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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, January 12, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
1052 PM PST Tue Jan 10 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM WEDNESDAY TO 4 PM PST
THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Del Norte Interior, Southwestern Humboldt, Northern
Humboldt Interior, Southern Humboldt Interior and Northwestern
Mendocino Interior Counties.
* WHEN...From 8 AM Wednesday to 4 PM PST Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM WEDNESDAY TO 4 PM PST
* WHAT...Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
* WHERE...Mendocino Coast County.
* WHEN...From 10 AM Wednesday to 4 PM PST Thursday.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM WEDNESDAY TO 4 AM PST
* WHAT...Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
* WHERE...Southwestern Mendocino Interior County.
* WHEN...From 4 PM Wednesday to 4 AM PST Thursday.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM WEDNESDAY TO 4 PM PST
* WHERE...Coastal Del Norte County.
* WHEN...From 4 PM Wednesday to 4 PM PST Thursday.
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-01-11T08:07:29+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-EUREKA-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17709749.php |
NEW YORK, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- De Beers diamonds shined on Simone Ashley, Olivia Rodrigo, Mindy Kaling, Kacey Musgraves and Eva Chen at the annual Met Gala in New York City. The gala celebrated Metropolitan Museum of Art's "In America: An Anthology of Fashion", the finale of a two-part exhibit and attendees perfectly embodied the "Gilded Glamour" dress code for the evening in natural diamond looks by De Beers Jewellers.
Bridgerton star Simone Ashley looked radiant in her black and gold ensemble showcasing the night's gilded dress code in De Beers' latest High Jewelry collection, The Alchemist of Light. She wore a statement choker necklace featuring a 4.22 carat fancy brownish yellow diamond at its center set in black rhodium plated 18k white gold with complementing diamond drop earrings and a ring, all from the 'Light Rays' set, a striking visual interpretation of sunlight radiating through shadowy clouds.
Singer and songwriter Olivia Rodrigo was whimsical in a lavender gown with butterfly embellishments in her flowing hair. Her De Beers diamond jewelry perfectly accented her youthful look with statement diamond line earrings and a ring from the Arpeggia collection, appropriately inspired by musical notes and a visual form of melody. She also accessorized with a butterfly high jewelry ring and a classic bezel-set diamond line necklace.
Actor and comedian Mindy Kaling also chose a lavender-hued gown and paired it with delightfully colorful high jewelry from De Beers' Reflections of Nature collection, inspired by the breathtaking landscapes where its diamonds are discovered in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Canada.
Singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves dazzled in a black gown bejeweled with firework embellishments and De Beers' 'Motlatse Marvel' necklace featuring pink, orange, yellow and white diamonds that mirrored her festive dress in a sunburst pattern. She also chose a pear-shaped diamond cocktail ring, statement bracelet and pair of classic diamond studs.
De Beers looks at the 2022 Met Gala include:
Simone Ashley in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Light Rays' Collar Necklace set in 18K Black Rhodium Plated White Gold Featuring a 4.22 Carat Fancy Brownish Yellow Radiant-Cut Diamond Surrounded by White Diamonds
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Light Rays' Fringe Earrings set in 18K Black Rhodium Plated White Gold featuring Fancy Deep Brownish Yellow & Fancy Deep Greenish Yellow Pear-Shaped Diamonds Paired with White Pear-Shaped Diamonds
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Light Rays' Crown Ring set in 18K Black Rhodium Plated White Gold featuring a 1.08 Carat Fancy Vivid Orange Yellow Square Emerald-Cut Diamond Surrounded by White Diamonds
Olivia Rodrigo in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Portraits of Nature Monarch Butterfly White Diamond Ring set in 18K White Gold, 2.95 carats
- De Beers Arpeggia Three-Line Diamond Earrings set in 18K White Gold, 9.13 carats
- De Beers DB Classic Bezel-Set Flexible Diamond Necklace set in 18K White Gold, 5.89 carats
- De Beers Arpeggia Three-Row Diamond Ring set in 18K White Gold, 1.64 carats
Kacey Musgraves in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Diamond Necklace set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 66.00 carats
- De Beers DB Classic Round Brilliant Diamond Studs set in Platinum, 4.04 carats
- De Beers Phenomena Glacier Diamond Bracelet set in 18k White Gold, 12.28 carats
- De Beers Volute Ring set in Platinum, 6.80 carats
Mindy Kaling in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Namib Wonder Bird Medallion set in 18K White & Yellow Gold, 43.90 carats
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Earrings set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 5.48 carats
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Bracelet set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 26.98 carats
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Ring set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 4.73 carats
Eva Chen in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Swan Lake Diamond Necklace set in 18K Rose Gold, 25.26 carats
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About De Beers Jewellers
Founded in London, with a flagship store on Old Bond Street and a presence in the most exclusive locations around the world, De Beers Jewellers is the pinnacle of luxury diamond jewelry. Building on De Beers' 130 years of expertise, the House glorifies the world's most beautiful diamonds through creativity and craftsmanship in bold, distinctive designs.
De Beers is invested in ensuring all the diamonds it discovers create a lasting positive impact for people and the places where they are found. This comes with a pledge to build a better future – one that is fairer, safer, cleaner and healthier, in which communities thrive, ethical practices are maintained, and the natural environment is protected. We call this long-term commitment Building Forever.
De Beers Jewellers has 30 stores globally and ships to 15 markets via debeers.com.
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Officer dressed as Mrs. Claus saves woman’s life on her way home
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (Gray News) – An off-duty lieutenant with the Fredericksburg Police Department helped save a life, all while dressed as Mrs. Claus.
While many call this the most wonderful time of year, it can also be a very challenging time for a lot of people.
Lt. Tabatha Merrell was reminded of the mental struggles people face as she was driving home from a community event where she played the part of Mrs. Claus.
The Fredericksburg Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that Merrell saw a young woman on the Falmouth Bridge bending over the railing, looking down.
Something didn’t feel right to the lieutenant, so she turned her vehicle around to check on the woman and found her in the same spot with one leg hanging over the bridge.
Still dressed from head-to-toe as Mrs. Claus, Merrell approached the 25-year-old woman and started using her crisis intervention skills.
Fredericksburg Police Patrol Sgt. Aimee Lynch was also driving home after working the same community event and pulled over to help Merrell.
The sheriff’s office said the pair worked as a team and were able to safely pull the woman of the railing. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she is getting the mental health assistance she needs.
“The most amazing part of this story is that Lt. Merrell and Sgt. Lynch typically take a different route home. Call it divine intervention or fate, I truly believe these officers were meant to take the route they did and help save this woman’s life. I applaud them both for flawlessly utilizing their crisis intervention skills,” Police Chief Layton said in a post on Facebook.
If you or anyone you know are struggling with mental health or having suicidal thoughts, call or text 988 to receive assistance from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-16T18:11:54+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/12/16/officer-dressed-mrs-claus-saves-womans-life-her-way-home/ |
Third recent air bag death confirmed; owners urged to get repairs
DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver.
The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles to stop driving them until faulty inflators are replaced.
Stellantis announced two deaths in November caused by the air bags and said it suspected the inflators caused another. The company formerly known as Fiat Chrysler confirmed the third death early Monday.
Stellantis is urging people to stop driving Dodge Magnum wagons, Dodge Challenger and Charger muscle cars and Chrysler 300 sedans from the 2005 through 2010 model years.
Since 2009, the exploding air bags have killed at least 33 people worldwide, including 24 in the United States.
All three deaths this year were in warm-weather U.S. states and happened since April, the company said.
Takata used ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate air bags in a crash. But the chemical can become more volatile over time when exposed to moisture in the air and repeated high temperatures. The explosion can rupture a metal canister and hurl shrapnel into the passenger compartment.
Most of the deaths and about 400 injuries have happened in U.S., but they also have occurred in Australia and Malaysia.
The Stellantis vehicles under the “Do Not Drive” warning were all recalled in 2015, and free repairs have been available since then. Dealers have the parts and the service is free, and Stellantis will provide transportation to get the vehicles to and from a dealership, the company said.
NHTSA said the latest person killed was driving a 2010 Chrysler 300.
“Time is a critical element here because the risk increases with each day these air bag inflators go unreplaced,” said Tom McCarthy, global head of safety and regulatory compliance at Stellantis.
The recalls affect vehicles in which the air bag inflators have not been replaced as part of the recall.
NHTSA urged all owners to check to see if their vehicles have an unrepaired Takata air bag recall. Drivers can go to https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls and key in their 17-digit vehicle identification number to see if they have any open recalls.
“This holiday season, don’t let yourself or someone you love be at risk of dying or being seriously injured because of a defective, recalled Takata air bag,” said NHTSA Acting Administrator Ann Carlson.
In a statement, Stellantis said the vehicle’s owner asked the company about the air bag recall in 2018, but then declined to schedule service. The company said it sent 114 urgent notices to the owner for the past seven years.
The owner loaned the vehicle to a family member who was killed in a July crash when the inflator blew apart, Stellantis said. The company wouldn’t say where the crash occurred, but said it extends its deepest sympathies to the family.
Earlier this month NHTSA said the driver of a 2002 Honda Accord was killed when the driver’s air bag inflator ruptured and hurled shrapnel. Honda said the crash occurred on Feb. 22 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Potential for the dangerous malfunction led to the largest series of auto recalls in U.S. history, with at least 67 million Takata inflators recalled. The U.S. government says that millions have not been repaired. About 100 million inflators have been recalled worldwide. The exploding air bags sent Takata Corp. of Japan into bankruptcy.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-19T15:36:07+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/12/19/third-air-bag-death-confirmed-owners-urged-get-repairs/ |
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A rare plant that depends on wetlands for survival is now on the federal endangered species list, a designation that environmentalists say will boost efforts to protect the last free-flowing river in the desert Southwest.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published the decision Friday in the federal register to list the Arizona eryngo as endangered and set aside nearly 13 acres (5 hectares) in southern Arizona as critical habitat.
The decision comes years after environmentalists petitioned and then sued to gain protection for the plant with cream-colored spherical flower heads. Only two populations are known in Arizona — near Tucson and in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area.
The eryngo grows in ciénegas, a type of wetland fed by natural springs that come from the deep aquifer and nourish the San Pedro River. The plant's habitat and the flow of the San Pedro River have been threatened by over-pumping of groundwater in the region, climate change and drought.
“This gives us a new ability to protect it,” Robin Silver of the Center for Biological Diversity said of the river. “Protecting plants protects the aquifer itself.”
The plant also is found in the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. It historically grew in southwestern New Mexico at Las Playas Springs but hasn't been documented there since 1851, the Fish and Wildlife Service said.
The critical habitat in Arizona lies in Pima and Cochise Counties and doesn't include another location where efforts have failed to reintroduce the eryngo. The agency said development still can occur in the areas, but anything that relies on federal funding or federal permits has to be analyzed to ensure it doesn't impact the eryngo's habitat.
“Partnerships will be central to addressing the threats to the Arizona eryngo and putting it on the path to recovery,” Amy Lueders, the Southwest regional director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a statement.
The agency didn't immediately respond to an email Friday afternoon from The Associated Press.
The Arizona eryngo is part of the carrot family and can grow more than 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall. It relies on pollinators, such as butterflies and hummingbirds, to reproduce. Conservation efforts are underway to establish more populations of the eryngo. | 2022-06-10T23:22:28+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Rare-wetland-plant-found-in-Arizona-now-listed-as-17234319.php |
LONDON (AP) — Arsenal showed how to fight back on Boxing Day, traditionally a busy time in English soccer, by beating West Ham 3-1 to stretch its lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points.
Newcastle moved second with a 3-0 win at Leicester on Monday, pushing defending champion Manchester City down to third.
Said Benrahma’s 27th-minute penalty kick gave David Moyes’ West Ham a 1-0 lead at halftime after the Gunners had a spot kick disallowed by VAR on the stroke of the interval.
But Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta saw his team move up through the gears after the break with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli scoring with fine finishes at the start of the second period.
Eddie Nketiah sealed the victory in front of former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger by finishing off a slick move to fill the void of the injured Gabriel Jesus and earn Arsenal a 10th straight home win in the Premier League.
Chris Wood’s penalty and a sublime strike by Miguel Almiron put Newcastle 2-0 up against Leicester after only seven minutes, with Joelinton adding a third just after the half-hour mark for the Magpies’ sixth straight league win.
Man City, which visits Leeds on Wednesday, trails Newcastle by one point but has played two fewer games.
The seven games Monday were the first in the Premier League in more than a month because of the long break for the World Cup in Qatar.
KANE SCORES
Harry Kane, who returned to the Premier League after missing a penalty in England’s World Cup quarterfinal loss to France two weeks ago, scored a goal to help fourth-place Tottenham come back from a two-goal deficit in a 2-2 draw with Brentford.
Kane shrugged off chants of “You let your country down” from a section of the Brentford fans. He headed in a cross from Clement Lenglet in the 65th. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg equalized six minutes later for Tottenham.
Vitaly Janelt and Ivan Toney scored for Brentford.
LIVERPOOL WINS AGAIN
Liverpool beat Aston Villa 3-1 for its third straight league win and stayed sixth, a point behind Manchester United. Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk struck in the first half at Villa Park before Stefan Bajcetic scored near the end of the second.
Liverpool’s third straight victory moved the club five points adrift of the Champions League spots.
“We have to be the pain in the backside for everyone,” Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said. “We are not in the best position, there is distance between us and other teams, we know that. The first two or three are maybe too far away. If they win all their games we have no chance.”
In other games, Wolverhampton manager Julen Lopetegui marked his Premier League debut with a dramatic stoppage-time 2-1 win at Everton. The defeat ramped up the pressure on Everton coach Frank Lampard. Substitute Rayan Ait-Nouri scored on the counterattack in the fifth minute of added time. Wolves moved off the bottom of the table and within a point of 17th-place Everton.
Brighton beat struggling Southampton 3-1 at St. Mary’s and trails Liverpool by one point. Southampton lost its fourth straight league game and dropped to last place.
Fulham won a Premier League derby in the capital for only the second time in 29 attempts with a 3-0 victory at nine-man Crystal Palace. Bobby Decordova-Reid, Tim Ream and Aleksandar Mitrovic scored for the visitors while Tyrick Mitchell and James Tomkins were sent off for the hosts.
Fulham manager Marco Silva dedicated the win to George Cohen, the club’s 1966 World Cup-winning England right back who died on Friday.
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Manchester United plays Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on Tuesday, with ninth-place Chelsea hosting Bournemouth.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-27T09:23:13+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-arsenal-fights-back-to-extend-league-lead-to-7-points/ |
What are the best matcha powders?
Packed with antioxidants, a boost of caffeine and even calming qualities, matcha tea is a popular, healthy drink of choice for many. Made from green tea leaves, matcha is ground into a powder and boasts a green color and rich taste.
Matcha powder can be enjoyed with hot water or combined into various beverages, including lattes and smoothies. It can also be added to baked goods, such as muffins or bread, or sprinkled atop breakfast foods, like oatmeal or yogurt. The best matcha powder features a bright green color and a fine ground and is harvested from trusted, regulated sources, most notably in Japan.
Best matcha powders
Jade Leaf Organic Matcha Tea Powder
This organic matcha is sustainably harvested from Japanese farms, resulting in a fine and pure tea. Free from any contaminants, it has a rich, flavorful taste. It’s ceremonial-grade matcha, so it’s best used when mixed with hot water instead of adding it to other food or drinks.
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MatchaDNA Certified Organic Matcha Green Tea Powder
There’s plenty of value in this 16-ounce tin of matcha powder that comes at a good price. Organically grown and harvested, this healthy boost of green tea is mighty versatile: add to hot water, milk or smoothies. The container also allows for easier storage and is ideal for preserving freshness.
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California Gold Nutrition Organic Ceremonial Matcha Tea Powder
Made from first-harvest tea leaves, this high-quality matcha powder is ceremonial grade, so suitable for use in Japanese tea ceremonies. It’s certified USDA organic.
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PureChimp Matcha Green Tea Powder
With 50 servings available, this ceremonial-grade Japanese matcha offers value and taste for your investment. The glass jar also makes for easy storage while locking in freshness, and it can be recycled after use. For more adventurous consumers, PureChimp also offers some matcha mixes, in which the green tea is paired with other nutritious spices and herbs like turmeric or mint.
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MatchaDNA Organic Culinary Matcha Powder
For those seeking to bake or cook with their matcha green tea powder, this culinary option from MatchaDNA will yield the best results. Sustainably grown on a healthy, contaminant-free farm, this matcha features a richer, more potent flavor that lends itself well to smoothies, muffins and other creative meals.
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This quality option offers a little more bang for your buck with a low-priced 6-ounce bag of matcha powder. From Japan, this best matcha green tea powder can easily be enjoyed simply with hot water or mixed into other creations. The eco-friendly packaging is a nice touch as well for conscious consumers.
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This organic matcha powder is a great daily matcha powder for the mornings as you ready for the day or during moments of thoughtful reflection. Rich in flavor and free of any bitterness, this high-end powder is designed for those seeking a moment of pause. It’s advised to enjoy it in a traditional manner, with a tea bowl and bamboo whisk.
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Naoki Ceremonial Grade Matcha Powder
Though somewhat pricey, this ceremonial matcha tea powder is fresh, fine and flavorful. Grown and harvested sustainably and thoughtfully, this powder should be the focal point of any drink or food, though it’s best enjoyed simply as tea. This matcha also describes itself as being beginner-friendly, with a balanced and smooth flavor that welcomes those unfamiliar with the matcha experience.
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With a bit more price comes assurance and satisfaction, as this organic matcha powder is made by a trusted Japanese company. A fine ground and expert harvest results in a bright color and rich taste. Simply mix with hot water to embrace all its physical and mental health benefits.
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Jade Leaf Organic Matcha Latte Mix
This organically-grown option is designed to be the best matcha powder for lattes, with a subtle bit of sweetener added to complement all your favorite drinks. This matcha powder can be mixed into hot or cold beverages and works with any kind of milk or milk substitute. For 15 servings, it also comes at a good price.
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Navitas Organics Matcha Powder
This matcha powder from another trusted name in supplements is made to give you the healthy and mindful boost you need at any time. Use this on its own as tea or combine it in a meal or drink to gain all the antioxidants and nutrients you desire.
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Organic Traditions Premium Matcha Green Tea Powder
Versatile and tasty, this organically grown matcha provides solid value however you want to enjoy it. Most users will want to mix it in with a smoothie for a boost of energy in the morning, but the fine ground also allows for baking and adding to breakfast meals as well.
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Encha Latte Grade Harvest Organic Matcha Mix
Another option that makes for a delicious and smooth matcha tea latte, this powder is grown in Kyoto, Japan. It’s designed to be rich, creamy and slightly sweet in taste. No additional sweeteners are needed, and it welcomes any milk of choice. It can also be enjoyed both hot or cold.
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Sencha Naturals Matcha Latte Powder
If you’re interested in making matcha lattes, you just add hot water to this mix to get delicious, creamy dairy-free hot drinks. It’s available in original, chai, mango and cacao coconut flavors.
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DENVER, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RiverNorth Opportunities Fund, Inc. (the "Fund"), which trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "RIV," announced the declaration of monthly distributions of $0.17 per share, payable on the dates noted below. Under the Fund's level distribution policy, the distribution rate has been reset to an amount equal to approximately 12.5% (annualized) of the average of the Fund's net asset value ("NAV") per share, as reported for the final five trading days of the 2021 calendar year. Based on the Fund's current NAV per share of $13.89 (as of market close May 27, 2022), the distributions represent an annualized distribution rate of 14.69%.
The following dates apply to the distributions declared:
RISKS
This press release is not for tax reporting purposes but is being provided to announce the amount of the Fund's distributions. In early 2023, after definitive information is available, the Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV, if applicable, specifying how the distributions paid by the Fund during the prior calendar year should be characterized for purposes of reporting the distributions on a shareholder's tax return (e.g., ordinary income, long-term capital gain or return of capital). An investment in the Fund is not appropriate for all investors and is not intended to be a complete investment program. The Fund is designed as a long-term investment and not as a trading vehicle.
Investing in the Fund involves risks, including the risk that you may receive little or no return on your investment or that you may lose part or even all of your investment. The Fund's net asset value will vary and its distribution rate may vary and both may be affected by numerous factors, including changes in the market spread over a specified benchmark, market interest rates and performance of the broader equity markets. Fluctuations in net asset value may be magnified as a result of the Fund's use of leverage. Therefore, before investing you should carefully consider the risks that you assume when you invest in the Fund's common shares.
The Fund's investment objectives and policies are not designed to seek to return the initial investment to investors that purchase shares.
A portion of the distribution may be treated as paid from sources other than net income, including but not limited to short‐term capital gain, long‐term capital gain and return of capital. The final determination of the source of all distributions, including the percentage of qualified dividend income, is made after year‐end.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
An investor should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. To obtain an annual report or semi-annual report which contains this and other information, visit www.rivernorthcef.com or call 855.830.1222. Please read them carefully before investing.
NOT FDIC INSURED | May Lose Value | No Bank Guarantee
The Fund is a closed-end fund and does not continuously issue shares for sale as open-end mutual funds do. Since the initial public offering, the Fund now trades in the secondary market. Investors wishing to buy or sell shares need to place orders through an intermediary or broker. The share price of a closed-end fund is based on the market's value.
ALPS Advisors, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund.
RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is the investment sub-adviser to the Fund. RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is not affiliated with ALPS Advisors, Inc. or any of its affiliates.
ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc. is the FINRA Member firm.
SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology. Additional information about SS&C (Nasdaq: SSNC) is available at www.ssctech.com.
ALPS Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies, Inc., is a leading provider of investment products for advisors and institutions. With over $19 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2022, the firm is an open architecture boutique investment manager offering portfolio building blocks, active insight and an unwavering drive to guide clients to investment outcomes across sustainable income, thematic and alternative growth strategies. For more information, visit www.alpsfunds.com.
RiverNorth is an investment management firm founded in 2000 that specializes in opportunistic strategies in niche markets where the potential to exploit inefficiencies is greatest. RiverNorth is the manager to multiple registered and private funds.
* Registered Representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.
RVC000376 6/1/2023
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WASHINGTON (WTVA) - The president has approved an emergency declaration for Mississippi in the wake of Jackson’s water crisis, FEMA announced on Wednesday.
This gives the state of Mississippi federal aid.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is authorized to identify, mobilize and provide equipment and resources.
Recent flooding has caused a major disruption to Jackson's water system, leaving more than 100,000 people without clean water.
Giant amounts of water is being shipped into the city for residents to use, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced on Tuesday. | 2022-08-31T17:46:40+00:00 | wtva.com | https://www.wtva.com/news/president-approves-emergency-declaration-for-jackson/article_291e2d8c-2937-11ed-88f9-3b965ea76169.html |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing the risk of a an unprecedented U.S. government default by month’s end, President Joe Biden has invited the top four congressional leaders to face-to-face talks at the White House next week.
It’s the first concrete step toward negotiations on averting a potential economic catastrophe, but there’s a long way to go: Biden and Republicans can’t even agree on what’s up for negotiation.
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
If the government’s legal borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion is not raised or suspended in the next few weeks, the result could be financial havoc. If the government can’t borrow money to keep paying its bills for an extended period, there could be millions of job losses, businesses left bankrupt, crashes piling up across financial markets and lasting economic pain. The damage would be financial, but the cause would be political, a breakdown between Republicans and Democrats, rather than a problem with the underlying health of the U.S. economy.
The scheduling of next Tuesday’s White House meeting suggests that leaders of both parties understand the risks at hand. But it’s just a meeting, nothing more so far. There is still a chasm between Democrats and Republicans on what should be done.
WHAT CAUSED BIDEN TO SCHEDULE THE MEETING?
Tax receipts in April were less robust than expected. This means there is less of a financial cushion before the government runs out of money.
The Treasury Department has been using “extraordinary measures” since January to keep the government operating, short-term accounting tweaks to buy lawmakers time.
But Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen now says that time is running short.
“After reviewing recent federal tax receipts, our best estimate is that we will be unable to continue to satisfy all of the government’s obligations by early June, and potentially as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time,” Yellen wrote in a letter to lawmakers that became public late Monday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined on Tuesday to say how the letter might have influenced Biden’s thinking.
But after the letter’s release, Biden invitations to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., became public.
WHY NOT MEET IMMEDIATELY?
The U.S. capital runs on calendars — and those can be perpetual obstacles to getting stuff done.
The House is in recess this week. McCarthy was in Jerusalem on Monday, speaking to its Knesset. In his statement reacting to the Yellen letter, he did not mention the White House invite, even though he has been pressing for talks with the president for weeks.
Biden will be in Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia from May 17 to May 25.
In short, May 9 is when all the principal leaders are in Washington.
WHY CAN’T THEY AGREE?
Though government finances are complex, the divide is simple.
Republican lawmakers want spending cuts in return for raising the debt limit, saying the budget’s current path is unsustainable. Biden and congressional Democrats want to raise the debt limit without any conditions, saying any choices about spending should be a separate discussion rather than an excuse for holding the government “hostage.”
Biden has said he won’t negotiate about the debt limit, but he is willing to discuss government spending with McCarthy. White House officials say he plans to tell congressional leaders at next week’s meeting that the U.S. must avoid a historic default — but also begin separately to put together a fiscal 2024 budget.
“Happy to meet with McCarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended,” Biden told reporters last week. “That’s not negotiable.”
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE BUDGET?
The president had dared McCarthy to produce a budget plan and the Republican leader delivered. House Republicans narrowly approved a bill to reduce deficits by $4.8 trillion over 10 years. It would do so by cutting discretionary spending to 2022 levels and placing an annual cap of 1% on increases going forward. The bill would also claw back unspent COVID aid, remove the clean energy tax credits that Biden signed into law last year and reverse Biden’s student debt forgiveness and repayment plan.
“House Republicans did their job and passed a responsible bill that raises the debt ceiling, avoids default and tackles reckless spending,” McCarthy said in a statement.
It’s unclear how the Democrats can get a debt ceiling increase without support from House Republicans. But Democrats say the GOP bill’s unspecified budget cuts would harm the economy, as domestic spending would likely be cut by 22% compared to the baseline. Moody’s Analytics estimated that the Republican bill would cause the loss of 780,000 jobs next year.
Democratic lawmakers, hoping to generate public opposition, are predicting terrible economic pain.
“Speaker McCarthy has created a situation where he knowingly passed an extreme bill, has been boxed by his Republican colleagues into a corner, and now has little room to maneuver,” Schumer said Tuesday. “McCarthy is giving us two terrible options — either default on the debt or default on our country.”
WOULD REPUBLICANS’ SPENDING CUTS ACTUALLY FIX THE DEBT?
Not quite.
The Moody’s Analytics estimates indicate that compared to the status quo, the GOP plan would reduce the debt as a share of the overall economy. But the impact would be relatively modest. The long term drivers of the debt that create the challenges of sustainability are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Both McCarthy and Biden have vowed not to cut Social Security and Medicare, popular programs that provide health care and retirement income to older people.
Without deeper cuts, higher taxes or changes to those programs, analyses by the Penn Wharton Budget Model suggest the debt will hit troubling levels in the coming decades.
HOW WILL THIS END?
No one really knows.
Government officials, economists and past aides who handled past debt limit increases are willing to speculate, though they have generally insisted on anonymity to do so.
Administration officials have considered whether Biden could bypass Congress by citing the Constitution’s 14th Amendment that the “validity” of U.S. debt “shall not be questioned.” But the president has long deferred to the legislative branch given his 36 years in the Senate.
Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, said Tuesday his caucus would launch the process to force the House to consider a clean debt ceiling vote under the discharge calendar, though that process could take months.
GOP lawmakers could cave if financial markets panic, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and others have suggested. A possible deal might be struck that includes permit reform for energy projects that Republicans and Biden have both sought.
Most likely: Democrats and Republicans could agree to a short-term extension, which would prevent a default but keep the issue pending until a budget was agreed to.
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AP congressional correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report | 2023-05-03T14:24:46+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/debt-deadline-white-house-meeting-set-but-no-solution-yet/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is providing $125 million for electrical parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country’s electrical system, the U.S. international development aid chief said Wednesday.
The U.S. Agency for International Development plans to use the money to procure backup power for Kyiv’s water and district-heating systems. The funding also will help replenish supplies of gas turbines, transformers and other vital power equipment.
USAID administrator Samantha Power, who is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, announced the funding in a meeting with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska and others. USAID said in a statement that the money comes from the supplemental Ukraine funding approved by Congress last month.
Russian forces since October have intensified strikes on Ukraine’s electrical grid and other critical infrastructure, repeatedly plunging Ukrainians into darkness and winter cold. Utility workers and others are scrambling during what have been nearly weekly barrages on infrastructure to restore electricity and heating.
Past USAID energy assistance since Russia invaded Ukraine in February included delivery of 1,415 generators to keep the heat and lights on at schools, hospitals and other sites across Ukraine. USAID also has invested $55 million in Ukraine’s heating infrastructure. | 2023-01-19T12:44:25+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-to-help-ukraine-repair-power-grid-after-russian-strikes/ |
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade County officials are holding a news conference Monday to discuss the mosquito control measures being taken amid the peak season for the county’s Mosquito Control Division.
Heavy rains from May through October, plus the seasonal rise in temperatures mean increased mosquito activity, officials said.
According to experts, mosquitoes really start thriving about a week to 12 days following a pronged rainfall.
But there are multiple things residents can do to control mosquitoes on their property.
In addition to dumping standing water, officials recommend using an EPA-registered repellant, checking spigots and air conditioning units to make sure they’re not pooling water, and replacing water in your outdoor pet dishes and bird feeders. | 2022-06-27T16:09:11+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/06/27/miami-dade-officials-hold-news-conference-about-peak-mosquito-season/ |
Border Patrol: Officers find $3M worth of meth concealed with carrots at US-Mexico border
(Gray News) - Officers say they were able to seize a concealed shipment of methamphetamine worth millions of dollars from entering the United States.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than $3 million worth of meth was discovered in a shipment of carrots at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility in San Diego on Dec. 1.
Border Patrol officers said they found the concealed drugs as a 43-year-old truck driver tried to enter the country from Mexico. The driver had a valid border crossing card and was flagged for further examination, along with the truck and shipment.
According to the agency, officers found a total of 628 packages concealed within the shipment of carrots after a K-9 team alerted them to the presence of narcotics.
Officers said the narcotics were tested and identified as methamphetamine that weighed about 1,435 pounds with an estimated street value of more than $3 million.
“These types of narcotic interceptions play a critical role in our border security mission,” Otay Mesa Port Director Rosa Hernandez said. “Our officers will continue to remain vigilant, working hard to detect these smuggling techniques.”
The driver was transferred into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for more processing. CBP officers seized the tractor-trailer and drugs.
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RENTON, Wash. (AP)Much to his surprise, Tyler Lockett has become the old guy.
Looking around the Seattle Seahawks locker room, the veteran wide receiver is now the longest-tenured member of the roster after the trade of Russell Wilson and release of Bobby Wagner during a tumultuous offseason.
”You made me feel old when you said that,” Lockett said Tuesday after Seattle wrapped up its latest offseason workout. ”It’s a lot different since Russ and Bobby is gone. Mentally you feel like you’ve got to step up. You feel like you’ve got to fill in the gaps and those voids that’s gonna be missing. But for me, I just try to continue to be myself. I don’t try to put extra pressure on myself.”
There’s a lot new in Seattle, including Lockett’s standing in the locker room. He’s the only player remaining from the Seahawks’ 2015 draft class and just one of two players acquired by Seattle before 2018. Long snapper Tyler Ott is the other after he joined the Seahawks in 2017.
But all the new is refreshing in a way for Lockett, who has been Seattle’s leader in either receptions or yards receiving each of the past four seasons. Even if that means making a massive adjustment getting use to life without Wilson.
”During OTAs, I think you might see some mixtures, you might see a lot of things that are different, there’s not really going to be a lot of things that stand out,” Lockett said. ”I just think that right now we’re just playing with a lot of stuff. We’re doing a lot of things differently. I mean, you guys saw it today, I thought we had a really good practice today. And so we’re just trying to build and just see how far we can be able to go.
”This is where you test limits.”
Lockett caught a lot of passes over the years from Wilson and is coming off three straight seasons with at least 1,000 yards receiving. Even last year when Wilson missed a month due to a finger injury, Lockett still managed 73 catches for 1,175 yards and eight touchdowns.
But that was the past and the biggest question surrounding the Seahawks is who Lockett will be catching passes from this season with Geno Smith and Drew Lock the likely candidates to be Wilson’s replacement.
Lockett said he has been impressed with Lock so far coming over from Denver and picking up Seattle’s offensive system. He’s also noticed a different demeanor from Smith during the offseason program knowing that with Wilson no longer around he has the chance to win a starting job for the first time since the beginning of his career with the New York Jets.
Since becoming a pro, Lockett hasn’t seen a quarterback competition play out through the offseason. He said the last one he can remember came in high school.
”It’s something new, but it’s something that’s very interesting just to be able to see when it comes to that competitive nature, two people, three people being able to compete for a spot,” Lockett said. ”We saw it when I first got here at receiver. We had lots of talent, loads of talent at receiver. And loads of talent at (defensive back). There was people at DB that didn’t make the team and I was shocked, when I was a rookie. And it’s just that competitive nature that takes you to different places.”
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Stock market today: Asian shares sink as central banks crank interest rates still higher
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares sank sharply Friday after several central banks around the world cranked interest rates higher in their fight against inflation.
Hong Kong and Tokyo shed nearly 2% and most other regional markets declined. U.S. futures and oil prices also were lower.
Japan reported its inflation rate was higher than expected, adding to expectations the central bank might adjust its policies to reflect upward price pressures, which have pushed the dollar’s value against the yen sharply higher. The Bank of Japan has kept its benchmark interest rate at minus 0.1% for a decade as policymakers keep credit cheap to encourage more investment and spending.
The core inflation rate, excluding volatile energy and food prices, was 3.2% in May, above the official 2% target, the government reported.
“We think there are signs of inflationary pressure building up on the supply side, but it is certainly not strong enough for the BOJ to bring about immediate tightening,” ING Economics said in a commentary.
The dollar was trading at 143.11 yen up from 143.10 yen, near its highest level since November. A weaker Japanese yen raises costs for Japanese businesses and consumers given the country’s heavy reliance on imports.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 was down 1.8% at 32,654.37 by midday and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 1.9% to 18,845.04.
In Seoul, the Kospi fell 0.8% to 2,572.33, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gave up 1.2% to 7,110.40. Markets in mainland China were closed for a holiday. Shares also fell in Mumbai and Bangkok.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 0.4% to 4,381.89, even though the majority of stocks fell. A rebound for technology stocks helped to overshadow losses elsewhere in the market and keep the benchmark index afloat.
Gains for high-growth stocks also drove the Nasdaq composite to a market-leading gain of 1%, to 13,630.61. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell less than 0.1% to 33,946.71.
The Bank of England hiked its main interest rate by a bigger margin than expected to a 15-year high. Central banks in Norway, Switzerland and Turkey also raised borrowing rates.
Stock indexes in Europe fell following the most recent rate increases. Britain’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.8%. The latest interest rate increase from the Bank of England marked its 13th hike in a row in its effort to combat stubbornly high inflation.
In the United States, meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his belief that inflation is still too high and that further increases to rates may be necessary. Powell testified before a Senate committee Thursday, a day after appearing before a House of Representatives committee.
The Fed held interest rates steady at its last meeting after raising rates aggressively throughout 2022 and into 2023 to tame painfully high inflation. Inflation has cooled somewhat since last summer, but the Fed has signaled it may raise rates two more times this year as it tries to push inflation down to its stated goal of 2%.
Central banks worldwide have been raising interest rates to make borrowing more costly and slow economic growth to stifle inflation. But the strategy risks going too far in stalling growth and dragging economies into a recession.
In Asia, central banks have begun to keep interest rates steady, or in the case of Vietnam, cut them, as their economies have slowed.
High interest rates have already slowed manufacturing and other parts of the U.S. economy. They’ve also helped cause three high-profile failures in the U.S. banking system. The banking industry remains under pressure, even after the federal government acted quickly to provide support.
The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remained elevated last week, a possible sign that the Fed’s rate hikes are beginning to cool a surprisingly resilient labor market.
In the housing industry, sales of previously occupied homes strengthened last month to top economists’ expectations for a slide.
In other trading Friday, U.S. benchmark crude oil shed 96 cents to $68.55 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It gave up $3.02 to $69.51 on Thursday.
Brent crude, the international standard, lost 96 cents to $73.39 per barrel.
The euro was trading at $1.0933, down from $1.0960.
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AP Business Writer Damian J. Troise contributed.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees captain Aaron Judge is going on the injured list because of a strained right hip, joining Giancarlo Stanton, Harrison Bader and third baseman Josh Donaldson on the sidelines.
New York announced the move before Monday night's series opener against Cleveland. The move is move retroactive to Friday.
Judge was hurt last Wednesday when he landed hard while making an awkward headfirst slide at Minnesota on his 31st birthday. He remained in the game and started Thursday at Texas, then left in the fourth inning after striking out twice.
A four-time All-Star and the reigning AL MVP, Judge is batting .261 with six homers and 14 RBIs in his first season after signing a $360 million, nine-year contract. He hit an American League-record 62 home runs last year, batting .311 with 131 RBIs, tying the Mets' Pete Alonso for the major league lead.
New York lost six of eight heading into the homestand, its record down to 15-14. The Yankees totaled eight runs during the six losses.
Outfielder/infielder Franchy Cordero was recalled Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt visited Owasso on his campaign trail this week.
The Republican incumbent vying to retain his seat against Democratic challenger Joy Hofmeister in the Nov. 8 general election spoke to a group of local industry leaders at Stephens Truck Center Thursday afternoon.
“It’s a great, great part of the state,” Stitt told the Owasso Reporter in reference to Owasso, “so (I) just thought it was important for me to stop by.”
Stephens Truck Center, located on the Mingo Valley Expressway off of U.S. 169, specializes in tow truck services and sales across the state.
Owners Brady and Jackie Stephens, of Collinsville, have expanded the shop’s operations in recent months and have established a large presence in Oklahoma City — an effort that caught the governor’s attention.
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“These are my people,” Stitt said. “They’re just hardworking entrepreneurs, God-fearing … their values are our values; just great Americans here in Owasso.”
Brady said he was excited to host the governor, whose visit came as part of a final run across northeastern Oklahoma as Tuesday’s election approaches.
“Bringing him here … It’s great to have him see what we’re doing,” Brady said. “He’s really interested in how small businesses are adapting and how they’re moving.” | 2022-11-03T23:53:39+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/community/owasso/news/gov-stitt-visits-owasso-on-campaign-trail-as-nov-8-election-nears/article_ccbc5a8c-5bcc-11ed-bd95-d7666a0ff302.html |
Origis Energy and Archer residents agree to move forward with Sand Bluff Solar Project
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Origis Energy announced an agreement with residents of Archer for the Sand Bluff Solar Project to continue. Leaders from Archer’s Historic African-American community were present as Origis Energy revealed their upcoming plans to study sites compatible with the landscape and the community.
The Sand Bluff Solar Project is expected to supply enough energy to power over 11,000 homes and generate clean, renewable energy equivalent to taking nearly 10,000 cars off the road, annually. The project is now slated to begin operations in 2024.
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The Mid-Penn’s baseball teams were back in action Tuesday and several players had big-time efforts.
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The National Football League has suspended Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for 11 games and fined him $5 million in a settlement, amid accusations of sexual misconduct and assault against him from two dozen women.
A disciplinary officer initially decided to suspend him for six games, but it was later appealed by the NFL, with league Commissioner Roger Goodell saying he sought to have Watson suspended for at least a year.
The updated decision was made Thursday as the NFL and the NFL Players Association, the union representing the players, reached a mutual agreement on Watson's punishment.
So what is the NFL's policy on suspensions, and how did it arrive at that decision?
What does the personal conduct policy say?
The NFL's personal conduct policy states that employees must not engage in "conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in" the NFL, or behavior that is "illegal, violent, dangerous or irresponsible" according to a 2018 version of the policy.
It applies to team owners, coaches, players and other team employees, game officials, as well as employees of NFL Films, the NFL Network, or any other NFL business.
Employees do not have to be convicted of a crime or be questioned by law enforcement to be subjected to punishment by the league.
Some of the prohibited behavior includes:
A disciplinary officer gathers evidence for a hearing
A disciplinary officer is jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFL Players Association.
A hearing follows, in which the officer gathers evidence and determines what actions to take, if any. The NFL has 10 days before the hearing to inform the officer, the player and the players association of any recommended punishment, according to the 2020 collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and players union.
The league is responsible for establishing a burden of proof that the player violated the personal conduct policy, as well as publishing any mitigating factors, such as the player accepting responsibility, receiving clinical help and paying fines.
While the investigation is ongoing, the player accused of a violation may continue to play or be placed on the commissioner's exempt list, which functions as paid leave.
Once the officer makes a decision, it is final unless the league or union decides to appeal. Goodell then has the last word, or can appoint a third party to make a final decision.
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2 charged in shooting on I-96 in Detroit
Two men arrested in connection with a shooting last week on Interstate 96 in Detroit have been charged, Michigan State Police said.
Donyell Smith, 29, and Andre Richard-Jordan, 32, both of Detroit, were arraigned Friday in 36th District Court on multiple charges, according to authorities.
Smith was arraigned on charges of assault with intent to murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle-causing injury, assault with intent to do great bodily harm-less than murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm, being a felon in possession of ammunition, felonious assault, six counts of using a firearm during a felony and being a habitual offender.
Richard-Jordan was also arraigned on several charges, including assault with intent to murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle-causing injury, assault with intent to do great bodily harm-less than murder, felonious assault, and four counts of using a firearm during a felony.
A magistrate set bond for both men at $500,000 each and scheduled their next court date, a hearing to redetermine bond, for Monday.
If convicted of the assault with intent to murder charges, both men face up to life in prison.
The two men are accused of a May 8, 2023 shooting in which another man in a vehicle on eastbound I-96's local lanes near Wyoming was wounded.
State police said the victim was driving a vehicle that had been stolen and belonged to the two suspects. The two men allegedly shot at the vehicle after they followed it on the freeway from a neighborhood.
According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, Smith was discharged in 2022 after serving two years for pleading guilty in 2019 to attempted carrying of a concealed weapon.
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G2, the world's largest, most trusted tech marketplace and review platform, honors Chatmeter as a leader in online reputation management across the small-to-enterprise market business categories
SAN DIEGO, Cali., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chatmeter, the leader in local search marketing and online reputation management, today announced the company has again earned high recognition from G2 this quarter.
By tracking, analyzing, and comparing brands and services, the quarterly G2 Reports are built based on extensive customer feedback and satisfaction surveys, consumer trends, peer-to-peer product comparisons, and market research. Winners are determined through a rigorous scoring process with final results designed to help businesses find their perfect tech and software solutions.
Chatmeter was recognized as a leader in the following categories:
- Enterprise Local Marketing Implementation
- Small Business Online Reputation Management
- Mid-Market Online Reputation Management
- Enterprise Online Reputation Management
"These awards are truly a testament to Chatmeter's ability to deliver a compelling solution for a wide variety of customers," said Collin Holmes, CEO & Founder of Chatmeter. "That's always been our goal — to help businesses improve their reputation and create breakthrough customer experiences that build brand loyalty and increase revenue."
Chatmeter also earned the following Summer 2022 badges in the categories of Local Marketing, Social Media Analytics, Online Reputation Management, Local Listing Management, and Local SEO:
- High Performer (Small Business)
- High Performer (Mid-Market)
- High Performer (Enterprise)
- Highest User Adoption (Enterprise)
- Best ROI (Mid-Market)
- Best Meets Requirements (Enterprise)
- Best Support (Enterprise)
Check out Chatmeter's reviews on G2 for a deeper dive into why Chatmeter is the industry's most trusted local search and reputation management platform.
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The 2023 Barbasol Championship Odds & Preview: Santiago Tarrio
Santiago Tarrio is ready for the 2023 Barbasol Championship at Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) (par-72) in Nicholasville, Kentucky from July 13-16. The purse is $3,800,000.00.
Looking to place a bet on Tarrio at the Barbasol Championship this week? Keep reading for all the stats and odds you need to know before you make your picks.
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Santiago Tarrio Insights
- Over his last 10 rounds, Tarrio has finished under par three times, while also posting two rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has not finished any of his last 10 rounds with a top-10 score on the day.
- Tarrio has posted a score within five shots of the day's best in one of his last 10 rounds.
- In his past four tournaments, Tarrio finished outside the top 20.
- He has qualified for the weekend in one of his past four tournaments.
- Tarrio has not posted a score better than the tournament average or finished within five shots of the leader in any of his past four tournaments.
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Barbasol Championship Insights and Stats
- In the past year, the Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,014 yards, 314 yards shorter than the 7,328-yard par 72 for this week's event.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) has a recent scoring average of -12.
- Courses that Tarrio has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,576 yards, 248 yards longer than the 7,328-yard Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) this week.
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -6. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -12.
Tarrio's Last Time Out
- Tarrio was in the 20th percentile on par 3s at the Corales Puntacana Championship, with an average of 3.25 strokes on the eight par-3 holes.
- He averaged 4.35 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 20) at the Corales Puntacana Championship, which placed him in the third percentile of the field.
- Tarrio was better than 84% of the competitors at the Corales Puntacana Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.38 strokes per hole, in comparison to the field average of 4.59.
- Tarrio carded a birdie or better on two of eight par-3s at the Corales Puntacana Championship, better than the field average of 1.4.
- On the eight par-3s at the Corales Puntacana Championship, Tarrio recorded more bogeys or worse (four) than the tournament average (2.7).
- Tarrio's two birdies or better on the 20 par-4s at the Corales Puntacana Championship were less than the tournament average (4.6).
- In that most recent competition, Tarrio posted a bogey or worse on eight of 20 par-4s (the field averaged 5.2).
- Tarrio ended the Corales Puntacana Championship carding a birdie or better on four par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 5.9 on the eight par-5s.
- The field at the Corales Puntacana Championship averaged 0.9 bogeys or worse on the eight par-5s, but Tarrio finished without one.
Barbasol Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course)
- Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
- Par: 72 / 7,328 yards
- Tarrio Odds to Win: +20000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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COLCHESTER, Vt., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernal Biosciences, a technology-leading mRNA manufacturer and formulator of LNP-mRNA, announced today the completion of a $21 million financing to fully integrate its mRNA manufacturing solutions. The round was led by Ampersand Capital Partners and Dynamk Capital, with existing investors Alloy Therapeutics and ATUM participating. The round also included a new investment from Charles River Laboratories, Inc. Vernal offers a complete range of mRNA-related services and products ranging from sequence design and screening support, scaled-down and scaled-up manufacturing of high purity mRNA and LNP-mRNA, platform process development technologies, and ultimately GMP manufacturing.
"We are excited to offer an advanced staging ground of platform processes and analytical technologies to our clients for all of their projects, clinical included," said Christian Cobaugh, Vernal CEO and Founder. He emphasized, "While quality and capabilities matter more than ever, huge gaps remain in the capacity of high purity mRNA products and services. Our deep expertise and proven abilities in mRNA technologies, along with the wealth of experience in building success stories in the CRO and CDMO space that our investors bring, will enable Vernal to successfully transform this field, from concept to clinical trials. It is time to usher in a new era where under a single contract, we can design sequences, manufacture plasmid templates and mRNA, formulate LNP-mRNA, and provide release testing of drug products."
Christian will be joined on Vernal's board by existing board member, Errik Anderson of Alloy Therapeutics, and new board members, David Anderson of Ampersand, and Gustavo Mahler of Dynamk. Under the leadership of Dr. Cobaugh, Vernal is equipped with a singular focus on mRNA. The funds from this financing will support Vernal's growth including the construction of full GMP capabilities scheduled to become operational in late 2023.
David Anderson, General Partner with Ampersand added, "Ampersand is excited to partner with Christian and the Vernal team to help bring Vernal to the next level as a full-service CDMO servicing the mRNA field. Our recent experiences building advanced therapy CDMOs such as BrammerBio, ArrantaBio and Vibalogics, position Ampersand as an excellent partner for Vernal at this stage in the company's growth."
"There is a strong market demand for fully integrated providers of mRNA products and services," said Gustavo Mahler, Venture Partner at Dynamk Capital. "Dynamk looks forward to supporting the Vernal team in growing into one of the leading CDMOs in the mRNA space."
Vernal Biosciences provides mRNA and LNP-mRNA manufacturing services to democratize the use of mRNA for all use cases ranging from drug discovery to clinical development across all use cases such as gene editing and regulation, cellular programming, vaccines, mRNA replacement, oncology, autoimmune, and protein degradation. Please visit www.vernal.bio for more information.
About Ampersand Capital Partners
Founded in 1988, Ampersand is a middle market private equity firm with more than $2 billion of assets under management dedicated to growth-oriented investments in the healthcare sector. With offices in Boston and Amsterdam, Ampersand leverages its unique blend of private equity and operating experience to build value and drive superior long-term performance alongside its portfolio company management teams. Ampersand has helped build numerous market-leading companies across each of the firm's core healthcare sectors. Additional information about Ampersand is available at ampersandcapital.com.
Dynamk Capital is a growth equity and venture capital firm focused on life sciences industrials. Dynamk's investment strategy is centered on identifying companies developing disruptive technologies, tools, and services that enable the full biopharma continuum across discovery, development, and manufacturing of biotherapeutics, including cell & gene therapies and vaccines. Please visit www.dynamk.vc for more information.
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LOWRY CITY, Mo. (AP) — At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating a positive COVID-19 case.
Only the healthy are allowed in to care for virus-free residents.
Despite those precautions, a coronavirus outbreak swept through the facility late last year. An inspector subsequently cited it for violating the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for health care facilities.
Truman Lake Manor is one of about 750 nursing homes and 110 hospitals nationwide written up for violating federal staff vaccination rules during the past year, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Most were given a bureaucratic nudge to do better — though some nursing homes also received fines, especially when they had multiple other problems.
One year after it began being enforced nationwide on Feb. 20, 2022, the vaccination requirement affecting an estimated 10 million health care workers is the last remaining major mandate from President Joe Biden’s sweeping attempt to boost national vaccination rates. Similar requirements for large employers, military members and federal contractors all have been struck down, repealed or partially blocked.
The health care vaccination mandate is scheduled to run until November 2024. But some contend it’s time to stop now, citing fewer severe COVID-19 cases, health care staffing shortages and the impending May 11 expiration of a national public health emergency that has been in place since January 2020.
“Their regulations are making it harder to give care – not easier,” said Tim Corbin, the administrator of Truman Lake Manor who also doubles as a nurse, adding that “the mandates need to end.”
CMS said in a statement to the AP that “the requirement for staff to be fully vaccinated has been a critical step in responding to the pandemic” and “has saved Americans from countless infections, hospitalizations, and death.”
The policy requires workers, contractors and volunteers at facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments to have the full primary dosage of an original COVID-19 vaccine, with exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Though nursing homes can be fined for violations, CMS generally gave violating facilities additional time to update their policies and come into compliance.
The Republican-led U.S. House recently passed legislation that would halt the mandate, but the bill is unlikely to pass in the Democratic-led Senate.
Meanwhile, the requirement continues with mixed results and — in some cases — widespread exceptions.
When a state inspector visited Truman Lake Manor in December, a coronavirus outbreak had infected 26 of the 60 residents and about a quarter of the staff within the previous few weeks. Corbin said the outbreak originated from an unvaccinated employee with a religious exemption who tested negative for COVID-19 before working a shift and wore a mask. The employee didn’t feel well and tested positive after arriving home.
The inspector found that more than 40% of staff had been granted religious exemptions from getting vaccinated. But the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services does not scrutinize the rationale for such exemptions. The reason the facility was cited for a vaccination deficiency was because three employees had failed to receive their second dose of the vaccine and had no exemption on record. After the citation, they each got the second shot, and regulators OK’d the corrections in January.
It’s hard to find workers willing to be vaccinated, Corbin said, because many local residents remain opposed to the vaccine or doubt its effectiveness. Just 42% of adults in St. Clair County are vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate barely half the national average.
The 120-bed facility is operating at half capacity and turning potential residents away, “because I can’t hire enough people to take care of them,” said Corbin, who’s been running ads touting a $5,000 signing bonus for nurses.
Rhonda Martin, a nurse educator at the facility, said she understands people’s hesitancy to get vaccinated. Though she received the initial shots and a booster, Martin still got sick from COVID-19 last fall and missed a couple weeks of work.
“At first, I was all for the vaccine, because I felt as health care workers, we needed to protect ourselves and the patients that we take care of,” she said. “The longer that it’s been going on, the vaccines haven’t seemed to help.”
At one facility in Greenwood, South Carolina, the vaccine mandate caused an exodus among nursing staff that took a while to replenish.
“People said, ‘You know what? I’m going to just stop working,’” said David Buckshorn, CEO of Wesley Commons in Greenwood. “To have a requirement that someone feels strongly they don’t want to follow, that really limits our ability to bring people in.”
Workforce shortages are causing more than half of nursing homes nationally to limit resident admissions, according to the American Health Care Association, which represents long-term care facilities. Though most other health care sectors have rebounded, nursing home employment was down 13% in 2022 comparedto pre-pandemic levels and reached lows not seen since the 1990s.
LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit nursing homes and other aging service providers, originally supported the mandate and still encourages vaccinations. But it now says a federal requirement no longer is needed.
“Our country is in a very different place now than in summer of 2021, when the mandate was initially proposed,” said LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan.
Though deaths are down significantly from their peak in January 2021, older adults and people with underlying health problems remain more susceptible to serious cases of COVID-19. Because of that, some medical professionals believe the vaccine mandate should continue at nursing homes and hospitals.
“This is an important requirement,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “Not only does it protect the health care worker themself, but it also protects the patients.”
Some patient advocates also continue to back the vaccine mandate.
“The more we drop requirements in general, the more dangerous it becomes for nursing home residents,” said Marjorie Moore, executive director of the St. Louis-based nonprofit VOYCE, which advocates for long-term care residents.
Nationwide, about 5% of the over 15,000 nursing homes caring for Medicare or Medicaid patients have been cited for violating the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, and about 2% of the 4,900 hospitals, according to the AP’s analysis. But those citations haven’t been evenly spread among states and occurred less often during the latter half of 2022.
Twenty-four states cited no hospitals for COVID-19 vaccination violations.
Nearly 1 in 5 nursing homes received staff vaccination citations in Louisiana, and nearly 1 in 7 in Michigan, the highest rates nationally. By contrast, 14 states and the District of Columbia had two or fewer facilities cited. Texas, which has most nursing homes nationally participating in Medicare or Medicaid, had just one nursing home cited for violating the vaccination rule.
Kansas, Florida and Texas each declined to check for vaccination violations, instead leaving that process to CMS, which hired contractors. As a result, CMS said Texas was docked more than $2.5 million in federal funding, Florida more than $1.2 million and Kansas nearly $350,000.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat who faced reelection in a Republican-leaning state, said last year that the vaccine mandate conflicted with state law and could worsen workforce shortages.
Like Kansas, Kentucky also has a Democratic governor with a Republican-led Legislature. But Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration said state inspectors noted no vaccination deficiencies because hospitals and nursing homes all met federal guidelines when accounting for exemptions.
“We have been at the forefront of encouraging vaccines,” said Betsy Johnson, president of the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities and the Kentucky Center for Assisted Living. “We understand vaccines save lives.”
Nationally, the number of nursing homes cited for vaccination violations declined noticeably after CMS last June stopped requiring state inspectors to check for compliance when responding to complaints about unrelated allegations, such as neglect of patients. CMS cited substantial compliance with the vaccination requirement while making the change.
Before then, Gil-Mor Manor in rural Morgan, Minnesota, was one of just three facilities cited for the worst deficiency category, indicating widespread “immediate jeopardy” to residents.
A May inspection report said the facility lacked policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 — such as requiring N95 masks — for 15 unvaccinated employees with religious exemptions. It said three other employees caring for patients were neither vaccinated nor exempted.
The “failures resulted in 7 of 27 of residents contracting COVID-19,” the report said.
The nursing home responded by approving exemptions for the unvaccinated employees, updating its policies and hiring a consultant to provide additional training to its nurse in charge of infection control, facility administrator Terrie Rothmeier said. Inspectors lifted the “immediate jeopardy” designation within three weeks. The facility was not fined.
“We resolved the issue,” Rothmeier said.
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Justin Bieber stops Justice World Tour: 'I need to make my health the priority'
Justin Bieber canceled his Justice World Tour to focus on his health.
Bieber, 28, posted the announcement for his fans via Instagram.
"Earlier this year, I went public about my battle with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, where my face was partly paralyzed," he wrote. "As the result of this illness, I was not able to complete the North America leg of the Justice tour."
"After resting and consulting with my doctors, family and team, I went to Europe in an effort to continue with the tour. I performed six live shows, but it took a real toll on me. This past weekend, I performed at Rock in Rio and I gave everything I have to the people in Brazil."
The "Never Say Never" singer revealed he had decided to "take a break" to get some rest as his health needs to be his priority.
"After getting off the stage, the exhaustion overtook me and I realized that I need to make my health the priority right now. So I'm going to take a break from touring for the time being. I'm going to be ok, but I need time to rest and get better."
"I've been so proud to bring this show and our message of Justice to the world," he concluded. "Thank you for your prayers and support throughout all of this! I love you all passionately!"
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Bieber resumed the Justice World Tour on July 31 after canceling his North American leg of the tour to rest and recover from his diagnosis.
Bieber revealed his Ramsay Hunt syndrome on June 10 via Instagram after canceling multiple concerts. The "Peaches" singer uploaded a video showing one side of his face was paralyzed.
The syndrome "occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears," according to the Mayo Clinic. The virus can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss.
"I'm going to get better, and I'm doing all of these face exercises to get my face back to normal," he said at the time. "It will go back to normal, it's just time. We don't know how much time it's going to be. It's going to be OK."
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Bieber's wife Hailey later gave an update on Justin's health while promoting her skincare line, Rhode, on "Good Morning America."
"He's doing really well," she said.
"He is getting better every single day. He's feeling a lot better, and obviously it was just a very scary and random situation to happen, but he's going to be totally OK. I'm just grateful that he's fine."
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Which L’Occitane gift sets are best?
L’Occitane pumps out some of the industry’s finest, sustainably sourced self-care products. Whether it be shea butter from West Africa, immortelle oil from France or almonds from the Alps, each L’Occitane product uses natural, locally sourced ingredients. However, finding the right one can be a challenge with so many amazing products from which to choose. If you’re in the market for a one-stop L’Occitane set, check out the L’Occitane Holiday Advent Calendar.
What to know before you buy a L’Occitane gift set
A little goes a long way
Because L’Occitane uses such a high concentration of their rich shea butter blend in their products, you don’t need to use much to get the desired results. In a situation where most products require three or four pumps, L’Occitane products should only require one.
Butter, cream or lotion
L’Occitane hand and body moisturizers, their best-selling products, come in one of three variations. The first is body butter, the thickest of the three and ideal for keeping moisture trapped in your skin. Because butter doesn’t directly moisturize, it’s best to apply it on damp skin. The second variation is skin cream, which contains more water than body butter and is ideal for lubricating and healing dry skin. The third variation is skin lotion, which is the thinnest because it contains the most water. Lotion doesn’t moisturize as well as cream, but it softens more effectively.
Scent profile
High-quality L’Occitane products function as a fragrance in their own right. Make sure to choose a scent that won’t interfere with your current regimen. If you’re unsure about which fragrance is right for you, opt for something with a subtle aroma like almond or shea butter or an entirely scentless product.
What to look for in a quality L’Occitane gift set
Research and innovation
While some formulas are better left untouched, such as the classic shea butter hand cream that’s blended with traditional techniques, others have benefitted from the tireless efforts of L’Occitane’s research and development team. When you’re shopping for a L’Occitane gift set, aim to get something that has products made with traditional as well as modern techniques.
Scent ingredients
As mentioned above, one of the best aspects of L’Occitane’s products is the exquisite scent profiles they offer. To get long-lasting coverage, keep an eye out for scents that bear the name of the product’s main ingredient, such as almond, lavender and shea butter.
Sustainability
While all L’Occitane packaging uses recycled materials, certain products are produced with enhanced fair trade and environmental standards. Be on the lookout for fair-trade approvals and sustainably sourced natural ingredients when shopping for a quality L’Occitane gift set.
How much you can expect to spend on a L’Occitane gift set
L’Occitane gift sets cost around $30 on the lower end and may cost close to $100 for options that include more products.
L’Occitane gift set FAQ
Are there storage protocols for L’Occitane hand creams?
A. L’Occitane hand creams require certain storage conditions to maintain their integrity over a long period. Thankfully, this is pretty to achieve. SImply store your cream at room temperature in a dry place; a handbag or bathroom vanity is perfect.
Are all L’Occitane products able to be used on skin and hair?
A. Although the main ingredients in most L’Occitane products are helpful for both skin, hair and even nails, you should only use a product where it is directed. If, for example, you put the hand cream in your hair, it will become heavy and greasy.
What are the best L’Occitane gift sets to buy?
Top L’Occitane gift set
L’Occitane Holiday Advent Calendar
What you need to know: The Advent Calendar gift set from L’Occitane is the ultimate sampler set with no less than 24 of the brand’s famous products.
What you’ll love: This gift set offers six unique hand creams, one foot cream, two conditioners, two shampoos and a smattering of body wash, face oils and other luxurious goodies. Each product uses premium ingredients, such as shea butter, almond oil or immortelle essential oil, a highly sought-after plant with natural anti-aging properties.
What you should consider: This gift set is specific to Christmas. However, that only applies to the packaging, and the items inside feature the standard L’Occitane labels.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Sephora
Top L’Occitane gift set for the money
L’Occitane Shea Butter Skin Saviors
What you need to know: Featuring rich shea butter, this gift set nourishes and protects both your hair and skin with natural ingredients.
What you’ll love: First and foremost, all of the shea butter used in the products included in this set is sourced through a fair-trade certified partnership with cooperatives of women in West Africa. Prized for their versatility and effectiveness, L’Occitane’s shea butter products promise to keep hair, face and skin looking smooth, bright and refreshed all day long.
What you should consider: Featuring shea butter products, this set doesn’t offer L’Occitane’s range of productive ingredients.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: L’Occitane is known for its alluring hand creams, and this gift set is ideal for anyone who struggles with dry skin at any time of the year.
What you’ll love: This set includes three separate hand creams, each with a unique scent. Whether it be almond, lavender or the classic shea butter, this set has a scent for every occasion. Plus, the tubes in this gift set are larger than the traditional sample size sets usually include. To top it off, the creams come in a pleasing, yellow gift box that makes giving this set to someone else hassle-free.
What you should consider: This set only includes hand creams.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Sephora and Ulta
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OSLO, Norway and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, and Mercell Holding ASA ("Mercell") today announced the completion of Thoma Bravo's acquisition of Mercell, a European provider of e-tendering and procurement systems.
Mercell, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is the European market's leading e-tendering software for public buyers and tender notification software for public sector suppliers. Mercell's solutions help buyers and organizations cut costs, grow their businesses and boost efficiency. Its cloud-based platforms are responsive and accessible from anywhere, giving customers insights and transparency.
The acquisition was first announced on May 25, 2022 and was completed on August 16, 2022. The acquisition was carried out through a voluntary cash offer by Spring Bidco (Norway) AS, a company indirectly wholly owned by funds advised or managed by Thoma Bravo, for all shares in Mercell at an offer price of NOK 6.30 per share and a subsequent compulsory acquisition of the remaining shares in Mercell, as previously announced. The voluntary cash offer was completed on August 8, 2022 and the compulsory acquisition was completed today, with settlement to the former minority shareholders of Mercell taking place at the latest on August 17, 2022. The shares of Mercell have, from August 12, 2022, been suspended from trading on Oslo Børs and the shares will be delisted from Oslo Børs as soon as practically possible.
"I am thrilled to partner with Thoma Bravo and leverage their deep operational and investment expertise to achieve our global growth goals," said Terje Wibe, CEO of Mercell Holding ASA. "I am proud of the entire Mercell team for helping us reach this milestone, and I look forward to further success as we build upon our market leadership position and continue to deliver customers best-in-class e-tendering and procurement systems."
"Mercell's SaaS network of buyers and suppliers for public tendering is extremely valuable and, as a private company alongside Thoma Bravo, Mercell is well positioned to enhance its product offering and global growth," said George Jaber, a Senior Vice President at Thoma Bravo. "Our team is excited to partner with Mercell to help the company achieve its full potential and set Mercell up for sustained long-term growth."
"The European SaaS market is experiencing extraordinary growth and our partnership with Mercell allows us to expand our presence in this important global market. Thoma Bravo's partnership-driven approach will benefit Mercell greatly through investments in product development and strategic acquisitions," said A.J. Rohde, a Senior Partner at Thoma Bravo.
Advisors
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ), Oslo Branch, acted as financial advisor to Thoma Bravo. Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS and Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as legal advisors to Thoma Bravo. ABG Sundal Collier ASA and JP Morgan acted as financial advisors and Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS acted as legal advisor to Mercell.
About Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, with more than $114 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2022. The firm invests in growth-oriented, innovative companies operating in the software and technology sectors. Leveraging the firm's deep sector expertise and proven strategic and operational capabilities, Thoma Bravo collaborates with its portfolio companies to implement operating best practices, drive growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings. Over the past 20 years, the firm has acquired or invested in more than 380 companies representing over $190 billion in enterprise value. The firm has offices in Chicago, Miami and San Francisco. For more information, visit www.thomabravo.com.
About Mercell Holding
Mercell delivers services to public and private buyers and our goal is to become the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS)-platform for e-tendering and procurement in Europe. Mercell is already a leading platform for public e-tendering and entered the procurement market in 2020, and services approximately 30,000 customers across 15 European markets and in the US. Mercell's unique marketplace simplifies the tender and procurement process and makes it safe and easy for buyers to find relevant suppliers for their tenders and daily purchasing needs. We also ensure suppliers find relevant business opportunities and offer tools for suppliers to digitally receive and handle purchases from public and private buyers.
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On July 4th, a day that signifies freedom in the United States, Brittney Griner sent a letter to the White House, pleading with President Joe Biden to bring her home.
The WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist was detained in Russia on a cannabis possession charge on February 17. Her trial began on Friday, and Griner faces up to 10 years in prison on drug smuggling charges.
Portions of her letter were made public including:
“As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic Jersey, or any accomplishments, I’m terrified I might be here forever.”
Followed later by:
“I realize you are dealing with so much, but please don’t forget about me and the other American Detainees,” Griner wrote. “Please do all you can to bring us home. I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you. I still have so much good to do with my freedom that you can help restore. I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for whatever you can do at this moment to get me home.”
Griner’s arrest highlighted the poor relationship between the United States and Russia. Her detainment came less than a week before Russia sent troops into Ukraine, and in response to the attack, the United States announced new sanctions against Russia. On April 29, the U.S. State Department classified Griner’s arrest as a wrongful detention.
According to the Associated Press, less than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted.
“On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran,” Griner wrote. “It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.”
In late June, Griner had a phone call set up with her wife on their fourth anniversary. Because there was no one at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow able to connect the phone call, it never happened. Cherelle Griner spoke out, voicing her displeasure and disappointment.
Athletes around the United States have also been advocating for Griner’s release, creating a website to demand action. Many Celtics players wore “We Are BG” shirts prior to the NBA Finals.
Like about half of WNBA players, Griner played in higher-paying overseas leagues during the offseason. Griner played in Russia for UMMC Ekaterinburg. | 2022-07-05T16:13:56+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/sports/2022/07/brittney-griner-sends-letter-to-president-biden-from-russian-prison-im-terrified-i-might-be-here-forever.html |
Warriors vs. Kings Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 2
Published: Apr. 17, 2023 at 3:54 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Golden State Warriors are 2-point favorites heading into Game 2 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on Monday, starting at 10:00 PM ET on TNT, NBCS-CA, and NBCS-BA. The Kings lead the series 1-0.
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Warriors vs. Kings Game Info & Odds
- Date: Monday, April 17, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, NBCS-CA, and NBCS-BA
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Location: Sacramento, California
- Venue: Golden 1 Center
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- As a 2-point underdog or more in 2022-23, Sacramento is 18-12 against the spread compared to the 28-26-1 ATS record Golden State puts up as a 2-point favorite.
- Sacramento and its opponents have exceeded the over/under 48.8% of the time this season (40 out of 82). That's less often than Golden State and its opponents have (45 out of 82).
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- Golden State has been lifted by its offense, as it ranks second-best in the NBA by scoring 118.9 points per game. It ranks 21st in the league in points allowed (117.1 per contest).
- With 29.8 dimes per game, the Warriors rank best in the league in the category.
- The Warriors have been getting things done in terms of three-point shooting this year, ranking best in the NBA in three-pointers per game (16.6) and second-best in three-point percentage (38.5%).
- Golden State is attempting 47 two-pointers per game this season, which account for 52.1% of the shots it has attempted (and 61.5% of the team's baskets). Meanwhile, it is attempting 43.2 treys per contest, which are 47.9% of its shots (and 38.5% of the team's buckets).
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- Offensively, Sacramento is the best squad in the NBA (120.7 points per game). On defense, it is 25th (118.1 points conceded per game).
- With 27.3 assists per game, the Kings are third-best in the league.
- The Kings are the fifth-best squad in the NBA in 3-pointers made (13.8 per game) and ninth in 3-point percentage (36.9%).
- In 2022-23, Sacramento has taken 57.7% percent of its shots from inside the arc, and 42.3% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 68.4% of Sacramento's baskets have been 2-pointers, and 31.6% have been 3-pointers.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president might lose his job, and his reputation as a corruption fighter, as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm.
The allegations brought by a political rival have led to a damning parliamentary report and pressure from the political opposition and some in the ruling party for President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign. Police have not announced any criminal charges.
Africa’s most developed country is waiting for the president to speak publicly on the latest developments as the ruling African National Congress party’s highest decision-making body discusses next steps. Lawmakers are expected to debate the parliamentary report Tuesday.
Here is what’s known about the scandal:
WHAT HAPPENED?
Former State Security Agency director Arthur Fraser laid a criminal complaint against Ramaphosa in June over the theft in 2020 of what Fraser said was more than $4 million in cash hidden at the president’s ranch. Fraser, an ally of the president’s political rival and predecessor, Jacob Zuma, alleged that Ramaphosa and others were guilty of money laundering and breaching the country’s foreign currency control laws, and that Ramaphosa hid the incident from the police and tax authorities.
This week, a parliamentary panel’s report found the president may have breached anti-corruption laws. It raised questions about the source of the money and why it wasn’t disclosed to financial authorities, and cited a potential conflict between the president’s business and official interests.
Opposition parties and Ramaphosa’s critics in the African National Congress called for him to step down. Ramaphosa, 70, planned to seek reelection as the party’s leader during an ANC conference this month, which would allow to run again for South Africa’s presidency in 2024.
WHAT DOES THE PRESIDENT SAY?
Ramaphosa has denied wrongdoing, saying the stolen money was proceeds from the sale of animals at his farm and that he was “not involved in any criminal conduct.” But the parliamentary report questioned his explanation, asking why the animals remained at the farm more than two years later.
The report also said a central bank investigation suggested there were no records of the dollars entering the country. It said Ramaphosa put himself into a situation of conflict of interest and that evidence “establishes that the president may be guilty of a serious violation of certain sections of the constitution.”
As speculation soared Thursday about a possible resignation announcement, Ramaphosa’s spokesperson told reporters the president was still processing the report. “We are in an unprecedented and extraordinary moment as a constitutional democracy as a result of the report, and therefore whatever decision the president takes, it has to be informed by the best interest of the country. That decision cannot be rushed,” the spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said.
Ramaphosa, a wealthy businessman, was Nelson Mandela’s preferred successor as president. When he took office in 2018 following the resignation of the scandal-plagued Zuma, many South Africans took heart in Ramaphosa’s focus on fighting corruption within the ANC, which had drifted far from its widely respected era under Mandela.
HOW DOES A DIVIDED PARTY PLAY A ROLE?
The drama around Zuma and corruption allegations badly split the ANC. The man who brought the allegations against Ramaphosa, Fraser, is a well-known loyalist to Zuma and a faction of the ANC that wants Ramaphosa out.
The ANC has a strong role in the president’s fate. Presidents in South Africa are not directly elected by the people, who instead vote for a political party. Lawmakers then elect the president. The leading opposition party in parliament, the Democratic Alliance, is pushing to hold elections immediately instead of in 2024.
Ramaphosa has no chance at winning a second term without the backing of the ruling party. Its national executive committee has the powers to force the president to resign, and it did so with Zuma and former president Thabo Mbeki after both fell out of favor.
Ramaphosa still has support among some members of the party’s national executive committee. ANC chair Gwede Mantashe told a local broadcaster Friday that the president was not thinking of resigning. Whether Ramaphosa has enough support to survive impeachment in parliament is yet to be seen. Removing a president from office needs the votes of at least two-thirds of the members of the National Assembly. | 2022-12-02T12:47:21+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/explainer-why-south-africas-president-might-lose-his-job/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
Shortly after news broke that federal agents had executed a court-authorized search for documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Rita Katz said she and her team jumped online.
Katz, the founder and executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist communities online, said they were primarily interested in what discussions looked like in spaces frequented by the far right, such as Telegram, Gab and Truth Social.
"What we saw were calls for civil war," said Katz. "Calls such as, 'This is what the Second Amendment stands for,' and asking then, 'When does the shooting start?'"
In the days after, a man was killed in a standoff with the FBI after he attempted to attack the agency's field office in Cincinnati. The U.S. Department of Justice has also charged a man in Pennsylvania with threatening federal law enforcement officers after he allegedly posted violent statements online.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a joint intelligence bulletin highlighting the escalation in violent rhetoric against their agencies and employees.
But even as law enforcement may be monitoring or alerted to threats made in these spaces, experts say that responding to them will be challenging.
The shift from foreign to domestic extremism
Two decades after the attacks of 9/11, the country has fashioned infrastructure to counter violent extremism coming from foreign terrorist organizations, or those influenced by them. Today, with the DHS shift in focus toward violent domestic extremists, that infrastructure is showing its limits.
"There's certainly a more permissive environment for law enforcement to investigate threatening individuals when the threat looked like it was coming from overseas," said Mitch Silber, executive director for the Community Security Initiative, a program created to protect the Jewish communities of greater New York.
"When you're dealing with American citizens who can't be connected to a foreign terrorist organization, that already limits the reach and the ability for law enforcement to go deeper on those individuals because they're protected by the Constitution," he said.
Silber, who once headed intelligence analysis at the New York Police Department, said law enforcement needs to have relatively detailed information about a plot to obtain the required authorization to open an investigation. And though individuals post quite openly about their violent ideations in public online spaces, it often doesn't meet the necessary threshold. For those who recall the last time far right echo chambers churned with this level of anger, this is concerning.
"Before January 6, we had no credible, no specific threat. We just had a ton of non-credible, non-specific threats," said Donell Harvin, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and the former chief of homeland security and intelligence for the government of the District of Columbia. "It was like this kind of mush they just couldn't do anything with."
Beyond the legal constraints, Harvin said that the nature of the threat has also changed in ways that make effective interdiction of violence more difficult.
First, the uptake of violent, anti-government views has become widespread in the United States, whereas in the past, this sentiment was largely relegated to fringe extremist groups. As a result, the possibility of an attempted attack can come from a much larger and more diffuse pool of radicalized individuals.
Additionally, experts said that law enforcement now has to act almost instantaneously when alerted to a threat.
"There is often a brief period of time between radicalization and mobilization to violence that law enforcement has an opportunity to interdict that individual. And that brief moment is such a small window," said Harvin. "We've seen where people go from radicalization to mobilization of violence very, very quickly."
The legal and practical constraints behind identifying and stopping domestic terrorist attacks have many in the counter-extremism space looking to actors other than law enforcement.
Katz, who has monitored terrorist threats since before 9/11, said she would like to see more focus on the technology companies that facilitate alt-social media platforms where the most violent rhetoric is commonplace. Specifically, she said companies that provide hosting, website security and domain registration should be pressured into dropping clients whose services incite violence.
"Otherwise, it's just going to continue to grow," she said.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cole Johnson scored on a squeeze bunt by Josh Nicoloff in the 11th inning and seventh-seeded Kansas State stayed alive in the Big 12 Tournament with a 6-5 victory over second-seeded Texas Tech on Friday night.
Johnson opened the inning by reaching second base when Easton Murrell dropped his fly ball in the corner, just fair, as he approached the wall. A sacrifice bunt by Kaelen Culpepper put Johnson on third, with the perfectly executed bunt coming on a 1-0 pitch.
First baseman Dylan Phillips came on to pitch a perfect ninth with two strikeouts for his eighth save.
Kansas State had tied the game in the top of the ninth on a two-out, bases-loaded wild pitch. The Wildcats were 0 for 24 when trailing after eight innings.
The Red Raiders (37-20) beat K-State (29-28) 5-3 to open the tournament before losing to Oklahoma. The Wildcats now face the third-seeded Sooners on Saturday, needing two wins to make the championship game.
K-State jumped on top with three runs in the second inning with Nick Goodwin hitting a solo home run and Justin Mitchell a two-run single.
A three-run sixth put Texas Tech on top with Ty Coleman's two-run double the big hit.
After the Wildcats tied the game in the seventh, Dillon Carter followed Parker Kelly's double to make it 5-4 for Texas Tech.
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On December 9, the phone of epidemiologist and infectious disease physician Céline Gounder began blowing up with notifications, all relaying the same message.
Her husband of 21 years, soccer journalist Grant Wahl, had collapsed halfway around the world while covering the World Cup in Qatar. An hour later, Dr. Gounder learned that Wahl had died.
As soon as news of Wahl's death spread, so did rumors about what killed him. One theory was that the COVID vaccine was responsible. It wasn't, and an autopsy later showed that Wahl died from an aortic aneurysm.
Dr. Gounder gave interviews and widely shared the results of her husband's autopsy, but the rumors and conspiracies have persisted. And in the wake of Damar Hamlin's on-field cardiac arrest, anti-vax conspiracy theorists have returned with vigor.
Dr. Gounder spoke with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to share the experience of dealing with a tragedy and misinformation, all while also having worked as a prominent health voice during the pandemic.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity
Interview Highlights
On why she is speaking out again
I really had hoped that when I first put out a written statement, that I did several interviews on various different media platforms, that that would really put these conspiracy theories to an end. That by putting out the information, people who were asking for an explanation would have had their explanation, and that then I could take a breath and grieve in privacy. And then when Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest occurred during the game on the field, that unfortunately stirred up a lot of these conspiracy theories all over again.
I started to get messages again, as I had early on, from anti-vax conspiracy theorists who were blaming not only my husband's death, but also Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest, as well as the deaths of other young, healthy people recently on the COVID vaccines. And I felt, at that point, that I did have to take these conspiracy theories head on.
On seeing her husband's death used for misinformation
It felt so exploitive to use this horrible tragedy for me and my family, to exploit that for their own ends. Disinformation is a business model — make no mistake about it. And these are people who are trying to make money, who are trying to gain social media followers or subscribers on Substack or some kind of social status or power. And that really is just retraumatizing not just me and my family, but others who have been victims of this kind of behavior.
I do think people, especially close family and friends, were really asking questions. I was asking questions. It was really important to me to know what was the cause of death. And getting the autopsy gave me at least some partial sense of closure, of having an answer. But when people call for investigations, I think they really have to step back and ask themselves, what are they talking about when they say investigation?
An autopsy by a medical examiner and forensic scientists, that is an investigation into this kind of death. And I think what some of these folks are really saying when they say they want an investigation, they want the criminal justice system turned against these unfortunate victims like myself and my family because they don't like what we stand for — in my case, a public health message. And they really want to punish us for what we stand for.
One one particularly troubling email that she received about karma
There was one of a few hundred, actually, as well as voicemail messages and other kinds of harassing messages. But this particular email blamed me for having killed my husband because he got COVID vaccinations, and said this was karma, that I was being punished for having done this.
I do believe in karma. I do believe in the idea that how we behave, what we put out into the world, impacts our experience of the world. And I think if you look at the outpouring of love and support for my husband and our family after his death, I think that shows evidence of karma. And he really lived a very moral life, believed in seeking out the truth in his reporting but also believed in issues of social justice and fighting for human rights in his journalism. And I think that is why so many people reached out in the aftermath — because of how he lived his life.
On how she would like Grant to be remembered
My husband was an amazing writer. His turn of phrase was lyrical. He was also a feminist. And when I say feminist, not just in terms of equality for women, but really across the board. And he tried to use sports journalism as a way of explaining culture, politics and fighting for social justice.
This interview was adapted for the web by Manuela Lopez Restrepo. contributed to this story
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Walmart workers to get pay raises next month
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said U.S. workers will get pay raises next month, increasing starting wages to between $14 and $19 an hour.
Company President CEO John Furner told employees in a memo Tuesday that the pay raises will be reflected in their March 2 paychecks and will come through a combination of targeted and regular annual pay increases.
Workers at 3,000 stores will get raises, increasing average pay to $17.50 an hour from $17. Starting wages currently range between $12 and $18 an hour, depending on location.
The competition for low-wage retail workers remains fierce, even as companies scale back on hiring amid a lingering labor shortage. Walmart and its competitors have raised wages several times in recent years and added benefits to retain workers, including covering in vitro fertilization, fertility testing and financial help with surrogacy and adoption.
The newest pay raises brings Walmart, the country’s largest retailer and biggest private employer, closer to many of its competitors, including Target and Amazon, that have raised their minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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CHICAGO, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital therapeutic leader RAE Health today announced participation and presentation at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Scientific Meeting as part of its NIDA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Award. Their presentation titled "A digital detection and intervention for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder" focused on the integration of an off-the-shelf wearable sensor into the RAE system for the detection of stress and craving. Fifty adult subjects in outpatient treatment for SUD were enrolled over 18-months in the study. The RAE system was successfully deployed, and the accuracy of stress and craving detection were similar using an off-the-shelf wearable sensor to that of a clinical research grade wearable. The trial was conducted through joint efforts of Dr. Stephanie Carreiro of UMass Chan Medical School and Dr. Premananda Indic of the University Texas Health System.
This conclusion builds on and furthers RAE's development of their software platform and app currently being used to detect stress and cravings with wearable sensor technology facilitating just in time interventions. "Being able to take our technology to a consumer grade wearable will further open up our platform to a significantly wider patient population" said RAE Co-founder, Megan Reinhardt, "Expanding beyond research and onto users in society will further work to break the cycle of addiction and give patients more access to supportive care".
RAE Health (www.raehealth.com) is a mental health solutions company that bridges the gap between mobile health and digital therapeutics. The platform utilizes a patented algorithm with a wearable device tied to a mobile app to detect patterns of stress and cravings in real time.
This provides individuals, patients, caregivers, providers, and our licensees a clinically objective detection and intervention tool for better mental health. Current and developing applications include substance use disorders, pain management, suicide prevention, PTSD, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression.
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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was executed Thursday for killing a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two in separate attacks months apart in 1984 while children were sleeping in the homes he targeted.
Duane Owen was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office. One of Florida’s longest-held death row inmates, Owen was 23 at the time of the attacks and 62 when he was executed.
Owen declined to make a final statement. The procedure began at 6:01 p.m., with Owen's arms twitching and his breathing becoming heavier as the sedative took effect. The warden made sure Owen was unconscious before before lethal drugs were administered.
Several family members of the victims witnessed the execution. No one in the witness room spoke.
Owen was sentenced to death for the March 24, 1984, rape and fatal stabbing of Karen Slattery, 14, and for the rape and deadly hammer attack two months later on Georgianna Worden, 38. Both killings occurred in Palm Beach County.
Authorities said Owen attacked two other women in Palm Beach County who survived. All four attacks occurred just before and after Owen’s 23rd birthday. Of the more than 290 people on Florida’s death row, Owen was one of the longest held there.
Besides his death sentences, he also had received six life sentences.
It was Florida’s fourth execution this year after a hiatus in which there were none since 2019. Gov. DeSantis, a Republican, signed each of the death warrants in the months before announcing he was running for president.
Slattery was repeatedly stabbed and raped in a home in Delray Beach while two children in her care were sleeping. The children weren't harmed during the attack.
Two months later, in May 1984, Worden was sleeping in her Boca Raton home when Owen struck her several times with a hammer and raped her, according to court records. One of Worden's children found her body the next morning while getting ready for school, according to the record.
Delray Beach and Boca Raton are both about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami, in Palm Beach County.
Owen's lawyers had argued that he shouldn't be executed on grounds of insanity. The state Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal last week and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected it Wednesday.
Owen's lawyers had also argued that he was schizophrenic and suffered from delusions.
Prosecutors had argued that while Owen had mental health issues, nothing would preclude his being executed because he was aware it was punishment for his crimes. Psychiatrists for the state testified that Owen's schizophrenia was an act that he discussed when being evaluated, but he otherwise showed no signs of the illness.
And while the defense had argued Owen had dementia and gender dysphoria, psychiatrists for the state said Owen had a good memory, didn't appear to present himself as female and that gender dysphoria doesn't make people more aggressive or cause delusional thinking. They said instead that Owen was sexually sadistic, according to court records. | 2023-06-15T23:16:16+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/florida-man-executed-for-1984-killings-of-teenage-babysitter-mother-of-2-slain-months-apart/2HQ75AWH5RBP3CZQDSHNVDLXNM/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — As shootings at two electrical substations cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes last weekend, they also sparked widespread speculation that the days-long blackout might be the latest of several attempts to shut down a local drag show meant to celebrate the LGBTQ community in rural Moore County.
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said earlier this week that police have not found evidence connecting the attacks to the drag performance that began shortly before the power went out, nor have they released a motive. However, authorities are considering the timing overlap and recent attacks on similar events nationwide as they proceed with their investigation.
Police have said the outages began shortly after 7 p.m. last Saturday after one or more people drove up to two electrical substations, breached the gates and opened fire on them. Whoever was responsible, Fields said, “knew exactly what they were doing to … cause the outage that they did.”
Duke Energy officials said power was fully restored to the county Wednesday evening. A peak of more than 45,000 customers lost power over the weekend. Many residents said they struggled to stay warm as temperatures dropped below freezing overnight.
Regardless of whether investigators connect the two events, Sandhills Pride Director Lauren Mathers said repeated efforts to shut down what was billed as a family friendly drag performance have left the county’s LGBTQ community feeling vulnerable.
She is especially worried for the safety of local queer and trans youth, who she said rarely see themselves represented in rural and right-leaning places like Moore County.
“This is my first time having this level of hate thrown at something that we love so much,” said Mathers, a Southern Pines resident and producer of the drag event. “Kids in rural communities don’t necessarily always have the same level of support, and what I hear from my kids is that there’s constant bullying.”
Naomi Dix, headliner of the Dec. 3 show at the Sunrise Theater in Southern Pines, said she and fellow organizers were brutally harassed in the weeks leading up to the show. Conservative community leaders led a protest outside the theater, spread the false narrative that it was a sex show and demanded it be shut it down, she said.
Their concerns are shared by federal officials who have been on high alert in the weeks after a gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado, killing five people and wounding 17 others.
In a national terrorism advisory bulletin issued last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the LGBTQ community and critical infrastructure may be targets of violence as domestic extremists and foreign terrorist organizations encourage online supporters to carry out attacks.
The FBI posted a notice seeking information related to the North Carolina investigation, and Gov. Roy Cooper announced a reward Wednesday of up to $75,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
For Dix, a Durham-based drag queen, the threats she faced leading up to the event were not isolated incidents but rather the “unfortunate reality for those working to increase LGBTQ visibility” in rural and conservative communities. Despite the backlash, she said, this will not be her last performance in Moore County.
The night of the show, private security and local police monitored the venue, Dix said. When the power went out about 30 minutes into the show, she asked the crowd of 370 people to illuminate the room with their cell phone lights as she serenaded them with Beyonce’s “Halo.”
“Our job as drag performers is to facilitate and create safe spaces,” Dix said. ”Specifically when it comes to Moore County, and dealing with this situation here in Southern Pines, it’s to find these areas in which there isn’t great representation of the queer community and to provide them with art and a space in which they can feel safe to express themselves.”
A recent study of threats, protests and violence against drag events from the LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD placed North Carolina and Texas atop the list of states with the highest number of drag events targeted this year. Of the 124 incidents documented across 47 states as of late November, at least 10 occurred in North Carolina. That tally does not include the latest demonstration in Moore County.
Such attacks on the performance art with strong historical ties to the LGBTQ community are the latest examples of “an ongoing, increasingly violent pattern” of right-wing activists and politicians using false rhetoric to stoke fear and fuel LGBTQ opposition, said Barbara Simon, head of news and campaigns for GLAAD.
Opponents of drag events catered toward families often falsely claim they “groom” children, implying attempts to sexually abuse them or somehow influence their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Lawmakers in seven states have proposed legislation this year banning minors from drag shows and prohibiting public drag performances. A bill filed last month in Texas seeks to classify drag as a “sexually oriented business” on par with strip clubs.
Serena Sebring, executive director of Blueprint NC, a coalition of progressive advocacy organizations in the Tar Heel state, said even though authorities are urging people not to jump to conclusions about the motive, she cannot ignore the persistent threats to LGBTQ communities and critical infrastructure nationwide.
“Every member of our community bears the cost of homophobia and transphobia unchecked,” Sebring said. “Moore County is an example and ought to be a cautionary tale about what happens when we allow bigotry to flourish.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians took to the streets nine years ago in protests that within weeks became street battles and in demonstrations that turned to revolution. They barricaded Kyiv’s Independence Square and set it ablaze. Police gunned people down. Soon, the president was forced out.
But on Nov. 21, 2013, almost no one saw that coming or recognized the day for what it was: a crucial turn in the country’s history and its relationship with Moscow. It was a major step toward the pivot by Russian President Vladimir Putin to trying to conquer Ukraine from trying to control it from the outside, leading to the death and devastation he unleashed this year.
On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used memories of that moment to rally a nation now at war. In a video address to the nation, he said it was commitment to freedom that animated the so-called Maidan revolution that began nine years ago, and that motivated resistance now to the Russian invasion that began in late February.
“We can be left without money. Without gasoline. Without hot water. Without light,” he said. “But not without freedom. And it remains unchanged.”
Zelenskyy and his wife joined in subdued observances held across the country to commemorate the anniversary, now a revered day of remembrance, and to honor the protesters who were killed and are recalled as heroes. Residents of Kyiv, the capital, and other cities turned out with flowers despite winter weather and snow.
Putin’s forces continue to pound Ukraine’s cities and civilian infrastructure, trying to wear down the ability and will to resist of a nation he has been unable to defeat militarily. Zelenskyy said the Russians were firing hundreds of missiles, rockets, artillery shells and drones daily, most heavily in the eastern Donetsk region, where fierce combat is underway.
The list of targets now includes Kherson, the southern city the Russians occupied for eight months before retreating about two weeks ago. Shells have detonated there with deadly force — officials said three people were killed Sunday — sowing terror and underscoring the threat still posed by the enemy now camped just across the Dnieper River.
As Russian artillery struck a residential area Monday with a series of deafening blasts, Yulya Kalygina, 34, cowered in a stairwell with her 6-year-old daughter, Safya.
“I want to escape to Mykolaiv,” she said, referring to a city about two hours’ drive to the northwest. Asked to describe her thinking, she used the word “Russia” and the word “hate.”
Ukrainian officials have urged civilians in Kherson to evacuate, citing the lack of essential services and continued threat of attack, and pleaded with the majority who fled the city months ago not to return yet. But about 80,000 of the city’s prewar population of more than 250,000 remains, said Serhii Khlan, deputy regional administrator.
“There is a significant part of Kherson that categorically refuses to leave,” he told journalists Monday. “People say, ‘We survived the occupiers here, so now we will survive all the difficulties.’”
On Monday, Ukraine operated an evacuation train out of Kherson, part of the government’s effort to move people from areas where they cannot be assured of heat, water, power and other services.
As many as 3 million Ukrainians are expected to leave their homes this winter, officials from the World Health Organization said Monday, in addition to the millions who have already fled the country or have been displaced internally.
Zelenskyy on Monday took note of the many ways Ukraine has changed in nine months of war. “Craters appeared on our land,” he said. “There are roadblocks and anti-tank hedgehogs in our cities and villages.”
But the desire for freedom remains unchanged, he said, “and that’s why we will hold out.”
There were many milestones along the road to this war, but the upheaval known as the Maidan revolution, or Euromaidan, now looms especially large.
In 2013, Ukraine’s parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a trade agreement with the European Union. The plan had immense support from the public, which saw it as a way to lessen Moscow’s influence, improve living standards and possibly reduce Ukraine’s endemic corruption.
In response, Putin threatened crippling sanctions. He wanted a pliant Ukraine, politically and economically dependent on Russia, analysts say, not an independent-minded one drawing closer to the West.
Then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, though seen as an ally of Putin’s, said he would sign the trade agreement, but delayed for months. Finally, on Nov. 21, 2013, he announced that he was rejecting it and would make a trade pact with Russia. The protests, peaceful at first, began that day in the main square, or maidan, in Kyiv.
The crowds, in cities across the country, swelled into the hundreds of thousands, and violence grew.
The government imposed prohibitions on public assembly. Protesters armed themselves with makeshift shields, clubs and even gasoline bombs, and they took over public buildings. The police escalated from using tear gas and rubber bullets to firing live ammunition into the crowds. The fighting peaked in February 2014 in Kyiv, where about 100 protesters and a dozen police officers were killed.
Besieged and increasingly unpopular, Yanukovych fled Kyiv, going first to eastern Ukraine, where he and Russia had more support, and to Russia itself days later. The Kremlin called the sequence of events a Western-backed coup.
Within hours of his leaving the capital, the Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly on Feb. 22, 2014, to remove Yanukovych from office. Crowds surged into his palatial compound, gawking at his private menagerie of rare animals, his collection of classic cars and a restaurant designed to look like a pirate ship.
By Feb. 27, Russian troops had quietly infiltrated Crimea, the part of Ukraine with the strongest pro-Russian sentiment. The Kremlin’s seizure of the region was completed in a few days, with barely a shot fired. Ukraine barely knew what was happening, and with its military weak and its government a shambles, it was in no position to resist.
In March, Moscow’s proxies in eastern Ukraine started the war in the Donbas, the region now claimed by Russia. That fight, ironically, helped turn the Ukrainian military into an effective force. The war, though stalemated, was still underway when Putin launched a full-scale invasion. | 2022-11-22T19:46:32+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ukraine-remembers-a-milestone-on-the-long-path-to-putins-war/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
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At a certain point on Saturday night, you couldn't help feel bad for Trey Murphy III.
The New Orleans small forward had some seriously impressive moves up his sleeve for NBA All-Star Saturday — but Mac McClung was too tough an act to follow.
The 76ers' fresh-faced point guard (who was just called up from the G League this week) was the undisputed star of the night. In every round of the dunk contest in Salt Lake City, McClung bungeed his 6'2" frame up to the net with flourish.
Now there's talk he has rescued the competition that was starting to fall out of favor.
Who is he? A crowd of basketball celebrities quickly became his hype crew on the sidelines, filming him with sponsored phones and almost dropping their own kids a few times. For his already-established fanbase, the dunk contest just told the world what they've known for years.
McClung is a YouTube sensation, going all the way back to high school highlight reels. His "senior year mixtape" has more than three million views.
To pay tribute to his hometown of Gate City, Virginia (and the fans who have loved him since), he pulled on his high school jersey for the final dunk.
In college, he played for Georgetown for two years before transferring to Texas Tech.
He went undrafted in 2021 and joined the Lakers' summer league, signing with the team after that.
He moved to the Chicago Bulls for a short contract the next year, eventually ending up in the NBA G League with the Bulls' affiliate, Windy City. When invited to the dunk contest this year, he was part of the Delaware Blue Coats for the 2022-23 season, making him the first G League player to participate.
What's the big deal? This is a much-needed boost for McClung, who has only played two NBA games in two years — one for the Bulls and one for the Lakers — and scored three baskets overall.
It's also a big moment for the contest itself, which many fans say was going out of fashion because the NBA's biggest stars no longer participated in it.
Benchwarmer status aside, McClung's actual feats he accomplished on Saturday were big deals.
He stacked two friends high, soared over both of them to grab the ball, tapped the backboard and THEN sank a reverse. Then a clean leap over a grown man's head with a full clutch. And finished with the near-impossible 540-degree dunk, which is one-and-a-half rotations in the air.
No one can convince me this man didn't take ballet lessons. If it weren't Monday, I'd attempt a pun.
OK, I'm going for it: McClung really raised the barre.
19 out of 20 judge scores were perfect 50s.
What are people saying?
"Man was a viral HOH high school dunk phenom, still working his way to the League, but lemme go get that dunk contest trophy right quick and bring it back to life!!! Unreal #macmclung." — Steph Curry
"He captured the attention of a basketball community that was beginning to lose faith that the dunk contests of old — like the Vince Carter years and Zach Lavine displays — would ever come back. It got to the point where even NBA commissioner Adam Silver was asked about the declining quality of the dunk contest, with people wondering if the NBA would start requiring top stars to participate." — Kevin Reynold, The Salt Lake Tribune
"He definitely saved the dunk contest." — Shaquille O'Neal
So, what now? One night took the 24-year-old from a YouTube star to a household name. The internet is still recovering from the spectacle and the "Who is Mac McClure?" write-ups will continue for at least a few days.
Winning the dunk contest has long served as an introductory party for lesser-known and up-and-coming talent. Everyone from Kobe Bryant to Vince Carter, Blake Griffin, Josh Smith and Andrew Iguodala has claimed the prize.
Spud Webb, a former dunk champ himself and now president of basketball operations for the NBA G League team the Texas Legends, told NPR that the hype is really exciting for G League players overall and he sees a future for McClung. "I'm glad he won. I work in the G League, it sheds a lot on us," Webb told NPR. "But I'm telling you, man, the guy can play. His energy level — I think there's a place for him."
Time will tell if this has opened the door for more actual playtime. But for now, an invite to the 2024 dunk contest looks like a sure thing.
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Which fish spatula is best?
Spatulas have the strange distinction of being the name for more than one type of kitchen utensil. The first, also known as a scraper, is used for cleaning a bowl of cake batter or cookie dough. The second is used for flipping food. Of this variety, there are specific shapes corresponding with its use. A fish spatula is long, thin and often slotted, used to flip or pick up delicate items like fish.
The Victorinox Slotted Fish Turner is a finely crafted utensil that manages to be both sturdy and precise.
What to know before you buy a fish spatula
Type of spatula material
Spatulas come in a variety of materials.
- Plastic or nylon: Plastic or nylon fish spatula blades are best for use on nonstick pans. Unfortunately, these cannot be made thin enough to reliably slide under fish without tearing it. But if you need something quick and affordable, this is your pick, and it may work for sturdier fish. A nonstick pan also releases more easily, so the thicker blade won’t need to work so hard.
- Silicone: Silicone has the same issue as plastic and nylon, but it works better on high-heat pans.
- Metal: The winner and most durable material is a metal spatula with a stainless steel blade. It’s thin and slides gently under delicate fish like tilapia with barely a scratch. This cannot be used on nonstick cookware, but that’s its only challenge. Metal blades may have metal, plastic, nylon, silicone or wood handles.
Shape
Fish spatulas have a distinctive shape. The area that lifts the food — called the blade or the flipper — is elongated, narrow at the handle and wider toward the end. A slight angle at the edge of a fish spatula lets you ease it gently under food. Most fish spatulas are also slotted.
Handle shape and size
You’re looking for a Goldilocks handle. Too long and heavy and it’s uncomfortable to hold and hard to control. Too short and lightweight and it cannot handle larger pieces of fish. The perfect handle is well-balanced, not too fat and the perfect length for control.
What to look for in a quality fish spatula
Safe over high heat
Most fish is not cooked over high heat, but the pan itself can become hotter than the food. You’ll need a fish spatula that can take the heat. Metal is the obvious choice, and silicone is in a pinch. If you use a plastic or nylon fish flipper, check to make sure it is rated for the temperature you’re using.
Easy to clean
If a fish is on the menu once or twice a month, it’s no big deal to hand-wash. However, if your family of die-hard fishermen eats it multiple times a week, you’ll want something you can put into the dishwasher.
Strong and flexible
There is a balance between strength and flexibility that is important to strike. The flipper of the spatula needs to be thin and relatively flexible. This lets it glide underneath lightweight fish. Additionally, it’s easily maneuvered in a pan that’s crowded. Rigid fish spatulas make it hard to work with precision when moving fish in a hot, crowded pan.
Wider slots in the head of the spatula help with flexibility, but watch out for spatulas that are so flexible as to be flimsy. Even with a little give, these tools should be able to hoist a fat burger safely out of a pan and onto a waiting bun.
Full-tang head
Unlike plastic or silicone spatulas, metal fish spatulas need to be attached to the handle somehow. The best attachment is one that is full-tang. This means that the head extends well into the handle for more security.
How much you can expect to spend on a fish spatula
You can spend as much or as little as you like, with prices varying mostly due to the quality of construction and materials. Expect to spend $10 to $35.
Fish spatula FAQ
Can you use a fish spatula for anything other than fish?
A. Yes. Fish spatulas aren’t confined to simply flipping fish. They can also be used to flip everything from delicate crepes and pancakes to chicken tenders. The beauty of this tool is its ability to slide under food cleanly without shredding the underside. This is valuable for a variety of foods.
Can you flip fish with a regular spatula?
A. Technically, yes. If the goal is simply to flip the fish to the other side, any flat spatula or turner will do. However, if the goal is to flip your fish without tearing the skin, a fish spatula is the only tool for the job.
What’s the best fish spatula to buy?
Top fish spatula
Victorinox Slotted Fish Turner
What you need to know: This fish spatula is lightweight to handle but heavy enough to get the job done well.
What you’ll love: The spatula is 6 inches long, with a turning area of 3 inches. The wooden handle is comfortable and stays cool. The metal blade works well on cast iron and the grill. The high carbon blade is durable and well-designed.
What you should consider: It’s very expensive for one utensil, and it needs to be hand-washed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top fish spatula for the money
What you need to know: If you need a spatula that isn’t quite so specialized and comes at a more affordable price, this is the one for you.
What you’ll love: The blade is thin nylon and the handle is stainless steel. It’s heat resistant to 400 degrees. It’s perfect for nonstick pans. It’s lightweight and has a hole at the end of the handle for hanging.
What you should consider: It cannot be used on stainless steel or cast iron, as the high heat of those pans may melt the blade.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Lamson Chef’s Left-Hand Slotted Turner
What you need to know: Left-handed chefs will appreciate this design that’s tailored just for them.
What you’ll love: It features a full-tang carbon steel blade with a heat-resistant wood handle. It’s sturdy enough for burgers but precise enough for crepes and fish. It’s also available in a right-handed version as well as a slightly longer 4-inch by 9-inch model.
What you should consider: The tip of the blade is slightly sharpened and collects food particles that can be difficult to remove.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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DUBLIN, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Richard Pops, will provide a corporate overview and update at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 at 11:15 a.m. PST (2:15 p.m. EST/7:15 p.m. GMT), followed by a question and answer session. The live webcast may be accessed under the Investors tab on www.alkermes.com and will be archived for 14 days.
About Alkermes plc
Alkermes plc is a fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines in the fields of neuroscience and oncology. The company has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products focused on alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of product candidates in development for neurological disorders and cancer. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Alkermes has a research and development center in Waltham, Massachusetts; a research and manufacturing facility in Athlone, Ireland; and a manufacturing facility in Wilmington, Ohio. For more information, please visit Alkermes' website at www.alkermes.com.
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JACKSON, Miss. — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he is being treated unfairly in news coverage of a Mississippi welfare scandal, including about payments he received to help fund a pet project of his — a volleyball arena at the university he attended and where his daughter was playing the sport.
“I have been unjustly smeared in the media,” Favre said in a statement to Fox News Digital, which was published Tuesday. “I have done nothing wrong, and it is past time to set the record straight.
“No one ever told me, and I did not know, that funds designated for welfare recipients were going to the University or me,” Favre said. “I tried to help my alma mater USM, a public Mississippi state university, raise funds for a wellness center. My goal was and always will be to improve the athletic facilities at my university.”
It is one of the few public statements Favre has made about Mississippi’s largest-ever public corruption case involving the misspending of tens of millions of dollars in welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in one of the poorest states in the U.S.
Favre is not facing criminal charges. He is among more than three dozen people or companies being sued by the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
Mississippi Auditor Shad White, a Republican who has investigated the welfare misspending, took exception with Favre’s new statement. White pointed to text messages between Favre and other people about the volleyball arena, recently disclosed in the civil lawsuit.
“Obviously, Mr. Favre knew that he was being paid in government funds, based on the texts,” White told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “He knew that those funds were coming from the Department of Human Services. He’s obviously acknowledged that he needed to repay those funds, too.”
The lawsuit was filed in May and says the defendants “squandered” more than $20 million from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.
Favre has repaid $1.1 million he received for speaking fees from the Mississippi Community Education Center, a nonprofit group that spent TANF money with approval from the Department of Human Services. But, White said Tuesday that Favre still owes $228,000 in interest.
In October 2021, Favre and White engaged in a social media spat about White saying Favre had accepted the $1.1 million but had failed to show up for speaking engagements.
“Of course the money was returned because I would never knowingly take funds meant to help our neighbors in need, but for Shad White to continue to push out this lie that the money was for no-show events is something I cannot stay silent about,” Favre wrote.
White said Tuesday that Favre has repeatedly made “confusing” statements about the payment for speaking.
“The contract that justified the payment to him for $1.1 million required him to show up and give speeches, and he didn’t give the speeches,” White said. “If he’s arguing that that contract is a sham, he can’t be paid $1.1 million on a nonexistent contract. He still has to pay the money back.”
The director of the nonprofit, Nancy New, pleaded guilty in April to charges of misspending welfare money, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the center. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others.
In a Sept. 12 court filing in the civil lawsuit, an attorney for the Mississippi Community Education Center released several text messages about $5 million in welfare money that went toward the volleyball facility. The messages were between Nancy New and Favre, between Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and between Bryant and New. The messages were from 2017 to 2019, when the Republican Bryant was still governor.
That court filing said the nonprofit center agreed to pay Favre $1.1 million “for a few radio spots” to help fund the volleyball arena, which was also being called a campus wellness center. Favre had agreed to lead fundraising efforts to build the facility on the Hattiesburg campus.
According to court documents, Favre texted New on Aug. 3, 2017, about the payment to him for speaking: “If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?”
New responded: “No, we never have had that information publicized. I understand you being uneasy about that though. Let’s see what happens on Monday with the conversation with some of the folks at Southern. Maybe it will click with them. Hopefully.”
Favre replied: “Ok thanks.”
The next day, New texted Favre: “Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!”
Favre played football at the University of Southern Mississippi before going to the NFL in 1991. His daughter began playing on the school’s volleyball team in 2017.
Favre said in the statement to Fox News on Tuesday that state agencies provided money to Mississippi Community Education Center, which then gave money to the University of Southern Mississippi “all with the full knowledge and approval of other State agencies,” including the board that governs Mississippi’s eight public universities, the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office.
News outlets have previously reported involvement by the state college board, the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office in approval of money for the volleyball arena.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, October 5, 2022
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304 PM EDT Tue Oct 4 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures in the lower to mid 30s will result in
frost formation.
* WHERE...Jefferson and Lewis counties.
* WHEN...From 2 AM to 8 AM EDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if
left uncovered.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX), a global company focused on accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles (EV), today announces that its subsidiary Solectrac has added seven more certified dealers to its dealer network. To enable dealer expansion, Ideanomics secured strategic financing from global financial solutions provider DLL.
"Our ability to bring on a leading company like DLL as a partner to finance the growth of Solectrac is a validation of our brand and products," says Ideanomics Mobility president Robin Mackie. "It shows that Ideanomics has succeeded in our mission to build Solectrac into a trusted company, underscored by the fact that Solectrac is selling units as fast as they can make them. With more strategic third-party capital, Solectrac can scale faster and get more electric tractors into the hands of customers."
Solectrac can assemble 360 tractors per month and are available at 57 locations across the United States. The newest Solectrac dealers are Taylor Implement Company (Colo. and Kan.), Haney Equipment and Foothills Tractor & Equipment (Ala.), Truck Tops USA and San Joaquin Tractor Co. (Calif.), Wade Tractor & Equipment (Ga.) and Best of Clinton Equipment (N.C.).
The combination of a national dealer network and industry-leading production capacity uniquely positions Solectrac to meet orders from large fleet operators. The company is targeting specialty agriculture, parks, municipalities and university market segments for direct sales.
DLL will serve as a preferred financing partner for Solectrac in the United States. Through financing solutions offered by DLL, dealers of Solectrac will now have access to installment and leasing programs that facilitate the sale of equipment to the end-use customer.
"We are thrilled to partner with Ideanomics and Solectrac to help accelerate the electrification of the tractor industry, and to demonstrate our commitment to sustainability," added Britta McSparen, program manager at DLL. "Through existing relationships and by forging new ones, our partnerships will continue to support customers through this evolution of agriculture and in the future."
The combination of government incentives, volatile diesel fuel costs and corporate commitments to climate actions will accelerate the growth of electric machinery in the off-road market. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), an industry group tracking retail tractor sales, reports that tractor sales with less than 40 PTO hp exceeded 127,000 units so far this year*.
Solectrac offers the e25g in the under 40 PTO hp category. Solectrac electric tractors do everything equivalent to a diesel tractor except better with zero pollution from burning expensive diesel fuel. In 2023, Ideanomics expects to begin assembly of the e75N tractor, as well as introduce new models to the market.
Ideanomics is solving the complexity of fleet electrification by bringing together high-performance electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and financing solutions under one roof. The Company is committed to supporting the growth of Solectrac and views it as a flagship solution for the fast-growing, high-value off-road vehicle market that provides alternatives to diesel engines for sustainable farming.
*Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Ag Tractor and Combine Report, August 2022
About Ideanomics
Ideanomics is a global group with a simple mission: accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles, charging and financing solutions under one roof, we are the one-stop partner needed to simplify the transition to and operation of any EV fleet. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
About DLL
DLL is a global asset finance company for equipment and technology with a managed portfolio of more than EUR 35 billion. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, DLL provides financial solutions to the Agriculture, Food, Healthcare, Clean Technology, Construction, Transportation, Industrial, Office Equipment and Technology industries in more than 30 countries. DLL partners with equipment manufacturers, dealers and distributors, as well as end-customers on a direct basis, to enable businesses to more easily access equipment, technology and software. The company also delivers insights and advice to partners and customers that drive smarter and more economical methods of use. DLL combines customer focus with deep industry knowledge to deliver sustainable solutions for the complete asset life cycle, including commercial finance, retail finance and used equipment finance. DLL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rabobank Group. To learn more about DLL, visit www.dllgroup.com.
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MLB
The March 10 memorandum of understanding for a new collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the players’ association gave the 30 teams the right to sell patch ads on uniforms and sticker ads on helmets. The sides adopted an Aug. 6, 2021, proposal by MLB to amend a section of the Official Baseball Rules which states: “No part of the uniform shall include patches or designs relating to commercial advertisement.”
NFL
CLEVELAND — Deshaun Watson reported for his first offseason program with the Cleveland Browns, who mortgaged their future in acquiring the controversial quarterback in a trade.
With snow falling, Watson arrived at the team’s facility in Berea, Ohio, on Tuesday for the voluntary program. The Browns posted a photo on Twitter of Watson, wearing a heavy winter jacket, before he entered the building.
One of the reasons Watson initially rebuffed the Browns was because of the cold weather.
NBA
BOSTON — Nets guard Kyrie Irving has been fined $50,000 for making obscene gestures and directing profane language toward the crowd during Brooklyn’s Game 1 playoff loss to the Celtics,
League operations president Byron Spruell announced the fines on Tuesday.
Cameras captured Irving flipping his middle finger toward fans as he ran down the court after making a shot in the third quarter. Irving said after the game that his actions were in response to jeers from fans he said crossed the line.
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NEW YORK — Minor league games averaged 2 hours, 39 minutes in the first three days with a pitch clock, down 20 minutes from the prior average this season.
Major League Baseball said Tuesday that the 132 games with a clock averaged 5.11 runs and 15.9 hits, close to the average of 5.13 runs and 16.1 hits for the 335 games without a clock.
The pitch clock enforcement began Friday and data with the clock included games through Sunday.
Time between pitches during a plate appearance was cut from 21.5 seconds to 19.7 seconds, and time between batters was lowered from 43 seconds to 39.7.
AUTO RACING
INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar team owner Beth Paretta announced Tuesday she intends to bring back her all-female team for three races this season but doesn’t intend to compete at next month’s Indianapolis 500.
Swiss driver Simona de Silvestro will pilot the No. 16 Chevrolet at all three stops — June 12 at Road America in Wisconsin, July 3 at Mid-Ohio and Aug. 7 on the streets of Nashville.
Last May, Paretta Autosport worked with series powerhouse Team Penske to get de Silvestro’s car into the Indy 500. This year, she’s working with Ed Carpenter Racing, which already intended to run three cars in the series’ marquee race.
Paretta said running three times rather than once as the fourth car on Carpenter’s team is a better investment toward her goal of making her team a full-time participant in the series.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Ohio State’s athletics department has been given four years probation and hit with other sanctions as a result of self-reported recruiting and policy violations in three women’s sports, including basketball.
The other violations, as outlined in a report issued Tuesday by the NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions, were in the women’s fencing and golf programs between 2015 and 2019. The university had self-reported the violations and in December 2020 imposed a postseason ban for all three sports in 2020-21.
The violations in women’s basketball were related to former associate coach Patrick Klein, who in his August 2019 resignation letter admitted he had violated policies with players and recruits.
The basketball team will have 52 wins vacated and lose regular-season Big Ten titles in 2017 and 2018, as well as the 2018 conference tournament crown.
Violations found in the other two sports included going over set practice times in golf and inducing fencing recruits by giving them free meals, lessons and access to the Ohio State facility.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland has agreed to extend women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese’s contract through the 2028-29 season.
The school announced the move Tuesday. Frese has led Maryland to three Final Fours, including a national championship in 2006. The Terrapins made it to the Sweet 16 this season for the 10th time under Frese.
Maryland has made the NCAA Tournament in 18 of her 20 seasons as coach.
Frese was named the AP’s coach of the year in 2021.
Frese is 592-170 in 23 years as a head coach, including 535-140 at Maryland.
SOCCER
LONDON — Fulham secured an immediate return to the Premier League after a 3-0 win over Preston on Tuesday guaranteed a top-two finish in the League Championship.
The promotion has been powered by Aleksandar Mitrovic’s 40 goals, including two against Preston, and there are still four games remaining.
Marco Silva’s side looks set to go up as champion, with second-place Bournemouth nine points adrift.
TENNIS
Maria Sharapova says she is pregnant.
The five-time Grand Slam tennis champion, who retired from the sport in February 2020, delivered the news via a social media post on Tuesday — her 35th birthday.
She announced her engagement to Alexander Gilkes in December 2020.
CYCLING
LONDON — Former Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins has revealed that he was sexually groomed by a coach when he was 13 years old.
The five-time Olympic champion made the allegation in an interview with Men’s Health UK magazine. He did not identify the coach.
“I was groomed by a coach when I was younger — I was about 13 — and I never fully accepted that,” said the 41-year-old Wiggins, who won the Tour in 2012 and retired four years later.
Asked if he was groomed sexually, Wiggins said: “Yes. It all impacted me as an adult ... I buried it,” preferring not to speak out at the time because of a difficult relationship with his stepfather.
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PHOENIX — Bradley Beal was drafted on his 19th birthday and spent his entire 20s with the Washington Wizards, where he scored a lot of points, enjoyed a little team success, but also suffered through plenty of painful losses.
Beal was introduced as a member of the Phoenix Suns on Thursday at the Footprint Center, more than a week after he waived a no-trade clause that allowed him to be sent to the desert in exchange for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet and a package of future draft picks.
“I feel refreshed, I feel rejuvenated,” Beal said. “This is an exciting moment for me. This is an awesome team.”
Beal is now part of one of the NBA’s most star-packed starting lineups, including 13-time All-Star Kevin Durant, three-time All-Star Devin Booker and former No. 1 draft pick Deandre Ayton. They’ve also got a new coach in Frank Vogel, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to a title in 2020.
“Bradley Beal is one of the best players in the NBA,” Vogel said. “We’re thrilled to have him be a Phoenix Sun with KD and Book. That forms a trio of three of the most prolific scorers in the game. A great two-way center, one of the best two-way centers in the game.
“These pieces are a great foundation for what we hope will be a championship run for this franchise.”
Beal’s arrival marks the latest big move for new owner Mat Ishbia, who has had an extremely eventful tenure since purchasing the franchise from the embattled Robert Sarver in February. Almost immediately after he was introduced, he approved the team's big deal to land Durant at the trade deadline.
A few months later, he got into a brief sideline spat with Nuggets star Nikola Jokic during a playoff game. (The two have since made up.)
Now Ishbia and general manager James Jones have swung a deal that brings Beal and his big scoring numbers across the country. The three-time All-Star has averaged at least 20 points per game in each of the past seven seasons, including a career-high 31.3 points per game during the 2020-21 season.
Beal never got past the second round of the playoffs with the Wizards, but still has plenty of fond memories of his tenure in the nation’s capital.
“I have a lot of emotional ties to that city, my family was established there,” Beal said. “So I just want to take a moment to thank the city of D.C., thank the organization for allowing this partnership to happen.”
But Beal also admits he’s excited about his new challenge. The sharpshooting guard was often the Wizards’ main scoring option, but in Phoenix, he’ll be sharing the load with several other stars.
The Suns are trying to win their first championship since coming to the NBA in 1968. They’ve lost in the Finals three times — in 1976, 1993 and 2021.
“I’m excited to play with two Hall of Famers, I’ve never done that,” Beal said. “I’m excited what that brings. They’ll push me in ways I’ve never been pushed and hopefully I’ll do the same.”
Beal’s arrival also means the Suns will have to engage in some salary cap gymnastics to fill out their roster. The foursome of Durant, Beal, Booker and Ayton will make more than $160 million next season.
A summer of bargain hunting on the free agent market awaits, but that’s a problem to worry about another day.
For now, Beal and the Suns are relishing a roster that looks like it will be among the very best in the league during the upcoming season.
“Hopefully, we can chase this ring,” Beal said.
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A man accused of shooting two adults and a child in Gaston County earlier this week, after a basketball children were playing with rolled into his yard, has turned himself in.
The state House speaker said Republicans have agreed on a proposal to ban abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
A Rocky Mount man is jailed, charged with dog fighting.
Newly introduced federal legislation would strengthen laws against cockfighting and dogfighting in the U.S. It comes less than a month after a cockfight was broken up by deputies in Nash County. | 2023-04-21T12:17:12+00:00 | publicradioeast.org | https://www.publicradioeast.org/2023-04-21/pre-morning-news-brief |
Looking for something to do? Here are some things going on the week of Dec. 9-15 in the Chicago suburbs and northwest Indiana. Events are current as of press time; please check websites for updated information and COVID-19 restrictions.
The richest man in town
Improv Playhouse presents “It’s a Wonderful Life” Dec. 9-18 in Libertyville. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $15-$20 for adults, $7.50-$10 for students. At 735 N. Milwaukee Ave. Call 847-968-4529 or go to improvplayhouse.com.
Happily ever after
Side Street Studio Arts presents “Hall Marked Christmas Improv,” featuring Hallmark Channel holiday movie-style improv, at 8 p.m. Dec. 9-10 in Elgin. Tickets are $15. At 15 Ziegler Court. Call 847-429-2276 or go to sidestreetstudioarts.org/.
Timely tunes
La Porte County Symphony Orchestra presents the 28th Holiday at the Pops at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 in La Porte. Tickets are $5-$15. At La Porte Civic Auditorium, 1001 Ridge St. Call 219-362-9020 or go to lcso.net.
Irish song and dance
A Celtic Angels Christmas Concert, featuring Celtic Knight Dancers, will be held at 8 p.m. Dec. 10 at Gaelic Park in Oak Forest. Tickets are $30. At 6119 W. 147th St. Call 708-687-9323 or go to chicagogaelicpark.com/.
Harmonic holidays
“Together Again for Christmas,” a barbershop-style musical, will be presented at 3 p.m. Dec. 11 at Baker Methodist Church, 307 Cedar St., St. Charles; and 3 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, 500 College Ave. Tickets are $15-$25. Call 815-861-3281 or go to eventbrite.com and search Together Again for Christmas.
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, boosted by a rally on Wall Street, as investors waited for U.S. consumer price data due out later in the day.
“Sentiments are largely tracking the positive handover from Wall Street overnight, although much is still up in the air,” Yeap Jun Rong, a market analyst at IG, said in a commentary.
In a mixed sign of Japan's shaky recovery, government data showed the world's third largest economy grew at an annual pace of 0.6% in October-December, as restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic eased, both abroad and in Japan. Tourism recovered, as did local travel, and exports grew, the Cabinet Office reported.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.6% in morning trading to 27,579.73. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.2% to 7,435.90. South Korea's Kospi added 0.8% to 2,471.38. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.4% to 21,083.61, while the Shanghai Composite was virtually unchanged at 3,282.36.
Shares rose on Wall Street as traders made their final moves ahead of a report that could show whether inflation is cooling in the right way or setting the market up for worse pain. The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% in anticipation of Tuesday’s report on inflation at the consumer level across the country.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.1% to 34,245.93, while the Nasdaq composite rose 1.5% to 11,891.79. The S&P 500 rose 46.83 points to 4,137.29.
Stocks were coming off their worst week in nearly two months, the latest stumble for a market that has struggled for more than a year on worries about high inflation.
The Federal Reserve has aggressively hiked rates to their highest level since 2007 to drive down the worst inflation in generations. High rates can stamp out inflation, but they do so at the risk of sending the economy into a recession and they drag prices for some investments.
Economists expect Tuesday’s report to show inflation slowed to 6.2% in January. That would be down from 6.5% a month before and from a peak of more than 9% in the summer. Perhaps more important than the overall number is what the data show specifically about prices for services outside of housing, such as haircuts or airfares. Inflation has remained stubbornly high there, when it’s started to come down in other areas.
Everyone agrees that inflation is heading in the right direction. The question is how quickly and steadily it will come down to the Fed's target of 2%. The central bank has been consistently saying it plans to keep rates higher for longer to ensure the job is done on inflation.
Yields were mixed Monday ahead of the inflation report. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, dipped to 3.70% from 3.75% late Friday. The two-year yield, which tends to move more on expectations for the Fed, was at 4.54% and close to its highest since November.
All the worries about inflation and rates are happening against the backdrop of a decidedly lackluster earnings reporting season. Companies in the S&P 500 are on track to report a nearly 5% drop in earnings for the final three months of 2022, compared with a year earlier, according to FactSet.
By the count of strategists at Credit Suisse, this is shaping up to be the worst earnings reporting season outside of a recession in 24 years.
Pessimism is also building about earnings for the first three months of 2023.
A continued decline in corporate earnings is one reason strategists at Morgan Stanley are cautious about the rally stocks have made since the start of the year, even if they gave back some of it last week. The S&P 500 is up 7.8% for 2023 so far, though it remains stuck in its "bear market” after falling more than 20% from its high last year.
“Price action is not reflective of the deteriorating fundamentals or the fact that the Fed is hiking during an earnings recession — drivers that should ultimately determine the lows for this bear market later this spring,” the strategists led by Michael Wilson wrote in a report. “Risk-reward is as poor as it’s been in our view.”
The bulk of earnings reports have already come in for this season, with big utility companies and retailers among the companies toward the tail end. This week will include reports from Southern Co., Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.03 to $79.11 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international pricing standard, fell 81 cents to $95.80 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar inched down to 132.07 Japanese yen from 132.42 yen. The euro cost $1.0736, up from $1.0726.
AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed to this report.
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Brookfield theft: Women left Kohl's without paying for athletic clothing
BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Police are asking for the public's help to identify two women who they say shoplifted from the Brookfield Kohl's department store on Tuesday, Aug. 16.
Officials say the two women left the Kohl's on N. 124th Street around 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday with a cart full of junior's athletic clothing – and the women failed to pay for the clothing.
Police say the suspect vehicle was a newer model dark gray Chevy Malibu with no vehicle registration displayed.
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Which Stuart Minion toys are best?
Fictional creatures called minions first appeared in the movie “Despicable Me.” Minions are small and yellow and are shaped like capsules. Most have two large eyes but some have only one, like Stuart Minion. Minions are bald and have no ears or noses. Minions wear blue overalls, black rubber gloves, shoes and goggles.
The three most familiar of the minions are Kevin, Bob and Stuart. Minions are mischief makers and absent minded, but possess exceptional engineering qualities like the STEM scientists they are. If you are looking for a Stuart Minion toy that laughs and giggles, take a look at the The Rise of Gru: Stuart Minion Laugh & Giggle Plush Toy.
What to know before you buy a Stuart Minion toy
“Despicable Me”
The first “Despicable Me” movie was a computer-animated feature film that centered on a reformed super villain named Gru and his minions. The word minions is used to describe followers and underlings of powerful persons. Minions are also referred to as underlings, followers and henchmen.
The good guys
- Felonius Gru was a villain until he adopted three daughters and changed his ways. Now he combats villains with the help of good guys and his minions. Gru is a tall, bald man who dresses in black. He is remarkably strong, agile and athletic and invents weapons like the freeze ray, fart gun, lipstick taser and big blaster cannon. He drives a motorcycle, airship, rocket and flying scooter.
- Margo, Edith and Agnes are Felonious Gru’s adopted daughters who are in turn mature, tomboyish and happy-go-lucky.
- Lucy Wilde is a secret agent who teamed up with Gru to track down a very dangerous super villain. She is a green-eyed, red-headed and freckle-faced martial arts expert who fights villains with a combination of jiu-jitsu, Aztec warfare and street dancing. After having 147 dates with him, she marries Gru and becomes the girls’ new mother.
The villains
- Mr. Perkins is the president of the massive Bank of Evil. He uses his money to fund the schemes of many villains.
- Victor Perkins is the banker’s son and Gru’s rival.
- Miss Hattie is the cruel owner of the orphanage where Gru found and adopted his three daughters. Miss Hattie sends Margo, Edith and Agnes out to sell cookies and makes them sleep in cardboard boxes when they fail to meet their quotas.
- Balthazar Bratt is a former child star whose television series was canceled when he reached puberty. Bratt uses a giant robot equipped with a laser and inflatable bubble gum ammunition to extract revenge on Hollywood.
The Minions
The minions are the several hundred minor characters who play minor roles in the “Despicable Me” film series. In addition to all their other quirky characteristics, the minions have uncontrollable cravings for bananas. All minions are loyal to Gru and Dr. Nefario and are capable of using computers and building and operating weapons.
Stuart Minion
Stuart Minion is a short, one-eyed minion who is friendly, playful and intelligent, although considered by some to be a bit of a slacker. Stuart is skilled at video games and plays the ukulele.
What to look for in quality Stuart Minion toys
Stuart Minion plush toys
Younger kids favor plush toys they can carry around, cuddle with or use as pillows.
Stuart Minion action figures
There are a few Stuart Minion toys and sets of minion action figures.
Stuart Minion LEGOs
Stuart Minion LEGO toys combine the loveable creatures with STEM learning in building kits that teach kids how to follow instructions and solve problems.
Stuart Minion Funko POP!
Funko Pop! manufactures licensed plastic figurines, action figures, plush toys and limited pop culture collectibles.
How much you can expect to spend on Stuart Minion toys
Most Stuart Minion toys cost from $10-$20. A few Stuart Minion LEGO toys cost as much as $50.
Minion FAQ
What language do the minions speak?
A. The minions speak mostly Minionese, a mash-up of several languages combined together to create a mostly unintelligible gibberish. Occasionally they speak English, too.
Are all minions the same?
A. All minions have the same basic shape and wear the same clothing, but are different heights and have either one or two eyes. Each has some distinguishing feature that may be too subtle for parents to notice. All are lovably clumsy and eager to serve evil bosses.
What are the best Stuart Minion toys to buy?
Top Stuart Minion toy
The Rise of Gru Stuart Minion Laugh & Giggle Plush Toy by Just Play
What you need to know: This 8-inch tall one-eyed Stuart Minion plush toy laughs and giggles when you press his hand.
What you’ll love: The most famous of the yellow, capsule shaped minions comes dressed in the minion uniform of blue overalls, black shoes and gloves, and a one-eyed goggle. This plush toy is also available in Bob and Kevin versions or as a set of three.
What you should consider: The head is a bit heavy and makes it hard for Stuart to sit up straight on his own.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Stuart Minion toy for money
Loud N’ Rowdy Stuart Minion Talking Action Figure
What you need to know: Stuart speaks 10 words of gibberish and comes to life with real action.
What you’ll love: Kids ages 4 and up love the cannon that fires a fart bomb and a boot projectile accessories. Battle with the Vicious 6 and take them down minion-style. Engage Stuart’s action and watch as his eyes follow along, laughing and yelling. This Stuart Minion toy is compatible with Action Minions, Movie Moment Minions and the Wild Rider RC vehicle sold separately.
What you should consider: The three LR44 batteries are included, but will need to be replaced when they die.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
LEGO Minions Unstoppable Bike Chase Minions Toy Building Kit 75549
What you need to know: Kids build their own motorbike and rocket skates to help Gru and the minions.
What you’ll love: Gru is on one of his missions and the kids help by adding the minions to the chase and playing out scenes from one of the “Despicable Me” movies. This 136-piece toy set includes figures of minions Stuart and Bob as well as an exclusive Gru LEGO minifigure.
What you should consider: This toy building kit is best for kids ages 6 and older.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Reports: California homicides, violent crime rose in 2021
By STEFANIE DAZIO and DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homicides in California increased again last year — as did other violent crimes — amid rising frustration as the state’s top Democrats are seeking to keep their jobs in upcoming elections.
The state Department of Justice released its annual crime reports Thursday, showing upticks in violent crime and property crime rates in 2021 even as the total arrest rate decreased.
Californians across the state have been deluged with headlines about rising crime in recent months, from rampant car break-ins and drug use in San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin district to street racing and illegal takeovers across a new $588-million bridge in Los Angeles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta are among the Democrats facing challengers in November and are struggling to explain how their policies are keeping the state safe. San Francisco’s progressive district attorney was ousted from his post in June, and his counterpart in LA just survived a second recall attempt.
Three Bonta opponents in the June primary all tried to make an issue of rising crime and the Democrat’s support for criminal justice reforms when he was in the Legislature. But Bonta still advanced with nearly 60% of the vote in heavily Democratic California. But his Republican opponent in November’s general election — former federal prosecutor and former assistant U.S. attorney general Nathan Hochman — has continued criticizing Bonta on crime.
“Californians deserve safe streets and an Attorney General committed to doing the job,” California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson said in a statement earlier this month. “Rob Bonta is a shameful example of what happens when you place radical ideology ahead of public safety.”
Bonta was in San Diego Thursday to tout the state’s tough gun control laws, which he says are keeping homicides from being worse.
“We all know the gun violence epidemic plaguing communities across our nation is sickening and it’s unacceptable,” Bonta said, without addressing the increase in homicides and violent crime in his office’s reports.
He added: “You are less likely to get shot and killed in California than in Texas, than in Florida, than in nearly every other state in the nation because of our common-sense gun laws.”
The red states are also favorite targets of Newsom, who is overwhelmingly favored to beat little-known Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle in November. But Newsom also is seen as a potential White House candidate and high crime at home would be an inviting target for opponents.
Thursday’s reports came two months after Bonta’s department wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in state-operated databases. The state’s criminal justice data portal was offline for weeks in the aftermath and only relaunched Thursday after the 2021 reports were released.
There were 2,361 homicides in the California last year, surpassing 2020’s figure by more than 150 deaths, according to the reports. While the number remains far below the historic high — 4,095 homicides in 1993 — last year was the deadliest year since 2007.
Three-quarters of 2021’s homicides involved a firearm, and more than eight in 10 of the victims were male. Nearly half of the people killed last year were Hispanic and nearly 30% were Black. By contrast, about 5% of the state’s population is Black and about 39% Latino, according to the 2020 census.
About 40% were killed by strangers, 40% by friends or acquaintances and the remainder by a relative — a spouse, parent or child, the reports state. More than half of women were killed in a residence, while more than 40% of male victims died on the street.
“Today’s report further solidifies what decades of research have shown: More guns on our streets leads to more gun violence; and community safety is inextricably tied to economic, racial, and social equity,” said Anne Irwin, founder and executive director of Smart Justice California, in a statement.
The state’s violent crime rate increased from 437 per 100,000 people in 2020 to 466.2 per 100,000 in 2021. The property crime rate ticked up 3% in 2021 after hitting a historic low in 2020.
Meanwhile, the total arrest rate decreased — from 2,812.3 per 100,000 people in 2020 to 2,606.3 per 100,000 in 2021 — as part of a downward trend since 2004.
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Thompson reported from Sacramento, California. | 2022-08-26T00:02:55+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/08/25/reports-california-homicides-violent-crime-rose-in-2021/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani health authorities on Friday confirmed the seventh case of polio so far this year, saying it was registered in the country’s former Taliban stronghold in the northwest, a region bordering Afghanistan.
The outbreak, after the first polio case of 2022 was registered in the same region in April, is a blow to the Islamic nation’s efforts to eradicate the disease, which can cause severe paralysis in children.
All seven cases have been reported in North Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where the government has launched an investigating into the outbreak. Parents in the region often refuse to get their children inoculated.
Pakistan’s Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel issued a statement Friday, saying authorities were taking steps to protect the gains made by the government’s polio eradication program in recent years. He urged parents to get their children vaccinated.
Pakistan’s anti-polio campaigns are regularly marked by violence. Islamic militants often target polio teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
North Waziristan, a former tribal region, was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban until recently, when the military claimed to have cleared the region of militants following several widescale operations there. However, attacks still persist.
Pakistan has for the past 25 years carried out regular inoculation campaigns in which health workers go door-to-door to give polio drops to children. Most of the workers are women, as they can get better access to mothers and children. The anti-polio teams are often escorted by security forces.
So far this year, the government carried out three nationwide anti-polio drives — in January, March and in May. During the March campaign, gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a female polio worker as she was returning home after a day of vaccinations. And in January, gunmen shot and killed a police officer providing security for polio vaccination workers, also in the country’s northwest.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in the world where polio remains endemic. In 2021, Pakistan reported only one case, raising hopes it was close to eradicating polio. | 2022-06-03T23:03:46+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/health/pakistan-reports-7th-polio-case-of-this-year-amid-outbreak/ |
COBB, Calif. (KRON) — Three earthquakes hit Northern California on Wednesday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Three quakes, ranging in magnitude from 3.4 to 3.5, struck just north of Cobb and The Geysers. The area is northwest of Geyserville, about a 2-hour drive north of San Francisco.
The first two quakes hit within the same minute at 4:59 p.m. The first struck 4.1 miles outside of The Geysers. The second quake followed 45 seconds later about 3.7 miles outside of Cobb. The third quake shook The Geysers area a second time at 5:02 p.m. | 2022-10-20T02:34:06+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/3-consecutive-earthquakes-strike-northern-california/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows no signs of slowing down, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned Friday.
“High volumes of methamphetamine continue to be produced and trafficked in and from the region while the production of ketamine and other synthetic drugs has expanded,” said the agency’s 2023 report, Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia — the first since the borders reopened post-COVID-19 pandemic.
The report shows a pattern of criminal groups reestablishing themselves to the pre-pandemic stage, and significantly changing trafficking routes.
The lion’s share of methamphetamine, in the form of tablets and crystal meth, comes from the area known as the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet. The production of opium and heroin used to flourish there, mainly because of the lawlessness around Myanmar’s remote eastern Shan State. The area, much of it jungle, remains the domain of various ethnic minority militias, some of them partners in the drug trade.
“Methamphetamine continues to be the most used drug in East and Southeast Asia and that use has increased over the past decade,” the report says.
It’s also easier to make on an industrial scale than the labor-intensive cultivation of opium, from which heroin is derived. The drug is then distributed by land, sea and air all around Asia and the Pacific.
The report says the control that major organized crime groups have over territories “has allowed them to massively increase and diversify supply for the purposes of market expansion and domination.”
“The most powerful regional trafficking networks are able to operate with a high degree of certainty they can and will not be stopped, and they are able to dictate the terms and conditions of the market as a result,” it said.
There have been record methamphetamine seizures almost every year for the past decade in East and Southeast Asia, but the latest data suggest that the total drugs seized declined in 2022 to 151 tons, according to the report.
A decline in seizures is often associated with weakened production, but the report says “other indicators — arrests, street availability, purity, record low wholesale and street prices, and treatment admissions — indicate the supply has remained very high or unchanged.”
Jeremy Douglas, UNODC regional representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, particularly noted at a news conference Friday in Bangkok that the situation in Myanmar’s Shan State was “quite concerning” due to the past year’s unprecedented drop in drug seizures there, despite being “the epicenter of production for Asia Pacific,” which he said was directly related to the conflicts and instability in the area.
The report suggests the overall decrease in seizures was due to traffickers changing their smuggling routes from land to maritime to evade authorities, explaining that shipments are made by sea from Myanmar’s coastal regions.
Thailand recently made two major busts of crystal meth that was expected to be transported to a third country by sea. On Tuesday, nearly a ton of the drugs was seized off the coast in the Gulf of Thailand, which Thai authorities suspected were en route to be loaded to a bigger ship in international waters. Drugs that were seized in several recent raids were supposedly bound for Australia, Thai authorities have said.
“Traffickers are a little more successful last year than in the previous year, and they were able to connect to market mainly using maritime routes that were not noticed by people over the course of the year,” Douglas said.
The U.N. office also expressed concern that Cambodia has become “a key transit and to some extent production point for the regional drug trade.”
It suggests that even though there has been consolidation of synthetic drug production in the Golden Triangle, that development may reflect “some diversification of production and ‘hedging’ by organized crime.”
Industrial-scale ketamine labs and facilities for processing and storing the substance were found across Cambodia, raising serious concern throughout the region, it said.
“Organized crime groups have adopted a supply-driven market expansion modality similar to the approach taken to expand the methamphetamine market in the region that started in 2015,” warns the report about the trade in ketamine, which has legal use as an anesthetic.
Landlocked Laos, adjacent to both Shan State and northern Thailand, is another weak link in the fight against the drug trade, and “intelligence officials have come to the conclusion that supply is transiting the country with little resistance,” says the report.
The report says that in addition to becoming an increasingly important route for drugs trafficked out of Myanmar, meth tablet production was also detected there in recent years.
It says that meth and other drugs produced in Shan State laboratories usually enter Laos by crossing the Mekong river from ports “under the control or influence of major non-state armed groups,” naming some of them: ethnic militias including the United Wa State Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the National Democratic Alliance Army, “and their allies who work in partnership with transnational organized crime syndicates.”
The case of Laos also illustrates the difficulties of blocking the ingredients needed to produce the drugs from reaching the illegal labs.
Laos, it says, is becoming an increasingly important route for chemicals reportedly used in drug production in Myanmar, entering the country through Vietnam, Thailand, and China.
“Efforts to disrupt chemical flows into Myanmar’s drug-producing areas also continue to be impeded by slow and bureaucratic inter-agency coordination, inadequate resources and personnel, and limited cross border cooperation,” the report says, and traffickers are finding alternatives for obtaining their supplies.
The main chemicals needed to make methamphetamines are generally under tight international controls, so illicit laboratories in recent years have moved to using chemicals that are not so closely regulated. The report says that the logistics of obtaining such chemicals have also been expedited by online ordering, especially from suppliers willing to disguise the nature of the transactions. | 2023-06-02T16:25:45+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/un-anti-drug-agency-warns-there-is-no-let-up-in-methamphetamine-trade-from-asias-golden-triangle/ |
A woman's leg had to be amputated in a Thai airport after it was trapped by a movable walkway Thursday, officials said.
The 57-year-old Thai passenger was due to board a morning flight from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to the southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province when she was caught by the walkway in the airport’s Terminal 2. A medical team there eventually had to cut her left leg off from above the knee, according to the airport's officials.
“On behalf of the Don Mueang International Airport, I’d like to express my deepest condolences regarding the accident,” Don Mueang Airport Director Karun Thanakuljeerapat said during a news conference. “I’d like to insist that we will ensure that no such accident will happen again.”
He said the airport will be fully responsible for the woman's medical costs and will be open for negotiations on other compensations.
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The medical team at the hospital she was initially sent to informed Karun that they could not reattach her leg, but the woman requested to be transferred to another hospital to assess the possibility, he said.
Images shared online showed the lower part of the woman’s leg trapped beneath the belt at the end of the walkway as she was being assisted by airport staff. A suitcase lying near her was missing two wheels, and the yellow comb-like plates were seen broken off from where they typically cover the edge of the belt where the moving walkway ends.
Karun said the suitcase wheels were found underneath the belt, but it was unclear how it might relate to the accident. He said walkways at the airport are checked daily, with an additional monthly inspection. He said the walkway has been closed and a team of engineers was inspecting it to determine the cause of the accident.
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The walkway was manufactured by Japanese company Hitachi and was installed in 1996, the airport director said, adding that there is a plan to request a budget to change to a newer model in 2025.
In 2019, a passenger’s shoe was damaged after it was caught in the airport’s moving walkway in Terminal 1. The airport released a statement afterward saying the faulty walkway was repaired and reopened in about an hour. | 2023-06-29T17:22:27+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/womans-leg-is-amputated-after-being-trapped-under-a-moving-walkway-in-a-thai-airport/3062827/ |
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Two teams that have played below expectations will begin a three-game series on Tuesday night.
The Philadelphia Phillies (25-28) will travel to Citi Field in Queens, New York, to play the New York Mets (28-28). TBS will carry the 7:10 p.m. EDT game, with Sling TV (first-month discount) and DirecTV Steam live-streaming it.
Expectations around the Phillies were high coming off a National League title and a World Series appearance, where they lost to the Houston Astros in six games. They added All-Star shortstop Trea Turner from the Dodgers and supplemented their pitching staff by signing starter Taijuan Walker and relievers Craig Kimbrel and Gregory Soto, among others.
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But injuries to several of the team’s starters and relievers plus a succession of poor performances have plagued the pitching staff since the season’s start, and the Phils enter tonight’s game 23rd in the league in earned run average (4.63) and 24th in batting average against (.254).
While they’ve hit pretty well for average (.257, 10th in the league), they tend to leave a lot of runners on base (22nd in runs score) and have hit far fewer homers (55, 22nd in the league) than expected. Nicholas Castellanos has hit better after a disappointing 2022 season, with 18 doubles, a triple, five home runs and 28 RBI while hitting .300. Bryson Stott is 13-for-37 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.
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As for the Mets, they also haven’t hit like expected with a few exceptions: Pete Alonso has four doubles, a triple and 20 home runs this season and Francisco Alvarez is 13-for-35 with three doubles, five home runs and 13 RBI over the last 10 games. Overall, they are producing a bit more than the Phils, ranking 11th in on-base percentage (..327), 16th in runs (243) and 14th in homers (62).
With starters Max Scherzer (8 starts) and Justin Verlander (5 starts) limited so far by injuries, the Mets have been far less fearsome on the mound than they looked coming into the season. Tyler Megill (5-3, 4.67 ERA) and Kodai Senga (4.3, 3.94) have helped plug some holes and David Robertson (2-0, 1.61, 8 saves) has done something as a reliever for the Mets that he couldn’t do for the Phils: get people out.
Ranger Suarez (0-1, 9.82 ERA, 2.00 WHIP, 13 strikeouts) will get the start for the Phils against Senga.
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What: Philadelphia Phillies (25-28, fourth in the NL East) vs. New York Mets (27-27, third in the NL East)
Where: Citi Field, Queens, New York
When: 7:10 p.m. EDT Tuesday
TV: TBS
Live stream: Sling TV (first-month discount) and DirecTV Steam
Odds: Mets -135; over/under 8.5 | 2023-05-30T19:45:50+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/phillies/2023/05/how-to-watch-phillies-at-mets-53023-details-time-free-live-stream.html |
DALLAS, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Griffin Dewatering ("Griffin"), a portfolio company of Crossplane Capital ("Crossplane"), a Dallas-based private equity firm, has acquired the Pump & Integrity Rental segment ("Pump & Integrity") of Cross Country Infrastructure Services.
Originally founded in 1978, Pump & Integrity is a leading specialty pump and equipment rental and solutions provider serving customers in the industrial, commercial, construction, and energy & renewables end markets. Pump & Integrity's fleet of rental pumps and ancillary equipment, together with its operational and technical expertise, provides mission critical pump-based systems and solutions across a broad spectrum of applications including water transfer, bypass and pipeline maintenance.
"The acquisition of Pump & Integrity is an important step in positioning Griffin as a mission critical, comprehensive water management platform with a national footprint," said Mike Sullivan, Partner of Crossplane Capital. "Pump & Integrity brings a talented management team and a fleet of specialized equipment to Griffin that will allow the combined company to provide deep capabilities for both ground and surface water management."
David Singleton, President and CEO of Griffin stated, "We are excited to welcome the Pump & Integrity team to Griffin. Griffin and Pump & Integrity share a common culture centered around providing our customers the technical expertise required to solve their fluid management needs. From our 17 combined branch locations, we will be able to offer pump system design, rentals and service across the country."
"The diverse array of applications and new end markets Griffin will be able to address going forward positions the company as a uniquely strategic solutions provider of rental focused pump services," said Brian Hegi, Managing Partner of Crossplane Capital. "The acquisition of Pump & Integrity allows Griffin to make an aggressive move further into the high margin specialty equipment rental business that accompanies the complex dewatering and water treatment services it provides today."
Founded in 1934, Griffin Dewatering is the largest provider of groundwater control solutions in the United States and is consistently ranked on the ENR Top 600 Specialty Contractors list. Griffin's extensive experience and knowledge of the country's hydrogeology allows for the efficient design and permitting of groundwater control systems at a local level for many of the country's premier general contractors. Griffin manufactures the specialized pump and equipment packages used in its complex dewatering systems that serve to reduce risks to construction project schedules, assets and personnel. Further, Griffin water filtration and treatment systems are packaged and ready to install alongside its pumping equipment to provide a comprehensive water management solution. For more information, visit www.griffindewatering.com.
Formed in 1978 as Power Associates International, Pump & Integrity provides mission critical equipment and services to customers in diverse fluid pumping and pipeline maintenance applications across civil, municipal, industrial, renewable energy and upstream and midstream energy end-markets. Pump & Integrity offers a broad fleet of specialized rental equipment including centrifugal pumps, reciprocating pumps, pig launchers, pig receivers, and bulk assets such as pipe, hose, and fittings. Additionally, through its in-house engineering and application expertise, Pump & Integrity provides operational and technical services including pump system solutions and design.
Launched in 2018, Crossplane Capital is a Dallas-based private equity firm that makes control investments in niche manufacturing, value-added distribution and industrial business services companies. The firm seeks to partner with lower-middle market companies to enhance financial performance and generate strategic value creation. For more information, please visit www.crossplanecapital.com.
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Military widows and widowers can lose military benefits if they remarry before age 55. NPR's A Martinez talks to Military Times reporter Leo Shane III about attempts to end the remarriage penalty.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Don’t feed the bears!
Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for nearly a century at national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and for decades in areas where urban development increasingly invaded native wildlife habitat.
But don’t feed the birds? That may be a different story — at least for one bird species at Lake Tahoe.
Snowshoe and cross-country ski enthusiasts routinely feed the tiny mountain chickadees high above the north shore of the alpine lake on the California-Nevada border. The black-capped birds of Chickadee Ridge will even perch on extended hands to snatch offered seeds.
New research from University of Nevada scientists found that supplementing the chickadees’ natural food sources with food provided in feeders or by hand did not negatively impact them, as long as proper food is used and certain rules are followed.
“It’s a wonderful experience when the birds fly around and land on your hand to grab food. We call it ‘becoming a Disney princess,’” said Benjamin Sonnenberg, a biologist/behavioral ecologist who co-authored the six-year study.
But he also recognized “there’s always the question of when it is appropriate or not appropriate to feed birds in the wild.”
State wildlife officials said this week they generally frown on feeding wildlife. But Nevada Department of Wildlife spokeswoman Ashley Sanchez acknowledged concerns about potential harm are based on speculation, not scientific data.
The latest research project under the wings of Professor Vladimir Pravosudov’s Chickadee Cognition Lab established feeders in the Forest Service’s Mount Rose Wilderness and tracked populations of mountain chickadees at two elevations — both those that did and didn’t visit feeders.
“If we saw increases in the population size or decreases in the population size, that could mean we were hurting the animals by feeding them,” co-author Joseph Welklin said. “Our study shows that feeding these mountain chickadees in the wild during the winter has no effect on their population dynamics.”
Sonnenberg said he understood concerns about supplementing food for wild creatures at Tahoe, where bears attracted to garbage get into trouble that sometimes turns fatal, and not for humans. The bears may ultimately be killed because they no longer fear people. He grew up in Bozeman, Montana, and has fond memories of grizzly and black bears at Yellowstone National Park where he learned at an early age “not to intentionally or to accidentally feed them.”
“Feeding wildlife is context-specific and comes with nuance,” he said.
Bear-human conflicts were extremely rare at Tahoe when Ranger Smith started battling Yogi and Boo-Boo over “pic-a-nic” baskets at fictional Jellystone Park in the popular cartoon that debuted in 1960. But between 1960 and 1980 the human population around Lake Tahoe exploded from 10,000 to 50,000 — 90,000 in the summer. Peak days now approach 300,000 visitors.
The growth spurred more development encroaching on native bear habitat, which led some so-called “garbage bears” to become dependent on unsecured trash for food. In a few cases, wildlife officials have blamed resulting bear deaths on north Tahoe residents feeding bears in their backyards.
“Should you feed the bears? Of course not,” Sonnenberg said. “But given the millions of people that are feeding birds around the world, understanding the impact of this food on wild populations is important, especially in a changing world.”
Mountain chickadees are of particular interest because they’re among the few avian species that hunker down for the cold Sierra winters instead of migrating to a warmer climate. They stash away tens of thousands of food items every fall then return to the hidden treasure throughout the winter to survive.
They’re “prolific scatter hoarders and rely on specialized spatial memory abilities to recover cached food from their environment during harsh winter months,” according to the findings published last month in the journal Ornithology.
“When they come to your hand and grab a food item,” Sonnenberg said, “if they fly away into the woods and you can’t see them anymore, they are likely storing that food for later.”
Their visits to feeders instead of tapping their own stash, the study said, “may be partially driven by the seemingly compulsive-like nature of caching behavior, as chickadees will cache available resources until they are depleted.”
The project included scientists from Canada’s University of Western Ontario’s Department of Psychology, Kennesaw State University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology in Georgia and the University of Oklahoma’s Biological Survey.
Sanchez said the Nevada Department of Wildlife’s concerns include observations the chickadees are exhibiting a level of tameness around potential predators — humans — which could make them more susceptible to other predators in nature.
She also said in an email the number of people hand-feeding the birds at Chickadee Ridge has increased significantly in recent years, “which means the odds that somebody will feed them inappropriate food items or handle them inappropriately has also increased.”
Sonnenberg added in an email the researchers are “not directly advocating for or against the feeding of chickadees at Chickadee Ridge.”
But “what our results do show is that this extra food does not cause chickadee populations in the Sierra Nevada to boom (increase to densities that could be harmful) or bust (decrease dramatically due to harmful effects),” he wrote.
Anyone feeding the birds should only provide food similar to what is found in their natural environment such as unsalted pine nuts or black-oil sunflower seeds, never bread or other human food, he said.
“And always be respectful of the animal,” Sonnenberg said. “Behave like you’re in their house and you’re visiting them.” | 2023-02-11T16:00:11+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/science/ap-science/ap-dont-feed-the-bears-but-birds-ok-new-tahoe-research-shows/ |
Instagram testing new feature that lets users copy templates from other reels: report
Instagram users may have a new feature soon that lets them make reels from other users’ posts.
According to a report from Business Insider, Instagram is trying out a new template allowing posters to make new video reels from other reel formats. The new reels could then go on Instagram feeds.
The templates feature would let users put their clips into pre-set frames. The company says the pre-sets help to prevent the use of other third-party apps or tutorials.
Instagram hopes it will motivate its users to create more original content.
The feature is in its testing phase and only available to a few creators at this time. Tech Crunch notes that it’s similar to templates found on TikTok, where users can place photos into a pre-set format.
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The news comes just weeks after Instagram announced it was bringing back the ability to see news feeds in chronological order.
Users can now select the "Instagram" tab at the top left of their home page to switch between Following and Favorites.
Favorites will show you the latest from a list of accounts you curate while Following shows posts from people you exclusively follow.
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MIAMI, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveHire Ltd. (ASX:LVH), a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform connecting companies and candidates, today announced the launch of the global Thrive Partner Network, bringing together the best technologies and service providers to deliver total talent acquisition and direct sourcing solutions with an award-winning candidate experience for hiring teams and candidates.
LiveHire's Thrive Partner Network will drive stronger collaboration and partnerships between leading organizations to bring LiveHire's award-winning experiences to candidates and hiring professionals across the world. The partner network will positively lend itself to supporting clients who are looking to implement and maintain end-to-end workforce solutions that deliver outstanding results.
"It is our mission to empower the flow of the world's talent and we do that through a best-of-breed recruitment and talent mobility software." says Christy Forest, LiveHire CEO. "Our Thrive Partner Network consists of the best technology and service providers who enable organizations to build a full recruitment technology stack that meets their unique business needs."
The LiveHire Thrive Partner Network brings three types of formal partners into the fold:
- Technology Partners that provide bespoke products that optimize the recruitment process and solve unique HR and business needs. Our technology partners consist of integrations and trusted best-in-class providers from technical & cultural assessments, background and reference checks, sourcing, talent marketplaces, HRIS's, VMS's, video interviews and all the way to onboarding. This category of partners includes leading technology leaders and ISVs: SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Fieldglass, Beeline, VectorVMS, Renhead, Glider AI, HireVue, Enboarder, XRef, Criteria, MyInterview and more.
- Transformation Partners that support clients to help with HR and digital transformation projects, implementing direct sourcing technologies and to achieve their hiring goals. Our transformation partners are trusted providers that deliver on the promise of optimizing your workforce strategy by providing innovative solutions, improved processes, and ongoing development. This category includes QuantumWork Advisory, TalentBelt and more.
- RPOs/MSPs/Curation Partners: LiveHire's partnership with leading RPOs and MSPs is an essential and integral part of delivering a talent pipeline, leveraging the employer brand for private talent pools or building public talent pools with dedicated talent curation services. This category includes leading organizations like TAPFIN, AMS, HudsonRPO, Atrium, HireGenics, Viventis and more. LiveHire's RPO, MSP and curation partners have achieved amazing results through the LiveHire platform.
a. Komatsu partnered with HudsonRPO and integrated LiveHire with SAP SuccessFactors to deliver an end-to-end solution for their entire workforce. By using the LiveHire platform and working with HudsonRPO, Komatsu reduced their reliance on paid advertising and recruitment agencies, found a technology to support their Employer Value Proposition and diversity goals, and decreased the time it takes to fill vacancies. Komatsu achieved a 62% reduction in time to hire, 3x the percentage of hires from referred candidates and 30% of their internal hires from their Talent Community.
b. A Canadian government healthcare body partnered with a curation partner to rapidly hire hundreds of contact tracers to combat COVID-19. During the project, the curation team achieved a median time to submit of 3 days. This rapid, high-volume hiring project was heavily supported by LiveHire's two-way messaging, resulting in a median response time of only 1 hour from candidates.
The LiveHire Thrive Partner Network, paired with the integration marketplace and LiveHire's open APIs, offers clients the flexibility to create a best-in-class tech stack supported by market leading service partners that work with LiveHire.
"The LiveHire Thrive Partner ecosystem and alliances is designed to drive innovation through strong collaboration with leading organizations and expand the capabilities of the platform and tools that hiring teams use regularly." said Dave Ghosh, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances and Channel Sales at LiveHire. "The partner network will create a positive impact on the lives of candidates and hiring teams as they attract, engage and recruit talent using one unified platform for unprecedented recruiting excellence."
"LiveHire's Thrive Partner ecosystem uniquely addresses the universal workforce challenges for companies," says Jake Ebenhoch, Head of Business Development at QuantumWork Advisory. "QuantumWork Advisory is proud to be Thrive's strategic advisory and transformation partner that uses Design Thinking methodology to evaluate current friction points across people, process, and technology. The recommendations help global organizations create business justifications with practical go-forward strategies while also driving the implementation of market-leading technologies across their recruitment and contingent workforce practices."
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‘Lady of the Dunes’ identified nearly 50 years after killing
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) — Officials used investigative genealogy to identify a woman whose mutilated body was found on the Cape Cod National Seashore nearly 50 years ago, solving the mystery of the “Lady of the Dunes” that had stumped authorities for decades.
The woman has been identified as Ruth Marie Terry of Tennessee, who was 37 when she was killed, officials said Monday. The news was delivered to her family Monday morning, according to Joseph Bonavolonta, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston division.
Authorities hope the woman’s identity may help unravel one of Massachusetts’ most famous unsolved murders.
Her body was found in the dunes in Provincetown in July 1974. She was naked on a beach blanket with her hands severed — so she could not be identified by her fingerprints, officials believe. Her skull was crushed and she was nearly decapitated. The cause of death was determined to be a blow to the head and authorities believe she was killed several weeks before her body was found.
“This is, without a doubt, a major break in the investigation that will hopefully bring all of us closer to identifying the killer,” Bonavolonta said.
Authorities identified her through investigative genealogy, the use of DNA analysis in combination with traditional genealogy research and historical records, Bonavolonta said. Officials released few details about Terry except to say that she was a daughter, sister, aunt, wife and mother and had ties to California, Massachusetts and Michigan.
“Now that we have reached this pivotal point, investigators and analysts will turn their attention to conducting logical investigative steps that include learning more about her as well as working to identify who is responsible for her murder,” Bonavolonta said.
She was the oldest unidentified homicide victim in Massachusetts. Authorities for decades tried to identify her and her killer by exhuming her remains, performing clay model facial reconstruction, and releasing age-regression drawings of her face. Investigators had long said she had long red or auburn hair and that they believed she was somewhere between 20 to 40 years old.
The FBI released a flyer with pictures of Terry and are asking anyone with information about the case to contact authorities.
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Health, Wellbeing, and Navigation Leader Recognized for Innovative Approach to Engagement and Tackling Healthcare Market Challenges
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Pulse, the leading global digital-first health and wellbeing company, today announced that it has been recognized on Fast Company's second annual Brands That Matter list, honoring brands that communicate and demonstrate brand purpose. These companies and nonprofits have achieved relevance through cultural impact and social engagement, and authentically communicated their missions and ideals. Virgin Pulse was selected for its innovative approach to health and wellbeing engagement, and tackling the challenges of today's healthcare market.
"Virgin Pulse is a brand that matters because engagement matters," said Chris Michalak, CEO of Virgin Pulse. "The only way we're going to move the needle in healthcare is to get people more proactively involved in their health – taking action every day to be healthier, understanding their benefits, managing their conditions, and navigating costs and providers. We make it easy and engaging for members, while also delivering real results and measurable value for businesses and their people. Thank you to the Fast Company team for this honor, and an even bigger thank you to the Virgin Pulse team for your passion – what you do matters!"
Serving more than 6,000 clients, including 25% of the Fortune 500 and four of the top five national health plans, Virgin Pulse reaches more than 150 million people to drive health actions that matter. Its Homebase for Health® platform serves as a one-stop-shop for all things health, wellbeing, and navigation, providing employers, health plans, and health systems with a total solution that drives outcomes for their business and their people. This includes VP Navigate, Virgin Pulse's recently enhanced benefits navigation and advocacy solution that helps members understand how to get quality care with confidence and cost clarity.
Virgin Pulse combines a self-service digital experience with guidance from live experts to deliver world-class engagement – with millions of members returning an average of six times a day to the platform's programs, partners, coaches, and resources. By leveraging a proprietary combination of behavior science, data on over 275 million people, and incentives that are motivating for members, Virgin Pulse has a sustained continuous engagement of 50% – well above standard wellbeing solutions. By delivering an engaging employee experience, Virgin Pulse is helping organizations improve outcomes (70% improvement in clinical health metrics among high-risk populations) and increase retention (by up to 48%).
"Changing business for good begins with prioritising your employees' health and wellbeing. I've always said that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your business. Virgin Pulse helps companies create thriving workplaces where employees can take charge of their own health journey and are engaged and empowered to bring their best selves to work every day. I'm so proud to see Virgin Pulse recognised as a brand that matters," said Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group.
The final Brands That Matter list, which includes large multinational conglomerates, small-but-mighty companies, and nonprofits, recognizes 144 brands that give people compelling reasons to care about them—and offer inspiration for others to buy in. All 144 have found an ability to forge an emotional connection with customers, whether leading on the environment or pop culture, engaging B2B customers, or responding meaningfully to current events. Fast Company editors judged each brand on relevancy, cultural impact, ingenuity, and business impact to compile the list. Virgin Pulse is in good company with other highly impactful, recognizable brands such as Duolingo, Lowe's, The North Face, Quaker, and The Trevor Project. Click here to see the complete list.
The November issue of Fast Company magazine honoring all companies on the Brands That Matter list is available online now and will be on newsstands beginning November 1, 2022.
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Virgin Pulse is the leading digital-first health and wellbeing company that empowers organizations across the globe to activate populations, improve health outcomes, and reduce spend in an era of accelerating cost and complexity. Virgin Pulse's Homebase for Health® connects data, people, and technology to deliver high tech, human touch experiences that engage and reward individual journeys. Virgin Pulse impacts over 100 million people across 190 countries by helping Fortune 500, national health plans, and many other organizations change lives – and businesses – for good. For more tips and insights, connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is making an in-person push for Gov. Brian Kemp's reelection a day before the Republican incumbent faces his biggest challenge from a candidate backed by Pence's old boss.
Pence was scheduled to rally with Kemp in suburban Atlanta on Monday evening. Ex-President Donald Trump, meanwhile, planned to hold a telephone rally in the evening to champion the candidacy of former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Trump urged Perdue to enter the race as retribution for Kemp not going along with Trump’s effort to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in Georgia in 2020.
More than 850,000 people already voted early, including more than 483,000 who chose a Republican ballot and almost 369,000 who chose a Democratic ballot. Georgia has no party registration, so voters can choose which primary to vote in when they go to the polls.
Turnout could exceed the 2018 primary, when 620,000 Republicans and 563,000 Democrats voted.
Pence's latest political break with Trump is capturing much of the attention on the final day of the campaign. Pence became the most recent Republican figure to rally to Kemp's side. The Republican Governors Association also ran an expensive effort to defend Kemp.
“I think it just shows that Republicans not only in the state, but around the country are rallying to the person that can beat Stacey Abrams,” Kemp told reporters Monday morning as he continued to focus on the Democrats' standard-bearer, who is unopposed in her party's primary.
Kemp downplayed the split in the GOP, saying party leaders often have different choices in the primaries.
“I wouldn't tell people to read too much into that," he said.
Rainy weather in the state was hampering some plans. Kemp and Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Butch Miller both canceled plans to make a flying tour of Georgia cities. Other candidates continued to look for a boost from Trump. The former president is also scheduled to conduct a telephone rally Monday night for John Gordon, the neophyte candidate whom Trump endorsed in a Republican primary challenge to incumbent Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr.
In Georgia's U.S. Senate primaries, Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock has only token opposition, while on the Republican side Trump-backed candidate and former football great Herschel Walker was running against five GOP challengers, including Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and former Trump administration official and Navy veteran Latham Saddler. A general election matchup between Warnock and Walker in November would mark the first time that two major party candidates for U.S. Senate in Georgia were Black.
For Kemp, an outright win in the primary would be vindication after months of attacks from Trump.
Perdue embraced Trump's election lies, opening two debates between the candidates with the claim that the 2020 balloting was "rigged and stolen." He also joined a lawsuit meant to force a physical examination of ballots in Atlanta's Fulton County. State and federal officials, including Trump's own attorney general, have said there was no evidence of widespread fraud. The votes in Georgia's presidential election were counted three times, and each tally confirmed President Joe Biden's victory.
Trump conducted a rally in Georgia in March for Perdue and other candidates and kicked in more than $3 million for ads attacking Kemp. But Perdue has had trouble raising money and gaining traction against Kemp, and the Republican Governors Association has outspent Trump with its own ads aiding Kemp.
Kemp, meanwhile, benefited from being able to hand out pay raises and tax cuts using overflowing state revenues. He announced two electric vehicle plants and was able to sign conservative-pleasing laws that put an end to permit requirements to carry a concealed handgun and that paved the way for transgender girls to be banned from playing high school sports.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street swung to a mixed finish after the Federal Reserve hinted it may raise interest rates two more times this year, even as it held them steady Wednesday.
The S&P 500 finished the day 0.1% higher after pinballing between gains and losses following the Fed’s announcement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 232 points, or 0.7%, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.4%.
The Fed closed its latest policy meeting by saying it would keep rates where they are, to give more time to see how its fusillade of hikes over the last 15 months is affecting the economy. It’s attempting the excruciating balancing act of slowing the economy just enough through rate increases to snuff out high inflation, but not so much as to break the job market and create a recession.
Standing pat would give the economy more time to absorb all the past rate hikes, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell said “ideally by taking a little more time, we won’t go well past the level where we need to go.” That would provide some breathing room for the economy and financial markets.
But at the same time, the majority of Fed policy makers also indicated Wednesday they expect its main interest rate to climb at least 0.50 percentage points by the end of the year. The federal funds rate is already at its highest level since 2007, in a range between 5% and 5.25%.
Even though inflation has slowed since last summer’s peak, Powell said there hasn’t been enough improvement in underlying trends to feel comfortable. He said one measure the Fed closely watches remains “far above our target and not really moving down. We want to see it moving down decisively, that’s all.”
Many traders on Wall Street came into Wednesday bracing for just one more hike this year, if any. The threat of a more aggressive Fed than expected initially sent prices tumbling for all kinds of investments.
“I do feel like things are slowly tightening, just not as fast as the Fed needs it to cause inflation to get down to their number,” said Brian Rehling, head of global fixed-income strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. “The job market really has to weaken, that’s what the Fed needs.”
Brian Jacobsen, chief economist at Annex Wealth Management, said, “If they do restart their hikes and squeeze in not just one but two hikes this year, then they do risk bigger problems for the economy.”
In anticipation of future increases to rates, yields in the bond market rose following the Fed’s announcement. The 10-year yield climbed as high as 3.83% from 3.77% just before the Fed’s announcement.
It later receded to 3.79%, compared with 3.82% late Tuesday. That yield helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year Treasury yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, climbed to 4.68% from 4.67% late Tuesday and was as high as 4.78%.
Stock indexes initially sank in unison following the Fed’s announcement amid worries about higher rates, which not only slow the economy but also drag down prices of stocks, bonds and other investments.
But they pared their losses, and bond yields gave back gains as Powell spoke at a press conference, saying no decisions on upcoming rate hikes had been made and that the Fed’s next meeting in July is “live.”
“I just think the markets, and I think it’s incorrect, have a view that inflation is going to come down far enough that the Fed is going to capitulate” and halt its rate hikes and even begin cutting them, said Rehling of Wells Fargo Investment Institute. “I just don’t think that’s the case.”
“The market just wants to go up. I don’t know if people are just kind of tired of waiting for the recession, waiting for the downturn. I’m not sure what it is.”
Some of the sharpest drops in the stock market came from several health insurers after UnitedHealth Group flagged how many customers were getting knee procedures and other outpatient services done. That’s something that could raise costs for insurers, and UnitedHealth fell 6.4%. Humana dropped 11.2%.
Stocks of companies that make products used in hip replacements and other health procedures, meanwhile, were at the front of the market. Stryker rose 4.2%, and Boston Scientific gained 4.2%.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 3.58 points to 4,372.59. The Dow dropped 232.70 to 33,979.33, and the Nasdaq gained 53.16 to 13,626.48.
Wednesday marked the first time in more than a year where the Fed has not hiked rates at a meeting, after calls for a pause climbed as high rates have already caused damage in several corners of the economy.
Hikes to interest rates take a notoriously long time to take effect, and they can do so in unanticipated ways. Already, they’ve helped lead to three high-profile failures in the U.S. banking system, a monthslong contraction in the manufacturing industry and worries about a possible recession.
But inflation is still too high for comfort. It’s hurting all kinds of households, particularly those with lower incomes.
In stock markets abroad, indexes rose modestly in Europe and ended mixed across Asia. Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.5%, continuing a strong run where it’s already jumped more than 28% this year.
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AP Business Writers Alex Veiga, Matt Ott and Joe McDonald contributed. | 2023-06-14T21:02:36+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/stock-market-today-asian-stocks-mixed-after-us-inflation-cools/ |
In China, a country that limits most couples to three children, one province is making a bold pitch to try to get its citizens to procreate: have as many babies as you want, even if you are unmarried.
The initiative, which came into effect this month, points to the renewed urgency of China’s efforts to spark a baby boom after its population shrank last year for the first time since a national famine in the 1960s. Other efforts are underway — officials in several cities have urged college students to donate sperm to help spur population growth, and there are plans to expand national insurance coverage for fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization.
But the measures have been met with a wave of public skepticism, ridicule and debate, highlighting the challenges China faces as it seeks to stave off a shrinking workforce that could imperil economic growth.
Many young Chinese adults, who themselves were born during China’s draconian one-child policy, are pushing back on the government’s inducements to have babies in a country that is among the most expensive in the world to raise a child. To them, such incentives do little to address anxieties about supporting their aging parents and managing the rising costs of education, housing and health care.
“The fundamental problem is not that people cannot have children, but that they cannot afford it,” said Lu Yi, a 26-year-old nurse in Sichuan, the province that recently lifted birth limits. She added that she would need to earn at least double her current monthly salary of 8,000 yuan (about $1,200) to even consider having children. Many countries around the world — from Japan to Russia to Sweden — have confronted the same demographic challenge, and their attempts to incentivize new babies with subsidies and other tactics have had a limited impact. But China has aged faster than other countries. The often harshly enforced one-child policy, which was aimed at slowing population growth, precipitated the steep decline in births and led to a generational shift in attitudes around family sizes.
Efforts by the ruling Communist Party to raise fertility rates — by permitting all couples to have two children in 2016, then three in 2021 — have struggled to gain traction. The new policy in Sichuan drew widespread attention because it essentially disregards birth limits altogether, showing how the demographic crisis is nudging the party to slowly loosen its iron grip over the reproductive rights of its citizens.
“The two-child policy failed. The three-child policy failed,” said Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied Chinese population trends. “This is the natural next step.”
Sichuan, the country’s fifth-largest province with 84 million people, lifted all limits on the number of children that residents can register with the local government, a process that qualifies parents for paid parental leave and reimbursed hospital bills. In an unusual move, it also included parents who are unmarried. Previously only married couples were allowed to register children (and only up to three). The new policy touched a nerve in a country where single mothers have long faced discrimination. In online forums, some commenters praised it as a long-overdue step to protect unmarried mothers. Others bemoaned that it would incentivize men to have babies with their mistresses, criticizing the policy for bringing “illegitimate children” out of the shadows.
In most parts of China, single mothers are denied the government benefits offered to married couples. Until recently, some provinces had even imposed fines on unmarried women who gave birth. But the baby shortage has prompted provinces like Sichuan to start legally recognizing children born to single mothers, part of a Communist Party push toward more “inclusive” population policies.
Women’s rights advocates have celebrated this trend as a win for unmarried mothers. Still, Zhang Meng, 47, a single mother in Shanghai, said China has been too slow in expanding the rights of nontraditional families.
Zhang found out she was pregnant in 2016, soon after breaking up with her boyfriend. She was 40 years old at the time and decided to keep the baby, worried that it might be her only opportunity to have one.
After her son was born, her application for paid maternity leave and medical bill reimbursement — which are provided to married couples — was rejected.
She sued local agencies for the money. Years later, in 2021, she finally received 70,000 yuan (about $10,200) from the government. But the obstacles for women like her go far beyond compensation, she said.
“What many women, especially single mothers, lack is not money, but the protection of their rights and the respect of society,” Zhang said.
Women’s rights advocates have argued that the government’s effort to raise fertility rates risks reinforcing discrimination against women. Already, job listings sometimes explicitly seek only men or women who already have children; when China began allowing couples to have three children, women worried that employers reluctant to pay for maternity leave would be even less willing to hire them.
“Until China fundamentally transforms its social institutions and has more gender equality, women can vote with their wombs,” said Wang Feng, a professor at the University of California at Irvine who specializes in China’s demographics. Gender inequality looms over the demographic crisis in other ways. In recent months, as a growing number of cities in China have announced payments for sperm donations, people left comments online joking that men were finally bearing a fraction of the pressure that women have faced to alleviate the country’s fertility decline.
This month, a hospital in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan in southwest China, announced that college students — but only those taller than 5-foot-5 — who donated their sperm could receive 4,500 yuan (about $660). Sounding like a collective call to action, the announcement concluded with a slogan in pink font: “I donate sperm. I am outstanding. I am proud.”
Along with building up sperm banks, officials are also doing more to expand access to treatments like IVF. Yet experts have noted that declining birthrates are related more to economic and cultural shifts than to infertility.
In the aftermath of the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns, nearly 1 in 5 Chinese people between the ages of 16 and 24 are unemployed, compounding the disillusionment of a generation in which many see the refusal to have children as an act of political resistance.
In a survey last year of about 20,000 younger Chinese people, mostly from 18 to 25, two-thirds of respondents said they did not want to have children. Demographers cite the costs and pressures of the Chinese educational system as a major concern, recommending policy solutions like shortening schooling by two years and eliminating the competitive exam for entrance to high school.
For now, many cities in China are trying to address the financial pressures of parenting with direct cash payments. Last month, Shenzhen, a large city bordering Hong Kong, announced a proposal to provide 7,500 yuan (about $1,100), to households who have one child — with additional payments for each sibling.
Tracy Chen, 36, a lawyer in Shenzhen who recently got married, said the subsidy would barely cover one month of a live-in nanny. Chen said she initially wanted three children because she liked the idea of growing old with a large and lively family. But seeing her older sister and friends navigate the expense of raising even one child opened her eyes.
Many of Chen’s friends lived in expensive hotels during a postpartum confinement commonly practiced in China, known as “zuo yuezi.” And they paid extra for foreign-made baby formula, still distrustful of domestic brands after a tainted formula scandal in 2008 sickened thousands of babies in China.
Chen is thinking of trying for one child for now. She said the subsidy was a nice perk but that “it’s not enough to influence whether you will have a child or not.” | 2023-02-27T01:40:54+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/public-is-wary-of-chinas-push-for-baby-boom/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
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NEW YORK (AP) — As Cuba Gooding Jr.’s forcible touching case faded to black Thursday with no jail time for the movie star, some of the dozens of women who have accused him of groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior criticized the outcome as a slap on the wrist — and a slap in the face.
The Oscar-winning actor turned #MeToo defendant avoided prison time by complying with the terms of a conditional plea agreement that saw him plead guilty to charges involving just one of what prosecutors have said were allegations from at least 30 women, many at New York City nightspots.
Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Coleen Balbert told a judge Thursday that since the deal was reached in April, Gooding has stayed out of trouble and completed six months of alcohol and behavioral counseling. That enabled him to withdraw his misdemeanor guilty plea — for forcibly kissing a waitress at a Manhattan nightclub in 2018 — and instead plead guilty to a non-criminal harassment violation.
That means no additional penalties and no criminal record for Gooding, the star of films such as “Jerry Maguire,” “Boyz N the Hood” and “Radio.”
“This plea deal feels like a misstep,” said Kelsey Harbert, a neuroscience student whose allegation that Gooding groped her at a nightclub led to his 2019 arrest but wasn’t part of his guilty plea.
“After three long years of trying to hold Mr. Gooding accountable for touching my breast without my consent, having my day in court taken away from me is more disappointing than words can say,” said Harbert, who was tearful at times as she spoke in court.
Harbert’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, called the plea deal “an insult” to Gooding’s accusers and a “prosecutorial gift to a celebrity who is undeserving of such an outcome.”
Balbert told Judge Curtis Farber that she has received “positive reports for the last six months” from Gooding’s therapist. Gooding started counseling in September 2019 and will continue with treatment beyond the time required by his plea agreement, Balbert said.
If Gooding had failed to comply with the terms of the deal, he would have faced up to one year in jail.
Arrested in 2019, Gooding was among a profusion of Hollywood heavyweights accused of wrongdoing in the #MeToo movement, which exploded five years ago this month.
As Gooding was in court Thursday wrapping up his case, another Oscar-winning actor, Kevin Spacey, was on trial down the block in a civil lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted actor Anthony Rapp.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, former studio boss Harvey Weinstein and “That 70’s Show” star Danny Masterson are in the midst of separate rape trials. Weinstein was convicted of similar charges in New York in 2020 and is serving a 23-year prison sentence.
Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after Harbert told police he fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.
A few months later, prosecutors charged Gooding with pinching a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and the allegation to which he pleaded guilty — forcibly kissing a waitress at LAVO New York in midtown Manhattan, both in 2018.
The LAVO waitress said in a victim impact statement that Gooding was facing “minimal repercussions” while his victims continued to deal with the emotional trauma of his actions.
The TAO Downtown server asked, to no avail, that he be required to complete another six months of therapy to ensure that he changes his behavior and to send a “special message” to men that sexual assault and misconduct won’t be tolerated.
Asked about the criticism, the Manhattan district attorney’s office referred to Balbert’s remarks in court in April in which she said prosecutors believed the plea deal to be a “fair and equitable disposition” that spared accusers from having to testify at trial and being subject to cross examination.
Gooding said little in court Thursday, did not apologize to his accusers — as he did in April — and did not answer shouted questions from reporters as he hustled out of the courtroom.
Asked to explain what he did, Gooding told Farber: “I kissed a waitress, your honor.”
The waitress, in her victim impact statement, said Gooding forced his tongue into her mouth unexpectedly while she was serving drinks. In the statement, read into the record by Balbert, the waitress said she was aware of incidents involving Gooding and three other women at the club.
Gooding had previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor counts and denied all allegations of wrongdoing. His lawyers argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the fervor of #MeToo, were trying to turn “commonplace gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes.
Along with the criminal case, Gooding is a defendant in civil lawsuits, including one alleging he raped a woman in New York City in 2013. After a judge issued a default judgment in July because Gooding hadn’t responded to the lawsuit, the actor retained a lawyer and is fighting the allegations.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, as Harbert has done.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – After rallying late in the season to win three of four games, Michigan State closed its schedule with back-to-back losses.
The Spartans (5-7, 3-6 Big Ten) followed a double-overtime loss at home to Indiana last week with a 35-16 defeat at No. 11 Penn State (10-2, 7-2) on Saturday in their regular season finale.
That kept Michigan State for reaching six wins and becoming bowl eligible. There’s still a chance the Spartans could earn a bowl spot at 5-7, although that appears unlikely.
Here are notable quotes from coach Mel Tucker and players following the loss:
“Obviously disappointed in the game, the way it ended up. The kids played hard but obviously we didn’t play well enough for 60 minutes on offense, defense and special teams. We started off slow on offense and we weren’t able to finish on defense.
- Tucker on the loss as Penn State regained the Land Grant Trophy.
Loss to Penn State all but sealed Michigan State’s bowl hopes
“We were fighting to the end. That’s something that we do as a program and our guys are bought into that.”
- Quarterback Payton Thorne on Michigan State rallying from an 18-point deficit in the second half to pull within five in the fourth quarter.
“Now’s not the time for me to do that. There’s still a chance that we may play another game so we’ll have to see. At some point I’ll assess the entire season but not right now.”
- Tucker on reflecting on a disappointing season.
“We’ll see. I don’t know the scenarios and I don’t know what makes sense for us right now. So, we’ll just have to wait and see. I need more information and once I get more information then obviously we’ll make an athletic department and program decision.”
- Tucker on if Michigan State would accept a bowl bid if offered one.
“Yeah, I know we would, just from the competitive nature of the team. Bowl games, those are good practice times for the young dudes. You get those practices before the bowl game, it’s almost like a spring ball so that would be big for us.”
- Safety Xavier Henderson on if the team would want to play in a bowl.
“If we get another one, great. If we don’t, that will be it for these seniors and I feel bad that this is the way we’ve got to send them out.”
- Thorne on a potential bowl game.
Mel Tucker reinstates one suspended player, no update on 7 facing charges
“Malcolm Jones was reinstated. He practiced on Thursday and Friday. I don’t have any updates on the other seven guys right now.”
- Tucker on Jones, a true freshman defensive back who was one of eight players suspended indefinitely for their roles in postgame incidents following an Oct. 29 loss at Michigan. The other seven are facing criminal charges announced Wednesday by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office.
“I’ve talked to them, not really about the situation, just saying what’s up, checking in on them, checking on their mental but not really about the situation specifically.”
- Henderson on the suspended players.
“No. We’ve just got to set the edge. We ran underneath a couple of blocks and didn’t set the edge. We just didn’t fit it right.”
- Tucker on if he considered calling a timeout with Penn State leading by five points and facing fourth-and-2 from the Michigan State 12-yard line in the fourth quarter. The Nittany Lions shifted their formation and had four players split out wide on the left side of the field to three defenders for the Spartans. Sean Clifford threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to running back Nicholas Singleton.
“I kind of thought about a timeout but I was like, shoot, let’s just play. They did have us outnumbered – it was three of us over there and four of them. They just played the numbers game. If I lined up a little closer and Dillon (Tatum) played the edge a little bit better, I probably would have at least been able to get him on the ground, if not maybe stop him before the line. We probably didn’t need a different play but we could have just played it better.”
- Henderson on Penn State’s fourth-down call in the fourth quarter.
“It became a frenzy towards the end. I don’t think there was anything Earth shattering or super special. We just need to do a better job.”
- Tucker on the pressure Thorne was under while being sacked three times and hit numerous others.
“I’ve had some situations like that in the National Football League but not in college.”
- Tucker on Michigan State starting 27 different players on defense this season. Tatum, a true freshman, was the latest to do so on Saturday as he started at cornerback with the Spartans shorthanded at the position.
“He’s been our long-range kicker the entire season, it’s just really the first time we really had an opportunity to execute that.”
- Tucker on true freshman Jack Stone, who made a 51-yard field goal as time expired in the first half. Tucker also said Stephen Rusnak, who made Michigan State’s lone extra point on Saturday, would have handled shorter field goals in the game. Ben Patton was just 1-for-3 on field goals in last week’s loss to Indiana.
“We’ll be in house and we’ll have some conversations with guys and see what they want to do.”
- Tucker on players who need to make decisions about their remaining eligibility.
“I was kind of thinking about it throughout the game but after the game it kind of hit pretty hard and I got my tears out the way and … I didn’t know we could play another game. I already said thanks for everything to some of the coaches and then Coach Tucker was like ‘we don’t want to hear that right now.’ I was like, ‘oh, my fault, it’s premature.’ I’ve thought about it but I wouldn’t trade it for anything, honestly.”
- Henderson, a fifth-year senior who is out of eligibility, on Saturday potentially being his last game for Michigan State.
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7 Michigan State football players charged in aftermath of tunnel incidents | 2022-11-27T07:17:08+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/spartans/2022/11/overheard-outside-michigan-states-locker-room-fight-to-the-end-and-a-frenzy.html |
Election on constitutional amendments in Ohio could impact abortion rights measure
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voter registration will close Monday for an election on whether to make it more difficult to amend Ohio’s constitution, the results of which could have immediate consequences for an abortion rights amendment in the works.
Early in-person voting in the Aug. 8 contest begins Tuesday.
If approved, Issue 1 would raise the threshold for passing future constitutional changes from a simple majority in place since 1912 to a 60% supermajority.
Proponents of the measure, represented by the Protect Our Constitution coalition, argue that the increased percentage will keep deep-pocketed interest groups from pushing unwanted abortion, gun control, minimum wage, farm and other policies on Ohioans.
One Person One Vote, the opposition campaign, says the rushed effort in an off-year election is intended to prevent passing policies that are popular with a majority of average Ohioans but opposed by the increasingly conservative GOP supermajority at the Statehouse.
Since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion was overturned last summer, amendments protecting access to abortion in other states, even conservative ones, have passed handily — but generally with less than 60% of the vote.
The way the constitutional amendment issue was rushed onto an off-year, summer ballot could mean a tiny percentage of Ohio voters will decide the issue, the opponents contend.
The high-stakes election also is taking place under sweeping election law changes enacted in January. Some of those affect registration, which remains open through 9 p.m. Monday.
Eligible Ohioans using a paper form to register or update a registration must provide additional identification for the first time this year: either an Ohio driver’s license, ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. Also, the paper form they use must conform with the one developed by Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, his office said.
Voters may use the paper form, register online or register in person.
The language that voters will see on their ballots in the August election has been the subject of litigation. Though the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to order some minor tweaks, justices let stand a description of the amendment as “elevating” the standards for qualifying and passing future constitutional amendments in the state. One Person One Vote had argued that the term carries a positive connotation that could bias voters toward a “yes” vote, but justices said it means basically the same thing as “raising” or “increasing.”
The election date also was the subject of a lawsuit, which argued it violated a law eliminating most August elections that state legislators passed only last year. Backers of that law, who initially included LaRose, argued such elections are costly, cause extra work for overburdened county election boards and inspire chronically low turnouts.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-07-07T20:36:17+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/political-news/election-on-constitutional-amendments-in-ohio-could-impact-abortion-rights-measure/ |
A bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit any U.S. president from withdrawing from NATO without Senate approval or an act of Congress.
“NATO serves as an essential military alliance that protects shared national interests and enhances America’s international presence,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a statement released as NATO leaders, including President Biden, meet in Europe. “Any decision to leave the alliance should be rigorously debated and considered by the U.S. Congress with the input of the American people.”
Rubio reintroduced the bill alongside Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.); the two serve together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and are longtime advocates of the alliance.
The bill has been reintroduced in multiple sessions of Congress, including when concerns rose over former President Trump’s reported threats to withdraw from the alliance.
The bill’s reintroduction comes on the last day of a NATO summit in Lithuania, where conversations regarding Ukraine joining the group have been a hot topic.
“[Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine and Finland’s accession and Sweden’s pending accession into NATO all underscore the same thing: NATO is stronger than ever,” Kaine said. “I’m proud to introduce this bipartisan bill to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to NATO and ensure any U.S. president can’t unilaterally decide to leave the alliance without congressional approval.”
If the president tries to leave NATO without Senate approval or an act of Congress, the bill would prohibit funding to do so and allow congressional legal counsel to challenge any administration’s attempt in court.
The bill has eight Democratic co-sponsors. | 2023-07-12T17:38:26+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/senators-reintroduce-bill-to-prevent-u-s-president-from-leaving-nato/ |
Sherman looks to rebound against Princeton
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - The Sherman Bearcats are moving on after a heartbreaker in the season opener.
The Bearcats will face Princeton in their first home game of the season on Friday night at Bearcat Stadium. The Bearcats are coming off a tough loss to Denison, 28-21, in the Battle of the Ax rivalry.
Sherman knows the key to success for them is to move on and look forward to the Panthers.
“To be successful against Princeton we have to forget about the past,” head coach Cory Cain said. “We have to focus simply on Princeton and winning a game at home in Bearcat in front of our home crowd to open the season at Bearcat. If we get our focus on Princeton, and work on the things we need to work on, like penalties and finishing, I think we will be fine.”
Copyright 2022 KXII. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-01T03:24:15+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2022/09/01/sherman-looks-rebound-against-princeton/ |
DALLAS, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank, as Trustee of the Hugoton Royalty Trust (OTCQB:HGTXU) (the "Trust"), today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.066725 per unit, payable on December 14, 2022, to unitholders of record on November 30, 2022. The following table shows underlying gas and oil sales and average prices attributable to the net overriding royalty for both the current month and prior month. Underlying gas and oil sales volumes attributable to the current month were primarily produced in September.
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that it has deducted development costs of $550,000, production expense of $1,668,000 and overhead of $1,072,000 in determining the royalty calculation for the Trust for the current month.
Development Costs
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that it has elected to participate in the development of a non-operated well in Major County, Oklahoma. The well was proposed by Comanche Exploration Co. LLC under a joint operating agreement. XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that development costs for the well are anticipated to be approximately $5 million underlying ($4 million net to the Trust), and that drilling commenced late September 2022 and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023. However, no assurances can be made as to the estimated costs or timing to complete the well. XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that the Trust has not yet incurred development costs related to this well. The Trustee and XTO Energy will continue to provide material updates in subsequent communications.
Arbitration
As previously disclosed, XTO Energy advised the Trustee that it reached a settlement with the plaintiffs in the Chieftain class action royalty case. On July 27, 2018, the final plan of allocation was approved by the court. Based on the final plan of allocation, XTO Energy advised the Trustee that it believes approximately $24.3 million in additional production costs should be allocated to the Trust. On May 2, 2018, the Trustee submitted a demand for arbitration seeking a declaratory judgment that the Chieftain settlement is not a production cost and that XTO Energy is prohibited from charging the settlement as a production cost under the conveyance or otherwise reducing the Trust's payments now or in the future as a result of the Chieftain litigation. The Trust and XTO Energy conducted the interim hearing on the claims related to the Chieftain settlement on October 12-13, 2020. In the arbitration, the Trustee contended that the approximately $24.3 million allocation related to the Chieftain settlement was not a production cost and, therefore, there should not be a related adjustment to the Trust's share of net proceeds. However, XTO Energy contended that the approximately $24.3 million was a production cost and should reduce the Trust's share of net proceeds.
On January 20, 2021, the arbitration panel issued its Corrected Interim Final Award (i) "reject[ing] the Trust's contention that XTO has no right under the Conveyance to charge the Trust with amounts XTO paid under section 1.18(a)(i) as royalty obligations to settle the Chieftain litigation" and (ii) stating "[t]he next phase will determine how much of the Chieftain settlement can be so charged, if any of it can be, in the exercise of the right found by the Panel." Following briefing by both parties, on May 18, 2021, the Panel issued its second interim final award over the amount of XTO Energy's settlement in the Chieftain class action lawsuit that can be charged to the Trust as a production cost. The Panel in its decision has ruled that out of the $80 million settlement, the "Trust is obligated to pay its share under the Conveyance of the $48 million that was received by the plaintiffs in the Chieftain lawsuit by virtue of the settlement of that litigation. The Trust is not obligated by the Conveyance to pay any share of the $32 million received by the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Chieftain lawsuit by virtue of the settlement." XTO Energy and the Trustee are in the process of determining the portion of the $48 million that is allocable to Trust properties to be charged as an excess cost to the Trust, but estimate it to be approximately $14.6 million net to the Trust.
The reduction in the Trust's share of net proceeds from the portion of the settlement amount the Panel has ruled may be charged against the Oklahoma conveyance would result in excess costs under the Oklahoma conveyance that would likely result in no distributions under the Oklahoma conveyance while these excess costs are recovered. This award completes the portion of the arbitration related to the Chieftain settlement. Excess costs on any individual conveyance would not affect net proceeds to the Trust on any of the other remaining conveyances.
Other Trustee claims related to disputed amounts on the computation of the Trust's net proceeds for 2014 through 2019 and 2021 were bifurcated from the initial arbitration. Pursuant to the purchase and sale agreement entered into between the Trustee and XTO Energy, the parties had agreed to stay the arbitration from the date of execution of the purchase and sale agreement to the earlier of the termination of the purchase and sale agreement or closing date of the sale of assets. Effective August 22, 2022, the Trustee and XTO Energy mutually agreed to terminate the purchase and sale agreement. As a result of the termination, the stay of these arbitration proceedings between XTO Energy and the Trustee with respect to the Trust is lifted. The arbitration proceedings have recommenced and the hearing is currently scheduled for May 30-31, 2023.
For more information on the Trust, please visit our website at www.hgt-hugoton.com.
Statements made in this press release regarding future events or conditions are forward looking statements. Actual future results, including development costs and timing, and future net profits, could differ materially due to changes in natural gas and oil prices and other economic conditions affecting the gas and oil industry and other factors described in Part I, Item 1A of the Trust's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
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SOURCE Hugoton Royalty Trust | 2022-11-18T16:05:09+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/18/hugoton-royalty-trust-declares-november-cash-distribution/ |
(The Hill) — More than 1,000 scheduled flights have been canceled in the U.S. on Wednesday as the northern part of the country braces for the arrival of a massive winter storm.
According to flight tracking website FlightAware, 1,306 U.S. flights were canceled on Wednesday and 1,914 others were delayed.
The airport that saw the highest number of cancelations was the Minneapolis−St. Paul International Airport, where 193 outgoing and 218 incoming flights were canceled, accounting for 44 percent and 52 percent of those scheduled, respectively. The Denver International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport also each saw over 200 outgoing or incoming flights canceled on Wednesday.
According to the National Weather Service, the latest winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow and freezing rain from coast to coast in the northern U.S., with blizzard conditions forecast in some areas.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul area could see snowfall up to two feet for the first time in three decades, according to The Associated Press. Forecasters also said that parts of South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan are expected to see more than a foot of snow.
The massive winter storm has led multiple U.S. states to shut down local government offices and schools as they brace for the impact of the storm. In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz (D) declared a peacetime emergency on Tuesday in preparation for the winter storm and authorized the state’s National Gaurd to provide emergency services and the State Patrol to assist with public safety.
“As forecasts predict up to 20 inches of snow, I’ve directed state agencies, including @MnDPS_MSP, @MnDOT, and @MNNationalGuard, to take steps to prepare,” Walz wrote in a tweet. “We’re working to ensure we’re ready – and Minnesotans have a part to play, too. Plan ahead, drive safe, and limit travel.”
In South Dakota, meanwhile, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) shut down state executive branches in several parts of the state, directing government employees to work remotely for the time being, the AP reported. | 2023-02-22T20:12:41+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/more-than-1000-flights-canceled-as-massive-winter-storm-targets-northern-us/ |
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The Milwaukee Brewers acquired left-handed pitcher Bennett Sousa from the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday and sent him to their Triple-A affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee.
Cincinnati received cash and international bonus money in exchange for Sousa. The Reds had designated him for assignment last week.
Sousa, 28, went 3-0 with an 8.41 ERA in 25 relief appearances for the Chicago White Sox last season. He struck out 12 and walked 10 in 20⅓ innings.
In another move, the Brewers transferred left-handed pitcher Aaron Ashby to the 60-day injured list. The Brewers announced Wednesday that Ashby was undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery and would miss most of the season.
• The Chicago White Sox traded reliever José Ruiz to Arizona on Sunday for cash.
The White Sox designated the 28-year-old for assignment on Friday following a difficult start to the season. Ruiz allowed nine runs, eight hits and four walks with three strikeouts in 3⅔ innings across four appearances for Chicago.
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Ruiz spent five-plus with the White Sox, who claimed him off waivers from San Diego in December 2017. Ruiz went 3-7 with a 4.53 ERA in 177 appearances for Chicago.
• Mets right fielder Starling Marte left Sunday’s game after the first inning with a strained neck sustained while stealing third base against the Miami Marlins.
Marte doubled with one out in the first and stole his fourth abase of the season by sliding around the tag of Jean Segura but hit his neck against the third baseman's knee. Marte, 34, immediately called for time and was visited by Mets manager Buck Showalter and an athletic trainer.
Marte initially remained in the game but was replaced before the second inning, when Jeff McNeil moved from second base to right and Luis Guillorme entered at second.
Auto racing
Sprint car driver Justin Owen of Harrison, Ohio, died from injuries he suffered when his car crashed during a race in southeastern Indiana, the U.S. Auto Club announced.
Owen's car struck the outside wall and flipped several times along the third turn in a qualifying race Saturday night for the AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Lawrenceburg Speedway, USAC said.
USAC canceled the remainder of the event after the crash.
The 26-year-old Owen was the reigning track champion at Lawrenceburg Speedway with two feature wins and the title in 2022, USAC said.
Hockey
The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Brock Faber to a standard three-year, entry-level contract on Sunday, a day after the Minnesota Gophers lost in the NCAA championship game.
Faber was scheduled to travel with the Wild to Chicago for their game against the Blackhawks on Monday. The Wild have three regular-season games remaining, with their playoff spot clinched and the Central Division title still within reach.
The 20-year-old Faber had four goals and 23 assists in 38 games for Minnesota this season, his third with the Gophers. The native of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was a two-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year award winner.
The right-shot Faber finished his college career with seven goals and 46 assists in 97 games with a plus-54 rating.
Faber was drafted in the second round by the Los Angeles Kings in 2020 and traded to the Wild last summer along with a 2022 first-round draft pick for left wing Kevin Fiala.
The Gophers lost in overtime to Quinnipiac for the championship on Saturday.
Soccer
Forward Mallory Swanson has a torn patella tendon in her left knee, leaving her chances of playing for the United States in this summer's Women's World Cup in doubt.
Swanson was injured in the first half of the U.S. team's 2-0 exhibition victory Saturday over Ireland.
She has returned for evaluation to Chicago, where she plays for the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League, U.S. Soccer said in a statement on Sunday. No timeline for her recovery was announced.
Swanson was the team’s leading scorer this year with seven goals and a six-game scoring streak, tied for fourth longest in team history.
Swanson was hurt in the 40th minute of the game after contact with an Irish player. She cried out in pain as her teammates signaled to the sideline for the training staff. As she was carted off she made a heart gesture with her hands to the fans at Austin's Q2 Stadium.
Swanson, 30, was formerly known by her maiden name, Pugh. She married Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson in December. | 2023-04-09T21:27:59+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/briefly-brewers-acquire-sousa-from-the-reds/article_811cc858-d707-11ed-ab4a-b318d6cc4bf5.html |
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Dave Franco, 37; Eamonn Walker, 60; Timothy Busfield, 65; Sonia Manzano, 72.
Happy Birthday: Take a cautious approach this year when dealing with joint ventures. Know what you are up against, and don’t shy away from going over and above the call of duty to ensure things unfold properly. Your discipline and hard work will keep you out of trouble and discourage others from taking advantage of you. Your numbers are 9, 13, 17, 21, 29, 35, 42.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t reveal personal information. Handle money, health and contractual matters so they suit your needs and lifestyle. Refuse to agree to lavish plans or to be enticed by someone tempting you to do something costly. Be honest with yourself and others. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll gain momentum if you discuss your plans with someone close to you. The changes you implement will enrich your life and help you gain perspective regarding what’s possible when you work alongside someone who shares your dreams. Romance is favored. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get everything in order and enjoy the rest of your day. You’ll tap into what others are doing if you are observant. Look for faults; you’ll find and fix a costly problem. Verify information and use your resources wisely. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You can have fun without going overboard. Look for common interests and, in order to gain popularity, make plans based on what will please the majority. Keep your costs low by looking for events, places and activities that fit your budget. Romance is encouraged. 5 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll face opposition if you initiate change without approval. A lack of funds or support will leave you in a vulnerable position. Do the work yourself instead of paying someone to do things for you. Be resourceful and thorough. 2 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Put your heart and soul into learning and bringing about worthwhile changes that will benefit everyone. Participate in a group activity geared toward learning something new or discovering how to put your talents to good use. Romance is on the rise. 4 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Discuss what’s important before you make a move. Find out who is in favor of your plan, and build your strategy around the people willing to donate time and skills to help you. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take nothing for granted. A change at home or in a relationship will perplex you. When in doubt, ask questions and find out what you can do to improve things. Additional responsibilities will drag you down. Control your emotions. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Put more thought and effort into your life. Agree to home improvements that will make your life easier and your relationships with others better. An honest assessment of your situation will lead to solutions that please everyone. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put your attributes to work for you by developing a constructive plan. A change at home will raise issues with an older individual. Look for a way to compensate anyone affected by the decisions you make. 3 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do whatever it takes to avoid disagreement. Lengthy discussions will turn into emotional scenes that leave you feeling down and out. Concentrate on something you enjoy doing. Setting up a designated space to follow your passion is encouraged. 2 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Coming up with a good idea and having the fortitude to put your plans in motion will pay off. The changes you make will encourage you to invest time and money into doing things you enjoy and lead to financial gain. Romance will enhance your life. 5 stars
Birthday Baby: You are secretive, protective and consistent. You are dynamic and pioneering.
1 star: Avoid conflicts; work behind the scenes. 2 stars: You can accomplish, but don’t rely on others. 3 stars: Focus and you’ll reach your goals. 4 stars: Aim high; start new projects. 5 stars: Nothing can stop you; go for gold.
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Senators grilled Ticketmaster Tuesday, questioning whether the company’s dominance in the ticketing industry led to its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets.
Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee also debated possible action, including making tickets non-transferable to cut down on scalping and requiring more transparency in ticket fees. Some suggested it may also be necessary to split Ticketmaster and Beverly Hills, California-based concert promoter Live Nation, which merged in 2010.
“The fact of the matter is, Live Nation/Ticketmaster is the 800-pound gorilla here,” said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat. “This whole concert ticket system is a mess, a monopolistic mess.”
Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket seller, processing 500 million tickets each year in more than 30 countries. Around 70% of tickets for major concert venues in the U.S. are sold through Ticketmaster, according to data in a federal lawsuit filed by consumers last year.
In mid-November, Ticketmaster’s site crashed during a presale event for Swift’s upcoming stadium tour. The company said its site was overwhelmed by both fans and attacks from bots, which were posing as consumers in order to scoop up tickets and sell them on secondary sites. Thousands of people lost tickets after waiting for hours in an online queue.
Live Nation’s President and Chief Financial Officer Joe Berchtold apologized to fans and to Swift on Tuesday, and said the company knows it must do better. Berchtold said Ticketmaster has spent $1 billion over the last decade trying to improve its security and stop bots.
“We need to do better and will do better,” he said.
But lawmakers were skeptical. Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said plenty of others, including banks and power companies, are also frequent targets of bots but don’t suffer service meltdowns.
“They have figured it out but you guys haven’t? This is unbelievable,” she said. “We’ve got a lot of people who are very unhappy with the way this has been approached.”
Senators also took aim at Ticketmaster’s fees. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, recalled piling into a friend’s car in high school to go to concerts by Led Zeppelin, The Cars and Aerosmith. These days, she said, ticket prices have gotten so high that shows are too expensive for many fans. Klobuchar said ticket fees now average 27% of the ticket cost and can climb as high as 75%.
Berchtold insisted that Ticketmaster doesn’t set prices or service fees for tickets or decide how many tickets will go on sale. Service fees are set by venues, he said. Live Nation only owns around 5% of U.S. venues, he said.
But competitors, like Seat Geek CEO Jack Groetzinger, said even if Live Nation doesn’t own a venue, it prevents competition by signing multi-year contracts with arenas and concert halls to provide ticketing services. If those venues don’t agree to use Ticketmaster, Live Nation may withhold acts. That makes it tough for competitors to disrupt the market.
“The only way to restore competition is to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation,” Groetzinger said.
Clyde Lawrence, a singer-songwriter with the New York-based pop group Lawrence, said it also hurts artists when Live Nation owns or has contracts with venues, because bands have little ability to negotiate a deal or choose a different ticket seller.
Lawrence shared a hypothetical example: Ticketmaster charges $30 per ticket, but then adds fees that bump the price to $42. Just $12 per ticket goes to the band after accounting for fees they must pay to Live Nation, including — in at least one case — $250 for a stack of 10 towels in the dressing room.
Lawrence wants caps on fees, more transparency in what venue fees are used for as well as fairer distribution of profits. Live Nation takes a cut of the band’s merchandise sales at a concert, for example, but doesn’t share a cut of food and beverage sales.
Berchtold said the ticketing industry would like lawmakers to focus on the problem of ticket scalping — which he said has grown into a massive $5 billion industry — and prohibit fraudulent practices, such as resellers offering tickets that haven’t officially gone on sale yet. He also agreed that the industry should be more transparent about fees.
Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, suggested legislation that would make tickets non-transferable, thus preventing resales. He also suggested that major artists such as Swift or Bruce Springsteen should demand fee caps.
“Not every kid can afford $500 to go see Taylor Swift,” Kennedy said.
Berchtold said Ticketmaster would support making tickets non-transferable, even though the company does business in the ticket resale market. But others, including Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said making tickets non-transferable would interfere with people’s right to resell them.
The Justice Department allowed Live Nation and Ticketmaster to merge in 2010 as long as Live Nation agreed not to retaliate against concert venues for using other ticket companies for 10 years.
In 2019, the department investigated and found that Live Nation had “repeatedly” violated that agreement. It extended the prohibition on retaliating against concert venues to 2025.
Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, said Tuesday that the Justice Department is again investigating Live Nation after the Swift ticket fiasco. At this point, he said, Congress should be asking if the department was right to allow the merger to go ahead in the first place.
“It’s very important that we maintain fair, free, open and even fierce competition,” Lee said. “It increases quality and it reduces price. We want those things to happen.”” | 2023-01-24T23:55:44+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/ap-senators-to-grill-ticketmaster-after-taylor-swift-fiasco/ |
MUKSEGON, MI – A Muskegon attorney running for circuit judge has been charged with domestic violence following an incident on Thursday.
Jason Kolkema has been charged with domestic assault, according to a press release issued by the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, Aug. 19
The alleged incident occurred inside 292 W. Western Avenue in downtown Muskegon around 11:55 a.m. Aug. 18, according to the press release. The address is The Leonard apartment building.
“We have been working with police who have been conducting a thorough investigation to obtain any evidence of this incident including any video evidence,” the press release states.
Video shot through a window purporting to show the alleged attack has been circulating on Facebook. When contacted Friday morning about the Facebook accusations, Kolkema told MLive/The Muskegon Chronicle he had no comment.
The prosecutor’s office asked for any witnesses or those with video evidence to contact the detective bureau at the Muskegon Police Department at 231-724-6762 or the prosecutor’s office at 231-724-6435.
The assault and battery domestic violence charge is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days in jail. Kolkema posted a $500 bond Friday and his arraignment has been scheduled for Aug. 31, according to Muskegon County District Court records.
Kolkema was one of the top two vote-getters in a four-way primary election on Aug. 2 for an open judgeship on the 14th Circuit Court.
Jenny L. McNeill was the other top vote-getter and the two are to face off in the November general election.
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Edmonton at Calgary, 2 p.m. | 2022-12-15T03:27:30+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17655096.php |
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A special prosecutor in Michigan has been appointed to investigate whether the Republican candidate for attorney general and others should be criminally charged for their attempts to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election.
The office of Democratic attorney general Dana Nessel last month asked the Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, a state agency, to consider charges against nine people, including Republican Matthew DePerno, her opponent in the November election. Nessel’s office cited a potential conflict of interest because of the upcoming election.
The executive director of the council on Thursday said D.J. Hilson, the prosecuting attorney in Muskegon County, would handle the case. Hilson, a Democrat, was first elected to office in 2012.
In a statement, DePerno accused Nessel of “once again weaponizing her office using your tax dollars to harass and persecute her political opponents.” The Kalamazoo attorney has previously said that “90% of the facts that (Nessel) lays out, that she calls facts in her petition, are either false or I have no knowledge of what she’s talking about.”
DePerno and the others named in the Michigan documents are among the people nationwide who are facing legal implications for embracing former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen. A Colorado county clerk this week pleaded not guilty to charges she allowed an unauthorized person to break into her county’s election system in search of proof of Trump’s conspiracy theories.
DePerno built his political reputation — and snagged an early endorsement from Trump — by pushing Trump’s unsubstantiated election fraud claims. Trump lost the election in Michigan by some 154,000 votes, an outcome that has been upheld by multiple investigations, including one by the GOP-led state Senate.
DePerno won state party members’ nomination for attorney general over a former Michigan House speaker who narrowly lost to Nessel in 2018.
Allegations made public last month named DePerno as one of the “prime instigators” of a plan to get improper access to voting machines and use them to dispute the 2020 presidential outcome.
According to documents released by Nessel’s office, five vote tabulators were taken from Roscommon and Missaukee counties in northern Michigan, and Barry County in western Michigan. Investigators found others in the group broke into the tabulators and performed “tests” on the equipment.
“It was determined during the investigation that DePerno was present at a hotel room during such ‘testing,’” a petition to the prosecutors’ council said.
Obtaining undue possession of a voting machine used in an election is a felony punishable by five years in prison.
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Burnett reported from Chicago. 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. | 2022-09-09T05:34:27+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-special-prosecutor-to-investigate-michigan-gop-candidate/ |
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Levi Dashnea hauled in an interception in the end zone in the final minute that sealed Steele’s 35-28 victory over Austin Lake Travis in a non-district contest Friday at Lehnhoff Stadium.
The interception thwarted Lake Travis’ comeback charge as the Knights defeated the Cavaliers for the first time in five tries.
Sophomore quarterback Chad Warner threw for 209 yards and three touchdowns on 11 of 13 passing for Steele (2-0).
Senior receiver Edmarrion Contreras caught two of those scores (80 and 5 yards), and Royal Capell caught a 59-yarder. Avion Fareaux scored a 4-yard TD run to open the scoring in the first quarter.
With injuries to its two starting quarterbacks, Lake Travis (0-2) started tight end Sam Self, who threw four four interceptions, behind center.
Still, the Cavaliers remained in it.
After Jaydon Bailey gave the Knights a 35-14 lead with a 1-yard run with 4:41 in the third, the Cavaliers answered with a 15-yard scoring run by Aidan Albright that made it 35-21 with 1:58 left.
Lake Travis kicker Hunter Rioux recovered his own onside kick, and that led to a 3-yard TD run by Albright that pulled Lake Travis to 35-28 early in the fourth quarter.
Lake Travis forced Steele to punt on its next three possessions. The Cavaliers moved the ball to the Knights’ 9 with less than a minute remaining before Dashnea sealed the win with the interception.
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Twitter: @hinojosa_david | 2022-09-03T05:24:08+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/high-school/article/Steele-holds-off-Lake-Travis-with-late-17416900.php |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s public land commissioner on Monday signed nearly a dozen leases that will clear the way for a major renewable energy developer to erect wind turbines across 230 square miles (595 square kilometers) of state trust land.
Officials are billing Pattern Energy’s planned development in Lincoln, Torrance and San Miguel counties as the largest wind energy project in the western hemisphere.
The company at the end of 2021 brought online four wind farms in central New Mexico totaling more than a gigawatt of capacity for utility customers in California. The new leases will be part of the larger SunZia project, which will ultimately have a capacity of 3,000 megawatts to power homes in more populated markets in the West.
New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard said that together, the 11 leases signed Monday mark the largest leasing of state trust land for renewable energy development in the state’s history.
"Tripling renewable energy may have sounded like a lofty goal, but we have made it there by executing these leases and we won’t stop now,” she said in a statement.
Pattern Energy has said it plans to invest $6 billion in upcoming wind energy and related infrastructure projects in the state over the next decade.
The company had a total winning bid of nearly $9.3 million for the parcels. State officials said they expect revenue from the planned project to bring in at least $196 million over its lifetime to benefit public schools and other state institutions.
In all, the State Land Office oversees 26 wind energy leases and 12 solar energy leases. The agency said it also has several dozen applications for new renewable energy leases in the pipeline. | 2022-06-27T22:52:57+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Mexico-inks-trust-land-leases-for-massive-17269283.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Gennette will retire at the end of the fiscal year will be succeeded by Bloomingdale’s Chairman and CEO Tony Spring.
Macy’s owns Bloomindale’s, as well as the cosmetics chain Bluemercury.
Gennette, 61, guided the retailer through the pandemic after taking the top job at Macy’s in March 2017. He became chairman the following year. Gennette has worked at Macy’s for 40 years, serving in roles including president, chief merchandising officer and vice president and division merchandise manager for men’s collections. Gennette started in retail in 1983 as an executive trainee at Macy’s West in San Francisco.
Earlier this month Macy’s reported fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The chain remained relatively positive about its profit this year.
Spring, 58, will become president and CEO-elect immediately, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday, and is expected to be appointed as permanent CEO in February. He will take a board seat on Saturday and will have an annual salary of $1 million, plus incentives.
Spring has been an executive vice president at Macy’s since 2021 and has worked in various positions at Bloomingdale’s for 35 years.
Macy said that as president, Spring will be responsible for leading its digital, customer, merchandising, and brand teams, while also overseeing Bloomingdale’s and bluemercury.
Macy’s board, which currently has 14 members, will increase its size to 16 directors.
Macy’s Chief Financial Officer Adrian Mitchell will be taking on the additional role of chief operating officer. The 49 year-old has been CFO since 2020. He will now lead the stores, technology and supply chain teams in addition to handling his existing finance and real estate responsibilities.
Macy’s Inc. is based in Cincinnati. Shares fell slightly before the opening bell on Wednesday. | 2023-03-29T15:47:26+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/macys-gennette-to-retire-bloomingdales-spring-is-new-ceo/ |
The European Parliament deemed Russia a state sponsor of terrorism on Wednesday as Russia continued its attacks on Kyiv.
The news was welcomed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“I welcome European Parliament’s decision to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and as a state which uses means of terrorism. Russia must be isolated at all levels and held accountable in order to end its long-standing policy of terrorism in Ukraine and across the globe,” he said.
As that news came, power outages were reported in Kyiv as Russia continues to fire missiles at the capital.
According to the Associated Press, three people were killed and three were injured in an attack on a two-story building in a Kyiv neighborhood. | 2022-11-23T15:51:48+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-deemed-state-sponsor-of-terror-as-attacks-continue |
San Antonio’s industrial real estate market has long paled in comparison with major Texas distribution hubs such as Houston and Dallas, with relatively little construction of new space.
That’s begun changing as the city attracts businesses, its population swells and more manufacturing, warehouse and distribution space is built.
“We are becoming a more looked-at market,” said Michael Kent, executive vice president at Stream Realty Partners. “We’ve had a lot of space get built here, and that does tend to help tenants as they’re looking around Texas.”
One example: A developer is breaking ground this summer on a sprawling $230 million industrial park in China Grove.
NorthPoint Development’s Foster Commerce Center will include six buildings spanning more than 2.2 million square feet off South Foster Road south of Joe Louis Drive.
The Kansas City, Mo.-based company said the project will create more than 1,000 permanent jobs and over $35 million in annual wages, as well as 950 temporary construction jobs.
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Stream Realty Partners, which is leasing Foster Commerce Center, is expecting interest from food and automotive manufacturers and distributors, Vice President Kevin Cosgrove said. H-E-B operates a distribution center across the road.
Stream tracks properties for lease that are owned by investors.
In 2012, it tallied 31 million square feet of such space with a vacancy rate of 10 percent. Today, the inventory is up to 55 million square feet while vacancy has fallen to less than 6 percent.
That local inventory doesn’t include buildings owned by companies such as Navistar International and Toyota, which have opened or expanded facilities in recent years.
Amazon, Fedex and TJX Cos. — owner of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls — have also added warehouses in the San Antonio metro area, as have manufacturers such as Nissei Plastic Machinery America Inc. and Cuisine Solutions at the Brooks and Port San Antonio campuses.
Auto parts suppliers such as ElringKlinger AG, Aisin-owned AW Texas Inc. and Matthews International Corp.’s Saueressig have also opened facilities to service Navistar, Toyota and Tesla.
Tesla itself recently signed a lease for about 440,000 square feet of space on the East Side to supply its Gigafactory Texas electric vehicle plant near Austin.
“They were also looking at Houston and Austin … but we had the space on the ground,” Kent said.
More companies started eyeing Texas post-pandemic, he said. San Antonio’s labor pool, availability of space and lower rents compared with many other cities are making it more attractive.
This year, about 2.5 million square feet of industrial facilities have been completed, and 62 percent of that space is leased, Stream Vice President Payton Rion said.
Many warehouses are being built on speculation, or without a tenant committed to leasing it. That’s because the populations of San Antonio and area cities are expanding and because moving into a warehouse that’s ready is often less expensive and more convenient for companies, Stream executives said.
“The city’s growing. There’s been a big boom in population in Central Texas, and developers feel good about adding space to the market because it’s needed and a lot of the existing tenants have no room to grow,” Cosgrove said.
Tenants’ requirements have changed somewhat, with more demand for trailer parking for regional distribution and parking for employees, he said. They want more space and multipurpose buildings with offices, warehouses and showrooms.
“These have become more of the place where they’re conducting the majority of their business,” Kent said of what formerly were exclusively manufacturing and distribution centers.
Developers rushed to build warehouses for companies during the pandemic as e-commerce sales and demand for delivery services spiked.
Even though the “COVID boom” is slowing, there’s plenty of demand for space, Kent said.
“We’re still seeing a healthy amount of folks wanting to come to our city and open up businesses,” he said.
madison.iszler@express-news.net | 2022-08-16T13:46:38+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sa-inc/article/NorthPoint-developer-China-Grove-17370541.php |
Selling a car can be a daunting task. It's not as easy as putting a "For Sale" sign in the window and waiting for the offers to roll in. If you want to get the most money for your car, you need to put some effort into it.
In this guide, we will walk you through the entire process of selling a car, from preparing it for sale to finalizing the deal.
We'll cover everything, including how to find potential buyers, negotiate a price, and close the sale.
So whether you're looking to sell your first car or your tenth, this guide has got you covered!
Now that you know the basics of selling a car, it's time to get started!
The first step is to prepare your car for sale. This includes things like cleaning it inside and out, getting any necessary repairs done, and gathering all of the important paperwork.
Once your car is ready, it's time to start marketing it to potential buyers. You can do this by listing it on online classifieds websites, in local newspapers, or even just by putting a sign in the window.
Once you've found some potential buyers, it's time to start negotiating a price. This can be tricky, but remember that you are ultimately in control of the sale.
If you feel like the buyer is low-balling you, don't be afraid to walk away from the deal.
Once you've reached an agreement on price, it's time to finalize the sale. This involves exchanging paperwork and making sure that all of the necessary steps are taken care of.
Congratulations! You've just successfully sold your car. Now it's time to enjoy your new-found wealth! Thanks for reading and good luck!
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Last Arizona County certifies election results
Officials in Cochise County, Arizona, on Thursday certified the results of the county’s 2022 midterm elections during an emergency meeting, after a superior court judge ordered the board of supervisors to meet and certify the results immediately.
The board of supervisors voted 2-0 to accept the results of the election, despite initially delaying the certification earlier this week and missing Monday’s deadline. Ann English, a Democrat, and Peggy Judd, a Republican, voted in favor of certification but the board’s third member, Republican Tom Crosby did not attend the meeting.
The court order came days after Republicans on the board voted Monday to not certify the results in a move that risked the exclusion of more than 47,000 Arizona voters from the state’s final tally. That prompted lawsuits from the secretary of state’s office and an advocacy group.
Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, in her capacity as Secretary of State, sued the county to certify the vote so her office can complete the statewide canvass by Dec. 8, the last possible day allowed under state law.
“We have an obligation to see that our elections are fair and good,” said Peggy Judd, the Republican vice-chair of the board of supervisors, during Thursday’s meeting. The second GOP board member Tom Crosby was not present at the meeting.
Judd said she was both “comfortable” and “uncomfortable” following the judge’s order to move forward with certification of the results. “I feel I must because of a court ruling and because of my own health and situations that are going on in our life, I feel like I must follow what the judge asked us to do.”
In a tweet, Hobbs said the court decision “was a win for Arizona’s democracy and ensures that all Arizonans will have their votes counted.” She added that the state certification will begin as scheduled on Monday.
Hobbs defeated Republican Kari Lake during the November general election by 17,116 votes. Lake, who pushed lies that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump on the campaign trail, has already filed lawsuits alleging election laws were broken in Arizona.
Lake has signaled that she will pursue further legal campaign challenges. She is scheduled to speak at a conservative event in Phoenix later this month. Meanwhile, Hobbs announced on Wednesday that her public inauguration as the next governor of Arizona will take place on Jan. 5, 2023. | 2022-12-02T04:33:54+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/last-arizona-county-certifies-election-results/ |
From the first day of heat acclimatization practice on Aug. 8, until the very last Lancaster-Lebanon League football team is still standing later this fall, we’ll bring you three L-L League gridiron facts on a daily basis to keep you in the loop about what’s happening around the league …
One final primer for this weekend’s D3 and PIAA playoff games, involving five L-L League outfits:
1. Exeter’s top priority on Friday night when Cocalico backs up the bus in Reading for the D3-5A finale: Curtailing the Eagles’ red-hot rushing attack, which means winning the battles up front, and keeping tabs on Cocalico FB Sam Steffey, a 1,700-yard rusher with 22 TD romps. He’s at 600 rushing yards with seven TD runs in three playoff games. Exeter has been fantastic in the run-stuffing department all fall. Heck, the Eagles still haven’t given up 1,000 total rushing yards — in 12 games. They have been stingy on D, thanks in large part to this fearsome 3-pack of wrap-and-tacklers: LB Lucas Palange (74 tackles, 9 for losses, 2 sacks, 4 QB hurries) and D-tackles Kyle Lash (54 tackles, 17 for losses, 4.5 sacks, 13 QB hurries) and Anthony Caccese (35 tackles, 21 for losses, 7 sacks, 14 QB hurries, 6 pass breakups, 2 forced fumbles) have silenced pretty much every rushing attack in sight, as Exeter has amassed 95 stops for losses, 28 sacks and 81 QB hurries, plus 27 takeaways. They’ll know what’s coming with Cocalico’s Veer. Easier said than done, of course, but now they just have to stop it.
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2. We’ve spent the week documenting Danville’s gnarly defense, which is allowing just 4.7 points a game, and the Ironmen have eight — eight! — shutout victories in 12 games. That’s pretty amazing. Now Danville’s defensive unit is tasked with slowing down Wyomissing’s punishing Wing-T attack, which gouged out 626 rushing yards last week in the D3-3A finale vs. West Perry, and features any number of backs with breakaway ability, running behind a stout O-line. Three Danville ‘backers to watch on Friday, when the Ironmen host Wyo in a PIAA-3A state quarterfinal: Mason Raup (136 tackles, 18 for losses, 2 forced fumbles, 4 QB hurries), Case Cush (97 tackles, 16 for losses, 4.5 sacks, 6 QB hurries, 5 pass breakups) and Cam Kiersch (81 tackles, 15 for losses, 3.5 sacks) have spearheaded an Ironmen D attack that has produced 30 sacks, 39 QB hurries and 142 sticks for losses with 29 takeaways. Funky numbers galore for Danville’s D. But some equally funky numbers for Wyo’s O. Fascinating matchup here between the two top-ranked 3A teams in the state. Come late Friday, one of them will win and advance. The other will see a terrific season come to a halt.
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3. Harrisburg must tame Manheim Township’s offense on Saturday afternoon, when the host Cougars and the Blue Streaks do battle for D3-6A supremacy. Township has scored 79 points in two playoff games, flashing a solid run-pass balance. We already told you about Harrisburg D-end Terrell Reynolds (101 tackles, 29 for losses, 19.5 sacks) and his tackling exploits. But he’s had plenty of help; DB Kyle Williams (54 tackles, 11 for losses, 1 sack, 4 pass breakups from his safety spot), LB Ryan Epps (49 tackles, 15 for losses, 3.5 sacks, 2 fumble recoveries) and DE Jyrell Britton (52 tackles, 16 for losses, 2 forced fumbles) have helped Harrisburg’s D pile up 100 hits for losses and 36 sacks, plus 28 takeaways. You think the Cougars have payback on their mind after Township KO’d Harrisburg 24-20 back in Week 3? The rematch is for 6A gold.
TWITTER: @JeffReinhart77 | 2022-11-25T11:47:35+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/sports/highschool/football/5-local-teams-prepped-and-ready-for-playoff-showdowns-3-l-l-league-football-facts/article_d2c1fe7c-6be5-11ed-82ec-b3bd8dee8be6.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for meetings on Feb. 10, the White House announced, a month after the storming of government buildings in the Brazilian capital by far-right protesters.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the leaders would discuss U.S. “support of Brazil’s democracy and how the two countries can continue to work together to promote inclusion and democratic values in the region and around the world." They are also set to discuss climate change, migration, economic development and security matters.
Lulu replaced President Jair Bolsonaro, who left Brazil for Florida on Dec. 30, two days before Lula's inauguration. The ceremony proceeded without incident, but a week later thousands of Bolsonaro’s die-hard supporters stormed the capital and trashed the main government buildings, demanding that the leftish president's election be overturned.
The action was sharply condemned by Biden, who pledged U.S. assistance. It had echoes of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump after he lost his reelection bid.
Bolsonaro is being investigated for whether he had any role in inciting that uprising. It is just one of several probes targeting the former president, which at the least could strip him of his eligibility in future races. | 2023-01-31T23:04:52+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/brazil-s-lula-to-visit-biden-on-feb-10-17754961.php |
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