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$8M investment in Convertible Debt and Purchase of first Highcon Beam 2C
YAVNE, Israel and NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Highcon (TASE: HICN) today announced a $8M investment by Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) in the context of a strategic collaboration between the two companies. The scope of the strategic collaboration includes the following components:
- Developing new product offerings, expansion into new segments and enabling manufacturing efficiencies by leveraging Highcon technology
- $8M investment in the form of convertible debt and 15% warrants to be converted by the 5th anniversary of the Effective Date at a price of 3.1 NIS per share.
- Additional warrants to be granted against possible future purchases up to $20 million of Highcon's products and services over a period of 3 years.
SEE, with revenues of $5.5B in 2021, is in business to protect, solve critical packaging challenges, and "make our world better than we find it." SEE has identified that Highcon's digital paperboard converting capabilities and its unequalled knowhow around laser cutting of paperboard can support and accelerate their vision and business objectives.
The strategic collaboration includes the purchasing of a Highcon Beam 2C system for delivery and installation in the first quarter of 2023. The in-house presence of the system will allow SEE to accelerate the testing of new designs and products, as well as the manufacturing and delivery of corrugated products to the company's customers.
"Over the past months, the SEE team has been really impressed with the talent at Highcon and the company's culture. Highcon's technology and capabilities represent a meaningful opportunity for SEE," said Sergio Pupkin, SVP and Chief Growth & Strategy Officer, SEE. "Highcon's sustainability value proposition aligns with and can help us advance our vision and plans. The roadmap we are developing together is exciting, and our investment in Highcon is a natural first step in this context."
"SEE is taking Highcon's technology to places that were beyond the way that we typically defined our market opportunity. Growing that opportunity, entering new application spaces, and working together with a world class partner is very exciting," said Shlomo Nimrodi, Highcon's CEO. "It's particularly gratifying to see how SEE reacted to the talent and passions of the Highcon team, and their recognition of the strategic value of our technology. I'm confident that it's just the beginning as we prove our value to SEE to enable further expansion of our relationship. I'm proud of what we've built so far at Highcon, and with this strategic partnership, we can move farther and faster. We are certainly expecting that this collaboration will have positive impact on the company's existing business."
In recent months, teams from Highcon and SEE have collaborated to explore the application of Highcon's solutions and technology to a range of different activities. "We've demonstrated that Highcon offers so much more than might at first meet the eye," added Nimrodi. "I am proud that we've been able to reach an agreement like this despite the current challenging environment."
About Highcon
Highcon develops, markets, sells and supports a portfolio of digital cutting and creasing systems that cover a wide range of formats, substrates and applications. The Highcon technology is transforming the industry, by providing cost effective solutions to the increasing manufacturing inefficiencies facing folding carton and corrugated carton manufacturers as the result of the emerging market trends of e-commerce, shorter time to market, lower job sizes and a drive to sustainability. Such requirements cannot be accommodated by the expensive and slow conventional die-making and setup process. The Highcon digital technology bridges the gap between agile production and design flexibility delivering improved responsiveness, JIT production, short runs, customization of structure and design, and the ability to perform a wide range of applications in-house. Highcon products are installed at customer sites around the world, including some multi-national companies, effectively supporting the needs of global and local brands. Highcon is publicly traded in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (HICN) and its leading investors are Landa Ventures owned by Benny Landa and JVP led by Erel Margalit. For more details: www.highcon.net
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The checks are in the mail and, unfortunately thieves these days are well aware of that. Reports of mail theft are soaring nationwide, as criminal rings now steal, “wash” and rewrite personal checks.
Joe Duffy wants to know what he can do, after his elderly father’s bank account was drained.
“I mean, this is his life savings,” he said.
At first, he thought the bank made an error. But it was no mistake: Someone stole more than $90,000 from Duffy’s dad’s bank account, almost his entire retirement savings.
“I don’t know what percentage of the population isn’t gonna get some form of angina or have a heart attack over the fact that $93,000 was removed from their account,” Duffy said
He says believes the check was stolen from a blue on-street mailbox in February, by a thief with a master mailbox key, according to news reports of a key theft in the area.
What Thieves Can Do With Your Checks
The crook changed the recipient’s name and amount, and cashed the check.
“Originally it was made out for $147 to pay one of his bills,” Duff said, “but they washed all that out.”
Instead, the brazen thieves wrote in $32,000 (according to the bank’s scan of the check), and were able to deposit or cash the check, Duffey says. But worse, using his dad’s signature, routing number and account number, the sophisticated crooks printed more checks for thousands of dollars more.
David Maimon is a cybersecurity expert at Georgia State University who says rings of criminals are now breaking into blue mailboxes, or stealing the master keys and simply opening them.
“It is getting much worse,” Maimon told us.
He says thieves use chemicals to remove handwritten ink off checks, then sell them through underground online networks.
“They don’t want to cash all those checks themselves,” he said. “They don’t want to raise red flags, so they offer the checks to other criminals across the country to do the job for them.”
So the person who grabbed your check is usually not the person who changes the name and cashes it.
What You Can Do
So how can you protect yourself when mailing a check?
The first tips from security experts may seem pretty obvious:
- Never leave a check in your unlocked personal mailbox at your front door or driveway: It’s not 1958 anymore.
- Even at an official blue mailbox, check the collection times. You want to make sure the mail will be picked up in the next couple of hours.
- If possible, mail your checks from your local Post Office.
Security experts also suggest that when writing a personal check you:
- Use a gel pen, not a ballpoint pen.
- Write in black ink, not blue, which is harder to wash.
- Pay bills electronically when possible.
“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is committed to protecting Postal Service employees and customers and preserving the integrity of the U.S. Mail,” the USPS told us in a written statement, saying the agency “will continue to aggressively pursue perpetrators that use the U.S. Mail system to further their illegal activity.”
We contacted Duffy’s bank, Fifth Third Bank, which is now investigating.
Meantime, experts say the fewer paper checks you send these days, the safer you’ll be, so you don’t waste your money.
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Which cat kennel is best?
Cats love being able to freely roam around your house or apartment, which can make it difficult to wrangle them into a cat kennel, let alone have them remain there for an extended period of time. This makes selecting the right kennel that allows your cat to feel safe and comfortable all the more important.
You have a lot of options, and choices may vary depending on your needs, but one top pick is Petmate Two Door Top Load Pet Kennel, which has a convenient top-load door to easily access your cat.
What to know before you buy a cat kennel
Size
You want your cat to be able to stand and move around inside the kennel, making it a good rule of thumb to purchase a kennel that’s one-and-a-half times the size of your cat.
Ventilation
Make sure that the kennel is well-ventilated and that your cat can get adequate airflow when inside. You can always place a blanket on top of the carrier to create a darker and more secure space for your pet.
Weight
If you’re going to be traveling with your cat being in a kennel, select a model that’s lightweight, easy to transport, easy to clean and easy to store when not in use.
What to look for in a quality cat kennel
Cat kennel styles
Cardboard: Cardboard kennels can be used when rescuing a cat or for an emergency trip to the vet, but they’re difficult to secure and your cat can chew through the kennel over time. For this reason, these temporary cat kennels should only be used for short periods and before you have the ability to purchase a long-term kennel.
Soft side: Made from a firm but flexible material, soft cat kennels are a great option for shorter travel outings and trips to the vet.
Rolling: A rolling suitcase-style carrier tends to be the roomiest option for cats and allows them to see their surroundings as they travel.
Hard side: This is the most common type of cat carrier, as it offers space for cats to move around while also helping them feel safe and secure. They’re durable, strong and easy to clean.
Single vs. multiple doors
A single-door kennel is a comfortable option, but if you have a more fearful cat, multiple doors can help you to place your cat safely inside the carrier. This also allows vets to have more than one way to access your cat without removing them from the kennel.
Screws
A cat kennel with screws securing the top down makes it easy to remove the top of the kennel while the cat stays in the bottom portion where they feel safe. Utilizing this feature can be slightly more time-consuming than other types of kennels.
Side snaps
Snaps are an easy way to latch or unlatch the top portion of the carrier, but the loud noise might frighten your cat.
How much you can expect to spend on a cat kennel
Cat kennels vary in price based on size, material, features and benefits but can range from $15-$75.
Cat kennel FAQ
How can you get your cat more comfortable with the cat kennel?
A. If possible, start using the kennel when your cat is young. Even if you don’t need to transport your cat, you can keep the kennel open at home with some of their favorite toys and blankets inside. Adding a little catnip to the kennel can help get an adult cat to spend more time inside.
What type of cat kennel can you bring on a plane?
A. Most cat kennels identify if they’re TSA-approved or not, but the rule of thumb is that the kennel should fit under the seat, so a soft-sided kennel with multiple entrances is ideal.
What’s the best cat kennel to buy?
Top cat kennel
Petmate Two-Door Top-Load Pet Kennel
What you need to know: This is a simple top and front-loading cat kennel that meets all air-approved travel regulations.
What you’ll love: This carrier is durable and secure, made from heavy-duty plastic and features a wing-nut and bolt design. The multi-access, grated steel doors allow your cat to have increased visibility of their surroundings, while you can easily check to make sure they’re comfortable and happy.
What you should consider: Some customers have noted that they’re missing screws in the package, so make sure that you have all the parts you need before assembling the crate.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top cat kennel for the money
Amazon Basics Two-Door Top-Load Hard-Sided Pet Travel Carrier
What you need to know: This is an effective, safe and durable cat kennel for a budget-conscious price.
What you’ll love: This two-door model has excellent airflow. The spring-loaded latch makes for a smooth and quiet opening, and the top door can be opened from left to right.
What you should consider: Be sure not to use this with overweight cats, as some customers mention that the latches don’t support animals closer to 20 pounds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
SPORT PET Large Pop-Open Soft-Side Kennel
What you need to know: Road-trip approved, this cat kennel creates a cozy yet spacious area for one or more cats in the back of your car.
What you’ll love: Specifically designed for car travel, this cat kennel has a durable gate entry and mesh side panel for ventilation, which gives you the ability to keep your eyes on your pets. Framed in durable plastic and designed with secure straps, this is a safe and comfortable option for your cat while traveling.
What you should consider: Your cat should be comfortable in the car and have experience in a solid cat kennel before transitioning to this model. Calm adult cats are the prime candidate for this type of kennel.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Plenty of evidence exists for Colorado being largely pro-abortion rights — right down to the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate.
Businessman Joe O’Dea won the GOP nomination convincingly in June, boosted by established Republican politicians and hammering a message of economy, inflation and gas prices. He explicitly states he’s not running on what he calls social issues, and the issues page of his campaign website doesn’t explicitly mention abortion or any of its euphemisms — but it does feature an open letter from self-described pro-life leaders endorsing him.
But O’Dea is upfront about his beliefs when asked. He holds a more open position than others in his party who believe life begins at conception and want a ban on abortions. It’s led to opposition by some conservatives, including a primary election rival who wielded the issue like a cudgel.
O’Dea’s position on abortion rights is more limited than his general election opponent, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, and recent state law that codifies the right to an abortion.
In all, abortion rights remain contentious in the state. Republican state lawmakers led an all-night filibuster earlier this year to fight a proposal to codify abortion access in state law; weeks later, supporters in the legislature snapped up front pages of newspapers to keep as mementos after Gov. Jared Polis signed it into law.
At the ballot box, voters are regularly asked to outright ban or put limits on the procedure. Backers of another such proposal have approval to gather signatures to ask voters again in 2022 to ban abortions. The most recent effort, 2020’s proposition 115, would have banned abortions after 22 weeks of gestation. Voters rejected it with 59% opposed.
The issue has also received new focus after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the right to an abortion as established in Roe vs. Wade, and kicked it down to states to decide. That decision prompted a new push for federal legislation governing its access.
So, where exactly does O’Dea stand on abortion rights?
O’Dea supports rights, restrictions aligned with Roe vs. Wade
In broad strokes, O’Dea supports the right to an abortion as initially laid out in the 1973 decision Roe vs. Wade. That decision, and others around it, generally allowed abortion up until fetal viability, though it didn’t specify when that is. The court also allowed some state-level restrictions
O’Dea has said an abortion early in the pregnancy is between a person and their doctor and God.
“I believe that decision is between a person and their God, not me,” O’Dea said during the Western Conservative Summit in June. “That’s not what government is designed to do. They shouldn’t be in the middle of that decision.”
In a June interview with Dan Caplis, a conservative talk show host, before the court officially ended the national right to an abortion, O’Dea said he’d vote for a policy that largely aligned with Roe vs. Wade. But, he had a few specific lines in the sand: No late-term, elective and non-medically necessary abortions and no taxpayer funding for the procedure. O’Dea also supports parental notification for minors receiving the procedure.
He didn’t specifically define when a pregnancy is late-term, but that people generally understand that to mean the third trimester, which is about 27 weeks into a pregnancy. There is no medical definition for late-term. O’Dea does support exemptions to that prohibition for cases of rape, incest and medical necessity.
“Joe’s opposition is to elective, non-medically necessary late-term abortion,” according to a statement from his campaign. “Limits on elective late-term abortion should give clear authority to women and doctors to make the difficult decision to end a pregnancy when there are health emergencies.”
Advocates: Bans on abortions later in pregnancy lead to confusion on “life or death” situations
In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about 1% of all abortions happen after 21 weeks of gestation. A Kaiser Family Foundation report from that same year found that individuals who sought abortions that late did so out of medical concerns or due to barriers that prevented them from obtaining an abortion earlier in the pregnancy.
Limits on abortions later in the pregnancy don’t address the medical reality facing pregnant people, advocates with reproductive rights organization Cobalt said. Instead, they create confusion and anxiety for patients and providers unsure of or unable to use the full range of medical options, Cobalt Political Director Selina Najar said.
Cobalt officials said they’ve seen a surge in women from Texas seeking help securing the procedure. That includes cases where patients were having miscarriages that threatened their lives, but doctors wouldn’t induce abortions out of concerns about prohibitions in state law.
“The idea that providers are being asked to make these judgments that are really life or death situations is devastating, and it’s anxiety-inducing,” Najar said.
Cobalt was an early endorser of Bennet’s re-election campaign because of the sitting senator’s support for universal abortion rights.
In crafting limits to abortion access, O’Dea wouldn’t support any enforcement that would be punitive toward women seeking or receiving the care, according to his campaign.
O’Dea opposes the new state abortion law, and the federal law proposed by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
While O’Dea said he’d codify provisions in Roe vs. Wade, he has expressed opposition to two Democratic bills to codify abortion rights: the state Reproductive Health Equity Act and the federal Women’s Health Protection Act. Neither includes limits on abortion access.
O’Dea called a lack of limits on abortion in the state law “reckless.” He likewise opposes the lack of parental notification or religious exemptions for health care providers in the federal bill. The federal effort failed earlier this year on a largely party-line vote.
“Given that he has stated he opposes both (the recent state and federal abortion laws), the idea that he supports abortion rights is categorically false,” Najar said.
O’Dea has said that his support for Roe and related decisions is at least in part to maintain national stability on the issue.
“If Republicans are in control here in November, are we going to have a total ban, and then four years later when Democrats take over are we going to have abortion all the way up to and including the date of birth?” O’Dea said on the Caplis show. “I think our country needs to be able to depend on the decision and we need something that will allow us to move forward with balance.”
O’Dea, who was adopted at birth, also supports policies to encourage adoption, including adoption tax credits, direct grants to faith organizations for recruiting and supporting adopting parents and streamlining the process.
“If we want to move the country forward, we focus on adoption and make it so we don’t need abortion anymore and that can be a decision that each mother gets to make themselves,” O’Dea said on the Caplis show.
Soon after a draft opinion of the Supreme Court decision leaked in May, McConnell told USA TODAY that Republican pursuit of an abortion ban is “possible,” but that he wouldn’t change filibuster rules for the issue. After the decision was final, he said he doesn’t foresee Congress passing a national ban because there wouldn’t be 60 votes in the Senate for it.
But if McConnell had a majority, and the votes for it, Cobalt communications consultant Laura Chapin predicted there would be some kind of national curtailing of abortion rights.
“Policy is what matters here not his words, and he opposes the policies that protect abortion rights,” Najar said, citing O’Dea’s opposition to the state and federal efforts to codify the right to an abortion.
On primary election night, O’Dea said he would “stand up to the extremes” and wouldn’t vote along the party line. He said he would vote his conscience and be “more like a Republican Joe Manchin,” referring to the West Virginia Democrat who has become a deciding vote on much of his party’s overarching agenda.
O’Dea would have supported Trump’s Supreme Court picks. And at least one of Obama’s, too
Abortion access looms large over congressional races across the country. A recent Suffolk University/USA TODAY national poll found it was the top issue for 15.7% of voters — the second largest bloc, behind the 20% voters who stated the economy was the most important thing to their vote. It led among women, with 24% saying it was the most important issue to their vote. It did not specify if that was because respondents were for or against abortion rights.
However, Congress isn’t what eliminated the federal right to an abortion.
O’Dea would have supported all of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominees, all three of whom were confirmed and were pivotal votes in the decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade.
That alone undercuts his stated positions, abortion rights advocates said.
“You can’t say you support Roe and then you would vote for the justices who overturned Roe,” Laura Chapin, Cobalt communications consultant, said.
However, O’Dea calls that another mark of “the political bloodsport surrounding the Supreme Court.” He pledged to support judges based on qualifications, record and temperament, and the understanding that their terms would include ruling on more issues than just abortion.
“I would have supported conservative justices including Neil Gorsuch, more centrist, institutionalist justices including John Roberts, and Democratically-appointed justices like Elena Kagan because they all had the qualifications, record, and temperament to serve,” O’Dea said in a statement. “These are justices from the three very distinct camps on the abortion question, but all clearly have the qualifications, record and temperament to serve on a body that decides thousands and thousands of cases and questions, not only abortion and social issues.”
Bennet, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate during President Barack Obama’s term, voted against Trump’s three nominations.
Since his time in the chamber, the fight over judicial nominations writ large has been a political battlefield. Facing Republican filibusters to Obama’s lower court judicial nominees in 2013, Bennet voted to change senate rules to allow a simple majority vote to confirm new judges other than those nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. In April 2017, with Trump newly in office, a Republican majority in the Senate and a vacant Supreme Court seat, the Senate again changed the rules to eliminate the filibuster and allow a simple majority to confirm new justices. | 2022-07-30T13:44:46+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/30/joe-odea-abortion-colorado-gop-nominee/ |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Pittsburgh got off to as fast a start as a defense can Saturday at Virginia, returning passes by quarterback Brennan Armstrong on the first two plays from scrimmage for touchdowns.
M.J. Devonshire did the trick first, jumping in front of a pass near the Panthers’ sideline and scampering easily 29 yards for the score at the 14:55 mark.
After a second touchback, Armstrong tried throwing deeper, also near the Pitt sideline, and Marquis Williams jumped in front of that one and also took it 39 yards for a touchdown.
After 16 seconds, the Panthers led 14-0 and Virginia fans were booing.
The Cavaliers’ third series started with a handoff from Armstrong to Mike Hollins, and sarcastic cheers erupted even though the play went for no gain.
The double pick-6 marked the first time Pittsburgh has returned two interceptions for a touchdown in a game since 2006 — also against the Cavaliers in a 38-13 victory.
Saturday was the first time Virginia has allowed two interception returns for a touchdown in the same game since 2015, when Boise State did it in a 56-14 rout.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Veteran closer Kenley Jansen has agreed to a $32 million, two-year deal with the Boston Red Sox, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the agreement was pending a physical.
The 35-year-old Jansen went 5-2 with a 3.38 ERA in 64 innings for the Atlanta Braves this year. The three-time All-Star led the National League with 41 saves.
The right-hander spent the previous 12 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, winning a World Series title in 2020.
Jansen has a 2.46 career ERA. He was an All-Star in 2016-2018.
His 391 career saves are the second-most among active players (behind Craig Kimbrel’s 394) and eighth all time.
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College prep academy expanding into Craven County
NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) - A college preparatory network headquartered in Raleigh is expanding to include its first Eastern Carolina campus.
Thales Academy, a network of K-12 independent schools, will launch its new location in the New Bern area in 2025. The school will be located just six miles west of New Bern in the planned community of West New Bern.
We’re told that Thales Academy New Bern will initially offer grades Pre-K through 3rd grade for the inaugural school year, with plans to add a grade each year to grow to a full K-8th-grade campus (and maybe eventually through 12th grade if there is enough enrollment interest).
“We are honored to have the opportunity to bring our high quality, affordable private school education model to the New Bern community,” Bob Luddy, Thales Academy founder and chairman said.
“We pride ourselves on offering a rigorous, classical education that incorporates character formation in all grades and maintains affordable tuition. We are thrilled to share Thales Academy with families in eastern North Carolina.”
The academy says the west-of-New Bern campus will have Apple TVs in every classroom, shared iPad and MacBook carts, advanced HVAC units, security cameras, background check systems for visitors, and much more.
Thales Academy currently operates 14 campuses in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, instructing about 6,000 students.
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As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said.
“Heat sets the pace of our climate in so many ways … it’s never just the heat,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University.
Dying coral reefs, more intense Nor’easters and the wildfire smoke that has choked much of North America this summer are among the many other signals of climate distress.
“The increasing heating of our planet caused by fossil fuel use is not unexpected, but it is dangerous for us humans and for the ecosystems we depend on. We need to stop it, fast,” said Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Some other recent “firsts” and events that indicate climate change has entered uncharted territory:
OCEAN WARMING
Most of the planet is covered by oceans, which have absorbed 90% of the recent warming caused by planet-warming gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. In April, global ocean temperature soared to 69.98 degrees Fahrenheit (21.1 degrees Celsius), which was attributed to the combination of greenhouse gas emissions and the early El Nino formation. Newly published data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service documented “exceptionally warm” ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic with “extreme” marine heat waves near Ireland, the U.K., and in the Baltic Sea.
WILDFIRE SMOKE
Several rounds of wildfire smoke originating from northern Canada brought dangerous air quality levels to eastern North America. The high levels of wildfire smoke have become familiar on the West Coast, but scientists say that climate change will make wildfires and smoke more likely and intense and that the East Coast will see more of it.
EL NINO ARRIVES EARLY
The current El Nino — a period of warming Pacific Ocean waters — formed a month or two earlier than usual, replacing a La Nina that, with its cooling of Pacific waters, served as a damper on global temperatures. That means it will have more time than usual to strengthen. The World Meteorological Organization predicts there is a 98% chance that at least one of the next five years will be the warmest on record, beating 2016 when an exceptionally strong El Nino was present.
SHRINKING ANTARCTIC SEA ICE
Scientists are watching Antarctic sea ice shrink to record lows. The 4.5 million square miles (11.7 million square kilometers) covered by the sheet on June 27 was almost 1 million square miles (2.6 million square kilometers) less than average for that date for the period from 1981-2010, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Put another way, an area nearly four times the size of Texas was gone from the ice sheet.
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Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein contributed from Washington.
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Joey Gallo Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Blue Jays - May 28
Published: May. 28, 2023 at 5:25 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Joey Gallo, with a slugging percentage of .407 in his past 10 games -- including two home runs -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins versus the Toronto Blue Jays, with Jose Berrios on the hill, May 28 at 2:10 PM ET.
He is looking to get back on track after he struck out four times in his last game against the Blue Jays.
Joey Gallo Game Info & Props vs. the Blue Jays
- Game Day: Sunday, May 28, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Blue Jays Starter: José Berríos
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +220)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -120)
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Joey Gallo At The Plate
- Gallo is hitting .195 with five doubles, a triple, 11 home runs and 22 walks.
- Gallo has picked up a hit in 41.5% of his 41 games this season, with more than one hit in 12.2% of those games.
- He has hit a home run in 24.4% of his games this year, and 7.8% of his plate appearances.
- Gallo has picked up an RBI in 11 games this year (26.8%), with two or more RBI in six of those contests (14.6%).
- In 18 games this year (43.9%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Blue Jays Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Blue Jays has a collective 9.4 K/9, the fifth-best in MLB.
- The Blue Jays' 4.07 team ERA ranks 11th among all league pitching staffs.
- Blue Jays pitchers combine to allow 72 total home runs at a clip of 1.4 per game (fifth-most in the league).
- Berrios makes the start for the Blue Jays, his 11th of the season. He is 4-4 with a 4.22 ERA and 57 strikeouts through 59 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when he tossed seven innings, allowing one earned run while giving up five hits.
- The 29-year-old's 4.22 ERA ranks 46th, 1.223 WHIP ranks 41st, and 8.6 K/9 ranks 36th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek.
The agency said in a news release that the Dec. 7 rupture of the Keystone pipeline affected 3 1/2 miles of the creek as it flows through rural pastureland in Washington County, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Kansas City.
The order requires TC Oil Pipeline Operations Inc., whose parent company is Canadian-based TC Energy, to recover oil and oil-contaminated soil and vegetation and contain the further spread of oil in the creek.
Meg McCollister, an EPA regional administrator, said in a statement that the federal government and the state are “committed to a thorough cleanup and restoration."
The 2,700-mile (4,345-kilometer) Keystone system carries heavy crude oil extracted from tar sands in western Canada to the Gulf Coast and to central Illinois.
The cause of the 14,000-barrel spill hasn't yet been announced. Each barrel is 42 gallons, the size of a household bathtub.
But U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, raised concerns in a letter Monday about the decision to grant TC Energy a permit that allowed the pressure inside parts of the Keystone system — including the stretch through Kansas — to exceed the typical maximum permitted levels.
“This latest spill is no surprise," Cantwell told the deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in demanding a review of the permit.
The spill was the largest onshore in nine years and larger than 22 previous spills on the Keystone system combined, according to U.S. Department of Transportation data.
The company and government officials have said drinking water supplies were not affected. No one was evacuated, and most of the Keystone system was back in operation in eight days.
Concerns that spills could pollute waterways spurred opposition to plans by TC Energy to build another crude oil pipeline in the same system, the 1,200-mile (1,900-kilometer) Keystone XL, across Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. President Joe Biden’s cancelation of a permit for the project led the company to pull the plug on the project last year. | 2023-01-10T00:19:42+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/EPA-pipeline-operator-reach-deal-to-clean-up-17706175.php |
KSNF/KODE — More than three quarters of the world’s population think recycling is important, but key barriers must be overcome to encourage them to act, according to a new study.
A joint survey by the World Economic Forum, SAP and Qualtrics questioned people in different parts of the world about their attitudes toward climate change and sustainability. The survey found that many see recycling as confusing and overwhelming, with some participants uncertain about what can be recycled or how to recycle it.
Researchers surveyed more than 11,500 people across 28 countries. The results are made up of 70% general consumers and 30% corporate representatives.
The survey found that 94% of Americans support recycling, and 74% say it should be a top priority. But only about 35% of people actually recycle. The top reason Americans say they don’t recycle regularly is a lack of convenient access.
Another problem, which is one that occurs in nearly all of the countries surveyed, is consumers don’t fully understand what can actually be recycled. They end up recycling such items as plastic straws and takeout containers that aren’t recyclable. These items most often end up being burned or put in a landfill.
The survey found that a consistent recycling program could lessen the confusion and reduce waste. Varying standards, even within cities and counties, leave consumers to guess what’s best for the environment.
Well over half of respondents — and many more in some regions — said choosing new products with reusable packaging was the most adoptable zero-waste practice. Around half thought avoiding products that are hard to recycle would reduce waste.
Extending the lifecycle of goods, by repairing them when worn or broken, saw strong support in regions like North America. In regard to reducing consumption as a means of easing waste, North America along with East Asia and the Pacific recorded the highest support (38%) compared to just 23% in Africa. | 2022-12-11T14:19:59+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/new-survey-discovers-why-most-people-dont-recycle/ |
To the battle cry, “The South shall rise again!” the victory of Raphael Warnock in Georgia responds, “Maybe not.” One hopes the pastor’s election to a full term in the United States Senate hammers another nail in the coffin of the Republican Party’s “southern strategy,” a strategy that panders to the “worse angels” of hatred, racism, white supremacy, and voter suppression.
Herschel Walker was a terrible candidate, and it will take victories over less-tainted candidates to make a real difference. But, the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House was affirmed by Georgia voters 157 years later in the December runoff election.
Perhaps GOP moderates will be able to remove the late Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond from their party’s throne and restore Abraham Lincoln as the party’s abiding conscience. The scheme of radical right-wingers to conquer America by dividing its people maybe finally be falling on hard times. Perhaps by 2024, even Ohio voters will take the cue.
The Rev. Philip A. Gardner,
Sandusky | 2022-12-09T16:36:51+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2022/12/gops-southern-strategy-is-down-but-not-out-in-raphael-warnocks-georgia-victory.html |
CHAMPAIGN — Josh Whitman deployed the phrase “retain some perspective” on Wednesday when discussing the accomplishments of coach Mike Small’s Illinois men’s golf team, as part of Whitman’s annual media roundtable event.
A national championship again eluded those Illini during their 2022-23 season, which ended in the national quarterfinals last month. But they reached NCAA match play for the eighth time in Small’s tenure, with all of those appearances occurring in the last 13 years.
Whitman didn’t waste much time returning to the “retain-some-perspective” concept as he scrolled through some of Illinois’ other athletic teams during his roundtable.
The second time around, he applied the phrase to coach Brad Underwood’s men’s basketball outfit.
One that reached the NCAA tournament for the third consecutive year last March. Something that hasn’t been done by the program since its run of eight showings in a row between 2000 and 2007.
“When you think back to the last four seasons, going into the last week of each of those seasons, we were in the race to win the (Big Ten) title. ... I’m excited about that,” Whitman said. “Our fans should celebrate that, as well.”
Whitman also appears to sense, however, that Illinois’ fans are a bit less forgiving with the aforementioned men’s basketball situation in comparison to the aforementioned men’s golf situation.
“I understand the disappointment that we’ve experienced here the last couple Marches,” Whitman said. “We’re one of only 19 (teams) in the country to be in the NCAA tournament three years in a row. So we’re keeping good company. We’re doing some really positive things here.”
On the topic of March Madness, Whitman feels it’s important to “realize what the NCAA tournament is and what it is not.”
“The NCAA tournament is not an effort to try and identify who the best team is. I hate to break everybody’s heart,” Whitman said. “It’s the greatest spectacle that, maybe, we’ve ever created in sports. It’s a weeks-long effort to go out and see just unbelievable games.”
Games Illinois has recorded a 2-3 record in during Underwood’s tenure thus far, including the stunning 71-58 loss by the top-seeded Illini to eighth-seeded Loyola-Chicago during the tournament’s second round in 2021.
“The best thing we can do is just keep showing up,” Whitman said. “The best thing we can do is win in the regular season, get the best seed we possibly can and improve our chances of making a run. Does it mean we’re going to (make a run)? No, it doesn’t.”
Whitman didn’t sound troubled by neither last season’s 73-63 loss by ninth-seeded Illinois to eighth-seeded Arkansas in the first round — “we lost an 8-9 game; by definition, it’s a toss-up” — nor by the fourth-seeded Illini’s 68-53 defeat at the hands of fifth-seeded Houston in the 2022 second round — “we got beat by a really, really good Houston team.”
The Loyola-Chicago matchup is a different story.
“That’s the one that really stung us,” Whitman said. “You talk about putting yourself in position to make a run. We did all the work in the regular season, and we weren’t able to advance.”
But Whitman again turned back to that regular-season work, pointing out that Illinois has bagged at least 20 wins in four consecutive seasons, as evidence that Underwood’s crew is heading in the right direction as his seventh season at the helm approaches.
“Our day is coming. We just haven’t found it yet,” Whitman said. “But I’ve got tremendous confidence in where we’re headed and am excited about what the future looks like.” | 2023-06-23T10:47:43+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/sports/whitman-pleased-with-mens-basketball-progress-our-day-is-coming/article_b572d4e8-c9a1-568d-a765-8ff02e907b0e.html |
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of royal fans lined up outside Windsor Castle for the chance to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as the chapel where the late monarch was buried opened to the public Thursday for the first time since her death.
The queen’s death certificate says the 96-year-old monarch died of old age. The certificate, published by National Records of Scotland on Thursday, records that Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland on Sept. 8 at 3.10 p.m. The document was signed by the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne.
Many want to visit the tomb of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. It is marked by a slab of hand-carved Belgian black marble inside the King George VI Memorial Chapel, part of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. The queen’s name is inscribed on the ledger stone in brass letter inlays, alongside the names of her husband, mother and father.
Among the early arrivals was Anne Daley, 65, from Cardiff, who got to the castle at 7:30 a.m., well ahead of the 10 a.m. opening time. She was also one of the first in line as tens of thousands of people shuffled through Westminster Hall over four days to see the queen’s lying in state before her funeral.
Daley said she felt emotional thinking about the monarch’s death on Sept. 8, as well as that of her husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
“The castle feels like empty, gloomy. Nobody’s living in it. You know, you’ve lost the queen, you’ve lost the duke, you lost the corgis,” Daly said, referring to Elizabeth’s beloved dogs. “It’s like when you’ve sold your house and all the history is gone.”
To visit the chapel, royal fans have to buy a ticket to Windsor Castle. The price for adults is 26.50 pounds ($28.75) Sunday through Friday, and 28.50 on Saturdays.
The memorial chapel sits within the walls of St. George’s Chapel, where many members of the royal family are buried. It has also been the venue for several royal weddings, including the marriage of Prince Harry to the former Meghan Markle in 2018. | 2022-09-29T20:57:53+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-hundreds-line-up-to-pay-respects-to-late-queen-in-windsor/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered in uncertain trading on Wall Street Tuesday ahead of key updates this week on inflation and company earnings.
The S&P 500 rose 0.1% as of 12:10 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is roughly evenly split between gainers and losers and has shifted between a loss of 0.4% and a gain of 0.6% throughout the day.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 45 points, or 0.1%, to 33,562. The Nasdaq rose 0.3%.
Technology stocks fell and health care stocks made solid gains.
Wall Street remains focused on inflation and its grip on the economy as the Federal Reserve stays aggressive in its fight against stubbornly high prices on food, clothing and other necessities. That has left investors closely watching economic data and updates from companies.
The next big marker for the market will be Thursday’s report on inflation at the consumer level. Economists expect it to show inflation slowed further to 6.5% last month from 7.1% in November.
Investors are also anticipating the latest round of corporate earnings. Updates from retailers have reinforced concerns about weaker sales amid hot inflation squeezing wallets. Macy’s and several others have warned investors about weaker results during the fourth quarter and into 2023.
Troubled home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond reported weak earnings, but announced more cost cuts as it tries to survive. The stock rose 19.1%.
Technology sector job cuts continued with the latest from crypto exchange Coinbase announcing it is laying off 20% of its workforce. The stock rose 4.7%.
Several big banks are on deck to report their results on Friday, including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. Delta Air Lines and UnitedHealth Group will also report results on Friday. Analysts are forecasting that this may mark the first year-over-year drop in earnings per share for S&P 500 companies since 2020.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, climbed to 3.63% from 3.53%.
European markets were lower and Asian markets closed mixed overnight. Crude oil prices rose.
Investors remain concerned about the risk of a recession in 2023. The World Bank added to the list of of warnings on Tuesday. It said the global economy will come “perilously close” to a recession this year in its annual report.
A resilient employment market and strong consumer spending helped create a bulwark against a recession in the U.S. through much of 2022, but risks remain. The big concern is that the Fed will continue hitting the brakes too hard on economic growth and stall the broader economy. It has already hiked its key overnight rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% from roughly zero a year ago.
The economy could suffer a lag effect from continued interest rate hikes that pushes a recession off to the second half of the year, said Barry Bannister, chief equity strategist at Stifel. The global economy could also benefit from improvements in China’s economy as it moves on from the impact of COVID-19 and various restrictions that held back growth.
“You’re looking at a pretty good six months where things get better at the margins and then trouble starts to rear its head,” Bannister said. | 2023-01-10T19:46:04+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-asian-stock-markets-mixed-ahead-of-us-inflation-update/ |
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CAUGHT ON CAM: Ohio trooper dives for safety after cruiser was struck by pickup truck
(CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A state highway patrol trooper avoided significant injuries after an early-morning hit-and-run incident in northern Ohio.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol hopes the public can help identify the driver of a pickup truck, who struck the side of the trooper’s cruiser and continued driving.
The incident occurred Friday after 1:30 a.m. on I-475 near U.S. Route 23, according to the OSHP.
Dash camera video shows the trooper diving over the interstate guardrail after the cruiser was struck, while parked on the side with its emergency lights activated.
Investigators believe the pickup involved is a dark-colored truck with damage on the left side.
Anyone with information about the incident or vehicle involved can call the Ohio State Highway Patrol post at 419-856-5544.
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Live updates: Donald Trump arraigned on 34 felony counts
NEW YORK (AP) — Follow along for live updates on former President Donald Trump, who surrendered Tuesday at a Manhattan courthouse to face arraignment on charges stemming from hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters.
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What to know:
— Historic appearance set for Tuesday afternoon
— Small but chaotic crowd gathers near Manhattan courthouse
— Who is Juan Merchan, the judge handling Trump’s case?
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TRUMP LEAVES MANHATTAN COURTHOUSE
Former President Donald Trump has left the Manhattan courthouse after his arraignment on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Trump did not answer a reporter’s shouted question about the charges as he quickly left the courtroom where the hearing was held.
Trump spent about two hours inside the building for booking and the arraignment where he learned the details of the criminal charges he faces while running a third presidential campaign.
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TRUMP PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO 34 FELONY COUNTS OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS
Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter.
The two officials who confirmed the plea spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because prosecutors had not yet released the indictment publicly.
The charges stem from a hush-money payment during the 2016 campaign.
Photos from the courtroom showed Trump sitting at the table reserved for defendants and their attorneys. His legal team surrounded him, two seated on each side of the former president.
Trump leaned forward slightly, his shoulders rounded, but he didn’t turn his face away from photographers given permission to be in the courtroom just before the hearing.
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WHITE HOUSE REMAINING QUIET ON TRUMP CHARGES
While the country’s attention was trained on the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump was being arraigned, the White House did its best Tuesday to suggest that it wasn’t paying much attention.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that “our focus right now is on the American people,” and was noncommittal when asked whether President Joe Biden was following the news.
“He will catch part of the news when he has a moment to catch up on the news of the day,” she said. “But this is not a focus for him today.”
Jean-Pierre was similarly circumspect when asked about the potential for unrest over the prosecution of the former president, especially since Trump has called for protests.
“We are prepared,” she said.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy tried unsuccessfully to get Jean-Pierre to open up more.
“Why don’t you have more to say about the Trump indictment?” he asked. “For better or worse, all that anybody in the country is talking about, at this exact moment while we’re in here, is Trump. And they look here to find out what the White House thinks about it.”
“I think the American people should feel reassured that when there is an ongoing case like this one, that we’re just not commenting,” Jean-Pierre said.
But reporters didn’t give up.
“I love how you guys are asking me this in different ways,” Jean-Pierre joked. “You guys are clever.”
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TRUMP ENTERS COURTROOM FOR ARRAIGNMENT
Former President Donald Trump has entered the Manhattan courtroom where he is scheduled for arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush-money payment during his 2016 campaign.
Trump reached the 15th floor courtroom about 70 minutes after he entered the courthouse to surrender and be booked ahead of the hearing.
Trump did not acknowledge a television camera sending live images from the hallway outside the courtroom.
Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that TV cameras will not be allowed in the courtroom. Trump’s attorneys have said he will plead not guilty.
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MANHATTAN DA ENTERS COURTROOM
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has entered the courtroom where former President Donald Trump is scheduled for arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush-money payment during his 2016 campaign.
Trump has not yet been seen on the 15th floor where the hearing is supposed to take place. Wearing a navy blue suit and a bright red tie, Trump entered the courthouse around 12:20 p.m. to surrender on the charges and be processed before the hearing.
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TRUMP ARRIVES AT MANHATTAN COURTHOUSE
Former President Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan courthouse where he is expected to plead not guilty to criminal charges. He entered the courthouse surrounded by Secret Service agents.
Trump’s motorcade traveled from Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, tracked by numerous helicopters.
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TRUMP LEAVES NEW YORK HOME
Former President Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved before leaving Trump Tower shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, bound for the Manhattan courthouse nearly 4 miles (6 kilometers) away.
Trump’s attorneys have arranged for his surrender. He will be booked at the courthouse, not at a police precinct as most New York defendants are.
Court officials will create a record of his name, age, birthdate, height and weight before taking his fingerprints via a computerized system. They may take his photo.
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FLORIDA LAWMAKER PLEDGES TO KEEP SUPPORTING TRUMP
A former Florida state lawmaker said he and others drove from Orlando to New York in time for Tuesday’s hearing to send a message to former President Donald Trump: We won’t stop supporting you.
Anthony Sabatini, chair of Florida’s Lake County Republican Party, joined other Trump supporters in a park near the Manhattan courthouse where Trump’s arraignment was to be held.
“It’s a bad day for America, one of the worst days in American history, he said.
The mood among Trump supporters, though, was positive, Sabatini said. He credited New York police officers with keeping people separated based on their motivation — in support of Trump or in support of his indictment.
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GREENE SPEAKS BRIEFLY AMID SHOUTS
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene briefly rallied supporters of Donald Trump outside the Manhattan courthouse Tuesday morning ahead of the former president’s arraignment.
After she exited an SUV, a large crowd surrounded the Georgia Republican, once shunned by the GOP as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric. She made her way through a park where hundreds of onlookers and journalists gathered and used a bullhorn to speak briefly. It was difficult to hear her comments in the crowd.
In video of the remarks, Greene thanked “patriotic Trump supporters who are here today.” She called Republicans “the party of peace” and called Democrats “the party of violence.”
Greene then made a fast exit. It was unclear whether she would return. In an interview posted online, Greene said she planned to speak with media from a car and accused counter-protesters of assault for blowing whistles and shouting as she spoke.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday said his message for Greene was that she should “be on your best behavior.” Greene blasted Adams for “calling me out by name.”
“As you can see, I’m standing here peacefully protesting,” she said.
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GEORGE SANTOS JOINS TRUMP SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE COURTHOUSE
George Santos, the besieged Republican congressman facing multiple investigations into lies he told while running for office, joined the growing crowd of people gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment.
Santos told The Associated Press that he didn’t plan to go inside the courthouse but came to “support the president.”
“I want to support the president, just because I think this is unprecedented, and it’s a bad day for democracy,” Santos said. “What’s to stop the next prosecutor in two years from doing the same thing to Joe Biden and moving on every four years? So this makes bad precedent legally. And it makes, it cheapens the judicial system, and it’s not good for America.”
Santos has rejected calls for his resignation, including some from members of his own party. He demurred Tuesday when asked if he hopes Trump will continue to back him in return for the show of support.
“I’m not here for that,” he said.
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RALLY FOR TRUMP
People began gathering Tuesday morning for a rally for Donald Trump in a park outside the courthouse where the former president is scheduled to be arraigned.
The rally with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was scheduled to start several hours ahead of Trump’s court appearance.
Some anti-Trump protesters also appeared, unfurling a large banner saying “Trump Lies All the Time.”
Trump supporters also are expected expected to gather at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Tuesday night as he returns. ___
PROSECUTOR ARRIVES
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrived at court Tuesday morning in New York ahead of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment.
Bragg became Manhattan’s first Black district attorney in 2022, following his election the previous November. He inherited a yearslong grand jury investigation into hush money paid on Trump’s behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign.
After taking office, Bragg slowed his office’s move toward an indictment of Trump and said he had concerns about the strength of the case. That sparked a public protest by two prosecutors who were leading the investigation and resigned.
But Bragg convened a new grand jury this year after convicting Trump’s family company for tax fraud. He called that result a “strong demarcation line” for proceeding with other parts of the probe.
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TRUMP ATTORNEY: ‘NO GUILTY PLEA’
Trump attorney Joe Tacopina said the former president’s appearance in court for Tuesday’s arraignment would be brief because the processing “does not take long.”
“It won’t be a long day in court,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“We know the basis of the indictment and the factual allegations in the indictment,” Tacopina said, adding that Trump would maintain his innocence.
“One thing I can assure you as I sit here today: There’ll be no guilty plea in this case. That’s one thing I can guarantee you,” he said.
Tacopina appeared to predict that the case would ultimately be dismissed.
“I don’t think this case is going to see a juror,” he said. “I think there’s a legal challenge that will be made and should be made successfully.”
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SPECTATORS LINE UP
Spectators, many of them members of the news media, lined up overnight to get a seat inside the courtroom, or even just a glimpse of Trump, who wasn’t expected until Tuesday afternoon.
The building was surrounded by barricades, and people were undergoing layers of security checks. The reporters waiting in line were camped out under tents with lawn chairs, blankets and pizza boxes.
The nation’s 45th commander in chief was expected to be escorted from Trump Tower — which was also surrounded by barricades — to a lower Manhattan courthouse by the Secret Service.
Police braced for protests from supporters of Trump, a Republican who is running for the White House again in 2024. He called the decision by a grand jury to indict him “political persecution and election interference at the highest level.”
Prosecutors investigated money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal to keep the women from going public with claims that they had sex with him.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBC series “The Blacklist” is closing down.
NBC said Wednesday that the James Spader drama will end after its upcoming season, its 10th on the air. It will return for its final run of episodes on Feb. 26.
Spader has played the character Raymond Reddington, an FBI informant on old criminal colleagues. This last season, Reddington confronts “unparalleled danger” as some of those he’s identified seek revenge, NBC said.
The show’s 200th episode, a milestone in the often fleeting world of television, will air on March 19.
Diego Klattenhoff, Hisham Tawfiq, Anya Banerjee and Harry Lennix are other regulars on “The Blacklist.”
The final episode will air sometime this year. An NBC spokesperson said it’s not immediately clear when that will be. | 2023-02-02T19:45:03+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-nbc-is-closing-down-the-blacklist-after-decade-on-the-air/ |
Former Vice President Pence will not appeal a ruling requiring him to testify in front of a grand jury about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, aides said Tuesday.
A federal judge last week ruled that Pence had to provide testimony about former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, though the judge said Pence would not be compelled to testify about his role in Congress.
Pence’s team had argued he was protected under the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause in his role as president of the Senate during the events of Jan. 6.
“The Court’s landmark and historic ruling affirmed for the first time in history that the Speech or Debate Clause extends to the Vice President of the United States,” Pence aide Devin O’Malley said in a statement. “Having vindicated that principle of the Constitution, Vice President Pence will not appeal the Judge’s ruling and will comply with the subpoena as required by law.”
Special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year subpoenaed Pence for testimony as part of his investigation into Trump’s conduct around the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Pence and his team had argued that serving as the former president of the Senate essentially made him a member of the legislative branch on the day of the riots, and he would therefore be shielded from the subpoena under the “speech and debate” clause of the Constitution.
While Pence’s team felt the judge’s ruling last week was too narrowly applied, the former vice president had been clear he was challenging the subpoena on constitutional grounds.
The ruling will allow Pence to testify about some of Trump’s conduct leading up to Jan. 6 without having to divulge details about what happened on the actual day. His testimony could happen sometime in the next month, though the exact timing is still to be determined.
Pence, who is weighing whether to challenge Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, could be a crucial witness for Smith as he gathers information about Trump’s actions around Jan. 6.
The former vice president in his memoir detailed some of the conversations he had with Trump in the weeks leading up to that day, writing about how the former president repeatedly pressured him to consider rejecting the 2020 election results. Pence ultimately certified the results, saying that the constitution did not give him the unilateral power to overturn the will of the people.
The judge’s ruling about Pence’s testimony is separate from an effort by Trump to shield Pence from testifying on executive privilege grounds. A federal judge late last month rejected those privilege claims, though Trump and his legal team could still appeal that ruling.
Smith is overseeing two concurrent probes into Trump: One focused on the events of Jan. 6, and the other looking at whether Trump mishandled classified documents upon leaving the White House.
Updated at 3:50 p.m. | 2023-04-05T21:38:35+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/hill-politics/pence-wont-appeal-judges-order-to-testify-in-jan-6-probe/ |
Rays second. Randy Arozarena doubles to deep right center field. Isaac Paredes grounds out to shortstop, Whit Merrifield to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Randy Arozarena to third. Josh Lowe strikes out swinging. Christian Bethancourt reaches on error. Randy Arozarena scores. Fielding error by Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Jose Siri homers to center field. Christian Bethancourt scores. Luke Raley flies out to right center field to George Springer.
3 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 0 left on. Rays 3, Blue jays 0.
Rays third. Yandy Diaz walks. Wander Franco reaches on error. Yandy Diaz to second. Fielding error by Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Brandon Lowe flies out to left field to Daulton Varsho. Randy Arozarena flies out to deep right field to George Springer. Yandy Diaz to third. Isaac Paredes singles to center field. Wander Franco to third. Yandy Diaz scores. Josh Lowe lines out to deep left field to Daulton Varsho.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 left on. Rays 4, Blue jays 0.
Blue jays fourth. Matt Chapman singles to right field. Daulton Varsho grounds out to second base, Brandon Lowe to Yandy Diaz. Matt Chapman to second. Alejandro Kirk grounds out to shortstop, Wander Franco to Yandy Diaz. Whit Merrifield homers to center field. Matt Chapman scores. Danny Jansen grounds out to third base, Isaac Paredes to Yandy Diaz.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rays 4, Blue jays 2.
Rays sixth. Randy Arozarena homers to right field. Isaac Paredes pops out to first base to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Josh Lowe grounds out to second base, Whit Merrifield to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Christian Bethancourt grounds out to third base, Matt Chapman to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rays 5, Blue jays 2.
Rays seventh. Jose Siri flies out to center field to Daulton Varsho. Luke Raley homers to right field. Yandy Diaz strikes out swinging. Wander Franco grounds out to shortstop, Bo Bichette to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rays 6, Blue jays 2.
Blue jays ninth. Matt Chapman pops out to Yandy Diaz. Daulton Varsho homers to center field. Alejandro Kirk singles to center field. Whit Merrifield singles to right field. Alejandro Kirk to second. Danny Jansen flies out to right center field to Luke Raley. Brandon Belt pinch-hitting for Kevin Kiermaier. Brandon Belt singles to left center field. Whit Merrifield to second. Alejandro Kirk scores. George Springer walks. Cavan Biggio to second. Whit Merrifield to third. Bo Bichette grounds out to shallow infield, Pete Fairbanks to Yandy Diaz.
2 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Rays 6, Blue jays 4. | 2023-05-23T02:33:59+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/toronto-tampa-bay-runs-18113530.php |
CEDARTOWN, Ga. (AP) — A suspect jailed in Alabama has been charged in the death of a man whose body was found stuffed in an abandoned toolbox by a road crew working in neighboring Georgia, authorities said.
The sheriff’s office in Cherokee County, Alabama, said 28-year-old Erik Hooper is charged with murder and receiving stolen property. He remained jailed Saturday on $1.5 million bond.
Chief Deputy Josh Summerford said in a news release Friday that Hooper was charged in connection with the killing of 40-year-old Lachancey Williams of Cedartown, Georgia. Online jail booking information for Hooper did not say whether he has an attorney representing him.
A road crew in Polk County, Georgia, found Williams’ body wrapped in a tarp and stuffed in a toolbox left by a dirt road on March 15. Polk County and Cherokee County sit on opposite sides of the Georgia-Alabama line.
Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff Shaver said investigators are still looking for a person of interest wanted for questioning about the case. | 2022-04-23T19:17:15+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Alabama-man-held-in-Georgia-case-of-body-found-in-17121946.php |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, September 26, 2022
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RIP CURRENT STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service New York NY
327 PM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast
Suffolk, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...Through Monday evening.
* IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all
people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches
should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the
best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with
you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax
and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in
a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face
the shore and yell or wave for help.
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David Baszucki, Philippe Krakowsky, Ynon Kreiz, and Jim Ryan Join the Paley Center's Board of Trustees
Robert A. Boyd II Joins the Paley Center's Los Angeles Board of Governors
NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paley Center for Media, the entertainment industry's leading nonprofit dedicated to celebrating the cultural, creative, and social significance of media and its impact on society, today announced the addition of prominent leaders in the fields of media, gaming, entertainment, and advertising to its prestigious Board of Trustees and Los Angeles Board of Governors.
Joining the Paley Board of Trustees will be David Baszucki, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Roblox; Philippe Krakowsky, Chief Executive Officer, Interpublic Group; Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mattel, Inc.; and Jim Ryan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Joining the Paley Los Angeles Board of Governors will be Robert A. Boyd II, Chief Operating Officer, Tyler Perry Studios.
"As the media industry's preeminent nonprofit, The Paley Center takes great pride in bringing together the greatest minds and visionaries in the business," said Maureen J. Reidy, the Paley Center's President & CEO. "We are honored that these esteemed leaders have chosen to join our extremely dedicated Paley Center Board of Trustees and Los Angeles Board of Governors. Their invaluable respective expertise, counsel and love for the media industry will enhance our governance and leadership, as well as drive forward and strengthen our mission."
The Paley Center's Board of Trustees is chaired by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Executive Vice Chairman and former CEO, Hearst, and is comprised of some of the most exemplary leaders from the worlds of media, sports, gaming, and entertainment. The Board offers guidance in support of the organization's mission to lead the conversation around today's rapidly evolving media landscape and provides critical input on strategy and operations, including public programs and exhibits, educational classes, workshops, and industry events hosted by the Paley Media Council.
The new members to the Board of Trustees join current Trustees: Alfonso de Angoitia, TelevisaUnivision, Inc.; Brandon Beck, Riot Games; Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Hearst; Gary B. Bettman, National Hockey League; Adam Bird, McKinsey & Company; Andy Bird, CBE, Pearson; Aryeh B. Bourkoff, LionTree LLC; Adriana Cisneros, Cisneros; Cesar Conde, NBCUniversal; Steve Cooper, Warner Music Group; Eddy Cue, Apple, Inc.; Anne del Castillo, New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment; Wade Davis, TelevisaUnivision, Inc.; Tami Erwin, Verizon; Cristiana Falcone, JMCMRJ Foundation; Mike Fries, Liberty Global; Dexter Goei, Altice USA; Roger Goodell, National Football League; Judy Hart Angelo; Alberto Ibargüen, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Robert A. Iger; John H. Josephson, SESAC; Mel Karmazin; Jeffrey Katzenberg, WndrCo; David Kenny, Nielsen; Jason Kilar, Steve King, Publicis Groupe; Henry A. Kissinger, Kissinger Associates, Inc., Jim Lanzone, Yahoo, Inc., Mark Lazarus, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming; Debra Lee, Leading Women Defined, Inc.; Marne Levine, Meta, Robert D. Manfred, Jr., Major League Baseball; Paulo Marinho, Grupo Globo; Crystal McCrary, Producer, Director, and Author; Jonathan Miller, Integrated Media Company; Daniel L. Mosley, William S. Paley Foundation; Lachlan Murdoch, FOX; Katherine Oliver, Bloomberg Associates; Dawn Ostroff, Spotify; William C. Paley, 2023 LLC; Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry Studios; James Pitaro, ESPN; Marc Pritchard, The Procter & Gamble Company; Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Vivendi; Shari Redstone, Paramount Global; Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod Corp.; Faiza J. Saeed, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; Ricardo B. Salinas, Grupo Salinas; Josh Sapan, AMC Networks; Robert B. Schumer, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Stanley S. Shuman, Allen & Company LLC; Adam Silver, National Basketball Association. Edward Skyler, Citi; Phil Spencer, Microsoft; Evan Spiegel, Snap Inc.; Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Corporation; Andrew Wilson, Electronic Arts; Dick Wolf, Wolf Entertainment; David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery, Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
The Los Angeles Board of Governors advises the Paley Center on its strategic goals and Los Angeles programming calendar. Additionally, the Board of Governors commits their time to help the Paley Center forge new partnerships and expand its constituency to ensure the Paley Center stays at the forefront of media and technology on the West Coast and remains the preeminent media organization for the industry and the public.
Robert A. Boyd II will join Paley Center's Los Angeles Board of Governors: Cris Abrego, Banijay and Endemol Shine Holdings; Bela Bajaria, Netflix; Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate Television Group; Greg Berlanti, Berlanti Productions; Casey Bloys, HBO/HBO Max; Campbell Brown, Meta; George Cheeks, CBS/Paramount; Charlie Collier, FOX Entertainment; Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group, Robert Greenblatt; Ari Greenburg, WME, Paige Hayes, PwC; Matt Johnson, Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, Kole, Theresa Kang-Lowe, Blue Marble, Michael E. Kassan, MediaLink; Courtney A. Kemp, End of Episode Productions, Charles D. King, MACRO; Robert Kyncl, YouTube; Steve Lafferty, CAA; John Landgraf, FX Networks & FX Productions; Isaac Lee, EXILE Content, Keith Le Goy, Sony Pictures Entertainment; Dick Lippin, The Lippin Group; Erik Logan, World Surf League; Dan McDermott, AMC Networks, Kirk McDonald, GroupM North America; Jennifer Mullin, Fremantle; David Nevins, Showtime/Paramount+, Connie Orlando, BET; Mary Parent, Legendary Entertainment; Tina Perry, OWN, Peter Rice, The Walt Disney Company; Brian Robbins, Paramount, Susan Rovner, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, Jennifer Salke, Amazon; Philip W. Schuman, FTI Consulting; Michelle Sneed, A Few Good Women Productions, Phillip Sun, M88, Zack Van Amburg, Apple, Inc.; Tina Wilson, Nielsen; and Michael Wright, EPIX/MGM.
For more information on The Paley Center for Media's Board of Trustees, please visit paleycenter.org.
About The Paley Center for Media
The Paley Center for Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms, drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the media community. The general public can participate in Paley programs in both New York and Los Angeles that explore and celebrate the creativity, the innovations, the personalities, and the leaders who are shaping media. The public can also access the Paley Center's permanent media collection, containing over 160,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. Through the global programs of its Media Council and International Council, the Paley Center also serves as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Previously known as The Museum of Television & Radio, the Paley Center was founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, a pioneering innovator in the industry. For more information about The Paley Center for Media, and to learn about the Paley Center's acclaimed programming, please visit www.paleycenter.org.
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Findings Provide a Greater Understanding of Disease and Future Treatments
NEW YORK, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A study led by the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health, home to the effort's Clinical Science Core (CSC), provides an expanded working definition of long COVID.
"This study is an important step toward defining long COVID beyond any one individual symptom," said study author Leora Horwitz, MD, director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, and co-principal investigator for the RECOVER CSC at NYU Langone Health. "This definition—which may evolve over time—will serve as a critical foundation for scientific discovery and treatment design."
The study, which involved RECOVER researchers from across the country, establishes a scoring system based on symptoms that most clearly set apart patients that had been previously infected from those not reporting a prior infection. Researchers used those symptoms to identify patients with long COVID. The results are based on a survey of 9,764 patients' self-reported symptoms and, according to the authors, will be undergoing validation. Survey results will next be compared against lab tests and imaging.
As of May 2023, more than 100 million Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, with experts estimating that approximately 6 percent of those infected with the virus continue to experience the many symptoms termed together as long COVID. More than 200 symptoms affecting all of the body's organ systems are associated with post-COVID conditions.
Published online May 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study examined 37 symptoms across multiple body areas and organs. Researchers applied statistical analyses that identified 12 symptoms that most set apart those with and without long COVID: post exertional malaise, fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, gastrointestinal symptoms, heart palpitations, issues with sexual desire or capacity, loss of smell or taste, thirst, chronic cough, chest pain, and abnormal movements.
By assigning points to each of the 12 symptoms, the team gave each participant a score based on symptom combinations, and found that 23 percent of participants with a prior COVID infection crossed the study threshold for long COVID. With these scores in hand, researchers found that certain symptoms occurred at higher rates in certain patient groups, and defined four clusters based on these symptom patterns.
"Now that we're able to identify people with long COVID, we can begin doing more in-depth studies to understand the mechanisms at play," said corresponding author, Andrea Foulkes, ScD, Principal Investigator of the RECOVER Data Resource Core (DRC), Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Biostatistics at Massachusetts General Hospital. "These findings set the stage for identifying effective treatment strategies for people with long COVID—understanding the biological underpinnings is going to be critical to that endeavor."
RECOVER—Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery—is a nationwide initiative dedicated to understanding why some people develop long-term symptoms following a COVID-19 infection, and how to detect, treat, and prevent long COVID. As the CSC, NYU Langone Health is charged with integrating research activities of nearly 200 clinical sites around the country.
Complicated Disease
This study also found that long COVID was more common and severe in study participants infected before the Omicron strain emerged in late 2021, and in participants who were unvaccinated. Further, re-infections were also linked to higher long COVID frequency and severity.
With the 12-symptom scoring system in place, researchers were able to identify four subgroups of patients with different symptom "clusters." Several of these clusters span multiple body systems, suggesting that a body-wide reaction to the virus may be present in some people with long COVID.
The ongoing research being conducted by RECOVER serves as the foundation for planned clinical trials, whose interventions are rooted in many of the symptoms outlined in this study, including brain fog and nerve damage (autonomic dysfunction). RECOVER clinical trials are expected to begin enrolling patients in 2023.
Along with Horwitz and Foulkes, the writing committee for the study included first author Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and additional authors Caitlin Selvaggi, MS, Daniel Shinnick, MS, and Carolin Schulte, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital; Elizabeth Karlson, MD, MS, Bruce Levy, MD, and Rachel Atchley, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson; Upinder Singh, MD, of Stanford University School of Medicine; Sarah Jolley, MD, MS, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Tiffany Walker, MD, of Emory University; Emily Levitan, ScD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Lisa McCorkell, MPP, of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative; Grace McComsey, MD, of Case Western Reserve University; and Girish Nadkarni, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
This research was funded by NIH agreements OT2HL161841, OT2HL161847, and OT2HL156812. For more information on RECOVER, visit https://recovercovid.org. In addition to Dr. Horwitz, the CSC at NYU Langone Health is co-led by RECOVER co-principal investigators Stuart D. Katz, MD, founding director of NYU Langone's heart failure program, and professor in the Department of Medicine, Andrea B. Troxel, ScD, director of the Division of Biostatistics and professor in the Department of Population Health, and Rachel S. Gross, MD, director of pediatric research for RECOVER CSC and assistant professor of pediatrics and population health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center.
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gregory.williams@nyulangone.org
Domonique Chaplin
domonique.chaplin@nyulangone.org
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump-endorsed state lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state is the latest candidate to advance to the November ballot for a post overseeing state elections while denying the results of the last one.
The early success of such candidates is raising concerns about what happens if those who lack faith in elections are put in charge of running them.
State Rep. Mark Finchem easily cleared a crowded field in Tuesday’s Arizona primary. He has embraced former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and has promised to upend election administration in the politically pivotal state if elected.
“The focus of the election is going to be on restoring the rule of law. It’s that simple,” Finchem said in an interview Wednesday. “Right now, we have lawlessness.”
Finchem, who earned an early endorsement from Trump, was among those seeking to have the Legislature overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Arizona. He joins Republican nominees for secretary of state in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico and the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania in supporting Trump’s false claims. In Pennsylvania, the governor appoints the secretary of state.
Election experts say candidates who dispute the results of a valid election in which there has been no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting systems pose a danger of interfering in future elections. They warn it could trigger chaos if they refuse to accept results they don’t like.
“They only have faith in elections when their side wins. Their definition of a secure election is only when they or their party wins,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who now leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research. “That is not a democracy.”
Not all such candidates this year have been successful. Most notably, Rep. Jody Hice lost his bid to oust Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the state’s primary. Raffensperger had drawn the ire of Trump after refusing the former president’s demand in a phone call to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s win in the state.
Most of the seven incumbent Republican secretaries facing primary challengers this year have advanced to the November election. That includes Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, who on Tuesday defeated a challenger who promoted election conspiracy theories.
Only Indiana’s Holli Sullivan and South Dakota’s Steve Barnett have lost their bids to stay in office. A handful of primaries remain over the next several weeks.
Historically, races for secretary of state have been low-key contests overshadowed by campaigns for governor and state attorney general. But they have drawn enormous interest since the 2020 election, when voting systems and processes came under attack by Trump and his supporters.
Secretaries of state don’t make laws, but they work closely with local election officials in their states. Responsibilities vary, but they typically issue guidance on voting procedures to ensure uniformity, dole out funding to local election officials and coordinate with federal officials on election security.
Experts say a secretary of state who believes the 2020 election was stolen could seek changes to how elections are run. For instance, those who think mail voting is vulnerable to fraud could add new requirements for mail ballot requests, reduce access to drop boxes or eliminate lists of permanent absentee voters.
In Arizona, the secretary of state writes a manual with the force of law that lays out election rules. The manual must be based on state law and approved by the attorney general and governor, but has been the subject of controversy this year after the Republican attorney general sought to block a new version written by the Democratic secretary of state.
The 2019 version with some changes was allowed to remain in force instead of the new one, and Finchem vows to completely scrap that version.
“If they have the keys to the castle, so to speak, will they properly set rules, count votes and defend the will of the people?” said David Levine, a former election official who is now a fellow with the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
In Nevada, the Republican nominee, Jim Marchant, wants all voting equipment tossed out in favor of hand-marked and hand-counted paper ballots. He argues voting machines can’t be trusted and has told voters: “You haven’t elected anybody. The people that are in office have been selected. You haven’t had a choice.”
In Arizona, Finchem is part of a lawsuit seeking to compel election officials in the state to hand-count ballots cast in the November election. A federal judge is considering whether to dismiss it.
There is no evidence that voting machines have been manipulated. A coalition of federal and state election and cybersecurity officials called the 2020 presidential election “the most secure in American history” and Trump’s own attorney general has said there was no fraud that would have altered the results.
Experts say hand-counting of ballots is not only less accurate but extremely labor-intensive, potentially delaying results by weeks. They also say it’s unnecessary because voting equipment is tested before and after elections to ensure ballots are read and tallied correctly.
Besides noting election administration, Levine said there are questions about what a secretary of state who embraces conspiracy theories might do if their party’s candidate lost an election and claimed fraud.
“We need to make sure that we are putting people in these positions who put free and fair elections above partisan interest,” he said.
Finchem confirmed Wednesday that he has received a subpoena from the Justice Department seeking documents related to his activities surrounding the 2020 election. He dismissed claims that he or other candidates like him might be a danger to democracy.
“That’s hyperbolic at its best,” Finchem said. “At its worst, it’s just fear-mongering.”
Although secretaries of state are important positions, they do not have unlimited power, said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections for Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for expanded voter access.
“Even in states where the secretary of state has an enormous amount of power, a secretary of state cannot — by themselves — overturn a democratic election,” Albert said. “Even where these individuals may want to take actions to undermine the ability for voters to vote and have a ballot count, they are still limited by the law and checks and balances in place.”
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Cassidy reported from Washington. | 2022-08-03T23:53:46+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Election-skeptics-rise-in-GOP-races-to-run-state-17349649.php |
Saudis, other oil giants announce surprise production cuts
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers on Sunday announced surprise cuts totaling 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year, a move that could raise prices worldwide.
Higher oil prices would help fill Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coffers as his country wages war on Ukraine and force Americans and others to pay even more at the pump amid inflation fueled in part by that conflict.
It was also likely to further strain ties with the United States, which has called on Saudi Arabia and other allies to increase production as it tries to bring prices down and squeeze Russia’s finances.
The Saudi Energy Ministry said its own reduction of 500,000 barrels per day would be made in coordination with some OPEC and non-OPEC members, without naming them. The cuts are in addition to a reduction announced last October that infuriated the Biden administration.
The ministry described the move as a “precautionary measure” aimed at stabilizing the oil market. The cuts represent less than 5% of Saudi Arabia’s average production of 11.5 million barrels per day in 2022.
Iraq said it would reduce production by 211,000 barrels per day, the United Arab Emirates by 144,000, Kuwait by 128,000, Kazakhstan by 78,000, Algeria by 48,000 and Oman by 40,000. The announcements were carried by state media.
The earlier cuts — of some 2 million barrels a day — had come on the eve of U.S. midterm elections in which soaring prices were a major issue. President Joe Biden vowed at the time that there would be “consequences” and Democratic lawmakers called for freezing cooperation with the Saudis.
Both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia denied any political motives in the dispute, with each saying it was focused on maintaining a healthy market price.
Since those cuts, oil prices have actually trended down. Brent crude, a global benchmark, was trading at around $80 a barrel at the end of last week, down from around $95 a barrel in early October, when the earlier cuts were agreed.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Gulf expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, said the Saudis are determined to keep oil prices high enough to fund a raft of ambitious mega-projects linked to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 plan to overhaul the economy.
“This domestic interest takes precedence in Saudi decision-making over relationships with international partners and is likely to remain a point of friction in U.S.-Saudi relations for the foreseeable future, even without taking into account the Russian dimension,” he said.
Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil giant Aramco recently announced record profits of $161 billion from last year. Profits rose 46.5% when compared to the company’s 2021 results of $110 billion. Aramco said it hoped to boost production to 13 million barrels a day by 2027.
The decades-long U.S.-Saudi alliance has come under growing strain in recent years following the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based journalist, and Saudi Arabia’s disastrous war with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
As a candidate for president, Biden had vowed to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” over the Khashoggi killing, but as oil prices rose after his inauguration he backed off. He visited the kingdom last July in a bid to patch up relations, drawing criticism for sharing a fistbump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Saudi Arabia has denied siding with Russia in the Ukraine war, even as it has cultivated closer ties with both Moscow and Beijing in recent years, unnerving its longtime allies in Washington. Last week, Aramco announced billions of dollars of investment in China’s downstream petrochemicals industry.
For more news happening around the World, click here. | 2023-04-03T01:28:01+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2023/04/02/saudis-other-oil-giants-announce-surprise-production-cuts/ |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a tile setter and wear knee pads during my work day. I thought there could be a more comfortable option," said one of two inventors, from Las Vegas, Nev., "so we invented the FOUR J'S KNEE PADS. Our design protects the knees and it eliminates the need to squat."
The invention provides an improved design for knee pads. In doing so, it ensures that the knees are protected. As a result, it enhances comfort and stability and it helps to reduce pain and injuries. The invention features a durable design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for various members of the labor force such as carpenters, tile or carpet installers, plumbers, painters, contractors, electricians, construction laborers, gardeners, and roofers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Las Vegas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-LGT-233, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – Female students at D.H. Conley High School took to the football field Friday for a powder-puff game to raise money for a good cause.
Over 30 players were on the field and many fans were in the stands cheering on students playing in the first powder-puff football at the high school since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Mary Clare Manning participated in the games and said it felt great to be on the field with her classmates and those she doesn’t get to see as often.
“It’s my senior year, so I’m really glad they did something like this this year,” said Manning. “I could, you know, get together with some of my friends and other people.”
D.H. Conley sophomores, juniors and seniors made sure to bring their A-game to the field to compete against each other. The proceeds from the game are going towards the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center in Greenville.
The junior team was coached by Isaiah Crumpler who earlier this week committed to play football at Rutgers. The senior team is coached by Bryce Weaver who will be joining the East Carolina University football team as a lineman. Weaver said it’s fun coaching the powderpuff game.
“Definitely some laughs because, you know, most of the coaches are thinking about, you know, coming out here and act like actual coaches,” said Weaver. “But really, we’re just going to be here to make sure to always have fun.”
Win or lose, students and fans said they’re glad to have been able to have the game again and bring a little football to the spring season. | 2023-05-13T09:57:18+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/school-watch/d-h-conley-students-take-the-field-for-powder-puff-football-game-raising-money-for-cancer/ |
SEBRING, Fla. — Schools will be closed Wednesday and Thursday in Highlands County because of anticipated impacts from Tropical Storm Nicole.
The district says tropical storm force winds from the system could pose a danger, with the decision to close schools and cancel after-school activities being made "out of an abundance of caution."
School operations are expected to return to normal Friday.
Nicole became a tropical storm Tuesday as it continues an approach toward Florida's east coast. Ahead of anticipated impacts from the storm, a tropical storm watch was issued for much of Florida's west coast, including the Tampa Bay area.
By midweek, people across much of Florida should be ready for impacts from Tropical Storm Nicole, including the threat of coastal erosion, strong winds and heavy rain.
Pasco County earlier said its schools would be closed Thursday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for much of Florida most at risk of seeing impacts from Tropical Storm Nicole this week.
The emergency declaration, issued by executive order, is "out of an abundance of caution" to allow the state to better respond to storm response and recovery, the governor said in a statement. | 2022-11-08T21:10:34+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/weather/tropics/highlands-county-schools-close-tropical-storm-nicole/67-0fc2edb6-f2f4-4bf9-97be-2f05620d2acb |
BOSTON (AP) — Michael Wacha and the last-place Red Sox made short work of the AL East-leading New York Yankees.
Pitching for the first time in almost seven weeks, Wacha returned from a shoulder injury to limit New York to a pair of singles in seven innings, and Boston beat the Yankees 3-0 on Sunday night.
It all lasted 2 hours, 15 minutes — tying for the shortest game between the two teams since 1994.
“I feel like I work better that way,” said Wacha, who took a perfect game into the fifth inning. “That’s the mentality that I was facing: Get back in the dugout as quick as possible and let the guys keep getting a crack at their guy.”
Rafael Devers homered, and Tommy Pham had three hits for the Red Sox, who took two of three from New York — their first win in a multigame series against a division foe in 13 tries.
Officially, Boston is credited with a “series” win when it beat the Orioles in a one-game visit on Thursday. But manager Alex Cora was hesitant to count that one.
“Finally we won against the East,” he said with a smirk. “Or, that’s two in a row. Sorry.”
New York has lost nine of its last 11 games but still has a double-digit lead in the division; the Red Sox are seventh in the race for the AL’s three wild-card spots.
Activated from the injured list earlier in the day and pitching for the first time since June 28, Wacha (7-1) allowed one walk and struck out nine — including major league home run leader Aaron Judge twice.
Ryan Brasier pitched a perfect eighth and Garrett Whitlock pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his fourth save, striking out Judge to end a nine-pitch at-bat and then getting Josh Donaldson on a slow bouncer that second baseman Christian Arroyo bare-handed to make the throw to first and end it.
Jameson Taillon (11-3) allowed three runs on six hits, striking out four to pick up his first loss since July 5.
The Red Sox and Yankees on national television often runs over four hours. But the teams finished in 2:15 on Aug. 3, 2018; they hadn’t played a shorter game since a 2:13 matchup in 1994.
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Judge was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts, snapping a string of 14 straight games of reaching base. He had walked at least twice in each of the previous four games.
“He’s having a heck of a season this year, and he’s one of the best in the league,” Wacha said. “I try to keep the guys off of base in front of him and make quality pitches to that type of guy.”
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Asked about the offense, Cora said, “Tommy did a good job.”
A trade deadline acquisition, Pham doubled and scored Boston’s first run to lead off the bottom of the first. He has 14 hits in 23 at-bats over his last five games, including a walk-off single in the 10th against the Yankees on Friday.
BROOKS DEVERS
Devers hit his 25th homer of the season — a two-run shot in the sixth — that was just his second since Aug. 2. It’s his third career 25-homer season, tied with Ted Williams, Tony Conigliaro, Jim Rice and Nomar Garciaparra for most in Red Sox history through his age 25 year.
But Devers also made a big stop at third base in the fifth, when the Yankees had two of their three baserunners in the game for their only real rally.
With runners on first and second and two outs, Kyle Higashioka hit a hard line drive down the third base line that Devers backhanded and threw to first for the out.
“That’s something people don’t often talk about,” Cora said. “(Yankees manager Aaron Boone) always says that he plays like Brooks Robinson against the Yankees. When he hears people say he struggles (on defense), he’s like, ‘Not against us.’”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton (Achilles tendon) will take batting practice on Monday at Yankee Stadium. If all goes well, he will begin a minor league rehab assignment.
Red Sox: Kiké Hernández (hip) and Rob Refsnyder (knee) are expected to be activated for the start of the series in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
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Yankees: Gerrit Cole (9-4) will start against Tampa Bay.
Red Sox: After an off day on Monday, the Red Sox open a three-game series against the Pirates. Nick Pivetta is expected to start the opener.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-15T22:09:05+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/sports/ap-sports/wacha-makes-short-work-of-yankees-boston-wins-3-0-in-215/ |
In the year before the Intel megaproject, JobsOhio attracts 29,104 new jobs and $6.9 billion in capital investment
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, JobsOhio, the state's private nonprofit economic development corporation, released its 2021 Annual Report and 2022 Strategic Plan, which showed 2021 to be a landmark year with more than 29,104 new jobs created and over $6.9 billion in capital investment in Ohio. While the Intel megaproject is not included as part of last year's record performance, JobsOhio was able to break records for commitments of new jobs, new jobs payroll, retained jobs, and new projects.
In 2021, JobsOhio and its partners achieved:
- 414 total projects
- 29,104 new jobs
- $1.6 billion new jobs payroll
- 75,416 jobs retained
- $4.5 billion retained jobs payroll
- $6.9 billion in capital investment
JobsOhio is seeking to capitalize on the ongoing trend of attracting successful businesses from coasts in 2022 after nearly 40 new companies relocated from the East and West Coasts to Ohio last year.
"We remained steadfast in our commitment to move at the speed of business to attract new jobs for Ohioans, marking a banner year for JobsOhio and tracking strong momentum going forward," said JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef. "Intel has caught the attention of business leaders who didn't consider choosing Ohio before this year, and we're proving is a major competitor for attracting new business tech, advanced manufacturing, and other rapidly growing sectors that are looking to tap into our growing talent pool and strong business climate."
In 2021, JobsOhio continued to focus on ten target industries with high productivity, wages, and economic impact. These industries are tracked because they are "traded sectors," which means the jobs could be located anywhere and are not tied to providing local services. After the challenges presented by COVID-19, JobsOhio's targeted sectors remained resilient, with aggregate employment fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. The ten sectors comprised 36% of Ohio's gross state product, 28% of its payroll, and 21% of its jobs. Aggregate employment in JobsOhio's ten sectors was fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
Founded 11 years ago, JobsOhio is a first-of-its-kind private economic development corporation that invests in Ohio's future. In 2021, JobsOhio took a strategic approach to focus on how the state can best capitalize on its proximity, workforce, infrastructure, and growth opportunities. These strategic initiatives included:
- Talent: Home to a labor force of almost 5.7 million people and hundreds of higher education institutions, Ohio continues to fuel one of its greatest assets for business: a robust, skilled, and hardworking workforce.
- Sites: SiteOhio gives companies access to an inventory of shovel-ready sites, while the Revitalization Program provides financial assistance to companies that want to redevelop abandoned, neglected, or contaminated properties
- Innovation: Together with the state of Ohio and our healthcare and university partners, JobsOhio has launched one of the nation's most ambitious and comprehensive economic development initiatives. The Innovation Strategy creates Innovation Districts, funds grants for new R&D centers, and provides businesses with essential growth capital
- Inclusion: As part of the JobsOhio 5-Year Strategic Plan, our inclusion work encompasses intersecting dimensions of underrepresented populations and geographies. As a result, JobsOhio is investing $14.4 million annually across three inclusion-focused programs. By the end of 2021, we awarded grants to 200 companies that, in turn, have stimulated over $100 million in total investments.
About JobsOhio:
JobsOhio is a private nonprofit economic development corporation designed to drive job creation and new capital investment in Ohio through business attraction, retention, and expansion. The organization also works to seed talent production in its targeted industries and to attract talent to Ohio through Find Your Ohio. JobsOhio works with six regional partners across Ohio: Dayton Development Coalition, Ohio Southeast Economic Development, One Columbus, REDI Cincinnati, Regional Growth Partnership, and Team NEO. Learn more at www.jobsohio.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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60-Year-Old Ski Resort Builds on Rich Legacy By Adding New Investment to Existing Ownership Group
WINDHAM, N.Y., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Windham Mountain announced today major plans to further develop the ski resort, adding to its six-decade legacy as the premier Catskills leisure destination. Windham Mountain will invest further to continue making the destination a truly unique property, building upon an ambitious multiple-year investment focused on upgrading Windham's existing ski experience.
Windham Mountain ownership has secured new investment from two hospitality and resort development families whose combined industry experience is over a hundred years: the Beall family and Kemmons Wilson family through its investment arm Kemmons Wilson Hospitality Partners (KWHP). This investment will provide growth capital and additional resources to the current management team, allowing Windham Mountain to continue to evolve, creating a premium year-round family resort experience.
The improvements will focus on: best-in-class skiing with minimal lift lines; great food and beverage programs with the redevelopment of all current outlets and the addition of a mid-mountain, Italian Alps-style concept debuting fall 2023; creation of additional townhomes and lots for land development; enhanced membership offerings for the existing Members Club; expanding and reinvigorating the existing Golf Course; and thoughtful amenities, including swimming, racket sports, family activities and expansive outdoor all-season adventure activities.
"Windham Mountain has remained an independent, multi-generational destination for over six decades and the natural beauty of the town of Windham and surrounding mountains provides a fitting platform to offer great hospitality and memorable experiences, which is our passion," says Sandy Beall, Founder, Beall Investment Partners. "We are grateful to help support Windham Mountain's evolution and the integral role it plays in the town and broader Catskills community."
"The Wilson family and the Beall family are deeply committed to working with the same great team of current owners and senior leaders to make Windham Mountain a category-leader in the East over the next five years," says Webb Wilson, CEO, Kemmons Wilson Companies.
Over the past 15 years, Windham's Board and investor group- including North Castle Partners, Cloverhill Group and the McGuffog and Starker families- have partnered with management to drive substantial investments in the mountain experience, in particular in upgrades to snowmaking and chairlifts. Those investors will remain partners in the ownership group.
"I am proud of the significant progress the Windham team has made during my 12-year tenure," says President Chip Seamans. "Our new partners are additive: their extensive hospitality experience will further enhance what has set Windham Mountain apart in the Northeast for generations. We look forward to providing an ever-better experience to our loyal guests, attracting new visitors, and expanding our season to feature a distinctive, year-round Windham experience. New amenities and enhanced food and beverage operations will continue our pursuit to create the quintessential Catskills experience."
"Since partnering with Chip Seamans and the management team five years ago, Windham has differentiated itself on many levels, including market-leading investment in snowmaking, lifts and the overall mountain experience," says Chip Baird, Founder and co-Managing Partner of North Castle Partners. "We are proud of those achievements and grateful to our investor partners, employee team and the broader Windham community for their partnership, and we look forward to the future and delivering on a truly exciting vision under the Beall and Wilson families' leadership."
Serving as a foundational cornerstone in its community, Windham Mountain will continue its longstanding tradition of providing free mountain access to students of the Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School, as well as continue important partnerships with the Adaptive Sports Foundation, the Windham Foundation, SHRED Foundation, and others. The enhancements to Windham will also introduce hundreds of local jobs as the mountain upgrades its offerings and evolves into a four-season resort destination with additional amenities, programming and activities scheduled throughout the year as well as the introduction of new restaurants and culinary offerings that will further the Catskills experience for guests, highlighting the bounty of New York State.
For more information on Windham Mountain, visit https://www.windhammountain.com/.
About Windham Mountain
Windham Mountain is a premier multi-generational, four-season resort in the Northeast, located in the Great Northern Catskills, two and a half hours north of New York City. In 1960, Windham started as a private club before becoming a public mountain. Boasting 285 skiable acres across 54 trails and serviced by 11 lifts (four of which are high speed), the mountain offers an award-winning Ski and Ride School, lodging, on-mountain dining, a tubing park, and world-class alpine and freestyle competition teams. Summer offerings include a range of activities, such as mountain getaways, family-friendly events and festivals, wedding and special occasion venues, the Windham Downhill Mountain Bike Park and the Windham Country Club, an 18-hole golf course with private lessons and on-site dining.
About Sandy Beall and Beall Investment Partners
Sandy Beall is founder of Beall Investment Partners, a family investment firm that partners with and invests primarily with resort hospitality and emerging growth restaurant brands across the country. Over 50 years ago, Sandy founded Ruby Tuesday (NYSE), eventually growing the casual-dining corporation to include nearly 850 restaurants in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, as well as 14 foreign countries. He is Chairman and Co-founder of Blackberry Farm and Blackberry Mountain resorts and a partner in Snake River Sporting Club. His current investments and advisory roles span a large range of restaurant, education, non profits, and foodservice companies.
About Kemmons Wilson Hospitality Partners
Kemmons Wilson Hospitality Partners (KWHP) is the hospitality arm of Kemmons Wilson Companies (KWC), a single-family office known primarily as the founding enterprise behind the Holiday Inns hotel chain and Holiday Inn Club Vacation. KWHP invests in hospitality assets across capital structures throughout the USA, and currently owns and operates a portfolio of +40 hospitality assets. For more information, please visit www.kwilson.com.
For inquiries about Windham Mountain, please contact:
Kate Sullivan, 518.734.4300 ext. 1354; ksullivan@windhammountain.com
Sarah Abell, 917.584.8567; sabell@baltzco.com
Jamie Silverman, 203.910.5244; jsilverman@baltzco.com
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Man drowns at home in Vermont's 1st recorded flooding death
A man who died as a result of a drowning accident in his home is Vermont's first death related to recent storms and historic flooding, the state's emergency management agency said.
Stephen Davoll, 63, of Barre, died on Wednesday, said Mark Bosma, spokesperson for Vermont Emergency Management.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner investigated the death, in cooperation with local police, Bosma said in a news release late Thursday afternoon. He said Vermonters are urged to continue to take extra care as they return to their homes and repair damage.
"The loss of a Vermonter is always painful, but it is particularly so this week," Vermont U.S. Sen. Peter Welch said in statement.
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It was the second flood-related death stemming from a storm system and epic flooding in the Northeast this week. The first was in New York — a woman whose body was found after she was swept away in Fort Montgomery, a small Hudson River community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of New York City.
More rain came through the region Thursday evening. There were no reports of any flash flooding from the storm, the emergency management agency said. A tornado warning was issued for parts of the state and Vermont. There were high winds, but no confirmation of a tornado and no major damage reports.
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As floodwaters receded, the good news was that there were no new rescue missions, dams were holding up and more roads reopened. The bad news was that the storms aren't over. More rain was expected Friday, Sunday, and into next week.
"The period we are more concerned about is Sunday because that could be more widespread and heavier, but not nearly on the scale of what we saw earlier in the week," National Weather Service meteorologist Seth Kutikoff said.
Gov. Phil Scott said it's important for Vermonters to be vigilant, and that includes not going into the water.
"We've seen many pictures on social media of kids swimming in floodwaters. This is not typical rainwater — it's filled with chemicals, oil, waste, and more. It's simply not safe," he said.
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Other New England states to the south were also drying out, including Connecticut, where officials warned boaters and others about dangerous debris in the Connecticut River, including large trees. A dock with several boats attached was washed away in Glastonbury, just south of Hartford, and was seen floating down the river a few towns away.
In Vermont, communities were cleaning up from the floods that were more destructive in some places than 2011's Tropical Storm Irene and regarded as the worst natural disaster since the 1927 floods, which killed dozens of people and caused widespread destruction.
Transportation officials were moving equipment to areas that were considered more flood-prone to prepare for more storms as they continued to evaluate damage, including to rail lines. Amtrak and other railroad service has been suspended.
Scott submitted a request for a major disaster declaration to President Joe Biden. "It's separate from, and in addition to, the federal emergency declaration the president already signed" on Tuesday, he said. If approved, the declaration would provide federal support for recovering communities.
In Vermont's small state capital of Montpelier, where the swollen Winooski River had flooded downtown, the elevator at City Hall was damaged, making the building inaccessible, spokesperson Evelyn Prim said.
"Cleanup from the hazardous floodwater damage in City Hall is expected to take several months. Because of this, City Hall will be closing until further notice," she said.
Offers of help poured in, including free pet food from an animal shelter in Morrisville and a donation collection for water and nonperishable food items at the University of Vermont. A Vermont Main Street Flood Relief Fund was set up to help small businesses and the Vermont Community Foundation established a fund to help longer-term efforts for people and communities. An annual concert, the Do Good Fest in Montpelier, will be livestreamed and act as a fundraiser.
"One of the defining truths about Vermont is that Vermonters look out for one another," said Dan Smith, the foundation's CEO. "We saw it during the pandemic; we saw it during Tropical Storm Irene."
McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press reporters Lisa Rathke in Marshfield, Vermont, David Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, and Michael Casey in Boston contributed to this report. | 2023-07-15T01:36:46+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-drowns-vermont-1st-flooding-death |
Graduate Guidance: Glenburn’s DeAnna Heinze and Valerie Stevens
GLENBURN, N.D. (KMOT) – This summer, Your News Leader is sitting down with graduating high school student-athletes from the area to learn about their experiences growing up before taking the next big step in their lives.
Zach Keenan visited Glenburn for the first piece of ‘Graduate Guidance.’
“Shoot your shot. Do your thing when you have your chance and make yourself known in the crowd. Stick out and make good relationships with your teammates and coaches and everything will be fun,” said Valerie Stevens.
“Find your passion and don’t give up until you’re satisfied. Whether you’re a freshman, sophomore or junior, the more time you put in, the more you’ll be happy with yourself,” said DeAnna Heinze.
In the summer before her junior year, Heinze tore her ACL and missed all of her junior season. After 10 months of rehab, she returned for her senior year.
“I was scared I wasn’t going to overcome it. It made me stronger mentally. I was more headstrong. When I’m playing and practicing, I give it my all. Just do your best because you never know when it could end,” said Heinze.
Both Heinze and Stevens are three-sport athletes. The two know the importance of time management.
“Hand in your assignments. Get that trust with your teachers so when you have to be gone for sports, they’re more trusting that you’re going to get that assignment done. Maybe you’ll get it a few days early to finish,” said Stevens.
Stevens plans to study early education at Minot State in the fall.
Heinze is signed to play basketball at Bismarck State and will pursue a degree in communications.
Copyright 2023 KFYR. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-08T22:05:32+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/06/08/graduate-guidance-glenburns-deanna-heinze-valerie-stevens/ |
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien on the Supreme Court's ruling today in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, which opens the door for corporations to sue their own workers:
"The political hacks at the Supreme Court have again voted in favor of corporations over working people. These corruptible justices should be ashamed of themselves for throwing out long-standing precedent and legislating from the bench. The ability to strike has been on the books for nearly 100 years, and it's no coincidence that this ruling is coming at a time when workers across the country are fed up and exercising their rights more and more. Make no mistake — this ruling has everything to do with giving companies more power to hobble workers if any attempt is made to fight back against a growing system of corruption.
"The Supreme Court is not upholding the law, nor is it advancing the American people. Supreme Court justices are ruling on behalf of billionaires alone — the very ones they socialize with at cocktail parties and who they owe their jobs to in the first place. American workers must remember that their right to strike has not been taken away. All workers, union and nonunion alike, will forever have the right to withhold their labor.
"The Teamsters will strike any employer, when necessary, no matter their size or the depth of their pockets. Unions will never be broken by this Court or any other. Today's shameful ruling is simply one more reminder that the American people cannot rely on their government or their courts to protect them. They cannot rely on their employers. We must rely on each other. We must engage in organized, collective action. We can only rely on the protections inherent in the power of our unions."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters | 2023-06-01T16:26:19+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/06/01/obrien-scotus-attacks-all-us-workers/ |
US plans end to mpox public health emergency in January
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government plans to end in January the public health emergency it declared earlier this year after an outbreak of mpox infected more than 29,000 people across the U.S.
Mpox cases have plummeted in recent weeks, with just a handful of new infections being reported every week in the month of November, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the height of the outbreak, over the summer, hundreds of people were being infected weekly.
The virus has primarily spread among men who have sex with infected men.
The public health emergency is expected to end in January, said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in a statement.
“Given the low number of cases today, HHS does not expect that it needs to renew the emergency declaration when it ends on January 31, 2023,” Becerra said. “But we won’t take our foot off the gas — we will continue to monitor the case trends closely and encourage all at-risk individuals to get a free vaccine.”
The U.S. struggled to contain the mpox outbreak for many months. Tests were difficult to come by and the government botched its rollout of the vaccine, with weeks of delays in getting 800,000 doses of the shots to clinics in the major cities that were hit hardest.
The tide began turning in August, shortly after the government declared a public health emergency and the White House tapped two top officials — Robert Fenton, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s COVID-19 vaccination effort, and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis of the CDC — to lead the response to the virus outbreak.
Their strategy included reaching out to local clinics and vaccinating people at Pride events or parades. As the two-dose Jynneos vaccine became more readily available around the country, cases started falling.
To date, 17 people have died from the virus in the U.S.
Winding down the mpox public health emergency will be a test run of sorts for the Biden administration as it braces to declare an end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, which is expected to last at least through Jan. 11. The administration has given no indication of when it will declare an end to the coronavirus public health emergency but has promised to give at last 60 days notice.
Last month the World Health Organization renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-02T22:55:37+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/12/02/us-plans-end-mpox-public-health-emergency-january/ |
2022 Prep Football Preview: Holtville Vikings relying on senior leadership
Behind 17 seniors, Holtville rolls in season opener 53-13 over Southwest
HOLTVILLE, Calif. ( KYMA- KECY-TV ) - Last season the Holtville Vikings started the season with a 36-29 win over Southwest at Eagle Field. Holtville used that win to fuel a 5-0 start. Holtville finished the season 3-3 down the stretch. The Vikings watched their season come to an end at home against Calexico 14-12 in the second round of the CIF SDS Division V playoffs.
"Yeah, that's right," Vikings Head Coach Jason Turner said. "It's not the way we wanted to end the season but you live and learn. We learned a lot as a coaching staff for sure."
Heading into the 2022 season, the Vikings will have a new starter at quarterback in junior Bryce Buscaglia along with a new stable of running backs.
"We’re real excited about our group of running backs," Turner said. "It's not to be just one person, it’s going to be a team effort and I know coaches say that a lot but this is real, we’re relying on our offensive line and a group of running backs."
Turner says the Vikings will also line up under center more than last year and use quarterback Bryce Buscaglia as a runner as well.
"I’m excited," Buscaglia said. "Last year I was behind Spencer [ Hilfiker] and got to see what everything was like. I’m more of a running quarterback, I like to use my feet and go and run."
Coach Turner is confident in his running game led by a strong offensive line.
"We have 17 seniors on our team this year," Turner said. "Most of our offensive line is returning, we only lost a few starters on defense so, we’ve got some experience coming back and we’re excited."
Holtville will play their next three games at home against teams from Mexico starting next Saturday, August 27th. | 2022-08-22T02:51:27+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/sports/high-school/2022/08/21/2022-prep-football-preview-holtville-vikings-relying-on-senior-leadership/ |
2023 The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday Schedule: Sunday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
After three rounds of play at the 2023 The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Si Woo Kim leads (-6). Tune in to see the fourth round unfold from Muirfield Village GC in Dublin, Ohio.
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MANHATTAN (PIX11) — The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade descended on Sixth Avenue on Thursday.
Like every other year, it lived up to the hype. It was a time to enjoy, a time to make new friends, and a time to give thanks.
Security was tight with extra NYPD officers at the ready. They weren’t just protecting the parade, the NYPD marching band also took part in the festivities.
The parade featured 16 giant balloons, 28 floats, 40 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 700 clowns, 10 performance groups, a host of celebrity guests and the one and only Santa Claus.
With a mostly clear sky a light breeze, it was ideal weather conditions for these giant balloons. There were old favorites and new balloons too, inclding Striker the U.S. Soccer Star, executing an iconic bicycle kick in celebration of the FIFA World Cup, and Bluey, the Australian cattle pup making her parade debut. But it was a Snoopy that got really got kids excited.
This annual tradition dates back almost a century, attracting 3 million spectators, according to organizers.
It’s a perfect time to share in that magnificent feeling and enjoy the holidays. | 2022-11-25T22:00:26+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/holidays/balloons-float-through-nyc-for-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/ |
VALLEY PARK, Mo. (KTVI) – A 31-year-old bald eagle named Murphy at the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri is going viral for his paternal instincts.
Murphy began incubating a rock a few weeks ago, which is not uncommon, according to Roger Holloway, the sanctuary’s executive director.
“It’s not out of the complete ordinary for an eagle if they don’t have an egg and they’re going through nesting behavior to try and incubate something,” Holloway said, adding that spring is when eagles usually breed and show natural reproductive behavior.
But just a week or so later, the rock Murphy was protecting was replaced with a real eaglet.
“This spring, it coincided with us having a lone chick,” Holloway said.
A couple of weeks ago, that eaglet was blown out of its nest in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Its sibling did not survive, but the eaglet, now known as “Eaglet 23-126,” was moved to the sanctuary.
Murphy has been watching over the eaglet with minimal human interaction ever since.
“It’s just a single-dad kind of effort right now,” Holloway said.
It’s the first time the sanctuary has ever had one of its bald eagles adopt an eaglet, so Holloway and his team will be watching closely while Murphy helps raise the eaglet as it grows strong enough to be released.
“Murphy is doing what we want him to do,” said Thomas Guillebeau, a wildlife technician. “He’s showing him what it takes to be an adult eagle.”
According to the American Eagle Foundation, after mating, both eagle parents — who typically mate for life — help with incubation. The mother bird does most of the work, but the dads help.
“Both parents are vigilant in protecting the eggs from predators or intruders to the nest,” the foundation says.
Murphy’s parenting has gone viral on Twitter, with thousands of likes and nearly 250,000 views as of Friday.
The sanctuary, which provides “a safe haven” for about 270 animals across over 300 acres in Valley Park, located outside St. Louis, said it will not be naming the eaglet because “rehab superstition is strong.”
“We’re not SUPERstitious, we’re just a little stitious,” the sanctuary wrote.
The facility said fans, however, are welcome to “call him/her what you’d like!” | 2023-04-14T19:18:15+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/viral-dad-male-bald-eagle-adopts-rock-then-eaglet/ |
WINOOSKI, Vt., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Appearing today at the VPR-Vermont PBS Republican Primary Debate, Myers Mermel solidified his ideas-driven campaign by laying out a plan to combat inflation and build the Vermont economy.
Despite the lack of questions on inflation and the economy, Myers used his time to lay out a clear plan to combat these top issues among Americans, and Republican primary voters. "We need to talk about the economy, inflation, fuel prices, heating prices, and about gas prices," said Myers, "that's where our emphasis should be on this election." Continuing, Myers said, "People are hurting, our neighbors are hurting, and no one is helping them."
If elected, Myers will cut spending, curtail wasteful spending in Congress, and work to strengthen the economy.
In addition to inflation, Myers has a detailed plan to end skyrocketing fuel and gas prices, secure billions of dollars in a federal microchip investment, and get Vermont's fair share of federal earmarks. This is a clear contrast to the candidates that voters can see.
It's clear the Republican Party is divided, half want to embrace Democratic policies, like Christina," said Myers about his opponent Christina Nolan, "and the other half want us to return to the party of 100 years ago – neither way will work."
The current Senator for Vermont has left millions on the table – at least $488 million in federal earmarks that were available but not claimed by Vermont. Myers is the only candidate with a detailed plan to secure this and additional funding from the federal government, or to even acknowledge the money that could have gone to social services, schools, and homeless families in Vermont.
With 68 days until the Primary Election, Myers Mermel will continue his ideas-driven campaign showcasing himself as a new kind of conservative. As U.S. Senator, Myers will implement his plans to tackle top issues, like inflation and building the economy, as well as legislation that benefits the state of Vermont by bringing new manufacturing, having UVM educate Vermont citizens and not out-of-staters.
Myers Mermel is a husband, father, and a Methodist. Mermel received a B.A. from the University of Vermont. Mermel holds a masters in American History from Columbia University and a masters in theology from Yale University. Mermel has a 35 year career in Real Estate Finance in New York City, overseeing the relocation of over 300,000 high-paying jobs. Prior to his career in finance, he was a White House intern under George H.W. Bush while attending UVM. Myers Mermel served as a National Finance Chair for Mike Huckabee's 2008 Presidential run and was on the ground with him through Iowa and South Carolina. He was also New York State Grass Roots Chair for John McCain.
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By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE
Associated Press
VILLA COMALTITLÁN, Mexico (AP) — A group of migrants that once numbered as many as 5,000 split on Thursday about whether to keeping walking through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border.
A group of about 2,000 mainly younger male migrants set out walking Thursday from the southern town of Huixtla.
But about 1,000 migrants, mainly families with children, decided to wait in Huixtla to see if they could get some sort of temporary exit visa. The families were tired after walking some 25 miles since departing the city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, on Monday.
The goal of almost all the migrants is to reach the U.S. border. But none of the migrant caravans that have crossed Mexico starting in 2018 have ever walked all the way to the border, which is over 1,000 miles to the north.
While some caravan participants reached the border in the past, it was due to bus or car rides — which the government now tries to prevent.
Some of the migrants who apparently already got papers in Huixtla seemed to have left by their own means; with the exit visas. They may be able to take buses or taxis.
Venezuelan migrant Junior Ramírez was still waiting for papers with about 15 members of his extended family at a National Immigration Institute post outside Huixtla, where the migrants slept in the open air on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Up to now they haven’t told us whether they are going to give them to us,” Ramírez said. “Other migrants have gotten them and left. All we want to do is keep going.”
Luis García Villagrán, a migrant advocate traveling with the caravan, said Mexican authorities have been giving out the equivalent of exit visas, which give migrants between one and three months to leave the country.
Theoretically, a migrant carrying such papers will either request asylum or leave Mexico — presumably over the U.S. border — and wouldn’t be sent back to their home country.
Josué Mendoza Rojas and Josmar de Nazaret Cárdenas, two other Venezuelan migrants, were in the same situation in Huixtla, trying to decide whether to keep walking.
“It’s all confused,” said Mendoza Rojas said, referring to the fact that migrants had tried to draw up their own lists of who would be in line to get papers. “There are about 40 lists, and some people left without papers.”
The couple left Venezuela two months ago with their 1-year-old child and applied for an asylum appointment in Tapachula. But they couldn’t get an appointment until August, and without enough money to wait until then, they decided to leave and start walking north.
“We don’t know what we’re going to do yet,” he said.
Venezuelans make up a large proportion of this caravan, the biggest of the year, in contrast to previous ones. A factor appears to be a policy change implemented by Mexico in January requiring Venezuelans to acquire a visa to enter the country.
Before that change, Venezuelans had flown to Mexico City or Cancun as tourists and then made their way comfortably to the border. Many made it from home to the U.S. border in as little as four days.
The Mexican visa requirement drove the flow of Venezuelans into the shadows. Those traveling in the caravan are just the visible sign of who is traveling through Mexico out of public view. Many other Venezuelans have likely turned to smugglers.
Encounters with Venezuelans at the southwest border plunged from 22,779 in January to 3,073 in February, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In April, the most recent month available, there were 4,103 encounters.
But the flow of Venezuelan migrants has continued. Since January, more than half of the 34,000 migrants who crossed the treacherous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama were Venezuelans, according to Panama’s National Migration Service.
Trying to avoid the dangerous, jungle-shrouded Darien Gap, some migrant smugglers have apparently begun offering a sea route into Panama.
Security officials in Panama said Thursday they had caught eight Colombian smugglers carrying 92 migrants — including Venezuelans and Ecuadorans, among them 12 minors — on Panama’s Caribbean coast.
Recently, the Mexican government has dissolved other caravans by offering to move migrants to other cities where they could legalize their status more quickly. In some cases, the government has tried to tire the migrants out by preventing passing trucks and buses from giving them rides.
Finding consensus on managing migration flows in the region was a top priority for representatives meeting this week at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This week, the United Nations is the world’s premier venue for current events — which, one could say, is the forte of the U.S. Coast Guard.
So naturally the military branch’s boats are a familiar presence during the U.N. General Assembly, guarding the aquatic border of the United Nations alongside New York City police boats. While three sides of the perimeter around the U.N. headquarters are lined with barricades, the United Nations’ adjacency to the East River requires a different security arrangement.
The U.N. General Assembly makes for “the largest maritime security operation in the nation,” said U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Kyle Weist, the emergency management chief for the New York sector.
In addition to patrolling the stretch between the United Nations and the Long Island City section of Queens, the Coast Guard also has teams boarding ships that arrive in the ports of New York and New Jersey.
“The entire operation lasts two weeks and consists of 20 small boats and crews, four Coast Guard ships, two helicopters and 12 law enforcement boarding teams.” Weist said via email. “These assets and crews are mobilized from units throughout the nation and deploy to NYC to support this critical maritime safety and security mission.”
While it’s mostly a sheer drop from the U.N. grounds to the water, there’s a Coast Guard cutter capable of breaking ice that’s moored at a makeshift dock. That cutter, the Penobscot Bay, serves as a platform from which to oversee the Coast Guard operations on the East River.
The land barriers are notoriously disruptive to New Yorkers, and the summit similarly rocks the boat on water. Several NYC Ferry routes were delayed or suspended altogether Wednesday, with a service advisory in place for the duration of the General Assembly.
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ANN ARBOR – It’s common during preseason camp for Michigan coaches to discuss potential impact freshmen.
Ten games into 2022, coaches are still talking about freshman defensive tackle Mason Graham.
The former four-star recruit of Anaheim (Calif.) Servite is coming off one of his best performances of the season, recording three tackles and a sack in a 34-3 win over Nebraska on Saturday. He earned the second-highest defensive grade on the team at 87.2 out of 100, according to Pro Football Focus.
“Really from day one, he just went to work right away,” head coach Jim Harbaugh said after Saturday’s game. “Showed up in the first couple of practices and then, OK, that’s in shorts but let’s see what it looks like in pads. Right away in pads, he was really good. Just a heckuva player at a position where you really need defensive tackles.”
Graham is a starter in Michigan’s base defense and has played at least 10 snaps in every game this season.
As the stakes get higher every game for the third-ranked Wolverines (10-0), Graham’s play continues to improve.
“He was a really good high school player,” defensive coordinator Jesse Minter said Monday night on the “Inside Michigan Football radio show. “I would imagine he was well-coached in high school. He came in with some things, already knowing how to do some things. I think Mike has done a tremendous job with him. I think Mazi (Smith) has done a tremendous job with him. Our older guys have really helped bring him along. But he’s got a really high ceiling. He’s already playing at a pretty high level for a freshman, so just excited to see him continue to get better. I think he’s got a really bright future here.”
Against the Cornhuskers, Graham’s tackles besides his sack resulted in gains of zero and 1 yard. He also had a quarterback hurry. His sack came on a swim move in the fourth quarter.
“I just feel like I’m switching up my moves a little bit because maybe the other teams know what I’m gonna do,” Graham said Tuesday night. “Gotta work on moves sometimes.
“Obviously, trying more moves than just the bull rush.”
The 6-foot-3, 317-pounder’s previous season-high in tackles was four in Michigan’s 27-14 win at Iowa on Oct. 1. He also had a sack and is tied for second on the team with 2 ½ this season.
“Probably that game (Nebraska) and Iowa,” Graham said of his best games this year. “Just felt like I was more dominant this past game though, more in the run game.”
Graham and Michigan’s run defense will be tested Saturday against an Illinois team that is averaging 183.5 yards on the ground per game, which ranks fourth in the Big Ten. Fighting Illini junior Chase Brown leads the conference with 1,442 rushing yards.
“We always look for that challenge,” Graham said. “We want our defense to get challenged. People say we haven’t been challenged yet, so we want to make a statement to everyone saying that we can’t.” | 2022-11-16T12:49:29+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2022/11/praise-keeps-coming-for-michigan-freshman-dt.html |
SAN FRANCISCO -- The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about COVID vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and an acquaintance told CNN that he seemed "out of touch with reality."
David DePape, 42, was identified by police Friday as the suspect in the assault on Paul Pelosi at the speaker's San Francisco home.
Two of DePape's relatives told CNN that DePape is estranged from his family, and confirmed that the Facebook account -- which was taken down by the social media company on Friday -- belonged to him.
His stepfather, Gene DePape, said David DePape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, and left Canada about 20 years ago to pursue a relationship that brought him to California.
"I really don't know what to think," the suspect's uncle, Mark DePape, said of his nephew's alleged attack on Pelosi. "Hopefully it's a scam. I don't want to hear something like that."
Last year, David DePape posted links on his Facebook page to multiple videos produced by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell falsely alleging that the 2020 election was stolen. Other posts included transphobic images and linked to websites claiming Covid vaccines were deadly. "The death rates being promoted are what ever 'THEY' want to be promoted as the death rate," one post read.
DePape also posted links to YouTube videos with titles like "Democrat FARCE Commission to Investigate January 6th Capitol Riot COLLAPSES in Congress!!!" and "Global Elites Plan To Take Control Of YOUR Money! (Revealed)"
Two days after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd, DePape wrote that the trial was "a modern lynching," falsely indicating that Floyd died of a drug overdose.
He also posted content about the "Great Reset"-- the sprawling conspiracy theory that global elites are using coronavirus to usher in a new world order in which they gain more power and oppress the masses. And he complained that politicians making promises to try to win votes "are offering you bribes in exchange for your further enslavement."
Most of the public posts on DePape's Facebook page were from 2021. In earlier years, DePape also posted long screeds about religion, including claims that "Jesus is the anti christ." None of the public posts appeared to mention Pelosi.
Two former acquaintances of DePape's in California told CNN he exhibited concerning behavior over the years.
Linda Schneider said she got to know DePape roughly eight years ago and that he occasionally housesat for her. When they met, she said, DePape was living in a storage unit in the Berkeley area and told her he had been struggling with hard drugs but was "trying to create a new life for himself."
Schneider later received "really disturbing" emails from DePape in which he sounded like a "megalomaniac and so out of touch with reality," she said. She said she stopped communicating with him "because it seemed so dangerous," adding that she recalled him "using Biblical justification to do harm."
Laura Hayes, who also lives in California, said she worked with DePape for a few months roughly a decade ago making hemp bracelets when he was living in a storage shed in the Berkeley area. She said DePape sold the bracelets as a business.
"He was very odd. He didn't make eye contact very well," Hayes said. She recalled him saying that "he talks to angels and there will be a hard time coming." But she didn't remember any seriously threatening comments, and said she didn't think much of it because "it's Berkeley," a place where eccentric characters aren't uncommon.
Hayes, who was Facebook friends with DePape, called his more recent posts "so phobic in so many ways" and filled with "so much anger."
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A sheriff’s department submitted on Thursday its investigative findings to prosecutors in the death of a cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico in October 2021.
Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Ríos said that two binders of information were turned over to the Santa Fe-based district attorney’s office, without setting forth any recommendations about possible criminal charges.
He said the case file outlines all the evidence collected, including investigative interviews and forensic analysis of physical evidence by the FBI. District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said through a spokeswoman that investigators and prosecutors will now begin a thorough review to make a timely decision about whether to bring charges, without mention of specific deadlines.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died shortly after being wounded by a gunshot during setup for a scene in the western movie “Rust” at a filmset ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office already has made public a vast trove of law enforcement files concerning the deadly shooting, including lapel camera video of the mortally wounded Hutchins, witness interrogations, email threads, text conversations, inventories of ammunition and hundreds of photographs.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza has described “a degree of neglect” on the film set for “Rust” but is leaving decisions about potential criminal charges to prosecutors.
The family of Hutchins — widower Matthew Hutchins and 9-year-old son Andros — recently settled a lawsuit against producers of “Rust” under an agreement that aims to restart filming with Matthew’s involvement as executive producer.
Baldwin has said the gun went off accidentally and that he did not pull the trigger. But a recent FBI forensic report found the weapon could not not have fired unless the trigger was pulled.
New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator determined the shooting was an accident following the completion of an autopsy and a review of law enforcement reports.
Rust Movie Productions continues to challenge the basis of a $137,000 fine against the company by New Mexico occupational safety regulators who say production managers on the set failed to follow standard industry protocols for firearms safety. The state Occupational Health and Safety Review Commission has scheduled an eight-day hearing on the disputed sanctions in April 2023.
In April, New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau imposed the maximum fine against Rust Movie Productions and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires of blank ammunition on set prior to the fatal shooting.
Rust Movie Productions told safety regulators that misfires prior to the fatal shooting of Hutchins did not violate safety protocols and that “appropriate corrective actions were taken,” including briefings of cast and crew.
Other legal troubles persist in relation to the film and the deadly shooting. | 2022-10-28T12:45:43+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/ap-lawsuit-settled-film-may-resume-after-alec-baldwin-shooting/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said last month’s international global warming talks didn’t do enough to speed up cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases.
Kerry told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that there was progress on some aspects of reducing carbon pollution during the United Nations summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. But he said there could and should have been much more and that what was done on the issue was overshadowed by a historic, but what he called potentially “pyrrhic,” agreement to establish a compensation fund for poor nations victimized by a warming world.
“We needed to significantly accelerate the reduction of emissions,” Kerry said. “I would have liked to have seen greater outcome from Sharm with respect to mitigation,” which is what climate negotiators call cutting carbon pollution. “But we’re just going to have to keep pushing,” he added.
“We have to increase the mitigation and that’s the one thing that I thought should have been highlighted even more,” Kerry said. “There was forward movement very clearly at increased ambition, but I think it needed to do more.”
Hours after the talks in Egypt ended, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said the world “stood still” on emission cuts, but that it’s acceptable, given the compensation fund creation amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis and inflation.
The United States supported an unsuccessful push by India to include natural gas and oil in existing international agreements that call for the phase down of “unmitigated coal” use, meaning emissions that are not captured or cleaned. But with natural gas-exporting Egypt acting as host and president of the meeting and thus setting the agenda, the issue was not on any final proposed documents.
“I wish I had been around for that part of the debate. I was out of commission with COVID at the moment during that part of it,” said Kerry, who has recovered from the illness. “We have to continue to push forward with the reduction of unmitigated use of fossil fuel because that’s what’s creating the damage in the world.
“It’s the emissions that are creating the problem,” Kerry said. “I don’t think we have a lot of leeway here. We’ve got to accelerate that effort.”
Key to that is China, the world’s No. 1 carbon dioxide polluting nation, with Kerry saying “there is no way to realistically resolve the climate crisis without being engaged with China.”
Earlier this year, China put on hold all talks, including on climate, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. But after Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met in Bali during the second week of climate talks in Egypt, Kerry and his Chinese counterpart resumed one-on-one discussions at the summit. But no new deals were struck.
“We ran out of time in Sharm El-Sheikh,” Kerry said. “I look forward to picking up the conversation when we have a chance.”
Kerry pointed to increases in planned emissions cuts by Mexico, Egypt and Vietnam as positives. He also highlighted a $10 billion aid plan from western countries to help Indonesia switch to renewable fuels and promises by more countries to cut emissions of methane, which is more potent than carbon dioxide but doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere.
Kerry also noted that the head of the International Energy Agency said if all countries did what they promised, future warming could be limited to 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times, an improvement of a tenth of a degree from projections a year earlier. The global goal is to limit warming to 1.5 degrees (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), and the world has already warmed 1.1 degrees (2 degrees Fahrenheit).
The 1.7 estimate included “a huge ‘but’ with exclamation points” because it depends on nations doing what they pledge and “almost every nation in the world is not doing enough to keep the promises they set,” Kerry said.
Failure to deliver is one of the potential issues with the creation of a fund to aid poor nations victimized by climate disasters, Kerry said. Those nations had been pushing for a fund for more than 30 years — an issue called loss and damage by negotiators — and this year it was put on the agenda for the first time and approved.
Who puts in the money, how much and how it is to be distributed is yet to be figured out, Kerry said. He agreed with French President Emmanuel Macron who was dubious about celebrating over something still so amorphous.
“It’s a little bit pyrrhic until you have the full understanding of how it’s going to work,” Kerry said, adding that it all still comes back to cutting carbon pollution that causes the disasters.
“Because if you don’t, you’re going to have an impossible equation where you simply can’t find enough money to take care” of disaster victims, he said.
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My name is Brandon Hernandez, and I come from Gooding High School. I have a story to tell not only you but the rest of the world. There have been many times where someone speaks a language other than English in America and has been told to stop speaking it and to speak English. This is something that needs to stop.
America is a country of freedom of speech, meaning we can speak however we want to and in whichever language we desire. It's our First Amendment and, clearly, some people forget about that. During my sophomore year or junior soccer season, the team we were playing told the refs that we were speaking another language and that we needed to stop. I'd say it was pretty unnecessary. I just hope people can start being more educated about what rights we have.
There are people that come from different countries not knowing English. A child goes to school not knowing English but only Spanish. Of course there will be others that speak Spanish that can teach English, so at the end the day, everyone understands each other. It's a simple solution, but we still have the right to speak any language we want. There will always be conflicts, no matter what, but we have to come to an understanding that we are equal — no matter what color or race we are.
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Thank for you taking time to read my letter. I hope that it gives people a viewpoint of the daily challenges some people face. In America, we can speak whichever language we want to simply because we are allowed to speak it. It is our right as American citizens, and nobody should assume just by the language we choose to speak that we are or are not citizens.
Brandon Hernandez
Gooding | 2023-05-12T14:43:08+00:00 | magicvalley.com | https://magicvalley.com/opinion/letter-free-to-speak/article_78b2ba30-f00a-11ed-9245-97946fbdd6f5.html |
CLARKSBURG, W.Va (WBOY) — President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that $10,000 in student debt will be canceled for Americans who make less than $125,000 annually, leaving a large percentage of West Virginia students debt free.
According to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, a third of student loan borrowers in West Virginia had less than $10,000 of student loans, meaning that almost 74,000 will be completely student debt free after the cancellation.
According to data from 2021, 75% of West Virginia’s 223,000 borrowers owe less than $40,000. So after the largest forgiveness for individual student debt ever, 165,000 West Virginians will have their student loans cut by at least 25%, if the loans are federal.
Students who received Pell Grant assistance will get an additional $10,000 in forgiveness, according to Biden’s plan.
Prior to Wednesday’s loan forgiveness, West Virginia was ranked the best state for student debt in the country by WalletHub. In the study, West Virginia was ranked second in the country for being in the least debt and eighth in the country for grant and student work opportunities thanks to programs like the West Virginia Promise Scholarship.
For those who didn’t receive full forgiveness, other programs in West Virginia could provide student loan assistance or cancellation:
- Mental health professionals could receive assistance from the Mental Health Loan Repayment Program in exchange for community service.
- Health care professionals working in a shortage or underserved area could receive loan assistance through the Recruitment and Retention Community Project or State Loan Repayment Program.
- Teachers and counselors in underserved areas could qualify for annual aid through the Underwood-Smith Teacher Scholarship Loan Assistance Program. | 2022-08-24T20:47:07+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/approximately-74k-west-virginians-will-be-student-debt-free-after-bidens-cancellation/ |
The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles have won their respective conferences and will face off in the Super Bowl 57 in a game that will feature intriguing matchups.
The Chiefs defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Sunday's AFC championship. Harrison Butker kicked a 45-yard field goal with 3 seconds left to give the Chiefs the win.
The game was a rematch of last year's conference championship game, which the Bengals won. This is the third Super Bowl in four years for the Chiefs, anchored by quarterback Patrick Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid.
Earlier Sunday, the Eagles beat the San Francisco 49ers in less dramatic fashion, winning 31-7 to claim the the NFC championship title. This will be the second Super Bowl appearance for the Eagles in six years, last winning in 2018. It will also be the team's first appearance with second-year head coach Nick Sirianni, and third-year quarterback Jalen Hurts.
The matchup pits Reid against the Eagles, a team that he coached for 14 seasons, including a year that he guided the team to a Super Bowl loss against the New England Patriots. It is also a meeting between Travis and Jason Kelce, marking the first Super Bowl matchup between brothers who are players. The matchup also will feature two of the leading contenders for the NFL's most valuable player, in quarterbacks Hurts and Mahomes.
The Super Bowl will be played on Feb. 12 in Arizona.
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Brandon Lowe Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - April 24
Published: Apr. 24, 2023 at 2:25 PM EDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
On Monday, Brandon Lowe (.200 batting average in his past 10 games, with two home runs, three walks and five RBI) and the Tampa Bay Rays play the Houston Astros, whose starting pitcher will be Jose Urquidy. First pitch is at 6:40 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless performance (0-for-4) against the White Sox.
Brandon Lowe Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Monday, April 24, 2023
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Tropicana Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Jose Urquidy
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +333)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Brandon Lowe At The Plate
- Lowe is batting .254 with a double, six home runs and 11 walks.
- Among qualifying hitters in MLB play, he ranks 90th in batting average, 56th in on-base percentage, and 19th in slugging.
- Lowe has gotten at least one hit in 63.2% of his games this year (12 of 19), with more than one hit four times (21.1%).
- He has gone deep in six games this year (31.6%), leaving the park in 8.1% of his trips to the plate.
- In 36.8% of his games this year, Lowe has driven in at least one run. In four of those games (21.1%) he recorded more than one RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored at least once 11 times this season (57.9%), including four games with multiple runs (21.1%).
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Brandon Lowe Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Astros pitching staff ranks third in the league.
- The Astros have a 3.22 team ERA that ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
- The Astros rank 13th in baseball in home runs surrendered (23 total, one per game).
- The Astros are sending Urquidy (1-1) to the mound to make his fifth start of the season. He is 1-1 with a 3.66 ERA and 17 strikeouts in 19 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty's most recent appearance was on Wednesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when he went 4 1/3 innings, surrendering four earned runs while allowing seven hits.
- The 27-year-old has put up an ERA of 3.66, with 7.8 strikeouts per nine innings, in four games this season. Opponents are batting .295 against him.
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NEW YORK — Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize — for now — an LGBTQ student group.
On Wednesday, the high court cleared the way for the LGBTQ group, YU Pride Alliance, to gain official recognition from the Jewish university in New York.
The undergraduate group describes itself as “a supportive space for all students, of all sexual orientations and gender identities, to feel respected, visible, and represented.”
Spokespeople for the university did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on Saturday.
By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the justices lifted a temporary hold on a court order that requires Yeshiva University to recognize the group, even as a legal fight continues in New York courts. Two conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sided with the court’s three liberal justices to form a majority.
The disagreement among the justices appears to be mostly about procedure, with the majority writing in a brief unsigned order that Yeshiva should return to state court to seek quick review and temporary relief while the case continues. If it gets neither from state courts, the school can return to the Supreme Court, the majority wrote.
The case was being closely watched by other faith-based institutions.
Following the ruling, the president of the university, Rabbi Ari Berman, said that faith-based universities have the right to establish clubs within its understanding of the Torah.
“Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination,” he said. “The Supreme Court has laid out the roadmap for us to find expedited relief and we will follow their instructions.”
Berman also said the university’s “commitment and love for our LGBTQ students are unshakeable.”
Nevertheless, a lawyer for the students said the university’s action Friday was divisive and “shameful.”
“The Pride Alliance seeks a safe space on campus, nothing more. By shutting down all club activities, the YU administration attempts to divide the student body, and pit students against their LGBT peers,” said the lawyer, Katie Rosenfeld.
The university’s tactic, she said, “is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate.”
The university, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, argued that granting recognition to the Pride Alliance, “would violate its sincere religious beliefs.”
The club argued that Yeshiva’s plea to the Supreme Court was premature, also noting the university already has recognized a gay pride club at its law school.
A New York state court sided with the student group and ordered the university to recognize the club immediately. The matter remains on appeal in the state court system, but judges there refused to put the order on hold in the meantime. | 2022-09-17T16:06:40+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/yeshiva-university-halts-clubs-amid-high-court-lgbtq-ruling/2022/09/17/cce3e3cc-3697-11ed-a0d6-415299bfebd5_story.html |
US charges suspected Russian spy who allegedly used fake identity to enter US, gather info from American citizens
By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
The Justice Department announced charges Friday against a Russian national who allegedly entered the United States under a fake identity and gathered information from American citizens about the then-looming Russian invasion of Ukraine.
For years, Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, a 37-year-old agent of a Russian intelligence service, operated under the alias Victor Muller Ferreira, prosecutors said. Cherkasov allegedly established the alias in Brazil, where he pretended to be the son of a deceased Brazilian national, before moving to the US in 2018 under the guise of attending graduate school in Washington, DC, the Justice Department said.
CNN previously reported that “Muller” had been well-liked by his classmates in the US, but that his accent had caught some of their attention.
While in US, Cherkasov, under the alias, allegedly connected with a State Department employee, someone who worked on Capitol Hill, an Israel expert, a United States Naval Academy professor and others. Cherkasov gathered information from those sources, prosecutors said, and reported it back to his handler.
In particular, Cherkasov allegedly gathered information about US policy toward the potential Russian invasion of Ukraine before the war began.
“I was working with my contacts … to find out what the academic community, political advisors and analysts think about the recent Russian military build-up near the Ukrainian border,” Cherkasov allegedly wrote in one message highlighted by prosecutors. “Especially I was aiming to find out what are their advice to the administration.”
Cherkasov allegedly highlighted to his handlers that one of his contacts “told [US Secretary of State is Antony] Blinken … that Russians were always holding the line of respectful talks, but now it’s nothing like that. So, in her reports she confirms that there is no diplomatic opening possible and Russians are tired and will not negotiate.”
That source also told Cherkasov, he allegedly wrote, that before meeting with a Ukrainian government official, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “was explicitly instructed by the administration (I don’t know by whom exactly) … ‘not to give any conceivable signal of the US military involvement potentiality.'”
“Meaning,” Cherkasov allegedly continued, “the administration is definitely not in any position to help Ukrainians, if the fight breaks out. Whatever the press says or political promises were made, they are not going to be enforced beyond just words. The administration does not want this conflict, because they don’t have any meaningful way of gaining something out of it.”
Cherkasov was charged with acting as an agent of a foreign power, visa fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, and other charges in connection with illegal activities in the US.
He is currently jailed in Brazil, according to the Justice Department, where he is charged with identity theft and fraud. Brazilian authorities arrested Cherkasov when he returned to Brazil in 2022, according to court documents, after he was denied entry into the Netherlands for an internship with The Hague’s International Criminal Court.
When Brazilian authorities arrested Cherkasov, court documents stated, he was carrying a hard drive that had fake childhood memories on it. Cherkasov had allegedly written in a document on the hard drive that “I used to love watching the cars cross it from Rio to Niteroi, but I did not like the smell of fish from the port close to home. I think that for this reason I cannot stand fish — in contrast with other Brazilians who love seafood.”
Cherkasov was also allegedly in possession of messages that described various “dead drop” locations around Brazil for covert communications with his handlers.
The Russian government has confirmed that Cherkasov is a Russian citizen, according to court documents, and has requested his extradition from Brazil.
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Updated April 15, 2023 at 12:31 AM ET
SEOUL — Japanese authorities evacuated Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after an explosion was heard at a port where he was due to give a stump speech. There are no reports of injuries, and at least one person has been detained.
Kishida was in the city of Wakayama, stumping for a candidate in upcoming by-elections. Public broadcaster NHK reported that an object was thrown and there was an explosion and white smoke.
NHK video shows half a dozen security personnel pinning a person wearing olive-colored pants and sneakers to the ground, before dragging the person away.
Japan updated VIP protection procedures following the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July.
A police report following Abe's shooting concluded that with better planning and on-site security, Abe's killing could have been prevented.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westwood Financial, a leading retail real estate investment firm, announced updates today on its financial and operational results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, which included:
- Same-Store 2022 vs 2021 GAAP Revenue and NOI were up +5.5% and +6.3%, respectively
- Executed 24 new leases totaling 62,000 square feet and 45 renewals totaling 110,000 square feet
- Achieved total leased percent of 96.3% vs 93.5% same quarter end 2021 (+280 bps)
- Achieved an inline shop leased percent of 92.8% vs 88.2% same quarter end 2021 (+460 bps)
- Achieved a total occupancy percent of 93.4% vs 92.1% same quarter end 2021 (+130 bps)
- Comparable new rent spreads were 9.8%; renewal rent spreads were 12.8%
- Acquired one property for the HILGARD STNL Fund
"The Westwood team continues to deliver remarkable results in the second quarter through superior leasing and strong income growth throughout our portfolio," stated Mark Bratt, Chief Executive Officer. "These are the highest leasing statistics in the Firm's history along with achieving excellent same-store NOI growth of 6.3% year-over-year." Given the recent volatility in the bond markets and the market sentiment of a recession on the horizon, Mr. Bratt comments that "Westwood is in a great position with a strong balance sheet that will enable us to take advantage of many opportunities over the next few quarters." Furthermore, Mr. Bratt adds that Westwood "is well insulated in this environment given that the majority of the Firm's debt remains fixed at sub-4% over the next 4 years."
The Company closed one single tenant net lease property for Hilgard (Dollar General) and put another four properties under contract which should close in the third quarter.
Mr. Bratt continued, "while macro-economic pressures persist, Westwood's grocery-anchored portfolio remains resilient. We head into the second half of 2022 with cautious optimism and are focused on not only operating effectively and efficiently, but also only acquiring properties that meet our long term financial and return expectations."
About Westwood Financial
Westwood Financial owns, manages, and operates over 119 high-quality shopping centers located in top U.S. metropolitan markets including Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Orlando, Phoenix, and Raleigh. The centers are primarily anchored by top-tier grocers as well as leading service and experiential-based operators. Established in 1970, Westwood Financial is headquartered in Los Angeles, with regional offices in Dallas, Atlanta, and Scottsdale. More information is available at www.westfin.com.
Contact:
Brett Johnston
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bjohnston@westfin.com
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Fulgent Genetics, Inc. ("Fulgent" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FLGT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Fulgent investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 22, 2019 and August 4, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
FLGT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Fulgent had been conducting medically unnecessary laboratory testing, engaging in improper billing practices in relation to laboratory testing, and providing or receiving remuneration in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law; (ii) accordingly, Fulgent was likely to become subject to enhanced legal and regulatory scrutiny; (iii) Fulgent's revenues, to the extent they were derived from the foregoing unlawful conduct, were unsustainable; (iv) the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to subject the Company to significant financial and/or reputational harm; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Fulgent during the relevant time frame, you have until November 21, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Updated October 21, 2022 at 4:36 PM ET
After Donald Trump outperformed among Latinos in South Texas in 2020, Republicans have been hoping to further improve their margins among those voters. Historically, South Texas has been a stronghold for Democrats in the state, but Republicans are banking on those ties not being as strong as they used to be.
Jorge Martinez, an advisor and spokesperson for LIBRE Initiative Action, said for the past decade his team has been aiding political efforts in other parts of the state and the country. But recently, he explained, more resources have been focused at his base in McAllen, Texas.
"Now all eyes are on South Texas," Martinez said. "Now we are the ones getting all the support here."
During a recent canvassing effort, Martinez and his team knocked on doors in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Mission, Texas, which sits right on the U.S. Mexico border. Their goal was to get the word out about Monica De La Cruz, a Republican congressional candidate running for the newly competitive 15th congressional district in South Texas against Democrat Michelle Vallejo.
One of the potential voters they talked to was Fidel Villaseñor, who said he did not know if he was going to vote for De La Cruz in the fall. He told Martinez, though, that the most important issue for him during this election is inflation.
Martinez said most of the voters he talks to are concerned about the economy and rising prices, which he thinks could be a winning issue for his group as they organize for Republican candidates in the area.
"That's what's hurting families, and everyone is feeling it whether you are going to the grocery store or anything that you consume — prices are high right now," Martinez said. "Our message is that we need the government to limit spending."
Democrats still have an edge
According to recent polling, nationwide Democrats still have an edge with Latino voters – including in Texas. Democrats opened a national field office in South Texas earlier this year and have been running radio ads in an effort to hold on to their support in key parts of the state.
But Jens Manuel Krogstad, a senior writer and editor with the Pew Research Center focused on Latino views and attitudes, has found evidence in recent polling that compared to other voters, Latinos have pretty soft ties to political parties even when they favor one over the other.
"One point that really illustrates this is that roughly 1 in 10 Latino voters who identified as either a Democrat or Republican held political views that more closely aligned with the opposing party than their own party," he explained.
This is why Latino voters are more like swing voters compared to the rest of the country.
"Latinos don't always neatly fit into the nation's two party system," Krogstad said. "And the survey shows that Latinos in some ways are charting their own course."
The surveys he has looked at show that many Latinos do not see much of a difference between the parties.
Artemio Muniz is chairman of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans in Texas. He thinks a large swath of Latino voters actually agree with conservatives on a lot of key issues.
"They tend to be more center-right," he said.
Muniz says if Republicans do a good job of consistently talking to Latino voters about those issues, they would be able to "take away voters from what is only a skin deep type connection" to the Democratic party.
"When the party doesn't do the work and they don't show up and they don't have the right messaging, the default is Hispanic voters tend to vote for Democrats," he explained.
Why Latinos don't have deep ties to any party
Latinos act like swing voters because neither party has had sustained and meaningful outreach to Latino voters.
Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, has been polling Latino voters in Texas for years. He explained neither party has done a good job of engaging these communities and making them feel like their votes actually matter.
"Many in the Latino community are not getting the kind of contact from campaigns organizations or political parties or community organizations," he said. "So, I think a lot of them feel lost. They feel a little bit adrift. So, they don't have a connection to these parties. And as a result, they don't feel swept up in these national trends that pit red versus blue."
In South Texas, there are some community groups – namely a nonpartisan group called LUPE – that have been plugging away for years to get these voters engaged.
Joaquin Garcia, director of organizing at LUPE, says their hard work has helped communities advocate for basic services like sewage treatment, drinking water, street lights and paved roads.
On a recent afternoon, Garcia and his team visited a neighborhood in San Juan, Texas, to let people know about the upcoming election.. Most of the potential voters they spoke to were unaware an election was soon approaching.
Garcia says he has been surprised considering all the ads and attention in South Texas this election cycle.
"We don't know why that is," he explained. "They keep repeating it on TV and on the radio stations."
"But I mean a lot of these people have two, three jobs. They are not paying attention to elections. Their thing is getting money to sustain their families. So sometimes they don't see politics as a priority for their needs," Garcia said.
This lack of time to engage or knowledge about current politics in the state is not a small obstacle for Republicans in Texas.
Rottinghaus says getting people to make voting a priority in general is not an easy task if it's something they were not doing before.
"That's the biggest challenge that Republicans face in trying to get a vote stabilized and get them to motivate them towards the Republican candidates," he said.
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If you have a spare $30,000 to drop on liquor, you could buy a fifth of 1967 Glenlivet 50-year-old Winchester Collection scotch or a fifth of Highland Park 50-year-old scotch – the two most expensive bottles of liquor sold in Michigan.
Or you could buy approximately 63,829 shooters of Calypso Coconut Rum – which is tied for the cheapest liquor in the state at $0.47 a pop. | 2022-12-02T14:04:05+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/12/buying-liquor-for-the-holidays-heres-the-cheapest-price-for-all-10200-varieties-in-michigan.html |
Biden offshore drilling proposal would allow up to 11 sales over next 5 years
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years — going against the Democrat’s climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas.
Administration officials said fewer than 11 lease sales — or even no lease sales at all — could occur, with a final decision not due for months. New drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts would be blocked, after being considered under Trump.
The proposal brought backlash from both environmentalists — who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause — and oil industry officials and allies, who said it would do little to help counter high energy prices. Gasoline prices averaged $4.84 a gallon on Friday, a strain on commuters and a political albatross for Biden’s fellow Democrats going into the midterm elections. That has left the White House scrambling for solutions, including Biden’s call last week for suspension of the 18.4 cents a gallon federal gas tax.
The Interior Department had suspended lease sales in late January because of climate concerns but was forced to resume them by a U.S. district judge in Louisiana.
The Biden administration cited conflicting court rulings about that decision when it canceled the last scheduled lease sales in the Gulf and Alaska during the previous offshore leasing cycle. That prior five-year cycle, a program adopted under former President Barack Obama, expired on Thursday.
There will be a months-long gap before a new plan can be put in place. The oil industry and its allies say the delay could cause problems in planning new drilling and potentially lead to decreased oil production.
There’s unlikely to be an offshore lease sale until well into next year, said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s top lobbying group.
And, he said, administration officials “went out of their way to say” there might not be any lease sales at all.
“It’s very important for the administration to send a signal to the global oil markets that the United States is serious about increasing supply ... for the long term,” he said, repeating a longtime claim by industry officials and Republicans that ties uncertainty over oil supply to high prices.
Biden in recent weeks has criticized oil producers and refiners for maximizing profits and making “more money than God,” rather than increasing production in response to higher prices as the economy recovers from the pandemic and feels the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The leasing announcement was a bitter disappointment to environmentalists and some Democrats who rallied around then-candidate Biden when he promised to end new drilling in federal lands and waters.
The proposal comes a day after the administration held its first onshore lease sales, drawing $22 million in an auction that gives energy companies drilling rights on about 110 square miles (285 square kilometers) in seven western states. The sales came despite the administration’s own findings that burning oil and gas from the parcels could cause billions of dollars in potential future climate damages.
“Our public lands and waters are already responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s carbon pollution each year. Adding any new lease sales to that equation while the climate crisis is unfolding all around us is nonsensical,” said House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona.
Cynthia Sartou, executive director of the environmental nonprofit Healthy Gulf, called the lease-sale plan “a huge loss for Gulf residents, American energy policy and the global climate.”
Moderate Democrat Joe Manchin, who chairs the Senate energy committee, welcomed the proposal as a chance “to get our leasing program back on track.”
“While Americans everywhere are suffering from record high gas prices and disruptions in the global oil market caused by (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin’s senseless war in Ukraine, the Department of the Interior hasn’t held any successful offshore lease sales since November 2020,” the West Virginia lawmaker said.
Every previous administration dating back to John F. Kennedy’s had held several lease sales by this point, Macchiarola said.
Under the Trump administration, Interior officials had proposed 47 sales, including 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, 19 in Alaska and nine off the Atlantic coast that were later withdrawn. Trump lost the 2020 election before the proposal was finalized.
The current format of holding Gulf-wide sales was put in place under Obama because of dwindling interest in offshore leases. Prior to that there had been decades of regional sales.
Friday’s announcement opens a 90-day public comment period, then a final plan must be submitted 60 days before it goes into effect.
The government held an offshore lease auction in the Gulf of Mexico in November that brought $192 million in bids. A court canceled that sale before the leases were issued.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has said previously that the industry is “set” with the amount of drilling permits stockpiled and at its disposa l. She testified during a House hearing in April that the industry has about 9,000 permits that have been approved but are not being used.
Oil production has increased as the economy recovers from the coronavirus slowdown, but it’s still below pre-pandemic levels. Energy companies have been reluctant to ramp up production further, citing a shortage of workers and restraints from investors wary that today’s high prices won’t last.
Major oil companies reported surging profits in the first quarter and sent tens of billions of dollars in dividends to shareholders.
Athan Manuel of the Sierra Club said delaying offshore sales until next year “is an important step toward protecting communities and climate, and we urge the administration to finalize a plan that commits to no new offshore drilling leases, period.”
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Brown reported from Billings, Mont. Associated Press writer Matthew Daly in Washington contributed to this story.
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ORONO — Conservationist and author Ken Olson has donated his professional papers to the Fogler Library at the University of Maine, complementing materials the state’s largest library holds relating to the environment, resource conservation and policy in Maine and elsewhere.
Olson is a 1968 graduate of the university, where he was a Senior Skull and captained the varsity soccer team. He began his charitable work in 1971, becoming, at age 24, the youngest person ever to run the Appalachian Mountain Club’s combined Hut System, Pinkham Notch Camp and Saco River campgrounds, and direct its White Mountain search and rescue operations.
He later was appointed publisher and editor-in-chief of AMC books, maps and magazines, including Appalachia, the nation’s oldest journal of mountaineering and conservation. His writings — books, essays, reviews, op-eds, poems — have run in many venues.
In 2006, Olson retired from a 30-year career that included 20 years as chief executive at three nonprofits: The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut, American Rivers and Friends of Acadia.
The Olson collection comprises professional papers and documents dealing with nonprofit organizational management, engagement in public policy, publishing, lecturing, and alliance-building around a passion for conserving lands and waterways, primarily in Maine. The materials include nonconservation and personal papers, as well as published and unpublished manuscripts on numerous subjects.
“I hope the papers will serve anyone interested in conservation history. The collection has materials on classic environmental battles in the creation and long-term management of Acadia National Park, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, and Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. Other documents deal with working relations between government agencies and philanthropic partners,” said Olson.
“My collection, along with the trove of resource management materials Fogler holds, might help form the foundation for a Maine conservation archive at the state’s land, sea and space grant university. I encourage conservationists and organizations to help build the archive,” he said.
Daisy D. Singh, University of Maine dean of libraries, said, “Mr. Olson’s collection is an excellent complement to our other holdings such as the Great Northern Paper Company Records, Dickey-Lincoln Hydro Project Collection, and Sewall Aerial Photographic Collection. We congratulate our 1968 alumnus on his incredible three-decade career in conservation and are honored to safeguard his collection here at Fogler for generations ahead.”
Olson holds a master’s degree from Yale and was a faculty lecturer there and at Wesleyan University. In 1995, College of the Atlantic awarded him an honorary degree.
He has donated an estate gift to the University of Maine Foundation to fund curation of his papers.
Raymond H. Fogler Library is the largest research library in Maine, with a 150-year history supporting the faculty, students and staff of the university, as well as residents of the state.
The current collection includes approximately 3.1 million print and digital volumes, including government publications, as well as 1.1 million physical and digital media titles, including microforms, streaming video and music, maps, CDs, and DVDs. The library provides access to more than 160,000 online serials and over 300 online databases. Fogler Library is the regional depository for federal government publications and an official depository for Canadian federal and Maine state government publications. The state Legislature has also designated Fogler as the Maine Business, Science, and Technology Library. It is also the only Patent and Trademark Resource Center in Maine. | 2023-03-09T21:39:05+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/09/bdn-maine/umaines-fogler-library-receives-important-addition-to-its-conservation-and-resource-management-holdings-the-w-kent-olson-conservation-papers/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years ago, the Texas Republican Party used its platform to oppose teaching critical thinking in schools. In 2014, it declared homosexuality a chosen behavior contrary to God and endorsed “reparative therapy” to reverse it. By 2020, the party was ready to remind the world that “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States.”
But now the GOP platform in the country’s largest red state — long an ideological wish list that even the most conservative Texans knew was mostly filled with pipe dreams that would never become policy — has broken new ground in its push to the far right.
Approved by 5,000-plus party delegates last weekend in Houston during the party’s biennial convention, the new platform brands President Joe Biden an “acting” commander-in-chief who was never “legitimately elected.”
It may not matter who the president is, though, since the platform takes previous language about secession much farther — urging the Republican-controlled legislature to put the question of leaving the United States to voters next year.
The platform also says homosexuality is “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and rejects bipartisan legislation in Congress seeking to raise the minimum age to buy assault weapons from 18 to 21, saying Texans under 21 are “most likely to be victims of violent crime and thus most likely to need to defend themselves.”
Though non-binding, the platform illustrates just how far Texas Republicans have moved to the right in the past decade — from championing tea party ideals in 2012 to endorsing former President Donald Trump’s continued lies about nonexistent widespread fraud costing him an election he actually lost by more than 7 million votes.
“The platform reflects the direction that party activists believe the party should take,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican strategist based in the Texas capital of Austin. He said that, rather than deciding elections or dictating legislative action, the platform is more relevant as a signal of “where primary voters are and what they care about.”
Mackowiak said items like considering succession won’t be taken seriously, but “Trump’s policy agenda is here to stay.” He said that, as the former president continues to question 2020 election results, he will continue to find a receptive audience in the Texas GOP.
“Are people really in doubt that Republicans have concerns about how the election was conducted?” Mackowiak asked.
Matt Rinaldi, a former state lawmaker who now chairs the Texas GOP, said state Republicans “rightly have no faith in the 2020 election results and we don’t care how many times the elites tell us we have to.”
“We refuse to let Democrats rig the elections in 2022 or 2024,” Rinaldi said in a statement.
Democrats haven’t rigged anything. An Associated Press r eview of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
Meanwhile, Texas’ 2020 election was a romp even by the standards of Republicans who have dominated the state for decades. The party’s candidates topped Democrats in key congressional and statehouse races as Trump easily carried its electoral votes.
But that didn’t stop the former president from praising the party’s 2022 platform, posting Tuesday: “Look at the “Great State of Texas and their powerful Republican Party Platform on the 2020 Presidential Election Fraud.”
“Such courage,” he wrote, “but that’s why Texas is Texas.”
Trump was cheering language declaring, “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected.” That was a departure from as recently as 2014, when the Texas GOP platform questioned Barack Obama’s “commitment to citizens’ constitutional rights,” but at least recognized him as president.
This year’s platform also says that “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.”
Ed Espinoza, executive director of the advocacy organization Progress Texas, said some of the adherence to open discriminatory language might have receded if not for the rise of Trump — who has demonstrated “he could double down on the crazy and not suffer a consequence yet.”
“Normally what happens is, when there’s crazy in a party, people try to soften it,” said Espinoza, former Western States Director of the Democratic National Committee. “In this case, they saw it worked for Trump so they think it’ll work for them.”
Texas was an independent republic for nearly a decade until 1845. With the coronavirus pandemic raging, the 2020 Texas Republican Party convention was held virtually and degenerated into a leadership struggle. But it also featured platform language declaring, “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States should a future president and congress change our political system from a constitutional republic to another system.”
That caveat about governmental system was dropped in the 2022 edition, which seeks a referendum for voters “to determine whether or not” their state “should reassert its status as an independent nation.”
Texas’ rightward push was clear in ways beyond the party platform. Delegates booed Republican Sen. John Cornyn — who has held his seat for 20 years and got more 2020 votes statewide than Trump did — for working on bipartisan legislation seeking to impose modest limits on guns. Those efforts began following last month’s mass shooting in the Texas town of Uvalde, which killed 19 elementary students and two teachers.
Still, such state convention outbursts also aren’t new. Republican Gov. Rick Perry was booed in 2012 for praising fellow GOPer and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who was then locked in a primary battle for an open Senate seat with Ted Cruz. Some delegates also in the past walked out of a speech by then-Republican Texas House Speaker Joe Straus.
“It shows you how much QAnon may not be an outlier in the Republican Party,” Espinoza said. “Some people are very susceptible to conspiracy theory, and that appears to be a higher percentage the deeper you go into the Republican Party of Texas.” | 2022-06-21T22:45:37+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/texas-gops-swing-to-far-right-cemented-with-party-platform/ |
GERMANTOWN, Tenn., March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MAA (NYSE: MAA) today announced that its board of directors approved a quarterly dividend payment of $1.40 per share of common stock to be paid on April 28, 2023, to shareholders of record on April 14, 2023.
As established in prior quarters, the board of directors declared the quarterly common dividend in advance of MAA's earnings announcement that is expected to be made on April 26, 2023.
About MAA
MAA is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) and member of the S&P 500. MAA owns or has ownership interest in apartment communities primarily throughout the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. focused on delivering strong, full-cycle investment performance. For further details, please refer to www.maac.com or contact Investor Relations at investor.relations@maac.com.
Certain matters in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended with respect to our expectations for future periods. Such statements include statements made about the payment of common dividends. The ability to meet the payment of common dividends in or contemplated by the forward-looking statements could differ materially from the projection due to a number of factors, including a downturn in general economic conditions or the capital markets, changes in interest rates and other items that are difficult to control such as increases in real estate taxes in many of our markets, as well as the other general risks inherent in the apartment and real estate businesses. Reference is hereby made to the filings of Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K, and its annual report on Form 10-K, particularly including the risk factors contained in the latter filing.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least nine people died and eight others were missing in South Africa after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, rescue officials said Sunday.
The dead and missing were all part of the congregation, which was conducting religious rituals along the river on Saturday, officials said. Rescue workers reported finding the bodies of two victims that day and another seven bodies when the search and recovery mission resumed Sunday morning.
The teams were interviewing people from the congregation to establish how many others were unaccounted for.
Religious groups frequently gather along the Jukskei River, which runs past townships such as Alexandra in the east of Johannesburg, for baptisms and ritual cleansing.
Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said Sunday that officials had warned residents about the dangers of conducting the rituals along the river.
“We have been receiving a lot of rain on the city of Johannesburg in the last three months, and most of the river streams are now full. Our residents, especially congregants who normally practice these kinds of rituals, will be tempted to go to these river streams,” Mulaudzi said during a news briefing.
“Our message for them is to exercise caution as and when they conduct these rituals,” he added. | 2022-12-04T22:49:37+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-flash-flood-kills-nine-at-church-gathering-in-south-africa/ |
An FBI probe into illegal foreign lobbying has reportedly targeted a retired four-star general who led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and is now president of a Washington think tank.
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An FBI probe into illegal foreign lobbying has reportedly targeted a retired four-star general who led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and is now president of a Washington think tank.
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KEENESBURG, Colo., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine lions rescued from the war-torn country of Ukraine arrived safely in Colorado at The Wild Animal Sanctuary Thursday, September 29th, 2022, as part of the largest warzone rescue of lions ever carried out.
The pride of lions had been living at the Bio Park Zoo in Odessa, a southern port in Ukraine impacted by the Russian-Ukraine war and invading Russian military forces. The big cats were urgently relocated when the war first broke by a convoy that journeyed over 600 miles across Ukraine and Moldova, arriving in Targu Mures, Romania, on May 24th, 2022. The Targu Mures Zoo provided a temporary home for the animals for several months so that an emergency travel permit could be approved for the eleven lions to board an international rescue flight. From the rescued group of big cats, seven adult lions and two cubs have a new forever home at The Wild Animal Refuge, an extension property of The Wild Animal Sanctuary, with the remaining two lions traveling to the Simbonga Game Reserve and Sanctuary in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
The rescue mission involved a consortium of global Animal Welfare Agencies working together, including Greater Good, The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS), Tigers in America - as well as Warriors of Wildlife, and the Simbonga Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa. "International rescue operations are almost always more complex in nature, but then you are factoring in a variety of foreign governments and timelines for permitting, some of those with active warzones. We are thankful we could get all the lions out in time and save them. That's what matters. They will live out the rest of their lives in pristine, large, natural habitats," said Pat Craig, Executive Director of The Wild Animal Sanctuary.
About The Wild Animal Sanctuary:
Located near Keenesburg, Colorado, The Wild Animal Sanctuary is the largest nonprofit carnivore sanctuary in the world, with over 650 rescued animals, including lions, tigers, bears, wolves, leopards, and other large carnivores living in large-acreage natural habitats. Established in 1980, the Sanctuary operates three locations with more than 10,000 acres for abused, abandoned, and confiscated carnivores and specializes in rehabilitating captive wildlife so they can be released into natural habitats where they can roam freely and live with others of their own kind. More information is available at www.wildanimalsanctuary.org, www.wildanimalrefuge.org, www.wildanimalsanctuarytexas.org.
About Greater Good Charities:
Greater Good Charities is a 501(c)(3) global nonprofit organization that works to help people, pets, and the planet by mobilizing in response to need and amplifying the good. Greater Good Charities, with a 100/100 rating on Charity Navigator, has provided more than $475 million in impact, including cash grants, in-kind supplies, and programmatic support, to charitable partners in 121 countries since 2007. To learn more about how Greater Good Charities amplifies the good across the globe, please visit greatergood.org or contact press@greatergood.org
About Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries:
Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the sole purpose of strengthening and supporting the work of animal sanctuaries, rescues, and rehabilitation centers worldwide. The goal of GFAS in working with and assisting these animal care facilities is to ensure they are supported, honored, recognized and rewarded for meeting important criteria in providing care to the animals in residence. GFAS was founded in 2007 by animal protection leaders from a number of different organizations in response to virtually unchecked and often hidden exploitation of animals for human entertainment and financial profit. www.sanctuaryfederation.org.
About Tigers in America:
Tigers in America (TIA) is a nationwide, all-volunteer organization that operates from New York City. It has recently expanded its mission to accommodate the surrender or seizure of all big cats, including lions, leopards, mountain lions, cheetahs, and jaguars, in addition to tigers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, an Indian army officer's son with decades of corporate experience, was confirmed Wednesday to lead the World Bank for a five-year term that starts next month.
The U.S.-nominated business veteran succeeds David Malpass, a Donald Trump pick who is ending his tenure early at the 189-nation global poverty-fighting institution after coming under pressure for declining to say whether he agreed with the scientific consensus on climate change.
The bank's executive directors said in a statement after Banga's confirmation as president that they looked forward to working with him and on all the bank's "ambitions and efforts aimed at tackling the toughest development challenges facing developing countries.”
President Joe Biden chose Banga in February, after Malpass announced he would leave by June 30, and praised the nominee for his "critical experience" in tackling "the most urgent challenges of our time,'' such as climate change.
Biden said Wednesday that Banga "will help steer the institution as it evolves and expands to address global challenges that directly affect its core mission of poverty reduction — including climate change."
The United States is the bank's largest shareholder and traditionally has nominated the organization's president. American leaders have said that taking on climate change will be a major factor in the bank's lending decisions.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in February that Banga will be responsible for meeting “ambitious goals for climate adaptation and emissions reduction.” On Wednesday, she said "our ambitious goals will not be met overnight, and we remain committed to a staged adoption of reforms over the course of the year to build on the vision we have laid out.”
Malpass, whose term was to expire in April 2024, ran into criticism last year for comments at a conference that appeared to cast doubt on the science that says the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming. He later apologized and said he had misspoken, noting that the bank routinely relies on climate science.
Leaders and activists from poorer nations, especially those vulnerable to the extreme weather made worse by climate change, have called for massive changes in the entire multinational development bank system.
A plan known as the Bridgetown Initiative, put forward by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and embraced by French President Emmanuel Macron, would make it easier and faster for developing countries affected by weather disasters to get money with lower interest rates for both recovery and for building to become more resilient.
Banga, who was most recently vice chairman at the private equity firm General Atlantic, has more than 30 years of business experience and has served on the boards of the American Red Cross, Kraft Foods and Dow Inc.
He was born in 1959 and educated in some of India’s premier institutions. When India’s economy liberalized in the early 1990s, Banga was able to work and rise through the ranks of multinational corporations breaking into India.
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Associated Press reporter Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India, contributed to this report. | 2023-05-03T17:30:11+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ex-mastercard-ceo-ajay-banga-confirmed-as-world-bank-leader/H4KMKCB6CJBB5IOTQC3LNR7WDE/ |
- Acquires additional land, sized 357,366㎡ valued at KRW 426 billion, for Bio Campus 2
- Plans to build Multi-Modal Plant, Open Innovation, and expanded manufacturing capacities
INCHEON, South Korea, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940.KS), the world's leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced that it has signed a land purchase agreement with the Incheon Free Economic Zone(IFEZ) on July 18th to support the build out of its second Bio Campus.
The additionally acquired land is located within Songdo Industrial Cluster, covering an area of 357,366 square meters which is 30% larger than the company's current campus. Bio Campus II is designed to support Samsung Biologics' further expansion of large-scale manufacturing capacity as well as host a multi-modal plant and an open innovation facility. The land purchase was valued at KRW 426 billion.
The land was awarded to Samsung Biologics in accordance with the IFEZ's strategy to strengthen the region's global competitiveness in the biopharma sector while fostering partnerships with small and mid-sized venture companies. As a result of this deal, 4,000 additional jobs are expected to be generated by 2032 when the project is complete
"This milestone further solidifies our roadmap to build a world-class global bio-hub at the heart of Songdo," said John Rim, CEO and President of Samsung Biologics. "Through continuous investment, we will maintain our position as the best-in-class CDMO partner, fully equipped with the world's largest manufacturing capacity and provide diverse service offerings to our clients to address new emerging diseases and save lives of patients worldwide."
"Samsung Biologics' achievements over the past decade are remarkable and highly impressive," said Jeong Bok Yoo, Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. "The city will do its best to support the development of the bio industry's infrastructure and further drive Songdo to become a global bio hub."
Samsung Biologics' Plant 4 is currently under stable construction to begin partial operations by October this year, and the company is steadily securing pre-sales with clients. Upon the full completion of Plant 4 in 2023, the company is expected to hold the world's largest biomanufacturing capacity.
About Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940.KS) is a fully integrated CDMO offering state-of-the-art contract development and manufacturing services. With proven regulatory approvals, the largest capacity, and the fastest throughput, Samsung Biologics is an award-winning partner of choice and is uniquely able to support the development and manufacturing of biologics products at every stage of the process while meeting the evolving needs of biopharmaceutical companies worldwide. For more information, visit www.samsungbiologics.com
Samsung Biologics Contact:
Claire Kim
Senior Director of Global Marketing Communications
cair.kim@samsung.com
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anchor Brewing is open to a purchase offer from its employees but warned that time is running out as the 127-year-old trailblazer of craft beers prepares to cease operations, the San Francisco company said in a statement over the weekend.
Spokesman Sam Singer confirmed Saturday that Anchor Brewing Company had received an email from Anchor’s union representative that workers are launching an effort to purchase the brewery. The effort is on behalf of a group of employees and not the union itself.
He said the company would “gladly consider” an offer should they make one that includes “a verifiable source of funds.” But Singer warned that time was running out and the company will move ahead with liquidation in early August.
The interested workers said on social media Saturday that things were moving fast and promised more information when available.
“Overwhelmed with the responses for help. We are working behind the scenes to try and figure out the best possible way to raise funds and actually do this,” the group said.
Anchor Brewing, which was sold to Japanese brewer Sapporo Holdings in 2017, stunned beer lovers when it announced earlier this month that it would discontinue the brand amid declining sales and tough economic conditions.
Two dozen investors and individuals have expressed interest in acquiring some or all of the brewery, Singer told the San Francisco Chronicle last week. He said any decision to sell would be made by liquidators. | 2023-07-24T10:39:45+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/business/ap-san-francisco-based-company-that-pioneered-craft-beers-open-to-buyout-from-employees/ |
Two steamboat enthusiasts in their fourth day toot-tooting around Lake Hopatcong are apparently drawing plenty of attention.
“It’s like being zoo animals,” Glenn Papp said Monday.
Two steamboat enthusiasts in their fourth day toot-tooting around Lake Hopatcong are apparently drawing plenty of attention.
“It’s like being zoo animals,” Glenn Papp said Monday.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Agriculture Department announced Thursday it is making available $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet, part of the broader $65 billion push for high-speed connectivity from last year’s infrastructure law.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu unveiled the grants during a visit to North Carolina.
There are 49 recipients in 24 states. One is North Carolina’s AccessOn Networks, which will receive $17.5 million to provide broadband service to 100 businesses, 76 farms and 22 educational facilities in the state’s Halifax and Warren counties. Both counties are rural and have predominantly Black populations.
“Rural America needs this,” Vilsack said. “Rural America deserves this.” He made the announcement in front of John Deere equipment, noting that rural areas tend to be where the electricity for cities is generated and where city dwellers and suburbanites go for vacations.
The announcement and visit to North Carolina, a state with an open U.S. Senate seat, come as President Joe Biden and other top Democratic officials are trying to sell their achievements to voters before the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Landrieu, the infrastructure coordinator and former New Orleans mayor, told reporters on a Wednesday call that the Biden administration has already released $180 billion for various infrastructure projects.
The administration is specifically targeting support for small towns and farm communities, places that generally favor Republicans over Democrats.
“Rural communities are the backbone of our nation, but for too long they’ve been left behind and they have been underrecognized,” Landrieu said. “We all know how essential the internet is in order to access lifesaving telemedicine, to tap into economic opportunity, to connect with loved ones, to work on precision agriculture and so much more. That’s just beyond unacceptable that that’s not available to rural America.”
Vilsack said he and Landrieu would “learn firsthand” from people in North Carolina about the opportunities internet access can create. They met with state and local officials including North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper at Wake Technical Community College. They will also hold a town hall in Elm City.
Cooper attributed the broadband advances to the pandemic shutdowns that made people more reliant on the internet.
“It tossed us into the future by about a decade — we had to make something good out of something bad,” he said. He added that 1 million of the state’s residents have been on the wrong side of the digital divide, something the build-out will help to correct.
Neither candidate in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race — Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican Ted Budd — was slated to appear at the events.
Vilsack said that past trips show how broadband connectivity is starting to make a difference. While in Nevada this summer, he heard from people in the town of Lovelock who plan to use the improved internet to enhance their emergency responder services and tourism opportunities as well as help high school students who are earning college credit online.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas will host several key recruits on Saturday including several who are already committed.
The annual Hogwild Hangout will be held Saturday. Among the uncommitted prospects are from the Classes of 2025 and 2026. At least a dozen commitments will also visit.
Among the Class of 2025 prospects slated to visit are Central Arkansas Christian quarterback Grayson Wilson, 6-3, 185, who is committed to the Hogs. Wilson is the lone commitment to Arkansas for the Class of 2025. In 2022, Wilson completed 143 of 245 passes for 1,737 yards and 19 touchdowns. Wilson also rushed 84 times for 530 yards and seven touchdowns.
The uncommitted prospects from 2025 are Texarkana (Texas) Pleasant Grove’s four-star defensive end Lance Jackson, 6-5, 260, Bauxite safety Marcus Wimberly, 6-1, 183, Wagoner (Okla.) defensive end Alex Shieldnight, 6-3, 230, Kissimmee (Fla.) Osceola four-star linebacker Elijah Melendez, 6-2, 220, Atlanta (Texas) running back Markeylin Batton, 5-11, 172, and Shreveport (La.) Captain Shreve offensive tackle Devin Harper, 6-5, 300.
In 2026, Durant (Okla.) defensive end Colton Yarbrough, 6-5, 221, will be present. Some of Yarbrough’s offers in addition to Arkansas are Tennessee, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan State, Miami and others.
Jackson is the younger brother of Landon Jackson, Arkansas’ standout defensive end. The younger Jackson can play both ways, but will likely settle in at defensive end in college. He has approximately 24 scholarship offers and is among the top recruits in the Lone Star State in 2025.
Wimberly earned an offer from Arkansas following an outstanding showing at a football camp this summer. Michigan and others are also in the mix with offers. Wimberly has outstanding speed and awareness at safety.
Melendez has around 25 scholarship offers and is among the top recruits in Florida in 2025. Arkansas is joined offering him by such schools as Alabama, Auburn, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Michigan State, Miami, Oklahoma, Tennessee and many others.
Shieldnight has offers from such schools as Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Tennessee, Tulsa, Vanderbilt and others in addition to the Hogs.
Batton plays both ways for Atlanta. That is the same school that produced several former Razorbacks. In 2022, he was the 6-3A DI Utility Player of the year as a sophomore.
Harper has approximately 20 offers including Arkansas. LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida State and numerous others have also offered this standout.
Among the Class of 2024 commitments are Montgomery (Ala.) St. James Academy quarterback KJ Jackson, 6-3, 215, Pine Bluff wide receiver Courtney Crutchfield, 6-2, 175, Bentonville wide receiver CJ Brown, 6-1, 185, Fort Smith Southside offensive lineman Kobe Branham, 6-6, 320, Mills defensive end Charlie Collins, 6-5, 265, Leeds (Ala.) defensive end Kavion Henderson, 6-3, 250, Pleasant Grove (Texas) defensive back Ahkhari Johnson, 5-11, 175, Pinson (Ala.) Clay-Chalkville cornerback Tevis Metcalf, 5-10, 175, Aledo (Texas) cornerback Jaden Allen, 6-0, 160, Batesville (Miss.) South Panola athlete Julius “Ju Ju” Pope, 6-0, 195, and Ocean Springs (Miss.) St. Martin athlete Noreel White, 6-1, 190. | 2023-07-24T19:07:22+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/sports/pig-trail-nation/hogville-hog-recruiting/arkansas-will-host-top-recruits-for-hogwild-hangout-on-saturday/ |
Mr. Pabla joins Intermedia from RingCentral, where he was VP of Cloud Operations, to manage the delivery and extremely high availability of Intermedia's all-in-one, intelligent cloud communications, collaboration, and productivity platform to its growing global base of partners and customers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Intermedia Cloud Communications, a leading provider of intelligent cloud communications, collaboration, and productivity solutions to businesses and the partners that serve them, announced that Gagan Pabla has joined the company as its Executive Vice President of Operations. In this role, Mr. Pabla will leverage his extensive cloud and telecommunications background to work collaboratively across numerous teams, including Engineering, Product, Information Security, and Client Services, to help ensure that Intermedia's award-winning cloud communications platform is delivered with the reliability, availability, security, and scalability to meet the growing needs of its customers and partners.
As businesses continue to shift to more permanent hybrid and remote work models, the ability to communicate and collaborate with team members, customers, and vendors from anywhere becomes more critical and, with that, the confidence to know that the cloud communications tools that enable "anywhere work" to happen are available as expected. The appointment of Mr. Pabla to this new role to oversee operations and service availability of Intermedia's cloud solutions demonstrates the company's heightened commitment to delivering on its financially backed 99.999% uptime service level agreement (SLA) promise.
"I couldn't be more excited to join this incredible team at a time of accelerated growth," said Mr. Pabla. "Intermedia has everything it needs – the brilliant minds, the innovative spirit, the world-class products, service, and support – to further elevate its path of success. As the company expands its presence around North America and the world, I look forward to working with the team here to make sure our partners and customers have the very best experience possible utilizing our solutions."
Mr. Pabla has 20+ years of technical operating experience in both the telecommunications and cloud communications industries. Before joining Intermedia, he was the VP of Cloud Operations at RingCentral, where he led a global team of nearly 200 individuals responsible for the 24x7 operation of the company's global UCaaS product. He also managed carrier services, fraud monitoring, tooling development, and data analytics. Prior to that, Mr. Pabla spent six years at Cisco Webex, where he led a global team of several hundred individuals responsible for the operations and service delivery of the global Webex platform. He also previously held technical operations leadership roles for Comcast and AT&T, where he led large teams responsible for monitoring, incident response, repair, and remediation of multiple critical production and customer network services. Mr. Pabla earned his B.S. from the University of Southern California and his M.S. from Barry University.
Michael Gold, CEO of Intermedia, said, "We are thrilled to welcome Gagan to our team. His extensive technical operations experience and leadership skills make him an ideal fit for this role. As more and more partners and customers turn to Intermedia for their voice, video, chat, contact center, email, file management, and business productivity needs, we feel fortunate to have Gagan on the team to help make sure the availability and performance of our solutions are delivered at the highest levels."
For more information on Intermedia Cloud Communications, visit www.intermedia.com
About Intermedia
Intermedia is a cloud communications company that helps over 135,000 businesses connect better – through voice, video conferencing, chat, contact center, business email and productivity, file sharing and backup, security, archiving, and more – from wherever, whenever. We strive to eliminate the need for multiple communications service providers with a seamlessly integrated portfolio of intelligent communications and collaboration solutions, including our flagship product Intermedia Unite®, all delivered through one highly reliable and secure platform. With month-to-month contract options, one monthly bill, one intuitive point of administrative control, and, as the first cloud communications company to have been certified by J.D. Power for excellence in technical support and a six-time recipient of that prestigious recognition, Intermedia is committed to providing enterprise-grade products to businesses of all sizes through a simple, Worry-Free ExperienceTM.
As a partner-first company, Intermedia goes to work for over 7,300 channel partners by providing a comprehensive set of programs, resources, and support to help them grow their revenue and maximize their success. Programs include our Customer Ownership Reseller (CORE™) model – which enables partners to resell, package, and manage Intermedia's solutions as if they were their own, while benefiting from highly attractive economic terms and maintaining ownership of their customer relationships – as well as agent models.
Intermedia is also proud to be the exclusive cloud communications platform provider for NEC, a leader in global market share for unified communications with an estimated 80+ million business phone users worldwide.
For more information about Intermedia, visit www.intermedia.com.
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By LORNE COOK
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have endorsed a fast-track procedure aimed at providing Ukraine with sorely needed artillery shells to repel Russia’s invasion forces, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday, as Moscow maintains its focus on attacking the industrial east of the war-ravaged country.
As he chaired a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers in Brussels, Borrell took to Twitter to hail what he described as “a historic decision” for the 27-nation bloc and Norway to send Ukraine 1 million 155-milimeter artillery shells within 12 months.
“We are taking a key step towards delivering on our promises to provide Ukraine with more artillery ammunition,” he said, and noted that 18 countries had signed up to a European Defense Agency, or EDA, project to place joint orders for ammunition with the defense industry.
Borrell said that he had won approval for his proposal to provide 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to encourage member nations to provide artillery shells from their stocks and any orders for new rounds that they might have placed with industry.
A further 1 billion euros would also be used to fast-track new orders and encourage countries to work together on those purchases through the EDA or in groups of at least three nations. Germany has already called for countries to join its own effort, which Berlin believes will go faster.
The third track of the program involves support to Europe’s defense industry. so that it can ramp up production in the longer term. EU officials have said that new joint orders could be placed by May if the plan is endorsed in its entirety.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that he is grateful to Borrell and the bloc “for this game-changing decision. Exactly what is needed: urgent delivery + sustainable joint procurement.”
Germany’s defense industry says it stands ready to ramp up its output, including the kinds of arms and ammunition needed by Ukraine, but that it needs clarity about what governments want before investing in further production capacity.
Ukraine became the world’s No. 3 importer of arms in 2022 after Russia’s invasion triggered a big flow of military aid to Kyiv from the United States and Europe, according to Swedish think tank SIPRI.
“What’s important for us as an industry is to get predictability,” Hans Christoph Atzpodien, the head of Germany’s arms manufacturing association, told The Associated Press last week. “That means we have to be clearly told which products are needed within which time.”
The State Department also announced Monday that the U.S. will send Ukraine $350 million in weapons and equipment, including various types of ammunition, such as rockets, and an undisclosed number of fuel tanker trucks and riverine boats. | 2023-03-20T19:54:09+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2023/03/20/eus-top-diplomat-hails-deal-on-artillery-shells-for-ukraine/ |
- Verida launches the first mobile crypto wallet supporting zero-knowledge credentials issued through Polygon ID.
- Millions of Polygon users now have access to an all-in-one mobile wallet to manage their digital identity, zero-knowledge credentials and crypto.
- Individuals can prove their access rights to applications and smart contracts without revealing unnecessary personal data.
SYDNEY, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Verida (https://www.verida.io) has integrated Polygon ID into the Verida Wallet to become the first mobile crypto wallet to support Polygon ID zero-knowledge credentials. Wallet users can manage digital identities and access Polygon blockchain assets, all while preserving their privacy.
Verida and Polygon ID's collaboration will enable a new generation of dApps in DeFi, DAOs and GameFi to securely utilize personal reputation, and real-world identity. Initial use cases include Sybil resistance, community role based access, proof of reputation, regulatory-compliant DeFi, and proof of real-world assets, such as verifying monthly income to access undercollateralized DeFi loans.
Polygon ID credentials are secured by the Verida Network, the first self-sovereign data network developed for web3. Credentials are encrypted on the user's device and stored on region aware storage nodes that can only be accessed (or permanently deleted) via the user's private key.
"With the growing importance of online privacy, individuals must control their personal data and digital identities," said Verida CEO and Co-Founder, Chris Were. "We need efficient verification processes that safeguard against impersonation without exposing sensitive information, and that's exactly what this collaboration with Polygon ID provides."
The Verida Wallet allows users to prove their identity or share specific information without revealing any unnecessary personal data. It also offers advanced features, such as identity management, managing encrypted data, and a secure inbox.
"Polygon ID envisions a marketplace for credentials where it is easier to create trusted relationships between users and applications. Verida's seamless user experience is essential to create self-sovereign trusted identities and we are very excited to have them in our ecosystem," said Sebastian Rodriguez, VP of Product at Polygon ID. "Together, we are shaping the future of trusted identities and fostering a more secure digital landscape for everyone."
Download the Verida Wallet for iOS or Android at verida.io.
About Verida
The Verida Wallet is a self-custody mobile crypto wallet where users can manage their self-sovereign decentralized identities and encrypted personal data all secured by the Verida Network.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to protect her husband from repetitive head trauma is taking her case to a Los Angeles jury.
Opening statements are scheduled for Friday in what could be a landmark case.
Matt Gee was on the 1990 Rose Bowl-winning squad.
Alana Gee says he took enough serious blows to the head to develop a degenerative brain disease that led to his death at 49 in 2018.
“For years (the NCAA) has kept players like Matthew Gee and the public in the dark about an epidemic that was slowly killing college athletes,” the lawsuit said per the Associated Press. “Long after they played their last game, they are left with a series of neurological conditions that could slowly strangle their brains.”
This marks the second lawsuit ever against the NCAA to go to trial and could be the first of its kind to go to a jury.
A 2018 trial in Texas led to the NCAA swiftly settling with the widow of Greg Ploetz, who played for the Longhorns in the late 1960s.
Matt Gee is one of five linebackers from the 1989 USC team to have died before turning 50.
Along with his college teammate, Junior Seau, who killed himself in 2012, Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center found that both men had CTE.
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the center had found CTE in 48 of 53 former college players.
The NCAA says it had nothing to do with Gee's death and his mental decline was from years of hard drinking. | 2022-10-21T18:51:29+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/ncaa-on-trial-in-concussion-case-of-dead-usc-football-player |
Geraldo Rivera has been a constant showman at Fox News for nearly a generation. Now, the curtain is falling.
This news arrived to us, as so much news about Rivera does, via Rivera himself, thanks to an interview with The Associated Press, and a stream of Tweets in which he ruminates on his career, exults in praise, responds to insults, and, of course, provides an obligatory shirtless selfie.
That one, from last Friday, was entitled simply "80 year old contemplating retirement." For the record, Rivera, who routinely goes out of his way to proclaim his patriotism and to metaphorically wrap himself in the American flag, will turn 80 on July 4th.
He had earlier announced that Thursday and Friday would be his final appearances on The Five, the top-rated show on cable news since Fox canceled star Tucker Carlson's program, as he contemplated what role he could hold at the network. That's not in the cards now.
Bumpy day on the North Atlantic. Anyway, I got fired from @TheFive so I quit Fox. After 23 years tomorrow Fox and Friends could be my last appearance on the network. Thanks for the memories. pic.twitter.com/74Qgalz8sF
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) June 29, 2023
"I'm not going to be on The Five. I've been fired from The Five, and as a result of that, I quit Fox," Rivera tweeted in a video he posted from Jones Beach Inlet, as he made his way to Manhattan by boat, his gray hair and mustache fluttering in the sea breeze.
Instead, Rivera is scheduled to appear on the network's morning show, Fox & Friends, on Friday. "We reached an amicable conclusion with Geraldo over the past few weeks and look forward to celebrating him on Fox & Friends, which will be his last appearance on the network," Fox said in a statement released by a spokesperson Thursday night.
A history of head-turning decisions, all playing out on TV
As a journalist who has covered the media, and Rivera, since 2000, I must confess to watching all this with no small interest.
Rivera, a muckraking local television news journalist turned network star at ABC News and CNBC, proved to be an award-winning and self-promoting sensation. He built up his own brand decades before the word "influencer" had been coined, talking network executives into primetime specials and daytime talk shows filled with stories of scandal and dysfunction.
He memorably opened up the legendary gangster Al Capone's vault on live TV to reveal... nothing. And he famously had his nose broken by a chair flung his way during a brawl between neo-Nazis and a Black civil rights activist that erupted on his tabloid TV talk show Geraldo. He unfairly questioned the military recognitions of a Democratic U.S. representative who called for President Bill Clinton's resignation after the disclosure Clinton had lied under oath about an affair. (Two decades later, Rivera threatened those who would impeach then President Donald Trump in 2019 that they would have to "come through" him.)
This was all a long time ago. In the many years since, however, Rivera has relied on his single-name status to sell himself. "There's just me and Oprah," he occasionally told executives.
After the September 2001 terror attacks, Rivera turned to his former boss at CNBC, Roger Ailes, who went on to lead Fox News. Rivera begged for a chance to cover the looming invasions of Afghanistan (and then, as it turned out, Iraq) for Fox News. Ailes signed him up.
Rivera managed to make the war on al-Qaida about him. About whether he had really spotted Osama bin Laden in the hills of Tora Bora. About his stridently jingoistic tone, given he was ostensibly there as a reporter, not a pundit. About whether he was personally being shot at by al-Qaida snipers. About his decision to carry a gun in a war zone — a move that can endanger other journalists covering war, as it makes them far more likely to be viewed as combatants by either or both sides.
Praying on not-so-very "hallowed ground"
And then there was his decision to broadcast footage of himself reciting the Lord's Prayer over the site where he reported a U.S. bombing raid had killed three U.S. service members along with numerous Afghan allies.
"We walked over what I consider hallowed ground today. We walked over the spot where the friendly fire took so many of our, our men, and the mujahideen yesterday," he told viewers.
Hallowed that ground may have been – but it was separated by hundreds of miles of difficult-to-navigate terrain from the spot in Kandahar Province where the fighters were actually killed. He rebroadcast the claims on Fox 12 hours later. A Fox colleague handed me the raw videotape in a suburban parking lot so I could review both treatments. (Remember, this was more than two decades ago.)
When called on the flagrant discrepancy, Rivera explained it as an innocent mistake made in the "fog of war."
Journalists in Tora Bora for MSNBC and CNN told me they knew the location of the deadly incident within minutes thanks to satellite phone connections to colleagues in New York and elsewhere.
In our interview before my story ran, Rivera yelled at me, questioned my credentials, and recited his career highlights. And yet he paused to offer the most clear-cut self-analysis that I've ever heard a broadcast journalist give on the record.
"There's been an aspect of boosterism that I would cop to," he told me. "I clearly have indulged in, not the Geraldo of syndicated [daytime television] days, but a more impassioned presentation."
Fox stood by Rivera, never broadcasting a correction, instead merely saying he made "an honest mistake."
Nonetheless, Rivera spent years coming after me. He sought to convince my bosses to retract the stories, comparing me to Janet Cooke, the reporter for the Washington Post who had to give back a Pulitzer Prize after it was revealed she made up her story. He told a reporter he wanted to break my nose. (Never did.) He told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show that I had penis envy. He spent a year fruitlessly trying to get an award bestowed to me revoked. The uproar that ensued from my coverage was, he told the Atlantic, "the most grievous wound."
Naturally, I have a wall in my study filled with Geraldo editorial cartoons. I suspect he and I have that in common.
Later, Rivera devoted a significant portion of his memoir about his Fox years to the incident, saying I had caused a scandal to hang over him for decades. The book is titled - what else? - The Geraldo Show.
An unlikely voice of reason at Fox News
His role at Fox dissipated as the years passed. His show Geraldo at Large gave way to his co-hosting role at The Five, a show expressly designed to be ego-proof, as it featured a cadre of rotating hosts.
On The Five, Rivera played the liberal treading water in a sea of conservatives. The assignment represented Fox's philosophy of balance: The putative lefty was a longtime registered Republican who weighed running for Senate in that party from two states, New Jersey and Ohio. A former contestant on Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, he also supported Trump politically for years, defining himself as a friend. He only broke with Trump after the then-president refused to accept Joe Biden's win in 2020.
Nonetheless, he often has been of late an unlikely voice of reason, reminding his conservative colleagues of factual objections to baseless or extreme claims they've made. He's sought to counter baseless assertions about immigrants and the pandemic and other heated topics on the show.
Rivera says his verbal tussles on the air and on social media with co-host Greg Gutfeld contributed to Fox's decision to drop him from the show. (Gutfeld has been promoted to be host of the network's key 10 p.m. weeknight time slot.) Fox hasn't commented on that claim.
A telling coda to the Geraldo Show
As for Rivera himself: here's a perhaps telling coda to the Tora Bora debacle:
When his Fox memoir was published a few years ago, I received an invitation to the book party at a large bar at a restaurant frequented by Fox News staffers. It was just across the street from the network's headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
I asked his publicist whether he was aware of our history. The invitation was extended, nonetheless.
I ducked into the party after work (Fox is only a few blocks from NPR's New York bureau, where I am based). Geraldo was standing far away, at the head of a long line of well-wishers seeking their books to be signed. I walked down a corridor to get a drink at the bar which, as luck had it, stood just a few feet from an archway where he was holding court.
I waited for a student to wrap up chatting with the evening's star, and then introduced myself, congratulating Rivera for the publication of his memoir. He asked if I had read it. I said I had. He asked again, saying, 'Yeah, but the parts about you?' I said I had. He smiled and inquired what I thought of it.
I told him that it was his night, and I was there to say hello, not to step on his moment. But if he wanted to learn what I thought, I said, I'd be happy to take him out for a coffee or a beer.
He roared appreciatively and thanked me for stopping in.
As in so many ways, the Geraldo show was for show. I would have been happy to get that drink. We haven't. Not yet, anyway.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-30T09:35:05+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/npr-news/2023-06-30/geraldo-rivera-fox-and-me |
National and State-by-State Data: artbahighwaydashboard.org
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arizona leveraged $960.3 million in federal highway and bridge formula funds in FY 2022 to help jumpstart 290 new improvement projects in communities across the state during the first year of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a review of U.S. Treasury Department data through September 30 shows.
"A key takeaway from the Treasury data is that the bipartisan infrastructure law is working in year-one as intended, with state transportation departments disbursing funds and projects breaking ground," said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black, who prepared the report.
"The economic and quality of life benefits of the infrastructure law will become even more apparent as funding continues in coming years," adds ARTBA Chair Paula Hammond, a WSP USA senior vice president. "The beneficiaries of these long-term investments will be the American traveling public in their communities."
President Joe Biden signed the IIJA into law Nov. 15, 2021. Nearly 90 percent of IIJA's highway funds are dispersed by existing formula to states, with the remainder distributed through discretionary grant awards and other allocated programs.
Nationally, over 29,000 IIJA projects were launched through the end of September. The five largest projects supported by formula funds in Arizona are:
- Roadway Widening on I-17 Split - $233.9 million
- I-10 Reconstruction & Capacity Additions from Ina Road to Rutherrauff Road in Tuscon - $77.8 million
- Tribal Transportation Program - $64.1 million
- Right of Way Acquisition for State Road 30 in Phoneix - $39.6 million
- Pavement Rehabilitation on I-17 near Flagstaff - $29.8 million
To access national and state project data, visit: artbahighwaydashboard.org.
Established in 1902, the Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA advocates for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 8:45 am Eastern Time
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nevro Corp. (NYSE: NVRO), a global medical device company that is delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions for the treatment of chronic pain, today announced that D. Keith Grossman, Nevro's Chairman, CEO and President, and Rod MacLeod, Nevro's CFO, will participate in a fireside chat at Citi's 2023 Healthcare Services, Medtech, Tools & HCIT Conference on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 8:45 am Eastern Time at Citigroup's Corporate Headquarters in New York, NY.
A webcast of this event, as well as an archived recording, will be available in the Investors section of Nevro's website at www.nevro.com.
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Nevro routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the "Investor Relations" section of its website at www.nevro.com. The company encourages investors and potential investors to consult the Nevro website regularly for important information about Nevro.
About Nevro
Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Nevro is a global medical device company focused on delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment. The company started with a simple mission to help more patients suffering from debilitating pain and developed its proprietary 10 kHz Therapy™, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic innovation that has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 patients globally. Nevro's comprehensive HFX™ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) platform includes a Senza SCS system and support services for the treatment of chronic pain of the trunk and limb and painful diabetic neuropathy.
Senza®, Senza II®, Senza Omnia™, and HFX iQ™ are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro's proprietary 10 kHz Therapy™. Nevro's unique support services provide every patient with an HFX Coach™ throughout their pain relief journey and every physician with HFX Cloud™ insights for enhanced patient and practice management.
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As Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the 10-month mark — on Nov. 24 — here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.
What to watch
The world is watching for the possible launch of a major winter offensive by Russia or counteroffensive by Ukraine, or both.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets for talks with Belarus' leader, Alexander Lukashenko, in Minsk on Monday.
An official announcement is expected on a European Union cap on natural gas prices, the latest measure to tackle an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes his first appearance as prime minister before the Commons Liaison Committee, where the Ukraine war and other global issues are discussed. That follows Sunak's meeting on Monday in Latvia with members of a U.K.-led European military force.
Foreign ministers in the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation are also due to meet Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will hold virtual talks sometime this month, according to Russian news reports.
And Ukrainians and Russians are heading into their first Christmas or Hanukkah festivities since the Kremlin launched its full-on invasion of Ukraine in late February.
What happened last week
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Dec. 13 it made an agreement with Ukraine's government to send nuclear safety and security experts to each of the country's nuclear power plants.
Russia launched waves of attacks on Kyiv, including on Dec. 14, Dec. 16 and again before dawn on Monday. Ukraine said it managed to shoot down many of the incoming explosive drones, but some caused destruction.
An American was freed from Russian-controlled territory as part of a 65-person prisoner exchange. Suedi Murekezi told ABC News he spent weeks in a basement, where he was tortured, and months in a prison in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
EU lawmakers approved about $19 billion in financing for Ukraine, Dec. 14, and more sanctions on Russia. The aid package followed pledges earlier in the week from dozens of countries and global institutions to support more than $1 billion in winter relief funds for Ukraine, helping the country with power, heat, food and medical supplies.
The United States is expected to provide Patriot missiles to Ukraine, an apparent response to the Ukrainian government's urgent call for more weapons to shoot down Russian missiles, according to several U.S. news reports. The surface-to-air guided missile system can target aircraft and missiles. While the single battery the U.S. is expected to supplied would help, some analysts say, it may not be a game changer.
In-depth
The Ukraine war isn't new. These intimate photos show 3 families enduring it for years.
Ukraine warns Russia is preparing for a major ground offensive this winter.
Russia launches new wave of air attacks across Ukraine.
A century and counting: Ukraine's ongoing fight to free itself from Russia.
These are the humanitarian crises expected to worsen in 2023.
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
You can read past recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
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SINGAPORE (AP) — Talor Gooch became the first player to win back-to-back LIV Golf titles after a playoff hole victory against Sergio Garcia at the LIV Singapore tournament at Sentosa Golf Club on Sunday.
Gooch and Garcia shadowed each other for most of the opening two rounds and the final round was no different, with both the American and Spaniard never more than stroke apart as they finished at 17-under 196 to force a playoff.
At the first playoff hole, the par-5 18th, Gooch skirted with the water hazard with his tee shot but played a near perfect second shot into the heart of the green where he easily two-putted for birdie.
Garcia’s second shot at the playoff hole found the greenside bunker and the Spaniard was unable to make his birdie giving Gooch his second successive win and a $4 million prize.
For Gooch, it’s the ninth time he’s either led or shared a lead after an LIV round, the most of any player. He’s now led or shared the lead in the last six rounds.
“It’s one of those days that I’ll remember,” said Gooch. “I grew up watching Sergio. He’s one of the greatest golfers of this generation. To go and battle with him and come out on top is something I’ll never forget.”
Twice LIV Golf tournament winner Brooks Koepka shot 67 to finish third at 16-under 197, one shot ahead of Scott Vincent (67) of Zimbabwe, who had briefly threatened to make it a four-way battle for the title before a bogey at the par-4 15th stalled his momentum.
British Open champion Cam Smith (71) finished in a tie for sixth after he mixed regular birdies with bogeys for an even final round and an overall score of 12-under 201.
Phil Mickelson shot a 72, with two double bogeys in his final round, to fall down the leaderboard into a tie for 13th.
Like the first round, the final round Sunday was delayed for more than an hour after 13 holes of the shotgun format due to severe weather in the area.
Garcia, who began his round on the first hole with Gooch in the shotgun-start format, birdied three of the first nine holes to maintain the lead with the American, who had four birdies and a bogey before nine consecutive pars.
Garcia won the Singapore Open at Sentosa in 2018 and had played bogey-free golf in the first 47 holes but two bogeys at the par-4 12th and 15th hampered his efforts of a repeat victory here.
At the par-5 18th in regulation, Gooch had 41-foot putt for eagle which narrowly missed to the left of the cup. The 31-year-old American easily made his birdie to put the pressure back on Garcia.
The Spaniard responded by calmly making birdie from 11 feet to force the playoff.
The next event is at Tulsa, Oklahoma starting May 12.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-30T22:49:09+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/gooch-claims-back-to-back-liv-golf-titles-with-singapore-win/ |
Rihanna hopes to shine bright like a diamond at the Super Bowl halftime show.
The singer behind hits such as “Umbrella” and “Work” says her 13-minute performance at Sunday’s game in Glendale, Ariz., will be a “jam-packed” celebration of her musical career.
She agreed to headline the halftime show shortly after giving birth to her son last year.
“When you become a mom, there’s something that just happens where you feel like you can take on the world, you can do anything,” Rihanna said Thursday at a Super Bowl event. “The Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages of the world. As scary as that was, because I hadn’t been on stage in seven years, there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all.”
Rihanna, 34, last toured in 2016 in support of her most recent album, “Anti,” which she released that year.
Deciding how to put together the setlist for Sunday’s show was the biggest challenge, Rihanna said. She briefly questioned whether it was the right time to tackle the Super Bowl so soon after welcoming her son with rapper A$AP Rocky.
“At the end of the day, if it flops or it flies, my name has to stand by that,” Rihanna said. “And so I really get involved with every aspect of anything I do.”
Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar headlined last year’s Super Bowl halftime show. The Weeknd performed in 2021.
State Farm Stadium will play host to Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, who both went 14-3 during the NFL regular season.
Formerly named University of Phoenix Stadium, the venue hosted Super Bowl XLII in 2008, when the Giants beat the previously undefeated New England Patriots, and Super Bowl XLIX in 2014, when the Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks.
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For many Democrats, Georgia has come to symbolize the party's future. But last week one of its brightest stars, Stacey Abrams, lost her second bid for governor against Republican incumbent Brian Kemp. Only one statewide Democrat remained standing on election night, Senator Raphael Warnock. And he still has to win a runoff against Republican Herschel Walker. Now Democrats are starting to dissect what happened with that key race still looming. WABE's Sam Gringlas reports from Atlanta.
SAM GRINGLAS, BYLINE: In 2018, Stacey Abrams narrowly lost her bid to become the first Black woman governor in the country, no less in a state that had been dominated by Republicans. Four years later, Abrams came up short again against Republican Brian Kemp.
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STACEY ABRAMS: We may not have made it to the finish line, but we ran that race.
GRINGLAS: But this year, the Abrams campaign lost by a much bigger margin, more than seven points compared to just over 1% last time.
TAMMY GREER: Could it be that perhaps it was too insular? Let's just run the same playbook from four years ago, and that's going to work.
GRINGLAS: That's Tammy Greer, a political science professor at Clark Atlanta University. Unlike 2018, the White House is now occupied by a Democrat. And President Biden's popularity has sagged in Georgia, partly because of inflation. Kemp constantly emphasized his handling of the state's economy from reopening businesses early in the pandemic to pausing the state gas tax amid rising prices.
THARON JOHNSON: Governor Kemp being an incumbent was going to be very difficult to beat.
GRINGLAS: Tharon Johnson is a Democratic strategist.
JOHNSON: He ran a very disciplined campaign. His message was very succinct. I can repeat it because he kept saying it over and over.
GRINGLAS: Kemp's focus on economics may have helped win some independent voters, but demographer Fred Hicks says the turnout rate also dropped from 2018.
FRED HICKS: You know, it wasn't that you saw a whole bunch of Democrats in the metro area vote for Brian Kemp, but they did not come out and vote.
GRINGLAS: The Black and Hispanic turnout rate fell from the last midterms. It's too early to know exactly why, but Professor Greer thinks Democrats didn't do enough direct voter contact. She believes they assumed Georgia's growing diversity would carry them more than it did.
GREER: There was a complete hubris to the demographic shift, huge hubris.
GRINGLAS: The Democrat who got closest to winning beside Warnock was Jen Jordan. She was the nominee for attorney general. This week her team's been closing up campaign headquarters.
JEN JORDAN: Signs are getting packed up. We've got the whiteboard that was kind of all the messaging and strategic stuff that's been wiped clean.
GRINGLAS: Like Abrams, Jordan talked a lot about abortion rights, but Jordan made it the centerpiece of her campaign. She says it did move the needle, just not enough.
JORDAN: I don't think that the really negative impact of the law has really kind of bubbled to the surface yet. I think there was kind of a disconnect, right?
GRINGLAS: And in Georgia, it was harder for Democrats to paint their opponents as extremists on democracy. In fact, the incumbents here, like Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, expressly refused Trump's demands to overturn the 2020 election.
GREER: While other states' Republicans were very involved and were loud and proud in terms of their connections to Trump, really, the opposite was happening here.
GRINGLAS: As Democrats regroup, some also wonder what the losses mean for the party's bench. Abrams has been seen as a top talent, but she's now lost twice statewide. The Abrams campaign didn't respond to a request for comment. Lis Smith, a top staffer on Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign, says building Democratic power can take many forms, like Abrams' decade-long project to make Georgia competitive.
LIS SMITH: There are many different avenues where these talented people like Stacey Abrams, Beto O'Rourke in Texas can direct their energy. And we need to stop acting like holding elected office is the only thing that matters in politics.
GRINGLAS: For now, Democrats and Republicans say they're focused on the Senate runoff next month. For NPR News, I'm Sam Gringlas in Atlanta.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — As California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom heads to Washington this week, speculation about his national political ambitions won’t be far behind.
The four-day swing, anchored to an award Newsom will receive on behalf of his home state Wednesday from an education group, will provide the Democratic governor with a national stage to continue his outspoken defense of abortion rights and gun restrictions.
It comes at a time when he has been picking fights with Republican governors in Texas and Florida and holding up California as a sanctuary for what he calls fundamental rights, including same-sex marriage, freedom of speech and abortion.
Newsom’s recent activities have stoked talk about his White House ambitions as President Joe Biden’s popularity tumbles and some Democrats question the president’s viability for 2024. Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, has dismissed any interest in the presidency, and Biden has said he’s planning to run for reelection.
“This is Gavin Newsom building his national brand for whatever opportunities might come up in the future,” said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.
“He’s savvy enough to know a lot of dominoes would have to fall for his future to come in 2024, but that makes it even more vital to take every opportunity to stay in the national consciousness for 2028” and beyond, Kousser added.
The president will be on a Middle East trip during Newsom’s stop in Washington. The governor’s office said the president’s absence was coincidental.
On his trip, Newsom is scheduled to meet with Biden administration officials, congressional leaders and members of the California delegation to discuss abortion access, gun control and climate change.
He will also be accepting an award from the Education Commission of the States that recognizes, among other things, that California is on track to establish universal pre-K classes for all 4-year-olds by 2025. Newsom spokesperson Erin Mellon said that “what is happening on the education front reflects what we’re seeing across the country – restricting rights and freedoms.”
“While red states are limiting the choices of parents and students – banning books, limiting speech in the classrooms, and persecuting families with transgender youth — California is prioritizing freedom and choice,” she said in a statement.
The 54-year-old governor has acknowledged he’s hoping that issues like abortion rights will mobilize Democratic voters in a challenging midterm election year, when the president’s party typically loses seats in Congress.
After easily beating back a recall election last year and facing only token opposition in his bid for a second term in November, Newsom has sought out the national spotlight in recent months, blaming his own party for being too passive in the face of federal court decisions and new laws in Republican-led states that he said are eroding long-settled rights and rewriting what it means to be an American.
Along with the U.S. Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and holding that citizens have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, he’s pointed to a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, possibly as early as six weeks, and a Florida law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
On Independence Day, Newsom’s campaign aired an ad in Florida critical of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, warning viewers that “freedom is under attack in your state.”
Republican leaders are “making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors,” Newsom said in the 30-second spot, while images of DeSantis and former President Donald Trump flashed on screen.
“The DeSantis vision of freedom is a fraud,” Newsom wrote in a recent fundraising pitch. “It’s a vision where people are free to carry guns everywhere and everyone has to live in fear of getting shot.”
California, meanwhile, has been going its own way.
Last month, legislators with Newsom’s support agreed to place a proposal before voters in November that would guarantee a right to an abortion in the state constitution. The heavily Democratic state has some of the nation’s tightest gun safety laws but has continued to expand them after the recent Supreme Court decision, including adding new restrictions on untraceable “ghost guns” and marketing firearms to minors.
As he maneuvers for a prominent place in the national party, Newsom could find himself attracting unwanted attention.
California residents are dealing with a long-running homeless crisis, soaring gas and grocery prices and rising crime in major cities. Housing costs are out of reach for many working-class families, and the state has some of the nation’s highest taxes.
A Public Policy Institute of California survey in May found that 50% of respondents believed the state was headed in the wrong direction. And perhaps most tellingly, California has been shedding population — and it’s losing a congressional seat — after years of stratospheric growth.
Longtime Democratic consultant Bill Carrick said he saw Newsom making a vocal stand on nationally critical issues rather than maneuvering to get his name into the 2024 presidential discussion.
“We had these two court decisions that had a deep impact on California,” Carrick said. “He’s an important voice in that debate and he needs to represent the state as vigorously as he can.”
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No More Violence Week, a week-long effort to bring people together to work on preventing violence, is returning to Great Falls for a ninth year.
Red and blue flashing lights on police vehicles and yellow crime scene tape have been a common sight in Great Falls over the past month and a half.
The most recent incident, an hours-long standoff at a home on March 20 with a shooting suspect.
Between February 21 and March 17 a teen was shot walking to school, a man and a Great Falls police officer were shot as police chased the man after he ran from a traffic stop, a man was shot and killed in an intersection, and a woman was shot and killed in a home.
"I personally took pause point after each of the stories at a local and a national level over just the last few weeks and thought 'You know, perhaps this week couldn't be at a more pivotal point,'" said No More Violence Week Chair Jamie Marshall.
Marshall said the week continues to grow.
"We do a lot of partnering with the (Paris Gibson) Square Museum of Art. So they're hosting a series of wellness activities this year. We actually have six different organizations hosting book discussions this year, so people can do a little book club about a book called Parent Nation," said Marshall. "We also have threads of connection this year, so we are literally in our second year of creating a community quilt. Hundreds of folks have shared their voice of prevention through art that we are then putting together."
Coincidentally, No More Violence Week comes less than a month after President Joe Biden signed an executive order outlining new steps to try to reduce gun violence across the country.
"I'm really pleased that he's making efforts to increase background checks on gun sales and strengthen our use of red flag laws," said Great Falls resident Helena Lovick.
Lovick is a volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
After seeing our story last month with Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter sharing his thoughts on the executive order, a viewer suggested we reach out to Lovick to get her perspective.
She and fellow Great Falls resident and volunteer Melissa Smith said what President Biden is doing is long overdue.
"We need some regulations. We need to have people be more responsible," Smith said.
They said having a conversation about gun control at the same time No More Violence Week is about to begin is beneficial for the community.
"I think all of us, together, can make a difference and this conversation's going to have to happen for years," Lovick said.
"I think with No More Violence Week you see such a cross section of our community coming together in order to talk about it," Smith said.
No More Violence Week runs April 10-14. | 2023-04-03T01:12:48+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/news/great-falls-news/no-more-violence-week-coming-up-in-great-falls |
Golden Knights blast Panthers 9-3 in Game 5 to capture first Stanley Cup title
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Golden Knights delivered their city a true Vegas-style party from dazzling passes to Mark Stone’s hat trick to all-out goal celebrations, capturing the young organization’s first Stanley Cup with a 9-3 romp over the beaten up and exhausted Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.
Coach Bruce Cassidy, in a nod to the Knights’ brief history, started five of the original Vegas players known as the Misfits and put the sixth on the second shift. Cassidy sounded confident the day before the game that his team would play well, and it certainly did, blowing open a one-goal game in the second period to lead 6-1. The nine goals tied the record for the most in a Cup Final.
“Vegas, you certainly know how to throw a party,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman told the crowd. “What’s going on inside this arena and outside is incredible and a testament to what a great hockey market this is.
“What has happened here has been simply incredible. Not only is Vegas a hockey town, it’s a championship town.”
Vegas closed out the series in five games to win the cup before a delirious franchise-record crowd of 19,058 at T-Mobile Arena that drowned out the pregame introductions of forward Jonathan Marchessault and goalie Adin Hill and cheered all the way through the final buzzer.
Marchessault, who ended the postseason with a 10-game points streak, received the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
“I couldn’t be more proud of our team, our organization,” Marchessault said. “Everybody stepped up at different times and that’s why we’re winners.”
Stone’s hat trick — with the third into an empty net with 5:54 left — was the first in a Stanley Cup Final since Colorado’s Peter Forsberg in 1996, also against the Panthers.
The Knights got the rest of their scoring from Nic Hague, Alec Martinez, Reilly Smith, Michael Amadio, Ivan Barbashev and Nicolas Roy. Martinez’s goal in the second period came nine years to the day after he delivered the double-overtime goal in Game 5 to give the Los Angeles Kings’ the cup.
Hill came through with another strong performance that has quickly made him a Knights fan favorite, even earning “MVP! MVP!” chants in the third period. Jack Eichel, the eight-year pro playing in his first postseason, had three assists.
As captain, Stone was the first to lift the cup before handing it over to the six Misfits to each get their turn skating with the trophy before handing it down the line to the rest of the team.
“Unbelievable,” Stone said. “The look in my teammates eyes when I got it, one of the craziest feelings I’ve ever had. I can’t even describe the feelings in my stomach right now. It’s everything you can imagine. The grind of an 82-game season, four playoff rounds. You grind and you grind and you grind.”
Aaron Ekblad, Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett scored for Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky was overwhelmed in another tough performance against Vegas after carrying Florida to the final. Missing from the lineup was Matthew Tkachuk, the king of game-winning shots during the playoffs but never the same after crushing blow to his shoulder by Vegas’ Keegan Kolesar in Game 3.
The Knights have set the standard of what an expansion franchise should look like, making the Cup Final in their first season and the playoffs in every year but one. Six players remain from the initial 2017-18 team that lost in five games to the Washington Capitals in the final.
Those players watched the Capitals skate with the Stanley Cup that night, and then they got the chance to do the same Tuesday to fulfill owner Bill Foley’s quest to win the championship in the sixth year.
“We waited a long time for that moment to come back.” Marchessault said. “We wanted to make sure we cash in this time.”
By creating such a lofty standard at the outset, the Knights played with high expectations, but repeatedly fell short despite four runs to at least the NHL semifinals – until Game 5 against the Panthers.
This is Las Vegas’ second pro title in nine months – the Aces claimed the WNBA championship in September – and continues the stunning growth of a sports market that was limited largely to prize fights, UNLV athletics, NASCAR and lots of golf before the Golden Knights took the city by storm. The Raiders began playing here in 2020, the Oakland Athletics appear headed to the desert, Las Vegas will host a Formula One race this year and the Super Bowl will be at Allegiant Stadium in February.
As for the Knights, their connection to Las Vegas was sealed ever since the shooting Oct. 1, 2017 that took 60 lives. They played an integral role in helping the city heal, reaching out to the community off the ice and winning big on it.
Beating Florida justified the many moves Knights management made to remake the roster over the years. Stone, Eichel and Alex Pietrangelo are the most notable players Vegas has acquired to get to this moment.
And Cassidy, hired a week after getting fired by the Boston Bruins last year, proved to be the coach to get them there, seemingly pushing all the right buttons in helping Vegas become the Western Conference’s top seed and then the NHL’s champion.
“He came in, brought an intensity to our locker room that maybe we needed,” Stone said. “He wanted to win as badly as anybody else in that locker room.”
The Knights also won the title with an unlikely goalie in Hill, who was injured when the playoffs began. Laurent Brossoit was the starter until going out with an injury in Game 3 of the second-round series against the Edmonton Oilers, and then Hill got his chance.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert is stepping down after 12 tumultuous years leading an association that has become increasingly marginalized while college sports has undergone massive changes and been besieged by political and legal attacks.
NCAA Board of Governors Chairman John DeGioia announced the move Tuesdayand said it was by mutual agreement. The 69-year-old Emmert will continue to serve in his role until a new president is in place or until June 30, 2023.
The move is not entirely a surprise. The NCAA remains the biggest governing body in college athletics, but it is has been under sharp criticism for years as too heavy handed and even out of date with Emmert serving as the prime target.
Emmert has guided the NCAA through the most transformative period in the history of the more than 100-year-old organization. During the past decade, athletes have gained more power, benefits and ability to earn money than ever before. Amateurism has been redefined.
But Emmert has been viewed by some as not a catalyst for change but as an obstacle standing in the way — or at the least reactive instead of proactive.
“Throughout my tenure I’ve emphasized the need to focus on the experience and priorities of student-athletes,” Emmert said in a release from the NCAA. “I am extremely proud of the work of the association over the last 12 years and especially pleased with the hard work and dedication of the national office staff here in Indianapolis.”
The announcement comes one year after the board approved a contract extension for Emmert that ran through the 2025, a move that left many in college sports bewildered.Emmert’s salary was nearly $3 million in 2021.
The NCAA has suffered a series of damaging court losses in the past decade that peaked with last year’s 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against the association in an antitrust case. The decision undercut the NCAA’s ability to govern college sports and prompted a total overhaul how it operates.
Years after losing an antitrust case over the NCAA’s use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses, the association finally changed its rules last June to allow the athletes to profit as paid sponsors and endorsers. The move came only after state lawmakers passed laws to neuter the NCAA’s power. With Congress unwilling to provide federal protection, the NCAA has been unable to regulate NIL activity with uniform rules — leading to fresh criticism.
Emmert has been called before lawmakers in Washington numerous times over the past two years. Attacking Emmert and the NCAA has become one of the few things that has united Democrats and Republicans during these divisive political times.
Emmert was appointed to the job in April 2010. He had led the University of Washington and LSU prior to taking over in Indianapolis. He replaced Myles Brand, who held the position for seven years before dying of cancer in 2009.
The job Emmert stepped into became increasingly more difficult as big-time college sports such as major college football and basketball grew into billion-dollar businesses.
NCAA revenue has reached more than $1 billion per year under Emmert, primarily through the TV deals for the men’s college basketball tournament, and most of the money is redistributed to more than 1,100 member schools with nearly 500,000 athletes.
Still, the disparity between what the wealthiest schools bring in compared to what the vast majority of schools spend on athletics has made it difficult for them all to coexist under one umbrella organization.
NCAA member schools adopted a new constitution in January and are in the process of “transforming the structure and mission to meet future needs.”
“With the significant transitions underway within college sports, the timing of this decision provides the association with consistent leadership during the coming months plus the opportunity to consider what will be the future role of the president,” DeGioia said. “It also allows for the selection and recruitment of the next president without disruption.”
In a lengthy interview with AP in August, just months after being hammered by criticism for the NCAA’s inability to provide equitable facilities and amenities for the men’s and women’s basketball players participating in the Division I tournaments, Emmert said he was still passionate about the mission of a leading college sports during volatile times.
“And I’m not surprised that people say, ‘You know, why isn’t this getting fixed? What’s Emmert doing?’” he told AP. “And people also, they want to look to somebody and say, ‘Well, fix this, damn it!’ And I get that. I understand. And I say it in the mirror sometimes. But the truth is, it’s a very complex system. I think we do need to find ways to fix that and streamline it.”
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More AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25. | 2022-04-27T16:28:06+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-stepping-down-no-later-than-2023/ |
Which is the best gift for your in-laws?
It’s natural to want to impress your partner’s parents, particularly if they’re a tight-knit family, so you might be wondering how to pick a thoughtful gift for your in-laws. Some in-laws have hobbies and interests that make them easy to buy for, while others can leave you drawing a blank.
Luckily, there are plenty of options on the market to put you on your in-laws’ good side. With a little thought and planning, you can find the perfect gift for your in-laws, whatever the occasion.
Tips for picking a thoughtful gift for your in-laws
Play to their interests
The obvious place to start is thinking about your in-laws’ hobbies and interests. This doesn’t need to be anything major like rock climbing or scuba diving; it could be as simple as an interest in nature or a love of cooking. Some interests lend themselves better to gifting than others. For instance, if your in-laws are into red wine, buy them a nice bottle and your job’s done. When in doubt, write a list of their hobbies and interests and identify which might have decent gifting potential.
Ask your partner
Perhaps you want to be the one to pick out an impressive gift for your in-laws to win them over. But if this isn’t the case, it makes sense to consult your partner since they’re more likely to know the kinds of gifts their parents might like to receive. Even if you ultimately want to select the gift yourself, your partner may still have some useful insight, be able to steer you in the right direction or tell you if your in-laws already own a gift that you’re considering.
Consider consumables
What do you buy for the in-laws who seem to have everything? The answer is consumables. Although consumables can be food gifts, they don’t have to be as the term refers to anything that can be used up. This could be tea and coffee, alcohol, bath products, candles and more. You can also splurge on something that’s higher quality than the recipient is likely to buy themselves on a day-to-day basis, making it a nice treat. If your in-laws like cooking, they probably wouldn’t buy themselves that fancy $20 bottle of extra virgin olive oil at the store, but you could buy it as a gift.
Think about subscriptions
If you’re still stuck for ideas after considering your in-laws’ interests and consulting your partner, consider signing them up to a subscription service as a gift. Choices may include audiobook subscriptions, meal kit subscriptions, wine or beer subscriptions and scented candle subscriptions. Whatever you choose, you can usually pay a lump sum for a subscription of between 3-12 months, with products delivered to your in-laws’ home monthly.
Be mindful of budget
Some in-laws would rather you don’t spend too much on them and save your money to spend on your partner and any kids you may have, while others are happy to receive more extravagant gifts. Consider this before buying and choose accordingly, but don’t spend more than you can afford in the hope of impressing your in-laws. When you’re looking to bag a bargain, Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are an excellent opportunity. By signing up for the BestReviews email newsletter, you can stay in the loop about the best deals year-round.
Best gifts for in-laws
Nixplay Smart Digital Photo Frame
If all you really know about your in-laws is that they love their family, what better way to display their precious memories than this digital photo frame. With Wi-Fi enabled, you can remotely send new photos to the frame, which is a great way to keep distant in-laws in the loop about family happenings.
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Ooni Karu 12 Multi-Fuel Pizza Oven
In-laws who are fans of pizza and cooking, particularly outdoor cooking, will love this multi-fuel pizza oven that can run on wood, charcoal or bottled gas. Picture summer backyard gatherings with the whole family involved.
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Perky-Pet Wilderness Lantern Wild Bird Feeder
Fans of nature, especially garden birds, will be pleased to receive this bird feeder. It holds up to 2 pounds of seed and has a locking cap to help keep squirrels out.
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Bean Box Gourmet Coffee Sampler
An affordable gift for coffee-loving in-laws, this sample box contains four varieties of coffee, either ground or whole bean. You can choose between several varieties and opt for a single box or a 3, 6 or 12-month subscription.
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Indoor LED gardens are perfect for in-laws who either love cooking and want fresh herbs on hand or love gardening and want a way to grow when it’s too cold outside. This model comes in a range of finishes, including an attractive stainless steel option, and has space for up to six plants.
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This multipurpose device can play videos and music, control other smart home devices and answer questions. It is an especially thoughtful gift for in-laws because it can also be used for easy video calling. If your in-laws don’t live nearby, the Echo Show gives them a simple way to see and chat with their child and other members of your household.
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Police looking for suspects who fired over 50 shots into three Asheville homes
Published: Jun. 7, 2022 at 10:03 AM EDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
ASHEVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Asheville Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding the person or persons who fired more than 50 gunshots into three occupied homes Monday night.
Just before 7 p.m., officers said they responded to the Walton Street Park area for several calls for gun discharge. Officers recovered more than 50 shell casings from at least three different firearms. Thankfully, no one was hurt and property damage has only been reported at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Asheville Police Department at 828-252-1110.
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CA San Diego CA Zone Forecast for Friday, November 4, 2022
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485 FPUS56 KSGX 050936
ZFPSGX
Zone Forecast Product for Extreme Southwest California
National Weather Service San Diego CA
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
CAZ552-052100-
Orange County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Huntington Beach, Coasta Mesa,
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s at the beaches to the
upper 60s farther inland and near higher coastal terrain. Light
winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers overnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Light
winds. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 60s. Light winds
becoming south 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Showers, breezy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ554-052100-
Orange County Inland Areas-
Including the cities of Santa Ana, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Irvine,
Orange, Fullerton, and Mission Viego
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers overnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Light
winds. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 60s towards the coast
to the lower 60s farther inland. Light winds becoming south
15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs around 60 towards the coast to the mid
50s farther inland.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
60s towards the coast to the upper 50s farther inland.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ043-052100-
San Diego County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, Encinitas,
Chula Vista, National City, and San Diego
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs around 70. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s near the coast to
the upper 60s inland. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly cloudy. A
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then showers likely overnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the
evening. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ050-052100-
San Diego County Valleys-
Including the cities of Escondido, El Cajon, San Marcos, La Mesa,
Santee, and Poway
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs around 70. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
mid 60s in the western valleys to 60 near the foothills. Light
winds becoming southwest 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then showers likely overnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s in the western
valleys to the mid 50s near the foothills.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s in the western valleys to the lower 50s near the foothills.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s in the western
valleys to the upper 50s near the foothills.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s in the western valleys to 60 near the
foothills.
$$
CAZ048-052100-
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire-
Including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario,
Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Corona
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs around 70. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds
becoming southwest 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a chance of showers overnight. Lows around 50. Areas of
winds south 15 mph in the evening becoming light. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly cloudy. A
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Light winds becoming
southwest 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ057-052100-
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills-
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Light winds
becoming southwest 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a chance of showers overnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Light
winds. Gusts to 25 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 50s. Areas of winds south 15 mph. Gusts to 30 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers, breezy. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Snow level 5000 feet...becoming
4500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
50s. Snow level 4000 feet in the morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
$$
CAZ055-052100-
San Bernardino County Mountains-
Including the cities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear City,
Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, and Wrightwood
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny. Not
as cool. Highs in the lower 50s above 6000 feet to the lower 60s
below 6000 feet. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to
25 mph...becoming 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s above 6000 feet to
the mid 40s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph
with gusts to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s above 6000 feet to
the upper 50s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph
becoming south in the afternoon. Gusts to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
Snow level above 8000 feet. Areas of winds south 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
A chance of showers. Highs in the upper 30s above 6000 feet to
the upper 40s below 6000 feet. Snow level above 8000 feet. Areas
of winds southwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then showers likely overnight. Breezy. Lows in the mid
30s. Snow level above 8000 feet...becoming 7500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Breezy. Highs in the
lower 30s above 6000 feet to the lower 40s below 6000 feet. Snow
level 6500 feet...becoming 6000 feet in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow and rain showers likely,
mainly in the evening. Blustery, colder. Lows in the upper 20s.
Snow level 5000 feet...becoming 4500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers.
Highs in the upper 20s above 6000 feet to 40 below 6000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s above 6000 feet to
the mid 40s below 6000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 30s above 6000 feet to the upper 40s
below 6000 feet.
$$
CAZ056-052100-
Riverside County Mountains-
Including the city of Idyllwild-Pine Cove
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph with
gusts to 25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Areas of winds
west 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 30 mph overnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Areas of winds west
15 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a chance of showers overnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Snow
level above 8000 feet. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to
30 mph...becoming 35 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 40s. Snow level above 8000 feet. Areas of winds west 15 to
20 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Breezy.
Lows in the upper 30s. Snow level above 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s.
Snow level 7000 feet...becoming 6500 feet in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely,
mainly in the evening. Windy, colder. Lows in the lower 30s. Snow
level 5500 feet...becoming 5000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 30s. Snow level 4000 feet in the
morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
CAZ058-052100-
San Diego County Mountains-
Including the cities of Julian and Pine Valley
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Warmer. Highs in the lower 60s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph
with gusts to 25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of winds west
15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 30 mph overnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Areas of winds
west 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming
35 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Areas of winds west 15 to
25 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 40 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Breezy.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the upper
40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the evening,
then a chance of showers overnight. Windy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Snow level 5000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid 40s. Snow level 4500 feet in the
morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ060-052100-
Apple and Lucerne Valleys-
Including the cities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley,
and Lucerne Valley
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Warmer. Highs around 70. Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph. Gusts
to 25 mph...becoming 35 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of winds
west 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 30 mph overnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds
west 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Areas of winds south 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 60s. Areas of winds south 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers. Breezy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Colder.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs around 50. Snow level
4000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.VETERANS DAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ065-052100-
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning-
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds becoming southeast 15 mph with
gusts to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Areas of winds west
15 mph becoming north overnight. Gusts to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Areas of winds
south 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation less than
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s through the pass to the lower 70s in the northern
Coachella Valley. Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to
35 mph...becoming 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers. Breezy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Breezy.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ061-052100-
Coachella Valley-
Including the cities of Indio, Palm Springs, Cathedral City,
Palm Desert, Palm Desert Country, La Quinta, and Coachella
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Areas of winds northwest 15 mph
with gusts to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation less than
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s. Areas of winds northwest 15 mph becoming southwest
with gusts to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ062-052100-
San Diego County Deserts-
Including the city of Borrego Springs
236 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Areas of winds west 15 to
20 mph with gusts to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation less than
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...
becoming 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly cloudy with showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Cooler.
Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.VETERANS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Heavy snow may have contributed to a natural gas leak that forced the evacuation Tuesday of a Nevada high school at Lake Tahoe, where more than 50 feet (15 meters) of snow has fallen this winter atop area ski resorts and more is on the way.
Incline High School was evacuated after emergency crews responding to reports of the smell of gas found no sign of it in the building, but detected high levels in the snow on the roof, the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District said in a statement.
The school on Tahoe's north shore in Incline Village said on it's Facebook site late Tuesday that after the gas was shut off it took crews nine hours to dig a 4-foot-deep (1.2-meter-deep) trench through the snow to find the leak and repair it .
Classes were scheduled to resume on Wednesday, when 1 to 3 feet (30 to 90 cm) of new snow was possible in the upper elevations of the surrounding mountains along the California-Nevada line about 35 mile (56 kilometers) southwest of Reno, the National Weather Service said.
The fire district said it has responded to an exceptionally high number of calls this winter about gas leaks and carbon monoxide alarms. It said natural gas can remain trapped at high levels inside the snowpack.
This winter already ranks among the Sierra’s snowiest in a half century. Ski resorts plan to remain open at least until Memorial Day. | 2023-03-15T03:35:58+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/more-heavy-snow-tahoe-bound-gas-leak-evacuates-17839946.php |
Minot, ND (KXNET) — For the fourth time in a row, the Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by another 3/4 of a percent. Something we haven’t seen in decades.
Higher interest rates mean loans will be more expensive for businesses and consumers, and everyone ends up spending more on interest payments, whether that’s a car loan, your credit card rate, your mortgage, or other private loans.
“Things that get affected immediately are business-operating lines of credit, your Ag producer’s lines of credits, things like that. Or if you have a credit card that’s tied to a variable interest rate, those will go up immediately too,” said Brett Fiddler, a Mortgage Loan Officer for Town and Country Credit Union.
The feds hiked the rates up once again in hopes of bringing down the effects brought on by soaring inflation rates.
“So, when you cool down a really hot economy by raising interest rates, everything slows down, things become more expensive, and consumers quit spending as much as they normally would. And that’s by design. They want the rates to slow the economy, so maybe soon they can start dropping rates and maybe our dollar will weaken as well,” said Fiddler.
Chairman Jerome Powell said in a press conference on Wednesday that he and his colleagues plan to stay the course until inflation is down to 2%.
We are far from that, sitting at 8.1%.
Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve said, “I don’t have any sense that we’ve over-tightened or moved too fast. I think it’s been a good and successful program that we’ve gotten this far this fast. Remember though that we still think there’s a need for ongoing rate increases. And we have some ground left to cover here. And cover it, we will.”
This signals there could be another hike at the next meeting in December.
The latest hikes have intensified stress on home buyers, who now have questions.
“If the Federal Reserve raises its interest rates, does that mean mortgage rates are going to go up? Not necessarily,” said Fiddler.
30-year conventional mortgage rates are sitting at about 7 to 7.5 %, which is still high.
But home buyers could expect to see a slight dip as the economy starts to slow.
Luckily, first-time home buyers in North Dakota have an advantage, compared to other states.
“We are very lucky that we have the only state-owned bank in the union, and with that, we have a really good first-time home buyer loan program through North Dakota housing. And so, we can get first-time home buyers in for a lower interest rate than a lot of other states,” explained Fiddler.
Despite the repercussions of rising interest rates, Powell says the central bank has a responsibility to bring inflation under control.
Rates are expected to peak at around 4.5% in 2023.
That means the cost of borrowing will continue to get more expensive, as more rate hikes are likely to follow.
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CAIRO (AP) — Exhausted Sudanese and foreigners joined growing crowds at Sudan's main seaport Tuesday, waiting to be evacuated from the chaos-stricken nation. After more than two weeks of fighting, areas of the capital of Khartoum appear increasingly abandoned.
The battle for control of Sudan erupted on April 15, after months of escalating tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and a rival paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Other nations have tried to convince the two generals to stop the fighting and come to the negotiating table. The government of South Sudan, which officially split from Sudan in 2011, said on Tuesday that the two rival generals have agreed in “principle” on a weeklong cease-fire starting Thursday, and on engaging in peace talks. The statement did not elaborate on the possible venue or timing for the talks.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir spoke with both Burhan and Dagalo over the phone, the government said in a statement. There was no immediate comment from either the army or the paramilitary.
Meanwhile, civilians were packing buses and trucks for Sudan’s northern border with Egypt. Many others headed to Port Sudan, on the country's Red Sea coast. The relative calm of the port city, from which many foreign governments have evacuated their citizens, seemed the safer option.
“Much of the capital has become empty,” said Abdalla al-Fatih, a Khartoum resident who fled with his family to Port Sudan on Monday. He said they had been trapped for two weeks, and that by now, everyone on his street had left.
When they arrived in Port Sudan after a 20-hour journey, they found thousands, including many women and children, camping outside the port area. Many had been in the open air for more than a week, with no food and other services. Others crowded into mosques or hotels inside the city.
Tariq Abdel-Hameed was one of around 2,000 Syrians in Port Sudan hoping to get out by sea or air. Some 200 Syrians have been evacuated since the crisis began, including 35 on Friday on a vessel bound for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The first Damascus-bound flight was scheduled to take off later Tuesday, Abdel-Hameed said, with about 200 on board, mostly pregnant women and the sick.
At the congested crossing points with Egypt, thousands of families have waited for days inside buses or sought temporary shelter in the border town of Wadi Halfa.
Yusuf Abdel-Rahman, a Sudanese university student, said he and his family entered Egypt through the Ashkit border crossing late Monday. They had first gone to another crossing point, Arqin, but said it was too crowded to make the attempt. Families with children and the sick were stranded in the desert landscape with no food and water, he recounted.
In Khartoum, Abdel-Rahman said he had seen widespread destruction and looting. He knows many people whose homes have been commandeered by the paramilitary forces and thinks they are lucky to have left before their home was stormed.
“We could have ended up dead bodies," he said.
The fighting has displaced at least 334,000 people inside Sudan, and sent tens of thousands more to neighboring countries — Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Ethiopia, according to U.N. agencies. Aid workers are increasingly concerned about lack of basic services in these areas.
Between 900 and 1,000 people arrive daily at the border with Ethiopia, Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, said at a news briefing Tuesday in Geneva. At least 20,000 people crossed into Chad, which borders the Darfur city of Genena where clashes last week killed dozens and wounded hundreds.
Aleksandra Roulet-Cimpric, the Chad Country Director with the International Rescue Committee, described dire conditions for the arrivals there, many of them women and children who have no choice but to seek shelter from the heat under sparse trees.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned that the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries could surpass 800,000.
Early Tuesday, the sounds of explosions and gunfire echoed though many parts of Khartoum, with fierce clashes taking place around the military’s headquarters, the international airport and the Republican Palace, residents said. Warplanes were seen flying overhead, they said.
The fighting continued despite the newest extension of a shaky cease-fire, meant to allow safe corridors for healthcare workers and aid agencies working in the capital.
“The war never stopped,” said Atiya Abdalla Atiya, Secretary of the Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate. Morgues across the capital are filled with bodies and people are still unable to collect the dead for burial, he said.
At least 447 civilians have been killed and more than 2,255 injured since the fighting began, according to figures provided Monday by the Doctors’ Syndicate, which tracks civilian casualties. As of a week ago, the Sudanese Health Ministry had counted at least 530 people killed, including civilians and combatants, with another 4,500 wounded, but those figures haven’t been updated since.
In addition to the South Sudanese proposal, there has been other suggestions aimed at stopping the violence and avoiding a worsening humanitarian disaster. Both sides agreed to send representatives for talks that would potentially be held in Saudi Arabia, according the U.N. envoy in Sudan, Volker Perthes. The kingdom has joined the United States in pressing for a lasting cease-fire.
Another proposal, put forward by Sudan's former Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, who met this week with regional leaders and Western diplomats in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, set forward a series of five steps to help the two sides reconcile.
“This war can lead to a global emergency unless halted immediately," he said.
The power struggle has derailed Sudan’s efforts to restore its democratic transition, which was halted in Oct. 2021 when Burhan and Dagalo, then allies, removed Hamdok's Western-backed transitional government in a coup.
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Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.
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Two irrigation efficiency projects and an aquifer recharge proposal have won $6.6 million from Oregon water regulators, who also approved additional money for a previously-approved grant.
However, members of the state’s Water Resources Commission decided against funding an irrigation automation proposal because its social and environmental benefits didn’t score high enough.
That rejection, as well as the relatively low number of qualified applicants, gave rise to questions about whether Oregon’s water supply grant program was too restrictive or didn’t have enough decision-making discretion.
“I think we’re handcuffed by the statute and the way it’s set up,” said Joe Moll, commissioner and executive director of the McKenzie River Trust.
With only four applicants competing for millions of available grant dollars, while others opted against pursuing funds due to the eligibility criteria, it may indicate something’s wrong with the system, Moll said.
The state “triple bottom line” approach to evaluating the economic, social and environmental benefits of grant proposals is commendable, he said.
However, it may be appropriate to give some leeway to projects that rank more highly in one measure than the others, Moll said.
April Snell, executive director of the Oregon Water Resources Commission, said she’s long taken “umbrage” with the grant scoring system, which hasn’t been vetted by outside stakeholders.
Snell said she’s particularly dubious about the “negative scale” that allows points to be deducted for certain project features, which isn’t used by similar grant programs.
At least three irrigation districts have been barred from applying for grants because they hadn’t updated water management plans they’d voluntarily developed in earlier years, Snell said.
Critics say such plans are costly and time-consuming to update when revisions aren’t necessary, since irrigation districts aren’t as prone to change as cities.
If irrigation districts never develop such plans in the first place, they aren’t required to be updated. Critics say these grant rules effectively discourage irrigation districts from undertaking such plans.
Rules for the water supply grant program, which lawmakers created in 2013, may themselves be due for an update, though development of the existing regulations was hard-fought, Snell said.
“Anyone who’s been through that process, I don’t think is eager to go through it again,” Snell said.
Despite these qualms, the commission voted unanimously to approve three water projects for grant funding during its Nov. 17 quarterly meeting:
• The Tumalo Irrigation Districted in Deschutes County was awarded $2 million toward an $8.7 million phase of replacing about 11 miles of open canals with pipes. The project is meant to improve reliable deliveries for farmers while conserving water for federally-protected species.
• The East Fork Irrigation District in Hood River County was awarded $823,000 toward an $1.9 million project that will upgrade pipes and other equipment, eliminating overflows while conserving in-stream flows for threatened fish.
• The City of Stayton was awarded $3.8 million toward an aquifer storage and recovery project that’s expected to cost $5 million. The money will pay for permitting, design and construction of a system that will inject treated water into an underground basalt aquifer, providing a backup drinking water source during low summer flows.
The commission likewise voted unanimously to turn down a fourth eligible application from the Klamath Irrigation District, which had sought $720,000 to automate delivery systems and collect water data as part of a $1.2 million project.
While the project’s economic merits scored well during a grant review, its social and environmental components didn’t rank as well. Reviewers said the applicants would fare better if they strengthened those claims, which they can do in a future grant cycle.
The commission’s funding decisions conclude the seventh grant cycle since the program became operational in 2016, with 37 applications receiving about $43 million for water supply projects so far. Nearly $4 million will now remain in water supply grant fund, though it’s expected to be replenished with $15 million with the sale of lottery bonds next spring.
Aside from funding the new projects, the commission voted unanimously to provide another $68,000 for a Wallowa County project aimed at replacing a flood irrigation system with center pivots, which was approved for a $530,000 grant last year.
The applicants have tried to keep expenses down but couldn’t fully complete the project without the added funding, said Kim Fritz-Ogren, manager of planning, collaboration and investments at the state’s Water Resources Department.
“With the additional cost of materials, there isn’t a way to do that,” she said.
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FOSHAN, China, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited ("Bright Scholar," the "Company," "we" or "our") (NYSE: BEDU), a global premier education service company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year ended August 31, 2022.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Fourth Fiscal Quarter Ended August 31, 2022 Financial Highlights
(in comparison to the same period of the last fiscal year):
Fiscal Year 2022 Ended August 31, 2022 Financial Highlights
(in comparison to the last fiscal year):
Overseas Schools (CATS Global Schools)
CATS Global Schools included 4 Stafford House locations in UK, 4 CATS Colleges in US and UK, Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts and 3 independent boarding schools in UK as of August 31, 2022.
- For the fourth fiscal quarter, revenue amounted to RMB121.6 million, representing a 61.1% increase compared to RMB75.5 million in the same fiscal quarter last year, and accounted for 30.1% of the total revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter.
- For the fiscal year, revenue amounted to RMB652.8 million, representing a 29.9% increase compared to RMB502.6 million in last fiscal year, and accounted for 38.1% of the total revenue.
Complementary Education Services
The complementary education services business comprises language training, overseas study counselling, career counselling, study tour and camps as well as international contest training and others.
- For the fourth fiscal quarter, revenue amounted to RMB179.7 million, compared to RMB182.6 million in the same fiscal quarter last year, and accounted for 44.5% of the total revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter.
- For the fiscal year, revenue amounted to RMB636.6 million, representing a 1.8% increase compared to RMB625.6 million for last fiscal year, and accounted for 37.1% of the total revenue.
Domestic Kindergartens & K-12 Operation Services
The domestic kindergartens & K-12 operation services business comprises of for-profit kindergartens and operation services for domestic K-12 schools including catering and procurement services.
- For the fourth fiscal quarter, revenue amounted to RMB102.6 million, representing a 65.7% increase compared to RMB61.9 million in the same fiscal quarter last year, and accounted for 25.4% of the total revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter.
- For the fiscal year, revenue amounted to RMB425.5million, representing a 55.6% increase compared to RMB273.6 million for last fiscal year, and accounted for 24.8% of the total revenue.
"We had another solid quarter of business recovery to finish off a challenging year," said Mr. Jerry He, Executive Vice Chairman of Bright Scholar. "For continuing operation in the quarter, we recorded a 26.2% growth in revenue, significant improvement of 73.4% in gross profit, and operating and net losses continued to narrow. On a full fiscal year basis, revenue grew by 22.3% year-over-year, with gross profit up by 115.8% and operating and net losses improved by 83.8% and 70.2% year-over-year respectively."
"The fourth quarter results illustrate the gradual return of demand for quality education as parents and students look to close the learning gaps created by the disruption of in-person learnings from pandemic. Revenue for Overseas School Business increased by 61.1% in the fourth quarter and 29.9% in the full fiscal year," Mr. He commented on the performance of overseas school business. "We are pleased with the progress of recovery, but at the same time vigilant of the imminent energy crisis in UK and the inflationary pressures in quarters ahead. We will continue to vigorously manage our costs to optimize sustainable returns over the medium to long term."
"For Complementary Education Services, the fourth fiscal quarter proved to be more challenging than we anticipated with summer academic terms being disrupted by regional outbreak of new COVID variants. Revenue was down by 1.6% in the fourth fiscal quarter and up modestly by 1.8% in fiscal year 2022," said Mr. Zi Chen, Chief Executive Officer of Complementary Education Services. "Despite the challenging operating environments, we are encouraged by the continuous recovery of our overseas study counselling and career counselling business with respective revenue increased by 35.1% and 46.7% year-over-year for the quarter and 26.6% and 9.9% for full fiscal 2022, respectively. Our strategic blueprint remains firmly on all-round development for students that comprised of both school and non-school contexts critical to children's learning and achievement," Mr. Chen concluded.
"Strong fourth quarter results reflect our focus on strategic imperatives we put in motion to rebuild and reshape our business that enabled us to sustain through the depths of the pandemic," said Ms. Wanmei Li, Chief Executive Officer of Domestic Kindergartens & K-12 Operation Services. "Revenue for Domestic Kindergartens & K-12 Operation Services grew by 65.7% in the fourth fiscal quarter and 55.6% in fiscal year 2022. The business performance mainly attributed to the increase of revenue generated from catering services and expansion of procurement services. As of the end August 2022, we had provided catering and procurement services to the students in a total of 24 schools and 60 kindergartens."
Mr. He concluded, "Our fiscal 2022 performance demonstrates our continued resilience and relentless commitment to rebuild our revenue across all of our businesses. As we continue to navigate the dynamic macroeconomic challenges and profound shifts in economies and societies, we have gathered momentum in reshaping and rebuilding our businesses. The strength of our diversified portfolio of businesses that focus on advancing quality education services is most evident in these times of uncertainty. As we look out to fiscal 2023, we will continue to evolve our business, think comprehensively about how we bring quality education and all-round development supplementary services to students and innovate ahead of their needs, all of which will further deepen connectivity across our platform of diversified education services. In addition, we will continue to take steps to reduce overhead and mitigate risks associated with inflationary cost pressures. We are firmly committed to return to profit after impact of K-12 regulations in China, and bringing together the best of Bright Scholar in order to deliver better all round education and development for our students."
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Regained Compliance with NYSE Minimum Price Requirement
On March 25, 2022, the NYSE notified the Company of its non-compliance with the NYSE's price criteria
for continued listing standard. In order to regain compliance with the minimum share price requirement, the Company changed the ratio of its ADSs to its Class A ordinary shares (the "ADS Ratio"), par value US$0.00001 per share, from the previous ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to one (1) Class A ordinary share to the current ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to four (4) Class A ordinary shares, effective August 19, 2022. The effect of the ratio change on the ADS trading price on the New York Stock Exchange took place at the open of business on August 19, 2022 (U.S. Eastern Time).
On September 1, 2022, the Company received a confirmation from the NYSE that the Company has regained compliance within the prescribed time, and the ADSs will continue to be traded on the NYSE, subject to the Company's continued compliance with all applicable continued listing criteria.
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS for THE FoURTH FISCAL quarter ENDED AUGUST 31, 2022
Revenue from Continuing Operations
Revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB403.9 million, representing a 26.2% increase from RMB320.0 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Overseas Schools: Revenue contribution for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB121.6 million, representing a 61.1% increase from RMB75.5 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly attributable to recovery of overseas schools' operation from pandemic.
Complementary Education Services: Revenue contribution for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB179.7 million, as compared to RMB182.6 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. The decrease was mainly attributable to study tour and camps business and language training being disrupted by regional outbreak of new COVID variants.
Domestic Kindergartens & K-12 Operation Services: Revenue contribution for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB102.6 million, representing a 65.7% increase from RMB61.9 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly attributable to the increase of catering services revenues and expansion of procurement service.
We have continued to provide essential services without recognizing any revenues relating to such activities to schools provide compulsory education in our discontinued operations, which are key to the normal daily operation of such schools.
Cost of Revenue from Continuing Operations
Cost of revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB320.1 million, as compared to RMB271.7 million for the same quarter of last fiscal year.
Gross Profit, Gross Margin and Adjusted Gross Profit from Continuing Operations
Gross profit for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB83.8 million, representing a 73.4% increase from RMB48.3 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. Gross margin increased to 20.7% from 15.1% for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly due to the recovery of overseas business.
Adjusted gross profit for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB87.7 million, representing a 65.5% increase from RMB53.0 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses from Continuing Operations
Total SG&A expenses for the fourth fiscal quarter were RMB137.8 million, representing a 13.0% decrease from RMB158.5 million for the same period quarter of the last fiscal year. The decrease in SG&A expenses was mainly due to vigorously costs management across all of our business segments.
Operating Loss, Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Loss from Continuing Operations
Operating loss for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB59.4 million, representing a 70.9% decrease from operating loss of RMB204.0 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. Operating loss margin was 14.7% for the fourth fiscal quarter, as compared to operating loss margin of 63.7% for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Adjusted operating loss for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB48.8 million, representing a 50.7% decrease from adjusted operating loss of RMB99.2 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Net Loss and Adjusted Net Loss
Net loss for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB99.4 million, representing a 64.4% decrease in loss from net loss of RMB279.3 million from continuing operations for the same quarter of the last fiscal year. Net loss was RMB478.2 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year, which includes net loss of RMB279.3 million from continuing operations and net loss of RMB198.9 million from discontinued operations. The management of the Company noted that the Company's market capitalization has been lower than its net assets and is closely monitoring the possibility of the impairment of goodwill and intangible assets.
Adjusted net loss for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB89.7 million, representing a decrease of 48.9% from adjusted net loss of RMB175.5 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Net Loss per ordinary share/ADS and Adjusted Net Loss per ordinary share/ADS
Basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share attributable to ordinary shareholders from continuing operations for the fourth fiscal quarter were RMB0.90 and RMB0.90, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB2.40 and RMB2.40, respectively, for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Adjusted basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share attributable to ordinary shareholders for the fourth fiscal quarter were RMB0.82 and RMB0.82, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB1.53 and RMB1.53, respectively, for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Basic and diluted net loss per ADS attributable to ADS holders from continuing operations for the fourth fiscal quarter were RMB3.60 and RMB3.60, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB9.60 and RMB9.60, respectively, for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Adjusted basic and diluted net loss per ADS attributable to ADS holders for the fourth fiscal quarter were RMB3.28 and RMB3.28, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB6.12 and RMB6.12, respectively, for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
Adjusted EBITDA Loss
Adjusted EBITDA loss for the fourth fiscal quarter was RMB47.6 million, representing a decrease of 59.9% from adjusted EBITDA loss of RMB29.8 million for the same quarter of the last fiscal year.
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS for The fiscal year ENDED august 31, 2022
Revenue from Continuing Operations
Revenue for the fiscal year was RMB1,714.9 million, representing a 22.3% increase from RMB1,401.8 million for last fiscal year.
Overseas Schools: Revenue contribution for the fiscal year was RMB652.8 million, representing a 29.9% increase from RMB502.6 million for the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly attributable to recovery of overseas schools' operation from pandemic.
Complementary Education Services: Revenue contribution for the fiscal year was RMB636.6 million. It represented a 1.8% increase from RMB625.6 million for the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly attributable to the recovery of overseas study counselling and career counselling business.
Domestic Kindergartens & K-12 Operation Services: Revenue contribution for the fiscal year was RMB425.5 million, representing a 55.6% increase from RMB273.6 million for the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly due to the increase of catering services revenues and expansion of procurement services.
We have continued to provide essential services without recognizing any revenues relating to such activities to schools that provide compulsory education in our discontinued operations, which are key to the normal daily operation of such schools.
Cost of Revenue from Continuing Operations
Cost of revenue for the fiscal year was RMB1,236.8 million, as compared to RMB1,180.3 million for the last fiscal year.
Gross Profit, Gross Margin and Adjusted Gross Profit from Continuing Operations
Gross profit for the fiscal year was RMB478.1 million, representing a 115.8% increase from RMB221.5 million for the last fiscal year. Gross margin increased to 27.9% from 15.8% for the last fiscal year. The increase was mainly attributable to the continuous recovery of our overseas business, our overseas study counselling and career counselling businesses.
Adjusted gross profit for the fiscal year was RMB495.9 million, representing a 108.7% increase from RMB237.7 million for the last fiscal year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses from Continuing Operations
Total SG&A expenses for the fiscal year were RMB539.9 million, as compared to RMB535.9 million for the last fiscal year.
Operating Loss, Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Loss from Continuing Operations
Operating loss for the fiscal year was RMB63.0 million, representing an 83.8% decrease in loss from operating loss of RMB389.7 million for the last fiscal year. Operating loss margin was 3.7% for the fiscal year, as compared to operating loss margin of 27.8% for the last fiscal year.
Adjusted operating loss for the fiscal year was RMB39.4 million, representing an 85.5% decrease in loss from adjusted operating loss of RMB271.4 million for the last fiscal year.
Net Loss and Adjusted Net Loss
Net loss for the fiscal year was RMB159.4 million, representing a 70.2% decrease in loss from net loss of RMB535.1 million from continuing operations for the last fiscal year. Net loss was RMB165.8 million for the last fiscal year, which includes net loss of RMB535.1 million from continuing operations and net income of RMB369.3 million from discontinued operations.
Adjusted net loss for the fiscal year was RMB139.6 million, representing a decrease of 66.8% from adjusted net loss of RMB420.2 for the last fiscal year.
Net Loss per ordinary share/ADS and Adjusted Net Loss per ordinary share/ADS
Basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share attributable to ordinary shareholders from continuing operations for the fiscal year were RMB1.39 and RMB1.39, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB4.54 and RMB4.54, respectively, for the last fiscal year.
Adjusted basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share attributable to ordinary shareholders for the fiscal year were RMB1.23 and RMB1.23, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB3.57 and RMB3.57, respectively, for the last fiscal year.
Basic and diluted net loss per ADS attributable to ADS holders from continuing operations for the fiscal year were RMB5.56 and RMB5.56, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB18.16 and RMB18.16, respectively, for the last fiscal year.
Adjusted basic and diluted net loss per ADS attributable to ADS holders for the fiscal year were RMB4.92 and RMB4.92, respectively, as compared to loss of RMB14.28 and RMB14.28, respectively, for the last fiscal year.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal year was RMB149.0 million, representing a 592.5% increase from adjusted EBITDA loss of RMB30.3 million for the last fiscal year.
Cash and Working Capital
As of August 31, 2022, the Company's cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, were RMB857.8 million (US$124.5 million), as compared to RMB1,371.6 million as of May 31, 2022. The company redeemed all of its outstanding senior notes matured on July 31, 2022 with a total redemption price of US$232.3 million, which consists of principle amount and interest.
CONVENIENCE TRANSLATION
The Company's reporting currency is Renminbi ("RMB"). However, periodic reports made to shareholders will include current period amounts translated into U.S. dollars using the prevailing exchange rates at the balance sheet date, for the convenience of readers. Translations of balances in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, and the related condensed consolidated statements of operations, and cash flows from RMB into U.S. dollars as of and for the quarter and fiscal year ended August 31, 2022 are solely for the convenience of the readers and were calculated at the rate of US$1.00=RMB6.8890, representing the noon buying rate set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board on August 31, 2022. No representation is made that the RMB amounts could have been, or could be, converted, realized or settled into US$ at that rate on August 31, 2022 or at any other rate.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
In evaluating our business, we consider and use certain non-GAAP measures, including primarily adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income/(loss), adjusted gross profit/(loss), adjusted operating income/(loss), adjusted net earnings/(loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders basic and diluted as supplemental measures to review and assess our operating performance. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. We define adjusted gross profit/(loss) from continuing operations as gross profit/(loss) from continuing operations excluding amortization of intangible assets. We define adjusted EBITDA as net income/(loss) excluding interest income/(expense), net, income tax expense/benefit, depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, impairment loss on operating lease right-of-use assets, impairment loss on goodwill, impairment loss on property and equipment and income/(loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax. We define adjusted net income/(loss) as net income/(loss) excluding share-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, tax effect of amortization of intangible assets, impairment loss on operating lease right-of-use assets, impairment loss on goodwill, impairment loss on property and equipment and income/(loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax. We define adjusted operating income/(loss) from continuing operations as operating income/(loss) from continuing operations excluding share-based compensation expense and amortization of intangible assets, impairment loss on operating lease right-of-use assets, impairment loss on goodwill and impairment loss on property and equipment. Additionally, we define adjusted net earnings/(loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders, basic and diluted, as adjusted net income/(loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders (net income/(loss) to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders excluding share-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, tax effect of amortization of intangible assets, impairment loss on operating lease right-of-use assets, impairment loss on goodwill, impairment loss on property and equipment and income/(loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax) divided by the weighted average number of basic and diluted ordinary shares or ADSs.
We incur amortization expense of intangible assets related to various acquisitions that have been made in recent years. These intangible assets are valued at the time of acquisition and are then amortized over a period of several years after the acquisition. We believe that exclusion of these expenses allows greater comparability of operating results that are consistent over time for the Company's newly-acquired and long-held business as the related intangibles do not have significant connection to the growth of the business. Therefore, we provide exclusion of amortization of intangible assets to define adjusted gross profit from continuing operations, adjusted operating income/(loss) from continuing operations, adjusted net income/(loss), and adjusted net earnings/(loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders, basic and diluted. In addition, due to the impact of the amended Implementation Regulations of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education of the People's Republic of China (the "Implementation Rules"), the Affected Entities (7) deconsolidated is classified as discontinued operations, which is a non-recurring item. The exclusion facilitates comparisons of our operating performance on a period-to-period basis. Therefore, we provide exclusion of income/(loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, to define adjusted net income/(loss), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net earnings/(loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders, basic and diluted.
We present the non-GAAP financial measures because they are used by our management to evaluate our operating performance and formulate business plans. Such non-GAAP measures include adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income/(loss), adjusted gross profit/(loss) from continuing operations, adjusted operating income/(loss) from continuing operations, adjusted net earnings/(loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders/ADS holders basic and diluted. Non-GAAP financial measures enable our management to assess our operating results without considering the impact of non-cash charges, including depreciation and amortization and share-based compensation expense, and without considering the impact of non-operating items such as interest income/(expense), net; income tax expense/benefit; share-based compensation expense; amortization of intangible assets, tax effect of amortization of intangible assets, and without considering the impact of non-recurring item, i.e. income/(loss) from discontinued operations. We also believe that the use of these non-GAAP measures facilitates investors' assessment of our operating performance.
The non-GAAP financial measures are not defined under U.S. GAAP and are not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools. One of the key limitations of using these non-GAAP financial measures is that they do not reflect all items of income and expense that affect our operations. Interest income/(expense), net; income tax expense/benefit; depreciation and amortization; share-based compensation expense; tax effect of amortization of intangible assets; and income/(loss) from discontinued operations, have been and may continue to be incurred in our business and are not reflected in the presentation of these non-GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA or adjusted net income/(loss). Further, these non-GAAP measures may differ from the non-GAAP information used by other companies, including peer companies, and therefore their comparability may be limited.
About Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited
Bright Scholar is a global premier education service company, which primarily provides quality international education to global students and equip them with the critical academic foundation and skillsets necessary to succeed in the pursuit of higher education. Bright Scholar also complements its international offerings with Chinese government-mandated curriculum for students who wish to maintain the option of pursuing higher education in China.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company's business plans and development, which can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under law.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin clinched its first playoff berth, beating Real Salt Lake 3-0 Wednesday night as Moussa Djitte scored his first career hat trick, all in the second half.
Austin (16-9-6), which started play in 2021, became the second Western Conference team to clinch a berth this season after first-place Los Angeles FC.
Djitte scored in the 60th minute, running onto Diego Fagundez's diagonal pass and flicking the ball over goalkeeper Zac MacMath from just inside the 6-yard box.
Djitte doubled the lead in the 76th with an 8-yard right-foot shot after Ethan Finlay’s attempt rebounded off the crossbar, then added another on a counterattack in the 80th from Ruben Gabrielsen's pass.
The Senegalese forward, who turns 23 next month, had scored one previous goal this season, against Orlando on May 22. He joined Major League Soccer after spending 2018-19 with Sion in Switzerland and 2019-21 with Grenoble in the French second tier.
Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver made six saves.
The teams play again Saturday. Austin hosts Nashville, while RSL (11-10-10) hosts Cincinnati.
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What we know about the 4 Dadeville shooting victims
What started as a sweet 16 birthday party in downtown Dadeville on Saturday evening turned into a mass shooting that left four people dead and 28 injured.
Law enforcement said the first shots rang out at 10:34 p.m. on Saturday, but 34 hours later, officials have not released any details about who opened gunfire into the party, what weapons were used or a possible motive. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency also handled several press conferences about the shooting without naming any victims.
On Monday morning, Tallapoosa County Coroner Mike Knox confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser the identities of the four people who died in the shooting. All four victims were young, Black and from Alabama. Here’s what we know about who they were.
Philstavious Dowdell, 18
A senior at Dadeville High School, Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell was just weeks away from his graduation when he died. He was at the dance studio downtown to celebrate his little sister Alexis' birthday.
Dowdell played football, ran track and played basketball at the high school. He committed earlier this year to play football at Jacksonville State University upon graduation, and the day before his death, Dowdell competed in the Troy University Track and Field Invitational Meet, winning second place in the 200 meter dash.
“He was a very, very humble child. Never messed with anybody. Always had a smile on his face," his grandmother Annette Allen said on Sunday.
Shaunkivia “KeKe” Nicole Smith, 17
Keke Smith also attended Dadeville High School, and she was set to graduate this spring alongside Dowdell.
On Sunday evening, Dadeville High School took to social media to express condolences for the community and offer resources to the students who have lost their classmates and friends.
“We are deeply saddened to hear about the recent shooting incident that occurred. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the students, faculty, and families affected by this tragic event,” the Facebook post read. “We understand that this incident may have caused fear and anxiety within our community, and we want to remind everyone that we have resources available for students, and faculty who may need support during this difficult time. Our school counselors and clergy are here to provide guidance and support to anyone who needs it.”
Counseling services will be available at Dadeville High School and all Tallapoosa County Schools.
Marsiah “Siah” Emmanuel Collins, 19
Siah Collins was a 19-year-old from Opelika. After attending Opelika City Schools, he went on to become a musician, releasing songs on YouTube and other platforms under the stage name 224A Siah.
Collins took a gap year after high school, and he was planning on attending Louisiana State University in the fall, according to his father Martin Edward.
"My son was funny and intelligent, athletic and talented," Edward told the Montgomery Advertiser. "He loved to make his music and play sports."
During his time at Opelika High School, Collins played varsity football and ran track. In 2021, he helped the Opelika track team win the 6A state championship. Collins competed in the 200 meter and 400 meter races.
Edward said his son had an optimistic future ahead of him.
"He was inquisitive and a loyal, extremely respectful and polite. He was a scholar," Edward said.
Now, Edward said he feels empty without his son.
Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23
Corbin Holston was from Dadeville and graduated from Dadeville High School in 2018. According to his social media accounts, he was living in Birmingham before he died.
Tallapoosa County Schools Superintendent Raymond Porter said he and other officials in the school system are making themselves available to help the community navigate the tragedy that took the lives of two students and one alumni.
"My heart is heavy this morning for the families and friends who are suffering and grieving this morning after the senseless tragedy our community experienced last night," Porter said in a statement on Sunday. "Please join me in lifting up the victims, their loved ones, and the Dadeville community in prayer."
This is a developing story. As we gather more information, we will update our coverage.
Hadley Hitson covers the rural South for the Montgomery Advertiser and Report for America. She can be reached at hhitson@gannett.com. To support her work, subscribe to the Advertiser or donate to Report for America. | 2023-04-17T20:01:07+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2023/04/17/what-we-know-about-the-4-lives-lost-in-dadeville-birthday-shooting/70122230007/ |
HONG KONG, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or "the Company", Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Promethean, a leading global education technology company, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Explain Everything, a leading digital whiteboard platform for creating engaging lessons, activities, and interactive presentations. Through the strategic acquisition, Promethean is expected to add to its product portfolio a revenue-generating application tool that addresses one of the most common use cases of its customers. This acquisition will also support the development of new and better solutions that would address teaching, learning, and collaboration needs, and ultimately enable the scaling of future software subscription revenue stream.
The Explain Everything app, available on all mobile platforms, provides users with an infinite canvas to draw, animate, create videos, and collaborate. With the new acquisition, Promethean will merge the existing Explain Everything team and platform into its standing operations and portfolio. The integration of Explain Everything's digital whiteboard platform and operating team will allow both companies to build upon their respective visions in edtech and beyond, helping customers to get the most from cutting-edge technologies through new product offerings, alliances, and partnerships.
"As technology evolves, Promethean continues to look to the future to provide the best solutions that would transform learning experiences. Joining the Explain Everything team with ours is part of our commitment to continuously innovate and work towards providing a superior interactive experience from anywhere," said Vin Riera, chief executive officer at Promethean. "This exciting opportunity and new relationship for both companies will allow us to expand our already robust offerings to better serve customers' needs."
"We're thrilled to now be part of the Promethean team," said Reshan Richards, co-founder and chief executive officer at Explain Everything. "Explain Everything's mission to impact teaching and learning in all settings is in perfect alignment with Promethean's more than 25 years of education technology leadership. Together, we will continue to provide the most effective interactive learning tools for students and teachers around the world."
About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users, including previous establishments of China's first online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless.
Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and well-known online game developers in China with a history of successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved, Conquer Online and Under Oath. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to scale its online education business on the back of management's vision to create the largest global online learning community, and to bring best-in-class blended learning solutions to every school around the world.
About Promethean
Promethean is a leading education technology company working to transform the way the world learns and collaborates. From our founding in Blackburn, England, almost 25 years ago to our global operations in 22 countries today, we've continued to explore, innovate, and inspire —designing learning and collaboration tools that are built for breakthroughs. Our award-winning interactive display, ActivPanel, and lesson delivery software, ActivInspire and ClassFlow, were designed to engage students, connect colleagues, and bring out the brilliance in everyone. With headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and offices worldwide, Promethean is a subsidiary of the NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777).
About Explain Everything
Explain Everything is a leading whiteboard platform designed to help teachers and students create and complete engaging lessons and assignments, video capture, and collaborate. With over 20 million downloads of its native applications worldwide, the software continues to be one of the top educational tools on both Apple and Google platforms and was recognized as one of the Apple App Store's Best of 2020 for Leading the Classroom.
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NEW YORK (AP)Gabriel Pereira’s goals were pivotal for New York City FC in a 5-4 win against Toronto on Sunday.
Pereira scored the game-winning goal in the 75th minute to put NYCFC (3-3-1) ahead 5-2.
Four other players scored goals for NYCFC, including Santiago Rodriguez, who scored once, and Keaton Parks, who scored once.
Jesus Jimenez scored two goals, Michael Bradley added another one while Deandre Christopher Kerr netted one more for Toronto (3-3-2).
NYCFC outshot Toronto 19-6, with 12 shots on goal to six for Toronto.
Sean Johnson saved two of the six shots he faced for NYCFC. Alex Bono saved seven of the 12 shots he faced for Toronto.
New York City played a man down for the last few minutes after Alfredo Morales was shown his second yellow card in the 89th.
NYCFC hosts the San Jose Earthquakes on Sunday, while Toronto will host Cincinnati on Saturday.
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