortion.
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Associated Press writers Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Arleigh Rodgers in Indianapolis contributed to this report. Rodgers is a corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | 2022-07-30T03:43:19+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/west-virginia-delays-chance-to-pass-first-new-bill-since-abortion-ruling |
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP)Keyshaun Langley had 19 points to hep UNC Greensboro defeat Warren Wilson 120-48 on Sunday.
Langley was 6 of 8 shooting (5 for 7 from distance) for the Spartans (6-6). Mikeal Brown-Jones shot 6 of 6 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line to add 17 points. Keondre Kennedy was 6 of 10 shooting (3 for 5 from distance) to finish with 16 points.
Adonis King led the way for the Owls with 12 points and seven rebounds. Tairque Kaiser added 10 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-12-19T03:43:57+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/langley-leads-unc-greensboro-to-120-48-rout-of-warren-wilson/ |
- SM to adopt target capital structure to enhance shareholder rate of return and expand investments and shareholder returns
- Company will prioritize investment in the implementation of the "SM 3.0" and actively utilize funds for shareholder returns in accordance with the target capital structure standard
- A minimum of 30% of annual net income will be distributed to shareholders under the new announced policy
SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SM Entertainment announced an enhanced shareholder return policy today, just following the announcement on January 20 that the company will return at least 20% of SM's annual net income to shareholders for the next three years (from fiscal year 2022 to 2024).
Cheol-hyuk Jang, the Chief Financial Officer of SM stated, "The shareholders generally require a higher rate of return than the financial institutions creditor, and the shareholder return can be higher when we maintain a certain amount of debt. So, if we debt-finance our business to the extent we don't jeopardize the financial stability, we can reduce the cost of capital by leveraging the cost of debt." On the background of the expanded shareholder return policy, he explained, "Historically, SM has operated without any debt, so the revision of our financial strategy will allow us to quickly enhance shareholder returns."
Jang added, "The SM 3.0 strategy strives to create a management structure that benefits not just specific shareholders but all fans and shareholders. To realize this goal, we have set a target capital structure of net debt that is 0.5x to 1x the operating profit as our financial strategy for capital deployment, which will increase shareholder returns."
Apple, the world's largest company by market capitalization, has also been maximizing shareholder returns after announcing in February 2018 that it would adopt a "Net Cash Neutral" policy with a goal of zero net cash. SM's new shareholder return policy will maintain net debt between 0.5x to 1x the annual operating profit on a standalone basis each year, to prioritize necessary investments in the business and use the difference in net borrowings at the end of each period to pay shareholder returns if the figure is lower than the targeted net borrowings under the target capital structure.
Under the recently announced SM 3.0 strategy, SM plans to execute KRW 1 trillion in investments over the next three years, which will be funded through (1) cash on hand (2) investments from strategic partners (3) sales of non-core assets, and (4) loans. Even with the KRW 1 trillion investment, if SM 3.0 strategy is realized, SM will be able to achieve its target capital structure (maintaining net debt of 0.5x to 1x operating profit) and secure cash inflows from the business, thereby raising funds for shareholder returns. In addition, the company will maintain a minimum 30% of net income for shareholder returns, even if the amount of funds available for shareholder returns in a given year is reduced due to intensive investment, to increase predictability for the shareholders.
Through the announcement of the new financial strategy and expanded shareholder return policy, as well as the three previous announcements of the SM 3.0 strategy, SM has been consistently promoting its new management policies that will enhance total shareholder return and not just benefit specific shareholders.
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BEIJING – China launched a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station on Tuesday, with an eye to putting astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade.
The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket just after 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) Tuesday.
The crew, including China’s first civilian astronaut, will overlap briefly with three now aboard the Tiangong station, who will then return to Earth after completing their six-month mission.
A third module was added to the station in November, and space program officials on Monday said they have plans to expand it, along with launching a crewed mission to the moon before 2030.
China built its own space station after it was excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to U.S. concerns over the Chinese space programs’ intimate ties with the People's Liberation Army, the military branch of the ruling Communist Party.
China’s first manned space mission in 2003 made it the third country after the former Soviet Union and the U.S. to put a person into space under its own resources.
On the this latest mission, payload expert Gui Haichao, a professor at Beijing’s top aerospace research institute, will join mission commander Maj. Gen. Jing Haipeng, who is making his fourth flight to space, and spacecraft engineer Zhu Yangzhu.
The crew will stay aboard the station for around five months, during which they will conduct scientific experiments and regular maintenance.
The mission comes against the background of a rivalry with the U.S. for reaching new milestones in space. That has been largely friendly, but also reflects their sharpening competition for leadership and influence in the technology, military and diplomatic fields.
American spending, supply chains and capabilities are believed to give it a significant edge over China, at least for now. China has broken out in some areas, however, bringing samples back from the lunar surface for the first time in decades and landing a rover on the less explored far side of the moon.
The U.S., meanwhile, aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025 as part of a renewed commitment to crewed missions, aided by private sector players such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.
In addition to their lunar programs, the two countries have also separately landed rovers on Mars, and China plans to follow the U.S. in landing a spacecraft on an asteroid. | 2023-05-30T15:56:02+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/05/30/china-launches-new-crew-for-space-station-with-eye-to-putting-astronauts-on-moon-before-2030/ |
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT
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* WHAT...High temperatures ranging between 99 to 107 with heat
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* WHEN...From noon to 9 PM MDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
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
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MONDAY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NORTHERN
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...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY
MONDAY...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
TUESDAY EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS...
The National Weather Service in Cheyenne has issued a Fire
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* HUMIDITY...Afternoon humidity 9 to 15 percent.
* WIND...Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph sustained with possible
gusts to 35.
* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
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Noah Drew has been elected at the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association as WTLA’s president for 2022-23, the association announced this past week. He is succeeding immediate past-President Grant Lawson.
Drew, a lawyer in Jackson, was described “a fourth-generation trial lawyer and partner in the Spence Law Firm.” His legal practice includes civil rights, personal injury and wrongful death issues.
The lawyers group also announced other elections-related results. Alex Freeburg from the Freeburg Law firm in Jackson will be serving as WTLA president-elect. Sarah Kellogg, also from the Spence firm, where Drew works, was elected as the association’s secretary/treasurer.
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Wyoming State Librarian Jamie Markus has officially started the duties of president of the Western Council of State Libraries, it was announced this past week by the state’s Department of Administration and Information. Markus leads the Wyoming State Library, which is a division of that state’s department-level agency. He will have a two-year term as the Western Council’s president, and then two additional years as the group’s past president. | 2022-07-18T13:56:59+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/business-briefs-for-7-17-22/article_046a80dd-a8be-551f-a289-1a1d999c7c23.html |
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Statewide Central Station (SCS), part of Scutum North America, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Digicom Central Station in Florida. This acquisition marks the first step for both entities to combine resources and tackle the national task of protecting communities using state-of-the-art security and alarm monitoring technology.
Digicom, as part of Statewide, will work on accelerating its development, benefiting from Statewide resources, and setting up synergies for more optimal protection of our clients. Statewide dealers in Florida will have the advantage of joining Statewide's vast dealer network and full support from the company's security monitoring technology. Through the partnership and collaboration, Statewide with Digicom will provide the dealer network with the necessary solutions and tools to be among the top-ranked alarm security providers.
"Scutum North America is excited to share that our footprint has expanded throughout the eastern US, from New York to Florida," says Franck Namy, Scutum Group. "We will continue actively seeking further M&A opportunities as we grow our footprint in the North American market."
Scutum North America provides fire detection, electronic security, and central station monitoring services. It relies on its own UL Listed central stations, which assure the closest personalized attention and service. In this rapidly accelerating market, Scutum North America has established several strategic partnerships to develop its capacities in terms of services and responses to client needs and to increase its performance in the face of a growing and more competitive market.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Monday signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, including hormonal treatments and some surgeries.
The bill, which will go into effect on July 1, says that any health care provider in the state who violates the ban risks having their medical license revoked and could face civil action.
“South Dakota’s kids are our future. With this legislation, we are protecting kids from harmful, permanent medical procedures,” Noem said in a statement on Monday. “I will always stand up for the next generation of South Dakotans.”
The bill reads, “A healthcare professional may not, for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of, or to validate a minor’s perception of, the minor’s sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex, knowingly.”
H.B. 1080 bans health care providers from prescribing and administering drugs that can delay puberty and bans them from prescribing sex hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone, to those under 18 years old. The ban also includes the prohibition of gender transition surgeries.
Leading medical organizations and child advocacy groups have denounced such measures, saying what’s healthiest for transgender children is to raise them in accordance with their gender identity. Conservatives, however, have increasingly seized on anti-transgender policies in recent years as a way to motivate their base.
The move by Noem, who is considered a possible 2024 presidential candidate, was swiftly condemned by LGBTQ advocacy groups.
“This ban denies transgender and nonbinary youth crucial support and care. Even in the face of professional guidance from every major medical and mental health association in the country that supports this type of care, politicians are intruding into the private medical decisions best left to transgender young people and their families,” said Casey Pick, director of law and policy for The Trevor Project.
South Dakota is the second state in recent weeks to restrict gender-affirming health care. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed a bill last month banning gender-affirming care for minors in the state and defended his decision on Sunday, saying that the bill is about “whether we might potentially be harming young people.”
Other states have passed similar bills banning gender-affirming care, but some states’ bans, including Alabama and Arkansas, have been blocked by court orders. | 2023-02-14T03:34:22+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/noem-signs-gender-affirming-care-ban-for-south-dakota-youth/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House and Senate were informed Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, D.C., health insurance marketplace. Employees of the lawmakers and their families were also affected.
DC Health Link confirmed that data on an unspecified number of customers was affected and said it was notifying them and working with law enforcement. It said it was offering identity theft service to those affected and extending credit monitoring to all customers.
The FBI said it was aware of the incident and was assisting the investigation.
A broker on an online crime forum claimed to have records on 170,000 DC Health Link customers and was offering them for sale for an unspecified amount. The broker claimed they were stolen Monday. Reached by The Associated Press on an encrypted chat site, the broker did no say whether the data had been purchased and said they could not provide additional data to back the claim. They said they were acting on behalf of the seller, who they identified as “thekilob.”
Sample stolen data was posted on the site for a dozen apparent customers. It included Social Security numbers, addresses, names of employers, phone numbers, emails and addresses. The AP reached one of the dozen by dialing a listed number.
“Oh my God,” the man said when informed the information was public. All 12 people listed work for the same company or are family members.
In an email to all Senate email account holders, the sergeant at arms said it was informed that the stolen data included full names of the insured and family members. An email sent out by the office of the Chief Administrative Office of the House on behalf of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the breach “egregious” and promised to provide updates. It urged members to use credit and identity theft monitoring resources.
The Senate email recommended that anyone registered on the health insurance exchange freeze their credit to prevent identity theft.
In an emailed statement, Rep. Joe Morelle of New York said House leadership was informed by Capitol Police that DC Health Link “suffered an extraordinarily large data breach of enrollee information” that posed a “great risk” to members, employees and their family members. “At this time the cause, size, and scope of the data breach impacting the DC Health Link still needs to be determined by the FBI,” Morelle said.
The hack follows several recent breaches affecting U.S. agencies. Hackers broke into a U.S. Marshals Service computer system and activated ransomware on Feb. 17 after stealing personally identifiable data about agency employees and targets of investigations.
An FBI computer system was recently breached at the bureau’s New York field office, CNN reported in mid-February. Asked about that intrusion, the FBI issued a statement calling it “an isolated incident that has been contained.” It declined further comment, including when it occurred and whether ransomware was involved.
There was no indication the Health breach was ransomware-related.
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AP Technology Writer Frank Bajak in Boston contributed to this report. | 2023-03-09T22:04:12+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/technology/ap-technology/congress-members-warned-of-significant-health-data-breach/ |
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors will retry “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson on three rape counts after a hopelessly deadlocked jury led to a mistrial in his first trial in November.
The move comes despite prosecutors failing to get even half of the previous jury to vote to convict on any of the counts against Masterson, who is charged with the rape of three women, including a former girlfriend, at his home between 2001 and 2003.
“We are pleased that Danny Masterson will not be permitted to simply escape criminal accountability,” two of the three women and the husband of one said in a joint statement released through their attorneys. “Despite suffering years of intimidation and harassment, we are completely committed to participating in the next criminal trial.”
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused.
The judge tentatively set the retrial to begin in late March.
The 46-year-old Masterson had no comment to reporters outside court after Tuesday’s hearing, and his attorney did not respond to an email requesting comment.
He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer has said the acts were all consensual.
The Church of Scientology played a major role during the monthlong trial, with Masterson a member and all three women former members. Prosecutors said the church dissuaded them from going public for years, which the church has denied.
The charges date to a period when Masterson was at the height of his fame, starring from 1998 until 2006 as Steven Hyde on Fox’s “That ’70s Show.” The show made stars of Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace and is getting an upcoming Netflix reboot with “That ’90s Show.”
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PHOTOS: At this Hawaii hospital, most of the patients are endangered
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - The Hawaii Wildlife Center cares for critical species ― native birds and bats that come to the Big Island animal hospital either sick or injured.
The center’s founder and president, Linda Elliot, said there are currently 40 animals at the hospital located in North Kohala.
“You never know from day to day what you’re going to get in as a patient,” she said.
The non-profit treats its patients for problems ranging from bodily injuries to poisonings. It could be a nene goose or a Hawaiian hoary bat that needs help.
HWC’s team of veterinarians nurse them back to health.
“We know that when they’re in care it’s not normal for them,” Elliott said. “They’re not like our domestic animals that like to be held or petted or talked to.”
The need to rehabilitate injured animals has grown by leaps and bounds. The center also takes in patients from Midway and Kure atolls, two ring-shaped reefs located in the Pacific ocean.
Elliott said since the center opened, HWC has cared for close to 3,000 birds and bats.
“We treat them and get them back into the wild,” she said.
This year marks the wildlife center’s 10-year anniversary. Its release rate is more than 80%.
“Our happiest moment is when we release them back into the wild and they fly away without looking back. Then we know we’ve done what we needed to do to get them back out,” Elliott said.
HWC depends on grants and contributions from businesses and individuals to continue the important work.
Its small staff receives help from volunteers and veterinarians statewide who assist with medical treatment and transportation.
“We always look for training new people within our own community, within the state, so that we have the expertise here to protect our native biodiversity,” Elliott said.
The Hawaii Wildlife Center cares for a lot more native birds and bats than Elliott envisioned it would when the hospital opened a decade ago, and that need is never-ending.
For more information or to donate, visit the Hawaii Wildlife Center website.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Longy School of Music of Bard College student, pianist, and composer Arson Fahim has curated a concert in celebration of Afghanistan's rich musical legacy. Presented by Longy, "Concert in Solidarity with Afghan Musicians" will take place in person at Cambridge First Church on March 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. ET—the eve of Nowruz, the Persian New Year—and will be free and open to the public.
Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Arson, 22, is a citizen of Afghanistan. He arrived in the US just two weeks before the Taliban took control of Kabul in the summer of 2021. He has organized this concert to raise awareness for musicians in Afghanistan who have suffered or are suffering inhumane Taliban persecution.
Says Arson: "Musicians in Afghanistan have lost everything. They're not allowed to play music. They're not allowed to work. That shouldn't be acceptable to anyone, anywhere—especially to artists of those countries with the ability to raise their voice."
"My brave colleagues in Afghanistan who risk their lives to be musicians are the essence of what it means to be an artist. They fight extremists and fundamentalists like the Taliban with their instruments. Their music is a symbol of hope, change and love."
"Concert in Solidarity with Afghan Musicians" will feature arrangements of traditional Afghan music as well as music by Afghan composers, including original compositions by Arson and Longy classmate Qudrat Wasefi. Arson has also invited The Oxford University Orchestra (OUO), who will be on tour in the United States, to join the performance. The concert will feature both small-ensemble and full-orchestra performances with the OUO, including music played on the traditional Afghan rubab as well as the commonly used tabla.
Since arriving, Arson has continually used his platform in the Longy community to raise awareness for Afghan artists. His original composition "Journey to the Sea" was recently featured by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) as part of their A Place to Call Home series, a season-long exploration of music by displaced composers. "Journey to the Sea" was Arson's final composition before leaving Kabul.
A Place to Call Home features the music of exiled composers across the world, exploring what "home" means through the music of those whose lives have been uprooted. "I don't think we believe that great art can improve or change people's attitudes," said LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets to The Sunday Times. "But what music can do is help us engage emotionally with these issues."
Taking place at London's Royal Festival Hall, the November 26 production featured performances by the LPO and young musicians from their Foyle Future Firsts development program. This comes one month after the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performed Longy Composition student Hsiu-Ping (Patrick) Wu's orchestral work "Whispers of Jukai." Both Wu and Fahim are recipients of Equity Scholarships at Longy.
"We at Longy are immensely proud of Arson's work, his drive and his empathy. It is an honor for us to provide a platform for his imperative message and to aid him in delivering it to the world," says Karen Zorn, President of Longy School of Music. "Arson represents the best of Longy: a community of determined citizen-musicians using their artistry to make a difference in the world."
Longy School of Music of Bard College has reimagined conservatory education.
The school is leading the seismic shift to center music as social change, expanding the world's understanding of what a life in music can mean. Longy prepares students to engage audiences; teach anyone, anywhere; and make a difference with their music.
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Red Sox vs. Tigers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - April 8
Published: Apr. 8, 2023 at 10:48 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
Saturday's contest features the Boston Red Sox (3-4) and the Detroit Tigers (2-5) facing off at Comerica Park (on April 8) at 4:10 PM. This matchup, according to our computer prediction, will result in a 6-4 win for the Red Sox.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Boston Red Sox will send Tanner Houck (1-0) to the mound, while Joey Wentz (0-1) will get the nod for the Detroit Tigers.
Red Sox vs. Tigers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan
- How to Watch on TV: BSDET
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Red Sox vs. Tigers Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Red Sox 6, Tigers 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Tigers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- The Red Sox have entered the game as favorites seven times this season and won three of those games.
- Boston has a record of 3-3 in games when sportsbooks favor them by at least -140 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Red Sox, based on the moneyline, is 58.3%.
- Boston has scored the fifth-most runs in the majors this season with 41.
- The Red Sox have the 26th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (5.57).
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When you consider the most valuable qualities of life, what do they distill to? Maybe a familiar home, enough to eat, companionship, music. The first two are about staying alive. The second two are about living.
And Vin Scully provided three of those qualities for an awful lot of people in his seven decades as the most beloved broadcaster who ever lived before passing on Wednesday at age 94. His presence was like an old friend, his voice an everchanging melody. | 2022-08-05T11:55:15+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2022/08/vin-scully-called-a-ballgame-like-he-was-always-in-his-favorite-easy-chair-telling-you-a-story-jones.html |
BEIJING, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
"In the first quarter of 2023, Baidu Core delivered a solid performance, with year-on-year revenue growth accelerating from previous quarters, supporting operating margin improvement through operating leverage," said Robin Li, Co-founder and CEO of Baidu. "We believe the emergence of generative AI and large language model presents a transformative potential of AI in various industries, to help people and organizations to achieve more and to place a positive impact on society. In light of this trend, Baidu has introduced its ERNIE Bot in China, which we plan to steadily incorporate into all our businesses. This will empower our products and offerings, drawing in a larger user and customer base, while allowing us to establish a new ecosystem around the ERNIE Bot for the new era. It will also enable us to drive long-term, sustainable growth."
"Non-GAAP operating margin of Baidu Core expanded to 23% in the quarter, up from 17% in the same period last year and 21% in the previous quarter, driven by our ability to leverage our operations effectively," said Rong Luo, CFO of Baidu. "Generative AI represents a new paradigm shift in the AI, and Baidu is poised to take advantage of this massive market opportunity. Baidu will continue to invest unwaveringly in this area in the coming quarters."
Operational Highlights
Corporate
- Baidu returned US$195 million to shareholders in Q1 2023.
- Baidu released its annual ESG Report on May 12, 2023, which details Baidu's latest ESG policies and sustainability initiatives (https://esg.baidu.com/ESG/Baidu_2022_ESG_Report.pdf).
Intelligent Driving
- Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service, provided around 660K rides in the first quarter of 2023, up 236% year over year and 18% quarter over quarter.
- Apollo Go received Beijing's first permits to operate ride-hailing services with no driver or safety operator in the vehicles, on March 17, 2023.
Other Growth Initiatives
- Xiaodu ranked No.1 in smart display shipments and smart speaker shipments in China for 2022, according to IDC and Canalys.
Mobile Ecosystem
- In March, Baidu App's MAUs reached 657 million, up 4% year over year.
- Managed Page accounted for 49% of Baidu Core's online marketing revenue in the first quarter of 2023.
iQIYI
- iQIYI's average daily number of total subscribing members for the quarter was 129 million, compared to 101 million for the first quarter of 2022 and 112 million for the fourth quarter of 2022.
First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Total revenues were RMB 31.1 billion ($4.54 billion), increasing 10% year over year.
- Revenue from Baidu Core was RMB 23.0 billion ($3.35 billion), increasing 8% year over year; online marketing revenue was RMB 16.6 billion ($2.42 billion), up 6% year over year, and non-online marketing revenue was RMB 6.4 billion ($928 million), up 11% year over year.
- Revenue from iQIYI was RMB 8.3 billion ($1.22 billion), increasing 15% year over year.
Cost of revenues was RMB 15.2 billion ($2.21 billion), decreasing 3% year over year, primarily due to a decrease in content costs, bandwidth costs and cost of goods sold, partially offset by the increase of traffic acquisition costs.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were RMB 5.6 billion ($814 million), increasing 20% year over year, primarily due to an increase in channel spending and promotional marketing expenses.
Research and development expense was RMB 5.4 billion ($790 million), decreasing 3% year over year, primarily due to a decrease in personnel related expense.
Operating income was RMB 5.0 billion ($725 million). Baidu Core operating income was RMB 4.1 billion ($596 million), and Baidu Core operating margin was 18%. Non-GAAP operating income was RMB 6.4 billion ($936 million). Non-GAAP Baidu Core operating income was RMB 5.4 billion ($781 million), and non-GAAP Baidu Core operating margin was 23%.
Total other income, net was RMB 2.6 billion ($378 million), which mainly included a fair value gain of RMB 1.5 billion from long-term investments. Total other loss, net was RMB 3.0 billion for the same period last year, which mainly included a fair value loss of RMB 3.0 billion from long-term investments. A significant portion of long-term investments, including but not limited to investments in equity securities of public and private companies, private equity funds, is subject to quarterly fair value adjustments, which may contribute to net income volatility in future periods.
Income tax expense was RMB 1.2 billion ($174 million), increasing 205% year over year, primarily due to an increase in profit before tax.
Net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 5.8 billion ($848 million), and diluted earnings per ADS was RMB 15.92 ($2.32). Net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 5.5 billion ($803 million), and net margin for Baidu Core was 24%. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 5.7 billion ($834 million). Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS was RMB 16.10 ($2.34). Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 5.3 billion ($767 million), and non-GAAP net margin for Baidu Core was 23%.
Adjusted EBITDA was RMB 8.1 billion ($1.19 billion) and adjusted EBITDA margin was 26%. Adjusted EBITDA for Baidu Core was RMB 7.0 billion ($1.02 billion) and adjusted EBITDA margin for Baidu Core was 30%.
As of March 31, 2023, cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments were RMB 194.0 billion ($28.25 billion), and cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments excluding iQIYI were RMB 188.8 billion ($27.49 billion). Free cash flow was RMB 4.5 billion ($661 million), and free cash flow excluding iQIYI was RMB 3.5 billion ($515 million).
Conference Call Information
Baidu's management will hold an earnings conference call at 8 AM on May 16, 2023, U.S. Eastern Time (8 PM on May 16, 2023, Beijing Time).
Please register in advance of the conference call using the link provided below. It will automatically direct you to the registration page of "Baidu Inc Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call". Please follow the steps to enter your registration details, then click "Register". Upon registering, you will then be provided with the dial-in number, the passcode, and your unique access PIN. This information will also be emailed to you as a calendar invite.
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Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at https://ir.baidu.com.
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, trading on NASDAQ under "BIDU" and HKEX under "9888". One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A ordinary shares.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Among other things, Baidu's and other parties' strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. Baidu may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in announcements made on the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about Baidu's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: Baidu's growth strategies; its future business development, including development of new products and services; its ability to attract and retain users and customers; competition in the Chinese Internet search and newsfeed market; competition for online marketing customers; changes in the Company's revenues and certain cost or expense items as a percentage of its revenues; the outcome of ongoing, or any future, litigation or arbitration, including those relating to intellectual property rights; the expected growth of the Chinese-language Internet search and newsfeed market and the number of Internet and broadband users in China; Chinese governmental policies relating to the Internet and Internet search providers, and general economic conditions in China and elsewhere. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and announcements on the website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Baidu does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of the press release, and Baidu undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement Baidu's consolidated financial results presented in accordance with GAAP, Baidu uses the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP operating income (loss), non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income (loss) attributable to Baidu, non-GAAP net margin, non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin and free cash flow. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
Baidu believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding its performance and liquidity by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of its recurring core business operating results, such as operating performance excluding non-cash charges or non-operating in nature. The Company believes that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning and forecasting future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal comparisons to Baidu's historical performance and liquidity. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision making. A limitation of using these non-GAAP financial measures is that these non-GAAP measures exclude certain items that have been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant component in the Company's results of operations. These non-GAAP financial measures presented here may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures to the Company's data.
Non-GAAP operating income represents operating income excluding share-based compensation expenses, amortization and impairment of intangible assets resulting from business combinations.
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu represents net income attributable to Baidu excluding share-based compensation expenses, amortization and impairment of intangible assets resulting from business combinations, disposal gain or loss, impairment of long-term investments, fair value change of long-term investments, adjusted for related income tax effects. Baidu's share of equity method investments for these non-GAAP reconciling items, amortization and impairment of intangible assets not on the investees' books, accretion of their redeemable non-controlling interests, and the gain or loss associated with the issuance of shares by the investees at a price higher or lower than the carrying value per shares, adjusted for related income tax effects, are also excluded.
Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS represents diluted earnings per ADS calculated by dividing non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu, by the weighted average number of ordinary shares expressed in ADS. Adjusted EBITDA represents operating income excluding depreciation, amortization and impairment of intangible assets resulting from business combinations, and share-based compensation expenses.
For more information on non-GAAP financial measures, please see the tables captioned "Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measure.
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SOURCE Baidu, Inc. | 2023-05-16T09:58:15+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/05/16/baidu-announces-first-quarter-2023-results/ |
Purdue’s Zach Edey and Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis have given the Big Ten Conference a third straight year with multiple first-team Associated Press All-America picks, while Kansas had a second straight first-teamer in Jalen Wilson.
The 7-foot-4, 305-pound Edey appeared on all 58 ballots as a first-team selection from AP Top 25 voters as the lone unanimous pick in results released Tuesday.
The selections of the Boilermakers’ Edey and the Hoosiers’ Jackson-Davis came a year after the Big Ten had three first-team picks. And it gave the league seven through the last three seasons; no other league has more than three.
The Big Ten has had at least one first-teamer for five straight years and eight of the last nine.
Houston’s Marcus Sasser and Alabama’s Brandon Miller joined Edey and Wilson on the first team in representing each of the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 seeds.
Edey has commanded the national spotlight all year. The Big Ten player of the year ranks sixth nationally in scoring (22.3), second in rebounding (12.8) and first in double-doubles (26).
“Everybody goes: ‘You go to him so much,’” Purdue coach Matt Painter said after the Big Ten Tournament title win against Penn State. “If they call it by the rules, they’re fouling him on every possession. So why shouldn’t we get it to him and just try to get in that bonus early and steal points?
“Obviously he can make tough post-ups and he can get at the rim, and he gets offensive rebounds when you take him away.”
Jackson-Davis, a 6-9 fourth-year forward, is Indiana’s first first-team selection since Victor Oladipo in 2013. He’s averaging 20.8 points and 10.9 rebounds while taking a leap with his passing (4.1 assists, up from 1.9 last year).
“I probably have pushed him harder than any player on this team and I know there’s been days that he’s walked out of here thinking that, ‘Hey, is this guy really in my corner, based on how he’s pushing me?’” coach Mike Woodson said. “But at the end of the day, he’s gotten better as a player.
“We have benefited from it, you know, with our ballclub, in terms of how we played as a team. And he’s been the driving force behind it.”
Wilson, a 6-8 fourth-year forward, was a returning complementary starter from last year’s NCAA title run. He thrived in an expanded role, becoming Big 12 player of the year and nearly doubling his scoring average (20.1, up from 11.1) to go with 8.4 rebounds.
It marked the fourth time in seven seasons that the Jayhawks had a first-team pick going back to national player of the year Frank Mason III in 2017.
“He’s an elite competitor,” Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger said after a Big 12 Tournament loss to the Jayhawks. “He gets to the glass. He makes cuts. He makes it hard. He does so many things.”
Sasser, a 6-2 senior, was a starter on the Cougars’ Final Four team two years ago and is the star of another title threat this year. He’s averaging 17.1 points as the program’s first first-team selection since Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984 during the “Phi Slama Jama” era.
Miller, a 6-9 freshman, was a McDonald’s All-American who became an immediate star on the way to being named the Southeastern Conference player of the year. He’s averaging 19.6 points and 8.3 rebounds for the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed.
Miller has been involved in a murder case that has overshadowed the Crimson Tide’s successful run, leading to capital murder charges against former Alabama player Darius Miles and another man for the January shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris. A police investigator testified last month that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun that night, though authorities haven’t charged Miller with any crime.
SECOND TEAM
Pac-12 player of the year Jaime Jaquez Jr. of UCLA was the leading vote-getter on the second team that included Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe, last season’s AP national player of the year.
Gonzaga’s Drew Timme was a second-team selection for the third straight year, while Arizona’s Azuolas Tubelis and Penn State’s Jalen Pickett rounded out the second quintet.
THIRD TEAM
Kansas State’s surge led to the Wildcats earning third-team selections in Markquis Nowell and Keyontae Johnson, their first AP All-Americans since Jacob Pullen in 2011.
Big East player of the year Tyler Kolek of Marquette, Iowa’s Kris Murray and North Carolina’s Armando Bacot rounded out the third team.
HONORABLE MENTION
National scoring leader Antoine Davis of Detroit Mercy, who averaged 28.2 points and fell three points shy of tying “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s all-time career scoring record, was the leading vote-getter among players who didn’t make the three All-America teams.
Players earned honorable-mention status if they appeared on multiple voters’ ballots. This year’s list includes Memphis’ Kendric Davis, Xavier’s Souley Boum and Miami’s Isaiah Wong.
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AP Sports Writer Mike Marot in Indianapolis contributed to this report.
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New York Red Bulls (14-9-8, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York City FC (13-11-7, fourth in the Eastern Conference)
The Bronx, New York; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: NYCFC +130, New York +199, Draw +240; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: New York City FC faces the New York Red Bulls in Eastern Conference play.
NYCFC is 9-10-4 against Eastern Conference opponents. NYCFC has a 5-0-1 record in games it records more than two goals.
The Red Bulls are 11-6-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. The Red Bulls are seventh in the MLS drawing 163 corner kicks, averaging 5.3 per game.
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. NYCFC won the last meeting 1-0.
TOP PERFORMERS: Heber has seven goals for NYCFC. Gabriel Pereira has scored three goals over the last 10 games.
Lewis Morgan has scored 14 goals with three assists for the Red Bulls. Tom Barlow has two goals over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: NYCFC: 1-7-2, averaging one goal, 4.1 shots on goal and 4.6 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game.
Red Bulls: 5-3-2, averaging 1.7 goals, 4.4 shots on goal and four corner kicks per game while allowing 1.5 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: NYCFC: Nicolas Acevedo (injured), Thiago Martins Bueno (injured), Maxime Chanot (injured), Alfredo Morales (injured), Anton Tinnerholm (injured).
Red Bulls: Serge Ngoma (injured), Cameron Harper (injured), Frankie Amaya (injured), Zach Ryan (injured), Dru Yearwood (injured), Patryk Klimala (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-09-16T07:12:46+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/New-York-City-FC-hosts-the-New-York-Red-Bulls-in-17445689.php |
Judge to weigh whether Trump’s New York criminal case should be moved to federal court
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to move his criminal case in New York out of the state court, where he was indicted, to a federal court where he could potentially try to get the case dismissed.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will listen to the afternoon arguments, though he isn’t expected to immediately rule.
Trump’s lawyers sought to move the case to Manhattan federal court soon after Trump pleaded not guilty in April to charges that he falsified his company’s business records to hide hush money payouts aimed at burying allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
While requests to move criminal cases from state to federal court are rarely granted, the prosecution of Trump is unprecedented.
The Republican’s lawyers say the charges, while related to his private company’s records, involve things he did while he was president. U.S. law allows criminal prosecutions to be removed from state court if they involve actions taken by federal government officials as part of their official duties.
Trump is alleged to have falsified records to cover up payments made in 2017 to his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to compensate him for orchestrating payouts in 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Trump has denied having had affairs with either woman.
Trump’s lawyers have said those payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses and not part of any cover-up.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which brought the case, has argued that nothing about the payoffs to either Cohen or the women involved Trump’s official duties as president.
If a judge agrees to move the case to federal court, Trump’s lawyers could then try to get the case dismissed on the grounds that federal officials are immune from criminal prosecution over actions they take as part of their official job duties.
Moving the case to federal court would also mean that jurors would potentially be drawn not only from Manhattan, where Trump is wildly unpopular, but also a handful of suburban counties north of the city where he has more political support.
In state court, a criminal trial was set for March 25 in the thick of the primary season before next year’s November presidential election.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg pursued the case after Trump left office. Trump is the first former president ever charged with a crime.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Naftali Group, a leading privately held global real estate development and investment firm based in New York, which is partnering with Access Industries, a U.S.-based industrial group with global strategic investments, today announced a significant construction loan for the transformative Williamsburg waterfront development at 470 Kent Avenue. Together, the firms have closed on a $385 million construction financing package for the Brooklyn property, which will include three buildings reaching as tall as 22 stories at 470 Kent Avenue with approximately more than 645,000 square feet of space and 561 total units between them, as well as approximately 19,000 square feet of commercial space across all buildings. The project broke ground already and is estimated to be completed in 2025.
The $385 million financing package consists of a $310 million senior mortgage loan provided by Bank OZK and $75 million mezzanine financing provided by Barings.
"We are pleased to partner with Access Industries on this very special project and have the confidence of our lenders," said Miki Naftali, CEO and Chairman of Naftali Group. "We showed our support and confidence in the future of New York City during COVID and continue to do so. All our projects are well received, and we are very excited to introduce a waterfront lifestyle to future residences in this highly desirable Williamsburg location. Based on our proven track record, we are committed to long-term investments in New York City as reflected in our three record-breaking buildings over the past two years, including the acquisition of 470 Kent in 2020."
"Naftali Group consistently designs and builds the highest quality residential buildings in Manhattan, and we are thrilled to partner with them on 470 Kent Avenue," said Jonah Sonnenborn, Head of Real Estate at Access Industries. "This project will transform and bring a new life to the Williamsburg waterfront, and we are excited to work with Naftali and our lenders to bring this vision to fruition."
"Barings is pleased to provide financing to the high caliber team of Naftali Group and Access Industries. We share the sponsor's conviction in the New York City market and are delighted to support their long term investment in Brooklyn," said Jonathan Neff, Managing Director, Barings Real Estate. "This investment represented an attractive opportunity based upon the strong sponsorship, trophy quality and irreplaceable location. In the midst of an extremely challenging environment, Barings is committed to providing creative financing solutions for top tier sponsors and construction projects across the US."
470 Kent – which Naftali Group acquired in 2020 as one of the last developable sites on the Williamsburg waterfront – will transform a rare parcel overlooking the East River. Adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and located on the prominent corner of Kent Avenue between South 11th Street and Division Avenue in South Williamsburg, 470 Kent is within walking distance to the water's edge, which offers commuter services to and from Manhattan in less than 20 minutes from the South Williamsburg Ferry Terminal, as well as a host of subway lines including the J, M and Z trains. The Williamsburg Bridge, with easy access to Manhattan, is nearby.
One of the most active developers in New York City, Naftali Group successfully launched and sold out three luxury condo projects in Manhattan since 2020. The Benson, located at 1045 Madison introduced the first new luxury condominium building on famed Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side in more than 25 years and became the fastest-selling post-pandemic building. After launching with 30% of residences already sold in October 2021, 200 East 83rd – Naftali's 500-foot residential tower developed in partnership with The Rockefeller Group – reported the highest number of luxury contracts signed in Manhattan for multiple consecutive months, earning the building recognition as one of the top-selling residential projects in New York City and in Upper East Side history. The building's Penthouse A, asking $27.5M, went into contract last November, shattering real estate records for Third Avenue. In early 2022, the building topped the very record it had just set with an even more expensive contract for the most exclusive unit at 200 East 83rd, Penthouse C, asking $32.5M. The Bellemont at 1165 Madison Avenue broke records with a penthouse sale of $65.5 million only weeks after opening and is projected to start closings in Q2 of 2023.
Naftali Group, a privately held global real estate development and investment firm based in New York City, has a prestigious track record, having led some of the most significant developments and landmark restorations. Founded and led by Miki Naftali, Naftali Group is highly specialized in identifying and acquiring undervalued properties in premier geographic areas with strong potential growth while maximizing the value of unique and irreplaceable assets. Naftali Group pursues strategic acquisitions and continuously grows its extensive portfolio of new development condominiums, income-producing, mixed-use properties, and other assets. Through innovation and discipline, Naftali is recognized as a leading developer with a current and past portfolio comprised of more than 37 projects encompassing more than $12 billion in total value. Visit: https://naftaligroup.com/
Access Industries is a privately held investment company based in New York City. Founded and led by Len Blavatnik, the firm makes strategic investments to develop regional and global leaders in five target industries: industrials, media and telecommunications, real estate, technology/venture capital, and biotechnology.
Access' current commercial real estate portfolio currently comprises of thirty-two investments in the residential, office, hospitality and industrial sectors, totaling over ten million square feet across the U.S., Europe and South America. Access' extensive portfolio is a combination of ground-up, mixed-use developments in high-barrier to entry locations that are neighborhood transformational, and value add, income producing assets that generate an attractive risk-adjusted return.
As a capital partner in operating assets, Access has extensive experience working with world-class developers, operators, property managers, brokers and lenders to generate strong returns. Access distinguishes itself from other investors, due to its long-term, permanent capital and ability to transact quickly on complex opportunities. This competitive advantage, coupled with extensive debt capital markets experience and strong lender relationships with the leading financial institutions, allows Access and its partners to optimize returns through the economic cycle.
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Staying Hot with Rain Chances
Published: Jul. 21, 2022 at 6:02 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - A few hit and miss storms remain in the forecast for tonight and Friday. Look for highs on Friday to be a little warmer than today as highs are back near 100. We’ll be above 100 this weekend with an increased threat for fires.
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Recognition honors Calloquy's innovative approach to building the future of litigation – both for those who practice law and for those most in need.
ATLANTA, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Calloquy, PBC, the first remote litigation platform designed for litigators, has been named to the National Law Journal's 2023 list of Legal Technology Trailblazers. The annual list recognizes companies that are changing the way law firms and legal organizations operate by developing and delivering innovative solutions that improve the practice of law.
"We are very proud to be included among this year's National Law Journal Legal Technology Trailblazers," said David Carter, CEO and Founder of Calloquy. "In past years, the great majority of innovations profiled on NLJ's Trailblazers list were tools built by well-established legal technology companies or the world's largest law firms – in other words, companies that already have decades of experience and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. The fact that Calloquy is being honored in this way is a testament to the extraordinary team of dedicated professionals we have brought together and to the sense of purpose that each bring to our work every day."
The Calloquy platform is designed to make it easier for remote and hybrid litigation teams to collaborate throughout the life cycle of a complex case, whether it is the everyday strategy sessions and witness interviews or critical depositions, mediations, or arbitrations. The platform delivers an intuitive videoconferencing interface and evidence management system with a level of formality and security befitting the litigation and dispute resolution processes. Calloquy also offers its clients secure court reporting services, making virtual depositions and arbitrations seamless.
Calloquy has been designed with input from lawyers, judges, paralegals, and court reporters and beta tested with litigators from AmLaw 100 firms and legal service organizations.
"Not only did Calloquy reach out to us for input on the design of this amazing tool, their generosity in allowing us and our network of volunteer attorneys to use the environment goes a very long way towards increasing access to justice and ensuring that legal service organizations and the communities we serve have top-notch resources in the pursuit of equal justice," said Michael Lucas, Executive Director of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, one of the country's preeminent public interest law firms. "We are grateful to be part of the Calloquy network and are excited to see how Calloquy's innovative disruption of the legal tech industry continues to promote access to justice along the way," added Lucas.
Calloquy is an Atlanta-based public benefit company (PBC) with 60+ employees. Calloquy is headquartered in Atlanta with offices in Dallas, Texas and Tustin, California.
ABOUT CALLOQUY
Calloquy is the first virtual legal proceedings platform intentionally built for the way litigation is practiced now. Its technology and court reporting services empower attorneys to conduct and manage legal proceedings more effectively and securely, while increasing productivity and reducing costs. The company is helping to shape The Next Era of LitigationTM by combining legal industry-specific videoconferencing technology, world-class security, highly professional court reporting services, and an access-to-justice social mission. Calloquy is a Public Benefit Corporation, and its commercial litigation clients fuel that mission by enabling the company to provide free platform access to legal service organizations and pro bono cases. For more information visit www.calloquy.com.
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HOUSTON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD) ("Weatherford," the "Company," "we," "us," and "our") announced today the release of its inaugural Sustainability Report, which details its strategic approach to advancing environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") objectives and highlights its recent accomplishments.
Sustainable operations have always been at the core of how Weatherford runs its business. We invite you to explore the following sections to learn more about our collective impact in 2021 and continued focus areas:
- About Weatherford: Learn about our approach to ESG and sustainability.
- Environment: We aspire to be stewards of the environment through technologies, products, and services that enable our customers and our business to operate in ways that minimize the impact on the environment, mitigate risks, and increase sustainability.
- Social: Our One Weatherford team is our most critical asset, and vital to our sustained long-term success. Fostering an environment where team members can thrive both individually, and as part of the Company is a top priority for the organization.
- Governance: Our commitment to responsible governance is grounded in our core values, which begins with the Board and permeates throughout the organization. To ensure a responsible Weatherford, we have established a strong culture of ethics, compliance, and risk management policies and processes across our value chain.
Girish Saligram, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We believe energy matters more than ever, and we are committed to building a more sustainable future with greater focus on transparency and the responsible management of ESG priorities. We are actively building the new Weatherford, and with it, our contribution towards a more sustainable world. I invite you to learn about our commitment in the 2021 Sustainability Report and we look forward to keeping our valued stakeholders informed of our progress in this space."
The 2021 Sustainability Report is available on the Company's website.
About Weatherford
Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Operating in approximately 75 countries, the Company answers the challenges of the energy industry with its global talent network of approximately 17,000 team members and approximately 350 operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities.
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For Media:
Kelley Hughes
Director, Global Communications
+1 713-836-4193
Media@weatherford.com
For Investors:
Mohammed Topiwala
Director, Investor Relations and M&A
+1 713-836-7777
investor.relations@weatherford.com
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, February 5, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley CA
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111 PM PST Sun Feb 5 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central Tulare
County through 145 PM PST...
At 111 PM PST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
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miles north of Woodlake, or 17 miles northeast of Visalia, moving
southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
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IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of north central
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Tulare County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
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shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
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LAT...LON 3655 11922 3662 11908 3652 11903 3647 11913
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 331DEG 7KT 3652 11912
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Snow showers producing bands of heavy snow. Additional
snow accumulations of 1 to 4 inches, except 2 to 6 inches above
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7000 feet. Wind gusts up to 35 mph, with gusts to 75 mph along
the Sierra crest. Waves 1 to 3 feet on Lake Tahoe.
* WHERE...Greater Lake Tahoe Area.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PST this evening.
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* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Gusty winds could
bring down tree branches.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A 15% chance for thunderstorms remain
possible in the Sierra through sunset.
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many hours. If you must travel, prepare for long delays and carry
an emergency kit with extra food, water and clothing. If you stay
home, have a backup plan in case of power outages.
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snow accumulations of 1 to 2 inches, except up to 4 inches above
7000 feet. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph in valley locations
with up to 75 mph along the Sierra crest.
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* WHERE...Mono County.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Strong winds could
cause tree damage.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS
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* WHAT...Periods of snow showers. Additional snow accumulations
of up to two inches.
* WHERE...Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers face felony charges for allegedly shooting and seriously wounding an unarmed man during a July shootout on the city’s southwest side that also wounded a second man, authorities said Friday.
Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos, 43, and Officer Ruben Reynoso, 42, have been charged with one count each of aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and official misconduct, said Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx.
Foxx said the officers were relieved of their police powers on Thursday before they turned themselves in to authorities. Both were slated to appear for a Friday afternoon bond court hearing, she said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the officers have attorneys who could speak on their behalf.
Foxx said both officers “are being charged with having fired their shots" that wounded an unarmed 23-year-old man on July 22 in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood. That man has since recovered and is cooperating with the investigation, she said.
“The victim who was shot and injured in this incident was not in possession of a weapon, nor did he fire a weapon at these two officers,” Foxx said during a news conference.
After the shooting, police said in a statement that two officers who had observed four people loitering in front of a closed store stopped to investigate and identified themselves as police.
Police said one of the four in the group then displayed a handgun and an exchange of gunfire ensued in which the 23-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds and was transported to a hospital in serious condition. A 36-year-old man who was passing by suffered a graze wound to the leg and was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said.
Foxx said that based on a review of the evidence, including video surveillance footage, prosecutors believe “the officers involved in this incident did not have provocation or justification to shoot the unarmed" 23-year-old man.
Foxx did not provide some of the details about what transpired, including whether the person who allegedly showed the officers a handgun actually fired on them, whether that person was arrested afterward and whether the wounded 23-year-old man was among the group police approached in front of the store. She said further details would read out during or after the bond hearing.
“The evidence does not support the use of deadly force related to the shooting of the unarmed victim, and was not lawful," Foxx said.
After the shooting, Foxx said, the two officers “made representations to legal authorities, including the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, that was directly contradicted by the videotaped evidence."
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the shooting and has a deadline of Sept. 22 to release materials related to the shooting, including videos, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. | 2022-09-16T18:34:02+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/2-Chicago-cops-charged-in-shooting-that-wounded-17446778.php |
WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, October 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
541 PM MST Sat Oct 15 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWESTERN LA PAZ,
NORTHEASTERN IMPERIAL AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES...
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 500 AM MST Sunday/500 AM PDT
Sunday for portions of southwest Arizona and California.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of San Bernardino and
Riverside Counties through 630 PM PDT...
At 542 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Yucaipa, moving southwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds up to 40 mph and pea size hail. Frequent lightning.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Riverside, Moreno Valley, Redlands, Yucaipa, Perris, Colton, western
Beaumont, March Airforce Base, Calimesa, Cherry Valley and Lake
Perris Recreation Area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3404 11700 3396 11694 3384 11727 3399 11733
TIME...MOT...LOC 0042Z 067DEG 17KT 3398 11706
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Union workers of Teamsters 542 are on strike
IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - The strike began on Tuesday morning at 3 a.m. Union workers allege that the owners of First Transit, Transdev are practicing unfair labor to the workers.
Union workers have been on standby for years with the strike due to the hope that they would get better working conditions every year.
Union workers say that the buses they use to transport the community have bad conditions such as no working air conditioning.
They also say that their salary pay is very unfair.
One union worker said the starting pay is about less than $16 per hour.
Teamsters 542 say that the strike will be ongoing until further notice.
For now, the busses are being operated by management and supervisors of First Transit, leaving about four to five operating buses in the Valley.
With an estimate of a two-hour wait at the bus stops.
Please check for the status of operating buses at imperialctc.org or call 760-482-2900. | 2023-04-25T21:12:37+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/local-news/2023/04/25/union-workers-of-teamsters-542-are-on-strike/ |
Fourth global annual study from Monitor Deloitte shows how strategy executives are driving change and growth and bridging gaps in their organizations and across ecosystems to solve complex problems
NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte today announced the results of the fourth annual "Global Chief Strategy Officer Survey," a study sponsored by Monitor Deloitte, the strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP, that provides unique insights into how the strategy function and the chief strategy officer role have evolved and the proactive steps organizations are taking to keep pace with the shifting markets.
The findings in this year's report center around three key themes:
The Strategy function and CSO role are modernizing and evolving
CSOs play a key role in guiding organization growth, profitability and in building resiliency. As organizations continue to adapt to the evolving environment, survey respondents noted structural and fundamental changes in their strategy functions. Specifically, they are more formalized (74% of respondents report a formal strategy function and personnel), larger in size (35% of organizations report having more than 10 dedicated personnel), and more agile.
The word for CSOs in 2023 is "Intersection"
CSOs are increasingly convening conversations at intersections both within and beyond their organizations. To drive actionable change and growth within their organization, CSOs have moved away from a centralized operating model and are increasingly operating at the enterprise level as well as the business unit and functional level. This federated structure, which increased in prevalence by 15% from 2021 to 2023, enables CSOs to work at the intersection of strategy and execution to drive business success and talent development. Outside of their organization, CSOs are active in determining their organization's role and participation in the business ecosystems that their organizations participate in. The benefits of ecosystem involvement are increasing, and the survey data shows a strong correlation between organization performance and ecosystem participation — Top performing organizations are more likely to adopt an ecosystem mindset, with 81% of CSOs at top-quartile organizations noting an active role in a business ecosystem.
CSOs at top-quartile and below-industry-average organizations operate differently
CSOs at top-quartile organizations tend to be more focused on forward-looking topics, while below-industry-average organizations are more inwardly focused on turning their businesses around. CSOs at top-quartile organizations spend more time in their roles as the adviser and special project leader, while those in below-industry-average organizations focus more on their role as the engineer, driving the implementation of strategy. Despite the differences, they similarly desire to shift some (12%) of their investment away from core and into growth areas to better prepare their organizations for the future. However, survey data shows that core investment has remained steady at 66% each year, likely due to the challenge of striking a delicate balance between innovation and stability as well as navigating the trade-off between long-term and short-term horizons.
"CSOs and their strategy teams are indispensable to the success of their organizations, bringing a cross-functional mindset and ability to drive growth that enables them to tackle today's unpredictable environment and tomorrow's challenges," said Gagan Chawla, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and business strategy leader for Monitor Deloitte. "This year's survey shows that they are transforming and evolving the strategy function to best operate in today's ever-changing climate, becoming more nimble, interconnected and innovative."
For the fourth edition of the CSO survey, Deloitte surveyed 117 respondents from 20 countries with a balanced representation across geographic locations and industries, coupled with interviews conducted with a varied set of CSOs.
For more information about Deloitte's strategy practice and the CSO study, please visit our website.
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Family loses everything in house fire after daughter killed in hit-and-run
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – A family is doing their best to keep it together after losing their daughter and their home within a matter of months.
Just three months ago, 25-year-old Aria Belen Ronquillo was killed in a hit-and-run while walking on the H-2 freeway.
On Tuesday, her loved ones lost their home to a fire.
Firefighters responded to the home on Ohai Place in Wahiawa.
Honolulu Fire Department said the cause of the fire was accidental and originated from the stovetop.
The family said they lost everything.
“We worked really hard to make sure we kept those memories of her and now I don’t really have any of those memories of her,” Mark Ronquillo said.
Ronquillo said he is still mourning the loss of his sister.
In their burned-out home, they found her urn. But everything she was remembered by was gone.
Their dogs, Mia and Blackie, were also killed in the fire.
“I’m not trying to think about it as much because I keep breaking down,” Mark Ronquillo said. “I don’t want to keep doing that.”
Mark Ronquillo and his parents are taking care of his late sister’s 3-year-old son, Luca.
Dennis Ronquillo, Aria Belen Ronquillo’s father, recalled what happened moments before the fire destroyed their home.
“My wife was cooking on the stove and when the grandson called her, she went to go see what’s going on, the stove burst into flames,” he said.
Dennis Ronquillo said he’s grateful his wife and grandson made it out safely.
“Losing my daughter in August... [My grandson] could have perished, my wife could have perished, I could have lost so much that it was unbearable,” he said.
Police said Aria Belen Ronquillo was walking on the H-2 Freeway when she apparently stepped into the lanes of traffic and was struck by a vehicle around 4:15 a.m.
The motorist is still unknown. The Ronquillo family is unsure why she was on the freeway.
“Me and my family are speculating and questioning as much as everybody else but as a family, we’re still grieving her death,” Dennis Ronquillo said.
But the Ronquillo family is thankful for the community’s support through both tragedies.
“To be honest, I don’t think I deserve it but just want to say thank you so much,” said Mark Ronquillo.
The Ronquillo family started a GoFundMe as they search for a new home and replace all that was lost in the fire.
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GlobalVetLink has added Equine Rabies Vaccination Certificates to the GlobalVetLink Compliance Assistant platform to further streamline compliance documentation processes
AMES, Iowa, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- September 28th is recognized as World Rabies Day and GlobalVetLink is excited to announce the timely addition of Equine Rabies Vaccination Certificates to the GlobalVetLink Compliance Assistant platform. This product enhancement provides a simple solution for equine veterinarians issuing rabies vaccination certificates to their equine clients.
Rabies is 100% fatal to horses and horses are nearly 4 times more likely to contract rabies than dogs. Equine owners are encouraged to vaccinate their horses annually to maintain immunity against rabies. The GVL Compliance Assistant platform now streamlines the process for issuing equine rabies vaccination certificates, further simplifying a veterinarian's day to day activities.
"We are excited to announce the addition of Equine Rabies Vaccination Certificates to the GVL Compliance Assistant platform," said Stacey Noe, Director of Product Management at GlobalVetLink. "Veterinarians love our dog and cat rabies vaccination certificates and the addition of equine to the rabies certificate feature means more veterinarians can take advantage of this simple solution."
The GlobalVetLink Compliance Assistant platform is used by over 10,000 veterinary practices for creation and electronic submission of compliant health records for companion, production, and equine focused practices. The GVL Pet TravelPass automates regulatory research with built-in intelligent rule checking to streamline International and Hawaii pet travel. This replaces time consuming manual research processes and eliminates mistakes that prevent many veterinary practices from offering pet travel documentation services. GVL Rabies Vaccination Certificates are available for Canine, Equine, and Feline patients and simplify the vaccination documentation process with the Compliance Assistant's simple workflow for certificate creation.
GlobalVetLink is the leading digital animal health company. Over 180 million animals per year in the pet travel, equine, and production animal sectors utilize GlobalVetLink's health records for state, federal, and international animal health compliance. Learn more at globalvetlink.com.
GlobalVetLink empowers and supports people to provide the best in animal care and safety. The GVL Compliance Assistant is a comprehensive SaaS platform designed to streamline animal health compliance for all veterinary practices. The Certificate Creator is the core of the platform and is managed by an intelligent Compliance Engine that verifies all certificates are compliant with state, federal and international rules and regulations. The GVL Health Record stores data for easy repeat certificate creation and ensures streamlined access to completed certificates. The Compliance Assistant platform automatically submits key animal health certificates to all 50 state animal health offices, and streamlines the submission to USDA-APHIS for international pet travel. Learn more at globalvetlink.com.
Product Inquiries: Stacey Noe, snoe@globalvetlink.com
Media Inquiries: Rebecca Haugland, 515-817-5075, rhaugland@globalvetlink.com
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is nearly ready to reveal his decision on entering the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, saying Sunday that he would make an announcement on May 22.
Scott didn’t definitively say that he’ll be announcing his official campaign, but he told those gathered at a downtown Charleston school during a town hall that he would be coming out with his decision at an event in about three weeks in North Charleston, which he calls home.
“It is time to make the final step,” Scott said to a room packed with cheering supporters, as well as a film crew, which a longtime Scott adviser said was gathering “content” for future use, a flick at a potential launch or campaign ad video.
“We will have a major announcement,” Scott added.
Scott, 57, has been inching ever closer to formally entering the GOP nomination race, where he would join other announced candidates, including former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and “anti-woke” biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Another of those is Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina governor who appointed Scott in 2012 to the Senate, where he is the sole Black Republican. Haley hasn’t commented on Scott’s potential entry into the race, while Scott has dismissed suggestions of any awkwardness in running against the former governor who appointed him to his Senate seat.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are among those considering launching their own presidential campaigns in the coming months.
Last month, Scott created an exploratory committee, a mechanism that allowed him to raise money for polling and travel related to making a determination on the race. In a video announcing that effort, Scott positioned himself as the antidote to the “radical left,” with a self-made success story as the son of a single mother who overcame poverty, and bemoaned Democratic leaders as needlessly dividing the country by fostering a “culture of grievance.”
“When I fought back against their liberal agenda, they called me a prop. A token. Because I disrupt their narrative,” he said in the video, which was shot on the site of Fort Sumter in his hometown of Charleston, where the Civil War’s first shots were fired. “I threaten their control.”
In February — a day after Haley’s official campaign launch — Scott kicked off a listening tour that has taken him to other early voting states, including Iowa and New Hampshire, where he’s held events ranging from political meetings with evangelical pastors to town halls and speeches. In his time on the trail, Scott has tried to present a more positive vision for the future than many of his potential rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Scott told The Associated Press in Iowa that voters he has spoken with respond favorably to his optimistic outlook for the country and his conservative ideals.
“I think my candidacy is really designed around what the American people want to talk about, what their priorities are and what their issues are,” Scott told AP.
If Scott enters the race, he would have just over one month to raise money before the end of the second quarter, with more candidates in the GOP field intensifying the competition for donor dollars.
But Scott has already proven that he can attract significant money. A pro-Scott super PAC, Opportunity Matters Fund, spent more than $20 million to help Republicans in 2022 and reported $13 million-plus on hand to start 2023. Tech billionaire Larry Ellison has donated at least $30 million to the organization since 2021, according to federal filings.
Sunday’s town hall took place at Meeting Street Academy, part of a charter school network founded by one of Scott’s top donors, Charleston philanthropist Ben Navarro. Scott was introduced by South Carolina businessman and longtime supporter Mike Johnson, who is serving as a national finance co-chair for Scott and a day after the planned May 22 announcement is hosting a day-long “call day and retreat” with Scott supporters.
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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP | 2023-05-01T11:45:13+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/tim-scott-sets-may-22-announcement-for-2024-presidential-bid/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics (Nasdaq: IDEX), a global company focused on accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles (EV), today announced that its subsidiary Solectrac secured significant new business-to-business contracts to supply electric tractors to customers operating large fleets. Solectrac has provided a combined total of 17 powerful, zero-emission and quiet e25 tractors to the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources and a leading private sector plant nursery.
"Our sustained investment to grow the Solectrac brand means that right now we are uniquely positioned to meet the big orders for electric tractors from large fleet operators," said Robin Mackie, Ideanomics Mobility president. "This is an important, new revenue stream for us, building on the strong value already coming from the fast-growing Solectrac dealer network."
Capitalizing on momentum, Solectrac is pursuing several high-value opportunities to supply its tractors to leading agricultural companies. These large volume sales will be conducted directly with customers or collaborating with Solectrac dealers. Solectrac targets specialty agriculture, parks, municipalities and university market segments for direct sales.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), an industry group tracking retail tractor sales, reports that tractor sales with less than 40 PTO hp exceeded 127,000 units so far this year*. Solectrac offers the e25g in the under 40 PTO hp category. Solectrac electric tractors do everything equivalent to a diesel tractor except better with zero pollution from burning expensive diesel fuel.
The combination of government incentives, volatile diesel fuel costs and corporate commitments to climate actions will accelerate the growth of electric machinery in the off-road market. Ideanomics anticipates a significant rise in market share of electric tractors in a segment forecasted by Zion Research Investment and other firms to exceed $100 billion before decades end.
Solectrac is ready to grow its industry-leading position. The Solectrac brand will introduce a new model in 2023, and Ideanomics has invested in new facilities and partnerships to enhance manufacturing, assembly and distribution capabilities significantly. Recently, Solectrac introduced its SolecSave app, offering customers total cost of ownership data, environmental statistics, and a way to find incentive programs in their locations.
Ideanomics is solving the complexity of fleet electrification by bringing together high-performance electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and financing solutions under one roof. The Company views Solectrac's electric tractors as a flagship solution for the fast-growing, high-value off-road vehicle market.
*Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Ag Tractor and Combine Report, August 2022
About Ideanomics
Ideanomics is a global group with a simple mission: accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles, charging, and financing solutions under one roof, we are the one-stop partner needed to simplify the transition to and operation of any EV fleet. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
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Frances Tiafoe 2023 French Open Odds
After exiting in the round of 32 of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in his previous tournament (knocked out by Lorenzo Musetti), Frances Tiafoe will begin the French Open against Filip Krajinovic (in the round of 128). Tiafoe has +12500 odds to win this tournament at Stade Roland Garros.
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Tiafoe at the 2023 French Open
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: May 21 - June 11
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Tiafoe's Next Match
Tiafoe will play Krajinovic in the round of 128 of the French Open on Sunday, May 28 at 5:00 AM ET.
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Frances Tiafoe Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +5000
- US Open odds to win: +2000
- French Open odds to win: +12500
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Tiafoe Stats
- In his last match, Tiafoe lost 7-5, 4-6, 3-6 versus Musetti in the Round of 32 of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia.
- Tiafoe is 38-20 over the past 12 months, with one tournament victory.
- On clay over the past year, Tiafoe has gone 6-3 and has won one title.
- Through 58 matches over the past year (across all court types), Tiafoe has played 27.3 games per match. He won 52.8% of them.
- On clay, Tiafoe has played nine matches over the past year, and he has totaled 24.1 games per match while winning 53.0% of games.
- Tiafoe has won 23.1% of his return games and 83.2% of his service games over the past year.
- On clay over the past year, Tiafoe has been victorious in 82.2% of his service games and 24.5% of his return games.
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control.
Among the things she could control during the death and isolation of the pandemic, the racial unrest and threats to democracy were her spools of yarn and her knitting needles.
She labels such thinking the “power of small,” and she writes in her new book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” that by focusing on a small task like knitting she was able to get through the worry, anxiety and stress of the past few unsettling years.
“The interesting thing about knitting and using your hands and making something is that it is meditative,” the former first lady said Tuesday night at the Warner Theater in Washington, where she kicked off a monthlong, six-city publicity tour to promote the book.
“In so many ways, it is like a faith,” she said, seated on stage with a friend, former daytime talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, who engaged Mrs. Obama in nearly 90 minutes of often humorous conversation. “It’s a thing that shuts your worrying mind and lets your hands take over.”
And therein lies the power, she said.
“I think about the knit and the purl, and the knit and the purl, and a row and a row and a row,” the former first lady said, naming different stitches and techniques used in knitting. “And if you keep it up, and you’re focused, you have a sweater.”
In the book, published Tuesday, she shares the contents of her “personal toolbox” — the habits and practices, attitudes and beliefs, and even physical objects that she uses to overcome her feelings of fear, helplessness and self doubt.
“This book is meant to show you what I keep there and why, what I use professionally and personally to help me stay balanced and confident, what keeps me moving forward even during times of high anxiety and stress,” she wrote in the introduction.
The 58-year-old wife of former President Barack Obama and mother of adult daughters Malia and Sasha wrote that the book, her third, is not a how-to manual, but rather is a “series of honest reflections on what my life has taught me so far.”
“Keep in mind, too, that everything I know, all the various tools I lean on, have come to me only through trial and error, over years of constant practice and reevaluation,” she wrote. “I spent decades learning on my feet, making mistakes, adjustments, and course corrections as I went. I’ve progressed only slowly to where I am today.”
“The Light We Carry” is Mrs. Obama’s first new work since the 2018 release of her bestselling memoir, “Becoming,” which has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide, by far the most popular book by a previous first lady or modern president, including her husband.
As first lady, she wrote “American Grown,” a book about the produce garden she had planted at the White House in 2009.
Mrs. Obama opened the tour in Washington and has events planned at Philadelphia’s The Met, Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, the Chicago Theatre and San Francisco’s Masonic before the tour closes at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles.
Seated in a plush purple chair on stage at the nearly 100-year-old Washington theater, Mrs. Obama discussed her feelings after the 2016 election in which her husband was succeeded by Donald Trump. Coincidentally, Trump announced a third run for president during her appearance.
“If you guys recall, I said, ‘Don’t vote for this guy,'” she said, meaning Trump, who sought to undo much of Obama’s record as president. “It hurt because you wonder — was it a rebuke of the eight years, the sacrifice we made? Was it complacency? What was it?”
The former first lady also discussed overcoming her fear of change and coming to the realization that she could not stand in the way of her husband’s desire to run for president in 2008. He had given her veto power over his decision.
“Opportunity is on the other side of that,” she said, speaking of fear.
She also talked about the pandemic, saying her family handled it better than most because they were already used to isolation from the eight years they lived in the White House “bubble.”
She spoke about how hard it was as first lady — and still is — to make new friends she can trust, and how fun it is to watch her daughters “adult” as they share an apartment in California. The girls had returned to Washington to live with their parents during the pandemic.
Sasha had completed one semester at the University of Michigan before she came back home. Malia, who was enrolled at Harvard, spent her senior year at home and ended up missing out on a graduation ceremony because of COVID-19. So her parents staged a ceremony in their backyard, complete with commencement speakers.
“It was me, and Barack,” Mrs. Obama said, laughing. “We told her how lucky she was. She got us both.”
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The federal government wants to update the organ procurement and transplant system, according to an initiative outlined last month.
The plan, which was proposed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, mentions modernizing the system, strengthening equity, and nearly doubling funding to $67 million in 2024 to make specific changes, among other points.
The nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, has been contracted to be in charge of the nation’s organ procurement and transplant system since the 1980s, winning multiple contract renewals.
Before then, there was no unity in organ transplantation across the country.
“By 1984, it became clear to members of Congress that transplantation in the United States was not organized at all,” said Dr. Ben Vernon, a transplant surgeon at HealthOne Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver. “This is a very complicated, very unique situation: getting the right organ to the right person, at the right time, for the right reason.”
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Experts say there are pros and cons to the current system.
“The pros are that the system actually works very well to get deceased donor organs to the right recipients, I think,” Dr. Vernon said.
Some of the cons include long wait times and damaged or discarded organs.
“These organs don't last in preservation for a particularly long time and one needed to get them in quickly,” he said.
Right now, more than 103,000 Americans need an organ transplant, according to statistics from UNOS as of April 25, 2023.
"Of all the deceased donor organs that are recovered, not all are used,” Dr. Vernon said. “The system has some design flaws in it."
There is currently no timeline for the possible changes outlined in the initiative.
April is National Donate Life Month, which focuses on the importance of organ, eye and tissue donation.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) between May 5, 2020 and October 13, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important July 10, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Beyond Meat common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Beyond Meat class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16090 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 10, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Beyond Meat was unable to manufacture its meat substitutes at scale to the specifications of its business partners; (2) Beyond Meat suffered from widespread scaling issues, particularly misalignment and delayed decision-making, which led to corresponding production delays; (3) such issues were exacerbated by Beyond Meat's disjoined production lines; and (4) these problems led some business partners to balk at the high price of Beyond Meat's products and express doubts about the Company's ability to produce them at commercial scale. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Beyond Meat class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16090 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced that Tallan, Inc., a technology solutions company, is joining the Microsoft Services Group of EY US to continue delivering custom software applications, data science, AI capabilities and infrastructure modernization solutions for our clients.
"Our clients are very focused on digital transformation, growth and leveraging the cloud," said Sonya Lehmann, EY Americas Microsoft Services Group Leader. "The core skills that Tallan brings in native cloud development, data science and AI, along with its Microsoft Azure experience, will significantly contribute to delivering transformative cloud solutions to help solve our clients' toughest business issues."
Tallan creates solutions using Microsoft Azure tools to streamline processes, integrate disparate systems and help companies operate more efficiently and profitably. Integrating this team with the EY Microsoft Services Group will deepen existing EY capabilities and expand the range of solutions offered.
"We see great need among our clients for application modernization and data analytics solutions to meet their digital transformation ambitions," said Craig Branning, Chief Executive Officer of Tallan. "Joining the EY team is an amazing opportunity to expand the services we offer our clients on the Microsoft technology stack."
In addition to manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical and health care experience, Tallan works extensively in state and local government. Its Legislative Management Suite, built on Microsoft technologies, is designed to move state legislatures away from paper processing to a faster, more agile process that provides better outcomes for lawmakers and their constituents.
"Organizations continue to seek greater operational efficiency, reduced infrastructure costs and more tailored solutions," said Kelly Rogan, CVP of Global System Integrators & Advisory Partners for Microsoft. "The combined teams from Tallan and EY will help clients accelerate and drive innovation and modernization efforts through Microsoft Azure."
To learn more about the EY and Microsoft Alliance, visit https://www.ey.com/en_us/alliances/microsoft.
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TOKYO (AP) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso left for Seoul on Wednesday to meet with South Korean officials as the two countries try to improve ties that were badly strained by Japanese wartime atrocities.
At the center of the disputes between the two countries are South Korean court rulings in 2018 that ordered Japanese companies to compensate wartime forced Korean laborers. The Japanese government and the companies have refused to comply with the rulings, saying all compensation issues have been settled under the 1965 normalization treaty and accusing South Korea of violating the international law.
But ties have started showing signs of improvement since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's conservative government took power in May. As key Asian allies to the United States, having a strained relationship also poses a concern for their security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region as it faces growing threats from China and North Korea.
Gaffe-prone Aso is also known for his family business’ wartime use of forced laborers.
In 2008, wartime documents surfaced showing that Korean forced laborers were used at Aso's grandfather’s mine, from which he has distanced himself. Aso kept mum when Japan’s Health and Welfare Ministry acknowledged that other wartime documents showed that the Aso family mine in Fukuoka, southern Japan, also used 300 British, Dutch and Australian prisoners from April 1945 through Japan’s surrender four months later.
The trip comes days after a crowd surge in the South Korean capital Seoul killed over 150 people. President Yoon declared a national mourning period Sunday.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Aso is not representing the government, but is visiting South Korea as the head of a non-partisan Japan-South Korea friendship organization made up of political and business representatives.
Aso declined to confirm reports he may be meeting with President Yoon, and Matsuno denied that Aso was carrying Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's letter to Yoon.
Another veteran ruling lawmaker, Fukushiro Nukaga, who heads a group of parliamentarians promoting friendship between the two neighbors, was also due to visit South Korea, Kyodo News agency reported.
Nukaga is expected to meet with Yoon on Friday, while media reports say Aso's meeting with the South Korean leader is also being arranged. | 2022-11-02T09:14:14+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Japanese-ex-PM-Aso-to-visit-South-Korea-to-17551593.php |
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was caught on a hot mic Tuesday using a vulgarity against a rival politician in a rare misstep for a leader known for her skill at debating and calm, measured responses.
After five years as prime minister, Ardern faces a tough election campaign in 2023. Her liberal Labour Party won reelection two years ago in a landslide of historic proportions, but recent polls have put her party behind its conservative rivals.
The comment came after lawmaker David Seymour, who leads the libertarian ACT party, peppered Ardern with questions about her government’s record for around seven minutes during Parliament’s Question Time, which allows for spirited debate between rival parties.
As an aside to her deputy Grant Robertson, Ardern said what sounded like, “He’s such an arrogant pr———,” after sitting down. Her words are barely audible on Parliament TV but are just picked up in the background by her desk microphone as House Speaker Adrian Rurawhe talks.
Ardern’s office said she apologized to Seymour for the comment. When asked by The Associated Press to clarify, Ardern’s office did not dispute the comment. In an interview with the AP, Seymour said she had used those words.
“I’m absolutely shocked and astonished at her use of language,” Seymour said. “It’s very out of character for Jacinda, and I’ve personally known her for 11 years.”
He said it was also ironic because his question to the prime minister had been about whether she had ever admitted a mistake as leader and then fixed it. “And she couldn’t give a single example of when she’s admitted she’s wrong and apologized,” Seymour said.
Seymour said that in her text, Ardern wrote that she “apologized, she shouldn’t have made the comments, and that, as her mom said, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it.”
Seymour, who said he admired some of Ardern’s political skills immensely, said he’d written back to Ardern thanking her for the apology and wishing her a very Merry Christmas. | 2022-12-13T21:28:07+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/ap-new-zealand-pm-ardern-caught-name-calling-rival-on-hot-mic/ |
The White House has announced a key deal with Arizona, California and Nevada to conserve large amounts of water from the drought-afflicted Colorado River.
The breakthrough agreement aims to keep the river, which has been shrinking at an alarming rate due to climate change and overuse, from falling to a level that could endanger the water and power supply for major cities in the West and vast stretches of hugely productive farmland.
Water managers in Arizona, California and Nevada have agreed on a plan to cut their water use by well over a third of the entire traditional flow of the Colorado River through the seven states that rely on it. The federal government will pay some $1.2 billion dollars to cities, irrigation districts and Native American tribes if they temporarily use less water.
The deal, which only runs through the end of 2026, amounts to the largest reductions of water use in modern times and are very likely to require significant water restrictions for farms and residents across the Southwest.
Much of this conservation deal is happening though thanks to a big infusion of federal funds into the region that will do things like pay farmers to fallow some of their land. The government is also compensating water districts and tribes to voluntarily keep some of their legally entitled water in the nation's largest reservoir, Lake Mead, in order to prevent it from going dry.
Kathryn Sorensen, research director at the Kyle Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University, says another big reason the deal came together at the last minute is due to the fact that much of the West saw record snow last winter.
"The good snowpack bought us the luxury of bringing forward a deal that wasn't quite as much as the federal government was hoping for but it does buy us time," Sorensen says.
Experts expect further and much deeper cuts than announced Monday will be necessary after 2026.
The cuts in the deal are entirely voluntary. But it does avert - for now - the federal government coming in and announcing across the board water cuts across Arizona, Nevada and California.
"That's important because the minute the federal government does that, someone's going to sue," Sorensen says.
This conservation deal first announced by the White House comes as California for months had refused to agree to a brokered deal with the other states, as large users in the state tend to hold senior water rights on the river.
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Oregon linebacker Noah Sewell is certainly aware of the expectations that come with the family name.
Noah is the youngest of the four Sewell brothers. Penei also went to Oregon and now plays for the Detroit Lions. Nephi went to Utah and spent the preseason with the New Orleans Saints this year. Gabriel played at Nevada and is with the USFL’s Philadelphia Stars.
So yes, that pressure? It’s there.
“I’ve just got to put a stamp on it. I gotta be the biggest Sewell out there. I’ve got to be the biggest name, since I’m the youngest, I’ve just got to do better than all the brothers before me,” Noah said.
In his third season with the Ducks, Noah was named to The Associated Press preseason All-America first team. Oregon, ranked No. 11, kicks off the season against No. 3 Georgia on Saturday in Atlanta.
Last season, Noah led all freshmen nationally and was second overall in the Pac-12 with 114 tackles and four sacks. Overall he has 159 total tackles with 15 tackles for loss and six sacks in 21 games.
Gabriel and Arlene Sewell have five children, four sons and a daughter. From American Samoa, the family moved to Utah to help their kids pursue football. Noah followed his big brother Penei to Oregon.
“When it came down to it, my decision was my brother. I just wanted to learn from my brother, his game, how he approached it. As you can see, he’s doing amazing things right now, and I still want to learn from him,” Noah Sewell said.
Penei played for Oregon from 2018 to 2020. He won the Morris and Outland trophies as a sophomore in 2019, then sat out the coronavirus-shortened season in 2020 before declaring for the NFL draft.
The seventh-overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft, Penei started 16 games for the Lions his rookie season.
Noah and Nephi played on opposites sides last year when Utah routed Oregon 38-7 in the regular season, and again when the Utes beat the Ducks 38-10 in the Pac-12 championship game.
Nephi, named to the AP All-Pac-12 first team, was picked up by the Saints in May as an undrafted free agent.
There are other family ties spread across the Pac-12 this season:
LAST BARTON
Much like Noah is the last of the Sewell brothers, Utah freshman linebacker Lander Barton is the youngest of the Barton brothers, who were all Utes. Cody is a linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks and Jackson is an offensive tackle for the Las Vegas Raiders.
Utah is truly a family affair for the Bartons: dad Paul also played football and baseball for the Utes and mom Mikki was a standout on the basketball and volleyball teams. Sister Dani Drews played volleyball for the Utes and was with the U.S. national team at the recent Pan American Cup.
“He has all the tools,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham told reporters during spring practice. “When we recruited him, we felt like we knew exactly what we were getting. He’s 6-4 and 230 pounds and runs really well. There’s nothing that’s surprising us, but it’s pretty impressive what he’s doing at such an early stage.”
Lander is set to start Saturday when the No. 7 Utes visit the Florida Gators.
STARTING SOELLES
Arizona State brothers Kyle and Connor Soelle are starting at linebacker together for the first time this season. The Sun Devils open Thursday night at home against Northern Arizona.
Kyle has been a starter the past two seasons and has been in the program since 2017. Connor has been in the program since 2019 and saw increased playing time last year before dealing with injuries.
Oh, and they’re local kids. Both went to Saguaro High School in Scottsdale.
But wait, there’s more: The Markham brothers, Keon and Kejuan, are defensive backs for the Sun Devils.
ASU running back Daniyel Nagata is the brother of Clemson wide receiver Joseph Ngata and Sacramento State defensive lineman Ariel Ngata. The brothers are the sons of immigrants from Cameroon who settled in Nevada.
SEEING DOUBLE
UCLA has the Murphy twins — redshirt sophomores Gabriel and Grayson — who transferred from North Texas. Grayson had 8.5 sacks last season and Gabriel had 7.0.
Gabriel was listed as one of the starters at OLB on the initial depth chart for Saturday’s opener against Bowling Green, with Grayson backing him up.
Grayson joked that coaches refer to them both as the “Murphy Twin.”
Gabriel said outside linebackers coach Ikaika Malloe is the best at telling the two apart.
“He says (Grayson’s) structure’s a little bigger than mine, and mine’s a little skinnier, if you can tell that. He has a little scar behind his eye that a lot of people tell us by, so that’s some of the things,” Gabriel said.
Washington State has a pair of 6-foot-5, 300-pound twin freshmen from Texas, Landon and Luke Roaten. Rival Washington has a pair of freshman twins, too: defensive linemen Armon and Jayvon Parker from Detroit. Armon missed fall camp with injury.
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AP Sports Writers Joe Reedy and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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On April 20, Canisius College held its first in-person Ignatian Scholarship Day since the Covid pandemic, a day when students present accepted projects and the whole campus gets a day off to see them.
Canisius junior Valeria Lee was presenting her research on the effects of temperature on Asian tiger mosquitos when a tall man in a suit and bright tie came up to ask about her project.
Steve K. Stoute, 41, will become the first person of color and youngest person to lead the institution in its 150-year history.
“I hadn’t seen him before, so I just presented my project like I would to anyone,” Lee said. “Afterward my friend said, ‘I think that was the new president.’ I was glad I didn’t know, or I would have been nervous.”
Two days later, Canisius President-elect Steve K. Stoute was on the quad when he saw Lee approaching with her mosquito traps. He greeted her by name and praised her research.
“I have such a good impression of him,” Lee said later. “He seems like such a nice person and so approachable. A lot of people I know have met him and we are so excited to have him.”
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To walk with Stoute at Canisius is to stop every few feet to greet everyone he passes. If he’s met them before, chances are he remembers their name. If he hasn’t, he introduces himself and asks about them.
His friendliness and accessibility are conscious elements of a leadership style honed from his own Catholic education that he aims to maintain no matter how busy he gets after taking over as president of Canisius on Friday.
“We must meet our students – and prospective students – where they are, with a sense of humility and empathy,” Stoute says. “That’s something I am very passionate about – communicating clearly to every student that ‘We will support you in the ways that you need to be successful.’”
At 41, Stoute is the youngest and the first person of color to lead the college in its 150-year history. He grew up in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, the eldest of four whose father worked in construction and mother in hospitality.
He attended Catholic school from age 10 through high school and excelled at sports. When it came time to apply to college, his goals were 1) play soccer and 2) do it at a Catholic school.
“I did my college search back when glossy brochures were still the thing – you expressed interest and waited for that brochure,” Stoute said. Seton Hall University in New Jersey fit the bill. He had family in New York who visited Trinidad often, but “my first time leaving the island was to fly into JFK to start college,” he said.
As a freshman, he met Msgr. Robert Sheeran, then president of Seton Hall. Sheeran, now 76 and retired, describes himself as “a walkaround president” and “people person” – just like Stoute is now.
“I was at the rec center one day and there was this young man at the desk,” Sheeran recalled. “I said, ‘Are you a new student?’ He said yes. I asked, ‘What do you think of Seton Hall?’ and he gave me the most upbeat, enthusiastic response. I said, ‘What is your name?’ He said, ‘Steve Stoute.’ I said, ‘I won’t forget you.’”
Sheeran became a mentor and “father figure” who Stoute consulted on many life decisions. As Stoute embraced his Catholic faith more deeply, he attended Mass daily. He hadn’t been confirmed Catholic in Trinidad, so he requested it junior year and asked Sheeran to be his sponsor. “That was really cool,” Sheeran said.
Stoute also got involved in FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, which inspired him toward missionary work after graduation. He had landed a coveted yearlong NCAA internship that anyone would jump at, but Stoute was torn. He wanted to serve.
“I encouraged him to take the internship because professionally it is very, very prestigious,” Sheeran said. “I said, ‘You’ll have other chances in life to do something for God.’ And he’s doing that now as president of a Catholic college.”
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The internship in Los Angeles taught him how the NCAA runs college basketball tournaments, and how to support student athletes socially and emotionally as well as athletically and academically. That led him to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to earn a master’s degree in sports science while working as the athletic department’s life skills coordinator.
He also accepted Sheeran’s nomination to a three-year term on Seton Hall’s Board of Regents, which introduced him to college planning and budgeting and to older Regents including two college presidents who also became mentors, he said.
His next job, in development and alumni relations at Princeton University, cemented his interest in higher education administration. Again, he discussed his path with Sheeran.
“He advised me that as a lay person, one must get a terminal degree to become a top administrator at a college or university,” Stoute said. “So the question became, ‘What would that be?’ And I decided on a Juris Doctor (law degree).”
He went to University of Pennsylvania School of Law (acceptance rate 35%) and graduated as president of the class of 2014. He then spent three and a half years as associate at a Philadelphia law firm, not with an eye on the bar exam but to further prepare to lead a college.
In 2018, he was hired as chief of staff at DePaul University in Chicago, the nation’s largest Catholic college. In 2020 he gained the title of Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. Overseeing planning at a university of over 20,000 students on two campuses prepared him to seek a presidency at a smaller school, he said. In February, a 15-member search committee chose Stoute to succeed John Hurley as the 25th president of Canisius.
"Having just turned 65 and having led the college safely and successfully through the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s time to step down and move on to the next phase in my life," Hurley said.
Hurley, who retired after 12 years as president, was known for outspoken support for women and the LGBTQ community in the Catholic church, and for taking the difficult step of cutting nearly 100 jobs to combat enrollment declines during the pandemic.
At Canisius, Stoute said his first focus will be on growing enrollment, including more students of color, first-generation college students and new Americans.
“As a first-generation college student, I recognize the challenges that come with that and how we need to provide support to students who come from different experiences,” he said.
Even before the white supremacist mass shooting that killed 10 Black neighbors at a Tops market in the same ZIP code as Canisius, Stoute was pledging outreach to the surrounding community. He said the horrific events of May 14 only “deepen my commitment to leading Canisius and engaging meaningfully with our Buffalo community.”
Under Hurley, Canisius increased its last two freshman classes to one-third students of color, up from 11%, he said. Current full-time enrollment is 2,627 -- 1,863 undergrads and 764 graduate students. Stoute says Canisius has potential to recruit more by removing barriers, directly engaging with potential students and touting its urban setting.
“We need to talk more about Canisius being an urban institution,” he said. “Many students and families want to be in an urban environment because of the culture, the diversity and the food, and Buffalo has all of those things.”
He noted that Canisius dropped its SAT and ACT requirements for admission during Covid, and he plans to keep testing optional. He wants to appeal to the interest in social justice he sees in today’s young people, “which are also core to our Jesuit, Catholic identity.”
And he wants to market an opportunity many colleges don’t offer: undergraduate research programs that offer funding to students like Valeria Lee – the environmental science major studying non-native, disease carrying mosquitos – to join faculty research teams as early as freshman year.
“Valeria’s research is a public health issue,” Stoute said. “Canisius has so many research endeavors that tie into serving and supporting the community.” At Ignatian Scholarship Day, “I talked to three students who are studying test anxiety for K-12 students and the impact that has on students who are being tested at an earlier and earlier age. I learned in 10 minutes of listening to these stories that parents shouldn’t have to battle to level the playing field for children the system has disenfranchised because of their learning styles.
“I mean, I thought I was a good student, but these students are – Wow,” he added. “I can’t wait to meet more of them.” | 2022-06-30T11:34:52+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/new-canisius-college-president-aims-to-meet-students-right-where-they-are/article_b0aa155e-f70a-11ec-ab8e-fb2c67c5f917.html |
Horse racing's federal oversight body is holding an emergency meeting Tuesday in Kentucky after two more horses died over the weekend, pushing the total to 12 fatalities in the past five weeks at Churchill Downs — home of the Kentucky Derby.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) said Monday that it will convene veterinary officials to "thoroughly review" the deaths in hopes of better understanding what caused them.
"HISA's highest priority is the safety and wellbeing of the horses and riders competing under its jurisdiction," the national authority said in a statement. "We remain deeply concerned by the unusually high number of equine fatalities at Churchill Downs over the last several weeks. We continue to seek answers, and we are working diligently with Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) to mitigate any additional risk."
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HISA said it is also sending renowned track superintendent Dennis Moore to provide a second independent analysis of each fatality. CEO Lisa Lazarus and Racetrack Safety Director Ann McGovern will review the results of Moore's analysis and consider whether any follow-up actions are needed.
Seven horses died from injuries at Churchill Downs in the days leading up to the 149th Kentucky Derby earlier this month. One trainer was suspended after two of his horses had died.
"Given the unexplained sudden deaths, we have reasonable concerns about the condition of his horses, and decided to suspend him indefinitely until details are analyzed and understood," said Bill Mudd, president of Churchill Downs Inc. "The safety of our equine and human athletes and integrity of our sport is our highest priority. We feel these measures are our duty and responsibility."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-30T15:37:11+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/officials-hold-emergency-meeting-over-horse-deaths-at-churchill-downs |
Grass grows, birds sing and Rolling Stone Magazine is angering people again.
But what did it do this time?
Nothing too egregious, and nothing too surprising either. It usually stirs up controversy across the internet for its shaky album lists, but this time around set its sights on butchering a ranking of the Top 200 Singers of All Time.
Sure, it’s just a list, and everyone’s list will be vastly different from another (blah blah blah, music taste is subjective). That being said, there’s plenty of fundamentally questionable placements on Rolling Stone’s list that deserve some light-hearted scrutiny.
As the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s arts and entertainment department, I figure I have the opportunity to throw a little fuel on the fire while simultaneously keying you in to some of the vocalists that I, in my infinite wisdom, believe got snubbed.
Why don’t we start with Rolling Stone’s top 10 rankings, just to give you a glimpse into what we’re working with here.
1. Aretha Franklin
2. Whitney Houston
3. Sam Cooke
4. Billie Holiday
5. Mariah Carey
6. Ray Charles
7. Stevie Wonder
8. Beyoncé
9. Otis Redding
10. Al Green
Not bad, right? Well…
Ultimately, it would be difficult for someone argue that any of these selections shouldn’t be on this list in at least some capacity.
I’d give this section of the list a 5 out of 10—Franklin is undoubtedly number one, Cooke deserves the top five, and Wonder, Holiday, Redding are all pretty inarguable. I love Ray Charles’ voice, and there will never be another like Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey, but they could be flexed into the top 20.
Beyoncé, for all of her talent, probably shouldn’t be in the top 10—or the top 30, for that matter.
Where things get dicey—and the weakness of the list starts to be exposed—comes when looking at some of the omissions from those top 10 slots.
Before scanning the rest of the list, I thought first of Freddie Mercury (14), Etta James (41), Ella Fitzgerald (45), Elvis (17) and Janis Joplin (78).
Etta James at number 41? Rolling Stone might as well just slap me in the face.
For some perspective—John Lennon (12), Paul McCartney (26), Hank Williams (30) and George Jones (24) are some names that appear before James.
To make matters worse, George Jones outranks Johnny Cash (85) by more than 60 spots.
Who else pops up before Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse (83), Mavis Staples (46) and Michael Jackson (86)? Ariana Grande at number 43.
To be clear, I like most of the artists that appear in this top 50—but Grande doesn’t deserve to be placed anywhere in the vicinity of figures like Bessie Smith (33), Mary J. Blige (25), Adele (22) and certainly not Nina Simone (21).
If Bob Dylan is going to be wedged in at number 15, then Patti Smith should be in the top 25. Instead she’s stuck up in the nosebleeds at 117. The same goes for Michael Stipe of R.E.M, who joins Dylan and Smith in completing the “I can’t tell what they’re saying” Mount Rushmore at number 152.
Even worse, Rolling Stone has Gladys Knight at 101 and Bill Withers at 106.
Queens of country music were unapologetically disrespected, with Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn each failing to crack the top 125; Emmylou Harris, angel incarnate, landed at 79.
Luckily, Patsy Cline (13) and Dolly Parton (27) received a nod of respect.
Oh, and everyone listed higher than 102 on this list? They were beat out by Taylor Swift.
But there are some fun additions on here too, like including Iggy Pop of The Stooges (176), Morrissey of The Smiths (166), Debbie Harry of Blondie (168), Robert Smith of The Cure (157), Greg Danzig of The Misfits (199) and, unsurprisingly, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana (33).
I would personally place these unique voices higher, like Rolling Stone already did with Thom Yorke of Radiohead (34). It’s because of the same logic that I don’t mind the inclusion of Billie Eilish at 198, unlike the rest of the internet.
The aforementioned artists are prime examples of musicians that sounded completely different than anyone else who came before or after them, altering what listeners thought a vocal performance could be and, maybe, should be.
Lou Reed is a perfect example—and he lands at number 107. But with that in mind, it’s strange to see Jim Morrison of The Doors, David Byrne of Talking Heads, and folk singer Nick Drake miss the list entirely.
While it might not necessarily be “singing” in the traditional sense, I’d argue that Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against the Machine screams about as on pitch as a human being ever will.
Social media has already slammed Rolling Stone for excluding Celine Dion, but the list also ignores the late soul icon Charles Bradley, Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney.
That being said, I appreciate the magazine’s inclusion of singers who compose in genres outside of what’s popular with western listeners.
I’ll go against the grain here by saying that I appreciate Rolling Stone taking the time to release lists like this. It’s not because the lists are ever worth a damn, but because the very nature of a ranked list spawns a discourse among listeners that can help broaden our musical palettes.
Yeah, Rolling Stone sucks, but you know what doesn’t? You guessed it—this weekend’s events.
Since we’re on the subject of music, it’s finally time for Ned LeDoux to take the stage at The Lincoln Theater tomorrow at 8 p.m. Coming off of his 2022 album, “Buckskin,” he has a set of new must-hear tracks to perform along with some back-catalogue favorites.
Two art events are being held the same day, with the monthly Cheyenne ArtWalk kicking off at 5 p.m. as well as the opening of northern Colorado artist Jennie Kiessling’s “Abstraction/Ancestors/Altered Books” at both the Laramie County Library and Clay Paper Scissors Gallery and Studio.
The following morning is occupied by both the bi-monthly Winter Farmers Market inside the Cheyenne Depot and the recurring Family Day at the Wyoming State Museum. This month’s theme of the popular free series will focus on the “Awesome Anatomy” of the human body.
Then, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Blacktooth Brewing Co. is hosting a joint event with Wild J. Trading, who will set up a private “hat bar.” For $65 dollars, participants can drink and customize their own hats.
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_. | 2023-01-05T13:34:30+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/weekend-picks-rolling-stone-gathers-moss/article_fb73e45a-8c5d-11ed-8272-7fb3597c7d8a.html |
AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Amherst police say they are investigating an incident where a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle early Wednesday morning.
At 6:45 a.m., police say they responded to the area of Kensington Avenue and Roycroft Boulevard where, they say, they located a female pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle.
The female reportedly sustained head injuries and was transported to Oishei Children’s Hospital for treatment.
Kensington Avenue is remaining closed while the incident is being investigated. Motorists are asked to avoid the area.
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74.
Kominsky-Crumb, who was a close collaborator of her cartoonist husband, Robert Crumb, died of cancer Tuesday at their longtime home in France, said Alexander Wood, manager of the website that sells Crumb’s work.
“She was the hub of the wheel within her family and community,” the website wrote in announcing her death. “She had a huge amount of energy which she poured into her artwork, her daughter, her grandchildren and the meals which brought everyone together. “
Kominsky-Crumb was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual — focusing on her insecurities — and explicit. Or just raunchy. An early cover of the“Twisted Sisters” anthology — on which she collaborated with cartoonist Diane Noomin during her early years in the Bay Area — depicted her sitting nearly naked on the toilet, wondering how many calories there were in a cheese enchilada.
“People said to me, ‘That is so outrageous, how could you draw yourself sitting on a toilet?’” she said in a 2019 video interview. “I said, ’I don’t know, it seemed natural to me.’” She noted that could only draw on herself in her work, because “it’s the only thing I know about.”
Kominsky-Crumb described as creative influences both German Expressionist art and the late Jewish comic Joan Rivers, whose standup routines she admired partly for their self-deprecating nature. Much more recently, she also admired Lena Dunham and her show “Girls,” and was thrilled to learn that Dunham had actually said she was influenced by Kominsky-Crumb’s artwork.
Author Art Spiegelman made a similar connection.
“She has something in common with Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, women who are trying to grapple with their identities in a way that is not prettified,” Spiegelman, author of “Maus,” said in a 2018 article in The New York Times. “They are just trying to live and breathe as women with all their contradictions. And it’s a liberated and liberating way of looking at oneself.”
Kominsky-Crumb was born on Long Island, in the suburb of Five Towns.
“Reading and drawing and painting were the things that saved me from a very difficult childhood,” she said in the 2019 interview, “with somewhat harsh parents.”
She studied art in her college years at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, and later relocated to Arizona, earning a bachelor’s in fine arts at the University of Arizona. She met Crumb — often known as R. Crumb — in the early 1970s in San Francisco, where she became part of the all-female Wimmen’s Comix collective before breaking with the group and starting “Twisted Sisters” with Noomin, who died in September.
The break in the collective was between two factions with different approaches, she said — those who were “very militant feminists” and others, like her, “who were feminists but also liked men.”
“I felt like I wanted to have as much sex as possible and be as promiscuous as I wanted to be on my own terms,” she said. “Just as men did.”
With Crumb, whom she married in 1978, she produced a series of comics called “Aline and Bob’s Dirty Laundry” about their family. They had a daughter, Sophie, who is also a comics artist. In the early 1990s, the family moved to France, settling in a medieval village in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. A documentary about their life, “Crumb,” was released in 1994.
Among her works, Kominsky-Crumb published a graphic memoir, “Need More Love,” in 2007, a collection of her artwork over four decades. Her retrospective “Love That Bunch” was published in 1990 and expanded in 2018.
“I can’t help seeing the absurdity of myself at all times,” she said in the 2019 interview, trying to describe her ethos. “That’s just the consciousness that I have and that I’ve always had of myself, as being an absurd creature on this planet.”
Kominsky-Crumb is survived by husband Robert, 79, and daughter Sophie, 41.
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AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report from New York. | 2022-12-02T17:36:05+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/ap-aline-kominsky-crumb-underground-cartoonist-dies-at-74/ |
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ReNewKnit™ is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles and is fully recyclable
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA), a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, today announced the company's premium and fully recyclable ReNewKnit™ sueded material will launch in seating and door panel applications with a global automaker in 2024.
ReNewKnit™ is a Lear exclusive, first-to-market automotive textile that is fully recyclable at its end of life. Manufactured solely with recycled materials at Lear facilities using 100% renewable electricity, ReNewKnit™ further strengthens the company's sustainable solutions technology portfolio while supporting our carbon reduction goals.
"At Lear, we are positioning our surface material offerings to what we believe is the future – a global circular economy where repurposed textiles can be infinitely recycled to become the ultimate raw material for sustainable manufacturing and design," said Frank Orsini, Executive Vice President and President of Lear's Seating business.
Composed of 100% recycled plastic bottles, ReNewKnit™ fibers are spun from polyester yarn and finished with a foam-free, recycled fleece backing that further reduces water and energy consumption in the manufacturing process.
The premium material challenges perceptions of reused and recycled textiles with a wide range of surfaces suitable for various interior applications and improved functionality.
"ReNewKnit™ aligns with the vision automakers have for offering a premium look and feel without sacrificing the sense of luxury and performance expected from a suede-like material," Orsini said.
Developed by Guilford Performance Textiles by Lear, ReNewKnit™ will be manufactured at company facilities in the United Kingdom and Poland.
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Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Lear's diverse team of talented employees in 38 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com or on Twitter @LearCorporation.
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Sen. Tracy Potter’s tax relief plan lowers everyone’s property taxes, compared to Gov. Burgum’s and Sen. Headland’s proposal which lowers income taxes. If someone, for a variety of reasons, cannot work or loses a job, they won’t pay any income tax under either Burgum/Headland’s or Potter’s proposal, because they have no income. But, with Potter’s plan, someone with no income will also not be strapped with property tax.
Burgum and Headland say they want to attract new workers. If that is so, I suggest they reconsider their position and adopt Potter’s. It is more likely a new worker will pick up and move to North Dakota because of a lower property tax -- something included in everyone’s basic cost of living -- with or without a job. Once hired, he or she can more easily and probably gladly afford North Dakota’s income tax.
Thank you, Sen. Potter. You have added a thoughtful perspective to the tax discussion.
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Kari Conrad, Glen Ullin | 2022-09-07T18:30:58+00:00 | bismarcktribune.com | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/letters/letter-potters-tax-relief-plan-a-thoughtful-perspective/article_59f17508-2df7-11ed-93ab-8346f519478d.html |
GO LANIE: Parkland Magnet High School Choir
Navigating life as a high school student in a world that is ever-changing and moves at the speed of light comes with its own set of challenges. A special group of students at one Winston-Salem school are finding ways to battle those challenges through the gift of song.
A chorus class at Parkland Magnet High School, led by choral director Wilton Mitchell, lift their voices in unison toward a brighter future. Thanks to a 21st-century community grant that provides alternatives for students during after-school hours, the group is also able to meet outside of normal class time.
The Parkland Chorus will be performing with theater students in a production of The Lion King Jr. Thursday in an attempt to bring the community together.
"I think this is a great opportunity to show the community that our young people are working towards something, they do have talent, they can be focused and driven and come together to make a great production," Mitchell said.
The show will be at the Parkland Magnet High School on Thursday, May 19 at 6 p.m. and is free to the public. | 2022-05-19T03:29:31+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/go-lanie-singing-parkland-magnet-high-school-choir/40040802 |
York County bridges reopen as projects are completed
A pair of bridge replacement projects in York County were recently completed.
According to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokesperson David Thompson, a bridge replacement in Manheim Township on Allison Mill Road and on Sticks Road (Route 216) in Codorus Township have both been completed and reopened to traffic as of Friday.
The bridge on Allison Mill Road had been closed since April, while the one on Sticks Road had been closed since March.
The state-owned bridge on Allison Mill Road, which spans Long Run, is located between Blooming Grove Road and Zumbrum Road in Manheim Township. The bridge on Sticks Road is located just east of Sticks School Road in Codorus Township.
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The Allison Mill Road project, constructed by Kevin E. Raker Construction, LLC, of Sunbury, Northumberland County, cost $810,164 to complete. It involved replacing the existing T-beam bridge with a precast box culvert, guiderail updates, signing, pavement markings and other miscellaneous construction.
The Sticks Road Project, constructed by JVI Inc., of York Springs, Adams County, cost $759,572 to complete. The project consisted of a bridge replacement with a precast concrete box culvert, approach roadway work and other miscellaneous construction. | 2023-05-31T02:32:02+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/05/30/york-county-bridge-projects-completed/70268990007/ |
Chipotle launches brand trivia game with chance to win BOGO deals, free food
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - How much do you know about Chipotle Mexican Grill?
Chipotle is testing fans’ knowledge of the fast-casual chain with a trivia game where players can win buy-one-get-one-free offers on food and even be entered for a chance to win a $500 gift card.
The game, called Chipotle IQ, features multiple choice, true or false questions, and write-in answers about Chipotle's ingredients, food standards, preparation, culinary techniques, sustainability efforts, and community engagement.
Every day this week at 12 p.m. ET (9 a.m. PT), Chipotle is offering the BOGO deal to the first 100,000 fans who score a 10 out of 10 on the trivia game. Fans with a perfect score will also unlock an "extra credit question," and if they get it right, they’ll be entered to win one of 50 $500 Chipotle gift cards.
Every day this week at 12 p.m. ET (9 a.m. PT), Chipotle is offering the BOGO deal to the first 100,000 fans who score a 10 out of 10 on the Chipotle IQ trivia game. (Credit: Provided / Chipotle)
This is the third year of Chipotle’s IQ, first launched in August 2020. That year, the company said the 250,000 BOGO offers reserved for players who scored a perfect 10 out of 10 on the test were all awarded less than four hours after the game went live.
"Just in time for back to school, we're relaunching Chipotle IQ to recognize our true brand experts," Chris Brandt, Chipotle's chief marketing officer, said in a statement. "The test has always generated incredible fan engagement, and we're excited to introduce an entirely new set of questions and an extra credit challenge for 2022."
Last week, Chipotle made headlines for a limited-edition "Water" Cup Candle, which is lemonade-scented and looks just like the chain’s water cup. The candle was a nod to the chain’s awareness of how many people "accidentally" fill their free water cup with lemonade instead.
With the purchase of a candle, customers receive a promo code for a free lemonade at Chipotle — just in time for National Lemonade Day of 2022.
"When they see these lighthearted tributes to social chatter and fan behavior, they feel even more connected to Chipotle," Brandt said last week.
In 2021, the chain launched a cilantro soap after customers said they experienced a soapy flavor when eating cilantro — a staple at Chipotle.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., has over 3,000 restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
This story was reported from Cincinnati. | 2022-08-23T15:42:58+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/chipotle-iq-trivia-game-win-bogo-deals-free-food-2022 |
LOUISIANA (KLFY) – Five players who played at Louisiana high schools could win a super bowl ring in this year’s Big Game.
According to a Facebook post by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA), L’Jarius Sneed, Justin Reid, Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Boston Scott, and DeVonta Smith will all be playing for the Lombardi Trophy this year.
“Congratulations to the LHSAA Alumni who will play Super Bowl LVII!” the post said.
Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed attended Minden High School in Minden, La. according to LHSAA. He originally entered the NFL as a fourth-round pick by the Chiefs in the 2020 NFL Draft.
Also on the Chiefs, safety Justin Reid played for Dutchtown High School in Geismar, according to LHSAA. He was selected by the Houston Texans in the 2018 NFL Draft where he played before signing with the Cheifs in 2022.
Originally entering the NFL as a first-round pick by the Chiefs in the 2020 NFL Draft, Chiefs running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire went to Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, according to LHSAA.
Eagles running back Boston Scott attended Zachary High School in Zachary, according to LHSAA. According to the Eagles website, Scott entered the NFL in the 2018 Draft.
Also on the Eagles is wide receiver DeVonta Smith, who made his way to the NFL after being drafted by Philadelphia in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft. According to LHSAA, Smith played for Amite High School.
Super Bowl LVII takes place on Sunday, Feb. 12 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
You can watch the big game on Fox or stream it on fuboTV.
Kickoff is set for 5:30 p.m. (CST). | 2023-02-07T18:43:57+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/five-former-louisiana-high-school-players-in-super-bowl-lvii/ |
Police looking for missing 13-year-old they say could be in danger
Justin Garcia
Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES ― Police are asking for the public's help in locating a missing teen boy they say could be in danger if not found soon.
Malaki Lopez, 13, was last seen about 6:30 p.m. near 100 block of Calle de Alegra in Las Cruces. Las Cruces Police Department said in a news release he was on foot heading north from Calle de Alegra.
Lopez has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black hooded jacket, light blue jeans, and white Nike shoes. Police said he has a small scar on the back of his right hand.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of 13-year-old Malaki Lopez is asked to immediately call police at (575) 526-0795. | 2023-06-17T16:06:04+00:00 | lcsun-news.com | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2023/06/16/police-looking-for-missing-13-year-old-they-say-could-be-in-danger/70332469007/ |
CHICAGO, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barchart, a leading data and technology partner trusted by over 600 agribusinesses representing over 4,000 grain facilities, has released the results of a new collegiate survey: The Future of Agriculture. This 22-page comprehensive report compiled by surveying agriculture focused students from 18 universities across the country helps agribusinesses in the commodity industry better understand where the future of ag is headed from the perspective of forthcoming professionals and leaders.
"Our latest survey outlines how college students who are studying various ag programs across the country view the future of the agriculture industry," says Barchart CEO Mark Haraburda. "Through the responses we received, we were able to uncover a significant amount of information which can be used by agribusinesses to guide them in better understanding how the current university generation perceives the current and upcoming landscape of ag."
The report outlines multiple conclusions, including: which tools are most essential to benefitting tomorrow's producers; where the most opportunity for technology disruption lies; how conservation impacts decisions for the upcoming generation; and, how technology and data will influence the industry's future.
"We would like to thank all of the college students who participated in this survey, and we hope our readers find the information and insights to be useful," added Haraburda.
To download the complete survey, please click here.
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© 2022 Good Karma Brands Milwaukee, LLC. | 2022-08-18T06:31:58+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/08/17/ap-top-sports-news-at-1236-a-m-edt-2/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of TG Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGTX).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased TG Therapeutics between January 15, 2020 and May 31, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 16, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, TG Therapeutics, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of the Company's therapeutic product candidates, Ublituximab and Umbralisib; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Umbralisib marginal zone lymphoma and follicular lymphoma New Drug Application, the Biologics License Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, the supplemental New Drug Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, or the Ublituximab relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis Biologics License Application in their current forms; (iii) as a result, the Company had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (iv) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The third round of Congo peace talks facilitated by the East Africa regional bloc opened in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Monday with a plan to discuss reforms that will facilitate disarmament of rebel groups.
Kenyan President William Ruto and Burundi’s Évariste Ndayishimiye attended the Monday opening session in person, while the presidents of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda attended virtually.
The leaders reiterated their commitment to support and ensure lasting peace in Congo.
The facilitator of the talks, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, said the aim was to discuss political process and institutional reforms that will ensure an environment that is conducive to the disarmament, rehabilitation and reintegration of armed groups in Congo.
Leaders who attended a summit in Angola last week called for a cease-fire followed by a rebel withdrawal from the major towns that are currently under the control of the M23 rebel group.
While M23 was not formally a party to the talks in Angola, it has said it will accept the cease-fire. But it also says it doesn’t trust the Congolese government to honor the deal and end hostilities.
The East Africa regional bloc secretary general, Peter Mathuki, said some of the groups were present in Monday’s talks, but did not specify which ones.
The facilitator plans to identify the root cause of conflict in Congo’s five provinces and discuss the restoration of state leadership in the provinces to facilitate lasting peace.
The full deployment of regional forces made up of soldiers from the member states will also be discussed.
A contingent of Kenyan troops has already been deployed to eastern Congo as part of a regional force that includes troops from Uganda, Burundi and South Sudan.
Kenyatta emphasized that the region could only facilitate the peace process. In the end it is the Congolese people who will ensure peace and have the huge responsibility of maintaining peace.
“I look forward to opportunities that will enable the region to continue working closely to enhance and strengthen the bonds of purposeful friendship and strategic cooperation for the mutual benefit of all citizens of East Africa,” he said.
The M23 rebel group rose to prominence a decade ago when its fighters seized Goma, the largest city in Congo’s east, which sits along the border with Rwanda. After a peace deal, many of M23′s fighters were integrated into the national military.
The group re-emerged last November, saying the government had failed to live up to its decade-long promises. By June, M23 had seized the strategic town of Bunagana near the border with Uganda.
M23 has been a sticking point in deteriorating relations between Congo and Rwanda. Many of the rebel fighters are Congolese ethnic Tutsis and Rwanda’s president is of Rwandan Tutsi descent.
When formed more than a decade ago, M23 was fighting to protect the rights of Congo’s ethnic Tutsis. But many observers say M23 and other armed groups operating in eastern Congo are now seeking control of the region’s vast mineral wealth. | 2022-11-28T21:08:57+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-talks-begin-on-disarmament-of-rebel-groups-in-eastern-congo/ |
FREED, Rose Mary, 81, Lexington, 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Lexington.
HARRIS, Jeanne, 98, Pontiac, 2 p.m. at Duffy-Baier-Snedecor Funeral Home, Pontiac.
NAOUR, Henry "Hank" G., 81, Bloomington, 12 p.m. at St. Patrick Church of Merna, Bloomington. | 2023-01-26T19:09:24+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/obituaries/funerals-today-for-jan-27/article_1501b40e-9c19-11ed-bc7c-e7215fae9edf.html |
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A historic gathering of faith leaders from across religious traditions took place this week in Saudi Arabia, and included 12 rabbis, among them Rabbi David Rosen, American Jewish Committee's Director of International Interreligious Relations.
The event, hosted by the Muslim World League in Riyadh, marks the first time Saudi Arabia has held a multifaith gathering, which included leadership from the Catholic Church, Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, Evangelical Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as religious leaders from other countries across the Muslim world.
"We are witnessing a transformation of Muslim-Jewish relations across the globe," said Rosen, who has decades of experience forging interfaith relations and was the only rabbi in attendance from Israel. "It is encouraging and exciting to see the Muslim World League and Saudi Arabia exercise leadership to promote cooperation among the faith communities of the world. The work of forging a multifaith alliance against extremism and hatred of all kinds, including antisemitism, must include traditional religious voices along with more liberal expressions. Every country and faith community has a role to play."
The event addressed the theme "Promoting Common Values Among the Followers of Religions," and was dedicated to charting tangible ways to promote interreligious cooperation and solidarity as a response to conflict and tensions between faith communities.
In recent years, AJC has developed a formal partnership with the Muslim World League and its Secretary General, Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa. In 2019, AJC CEO David Harris and Dr. Al-Issa signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote Muslim-Jewish relations and take on ventures to combat racism, hatred, and extremism in all its expressions. The MOU was followed by a historic joint mission to Auschwitz and Warsaw in January 2020, attended by Muslim and Jewish leaders from 28 countries to commemorate Holocaust victims.
The mission, held just days before the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, also honored the endurance of Jewish life. In June 2020, Dr. Al-Issa spoke at AJC's Global Forum about the need for Muslims and Jews to work together to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia.
For decades, AJC has been a global leader in developing Muslim-Jewish relations, including through regular programs with leaders across the Middle East and North Africa. AJC earlier this year opened the Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding in Abu Dhabi to build closer ties between Arabs and Jews, enrich Jewish life across the Middle East, and increase understanding of Israel in the Arab world.
AJC has also built an online community of nearly 800,000 Arabic speakers through @AJCArabic platforms. Its Arabic language video series on Jews and Judaism, 'An Al-Yahud,' has garnered over 25 million views.
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Venice police investigate bright green liquid in Grand Canal
MILAN (AP) — Police in Venice are investigating the source of a phosphorescent green liquid patch that appeared Sunday in the city’s famed Grand Canal.
The governor of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, posted a photo of the green liquid that spread through the water near the arched Rialto Bridge. The patch was reported by residents.
Images on social media show a bright patch of green in the canal along an embankment lined with restaurants.
Zaia said that officials had requested that the police investigate to determine who was responsible. Environmental authorities were also testing the water. | 2023-05-28T15:44:09+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/28/venice-police-investigate-bright-green-liquid-in-grand-canal/ |
Jonah Heim Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Cubs - April 7
Published: Apr. 7, 2023 at 9:23 AM CDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
The Texas Rangers and Jonah Heim, who went 0-for-3 last time in action, take on Marcus Stroman and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Friday at 2:20 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-3) against the Orioles.
Jonah Heim Game Info & Props vs. the Cubs
- Game Day: Friday, April 7, 2023
- Game Time: 2:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Wrigley Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on fuboTV!
- Cubs Starter: Marcus Stroman
- TV Channel: Apple TV+
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +850)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +220)
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Jonah Heim At The Plate (2022)
- Heim hit .227 with 20 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs and 41 walks.
- Heim got a hit in 64 of 127 games last season, with multiple hits in 23 of those games.
- He homered in 12.6% of his games last year (16 of 127), and 3.6% of his trips to the dish.
- Heim picked up an RBI in 25.2% of his games last season (32 of 127), with more than one RBI in 10 of those contests (7.9%). He had three or more RBIs in four games.
- He scored a run in 40 of 127 games last year (31.5%), including nine multi-run games (7.1%).
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Jonah Heim Home/Away Batting Splits (2022)
Cubs Pitching Rankings (2022)
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Cubs pitching staff last season ranked 16th in the big leagues.
- The Cubs' 4.01 team ERA ranked 20th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Cubs pitchers combined to allow 207 total home runs at a clip of 1.3 per game (third-most in the league).
- The Cubs will look to Stroman (1-0) in his second start of the season.
- In his most recent time out on Thursday, March 30, the right-hander threw six scoreless innings against the Milwaukee Brewers while surrendering three hits.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB play this season, the 31-year-old ranks first in ERA (.00), 26th in WHIP (1.000), and 11th in K/9 (12).
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-07T15:12:03+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/sports/betting/2023/04/07/jonah-heim-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
Orioles outfielder Austin Hays left Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Twins with a bruised left hip after colliding with first baseman Donovan Solano on a groundout.
In the bottom of the second inning, Hays hit a ground ball to third baseman Jose Miranda, whose wide throw to first caused Solano to leap up the baseline. Running to the bag, Hays collided with Solano while he was mid-air, resulting in both players taking a moment on the dirt of the Camden Yards infield. While Twins teammates and coaches checked on Solano before he remained in the game, Hays returned to the dugout under his own power and played left field in the top of the third. Aaron Hicks replaced Hays in left for the top of the fourth.
Hays, 27, has had an All-Star-caliber first half, entering the day ranked third in the American League with a .313 average while ranking in the top 10 in doubles, hits, slugging percentage and OPS. After Hays garnered a reputation as injury prone early in his career, it’s been more than two years since his most recent injured list stint, playing through core, wrist and hand injuries during that time.
This story will be updated.
() | 2023-07-02T20:34:38+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/02/orioles-outfielder-austin-hays-exits-game-with-bruised-left-hip-after-collision-at-first-base/ |
Biden names CIA Director William Burns to his Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden elevated CIA Director William Burns to his Cabinet on Friday, a symbolic move that underscores the intelligence chief’s influence and his work in U.S. support for Ukraine.
In a statement, Biden said Burns had “harnessed intelligence to give our country a critical strategic advantage” and credited his “clear, straightforward analysis that prioritizes the safety and security of the American people.”
Burns has been a central figure in the Biden administration, particularly in the White House strategy to declassify intelligence findings that Russia was intending to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A career diplomat and former ambassador to Russia, Burns was sent to Moscow months before the war to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin of Washington’s analysis.
In the nearly 18 months since Putin invaded, the U.S. has provided intelligence support to Ukraine along with weapons and ammunition. Burns has gone to Kyiv repeatedly to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was also sent in November 2022 to warn Russia not to use nuclear weapons in the conflict.
Burns is known to meet with Biden regularly and often briefs him directly on Ukraine and other world issues. As a Cabinet member, he will serve alongside Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, whose office sets direction for the CIA and other members of the U.S. intelligence community.
“The President’s announcement today recognizes the essential contributions to national security the Central Intelligence Agency makes every day, and reflects his confidence in our work,” Burns said in a statement. “I am honored to serve in this role, representing the tremendous work of our intelligence officers.”
Not all administrations have had top intelligence officials in their Cabinet. Former President Donald Trump included his directors of national intelligence and CIA directors.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-21T21:24:15+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/07/21/biden-names-cia-director-william-burns-his-cabinet/ |
Matt Baranoski Has Joined the Two Fingers Automotive Team and Has Taken Over the Front Desk Duties
MOORESVILLE, N.C., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shawn Goodrich, the owner and founder of the Mooresville, North Carolina auto repair center Two Fingers Automotive, is pleased to announce that he has hired Matt Baranoski to take over the front desk and initial point of contact duties.
To learn more about the recent personnel changes at Two Fingers Automotive, please visit https://2fingersautomotive.com/auto-services-blog/new-faces-at-two-fingers-automotive/.
As Goodrich noted, in addition to hiring Baranoski, his mechanic moved on to pursue other opportunities after being part of the Two Fingers Automotive family for 3 years.
"With Mike's departure, I have returned to full-time work in the shop," Goodrich noted, adding that he will now focus on getting and keeping his customers' vehicles in the tip-top shape they've come to expect from Two Fingers Automotive.
"Although I will not be the primary contact person, I will still be there every day and can easily be contacted if needed just by calling the shop, and I encourage our customers to stop in and say hello to Matt."
Thanks to Baranoski's 30-plus years of experience in the field of automotive customer service, Goodrich is confident that he will provide their valued customers with the attentive and outstanding customer service and communication that Two Fingers Automotive is well known for.
While the personnel at Two Fingers Automotive has changed a bit, their commitment to their customers is as strong as ever.
Their goal is always to provide excellent service at a fair price, without having to rely on gimmicks, promotions, or 'special programs' that no one ever seems to quite manage to qualify for, Goodrich noted.
"It's this commitment to outstanding service and results, and the emphasis we place on making sure you and your family can use your vehicle safely and reliably, that has made Two Fingers Automotive Mooresville's favorite independent auto mechanic—and we're excited to be yours too," he said.
At Two Fingers Automotive, they offer a wide variety of automotive services, including inspections, diagnostics, repairs, and maintenance for all makes and models of cars and light trucks in Mooresville, North Carolina. For more information, please visit https://2fingersautomotive.com/.
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ATLANTA, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia families with child-care-aged children (born on or after January 1, 2009) have the opportunity to win money for college through the Path2College 529 Plan's and the Department of Early Care and Learning's (DECAL) We Care Child Care Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes will award four children a $1,529 college savings contribution.
"We've awarded more than $83,000 to children and childcare facilities and/or schools through our DECAL partnership sweepstakes. Over the past eight years, we have helped many children with their educational savings and assisted their childcare facilities as well," said Georgia Student Finance Commission President Lynne Riley. "Just as importantly, we have connected with thousands of Georgia families and shared resources and information to help them plan for their children's and grandchildren's future."
One winner will be randomly selected from each of four regions in Georgia – Metro Atlanta, Southeast, North and South Georgia. The child must attend a DECAL-licensed program. Each winner's child care program will also be awarded $1,529.
Parents and grandparents can enter at www.path2college529.com/wecare. The deadline to enter is July 31, 2022.
"Again this year, DECAL is honored to support the Georgia Student Finance Commission's We Care, Child Care Sweepstakes to highlight Georgia's Path2College 529 Plan," said DECAL Commissioner Amy M. Jacobs. "The Path2College 529 Plan enables families to save money for their child's post-secondary education. This annual sweepstakes awards funds to four lucky family families to begin or add to their 529 Plan and rewards the families' child care provider. I hope child care providers will spread the word about the sweepstakes, and I hope families will enter to win funds to support their child's future."
The sweepstakes is open to Georgia residents who are at least 21 years of age and are the parent, legal guardian or grandparent of a child born on or after January 1, 2009 who is enrolled in a DECAL-licensed child care program.
For more information about the Path2College 529 Plan or to open a college savings account, please visit www.Path2College529.com or call (877) 424-4377.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — More than 1,100 people have returned to their homes in northern Scottsdale, a Phoenix suburb, as firefighters declared a brush fire to be 30% contained.
The Arizona Department of Forestry lifted evacuation orders around 7 p.m. Wednesday. A state forestry spokesperson said one secondary structure has been destroyed, but no injuries have been reported.
Scottsdale officials said 1,145 people evacuated about 100 homes Tuesday evening when the fire broke out. Fueled by grass and brush, it grew to 3 square miles (7.7 square miles), fire officials said after crews finished digging a containment line.
Department of Forestry investigators believed the fire was human-caused but have not said whether the cause can be determined.
The fire was southwest of the Rio Verde Foothills community, where horse ranches mix with expensive homes, some still under construction. A mountain regional park and a conservation center that rescues and rehabilitates wildlife are also nearby.
Arizona officials applied for a federal grant for funding to aid the battle the blaze, known locally as the Diamond fire. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provides funding of up to 75% of the eligible costs of fighting a fire.
The fire comes as drifting smoke from wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns this week throughout the Great Lakes region and in parts of the central and eastern United States. | 2023-06-29T19:31:30+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-over-1000-evacuees-return-to-arizona-homes-with-brush-fire-now-30-contained/ |
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) _ Liquidity Services Inc. (LQDT) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $8.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Bethesda, Maryland-based company said it had profit of 25 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 19 cents per share.
The surplus equipment company posted revenue of $75.2 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $40.3 million, or $1.20 per share. Revenue was reported as $280.1 million.
For the current quarter ending in December, Liquidity Services expects its per-share earnings to range from 9 cents to 18 cents.
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Which stocking stuffer for dogs is best?
Everyone deserves some holiday goodies, even your dog. Putting up a stocking for your pup is a great way to include them in the holiday fun. There are many items that work great as stocking stuffers. Holiday-themed treats and toys are always a hit, and there are fun items like antlers and holiday bandanas that you’ll love as well.
Stockings for dogs
In order for your dog to get stocking stuffers, they need their very own stocking for you to put their presents in. You can find cute, dog-themed stockings shaped like bones or paws. Some of these have a personalization option when you order and will arrive with your dog’s name stitched on. You can also use any stocking from the store or match your dog’s stocking to the ones you put out for the rest of the family.
Dog stocking stuffer ideas
Dog treats
Holiday treats aren’t just for people. You can find a variety of dog treats shaped like ornaments, gingerbread men, candy canes and Christmas trees. Dogs can even get their own advent calendar. Things to eat always make good gifts for dogs, and they are almost certain to like whatever you select.
Miles Kimball Claudia’s Canine Cuisine Santa Paws Classic Gourmet Dog Cookies
This package of dog treats comes with approximately 50 holiday cookies. The ingredients in the cookies are human-grade, and your dog is sure to find the flavor tasty. The cookies are shaped like Christmas trees, dog bones and paws, and they are red, green and gold.
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Old Mother Hubbard Jingle Jangle P-Nuttier Biscuits
These delicious dog treats contain high-quality ingredients, inducing real peanut butter, cane molasses, carrots and apples, and they have no artificial preservatives. They come in the cute shapes of trees, stockings, stars, gingerbread men, snowmen and ornaments. Their tiny size makes them a great inclusion in your gifts for small dogs.
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These dog treats that look just like gingerbread men make a perfect dog stocking stuffer. The ingredients are simple and contain nothing artificial. The soft texture is perfect for small dogs or older dogs who can’t handle big, crunchy treats.
You and your pooch can count down to the holidays with this advent calendar just for dogs. It has 24 days of different treats that come in a variety of flavors, like cheese, peanut butter and bacon. The ingredients in the treats are all-natural.
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Dog toys
If your dog loves to play fetch or tug of war, then a toy makes a perfect stocking stuffer. There are tons of toys that come in fun holiday shapes. You can also find toys that vary in their durability. A softer toy is perfect for a small dog who is gentler when they play, and chew rope toys are great for big dogs.
Frisco Holiday Cactus Plush Squeaky Dog Toy
These squeaky dog toys come in a three pack. The cactus-shaped toys are all decorated for the holidays and covered with soft plush that is easy on your dog’s mouth. The squeaker inside will keep your dog interested and engaged during playtime.
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ZippyPaws Holiday Burrow Interactive Squeaky Hide and Seek Plush Dog Toy
This toy presents a stimulating game of hide-and-seek for your pup. Hide the cute reindeer inside the plush box, and let your dog figure out how to get the squeaky toys out. This toy works for dogs of all sizes but not tough chewers.
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Haute Diggity Dog Starbarks Coffee Collection
This holiday toy allows your dog to enjoy their morning “starbarks” with you. The toy looks like a delicious coffee drink, and it comes in two different sizes, 4 inches or 7 inches. Perfect for taking cute holiday pictures, this toy is an instantly recognizable parody of your favorite coffee shop.
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A pack of five, these chew toys are the classic holiday colors of red and green. Their material is 100% natural and nontoxic. Great for dogs that love to chew, the fibers on the rope help to scrub tartar off of their teeth. The pack includes a variety of tug ropes and a ball.
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Fun dog holiday items
If you are looking to include in your dog’s stocking some bonus items that you’ll enjoy as much as they will, festive holiday attire and personalized items are a good choice. You can get your pet’s name printed on a variety of holiday items, including stockings and ornaments. There are also fun sweaters, hats and bandanas that will make your holiday pictures with your dog memorable.
This pack comes with two plaid bandanas in red and green. They both read “Merry Christmas” in white letters. Made from 100% cotton, the bandanas are easy to wash and will be comfortable on your dog’s neck. The double layer of fabric makes these durable and long lasting.
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BWOGUE Dog Reindeer Antler Headband with Santa Hat
This adorable dog hat features a Santa hat and reindeer antlers. It comes in two different sizes, medium and large. The hat is light so your pet shouldn’t be bothered by the weight. The material is soft and won’t irritate your dog’s skin.
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Frisco Plaid Paw Shape Personalized Ornament
You can personalize this ornament with your dog’s picture and name. The ornament is in the shape of a paw and comes in red or green plaid. There is a high-gloss finish over the picture. It comes with a red ribbon for easy hanging.
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Yostyle Dog Christmas Stockings
Perfect for a family with more than one dog, this set of dog stockings comes with three. The stockings are shaped like bones and made from burlap and flannel fabric. They are roomy enough to hold lots of goodies and each has a fabric loop that makes them easy to hang. You can wash these stockings.
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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed the most expensive property tax relief package yet as the standoff between top leaders in the state continues.
Senate Bill 26 by State Sen. Paul Bettencourt would spend more than $18 billion of the state’s budget surplus on three different mechanisms aimed at lowering property tax bills, adding another $400 million to the previous plans.
Surrounded by Republican and Democratic senators, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced the vote in a press conference and again called on the House to come back to Austin to come to an agreement on their proposal, with days left in the first special session.
“The taxpayers are waiting for their tax cut and the clock is ticking,” Patrick said.
The new proposal preserves the Senate’s top priority of raising the homestead exemption to $100,000, the most direct benefit to homeowners and the major sticking point between the upper chamber and Gov. Greg Abbott. It also dedicates $400 million more towards buying down school district property tax rates, the strategy Abbott prefers exclusively.
Senators’ latest offer comes after weeks of a stalemate between the upper chamber and the governor, who supports the House plan of rate compression passed on the first full day of the special legislative session. Even during the regular session, top Republicans wrestled for months over how to cut property taxes with Texas’ historic budget surplus of $33 billion.
Renae Eze, spokesperson for Abbott, did not signal openness to the new Senate proposal on Tuesday — again emphasizing that the governor wants to see a reduction in taxes through rate compression, in which the state gives more money to school districts so they in turn can lower their tax rates. Abbott has said he believes this is the best pathway toward fulfilling his goal of ultimately eliminating property taxes.
“The Governor has been clear that his goal is to put Texans on a pathway to eliminate their school M&O property taxes, and the best way to do that is to devote all property tax relief to cutting property tax rates. The Governor has also been clear that the only way a property tax bill gets to his desk is for the Texas House and Texas Senate to agree to a bill and get it to the Governor’s desk, and he encourages the two chambers to work towards a solution,” Eze said in a statement.
House Speaker Dade Phelan did not immediately comment on the Senate’s new plan. Earlier on Tuesday, Phelan named a new committee to study “sustainable property tax relief.” It isn’t clear yet how the Senate’s bill would pass, considering the House already adjourned sine die, or indefinitely, for the remainder of this first special session.
This is an ongoing report, check back for updates. Capitol Correspondent Ryan Chandler will have a full report on KXAN at 5 p.m. | 2023-06-20T23:48:27+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/state-regional/texas-senate-proposes-18b-property-tax-relief-compromise/ |
Attorney General Merrick Garland will undergo a medical procedure next week to treat an enlarged prostate, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Garland, 69, was diagnosed with "benign enlargement of the prostate or benign prostatic hyperplasia," the Justice Department said in a news release that described the surgical procedure as "routine."
Garland’s treatment on July 7 will involve a procedure that typically lasts less than an hour, to remove enlarged prostate tissue, the Justice Department said.
For more on this story, go to NBC News. | 2022-06-30T23:18:06+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/attorney-general-garland-to-undergo-procedure-to-treat-enlarged-prostate/2870920/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Samantha Sorsby-Jones watched friends at her Texas high school go to great lengths to get birth control: Secretly arranging rides to clinics that didn’t require parental consent and hiding phones in bushes in case parents were tracking them.
Starting Tuesday, access to reproductive health care is likely to command fresh scrutiny before the Republican-controlled Texas Capitol, where new restrictions are on the table in the first session since a stringent statewide abortion ban took effect.
Texas’ abortion ban is one of the nation’s strictest, allowing no exceptions in cases of rape or incest, and Republican leaders have been noncommittal about adding carveouts over the next five months. Nationwide, reproductive rights is poised to remain a dominant issue in other U.S. statehouses, where a patchwork of policies has spread nationwide following the fall of Roe v. Wade.
“The right to bodily autonomy is being taken away in so many different ways, it is really devastating,” said Sorsby-Jones, 20, who as a high school student three years ago was able to get birth control at a federally funded clinic in Texas after her parents refused to help her.
But a December ruling by a federal judge in Amarillo has suddenly closed that avenue to other Texas teens. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that allowing minors to obtain free birth control without parental consent at federally funded clinics, under a program known as Title X, violated parental rights and state law.
Such clinics offer an array of family planning services and served more than 182,000 people in 2020 in Texas, according to Every Body Texas, which administers the funds for the state. A bill filed by a Democrat in response to Kacsmaryk’s ruling could face resistance from Republicans, who have controlled the Texas Legislature for two decades and padded their majority in the fall midterms.
For Republicans, new proposals include penalizing companies that help their Texas employees seek abortions elsewhere, limiting access to abortion-inducing drugs by mail and dispensing emergency contraception. Anti-abortion groups are also pushing lawmakers in the wake of Texas’ abortion ban to spend more money on services for pregnant and parenting Texans, including expanding Medicaid coverage for mothers.
John Seago, president of the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, said he doesn’t see enough GOP support to create exceptions in the state’s abortion ban. “If we don’t respond to it this session, it kind of becomes the status quo,” Seago said.
After getting help from a Title X clinic, Sorsby-Jones said she spent years helping other teens find the resources to make independent reproductive health care decisions. In high school, she said, some of her peers had to hide their phones in bushes at a nearby fast food restaurant or leave them at school because of parental geolocation apps.
When she volunteered with a nonprofit that helps teens access reproductive health resources, Sorsby-Jones said clients included minors in abusive households and those who faced cultural barriers in seeking parental permission for birth control. Though the main focus was contraceptive care, Sorsby-Jones said for many teens, it had to do with accessing medication without stigma for conditions such as endometriosis, which caused them to miss school due to severe abdominal pain.
Rosann Mariappuram, executive director of Jane’s Due Process, said their organization’s hotline immediately began getting calls and texts with questions from Texas teens after the court decision in December. “When this ruling came down, it basically cut off reproductive rights for teenagers in Texas overnight really,” Mariappuram said.
At least 13 states have also banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with various exceptions, with many set to discuss ways to limit or expand access as legislatures go back into session across the country. Several existing bans, plus others that are less restrictive, are being challenged in court.
State Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos, a Democrat from the border city of Laredo, filed the proposal that would combat the Title X ruling. She was a recipient of Title X contraceptive care herself after having a child as a teenager.
“What this bill does is empower teens to make decisions for their own healthcare, but also for their future,” Ramos said.
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CHEYENNE — The 988 system for suicide prevention and mental health crises is one step closer to having a permanent funding source in Wyoming.
Members of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee voted Monday to sponsor a bill that would establish the suicide and crisis lifeline for the long term. They also supported moving $40 million from the Legislative Stabilization Reserve Account – also known as the “rainy-day fund” – to a 988 system trust fund account.
An additional $6 million from the LSRA would go toward a reserve account if the bill was passed as is.
“This bill represents a historic investment in suicide prevention in the state of Wyoming,” said Andi Sommerville, executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers. “It’s something that has transcended federal administrations. It’s taken a long time to get here.”
The national 988 system was implemented in July following Congress’s enactment of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in 2020, as well as the Federal Communications Commission issuing operational regulations this summer. It was designed for people at risk of suicide or in a mental health crisis to gain access to care quickly, similar to the 911 number.
Individuals who text or call 988 receive a response from a group of lifeline crisis centers, two of which run 24-7 in Wyoming.
This was made possible following the Legislature’s decision during the budget session to appropriate $2.1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds and $400,000 from the general fund budget for the local, full-time coverage hotline.
However, stakeholders such as Sommerville expressed concern that there wasn’t a long-term funding source after 2024. It is one of the reasons the 988 suicide prevention bill was presented.
The bill also would establish a crisis center, outline the duties of the Wyoming Department of Health and clarify the payment process for crisis services.
Rep. Steve Harshman, R-Casper and co-chairman of the Revenue Committee, said he wanted to ensure residents who were in crisis weren’t going to be billed for services.
In the past, there were residents who were committed to a mental health institution and faced a $12,000 bill when they came out.
A provision of the bill states that the Department of Health will provide payment if the service is not covered by the patient’s health coverage, or if it isn’t covered by another entity, including municipal or county programs.
WDH may also explore options for appropriate “coding of and payment for crisis services through the Medicaid program,” but is no longer required to do so after the word “shall” was amended out of the bill Monday.
Wyoming Department of Health Director Stefan Johansson said he didn’t want to generalize how billing for health care services might impact a person’s mental health, or the decision to take his or her own life, but he was optimistic about the ongoing behavioral health redesign.
“Folks who who don’t have access, or have access to affordable insurance, do struggle accessing health care, and can potentially, on the financial side, face some pretty significant challenges,” he said in response to co-Chairman Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander.
Case said he appreciated the fact that services would provided regardless of insurance or wealth, but he wanted to recognize there may be more clients brought to the suicide hotline due to lack of insurance. He said the circumstances could be overwhelming or too much to cope with if there are health issues – mental or physical – that they are unable to get help for.
There are many risk factors that contribute to suicide, not just financial difficulty.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention reports that stressors such as mental health conditions; traumatic life events; prolonged stress such as bullying, relationship issues or unemployment; and a family history of suicide can contribute.
Wyoming has not been immune to these issues. It is ranked the least-healthy state in the nation related to suicide by the United Health Foundation and has nearly double the U.S. suicide rate.
While the national rate is 14.9 deaths due to self harm per 100,000 population, Wyoming’s is 29.9, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Access to mental health care, community support and limited access to lethal means can act as preventative factors.
The lifeline has been one of the solutions discussed by lawmakers throughout the previous session and the current interim, and suicide prevention has been made a priority by Gov. Mark Gordon in his current first and upcoming second terms.
“The hotline is not the only solution,” said Phyllis Sherard, a retired employee from Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. “(But) it’s an important, important component of how you get these people to care.”
Wyoming Business Alliance President Cindy Delancey said the 988 program was a tool, and the first step was to provide stability.
She said by creating the trust fund, it wouldn’t be subject to the ebbs and flows of the general fund.
“To have this resource available really fills that space of preventative treatment, very much the way that we all know that changing the oil in our car is a nice way to preserve the engine,” she said.
Although there were many advocates for the bill, some legislators are wary of the cost.
Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, said he supports the hotline, but he doesn’t believe the LSRA is the proper funding source. He said there were one time funds in the budget bill for the program.
Others, such as Rep. Mike Yin, D-Jackson, said the point of the bill was to create the trust fund. He said the hotline wouldn’t be able to continue without long-term funding.
The 988 suicide prevention bill will be considered by the 67th Wyoming Legislature during the general session that begins Jan. 10. | 2022-11-27T13:45:01+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/lawmakers-support-permanent-funding-for-suicide-lifeline/article_47529962-6cff-11ed-8677-9fa5a6d013ce.html |
(NEXSTAR) – While it may be tempting to view artificial sweeteners as a guilt-free way to sweeten one’s coffee or tea, the World Health Organization urged people on Monday not to use the sugar substitutes to control weight or avoid certain diseases.
“Replacing free sugars with non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) does not help with weight control in the long term. People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages,” Francesco Branca, WHO Director for Nutrition and Food Safety, said in a news release.
The recommendation applies to “all synthetic and and naturally occurring or modified non-nutritive sweeteners that are not classified as sugars.”
“NSS are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value,” Branca added. “People should reduce the sweetness of the diet altogether, starting early in life, to improve their health.”
World Health Organization officials say evidence shows that the popular sweeteners are not effective over the long term when it comes to reducing body fat among adults and children. Furthermore, the WHO says, the study suggests that use of the sweeteners may have “undesirable effects” when used over long periods of time, including the elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mortality in adults.
A study released earlier this year found that a sweetener popular in keto diets, erythritol, has been linked to strokes, heart attacks, blood clots, and death.
Branca added that the WHO’s stance is solely meant for people using the sweeteners to lose weight or live a healthier lifestyle.
“This recommendation is not meant to comment on safety of consumption,” Branca told CNN. “What this guideline says is that if we’re looking for reduction of obesity, weight control or risk of noncommunicable diseases, that is, unfortunately, something science [has] been unable to demonstrate.”
The WHO added that the recommendation to avoid NSS does not apply to people with pre-existing diabetes and doesn’t cover personal care products such as toothpaste, skin cream and medications. Low-calorie sugars and sugar alcohols are also not included.
Common sugar substitutes include acesulfame K, aspartame, advantame, cyclamates, neotame, saccharin, sucralose, stevia and stevia derivatives. | 2023-05-16T18:36:37+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/stop-using-non-sugar-sweeteners-for-weight-loss-who-says/ |
Ushers in a new world of entertainment with end-to-end live video production powered by global media edge platform
NEW YORK and MUMBAI, India, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, today announces completion of the acquisition of The Switch Enterprises LLC (The Switch) through its wholly owned international subsidiary Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V. The US $58.8 Mn (₹486.3 Crores) cash transaction has been closed post customary adjustments and regulatory approvals.
Tata Communications, through its wholly owned international subsidiary Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity stake in New York-headquartered The Switch Enterprises LLC on 22nd December 2022.
With the close of this transaction, the combined strength of Tata Communications and The Switch is set to usher in a new world of end-to-end video production and transmission of high-quality, high-speed, and more immersive live video experiences for viewers and fans from event venues and racetracks to screens across varied equipment such as televisions, mobile devices, etc.
"Immersive video experiences in real-time are going to be the next game changer for enterprises, and our combined expertise will make for a formidable force creating shared value for all," said Tri Pham, Chief Strategy Officer, Tata Communications. "We're gearing to bring more powerful platforms for sports federations and broadcasters to help them deliver fast-paced, always-on and interactive entertainment forms for viewers across borders. We're extremely pleased to welcome The Switch team to Tata Communications."
Dhaval Ponda, Global Head of Media & Entertainment Business, Tata Communications added, "Tata Communications and The Switch are now a powerhouse with the combination of live production capabilities, global edge platform dedicated for media & entertainment industry along with end-to-end managed services. These are exciting times in the world of video production for us to make a difference for enterprises and engage consumers. Together, we are leveraging the expertise of both companies to bring some never-before-known experiences for fans globally – whether they are playing esports, watching a live tournament or live streaming a concert. We welcome and wish our colleagues from The Switch all the very best for their future."
Eric Cooney, President & CEO, The Switch said, "The Switch is a market leader offering live production and transmission services to hundreds of customers in the United States and abroad. This acquisition by Tata Communications is a key milestone in our growth journey and enables us to expand our horizons. Together with Tata Communications, we are excited to step up our customers' growth journeys, enhance viewer experiences and expand globally."
With the completion of this transaction, The Switch Enterprises joins the Media and Entertainment Services (MES) business of Tata Communications under the leadership of Dhaval Ponda, Global Head of Media and Entertainment Business, Tata Communications.
About The Switch Enterprises
In the action-packed world of live video production and delivery, The Switch is always on and always there – setting the industry benchmark for quality, reliability and unmatched levels of service. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in New York, The Switch has been connecting viewers around the world to live events for almost three decades, bringing them the content they want across linear TV, on-demand and streaming platforms – on multiple screens and devices.
The Switch's comprehensive production platform combines mobile and remote services to enable its customers to cost-effectively capture, edit and package compelling, high-quality live coverage. The Switch's delivery network connects production facilities with 800+ of the world's largest content producers, distributors, and sports and event venues, seamlessly linking rights holders, broadcasters, streaming platforms, media outlets and web services – and turning-on live content across the world. For more information, please visit www.theswitch.tv
About Tata Communications
A part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications (NSE: TATACOMM; BSE: 500483) is a global digital ecosystem enabler powering today's fast-growing digital economy in more than 190 countries and territories. Leading with trust, it enables digital transformation of enterprises globally with collaboration and connected solutions, core and next gen connectivity, cloud hosting and security solutions and media services. 300 of the Fortune 500 companies are its customers and the company connects businesses to 80% of the world's cloud giants. For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com
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Afghan refugees in US face uncertainty as legislation stalls
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has failed so far to create a path to residency for Afghans who worked alongside U.S. soldiers in America’s longest war, pushing into limbo tens of thousands of refugees who fled Taliban control more than two years ago and now live in the United States.
Some lawmakers had hoped to resolve the Afghans’ immigration status as part of a year-end government funding package. But that effort failed, punting the issue into the new year, when Republicans will take power in the House. The result is grave uncertainty for refugees now facing an August deadline for action from Congress before their temporary parole status expires.
Nearly 76,000 Afghans who worked with American soldiers since 2001 as translators, interpreters and partners arrived in the U.S. on military planes after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The government admitted the refugees on a temporary parole status as part of Operation Allies Welcome, the largest resettlement effort in the country in decades, with the promise of a path to a life in the U.S. for their service.
Mohammad Behzad Hakkak, 30, is among those Afghans waiting for resolution, unable to work or settle down in his new community in Fairfax, Virginia, under his parole status. Hakkak worked as a partner to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan as a human rights defender in the now-defunct Afghan government.
“We lost everything in Afghanistan” after the Taliban returned to power, he said. “And now, we don’t know about our future here.”
For the past year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, backed by veterans organizations and former military officials, has pushed Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would prevent the Afghans from becoming stranded without legal residency status when their two years of humanitarian parole expire in August 2023. It would enable qualified Afghans to apply for U.S. citizenship, as was done for refugees in the past, including those from Cuba, Vietnam and Iraq.
Supporters of the proposal thought it might clear Congress after the November election because it enjoys overwhelming bipartisan support. But they said their efforts were thwarted by one man: Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration issues.
“We’ve never seen support for a piece of legislation like this and it not pass,” said Shawn Van Diver, a Navy veteran and head of #AfghanEvac, a coalition supporting Afghan resettlement efforts. “It’s really frustrating to me that one guy from Iowa can block this.”
Grassley has argued for months that the bill as written goes too far by including evacuees beyond those “who were our partners over the last 20 years,” providing a road to residency without the proper screening required.
“First of all, people that help our country should absolutely have the promise that we made to them,” Grassley told The Associated Press. “There’s some disagreement on the vetting process. That’s been a problem and that hasn’t been worked out yet.”
Proponents of the legislation reject those concerns. More than 30 retired military officers, including three former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote Congress saying the bill not only “furthers the national security interests of the United States,” but is also ”a moral imperative.”
The proposal, if passed, would provide a streamlined, prioritized adjustment process for Afghan nationals who supported the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. The Homeland Security Department would adjust the status of eligible evacuees to provide them with lawful permanent resident status after they have had rigorous vetting and screening procedures. It also would improve and expand ways to protection for those left behind and at risk in Afghanistan.
“The Afghan refugees are a very high priority and had some good Republican support, but unfortunately, the Republican leadership blocked it,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., recently told reporters. “These are people who risked their lives for our soldiers and for our country, and we should be rewarding them as we have done in the past.”
Several congressional aides explained the holdup on the bill by pointing to a seven-page, single-spaced letter, obtained by The Associated Press, that Grassley’s office circulated to all 50 Republican senators in August. The memo outlined his issues with the proposal, resulting in months of back-and-forth negotiation as the sponsors of the bill tried to address them.
U.S. national security and military officials have outlined the stringent screening process that evacuees went through before arriving on American soil. Those security screenings, conducted in Europe and the Middle East, included background checks with both biographic information and biometric screenings using voiceprints, iris scans, palm prints and facial photos.
But Republicans say the vetting system is not fail-safe. They pointed to a September report from Homeland Security’s inspector general that said at least two people from Afghanistan who were paroled into the country “posed a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”
As a result, mandatory in-person interviews for all Afghan applicants were written into the bill as well as requirements that relevant agencies brief Congress on proposed vetting procedures before putting them in place.
Despite strengthening the vetting process over months of negotiations, the bill never made it out of the Judiciary Committee and failed to win inclusion in the just-passed $1.7 trillion government funding bill.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., was one of the lead sponsors of the bill. “If this is what we do when they come to our country, and we don’t have their backs,'” she said, “what message are we sending to the rest of the world who stand with our soldiers, who protect them, who provide security for their families?”
But Klobuchar and the lead Republican co-sponsor, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, pledged to bring the bill back up again in the new session of Congress starting in January.
“This is the right thing to do,” Graham, an Air Force veteran, told the Senate recently. “There’s no other ending that would be acceptable to me.”
He added: “The people who were there with us in the fight, that are here in America, need to stay. This will be their new home.”
Most people in the United States appear to share that sentiment.
A survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research taken the month after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan found that 72% of respondents regarded giving the Afghans refuge from any Taliban retaliation as a duty and a necessary coda of the nearly 20-year war.
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Highest-level Chinese delegation to visit North Korea since Covid restrictions
By Brad Lendon, CNN
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A high-level Chinese government delegation is headed to North Korea this week, believed to be the highest-level representatives from Beijing to visit Pyongyang since the isolated country closed its borders during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Chinese Communist Party official Li Hongzhong, who is part of the party’s central policymaking committee and holds a leadership position in the top body of its rubber stamp Parliament, will lead the delegation.
He will attend ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, according to a statement from Hu Zhaoming, spokesperson of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee.
Li’s visit comes after an invitation from North Korea, the statement said.
“The visit will be significant for what it says about Beijing’s support of North Korea as well as Pyongyang’s willingness to relax pandemic-era border restrictions,” said Leif-Eric Easley, professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
North Korea sealed its borders during the coronavirus pandemic, deepening the isolation of a country that is already one of the most cut off places in the world.
Beijing is Pyongyang’s longtime ally.
In the fall of 1950, China sent a quarter million troops into the Korean Peninsula, supporting its North Korean ally and pushing back the combined forces of South Korea, the United States and other countries under the United Nations Command.
More than 180,000 Chinese troops died in the Korean War, or what Beijing calls the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
But Easley noted that South Korea is garnering a much larger show of international support for its armistice anniversary commemorations, with representatives from 22 countries expected to attend.
New missile tests, sub visit
The Chinese visit, and the ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended fighting on the Korean Peninsula, comes amid simmering tensions between North Korea and South Korea and its US ally.
Pyongyang has frequently tested missiles banned under United Nations Security Council resolutions, and on several occasions the US and South Korea have deployed military assets like nuclear-capable submarines and bombers.
North Korea continued its torrid pace of missile testing late Monday, when it fired two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) from the Pyongyang area into the waters off the east coast of the peninsula, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
The missiles were launched around 11:55 p.m. local time, flying for about five minutes or 400 kilometers (248 miles) before falling into the water, according to the JCS.
Earlier Monday, US Navy attack submarine USS Annapolis made a port call at Jeju Naval Base on the island off South Korea’s southern coast, according to South Korean Navy spokesperson Jang Do-young.
The sub was stopping at the island to replenish military supplies while on an operations mission, Jang said.
The Annapolis’ visit follows the much more provocative arrival of nuclear-capable ballistic missile submarine USS Kentucky at the southern South Korean port of Busan last week.
North Korea said the visit of the “boomer,” an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine which can carry up to 20 missiles and 80 nuclear warheads, to Busan crossed a “red line” and said such provocations could produce a drastic response by Pyongyang.
“I remind the US military of the fact that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law on the nuclear force policy,” a statement from North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun Nam posted by state media said.
North Korea silent on US soldier
Relations have been further complicated by the decision of a US soldier to cross the border between North and South Korea last week in the demilitarized zone separating the two nations.
Pvt Travis King, who was facing disciplinary action and was meant to go back to the US the day before he bolted, is believed to be the first US soldier to cross into North Korea since 1982.
On Monday, the deputy commander of the United Nations Command (UNC), Gen. Andrew Harrison, said a “conversation has commenced” with North Korea over King.
Two US officials told CNN that North Korea had acknowledged receiving contact from the UNC, a multinational military force that includes the United States which fought on the side of South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War.
But Pyongyang does not seem to be responding to Washington directly.
The US State Department has not received a response to its messages on King, State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said on Monday. He also said it was his understanding that the US military had not received a response.
On the UNC side, Miller said it was his understanding “that there have been no new communications since last week, communications that happened in the early days,” but that the North Korean government had acknowledged receipt of the message.
“I’m not aware of any new communications, other than those that happened in the very early hours, early days after he went across the border,” Miller said at a State Department briefing Monday.
King has not been publicly seen or heard from since he crossed into North Korea last Tuesday, and North Korea has also not said anything about the status or condition of the missing soldier.
His reasons for crossing the border into one of the world’s most authoritarian places – and a country which the US does not have diplomatic relations with – have so far remained a mystery.
Easley, the Ewha Womans University professor, said any quick response from Pyongyang on the status of King was unlikely, especially in light of the armistice commemorations.
“North Korea is unlikely to engage on Travis King’s case until his interrogation and quarantine are complete, and after the Kim regime celebrates its so-called Victory Day,” Easley said.
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FERRIDAY, La. (AP) — Family, friends and fans gathered Saturday to bid farewell to rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis at memorial services held in his north Louisiana home town.
Lewis, known for hits such as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” died Oct. 28 at his Mississippi home, south of Memphis, Tennessee. He was 87.
TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis’ cousin, told the more than 100 people inside Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday, the town where Lewis was born, that when Lewis died he “lost the brother I never had.”
“We learned to play piano together,” Swaggart recalled. “I had to make myself realize that he was no longer here.”
Swaggart and Lewis released “The Boys From Ferriday,” a gospel album, earlier this year and Swaggart said he wasn’t sure if Lewis was going to be able to get through the recording session.
“He was very weak,” Swaggart said. “I remember saying, ‘Lord, I don’t know if he can do it or not.’ But when Jerry Lee sat at that piano, you know he was limited to what he could play because of the stroke, but when the engineer said the red light is on and when he opened his mouth, he said, ‘Jesus, hold my hand, I need thee every hour. Hear my feeble plea, oh Lord, look down on me.’”
The session resulted in the album, and two of its songs played during the service: “In the Garden” and “The Old Rugged Cross.” Audience members were seen wiping tears from their eyes and singing along with Lewis as the recordings played.
“He was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived,” Swaggart said.
Lewis, who called himself “The Killer,” was the last survivor of a generation of artists that rewrote music history, a group that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
Lee’s body was at the front of the funeral home’s main parlor, inside a closed, red casket with a spray of red roses on top. Several funeral wreaths, including one in the form of a musical note, dotted the walls behind and around the casket as did photos of the singer, one of which showed him in a red suit hunched over and singing into a microphone.
Donnie Swaggart recalled a meeting in Memphis between Lewis and members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a country rock band, that highlighted Lewis’ humorous side.
He said his father and Lewis were walking toward an arena’s exit as the band members were coming in. “As they neared Lewis, one asked, ‘Is that who I think it is? Is that Jerry Lee Lewis?’ As Jerry Lee passed, one of the men asked, ‘Are you Jerry Lee Lewis?’ Jerry Lee stopped and looked each of them up and down and said, ‘Boys, Killer’s my name and music’s my thing.’ And then he walked out.”
Swaggart said the guys stood there, with their jaws dropped in amazement. “What a sense of humor he had,” Swaggart said as the audience laughed.
After his personal life blew up in the late 1950s following news of his marriage to his cousin, 13-year-old — possibly even 12-year-old — Myra Gale Brown, while still married to his previous wife, the piano player and rock rebel was blacklisted from radio and his earnings dropped to virtually nothing. Over the following decades, Lewis struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, legal disputes and physical illness.
“He always had a heart for God, even at his lowest times,” Jimmy Swaggart said. “I will miss him very much but we know where he is now and thank God for that.”
Xavier Ellis, 28, a Ferriday native now teaching in Opelousas, Louisiana, said Lewis’ life is an inspiration.
“He was a poor kid from Ferriday who made it to the heights he made it to. I’m very impressed with his life story. I’m saddened by him leaving, but his legacy will live on,” Ellis said.
In the 1960s, Lewis reinvented himself as a country performer and the music industry eventually forgave him. He had a run of top 10 country hits from 1967 to 1970, including “She Still Comes Around” and “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me).”
In 1986, along with Elvis, Berry and others, Lewis was in the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined the Country Hall of Fame this year. His life and music was reintroduced to younger fans in the 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” starring Dennis Quaid, and Ethan Coen’s 2022 documentary “Trouble in Mind.”
A 2010 Broadway music, “Million Dollar Quartet,” was inspired by a recording session that featured Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.
Lewis won a Grammy in 1987 as part of an interview album that was cited for best spoken word recording, and he received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2005.
The following year, “Whole Lotta Shakin’” was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, whose board praised the “propulsive boogie piano that was perfectly complemented by the drive of J.M. Van Eaton’s energetic drumming. The listeners to the recording, like Lewis himself, had a hard time remaining seated during the performance.”
Tom Tomschin and his wife, Sandra, of Cicero, Illinois, traveled to Ferriday to give homage to Lewis for all he’s done for the music industry.
“We felt the need to pay our respect to the pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll who had a major part in the creation of and shaping of the genre,” Tomschin said. “I’ve been a fan my entire life.”
Tomschin, 45, a government administrator, said “Crazy Arms” and “You Win Again” are two of his favorite songs by Lewis, who he described as one of a kind.
“He never lived a life behind a curtain,” Tomschin said of Lewis. “In his ups and downs, the good and bad, he did what he was going to do. Jerry Lee Lewis laid it all out on the table. There’s never going to be another person like Jerry Lee Lewis.”
Sandra Tomschin, 44, a library director, said she grew up on Lewis’ music and it’s left an indelible print on her life.
“We love it,” she said of his music. “We’ve been to several of his concerts and even though he’s gone, he will still live on in our hearts.”
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Associated Press writer Chevel Johnson contributed to this report from New Orleans; Associated Press writer Hillel Italie contributed from New York. | 2022-11-05T19:46:44+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/entertainment-news-news/ap-family-fans-bid-adieu-to-music-icon-jerry-lee-lewis/ |
CLEVELAND, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PURIS and Palmer Holland, Inc. have joined forces in a strategic distribution partnership targeting the dynamic markets of food and beverage, sports nutrition and health, pet food, and nutraceuticals across the United States and Canada.
As part of this partnership, Palmer Holland will play a key role in propelling PURIS' pea ingredient portfolio to new heights. Palmer Holland will support distribution, marketing, and sales activities for Pea Protein, Pea Fiber, Upcycled Pea Starch, and their innovative counterparts. The synergy between these industry leaders will set the stage to support PURIS' growth, ensuring high-quality plant-based ingredients will reach an even wider audience than before.
PURIS is a pioneer in the plant-based ingredients industry, recognized for its commitment to sustainability, quality, and flavor. With a mission to nourish people and the planet, PURIS has revolutionized the plant-based food market by developing a portfolio of specialty non-GMO, plant-based ingredients.
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Palmer Holland is a premier specialty raw material distribution company with nearly 100 years of demonstrated success. The Consumer & Life Sciences division at Palmer Holland focuses on supplying a highly functional, natural, clean-label, and sustainable ingredient portfolio to its customers, focusing on plant, fruit, grain, marine, and algal-based raw materials.
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Established in 1925 as Palmer-Schuster Company, today Palmer Holland is a North American specialty chemical and ingredient distributor of raw materials headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, with 50+ account managers and ingredient consultants stationed across the United States and Canada. We are a private, employee-owned company which allows us greater flexibility in the marketplace and a dedicated platform for long-term success. This flexibility enables us to provide our customers and principals with the most effective and efficient solutions. Our partners are rooted in the areas of Agriculture, CASE (coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers), Health & Nutrition, Lubricants, and Plastics.
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All five people on board an air ambulance died Friday after their plane crashed near the city of Stagecoach in western Nevada.
The plane was carrying a pilot, flight nurse, flight paramedic, a patient and a family member of the patient, according to REMSA Health, which provides the air ambulance service.
"We are in the process of notifying their family members," the organization wrote in a statement. "Our immediate focus is helping our team members and families, as well as the responding agencies."
Around 9:15 p.m. local time on Friday, the Lyon County Dispatch Center began to receive multiple calls of a possible aircraft crash in Stagecoach, which is less than an hour's drive from Reno. The plane was found around 11:15 p.m. local time, according to the Lyon County Sheriff's Department.
The Central Lyon Fire Department and Lyon County Sheriff's Department are coordinating with the National Transportation Safety Board to determine the cause of the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration is also assisting the investigation.
REMSA Health is a private, emergency response group that provides ground and helicopter ambulance service across northern Nevada and northeastern California.
The PC 12 fixed wing aircraft was part of the organization's Care Flight program, designed to respond under one hour and navigate complex terrain or difficult weather conditions.
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