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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A former member of the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group who’s seeking asylum in Norway has admitted charges of resisting arrest after a bar brawl and carrying an air gun.
Andrey Medvedev appeared in court in Oslo on Tuesday. He denied using violence against police officers who handcuffed him outside an Oslo pub in February, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported.
“He didn’t quite understand what was going on and panicked,” his defense lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told NTB. “He believes that he did not kick, but that he spat because it hurt” when he was put in handcuffs.
Medvedev has also pleaded guilty to carrying an air gun in another episode in March when he went to a pub in downtown Oslo.
He would probably get a short sentence, prosecutor Vegard Gjertsen told NTB. It was not clear when the sentence would be pronounced.
Medvedev who has said that he fears for his life if he returns to Russia, fled to Norway earlier this year, crossing illegally over its 198-kilometer (123-mile) -long border with Russia.
Medvedev said he originally signed up to join the Wagner group from July to November 2022 but left after his contract was extended without his consent. He said he was willing to testify about any war crimes he witnessed and denied participating in any himself.
Earlier, he reportedly told Russian dissident group Gulagu.net that he was ready to tell everything he knew about the shady private military company and its owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a millionaire with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. | 2023-04-25T23:02:39+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ex-wagner-group-member-faces-norway-court-for-bar-brawl/ |
Credit reporting complaints ‘skyrocket’ to new record, report finds
69% of all complaints were against the big three bureaus
InvestigateTV - A recent report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) found complaints against credit reporting agencies nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022.
According to the report, credit reporting complaints made up 75% of the more than 800,000 complaints made by consumers last year to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
“Consumers are complaining that the credit reporting system is stacked against them, because the credit reporting bureaus don’t listen, don’t fix mistakes and don’t reply to consumers at all,” Ed Mierzwinski, senior director of U.S. PIRG’s Federal Consumer Program, said.
Mierzwinksi, who wrote the report, found 69% of consumer complaints were against the big three credit bureaus: Transunion, Equifax and Experian.
Mierzwinkski said the increase in complaints is concerning because having a bad credit score can impact your ability to buy a house, secure a loan, or get a job.
“In this tough economy, you want your credit report to be accurate,” he said. “The consumers are saying, they’re not accurate. Consumers are saying, they’re not listening to me.”
We reached out to all three major credit report companies to get their thoughts on the report. The Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) replied on their behalf:
Mierzwinski recommended using the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint database to search complaints by company to see others’ experiences.
If you do run into an issue, he suggested filing a complaint with the CFPB and your state attorney general’s office.
But at the end of the day, your best bet to avoid a low credit score is to make every effort to pay your bills on time, Mierzwinski said.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-12T20:11:07+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2023/04/12/credit-reporting-complaints-skyrocket-new-record-report-finds/ |
Mr. Parsons served as the Chief Financial Officer of Trillium Therapeutics, which was recently acquired by Pfizer Inc.
SAN DIEGO and CALGARY, AB, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech® Inc. (NASDAQ: ONCY) (TSX: ONC), today announced the voting results from its Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Shareholders held on Thursday, June 16, 2022. A total of 40.43% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Corporation were represented either in person or by proxy at the meeting. Additionally, James T. Parsons was elected to the Oncolytics Biotech Board of Directors. Leonard (Leon) Kruimer did not stand for re-election as a director at the AGM.
Mr. Parsons commented, "Oncolytics' clinical data highlight a compelling opportunity ahead, and it is an honor to join the Board at this exciting time. Pelareorep is a unique immunotherapeutic agent with the potential to be a backbone therapy that combines with a variety of oncology drugs to address unmet needs in multiple indications. The company has established collaborations with several of the largest actors in the biopharma world, leaving it well-positioned to efficiently pursue its clinical objectives. I am excited to begin working with the company."
Dr. Matt Coffey, President and Chief Executive Officer of Oncolytics Biotech Inc., commented, "Mr. Parsons executive experience, vision, and impressive record of success make him an ideal addition to our Board. I look forward to benefitting from his guidance and expertise as we work to advance pelareorep's development and drive our corporate growth. I would also like to thank Mr. Kruimer for his service and for helping us get to where we are today."
On a vote by ballot, the six nominees proposed by the Corporation were elected as Directors of Oncolytics to serve until the Corporation's next Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed, with shares represented at the meeting voting in favor of individual nominees as follows:
In addition to the election of all nominees listed as directors in the management information circular, dated April 29, 2022, Oncolytics shareholders approved all other resolutions placed before the meeting. These included fixing the number of directors of the Corporation for the ensuing year at six and appointing auditors for the Corporation for the ensuing year.
For more details on the matters covered at the annual meeting, please refer to the Corporation's management information circular available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Final voting results on all matters voted on at the annual meeting will also be filed on SEDAR.
James T. Parsons Biography
Mr. Parsons is a life sciences industry veteran with over two decades of executive experience. He served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: TRIL) (NASDAQ: TRIL) from August 2011 through its acquisition by Pfizer in November 2021 for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2.2 billion. Prior to his time at Trillium, Mr. Parsons provided financial consulting services as the President of Empar Management. He also previously served as Vice President, Finance, at DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc, CFO of ProMIS Neurosciences (formerly Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd.), and CFO and Vice President, Finance and Administration, at Aptose Biosciences Inc. (formerly Lorus Therapeutics). Mr. Parsons has been a Director and the Chair of the Audit Committees of Sernova Corp. (TSX: SVA) and DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: DMAC) since 2012 and 2015, respectively.
About Oncolytics Biotech Inc.
Oncolytics is a biotechnology company developing pelareorep, an intravenously delivered immunotherapeutic agent. This compound induces anti-cancer immune responses and promotes an inflamed tumor phenotype -- turning "cold" tumors "hot" -- through innate and adaptive immune responses to treat a variety of cancers.
Pelareorep has demonstrated synergies with immune checkpoint inhibitors and may also be synergistic with other approved oncology treatments. Oncolytics is currently conducting and planning clinical trials evaluating pelareorep in combination with checkpoint inhibitors and targeted therapies in solid and hematological malignancies as it advances towards a registration study in metastatic breast cancer. For further information, please visit: www.oncolyticsbiotech.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities laws (such forward-looking statements and forward-looking information are collectively referred to herein as "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include statements regarding Oncolytics' belief as to the potential and benefits of pelareorep as a cancer therapeutic; Oncolytics' expectations and plans to advance towards a registration study in metastatic breast cancer; and other statements related to anticipated developments in Oncolytics' business and technologies. In any forward-looking statement in which Oncolytics expresses an expectation or belief as to future results, such expectations or beliefs are expressed in good faith and are believed to have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that the statement or expectation or belief will be achieved. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause Oncolytics' actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the availability of funds and resources to pursue research and development projects, the efficacy of pelareorep as a cancer treatment, the success and timely completion of clinical studies and trials, Oncolytics' ability to successfully commercialize pelareorep, uncertainties related to the research and development of pharmaceuticals, uncertainties related to the regulatory process and general changes to the economic environment. In particular, we may be impacted by business interruptions resulting from COVID-19 coronavirus, including operating, manufacturing supply chain, clinical trial and project development delays and disruptions, labour shortages, travel and shipping disruption, and shutdowns (including as a result of government regulation and prevention measures). It is unknown whether and how Oncolytics may be affected if the COVID-19 pandemic persists for an extended period of time. We may incur expenses or delays relating to such events outside of our control, which could have a material adverse impact on our business, operating results and financial condition. Investors should consult Oncolytics' quarterly and annual filings with the Canadian and U.S. securities commissions for additional information on risks and uncertainties relating to the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned against placing undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable laws.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Monday that renewed Texas truck inspections at the Brownsville-Matamoros crossings have caused delays as long as 27 hours for freight shipments crossing the border.
Mexico’s Economy Department called on Texas to stop the stepped-up inspections, which began May 8, and said Mexico will take up the issue in Trade Facilitation Committee of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement.
The dispute echoes a similar move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022 that caused massive traffic backups along the border. Abbott has claimed such inspections are meant to stop the smuggling of migrants and drugs, but in 2022 inspectors didn’t report finding any, though they did spot some safety issues.
Mexico’s position is that drugs and migrant smuggling is an issue for federal law enforcement, not states.
Abbott has often sought to gain publicity with high-profile anti-immigration measures.
“The imposition of these inspections is creating millions in losses for both Mexican and U.S. firms,” the Economy Department said in a statement, adding the delays “mainly affect perishable goods.”
The United States is a huge importer of Mexican-grown produce.
“In the end, U.S. consumers will be the ones who pay the price for these policies,” the department said.
The department said it would take the case to the trade facilitation committee “in the coming days.” The USMCA requires member countries to provide clear, quick and honest customs and border inspections.
In 2022, Abbott repealed the heightened inspections after a week of intensifying backlash and fears of deepening economic losses. Abbott fully lifted the inspections after reaching agreements with neighboring Mexican states that he said outline new commitments to border security. | 2023-05-15T20:15:02+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/mexico-says-renewed-texas-truck-inspections-at-18100418.php |
A proposed residential development for the city’s southwest side has cleared another governmental hurdle.
The Kokomo Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday voted 4-0 to approve a special exception permit request from Rick Singh to construct 17 or more units in a M2 multiresidential family zoning. BZA member Tina Durham was not present at Tuesday’s meeting.
The city’s current zoning ordinance for M2 allows for 16 units or less, hence the need for the special exception permit. The development still needs development plan approval; it is scheduled to go before the Kokomo Plan Commission on March 14.
The proposed development includes 10 duplex buildings, each with two units for a total of 20 units and a private road on a 3.17-acre lot located 2331 W. Lincoln Road in what is now vacant land around Ladd Dental Group, according to a site plan submitted by Kevin Steely, of Terra Site Development and the engineer for the project.
Steely told the BZA trash service will also be private and included in the tenants’ rent to avoid any possibility of a tenant opting not to pay for trash removal.
Access to the residential community will be off the private drive that runs in front of Ladd Dental and behind the Lincoln Medical Park.
According to information provided in November during the rezoning hearing, the duplexes will be a mixture of two- and three-bedroom units with a one-car garage for each unit. Rent will be between $1,700 and $2,000 a month, and the residential community will have a private road running through the middle of the housing development with a turnaround on the northern part of the property.
The proposed residential development has received opposition from some residents of the adjacent Executive Place of Westbrook Homeowners Association.
Carol Croxford, president of the aforementioned HOA, said Tuesday that she believed the 3.17 acres is too small for 20 units and asked the BZA to limit the development to 16 units or less.
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A federal judge has put on hold, at least in Texas and Idaho, the Biden administration’s new “Waters of the United States” rules.
The state of Texas and five Texas state agencies sued the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers on Jan. 18 — the day the final rule was published in the Federal Registry — asserting the rule will burden state agencies and violate state sovereignty. The state of Idaho joined the lawsuit on Feb. 27.
A coalition of farm groups that joined the case had asked the judge to provide nationwide relief, but was ruled to have failed to show the irreparable harm necessary to support their request.
That’s unfortunate. We will have to hold out hope that complaints filed by two dozen other states could yield a nationwide ban, as the rule will surely inflict irreparable harm for farmers and ranchers across the United States.
The new rule replaces Trump-era WOTUS rules favored by farm groups, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of additional wetlands, lakes and streams under federal protection.
The EPA and the Corps said the reworked rule provides a “durable definition” of waterways to reduce uncertainty. We’re skeptical. The agencies have fumbled with a series of rewrites over nearly 20 years and four administrations, all in an attempt to square the rules with a couple of Supreme Court rulings.
The new rule depends on two tests to determine if waters are covered by the act. The “relatively permanent” test covers waters that are “relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing” and are connected to navigable waters, territorial seas or interstate waters.
Those are perhaps obvious. The second test is more insidious.
The “significant nexus” standard covers “waters that, either alone or in combination with similarly situated waters in the region, significantly affect the chemical, physical or biological integrity of traditional navigable waters, the territorial seas or interstate waters.”
That could mean anything, and we are certain that the regulators will press their case, and it will be up to landowners to prove their innocence.
“It is impossible, with this new rule, for any farmer or rancher to know whether their irrigation drainage infrastructure in their fields are jurisdictional waters requiring Clean Water Act permits,” Florida farmer Katherine English told Congress earlier this month. “This rule is simply unknowable, unless you have hired a lawyer, a biologist, an engineer, and — in some instances — a geologist.”
Even then, they should probably be prepared for expensive litigation.
All of this could have been avoided. The new rule was issued as the Supreme Court prepares to render a decision in a WOTUS case that will likely result in a new standard that could lead to yet another set of rules.
Rather than wait, the administration added to the uncertainty just to negate a Trump rule.
But for now, farmers and ranchers in Idaho aren’t subject to the new rules.
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MSNBC analysts and commentators celebrated the bombshell news former President Trump had been indicted, arguing it was an example of the justice system at work.
The former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday after a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office into hush money payments to Stormy Daniels leading up to his 2016 presidential campaign.
Republicans have blasted the charges by the Democratic prosecutor as a political witch hunt. However, MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman Jr. claimed it was a "very American story" of justice served.
"So everything that is taking place here is very American. And this is a new chapter in terms of what we have seen. But the elements that are involved, in terms of people who are having the courage and the fortitude to do what is right, even though they have been marginalized and come from marginalized places – this is a very American story in terms of turning people accountable to our justice system. This is what is supposed to happen," he stated.
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"This is the day that so many have waited for," Coleman said. He claimed Trump was now being treated the "same way as everyone else" under the judicial system.
The legal analyst also praised District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a "trailblazer" who should be "commended."
"So I think he is to be commended for pressing forward in an environment that many people would have considered to be very, very political he has not let that phase him, he has not let that bother him," he stated. "[Bragg]is blazing a trail and setting a standard moving forward as to how prosecutors are supposed to treat citizen Trump," Coleman added.
Fellow guest and MSNBC political contributor Jason Johnson admitted to host Joy Reid that he was pleased by the news. He called the former president a "cancer" on America.
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"And I have to say this, Joy, it’s very clear not just as an academic, not just as a professor, not just as analyst, I am happy. I am legitimately happy. Because I think that the fact that Donald Trump had not been held accountable in any significant way thus far was a cancer on this country," he said.
Like the other commentators, Johnson hailed the charges as evidence of a fair and impartial judicial system.
"This guy is not invincible…that is a great moment in American history and all of us should be happy that the system is semi-working the way it should be," he praised.
Other guests emphasized the historic nature of the charges, with NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss declaring we would be "waking up in a different country" Friday morning.
Another guest during Chris Hayes show the following hour celebrated the Trump charges as the "new normal."
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"You know, I think they realize that this is the new normal now. We have a swirl of reactions to this event as a kind of hard 'at last!' There is excitement perhaps or solemnity or whatever," Los Angeles Times legal columnist and U.S. attorney Harry Litman hailed.
Fox News' Lindsay Kornick and Brooke Singman contributed to this report. | 2023-03-31T16:42:12+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/msnbc-analysts-rejoice-over-trump-indictment-all-of-us-should-be-happy-the-system-is/article_e15d7e91-fc00-5542-8110-83a5111b4780.html |
NY Burlington VT Zone Forecast for Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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accumulation of 4 to 6 inches. Highs around 30. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow. Additional moderate snow accumulation. Lows
in the mid 20s. East winds around 10 mph. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow showers. Additional light snow accumulation.
Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds around 10 mph. Chance of
snow 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Little or no additional
snow accumulation. Lows in the lower 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of snow showers. Highs in the upper 20s. Lows in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows around 20.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 20s.
Lows around 10 above.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 20.
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255 AM EST Thu Dec 15 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM
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.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds, becoming southeast around 10 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...A chance of snow until midnight, then snow after
midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Lows around 30.
East winds around 10 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow in the morning, then snow or rain in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Additional snow
accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow. Additional moderate snow accumulation. Near
steady temperature around 30. North winds around 10 mph. Chance
of snow near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow showers likely or a chance of rain showers.
Additional light snow accumulation possible. Highs in the mid
30s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s.
Lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 15.
Highs in the mid 20s.
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255 AM EST Thu Dec 15 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM
EST SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Snow likely until midnight, then snow after midnight.
Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Snow accumulation of
3 to 5 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Additional snow
accumulation of 6 to 10 inches. Highs around 30. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow. Additional heavy snow accumulation. Lows in
the upper 20s. Northeast winds around 10 mph. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow showers likely. Additional light snow
accumulation possible. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and variable
winds. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs
around 30.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
in the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the lower 20s.
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Meteorologists say record high winter temperatures in the northeast of the United States are going to, in part, contribute to multiple strong winter storms forecasted to hit multiple parts of the U.S. this week.
The storms are expected to bring with them powerful winds, along with rain and snow.
Parts of states in the U.S. West were already under winter storm warnings including in New Mexico, parts of Colorado and Arizona.
Millions of Americans are in the path of two powerful storms that were expected to move from west to east this week between Monday and Thursday.
Drivers were urged to be cautious on roadways as the lower temperatures are expected to freeze moisture and create slick spots on roadways that can be hazardous to motorists.
In the central states a lack of colder air is expected to create mostly rainy conditions in those areas, with up to two inches expected as the first storm passes over the country.
Snow was still expected over parts of the Plains region on Wednesday which was forecasted to spread to parts of the Midwest later on Wednesday night and into Thursday.
Up to six inches of snow was expected in the higher elevation areas like in the High Plains region and in parts of Colorado and northern New Mexico this week.
It will be mostly rain that falls over the Ohio Valley and into the Northeast of the United States.
The second storm is expected to bring severe thunder and rain. | 2023-02-15T01:24:23+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/powerful-us-storms-expected-to-hit-several-parts-of-the-country |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cooper Rush had no choice but to smile as he embraced offensive coordinator Kellen Moore after the winning kick for the Dallas Cowboys.
Dak Prescott’s backup now has a 2-0 career record filling in, with winning drives on his final possession both times. That was enough to let the emotion flow for the normally stoic Rush, at least for a few moments.
“It’s actually exciting to see him be excited after he won a game,” coach Mike McCarthy after a 20-17 victory over Cincinnati on Sunday. “To get a charge out of it because he is so, so consistent.”
Rush led the drive to Brett Maher’s 50-yard field goal as time expired, and the Cowboys held on after losing a two-touchdown halftime lead.
Joe Burrow got the defending AFC champion Bengals even at 17-17 by leading a 19-play, 83-yard drive in the fourth quarter, throwing a 5-yard touchdown pass to Tee Higgins and finding Tyler Boyd for the 2-point conversion.
Cincinnati (0-2) erased the same 17-3 deficit in the opener against Pittsburgh, only to miss two chances to win on a PAT kick in the final seconds of regulation and a short field goal in overtime of the 23-20 loss.
Now the Bengals are the first defending AFC champion to start 0-2 since 1999, when Denver was coming off consecutive Super Bowl victories and started 0-4 after John Elway retired.
“You just can’t let it affect you,” said defensive end Sam Hubbard, who had the only sack of Rush. “People look to you and your demeanor, how you handle yourself and all you can do is go back to work. And I’m excited to get back to work.”
After the Cowboys stopped the Bengals with about a minute remaining, Rush got the defending NFC East champs in range for Maher. This after his only previous NFL start last year, when the sixth-year pro threw the go-ahead touchdown pass in the final minute of a 20-16 win at Minnesota.
Rush got the winning drive going with a 12-yard completion to Noah Brown, who had his first NFL touchdown on the opening drive and finished with a career-high 91 yards receiving. A 10-yarder to CeeDee Lamb put the Cowboys (1-1) in range for Maher, who kicked a 54-yarder in the first half.
“I felt like I put a good stroke on it to see it go in,” said Maher, a former Dallas kicker who rejoined the club late in training camp when both kickers competing for the job flopped. “It was just mayhem, to be honest with you.”
Prescott, who wore a headset with a long-sleeve shirt and frequently implored the crowd to make noise, just missed the one start last season with a strained calf. He will be out multiple games this time with a fracture near his right thumb.
Rush directed 75-yard touchdown drives on the first two possessions for Dallas after the Cowboys went without a TD in the opener against Tampa Bay. The Cowboys didn’t find the end zone again, but didn’t need to on the final possession after Trevon Diggs stopped Boyd 2 yards short on third-and-3, forcing a punt with 1:09 remaining.
“It got a little choppy, kinda got out of rhythm there in the third,” said Rush, who was 19 of 31 for 235 yards with a touchdown. “You just keep playing. When you’re out there, that’s all you’re really thinking about is next play, next play, next play.”
The Cowboys sacked Burrow six times in the first three quarters after he went down seven times in the opener against the Steelers. But the revamped offensive line protected him well enough to help the Bengals get even.
On the tying drive that consumed nearly nine minutes, Burrow converted a fourth-and-6 with a completion to Ja’Marr Chase after three third-down conversions.
“We’d like to start faster, but the defenses that we’re getting earlier are always different than the ones that are on the film,” said Burrow, who was 24 of 36 for 199 yards with a touchdown. “That probably plays a part in it, but we’ve just got to do a better job of adjusting faster.”
TRY, TRY AGAIN
Tony Pollard had a 46-yard catch on a shovel pass, taking the ball from behind the line of scrimmage to just inches shy of the goal line on a play that was originally ruled at touchdown. He got the short carry for a 14-3 Dallas lead in the first quarter.
TWO-FER SACKS
NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons had two sacks along with Dorance Armstrong for Dallas. Parsons has at least two sacks in five of the first 18 games of his career, joining Mark Anderson, Joey Bosa, Elvis Dumervil, Clay Matthews and Aldon Smith among players with five such games among their first 20.
INJURIES
Bengals TE Drew Sample was ruled out with a right knee injury after going down awkwardly on a tackle on a catch for a 4-yard loss in the second quarter. … WR Tee Higgins played after being listed as questionable with a concussion.
UP NEXT
Bengals: At the New York Jets next Sunday. Cincinnati has lost 10 of its past 11 road games against the Jets.
Cowboys: The defending NFC East champs play their first division opponent, visiting the New York Giants (2-0) on Sept. 26.
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The 2023 The Open Championship Odds & Preview: Cameron Smith
The 2023 The Open Championship in Hoylake, United Kingdom at Royal Liverpool Golf Club from July 20-23 will feature Cameron Smith in the field, as the competitors take on the par-71, 7,383-yard course, with a purse of $16,500,000.00 on offer.
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Cameron Smith Insights
- Smith has finished under par 11 times and carded 14 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds.
- He has carded the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five four times and with a top-10 score in six of his last 20 rounds played.
- Over his last 20 rounds, Smith has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 13 occasions.
- Smith has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes in his past five appearances.
- In his past five appearances, Smith has posted a score better than average in three of them.
- Smith will try to continue his streak of made cuts to six by qualifying for the weekend again.
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The Open Championship Insights and Stats
- The past five times Smith played this tournament, he has finished atop the leaderboard once and his average finish was 33rd.
- Smith has four made cuts in his past five appearances at this tournament.
- This course is set up to play at 7,383 yards, 378 more than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Players have recorded 69.25 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on the Tour. Events hosted on this course have a higher scoring average of -3.
- Smith will take to the 7,383-yard course this week at Royal Liverpool Golf Club after having played courses with an average length of 7,388 yards during the past year.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of even par among finishers, higher than the -3 average at this course.
Smith's Last Time Out
- Smith was in the 74th percentile on par 3s at the U.S. Open, with an average of 3.05 strokes on the 20 par-3 holes.
- His 3.95-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Open was strong, putting him in the 95th percentile of the field.
- On the 12 par-5 holes at the U.S. Open, Smith was better than 80% of the golfers (averaging 4.58 strokes).
- Smith fared better on par 3s than most players his last time out, recording a birdie or better on three of 20 par-3s at the U.S. Open (the other golfers averaged 1.6).
- On the 20 par-3s at the U.S. Open, Smith carded more bogeys or worse (four) than the tournament average (3.6).
- Smith carded more birdies or better (10) than the field average of 4.1 on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Open.
- At that most recent tournament, Smith's par-4 performance (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse eight times (worse than the field average, 7.5).
- Smith ended the U.S. Open registering a birdie or better on six par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.9 on the 12 par-5s.
- On the 12 par-5s at the U.S. Open, Smith had one bogey or worse, less than the tournament average of 1.4.
The Open Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 20-23, 2023
- Course: Royal Liverpool Golf Club
- Location: Hoylake, United Kingdom
- Par: 71 / 7,383 yards
- Smith Odds to Win: +1600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Tech Innovation Veteran of Amazon and Tesla Joins Leading Construction Tech Company Using 3D Printing Robotics to Deliver Dignified, Resilient Homes Around the World
AUSTIN, Texas, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ICON, the construction technologies company pioneering large scale 3D printing, today announced that Robert Harmon has joined the company as its General Counsel and member of the senior management team. Harmon will oversee legal affairs, regulatory compliance and policy functions of ICON's rapidly growing business across private and public sectors.
"Robert understands technology, innovation, real estate, construction, and policy as well as anyone I have ever met or can imagine. We feel incredibly fortunate that he wants to lend his tremendous abilities, experience, and knowledge to ICON." said Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO, ICON. "With the addition of yet another accomplished leader to our executive team, I can definitively say we have assembled the best group of senior leaders at any deep tech or construction tech company of which I am aware."
Harmon brings considerable industry experience as a former leader at Amazon and Tesla. Most recently he served as Associate General Counsel and Director at Amazon where he led a global team supporting Amazon Fresh stores worldwide and online, physical stores, and corporate procurement including benefits, tax, finance, HR and community investments. He advised Amazon Fresh through a number of large strategic investments, including the merger of their online and stores business in 2020. During his time at Amazon, Harmon also held the role of AGC of Economic Development, Energy Transactions and Physical Stores Real Estate where he led as legal counsel for the site selection process and negotiation of Amazon's new corporate headquarters in Northern Virginia and the Nashville Center of Excellence.
Prior to Amazon, Harmon was Deputy General Counsel and Director at Tesla, serving as the senior legal advisor for all aspects of global real estate and construction. During his tenure, he provided oversight of all aspects of the selection, negotiation, government relations, development strategy and construction of Tesla's six million sq. ft. battery factory, known as Gigafactory 1 and led strategy for Gigafactory 2 (Buffalo, NY) and Gigafactory 3 (Shanghai, CN).
Harmon is active in several civic, educational and legal organizations and has served on the Board of Directors of Cornerstone Learning in New York, The Children's Cabinet in Reno, NV and Summer Search Seattle. His accolades have included the Legal 500 GC Powerlist, the 2017 National Bar Association 40 under 40 and the 2016 Tech Diversity – SILICON Valley 40 under 40. Harmon holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Columbia University and is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
"For far too long, we've been limited in how we think about designing, permitting and constructing and it's time for a dramatic shift. It's time to build," said Robert Harmon. "I am excited about joining the incredible team at ICON who are using advanced technology to build a future with affordable, resilient and beautiful homes on this planet and beyond."
ICON is underway delivering the largest community of 3D-printed homes in the world just outside of Austin alongside one of the nation's leading homebuilders, Lennar. The 100-home community codesigned by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group illustrates that construction-scale 3D printing not only delivers higher-quality homes faster and more affordably, but can change the way entire communities are built for the better.
Additionally in 2023, ICON has completed disaster resilient housing along the Gulf Coast, barracks for women and men who serve in the U.S. Army, innovation centers for the Air Force and Texas Military Department and additional homes for those who have experienced chronic homelessness. ICON recently launched Initiative 99, a global architecture competition aimed at designing accessible, beautiful and dignified homes that can be built for under $99,000. The company will break ground on numerous projects over the next year across residential, social affordable housing, public sector and hospitality including a 60+ acre community development in Marfa, TX with visionary Liz Lambert featuring housing, hospitality amenities and the first 3D-printed hotel.
ICON continues to set new standards for delivering resilient, dignified housing at high-speed and lower cost. Raising $451 million to date in funding, ICON has delivered communities of 3D-printed homes in the U.S. and internationally and forged partnerships with world-renowned architects, builders and housing organizations missionally aligned to shift the paradigm of homebuilding. In fall 2022, ICON was awarded $57.2 million from NASA to develop a lunar surface construction system that will target humanity's first-ever construction on another planetary body.
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About ICON
ICON develops advanced construction technologies that advance humanity. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond. For more information visit www.iconbuild.com or follow the conversation on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube (@ICON3DTech).
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Blood donations across the U.S., including the Pacific Northwest, are at a critical low. Now one regional blood bank is urging donors to sign up en masse to help offset a projected shortage in July.
Mark Smith is the community engagement liaison for Bloodworks Northwest, based in Seattle. He told KLCC that with high school out for summer, they’re out about 20% of donations, and cancellations from people contracting COVID is also disrupting their donor drives.
“Between now and July 4th, we have 1500 open appointments,” said Smith. “And we need a thousand appointments each day, just to keep up with the needs of our local hospitals. So what is that, we’re running at a 20% deficit of what we actually need on a regular basis.”
Summer means increased travel and activity, which can lead to accidents requiring blood transfusions. Bloodworks Northwest says some reports indicate supplies are at a 10-year-low.
The non-profit organization is also reviving a promotional campaign with Lane County to help drive up low stock.
Bloodworks Northwest says if people donate before July 24th, they’ll get to participate in their “Pint for a Pass” promotion. Smith says it provides a free pass to the Lane County Fair for donors who meet that deadline.
“What we’re experiencing is about a 25-30% “no show” rate, so that neatly knocks down our fill-rate to 75-70%, assuming we had a full appointment schedule.
“So we have people who get distracted, they maybe forget about their appointment, so that is also hitting our collection capabilities.”
Donors can look up sites and times online at BloodworksNW.org.
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Midday" game were:
5-1-2-2-6
(five, one, two, two, six)
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Midday" game were:
5-1-2-2-6
(five, one, two, two, six) | 2023-01-21T18:46:40+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-5-midday-game/UH3MC2Z26BA75PQVUODR6DLOYY/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scott Mayfield and Anthony Beauvillier scored 17 seconds apart midway through the third period and the New York Islanders rallied from three goals down and beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-4 on Saturday night.
Brock Nelson, Zach Parise and Noah Dobson also scored for the Islanders, who scored five straight goals after falling behind 3-0 midway through the second period. Semyon Varlamov finished with 33 saves to help New York win its third straight.
“There was plenty of time left. That was our message,'' Islanders coach Lane Lambert said. “I'm glad to see them get rewarded. It was a good character builder for us."
Evan Rodrigues had two goals and an assist, Mikko Rantanen added a goal and an assist, and Alex Newhook also scored for the defending champion Avalanche. Alexandar Georgiev had 39 saves.
Dobson began the Islanders' comeback with his third of the season at 9:53 of the second to make it 3-1.
Georgiev made a sharp glove save on Wahlstrom with 7:17 left in the second to maintain the two-goal margin.
“He gave us a chance to win,'' Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said of his goalie. ”There are no excuses tonight."
Parise got New York within one at 3:35 of the third with his third, jamming the puck past Georgiev in the crease.
Mayfield tied it with his third with 9:21 left in the period after an Islanders power-play expired but New York kept the puck in the Colorado zone. Beauvillier got his third on a shot from the left side with 9:04 remaining that beat Georgiev and sent the UBS Arena crowd into a frenzy.
“It looked like our brains turned off for a little bit,'' Bednar added. ”They turned up the dial in a number of different ways. That go-ahead goal was the killer."
The comeback victory came a night after the Islanders won 6-2 at Carolina. New York has a three-game trip ahead to Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit.
“There's no panic in our game,'' Mayfield said. “It's nice to put these two together."
Nelson had an empty-netter with 1:21 to go before Newhook pulled the Avalanche within one with 30 seconds left.
After a scoreless first period, Rodrigues got the Avalanche on the scoreboard with a power-play goal 46 seconds into the second. Rantanen made it 2-0 as he beat Varlamov on a breakaway after leaving the penalty box for his fourth at 7:28. Rodrigues' second of the night made it a three-goal lead 35 seconds later.
But the Islanders bombarded Georgiev with 20 shots in the third, scoring three times before the empty-netter.
“I wish I had a couple (of goals) back,″ Georgiev said. “They scored a couple I wish I had played better on.”
STATS
The Islanders have outscored opponents 17-7 in third periods this season. ... Islanders defensemen now have nine goals and 13 assists through nine games. ... Rodrigues' first goal was the first the Islanders allowed on a power play this season. The Islanders had not allowed a man-advantage goal in their first eight games — an NHL record. With records going back to 1977-78, Minnesota held the previous mark of seven in 2008-09 and Detroit equaled it six years later.
SIDELINED
Avalanche leading scorer Valeri Nichushkin did not play for the second-straight night because of a lower-body injury. Nichushkin has seven goals and five assists in seven games.
MILESTONE
Islanders forward Josh Bailey was presented with a silver stick to commemorate playing in his 1,000 NHL game in Friday night’s 6-2 win at Carolina in which he scored the winning goal. Bailey — who was joined by his family on the ice before Saturday's game — joined center Bryan Trottier (1,123) and defenseman Denis Potvin (1,060) as the only Islanders to reach that mark.
UP NEXT
Avalanche: Play Columbus on Nov. 4 in the first of two games in Finland.
Islanders: At Chicago on Tuesday night. | 2022-10-30T04:04:46+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Islanders-score-4-in-third-rally-to-beat-17544397.php |
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Galiano Gold Inc. (GAU) on Tuesday reported net income of $28.5 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had net income of 13 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 3 cents per share.
For the year, the company reported profit of $40.8 million, or 18 cents per share.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Just days after being insulted on television by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, country music star Maren Morris has managed to turn the insult into some big bucks for transgender organizations.
The clash began after Morris criticized commentsmade by country singer Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany Kerr Aldean, regarding gender-affirming care for trans children.
Days after his wife’s comments, the country singer was dropped by his longtime PR firm, although the firm declined to specify why Aldean was dropped.
While discussing the exchange on his television show “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News host labeled Morris as a “lunatic country music person.”
Morris made light of the situation on her social media, and shortly after announced that she would be selling T-shirts with Carlson’s quote on the front, alongside the Peer Support and Crisis Hotline for trans youth, to give back to the transgender community.
“All proceeds will be split between TransLifeline and the GLAAD Transgender Media Program,” said Morris in a tweet.
Just 24 hours after announcing that the shirts were on sale, Morris posted that over $100,000 worth of the T-shirts had been purchased.
“Over $100K raised,” said Morris in a tweet, “Have a great Labor Day weekend, lunatics.” | 2022-09-05T16:13:57+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/country-singer-maren-morris-uses-tucker-carlson-insult-to-raise-100k-for-trans-youth/ |
Samyn: Runners — Get your summer program off on the right foot
I’m headed into my 19th year as a practicing physical therapist. After you’ve been around for a while, you start to notice patterns in the problems patients come to see you about, especially those that seem to change with the seasons.
Now that the weather is finally trending positive, I’ve noticed a significant uptick in the number of runners I’ve seen out on the roads and trails. Unfortunately, this also means I’ve seen an increase in the number of runners coming to me for advice on getting over various aches and pains that have caused them to take time off their preferred training schedule.
The cycle is a predictable one. Many runners find other fitness activities to keep them moving during the winter months. Once the weather breaks and the roads and trails are clear, they usually try to resume whatever frequency and mileage they left off at back in November. “After all, that was just a few months ago, and I’ve been staying active, so I should be fine, right?”
There are some seasoned runners who can get away with that approach, but they are most definitely in the minority. We forget sometimes that, in addition to our heart and lungs, running can be stressful to the rest of the body. When our body tissues — ligaments, tendon, muscles, and bone — are subjected to stress, the tissues toughen up in response. However, if too much stress is placed on them too quickly, they will break down.
An analogy I like to use is to think of a younger child’s heel. When kids first start walking, their heel pad is just as smooth as the rest of their body. Over time, the skin on the heel that is constantly stressed gets tougher, forming the largest callous on the body. It is the gradual application of stress over time that toughens the tissue. The same thing happens to our other tissues under continued stress.
To learn more about injury prevention techniques for people getting back into a running program, I spoke to Mary Sullivan, PT, and Jennifer Wolf, PTA. Mary and Jen are the lead clinicians for the Run360 program which aims to help runners of all ages and ability levels stay on track.
What are some common errors runners make when they resume a seasonal running program?
The most obvious error is starting too fast, too soon. If someone was running 5 miles/day, 4 days/week in October, then takes time off until spring, they often go right back to running 5 miles. This almost always leads to injury. It’s a much better idea to start with a couple of miles, a couple days per week and build from there.
What steps can a runner take to minimize the chance of injury during the first few weeks of starting their program?
Check your shoes! Most runners forget that running shoes have mileage limits. Since all shoes are different, it’s usually a good idea to replace them every 300-500 miles. When in doubt, ask the experts at your favorite specialty running store.
If a runner does start to experience aches and pains beyond their normal level, how long should they wait before getting it checked out?
Any pain that makes you change your stride should be evaluated. Any pain that lasts longer than 10-14 days should be checked to prevent it from becoming a larger problem. Finally, if the same body part seems to be an issue every time you up your mileage, that is a sign that there may be a biomechanic that should be addressed. If anyone is in doubt, we always offer free consultations to help point you in the right direction.
Jeff Samyn is a physical therapist, board certified orthopedic clinical specialist, and certified strength and conditioning specialist at Northern Michigan Sports Medicine Center in Petoskey. He can be reached via e-mail at jsamyn@nmsportsmed.com. This information is not to be considered medical advice and is not intended to replace consultation with a qualified medical professional. | 2023-04-08T14:23:00+00:00 | petoskeynews.com | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/healthcare/2023/04/08/samyn-runners-get-your-summer-program-off-on-the-right-foot/70084860007/ |
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of BioLineRx Ltd. (NASDAQ: BLRX) between February 23, 2021 and September 19, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 6, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased BioLine securities 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 BioLine class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8781 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 March 6, 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, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) the Company was not well financed to develop Motixafortide while at the same time advancing other pipeline programs; (2) BioLine would require a loan from Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSP in an aggregate principal amount of up to $40 million and then also would require a $15M securities offering to facilitate the commercial launch of Motixafortide; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the truth emerged, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — Nelly Korda hit an approach to 3 feet and made the eagle putt at the last hole to take the clubhouse lead on 11-under par midway through the second round of the Evian Championship on Friday.
Just imagine what the American could do if she wasn't suffering from jet lag.
Korda said she barely slept ahead of a morning start to her second round, which opened with what she described as 10 “stress-free” pars at the picturesque Evian Resort Golf Club.
And the Olympic champion was still even par for the day when she made a birdie putt from 15 feet at No. 14. That set up her grandstand finish: A birdie at No. 17 followed by eagle at the par-5 No. 18 that came after a high fade off her second shot which landed in the middle of the green and nearly rolled into the cup.
“It just turned out perfect,” Korda said after her 4-under 67.
This is Korda's fifth event since returning to competitive action after more than four months out because of surgery on a blood clot on her arm. She has had three top-10s in that little stretch and looks in good shape to win her second major title, after the Women's PGA Championship last year.
She was No. 1 in the world when she stopped playing, and now is No. 3.
So, what now for Korda after setting a fierce pace at the fourth major championship of the year?
“A nap,” she said with a smile.
The nearest challenger to Korda after the morning wave was Hyo Joo Kim, who shot 66 and was 8 under — three off the lead.
First-round leader Ayaka Furue shot 72, nine strokes worse than Thursday, and was a further shot back.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-22T13:19:00+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/korda-finishes-birdie-eagle-leads-evian-during-2nd-round/2AZQ5C3DMVEHNHYD7SJ46264VA/ |
The First-of-its-kind Platform Helps Broadband Service Providers Generate Higher Average Revenue per User, Increase Sales Conversions, and Enhance Customer Lifetime Value
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Actifai, an AI-powered customer engagement platform for broadband providers, highlighted the significant impact its flagship product, Engage, is delivering to the industry. The pioneering customer acquisition solution delivers measurable results for its growing list of customers who have realized a 12% average revenue per user (ARPU) lift on new sales, up to 30% conversion improvement, an average 22-fold return on investment, and customer lifetime value benefits totaling more than $100 million.
Engage is a customer acquisition-focused web application available within the Actifai platform. Backed by Actifai's first-of-its-kind AI technology, Engage helps agents drive more effective, higher-value sales by leveraging external demographic, competitive and behavioral information to learn about a prospective subscriber's unique background in real-time. This background information, combined with proprietary transactional data from prior sales outcomes, allows Actifai's AI models to recommend a single optimized offer for each individual customer, increasing the likelihood of offer acceptance. By automating the customer discovery process and matching individual buyers with their optimized offer, Actifai Engage offers providers the first proven AI-backed acquisition solution designed specifically for their industry.
"With a growing number of choices and an increasingly crowded market, prospective subscribers are struggling to find the optimal offer that not only meets — but exceeds — their evolving expectations," said Jeff Vogt, EVP and GM of cable, media, and telecommunications at Actifai. "Our state-of-the-art Engage product was developed to improve the customer acquisition experience for sales agents and subscribers. The technology helps providers stand out by better understanding customers at an individual level and presenting them with real-time, AI-informed offer recommendations that best match their needs. And today, the advancements that Engage has brought to market are making it possible for providers to consistently deliver the right offer for every one of their customers."
The Actifai platform powers tens of thousands of customer engagements per week for a growing customer base, including both emerging, high-growth regional operators and some of North America's largest cable and telecommunications service providers. A key to Actifai's success is its dynamically generated sales rationale, which supports recommended offers with relevant points of emphasis in each distinct customer engagement. The platform's AI and machine learning models identify these supporting sales statements to help customers understand why a recommended offer is specifically right for them, providing agents with the selling context and confidence they need to boost subscriber acquisition.
Actifai recently partnered with CSG, a global leader in customer engagement, revenue management, and payments solutions, to further revolutionize customer acquisition. By integrating Actifai Engage into the CSG Advanced Convergent Platform (ACP), ACP customers can seamlessly deploy the combined solution and enable their agents to sell more effectively with AI-recommended offers. The integrated solution enables operators to match each customer with the best offer tailored to their unique buying situation. The use of real-time external data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning empowers CSG customers to further personalize every customer experience and maximize the value of each engagement. Initial provider pilots are expected before year's end.
Since 2019, Actifai has forged a quality, results-driven reputation built on authentic customer relationships, an easy-to-use interface, and outstanding customer results. Looking ahead to 2023, the company expects to continue its accelerated growth, onboarding additional service provider customers, expanding channel relationships, and launching a number of new, focused products to further enhance the customer engagement experience across digital and live channels.
For more information about how Actifai delivers the right offer for every customer, visit actif.ai.
Based out of Washington, D.C., Actifai is a software-as-a-service provider offering cable, media, and telecommunication companies an industry-leading customer engagement platform. The Actifai platform's novel combination of artificial intelligence, proprietary data, and machine learning empowers providers to match customers with the single offer best optimized for satisfaction, conversion, and ARPU lift. Serving several leading broadband providers in North America and a growing portfolio of regional operators, Actifai is delivering its customers up to 30% conversion improvement, an average 12% ARPU increase, and a 15- to 30-fold return on investment. For more information, please visit actif.ai.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Media Vending InternationalTM (DMVI), a leading provider of automated retail technology solutions, is launching a new M-Series division focused on the massive problem of retail shrink, one of the leading challenges facing brick and mortar retailers today. DMVI's expandable modular automated retail solution offers an innovative approach to loss prevention by automating in-store shelves and providing consumers with instant access to high-value products, while also providing retailers with detailed inventory tracking data that can help reduce shrink.
Retail shrink, which includes shoplifting, employee theft, and administrative errors, costs retailers billions of dollars every year. Retailers are investing heavily in searching for retail loss prevention systems to solve this problem. DMVI's automated retail devices offer a more effective solution while increasing efficiency. With DMVI's advanced software, inventory can be tracked from manufacturer to employee to consumer, dramatically reducing shrink, improving consumers in-store experiences, and increasing in-store sales.
DMVI's expandable modular automated retail solution is available in three models: the Signature model, the Wine & Liquor Bottle model, and a Pharmacy model. The Signature model features a modular design that can expand from 5ft to 36ft wide, capable of dispensing a wide variety of product sizes, and can be equipped with interchangeable 55" advertising screens or windows. For high traffic locations, they offer a self-serve order kiosk option. The M-Series models provide consumers with instant access to products without the need to lock them away, making the shopping experience more enjoyable and convenient.
"We are excited to offer our patent-pending solution that addresses the critical problem of retail shrink," said DMVI's CEO David Ashforth. "Our expandable automated retail technology and modular delivery systems are a game-changer for retailers who want to reduce losses, increase sales, and improve their customer experience. With our innovative approach to automated retail, we are helping retailers stay ahead of the curve and drive growth in an increasingly competitive market."
To fund DMVI's rapid expansions and buildup the M-Series Division the Company is looking to strategic Venture Capital stakeholders who are seeking new innovations in this sector. So far, the Company has raised $1 million of its $5 million, Series A round, offered through Capital Q Ventures Inc., who has acquired an equity stake in the company. "DMVI is raising this new round of funding to accelerate momentum in the Retail Technology sector and to reinforce leadership for their new M-Series Division that will be dedicated to Fortune 500 Retailers.", stated Michael "Q" Quatrini, CEO of Capital Q Ventures. "With a $100 billion prize up for grabs, the company that finds the solution for retail shrink will set the standards that will guide consumer experiences. We think DMVI has the most stress-free answer for the customer, and also the retailers, in their patented M-Series platform."
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In a 7-2 vote on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Andy Warhol infringed on photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright when he created a series of silk screen images based on a photograph Goldsmith shot of the late musician Prince in 1981.
The high-profile case, which pits an artist's freedom to riff on existing works of art against the protection of an artist from copyright infringement, hinges on whether Warhol's images of Prince transform Goldsmith's photograph to a great enough degree to stave off claims of copyright infringement and therefore be considered as "fair use." Under copyright law, fair use permits the unlicensed appropriation of copyright-protected works in specific circumstances, for example, in some non-commercial or educational cases.
Goldsmith owns the copyright to her Prince photograph. She sued the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWF) for copyright infringement after the foundation licensed an image of Warhol's titled Orange Prince (based on Goldsmith's image of the pop artist) to Conde Nast in 2016 for use in its publication, Vanity Fair.
Goldsmith did license the use of her Prince photo to Vanity Fair back in 1984, when the magazine commissioned Warhol to create a silkscreen work based on Goldsmith's photo and then used an image of Warhol's piece to accompany an article they ran that year about the musician. But that was only for the one-time use of the image. According to the Supreme Court opinion, the magazine credited Goldsmith and paid her $400 at the time for its use of her "source photograph."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the court.
"Goldsmith's original works, like those of other photographers, are entitled to copyright protection, even against famous artists," wrote Sotomayor in her opinion. "Such protection includes the right to prepare derivative works that transform the original."
She added, "The use of a copyrighted work may nevertheless be fair if, among other things, the use has a purpose and character that is sufficiently distinct from the original. In this case, however, Goldsmith's original photograph of Prince, and AWF's copying use of that photograph in an image licensed to a special edition magazine devoted to Prince, share substantially the same purpose, and the use is of a commercial nature."
A federal district court had previously ruled in favor of the Andy Warhol Foundation. It found Warhol's work to be transformative enough in relation to Goldsmith's original to invoke fair use protection. But that ruling was subsequently overturned by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Elena Kagan's dissent, shared by Chief Justice John Roberts, stated: "It will stifle creativity of every sort. It will impede new art and music and literature. It will thwart the expression of new ideas and the attainment of new knowledge. It will make our world poorer."
Joel Wachs, President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, shared the two dissenting justices' views in an emailed statement the foundation sent to NPR.
"We respectfully disagree with the Court's ruling that the 2016 licensing of Orange Prince was not protected by the fair use doctrine," wrote Wachs. "Going forward, we will continue standing up for the rights of artists to create transformative works under the Copyright Act and the First Amendment."
Legal experts contacted for this story agreed with the Supreme Court's decision.
"If the underlying art is recognizable in the new art, then you've got a problem," said Columbia Law School professor of law, science and technology Timothy Wu in an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg.
Entertainment attorney Albert Soler, a partner with the New York law firm Scarinci Hollenbeck, said that the commercial use of the photograph back in 1984 as well as in 2016 makes the case for fair use difficult to argue in this instance.
"One of the factors courts look at is whether the work is for commercial use or some other non-commercial use like education?" Soler said. "In this case, it was a series of works that were for a commercial purpose according to the Supreme Court, and so there was no fair use."
Soler added the Supreme Court's ruling is likely to have a big impact on cases involving the "sampling" of existing artworks in the future.
"This supreme court case opens up the floodgates for many copyright infringement lawsuits against many artists," said Soler. "The analysis is going to come down to whether or not it's transformative in nature. Does the new work have a different purpose?"
Wu disagrees about the ruling's importance. "It's a narrow opinion focused primarily on very famous artists and their use of other people's work," Wu said. "I don't think it's a broad reaching opinion."
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RUSHING_NC Central, Da. Richard 16-140, J'M. Taylor 11-41, La. Collier 10-35, Team 4-(minus 11). New Hampshire, Dy. Laube 10-44, Ma. Brosmer 8-11, My. Thomason 3-8, Jo. Corcoran 1-6, Is. Seide 1-(minus 4).
PASSING_NC Central, Da. Richard 18-27-0-194. New Hampshire, Ma. Brosmer 26-45-1-296.
RECEIVING_NC Central, Jo. Davis 5-72, De. Smith 6-61, An. Smith 1-18, J'M. Taylor 1-12, Ty. Barnes 2-11, E.. Hicks 1-11, La. Collier 2-9. New Hampshire, Jo. Corcoran 7-81, Dy. Laube 5-66, He. Maurisseau 3-62, Se. Coyne 5-36, Ky. Lepkowski 2-23, DJ. Linkins 2-18, Br. Espanet 2-10. | 2022-09-18T03:23:40+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/NC-Central-45-New-Hampshire-27-17449374.php |
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This month it was announced that Grammy-winning musician Sheryl Crow will enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We revisit host Robin Young’s conversation from last May with the musician about the documentary “Sheryl,” a retrospective of the musician’s life and career.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their properties.
Inflation was already causing some homeowners to delay big renovation projects as prices for building materials, fixtures and appliances jumped. More recently, higher mortgage rates have put a damper on the number of homes being sold.
At the beginning of the year, carpenter Bill Albritton, who has owned Albritton Custom Carpentry near Charlotte, N.C., since 2004, was booked months in advance and completing full custom kitchen cabinet replacements in homes in the historic districts of Charlotte. But he’s seen a slowdown over the past two months.
In the Charlotte metropolitan area, the number of home sold fell 19% between June and July, and are down about 21% from July a year ago, according to the Re/Max monthly National Housing Report.
Albritton is booked out 30 days in advance, compared to the usual 90 to 160 days. Meanwhile, his costs have gone up by more than 30% across the board. Plywood he uses jumped from $72 to $140 a sheet around Christmas. It has gone back down to $85 a sheet, but that’s still higher than it used to be. And he has trouble finding hinges at any price.
Albritton is trying to pivot to smaller carpentry jobs.
“Instead of doing new kitchens we’re gearing up to do what we call ‘kitchen face lifts,’” Albritton said. That means just replacing the fronts of cabinets and drawers and teaming up with a painting contractor to paint the cabinets. It gives “a new kitchen look for a fraction of the price,” he said.
The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates in an effort to reduce inflation, which is running at almost 10% annually at the wholesale level. The fear is the Fed will go too far and the economy will go into a slump.
“I am very worried on the heels of the material shortages we have been battling to now look at a very possible recession,” Albritton said. He’s reaching out to other home renovation companies to partner with as one way to keep the work coming.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is 5.55%, according to Freddie Mac. A year ago, the average was 2.87%. The increase is forcing some would-be buyers out of the market and sales of previously owned homes have fallen for six straight months. That matters to the businesses involved in home renovations because sellers can spend thousands of dollars making a house more attractive to buyers, and then the buyers spend thousands more personalizing their new home or fixing it up.
Growth in homeowner spending for improvements and repairs is expected to slow for the rest of 2022 and the first half of 2023, according to the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The center’s Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity predicts homeowner improvement and repair spending repair spending will grow 17.4% this year to $431 billion. That will slow to 10.1% by the second quarter of next year, with total 2023 spending estimated at $446 billion.
Chris Doyle, CEO and co-founder of Billd, a construction finance company, said small businesses should be aware of what’s going on in their market and consider pivoting to different types of projects. A small business previously focused on new-home construction should try to work with renovators instead, for example. And since residential home spending is set to decline, federal construction projects might also be something to look into.
“Everyone’s going to have to adapt,” he said. “Small businesses have an opportunity to adapt quicker since they’re more nimble than bigger companies.”
Daniel Edwards, who owns a Handyman Connection franchise in Hanover, Massachusetts, focuses on small jobs that are several thousand dollars, like building decks, swapping out windows and doors and carpentry projects. In the greater Boston area that includes Hanover, home sales in July were down 20%. The median price of a home sold was $650,000, down 2% from June but up 8% from this time last year, according to Re/Max data.
Edwards said he’s normally booked out three or four weeks with jobs, but lately it’s been two to three weeks. He says customers are being tighter with money: They, want smaller jobs, want to look at receipts and question the price of materials. For example, one customer decided to install a toilet paper holder himself, rather than paying someone to do it, saving about $25, he said. Another customer who requested a quote for a gutter cleaning decided to hold off. But while business has been slower, he says the dip isn’t as bad as he was worried it might be.
“I certainly don’t see normal July and August levels, but I don’t see what I had feared in terms of significant decline. People still want small- to mid-sized projects,” he said.
Inflation has been trying on Tom Monson’s business, Monson Lawn & Landscaping, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He’s had to raise prices — he now charges $62.50 to mow a lawn. up from $50. A sod installation costs $1,250, up from $1,100.
More price-sensitive customers have cut back. One customer who was planning on putting in a new lawn decided to wait until next year, and others have cut back from biweekly landscaping appointments to monthly.
Curbio is a startup that provides pre-sale renovations on homes that it doesn’t charge for until the home is sold. They operate in 52 markets across the country, from Chicago to South Florida. They’ve also started offering smaller projects as the housing market slows.
“As the market starts to cool in some areas, there’s much more sensitivity to timelines,” said Olivia Mariani, vice president at Curbio. “Before, a homeowner may be willing to wait 8 to 12 weeks to fully gut and remodel their kitchen. Now, they’re asking for the minimum viable work.”
So instead of doing a full renovation, Curbio has begun shifting project types to more “refreshes” – like painting cabinets or refinishing hardwood floors. It dropped its prior $15,000 minimum price for projects and now 30% of its projects are under $15,000.
Mariani said Curbio’s data shows that a cabinet refresh can help raise the price of a home for sale just as much as a bigger job.
“Buyers just want a home that doesn’t require maintenance — a full cabinet redo is not really necessary,” she said. | 2022-08-28T05:45:18+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-small-businesses-feel-the-pinch-from-slowing-housing-market/ |
A popular type of fertility treatment is associated with increased risk for serious cardiovascular complications in women at the time of delivery, longer hospital stays and higher hospitalization costs, new research finds.
"It's not necessarily that reproductive technologies are causing the cardiac complications," said Dr. Erin Michos, senior author of the study, which was presented Monday at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions conference and published in the American Journal of Cardiology.
"It may be that women with infertility are at greater risk for cardiovascular complications due to age and other health problems, and they just need a little bit closer attention during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum," said Michos, director of women's cardiovascular health at Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Baltimore.
The findings underscore the importance of controlling cardiovascular risk factors prior to the use of reproductive technologies, said lead study author Dr. Salman Zahid, a resident physician at Rochester General Hospital in New York. "This is a high-risk population already," he said.
Assisted reproductive technology – or ART – refers to a category of infertility treatments in which the eggs or embryos are manipulated to improve a woman's chances of becoming pregnant. This can include in vitro fertilization with fresh or frozen embryos, injecting sperm directly into the egg to fertilize it or testing embryos for abnormal chromosomes before transferring them to the uterus.
Use of ART, though still rare, has been growing in popularity worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ART use has doubled over the past decade in the U.S., now accounting for 2% of all births each year.
Earlier research found ART increases the risk for pregnancy complications, such as placental separation, caesarean delivery and preterm births, but little was known about its effects on maternal cardiovascular disease.
In the new study, researchers analyzed hospital data from the National Inpatient Sample for nearly 46 million deliveries in the U.S. from 2008 to 2019, including 108,542 babies conceived using ART. Compared to women who conceived naturally, women who used ART were older at the time they delivered their babies (median age of 35 versus 28) and had more cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes during pregnancy.
But even after adjusting for these and other differences, the analysis found women who conceived using ART had a much higher risk for cardiovascular-related complications at the time of delivery than those who conceived without the use of technology.
They were 48% more likely to have preeclampsia, a life-threatening condition characterized by high blood pressure that occurs during and immediately after pregnancy. Preeclampsia also can include signs of liver or kidney damage and affects 1 in 25 pregnancies in the U.S. Women who conceived using ART also were nearly twice as likely to experience heart failure at the time of delivery, compared to women who conceived naturally. And they were 39% more likely to experience an irregular heartbeat.
The odds were 73% higher for a clot-caused stroke and 63% higher for a bleeding stroke in women who used ART compared to those who didn't. And they were nearly twice as likely to have venous thromboembolism, a blood clot in a lung or deep vein.
The risk for lung and kidney complications also was higher for women who used ART. They had a 2.6-fold increased risk for acute kidney damage and were more than twice as likely to have excess fluid in the lungs, called pulmonary edema. They stayed in the hospital longer (three days versus two) and were billed more for their deliveries ($5,903 versus $3,922).
That doesn't mean women who are having trouble conceiving should reject ART as an option, said Dr. Thomas Easterling, a professor emeritus in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington. Easterling, who was not involved in the research, said the risks for cardiovascular complications – though higher in this group – were still relatively low.
"These numbers are probably not sufficient that a woman would say that risk is too great to undergo ART in the context of a pregnancy that is deeply desired," Easterling said. For women using ART, he recommended closely monitoring and aggressively managing high blood pressure and other risk factors throughout the pregnancy.
Ideally, Easterling said, cardiovascular risk factors should be addressed before pregnancy to limit risks to mother and child. Women considering ART should first get their blood pressure under control, be screened for diabetes and work toward achieving a healthy weight before becoming pregnant.
Opportunities for monitoring risk factors in women undergoing ART should be plentiful, since they make multiple visits to health care professionals, he said. "These women are deeply integrated into the health care system."
Michos said all women who are considering pregnancy should strive to be in the best possible health before conception.
"We have a huge problem in the U.S. with rising maternal morbidity and mortality," she said. "And one of the biggest risks is to enter pregnancy in suboptimal health – ART or not."
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Kaitlin Armstrong, the woman accused of murdering pro cyclist Moriah Wilson in Austin earlier this month, fled to New York just three days after the crime, U.S. Marshals said Wednesday.
Wilson, whose full name is Anna Moriah Wilson, was shot and killed the evening of May 11 at a home in east Austin. She was in Texas preparing to compete in a race in Hico, according to VeloNews. Wilson is originally from Vermont.
U.S. Marshals said Armstrong, 34, was at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on May 14 around 12:30 p.m.
She boarded a flight (#WN2262) to Houston Hobby Airport, then got on a connecting Southwest Airlines flight (#WN30) to LaGuardia Airport in New York.
Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, wanted and accused of murder (U.S. Marshals Photo) Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, wanted and accused of murder (U.S. Marshals Photo) Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, wanted and accused of murder (U.S. Marshals Photo)
This was before an arrest warrant was issued for Armstrong on May 17.
U.S. Marshals described Armstrong as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing around 125 pounds. She has hazel eyes and long, curly, light brown hair.
Armstrong was last seen on surveillance video wearing a blue denim jacket, black shirt with a pink design on the chest, white jeans, black-and-white tennis shoes and a black COVID-19 mask with a possible yoga mat holder on her shoulders.
On May 20, U.S. Marshals asked for the public’s help in finding Armstrong. Members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force are working on the investigation and pursuing leads.
Earlier this week, U.S. Marshals said agents believed she was still in the Austin area because of her ties to the community.
Anyone with details on where Armstrong could be is asked to call the U.S. Marshals Service Communications Center at 1 (800) 336-0102 or submit a tip using the USMS Tips app. | 2022-05-25T17:48:09+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/murder-suspect-flew-out-of-austin-to-new-york-days-after-pro-cyclists-death/ |
(The Hill) – Lawmakers are asking the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security to step aside from an ongoing investigation into “erased” text messages at the Secret Service.
Inspector General Joseph Cuffari notified Congress earlier this month that text messages from the agency on Jan. 5 and 6 appeared to have been erased as part of a device replacement program – leaving lawmakers peeved he waited months to alert them.
“We are writing to express our grave concerns with Inspector General Cuffari’s failure to promptly notify Congress of crucial information while conducting an investigation of the Secret Service’s preparation for and response to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,” House Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter.
“These omissions left Congress in the dark about key developments in this investigation and may have cost investigators precious time to capture relevant evidence,” they wrote.
“Inspector General Cuffari’s actions in this matter, which follow other troubling reports about his conduct as Inspector General, cast serious doubt on his independence and his ability to effectively conduct such an important investigation. In light of these serious failures, we request that Inspector General Cuffari step aside from the ongoing investigation into the Secret Service’s erasure of text messages,” the two lawmakers wrote.
It’s a remarkable request as inspectors general are expected to impartially review matters at the agencies they help hold accountable. The lawmakers ask that the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency appoint a different inspector general to conduct the investigation.
The letter alleges that Cuffari has known since December that messages sent and received by the Secret Service for that time period were no longer available.
“Yet, Inspector General Cuffari took no steps to inform Congress of this serious and flagrant violation of federal records laws,” they wrote.
Cuffari’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cuffari’s notification to Congress set off a storm of activity. The letter was forwarded to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which is also chaired by Thomspon.
Once public, the National Archives requested that DHS’s custodian of records do its own investigation into the texts and the Jan. 6 committee also subpoenaed the texts.
The Secret Service said they have just one text on record from that time period, noting that individual agents were required to preserve text messages before the agency underwent migration to a new mobile management software.
The Jan. 6 panel has since argued their handling of the matter could violate public records law.
But Tuesday’s letter indicates Cuffari’s delay could also be a violation of the law, in this case of the Inspector General Act, which requires inspectors general to report particularly serious matters to the head of their agency.
Cuffari evidently did not alert DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, something the lawmakers said: “calls into question whether Inspector General Cuffari has the professional judgment and capacity to effectively fulfill his duties in this investigation.”
His only warnings of struggles with the Secret Service came in a report earlier this year where he complained of “significant delay of OIG’s access to Secret Service records” that were “impeding” his Jan. 6 investigation.
Mayorkas’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cuffari has been the inspector general at DHS since 2019, after being nominated to the role by Trump.
The committee chairs list a long line of other grievances with Cuffari, pointing to prior letters about slow-moving investigations into the death of two children in Customs and Border Protection custody and other cases where he appeared to remove findings detailing domestic abuse and sexual harassment by DHS employees.
But they also wrote it’s “not the first time Inspector General Cuffari has shown an unwillingness to investigate the Secret Service,” saying Cuffari refused to take on excessive use of force investigations or evaluate the agency’s COVID protocols.
He also refused to investigate the Secret Service’s role in the clearing of Lafayette Park in the wake of protests into George Floyd’s death at the hands of police.
The letter gives Cuffari until August 9 to respond. | 2022-07-26T23:57:25+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/political-news/lawmakers-ask-watchdog-to-step-aside-from-probe-into-erased-secret-service-texts/ |
Partnership includes Roots Virtual Store and Limited-Edition Apparel Collection
TORONTO, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Stadium Live, a leading platform for Gen Z sports, culture and entertainment fans, and Roots Corporation, a global lifestyle brand, today announced a multi-faceted partnership to deliver a collection of unique digital branded experiences for users. Starting in March, Stadium Live users will have access to exclusive Roots branded activations throughout the platform. The partnership will debut a digital apparel and accessories collection launching in the Stadium Live Roots store, as well as physical apparel – inspired by the digital-first collection.
The first-of-its-kind partnership between the two brands aims to provide Gen Z users with a unique and differentiated way to interact and engage with the Roots brand. Stadium Live's platform ensures a seamless experience from physical to digital, allowing Roots to extend their brand exposure beyond the physical and explore new ways of engaging with digital customers in a virtual setting.
"As we strive to continue expanding our brand, we understand the importance of connecting with digital audiences. With Stadium Live, we can integrate the physical and digital realms to engage more effectively with the crucial Gen Z demographic," stated Meghan Roach, President & CEO. "We are excited to provide our customers with an immersive experience that allows them to fully engage with our brand and products on a deeper level."
Stadium Live's innovative digital platform has attracted over 750,000 registered Gen Z users across North America. Users participate in sports-focused gameplay and live streams, collect unique items and prizes, chat and make friends with other fans, and customize their in-game avatar.
"We are thrilled to partner with Roots and provide Gen Z with a unique and engaging experience on the Stadium Live platform. The activation provides an authentic medium for Roots to drive brand awareness and revenue through next-gen sports fans," Stadium Live CEO and Co-founder Kevin Kim said. "Our platform offers the perfect opportunity for brands to connect with our audience in a way that feels native to them through digital gamified experiences."
Stadium Live is available for download in the App Store and Google Play store.
Stadium Live Studios was founded in 2020 with one goal in mind: to revolutionize the sports industry by building the digital playground for millions of next-gen sports fans to play, hang out, and express themselves.
Its platform, Stadium Live, is available worldwide on IOS & Android and serves as a one-stop shop for sports fans looking to express themselves in a unique way, meet communities of like-minded fans, and compete for prizes.
Last summer, Stadium Live raised a $10 million series A round, led by KB Partners and Union Square Ventures, with participation from Kevin Durant's 35 Ventures, Blaise Matuidi's Origins Fund, Dapper Labs Ventures, Position Ventures, Valhalla Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Breakout Capital as well.
For anyone curious about what Stadium Live is doing next, sign up for the app for free or visit stadiumverse.com. For press and partnership inquiries, please contact warren@stadiumliveapp.com.
Established in 1973, Roots is a global lifestyle brand. Starting from a small cabin in northern Canada, Roots has become a global brand with over 100 corporate retail stores in Canada, two stores in the United States, and an eCommerce platform, www.roots.com. Roots has more than 100 partner-operated stores in Asia, and it also operates a dedicated Roots-branded storefront on Tmall.com in China. Roots designs, markets, and sells a broad selection of products in different departments, including women's, men's, children's, and gender-free apparel, leather goods, footwear, and accessories. Roots products are built with uncompromising comfort, quality, and style that allows you to feel at home with nature. Roots offers products designed to meet life's everyday adventures and provide you with the versatility to live your life to the fullest. Roots also wholesale through business-to-business channels and license the brand to a select group of licensees selling products to major retailers. Roots Corporation is a Canadian corporation doing business as "Roots" and "Roots Canada".
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University of Mount Olive student killed, three others injured in Wayne Co. crash
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (WITN) - A student at the University of Mount Olive was killed and three of his classmates were injured after a vehicle crash early Friday in Wayne County.
The university said Peyton Lee, a senior agriculture major from Four Oaks, died in the accident.
The Highway Patrol said the crash happened on Cricket Ridge Road around 1:15 a.m. No other details have been released on how the crash happened and if there was more than just one vehicle involved.
UMO says also in the vehicle were James Johnson, a junior agriculture major from Pinetown, Dylan Stacy, a senior agriculture student from Sanford, and Adrienne Crawford, a junior psychology major from Middlesboro, Kentucky.
Johnson was airlifted to ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville and remains in critical condition, while the other two students were treated at Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro.
“It is an extremely sad day for the University of Mount Olive,” said Dr. Edward Croom, university president in a statement. “We are a close-knit family here at the University, and this has hit us hard. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the Lee family, and we uplift all of the others in our prayers as they continue to receive medical treatment.”
A team of mental health counselors is available on campus for students, faculty, and staff while a memorial table was set up inside Rodger’s Chapel for Lee.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Democrat Cisco Aguilar was elected as Nevada’s secretary of state, winning the elections post over Republican Jim Marchant, who pushed to scrap voting machines and claimed all Nevada winners since 2006 have been “installed by the deep-state cabal."
Marchant's loss marks the latest defeat for election conspiracy theorists who sought to gain control of elections in competitive states. Marchant organized a coalition of 17 such Republican candidates for the 2022 election, and all lost their races except two — Diego Morales, who was elected secretary of state in Indiana, and Kari Lake, whose contest for Arizona governor remained too close to call.
Marchant, Mark Finchem — an Arizona state lawmaker who attended the Jan. 6 protests — and Michigan's Kristina Karamo were the most prominent secretary of state candidates because they sought the office overseeing voting in three of the six swing states that decided the winner of the 2020 presidential elections. Their bids drew millions of dollars in outside spending from Democrats and their allies on ads warning voters about them. In contrast, the Republican Party's apparatus that normally backs secretaries of states didn't support any election conspiracy theorists and they raised paltry sums of money.
“Their candidates showed voters who they were and the voters rejected them,” said Ellen Kurz, a Democratic strategist whose group iVote spent $15 million against the conspiracy theorists. “Voters saved democracy.”
In Nevada, Aguilar has vowed to add protections for poll workers and to restore public trust in elections that was damaged by false claims of voter fraud, including by his election-denying opponent. He will replace Barbara Cegavske, the only current statewide-elected Republican and one of the GOP’s most vocal critics of conspiracy theories that have fueled unfounded distrust in voting machines.
“We must continue to reject extremism and those who threaten our democracy,” Aguilar, the first Latino elected to the role, said in a campaign statement declaring victory Friday.
Marchant lost even as the GOP candidate for governor won, part of a pattern of election deniers running behind the rest of their ticket, including in Minnesota, New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
Cegavske has overseen elections in Nevada since 2014 and has repeatedly upheld the results as reliable and accurate despite attacks from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans — which led the state party to censure her. Her investigation found no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud in Nevada in 2020.
In addition to running the state’s elections, Nevada’s secretary of state also runs the state’s campaign finance filing, business licenses and notaries.
Voting has changed in Nevada in the past four years, as the Democratic-controlled Legislature implemented changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including sending mail ballots to every voter, which was made permanent.
Aguilar said in an interview in early November that one of his first priorities in office will be to make it a felony to harass election workers and volunteers.
Aguilar spent eight years on the Nevada Athletic Commission and worked as legal counsel for Nevada’s higher education Chancellor Jim Rodgers and for Agassi Graf, a management company run by married tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.
Marchant, a former state assemblyman and congressional candidate, was not the only Republican election denier on the ballot in Nevada. U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt co-chaired Trump’s reelection campaign in Nevada and led failed court challenges to overturn the state’s 2020 results. Laxalt lost to Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who won election to a second term on Saturday.
Like many election conspiracy theorists, Marchant eschewed the trappings of a typical campaign, holding few public events open to reporters. Marchant and his fellow deniers were supported by deep-pocketed businessmen who spent tens of millions of dollars on grassroots groups, documentary-style movies and other media pushing the theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
“These guys have this infrastructure, which is how they communicate and they didn't think they needed a campaign structure,” said Kim Rogers, executive director of the Democratic Associated of Secretaries of State, which spent heavily against Marchant and other denier candidates.
Marchant traveled across deep-red, rural Nevada, spreading conspiracies theories and pushing county commissions to request ballot hand-counts from local clerks who administer elections.
Nye County, with 34,000 registered voters, has started the slower and less reliable method of hand-counting votes alongside tabulators and has openly floated using a hand-count as its primary tabulation method in future cycles. Esmeralda County, with just over 600 registered voters, used hand-counting to certify its primary results in June, while officials in other counties have expressed support for hand-counting.
Aguilar said he would respect “local decisions” if counties present him with plans to hand-count ballots, while also making sure the process is lawful. He said a large part of his job will be rebuilding trust in elections.
“It’s going to be having uncomfortable conversations. It’s going to be a lot of listening,” he said.
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Riccardi reported from Las Vegas. Stern is a corps member 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. Follow him on Twitter: @gabestern326
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. Check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms. | 2022-11-13T05:09:14+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Democrat-wins-top-Nevada-elections-job-over-17580646.php |
LAS VEGAS (WETM) – Jon Jones is now a two-division champion in the UFC.
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Endicott native Jon Jones defeated Ciryl Gane by first-round submission in his heavyweight debut to win the vacant UFC heavyweight title in the main event at UFC 285 in Las Vegas on Saturday night. The 35-year-old won the belt at the T-Mobile Arena with a guillotine choke at 2:04 in the first round to become a two-division champion in the UFC. It was the first fight for Jones (27-1, 1 NC) in three years and he becomes just the third UFC fighter to win the heavyweight and light heavyweight title, joining Randy Couture and Daniel Cormier.
The first title defense for Jones will be against former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. | 2023-03-05T23:34:51+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/jon-jones-wins-ufc-heavyweight-title-by-first-round-submission/ |
COLFAX, Iowa (AP) — In the small central Iowa town of Colfax, thousands of cyclists participating in the largest and oldest recreational bike ride in the world were stopped along its historic main street, staring ahead at a daunting climb that would lead them out of town.
The hill, coupled with soaring temps and the vibrant downtown, made a morning sitting in the shade quite appealing.
It’s become almost simplistic to say that “small-town America” is slowly dying. That opportunities for young people have dried up, just like businesses and main streets. That the only way forward in life involves moving to a big city. But the reality is towns such as Colfax are flourishing, and that was especially evident on RAGBRAI, the annual bike ride across the state, where dozens of small towns dotting the 500-mile route welcomed some 50,000 riders with open arms.
Colfax is a prime example. It experienced a nearly 8% increase in population from the 2010 census to the most recent in 2020, turning around two decades of decline. Its population of 2,255 represented its highest since the 1990s.
Sure, many small towns are still struggling, but what has allowed those such as Colfax to thrive?
“Mostly, a wonderful mayor and council and volunteers that just ensure a vital community,” explains Wade Wagoner, the former city manager for the small town of Lake Park, and now the city administrator for Colfax.
“Des Moines and the metro growing to the east doesn’t hurt,” Wagoner said. “Also, the fact that we still have a high school and citizens just approved a $14 million bond for athletic and academic improvements make people want to raise a family here.”
Wagoner underscores that location is important. After the COVID-19 pandemic, when many jobs became partially or fully remote, people who may have once worked in a city could suddenly live just about anywhere, including small towns across America.
Wagoner goes on to talk about the smallest Fareway grocery store in the state, the coffee shop and bank and city hall, all of which make for a bustling hub. There’s also a rich history with mineral water that makes Colfax’s downtown large for its size.
In other words, Colfax has leaned into its strengths to create a community that people want to call home.
And every few years, big events such as RAGBRAI roll through, giving them a chance to shine.
“Lots of trash and (Port-o-potties,” Wagoner said of the traveling circus, “but it is actually pretty cool. It lets us show off the town and certain businesses do make some money. Others find it a pain. But it’s only for a single day.”
If nothing else, the horde of cyclists are good for making money.
In Polk City, between the busy metros of Ames and Des Moines, high school students collected money to fund their after-prom party. Elsewhere on the ride, residents of Slater were using donations to build a new community center and library. In Breda, where the route went through Monday, the town was trying to raise $300,000 to replace the lights at its baseball grandstand, which was built in 1946 and has withstood the test of time.
Breda, population 500, is another example of a small town doing well. It has steadily gained residents for the past 30 years.
In the quiet hamlet of Oxford, just past the fire department and the Deja Brew Coffee House & Bakery, four boys took turns in a dunk tank Friday as cyclists passed through on a day of unrelenting heat — the index topped out at 112 degrees.
For just $5, riders got three shots at the tank. All the proceeds went to their little league program.
The boys were winning on two fronts: staying cool and making cash.
The population of Slater, just north of Polk City, has steadily grown the past three decades.
“Many young families have moved into Slater recently for the school system, and safety of our small town, and ease of getting around,” said Evy Raes of the Slater Area Historical Association. “Our sense of community was tested when a derecho roared through in August 2020. Never fear: anyone with a pickup truck, a chain saw and a six-pack was out in the streets after the storm, helping neighbors clear and dispose of the debris. People really pulled together and no one was a stranger.”
That sense of community isn’t always felt in bigger cities. And more than anything, Raes said, that has helped them to thrive.
“We are a small town with big ideals,” Raes said. “Many people who move into Slater feel an instant connection with the community. It is said though, ‘Don’t gossip about anybody who’s lived here awhile, because they may be related to the person you’re talking to.’ My family has lived here over 74 years, and some days we feel like the new people.”
Turns out that, at least in some small towns, there are in fact plenty of new people.
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Dave Skretta is a Kansas City, Missouri-based AP Sports Writer. He grew up in the small-but-vibrant northeast Iowa town of Decorah and and has ridden RAGBRAI many times, though he’s never written about it while doing it. Skretta wrote periodic updates from the road. He covered 579 miles from start to finish.
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AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-30T16:38:46+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/ap-bike-ride-across-iowa-puts-vibrant-small-town-america-into-sharp-focus/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-8-9-3
(seven, eight, nine, three)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-8-9-3
(seven, eight, nine, three) | 2022-11-16T02:02:07+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17586812.php |
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - It always comes faster than expected - but believe it or not the school year is just around the corner And just like many ongoing labor shortages - tutors are no exception.
Krista Dudgeon with Ampact said they equip tutors to be ready for large class sizes and different styles of learning through the pandemic - whether it be in person or virtual.
Ampact equips 16 schools in Rochester with tutors!
The Med City is looking for at least 40 tutors, and they have about half of those jobs still open.
Across the State of Minnesota, they are hoping to fill nearly two thousand tutor positions.
And now more than ever, the need is there.
"What we're seeing right now is that fewer than half of Minnesota students are reading and doing math at their grade level," said Dudgeon. "So we see a huge disparity in our state, as well as the White House just announced that students on average - due to the pandemic - are two to four months behind in reading and math. And they even stated that tutors are going to be playing a crucial role." | 2022-07-21T14:44:24+00:00 | kimt.com | https://www.kimt.com/community/minnesota-in-need-of-tutors-ahead-of-the-return-to-school/article_9b4fa20a-08ee-11ed-ac3f-9b7253148dbc.html |
March 12, 1952—Oct. 22, 2022
Terry Lee Ketterling, 70, passed away on October 22, 2022 at his home. Terry was born March 12, 1952 to Leo and Lucille (Dalry) Ketterling in Rupert, Idaho. He was the eldest of three children, being joined in the family by his brother Randy and sister Leanne. His childhood was spent helping out with chores on the family farm, where he gained knowledge of farming and a love of reaping what you sow.
After graduating Minico, Terry attended Boise State University where he played basketball and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
In 1974, he met the love of his life, Linda Gibson and was instantly smitten. On February 15, 1975 they joined in marriage.
Once married they began a farming adventure together with Terry’s brother, Randy, in Raft River, Idaho. In 1976 they moved to Oreana, Idaho. There, they welcomed their son, Tony and daughter Launa. Soon after Launa’s birth they moved to Mountain Home, Idaho in search of new fields to cultivate. South Mountain Home became the canvas for Terry to create his dreams.
Terry grew sugar beets and was Chairman of the Board as well as one of the Cooperative founders for the Snake River Sugar Company for many years. He stepped down from the Sugar Company, and while he was a through-and-through sugar beet farmer at the time, he was not one to let a new challenging opportunity slip by. He had a brain that loved to solve a problem and when row crop farming presented a challenge, he was ready to solve it. Alongside his farming operation that continued on, he and Linda built TLK Dairy, Inc. and milked their first cow in March of 2003.
Since then, Terry never stopped inventing and creating new promising ways to better his own operation as well as the farming and dairy production industries. He never shied away from adversity and loved to share his farming story with anyone that had an interest. He was always very vocal about how his cows and employees would be treated, both with fairness and kindness. He had a special admiration and gratefulness for his farming and dairy team that he spent many years working alongside.
Outside of business, Terry was a loving husband, caring father, loving papa, and concerned friend. He was a go-to person for advice and dialog and he never gave with expectations. He always taught his family to finish what you start and be proud of each other. Terry was an eternal optimist that never saw a problem that was without a solution. He loved to laugh and was always up to hear, or tell, a good joke. His farmland and his family were his pride and joy. He will be missed by many and loved forever.
Terry was preceded in death by his mother, Lucille in September of 2022.
Terry is survived by his wife, Linda, son, Tony (Rachel) Ketterling and daughter, Launa (Nathan) Fowler. His five beloved grandchildren, Sophia and Troy Ketterling, Elliot, Eva and Everly Fowler all of Mountain Home; his father Leo Ketterling of Rupert, brother Randy (Miriam), of Rupert; sister Leanne (Gary) Price of Burley.
A special thank you to Dr. Zuckerman and Laura Rasmussen for their help and support. A special thank you to Kristina Bauer and Jan Ireland for their attentive care for Terry, and the rest of us, during this difficult time.
Please join us in celebrating Terry’s life and legacy on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 11:00 am at the Mountain Home High School. Arrangements under the care of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Mountain Home FFA Program in honor of Terry. Contributions can be sent to MHHS FFA c/o Kya Bideganeta, 330 S. 11th E., Mountain Home, Idaho 83647. | 2022-10-27T07:59:03+00:00 | magicvalley.com | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/terry-lee-ketterling/article_0696787e-fa30-55a2-89a4-263cb29a25b7.html |
TAYLOR, Texas (KXAN) — For decades, the citizens of Taylor, Texas, have gathered in early December to watch festive floats sail down Main Street.
“It’s a parade that everybody looks forward to and likes to participate in,” said Stacey Osborne, communications director for the City of Taylor. “Everyone feels like it’s the beginning of the holiday celebration.”
In the past, the planning of this small Austin suburb’s holiday parade hasn’t raised much alarm. But this year, it’s been a hotbed of controversy, sparking fiery debates online.
The Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance (TAMA), a church group which has helped organize the event for the last few Christmases, is once again organizing this year’s parade. But this year, the organization added language to the application that some felt excluded LGBTQ groups from participating, saying, “entries must be consistent with traditional biblical and family values.”
This language was included after volunteers working with TAMA allowed a float from a group called Taylor Pride to enter the parade in 2021, which TAMA later called an “oversight” on their part.
“(TAMA) made it clear that they did not want certain people to be a part of the parade,” Osborne said. “They were going to go in a little bit of a different direction … and make it a little bit more exclusive.”
Osborne said city staff in recent years have worked to make Taylor a more inclusive place, and they recognize that people of different faiths and lifestyles may still want to attend the town’s annual festivities.
So, to include more folks in the tradition, the City of Taylor decided to host a second parade — the same night as TAMA’s — calling this one the “Very Merry Holiday Parade.”
“All are welcome to participate,” the registration for this event read.
Putting on a separate parade is a departure from what the City of Taylor has previously done. In the past, the city would sponsor an organization’s initiative to orchestrate the event. After seeing this year’s description, they decided to distance themselves from TAMA’s celebration.
“In order to make sure that everybody in our city was included and felt like they could be a part of the celebration, we (decided to) put on our own parade,” Osborne said. “(TAMA is) welcome to have their parade with the rules, requirements and restrictions they want to put on. It is completely their prerogative. But we wanted to make sure that everyone in the city could celebrate the holiday season with us.”
Taylor Pride, the group that had a float in last year’s parade, complete with a drag performer, felt excluded by TAMA’s new parade requirements. In the same Facebook post where TAMA described Taylor Pride’s inclusion as an “oversight,” the post’s author used transphobic language and said having a drag performer at a “family-friendly” parade was “unthinkable.”
“It’s hard, it is hurtful and it’s just really not OK,” said Denise Rodgers, a co-founder and the president of Taylor Pride. “The LGBTQ community — we celebrate holidays, we practice religious faith, we have families and children. We are no different than the people who are hosting or attending these parades, these events and these holidays.”
Rodgers said she is happy the City of Taylor decided to host its own event and looks forward to future annual celebrations sponsored by the City.
“The last thing I want to do is send a message to any of the children that we support that they are not worthy or valid to be able to celebrate a holiday or participate in a holiday parade,” Rodgers said. “Just absolutely not OK.”
Jeff Ripple, a pastor at Christ Fellowship Church (a member of TAMA), has claimed that the drag performer’s appearance at the 2021 parade was upsetting to some area families.
“We asked all entries that (they) would not be inconsistent with traditional biblical and family values. We did not single out a particular group; we didn’t call a group and say you can’t be in our parade,” Ripple said.
Ripple said he is saddened by the division in the community that this controversy has created, but stands by the group’s decision.
“I fully respect Taylor Pride’s right to be an organization, right to have events of their own. And just as (TAMA) is an organization … we could not in good conscience allow what we believe is contrary to what the Bible teaches,” Ripple said.
Both parades in Taylor, Texas, are scheduled for Dec. 3. | 2022-11-17T23:15:22+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/christmas-parade-restrictions-divide-texas-town-just-absolutely-not-ok/ |
QINGDAO, China, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3rd Qingdao Multinationals Summit (QMS), jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and Shandong Provincial Government on June 20-21, will bring together 795 multinational entrepreneurs, experts, scholars and government representatives from 29 countries.
This year's summit features 41 events covering 14 topics to discuss many aspects of today's global economy and trade. One such event that many participants have signed up for is a discussion on the reconstruction of global industrial chains and supply chains in the post-epidemic era. The event's organizers also invited participants designated as Global Partners to the Oriental Event to help build a new platform for opening up to the world.
With its international awareness and brand influence, the summit brings together a host of partners including Saudi Aramco, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Qingdao Branch, Tsingtao Brewery, Qingdao Laoshan Mineral Water, Huadong (East China) Winery, Qianxi Wine Industry, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao Dalan Flagship Store, Nestlé, Qingdao Donison Technology, Hynaut, Shandong Xiang Shang Apparel Culture, Hylands Law Firm, Qingdao Branch of China Mobile Group Shandong, and Shandong Yueru Agricultural Development, all of whom will collaborate to provide a full range of quality services to the summit and to participating companies from multiple sectors including energy, finance, beverages, auto sales, medical devices, epidemic prevention materials, clothing and accessories, legal consulting, network communications, and agricultural products.
The summit could not have been held without the support of a number of companies and organizations, while its market-oriented approach is an important feature that proved highly attractive to those who chose to participate. With a focus on three key elements to a successful event - dialog, collaboration and win-win - the summit plans to work together with its partner companies to create an international event meeting high standards as well as to make it a platform for multinational companies operating in China who want to boost their further growth not only in Qingdao and Shandong province, but also throughout the whole of the country.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Price increases moderated in the United States last month in the latest sign that the inflation pressures that have gripped the nation might be easing as the economy slows and consumers grow more cautious.
Consumer inflation reached 7.7% in October from a year earlier and 0.4% from September, the Labor Department said Thursday. The year-over-year gain was the smallest since January. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, “core” inflation rose 6.3% in the past 12 months and 0.3% from September.
The numbers were all lower than economists had expected.
Even with last month’s tentative easing of inflation, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep raising interest rates to try to stem persistently high price increases. Many economists warn, though, that in continuing to aggressively tighten credit, the Fed is likely to cause a recession by next year.
So far this year, the Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate six times in sizable increments, heightening the risk that prohibitively high borrowing rates — for mortgages, auto purchases and other high-cost expenses — will tip the world’s largest economy into recession.
Inflation was near the top of many voters’ minds in the midterm congressional elections that ended Tuesday. Their economic anxieties contributed to the loss of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives, though Republicans failed to score the huge political gains that many had expected.
Even before Thursday’s figures, inflation by some measures had begun to ease and could continue to do so in coming months. Most gauges of workers’ wages, for example, show that the robust pay increases of the past 18 months have leveled off and have begun to fall. Though worker pay is not a primary driver of higher prices, it can compound inflationary pressures if companies offset their higher labor costs by charging their customers more.
Except for automakers, which are still struggling to acquire the computer chips they need, supply chain disruptions have largely unsnarled. Shipping costs have dropped back to pre-pandemic levels. The backup of cargo ships off the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach has been cleared.
And as declines in new rents that have emerged in real-time measures from such sources as ApartmentList and Zillow begin to be captured in the government’s forthcoming measures, that factor should also reduce inflation.
Even as many fear that the economy will fall into recession next year, the nation’s job market has remained resilient. Employers have added a healthy average of 407,000 jobs a month, and the unemployment rate is just 3.7%, close to a half-century low. Job openings are still at historically high levels.
But the Fed’s rate hikes have inflicted severe damage on the American housing market. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has more than doubled over the past year, topping 7% before falling slightly last week. As a result, investment in housing collapsed in the July-September quarter, falling at a 26% annual rate.
Higher mortgage rates have depressed sales. Home prices are slowing sharply compared with a year ago and have begun to fall on a monthly basis. The cost of a new apartment lease is also declining.
Yet because of how the government calculates housing costs, economists think the price of housing might have surged in October and elevated broader inflation measures. The government measures the cost of all rents, including most rents that are under existing leases. Asking rents for new leases, though, are slowly declining.
And economists expect to see prices decline for many key goods. Used cars, which skyrocketed in price last year as shortages of computer chips sharply reduced the availability of new cars, are expected to have fallen from September to October. Wholesale used-car costs have declined steadily but have yet to show fully show up in retail prices. | 2022-11-10T18:38:06+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/us-inflation-eased-to-7-7-over-past-12-months/ |
Which anti-chafing sticks are best?
If you’ve experienced skin irritation from friction, like blisters, rug burns or runner’s rash, you have probably tried a number of different products for sensitive skin. Anti-chafing sticks are one of the best products for keeping skin eruptions, blistering, redness and chafing at bay. If you want to find one of the best anti-chafing sticks available, then the Chamois Butt’r Original Anti-Chafe Cream is the perfect pick.
What to know before you buy an anti-chafing stick
Understand how to use an anti-chafing stick
You can apply anti-chafing sticks directly to your skin to reduce friction from your skin rubbing against other skin or fabric. The anti-chafing stick offers a breathable moisture barrier, meaning that any rain and sweat simply rolls off of your skin and is either wicked away or absorbed into your clothing.
Friction from dry fabric against your skin can be an issue, and anti-chafing sticks can lubricate your skin without making it greasy. Your clothing will then glide against your skin rather than scrape against it, which leads to fewer blisters and burns. Anti-chafing sticks tend to be dry, colorless and greaseless, which means you don’t need to worry about your clothing getting stained.
Learn about the benefits of anti-chafing sticks
There are a number of different kinds of people who can benefit from using and applying anti-chafing sticks. For example, triathletes, cyclists and runners use anti-chafing sticks around their groin areas and thighs for protection during races and exercise.
Parents can apply anti-chafing sticks to their babies’ sensitive bottoms to reduce the risk of diaper rash. Those with sensitive skin can use a small amount of anti-chafing cream on high-friction areas of their skin, like their inner thighs.
Wash your anti-chafing stick off thoroughly
You can wash most anti-chafing sticks off fairly easily with water and soap in the shower. I’s essential to ensure that you remove all the product from your skin to avoid any product residue from building up, since this could lead to a skin reaction.
What to look for in a quality anti-chafing stick
Ingredients
Anti-chafing sticks usually include ingredients like glyceryl behenate, coconut oil, triglycerides, petroleum, olive oil and beeswax.
Natural formulas
There are many anti-chafing sticks on the market made with natural ingredients for people with sensitive skin. These anti-chafing sticks are typically free of mineral oils, lanolin and petroleum.
Types of anti-chafing sticks
There are a few different kinds of anti-chafing sticks, including gels, wipes, roll-ons, sticks, lotions and creams. Creams and lotions can be difficult and messy to apply. Sticks and roll-on products are more expensive and often less hygienic than other products. Gels tend to be popular, since they feel lightweight and easy to apply.
How much you can expect to spend on an anti-chafing stick
Anti-chafing sticks usually range in price from about $6–$25. The most budget-friendly and basic anti-chafing sticks cost about $6–$10, while high-end anti-chafing sticks vary in price from $18–$25.
Anti-chafing stick FAQ
Are anti-chafing sticks scented?
A. Most anti-chafing sticks are not scented, since fragrances can be irritating to those with sensitive skin. Many anti-chafing sticks are hypoallergenic and include only natural ingredients. Some of these natural ingredients might have subtle scents.
Are anti-chafing sticks clear?
A. Some anti-chafing sticks might dry clear, but not always. Some roll-on anti-chafing balms are opaque, much like deodorant. If you apply too much of an anti-chafing balm, it could end up flaking on your skin. Gel anti-chafing sticks tend to be clear, while some lotions and creams are white until they absorb into your skin.
Can you use an anti-chafing stick on your face as a makeup primer?
A. Anti-chafing sticks are not meant for cosmetic use. They can help sweat roll off your face or prevent redness from windburn, but they can also lead to skin irritation and acne breakouts. It can also be hard to get your foundation to stick to the anti-chafing balm.
What are the best anti-chafing sticks to buy?
Top anti-chafing stick
Chamois Butt’r Original Anti-Chafe Cream
What you need to know: This highly rated anti-chafing cream from Chamois has a skin-softening effect and a non-greasy feel.
What you’ll love: This popular cream is free from artificial fragrances, parabens and gluten with no greasy residue. It won’t discolor or damage technical clothing.
What you should consider: The soothing effect of this cream doesn’t last for more than a few hours.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top anti-chafing stick for the money
Body Glide Original Anti-Chafe Balm
What you need to know: This affordable anti-chafing balm from Body Glide has a formula that works well for daily use and sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: This budget-friendly anti-chafing balm features a bar applicator for cleaner application and a hypoallergenic formula that won’t clog your pores. It’s also mild enough to use on a daily basis.
What you should consider: Some customers say that this anti-chafing balm feels a little too thick in warmer weather.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Ruby’s Lube All-Natural Anti-Chafe, Anti-Blister Balm
What you need to know: Composed of all-natural ingredients, this anti-chafing balm from Ruby’s Lube is perfect for runners and triathletes.
What you’ll love: This natural balm comes in a 3-ounce container with all-natural ingredients and a formula meant for all skin types. It also includes only five natural ingredients, including beeswax and lemongrass.
What you should consider: This anti-chafing balm is fairly pricey compared to competing products.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MANSFIELD, Pa., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Citizens Financial Services, Inc. (OTCPink: CZFS), the bank holding company for First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB), recently declared a cash dividend for its shareholders.
The cash dividend of $0.475 per share and a 1% stock dividend are payable on June 24, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 10, 2022. This quarterly cash dividend is an increase of 3.2% over the regular cash dividend of $0.460 per share declared one year ago, as adjusted for the 1% stock dividend declared in June 2021.
"As evidenced by our financial performance, our Community Banking model is not only strong, but thriving," noted Randall Black, CEO & President. "We believe that our recent approval to uplist our stock on Nasdaq complements our demonstrated growth and will raise our overall profile, driving shareholder value."
Citizens Financial Services, Inc. is a $2.19 billion bank holding company conducting business through First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB). First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB) operates 30 offices in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York.
For further information regarding the common stock of Citizens Financial Services, Inc., please contact any of the following firms: Automated Trading Desk, 866-283-2831; Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., 800-842-8928; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., 800-342-5529; Monroe Securities Inc., 800-766-5560; Pershing LLC, 201-413-2700; RBC Capital Markets Corp., 800-959-5951; Sandler O' Neill & Partners, 212-466-8020; Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., 973-549-4200; UBS Securities, LLC, 203-719-8710.
Note: This press release may contain forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results and trends could differ materially from those set forth in such statements due to various factors. These factors include operating, legal and regulatory risks; changing economic and competitive conditions and other risks and uncertainties.
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LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Q3 FY22 (comparisons versus prior year):
- GAAP EPS# of $2.62, up 11 percent; GAAP net income of $587 million, up 10 percent; and GAAP net income margin of 18.4 percent, down 200 basis points
- Adjusted EPS* of $2.62, up 13 percent; adjusted EBITDA* of $1,081 million, up 11 percent; and adjusted EBITDA margin* of 33.9 percent, down 360 basis points
Recent Highlights
- Advancing the Energy Transition:
- Growing the Base On-site Business:
- Demonstrating Sustainability in Action:
Guidance
- Maintained fiscal 2022 full-year adjusted EPS guidance* of $10.20 to $10.40, up 14 percent at the midpoint, over prior year adjusted EPS*; fiscal 2022 fourth quarter adjusted EPS guidance* of $2.68 to $2.88, up seven to 15 percent over prior year fourth quarter adjusted EPS*
- Expect fiscal year 2022 capital expenditures* of over $4.5 billion
#Earnings per share is calculated and presented on a diluted basis from continuing operations attributable to Air Products.
*Certain results in this release, including in the highlights above, include references to non-GAAP financial measures on a consolidated, continuing operations basis and a segment basis. Additional information regarding these measures and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP historical results can be found below. In addition, as discussed below, it is not possible, without unreasonable efforts, to identify the timing or occurrence of events and transactions that could significantly impact future GAAP EPS or cash flow used for investing activities if they were to occur.
Air Products (NYSE:APD) today reported third quarter fiscal 2022 results, including GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $2.62, up 11 percent over prior year, and GAAP net income of $587 million, up 10 percent over prior year due to higher pricing, higher equity affiliates' income and higher volumes, which were partially offset by higher costs driven by inflation, higher supply chain costs, and planned maintenance activities, as well as unfavorable currency due to the strengthening of the dollar. GAAP net income margin of 18.4 percent decreased 200 basis points, primarily driven by higher energy cost pass-through, which negatively impacted margin by approximately 250 basis points.
For the quarter, on a non-GAAP basis, adjusted EPS from continuing operations of $2.62 increased 13 percent over the prior year, and adjusted EBITDA of $1,081 million was up 11 percent over the prior year, due to higher pricing, higher equity affiliates' income and higher volumes, which were partially offset by higher costs driven by inflation, higher supply chain costs, and planned maintenance activities, as well as unfavorable currency due to the strengthening of the dollar. Adjusted EBITDA margin of 33.9 percent decreased 360 basis points, primarily driven by higher energy cost pass-through, which negatively impacted margin by approximately 500 basis points.
Third quarter sales of $3.2 billion increased 22 percent over the prior year on 15 percent higher energy cost pass-through, seven percent higher pricing and five percent higher volumes, partially offset by five percent unfavorable currency. Volume growth was driven by new assets, recovery in hydrogen in the Americas, better merchant demand, and higher sale of equipment activity. Pricing improved in the Americas, Asia and Europe—the Company's three largest segments.
Commenting on the results, Air Products' Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Seifi Ghasemi said, "Our people across the globe are executing on our strategy, which is fundamentally based on doing two things at the same time: running our base industrial gas business efficiently and continuing to invest in and grow it, while also being the first-mover in low- and zero-carbon hydrogen projects that help the world decarbonize and drive the broader energy transition. Despite significant, continued challenges in the world, our team's hard work and commitment are enabling the strength and stability of our business to shine through, as evidenced in our results this quarter."
Fiscal Third Quarter Results by Business Segment
- Americas sales of $1,416 million were up 33 percent over the prior year on 22 percent higher energy cost pass-through, eight percent higher pricing, and four percent higher volumes, partially offset by one percent unfavorable currency. Operating income of $299 increased five percent and adjusted EBITDA of $481 million increased three percent on the higher pricing and higher volumes in the base business, partially offset by costs for inflation, higher planned maintenance, and higher supply chain costs as well as favorable one-time items in the prior year. Operating margin of 21.1 percent decreased 580 basis points and adjusted EBITDA margin of 33.9 percent decreased 980 basis points, primarily due to higher energy cost pass-through, which lowered operating margin and adjusted EBITDA margin by approximately 450 basis points and 800 basis points, respectively.
- Asia sales of $751 million were flat versus the prior year, as two percent higher volumes and two percent higher pricing were offset by four percent unfavorable currency. Operating income of $211 million decreased four percent and adjusted EBITDA of $324 million decreased five percent, as the favorable volumes and pricing were more than offset by unfavorable currency as well as costs for higher planned maintenance, inflation, and higher supply chain costs. Operating margin of 28.0 percent decreased 110 basis points and adjusted EBITDA margin of 43.1 percent decreased 230 basis points.
- Europe sales of $740 million increased 23 percent over the prior year on 24 percent higher energy cost pass-through and 17 percent higher pricing across all product lines and sub-regions, partially offset by 15 percent unfavorable currency and three percent lower volumes. Operating income of $137 million increased three percent and adjusted EBITDA of $207 million increased four percent, primarily driven by higher pricing, which more than offset lower volumes, higher power costs and unfavorable currency. Adjusted EBITDA was also positively impacted by higher equity affiliates' income. Operating margin of 18.6 percent decreased 380 basis points and adjusted EBITDA margin of 28.0 percent decreased 500 basis points, predominantly due to the higher energy cost pass-through, which lowered operating margin and adjusted EBITDA margin by approximately 450 basis points and 700 basis points, respectively.
- Middle East and India equity affiliates' income of $67 million was up $50 million over the prior year, primarily from the Jazan joint venture.
- Corporate and other sales of $247 million increased 48 percent over the prior year, driven by higher sale of equipment activity. This activity drove improvements in both operating income and adjusted EBITDA.
Outlook
Air Products has maintained full-year fiscal 2022 adjusted EPS guidance of $10.20 to $10.40, up 14 percent at midpoint, over prior year adjusted EPS. For the fiscal 2022 fourth quarter, Air Products' adjusted EPS guidance is $2.68 to $2.88, up seven to 15 percent over fiscal 2021 fourth quarter adjusted EPS.
Air Products expects capital expenditures of over $4.5 billion for full-year fiscal 2022.
Management has provided adjusted EPS guidance on a continuing operations basis, which excludes the impact of certain items that we believe are not representative of our underlying business performance, such as the incurrence of additional costs for cost reduction actions and impairment charges, or the recognition of gains or losses on disclosed items. It is not possible, without unreasonable efforts, to predict the timing or occurrence of these events or the potential for other transactions that may impact future GAAP EPS or the effective tax rate. Similarly, it is not possible, without unreasonable efforts, to reconcile our forecasted capital expenditures to future cash used for investing activities because we are unable to identify the timing or occurrence of our future investment activity, which is driven by our assessment of competing opportunities at the time we enter into transactions. Furthermore, it is not possible to identify the potential significance of these events in advance, but any of these events, if they were to occur, could have a significant effect on our future GAAP results. Management therefore is unable to reconcile, without unreasonable effort, the Company's forecasted range of adjusted EPS, the effective tax rate and our capital expenditures to a comparable GAAP range.
Earnings Teleconference
Access the fiscal 2022 third quarter earnings teleconference scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on August 4, 2022 by calling 323-701-0160 and entering passcode 5156956 or by accessing the Event Details page on Air Products' Investor Relations website.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years. Focused on serving energy, environment and emerging markets, the Company provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food and beverage. Air Products is also the global leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment. The Company develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest industrial gas projects, including: gasification projects that sustainably convert abundant natural resources into syngas for the production of high-value power, fuels and chemicals; carbon capture projects; and world-scale low- and zero-carbon hydrogen projects supporting global transportation and the energy transition.
The Company had fiscal 2021 sales of $10.3 billion from operations in over 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $55 billion. More than 20,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products' higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information, visit www.airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about earnings and capital expenditure guidance, business outlook and investment opportunities. Forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this release and are not guarantees of future performance. While forward-looking statements are made in good faith and based on assumptions, expectations and projections that management believes are reasonable based on currently available information, actual performance and financial results may differ materially from projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking statements because of many factors, including, without limitation: the duration and impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic and efforts to contain its transmission, including the effect of these factors on our business, our customers, economic conditions and markets generally; changes in global or regional economic conditions, inflation and supply and demand dynamics in the market segments we serve, or in the financial markets that may affect the availability and terms on which we may obtain financing; the ability to implement price increases to offset cost increases; disruptions to our supply chain and related distribution delays and cost increases; risks associated with having extensive international operations, including political risks, risks associated with unanticipated government actions and risks of investing in developing markets; project delays, contract terminations, customer cancellations, or postponement of projects and sales; our ability to develop, operate, and manage costs of large-scale and technically complex projects, including gasification and hydrogen projects; the future financial and operating performance of major customers, joint ventures, and equity affiliates; our ability to develop, implement, and operate new technologies; our ability to execute the projects in our backlog and refresh our pipeline of new projects; tariffs, economic sanctions and regulatory activities in jurisdictions in which we and our affiliates and joint ventures operate; the impact of environmental, tax, or other legislation, as well as regulations and other public policy initiatives affecting our business and the business of our affiliates and related compliance requirements, including legislation, regulations, or policies intended to address global climate change; changes in tax rates and other changes in tax law; the timing, impact, and other uncertainties relating to acquisitions and divestitures, including our ability to integrate acquisitions and separate divested businesses, respectively; risks relating to cybersecurity incidents, including risks from the interruption, failure or compromise of our information systems; catastrophic events, such as natural disasters and extreme weather events, public health crises, acts of war, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing civil war in Yemen, or terrorism; the impact on our business and customers of price fluctuations in oil and natural gas and disruptions in markets and the economy due to oil and natural gas price volatility; costs and outcomes of legal or regulatory proceedings and investigations; asset impairments due to economic conditions or specific events; significant fluctuations in inflation, interest rates, and foreign currency exchange rates from those currently anticipated; damage to facilities, pipelines or delivery systems, including those we own or operate for third parties; availability and cost of electric power, natural gas, and other raw materials; the success of productivity and operational improvement programs; and other risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2021 and subsequent filings we have made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we disclaim any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in assumptions, beliefs, or expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances upon which any such forward-looking statements are based.
The segment results presented below reflect the segment reorganization announced on 4 November 2021. For additional information on the reorganization, refer to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated 9 December 2021.
The table below reconciles total operating income disclosed in the tables above to consolidated operating income as reflected on our consolidated income statements:
We present certain financial measures, other than in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), on an "adjusted" or "non-GAAP" basis. On a consolidated basis, these measures include adjusted diluted earnings per share ("EPS"), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted effective tax rate, and capital expenditures. On a segment basis, these measures include adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin. In addition to these measures, we also present certain supplemental non-GAAP financial measures to help the reader understand the impact that certain disclosed items, or "non-GAAP adjustments," have on the calculation of our adjusted diluted EPS. For each non-GAAP financial measure, we present a reconciliation to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP.
Our non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the most directly comparable measure calculated in accordance with GAAP. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide investors, potential investors, securities analysts, and others with useful information to evaluate the performance of our business because such measures, when viewed together with financial results computed in accordance with GAAP, provide a more complete understanding of the factors and trends affecting our historical financial performance and projected future results.
In many cases, non-GAAP financial measures are determined by adjusting the most directly comparable GAAP measure to exclude non-GAAP adjustments that we believe are not representative of our underlying business performance. For example, we previously excluded certain expenses associated with cost reduction actions, impairment charges, and gains on disclosed transactions. The reader should be aware that we may recognize similar losses or gains in the future. Readers should also consider the limitations associated with these non-GAAP financial measures, including the potential lack of comparability of these measures from one company to another.
When applicable, the tax impact of our pre-tax non-GAAP adjustments reflects the expected current and deferred income tax impact of our non-GAAP adjustments. These tax impacts are primarily driven by the statutory tax rate of the various relevant jurisdictions and the taxability of the adjustments in those jurisdictions.
NON-GAAP ADJUSTMENTS
There were no non-GAAP adjustments in the third quarter or first nine months of fiscal year 2022 that impacted diluted earnings per share or the effective tax rate. For information related to non-GAAP adjustments for the three and nine months ended 30 June 2021, refer to Exhibit 99.1 to our Current Report on Form 8-K dated 9 August 2021.
ADJUSTED DILUTED EPS
The table below provides a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure for each of the major components used to calculate adjusted diluted EPS from continuing operations, which we view as a key performance metric. In periods that we have non-GAAP adjustments, we believe it is important for the reader to understand the per share impact of each such adjustment because management does not consider these impacts when evaluating underlying business performance. Per share impacts are calculated independently and may not sum to total diluted EPS and total adjusted diluted EPS due to rounding.
ADJUSTED EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA MARGIN
We define adjusted EBITDA as net income less income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, and excluding non-GAAP adjustments, which we do not believe to be indicative of underlying business trends, before interest expense, other non-operating income (expense), net, income tax provision, and depreciation and amortization expense. Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin provide useful metrics for management to assess operating performance. Margins are calculated independently for each period by dividing each line item by consolidated sales for the respective period and may not sum to total margin due to rounding.
The tables below present consolidated sales and a reconciliation of net income on a GAAP basis to adjusted EBITDA and net income margin on a GAAP basis to adjusted EBITDA margin:
The tables below present sales and a reconciliation of operating income and operating margin to adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin for the Company's three largest regional segments and a reconciliation of operating loss to adjusted EBITDA for the Corporate and other segment for the three months ended 30 June 2022 and 2021:
ADJUSTED EFFECTIVE TAX RATE
The effective tax rate equals the income tax provision divided by income from continuing operations before taxes.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
We define capital expenditures as cash flows for additions to plant and equipment, including long-term deposits, acquisitions (less cash acquired), and investment in and advances to unconsolidated affiliates. A reconciliation of cash used for investing activities to our reported capital expenditures is provided below:
The components of our capital expenditures are detailed in the table below:
We expect capital expenditures for fiscal year 2022 to be over $4.5 billion.
It is not possible, without unreasonable efforts, to reconcile our forecasted capital expenditures to future cash used for investing activities because we are unable to identify the timing or occurrence of our future investment activity, which is driven by our assessment of competing opportunities at the time we enter into transactions. These decisions, either individually or in the aggregate, could have a significant effect on our cash used for investing activities.
OUTLOOK
The guidance provided below is on an adjusted continuing operations basis and is compared to adjusted historical diluted EPS attributable to Air Products. These adjusted measures exclude the impact of certain items that we believe are not representative of our underlying business performance, such as the incurrence of additional costs for cost reduction actions and impairment charges, or the recognition of gains or losses on disclosed items. It is not possible, without unreasonable efforts, to identify the timing or occurrence of these events or the potential for other transactions that may impact future GAAP EPS. Furthermore, it is not possible to identify the potential significance of these events in advance, but any of these events, if they were to occur, could have a significant effect on our future GAAP EPS. Accordingly, management is unable to reconcile, without unreasonable efforts, the Company's forecasted range of adjusted EPS on a continuing operations basis to a comparable GAAP range. The per share impact for each non-GAAP adjustment was calculated independently and may not sum to total adjusted diluted EPS due to rounding.
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Which red rug is best?
Red rugs are classic elements of interior decorating that have been used for centuries. Whether geometric, floral or solid color, these carpets add a classic touch to any room.
Union Rustic’s Marcie Hand-Knotted Wool Red Area Rug is a solid design of vibrant scarlet, and is fit for any traditional, contemporary or worldly interior. The plush wool is hand-knotted in India and this product is both authentic and elegant in its simplicity.
What to know before you buy a red rug
Red rugs are a common accent choice, easily complementing pastel and neutral-colored furnishings. Though they are a popular area rug choice, they come in other forms befitting all the rooms in your home.
The red palette
Many interior designers decorate with color psychology in mind, believing that colors can impact the feeling conveyed by a room. Bright shades channel determination and passion while darker tints are thought to encourage aggressive energies.
The emotion-inducing vibrance of a red rug will affect its complementary palette. Bright red goes well with pastel blue, pale green and other neutral colors. Standard red complements burnt orange, green, blue and black while dark red is suited for neutral colors and black. Think back on your elementary school education — red is a primary color and includes colors like purple and pink. Given this variance, it goes well with metallic or light-stained wood furniture.
Categories and shapes
Your new carpet, whether a pale pink or lush crimson, can be categorized by its purpose.
- Area Rugs are typically interior rugs made of wool or synthetic fabrics. These rugs are common accents in living rooms, dining rooms, offices and bedrooms.
- Outdoor Rugs and doormats are usually built from a synthetic material called polypropylene. These rugs are heavy-duty and built to endure exposure to dirt, rain and other damaging elements.
- Bathroom and kitchen rugs are smaller than area rugs and usually made of synthetic or rubber-like materials. These rugs are made to repel water.
- Runners are area rugs with a short width but extensive length. They adorn hallways and staircases.
These rugs come in many shapes, though the most common are rectangular, square, round, oval and runner. Many rug manufacturers will sell you a rectangular rug with customized dimensions at no upcharge.
Pile
Pile and material are the main specifications of any rug. The pile refers to the length of the individual fibers and plays a determining factor in how much maintenance your carpet will need. High pile rugs are plush and catch dirt more easily than low pile rugs. If you’re looking for a practical option, your rarely-used guest bedroom pile height will not be the same as your heavily-trafficked living room.
What to look for in a quality red rug
The vibrance of your red rug is not the only deciding factor in its quality. An excellent fabric will be made of certain materials, have certain numerical counts and be free of irregularities.
Fabric type
There are many types of fabric that can be used to craft a rug, including wool, cotton, jute, sisal, seagrass, silk, synthetics and acrylics. Of these rugs, wool is the most popular choice though synthetic fabric plays a close second.
- Synthetic or acrylic rugs are crafted to feel like wool and cotton at half the cost. These rugs are durable and easily cleaned.
- Wool rugs are considered luxury items. This fabric is all-natural, soft, easily cleaned and stain-resistant and many authentic wool rugs are praised for their long-lasting quality.
- Jute, Sisal and Seagrass rugs are not as soft as synthetic or wool rugs but have a hardy texture that makes them great for the outdoors.
Although you may recognize wool as being the more luxurious choice, a synthetic rug might be a better fit. These copycat rugs are better at repelling moisture and are not as prone to fading in the sunlight.
Counts
In addition to the fabric, you should consider a rug’s line and needle count. The line count is the number of stitches made per square inch while the needle count is the number of loops in the yarn. A higher count indicates a higher quality rug with denser and more tightly woven fibers.
Irregularities
What truly makes a wool rug superior to its synthetic copy is the absence of irregularities. Synthetic rugs often have creases or curls in their fabric, which can take a few days to a week to smooth over.
How much you can expect to spend on a red rug
Standard-sized red rugs, on average, cost between $120-$600. Rug pads cost between $25-$165 and may be necessary to keep your carpet from sliding.
Red rug FAQ
Why are so many Persian rugs red?
A. Many vintage Persian rugs are red because carmine color dye is easy to obtain. The bright color also draws attention to the intricate patterns in the fabric, magnifying the beauty of a weaver’s work.
What furniture goes with a red rug?
A. Dark blues, black and metallics mesh well with a red rug, as they contrast its fiery color.
What’s the best red rug to buy?
Top red rug
Union Rustic Marcie Hand-Knotted Wool Red Area Rug
What you need to know: This wool rug is a solid red color and comes in rectangular, square and runner size options.
What you’ll love: This rug is made from hand-spun wool and has a 0.75 inch pile height. It is a rich red color and is plush to touch.
What you should consider: The wool will shed initially.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Top red rug for the money
Winston Porter Ardhan Geometric Red/White Area Rug
What you need to know: Red and white geometric shapes pattern this synthetic rug.
What you’ll love: This rug is made of synthetic polypropylene material and has a latex and jute backing. It is certified “Made Clean” by Wayfair, making it an eco-friendly and sustainable purchase.
What you should consider: This rug is not stain-resistant and will slide without a rug pad.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Worth checking out
Andover Mills Naglee Oriental Claret Red Area Rug
What you need to know: This far eastern-style rug is made of polypropylene and comes in both rectangular and runner sizes.
What you’ll love: This jute-backed rug is inspired by Persian artistry with its traditional borders and designs. It is stain and fade-resistant and durable enough to withstand daily use.
What you should consider: The rug will take a few days to lie flat.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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Dealers in Florida and Ohio have become part of Solectrac's dealer network totaling seven dealers across the nation
WINDSOR, Calif., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solectrac, makers of electric tractors and an operating company of Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX), today announced two new dealer partners in the continued expansion of its certified sales and dealer network. The addition of Love Power Equipment (FL) and Specialty Tractors (OH) further expands Solectrac's reach across the country with additional dealers anticipated in the coming months.
"As more dealers continue to join our network and even more coming on board in the next couple of months, this heightens Solectrac's reputation as a leader in providing alternatives to diesel engines for sustainable farming," states Solectrac CEO, Mani Iyer. "One of our greatest recognitions is getting these award-winning tractors to dealers across the United States who sell to the hobby farms and municipalities looking to power their tractors with the same productivity and performance as diesel-powered options but using clean renewable energy sources."
Solectrac debuted its dealer network in March in the Pacific Northwest with Brim Tractor being the first dealer. Shortly after, Columbiana Tractor, LLC came on board followed by three new dealers last month – Ocala Tractor, LLC, Schow's Inc. and Georgia Land Equipment, LLC in Florida, Idaho and Georgia, respectively. To date, Solectrac has secured seven dealer partners across the U.S. These recent partnerships expand Solectrac's dealer network reach in Ohio and further advance current electric tractor sales in Florida.
Love Power Equipment
Love Power Equipment dealership in Florida serves the Homosassa area in Brevard, Citrus, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Orange Osceola, and Seminole counties. They carry a large selection of construction equipment, farming implements, mowers, new and pre-owned tractors, trailers and UTVs. Love joins Ocala Tractor Supply as the second Solectrac dealer in Florida.
Specialty Tractors
Specialty Tractors, part of the Specialty Family of Dealerships, has been serving customers since 2000 with RVs, outdoor, marine, and landscaping equipment, and parts and rental services. Serving across four locations in Ohio, they offer Mahindra, Gravely, Exmark, Simplicity, Snapper mowers, Roxor UTVs, and parts/service for tractors and other equipment. Along with the other dealerships, onboarding Specialty Tractor cements Solectrac's presence in the Midwest, a critical region in agriculture.
Solectrac, a B Corp Certified company, assembles its electric tractors in Windsor, Calif., and recently established a partnership with Nolan Manufacturing to support its growing demand along the east coast. Solectrac is taking orders for the e25, a versatile, four-wheel drive tractor great for hobby farms, golf courses, sports fields, equestrian centers and municipalities. Tractors are being delivered in 30 days or less from these local dealers.
To learn more or to place an order, visit www.solectrac.com or find a certified dealer near you. If you are interested in carrying Solectrac electric tractors in your dealership, contact 866-219-6750. For more information and news on Solectrac, please visit www.solectrac.com.
About Solectrac
Solectrac, Inc., located in Northern California, has developed 100% battery-powered, all-electric tractors for agriculture and utility operations. Solectrac tractors provide an opportunity for farmers around the world to power their tractors by using the sun, wind, and other clean, renewable sources of energy. The company's mission is to offer farmers independence from the pollution, infrastructure, and price volatility associated with fossil fuels.
About Ideanomics
Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) is a global group with a simple mission: to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles and charging technology with design, implementation, and financial services, we provide solutions for the commercial world to commit to an EV future. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social media @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
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Adrian Matejka Is No Square Poet
EVEN AS I WAS SIGNING the contract to become the editor, I was still having a hard time envisioning it. Not because I can’t imagine all the possibilities for outreach at Poetry magazine and at the Poetry Foundation, because I think that’s one of the reasons they were interested in my editorship. It was just hard for me to imagine that I would have ever gotten to a place where people would value my perspective on this art enough to trust me with something as austere as Poetry. I felt that way when I got hired at Indiana University. I felt that way when I got my first job at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. It just seems impossible to me sometimes, coming from Carriage House East Apartments, coming from Section Eight housing, now to be working for the Poetry Foundation. It’s a pretty miraculous journey.
When we lived in Carriage House, there were particular vantages from which you could see the top of what is now the Salesforce building. It was impossibly distant. It feels like that on the far-east side. You know that the city is right there because you can see the lights, but it seems very far away.
When I was a kid, my mom would save her change to buy gas so we could go to the library once a week. There were no libraries near us. We didn’t have a library in our school. Once in a while, the Bookmobile would come by, but that was about it. So to imagine a life where I spend my days reading and talking about poetry? Talking about Star Trek for a living would’ve seemed more possible. I think that’s why I’m still hung up on trying to get poetry into spaces where poetry isn’t usually found. I lived in one of those spaces for a very long time. I know what it could’ve done for me if I’d had access to it.
I’m still wrapping my head around this tremendous opportunity and editorship. One of the things that I really want to do is work with the current editors and staff to continue to make the magazine more outward facing. A critical step forward, in my mind, is a step away from the institutionalization of poetics and more into the community. I want the magazine to be open, inviting. I want it to be supportive of the diversity of voices that we have in 21st-century poetics.
Access is the key. When I was a poet in the ’90s, I didn’t feel like I had access to Poetry magazine. I read it, but I still didn’t feel like I had access to it. I didn’t feel as if they wanted to hear from me. I didn’t feel like there was room in the magazine at that time for my stories. Poetry now is significantly different. It’s much more accessible than it was then. But I want to expand the conversation even further. I want to build. Not just change the conversation a little, but completely transform it. I want the magazine to be of the people, and I also want it to be historically aware. We can be supportive and inclusive, even as we try to maintain our rigorous editorial standard.
My first two poems in Poetry were in the same issue, in 2012: “Map to the Stars” and “End of Side A.” In my new book, Somebody Else Sold the World, the revised version is called “On the B Side.” I was the only Black poet in that issue. I have this intense memory, even as I was excited to be in the magazine, of feeling alone. So to imagine a magazine, even 10 years ago, where there were only a few people of color, versus what it looks like today? So much has happened since then.
When I was poet laureate of Indiana in 2018, I worked with the Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana State Library to create an archive of local poetry called INverse, and it’s open to anybody with significant ties to the state, regardless of their publication record or professional intention. There are so many poets who have come through here that have written beautiful verse: Etheridge Knight, Marianne Boruch, Joyelle McSweeney, Kaveh Akbar, Ross Gay, and Mari Evans, to name a few. That’s part of the reason we wanted to create the archive: to find a way to catalog all of the brilliant voices in Indiana.
There are so many poets I love beyond our borders, too. Yusef Komunyakaa is the beginning and the end of all the things that I’ve been trying to do. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Gwendolyn Brooks, whose position on Black poetics has been transformative for me. Same with Lucille Clifton and Robert Hayden. Emily Dickinson is a favorite. I got to write a poem in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom. I was visiting her house, which is now a museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. That was amazing. And also kind of weird. If she was alive, she wouldn’t want me hanging around her bedroom writing a poem. There was a dress form wearing one of her dresses, a desk, and a little chair. And when I say little, I mean I was sitting in it and I felt like I was gonna break it. I was nervous. One of the poems that I wrote while I was in her bedroom is in Somebody Else Sold the World: “It’s all I have/Daydreaming.”
The art of poetry is as robust as it’s ever been. I mean, there are more poets writing now than at any other time in human history. Even with COVID-19 interrupting things, people are attending readings en masse, buying books, listening to poetry. They’re sharing poems more fervently than I think they’ve ever done before. I’ve been saying this for a long time: Poetry is an artform designed for the 21st century. It’s compact, it’s intense, it’s direct. There’s been such an obfuscation of language over the last seven to eight years. Intensity and directness are what we need right now.
I love poetry’s egalitarianism, too. Anybody can compose a poem. You don’t need a lot of tools or machinery. It helps if you read poetry, but you don’t even have to do that in the beginning to write something that would look like a poem. It’s like the soccer of artforms. It’s available with whatever resources you have, no matter where you grew up, who your parents were, how long you were in school, or how short. It’s there for us. Reading, writing, creating space for other writers, it’s all part of the same poetic action and part of the same love. Poetry can embolden us, enable us, and validate us in a way that I don’t think any other artform can.
Maybe that’s because poetry came from the oral tradition. The Greeks wrote poetry to be accompanied by music, and the word “lyric” comes from the Greek word “lyre.” So it’s already intertwined: the idea of playing music, the idea of language sounding like music. I’ve been inspired by music over the years, partly because I wanted to be a rapper, but I was really bad at it. I played French horn in the band at Lincoln Middle School. I was a radio DJ. I had all these versions of music intersecting with my life as I was learning how to write poems. It was a lot of fun. And it came in handy during COVID, when I busted out the turntables again. That’s what got my last book started. If your poems don’t have music to them, if they don’t swing in some way, then you’re probably not going to go very far. There’s the great Indiana poet Etheridge Knight’s haiku, which I put on my business card when I was poet laureate:
“Making jazz swing in
Seventeen syllables AIN’T
No square poet’s job.”
I want people to understand that poetry is supposed to sound like music. Now, what genre of music is up to the poet’s ear. I believe that Etheridge Knight was inarguably correct. Making it swing isn’t the job for a square poet. You have to figure out your soundscapes and what you want to write about. I studied with Allison Joseph, a fantastic poet who went to Indiana University, too. One of the things that she taught me was that the best poets remain open to the world, and you can write a good poem from anything if you pay enough attention. Pablo Neruda said something to the same effect. People disagreed with him, so he wrote the Elemental Odes: an ode to a chair, or to a salt shaker. He was refuting people who thought poetry had to be lofty, or that it had to be about war or God. It can be about socks. Between Neruda and Joseph, it became clear to me that anything that inspires me is fodder for a poem. Like the inspiration for Ross Gay’s essays in The Book of Delights: “This is something that delights me today.” The enactment is complex, but the inspiration can be anything.
Ross and I are Ruth Lilly Professors of Poetry at IU, and Ruth Lilly famously gave a $200 million endowment to the Poetry Foundation. Her legacy has benefited so many people. Ross and I have been able to do a significant amount of outreach as a result of our positions. I hope we can figure out a way to make this legacy more transparent for people outside of the state. The Lilly Library at IU includes a great deal of poetry and benefits everybody. The Sylvia Plath archives are there, and people come from all over to read her journals. That’s one of the gifts of all libraries: access to things we wouldn’t ordinarily have access to.
Access and representation matter so much. When I was younger, there were almost no Black people on television. I remember The Jeffersons, Good Times, and the bartender on The Love Boat, Isaac. That was about it. At the same time, I’m a straight-up sci-fi geek, and on Star Trek, there was this crazy-diverse cast. As a kid, that was the only show that looked like my neighborhood. So of course I would gravitate to that, the same way I gravitated to Black Panther comic books and Luke Cage, Hero for Hire because they were the only Black superheroes who had their own comics. This is me looking backward. I understand it now in a way I didn’t understand when I was 9.
Today, my wife and I live in Bates-Hendricks. Soon, we’re going to move up to Chicago, where Poetry magazine’s offices are. But wherever I go, I have infinite love for my hometown, a place that’s important to everything I do. I might not have been able to imagine it, but it would have been impossible for me to become the editor of Poetry if I wasn’t from Indianapolis and if I hadn’t had the support that I’ve had from our community.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Kerr didn’t get much sleep Monday night.
How could he?
Kerr had a lot on his mind after the Warriors squandered a seven-point lead at the start of the fourth quarter of Game 4 . They had opportunities down the stretch to pull off a series-tying win, but couldn’t catch a break, resulting in a tough 104-101 loss in Los Angeles.
In the immediate aftermath of the defeat that put the Warriors in a 3-1 series hole and on the brink of elimination, Kerr said he thought the Lakers “took some flops and were rewarded” down the stretch.
“I’ll have to see the replays. Maybe I’m wrong,” Kerr said. “Maybe those were all illegal screens but it didn’t feel like it watching the game.”
One day later, Kerr doubled down on his post-Game 4 comments.
“There was definitely some gamesmanship,” Kerr said after a team meeting Tuesday afternoon. “And look, I give them credit. If you can sell a call in this league, then do it. You do whatever it takes to win.”
Kerr took issue with the foul called on Draymond Green near the 3:29 mark of the fourth quarter when the game was tied at 96. Green attempted to set a screen on Lakers guard Lonnie Walker IV, who tumbled to the floor upon contact. After the play stopped, Green waved his hands in disagreement and appeared frustrated with the call.
Kerr sided with Green on Tuesday, saying that was “really, really a tough call.
“It’s a blatant flop. I mean, he just takes a dive and the ref bought it,” Kerr said. “And like I said, you give them credit but you lament the fact that as a league we’re gonna reward that type of play with the game and the series, all that stuff at stake and you would hope that the officials would recognize when a guy just takes a dive.”
The NBA tried to crack down on flopping more than a decade ago and even instituted a fining system for repeat offenders who exaggerate falls to the floor that might fool officials into calling a foul. But it largely goes unregulated.
Kerr said the NBA should more strictly enforce rules to deter players from flopping, similar to what FIBA has done to squash the issue.
“We have the ability to do the same thing in the NBA if we want. I think we should address it because players are so smart. The entire regular season is about gamesmanship and trying to fool the refs and this is how it’s been for a while and it’s up to us as a league, do we want to fix this?
“We can do better in terms of cleaning up the flopping. In the meantime, give the Lakers credit for the plays they’ve been able to sell.”
Another defensive nod
For the eighth time in nine years, Draymond Green has earned a spot on the league’s All-Defensive Team.
Green on Tuesday was named to this season’s All-Defensive Second Team, making him only the fifth player in NBA history drafted in the second-round or late to collect at least eight All-Defensive honors.
Green, a central piece to the Warriors’ defense, averaged 8.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 1.01 blocks in 73 games this season. He also recorded team-highs in blocks (60) and deflections (199.)
The Warriors posted a team-best 109.2 defensive rating with Green on the court and a team-worst 115.3 rating when he’s off it (minimum 10 games.)
“He should have been first team,” Kerr said. “But it’s a great honor to be on the Second Team. Draymond has long been one of the premier defenders in the league.
“The season he had this year, playing in 73 games, giving us the effort he did night in and night out, holding down the fort in a season where we were missing guys left and right. He really anchored our defense and played at such a high level and showed that he’s still ot a lot left in the tank.”
Green was joined on the Second Team by Heat center Bam Adebayo, Raptors forward O.G. Anunoby, Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks and Celtics guard Derrick White. First Team selections belonged to Bulls guard Alex Caruso, Bucks guard Jrue Holiday, Grizzlies forward and Defensive Player of the Year Jaren Jackson Jr., Bucks center Brook Lopez and Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley. | 2023-05-10T01:43:08+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/05/09/warriors-coach-steve-kerr-doubles-down-on-flopping-comment-after-game-4-loss/ |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Fatima Garcia donned a headscarf and a black abaya — a long, loose-fitting robe — over her clothes as she walked into a mosque in Doha to learn about Islam.
In Qatar to enjoy the World Cup with friends, the Salvadoran visitor took a day off from soccer to go sightseeing at the Katara mosque, where preachers have been introducing Islam in multiple languages to curious fans from around the world.
“Qatar is my first exposure to Islam,” Garcia said inside the house of prayer, also known as the blue mosque for its beautiful turquoise tiles. “Qatar has been a life-changing adventure because it gives you a perspective on different cultures.”
Hundreds of thousands of visitors have come to Qatar during the World Cup. For many it's their first visit to a Muslim country. Those who don't venture far beyond the stadiums and Doha's glitzy hotels will have only limited exposure to the country's religion, such as hearing the call to prayer at a distance or witnessing Muslims prostrate at prayer rooms in stadiums, airports and hotels. But for those who are curious to find out more about Islam, Qatari authorities and religious officials are eager to help.
Local mosques are offering multilingual tours to visitors and the Islamic Cultural Center in Doha offers a virtual reality tour of the holy city of Mecca. Booths at tourist sites hand out free copies of the Quran and brochures about Islam are available in hotel lobbies. Billboards have been set up across Doha featuring U.S. Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammed and other Muslim personalities as part of a campaign encouraging people to explore Islam.
“Why during the World Cup? Everyone is coming here from across the world to Qatar, a Muslim country, and it’s an opportunity to educate people about the faith,” said Abu Huraira, a volunteer for the campaign by the Explore Islam Foundation and the Islam & Muslims Initiative.
Qatari officials say they hope the tournament will help provide visitors with a better understanding of their culture and that of the larger region.
Qatar follows an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism. But unlike neighboring Saudi Arabia, where adherence to Wahhabism led to strict segregation of unmarried men and women, banned women from driving and kept concerts, cinemas and even yoga off-limits for decades, Qatar has long sponsored the arts, allowed women to participate in high levels of governance and encouraged tourists to feel at ease.
The World Cup host, though, has faced intense criticism over human rights issues, including the treatment of migrant workers, and accusations of “sportswashing” or attempting to use the event’s prestige to remake its image.
Qatari officials have argued that the nation’s progress and achievements are being overlooked. The ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said some of the criticism against the first Arab and Muslim country to host the World Cup included “fabrications and double standards.”
The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs and the host country’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy did not respond to requests for comment.
Back inside the ornate Ottoman-style Katara mosque, Riffat Ishfaq, a guide from Pakistan, told Garcia that it was designed by Turkish interior designer Zeynep Fadillioglu, whose first name is the Turkish form of the name of the eldest daughter of the Prophet Muhammed. The tiles had been handmade, Ishfaq said; the columns were covered with leather and the domed roof contained gold. By the end of the tour, Garcia also learned why women dress modestly in Islam and the origins of the religion.
“We want to tell people about Islam. We feel pride in our identity,” Ishfaq said, before telling Garcia to keep the abaya as a parting gift. “This helps to dispel misconceptions.”
Nearby, Sergio Morales, a Guatemalan who had come for the whole tournament, finished listening to a tour and walked out of the mosque to a booth located at the entrance where he asked for a free copy of the Quran.
“Today I became interested because the guided tour was in Spanish and I could understand it all,” he said. “There should be guides in Spanish in every mosque because there are so many Latin American people coming to these countries.”
Booths with free Qurans and booklets introducing the religion in several languages are also available in the winding cobbled alleys of Souq Waqif, the capital’s oldest bazaar where stores hawk spices and perfumes, scented oils and silk scarves.
Just steps from there, World Cup visitors walked into the spiral-like building of the Abdullah Bin Zaid Al-Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center, for a tour and a visit to the mosque, where people gathered for Friday prayer.
Carlos Bustos, Mireya Arias and their sons, 8-year-old Jacobo and 13-year-old Matias toured the cultural center. The Colombian family read information on large placards about the contributions of the Islamic world to medicine, science, math and architecture.
“What we've seen is that they've made an effort to change the image that we have in the West of seeing Islam. It's breaking that barrier,” said Carlos Bustos, who along with his sons had dressed in traditional Qatari clothes.
“They've told us that we're very different but we see more similarities than differences,” he said.
His wife, Mireya Arias, admired the devotion of Muslims to their faith and how they follow the call to prayer. She also appreciated the efforts made by Qatar to introduce visitors to Islam.
“They've used a lot of strategies to get closer to visitors, for us to understand and learn,” she said. “When you're on the buses that take you to the (World Cup) stadiums, you point to a QR code and it gives you explanations about the Quran.”
Doha's Museum of Islamic Art also offers glimpses into religious beliefs and rituals. Visitors can read about the five pillars of Islam — the profession of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting and hajj or pilgrimage — or learn about hajj rituals and different funerary practices in the Islamic world.
“The more you understand this Islamic culture, the more fascinating it is,” said Jose Antonio Tinoco, a Brazilian museum visitor, who wore his country's soccer jersey. “The most important part of the museum for me was the part on Islam.”
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Shocking video shows a car crashing through the entrance of a Florida gas station and slamming into a man who miraculously survived, authorities said.
The incident happened early Tuesday at a gas station in Seffner, just east of Tampa.
Surveillance video released by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office showed the speeding car crashing through the store's entrance just as the man is walking inside.
The video shows the man slammed by the Kia Forte from behind as debris flies throughout the store, with shocked employees and customers narrowly avoiding being hit.
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The man was thrown across the store and pinned between the driver's side door of the car and a metal structure.
Fire rescue crews responded and the man and the driver of the Kia were taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
"The footage of the car smashing through this business and straight into a victim is jarring, to say the least," Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement. "It is an absolute miracle that the person pinned by the car did not sustain more serious injuries, and we're glad to hear he will be ok."
The driver of the car, 37-year-old Anthony Katosh, was later charged with criminal mischief after detectives determined the crash was not accidental, officials said. | 2023-06-21T22:25:42+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/absolute-miracle-man-survives-wild-florida-gas-station-crash-caught-on-camera/3166094/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has become the most populous state to ban gender-affirming care for minors after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation on Friday.
Texas joined at least 18 other states that have enacted similar bans.
Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, has opposed the bans and supported the medical care for youth when administered appropriately. Lawsuits have been filed in several states where bans have been enacted this year.
Last year, Abbott became the first governor to order the investigation of families who were receiving care. The investigations were later halted by a Texas judge.
The GOP-controlled Legislature sent the bill to Abbott last month. Republicans in the Senate took the final vote over the objections from Democrats, who used parliamentary maneuvers to delay passage but could not derail it entirely.
Transgender rights activists have disrupted the Texas House with protests from the chamber gallery, which led to state police forcing demonstrators to move outside the building. | 2023-06-03T23:19:54+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/texas-bans-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-after-governor-signs-bill/ |
With a handful of exceptions, most electric vehicles don’t have (or need) multi-speed transmissions. According to some well-respected EV engineers and executives, they may even detract from performance.
As such, a performance EV is an odd place to see a manual gearbox. Yet a couple of experiments have cropped up recently, suggesting automakers are considering translating this idea—or at least the sensory experience—over to EVs.
Lexus is testing a prototype of its UX 300e, an all-electric version of the UX crossover not sold in the U.S., with a gear lever and clutch pedal, according to a company press release. This retains the level of involvement of a conventional manual, according to Lexus, but without any of the mechanical bits.
“It is a software based system,” Akashi Watanabe, Lexus Electrified Chief Engineer, said in a statement, “so it can be programmed to reproduce the driving experience of different vehicle types, letting the driver choose their preferred programming.”
Lexus hasn’t discussed a timeline for production, but the Toyota luxury brand has at least one possible application for this idea in the works. It’s expected to launch an electric sports car based on the Electrified Sport concept first shown in December 2021, which seems like a good fit for a manual—even a software-based one.
Hyundai is also working on a dual-clutch transmission for EVs, testing one in the RN22e “rolling lab” prototype, according to Australia’s CarExpert. While not a traditional manual, it would still introduce artificial shifting, this time reportedly accompanied by fake engine sounds.
Hopefully these new efforts will turn out better than what’s come before. Lotus tried to add fake shifting to its Evora plug-in hybrid development car a decade ago—with poor results.
More recently, Honda added fake shifting to the 2023 CR-V Hybrid, a move we find a bit embarrassing. Unlike one-pedal driving, pretending to change cogs in this way alters the driving experience just to recreate sensations from internal-combustion cars.
Still, EVs with manuals may be the only way to save the clutch pedal. Manual sales have declined consistently for decades, and they now represent a tiny fraction of the market. EVs outsold manuals for the first time in 2019, in fact.
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NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Zymergen Inc. ("Zymergen" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ZY), connected with the proposed acquisition of the Company by Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. ("Ginkgo") (NYSE: DNA). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive 0.9179 shares of Ginkgo common stock for each Zymergen share owned, representing implied per-share merger consideration of approximately $2.68 based upon Ginkgo's July 22, 2022 closing price of $2.92.
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Company formalizes program to take action internally and beyond to address the needs of a range of unique and underserved communities
SOLON, Ohio, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MRI Software is reinforcing its commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with a new strategy that puts the company at the forefront of DEI action in the PropTech sector. This follows the company's Chief Executive Officer Patrick Ghilani committing to a broader CEO initiative aimed at championing such efforts in the workplace. In supporting CEO Action for Diversity & InclusionTM, Ghilani joined over 2,000 CEOs pledging to take action to cultivate a workplace where diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed, respected and openly discussed.
"Our desire is that DEI isn't just something we do as part of our culture, but rather it is our culture," says Ghilani. "MRI will continue fostering a work environment where employees of every background can freely address challenges, present opportunities and share perspectives, as it strengthens our business and drives innovation."
To help MRI attract and retain team members who identify with a wide range of diverse, often underrepresented communities such as women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+, the company has announced a number of Employee Resource Groups (ERG). The first, the Women and Allies group, was formed last year, while an LGBTQIA+ group, PRISM (Pride, Respect, Inclusion, Support at MRI), is being launched this month – with two other groups representing unique communities within the company in the process of being formed.
Susan Avelluto, MRI's Chief People Officer, says: "Creating a true culture of inclusion and belonging and investing in people and communities that strengthen MRI as a workplace is critical to our ongoing success as a business. Our Employee Resource Groups, called Pride Resource Groups internally, support the company's broader DEI strategy, providing an avenue through which MRI can connect with audiences from each group's demographic – whether from a workplace standpoint or an external community and market-outreach perspective."
These groups help the company address four pillars at the heart of its DEI strategy: People, Culture, Community, and Marketplace:
- People - underscores MRI's aim to attract, develop, engage, and retain a rich diversity within the members of its global team
- Culture - speaks to the need to understand, connect with and create a sense of belonging with all groups of people
- Community – promotes volunteerism and financial investment across a broad range of different external communities
- Marketplace - enables MRI to build a more inclusive employment brand and solution offering
Carol Lewis, MRI's Vice President of DEI, says: "Making sure we're listening to the voices of every community and leveraging their insights to create a better working environment – as well as products and services that resonate across more audiences – is crucial to helping us sustain a diverse and inclusive business. We are dedicated to transforming lives. We're invested in DEI because this is what connects the world—where people live, work and play— in a more meaningful way."
MRI has also formed strategic corporate partnerships with groups that give marginalized or underserved communities opportunities they normally would not have. These include Coding Black Females (empowering and mentoring this community), AnitaB.org (supporting women and non-binary technologists), Women in Technology International (WITI), INROADS (serving unrepresented and underserved youth) and Steel City Codes (a high school student-led non-profit educating elementary and middle-school pupils on computer science).
Ghilani concludes: "Our initiatives over the last few years and our focus to further improve in this area are not just singular, programmatic actions. They're indicative of our unwavering commitment to cultivating a true sense of belonging."
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Warmer for the weekend
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY-TV) - We finally made it toward the end of the week and it's been a pretty windy few days.
Thankfully winds have finally calmed down and we can expect that even for our upcoming weekend.
Afternoon highs are a little warmer today, but get ready for an even chillier night.
For the rest of the evening and early tomorrow morning, we will stay calm with mostly clear skies.
Looking ahead to the weekend even though we will be a little warmer we still will be staying cooler than normal for this time of year.
At the start of next week, we will have more wind and greater rain chances across the Desert Southwest.
Greater rain chances are expected Monday-Wednesday and another cooling trend by the middle of next week. | 2022-11-05T02:57:14+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/weather/local-forecast/2022/11/04/warmer-for-the-weekend/ |
‘Tremendous loss’: Zoo announces unexpected death of 6-year-old giraffe
BALTIMORE (Gray News) – The Maryland Zoo is mourning the unexpected loss of a beloved 6-year-old female giraffe named Willow.
According to the zoo, a cause of death is not yet known, but an autopsy is being done to determine what happened.
The zoo said that Willow began showing a sharp decrease in appetite Friday. While gastrointestinal issues are not uncommon in giraffes, zookeepers began treating Willow and monitoring her around the clock.
The zoo said Willow appeared to be stable but then sharply declined on Monday, when she died.
“This is a tremendous loss, and we know our members, guests and friends feel it too,” the zoo said in a news release. “Since her birth, Willow has inspired joy and compassion in thousands of people. She grew from an awkward calf with ossicones that looked like pigtails to a beautiful icon of the Zoo and her vulnerable species.”
Willow was born at the Maryland Zoo to mom Juma and dad Caesar, who still reside in the Giraffe House. Willow was named during a public contest that drew more than 26,000 votes.
“We could go on about Willow’s goofy personality and many life milestones and know those topics will be in conversations today in our barns and your homes. We know you understand how special Willow was and the significance of her loss.”
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-29T17:39:30+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2023/03/29/tremendous-loss-zoo-announces-unexpected-death-6-year-old-giraffe/ |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A third railroad union has rejected its agreement with the nation's freight railroads, increasing the chances that Congress may be called upon to settle the dispute and block a strike.
The small International Brotherhood of Boilermakers union on Monday voted down the contract even though it includes the biggest raises workers have seen in more than four decades. The union represents just a few hundred of the roughly 115,000 rail workers involved in the contract dispute with Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, BNSF, Kansas City Southern, CSX and other railroads.
All 12 rail unions must approve their deals to prevent a strike, although no strike is imminent because all the unions have agreed to keep negotiating even if their members vote no, until a deadline early next month.
Seven other unions have ratified the five-year deals that include 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses. The focus now is on the three unions that have voted down their agreements and the remaining two that haven’t finished voting.
Workers' quality-of-life concerns about demanding schedules and the lack of paid sick time in the industry have threatened to derail the agreements even with the sizeable raises railroads are offering.
Contract talks with the two unions that rejected their deals last month remain deadlocked over the issue of paid sick time. So it is looking increasingly likely that Congress will have to step in to settle this dispute
“If we can’t improve the agreement by getting some sort of sick leave, I think Congress is going to have to intervene because I think the railroads are just too stubborn to give us what we want unless we are able to strike," Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union, said Monday.
The railroads have said they want these contracts to closely follow the recommendations made this summer by a special board of arbitrators that President Joe Biden appointed. Offering sick leave on top of the raises and bonuses that are already in the deal would require the railroads to spend more.
Congress is expected to block a rail strike and impose contract terms on both sides if they can't come to an agreement before next month's deadline. That's because the stakes are so high for the economy with so many businesses relying on railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products.
When they’re not at the negotiating table, the railroads and unions will be lobbying Congress over the next few weeks about what should be included if lawmakers do decide to impose contract terms on the freight railroads.
If the two biggest unions that represent conductors and engineers also reject their deals when they release the results of their votes next Monday, that would put additional pressure on the railroads. But Cardwell said he doesn't think even that would be enough to get the railroads to budge on sick time.
The railroads declined to comment Monday on the status of the talks with the BMWED and Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen unions, but they have been adamant about not offering paid sick time. They say they believe the unions agreed to forego paid sick time over the years in favor of higher wages and strong short-term disability benefits.
One reason the unions object to the railroads' refusal to offer sick time is because federal contractors are required by an executive order to give that to their employees. The railroads insisted they were federal contractors last year when they required employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine but now they say the sick time requirement doesn't apply to them.
Hundreds of business groups have written letters to Biden and members of Congress urging them to be prepared to intervene in the contract dispute, if necessary. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh has said he is in daily contact with the railroads and unions urging them to work out a deal. | 2022-11-14T22:13:13+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Another-union-rejects-deal-with-nation-s-freight-17584373.php |
Leading solutions provider again recognized for technical expertise and commitment to client success throughout the cloud migration process
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has achieved new Google Cloud Specializations for Cloud Migration, one of the most prestigious technical certifications awarded by Google Cloud. In addition, UST has also received the Google Cloud Expertise designation for Google Cloud Analytics and the Application Modernization of Legacy Applications. These achievements further strengthen UST's position as a leading solutions provider and catalyst for digital transformation.
UST is globally recognized for its consistency in delivering measurable business value throughout the entire cloud migration and business transformation journey. Its dedication to tailored solutions has been critical to its success in serving numerous Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients, with an average client tenure of over 14 years.
UST combines its extensive client application experience and Google Cloud technical expertise with deep domain knowledge to ensure that clients achieve long-term success well beyond the migration process. This approach equips clients to achieve their business objectives, performance targets, and resilience goals, which originally motivated their shift to the cloud.
As a part of the comprehensive certification process, Google Cloud conducts thorough assessments of each partner's cloud migration experience, professional certifications, Google Cloud expertise, and Cloud Adoption Framework to identify top companies and acknowledge those who set the standard in these vital areas. Only the most qualified partner companies receive Google Cloud's esteemed Cloud Specializations, and all awardees exhibit exceptional technical proficiency and a proven history of success.
"We're pleased to be recognized by Google Cloud with their prestigious Google Cloud Specialization and Expertise designations. Hyperscalers play a central role in our partner ecosystem, where we combine the insight, knowledge and experience of the industry's best partners, UST innovation centers and top research universities to ensure that our clients continue to innovate and thrive," said Muraleekrishnan Nair, Global Head Infrastructure and Cloud Services, UST.
"Specialization and Expertise designations are two of the highest technical designations that we present. We are thrilled that UST has earned new Specialization and Expertise designations, indicative of the company's commitment to developing innovative solutions that simplify cloud migration and implementation," said Kim Lasseter, Global Director, Partner Advantage Program Design & Strategy, Google Cloud.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — Nearly 500 pounds of beef jerky products made by a Knoxville, Tennessee, company are being recalled over concerns of listeria contamination.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the recall announced on Sept. 6 affects products made by the Magnolia Provision Company, Inc.
The following ready-to-eat beef jerky items were made on Aug. 25, 2022, and are subject to the recall:
- 2-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
- 8-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
- 16-oz. packages of “BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE CHOP HOUSE STYLE PRIME RIB FLAVORED BEEF JERKY” with “EXP 8/25/23” displayed on the back of the package.
The problem was found when the company reported to the FSIS that a third-party lab confirmed the presence of listeria in a tested sample.
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause fatal infections in children, the elderly, or those with weakened immune systems.
While those with listeria infections typically suffer high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, those who are pregnant can have miscarriages or stillbirths.
No confirmed reports of adverse reactions have been reported at this time.
These products will have an establishment number of “EST. 8091” inside the USDA mark of inspection. The items, according to the FSIS, were shipped to retail locations across the country.
Officials urge anyone that has these products to throw them out or return them to where they were purchased.
For questions or concerns, you can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or send an email here. | 2022-09-07T12:48:16+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ |
Man drives from California to Utah to shoot and kill brother, police say
OGDEN, Utah (KCAL) - Intense video shows the moment a man knocked on his brother’s door before he allegedly shot him dead.
Authorities released video from that day that caught a gun battle that followed between the man and officers arriving at the scene.
Police say Jeffery Roberts drove his van from Long Beach, California, to his brother’s home in Ogden, Utah.
A Ring camera caught Jeffery Roberts walking up to Scott Roberts’ front door.
A few minutes later, Scott Roberts answers the door. The two appear to have a brief talk before Jeffrey Roberts reaches into his jacket.
After firing multiple shots, Jeffrey Roberts can be seen carrying a bag and shotgun. Police say he also shot his sister-in-law.
A neighbor called 911 and police say the house appeared to be smoking when they arrived. They say Jeffrey Roberts used road flares to set it on fire.
According to police, Jeffrey Roberts then came out of the house shooting at them with multiple guns in his hands.
Officers fired back. And after an exchange of gunfire, Jeffrey Roberts was killed.
Investigators say Jeffrey Roberts was armed with a handgun, loaded magazines and more than 150 shotgun shells.
Jeffrey Roberts’ sister-in-law survived.
A neighbor of Jeffrey Roberts in Southern California called him arrogant and violent.
While neighbors in Utah said his brother was a man and a father with integrity. They said Scott Roberts didn’t have a violent bone in his body.
Authorities say the shooting remains under investigation along with what prompted Jeffrey Roberts to not only drive from California to Utah but to kill his brother.
Copyright 2023 KCAL via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-06T19:12:55+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/05/06/man-drives-california-utah-shoot-kill-brother-police-say/ |
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Taylor Powell threw three touchdown passes — two of them in a pivotal third quarter — and ran for a score as Eastern Michigan rolled to a 38-19 victory over Central Michigan on Friday.
EMU, which closed out the regular season with three straight wins, will share the MAC West Division title with Toledo after Western Michigan upset the Rockets 20-14 on Friday. Toledo handed the Eagles their last loss in late October, 27-24.
Powell threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Tanner Knue to open the scoring. Samson Evans 15-yard scoring run gave the Eagles a 14-7 lead after one quarter. Evans set an Eagles record with the 27th rushing touchdown of his career.
Freshman Bert Emanuel Jr.’s second touchdown run — a 35-yarder — pulled Central Michigan (4-8, 3-5) within 14-13 at halftime.
Powell connected with Andreas Paaske for a 9-yard score midway through the third quarter to up the Eagles lead to 21-13. Powell gave EMU a two-score lead with 21-yard touchdown pass to Dylan Drummond on the final play of the quarter. Powell scored on an 11-yard run in the fourth quarter.
Powell completed 24 of 36 passes for 266 yards for Eastern Michigan. Evans rushed 23 times for 135 yards.
Emanuel finished with 75 yards on 16 carries, scoring all three of the Chippewas’ touchdowns.
The Eagles beat Western Michigan and CMU this season to take outright possession of the Michigan MAC Trophy for the first time since 2012. EMU won its only MAC championship in 1987.
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(NEXSTAR) – As if we didn’t feel vulnerable enough in the bathroom, a recent incident in Oklahoma is shedding some light on yet another nightmarish possibility.
Firefighters with the Okmulgee Fire Department were called to the scene of an incident at an apartment building on Wednesday night, after a bolt of lightning traveled through the exhaust vent and shattered a toilet in one of the units.
No one was injured, but the toilet was “severely damaged,” Fire Chief Dewayne Hurt wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar.
An explosion of this type — a toilet being blown to smithereens during a lightning storm — isn’t entirely unheard of, though it appears to be quite rare. One of the only other instances of the last several years occurred in 2019, when lightning struck near a Florida couple’s septic tank, ignited the gases within, and caused one of their toilets to explode.
The lightning that struck the Oklahoma apartment complex took a different route, first striking the roof before coming through a metal exhaust vent and hitting the water within the toilet, according to an Okmulgee firefighter who spoke with Nexstar.
The reaction caused the bowl to blow apart, he said.
Chief Hurt said the lighting also caused a small fire in the attic, which crews extinguished.
Experts say lightning can also travel through plumbing, which is why the National Weather Service and even the CDC advise against using the shower, the tub, or even washing dishes during an electrical storm. Neither mention toilets specifically, but both advise avoiding all pipes or plumbing, while the CDC says to avoid “all water” during a storm.
The NWS’ other tips regarding lightning safety, as well as an analysis of recent lightning fatalities, can be found on the department’s website. | 2022-05-09T18:55:20+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/lightning-blows-up-toilet-after-traveling-through-apartment-buildings-exhaust-vent/ |
Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with San Francisco Chronicle reporter and podcast host Cecilia Lei, who spoke with Asian seniors in the San Francisco Bay area, two months after 11 people were killed at an Asian ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park.
Lei discovered that “this isn’t just about mental or physical exercise, it’s about community connection” and joy in the face of tragedy.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-21T19:01:17+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/2023-03-21/asian-seniors-find-sacred-space-in-ballroom-dance-even-after-mass-shooting |
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on authorities to investigate a possible bias motive in the vandalism of a Mosque in Portales, New Mexico. CAIR is the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the nation.
Last week, vandals broke in to the Islamic Center and left thousands in damage. Ahmed Benssouda, who oversees the property, said the vandals ripped a Quran and poured a drink on it. “They went in to rip the Quran, Holy Quran, and poured beer on it. They went in stab like the whole entire like the drywall,” said Benssouda. Along with holes in the walls and a door, they found alcohol left behind, furniture destroyed, and trash everywhere. They even found a framed photo of Jesus Christ placed on top of the rubble. The vandals then returned later in the week and damaged the building’s A/C unit. Portales police told News 13 that they’re still looking into what happened. So far they’re not classifying the case as a hate crime.
The CAIR National Communications Direct Ibrahim Hooper released the following statement: | 2023-06-30T19:12:04+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/muslim-advocacy-group-calls-on-authorities-to-investigate-for-possible-bias-motive-in-portales-mosque-vandalism/ |
The Gaggle podcast: A closer look at the Phoenix area's housing and homelessness crises
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered Phoenix to clear out a large homeless camp — an area of tents, tarps, sleeping bags and other makeshift housing that lies within view of the state Capitol.
The city hasn't made clear whether it intends to carry out that order or appeal it. "The Zone," as it's commonly called, has some 1,000 people carving out a meager existence there.
The land is public property, and the court states that it's unlawful to camp or set up residence there. Local business owners were relieved to learn of the order. They say the large encampment wreaks havoc on their properties and their livelihoods. But unsheltered people and humanitarian groups argue this move leaves many people with nowhere else to go.
'Nobody knows where they’ll go':Future of Phoenix homeless camp unclear after court order
This situation speaks to the larger issue of housing inequality and a long-standing problem of persistent homelessness.
In this episode of The Gaggle, hosts Ron Hansen and Mary Jo Pitzl sit down with The Republic's housing team, Catherine Reagor and Juliette Rihl, to examine the how and why behind the Phoenix area's housing and homelessness crisis.
The episode was recorded before the announcement of a tentative settlement between Phoenix and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona over a lawsuit relating to the city's treatment of people experiencing homelessness. Details of the proposed settlement are still not public.
Tentative settlement:ACLU, Phoenix reach deal in federal case over homelessness
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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — As the U.S. government continues sending millions of dollars in weapons and tech to Ukraine, the city of Miami is trying to do their part by carrying out a gun buyback program with the goal of shipping those discarded weapons — almost 200 guns — to Irpin, Ukraine, a city just outside Kyiv.
Miami’s buyback program paid residents up to $150 bucks to turn in their guns.
“It was a complex process to navigate and get all the authorities in place to send the weapons overseas but we are very close to finalizing that deal,” a Miami police chief told “NewsNation Prime” on Wednesday.
The idea of sending weapons across international borders is not only controversial. Some skeptics wonder if such a deal is even legal.
“It is a little bit off the wall. It has caught people by surprise. A lot of people don’t even believe it’s true,” Commissioner Ken Russell told “NewsNation Prime.”
Along with representing Miami’s second district, Russell is a small businessman who helped pass the Miami Forever Bond, which will invest $400 million into housing, parks, streets and flood mitigation throughout the city.
“The only time I have ever heard of it being done before is in season 3 episode 2 of Miami Vice, where the City Council voted to send guns to Nicaragua,” Russell continued with a chuckle.
Yet, while the city’s intentions might be good, war experts say it’s no laughing matter.
“Right off the bat, I believe it is a bad idea, frankly,” retired Lt. Gen. Richard Newton said during Wednesday’s edition of the show.
“What Ukraine needs right now is high-tech, high-precision, all-day, all-night weapon systems. Taking 200 weapons off the streets of Miami will not really have a significant impact on the battlefield itself. There is just a lot of unanswered questions here and it’s frankly kind of ludicrous they are doing this,” Richard continued.
But Russell says the city is partnering with an arms dealer to make sure the guns get into the right hands.
“You know we can’t cast judgment on who is receiving them. All we know is they are under attack,” Russell said.
Not only is the city of Miami sending guns from their buyback, they’re also sending guns from the police evidence room that they say would likely have been destroyed. They’re also encouraging other cities to join in. | 2022-07-22T04:19:02+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/russia-ukraine-conflict/miami-preparing-to-send-200-discarded-guns-to-ukraine/ |
BUCKLEY — It took the third game of the season for the nine players on the Glen Lake Lakers varsity girls soccer team to get scored on.
The Lakers have scored a combined 11 goals in those shutout victories and added to their total in a dominating 7-1 victory against Buckley (1-2-1, 0-2-1 Northwest), with Gemma Lerchen leading the way with a hat trick and an encore.
Glen Lake (3-0, 3-0 Northwest) led 2-1 going into halftime on goals from Lerchen and Paige Steffke. The Lakers unleashed five more in the second half — three from Lerchen, one each from Steffke and Ruby Hogan.
"First half, we played OK," Lakers head coach Eric Luthardt said. "We rushed ourselves and tried focusing on things too much. Second half we were composed, took quick passes, lots of talking, great runs and vision."
Buckley goalkeeper Maddi Sladek came away with 21 saves as Glen Lake goalkeeper Ashley Croff saved two.
The Lakers look to add to their three-game winning streak Monday at Kingsley. The Bears welcome Suttons Bay Friday.
GIRLS SOCCER
TC Bulldogs 2
Benzie Central 2
Benzie Central: Kadence Popour 2 goals; Ava Bechler assist.
UP NEXT: The Huskies (1-3, 0-2 Northwest) travel to Hart on Friday.
Suttons Bay 7
Kingsley 0
Suttons Bay: Sunshine Crisanto 2 goals, assist; Megan U'Ren 2 goals, assist; Dani U' Ren goal; Lauren Lint goal, assist; Sarah Bunek goal; Clarice Bardenhagen assist; Keeley TwoCrow 3 saves.
Kingsley: Claire Dutton 15 saves; Moira Martz 13 saves.
UP NEXT: Suttons Bay (1-3-1, 0-2-1 Northwest) travels to Buckley on Friday. The Stags (0-3-1) host Glen Lake.
Grayling 3
Clare 1
No stats reported.
UP NEXT: The Vikings (2-3-1, 2-3-1 Lake Michigan) host Harbor Springs Thursday.
BASEBALL
Hillman 3
Gaylord SM 1
Gaylord St. Mary (4-1): Daniel Jacobson R, H, 2B.
Joburg 17 20
Forest Area 2 0
Johannesburg-Lewiston (4-0): Rily Mcvannel (W) 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 8 K; Colin Basinski 3 R, 3 H, 2 RBI; Eli Lindbert 3 R, 2 H, 3 RBI; Tanner Basinski 2 H, 2 RBI; Will Boden 4 R, H, 4 RBI; Kyler Nowak 3 R, 2 H, 2 RBI.
SOFTBALL
Evart 12 9
TC St. Francis 3 5
Traverse City St. Francis (1-2): Maggie Napont 6 H, 3 R; Brooke Meeker 4 H, R, 4 RBI; Reese Jones H, RBI.
Joburg 12 23
Forest Area 1 1
Johannesburg-Lewiston (4-0): Chloe Ferguson (W) 2 IP, 3 H, R, ER, BB, 2 K; Gloria House 3 R, 2 H; Jayden Marlatt 8 R, 6 H, 4 RBI, 2 BB; Cassie Tallman 5 R, 4 H, 9 RBI; Jaeden Briley 2 R, 3 H, RBI, BB; Brittney Fox 4 R, 3 H, 3 RBI.
Grayling 7 14
McBain 4 7
McBain: Caitlin Butzin 3 H, 5 RBI, SB.
Grayling (5-1): Jessica Campbell (W) 6 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, BB, 9 K; Madi William R, 3 H, RBI; Katelyn Kinary H, 2B, HR, RBI; Jillian Hartman 2 R, 2 H, 2B.
Hillman 21 17
Gaylord SM 0 1
No stats reported.
TRACK & FIELD
Petoskey, Alpena split at Thunder Bay
ALPENA — The Petoskey girls track and field team came away with nine wins in Wednesday's head-to-head with Alpena at Thunder Bay Middle School.
Emma Mitas (100m); Samarah Puckett (200m); Alynna Himebaugh (100m and 300m hurdles); 4x100 relay team of Gretchen Woodbury, Alexis Cadarette, Mitas, and Karlie Bock; 4x200 relay team Mitas, Puckett, Bock, and Woodbury; Braylin Adair (high jump); Sarah Bailey (pole vault); and Alynna Himebaugh (long jump) all placed in first for Petoskey.
BOYS GOLF
Manistee takes 1st at Orchard View jamboree
Golf Course: University Park Golf Course
Top area performers: 1. Brandon Sorenson (Manistee) 38; 2. Jacob Scharp (Manistee) 39; 2. Jordan Bladzik (Manistee) 39; 4. Max Scharp (Manistee) 42. | 2023-04-20T11:17:44+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/prep-roundup-glen-lake-smokes-buckley-bears-suttons-bay-girls-soccer-gets-shutout-victory-over/article_6572024c-df24-11ed-be8d-1f16ea78f1c5.html |
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Formula One is launching a new racing series for female drivers that will start next year.
The series, to be known as the F1 Academy, will be subsidized by F1 and is likely to be a support series for one weekend of the F1 season.
F1 said it would contribute funding of 150,000 euros ($156,000) per car “and will require the drivers to cover the same amount, which represents a fraction of the usual costs in a comparable series.”
They will represent teams which are currently involved in Formula Two or Formula Three. Speaking at the launch, F1 Academy manager Bruno Michel defended the costs involved in the new series and said there could be funding from established F1 teams too.
“From the first feedback I have from the teams, I don’t think we’re going to have issues to find drivers with this kind of quite reasonable budget,” Michel said. “I am quite sure as well that some of the Formula One academies are going to start to work on that and help funding this kind of money for the drivers as well.”
There will be 15 cars on the grid for a 21-race season split across seven rounds. The series will aim to recruit “young talent currently in go-karting or other junior categories” in the hope they can later graduate to Formula Three as a next step, and eventually compete in F1.
The announcement comes less than two months after another all-female event, the W Series, cut its season short due to financial problems.
The W Series has been free to enter for drivers, unlike the F1 Academy and most other developmental series which require young drivers to bring their own financial backing from family money, investors or sponsors. It also uses Formula Three cars rather than the modified Formula Four-specification cars planned for the F1 Academy.
W Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir said she believed the two events could coexist.
“W Series welcomes any initiative which shares our ambition to provide more opportunities for women in motorsport,” Bond Muir said in a statement.
“Our objective from the start has always been to increase the talent pool of women racing drivers, and the addition of the F1 Academy as a feeder to W Series and other series is a further step in inspiring the next generation to progress up the motorsport ladder.”
W Series ran into financial trouble this season and canceled its final three races in Mexico and the United States, to focus on raising funds for 2023. It has yet to publish a schedule for next season.
“We are looking forward to finalizing W Series’ plans for 2023 and beyond, providing exciting racing and entertaining our fans around the world,” Bond Muir said.
Five women have competed in F1, but none has done so for 30 years. Giovanna Amati was the most recent woman to officially enter an F1 event when she took part in qualifying for three races in 1992. Other female drivers have been involved in F1 testing since then. The last woman to start an F1 race was Lella Lombardi in 1976.
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The first model from Lightyear only went into production in December, but the Dutch EV startup has already provided a teaser of a second, much more attainable model.
The new Lightyear 2 is a compact hatch with an aerodynamic fastback design similar to the Lightyear 0. The 0 is Lightyear’s breakthrough model; it costs more than $250,000 and has a 0.17 drag coefficient, which is a record for a production car.
Lightyear promises a starting price of less than 40,000 euros (approximately $42,750) for the 2, which will be built in much higher numbers than the 0.
Lightyear is holding back most of the details until the 2’s reveal in the summer, but the company has confirmed the car will feature solar panels and in-wheel hub motors, just like the 0.
On the larger 0, roughly 53 square feet of solar panels line the hood and roof, and with sufficient access to sunlight they can charge the battery at a rate of 1.05 kw, or enough to add 6.2 miles of range in an hour, according to Lightyear.
With help from the sun, Lightyear estimates the 2 will be able to cover a range of almost 500 miles on the WLTP test cycle used outside the U.S. The 0 with its 60-kwh battery was rated at 388 miles on the same WLTP cycle. EPA-rated figures would be lower.
Interested buyers can already join a waiting list for the 2. Production is currently slated to start in late 2025.
Lightyear hasn’t said whether the 2 will be available in the U.S. The 0, which is assembled in Finland by independent contract manufacturer Valmet, is currently only available in select European markets.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An attorney requested a new hearing on Friday on the motion that led to the release of Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” already has been overturned.
Steve Kelly, an attorney for the family of victim Hae Min Lee, filed the request in a legal brief in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state's second-highest court.
The new hearing would require the prosecutor to present any evidence supporting the motion and give Young Lee, who is Hae Min Lee's brother, the right to challenge the evidence and present his own.
The filing said Lee “lacked notice and a meaningful opportunity to participate,” and was excluded from a legal proceeding ”at which the state’s attorney and circuit court apparently decided the outcome."
“Nothing Mr. Lee might have said in opposition could have altered the result," the court filing said. "His statement was, at best, an empty ritual.”
Erica Suter, Syed's lawyer, said in a statement that the family's grief and pain “deserves our deepest compassion," which she said has been compounded by prosecutorial misconduct.
“Justice for Hae Min Lee means finding the actual killer, not furthering the harm experienced by Adnan Syed and his family,” Suter said. “This appeal is about whether Hae Min Lee’s family was properly notified. They were. The closure they seek is not found in incarcerating an innocent man.”
Prosecutors moved to vacate Syed’s conviction in September, after a yearlong investigation. A Baltimore judge ordered a new trial and freed Syed from prison, but gave prosecutors 30 days to decide whether to dismiss the charges or proceed with a new trial. The judge ruled that the state had violated its legal obligation to share evidence that could have bolstered Syed’s defense.
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced at an Oct. 11 news conference that her office had dismissed all charges against Syed.
Prosecutors have previously said that a reinvestigation of the case revealed evidence regarding the possible involvement of two alternate suspects. The two suspects may have been involved individually or together, the state’s attorney’s office said.
Mosby's office also cited new results from DNA testing that was conducted using a more modern technique than when evidence in the case was first tested.
Syed served more than 20 years in prison for the strangling of Lee, who was 18 at the time. Her body was found weeks later, buried in a Baltimore park in 1999.
Syed has always maintained his innocence. His case captured the attention of millions in 2014 when the debut season of “Serial” focused on Lee’s killing and raised doubts about some of the evidence prosecutors had used. The program shattered podcast-streaming and downloading records. | 2022-12-09T20:01:24+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Family-of-victim-in-Serial-case-seeks-new-court-17643218.php |
Dedicated to growing the next generation of mission-driven consumer companies whose missions include making the economy cleaner, healthier, and more equitable
Appoints Tehmina Haider and Michael O'Leary as Partners to lead the strategy
GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm, today announced the establishment of its impact investing platform and the appointment of Tehmina Haider and Michael O'Leary as Partners to lead the strategy. The Impact Fund will partner with the next generation of mission-driven consumer companies, harnessing the firm's demonstrated ability to build leading and category-defining brands. It seeks to deliver both attractive risk-adjusted returns and significant progress against some of the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges.
The Impact Fund platform will leverage L Catterton's extensive resources and capabilities to invest and grow consumer companies whose missions include making the economy cleaner, healthier, and more equitable. The Fund will focus on businesses that mitigate climate change, reduce waste, and preserve nature; eliminate disparities in health, wellness, and nutrition; and create a more inclusive economy by expanding access to the financial system and improving education and workforce development.
"As consumer-focused investors above all else, we have seen a revolution in consumer demand based on sustainability and impact. This is hitting a tipping point as younger generations lead a structural, long-term shift towards brands anchored on these values," said Scott Dahnke, Global Co-CEO of L Catterton. "With our distinctive insights and operations-centric approach to value creation, we are poised to identify the most attractive investment opportunities amidst this shift and partner with strong companies in advantaged categories to accelerate growth."
"Since our inception 33 years ago, we have been proud to back many best-in-class sustainable consumer companies. We are confident that now is the right time to launch a dedicated impact fund platform that will further enable us to support mission-driven entrepreneurs and companies where impact is a core driver of the brand," said Michael Chu, Global Co-CEO of L Catterton. "Tehmina and Michael bring deep experience in consumer and impact investing, and we look forward to leveraging their leadership as we establish this platform."
Ms. Haider, who was formerly a senior investor in L Catterton's Growth Fund, re-joins the firm from Harry's, Inc., where she served as the company's Chief Growth Officer. In that role, she was responsible for incubating and acquiring new brands, as well as overseeing their operations after launch or acquisition. During her time at L Catterton, she helped lead compelling investments across the beauty, personal care, apparel, and pet categories. Prior to L Catterton, she was a consumer investor at Castanea Partners and worked on the strategy and new business development team at Estée Lauder. She began her career at Bain & Company.
Mr. O'Leary was previously with Engine No. 1, where he served as a Managing Director. Prior to that, he was on the founding team of Bain Capital's impact fund and an investor on its private equity fund. He is the co-author of the book 'Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism' (HarperCollins 2020), which profiles the challenges and opportunities of impact investing. He and his work have been featured in publications including The Atlantic, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times.
"Mission driven brands and businesses are revolutionizing the consumer economy as they increasingly attract disproportionate interest from consumers and loyalty from employees," said Ms. Haider. "The launch of L Catterton Impact creates an opportunity to harness L Catterton's distinctive insights and expertise to support this next generation of brands to achieve both outsized growth and meaningful positive impact to the planet."
"L Catterton has seen how impact can drive economics at consumer companies today. We now have the opportunity to make significant progress against some of our biggest social and environmental challenges by scaling this next generation of companies," said Mr. O'Leary. "The future of the consumer sector is increasingly sustainable, inclusive, and equitable, and we're building L Catterton Impact to help lead that transformation."
With more than $33 billion of equity capital across its fund strategies and 17 offices around the world, L Catterton is the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm. Leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad strategic network of relationships, L Catterton's team of nearly 200 investment and operating professionals support management teams around the world in building strong, category-leading brands. Since 1989, the firm has made approximately 250 investments in consumer businesses. For more information about L Catterton, please visit lcatterton.com.
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The AP Interview: Pope warns of elitist German synod process
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has warned there’s a risk that what could be a trailblazing process in the German church over calls for married priests and other possible liberalizing reforms might become harmfully “ideological.”
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Francis, in an interview with The Associated Press at the Vatican on Tuesday, was asked about Germany, where Catholic bishops and representatives of an influential lay organization are engaged in a process that is addressing what would be revolutionary reforms for the church if they were to be realized. Under consideration in the process are married priests, female deacons, and church blessings for same-sex couples.
In the interview, the pope said that while dialogue is good, the process in the German church has been led by the “elite” because it doesn’t involve “all the people of God.” Francis says the goal must always be unity.
Seeking to assuage Vatican concerns, German church leaders have insisted the process won’t trigger a schism.
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The German process, dubbed the “Synodal Path,” was launched in 2019 in response to the sex abuse scandal rocking the Church in Germany, where Christians are roughly evenly split between Catholics and Protestants.
Francis said the German process is neither helpful nor serious.
“Here the danger is that something very, very ideological trickles in. When ideology gets involved in church processes, the Holy Spirit goes home, because ideology overcomes the Holy Spirit," Francis said.
Francis has called for a two-part synod that will bring bishops to the Vatican this October, and again in October 2024, to discuss the future direction of the Catholic Church and ways in which it can rejuvenate its mission. Earlier this month, the pope — in remarks to the faithful — linked the path to the unity of all Christians to the church's synodal process.
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While plainly critical of how the German bishops are engaging with representatives of the lay organization known as the Central Committee of German Catholics, Francis struck a hopeful note in the interview. “We must be patient, dialogue and accompany this people on the real synodal path, and help this more elitist path so that it does not end badly in some way, but so is also integrated into the church," he said.
"Always try to unite,'' the pope added.
In his nearly 10-year-old papacy, Francis has raised hopes among some liberal Catholics that he might revise the church's teaching on moral or social issues such as homosexuality. Yet while Francis has exhorted parents never to “condemn” the gay children, he upholds the church's assertion that homosexual activity is sinful. In 2021 the Vatican said the church won't bless same-sex unions because God “cannot bless sin.”
In the interview, Francis didn't delve into specifics of calls for reform being addressed by the German bishops.
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A few months ago, a Synodal Path assembly failed to approve a text calling for the liberalization of teaching on sexuality because it did not get the necessary support of two-thirds of the German bishops. That was indication the German church is conflicted over pressures to push for reforms and divisions in the church they could trigger. | 2023-01-25T12:14:44+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/the-ap-interview-pope-warns-of-elitist-german-17740474.php |
An open letter to the Aurora City Council:
Esteemed Alderpeople, I write to you today so that your friends, family and neighbors will read it and perhaps discuss its contents with you. Like myself, most people are probably not tuned in to all the comings and goings of our city’s government. But this casino deal is so bad, so egregious, that I had to speak up.
Per the terms of this deal, the City of Aurora will provide $50 million in general obligation bond funds to sweeten the pot. The city’s Office of Economic Development clarified that this is probably closer to $58 million when you include all interest and fees.
Furthermore, the city will give the casino upwards of $10 million worth of land to use for the project.
Municipal bonds should not be used in this manner. We should be using public money to fund public projects like roads, sewers, libraries, parks – things that will benefit all of our citizens. Instead, this is a massive subsidy to an already massive corporation that will only add to their profit margin.
In 2021, Penn Entertainment made $2.75 billion in gross profit. They can afford to build this casino outright. They’re just seeing if we’re foolish enough to give them money and land anyway.
Do you represent Penn Entertainment or do you represent the people of Aurora?
My simple request:
Vote no on the proposed ordinance.
Hold town halls to determine whether Aurorans want to give this corporation a handout for a new casino. Hint – they don’t.
If there is still public appetite for a new casino, go back to the table and renegotiate with Penn Entertainment, and take our bond money and free land off the table.
I know it will be hard to say no, but this is a bad deal and it needs to be reworked. I ask you to do what is right, not what is easy.
Thank you for your attention and consideration.
David Cannon, Aurora | 2022-10-21T15:18:20+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/opinion/ct-abn-aurora-letter-casino-st-1023-20221021-fucz76uwi5eovkiohm757sxc3m-story.html |
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially been declared an endangered species, after U.S. wildlife officials temporarily listed it on a rarely used emergency basis last spring.
“This ruling makes final the listing of the Dixie Valley toad, ” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a formal rule published Friday in the Federal Register.
The spectacled, quarter-sized amphibian “is currently at risk of extinction throughout its range primarily due to the approval and commencement of geothermal development,” the service said.
Other threats to the toad include groundwater pumping, agriculture, climate change, disease and predation from bullfrogs.
The temporary listing in April marked only the second time in 20 years the agency had taken such emergency action.
Environmentalists who first petitioned for the listing in 2017 filed a lawsuit in January to block construction of the geothermal power plant on the edge of the wetlands where the toad lives about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Reno — the only place it’s known to exist on earth.
“We’re pleased that the Biden administration is taking this essential step to prevent the extinction of an irreplaceable piece of Nevada’s special biodiversity,” said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin regional director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
The center and a tribe fighting the project say pumping hot water from beneath the earth’s surface to generate carbon-free power would adversely affect levels and temperatures of surface water critical to the toad’s survival and sacred to the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.
The Fish and Wildlife Service cited those concerns in the final listing rule.
“The best available information indicates that a complete reduction in spring flow and significant reduction of water temperature are plausible outcomes of the geothermal project, and these conditions could result in the species no longer persisting,” the agency said.
“Because the species occurs in only one spring system and has not experienced habitat changes of the magnitude or pace projected, it may have low potential to adapt to a fast-changing environment,” it said. “We find that threatened species status is not appropriate because the threat of extinction is imminent.”
Officials for the Reno-based developer, Ormat Technology, said the service’s decision was “not unexpected” given the emergency listing in April. In recent months, the company has been working with the agency and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to modify the project to increase mitigation for the toad and reduce any threat to its survival.
The lawsuit over the original plan to build two power plants capable of producing 60MW of electricity is currently before U.S. District Judge Robert Jones in Reno. It’s already has made one trip to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused in August to grant a temporary injunction blocking construction of the power plant the bureau approved in December 2021.
But just hours after that ruling, Ormat announced it had agreed to temporarily suspend all work on the project until next year. Then in late October, the bureau and Ormat asked the judge to put the case on hold while Ormat submitted a new plan to build just one geothermal plant, at least for now, that would produce only 12MW of power.
Ormat Vice President Paul Thomsen said in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday that the company disagrees with the wildlife service’s “characterization of the potential impacts” of its project as a basis for the listing decision. He said it doesn’t change the ongoing coordination and consultation already under way to minimize and mitigate any of those impacts “regardless of its status under the Endangered Species Act.”
“Following the emergency listing decision, BLM began consultation with the FWS, and Ormat has sought approval of a smaller project authorization that would provide additional assurances that the species will not be jeopardized by geothermal development,” he said.
“As a zero-emissions, renewable energy facility, the project will further the Biden administration’s clean energy initiatives and support the fight against climate change,” Thomsen said.
Donnelly agreed renewable energy is “essential to combating the climate emergency.”
“But it can’t come at the cost of extinction,” he said.
The last time endangered species protection first was initiated on an emergency basis was in 2011, when the Obama administration took action on the Miami blue butterfly in southern Florida. Before that, an emergency listing was granted for the California tiger salamander under the Bush administration in 2002.
Other species listed as endangered on an emergency basis over the years include the California bighorn sheep in the Sierra Nevada in 1999, Steller sea lions in 1990, and the Sacramento River winter migration run of chinook salmon and Mojave desert tortoise, both in 1989. | 2022-12-03T17:46:25+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/science/ap-science/ap-endangered-listing-for-nevada-toad-in-geothermal-power-fight/ |
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA)– The Champaign City Council voted unanimously to approve a $2 million-dollar grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, for community development, violence prevention, and administrative cost grant.
The late Senator, Scott Bennett was instrumental in getting this funding.
“I want to again thank the late Senator Scott Bennett, for procuring the funds for this violence prevention grant,” said Mayor Deb Feinen.
The grant will support existing and new projects that aim to make the city a safer place. One of those organizations is the Trauma and Resilience Initiative (TRI).
“We help support families as they navigate through healing wellness and recovery,” said Karen Simms, executive director of TRI. “We went from a really small sort of volunteer ragtag initiative to really being able to have a robust response.”
Since getting money from the American Rescue Plan through the City of Champaign, TRI’s impact has grown.
“Really being able to give people the right kind of support they need in the way that builds skills that really interrupt the cycle of violence,” said Simms.
Another group that got ARPA money is Steam Genius
“We work to support organizations like the Boys and Girls club, and making sure we get young people in stem and steam-related career pathways,” said Dr. Will Patterson, principal investigator for Steam Genius. “The more things and positive things young people have to go the less opportunity for them to get involved in things that can sway them from making the appropriate decisions.”
Through Steam Genius, kids can learn how to build things, operate remote control cars and more.
“Without the funding, this work is not possible, this is not volunteer work this is professional work,” said Dr. Patterson.
Simms agrees; all the great work isn’t possible without funding.
“Before we were funded, we had 12 to 15 referrals that we were serving this year we had 79 referrals,” said Simms.
Simms says for every referral she gets, each case comes with three to five family members who also need help, so their services have helped hundreds of people across the city
“We were able to train 70 mental health providers and trauma-specific evidence-based practices, many people are getting certified in that, and that also in itself invaluable,” said Simms.
Both groups will continue to strive for Victory over Violence because they’re dedicated to making their community stronger for the next generation.
Some of the grant money will also reimburse costs for the police and fire departments, including hiring and training expenses.
In a press release, State Senator Paul Faraci said:
“This shows Scott Bennett’s unwavering commitment to our community’s safety. Through his tireless efforts, he often secured vital funding for the City of Champaign. This funding serves as a testament to his enduring dedication to public safety in Champaign.”
Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen said:
“The City’s commitment to addressing the root cause of violence by investing in supportive and preventative measures as outlined in the Community Gun Violence Prevention Blueprint is already showing positive results. I am grateful for the efforts made by the late Senator Scott Bennett to appropriate this funding for the City, and I also want to thank Senator Paul Faraci for his ongoing commitment to bolstering public safety in Champaign and across the State of Illinois.”
TRI is hiring people who want to work with the community, for more information, click here. | 2023-05-17T04:57:17+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/champaign-city-council-approves-2m-dollar-grant-for-violence-reduction/ |
US to fill border wall gaps at open area near Yuma, Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma that has become one of the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.
Biden had pledged during his campaign to cease all future wall construction, but the administration later agreed to some barriers, citing safety. The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday the work to close four wide gaps in the wall near Yuma will better protect migrants who can slip down a slope or drown walking through a low section of the Colorado River.
The agency said in a statement that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas authorized completion of the project near the Morelos Dam, reflecting the administration’s “priority to deploy modern, effective border measures and also improving safety and security along the Southwest Border.” It was initially to be funded by the Defense Department but will now be paid for out of Homeland Security’s 2021 budget.
The Border Patrol Yuma sector has quickly emerged as the third busiest of nine sectors along the border, with much of the traffic funneling through the Morelos Dam. Migrants arrive in the small town of Algodones and walk unencumbered across a concrete ledge on the dam to U.S. soil, where they wait for Border Patrol agents to take them into custody.
Completion of the wall was at the top of former President Donald Trump’s agenda, and border security remains a potent issue for candidates of both parties going into this year’s primary elections. President Joe Biden halted new wall construction after he took office, but he has since made closing the gaps just south of Yuma a priority.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, who is seeking his party nomination’s next week to defend the seat in November, has pressed the Biden administration to close the gaps, calling them a challenge for officials trying to secure the border.
Agents stopped migrants more than 160,000 times from January through June in the Yuma sector, nearly quadruple from the same period last year. The only other sectors with more traffic were Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.
The area has been especially attractive to Colombians, Venezuelans and others who have flown to Mexicali, Mexico, and taken a short bus or taxi ride to Algodones to walk across the border before being released into the United States.
But Arizona environmentalist Myles Traphagen, who has been mapping ecological damage left by border wall construction under the Trump administration, said that closing the gaps won’t be much of a deterrent.
Traphagen said the Yuma area has “become the new Ellis Island for Arizona, with people arriving there from countries as disparate as Ethiopia, Cuba, Russia, Ukraine, India, Colombia and Nicaragua.
“People have traveled half way around the globe on planes, trains and automobiles,” he said, “so to expect that closing four small gaps is going to make them turn around and book a return flight on Air Ethiopia is sheer fallacy.”
A 5-year-old migrant girl crossing the water in a group drowned near the dam June 6 when she became separated from her mother. The child’s body was later found in the river.
U.S. officials didn’t release the girl’s identity or nationality. But Jamaican newspapers have said she was believed to be from that country.
It was unclear when construction would begin. The statement said officials will move “as expeditiously as possible, while still maintaining environmental stewardship” by consulting affected parties.
Advocates in San Diego say the Border Patrol there has told them of plans to erect two 30-foot- (9.1-meter) high bollard-style barriers through the border’s iconic Friendship Park. Like the Yuma project, the additional construction was funded during Trump’s administration but not completed before his presidency ended.
The new barriers will replace shorter walls and severely impede cross-border views, including to San Diego’s skyline from Tijuana, said the Rev. John Fanestil of Friends of Friendship Park, a group that advocates for public access to the binational park inaugurated in 1971 by-then first lady Pat Nixon.
Environmentalists like Traphagen, meanwhile, have called for removal of other sections of barrier they say hurt local wildlife like bobcats, mountain lions, javelinas and mule deer.
The Tucson-based Wildlands Network this week released a new report on sites along the U.S.-Mexico border that it considers in the greatest need of environmental restoration.
Traphagen, the group’s borderlands program coordinator, traveled the international boundary across New Mexico, Arizona and California this and last year to identify damaged wildlife corridors and other environmental harm.
The group calls for native foliage to be replanted in areas that were stripped bare during wall construction, and widening spaces between steel borders, now just 4 inches (10 cm) apart, to allow more wildlife to pass through.
It also calls for the removal of 180 miles (290 km) of razor wire that were installed along pedestrian bollard fencing in all border states in 2019 and 2020 both as an eyesore and a danger to the public and wild animals.
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Associated Press writer Elliot Spagat contributed to this report from San Diego.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-29T15:08:35+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/29/us-fill-border-wall-gaps-open-area-near-yuma-arizona/ |
LARAMIE — Going into the season, redshirt freshman Nate Barnhart was expecting to play a very limited role for the University of Wyoming.
Barnhart is the tallest player to suit up for the Cowboys since 2010. The 7-foot forward played in just 15 minutes through the University of Wyoming’s first 15 games this season.
But since Jan. 10, Barnhart’s role has expanded for the struggling Cowboys. He’s been on the floor for 106 minutes in UW’s last six games, including a season-high 31 in a 82-74 road loss to Air Force last month.
“It feels great,” Barnhart said. “It feels great to be out there and to be an impactful guy for the team. I just want to keep putting in the effort to try to get us wins, so right now, it feels pretty good. It feels really good.”
A big part of Barnhart’s expanded role has been the absence of starting forward Graham Ike, who hasn’t played a game this year after being ruled out with a lower right leg injury less than a week before the season-opener. Ike announced late Friday afternoon he would sit out the remainder of this season and take a redshirt year because of a foot injury.
Despite Ike’s absence, it still took Barnhart more than two months to work himself into the starting lineup. Barnhart’s first career start was against Air Force, a game in which he scored 11 points on 5-of-5 shooting with six rebounds and two blocks.
Barnhart’s performance in the loss against the Falcons was enough for third-year coach Jeff Linder to utilize his size in the post more moving forward. Barnhart’s best game of his career came during Tuesday’s 85-62 win over Fresno State in Laramie.
In 23 minutes, Barnhart scored a career-high 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting, including two 3-pointers. He added four rebounds, two blocks and one assist in the 23-point win.
Barnhart’s play over the past month hasn’t just impressed Linder. It’s started to rub off on his teammates who have seen Barnhart blossom over the last two seasons in Laramie.
“Man, he has taken a huge step,” forward Jeremiah Oden said after Tuesday’s win. “To be able to do that type of thing midseason really speaks to his poise and his work ethic. Nate is special. Just some of the stuff he does out there it’s like, ‘Whoa,’ sometimes. It’s good to see him start to come into his own, and he’s just scratching the surface.”
Barnhart’s tall frame and bright red hair have established him as a fan-favorite for the Cowboys as of late. With the Cowboys struggling out to a 7-14 overall record and a 2-7 record in the Mountain West, Barnhart has been one of the few bright spots during a stretch where UW has lost nine of its past 11 games.
“The fans have been great,” Barnhart said. “They’ve helped boost my confidence. Just hearing them support me every time I check in, it’s been an awesome experience.”
Tuesday’s game against Fresno State was Barnhart’s second career start and the Cowboys’ 15th different starting lineup this season, a mark that leads all of Division I. The lineup against the Bulldogs was UW’s biggest starting lineup this season, featuring Barnhart, Oden and forward Hunter Thompson.
Going big paid dividends for the Cowboys, who out-rebounded the Bulldogs 45-22. Barnhart, Oden and Thompson combined for 45 points and 22 rebounds during the blowout win.
“I expected to play, but not necessarily start,” Barnhart said. “Obviously, we had Graham, and it sucks to lose him. I was hoping I was going to get to play, but I was not thinking this much.”
A large part of the Cowboys struggles this season has been due to injury, with key players like Ike, Hunter Maldonado, Brendan Wenzel, Kenny Foster and Thompson all missing multiple games for various injuries or illnesses. Going into the team’s 22nd game this weekend, Xavier DuSell is the only player to have checked in during all 21 of the Cowboys’ games thus far.
The tides have started to turn with the injury bug, with all but two players returning to the lineup against Fresno State this week. Ike and Foster were the only two players not available against the Bulldogs, a game Linder played 11 guys in for the first time since November.
Wenzel, who missed five games with a knee injury before returning against Fresno State, is still not 100%, Linder said. But once he fully recovers, Barnhart believes the Cowboys could be poised for a solid run to finish out the last month of the regular season.
“I think we’ll become very dangerous once Wenzel is fully healthy and we have everyone back,” Barnhart said. “We’re definitely going to be a good team. We are a good team now, but we’re going to just keep getting better.”
Barnhart has experienced the difference between high school and college basketball firsthand during his first season suiting up for the Cowboys this winter. While he’s still adjusting to the speed of the game, there’s a lot more that goes into playing college basketball than just going out and playing, Barnhart said.
“The biggest difference has definitely been just the physicality and the smartness of the players,” Barnhart said. “It’s a huge step because everyone is working out every day and trying to be the best that they can both physically and mentally. Everyone is watching film a lot more, and the game just comes a lot quicker.”
A big help for Barnhart adjusting to the college game has been his experience with going against Ike every day in practice up until his injury, even dating back to last season, when Barnhart redshirted. Ike was named the MW preseason player of the year in October before his injury was announced.
“That time was so impactful,” Barnhart said. “Guarding the best player in the league and the best big man in the league, guarding him every day, that really prepared me for guarding these other big men in the league during games.”
Barnhart’s role has continued to develop as the season churns along. With Ike being ruled out for the rest of the season with his injury, the biggest motivator for Barnhart moving forward is to continue building on the momentum created over the last month of the season.
“I want to just keep trying to build my confidence,” Barnhart said. “That comes with practices and game time. I also want to improve on my physicality and my strength so I can battle down low with those bigger guys.
“I just need to keep working on pushing back and to keep getting stronger.” | 2023-02-04T13:49:43+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/nate-barnhart-carving-out-a-role-in-the-cowboys-rotation/article_8790c05a-9c41-11ed-8da5-8f5d0c125c32.html |
OAK GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers searched Wednesday for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes and damaged or destroyed 30 homes in the Southern California mountains as firefighters in the northern part of the state tried to contain an explosive week-old blaze.
Dogs aided the hunt for a person missing in a heavily damaged area of the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles where thunderstorms unleashed rocks, trees and earth that washed away cars, buried homes and affected 3,000 residents in two remote communities.
The force of mud barreling down the mountain late Monday drove a dumpster through the walls of the Oak Glen Steakhouse and Saloon. A massive tree lodged in the dining room, muck was waist-deep in the kitchen and wine bottles were slathered in mud.
“We have trees in there … 30 feet long that came straight through our building,” said Brandon Gallegos, whose family owns the restaurant. “It’s crushing.”
As the search, cleanup and damage assessment continued, firefighters in Northern California tried to tamp down a fire that flared up Tuesday and jumped a fork of the American River and on Wednesday became the largest blaze in the state this year. Evacuations were increased to more than 11,000 people as the fire threatened over 9,000 structures.
The muddy damage in Oak Glen and Forest Falls served as a powerful warning to residents of areas that have burned or are facing high fire danger of the damage wildfires can cause months or even years after flames are extinguished and the smoke clears.
An intense amount of rain even over a short period of time can have catastrophic effects on hillsides where fire has stripped vegetation that once held the ground intact.
In January 2018, mudslides thundered down a steep mountainside that burned a month earlier and killed more than 20 people in the tony beachside town of Montecito near Santa Barbara. The worst of the rain fell in a 15-minute span with Montecito getting little more than a half-inch (1.25 centimeter) in five minutes.
Jim Topelski, a San Bernardino County fire chief, said mudslides had been a concern in the area burned by the deadly El Dorado Fire that was sparked two years ago when a couple used a smoke device to reveal their baby’s gender. The couple was charged with involuntary manslaughte r in the death of a firefighter.
On Monday, nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain fell top Yucaipa Ridge between Oak Glen, home to apple orchards that are a fall tourist destination, and Forest Falls, once a summer getaway for cabin owners that has become a bedroom community.
“The mud and debris flow came down through the high steep terrain,” Topeleski said. “This entire area is blanketed with up to 6 feet (1.83 meters) of mud, debris, large boulders.”
Mudflows had washed into Forest Falls a month ago, closing roads, but damaging no homes.
Residents in the area had been warned of the danger lurking above them, so they were dismayed but not surprised, Gallegos said.
“We were just hoping and praying that it wouldn’t happen, but it did happen,” he said.
A video captured the spectacle of mud flowing like lava past the sign for Gallegos’ restaurant under sunny skies. It was followed seconds later by a faster-moving and deeper surge of sludge carrying logs and sweeping across a road.
Out of view in the video was the damage being done as tons of mud poured into the tavern.
Evacuation orders remained in two areas over possible mudslides as well as to help workers clear roads buried in muck and restore water and power.
The burst of rain followed a rare tropical storm that ended a lengthy statewide heat wave last week that had pushed electrical supplies to the brink of power outages.
While the temporary relief was welcome in the drought-stricken West, a spate of flash floods that followed have wreaked havoc in many places.
Cars were marooned over the weekend in Death Valley National Park and new flooding again Tuesday closed all entrances into the park. Only the east entrance was open Wednesday and the western entrance is closed indefinitely because of extensive road damage.
In a desert area outside Las Vegas, a stranded truck driver and two people in a van had to be rescued after thunderstorms dumped more than 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) of rain within three hours early Wednesday and washed basketball-sized rocks onto roads in Valley of Fire State Park.
It was a different story in Northern California, where the Mosquito Fire burned more buildings Tuesday afternoon, just hours after officials reported making “great strides.” The blaze on Wednesday surpassed the size of the previous largest fire in 2022, the McKinney Fire, although this season has seen a fraction of last year’s fire activity so far.
Stronger winds pushed out a smoke inversion layer Tuesday that had been stifling the blaze and gave fresh oxygen to the flames, McLean said. The area is full of extremely dry vegetation that was rapidly igniting, challenging both firefighters on the ground and air.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history.
Firefighters were able to keep flames from crossing a key road and entering the town of Foresthill and cooler temperatures overnight helped keep it in check, fire spokesperson Scott McLean said Wednesday. He said some buildings burned, but the exact number won’t be known until damage assessment teams were able to canvas the area.
Breezes were calmer on Wednesday afternoon and crews and helicopters knocked down hotspots.
“It’s trying to come back to life,” McLean said from his perch overlooking the fire. “But nothing like yesterday.”
He said evacuations remain in place because of the unpredictable nature of the winds, which typically blow in the direction of several canyons in the area, which could rapidly spread flames if gusts pick up.
The blaze 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco was one of three large fires in the state and had grown to roughly 100 square miles (258 square kilometers), with 20% containment Wednesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. At least 64 homes and other buildings have been destroyed.
The Fairview Fire was burning about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. The 44-square-mile (114-square-kilometer) blaze was 75% contained by Wednesday night. Two people died fleeing the fire, which destroyed at least 35 homes and other structures in Riverside County.
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Melley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Christopher Weber and Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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PALMETTO, Fla. — Nearly 22 years after a Palmetto man's death, Manatee County Sheriff's detectives are once again asking for information to help them solve this cold-case murder.
Around 4 a.m. on July 23, 2001, Wajid Coleman left his home on 29th Street East in Palmetto, never to be seen alive again, the sheriff's office said in a release.
A week later, on July 30, Coleman's body was found lying in the woods on Magellan Drive near Kimlinda Lane. He had been shot in the head, an autopsy revealed.
At the time of Coleman's murder, detectives had few leads to go on and "despite efforts to find the person(s) responsible for Coleman's murder, the case went cold," the agency stated.
Now, homicide detectives are looking at the evidence again and are asking for the public's help in solving this nearly 22-year-old cold case.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Manatee County Sheriff's Detective Darryl Davis at 941-747-3011 Ext. 2535. Those who wish to remain anonymous and be eligible for an up to $3,000 reward should call Manatee CrimeStoppers at 866-634-8477 (TIPS) or go online at www.manateecrimestoppers.com. | 2023-05-05T19:36:47+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/wajid-coleman-manatee-county-cold-case-investigation/67-ebbf8f5c-c747-4e1a-9eec-4587304838bb |
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LANSING, Mich. – The Republican candidate for Michigan governor on Friday compared Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's policies to the 2020 plot to kidnap the Democratic incumbent, remarks that Democrats criticized as making light of a serious and dangerous crime.
Tudor Dixon referred to the kidnapping plot at two separate events.
“Sad thing is, Gretchen will tie your hands, put a gun to your head and ask if you’re ready to talk,” Dixon told a crowd at an event in Troy while speaking about the need to cut business regulations. "For someone so worried about being kidnapped, Gretchen Whitmer sure is good at taking business hostage.”
At an event later Friday, Dixon referenced an appearance Whitmer made with President Joe Biden at the Detroit Auto Show.
“I’ll tell you the look on her face, she was like: ‘Oh my gosh this is happening. I’d rather be kidnapped by the FBI,'” Dixon said.
Two men were convicted last month of plotting to kidnap Whitmer because they were angry about pandemic-related restrictions she imposed. Prosecutors said they were part of a group who conspired to abduct Whitmer at her vacation home and to blow up a bridge to disrupt police so they wouldn't be caught. The FBI said it broke up the plot before it could occur.
The jury's conviction came in a second trial against the two men, Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox. At an earlier trial, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict, while two other men were acquitted. Their lawyers argued the men were big talkers who were set up by the FBI and said there was no actual plot.
The Democratic Governors Association called Dixon's comments “utterly disqualifying for the role of Michigan governor,” while Whitmer's campaign criticized Dixon for “dangerous rhetoric.”
“Threats of violence are no laughing matter, and the fact that Dixon spent the day making joke after joke about it shows that she is absolutely unfit to serve in public office,” Whitmer campaign spokeswoman Maeve Coyle tweeted.
Dixon was endorsed by former President Donald Trump during the GOP primary and is now trailing Whitmer in fundraising and support. She campaigned Friday with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., who called the conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer “the fake kidnap plot orchestrated by the FBI.”
Dixon criticized the media for not reporting on what she called attacks against her during Biden's recent visit, saying he “called me all kinds of names and put my life in danger.”
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Joey Cappelletti is a corps member 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. | 2022-09-23T23:57:01+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/09/23/michigan-governor-hopeful-makes-light-of-whitmer-kidnap-plot/ |
Reported sexual assaults across US military increase by 13%
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out of pandemic restrictions and public venues reopened, The Associated Press has learned.
Mirroring the increase in those reports is the disclosure that close to 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact — a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in a similar 2018 survey, U.S. defense and military officials said.
The latest numbers are certain to anger lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been critical of the Pentagon’s efforts to get a handle on sexual crimes and misconduct.
According to officials, the overall increase is largely fueled by a nearly 26% jump in reports involving Army soldiers. It’s the largest increase for that service since 2013, when such reports went up by 51%.
The increase in Navy reports was about 9%, the Air Force was a bit more than 2% and the Marine Corps was less than 2%, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the reporting has not yet been made public.
The big increase is especially troublesome for the Army, which is struggling to meet its recruiting goals and is expected to miss the target by at least 10,000 — or by anywhere from 18% to 25% — at the end of September. Army leaders have acknowledged that it is important for parents and others who influence recruits to feel comfortable that their son or daughter is safe and will be taken care of in the service.
COVID-19 and the pandemic restrictions make year-to-year comparisons complicated. Officials said they do not have enough data to determine if — or how much — the pandemic played a role in the higher reporting and survey numbers.
The Pentagon and the military services have long struggled to come up with programs to prevent sexual assaults and to encourage reporting. While the military has made inroads in making it easier and safer for service members to come forward, it has had far less success reducing the assaults, which have increased nearly every year since 2006.
The double-digit overall increase comes after two years of relatively small increases in reports filed by or involving service members. In the budget year ending September 2020, reports of sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact edged up by 1%, as much of the world largely shut down due to the pandemic. The previous year, reports went up by about 3% — a substantial improvement over 2018, which also saw a 13% increase.
The widespread restrictions on travel and movement for the military continued during fall 2020 and the early part of 2021, and many businesses, restaurants and bars were shut down or had limited service. Things began to open up as more people were vaccinated in the summer and fall, but it’s also not clear whether that greater freedom contributed to the increase in assault reports.
The Pentagon releases a report every year on the number of sexual assaults reported by or about troops. But because sexual assault is a highly underreported crime, the department began to do an confidential survey every two years to get a clearer picture of the problem. The 2018 survey found that more than 20,000 service members said they experienced some type of sexual assault, but only one-third of them filed a formal report.
The latest report, expected to be publicly released Thursday, estimates that about 35,800 service members experienced some type of sexual assault in the previous year, based on the confidential survey. That means that only about one in every five service members reported an incident that happened in the previous year.
Every year as many as 10% of the assaults that service members reported happened before they joined the military.
Officials familiar with the findings said survey respondents also reported increases in unhappiness in the workplace, as well as more sexual harassment, which can sometimes lead to other sexual assaults or misconduct.
Defense officials have argued that an increase in reported assaults is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report it, both in the military and in society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system and greater comfort with the support for victims.
It’s unclear, however, whether the increased reports last year actually represent a growing problem or whether those who say they were assaulted were just more willing to come forward.
The Pentagon has been under persistent pressure from Congress to improve prevention and prosecutions. Lawmakers acted late last year to take some prosecution authority out of the hands of commanders and instead use independent prosecutors.
Victims rights advocates and others have argued that service members don’t trust the system and are often unwilling to go to their commanders with a complaint for fear of retribution. They also worry that commanders may not press ahead with some cases if they know the accused. Members of Congress argued that using independent prosecutors would make the process more fair, and make victims more comfortable coming forward.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-31T20:40:20+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2022/08/31/reported-sexual-assaults-across-us-military-increase-by-13/ |
STOCKHOLM (AP) — This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution.
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the winner Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paabo has spearheaded research comparing the genome of modern humans and our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, showing that there was mixing between the species.
The medicine prize kicked off a week of Nobel Prize announcements. It continues Tuesday with the physics prize, with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Oct. 10.
Last year’s medicine recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.
The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895. | 2022-10-03T11:02:14+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-for-research-on-evolution/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bryce Harper defied the odds and returned 160 days after Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.
The Philadelphia Phillies slugger is trying to stress something else now that he is back in the lineup — patience.
Harper went 0 for 4 and struck out three times in the Phillies’ 13-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night. While the two-time NL MVP was pleased to be back in what many consider to be a miraculous turnaround, there were positives and negatives to take from the first night back.
“I think you’re never excited for what just happened, right? You don’t want that to happen. I want the results to be better,” Harper said. “Granted, I’m excited to be back. You know, going through six months of grinding, hard work and to be able to get back today I was extremely excited. Now we’re just rolling into the season and playing as many games as I can.”
Harper saw breaking balls on nine of 16 pitches over four at-bats. Overall, he fouled off four pitches and had swinging strikes on five. His only fair-ball contact was a groundout to third baseman Max Muncy in the fourth inning.
“I thought the bat speed was there. I thought he was on a lot of pitches. There’s going to be some timing stuff and recognizing breaking balls and things like that,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. “It shouldn’t take long before he gets up to speed.”
Harper said he expected to see plenty of breaking pitches from Dodgers’ starter Julio Urías and wasn’t surprised.
“I feel like my timing is pretty good, it’s just pitch selection right now. I had some pretty good pitches in that second at-bat and then on that last one from (Phil) Bickford. I should had better swings on,” Harper said. “My swing feels good, I don’t want to change anything with that. Just understand it is going to take a minute.”
Harper’s other big adjustment is dealing with the pitch clock for the first time. He said that might be a bigger challenge than pitch selection.
“Your whole career you’ve slowed the game down. I took a long time from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box and also in between pitches,” he said. “I need to figure out when to use my time out and what else I want to do. The game is going to be a quicker pace for the foreseeable future.”
The return for the two-time NL MVP also occurred at the ballpark where he made his major league debut in 2012.
“Medically it is surprising, but by Harper genetic standards probably not,” Harper’s agent, Scott Boras, said while the Phillies were taking batting practice. “I remember last Thanksgiving we were talking about when he could come back and he mentioned May and I told him not to tell anyone that.”
Harper will continue to wear a brace on his right elbow while hitting. He wore it most of last season after originally sustaining the injury last April and hit .286 with 18 homers and 65 RBIs.
Harper’s return also comes at a great time for the Phillies. The defending NL champs are 15-16 but have won seven of their last 11 games.
It adds more power to a deep Philadelphia lineup.
The Phillies added Trea Turner — a former teammate of Harper’s in Washington — to join a batting order that includes Kyle Schwarber, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto. Brandon Marsh, who was acquired at the trade deadline from the Los Angeles Angels last year, is fifth in the majors with a .337 batting average.
“It really creates a long lineup,” Thomson said. “When you see it, you’re going to see a couple pretty good hitters way down there because Harper is back. Once he gets hot, we’re going to be a handful.”
Thomson moved Schwarber from fifth back to leadoff, where he batted most of last season. Turner is hitting second followed by Harper, Castellanos and Bryson Stott.
Thomson said with the number of days off that the Phillies have in May, the expectation is that Harper can be in the lineup every day as long as he remains healthy.
When it comes to the possibility of when Harper will return to the field, Thomson said that is likely to be a couple months away. Harper has played mostly right field, but is taking grounders and throwing from first base.
Thomson’s biggest worry at the moment is making sure Harper gets off to a good start at the plate.
“I wouldn’t be surprised where it is going to take some time to get true timing back but I’m pretty confident in his abilities,” Thomson said.
To make room for Harper, the Phillies optioned outfielder Jake Cave to Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
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Two complementary players unite to offer comprehensive product portfolio for mobile and industrial applications
- Joint portfolio broadens global offering
- Customers benefit from additional sales channels
- Combined business to leverage complementary strengths
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HydraForce, Inc. plans to join Bosch Rexroth's growing portfolio of Compact Hydraulics products, expanding reach and support for customers. Bosch Rexroth, a subsidiary of Bosch, based in Lohr am Main, Germany, is a growing leader in Mobile and Industrial hydraulics products. Bosch Rexroth and HydraForce signed a respective contract on July 15, 2022. Both sides agreed to keep the purchase price confidential. The transaction is subject to anti-trust approval.
"With Bosch Rexroth, we found a great partner who values and shares similar views on innovation, customer focus, application expertise, and culture. I believe the new ownership will create great opportunities for our customers, partners and employees and lead to sustained growth," says Mike Terzich, President and CEO of HydraForce.
"With its diversified portfolio and international setup, Bosch Rexroth has a strong foundation. The acquisition of HydraForce expands our global market access through indirect sales channels: Sales partners and system integrators will become important target groups. In these challenging times, we are also helping to stabilize regional supply chains so that we can support our customers even better," says Frank Hess, Vice President Compact Hydraulics Business Unit of Bosch Rexroth.
HydraForce's extensive portfolio of products perfectly complement the existing product portfolio of Bosch Rexroth's Compact Hydraulic Business Unit. Within Bosch Rexroth, the business unit designs, manufactures and markets compact hydraulic components for applications such as earth moving, cranes, aerial platforms, agricultural machinery, and industrial applications at its four locations in China, the US, Germany and Italy. The business unit employs approximately 1,800 associates. HydraForce employs approximately 2,100 associates, most of which are located at six production locations in the US, Brazil, United Kingdom and China.
In addition to the complementary product portfolios, the regional sales structures of HydraForce and Bosch Rexroth complement each other perfectly as well: The combined activities will thus create a well-balanced entity in North/South America, Europe, and will also support further growth activities in Asia Pacific. Furthermore, the addition of HydraForce will significantly improve Bosch Rexroth's global market access through indirect sales channels (e.g. dealers and system integrators) which aligns with the long-term strategic target of Bosch Rexroth.
HydraForce was first established in Chicago, USA in 1985 and today has manufacturing facilities across the world, including North America, Great Britain, Brazil and China. The company designs and manufactures high performance hydraulic fluid power cartridge valves, custom manifolds, and electro-hydraulic controls. It has created thousands of custom control solutions for a variety of off-highway industries, encompassing farming, construction, marine, material handling, mining, and forestry.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
4-7-1
(four, seven, one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
4-7-1
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(NEXSTAR) — With limited supply and an ever-increasing demand for vehicles, it hasn’t been an easy year for car buyers across the nation, let alone Texans. But that may change in 2023.
iSeeCars.com analyzed more than 3.8 million 1-5-year-old used car sales in May and November 2021 and 2022 by state. Experts compared the average listing prices between the two time periods, calculating both percentage and dollar differences from the 2021 price for each model.
Data from the website showed the value of used car prices in Texas dropping between May and November 2022. Karl Brauer, an executive analyst at iSeeCars.com, suggested the pattern is expected to continue into the new year.
His best advice for car buyers in Texas is to wait a few months for a massive price drop.
“If they can hold onto their current car right now for even three to six months, they can likely get a better price on the car that they replace it with,” Brauer said. “If they are buying a car in the next three to six months, they’ll probably get a better price than they would even today and certainly for the past year.”
However, the price drop also means car owners looking to sell their current vehicle see it drop in value as well.
“If car owners have to get rid of their current car to purchase a replacement, they’ll probably get a lower price whenever they get rid of their car. That would be the case unless they can get rid of it now and get the next car in six months,” Brauer said.
Another takeaway from the data set is Texans’ preference for high-performance cars like the Chevrolet Corvette or the Lexus IS 350. Brauer suggested the state’s climate may play a role.
“In Texas, it’s likely we’re representing the better climate there. You’re going to have more fun in a Corvette in Texas than you are in Illinois,” Brauer said.
The Chevrolet Camaro is featured on both May and November’s top price drop lists. Brauer thought multiple reasons play into the price drop.
“[The Camaro] just wasn’t as desirable to them as some of these other vehicles before the fuel price increase, and then even more so after the fuel price increase. They were just totally backing away from it,” Brauer said.
But how did the Chevy Camaro lose value over the entire year while the value of the Chevy Corvette rose? Much of the reason has to do with how each car is marketed.
“The Corvette is much more expensive, but both the Chevy Corvette and Camaro are performance cars. But the Corvette is an all-new C8 mid-engine vehicle in the last couple of years, and it’s a premium vehicle, so it’s going to be a less price-sensitive buyer. The Camaro is going to be more mainstream marketed toward blue-collar workers, and they’re probably going to be that much more price sensitive to gas prices,” Brauer said.
Overall, Brauer said somewhere in spring 2022 was the peak of the car market. During that time was the biggest difference between the number of cars available (new or used) for purchase and the amount of demand for those cars.
However, with global geopolitical events like the invasion of Ukraine, interest rates shifting, and other economic concerns, demand for cars started to dampen, Brauer said.
At the same time, Brauer said the supply chain issue, which has persisted across all industries, since the start of the pandemic, is slowly moderating. He said there are more computer chips being produced, and the ability to produce them is slowly improving as well, which is helping the supply side.
“You start removing some demand from the market for various reasons, like interest rates and economic concerns, and you add in an increased level of supply because of some global supply chain issues being resolved. Not surprisingly, you start to slowly see pricing moderate. That’s what it’s looking like now versus, say, six to 12 months ago,” Brauer said.
Brauer expects supply and demand issues to stagnate into the new year.
“I do see demand likely falling in the next over the next six-plus months, but I don’t think it’s going to fall nearly fast enough to counteract the ongoing supply chain challenges that will probably be impacting price. It will be impacting supply, vehicle supply, vehicle production, and thus, the price for probably another one-to-two years minimum,” he said.
iSeeCars.com analyzed over 3.8 million 1-5-year-old used car sales in May and November of 2021 and 2022 nationally, and further analyzed the data by US state. The average listing prices of each car model were compared between the two time periods, and the differences were expressed as both a percentage difference from the 2021 price as well as a dollar difference. Heavy-duty vehicles, low-volume vehicles, vehicles discontinued as of the 2022 model year, and vehicles with fewer than 4 of the 5 model years for each period were excluded from further analysis. | 2022-12-18T16:38:41+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/state-regional/where-are-texas-car-prices-headed-in-2023/ |
President Biden faces the uphill battle of convincing voters that the U.S. economy is not only strong but slowly improving as Republicans aggressively reject the idea.
The White House has spent the last year digging itself out of a host of economic setbacks— from sky high interest rates that have kept people from buying homes and cars to gas prices that hit historic highs— that has left many voters feeling worse off financially.
But with inflation falling this week to the lowest rate since March 2021 and the Federal Reserve opting to keep interest rates unchanged for the first time since January 2022, the Biden campaign is readying to convince Americans that they are better off now than they were four years ago.
“Democrats writ large often say one thing about the economy and then they move on. They move on to health care, they move on to any other also important issue. What we need to be doing is be relentless about the economy. We need to talk until we are blue in the face, until we sound like we’re repeating [points] 500 times,” said Gabe Horwitz, senior vice president of the economic program at Third Way.
The labor market has been a major selling point for the president, with unemployment down around 3.7 percent and millions of jobs added under his tenure. When inflation was still higher than normal and interest rates were on the rise, the White House would often point to jobs as a reason to prove the U.S. was not headed for a recession.
Just in time, however, for administration officials to fan out across the country later this month to tout the president’s economic agenda, inflation dropped sharply in May, with consumer prices rising just 0.1 percent.
The second installment of the “Investing in America tour” this summer will involve Cabinet members and more than a dozen officials traveling to over 20 states, highlighting “the Republicans who to this day continue to try to overturn it and send good jobs and factories overseas,” according to a White House official.
Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said Team Biden has a strong case to share on the trail because the jobs market in particular is “the best labor market in generations.”
“I think the case is really strong. People hate inflation, and the media has talked a ton about inflation. That has been dominating their perception of the economy for a couple of years. But my guess is, unless something really changes, the inflation normalizing in the face of still strong labor markets—I think that’s a really good record they should be able to run on,” he said.
Republicans have used the economy for a case against Biden throughout his presidency to rally their base against Democrats. The party focused on it during the 2022 midterms, pointing to higher-than-normal gas prices and the steep cost of groceries.
The House Ways and Means Committee cleared legislation this week to help workers and small businesses “navigate price spikes, worker shortages, and supply chain failures in President Biden’s economy,” according to the committee.
“Main Street has struggled in the Biden economy. We’ve heard directly from small businesses during our hearings around the country about the real challenges they face today. Their testimony exposed the painful reality that the economy under President Biden is harming small businesses,” Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said in a statement.
The White House, meanwhile, points to other parts of their agenda to make the argument that their economic plan is working, from protecting Social Security and Medicare to avoiding the first-ever national default.
Biden’s success in negotiating the debt limit bill with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) could lead to support from swing-state voters who want to see fiscal responsibility from the White House, argued Horwitz.
“Between what he was able to accomplish in the Inflation Reduction Act and what he was able to accomplish in a bipartisan manner on the debt limit bill, Biden showed that he cares about fiscal responsibility, and we know that voters are very sensitive to that, especially swing voters,” said Horwitz, a former appropriations and budget staff for House Democrats.
Biden is set to rally with union workers on Saturday in Philadelphia, which comes after he received a slew of union endorsements on Friday.
On what his message will be at the rally, Biden said, “Every major labor union in the country is endorsing me tomorrow. And I’m saying that my philosophy about building from the middle out and the bottom up is working.”
He has been working to shore up those endorsements and solidify support from blue collar workers, many of whom connected with former President Trump’s messaging in the 2016 election. The campaign’s union endorsements this month put wind behind the president’s back on the campaign trail, experts say.
“There’s tons of workers out there in the U.S. economy who don’t have a four-year college degree and make pretty modest amounts of money. It’s a big voting bloc, and they have — for the past couple of decades — not been served well at all by the economy,” Bivens said.
“If you’ve got a bunch of unions appreciating the strides and the labor market and the effect that has on low-and-moderate wage workers, you would think that would pay dividends, electorally.”
There are early signs of Americans overall feeling better about the economy and more confident in its trajectory.
The closely watched University of Michigan survey of consumers showed a sharp jump in U.S. satisfaction with the economy this month, according to data released Friday.
Consumer sentiment rose 8 percent from May and a whopping 28 percent from a record low set last year. Americans also expect inflation to keep falling throughout the year and settle close to pre-pandemic levels.
Joanne Hsu, director of the Michigan survey of consumer, said the jump reflects “greater optimism as inflation eased and policymakers resolved the debt ceiling crisis.”
Even so, Hsu warned, “sentiment remains low by historical standards” and American households are bracing for their incomes to decline.
“A majority of consumers still expect difficult times in the economy over the next year,” Hsu said.
To ward off any worries about the economy and questions over if another downturn is possible, the White House is working to push out the positive strides the economy has experienced recently.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre kicked off a daily briefing this week with a graphic showing inflation falling, calling the data “evidence that the president’s economic plan is working.”
And the president has been pushing out his messaging on the economy ahead of campaign season heating up.
“We have taken action to bring down the cost of gas at the pump, prescription drugs, and health insurance premiums,” Biden said in a statement this week. “While there is more work to do, the plan that I laid out a year ago to bring down the cost of living and sustain stable and steady growth is working.”
—Sylvan Lane contributed to this report. | 2023-06-17T11:05:11+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/white-house-and-gop-agree-this-is-the-biden-economy/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were higher Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to their highest level in more than two decades, just as Wall Street expected.
Regional attention has focused on whether Japan’s central bank might alter its longstanding ultra-lax monetary policy at a policy meeting that ends on Friday.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.4% to 32806.18 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong jumped 1.3% to 19,613.18.
The Shanghai Composite index was up 0.8% at 3,237,13. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 added 0.8% to 7,460.60. South Korea’s Kospi climbed 0.5% to 2,603.08.
Bangkok’s SET was down 0.1% and Taiwan’s benchmark gained 0.4%.
Stocks on Wall Street held steady Wednesday.
The S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1% to 4,566.75, remaining near a 15-month high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2% to 35,520.12, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.1%, to 14,127.29.
The bond market moved more sharply, and Treasury yields fell after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said no decision had been made about whether to raise rates at its next meeting or beyond. That may have bolstered hopes among traders that Wednesday’s hike could be the last for a long time.
Microsoft weighed on the market after falling 3.8% despite reporting better profit and revenue for the spring than expected.
Helping to limit the market’s losses was Alphabet, which rose 5.6%. The parent company of Google and YouTube reported better profit and revenue for the spring than analysts expected.
What Big Tech titans do matters more for Wall Street than other stocks because they have become so influential due to their massive size. Seven stocks alone accounted for most of the S&P 500’s returns through the first half of this year, largely on expectations that their explosive growth will continue. They’ll need to deliver big profits to justify those gains.
Meta Platforms, another member of the “Magnificent Seven” that’s overshadowed the rest of the market also reported its results after trading closed for the day. The stock has soared 148% so far this year, while Alphabet and Microsoft are both up more than 40%.
Boeing, meanwhile, helped prop up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has less of an emphasis on Big Tech than the S&P 500. The aircraft maker reported a smaller loss for the spring than analysts expected, and revenue topped expectations. Boeing’s stock rose 8.7%.
In the bond market, the highlight was the Fed’s move to raise its federal funds rate to a range of 5.25% to 5.50% in hopes of wrestling down high inflation. That’s its highest level since 2001 and up from virtually zero early last year.
Rate increases work to lower inflation by grinding down on the entire economy, raising the risk of a recession and hurting prices for investments. Ending them would encourage more borrowing and investment.
The economy has so far defied predictions for a recession, largely because of a remarkably solid job market that has allowed U.S. households to keep spending. That has hopes rising that the Federal Reserve can pull off a “soft landing” for the economy where high inflation falls back to its target without a painful recession.
The Fed’s Powell said Wednesday that rates will likely need to stay high for a while to drive inflation lower, but he was noncommittal about the possibility of more increases. The Fed’s next opportunity to raise rates will arrive at its meeting in September, and Powell said policy makers want to see more data about where inflation and the job market are heading before then.
“It’s really dependent so much on the data, and we just don’t have it yet,” Powell said.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 3.86% from 3.89% late Tuesday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
In other trading Thursday, U.S. benchmark crude oil gained 92 cents to $79.70 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It fell 85 cents to $79.78 on Wednesday.
Brent crude, the international standard, added 82 cents to $83.38 per barrel.
The dollar fell to 139.80 Japanese yen from 140.25 yen. The euro rose to $1.1105 from $1.1087.
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AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed. | 2023-07-27T06:22:08+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/ap-stock-market-today-asian-markets-are-mixed-ahead-of-what-traders-hope-will-be-a-final-fed-rate-hike/ |
Off-duty officers help save 8-year-old entangled in rope ladder
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (KYW) - An 8-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after he got entangled in a rope ladder at an indoor amusement park. Two off-duty officers are credited with helping to save him.
Cpl. J.R. Kane with West Vincent Township Place was visiting with his sons and nephews Feb. 24 at Thrillz High Flying Adventure Park in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He heard calls for help, grabbed his stepfather’s pocketknife and ran to assist.
An 8-year-old boy had gotten entangled in a rope ladder and was hanging from his neck. Police say the boy had stopped breathing.
“He was unconscious, and he was foaming at the mouth and pretty lifeless,” Kane said. “When you are a father or a mother, you don’t want to ever have to see that. You think of your own child being in that position.”
Kane handed the knife to a staff member to cut the boy down. Then, he and another off-duty officer, Deputy Chief Cory Cooper from Darby Township Police, worked together to help save the 8-year-old. They administered CPR and rescue breathing.
The 8-year-old regained consciousness and started speaking. He was taken to the hospital, from which he was released later that day.
Kane may have been off the clock at the park, but he says first responders are never truly off duty.
“Thankfully, we were there – right place, right time,” Kane said. “It’s our task to preserve life and protect life out there, so we’re just doing our job.”
The owner of the park said in a statement that the boy was seen in camera footage climbing headfirst down the rope ladder when he became entangled. The park’s safety monitors formed a response team within 10 seconds.
Following this incident, the park intends to enhance the safety of the rope ladder.
Police are also looking into safety procedures throughout the park.
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A fire at a single-family home on Hoomakoa Street in Waikele this evening has displaced nine people.
Firefighters from the Honolulu Fire Department received a 911 call about a building fire at a home at 94-1189 Hoomakoa St. at around 7:30 p.m. Firefighters arrived at the scene a few minutes later to find “heavy smoke and fire emanating from the side” of the home.
Firefighters fought the fire and searched the building for any occupants, but did not find anyone inside.
HFD brought the fire under control within a few minutes and fully extinguished it at around 8 p.m.
Nine members of the household arrive shortly afterward, and the American Red Cross was contacted to provide support for the five children and four adults who were displaced by the fire.
An investigation in ongoing to determine the cause and origin of the fire. | 2022-07-01T07:55:36+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/30/breaking-news/9-displaced-after-house-fire-in-waikele/ |
BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency said Friday that an investigation into the failure of a rocket carrying two Earth observation satellites last year indicated the cause was a faulty part procured from Ukraine.
The Vega C rocket ditched in the sea less than three minutes after liftoff from a spaceport in French Guiana in December. Arianespace, which provided the launch service, said at the time that decrease in pressure was observed in the rocket’s second stage, “leading to the premature end of the mission.”
“The cause of the failure was a gradual deterioration of the Zefiro 40’s nozzle,” the European Space Agency said.
The Zefiro 40 second stage, made by Italian space company Avio, suffered “an unexpected thermo-mechanical over-erosion” of a carbon component procured in Ukraine, it said.
Pierre-Yves Tissier of Arianespace said the conclusion was based on an examination of identical parts and still needed to be confirmed through further tests.
ESA added that during the inquiry “no weakness in the design of Zefiro 40 has been revealed.”
The launch was the third failure in the past eight launches of Vega and Vega C rockets, an embarrassment for the agency and its partners.
“We will overcome this very difficult moment,” Arianespace head Stephane Israel told reporters.
ESA chief Josef Aschbacher added that measures would now be implemented “to get out of this crisis stronger.”
The launch was meant to take two Earth observation satellites made by Airbus, Pleiades Neo 5 and 6, into orbit. The satellites would have been part of a constellation capable of taking images of any point on the globe with a resolution of 30 centimeters (12 inches). | 2023-03-03T17:57:41+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/science/ap-science/ap-faulty-part-from-ukraine-likely-cause-rocket-launch-failure/ |
Summer is waning, the State Fair is over, schools are back in class — it’s the time of year when most Minnesotans prepare to settle back into comfortable routines.
Health officials fear the coronavirus pandemic might have other plans.
Minnesota, like much of the nation, watched a spring rise in COVID-19 cases turn into a stubborn summer plateau where the rate of infection remained troublingly high.
Outbreak measures have improved in recent weeks, but as more activities move indoors, health officials are bracing for the possibility of another fall surge in cases. Those fears are exacerbated by the highly-contagious omicron strains that drove cases to record levels in January and have been the main cause of infections throughout 2022.
As it has evolved, SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has become more infectious and better at evading immunity obtained from vaccines and prior illness. In turn, doctors have gotten better at treating infections, driving down the most severe outcomes and recently adding a new omicron-specific booster.
Those advances are heartening for Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm, who urged residents to remain vigilant and continue to do whatever they can to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
“We are hoping for the best as we enter the fall and winter months. However, we are also preparing for a scenario where a surge could take place,” Malcolm said in a statement.
“We have spent much of 2022 putting in place a sustainable response that is ready to adjust at scale to help provide Minnesotans with the tools they need should a significant rise in cases emerge,” she said.
CONFLICTING SIGNALS
Midway through the pandemic’s third year, the changing measures of the COVID-19 outbreak have made it trickier to understand how much coronavirus is circulating and the prospects for another surge.
One key measure, the number of new infections reported by the state, can no longer be trusted because most people now test at home and those results are not part of the official tally. Health officials estimate the number of new infections could be 10 to 15 times higher than the official new case counts.
Nevertheless, Minnesota’s official rate of new infections has remained above the state Department of Health high-risk threshold for months.
Hospitalizations also remain higher than health officials would like, with 422 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 last Sunday including 38 in critical condition. Hospital capacity remains strained throughout much of the state because of staffing shortages.
One bright spot, the COVID-19 death rate has fallen to one of the lowest levels of the pandemic, but the state continues to record several deaths each day.
While fewer severe cases is good news, health officials warn the long-term impact of a COVID-19 infection remains unclear. Anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of people sickened by the coronavirus experience some form of “long COVID.”
STAFFING AN ONGOING CONCERN
Another surge in cases could easily overwhelm institutions like schools and hospitals that are already strained.
Most schools entered the new year of classes facing unprecedented staffing shortages. Hospitals in the Twin Cities and Twin Ports just witnessed the largest private-sector nursing strike in the nation with staffing shortages a key issue for nurses seeking a new labor agreement.
Students returned to school earlier this month hopeful for a normal year after the last two were upended by the pandemic. However, the close quarters of schools, low vaccination rates among children and highly-contagious omicron subvariants worry health experts.
Furthermore, most coronavirus mitigation measures like masking and social distancing have been abandoned. Health officials fear that could lead to a resurgence of other illnesses like influenza.
Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at the Mayo Clinic, said it was important that parents to get their kids vaccinated against COVID-19 and to get a flu shot.
“Vaccine uptake has been much lower than we had hoped for in the school-aged children group,” Rajapakse said, noting that vaccines are safe and good at preventing serious illness. “Since there’s not really a downside to it, it is very well tolerated in kids, so we are encouraging parents to get their kids vaccinated.”
Any widespread surge in cases could have a devastating impact on schools and hospitals. Last year, Gov. Tim Walz had to call out the National Guard and hire temporary workers to keep hospitals running.
Schools are in a similar predicament — a national survey found nine out of 10 districts had 10 percent or more of their positions vacant as classes began. Any widespread absences could leave schools scrambling to cover key jobs.
“It’s going to be a bumpy ride this fall,” said Denise Specht, president of Education Minnesota, the state teachers union. “I think, from a pandemic perspective, schools are very fragile right now, particularly because they are short-staffed in so many job categories.”
FUNDING DWINDLING
Minnesota enters the third fall of the coronavirus pandemic largely on its own when it comes to financial support. So far, Congress has failed to approve new resources to continue to respond to the pandemic and some federal efforts, including free tests by mail, are running out of money.
Minnesota got $73 billion in federal aid from the five different coronavirus response bills Congress approved during the first two years of the pandemic. But much of that, roughly $53 billion, went directly to residents and businesses in the form of economic aid.
A lot of the rest was earmarked for specific uses for schools, cities and counties to deal with the ongoing fallout of the pandemic. Walz hoped to have $500 million in remaining federal aid at his disposal, but when the Legislature adjourned in May, it had only set aside about $150 million for the pandemic fight.
Nevertheless, the state’s efforts to provide free at-home tests, vaccines and boosters continue.
“With the suspension of the federal mail order tests, Minnesota will continue to ensure access to free at-home rapid test kits for Minnesotans,” Walz said in a statement Wednesday when he announced residents could order another round of tests.
“The free tests are just one part of the state’s comprehensive testing and vaccination program to provide readily available COVID-19 protection services across the state,” Walz said.
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 301
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
653 PM EDT WED JUN 01 2022
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 301 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
BROOME CAYUGA CHEMUNG
CHENANGO CORTLAND DELAWARE
MADISON ONONDAGA OTSEGO
SCHUYLER SENECA STEUBEN
SULLIVAN TIOGA TOMPKINS
YATES
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN TIOGA AND NORTHEASTERN BRADFORD COUNTIES...
At 655 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Rome, or 9
miles east of Athens, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Orwell, Windham, Rome, Le Raysville, Warren Center, Brushville and
West Warren.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Robert Glennon, University of Arizona and Brent Haddad, University of California, Santa Cruz
(THE CONVERSATION) The Salton Sea spreads across a remote valley in California’s lower Colorado Desert, 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the Mexican border. For birds migrating along the Pacific coast, it’s an avian Grand Central Station. In midwinter tens of thousands of snow geese, ducks, pelicans, gulls and other species forage on and around the lake. Hundreds of other species nest there year-round or use it as a rest stop during spring and fall migration.
At the dawn of the 20th century, this massive oasis didn’t even exist. It was created in 1905 when Colorado River floodwaters breached an irrigation canal under construction in Southern California and flowed into a basin that had flooded in the past. In earlier years, the sea covered roughly 40 square miles more than its current size of 343 square miles (890 square kilometers).
Since then, agricultural runoff from newly formed nearby irrigation districts has sustained it. By midcentury, the sea was considered a regional amenity and stocked with popular sport fish.
Now, however, this resource is in trouble. Wasteful irrigation practices that maintained the sea have been reduced, and excess water is now being transferred to thirsty coastal cities instead. The sea’s volume has declined to roughly 4.6 million acre-feet, losing nearly 3 million acre-feet since the mid-2000s. (An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons – the amount of water required to cover an acre of land to a depth of one foot).
As water evaporates from its surface, its salinity has spiked: The sea is now almost twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean.
In November 2022, the federal government pledged US$250 million for environmental restoration and dust suppression at the Salton Sea. It’s a historic contribution, but experts agree that other critical steps are needed.
We just completed more than a year of service to the California Salton Sea Management Program’s Independent Review Panel, which was charged with evaluating proposals to import water to the sea. In our view, the panel’s recommendations represent the best path forward. They also reflect the complexity of managing water in the increasingly dry U.S. Southwest, where other water bodies, such as Utah’s Great Salt Lake, share the same general challenges of net water loss.
An ecosystem on the brink
There’s no question that the Salton Sea desperately needs a fix. Rising salinity threatens worms, crustaceans and other organisms that make up the base of the sea’s food web and has killed off many of its fish species. Without intervention, the sea’s entire ecosystem could collapse.
The sea’s declining water levels also threaten human health. Nearby residents, who are mostly low-income people of color, already experience high rates of respiratory illness. A recent study found that dust mobilized by wind blowing across the playa triggers lung inflammation.
Without government intervention, the sea would reach a lower equilibrium size by 2045 that matches smaller inflows with evaporation losses. Even greater areas of playa would be exposed, potentially generating even more airborne dust.
Many bad options
The state review panel analyzed strategies for adding water to the Salton Sea as a long-term restoration strategy. Most of the proposals envisioned pulling water from Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, 125 miles to the south, desalinating it and moving it north by canal.
These schemes called for building immense desalination plants along the Sea of Cortez, up to 10 times bigger than California’s Claude “Bud” Lewis plant in Carlsbad – the largest such facility in the United States.
The proposals could not overcome three significant problems. First, they were projected to cost many tens of billions of dollars and take more than 20 years to complete. Second, they threatened to inflict nasty environmental consequences on the Sea of Cortez, dumping huge quantities of brine into sensitive and protected marine ecosystems and turning pristine beaches into industrial zones. Third, Mexico would derive little benefit from building a huge desalination plant in a remote area, other than some jobs from building and running the plant.
Focus on salinity, not size
Ultimately, the panel concluded that expanding the Salton Sea to its former size was less important than controlling its salinity. The panel made four recommendations that center on building a desalination plant at the Salton Sea to the treat water that’s already there.
This plant would remove 200 million gallons of high-salinity water daily from the Salton Sea and produce 100 million gallons per day of desalinated water, which would be returned to the Salton Sea. In short order, this exchange would begin to significantly lower its overall salinity.
A desalination plant using reverse osmosis generates a brine stream equal to approximately half the volume of the treated seawater. Accordingly, the panel called for California to negotiate a voluntary paid transfer program in which the state would pay farmers to transfer enough water to the Salton Sea to replace the volume of brine removed at the desalination plant. The net effect would keep the sea from becoming even smaller and hasten the process of lowering salinity.
The desalination plant would generate an immense quantity of salt, which would require careful disposal. The panel recommended drying out the brine in evaporation ponds and transferring dried salts from the ponds to landfills or industrial uses.
Finally, the panel called for California to step up support for an aggressive program to stabilize the exposed playa. Techniques could include planting vegetation on the playa and plowing long rows of furrows to reduce dust mobilization during wind storms. The estimated total cost for this plan is $63 billion, compared with $95 billion-$148 billion for various proposals to desalinate and import water from the Sea of Cortez.
Since 2020, the state has conducted pilot projects to reduce dust blowing off the playa, with promising early results. The federal government’s $250 million pledge will enable this work to move more quickly.
Stabilizing the playa is essential to address significant public health concerns associated with windborne dust, although more must be done regionally to fully address air quality problems.
Looking forward, not backward
This approach will not satisfy critics who want to restore the Salton Sea to its maximum volume. These advocates recall the mid-20th century when the sea was a tourism draw and would like to reconnect the few small towns that once bordered the sea, which are now separated by extensive playa. Expanding the sea to its original size also would address concerns about playa-sourced air pollution.
In our view, however, the panel’s recommendations offer a genuine opportunity to solve the main problems: blowing dust and increasing salinity. This solution is more likely to actually be implemented than an enormous binational desalination project. It would happen more quickly, at about half the cost of the binational importation options.
We believe that the sooner California officials accept the reality of a smaller Salton Sea, the sooner the state can move ahead, focusing on air quality improvement and ecological restoration.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/human-actions-created-the-salton-sea-californias-largest-lake-heres-how-to-save-it-from-collapse-protecting-wild-birds-and-human-health-196469. | 2023-01-10T14:58:07+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Human-actions-created-the-Salton-Sea-17707222.php |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Alex Palou will lead the field to green in the Indianapolis 500 after the young Spaniard put together the fastest four-lap pole run in history Sunday, edging Rinus VeeKay and Felix Rosenqvist to give Chip Ganassi Racing its third consecutive pole in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”
Palou, who won on the road course race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend, whipped four laps around the historic 2.5-mile speedway at an average of 234.217 mph. That was a mere 0.007 mph faster than VeeKay, who still gave Ed Carpenter Racing a front-row starting spot for the ninth time in the last 11 years.
“It means the world to me now, to the boys, to everybody,” said Palou, who is likely moving to Arrow McLaren next year.
He roared when Rosenqvist missed out on the pole for Arrow McLaren in the last run of the day.
“I’m just super happy,” Palou said.
Palou surpassed the record pole run of 234.046 mph that Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon put up last year. It also was the second-fastest qualifying effort, trailing only Arie Luyendyk’s 236.986, which he set the day after pole qualifying in 1996.
“He did exactly what he needed to do. He’ll be the first to tell you it was a total team effort,” said Ganassi, who put a car on the pole at the Indy 500 for the eighth time. “We’re going to sail into the 500 starting on the pole. We’re pretty excited.”
Palou was confident he had a fast car, even though Rosenqvist was quickest during the Fast 12 efforts earlier in the day.
“We have to go fast. Are you ready to go really fast?” team manager Barry Wanser asked Palou over the radio, as the 26-year-old headed off pit road under sunny skies and before a huge crowd lining the old speedway. “Let’s get it done.”
He did, and his rivals were left looking for more.
“I got everything out of it. Wish I had just a little more,” VeeKay said. “It’s so close, and the thing really had a shot for the pole position, but also I’m a bit spoiled to say that. This is only the start to the race. Proud of the team, proud of the whole crew.”
Santino Ferrucci qualified fourth, on the inside of Row 2 for underdog A.J. Foyt Racing, which has turned heads all week. Rookie Foyt driver Benjamin Pedersen also made the Fast 12 and will start in 11th for the May 28 race.
Pato O’Ward will start alongside Ferrucci with Dixon, who was going for a record third straight pole, qualifying sixth.
Alexander Rossi was the fastest of those that failed to make the Fast Six, putting him seventh on the grid. He’ll be on the inside of Row 3 along with Takuma Sato and Tony Kanaan, who will start ninth in what he says is his final Indy 500.
The others that failed to advance to the pole shootout were defending Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, who will start 10th for the strong Ganassi contingent, Pedersen and Will Power, the lone Team Penske driver to make the Fast 12 from Saturday’s qualifying runs.
“All weekend we’ve been struggling to do four laps. It’s been an issue pretty much every day,” Ericsson said. “This morning we did three pretty good laps (in practice) and had a moment. I did stay flat out for four laps, but just had too much sliding.”
VeeKay had his own moment during practice when smoke came out of the back of the No. 21 car. The engineers from his Ed Carpenter Racing team determined it was a failed header, and that no damage was done to the engine. They felt confident sending him onto the warm, sun-splashed track for the hour-long qualifying session.
“This morning was a bit tough. A bit tough. We had some issues,” VeeKay said, “but the 21 crew, they gave me their A-game. We even had time to spare. The engine felt great. The car felt great. All I had to do was stay flat-out for four laps.”
That’s what Ferrucci did, too, as the Foyt team has become the feel-good story of Gasoline Alley. A.J. Foyt lost his wife of 68 years, Lucy, last month, and the 88-year-old Foyt thought about skipping out on May in Indianapolis, where he’s one of four four-time winners of the race.
Foyt decided to come, though, and has been treated to some of the fastest laps around the track by his own team. He watched both qualifying sessions inside a closed garage and asked that all interview requests be held until the end of the day.
But when Ferrucci returned to the garage to see Foyt after his qualifying run, he was followed by an entourage of well-wishers that included former Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George and Jim Campbell, head of Chevrolet’s racing program.
“That’s the fastest I’ve ever been for four laps,” said Ferrucci, who nearly clipped the wall on his first lap during the Fast 12, moments after his team told him over the radio: “Remember we have to race this thing. Let’s not do anything dumb.”
Foyt cars had not advanced into the qualifying shootout rounds for the Indy 500 since the format was introduced in 2010.
Foyt himself won four Indianapolis 500 poles — all while he was the team owner. He’s the first driver to ever win four Indy 500s, a club that only added its fourth member in 2021 when Helio Castroneves won his fourth.
He was quick to point out after Ferrucci wound up fourth that Foyt himself had never won the 500 from the front row, but twice did it from fourth and both were his final two Indy 500 victories.
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AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed.
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