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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The childhood friend accused of fatally shooting the Dominican Republic’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resources this week allegedly did so because he was denied environmental permits he was seeking on behalf of various companies, according to judicial documents obtained Wednesday.
One of the permits that slain former minister Orlando Jorge had denied had been submitted by his longtime friend and now suspect, Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, who served as intermediary between the companies and the ministry. That particular permit involved a request to export 5,000 tons (4,500 metric tons) of used batteries, according to the documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Those permits and others were found inside a briefcase the suspect was carrying when the minister, who is the son of a former president, was shot six times at his office on Monday, the documents state.
Authorities wrote that the suspect was bothered by that particular permit: “It had been denied, but they had resubmitted it.”
They also described Cruz as a “cold and calculating murderer” and are seeking one year of preventive prison as the investigation continues.
It was not immediately clear if Cruz had an attorney.
Shortly after Monday’s killing, police arrested Cruz at a church dozens of blocks away after telling a priest he committed a crime and handed over a gun to him.
Authorities also state in the documents that Cruz allegedly took advantage of his ties with Jorge to seek environmental permits given his support during the 2020 campaign for the minister’s Modern Revolutionary Party. Jorge, who was a founding member of that party, was appointed minister in August 2020.
“I campaigned, and they’re not helping me,” exclaimed Cruz when he arrived at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources before the shooting on the morning of June 6, according to the documents.
“The evidence shows that the accused had been trying to obtain multiple permits but complained angrily that no one was helping him solve anything,” the Dominican Republic’s Department of Justice said in a statement.
It also accused Cruz of threatening the legal adviser of the ministry less than a month ago.
Authorities stated that after the shooting, they seized Cruz’s car and found a 9 mm Uzi with two 30-round magazines each and $2,000 in cash, among other things.
Cruz is the son of Maj. General Fausto Miguel Cruz, who served as commander of the Dominican Republic’s Air Force from 1988 to 1990, a spokeswoman told the AP.
He is also a shareholder of a construction company and an armory.
Meanwhile, Jorge, the slain minister, comes from a well-known political family. He is the son of former Dominican President Salvador Jorge Blanco and his sister is a vice minister in Abinader’s administration. Jorge’s son is a lawmaker for the Modern Revolutionary Party.
Jorge’s family held a two-day wake for him that drew multiple mourners, including David Ortiz, former Red Sox slugger and a Hall of Famer. He was quoted by newspaper Listín Diario as saying: “This is horrible. … Let’s stop all this violence.”
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2022-06-09T23:38:34+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/documents-dominican-minister-slain-over-denied-permits/
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — In 1995, Minh Bui watched his parents fashion a new life in America. That year, they bought a storefront with neon orange awning to call their own. They named it Dong-A Oriental Market — or Asian market.
It took hard work to get here, his parents like to say. Yes, the son adds, but also a miracle.
Here he is, almost 30 years later, carried by the tides of hard work or a miracle, or both, standing behind the market’s register on an August afternoon.
The rain is coming down.
“People still need to buy their groceries,” Minh, 37, said, whipping out a plastic bag.
For one woman, it’s six packets of noodles, which she pays for with cash from a sandwich bag. She places them atop a crate of Thai eggplants — shiny green spheres the size of brussels sprouts. A few more days and they’ll be spoiled. Those, then, are a gift. She’ll take them back to her Vietnamese restaurant, Cafe Bich Nga, in Pinellas Park.
For another customer, 12 fried egg rolls, sticky rice and a beer. He had a little free time and decided to drive across the bay, returning to a place he’s known since he was 12.
“This is my store,” he says, casting a glance around before he leaves.
By the entrance, the air smells of jackfruit and frying oil. One employee sits on a stool and weighs sprigs of Thai basil to bag and tie off. Further in, the scent turns pungent where gleaming fish lie in ice.
For nearly three decades, Dong-A Market has served as a fixture for St. Petersburg’s Asian immigrants and Asian-American population. Here, between the narrow aisles where items are stacked in cardboard boxes, they find emblems of home — herbs Publix doesn’t carry, fresh shrimp summer rolls and a dozen brands of white rice, slumped atop one another.
Minh has yet to call this shop his own, though you can find him more often here than home.
My and Vien Bui came to America in 1986, when Minh was a baby. Months waiting in the Bataan Refugee Camp in the Philippines culminated in a sponsorship in St. Petersburg where an elderly woman looked to help a family.
This, Minh said, was a miracle — the right place, right time, right lady. Then came the hard work.
His father took a job at Saigon Market, a now-shuttered Asian grocery store that Minh said was the first of its kind in the city. He found community, but also a growing customer base: St. Petersburg residents searching for diverse foods. Vien worked nights at a cable company. Minh remembers barely seeing her at home.
Meanwhile, Vien gave birth to a second son, Kenneth. My was injured in a car accident. And the couple kept dreaming of opening their own Asian market.
With My’s insurance payout, they bought a small unit in a plaza on 16th Street and 30th Avenue North, no bigger than a 7-Eleven. They sold the basics: rice, produce, seafood, meat. In 1995, they moved down the street to a 5,000-square-foot storefront on 26th Street North, where they’ve been ever since.
“Everybody knows where that place is,” said Ginger Le, a longtime regular. “It was one of the few grocery stores that sold everything that we needed.”
Dong-A didn’t need advertisements, just word of mouth. Le, who immigrated in 1981, met her friends there on the weekends. Grocery shopping turned into a gathering as they bought favorite foods they easily could find in Vietnam but had trouble making in their new home — mooncakes or sticky rice squares wrapped in banana leaves.
“A lot of these old grocery stores aren’t in upscale neighborhoods,” she said. “But people still find them and go there.”
There were a small handful of Vietnamese immigrants in Tampa Bay then, Le said. Everyone became friends because they had to.
Over the years, St. Petersburg’s Vietnamese population has grown into the thousands. Nearby neighborhoods Lealman and Pinellas Park have the highest percentage of residents of Vietnamese ancestry in the state.
As My and Vien ran the store, Minh watched. As a toddler, he sat behind the register with his mother. When school dismissed, he returned to Dong-A, not home. And when he turned 18, he decided he would started working there to make a little money.
“The parents started it,” Le said. “Now, it’s the children’s turn.”
Then she wonders: Are the sons — who grew up in America, who are living the better life their parents fashioned — willing to stick around and keep their parents’ dream going?
Behind the meat display case, My stands with a mountain of slabs of fatty pork butt in front of him. It’s Tuesday, but prepping the weekend’s roast pork starts early.
He takes one piece and slaps it down on the cutting board. It takes two perpendicular slashes for the bone to fall off. Then he drags the knife down the middle, stopping just before the end, so it unravels into one long strip.
He tosses the strip into a plastic storage bin precariously positioned in an old shopping cart. Onto the next. My doesn’t look down as he slices — after traveling back to Vietnam years ago to learn the recipe, it’s become familiar.
He pauses to rub the arm holding the knife. At 61, he knows he has to stop working soon. Four, maybe five more years.
“I’m getting weak,” he says sheepishly.
The bin grows full and he runs into a closet, emerging with a tub of garlic powder larger than his head. He dumps two ladles of it atop the meat.
Once full of so many wants — a family, a house, a business — he struggles to articulate one now.
“So far, everything’s good,” he says. “I don’t want anything.”
He pauses, then amends his thoughts. He wants to retire soon and hand off the business to his sons. He just doesn’t know if they can carry the load.
He cracks open a jug of sesame oil. He wants to take care of his grandchildren.
Two spoonfuls of salt. Well, first, he wants his sons to get married and have grandchildren.
Drizzling the oil over the meat, he then leaves it to marinate, pork butt glistening under fluorescent lights.
A lull falls over the store. Minh leans against the wall behind the register, brings his mask down to his chin, and sips a canned coffee. He stares blankly through the plastic sneeze guard shield on the counter, waiting.
At first, working at the store was thrilling — to be able to make his own money to buy clothes or go out with friends. He spent a few years at St. Petersburg College before dropping out. He figured he’d just work at Dong-A instead.
He was quiet then. He still is.
He loved painting and drawing as a kid — a hobby, he thought, not a career. He would have loved to do it as a career. He and his friends visited the new Salvador Dalí museum just a few days after it opened in 2011. The beauty, he said, was that Dalí’s work has nothing to do with reality.
He doesn’t sketch now. His mind’s never quite relaxed and besides, there’s not enough time. Mondays are his days off, when he gets to stay at home and do nothing.
Still, he’s known the store all his life. His brother and uncle work here, and at one point, his aunt and cousin did, too. He knows the champagne mangoes sell fast and the bean sprouts need to be restocked daily. He can name nearly three dozen regulars.
If his parents asked him to inherit the store, he would do it.
“You ready, brother?” Minh says as a familiar face approaches the register holding two brands of seaweed sheets.
“What’s the difference in price?” Jason Reuter asks. He and his wife, Melissa, live a few miles away. They stumbled across Dong-A four years ago and return multiple times a month for kimchi, spring rolls and cheap vegetables.
“You could spend $10 in produce here and leave with a whole bag — bean sprouts, limes, anything,” Melissa said.
The seaweed, though, is for their pet fish.
Meanwhile, Vien, 60, has placed a bowl of soup noodles atop a plastic case of banh mi baguettes. She lets Minh slip out the back door with the bowl and takes his place at the register, calling up the next customer in a shrill voice.
“In some ways, I feel like (my parents) love to work,” Minh said. “That’s part of our culture — you live to work, not work to live.”
The man asks when they’ll have more steamed buns. Come back tomorrow, Vien says.
Another checks that his groceries are covered in their plastic bags before wheeling out the cart, filled to the brim, into the rain.
A woman lingers at the register after Vien rings her up, speaking in Vietnamese.
“Remember it, I love you,” she tells Vien in English.
“Okay, okay,” Vien says, gesturing at the line. With a soft smile, she shoos her out the door.
Soon, the rain will stop. Customers returning home from work will drop by for dinner ingredients — a pouch of Thai basil, a bag of rice. And Minh will return behind the register, bowl empty, to greet them as afternoon passes into evening, another day, another closing.
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2023-01-01T09:54:10+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/2-generations-offer-a-taste-of-Asia-at-St-Pete-17688232.php
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STACKER — America’s relationship with beer is one of entrepreneurship and indulgence—and its history is as inseparable from the story of our Great American Experiment as immigration.
For roughly seven decades following the 1933 repeal of Prohibition, the beer industry was dominated by large companies, which conglomerated, eventually becoming known as Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors. Late in the 20th century, independent brewers pushed for new laws and regulations in one state at a time. They paved the way for the rich diversity of beers brewed in the U.S. today.
Brewpubs, craft beers, and microbreweries began cropping up in the 1990s. More than a decade later, the number of breweries in the U.S. started to take off in the wake of the Great Recession. Between 2010 and 2014, American craft brewers doubled production and caught the attention of lawmakers who saw the potential sales tax revenue from independent brewing.
Breweries are once again making money after being battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, like many other food service businesses. Overall beer sales were up 1% year over year in 2021, and the craft beer market has grown to 13.1% of the entire beer market, according to the American Brewers Association.
Stacker compiled statistics on beer consumption from the Beer Institute’s 2021 Brewers Almanac, which contains data from 2020. State beer consumption was calculated from estimated beer shipments to wholesalers in each state and the number of adults of legal drinking age in each state.
Brewery permits only include active permits and are also from 2020. Per capita brewery permits are calculated using the population of adults of legal drinking age. Annual calculations do not account for out-of-state drinkers.
Vermont has the most breweries per 100,000 drinking-age residents, at 22. In 1990 people in Nevada consumed more beer than any other state since that year—56.5 gallons per drinking-age resident, which comes out to just over 20 ounces per drinker per day, all year long.
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#50. Maryland
– Annual beer consumption: 19.7 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 176 (3.9 per 100K adults)
Does your state drink more beer than Maryland? It wouldn’t be hard to beat the home of the famous Natty Boh, which came in dead last in this ranking. Maryland enacted new laws in 2019 raising the limit on how much craft beer taprooms could produce legally, yet the limit is still the lowest in the nation.
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#49. Connecticut
– Annual beer consumption: 19.8 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 162 (6.0 per 100K adults)
Connecticut is the home of numerous unique farmhouse ales and New England IPAs. In the mid-19th century, Germans immigrating to New England brought their lagers and other English brews to America.
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#48. New Jersey
– Annual beer consumption: 20.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 186 (2.8 per 100K adults)
New Jersey’s relationship with manufacturing alcohol is checkered with violence dating back to the Prohibition era. It’s one that’s been romanticized in shows like “Boardwalk Empire,” set in Atlantic City.
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#47. Utah
– Annual beer consumption: 20.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 54 (2.5 per 100K adults)
In 2009, Utahans managed to get their heavily teetotaling Mormon state to legalize homebrewing. And in 2019, the law famously limiting beers to no more than 3.2% alcohol by volume was repealed, opening the door to even more brewing creativity. Today the state is home to notable brewers, including Red Rock Brewing Co. and Moab Brewery.
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#46. Rhode Island
– Annual beer consumption: 20.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 51 (6.3 per 100K adults)
Rhode Island is the home of historic brewers like Narragansett Brewing, founded in 1890 and purchased by New York’s Genesee Brewing in 2005. The state saw its brewery count increase nearly tenfold from 2011 to 2021.
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#45. New York
– Annual beer consumption: 20.2 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 666 (4.6 per 100K adults)
New York, and upstate New York, in particular, is bursting at the seams with breweries. The state had only 95 breweries in 2012, according to the New York State Brewers Association. That number has skyrocketed since.
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#44. Massachusetts
– Annual beer consumption: 21.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 293 (5.6 per 100K adults)
A decade ago, Massachusetts had just over 40 breweries, and today it boasts hundreds. It’s the birthplace of Samuel Adams Boston Lager—the most widely available craft beer in the U.S.
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#43. Georgia
– Annual beer consumption: 23.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 186 (2.4 per 100K adults)
Georgia’s capital of Atlanta was chock full of saloons before the Prohibition of the early 1900s and didn’t see microbreweries emerge until the 1990s.
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#42. Kentucky
– Annual beer consumption: 23.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 118 (3.6 per 100K adults)
Kentuckians are to thank for a unique blend of German and Irish influence that birthed Kentucky Common Beer—a dark American cream ale popular as far back as 1900.
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#41. Indiana
– Annual beer consumption: 23.6 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 277 (5.6 per 100K adults)
Indiana had a rich beer brewing industry before Prohibition—a culture that overtook the state’s attachment to corn whiskey as early as the 1800s, according to the Indiana Historical Society. By the 1990s, smaller independent breweries began stepping out from behind the shadow of giant Anheuser-Busch, based in nearby Missouri, and today they pockmark the state.
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#40. Michigan
– Annual beer consumption: 23.6 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 605 (8.1 per 100K adults)
The largest concentration of breweries around Detroit can be found just northwest of the city, in Oakland County, one of the wealthier regions in the metro area.
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#39. Washington
– Annual beer consumption: 23.7 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 627 (10.9 per 100K adults)
Though Seattle’s Rainier Brewery and its German-influenced light lagers eventually sold to Pabst in 1999, it remains a cultural touchstone of beer lovers in the region.
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#38. Arkansas
– Annual beer consumption: 23.9 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 70 (3.2 per 100K adults)
The biggest local brewer in Arkansas is Lost Forty Brewing Co., and the second largest, Ozark Beer Co., has been highest business survival rates in 2022.
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#37. Tennessee
– Annual beer consumption: 24.2 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 196 (3.8 per 100K adults)
In late 2020, Forbes named Nashville the home of whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s, a rising star in the craft beer world.
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#36. Virginia
– Annual beer consumption: 24.2 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 420 (6.6 per 100K adults)
Virginia dedicates the month of August to craft beer each year. It celebrates the influences of the English and other northern European immigrants who brought their brewing techniques to Colonial America.
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#35. California
– Annual beer consumption: 24.5 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 1465 (5.0 per 100K adults)
California was ahead of most of the country when it became the second state to legalize brewpubs in 1982. By 2000 the state was home to 200 breweries and is now closing in on 1,500.
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#34. Pennsylvania
– Annual beer consumption: 24.9 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 619 (6.4 per 100K adults)
Pennsylvania is home to America’s oldest brewery—Yuengling’s Eagle Brewery in Pottsville, founded in 1829. Today, the storied beer maker is spreading its wings and expanding its availability across the country through a joint venture with Coors.
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#33. Idaho
– Annual beer consumption: 25.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 118 (9.0 per 100K adults)
Idaho’s oldest microbrewery is Highlands Hollow Brewhouse. And the establishment isn’t all that old—it’s been in Boise’s North End since 1992.
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#32. Florida
– Annual beer consumption: 25.4 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 500 (3.0 per 100K adults)
Florida laws governing how mom-and-pop brewers could distribute beverages loosened in the 2000s, and the state’s microbrewery scene and beer culture have been growing ever since.
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#31. Ohio
– Annual beer consumption: 25.5 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 482 (5.6 per 100K adults)
Despite Cincinnati being home to the largest Oktoberfest celebration in the U.S.—Zinzinnati—Ohio falls in the middle of the pack for per capita beer consumption.
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#30. North Carolina
– Annual beer consumption: 25.8 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 491 (6.2 per 100K adults)
North Carolina’s beer culture took off following the August 2005 repeal of Prohibition-era law limiting the amount of alcohol in a beverage to 6%.
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#29. Illinois
– Annual beer consumption: 25.9 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 405 (4.3 per 100K adults)
The award-laden Goose Island Brewery is the longest-standing brewery in Illinois, having opened its first brewpub location in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1988.
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#28. Alaska
– Annual beer consumption: 26.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 66 (12.5 per 100K adults)
One of Alaska’s most successful and longest-standing craft breweries, Alaskan Brewing Co., draws on the flavors of beers historically drunk by gold miners during the Gold Rush era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and sources water from glaciers in the region.
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#27. Hawaii
– Annual beer consumption: 26.7 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 44 (4.1 per 100K adults)
Hawaii’s craft beer culture experienced a revival once liquor laws were updated in 2005 to allow brewpubs to operate and sell growlers to patrons.
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#26. Oklahoma
– Annual beer consumption: 26.8 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 88 (3.1 per 100K adults)
It wasn’t until 2018 that grocery and convenience stores in Oklahoma could legally sell beer with any more than 3.2% alcohol content, allowing for the sale of more varieties of craft beer.
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#25. Missouri
– Annual beer consumption: 26.9 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 212 (4.7 per 100K adults)
On one side of the state is St. Louis, home to Anheuser-Busch. On the other side, Kansas City, Missouri-based Boulevard brewing dominated the state’s local craft beer for decades. But in 2013, Boulevard was bought by Belgian brewing giant Duvel and began distribution across the globe.
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#24. Arizona
– Annual beer consumption: 27.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 170 (3.1 per 100K adults)
Arizona’s beloved Four Peaks Brewing Co. sponsors an annual Oktoberfest celebration that draws tourists and visitors from across the state. The craft brewery, famous for its Scottish ale and named after the mountains that loom northeast of Phoenix, first opened in 1996 and sold to Anheuser-Busch in 2015.
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#23. Minnesota
– Annual beer consumption: 27.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 286 (6.9 per 100K adults)
Beer festivals first organized by early brewers 20 years ago remain a mainstay of Minnesota’s craft beer scene. In 2003, the state changed its laws to allow the sale of beer growlers for off-premise consumption, and by 2011, it legalized drinking beer on-premise in brewpubs.
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#22. New Mexico
– Annual beer consumption: 27.7 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 151 (9.7 per 100K adults)
The first brewery to open following Prohibition’s repeal in New Mexico was Santa Fe Brewing in 1988. Today it is the largest in the state.
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#21. Oregon
– Annual beer consumption: 27.7 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 428 (13.2 per 100K adults)
The brewing industry was born again in Oregon with the 1985 passage of laws legalizing brewpubs. Hundreds of breweries have emerged since to serve the throngs of drinkers in rainy Portland and beyond.
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#20. Kansas
– Annual beer consumption: 27.8 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 78 (3.7 per 100K adults)
Topeka-based Blind Tiger Brewery won two awards at the Great American Beer Festival in 2022 for its Bock and Smoke Beer. The state had a law banning happy hour beverage discounts until 2011.
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#19. West Virginia
– Annual beer consumption: 27.8 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 35 (2.6 per 100K adults)
Beverage production was one of the fastest-growing industries in West Virginia before the pandemic, according to Forbes. Today, the federal government is offering an apprenticeship program intended to get impoverished residents in the state into high-paying brewery jobs.
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#18. Delaware
– Annual beer consumption: 27.9 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 47 (6.3 per 100K adults)
Delaware’s earliest brewers were Swedish immigrants who prioritized brewing beer over building their first church, according to the Delaware Historical Society.
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#17. Colorado
– Annual beer consumption: 28.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 561 (12.9 per 100K adults)
Beer is a way of life in the Rocky Mountain State. And it plays a role in politics, considering U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper first won an election in part based on his popularity from the success of Wynkoop Brewing. Hickenlooper and three other men founded Wynkoop as the first brewpub to open in Denver.
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#16. Louisiana
– Annual beer consumption: 28.4 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 68 (2.0 per 100K adults)
Louisiana is home to brewers who have leaned into the state’s history and resilience, with beers named after alligators and hurricanes. The New Orleans brewing scene grew steadily following the city’s recovery from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and rapidly as the Great Recession faded in the early 2010s.
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#15. Nevada
– Annual beer consumption: 29.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 71 (3.0 per 100K adults)
Nevada regularly outdrank the rest of the U.S. each year from 1990 to 2020. In 1990, Nevadans were estimated to have consumed 56.5 gallons of beer annually per drinking-age resident. But the number of out-of-state visitors on alcohol-fueled trips to Las Vegas and other conference and party destinations in the state may be a factor.
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#14. Alabama
– Annual beer consumption: 29.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 68 (1.9 per 100K adults)
In Alabama, a grassroots campaign to modernize alcohol production called “Free The Hops” won looser limits on alcohol content and container size, leading to a surge in breweries.
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#13. Wyoming
– Annual beer consumption: 29.8 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 51 (11.9 per 100K adults)
In Wyoming, a craft beer and liquor manufacturing boom over the 2010s has created jobs across the state’s many small towns and cities. The least populous state punches above its brewing weight, with a similar rate of breweries per 100,000 adults to its southern neighbor Colorado.
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#12. Iowa
– Annual beer consumption: 31.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 149 (6.5 per 100K adults)
Iowa loosened restrictions on alcohol content by volume in beverages in 2010 and saw the number of breweries triple over the following five years.
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#11. Mississippi
– Annual beer consumption: 31.6 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 25 (1.2 per 100K adults)
Mississippi was the last state to repeal Prohibition—in 1966. And in 2012, the state loosened laws that limited alcohol content by volume to 6.5% in 2012. New breweries have been thriving in the state ever since.
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#10. Nebraska
– Annual beer consumption: 31.6 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 73 (5.3 per 100K adults)
The Cornhusker State saw new breweries spawn during the Great Recession, growing sales in the double digits.
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#9. Texas
– Annual beer consumption: 31.9 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 526 (2.5 per 100K adults)
The Lone Star State’s economy is more significant than many developed countries, and its people drink beer enough to match. Like the East Coast, the Texas hill country in the central portion of the state was settled by Germans who brought their brews across the Atlantic, influencing a beer scene that today features hundreds of breweries.
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#8. Maine
– Annual beer consumption: 32.5 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 197 (18.7 per 100K adults)
Maine was the first state to pass anything resembling a Prohibition law, in 1851, setting the stage for the national prohibition of alcohol in the early 1900s. Today, Maine drinks some of the most beer annually compared with any other state, and its most significant concentration of craft breweries is around Portland.
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#7. South Carolina
– Annual beer consumption: 32.5 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 131 (3.4 per 100K adults)
South Carolina passed its “Pop The Cap” law in 2007, two years after its neighbor North Carolina, which allowed the sale of drinks with more than 5% alcohol by volume.
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#6. Wisconsin
– Annual beer consumption: 33.7 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 365 (8.4 per 100K adults)
Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller, Schlitz, Leinenkugel, the list goes on—Wisconsin, and specifically the Milwaukee region, gave birth to many famous and popular German-influenced brews.
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#5. Vermont
– Annual beer consumption: 34.0 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 106 (22.1 per 100K adults)
In Vermont, a state with rich history and nature, and a self-styled home for creatives, beer is serious business. The state’s breweries-per-drinker rate dwarfs all others, with 106 breweries fermenting and bottling or canning week in and week out.
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#4. South Dakota
– Annual beer consumption: 37.3 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 58 (9.1 per 100K adults)
Home of the salty “South Dakota Martini,” this state loves to drink beer. Younger generations of South Dakotans have helped push the popularity of pairing a pickle with a beer in recent years.
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#3. North Dakota
– Annual beer consumption: 37.5 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 31 (5.6 per 100K adults)
North Dakota has garnered increasing attention from beer aficionados. The state’s brewing industry leans into the prairie identity and the state’s industrial roots. Drekker Brewing, one of North Dakota’s better-known breweries, is located in an old train repair warehouse and foundry in Fargo.
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#2. Montana
– Annual beer consumption: 41.1 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 128 (15.8 per 100K adults)
In Montana, craft-brewed beer is as close to a farm-to-table operation as anyone can get. Montana brewers source much of the malted grain they use in their craft beers from the state’s fields, according to the local brewing association.
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#1. New Hampshire
– Annual beer consumption: 41.5 gallons per drinking-age adult
– Number of brewery permits: 135 (12.7 per 100K adults)
When spread out over a calendar year, the annual beer consumption of New Hampshire adults means consuming a 12-ounce can of beer daily. New Hampshire can thank a 2011 law called the Nano-brew Act for opening the floodgates for creative brewers to produce and sell tiny batches of unique beers.
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2022-12-10T22:37:07+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/heres-what-the-beer-industry-looks-like-in-north-dakota/
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts report that North Korea is testing “nuclear triggering devices” and that its preparations for another nuclear test were at a final stage in June, quoting information from unnamed countries.
The panel of experts said in new excerpts from their latest report obtained Friday by The Associated Press that they have been “unable to identify the test locations and dates” for the tests of nuclear triggering devices reported by one U.N. member state.
In excerpts obtained Thursday, the experts said North Korea is paving the way for additional nuclear tests with new preparations at its northeastern test site and continues to develop its capability to produce a key ingredient for nuclear weapons.
In the new excerpt, the panel said: “As of early June, two member states assessed that the preparation for nuclear tests was at a final stage.”
On other issues, the panel said in Thursday’s excerpts that North Korea conducted two major hacks this year, resulting in the theft of cryptocurrency assets worth “hundreds of millions of dollars.” Pyongyang also continues illicitly importing oil and exporting coal in violation of U.N. sanctions, using the same companies, networks and vessels, it said.
South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have said they detected North Korean efforts to prepare its northeastern Punggye-ri testing ground for another nuclear test. It would be the North’s seventh since 2006 and the first since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb to fit on its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The panel of experts’ report to the U.N. Security Council provides some details of the work being carried out at the site by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official name.
The experts said they observed that the DPRK started re-excavation work in March at the entrance to Tunnel 3 at Punggye-ri “and reconstructed support buildings originally dismantled in May 2018.”
“Satellite imagery showed increased numbers of vehicle tracks around this secondary entrance from mid-February 2022, followed by construction of a new building adjacent to the entrance at the beginning of March,” the panel said. “A pile of lumber, for possible use in the construction of the tunnel structure, was also detected around the same time.”
It added that, “Piles of soil from the tunnel excavation around the entrance were observed during this period.”
“Work at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site paves the way for additional nuclear tests for the development of nuclear weapons,” the experts said, adding that this is an objective stated at the Eighth Congress of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea in January 2021.
Robert Floyd, head of the U.N. nuclear test ban treaty organization, told a U.N. press conference Friday that its monitoring facilities detected the six previous DPRK nuclear tests. “If there is a seventh time, I’m very confident our system will pick it up, we’ll characterize it, and that information then gets shared with the states of the world,” he said.
Floyd is attending the high-level conference reviewing the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty which began Monday and ends on Aug. 26. Under the NPT’s provisions, the five original nuclear powers — the United States, China, Russia (then the Soviet Union), Britain and France — agreed to negotiate toward eliminating their arsenals someday and nations without nuclear weapons promised not to acquire them in exchange for a guarantee to be able to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Floyd raised the question of whether the possibility of a seventh DPRK nuclear test will strengthen or weaken nonproliferation and disarmament arrangements, “and the appetite of states to see these things come into place.”
“I wonder as to how much that is actually feeding into the tone that we’ve heard this week during the review conference, where there was quite a deal of accommodation of various positions,” he said.
“I wonder whether the states are recognizing at a time such as this it is really important to be able to strengthen the NPT and to come together around some of these very important issues, rather than, `Oh, this is a reason we should abandon such an important thing as the cornerstone of nuclear architecture,’” Floyd said.
In another aspect of the DPRK’s nuclear program, analysts said satellite images last September showed that North Korea was expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, a sign that it wanted to boost production of the key bomb material.
The U.N. experts said in the new report: “DPRK continued to develop its capability for the production of nuclear fissile materials at the Yongbyon site.”
Nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea have stalled since 2019 over disagreements over the DPRK demand to lift crippling U.S.-led sanctions and Washington’s demand for significant steps by Pyongyang toward nuclear disarmament.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expanded his ballistic missile program amid the diplomatic pause, and analysts say another nuclear test would escalate his brinkmanship aimed at cementing the North’s status as a nuclear power, and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
The panel of experts said the DPRK continued to accelerate its missile programs, launching 31 missiles “combining ballistic and guidance technologies,” including six ICBMs and two “explicitly described as ballistic weapons.” It said the DPRK also claimed to have advanced its development of “tactical nuclear weapons.”
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2022-08-05T19:42:54+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/un-experts-report-north-korea-is-testing-nuclear-triggers/
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Five years after the term “Steele dossier” entered the political lexicon, a think tank analyst who contributed to research about Donald Trump and Russia goes on trial Tuesday for lying to the FBI about his sources of information.
Igor Danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of "Crossfire Hurricane" — the designation given to the FBI's 2016 probe into former president Trump's Russia connections. It is also the first of Durham's cases that delves deeply into the origins of the dossier that Trump derided as fake news and a political witch hunt.
Here's some background on what the case is about.
WHO IS DANCHENKO AND WHAT IS HE ACCUSED OF?
Danchenko, a Russian analyst, was a source of information for Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was paid by Democrats to research ties between Russia and presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The compilation of research files, which included salacious rumors and unproven assertions, came to be familiarly known as the "Steele dossier." Though the dossier did not help launch the FBI's investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department did rely on it when it applied for and received warrants to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser.
As part of its efforts to verify information in the dossier, the FBI interviewed Danchenko in 2017.
He is charged with lying to agents about his information sources, with prosecutors accusing Danchenko of misleading the FBI in an effort to make his own contributions seem more credible.
WHAT DO THE PROSECUTORS SAY?
Prosecutors say Danchenko lied when the FBI asked him about how he obtained the information he gave to Steele. Specifically, they say he denied that he relied on a Democratic operative, Charles Dolan, a public relations executive who volunteered for Hillary Clinton’s presidential 2016 campaign.
Prosecutors also say Danchenko lied when he said he received information from an anonymous phone call that he believed was placed by a man named named Sergei Millian, a former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. They argue Danchenko knew that Millian wasn't a source of any anonymous phone call.
The indictment says the FBI could have better judged the veracity of the Steele dossier had it known that a Democratic operative was the source of much of its information.
WHAT DOES THE DEFENSE SAY?
Danchenko's lawyers say the prosecution “is a case of extraordinary government overreach.” They note that Danchenko agreed to multiple voluntary FBI interviews throughout 2017. They say his answers to the FBI were all technically true.
For instance, an FBI agent asked Danchenko whether he ever “talked” with Dolan about the information that showed up in the dossier. While prosecutors have produced evidence that the two had email exchanges about topics in the dossier, there's no evidence that they talked orally about those topics.
“It was a bad question,” said Danchenko’s lawyer, Stuart Sears, at a pretrial hearing last month. “That’s the special counsel’s problem. Not Mr. Danchenko’s."
And while Danchenko said he believed Millian was the voice on the anonymous phone call, he never told the FBI with any certainty that it was Millian. Sears argued that ambiguous statements like that fall short of what's necessary to convict on a false statements charge.
WHAT OTHER CASES HAS DURHAM BROUGHT?
Durham was the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut in 2019 when he was tapped by then-Attorney General William Barr to hunt for potential misconduct by government officials who conducted the original Russia investigation.
But after more than three years, Durham's work has failed to meet the expectations of Trump supporters who hoped he would uncover sweeping FBI conspiracies to derail the Republican's candidacy.
The probe has produced only three criminal cases.
The first case was against an FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of altering an email related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It ended in a guilty plea and a sentence of probation – and involved FBI misconduct already uncovered by the Justice Department's inspector general.
Last year, Durham's team charged a Democratic lawyer with making a false statement to the FBI's top lawyer during a 2016 meeting in which he presented information about a purported — and ultimately debunked — backchannel between a Russia bank and the Trump organization. The case against the lawyer, Michael Sussmann, ended in a swift acquittal in May.
Durham's work has continued deep into the Biden administration Justice Department, but the Danchenko trial seems likely to be the last criminal case his team will bring. It is not clear when Durham might produce a report summarizing his findings.
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Tucker reported from Washington.
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2022-10-09T14:48:53+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/russian-analyst-set-to-face-trial-on-charges-of-lying-to-fbi/RYYQS5IMJFH3PP3F76Z7DER5A4/
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Three New Sipping Broths Offer Easy, Tasty Way to Benefit from an Ancient Superfood
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading superfood supplement brand Ancient Nutrition is launching three new savory, soup-inspired flavors in its best-selling Bone Broth Protein™ line of products, including Bone Broth Protein Chicken Soup, Butternut Squash and Tomato Basil.
There's a reason every culture in the world has relied on nutrient-filled bone broth for generations: it's a nutritional powerhouse packed with nourishing compounds for the gut, joints, skin and more, but it's time consuming and messy to make at home. Now, consumers can get all the powerful benefits of real bone broth in three deliciously warming flavors, designed to promote overall healthy metabolism, satiety and gut health.
Ancient Nutrition's patented Bone Broth Protein is a powdered, concentrated and convenient form of bone broth. It offers 15 grams of protein, collagen types I, II and III, chondroitin, glucosamine, hyaluronic acid and amino acids.
These flavors are delicious mixed with just warm water and consumed as sipping broth but can be elevated by adding your favorite spices or fresh herbs.
"For centuries, humans all around the world consumed homemade bone broth, the result of a days-long simmering process used to unlock powerful nutrients. Today, most people don't get any bone broth in their diets - and our guts and joints are feeling it," says Ancient Nutrition founder Dr. Josh Axe. "That's why I'm so excited to announce three new ways to get incredible bone broth benefits for your healthy metabolism, gut, joints and more."
The new varieties will retail for $49.95 and are made with non-GMO, pasture-raised, grass-fed and cruelty-free beef and US-raised chicken sources. The Chicken Soup flavor will also come in seven, single serving packets for easy, on-the-go use. They're always made without hormones, chemicals, and artificial ingredients, fillers or flavors.
For Ancient Nutrition, it all starts with R.A.N.C.H: our commitment to Regenerative Agriculture, Nutrition & Climate Health. We are planting one million superfood-bearing trees on 4,000+ acres of Regenerative Organic Certified™ farmland and diverting millions of pounds of food waste into feed and seeds as part of our commitment of 1% of revenue to the R.A.N.C.H. Project. Every initiative we undertake reduces greenhouse gasses by avoiding emissions, reducing waste, and sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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2022-09-26T13:06:23+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/26/ancient-nutrition-introduces-new-savory-flavors-into-best-selling-bone-broth-protein-line/
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Co-Founder of legendary South African agency TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris to be recognized for a career of world-class creative excellence and contributions to society
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- John Hunt, Global Creative Chair at TBWA\Worldwide, co-founder of the internationally recognized South African agency TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, and award-winning author and playwright, will be inducted into The One Club for Creativity's Creative Hall of Fame on October 27th in New York.
The Creative Hall of Fame has a rich heritage of honoring the lifetime achievements of creative luminaries in all forms of advertising and design, beginning with the induction of Leo Burnett in 1961 and TBWA\Media Arts Lab's Lee Clow in 1997. Hunt's fellow inductees in the class of 2022 are Nancy Vonk, Janet Kestin, Carol H. Williams, Joe Duffy and Cheryl D. Miller. The black-tie Creative Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is a fundraising gala to support The One Club's many global DE&I programs, will take place at Tisch Skylights at The Shed, Hudson Yards in New York.
"John Hunt is most deserving of this honor," said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club. "He has been a champion of creativity for Africa and has used creativity to build iconic brands while advancing democracy, human rights, and human welfare. He is the very definition of a creative giant. John joins a group of inductees who have influenced culture, uplifted underrepresented groups, and inspired the next generation of creative thinkers and doers. We are honored to celebrate him alongside our other inductees in October."
In 1983, Hunt and his partner Reg Lascaris founded Hunt\Lascaris, with the ambition to be the first world-class agency out of Africa. With the mantra "Life's too short to be mediocre," they created bold and breakthrough work that could only be from Africa, but routinely gained worldwide attention and recognition. Clients included BMW, Nando's, South African Airways, and The Zimbabwean's "Trillion Dollar Campaign," which raised awareness of the newspaper and the corruption within the Mugabe regime around the world, and became the most awarded campaign of all time, after sweeping the awards at The One Show, Cannes Lions, The Clio Awards, ADC and D&AD.
Shortly after its founding, Hunt\Lascaris sought an international partner to accelerate its growth. TBWA was the ideal match, with its high creative standards, entrepreneurial spirit and founder culture, and a decades long partnership was born.
The agency has continued to create bold, award-winning work, including "Breaking Ballet" for the Joburg Ballet, which brought the art form to an entirely new generation of fans, and earned a Gold Lion and South Africa's first-ever Data Lion at Cannes; and "Blame No More" which won five Cannes Lions in 2020, including a Gold and South Africa's first-ever Glass Lion.
Proof that advertising can make the world a better place, Hunt was intimately involved in Nelson Mandela's first ANC election campaign in 1993. Although harrowing at the time, this unique moment in history ushered South Africa into the light of democracy. He was also involved in creating iconic work for the First HIV AIDS campaign in South Africa. TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris was named Agency of the Century in 2000, and Agency of the Decade in 2010, the same year that work for The Zimbabwean Newspaper gained worldwide recognition.
"I'm deeply honored to receive this recognition from The One Show," said Hunt. "In truth, though, it's a team award. It belongs just as much to all the co-workers, clients and organizations I've worked with over the years. Ultimately, it's their trust that turned seemingly impossible ideas into reality. No doubt, creativity can make the world a better place. But it's so much more powerful when played as a team sport."
Troy Ruhanen, CEO, TBWA\Worldwide, added, "I have such tremendous respect for John, not just for what he has achieved, but more importantly, how he has gone about it. He inspires us, continues to be our creative north star, and has given so much to our company, industry and society. John's integrity, generosity and talent are matched only by his enormous heart. We are immensely proud to see him join the Creative Hall of Fame."
In 2003, Hunt moved to TBWA's New York headquarters to assume the role of Worldwide Creative Director, becoming a creative compass for the agency collective, helping to reshape the TBWA collective to think less about ads and more about ideas. Upon arriving in New York, Hunt founded the TBWA Young Bloods creative residency program, and a year later began the "SWAT" initiative, a program that ensures a global answer to the creative questions often asked by worldwide clients. In 2021, TBWA re-introduced the Young Bloods program with a focus on promising talent from historically underrepresented groups. Hunt returned to South Africa in 2006 to continue his Worldwide role from Johannesburg.
In 1996 he was inducted into the South African Advertising Hall of Fame and, a year later, received the Financial Mail's Long Term Achievement Award. Hunt has served as juror across every major industry awards show, including as President of the Cannes Film, Press & Outdoor Advertising Festival in 2005. He has also found time to write a number of television and theatre plays and books. He was named South African Playwright of the Year for Vid Alex, a play that condemned censorship during the apartheid years, and has also published a book, The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life.
About TBWA\Worldwide
TBWA is The Disruption® Company. We use creativity to help businesses challenge the status quo and capture an unfair share of the future. Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2021, 2020 and 2019, and Adweek's 2021 and 2018 Global Agency of the Year, we are a creative company that uses trademarked Disruption® methodologies to help businesses address their challenges and achieve transformative growth. Our collective has 10,000+ creative minds in 41 countries, and also includes brands such as Auditoire, Digital Arts Network (DAN), eg+ worldwide, GMR, The Integer Group®, TBWA\Media Arts Lab, TBWA\WorldHealth and TRO. Global clients include adidas, Apple, Gatorade, Henkel, Hilton Hotels, McDonald's, Nissan and Singapore Airlines. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. TBWA is part of Omnicom Group.
Contacts: Anaka Kobzev, Global Head of Communications, TBWA, +1-917-362-5845, anaka.kobzev@tbwaworld.com; Mary Gearing, Deputy Managing Director, Magna Carta, +27 (0) 11 784 2598, mary.gearing@magna-carta.co.za
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2022-08-24T18:56:59+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/tbwaworldwides-global-creative-chair-john-hunt-be-inducted-into-one-club-creative-hall-fame/
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One of the perks of living in Denver is the abundance of road-trip destinations for an easy weekend escape. Some people hop in the car to head to their favorite camping site, while others search for the perfect hike. But year after year, I make my way to Salida, dreaming of a certain breakfast place — one that may not be around for much longer.
Over the past decade, there have been lots of changes in this mountain town, which sits on the Arkansas River and is surrounded by fourteeners. Its downtown creative district, established in 2012, has bolstered the vibrancy of the area and drawn in new businesses, including breweries, bars, distilleries and restaurants.
But there's one spot that's been comfortingly consistent for decades: the Patio Pancake Place (or, more commonly, just Patio Pancake). While there is no actual patio at the 58-year-old Salida staple, there are indeed plenty of pancakes — along with the best chicken-fried steak I've found in the state.
Located along Highway 50, away from the creative district on a strip still dotted with ’60s-style roadside motels that probably opened around the same time Patio Pancake debuted as a drive-in in 1964, the area is a retro throwback (save for the Best Western across the street and the McDonald's a block away).
If you're looking for a place to stay, the Circle R Motel, with its vintage sign and oversized pink lawn flamingos out front, is a great choice for a few reasons: It's affordable, there's a hot tub, the rooms were remodeled in 2018, and, most important, it's only a six-minute walk to Patio Pancake, where you can fuel up for whatever adventure awaits that day, whether it's whitewater rafting, catching a concert or festival in town, or hitting up the hot springs pool for a relaxing soak.
The restaurant was purchased by the Edwards family in 1976. Now it's run by their children and grandchildren, making it the oldest continuously owned and operated restaurant in Chaffee County. But that run will soon come to an end: The family put the restaurant on the market earlier this year. Now a sale is pending and the future of Patio Pancake is uncertain.
For the time being, the parking lot still fills with cars daily — mostly locals who come for the low-priced comfort food. While the tables have been spaced out a bit since the pandemic hit, nothing else has changed inside the relatively bare-bones, wood-paneled dining area since my first visit, sometime around 2006.
Any good diner meal requires at least one pancake for the table, and that's definitely not to be skipped at a place with "pancake" in the name. The buttermilk-based recipe hasn't changed since 1964, and it's available in several options, including tiny silver-dollar cakes ($7) and a cheesecake spin on the classic ($8.50 for one). You can also opt for your choice of flavored fillings, including chocolate, strawberry, coconut, banana and pecans, but I prefer to go for one plain cake ($6) with ample whipped butter from those tiny, foil-topped containers and a generous pour of syrup.
Other local favorites include the green chile, a recipe developed by the founders' son, Tim Edwards, and the housemade German and Italian sausage. Found alongside such breakfast staples as omelets, huevos rancheros and biscuits and gravy (all of which are served during regular hours, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.) are lunch selections that include sandwiches, chicken strips and an open-faced burger.
Although many of those classic comfort foods can be tempting, I never pass up the chance to order the chicken-fried steak. At $16 (or $17.50 with hash browns), it's by far the most expensive item on the menu, but it's worth every penny.
First of all, it's huge, covering more than half the large, oval plate on which it's served. The cubed steak is thick and meaty enough to not get lost in the also thick, craggy breading that somehow stays crispy even under a generous blanket of rich, creamy country gravy dotted with pepper. Two eggs, any way you'd like them, and toast or a pancake come alongside. And yes, you should pay the extra $1.50 for the golden hash browns, made here with shredded potatoes.
Patio Pancake, like many diners, caters to a largely older clientele — which means it tends to go light on the salt. I can't fault the place for that, and there's no shame in adding a sprinkle of seasoning to really make the food here pop. I go for a few dashes of Cholula, too.
I'll be returning soon for what may be my last taste of that chicken-fried steak. Like now-closed Denver staples Tom's Diner, Annie's Cafe and the Breakfast King, this throwback could become just a memory in the coming months — and yet another reminder to visit the restaurants you love while you can, and visit them often.
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2022-07-13T14:54:36+00:00
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westword.com
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https://www.westword.com/restaurants/the-patio-pancake-place-salida-chicken-fried-steak-14494941
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Issaquah-based Costco Wholesale slipped in late trading as the second straight slowdown in a key monthly sales gauge stoked doubts about the strength of U.S. consumers.
U.S. comparable sales eked out only a 0.9% gain in March after excluding the impact of changes in gasoline prices, the company said in a statement Wednesday. That’s the smallest advance since April 2020 — shortly after the economic lockdowns at the start of the pandemic.
The tepid performance underscored the risk that Costco’s long sales boom is finally petering out. It also adds another sign of weakness in the U.S. economy the same day that the Institute for Supply Management reported slower-than-expected growth in the U.S. service sector in March.
Costco dipped 2.4% in after-hours trading in New York. The shares advanced 8.9% this year through the close on Wednesday, topping the 6.5% gain in the S&P 500 index.
The retailer reported U.S. comparable sales of more than 6% in December and January, but that decelerated to 3.5% in February. While Costco’s upscale customers have been less affected by inflation, the warehouse club isn’t immune to softer sales of discretionary items as shoppers spend more on basic goods and services such as travel.
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2023-04-06T03:41:19+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/costco-falls-on-lowest-u-s-sales-growth-in-almost-three-years/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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2022-12-04T03:24:22+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/entertainment/2022/12/03/ap-top-entertainment-news-at-502-p-m-est-3/
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15 days ago, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless, dealt with more trauma and loss Tuesday after another deadly quake and aftershocks rocked the region.
The 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Monday evening had its epicenter in the Defne district of Turkey’s Hatay province, which was of the area’s worst affected by the Feb. 6 magnitude 7.8 quake that killed nearly 46,000 people in the two countries.
Turkey’s disaster management authority, AFAD, said the new quake killed six people and injured 294 others, including 18 who were in critical condition. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, pro-government media said.
Monday’s quake was felt in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Egypt. A magnitude 5.8 quake followed, along with dozens of aftershocks. The White Helmets, northwest Syria’s civil defense organization, said about 190 people suffered injuries in rebel-held areas and that several flimsy buildings collapsed but there were no reports of anyone trapped under the debris.
In Turkey, teacher Zuher Capar, 42, said he was mourning the loss of relatives in the original earthquake and having a meal with his aunt and uncle near the Hatay town of Samandag when they felt Monday’s temblor.
“It shook a little, then it grew strong,” he said. “The electricity went and there were screams everywhere. There were small children in the house. They were screaming, my aunt was crying.”
On Feb. 6, Capar rushed to try to help his cousin, the cousin’s wife and the couple’s small children out of the rubble of their collapsed home, but they did not survive.
“We had barely overcome the sadness (from the first earthquake),” he said.
While his large family’s home withstood the quake earlier in the month, it was damaged on Monday. Capar said they are too frightened to sleep there and plan to stay in a large tent and cars.
“We are trying to stay strong but it is a terrifying process. The cities we knew, the memories we had, have been destroyed,” he said. “When we go in the streets, there is only rubble and heavy machinery. It’s like a horror movie scene.”
Turkish officials warned residents not to go into the remains of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. Three of the people killed Monday were inside a damaged four-story building when the new quake hit.
Aftershocks and the instability of the structure complicated the rescue effort, and it took several hours for search crews to find the bodies, Turkish news agency DHA said.
Dr. Tahsin Cinar, an anesthesiologist using vacation time to help provide medical care in Hatay as a representative of the Turkish Medical Association, said earthquake survivors need serious help with their mental health.
“They feel so alone, so deserted and very anxious. Even a small tremor leads to a big anxious reaction,” he said.
Cinar and other volunteers initially provided emergency care for people with physical injuries. Now, they are seeing more signs of psychological trauma, depression and the stress that comes with a lack of safe housing, winter weather and a pause in education.
“There is nearly nothing to create social well-being,” he said.
The U.N.’s World Food Program said Monday’s quake frightened employees who were distributing food to hundreds of thousands of people in northwest Syria and Turkey. The employees are sleeping in their cars in freezing temperatures while still trying to do their jobs, the program said.
Kamal Abuhassan’s small house in Jinderis, Syria, was damaged in the the first earthquake, but after a few days, he and his family returned. They ran out when Monday’s quake hit; the dwelling is now partially collapsed into piles of rubble.
“Our house is ruined, but at least our kids are OK,“ Abuhassan said.
He has set up a tent just outside the house, too afraid to go back inside.
“We just don’t know when the next earthquake is going to happen. Where else are we supposed to go other than tents?” he said.
Some 13.5 million people live in Turkey’s 11 quake-hit provinces, where authorities said more than 139,000 buildings were either destroyed or so severely damaged that they need to be torn down.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 865,000 people were living in tents as of Tuesday. Some 270 tent cities have been set up in the affected provinces, and winter weather added to the suffering of displaced citizens.
Umit Ozalp, who has lived for 40 years in Antakya, a historic city that’s now devastated, was preparing to leave, joining others carrying just a few small bags at a bus station.
“We have nothing left. Our home, our homeland, our children. We lost our work. Our situation is painful,” Ozalp told the IHA news agency.
Kenan Caglar, a bus company employee, said the company was transporting at least 2,000 passengers a day, most bound for Istanbul or the Mediterranean cities of Antalya and Mersin.
The majority of deaths in the massive Feb. 6 quake, which was followed by a magnitude 7.5 temblor nine hours later, were in Turkey, where at least 42,310 people died, according to the disaster management agency.
Turkey’s defense minister said about 20,000 Syrians living in Turkey had returned to Syria after the quakes.
“They are returning to their lands because they lost their homes and their relatives,” Hulusi Akar said from Hatay on Tuesday.
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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Omar Alham in Jinderis, Syria contributed.
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2023-02-21T18:32:26+00:00
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Due diligence a must when considering purchasing a timeshare
The FTC has a guide for researching timeshares and avoiding scams
InvestigateTV - Timeshares are billed as vacation homes that can double as a source of passive income. But officials advise you make sure you know exactly what you’re getting into so you aren’t surprised later by unexpected charges or challenges.
Here’s how it works: you share the cost of the property with other buyers, giving you a guaranteed amount of time at the property each year. You also receive payments as an investor when the property is rented out.
Danetha Doe with the website Money & Mimosas said timeshares can be a great option if you want to own property by the beach or lake, but don’t have the money to purchase it outright.
Doe said, as with any investment, you must do your due diligence. Here is what she recommends if you are considering purchasing a timeshare:
- Make sure you’ve visited the property personally
- Talk to the other owners of the property and ask about realistic returns
- Review the legal paperwork before you sign a deal and send over any money for closing costs
- Avoid wiring funds
Lastly, be wary because some companies inflate the potential returns on these timeshares.
The Federal Trade Commission has a guide for researching timeshares and advice to avoid scams.
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2023-03-06T22:51:38+00:00
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https://www.wnem.com/2023/03/06/due-diligence-must-when-considering-purchasing-timeshare/
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HONOLULU, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Committed to improving their communities, Prince Resorts Hawaii, Inc. (PRH) is partnering with Mana Up, an accelerator for Hawaii entrepreneurs creating Hawaii-based product businesses. The recent success of a 1,000-square-foot pop-up shop at PRH's Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Island of Hawaii, led to the opening of an 800-square-foot in-lobby store at Prince Waikiki, PRH's Oahu property.
"This is a wonderful addition to the Prince Waikiki and a win-win for our guests and local communities," said Shigeki Yamane, PRH president. "Mana Up is having tremendous success in growing local businesses and adding to the state's economic growth and its regenerative tourism effort with products that educate guests about Hawaii's history, culture and land."
"We've seen how today's visitors connect with meaningful products made by local makers and artisans that are reflective of our islands, so we are excited about sharing Hawai'i products with Prince Resorts Hawaii guests," says Meli James, cofounder of Mana Up.
The in-lobby store features 400 products and complements Mana Up's ecommerce component, House of Mana Up, which has 1,400 products from 64 different brands. The opening coincided with the launch of products honoring Hawaiian Olympian and renowned surfer Duke Kahanamoku. Eight companies developed products that exemplified their brand and evoked Kahanamoku's spirit. Proceeds from the Duke items go to Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation that provides grants and scholarships to develop Hawaii ocean athletes and Na Kama Kai, founded by professional surfer Duane DeSoto to teach youth about ocean safety, conservation and stewardship.
Sustainability – economic, environmental and social – has been part of PRH's business model for years. In addition to corporate-wide efforts, each property develops programs unique to their location. For example, The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort has a partnership with Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative to plant 100,000 trees throughout the resort to become Hawaii Island's first carbon neutral hotel.
Recognized by Travel+Leisure in its list of top Hawaii hospitality properties, PRH owns three luxury hotels and golf courses: Prince Waikiki, The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii Prince Golf Club, Hapuna Golf Course and Mauna Kea Golf Course. Prince Waikiki was recently awarded a 4 Diamond rating from AAA and received a Hawaii Green Business Award. PRH is a subsidiary of Japan's Seibu Holdings, Inc. and part of that company's international family of Prince Hotels
Mana Up is an accelerator and venture fund for Hawaiʻi-based products growing to markets globally, with the mission to increase economic opportunity and jobs for the people of Hawaiʻi. To date, 74 local companies have graduated from the six-month accelerator program that provides expansion opportunities and helps solve business challenges, and an additional 11 companies are participating in its program this year. In 2020, Mana Up's portfolio had an average of $923,290 in annual revenue and an average annual growth rate of 65 percent. House of Mana Up is the company's retail initiative including an online shop, corporate gifting and a brick-and-mortar location at Royal Hawaiian Center in Waikīkī, highlighting products and entrepreneurs who have participated in the accelerator.
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2022-12-14T14:01:25+00:00
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The rifle used in the Texas elementary school shooting is known as a “DDM4 Rifle.” It’s modeled after the M4 carbine, the U.S. military’s go-to rifle, according to a blog post by the gun’s maker, Daniel Defense.
The Daniel Defense rifle can be classified as an AR-15 type. A key difference between the Daniel Defense rifle and the M4 carbine is that the military’s version can switch to fully automatic or fire a three-round burst depending on the model.
AR-15-type rifles can be purchased for as little as $400, but the Daniel Defense rifle is on the high-end of around $2,000 or more. These rifles can also be financed, with customers paying less than $100 a month.
The Daniel Defense rifle is not sold with sights. According to pictures of the shooter’s guns posted on Instagram, he appears to have purchased a battery-powered holographic sight that typically sells for around $725.
A sniper’s scope uses magnification to aid in hitting targets from a great distance. Holographic sights are designed to speed up the process of short-range shooting by helping to fix on targets more quickly.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TEXAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING:
— Governor: Texas gunman said he was going to shoot up school
— Beto O’Rourke disrupts news conference on shooting
— Stories are emerging about the lives of the children and teachers killed
— Many questions remain to be answered
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” as he called for new limitations on guns in the wake of this week’s massacre at a Texas elementary school.
When the amendment was approved, he said, “You couldn’t own a cannon. You couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons. There’s always been limitations.”
Biden was speaking at the White House before signing an executive order on policing on the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
He that he would visit Texas with first lady Jill Biden in the coming days to “hopefully bring some little comfort to the community.”
“As a nation, I think we must all be there for them,” he said. “And we must ask, when it god’s name will we do what’s needed to be done.
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WASHINGTON — The State Department says the school shooting in Texas and other mass casualty incidents are hurting America’s standing abroad and giving comfort to U.S. rivals and adversaries.
Spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday incidents like these not only cause damage to the U.S. global reputation but also upset and confuse friends and allies who don’t understand how they can continue to happen.
“The fact is that what happens in this country is magnified on the world stage,” Price told reporters a day after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in the Texas school shooting. “And countries around the world, people around the world, are going to fixate on what transpires here — oftentimes out of envy, but again that’s when we’re at our best.”
Price said the shootings “will have implications for our standing” and the U.S. diplomats posted around the world are “very mindful of that.”
He said that despite the State Department’s foreign policy focus, the shootings hit American diplomats as “a real punch to the gut.”
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A Facebook spokesman says messages posted by the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school were private.
Andy Stone says the messages “were private one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy.” He says Facebook is cooperating with investigators.
Gov. Greg Abbott described the messages at a news conference where he said the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 in the attack Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
About 30 minutes before the shooting, Ramos sent three social media messages. According to the governor, Ramos posted that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman, and finally that he was going to shoot an elementary school.
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UVALDE, Texas — Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference Wednesday about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, calling the shooting “totally predictable when you choose not to do anything.”
O’Rourke was escorted out while members of the crowd yelled at him, with one man shouting profanities at O’Rourke. The Democrat is challenging against Gov. Greg Abbott in this year’s election.
Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said to O’Rourke: “You’re out of line and an embarrassment.”
O’Rourke, as he was being escorted out, turned around, faced the stage, pointed his finger and said: “This is on you until you choose to do something different. This will continue to happen. Somebody needs to stand up for the children of this state or they will continue to be killed just like they were killed in Uvalde yesterday.”
Abbott says the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school warned on social media minutes before the attack that he was going to shoot up a school. He says the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 in the attack Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
The news conference was attended by several elected Republican officials.
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UVALDE, Texas — The governor of Texas says the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school warned on social media minutes before the attack that he was going to shoot up a school.
Gov. Greg Abbott says the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 in the attack Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
About 30 minutes before the shooting, Ramos made three social media posts. According to the governor, Ramos posted that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman, and finally that he was going to shoot an elementary school.
Seventeen people were also injured in the attack.
Abbott says Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.
“Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday,” the Republican governor said at a news conference attended by other Republican political officials.
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Former President Donald Trump says he’ll “deliver an important address to America” at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Texas on Friday.
The Republican leader posted on his social media network Wednesday that “America needs real solutions and real leadership in this moment, not politicians and partisanship.”
Houston’s Democratic mayor, Sylvester Turner, says some people want the city to cancel the NRA meeting, but he says they can’t break the contract.
The greater question, he says, is why politicians still plan to speak there after the shooting in Uvalde. Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz are among other Republicans scheduled to address a leadership forum sponsored by the NRA’s lobbying arm.
“It’s about elected officials at the highest level in our state going and speaking and endorsing those policies and that’s wrong,” Turner said. “And you can’t pray and send condolences on one day and then be going and championing guns on the next.”
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BERLIN — German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser sharply condemned the Texas school massacre, saying she’s shocked by the “terrible bloodshed.”
“It is horrific that so many children and a teacher were killed. And it is terrible how powerful the gun lobby still is in the USA — despite so many terrible crimes,” Faeser tweeted on Wednesday.
Germany has a strict weapons law, and its authorities must enforce it decisively, she said.
“Above all, we must disarm extremists very consistently. Where necessary, we will further tighten gun laws,” Faeser said.
However, Germany is not immune from school attacks. Last week, a school employee was seriously wounded in a crossbow attack at a high school in Bremerhaven and a suspect was detained. Earlier this month, a 16-year-old was detained for allegedly plotting an attack on a secondary school in Essen after police seized weapons and bomb-making materials from his apartment, authorities said.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Schools around the country increased security as a precaution after the killings of 19 children and two teachers in Texas.
In Connecticut, where the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting killed 20 first graders and six educators, state police said they were sending extra troopers to schools Wednesday, although no specific threats had been received.
“This assault on the most innocent of our citizens is deeply disturbing and heartbreaking,” Connecticut state police Col. Stavros Mellekas said in a statement. “At this time, our focus will be on protecting all school populations here in our state.”
Schools in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Virginia, Maryland and Florida also were among those increasing security and offering counseling.
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WASHINGTON — Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Wednesday in the aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting to call out the Republicans’ decadeslong opposition to gun control legislation.
“Maybe the thought of putting yourself in the shoes of these parents instead of in the arms of the NRA might let you wriggle free from the vise-like grip of the NRA to act on even a simple measure,” the New York Democrat said. “For the sake of these children, these 9-year-olds, these 10-year-olds, these 11-year-olds, these beautiful children, please, damn it.”
The Democrats’ pleas to Republican colleagues reflect a long history of congressional inaction on gun control since a gunman killed 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut, nearly a decade ago. Democratic lawmakers have introduced countless proposals that would have required a background check of the gunman in Texas. All failed to pass, mostly due to the filibuster.
Schumer pledged Wednesday to move forward with or without Republican lawmakers.
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Instagram has confirmed it’s working with law enforcement to review an account that appears to belong to the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in Texas.
A series of posts appeared on Instagram and TikTok in the days leading up to Tuesday’s shooting. One selfie appears to show the shooter in front of a mirror. Another photo shows a gun magazine in hand. And on Friday, the same day law enforcement officials believe Salvador Ramos bought a second rifle, a picture of two AR-style semi-automatic rifles appeared.
Another Instagram user with many more followers was tagged in that post. That user has since removed her profile, but first she shared parts of what appears to be a chilling exchange with Ramos, asking her to share his gun pictures with her more than 10,000 followers.
“I barely know you and u tag me in a picture with some guns,” she responded, adding, “It’s just scary.”
A response sent from Ramos’s account on Tuesday morning just said: “I’m about to.”
Witnesses said the shooting began around 11:30 a.m.
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UVALDE, Texas — The man who killed 19 children and two teachers in Texas bought his guns legally days before the attack and soon after his 18th birthday, a law enforcement briefing said.
He bought one AR-style rifle from a federally-licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17, according to a state police briefing given to Sen. John Whitmire. The next day, he bought 375 rounds of ammunition, and bought a second rifle on May 20.
Officers recovered one of the rifles from Ramos’ truck and the other was found in the school, according to the briefing. It says Ramos dropped a backpack with several magazines full of ammunition near the school entrance, and that he was wearing a body-armor style vest but that it had no hardened plates inside.
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Actor Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers on Tuesday. He called on Americans to act now to control an “epidemic” of mass shootings.
“Once again, we have tragically proven that we are failing to be responsible for the rights our freedoms grant us,” McConaughey posted on his Instagram account. “We cannot exhale once again, make excuses, and accept these tragic realities as the status quo.”
The actor doesn’t describe any specific laws or policies he wants adopted. He doesn’t mention gun control.
“As Americans, Texans, mothers and fathers, it’s time we re-evaluate,” he wrote. “We have to rearrange our values and find a common ground.”
“This is an epidemic we can control, and whichever side of the aisle we may stand on, we all know we can do better.”
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UVALDE, Texas — Uvalde community members arrived early Wednesday at a civic center where families learned the fate of their loved ones the night before. Volunteers arrived with Bibles and therapy dogs.
A minister says he prayed with families of victims in a hospital waiting room after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside an elementary school classroom in Texas.
Uvalde Memorial Hospital said 13 children were taken there. Another hospital reported a 66-year-old woman was in critical condition.
Pastor Doug Swimmer of the nondenominational Potters House Church told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday that Uvalde is a tight-knit community where people know their neighbors and see them every day.
Asked what he said to people whose faith may have been shaken by the mass shooting, Swimmer said “I know that one thing that we as Texans understand is that God is still God … he is able to bring comfort in times of distress.”
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has said he’s “heartbroken about the massacre” at an elementary school in Texas.
Francis spoke Wednesday during his general audience. He said he was praying for the children and adults killed and their families after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde, Texas, killing at least 19 children and two adults before an officer shot and killed the gunman.
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UKRAINE — Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that he was “deeply saddened by the news of the murder of innocent children in Texas.”
Zelenskyy, in a tweet, sent his condolences to the families of the victims, the people of the U.S. and President Joe Biden after a gunman opened fire Tuesday at an elementary school in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde, Texas, killing at least 19 children and two adults before an officer shot and killed the gunman.
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2022-05-25T22:14:22+00:00
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter" or the "Company") (NYSE: TWTR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Twitter investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between August 3, 2020 and August 23, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TWTR 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: (1) Twitter knew about security concerns on their platform; (2) Twitter actively worked to hide the security concerns from the board, the investing public, and regulators; (3) contrary to representations in its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Twitter did not take steps to improve security; (4) Twitter's active refusal to address security issues increased the risk of loss of public goodwill; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about Twitter's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Twitter during the relevant time frame, you have until November 14, 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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Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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New York, NY 10006
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Announces Winners of 2022 National Students of the Year Philanthropic Competition
RYE BROOK, N.Y., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyone knows someone that has been impacted by the devastation of cancer and through The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) groundbreaking Students of the Year philanthropic competition, thousands of high school students across the U.S. are trying to make sure that their generation is the last one to experience it.
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Today, LLS officially announced the 2022 National Students of the Year winning team, "The Answer for Cancer" co-candidates and high school juniors — 18-year-old Jordan Loughran, 18-year-old Barrett Hight, and 17-year-old Alice Voigt of Pace Academy in Atlanta, GA raised more than $559,366 to support LLS in funding lifesaving research, support for patients, and critical advocacy efforts. The team broke a new fundraising record for the LLS Georgia – South Carolina Region.
"Each year, LLS's Students of the Year candidates continue to amaze me with what they're able to accomplish at such a young age," said Louis J. DeGennaro, Ph.D., LLS President and CEO. "In just a few short weeks, these extraordinarily driven teens step up, inspire others, and strive to reach new heights in helping LLS transform the landscape of blood cancer care and support."
All three candidates on this unstoppable team know firsthand the devastation of blood cancer. For Loughran, joining forces with LLS to fight cancer comes full circle. At just two years old, he was diagnosed with leukemia and received a lifesaving bone marrow transplant from his sister, Khaki but relapsed just three years later. Today, after multiple rounds of harsh therapies, he is proud to be 13 years in remission.
"As I got older, I became aware of the massive impact LLS's funding played in my cancer journey," said Loughran. "Not only were they the main supporters of many of the new innovations at the time of my diagnosis, but they also guided my family through the process both emotionally and financially."
Loughran credits LLS as one of the main factors he is still here today.
LLS was founded by parents who lost their child to leukemia and resolved to form a foundation to change the course of this terrible disease, which is diagnosed every 180 seconds across the U.S. After more than 70 years, the social impact organization has made significant progress in the fight against blood cancer, helping to advance 75% of the almost 100 FDA-approved blood cancer treatment options.
"Blood cancer has no current means of prevention, and it does not discriminate no matter your age, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic status," said Voigt. "Why should our age limit us in galvanizing together with our communities so that one day, nobody has to hear the word 'cancer'."
Hight fundraised to honor his friend's survivorship, and for his grandmother, Freddie Bea Watson, who is currently fighting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
"My grandmother has been so fortunate to benefit from the research that LLS has supported," said Hight. "Thanks to LLS, she has undergone multiple treatments over the last six years and continues to be hopeful that there will be something else out there on the horizon — I hope the contribution our team made helps fund that."
As part of their innovative fundraising strategy, the team leveraged their own musical talents to create an informative and inspiring song they showcased on YouTube, which has received over 1,000 views.
The 2022 National Students of the Year runners-up, "Team Mission to Remission", 17-year-old Katelyn Eberwein, 17-year-old Charley Schumacher and 17-year-old Sydney Yee of Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, NV, raised an outstanding $537,648 for LLS, breaking a new fundraising record for the LLS Desert Region.
Yee, who lost her grandfather to multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow, said, "I am hopeful no future generations must experience the pain my family felt."
"We will continue to fight for a cancer-free future!" echoed Schumacher and Eberwein.
Throughout their fundraising journey, both teams displayed outstanding presentation and networking skills that will profoundly benefit them in their future endeavors beyond high school. In addition to fundraising, Students of the Year participants learn invaluable skills through guidance and mentoring, fostering professional skills such as entrepreneurship, marketing and project management.
LLS's signature fundraisers have helped invest more than $1.5 billion in cutting-edge research worldwide, fueling nearly every critical advancement in blood cancer treatment that spans the most promising cancer research.
Despite the progress, more than a third of blood cancer patients still do not survive five years after their diagnosis.
To learn more about the Students of the Year program and how you or someone you know can get involved, visit, www.studentsoftheyear.org.
Blood cancer patients and their families can contact the LLS Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., ET.
About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) is a global leader in the fight against cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Rye Brook, NY, LLS has regional offices throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org. Patients should contact the LLS Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., ET.
For additional information visit lls.org/lls-newsnetwork. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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2022-06-23T13:56:28+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/06/23/americas-youngest-generation-is-trailblazing-way-future-without-cancer/
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Belarus says Wagner chief who staged mutiny is in Russia, raising questions about Kremlin’s strategy
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his troops are in their field camps, the president of Belarus said Thursday, raising new questions about the deal that ended the extraordinary challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim could not be independently verified, and the Kremlin refused to comment on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s whereabouts. But Russian media have reported he was recently seen at his offices in St. Petersburg.
It was not clear if Prigozhin’s presence in Russia would violate the deal, which allowed the head of the Wagner Group military contractor to move to Belarus in exchange for ending the rebellion and a promise of amnesty for him and his troops. But the reports signaled that the agreement may have allowed him to finalize his affairs in Russia.
If that’s true, it could suggest the threat posed by Prigozhin has not yet been fully defused and that the Kremlin is treading carefully with him until it can figure out what to do with troops who may still be loyal to him. Putin has said that Wagner troops can join the Russian military, retire from service or move to Belarus.
But much about the the agreement, which was brokered by Lukashenko, remains murky.
Last week, Lukashenko said the mercenary leader was in Belarus, but on Thursday he told international reporters that Prigozhin was in St. Petersburg and could also travel to Moscow if he wishes, while Wagner’s troops were in their camps. He did not specify the location of the camps, but Prigozhin’s mercenaries fought alongside Russian forces in eastern Ukraine before their revolt and also have bases on Russian territory.
He also said that Prigozhin has been given back the cash and weapons that were confiscated by Russian authorities.
Asked where Prigozhin is, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov shrugged off the question, saying that the Kremlin has neither the desire nor the means to track his movements — but reaffirmed that the deal that ended the mutiny envisaged his move to Belarus.
Lukashenko said his government offered Wagner, which has sent troops around the world to fight for Russia’s interests, the use of Belarusian military camps but that the company had not made a final decision.
The Kremlin has played down the fact that Prigozhin escaped punishment for his mutiny while other Putin critics have been met with harsh prison sentences, exile or even death, saying that the deal with the Wagner chief was necessary to avoid massive bloodshed.
The Belarusian leader shrugged off suggestions that Putin might order Prigozhin killed, saying: “If you think that Putin is so vicious and vindictive to finish him off, no, it’s not going to happen.”
On Wednesday, Russian online newspapers Fontanka and Izvestia posted videos and photos of Prigozhin’s opulent mansion in Russia’s second-largest city that showed stacks of cash and gold bullion. The images appeared to be part of the authorities’ efforts to denigrate Prigozhin, who has postured as an enemy of corrupt elites even though he has owed his wealth to Putin.
A photo hanging in the mansion showed a lineup of decapitated heads. In one published image, an oversized souvenir sledgehammer could also be seen with the inscription “for important negotiations.” The sledgehammer has become a symbol of Wagner after reports its troops used the tool to beat defectors to death.
The Russian media also published a collection of selfies that showed him posing in various wigs, fake beards and foreign uniforms, an apparent reflection of Wagner’s deployments to Syria and several African countries.
Asked if Prigozhin and his mercenaries would eventually move to Belarus, Lukashenko answered evasively that it would depend on the decisions of the Wagner chief and the Russian government.
The Belarusian leader said he doesn’t think the mercenaries’ presence in his country would lead to its destabilization and said any Wagner troops there would be required to sign a contract with Belarusian authorities that would outline conditions and limitations of their actions.
Belarusian political analyst Valery Karbalevich argued, however, that Lukashenko could feel uneasy about Wagner’s presence on his turf. “If this structure rebelled against its master once, it can do it again and again and march on Minsk instead of marching on Moscow,” Karbalevich said.
The Belarusian president dismissed suggestions that the mercenaries could attack Ukraine from Belarusian territory, which Russian troops used as a staging ground ahead of their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow has also maintained a military presence in Belarus.
During their short revolt, Prigozhin’s mercenaries quickly swept through the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and captured the military headquarters there before marching to within about 200 kilometers (125 miles) of the Russian capital. Prigozhin described it as a “march of justice” to oust his longtime foes — Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the military’s general staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, whose handling of the war in Ukraine he criticized.
The Wagner fighters faced little resistance, smashing occasional roadblocks. They also downed at least six helicopters and a command post aircraft, killing at least 10 airmen.
When the deal was struck, the Wagner chief ordered his troops to return to their camps.
The abortive rebellion represented the biggest threat to Putin in his more than two decades in power, exposing his weakness and eroding the Kremlin’s authority. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Shoigu and Gerasimov retained Putin’s favor after vanishing from public view during the mutiny, but so far they have kept their positions.
Lukashenko said he warned Prigozhin that he and his troops would be destroyed if they failed to make a quick deal to end their mutiny and that Belarus would send a brigade to help protect Moscow.
“It was necessary to nip it in the bud. It was very dangerous, as history shows,” Lukashenko said.
Asked about the deployment of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Lukashenko said they are intended to deter any aggression against the country. Putin and Lukashenko both have said that some of them already have been moved to Belarus, and the Belarusian leader reaffirmed Thursday that a “certain number” of them have been flown to Belarus and the rest will be delivered before the year’s end.
Lukashenko said that Russia would consult him on any possible use of those weapons, adding that it could only happen in response to an act aggression by NATO against Russia or Belarus.
The Belarusian leader noted that “these weapons serve strictly defensive purposes.”
He added: “Don’t touch us, and we will never use these deadly weapons.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-06T18:57:10+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/2023/07/06/belarus-says-wagner-chief-who-staged-mutiny-is-russia-raising-questions-about-kremlins-strategy/
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PHOENIX — For many Americans, the cost of raising a child from birth to 17 may now exceed $300,000.
Back in 2015, the US Department of Agriculture released a report on the costs of raising a child. The numbers were adjusted for inflation two years later and a middle-income family would have expected to pay over $230,000. With annual inflation spiking since 2020, the cost has gone up.
The Brookings Institution along with the Wall Street Journal updated the numbers from the Department of Agriculture report to account for higher inflation. They found that a married, middle-income family will now pay an average of $310,605 to raise a child that was born in 2015. The cost averages $18,271 a year.
The original report from the Department of Agriculture breaks down the extra costs involved with raising children into seven categories. The need for extra room at home is considered the biggest extra expense so housing costs make up about a third. Food comes out to 18%, child care and education is 16% followed by transportation at 15%. Health care, miscellaneous expenses and clothing are all under 10% respectively.
Brookings and WSJ looked at the annual inflation rates of all the categories for a child born in 2015 and accounted for increased annual inflation from 2.2% to 4% after 2020. At birth, Brookings estimates that the cost of the child would be just under $15,000. By the time they reach the age of 17 by 2032 costs have risen to almost $25,000.
First-year expenses can be daunting for a middle-income family. A separate study by Lending Tree that uses 2021 dollars estimates that it would cost an Arizona two-earning family about $18,000 in first-year expenses. The largest chunk which accounts for well over half of the first-year child expense is infant day care. The couple will also be expected to shell out an additional $2,500 in insurance premiums, $2,200 in transportation, and about $1,700 for food. Rent is the lowest expected increase in this instance.
The numbers by Brookings and the WSJ do not include college tuition. The original Department of Agriculture report estimates that higher-income families will pay significantly more while people with incomes under $60,000 should pay about eighty-thousand dollars less.
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2022-08-24T03:10:45+00:00
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abc15.com
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https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/raising-a-child-to-age-17-expected-to-cost-over-300-000
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FORT SMITH, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Fort Smith Police Department launches the Gun-Smart Campaign on March 20 to promote responsible gun ownership among gun owners in Fort Smith.
According to a press release from the Fort Smith Police Department, the campaign aims to educate gun owners on the importance of properly securing guns to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
The release says officers will be speaking about the campaign on radio and television. Information packets will be placed where guns are sold, as well as additional messaging through social media, traditional media, and other forms of available advertising.
The department says the campaign’s message is to lock up guns when not in use, and don’t leave them in cars, especially if they are visible.
The department says the campaign is a response to a recent surge in gun thefts from unlocked vehicles.
The release says over the last four months, 32 guns were taken from unlocked vehicles in Fort Smith.
The department points to the death of University of Arkansas-Fort Smith student Kaleb Glynn Watson in 2016 as an example who it says was killed by a teenager who had stolen a gun out of an unlocked vehicle.
“Our goal is not to be anti-gun or anti-gun ownership,” said Fort Smith Police Chief Danny Baker. “We believe that gun ownership is a right, but with that right comes the responsibility of ensuring that firearms are stored securely when not in use. The Gun-Smart Campaign is all about encouraging gun owners to take responsibility for their firearms and ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands.”
The department reminds gun owners that by properly securing guns, owners can avoid having them stolen and used in crimes.
More information on the Gun-Smart Campaign and responsible gun ownership can be found by calling 479-709-5000 or sending an email to communityrelatons@fortsmithpd.org.
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2023-03-20T22:32:21+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/fort-smith-police-launch-campaign-that-aims-to-promote-responsible-gun-ownership/
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In the spring of 1963, children and youth skipped school to march through downtown Birmingham to protest segregation. Participants recall the event and discuss where things stand in terms of racial harmony.
Copyright 2023 NPR
In the spring of 1963, children and youth skipped school to march through downtown Birmingham to protest segregation. Participants recall the event and discuss where things stand in terms of racial harmony.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-06-03T21:54:37+00:00
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wlrn.org
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https://www.wlrn.org/2023-06-03/participants-in-the-1963-childrens-crusade-remember-the-protest-and-its-legacy
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NEW YORK (AP) — The latest picture book collaboration between Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton was inspired by an unusual musical performance in Spain.
Abrams Children's Books announced Monday that “The Enchanted Symphony” will be published Sept. 12. Andrews and Walton Hamilton thought of the book during the first year of the pandemic, when they attended “Concert for the Biocene,” in which a string quartet played in front of thousands — of plants, one for each seat at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu.
“The Enchanted Symphony” is a “hopeful fairy tale,” according to Abrams. It's set in a village “beset by a mysterious fog,” but revived by a “boy's simple melody.”
“While the fog in our book evokes our pandemic experience, it also symbolizes something larger: the creeping and countless distractions that prevent us from appreciating what truly matters most in life," Andrews and Walton Hamilton said in a statement.
“For us, it’s family, community, nature, and the arts that provide true beauty and meaning,” they said.
Andrews and her daughter have worked together on numerous other books, including the “The Very Fairy Princess” series and “The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi,” based on the famous song from “The Sound of Music.” They also plan a followup to “The Enchanted Symphony.”
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2023-02-06T15:44:35+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/julie-andrews-teams-with-daughter-on-new-picture-17766350.php
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration said Wednesday it will transfer $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to benefit the Afghan people, as hunger grips every province there.
Funds will be dispersed after trustees of the new Afghan Fund meet to determine a timetable. The trustees are two Afghan economists, a U.S. government representative and a Swiss government representative.
Notably, the Taliban government will not have access to the fund, which will be held at the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. The bank in a news release said its role is “limited to providing banking services to and executing the instructions of the Board of Trustees of the Fund without involvement in the Fund’s governance or decision making.”
In the interim, Afghanistan’s central bank, which in February had $7 billion in frozen funds, “must demonstrate that it has the expertise, capacity, and independence to responsibly perform the duties of a central bank,” the U.S. Treasury and State departments said in a joint statement. “Robust safeguards have been put in place to prevent the funds from being used for illicit activity.”
International funding to Afghanistan was suspended and billions of dollars of the country’s assets abroad, mostly in the United States, were frozen after the Taliban took control of the country in August 2021 following the U.S. military’s withdrawal.
The World Bank says income and economic output in Afghanistan have dropped between 20% and 30%, imports have declined by roughly 40%, and 70% of Afghan households report they are unable to fully meet basic food or non-food needs.
In February, President Joe Biden issued an executive order that called for banks to provide $3.5 billion of the frozen money to a trust fund for distribution through humanitarian groups for Afghan relief and basic needs.
The other $3.5 billion will stay in the U.S. to finance payments from lawsuits by U.S. victims of terrorism that are still working their way through the courts, prompted by claims brought by family members of people killed on Sept 11, 2001.
“The Afghan Fund will help mitigate the economic challenges facing Afghanistan while protecting and preserving $3.5 billion in reserves from Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), Afghanistan’s central bank, for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan,” Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said.
He said the Taliban’s “repression and economic mismanagement” had exacerbated longstanding economic challenges for Afghanistan that had made the return of the funds untenable.
In a Tuesday letter to Afghanistan’s central bank, Adeyemo said until conditions for the central bank are met, their control of assets “would place them at unacceptable risk and jeopardize them as a source of support for the Afghan people.”
Shah Mehrabi, a Montgomery College economics professor, is one of the trustees of the new fund. He told The Associated Press that the money should be used primarily to maintain price stability in the country, rather than for humanitarian purposes.
“I think the purpose of board, as a member, is to address the liquidity and price stability issues in the country expeditiously, prior to a harsh winter,” he said. “There are ways we can provide relief so that Afghans are able to have food and energy and to perform their basic daily duties.”
Human Rights Watch said in August that Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis cannot be effectively addressed unless the U.S. and other governments ease restrictions on the country’s banking sector to allow economic activity and humanitarian aid.
Nearly half the Afghan population — 18.9 million people — is estimated to be acutely food insecure between June and November 2022, the World Food Programme said. All 34 provinces in the country are facing some level of crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the people of Afghanistan are facing humanitarian and economic crises born of “decades of conflict, severe drought, COVID-19, and endemic corruption.”
“Today, the United States and its partners take an important, concrete step forward in ensuring that additional resources can be brought to bear to reduce suffering and improve economic stability for the people of Afghanistan while continuing to hold the Taliban accountable,” Sherman said.
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2022-09-15T04:35:01+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-us-sets-up-afghan-relief-fund-with-frozen-central-bank-money/
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How the ‘boneless wing’ became a tasty culinary lie
By Ted Anthony – AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — One day in 2020, at the pandemic’s height, an earnest-looking man with long hair the color of Buffalo sauce stepped up to a podium in Lincoln, Nebraska, to address his city council during its public comment period. His unexpected topic, as he framed it: It was time to end the deception.
“I propose that we as a city remove the name `boneless wings’ from our menus and from our hearts,” said Ander Christensen, who managed to be both persuasive and tongue-in-cheek all at once. “We’ve been living a lie for far too long.”
With the Super Bowl at hand, behold the cheerful untruth that has been perpetrated upon (and generally with the blessing of) the chicken-consuming citizens of the United States on menus across the land: a “boneless wing” that isn’t a wing at all.
Odds are you already knew that — though spot checks over the past year at a smattering of wing joints (see what we did there?) suggest that a healthy amount of Americans don’t. But those little white-meat nuggets, tasty as they may be, offer a glimpse into how things are marketed, how people believe them — and whether it matters to anyone but the chicken.
This weekend, according to the National Chicken Council, Americans are set to eat 1.45 billion chicken wings. So if you ever wanted a deep dive into what it means to eat the wings that aren’t — and how the chicken wing’s proximity to beer, good times and football sent it soaring — now’s the time.
Today’s food landscape is brimming with these gentle impostors — things we eat that pass as other things we eat.
Surimi is fish that effectively becomes crab or lobster meat for many of us — and stars in California rolls across the land. Carrots are cut and buffed until their edges are curved and smooth, becoming ” baby carrots ” or, slightly more truthfully, “baby-cut carrots.” Impossible Burgers are plant-based delicacies that carry many of meat’s characteristics without ever having been near an animal. And “Chilean sea bass”? Not a bass at all, but a rebrand of something called a Patagonian toothfish.
Part of the reason for the rise of the “boneless wing” is money. In recent years, with prices of actual chicken wings rising, the alternative became more cost effective. The average price for prepared “boneless wings” is $4.99 a pound compared with $8.38 a pound for bone-in wings, according to Tom Super, senior vice president of communications for the National Chicken Council, citing the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He calls it “a way to move more boneless/skinless breast meat that continues currently to be in ample supply.”
“While many wing consumers argue that the wing needs a bone to impart a special taste, the ongoing success of the boneless wings has proven there are plenty of boneless wing diners,” Super said in an email.
Why? Part of it is because “boneless wings” — the quotation marks will remain for the duration of our time together — summon a powerful backstory.
“You’re associating it with the Super Bowl and parties and fun, so you transform the perception of the product,” says Christopher Kimball, founder of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, a company whose magazine and instructional TV show help people cook and teach them about food.
“Most people have no idea where any of this stuff comes from,” Kimball says. “You can blame the food companies, but we’re buying it.”
We accept them — embrace them, even. And what does it really matter, you say? They’re delicious, they’re convenient. So why poke into things that pair so perfectly with beer and make the sports-watching world a better place?
Here’s one possible reason: Could they be a microcosm of the national willingness to accept things that aren’t what they purport to be? And isn’t that something that this country struggles with mightily, particularly in the misinformation- and disinformation-saturated years since the “boneless wing” entered our world?
“It’s not really wrong, but are we tricking people?” wonders Matthew Read, who teaches advertising at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, after two decades with ad agencies. He hosts a cooking show on local television called “Spatchcock Funk.”
“The wing,” he says, “has gone from being an actual part of chicken to being just something you can sauce and eat with your hands.”
Whether cut from actual flying-related appendages or not, “boneless wings” have taken hold. The chicken council, which credits the behemoth chain Buffalo Wild Wings with inventing them, asked wing eaters in 2018 which kind of wings they preferred, and 40% placed themselves on Team Boneless. Previous years were even higher.
Christensen, a chemical engineer by day, has been on his wing crusade for years. It began when he was in college, and a group of friends had all just split with their girlfriends. Suddenly they had extra money and time, so they started going to wing restaurants three times a week. He began noticing how many “boneless wings” were ordered with no sense that they weren’t what they purported to be. A semi-comedic cause was born.
“I’m looking around and saying, `Why doesn’t anybody care?'” he said in an interview this week.
He has done informal surveys, accosting people about their wing habits, including at one recent college football game in Ohio. “The vast majority of people have no clue. Most people think it’s part of the wing. Some think it’s part of the thigh. A small group realized that it was from the chicken breast.”
His theory: Generations that grew up on chicken nuggets turn to “boneless wings” as a way of allowing themselves to continue those eating habits. “They get to pretend they’re eating like adults,” he says.
Could the very definition of the word “wing” be changing? Many wing places now offer a “cauliflower wing” alternative, whose only relationship with an actual wing is the sauce. And some vegan “wing” recipes even suggest inserting a popsicle stick into the cauliflower to approximate a chicken bone.
“Our idea of what a wing is comes from what we’re told we’re eating,” says Alexandra Plakias, who teaches at Hamilton College in New York and is the author of “Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction.”
“These kinds of mini-deceptions that seem fun kind of normalize manipulation,” Plakias says. “Is a wing a part of a bird, or is a wing a style of sauce? And that ambiguity is where I think we open up room for deception.”
And so perhaps the language evolves, though there are pockets of skeptics.
“Personally, I do think it matters. I want to know exactly what it is that I’m ordering and what’s in my food,” says Natalie Visconti, 20, of Bridgewater, New Jersey, a sophomore at Penn State University and a self-described “traditional wing” aficionado.
Christensen vows to carry on, and mentions — almost in passing — that he’s gunning to become “the world’s first chicken-wing lobbyist.” His efforts have drawn some scorn; people right and left accuse him of carrying a coded message about something political. He insists it’s nothing more than culinary truth-seeking.
“Genuinely, I really only care about boneless wings,” he says. “I have one small hill to die on. But it’s mine.”
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2023-02-11T23:00:00+00:00
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wbbjtv.com
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https://www.wbbjtv.com/2023/02/11/how-the-boneless-wing-became-a-tasty-culinary-lie/
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Russia is expelling an Estonian diplomat from Moscow in a tit for tat move following a similar action by Tallinn, Estonia's foreign ministry said Friday.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry had summoned Estonia’s charge d’affaires, who heads the European Union country’s mission in Moscow, to protest the expulsion this month of a Russian diplomat in Estonia and announce that an Estonian diplomat must leave Moscow.
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The Russian ministry warned that Moscow will also take other retaliatory action in response to the “persistently provocative anti-Russian actions by the Estonian authorities.”
Estonia's foreign ministry dismissed that charge as “ludicrous.” It said its diplomat has been given until April 5 to leave Russia, and added that the Estonian embassy in Moscow ”will continue to operate and the staff will continue their work.”
On March 24, Tallinn said a Russian diplomat's activities had violated international law, and gave the person five days to leave Estonia, according to the Baltic News Service.
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The diplomat, who Estonian broadcaster ERR said was a consul in Tallinn, had allegedly engaged in activities undermining Estonia’s security and constitutional order, spreading propaganda that justifies Russia’s war in Ukraine and causing divisions in Estonian society, BNS said.
In January, the Estonian Foreign Ministry ordered Russia to reduce the size of its embassy staff in Tallinn by more than half, to achieve parity with the number of people working at the Estonian embassy in Moscow. A total of 13 Russian diplomats and eight technical staff were made to leave Estonia at that time.
Russia responded by telling Tallinn that Estonia’s ambassador to Russia had to leave.
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2023-03-31T13:51:59+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/estonian-diplomat-expelled-from-moscow-in-tit-for-17870949.php
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Oklahoma governor signs gender-affirming care ban for kids
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma on Monday became the latest state to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors as Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that makes it a felony for health care workers to provide children with treatments that can include puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
Oklahoma joins at least 15 other states with laws banning such care, as conservatives across the country have targeted transgender rights.
Stitt, who was reelected in November, made the ban a priority of this year’s legislative session, saying he wanted to protect children. Transgender advocates and parents of transgender children say such care is essential.
Stitt signed bills last year that prohibit transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams and prevent transgender children from using school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity.
The bill Stitt signed on Monday would make it illegal to provide gender-transition medical care for anyone under the age of 18. Such treatment can include surgery as well as hormones and drugs that suppress or delay normal puberty.
Transgender advocates and parents of transgender children say such care is essential.
Several civil liberty organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, has promised to “take any necessary legal action” to prevent the law from taking effect.
“Gender-affirming care is a critical part of helping transgender adolescents succeed, establish healthy relationships with their friends and family, live authentically as themselves, and dream about their futures,” Lambda Legal, the ACLU and the ACLU said in a joint statement.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-05-02T02:20:19+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/2023/05/02/oklahoma-governor-signs-gender-affirming-care-ban-kids/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department laid out recommendations Friday for tightening laws to guard against money laundering and illicit threats to the U.S. financial system, citing the conduct of Russians backing the invasion of Ukraine as evidence of how loopholes are being exploited.
Treasury’s 32-page strategy document outlines recommendations to close loopholes in anti-money laundering laws, combat the use of real estate for money laundering schemes and enhance information-sharing between the government and private sector financial firms.
“Illicit finance is a major national security threat and nowhere is that more apparent than in Russia’s war against Ukraine, supported by decades of corruption by Russian elites,” said Elizabeth Rosenberg, Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing.
Sanctioned individuals and entities can remove identifying information from, or simply hide, their bank accounts, the department said. They can also use cryptocurrency to a limited degree or hide behind shell companies to evade financial sanctions.
“We need to close loopholes, work efficiently with international partners, and leverage new technologies to tackle the risks posed by corruption, an increase in domestic violent extremism and the abuse of virtual assets,” Rosenberg said.
Every two years, Treasury releases a report with recommendations on how to close gaps that could facilitate terrorist and illicit finance. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “demonstrates that those seeking to undermine global security and stability are exploiting these same gaps,” the report stated.
The department pointed to the number of sanctions imposed on people and entities due to the war and the potential for sanctioned individuals to evade sanctions. Earlier this month, Treasury barred individuals in the U.S. from providing accounting, legal and consulting services to anyone located in Russia.
The U.S. has worked closely with allied governments in Europe, Asia and elsewhere to impose thousands of sanctions on Russian elites, oligarchs and banks.
Earlier this year, Treasury, the Justice Department and other agencies convened a task force known as REPO — short for Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs — to work with other countries to investigate and prosecute oligarchs and individuals allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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2022-05-15T04:07:28+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/treasury-russia-war-bolsters-need-to-combat-illicit-finance/
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What your future office could look like — if you even need to be there
Companies are rethinking and rebuilding their offices as they adjust to employees’ new ways of working
Companies are coming to terms with a new reality of how work gets done. But one big question remains: What should the future office look like post pandemic?
The Post asked five companies to reimagine what the traditional office would look like as the pandemic over the past two and half years altered dramatically the way employees work — from meetings in conference rooms to video calls and flexible schedules. Companies such as Google and IBM have been rethinking the workplace, creating offices flooded with green space and fresh air and company-owned coffee shops. But it’s unclear what the exact function of the future office will be and how that will affect its design.
To be sure, these concepts may not translate directly to reality as the function of the future office is still being mapped out.
“Because companies are trying to do such different things, it won’t be surprising that their offices look different as well,” says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
We asked workplace experts Cappelli and Erica Cochran Hameen, co-director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, to evaluate the five ideas companies have developed to reimagine the traditional office. Below are the concepts, their key features and what our experts thought.
The Coffee Shop
Key features: Twilio, a communication tools company based in San Francisco, envisions the idea of company-owned coffee shops, which would offer employees free coffee drinks, ambiance and a place for employees to work without having to enter an office. The setup would be casual, with employees able to enter and leave when and as often as they please during hours of operation. Entry would be restricted to employees. The coffee shop model would be meant for areas where companies have smaller workforces, complementing its major office hubs.
“The reason you would go in is the same reason you might say, ‘I’m going to go to a coffee shop today because I just need a change of scenery,’” said Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson. “You go … because, ‘I want some coffee. I just want this buzz [of energy that’s] going on.’”
Cappelli: If executives had a choice, why would they opt for a coffee shop office, which may be an unnecessary expense? “It’s a slightly odd and romantic notion that we’re all sitting around drinking coffee and having ideas,” he said. “It would be simpler to just say why don’t we just rent a WeWork space or shared office when we need it.”
Cochran Hameen: The company-owned coffee shop has a “cool factor” but may include design challenges like ensuring adequate power receptacles, private areas and limiting noise. “It’s not likely something [workers] would do for eight hours,” she said. “But that’s a good thing.”
Nature connection
Key features: Salesforce’s Trailblazer Ranch is located on 75 acres in the Redwoods of Scotts Valley, Calif. The space, intended to be a retreat and off-site space for employees, aims to complement the software company’s main office. It offers workers the opportunity to take guided nature walks, garden tours, group cooking classes as well as do yoga, art journaling and meditation.
“Our physical spaces serve a different purpose today than they did two years ago,” said Brent Hyder, Salesforce president and chief people officer. “An essential part of our strategy is finding ways to empower our teams to come together and connect safely.”
Cappelli: Lofty investments in retreat spaces is not new, but often fade when companies need to cut costs. “I don’t think anyone thought this was stupid,” he said of previous corporate retreat locations. “They thought it was extravagant.”
Cochran Hameen: The payoff just might be worth it for the limited number of companies that can afford a retreat space. “Think about cost in terms of beneficial health to employees,” she said. “It’s the value of someone’s health.”
Corporate housing on campus
Key features: Google’s 1.1 million square feet Bay View campus based in Mountain View, Calif., sits on 42 acres — 20 acres of which are open space — and features two office buildings, a 1,000-person event center and 240 short-term employee corporate housing units. Google separated focus spaces and collaborative areas by floor. All desks have access to natural daylight and outside views with greenery scattered throughout the office. Automated window shades open and close throughout the day and the ventilation system uses 100 percent outside air vs. recycled air.
“The process gave us the chance to rethink the very idea of an office,” said David Radcliffe, Google’s vice president of real estate and workplace services said.
Cochran Hameen: The ventilation systems will not only help reduce covid-19 but cold and flu germs from filtering through the workplace. But overnight accommodations, though helpful, might also limit employees’ business travel experience.
Cappelli: The campus falls in line with Google’s historic attempts to keep people at their offices by offering them more perks — whether it be free food or spaces aimed to promote wellness. “Do I really want to work from home from my basement when I can be in this fabulous utopian space?” he said. “I think that’s what they’re doing.”
Living room collaboration
Key features: PagerDuty, a digital operations management platform, revamped its offices to cater to events, collaboration, client visits and team meetings instead of individual heads-down work after opting for a hybrid office policy that allows employees to choose a work mode that fits them best. It removed two-thirds of its desks and divided the office into what it calls “neighborhoods.” Each neighborhood, which looks like a glorified living room or cafe, has open seating areas, some desks and a spot for tea that employees can reserve. The office also features a conference room that’s in the middle of open space to promote healthy air flow.
“We basically said … we need to build a totally different vibe,” said PagerDuty Chairwoman and CEO Jennifer Tejada. “It needs to be … more like [the private membership club] Soho House and less like an office.”
Cochran Hameen: Remote work opportunities are a big selling point for workers, giving companies like PagerDuty a leg up. But managers will likely need to rethink employee evaluations, shifting from “watching them work” to a creative new method that works for the team.
Cappelli: Reservation models have the potential to create hiccups when it comes to scheduling and storing equipment. This can create a scheduling nightmare leading to overbooking and crowded spaces at times and an empty office during others.
A Morphable Office
Key features: IBM’s three-story office in Toronto is meant to be easily reconfigured based on how the office will be used each day. For quick layout changes, the technology company’s office features movable walls, adjustable workstations and lightweight furniture. It also has breastfeeding and changing room areas and meditation and prayer spaces. It is equipped with sensors to help the company monitor how spaces are used and to prevent bottlenecks.
“With our new hybrid way of working, it was really important for us to create a space … designed for both comfort and collaboration,” said IBM Canada President Dave McCann.
Cochran Hameen: The movable walls and adjustable space follows some of the “best practices” for sustainability and energy efficiency, while breastfeeding rooms and changing areas may encourage more moms to join or remain in the workforce.
Capelli: The modular approach has historically been a cost-saving measure, but removing assigned desks often forces employees to carry all their work items with them — an idea that was once popular but faded out. “It sounds like a good idea to the finance people,” he said. “The reason it died is because people hated it.”
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Heather Watson has been through a lot at Wimbledon, and now she’s made it through the third round for the first time.
The 121st-ranked Watson, making is her 12th appearance at the All England Club, advanced to the fourth round on Friday by beating Kaja Juvan 7-6 (6), 6-2.
“I know I’m not speechless because I’m blabbing on, but I don’t know what to say,” the 30-year-old Watson said on No. 1 Court. “Playing here at home in front of all you guys, the atmosphere is everything. So, please can all of you come back for my fourth round?”
The pressure on British players at their home Grand Slam can be immense. Watson and every other British player know that well.
Before Andy Murray won the men’s title, the talk among the locals would endlessly focus on Fred Perry and Virginia Wade, the last British singles champions at the All England Club.
Murray ended some of that in 2013, becoming the first British man to win the Wimbledon title since Perry in 1936. Wade, in 1977, remains the last female British champion of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament.
“I actually wasn’t that nervous,” said Watson, who had lost in the first round six times since making her Wimbledon debut in 2010.
In the next round, Watson will face Jule Niemeier of Germany. She beat Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Third-seeded Ons Jabeur also reached the fourth round, defeating Diane Parry 6-2, 6-3, while 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko beat Irina-Camelia Begu 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.
Fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari, however, was eliminated. The Greek player, who reached the semifinals at both the French Open and the U.S. Open last year, lost to Tatjana Maria of Germany 6-3, 7-5.
In the men’s draw, three Americans advanced — one to the third round and two to the fourth.
Qualifier Jack Sock finished off a 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1) victory over another American, Maxime Cressy, in a match that was suspended Thursday after the second set. That made him the eighth American man to reach the third round, the most at any Grand Slam tournament since 1996.
Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul were also among those eight, and they already earned themselves a spot in the fourth round.
The 23rd-seeded Tiafoe, who is making his fifth appearance at the All England Club, beat Alexander Bublik 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3), 6-4. Paul, seeded 30th, defeated Jiri Vesely 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
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LONDON – King Charles III has decided not to attend the international climate change summit in Egypt next month, fueling speculation that the new monarch will have to rein in his environmental activism now that he has ascended the throne.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported that the decision came after Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss objected to Charles attending the conference, known as COP27, when she met with the king last month at Buckingham Palace.
But a member of Truss' Cabinet said the government and palace were in agreement about the decision.
“That is a decision that has been made amicably, as far as I am aware, between the palace and the government,'' Simon Clarke told Times Radio. "The suggestions this morning that he was ordered to stay away are simply not true.”
Clarke also rejected suggestions that Truss didn't want Charles to attend the summit because she intends to water down Britain's climate goals. The government remains committed to the achieving its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, he said.
Under the rules that govern Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the king is barred from interfering in politics. By convention, all official overseas visits by members of the royal family are undertaken in accordance with advice from the government.
Before becoming king when Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, there had been speculation Charles would travel to the summit in the role he then held as Prince of Wales.
Charles attended the previous climate summit,COP26, last year in Glasgow, Scotland, but his attendance at this year’s conference was never confirmed. COP27 is taking place Nov. 16-18 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
When he was Prince of Wales, Charles was accused of meddling in government affairs, including allegations that he inappropriately lobbied government ministers.
But Charles is now king, and he has acknowledged that he will have less freedom to speak out on public issues as monarch than he did as the heir to the throne. At the same time, his advisers would be looking for the right time and place for Charles’ first overseas trip as sovereign.
“My life will, of course, change as I take up my new responsibilities,’’ Charles said in a televised address after his mother’s death.
“It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others.”
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Conrad Geiger: Congress: Get dark money out of U.S. climate legislation
Although addressing the urgency of the climate crisis is my main cause, I’m writing this letter because we cannot make any progress on this issue — and on so many other important issues — unless we address the inordinate influence of big-money donors.
The Disclose Act (S443) is a measure to make donations transparent. There is a hearing in Congress next week on the act. It is backed by both of our Colorado senators, Bennett and Hickenlooper, but it is important for each of us to contact their offices to voice our support so they can use that momentum to urge others to understand the significance of disclosure.
Even more importantly, we must contact friends and family of all stripes — Republican, Democrat, or independent — in all states, and ask them to contact their Senators to improve the odds that we can move one step closer to having legislation that represents the will of the people instead of special interests. If they don’t know their senators’ names or phone numbers go to: www.senate.gov.
Conrad Geiger, Boulder
Maya Key: Outdoor cats: Dedicated caregivers can provide long, happy lives
What a delightful article, from the July 8 Camera, about Beast, the beautiful kitty that calls the Boulder police station her home. As the founder and director of Wild at Heart, a local nonprofit that provides care to feral (community) cats, I was thrilled to read of the wonderful care that the staff provides for Beast. Not all cats can live in homes, and Beast is proof that with dedicated caregivers, outdoor cats can live long and happy lives.
Maya Key, Boulder
Meg Tilton: CU South: Repeal effort goes against voters’ will
Sigh. Didn’t we vote on CU South less than a year ago? Didn’t Boulder voters approve annexation by a wide margin? And now it’s back on the ballot, in a did-you-really-mean-it? repeal effort that will waste everyone’s time.
Anyone new to the issue should know that there is more going on than a July 10 letter in the Camera suggests. The letter invites readers to join the repeal movement, offering a rather romanticized portrayal of a “talented, gritty, all-volunteer group” resisting big developers. The issue is framed as one of corporate greed vs. the environment. The truth?
- Annexation will provide affordable housing for Boulder residents, including CU students, faculty and staff.
- The plan will provide flood protection. This will help thousands of residents, among them the elderly residents of Frasier Meadows. (My own parents happen to live there.)
- As part of the annexation agreement, CU will donate over a third of the land as permanent Open Space.
CU bought the CU South property over a quarter of a century ago. The university and the City of Boulder worked hard on an annexation plan that balances stakeholders’ needs. Their work paid off, and voters approved this compromise plan last November.
We live in an age of threats, with plenty of real dangers to resist. And in this context, what are those in favor of repeal protesting? Not income inequality. Not climate change. Not our lying and seditious ex-President, or our compromised Supreme Court. No. They’re devoting their time to fighting the will of the 2021 Boulder voters.
Those seeking to repeal the annexation are not Freedom Fighters. I wish they’d direct their energy elsewhere.
Meg Tilton, Boulder
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By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox second baseman Trevor Story likely will be out a bit longer than expected after manager Alex Cora said a second-opinion exam revealed a “a little hairline fracture” close to his right wrist. Story has been on the injured list with a bruise since July 14 after getting hit on the right hand with a pitch during a game on July 12 from Tampa Bay’s right-hand by Corey Kluber. The 29-year-old Story signed a $140-million, six-year deal with the Red Sox during spring training after spending his first six big-league seasons with Colorado.
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The first village the cortege passed through was Ballater, where residents regard the royal family as neighbors. Hundreds of people watched in silence and some threw flowers in front of the hearse as it passed.
“She meant such a lot to people in this area. People were crying, it was amazing to see,” said Victoria Pacheco, a guest house manager.
In each Scottish town and village the entourage drove through, they were met with muted scenes of respect. People stood mostly in silence; some clapped politely, others pointed their phone cameras at the passing cars. In Aberdeenshire, farmers lined the route with an honor guard of dozens of tractors.
Before reaching the Scottish capital, the cortege traveled down what is effectively a royal memory lane — passing through locations laden with House of Windsor history. Those included Dyce, where in 1975 the queen formally opened the U.K.’s first North Sea oil pipeline, and Fife, near St. Andrews University, where her grandson Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, studied and met his future wife, Catherine.
Sunday's solemn drive came as the queen's eldest son was formally proclaimed the new monarch — King Charles III — in the rest of the nations of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It came a day after a pomp-filled accession ceremony in England for that king that was steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty, which have now passed to me,” Charles said Saturday.
Just before the proclamation was read Sunday in Edinburgh, a protester appeared with a sign condemning imperialism and urging leaders to “abolish the monarchy." She was taken away soon afterward by police. Reaction to the protest was mixed. One man shouted, “Let her go! It’s free speech!” while others shouted: “Have some respect!”
Still, there was also some booing in Edinburgh when Joseph Morrow, Lord Lyon King of Arms, finished his proclamation with the words “God save the king!”
Ann Hamilton, 48, said she thought it was “absolutely terrible” that people booed the royal family during the proclamation of King Charles III in Edinburgh.
“There’s tens of thousands of people here today to show their respect. For them to be here, heckling through things, I think it was terrible. If they were so against it, they shouldn’t have come," she said.
Still, it was a sign of how some, including Britain's former colonies, are struggling with the legacy of the monarchy. Earlier, proclamations were read in other parts of the Commonwealth, including Australia and New Zealand.
Charles, even as he mourned his late mother, was getting to work at Buckingham Palace, meeting with the secretary-general and other representatives of the Commonwealth. Many in those nations are grappling with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their colonial legacies, which ranged from outright slavery to corporal punishment in African schools to looted artifacts held in British cultural institutions.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after an election in May, said Sunday that now was the time not for a change but for paying tribute to the late queen.
India, a former British colony, observed a day of state mourning, with flags lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country.
Amid the grief enveloping the House of Windsor, there were hints of a possible family reconciliation. Prince William and his brother Harry, together with their respective wives, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delighted mourners near Windsor Castle with a surprise joint appearance Saturday.
The queen's coffin was taking a circuitous journey back to the capital. On Monday, it will be taken from Holyroodhouse to nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, where it will remain until Tuesday, when it will be flown to London. The coffin will be moved from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state until a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.
In Ballater, the Rev. David Barr said locals consider the royals as “neighbors” and try to treat them as locals when they spend summers in the Scottish Highlands.
“When she comes up here, and she goes through those gates, I believe the royal part of her stays mostly outside," he said. “And as she goes in, she was able to be a wife, a loving wife, a loving mum, a loving gran and then later on a loving great-gran — and aunty — and be normal."
Elizabeth Taylor, from Aberdeen, had tears in her eyes after the hearse carrying the queen's coffin passed through Ballater.
“It was very emotional. It was respectful and showed what they think of the queen," she said. “She certainly gave service to this country, even up until a few days before her death.”
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The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, passing through Dundee, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Michael Boyd/PA via AP)
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The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, passing through Dundee, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Michael Boyd/PA via AP)
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Members of the public line the streets in Ballater, Scotland, as the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Members of the public line the streets in Ballater, Scotland, as the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Members of the public line the streets in Ballater, Scotland, as the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Members of the public line the streets in Ballater, Scotland, as the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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The coffin containing the body of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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The coffin containing the body of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Members of the public line the streets in Ballater, Scotland, as the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Members of the public line the streets in Ballater, Scotland, as the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II passes through as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Elliot Gray, 2, waves the Welsh national flag ahead of the Accession Proclamation Ceremony at Cardiff Castle, Wales, publicly proclaiming King Charles III as the new monarch, Sunday Sept. 11, 2022. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
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Elliot Gray, 2, waves the Welsh national flag ahead of the Accession Proclamation Ceremony at Cardiff Castle, Wales, publicly proclaiming King Charles III as the new monarch, Sunday Sept. 11, 2022. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
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Floral tributes are placed in Ballater, Scotland ahead of the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II before it passes through to make its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
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Floral tributes are placed in Ballater, Scotland ahead of the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II before it passes through to make its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
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A procession leaves after a public Proclamation to the people of Scotland to announce the Accession of King Charles III, outside St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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A procession leaves after a public Proclamation to the people of Scotland to announce the Accession of King Charles III, outside St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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A man holds up a sign among members of the public attending a public Proclamation to announce the Accession of King Charles III, outside St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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A man holds up a sign among members of the public attending a public Proclamation to announce the Accession of King Charles III, outside St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Members of the armed services march near St Giles' Cathedral, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Members of the armed services march near St Giles' Cathedral, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Members of the armed services and officials make their way to the Proclamation near St Giles' Cathedral, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Members of the armed services and officials make their way to the Proclamation near St Giles' Cathedral, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin will be transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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A tourist takes a photo on a display commemorating Queen Elizabeth II. at Piccadilly Circus in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin is leaving her beloved Scottish estate Balmoral Castle as the late monarch begins her last journey back to London for a state funeral. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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A tourist takes a photo on a display commemorating Queen Elizabeth II. at Piccadilly Circus in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin is leaving her beloved Scottish estate Balmoral Castle as the late monarch begins her last journey back to London for a state funeral. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Lance Corporal Shenkin IV, the regimental mascot goat, accompanies the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh regiment at the Accession Proclamation Ceremony at Cardiff Castle, Wales, publicly proclaiming King Charles III as the new monarch, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
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Lance Corporal Shenkin IV, the regimental mascot goat, accompanies the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh regiment at the Accession Proclamation Ceremony at Cardiff Castle, Wales, publicly proclaiming King Charles III as the new monarch, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
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The Lord Lyon King of Arms reads a public Proclamation to the people of Scotland to announce the Accession of King Charles III, outside St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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The Lord Lyon King of Arms reads a public Proclamation to the people of Scotland to announce the Accession of King Charles III, outside St Giles Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Members of the public await the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, passing through Dundee, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Michael Boyd/PA via AP)
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Members of the public await the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, passing through Dundee, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Michael Boyd/PA via AP)
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People bring flowers to Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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People bring flowers to Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Crowds of people walk to Windsor Castle to bring flowers, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Crowds of people walk to Windsor Castle to bring flowers, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Members of the public at Friarton Bridge in Perth, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022 wait for arrival of the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Members of the public at Friarton Bridge in Perth, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022 wait for arrival of the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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Thousands of people bring flowers to Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Thousands of people bring flowers to Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Crowds of people walk to Windsor Castle to bring flowers, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Crowds of people walk to Windsor Castle to bring flowers, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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The Union Jack is set on half-mast at a church outside Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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The Union Jack is set on half-mast at a church outside Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Flowers and posters for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Flowers and posters for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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King Charles III during a reception with Realm High Commissioners and their spouses in the Bow Room at Buckingham Palace, London, Sunday Sept. 11, 2022. (Victoria Jones/Pool Photo via AP)
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King Charles III during a reception with Realm High Commissioners and their spouses in the Bow Room at Buckingham Palace, London, Sunday Sept. 11, 2022. (Victoria Jones/Pool Photo via AP)
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Police line the route prior to the arrival of the Queens cortege with the hearse containing her coffin on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Police line the route prior to the arrival of the Queens cortege with the hearse containing her coffin on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Credit: Jon Super
People wait for the arrival of the Queens cortege with the hearse containing her coffin on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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People wait for the arrival of the Queens cortege with the hearse containing her coffin on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Credit: Jon Super
People wait ahead of the Queens cortege which carries the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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People wait ahead of the Queens cortege which carries the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Credit: Jon Super
People sit along a banking as they wait for the cortege with the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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People sit along a banking as they wait for the cortege with the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it makes its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Queen's coffin is being transported Sunday on a journey from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will lie at rest before being moved to London later in the week. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Credit: Alastair Grant
People wait in line to lay flowers for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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People wait in line to lay flowers for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Credit: Nariman El-Mofty
People stand beside flowers read message outside Windsor Castle in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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People stand beside flowers read message outside Windsor Castle in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, passing through Dundee, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Michael Boyd/PA via AP)
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The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland, passing through Dundee, Scotland, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, as it continues its journey to Edinburgh from Balmoral. (Michael Boyd/PA via AP)
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Credit: Michael Boyd
Flowers and posters for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Flowers and posters for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Credit: Nariman El-Mofty
People wait in line to lay flowers for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Credit: Nariman El-Mofty
People wait in line to lay flowers for Queen Elizabeth II in front of Buckingham Palace, in front of Buckingham Palace, in London, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Credit: Nariman El-Mofty
Neil Pollard arrives with his three year old son Bruce, dressed as a King's Guard, at Windsor Castle to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Neil Pollard arrives with his three year old son Bruce, dressed as a King's Guard, at Windsor Castle to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, in Windsor, England, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Well-wishers outside Buckingham Palace, London, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Sunday Sept. 11, 2022. (James Manning/PA via AP)
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Well-wishers outside Buckingham Palace, London, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Sunday Sept. 11, 2022. (James Manning/PA via AP)
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2022-09-11T16:19:20+00:00
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/queen-elizabeth-iis-coffin-takes-long-road-through-scotland/FGF7VDAI6RD3FB7SIWLKGEYXPM/
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2022-11-06T01:13:22+00:00
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WASHINGTON – Joint Base Andrews, one of the nation’s most sensitive military bases and home to Air Force One, has been locked down after reports of a man carrying an “assault-style” rifle on Thursday, authorities said.
The Maryland base was locked down after the person was reportedly seen near the base’s housing area, according to the base’s Facebook page.
Staff Sgt. Jared Duhon, a spokesperson for the base, said no shots have been fired. There was no immediate report of any injuries and additional details were not immediately available.
Joint Base Andrews, a few miles outside Washington, is home to the fleet of blue and white presidential aircraft, including Air Force One and the “doomsday” 747 aircraft that can serve as the nation’s airborne nuclear command and control centers if needed.
Last month, an intruder breached the base and gained access to part of the base’s housing complex. A resident opened fire on the trespasser. And in February 2021, a man got through the military checkpoint onto the installation, then through additional fenced secure areas to gain access to the flight line and climb into a C-40, which is the military’s 737-equivalent aircraft used to fly government officials.
“Security Forces foot and mobile patrols are out looking for the suspect,” the Facebook post read.
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Dazio reported from Los Angeles.
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2023-03-30T22:28:14+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/03/30/joint-base-andrews-on-lockdown-after-armed-person-reported/
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As Ford and GM appear poised to go big on a range of battery electric full-size pickups, Stellantis and its Ram brand are readying more than BEVs as they shift to cleaner trucks.
The range of Ram possibilities that became a little clearer last week, surrounding the reveal of the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept at CES, includes an electric light-duty truck with a gasoline-powered range extender and, perhaps, future hydrogen fuel-cell versions of its U.S. heavy-duty pickups and vans.
As reported on Thursday, Ram CEO Mike Koval stated to Green Car Reports that a range-extended version of the upcoming Ram EV “will carry all of those characteristics” of the Ram Revolution but will also offer what he described as “class-leading real-world range.”
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, in a roundtable interview with journalists, including Green Car Reports, directly following the CES reveal, elaborated—and claimed what sounds to be a late-mover advantage.
“I’m taking advantage of not being the first, and having the leisure to engineer my product in a way that is going to beat the guys that are already there,” said Tavares.
The global CEO said that Ram is looking at four different factors as it designs its electric trucks: Payload, towing, charging speed, and range. With a composite index on those four factors, it will beat everything in the market, according to Tavares.
“So far that doesn’t exist in the market,” he added, noting that existing entries all involve a higher level of compromise in particular aspects.
Range-extended means electric first
At some stages, over the past couple of years, Ram has also hinted that a plug-in hybrid truck is in the works, too. But Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares made clear, in a roundtable interview following the reveal, that the upcoming plug-in version of the Ram is a range-extended version of the electric truck.
“A range extender is not a plug-in hybrid,” said Tavares, responding to a question asking for a little more clarification on the truck, which has been confirmed but not yet detailed. “A plug-in hybrid is something else.”
The company hasn’t revealed anything yet about the electric truck’s production specs, let alone those of the range-extended version. Taking executive statements in context, the possibility of a plug-in hybrid Ram (with a full-size truck engine) appears to be off the table for now—leaving unclear how Ram plans to provide a long-distance towing solution with a smaller range-extending engine.
That of course has led to speculation about where the Ram’s range extender might be installed. Toward the rear of the truck and under the bed is the most likely location—with space freed up by what’s likely to be a much smaller battery pack versus in BEV versions.
A range-extended tow rig?
Very few range-extended EVs have made it to market, as they face some stark challenges. And a range-extended full-size truck used for even occasional towing seems to be up against many of them.
Any such electric truck will need to be able to tow up long grades whether in range-extended mode or not—requiring a small engine and generator capable of not falling behind on the power needed by the pickup’s electric drive system.
One of the most noteworthy examples is the BMW i3, which packed a 0.7-liter 2-cylinder gasoline engine under the rear cargo floor—roughly doubling the EV’s range, to 180 miles from 2017 on, with less than two gallons of gas. Earlier examples faced an issue in which the vehicle didn’t perform as well when it used up its plug-in charge, and simply couldn’t keep up on long grades at highway speeds.
Shocked gas-station attendant gets 1.507 gallons into the #BMW #i3 – “This is full? Really?” pic.twitter.com/gsafdhZJuT
— Bengt Halvorson (@ben_gt) March 24, 2015
Among the few other examples, Infiniti dropped plans for range-extended EVs at the core of the Nissan luxury brand’s lineup. Concerns that the vehicles wouldn’t actually be very efficient in range-extended operation may have been related to that decision.
The Karma Revero or GS-6—formerly Fisker Karma—remains one of the other true examples of a range-extended EV. It functions essentially as a series hybrid after its plug-in charge is depleted, relying on the engine to generate enough charge for the propulsion system, with the battery as a buffer.
The Chevrolet Volt, for example, wasn’t actually a range-extended EV as it engaged the engine to the drive wheels at highway speeds.
Ram will use a unique platform for the fully electric and range-extended truck—STLA Frame—while gasoline versions of the Ram will continue to be refined. What distinguishes STLA Frame may be that it was designed from the start to tuck a range extender and fuel tank within the frame, alongside the battery pack perhaps.
Pragmatic plug-in faces anti-ICE dogma
Tavares said that the range-extended electric truck will be an interesting case for those who are pragmatic—allowing them to go zero emissions downtown, but giving them significant range for getting to another city, perhaps while towing or hauling.
“If you are dogmatic and you say I don’t want fossil (fuel) as the entry point of my decision, then it doesn’t work, because you have an ICE inside,” said Tavares. “You may if you are dogmatic just push back on it basically, there is an ICE, it’s over, I don’t consider that.”
On that pragmatic point, it’s likely that Ram’s truck will still offer a reasonably large battery—large enough to deliver that towing ability, as well a plug-in range stepping closer to the 50 miles that California’s Air Resources Board is asking for starting in 2026, as part of the ACC II rules a number of other states—including the entire U.S. West Coast—have already signed on to.
Stellantis is already making hydrogen fuel-cell vans in Europe and aims to bring hydrogen fuel-cell technology to its U.S. heavy-duty trucks, Tavares confirmed. “It’s a possibility; the technology will be available for our Ram brand—and for the ProMaster in particular,” he said, adding that it will ultimately be the decision of Ram CEO Koval.
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2023-01-10T01:39:11+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/automotive/internet-brands/ram-confirms-range-extended-ev-considers-fuel-cell-hd-trucks/
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The Story So Far: This is the final part of the Shopkeeper Killer series. Thus far, four vicious ‘merchant murders’ from 1963-64 go unpunished for nearly 60 years, despite the largest manhunt in Harrisburg history and a detour into injustice for two teen suspects. Then, the current DA’s phone rings.
Dauphin County District Attorney Francis Chardo often says he has plenty of “21st-century homicides” to keep him busy. Yet, he couldn’t resist being drawn nearly 60 years into Harrisburg’s past.
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2022-06-25T10:50:56+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/06/district-attorneys-quest-unmask-harrisburgs-shopkeeper-killer-after-60-years.html
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN9) — Looming water shortages on the Colorado River have many people thinking about conserving water.
“If each homeowner harvested rainwater on site, then that would make the river flowing down the street less,” said Tucson Water Harvesters Member Sara Birtalan.
Birtalan says a few techniques can help you conserve water while keeping a beautiful yard.
“Rainwater is such an amazing resource, and so why let it run away down the street? Capture it and use it for the plants you want.”
She says native plants thrive in our environment and do not need irrigation after they are established. Contoured landscaping slows rushing water and gives it time to soak into the soil. You can maximize the moisture content by adding mulch on top.
“Also adding grasses to your basins so the roots act like straws and let the water in,” she said.
Rainwater can also be actively harvested from your roof and into a cistern. That water can be used for non-native plants or a vegetable garden.
Birtalan says one inch of rain on her roof can give her system 1,600 gallons of water.
“The rebates from Tucson Water are pretty fantastic,” she said. “There is a $2,000 rebate for a tank system and a $500 rebate for doing a passive basin system in your yard.
Birtalan says harvesting rainwater and using native plants makes her feel connected to the desert she lives in.
“See what amazing plants grow here and how beautiful they are."
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Bivian Contreras is a real-time editor for KGUN 9. Bivian graduated from the University of Arizona School of Journalism with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Broadcast and is currently pursuing a degree in Broadcast Operational Meteorology at Mississippi State University. She is an Arizona native from Nogales and looks forward to becoming a meteorologist one day or a news anchor. Share your story ideas and important issues with Bivian by emailing bivian.contreras@kgun9.com or by connecting on Instagram, and Twitter.
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2022-06-01T00:25:53+00:00
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kgun9.com
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https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/rainwater-harvesting-and-native-landscaping-in-tucson
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Working in a prison is no cake walk, but thank goodness we have people who are willing to step up and perform the task of guarding our sentenced criminals. Yes the position does provide good benefits and a working wage but at what cost? Day after day there are fights among the prisoners over drugs or a bevy of complaints, and the corrections officers are given the task to break up those fights at the cost of getting hurt themselves. Drugs somehow “slip” into the jails and can give “super” strength to those affected. Trying to control a human high on drugs is no easy feat, especially when the prisoners’ rights cannot be violated under New York State law.
Every day more and more officers are retiring to avoid getting hurt behind these concrete walls and leave the brunt of the prisons being short staffed with workers over scheduled for double shifts. When will New York State get a grip on what goes on in the jails? Help the officers do their jobs in a safe environment; if a prisoner knows they can’t be controlled it becomes a free for all for all involved. Keep our workers safe.
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East Amherst
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2023-05-19T21:12:50+00:00
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buffalonews.com
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https://buffalonews.com/opinion/letters/letter-state-must-strive-to-keep-corrections-officers-safe/article_517b5c2a-f4d7-11ed-bb08-275765434e89.html
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A shift in migration patterns is bringing thousands of migrants to remote South Texas. This development has transformed the area into the busiest sector of the border for several months running.
Copyright 2022 NPR
A shift in migration patterns is bringing thousands of migrants to remote South Texas. This development has transformed the area into the busiest sector of the border for several months running.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-09-22T22:18:30+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2022-09-22/avoiding-big-u-s-crossing-points-migrants-are-now-going-through-remote-texas-towns
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One year ago, David Zajac was brand new to the Falls City Council.
On Monday, his colleagues elected him as their chair, propelling the sill political newcomer into that leadership role after just 366 days in elected office. Zajac's 2022 election to a council seat was his first successful run for public office.
"I'd like to thank my colleagues for the honor," Zajac said as he joined in the unanimous vote to move to the center chair on the dais in the City Council chambers.
The annual City Council reorganization meeting also saw Council Member Vincent Cauley (R) formally sworn-in to replace out-going Council Chair John Spanbauer, who resigned his seat prior to the scheduled expiration of his term set for 2023. Recently re-elected State Assemblyman Angelo Morinello was also sworn-in for his new term.
In its only formal actions, the council reaffirmed the city's long-standing investment policies and designated the Niagara Gazette as the city's official newspaper for government notices.
Zajac said his decision to seek the post of Council chair came after consultations with Spanbauer and other members. The Council consists of four Republicans and one Democrat.
"It was a big decision, but after speaking with John (Spanbauer) and my other colleagues I decided the only way to get experience is to do the job," Zajac said.
Zajac said he believes that Spanbauer and former Republican Council Member and current County Legislator Chris Voccio will provide him mentorship in his new role.
The new Council chair says he sees a number on major issues on the horizon for the panel, especially the on-going debate over the proposed Centennial Park project.
"Well, the elephant in the room is Centennial Park," Zajac said, "and the eminent domain that we're having a healthy discussion on."
Zajac also acknowledged that the city is entering into what may become protracted litigation with the cryptocurrency industry over attempts to regulate where and how bitcoin mining in the city can take place. The Council has adopted amendments to the city zoning code to address concerns from residents over how the companies operate.
"The city had to take action (on high energy use industries)," Zajac said. "It was very disruptive and I think the city had to take action to get them in compliance. Hopefully they'll become the good neighbors they claim they want to be."
In addition to bitcoin mining, Zajac said he believes the Falls will be out front in regulating the newly legal cannabis industry.
"I think it's going to be a learning curve for a lot of municipalities," Zajac said.
And the council chair said he's keeping an eye on the negotiations for a new gaming compact between the state and the Seneca Nation of Indians.
"I'm hoping it's progressing in a positive manner," Zajac said. "We hope (the negotiations) go as good as they can."
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2023-01-03T04:17:15+00:00
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niagara-gazette.com
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https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/zajac-selected-as-new-falls-city-council-chair/article_25fb3410-8ac6-11ed-844a-cb22b9aed18a.html
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(NEXSTAR) — Is it your lucky day? Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is a massive $940 million, the eighth-largest prize in the game’s history. Winning numbers for the July 28 jackpot are: 52, 28, 5, 63, and 10. The Mega ball number is 18. Friday’s Megaplier is 5X.
The estimated $940 million prize has been building since someone last matched all six numbers and won the jackpot April 18. Since then, there have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
The $940 million pot on the line Friday night will be that high only if a single player wins and they choose to be paid through an annuity of one immediate payment or 30 annual allotments. But jackpot winners nearly always take the cash in a lump sum, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $472.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Tickets are $2 and there are a total of nine ways to win a prize. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Tuesdays and Fridays.
USA Mega, which tracks Mega Millions statistics, says the most common Mega Millions numbers are 17, 10, 14, 31 and 4 for the first five numbers. The most common Mega ball number is 22.
The biggest jackpot in Mega Millions history is $1.537 billion back in 2018 and was claimed by one lucky winner in South Carolina.
If no one claims Friday’s jackpot, the next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled to be held Tuesday, August 1.
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2023-07-29T04:45:00+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/mega-millions-here-are-the-winning-numbers-for-940m-jackpot-2/
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Rep. Jim Himes (Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Monday that the U.S. will “learn a lot” from the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by the military over the weekend.
“There’s a lot of value in observing an asset like this. What did we learn by watching this thing over a period of time? When were the decisions taken? And most interestingly, what are we going to learn about the equipment, right? Who made the semiconductors that are on this thing? What are its capabilities?” Himes said on “CNN This Morning.”
“That’s one of the elements that is being lost in this whole conversation, you know, being able to capture, hopefully undamaged … what should be their cutting-edge surveillance technology is just a huge intelligence win,” Himes said.
President Biden ordered the military to down the balloon on Saturday after the aircraft spent days traveling through U.S. airspace.
China has said the aircraft was a civilian weather balloon blown off course, but a top U.S. defense official said Sunday that the balloon was “clearly crossing over sensitive sites” during the flyover, particularly looking to monitor sensitive military areas.
The balloon crashed down from 60,000 feet off the coast of the Carolinas. Authorities recovered some of the wreckage and have warned civilians not to touch any additional debris that may wash ashore.
Defense officials say the material recovered from the balloon refutes China’s claim that it was civilian tech and is “of intelligence value” to the U.S. in learning more about Beijing and its surveillance operations.
“We have learned technical things about this balloon and its surveillance capabilities. And I suspect if we are successful in recovering aspects of the debris, we will learn even more,” a defense official said.
The Gang of Eight — a group consisting of House and Senate leadership plus the top lawmakers from both chambers’ intelligence committees — is set to receive a briefing on the balloon from the Biden administration as soon as Tuesday.
Senators are set to be briefed on the downed balloon next week.
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2023-02-06T16:57:50+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/hill-politics/top-intelligence-committee-democrat-well-learn-a-lot-from-downed-chinese-balloon/
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WATCH: Texas family rides out tornado in their SUV
PASADENA, Texas (KHOU) - Days after a ferocious tornado ripped through parts of Texas, a grandmother is recounting how she and her family survived the storm while trapped in their SUV.
Irma Cantu and her daughter had just picked up her 18-year-old grandson from Pasadena High School on Tuesday afternoon when the powerful winds and rain of a storm hit.
The three were stuck in Cantu’s Land Cruiser SUV outside the school and couldn’t go any further, even as a tornado was bearing down on them.
“I looked around. There was nowhere that we could go, so, I just put the car in park. I put my emergency brake on,” Cantu said.
Dashcam video reveals just how heavy the winds and rain were. It shows limited visibility and objects hitting the SUV’s front windshield.
“I could feel objects hitting my car repeatedly. It was terrifying,” Cantu said. “It was a very scary experience.”
The footage from the video gets noisier as the tornado gets closer, and Cantu’s daughter begins to pray that she and her family will be protected.
Cantu, however, appears to stay calm.
“I guess you’re either going to panic or you’re not,” she said. “No matter what happened, I knew that we would be OK, regardless of what did happen.”
In the end, the family was OK, but their SUV suffered damage, including a large dent to the rear driver’s side door.
When asked if there was anything she would do differently, Cantu said yes.
“Definitely in advance, when I see that there is going to be those warnings, I’m sure going to advise my daughter not to send her son to school. I would not have left the house,” she said.
The National Weather Service determined the tornado was an EF3, which means it packed winds between 136 and 165 miles per hour.
Copyright 2023 KHOU via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-01-29T07:34:08+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/2023/01/29/watch-texas-family-rides-out-tornado-their-suv/
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BRISTOL, Va. – There were no postgame fireworks after Monday afternoon’s Appalachian League game at DeVault Stadium and the Bristol State Liners didn’t provide much pop either.
The State Liners managed just six hits and were kept off the scoreboard in an 8-0 setback to the Bluefield Ridge Runners that could be classified as an Independence Day dud.
Bristol (10-20) was blanked for the second time this season and had just one hit that went for extra bases – Sean Smith Jr’s double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning.
“That last inning, I probably hit the ball 100 [miles-per-hour] and the [second baseman] picked it,” said Bristol first baseman Daniel Hicks, a Tennessee High graduate who attends Rhodes College. “It’s just a case where we hit balls at people and we didn’t get hits with runners in scoring position. That’s kind of how it happens sometimes.”
One of the only positives for Bristol was the pitching performance of Brandon Decker from Michigan’s Oakland University.
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He was tagged with the tough-luck loss after yielding one run on five hits over five impressive innings. The 19-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one in his second start of the season.
Decker has a 1.00 ERA in 18 innings of work and did so well out of the bullpen that he earned a spot in the starting rotation.
“I was a reliever at school this season and the first few weeks down here,” Decker said. “So, I’m getting used to starting and getting back in that groove of four or five innings at a time.”
The only blemish on Decker’s day was the two-out RBI double he yielded to Bluefield’s Kaelen Culpepper (Kansas State) in the fifth inning.
“I felt pretty good and originally, everything was working,” Decker said. “My cutter was good. I just gave up a couple of hits in a row there in the fifth inning and our offense didn’t have the best day. That’s just kind of how it went.”
Things went exceptional for Bluefield reliever Reilly Owen, who plays for NCAA Division III Shenandoah University of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and attended William Monroe High School in Virginia.
He entered Monday with a 14.85 ERA, but spun five scoreless innings to lower that number to 8.49 and notch his first Appy League victory.
Owen recorded six strikeouts.
“The fastball and curveball felt good and I was throwing strikes,” Owen said. “It’s the first time I’ve really felt good all summer.”
Owen knew things were going his way in the fifth inning when Bristol’s Justin Rubin (Virginia) hit a sharp bouncer back up the box, but the hurler stuck his glove behind his back and speared the hard-hit ball.
“I play around with that while throwing before the game and stuff,” Owen said. “I didn’t expect to catch it. That was pretty cool.”
Bluefield (12-17) ended any drama by sending 11 men to the plate and scoring five times in the seventh inning. Luke Allain (Bucknell), Davis Gaston (Central Alabama Community College) and Spencer Floyd (Lenoir-Rhyne) polished off the shutout on the mound for the Ridge Runners.
NOTES: A scary moment for the State Liners occurred in the top of the first inning when left fielder Jack Tomlinson (San Joaquin Delta College) and shortstop Hector Mangual (Missouri) collided while pursuing a shallow flyball. Mangual remained in the game, while Tomlinson walked off the field under his own power and left the stadium to be examined at the hospital. … Bristol relief pitchers Marshall Raper (Catawba Valley Community College) and Peyton Jula (Austin Peay) made their debuts with the team on Monday. Twenty-three different guys have pitched in a game for the State Liners this season. … Bristol is 3-10 at home and 7-10 on the road. … Bluefield leadoff hitter Grant Voytovic (Bucknell) reached base in each of his six plate appearances on Monday. He got on via a single, double, hit by pitch, fielder’s choice, error and walk. …Bluefield’s Jackson Feltner (Morehead State) hit a 410-foot home run in the seventh inning. It was his seventh blast of the season. … After two days off, Bristol plays at Elizabethton on Thursday. The State Liners return home Sunday to begin a five-game homestand.
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2022-07-05T01:51:54+00:00
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https://heraldcourier.com/sports/state-liners-fizzle-against-ridge-runners-8-0/article_a6eb46ba-fbf0-11ec-beb1-673985eb4be3.html
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By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) — Nissan will more aggressively push electric vehicles to take advantage of a new U.S. law that gives up to $7,500 in tax credits, the Japanese automaker said Friday.
President Joe Biden signed the landmark climate change and health care bill into law last month. The tax credit can be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle that’s made in the U.S.
The Nissan Leaf electric car is among the models that qualifies, but, under the law, the vehicles must contain a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent to be eligible.
Chief Sustainability Officer Joji Tagawa acknowledged the qualification process was complex, while stressing Nissan was eager to take advantage of the law to alleviate costs to the customer.
“We are in the process of making a thorough analysis at the moment,” he told reporters in an online briefing, noting details of what Nissan might do were still undecided.
Tesla models, as well as the Ford F Series electric pickup, BMW X5 and the Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid are among the models that will be able to qualify for the tax credits.
Nissan Motor Co., allied with French automaker Renault, was among the first to bank on zero-emission all-electric vehicles with the Leaf, which went on sale in 2010. More than 600,000 Leaf electric cars have been sold worldwide so far.
Major automakers around the world have recently announced investments to speed up the move toward electric vehicles, as worries grow about climate change and gas prices.
Nissan said it’s trying to make its operations and products cleaner, safer and more inclusive, examining sourcing, production and sales, as well as its lineup. The company, based in Yokohama, Japan, will work with alliance partners and governments to achieve those goals, Tagawa said.
Nissan’s brand image was tarnished when Carlos Ghosn, a star executive for two decades at Nissan, was arrested in Japan 2018 on charges of underreporting his compensation and misusing company money. Ghosn jumped bail in December 2019, and now lives in Lebanon. He says he is innocent and was unfairly targeted by some at Nissan worried about Renault gaining greater influence.
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2022-09-02T08:11:48+00:00
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GUTHRIE, Texas — The manager of the 6666 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas has died, according to the ranch's Facebook page.
The ranch is known not only for its history, but also as the filming location for the TV series "Yellowstone" in Season 5.
Dr. Glenn Blodgett died Nov. 20 at the age of 74.
Blodgett was a businessman, horseman and veterinarian who had a deep love for horses and the western lifestyle.
The 6666 Ranch posted a statement on their Facebook page, saying:
"Doc to all who knew him, has managed the horse division for forty years. His impact on the performance horse industry and the quarter horse itself, will likely outlive us all. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him, and deeply mourned by his 6666 family."
If you'd like to see the story we shot with him, click here.
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2022-12-07T16:31:39+00:00
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9news.com
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https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/6666-ranch-dr-glenn-blodgett-dies/513-e0b6dd58-d9f7-4cfc-bfdc-48994ae1f297
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Thinkific Labs Inc. ("Thinkific" or "the Company") (TSX: THNC), a leading cloud-based software platform that enables entrepreneurs and established businesses of all sizes to create, market, and sell online learning products, will report its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 after market close on Thursday, August 4, 2022.
Management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial and operational results at 2:30pm PT (5:30pm ET) on Thursday, August 4, 2022.
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2022-07-21T15:06:25+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/21/thinkific-announces-timing-second-quarter-2022-results-conference-call-webcast/
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Danny Briere is not reluctant to say the word his predecessor willfully avoided when plotting the best course for the forlorn Flyers: rebuilding.
Briere knows the Flyers are a mess — the depressed state of the team a topic former general manager Chuck Fletcher rarely addressed head-on — and is using what time he has as the interim GM to show he’s the right person to fix them.
That starts with the hard truth.
“I don’t think this is a quick fix,” Briere said Sunday. “That’s my belief and that’s why I’m not afraid to use the word rebuild.”
Briere was promoted to interim general manager on Friday and replaced Fletcher after he was fired following 4 1/2 seasons and only one playoff appearance. The Flyers have just 24 wins, their 59 points are third-fewest in the Eastern Conference and they will miss the playoffs for a third straight season.
Yes, the record was abysmal, but what ultimately doomed Fletcher was his inability to settle on a true plan to turn the Flyers into a perennial playoff team. He touted the Flyers this season as a playoff team, even with a mismatched roster of aging, overpriced veterans, too few prospects and so many injured players — such as Cam Atkinson and Ryan Ellis — it was easy to see it was going to be a long season in Philadelphia.
Well, easy for everyone except Fletcher.
Coach John Tortorella has been blunt about the hard days ahead from his first day on the job and never backed down from saying the Flyers need a multiyear process to become a playoff team. The low point came in December when on the same day at different news conferences, Tortorella said the team was “not even in the foundation, we’re at the footer,” while Fletcher said the Flyers were still in play for a wild-card spot and he expected them to remain competitive the rest of the season.
The Flyers, who open a seven-game homestand this week, have won two games since Feb. 9 and are on a three-game losing streak.
Briere championed Tortorella’s hiring and the pair are on the same page when it comes to the hard work needed to at least make the Flyers competitive, much less in the hunt for Philadelphia’s first Stanley Cup since 1975.
“What was really striking for me was how he was going to rebuild the culture over here,” Briere said. “Looking at the last couple of years, it was tough to watch, at times. I felt we were an easy team to play against. You don’t realize how important culture is until you lose it.”
The 45-year-old Briere, a beloved former Flyer who led the team to its last Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2010, has one caveat when it comes to rebuilding.
“I want to make sure rebuild doesn’t mean fire sale,” he said. “We’re not going to get rid of everybody.”
Briere seemingly will have a major say in the direction of the franchise. The interim tag isn’t expected to stick and his fast rise through the organization likely means he gets the job full time. Briere said the interim tag for now “was the right thing to do,” and team chairman Dave Scott said a “restructuring” of the front office was in the works. Fletcher also served as team president. The Flyers will now use two people in those roles.
Briere also was quick to say he respected the Flyers’ veteran consiglieres of Bobby Clarke, Bill Barber, Paul Holmgren and Dean Lombardi but didn’t know how the foursome would factor into any future decision-making.
The Flyers have only three free agents — and Fletcher’s failure to deal James van Riemsdyk at the trade deadline was an organizational black eye — and loads of veterans such as Atkinson, Kevin Hayes, Travis Konecny and Ivan Provorov all on the hook for hefty salaries for multiple seasons. Moving them could be a challenge. Briere said while some younger players such as Noah Cates, Owen Tippett and Cam York could be foundational pieces, no Flyer is untouchable in trade talks this summer.
It’s now up to Briere to think ahead, not just this offseason, but to map out a future for many seasons beyond this one.
Draft the right prospects. Sign and trade for healthy, productive players. Keep their own talent from regression. Don’t take shortcuts. It’s a rewarding cocktail that has eluded the Flyers for a decade.
Briere is up for the challenge.
“Oh, there’s no doubt in my mind that I can do the job,” he said.
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2023-03-13T13:10:12+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/flyers-interim-gm-briere-believes-franchise-needs-a-rebuild/
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Health officials in New York have discovered a case of polio in an adult — the first case in the country since 2013.
The good news is most people have nothing to worry about. "Unless you're unvaccinated," according to retired family physician and polio survivor Marny Eulberg.
The New York State Department of Health said the unvaccinated individual from Rockland County likely contracted the virus from someone outside of the country who had taken an oral polio vaccine, which hasn't been authorized for use in the U.S. since 2000.
Additional details about the patient have yet to be released, but Eulberg said this instance will likely be attributed to the oral vaccine, which contains weakened live strains of the virus.
Over time, this weaker strain of polio can mutate and behave more like a natural version of the virus and spread to unvaccinated people. This is defined as a vaccine-derived polio virus case. Had the individual in New York been vaccinated, Eulberg said, this wouldn't have happened.
The majority of people in the United States have been vaccinated against polio — nearly 93% of children have by the age of two, the CDC says — because many states children require a polio vaccine to attend school. However, some people are granted religious exemptions and a handful of states leave that decision to the parents, Eulberg notes.
"Polio is a viral infectious disease that a small percentage of cases attack the nerves in the spinal cord that tell the body what to do and then causes paralysis," she said.
Given the seriousness of the virus, New York's Rockland County is urging unvaccinated residents to get the vaccine and announced clinics to make it easy for local residents to do so.
Eulberg was infected with polio in 1950 when she was just 4 years old — five years before a vaccine was available in the United States. She was hospitalized for six months. She said her left leg was paralyzed and she required a leg brace and crutches to get around for a portion of her childhood.
By the time she was in high school she no longer needed the brace or crutches because the surviving nerves made up for the ones damaged by the virus. But 35 years later, her condition began to deteriorate.
About half of all polio survivors experience some level of paralysis later in life, she explained. Though there's no definitive answer as to why that happens, the leading theory is that the surviving nerves wear down over time.
"It's not polio coming back; we're not contagious," Eulberg said. "It's just something that happens to up to 50% of the people who had polio in the past and it happens 20 to 50 years later."
Polio has more or less been eradicated across the globe, but remains in impoverished countries that struggle with vaccination rates and clean water. Most cases remain in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rotary International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation renewed their partnership in January by pledging up to $450 million to help eradicate the polio virus globally.
Editor's note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is among NPR's financial supporters.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-07-23T13:06:16+00:00
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8-over 78 by Robert Streb in first round of the Genesis Scottish Open
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July 07, 2022
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July 07, 2022
In his first round at the Genesis Scottish Open, Robert Streb hit 0 of 13 fairways and 0 of 18 greens in regulation, finishing at 8 over for the tournament. Streb finished his day tied for 151st at 8 over; Cameron Tringale is in 1st at 9 under; Gary Woodland is in 2nd at 6 under; and Justin Harding is in 3rd at 5 under.
On the 147-yard par-3 sixth, Streb's tee shot was a drop where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 7 over for the round.
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2022-07-08T09:48:49+00:00
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(The Hill) — The Labor Department on Tuesday unveiled a proposed rule that would reclassify some independent contractors as company employees, a move that could disrupt the gig economy.
The highly anticipated rule takes aim at companies that the Biden administration says “misclassify” their employees as contractors. By becoming employees, those workers would be covered by overtime and minimum wage laws that don’t apply to contractors.
“Misclassification deprives workers of their federal labor protections, including their right to be paid their full, legally earned wages,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh in a statement.
Labor unions have been pushing the Biden administration to go after industries that rely on contractors, including ride-share companies such as Uber and Lyft, noting that those workers are losing out on key benefits and will have trouble unionizing due to their contractor status.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that misclassification is a problem in a host of industries, including home care, janitorial services, delivery, trucking and construction. The department said the widespread issue makes it difficult for some businesses to compete with those that misclassify their workers as contractors.
The Biden administration rule would replace Trump administration guidance that made it easier for companies to classify workers as contractors. It will likely draw intense opposition from business groups that pushed for the Trump administration rule.
Uber and Lyft each saw their stock price fall roughly 14 percent following the announcement. Gig companies could see their labor costs increase as much as 30 percent if they were required to reclassify contractors as employees, experts say.
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2022-10-11T17:20:16+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/national/labor-department-proposes-rule-to-reclassify-contractors-as-employees/
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New YORK (AP) — HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing around 250 striking employees reached a tentative agreement providing increases to entry level salaries. If union members ratify the contract, it will run through the end of 2025 and end a walkout that began nearly three months ago.
HarperCollins and Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers released separate, identical statements Thursday night, announcing "increases to minimum salaries across levels throughout the term of the agreement, as well as a one time $1,500 lump sum bonus to be paid to bargaining unit employees following ratification."
No other details were immediately available.
Mid- and entry-level staffers in departments ranging from marketing to book design asked for a starting salary boost from $45,000 to $50,000, along with greater union protection and increased efforts to enhance diversity. Employees have worked without a contract since last spring and went on strike Nov. 10.
The industry and others closely followed the walkout, which drew attention to growing unhappiness over wages that have traditionally been low in book publishing and have made it hard for younger staffers without outside help to afford living in New York City, the nation's publishing hub.
Earlier this week, Macmillan announced it was raising starting salaries from $42,000 to $47,000. The other three major New York publishing houses — Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA and Simon & Schuster — offer starting salaries between $45,000 and $50,000.
A months-long impasse without negotiations led to criticism of HarperCollins by agents, authors and others in the book community who alleged the publisher was not trying reach a deal.
HarperCollins, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, agreed on Jan. 26 to talks with a federal mediator. Soon after, HarperCollins announced plans to lay off 5% of North American employees, citing declining revenues and growing costs.
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2023-02-10T04:22:26+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/harpercollins-and-striking-union-reach-tentative-17775688.php
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Rory McIlroy moved into the void left by the departure of Tiger Woods at the British Open, holing a bunker shot for eagle and revving up the gallery at St. Andrews at every turn Saturday as he moved closer to ending eight years without a major.
Cameron Smith, who started with a two-shot lead, took double bogey on the 13th hole when he tried a bold play with his feet in a pot bunker. Cameron Young went over the 16th green and then back down the other side for a double bogey on the 16th hole.
Dustin Johnson putted across the green and into a bunker and fell six shots behind.
McIlroy and Hovland, who were at 16-under 200, had no such trouble Saturday.
Hovland holed a pair of 40-foot putts on his way to four straight birdies on the front nine to seize the lead. McIlroy finally caught him by holing out from a pot bunker some 80 feet away for eagle on the 10th hole, setting off a roar that could be heard all the way back at the Royal & Ancient clubhouse.
McIlroy only a day earlier tipped his cap to Woods as he started his second round and Woods was on his way to missing the cut, crossing the Swilcan Bridge for what might have been last time. The R&A set the tee times that way so they would pass each other.
Woods stands alone in driving the sport, though McIlroy is the most popular worldwide, and it sounded like that — on the first tee when McIlroy was introduced, for every birdie, and when he took the lead for the first time with a birdie on the 14th.
“I love that I’ve got so much support,” McIlroy said. “But at the same time, I need o keep in my own little world and try to play a good round of golf. Hopefully, that’s enough.”
His lone mistake was coming out of the left rough and over the 17th green, across the road and near the stone wall. He played a safe pitch onto the green and two-putted for bogey.
Hovland, bogey-free for the round, showed off some magic of his own on the 17th by putting off the dirt path just short of the road, up the hill to about 5 feet for a par.
At age 24, Hovland already has six wins around the world after a stellar amateur career at Oklahoma State, including a U.S. Amateur title at Pebble Beach.
This is his first big moment in a major, and he sounded up to the task. Hovland also saw — and heard — what the will be up against Sunday.
“I get a couple in there,” he said of the cheers so heavily slanted toward McIlroy. “I’m probably an underdog, but I don’t mind that at all. Hopefully, we can push ourselves tomorrow.”
Smith missed a short birdie chance on the 18th and had a 73. His biggest mistake was not getting the ball back in play on the 13th, instead trying to advance the ball and getting into tough spots. He also three-putted from 30 feet to start his round and made just two birdies.
Young, the PGA Tour rookie who finished one shot out of a playoff at the PGA Championship two months ago, had a 71.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was lurking after a 69. He missed a 10-foot birdie chance on the 16th and then three-putted the 17th for a bogey. Scheffler, who finished one shot behind in the U.S. Open, had a 69 and was five back along with Si Woo Kim (67).
Johnson also within three shots until a bogey on the 13th and another on the par-5 14th, where his long eagle putt raced up a hill, across the green and into a pot bunker. Instead of birdie, he had to scramble for bogey. He dropped two more shots coming in for a 71 and was six behind.
McIlroy last won a major in 2014 at the PGA Championship at Valhalla. He would love nothing more than to win at the home of golf, on the Old Course where Jack Nicklaus once said a player’s career would not be complete without winning a claret jug at St. Andrews.
“Every part of my game has felt good this week,” McIlroy said. “I just need to keep it going for one more day.”
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2022-07-16T20:40:56+00:00
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When you’re seemingly at the TD Garden playing for a championship every season, it can be easy to get caught up in the moment.
But after scoring an empty-netter to finish off a 3-1 win for the Canton boys’ hockey team over Duxbury in Saturday’s Division 2 state semifinal at Gallo Arena — securing the Bulldogs’ fourth trip to the Garden since 2019 — senior A.J. Thomas decided to try and soak it all in.
Thomas, who also netted the winner at 10:24 of the third period, described the atmosphere in Bourne as amazing.
“After that one, I turned around to look at the fans, looked at the team, they were all going crazy,” Thomas said. “I took it all in, it was a great moment.”
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Jeffrey Chaput scored a minute into the third period on a 5-on-3 for the third-seeded Bulldogs (21-4), who had trailed for the first time all postseason after previously outscoring foes by a 9-0 margin.
“They’re playing their best hockey at the right time,” Canton coach Brian Shuman said of his team. “I can’t even begin to say how proud I am of them. Duxbury is, by far, one of the best teams we’ve seen all season and we’ve faced some good teams. I have a lot of respect for them.”
The Bulldogs defeated Tewksbury for a state title in 2019 and were set to skate for a second title in a row in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the tournament in its tracks. Canton returned to the Garden last winter, falling 6-2 vs. Tewksbury.
“We’re so lucky to have a group of players that when the new guys come in, they feel an obligation to carry on this tradition,” Shuman said. “I feel like the luckiest coach in the world.”
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The second-seeded Green Dragons (18-6-2) fell in the state semifinal for a second straight season. Senior defenseman Wick Ross had the the lone goal, his first of the season.
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Sandwich 3, Nantucket 0 — Playing one last game at his home rink, Colin McIver treated Sandwich boys’ hockey fans at Gallo Arena to the grandest of finales.
The senior scored once each period for the second-seeded Blue Knights in a 3-0 win over Nantucket in the state semifinals, sending Sandwich back to TD Garden for a second straight season.
In the process, McIver surpassed 100 points for his career and brought his total in the current campaign to an even 50.
“It’s pretty cool, but I couldn’t have done it without my linemates Jack [Connolly] and Chris [Cardillo],” McIver said. “Obviously, it’s a great achievement and I’m wicked proud of it, but we’ve got work to do.
McIver scored 7:29 into the opening frame on the power play for Sandwich (19-4-1), the 100th point of his career. He added a goal at 13:57 of the second period and one more for good measure 7:58 into the third, more than enough offense for netminder Mitchell Norkevicius (16 saves).
The deepest run in postseason history for the sixth-seeded Whalers (16-7) came to a close with a third loss this season to their Cape & Islands League rival; Sandwich swept both regular-season conference matchups.
The Blue Knights will be vying for their second straight state title against either No. 1 Norwell or No. 4 Grafton, who play Sunday at Loring Arena in Framingham. Sandwich began its regular season with a 4-1 loss vs. Norwell.
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Scituate 4, Watertown 2 — All it took was 76 seconds for Johnny Donahue to feel a full range of emotions for the Scituate boys’ hockey team.
The junior forward witnessed a puck shot by Watertown/Wayland defenseman Jack Dickie deflect off of him 10:50 into the third period, allowing the fifth-seeded Raiders to pull even with the top-seeded Sailors in a Division 3 state semifinal.
Donahue’s response? The winner at 12:06 of the third, sending Scituate back to TD Garden for the first time since 2017 with a 4-2 win over Watertown at Gallo Arena.
“That might have been the greatest moment of my life,” Donahue said. “I gotta thank the boys for helping me keep my head up. It’s the resiliency of this team. We’re always in it, we all work hard, there’s never a shift off.”
Donahue also had a power play goal in the first period for the Sailors (20-4-2), who led 2-0 after 15 minutes after a Peter Cappadona offering at 11:39.
Gradually, the tides turned in favor of the Raiders (14-7-3), who got one back from Vinny Wolff 1:08 into the second period and continued to dictate the pace of play for large stretches before finally drawing even.
Watertown, which advanced to the Division 4 final last winter as a standalone program, was unable to put the finishing touches on a comeback bid, however, after Teagan Pratt fed Donahue for the winner late.
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Pratt, who surpassed 100 career points for the Sailors earlier in the tournament, recorded several key blocked shots over the course of the game for Scituate before burying an empty-netter with 0:16 remaining.
The Sailors, who’ll be vying for their first title since 2007, will face the winner of Sunday’s game between No. 10 Triton and No. 11 Nashoba.
Jake Levin reported from Bourne. Globe correspondent Julia Yohe contributed to this report.
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2023-03-12T04:28:11+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/11/sports/aj-thomas-soaks-up-moment-third-seeded-canton-boys-hockey-punches-its-ticket-division-2-state-championship-td-garden/
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MISHAWAKA, Ind., May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Indiana Center For Recovery is pleased to announce that it has become a Wellbriety Certified Treatment Center at its Mishawaka location, reinforcing their dedication to culturally-sensitive, evidence-based treatment for Native Americans dealing with substance use disorder.
With a solid foundation in Indiana, the Indiana Center For Recovery offers an all-encompassing suite of services. These include individual and group counseling, family therapy, medication-assisted treatment, mental health treatment, and advanced therapeutics such as TMS treatment and Spravato ketamine therapy. Our Mishawaka campus provides detoxification, residential care, partial hospitalization, and outpatient services, guided by a team of seasoned professionals committed to helping clients attain long-lasting recovery from substance abuse and mental health conditions.
The Wellbriety Certification, awarded by White Bison, is designed to support drug and alcohol rehab centers in delivering culturally relevant treatment services for Indigenous people. By fulfilling the certification requirements, treatment centers are recognized by decision-makers in Native American communities as a preferred program for drug and alcohol rehab. This program aims to ensure Native Americans receive the highest standard of care.
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2023-05-31T20:10:56+00:00
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kwtx.com
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense industry says it stands ready to ramp up its output, including the kinds of arms and ammunition needed by Ukraine, but needs clarity about what governments want before investing in further production capacity.
Ukraine became the world’s third-largest 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.
Some of those arms were transferred from Western military stocks to Ukraine, while Kyiv also has purchased equipment with its own money or funds provided by allies. But the rate at which Ukraine is using ammunition has raised concerns about strains on the capacity of Western defense companies as they try to keep both the Ukrainian military and their own resupplied.
“What’s important for us as an industry is to get predictability,” Hans Christoph Atzpodien, the head of Germany’s arms manufacturing association, said in an interview this week with The Associated Press.
“That means we have to be clearly told which products are needed within which time,” said Atzpodien, managing director of the Federation of German Security and Defense Industries.
“And we are prepared,” he added. “The industry is much more flexible than it is given credit for.”
The association’s members, which include major arms manufacturers such as Rheinmetall, can further boost production, such as by reactivating mothballed facilities and machines, and hiring more staff, he said.
“Of course, we also need a firm basis in the form of orders so the investments can be carried out,” Atzpodien said, adding that proposals to bundle purchases at the European Union rather than the national level could help, provided such a process does not slow down procurement.
German officials said a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers on Monday might yield a decision on bundling weapons purchases for Ukraine.
Arms manufacturers in Germany are also keen to see European countries harmonize their export rules to avoid being disadvantaged compared with competitors in some neighboring countries, Atzpodien said.
After initially hesitating to send lethal weapons to Ukraine, Germany has become one of Kyiv’s biggest arms suppliers. The shift led Berlin to provide Ukraine with dozens of self-propelled Gepard anti-aircraft guns, Iris-T missile systems, howitzers and millions of rounds of ammunition, but left some Germans deeply uneasy about the possibility of being dragged into a conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.
Still, Atzpodien said the final decision on where German-made arms can go should remain a matter for the government.
“As companies, we agree that German weapons must never fall into the wrong hands,” he said.
The German government declined to comment Monday on reports that Rheinmetall was in talks with Ukraine about building a tank factory in the country. The company’s Leopard 2 tanks are urgently sought by Ukraine, which was recently promised several dozen from Western stocks, but officials wouldn’t say whether having a factory in Ukraine would require government approval.
Germany’s own arms procurement has come under scrutiny after Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged last year to increase defense spending to NATO’s target of 2% of GDP and create a 100-billion-euro ($107 billion) special fund.
On Tuesday, parliament’s commissioner for the military lamented the slow pace of Germany’s drive to modernize its armed forces, the Bundeswehr. She noted that none of the 100 billion-euro special fund was actually spent last year, though some major orders were placed.
“It is also important to quickly replace equipment that was given to Ukraine” and to speed up maintenance of existing equipment, Eva Hoegl said as she presented her annual report.
“The Bundeswehr has too little of everything, and even less since Feb. 24 (2022),” she said. “We have too few tanks to be able to train sufficiently, to exercise … boats and ships are lacking, aircraft are lacking.”
Along with the cash coming its way because of the war in Ukraine — Germany’s defense minister is also seeking to raise his budget by 10 billion euros a year — the German arms industry is hoping the conflict will mark a turning point in the way military spending is classified in Europe.
Some banks and investors in the European Union won’t do business with the defense sector because of concerns that it is engaged in unsustainable activity that does more harm than good in the long run, much like fossil fuel producers.
Atzpodien said Russia’s attack on Ukraine had shown the industry’s value.
“Our demand is that products we deliver to the German military or other NATO armed forces, for example, are recognized in such a way by the EU that they support sustainability,” he said. “A signal like that would be important so that actors on the financial markets can adjust to it accordingly.”
German arms manufacturers have already come up with a slogan to push their case, he added: “Security is the key to sustainability.”
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Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
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2023-03-15T20:54:10+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/german-arms-industry-seeks-clarity-on-ukraine-weapons-orders/
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man was sentenced for producing and possessing child pornography.
Brandon Grunwaldt, 47, was sentenced on Monday in a federal court in Charlotte to 30 years in prison after being convicted of sexually exploiting a minor.
According to court records, Grunwaldt secretly recorded a child taking a shower and undressing between February and October 2020.
An investigation into Grunwaldt began after the minor discovered the recordings on her phone and reported them it to the Mint Hill Police Department.
Authorities searched through Grunwaldt's electronic devices and found the videos and discovered he visited websites with pornographic videos similar to the ones he made.
Grunwaldt was convicted of five counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography in February 2022.
He was sentenced on Monday. The federal judge that handled the case, Robert J. Conrad, said Grunwaldt's crimes were some of the most disturbing he had seen.
Grunwaldt is currently in federal custody and will be transferred to the custody of the federal bureau of prisons at a later date.
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2023-03-21T04:03:05+00:00
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wcnc.com
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https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/man-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-for-recording-naked-child-brandon-grunwaldt/275-305f73c1-043a-46c5-b119-20b92c78a479
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Seattle school district officials and elected leaders are calling for increased safety measures and stronger gun control laws after a student was shot and killed in a Seattle public school for the first time in nearly 30 years.
A 14-year-old allegedly smuggled a gun into school then shot another student in what Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones called a “targeted attack” in a hallway at Ingraham High School Tuesday morning. The 14-year-old and another student, 15, have been arrested. Now, officials want safety improvements, enhanced gun control and other interventions.
Jones announced a new safety initiative at Wednesday night’s regular School Board meeting to address short- and long-term needs in school buildings.
And Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell called for the state to lift a law prohibiting cities from implementing their own gun policies.
Seattle Public Schools, the largest district in the state with 106 schools, doesn’t have the capacity to create a tailored safety plan for each school, Jones said. But there are some standards and practices that the district can adopt.
The district will assemble a threat and community action team, with advice from the mayor and police chief, to assess what SPS can do to improve safety at school buildings, Jones said. The district will also launch a child well-being council led by nurses, psychologists and other mental health experts.
Classes at Ingraham have been canceled for the rest of the week. A health team will be at Ingraham to provide support for students when they return to school Monday, Jones said.
“As a leader of this district, I never want our Ingraham community or any of our schools to experience this,” Jones said at the meeting. “I saw the aftermath of this firsthand and I saw the yellow tape that should not be in our schools.”
Before the meeting, Seattle School Board members embraced each other as they walked up to the dais, expressed their condolences and spoke about the shock, trauma, and hurt the death of a child has caused the community.
When she heard the news of the shooting, “my stomach just dropped,” said Liza Rankin, the Seattle board member who represents the Ingraham High area.
Rankin said preventing gun violence has been a priority for her since she was elected to the board, and she has asked PTAs and others who work in schools to promote the King County Lock It Up program, which provides resources and support to store guns safely.
Community leaders mourned the victim, but quickly pivoted to calling for changes to prevent future attacks.
Seattle City Council President Debora Juarez, who represents the district that includes Ingraham, said she was “heartbroken” by the shooting.
“Sadly, gun violence is closer than we think in our communities, schools and public spaces. We must stand together as one city against the violence like we saw today,” Juarez said in a written statement, recalling a 2018 gun violence protest held at the same school.
Harrell called for enhanced school safety and gun control in the city at a news conference on Tuesday.
“Seattle Public Schools students can’t learn or develop or grow to be the best versions of themselves when they have to fear for their lives,” Harrell said.
“Our schools have to be the highest safe havens for our youths, for our teachers, for our families.”
While an SPD spokesperson said the department does not track individual gun incidents at schools, the last two fatal shootings at or inside a Seattle public school happened 28 years ago, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. In 1994, a student was killed outside of Ballard High School in a drive-by shooting, and that same year a teacher was killed at Whitman Middle School by a former student he had abused.
At the mayor’s news conference Tuesday, Seattle police Chief Adrian Diaz noted that there had been more than 600 shots fired in the city this year and over 1,000 firearms seized by the police.
On Wednesday, Harrell couldn’t pinpoint a specific policy response to this incident, but suggested the state consider a number of approaches including training requirements, extended waiting periods and assault-rifle bans.
“It’s too early to know which exact gun safety measures might have prevented this tragedy. The simple fact is that there are too many guns in our communities and those guns are too easy to access,” Harrell said in a written statement, noting that “action will save lives, and inaction too often results in tragedy.”
“I’ll continue to push our state Legislature to adopt stronger gun laws, and lift restrictions that prevent local governments the freedom to enact their own gun safety policies — lives are on the line,” Harrell added.
Also on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal — a Democrat who represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District, including most of Seattle — seconded Harrell’s calls for stricter gun control, calling on her colleagues to address the issue at the federal level.
“Even if cities take on the issue of guns, it is very difficult if somebody can bring guns in from somewhere else,” Jayapal said, noting that recent congressional gun control action “wasn’t sufficient.”
“You can’t solve this just as a city and so I recognize the work that we have to do at the federal level,” she added.
Jayapal said effective policy would have to be broader than just gun control, and would also have to address issues like mental health.
“And we will not rest until we can assure our families, our kids, our communities across the country that we are doing everything possible to address this crisis of gun violence, of mental health, of surviving, in a world that’s pretty darn tough,” she added.
In an interview after the board meeting, Jones talked about enacting measures outside of school to prevent gun violence, and “inside of school around social-emotional support and what are our community partners and resources we have that’s available to us to bring a whole comprehensive way to look at it.”
Brandon Hersey, Seattle Schools board president, said the board must start having conversations with other local elected leaders and community members, but also be “part of the healing process of folks most directly impacted. I think many things can be true at the same time.”
The shooting at Ingraham has had a ripple effect. Nathan Hale High School was ordered to shelter in place on Wednesday after threats of violence surfaced, district officials confirmed. Seattle student board member Luna Crone-Baron, who attends Nathan Hale, recalled teachers escorting students to the bathroom.
“What we need is to know that we are safe in our school buildings, and I can speak with confidence when I say we do not feel safe at school,” Crone-Baron said during the meeting. “And even as we look to how we create systemic solutions to make sure this doesn’t happen again, this kid, someone’s baby, is still dead.”
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2022-11-10T05:19:53+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-school-officials-politicians-call-for-gun-control-after-ingraham-shooting/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "It occurred to me that all Christmas tree stands are the same and have not changed," said an inventor from Ruskin, Fla., "so I invented NATURE'S TREE STAND."
The patent-pending invention replaces conventional, drab tree stands and tree skirts that constantly require repositioning and may be a keepsake to be passed down from generation to generation. It could be used with live or artificial Christmas trees as well as live or artificial trees, plants, flowers, etc. The tree stand may reduce fire hazard and provide members of the home with peace of mind. It is easy to use, durable, and a reasonable price. Different sizes to display trees up to 10 feet in height could be made available.
The original design was submitted to the Tampa sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TLS-244, 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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2022-10-27T16:55:28+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/10/27/inventhelp-inventor-develops-modified-eye-catching-tree-stand-tls-244/
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Cam Shelton banked in a go-ahead runner with 13 seconds left and Loyola Marymount snapped No. 6 Gonzaga’s 75-game home winning streak with a 68-67 victory on Thursday night.
The home streak for the Bulldogs (16-4, 5-1 West Coast Conference) was tied with Long Beach State (from 1968-74) for the eighth-longest in Division I history.
Shelton scored 27 points to lead the Lions (14-7, 4-3), who hadn’t won in Spokane since 1991 and had lost 25 straight overall to the Zags.
“For us, it’s another sign that our program is moving in the right direction, and that’s the biggest thing,” Loyola Marymount coach Stan Johnson said. “Not too many people are going to come up here and win, so I think it just stands and validates the guys we have in the locker room and all the things we’ve been trying to accomplish.”
Gonzaga had won 93 straight games against unranked opponents with 69 of those coming at home, and had won its previous 116 WCC games against teams other than Saint Mary’s and BYU.
“The home streak is over,” Zags coach Mark Few said. “It was going to end sometime and it ended in a tough, hard-fought battle. Our guys battled back and had a shot to keep it going. … I don’t think anybody is going to touch that (streak) for quite some time.”
Gonzaga’s streak of 36 straight wins in the month of January also ended. The Bulldogs had won 11 straight overall, the fourth-best streak in the country, since losing 64-63 to Baylor on Dec. 2.
Jalin Anderson added 15 points and Keli Leaupepe had 11 for the Lions. Loyola Marymount led by as many as nine in the second half and held off Gonzaga’s late run.
LMU led 66-59 with 2:55 left after Shelton’s 3-pointer, but the Zags scored the next eight points to take 67-66 lead on Drew Timme’s free throw with 41 seconds left. With the shot clock running down, Shelton converted a runner from just outside the lane to give the Lions the lead, and Timme’s last attempt at a winner was partly blocked by Leaupepe.
Shelton’s savvy play was crucial for the Lions in the closing minutes.
“Cam’s had a really tremendous year thus far and I thought he put pressure on them getting in the paint,” Johnson said. “I thought he made some good decisions finding his guys and I thought he had great poise, and that’s what you want from a veteran point guard.”
Timme led the Zags with 17 points. Nolan Hickman chipped in 12 points and six assists for the Zags, who were coming off a 115-75 win over Portland last Saturday.
Gonzaga struggled from the field, shooting 44.4% overall and going 4 of 14 (28.6%) from 3-point range and 15 of 23 (65.2%) from the free-throw line.
BIG PICTURE
Although Timme returned after helping Gonzaga to the national title game two years ago and a Sweet 16 appearance last year, there were signs this season might be more challenging for Few’s team after it began 5-3, with losses by 19 points to Texas and by 18 to Purdue.
Still, the Zags added a quality nonconference win over then-No. 4 Alabama and managed close road victories over WCC rivals San Francisco, Santa Clara and BYU en route to a 5-0 start in the league they have dominated for more than two decades, returning to their familiar position in the top 10 of the AP poll.
TIP-INS
The Lions improved to 2-2 on the road in WCC play. … Gonzaga had won 29 of its last 30 over Loyola Marymount.
UP NEXT
Loyola Marymount: Hosts Portland next Thursday night.
Gonzaga: At Pacific on Saturday night.
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2023-01-20T21:21:42+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/sports/ap-loyola-marymount-ends-no-6-gonzagas-75-game-home-streak/
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the stock of Bioventus Inc. (NASDAQ: BVS): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the Company's February 11, 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (ii) between February 11, 2021 and November 21, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 13, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Bioventus securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Bioventus class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10065 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 13, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Offering Documents and defendants statements throughout the Class Period were false and/or misleading and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Bioventus suffered from significant liquidity issues; (2) the Company's rebate practices were unsustainable; (3) accordingly, defendants overstated the Company's business and financial prospects; (4) Bioventus maintained deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting with respect to the timely recognition of quarterly rebates; (5) all the foregoing increased the risk that the Company would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash impairment charge, could not timely file one or more of its financial reports, would have to amend one or more of its financial statements, and could not meet its financial obligations as they came due; and (6) as a result, the Offering Documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Bioventus class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10065 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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2023-02-10T01:52:18+00:00
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76ers vs. Nets Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 2
Published: Apr. 17, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Brooklyn Nets are 10-point underdogs heading into Game 2 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center on Monday, starting at 7:30 PM ET on TNT, NBCS-PH, and YES. The 76ers have a 1-0 series lead.
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76ers vs. Nets Game Info & Odds
- Date: Monday, April 17, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, NBCS-PH, and YES
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- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Wells Fargo Center
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76ers vs. Nets Score Prediction
- Prediction: 76ers 117 - Nets 109
Spread & Total Prediction for 76ers vs. Nets
- Pick ATS: Nets (+ 10)
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Over (213)
- The 76ers' .585 ATS win percentage (48-34-0 ATS Record) is higher than the Nets' .524 mark (43-39-0 ATS Record) in 2022-23.
- When the spread is set as 10 or more this season, Philadelphia (9-2) covers a lower percentage of those games when it is the favorite (81.8%) than Brooklyn (1-0) does as the underdog (100%).
- Brooklyn and its opponents have exceeded the point total 45.1% of the time this season (37 out of 82). That's less often than Philadelphia and its opponents have (44 out of 82).
- As a moneyline underdog this year, the Nets are 14-24, while the 76ers are 41-15 as moneyline favorites.
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76ers Performance Insights
- Philadelphia is scoring 115.2 points per game this season (14th-ranked in NBA), but it has really thrived defensively, ceding only 110.9 points per contest (third-best).
- This season, the 76ers rank 16th in the league in assists, dishing out 25.2 per game.
- The 76ers are making 12.6 threes per game this year (11th-ranked in NBA), and they own a 38.7% three-point percentage (best).
- When it comes to shot breakdown, Philadelphia has taken 61.1% two-pointers (accounting for 69.1% of the team's buckets) and 38.9% from beyond the arc (30.9%).
Nets Performance Insights
- Brooklyn is 19th in the NBA in points scored (113.4 per game) and eighth in points allowed (112.5).
- This season the Nets are ranked 13th in the league in assists at 25.5 per game.
- The Nets are ninth in the NBA in 3-pointers made (12.8 per game) and fifth-best in 3-point percentage (37.8%).
- Brooklyn attempts 60.3% percent of its shots from inside the 3-point line, and 39.7% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 69.2% of Brooklyn's baskets are 2-pointers, and 30.8% are 3-pointers.
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2023-04-17T19:45:52+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/sports/betting/2023/04/17/76ers-nets-nba-playoffs-game-2-nba-picks-predictions/
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PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an electrician and I thought there could be a better tool for installing solar panels," said one of two inventors, from Las Vegas, Nev., "so we invented the E- Z KONNECTOR. Our design would help to reduce stress and strain on the hands, arms and upper body while working."
The patent-pending invention provides a convenient tool for joining solar panel connectors. In doing so, it eliminates the need to push or press the connectors together by hand. As a result, it saves time and effort and it increases leverage and efficiency. The invention features a compact and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for electricians, solar panel installers, do-it-yourselfers, etc.
Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.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. 20-LGT-190, 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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2022-06-27T15:49:45+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/27/inventhelp-inventors-develop-tool-installing-solar-panels-lgt-190/
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Mind Cure Health Inc. (CSE: MCUR) (OTCQB: MCURF) (FRA: 6MH) ("MINDCURE" or the "Company") today announced its financial results for the three and six months ended November 30, 2022. All amounts are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated.
A copy of the Company's financial statements for the three and six months ended November 30, 2022 and the related management's discussion and analysis are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
As previously announced on November 18, 2022, the Company signed a binding Letter of Intent with LNG Energy Group Inc. ("LNG Energy"), a private company focused on the acquisition of natural gas production and exploration assets in Latin America, pursuant to which the Company will become the holder of all of the issued and outstanding securities in the capital of LNG Energy (the "Transaction"). It is intended that the Transaction will constitute a reverse take-over of the Company by the shareholders of LNG Energy. In connection with the proposed Transaction, the Company will complete a 2.4-1 consolidation of its shares and change its name to LNG Energy Group Inc.
In connection with the Transaction, LNG Energy will complete a private placement of subscription receipts for proceeds of between US$15m and US$35m at a subscription price of at least C$0.20 per subscription. Further, LNG Energy will complete a non-convertible debt financing of between US$65m and US$85m. The Company will further complete a non-brokered private placement for total proceeds of approximately $1m at a price of $0.05 per unit.
The proposed Transaction is subject to the terms of a definitive agreement, approval by the Company's shareholders and the Canadian Securities Exchange.
Robert Hill has resigned as a director of the Company's board of directors effective January 1, 2023. Stephen Inouye has replaced Mr. Hill on the Company's board of directors. "On behalf of the board of directors and the Company, I would like to thank Rob for his contribution and support." stated Philip Tapley, CEO and Chair of the board of directors of MINDCURE. "I would also like to welcome Steve to the board of directors. Steve has been working with the Company in various roles since the Company's inception."
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Philip Tapley, CEO
Forward-looking information is based on a number of key expectations and assumptions made by management of MINDCURE, including, without limitation: the considerations and outcome of the strategic review process and cost-saving measures; COVID-19 pandemic impact on the Canadian economy and the Company's business, and the extent and duration of such impact; no change to laws or regulations that negatively affect the Company's business; no unanticipated expenses, costs or detrimental consequences of the Strategic Review Process or cost-savings measures will arise; availability of additional capital required to execute the Company's business plan; the lack of necessity of further developmental expenditures related to the Company's business plan with respect to the execution of strategic alternatives for the Company; the ability to preserve the value of the Company's assets, including its public company status with Canadian securities regulators; and the ultimate availability of any strategic alternatives for the Company.
Forward-looking information is provided for the purpose of presenting information the Company's current expectations and plans relating to the future and readers are cautioned that such statements may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward-looking information inherently entails known and unknown risks and uncertainties about the future and actual results and involves significant risks and uncertainties and should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results as actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking information. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those described in forward-looking information presented, there may be other factors that cause results, performance or achievements to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements as no forward-looking information can be guaranteed. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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2 planned Amazon Fresh stores in Metro Detroit appear to have been scuttled
Plans for at least two Amazon Fresh locations in Michigan appear to have been scrapped.
The Madison Heights space once believed to be planned to house the grocer is now available for sublease, according to marketing materials.
The sublease posting for the 42,500-square-foot building at 29411 John R was first reported by Crain’s Detroit Business. The publication also reported that a lease for the former Kroger Co. at 23000 Michigan Ave. in Dearborn has been terminated.
This news comes after nearly two years of rumblings about when Amazon.com Inc. would be ready to roll out its Amazon Fresh stores in Michigan. The list of confirmed and reported Amazon Fresh stores had grown to at least nine locations in Metro Detroit and one in Grand Blanc.
Amazon has not commented on its roadmap for Amazon Fresh.
During a fourth-quarter earnings call in February, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said grocery was an important and strategic area for the company and that in its “few dozen” existing locations, it was doing “a fair bit of experimentation today in those stores to try to find a format that we think resonates with customers.”
The company opened its first Amazon Fresh store in 2021.
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2023-05-11T21:48:30+00:00
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FLINT, MI -- Former Flint Mayor James A. Sharp Jr. has died at age 90 in Arizona and the city says it will lower flags to half-staff to honor him.
Sharp, who served as mayor from 1983 until 1987, died Sunday, July 2, according to a news release from the city.
A former marine, he will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the announcement said.
Sharp was the first Black mayor elected in Flint under the city’s strong mayor form of government, which was established by the 1974 charter.
The city’s announcement of his death says a service honoring the former mayor will take place in Flint, but those arrangements are incomplete.
“It’s important to uplift the heroes of our community, especially those trailblazers who paved the way for future leaders,” Mayor Sheldon Neeley said in a statement issued by the city on Wednesday, July 5. “Former Mayor Sharp was a true community champion in many ways, both as a mayor of the city of Flint and also as one of the lead role models in the African American community during his tenure. His impact as mayor is still felt today.
“As a young man, I remember then-Mayor Sharp supporting a group of college students I was a part of, organizing anti-drug rallies in the community. I ask our community to join me in lifting his family in prayer.”
Sharp was Flint’s mayor when AutoWorld opened in the city in 1984. His administration inherited the theme park project when he became mayor, and it closed abruptly six months after it opened because of poor attendance.
Sharp defeated former Mayor James Rutherford to become mayor in 1983 but lost the position to Matt Collier in 1987.
In addition to serving as mayor, Sharp also served as chief of staff for then-state Rep. Don Riegle, who went on to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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The British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister finally broke their silence after a disastrous week for the economy that many are blaming on their policies.
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The British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister finally broke their silence after a disastrous week for the economy that many are blaming on their policies.
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2022-09-29T21:38:36+00:00
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday, as investors weighed oil prices, inflation worries and corporate earnings.
Tokyo’s benchmark was higher but other major indexes declined in morning trading after an early rally evaporated on Wall Street.
“The news paints a deteriorating picture for the outlook of major companies amid global growth fears. Traders will be paying close attention to the ongoing earnings season for further signs of how companies are faring in a weakening economy,” Anderson Alves, a trader at ActivTrades, said in a commentary.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 reversed early losses and added 0.7% in afternoon trading to 26,982.50. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.6% to 6,645.70. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.2% to 2,370.57. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.8% to 20,685.61, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.1% to 3,276.07.
Analysts said the Tokyo market is seeing some buying after a three-day weekend. Monday was a national holiday in Japan. Investors are playing catchup and so the rally may be short-lived. Among the issues picking up so far are Fast Retailing, the group company for the Uniqlo clothing retail chain, and Sony Corp.
The S&P 500 fell 0.8% to 3,830.85. Gains in energy producers, big retailers and other companies that rely on consumer spending were outweighed by a pullback in health care and technology stocks.
The Dow slid 0.7% to 31,072.61 and the Nasdaq gave up 0.8%, to 11,360.05. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies dropped 0.3% to 1,738.42.
Markets are likely to remain volatile through the upcoming earnings season. Johnson & Johnson, American Airlines and Tesla are among the dozens of S&P 500 companies scheduled to issue quarterly snapshots this week.
The U.S. market has been lurching mostly lower for weeks on worries that the Federal Reserve and other central banks will slam the brake too hard on the economy in hopes of bringing down high inflation. If they’re too aggressive with their interest-rate hikes, they could cause a recession.
A key report released last week indicated expectations are easing for inflation among households. That could prevent a more vicious cycle from taking root and ease the pressure on the Federal Reserve.
Expectations have fallen for how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its meeting next week. Traders are now betting on a roughly one-in-three chance for a monster hike of a full percentage point, with the majority favoring a 0.75 percentage point increase. As recently as Thursday, the heavy bet was on a hike of a full point.
Later this week, investors expect the European Central Bank on Thursday to raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years to combat inflation. Many investors expect an increase of 0.25 percentage points, “but more is not unthinkable," economists wrote in a BofA Global Research report.
Corporate profits are under threat given high inflation and slowdowns in parts of the economy, though analysts are still forecasting continued growth.
Earnings season kicked off last week, and banks have dominated the early part of the schedule for reporting how much they earned from April through June.
Goldman Sachs was among the latest to report, and it rallied 2.5% after its profit and revenue were better than analysts expected.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.98% from 2.96% late Friday. The two-year yield, which rose to 3.17%, is still above the 10-year yield. Some investors see that as an ominous sign that could presage a recession in a year or two.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell 29 cents to $102.31 a barrel. It rose 5.1% Monday. Brent crude, the international standard, lost 42 cents to $105.85 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar edged down to 137.90 Japanese yen from 138.13 yen. The euro cost $1.0156, up from $1.0146.
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2022-07-19T07:25:19+00:00
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The 23-year-old Doral man accused of randomly shooting out of a bright-green Lamborghini in a pre-Christmas escapade has an alleged history of firing off and brandishing guns around the streets of Miami, according to police records.
Nelson Alejandro Perez-Valdivia turned himself in last week after police identified him as the man in an Instagram video firing more than a dozen rounds into the air from the passenger seat of the Lamborghini as it darted down the Palmetto Expressway on December 23. He was charged with multiple counts of discharging a firearm on a public road within 1,000 feet of people.
Records obtained by New Times show that Perez-Valdivia had been charged for three previous incidents in which police claimed he illegally exhibited or discharged a firearm in public. In one incident, police said Perez-Valdivia waved loaded guns around in a car for a social media video in Kendall. Another incident amounted to an alleged attempted murder, though prosecutors dropped the case, citing a lack of witness cooperation.
The first incident dates back to May 16, 2020, when a detective driving westbound on Southwest 88th Street in Kendall saw Perez-Valdivia in the passenger seat of a white Mercedes Benz, waving around two firearms, an arrest affidavit alleges. The detective pulled over the vehicle and ordered Perez-Valdivia out, after which point he "spontaneously stated that he was making a social media video" and that the guns did not belong to him," the affidavit states.
Two loaded firearms — one Glock 9mm and a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson — were recovered.
Perez-Valdivia was charged with improper exhibition of a firearm, though the case is listed as nolle prosequi, indicating prosecutors did not pursue the charge.
About a year-and-a-half later, in January 2022, a white Toyota Corolla pulled up next to a dark-colored Corvette in which Perez-Valdivia was riding on Southwest 117th Avenue near Southwest 40th Street in Miami. An arrest affidavit alleges that an unspecified "argument ensued" between Perez-Valdivia and a passenger in the back seat of the Corolla, and that Perez-Valdivia opened fire on the vehicle, striking its rear door, roof, and front windshield before fleeing on Southwest 40th.
Two other occupants of the Toyota positively identified Perez-Valdivia when police showed them a photo array. No one was reported injured in the incident.
On January 5, 2022, the day after the alleged shooting, a detective and a sergeant for the Miami-Dade Police Department paid Perez-Valdivia a visit at his listed Miami residence and found him standing on the sidewalk. According to a third affidavit, Perez-Valdivia pulled out a black pistol, lifted it in the air, and chambered a live round in front of the officers. The affidavit states that Perez-Valdivia dropped the gun onto the ground after law enforcement surrounded him. He was taken into custody without incident.
Perez-Valdivia was charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at the Toyota. He was slapped with additional charges of unlicensed carry of a concealed firearm and improper exhibition of a firearm for the January 5 incident with Miami-Dade police.
According to a closeout memo from the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office, the "victims were initially on board" in the attempted murder case but stopped responding to prosecutors' attempts to contact them. One victim stated that he was not interested in pursuing the case, according to the memo.
In March 2022, the state dropped the attempted murder counts and "filed a bind-down information charging the defendant with improper exhibition of a weapon."
Perez-Valdivia is currently housed at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to county records.
On December 28, after his arrest for allegedly spraying bullets into the air on the Palmetto Expressway, Perez-Valdivia's bond on yet another criminal case was revoked. His attorney, Andrew Rier, clarified that the revoked bond stemmed from a March 2022 case against Perez-Valdivia involving a charge of fleeing or eluding police.
"My client is cooperating, and we hope to have the matter resolved quickly," Rier tells New Times.
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MT. EDEN, the Bronx (PIX11) — Police are looking for three thieves who robbed two men near a car repair shop in the Bronx last month.
The two victims, 19 and 21, were waiting for an Uber in front of a repair shop near Inwood Avenue and West 170th Street at around 3 a.m. on Oct. 30 when three men pushed them to the ground and took a necklace, a cellphone and $30 in cash before fleeing the scene in a black car, according to authorities. There were no injuries in connection to the robbery, officials said.
The NYPD released surveillance photos of the suspects and asked the public for any information that could lead to arrests.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
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2022-11-12T20:09:25+00:00
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 15, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
708 PM PDT Fri Jul 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 715 PM PDT this evening for a
portion of southern California, including the following county, San
Bernardino.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 11, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
409 PM MDT Thu Aug 11 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN OTERO AND NORTH CENTRAL HUDSPETH COUNTIES...
At 409 PM MDT, trained weather spotters reported flash flooding east
of Cornudas. Between 2 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Flash
flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Trained spotters reported flash flooding just east of
Cornudas.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Cornudas and Cornudas Mountains, including portions of Highway
62/180 around Cornudas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
In hilly terrain there are numerous of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
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With expansion of customers around the Beltway, CI Renewables is helping more companies and institutions save money and the planet
BALTIMORE, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanks to a substantial increase in customers around the Beltway, CI Renewables relocated its headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland on June 1, 2022. With their office centrally located at 1340 Smith Avenue, the CI Renewables team can most effectively oversee its substantial Howard County portfolio, consisting of 19 projects across 11 locations, as well as provide service to other customers.
"Thanks to the favorable regulatory and legal environments in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, along with heightened short- and long-term natural gas prices, CI Renewables' newest projects will benefit the environment and our customers' bottom lines," says CI Renewables Managing Partner, Josh Smith. "The Howard County projects will generate 44,000,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually, which will cover more than 75% of Howard County's energy usage."
CI Renewables will engineer, construct, and commission these solar projects in 2022 and 2023, all at no cost to the County. In addition, several companies and institutions, located throughout all three states, are looking to CI Renewables to develop and build new solar projects totaling over 50 MWs in 2023 and 2024.
"CI Renewables' executive team has worked together for over a decade, routinely helping large businesses, schools, and government agencies secure cost-effective renewable energy without any capital investment," Smith explained. "With our new headquarters in Maryland, we are excited to enter our second decade of providing clean, renewable, cost-effective energy services to large and small businesses throughout the Beltway."
About CI Renewables: CI Renewables provides clean, renewable, cost-saving energy solutions to businesses, institutions, and governmental entities which have significant energy requirements. Founded in 2010, CI Renewables has more than a decade of experience developing and owning grassroots, utility-scale renewable power projects. CI Renewables specialize in engineering, constructing, and operating solar power facilities without any capital investment from its customers. In addition, CI's team has a thorough knowledge and experience in securing the financial commitments necessary to make renewable energy projects come to life, regardless of the size.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI), a leading global provider of home comfort and security solutions and distributor of commercial and residential security and audio-visual products, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended October 1, 2022.
Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Net revenue of $1.62 billion, up 8% from $1.50 billion in the third quarter 2021
- Gross profit margin of 26.6%, compared to 28.1% in the prior year comparable period
- Operating profit of $155 million, or 9.6% of revenue, compared to $167 million, or 11.2% of revenue, in the third quarter 2021
- Fully diluted earnings per share of $0.42, compared to $0.46 per share in the same quarter last year
Management Remarks
"Financial results were mixed in the third quarter as continued growth at ADI was offset by headwinds to Products & Solutions' revenue and profitability," commented Jay Geldmacher, Resideo's President and CEO. "As the third quarter progressed, we saw softer-than-expected orders and sales across Products & Solutions, with customers looking to normalize inventory levels as macro uncertainty grows. Performance remained strong within Air products, particularly in connected thermostats, and we are well positioned across the portfolio as energy management and energy efficiency become even more critical to end users. We continue to navigate the changing macro environment and we are taking actions to ensure we protect profitability while staying focused on our strategic priorities."
"ADI delivered another solid quarter with revenue growth in North America driven by demand in commercial product categories. We continue to make targeted investment at ADI, which is delivering results in key strategic areas of e-commerce and touchless revenue, private brands, and digital experience. Even as ADI makes these investments, operating profit and operating margin expanded year-over-year."
Products & Solutions Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Revenue of $707 million, up 12% compared to the third quarter 2021
- Operating profit of $124 million, down 21% compared to the third quarter 2021
- Continued strong realization on pricing actions taken over the past year with over $60 million of year-over-year revenue improvement
- Growth in Air products of 14% year-over-year, driven by connected thermostats
Products & Solutions delivered revenue of $707 million in the third quarter 2022, up 12% compared to the third quarter 2021, including $112 million revenue contribution from acquisitions in the past twelve months and approximately $30 million of unfavorable impact from foreign exchange movements. End demand indicators for Air products remained solid in both the distribution and retail channels, driven by interest in connected thermostats. Energy, traditional Security and Water products all saw reduced orders and sales in the quarter. Integration of First Alert is progressing well with commercial opportunities emerging at key retail and home builder customers
Gross margin for the quarter was 36.2%, compared to 41.5% in the third quarter 2021. Gross margin was negatively impacted by the inclusion of lower margin First Alert revenue, continued input inflation, and lower volumes, partially offset by strong realization on pricing actions. Operating profit for the quarter was $124 million, or 17.5% of revenue, down 21% compared to the third quarter 2021. The $27 million year-over-year growth in operating expense in the third quarter 2022 was driven by $26 million of costs associated with First Alert.
ADI Global Distribution Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Revenue of $911 million, up 5% compared to the third quarter 2021
- Gross margin of 19.3%, up 70 basis points compared to the third quarter 2021
- Operating profit of $78 million, up 7% compared to the third quarter 2021
- E-commerce sales growth of 22%, accounting for 18% of ADI total revenue
ADI third quarter 2022 revenue of $911 million was up 5% compared to the third quarter 2021, driven by 9% year-over-year growth in North America. During the third quarter 2022, acquisitions completed in the past twelve months added $23 million and foreign exchange was a headwind of approximately $22 million compared to prior year period. Demand and pricing were again strong in categories that typically serve commercial end markets including Fire, Video Surveillance and Access Control. Sales through ADI's e-commerce channel grew 22%, representing 18% of total ADI revenue, with overall touchless revenue reaching 37% of ADI total revenue. Private brands sales grew 23% compared to the third quarter 2021.
Gross margin of 19.3% in the third quarter 2022 was up 70 basis points compared to the third quarter 2021. Benefits from the current inflationary pricing environment, progress on ADI specific price optimization efforts, and expansion of private brands all contributed to margin expansion in the third quarter. Operating profit of $78 million for third quarter 2022 was up 7% from $73 million in the third quarter 2021.
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Performance
Consolidated revenue of $1.62 billion in the third quarter 2022 grew 8% compared with the prior year of $1.50 billion. Gross profit margin for the third quarter 2022 was 26.6%, down 150 basis points compared to 28.1% in the prior year quarter. Resideo's operating profit of $155 million in the third quarter 2022 compared to the prior year quarter's operating profit of $167 million. Total Corporate costs were $47 million, down from $63 million in the prior year period due to an $8 million benefit associated with an indemnification accrual release in third quarter 2022 and a $9 million impairment charge related to the Austin, Texas office relocation in the third quarter 2021. Net income for the third quarter 2022 was $63 million, or $0.42 per diluted common share, compared with $68 million, or $0.46 per diluted common share, in the prior year. Included in third quarter 2022 other expense was $13 million related to settlement of a litigation matter that arose prior to Resideo's spin-off from Honeywell.
Cash Flow and Liquidity
Third quarter 2022 net cash provided by operating activities of $37 million compared to cash provided by operating activities of $104 million in the prior year comparable period. The lower cash generation was primarily due to higher working capital. At October 1, 2022, Resideo had cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash of $255 million and total outstanding debt of $1.4 billion.
Updated Outlook
The company expects fourth quarter 2022 revenue to be in the range of $1.55 billion to $1.60 billion, gross profit margin in the range of 26.5% to 27.5% and operating profit in the range of $130 million to $140 million.
Based on the current outlook for the fourth quarter, the company now expects full year 2022 revenue to be in the range of $6.36 billion to $6.41 billion, gross profit margin in the range of 27.0% to 28.0% and operating profit in the range of $645 million to $655 million.
Conference Call and Webcast Details
Resideo will hold a conference call with investors on November 1, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. ET. An audio webcast of the call will be accessible at https://investor.resideo.com, where related materials will be posted before the call. A replay of the webcast will be available following the presentation. To join the conference call, please dial 888-660-6357 (U.S. toll-free) or 1-929-201-6127 (international), with the conference title "Resideo Third Quarter 2022 Earnings" or the conference ID: 7301399.
About Resideo
Resideo is a leading global manufacturer and distributor of technology-driven products and solutions that provide comfort, security, energy efficiency and control to customers worldwide. Building on a 130-year heritage, Resideo has a presence in more than 150 million homes globally, with 15 million systems installed in homes each year. We continue to serve more than 110,000 professionals through leading distributors, including our ADI Global Distribution business, which exports to more than 100 countries from nearly 200 stocking locations around the world. For more information about Resideo, please visit www.resideo.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of fact, that address activities, events or developments that we or our management intend, expect, project, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Although we believe forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (1) our ability to achieve our outlook regarding the fourth quarter 2022 and full year 2022, (2) the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption to our business and the global economy caused by it, including its effect on our and our business partners' supply chains, (3) the amount of our obligations and nature of our contractual restrictions pursuant to, and disputes that have or may hereafter arise under the agreements we entered into with Honeywell in connection with our spin-off, (4) the likelihood of continued success of our transformation programs and initiatives, (5) risks related to our recently completed acquisitions, including First Alert, including our ability to achieve the targeted amount of annual cost synergies, successfully integrate the acquired operations (including successfully driving category growth in connected offerings), and the expected net present value of tax benefits resulting from the First Alert transaction and (6) the other risks described under the headings "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other periodic filings we make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results, developments, and business decisions may differ from those envisaged by our forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date of this press release and we caution investors not to place undue reliance on any such forward looking statements.
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/11/01/resideo-announces-third-quarter-2022-financial-results/
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NEWARK, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced today the grand opening of Beacon at Bridgeway, a premier collection of brand new single-family home designs in Newark, California. Located within the Bridgeway master-planned community, Beacon is surrounded by water and wildlife, yet still just a short drive to all areas of the dynamic San Francisco Bay Area.
Home shoppers are invited to the grand opening of Beacon at Bridgeway, taking place Saturday, January 21 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The day will include complimentary food and beverages, music, and exclusive tours of two stunning new Lennar model homes. Following the event, self-guided tours will be available at Beacon at Bridgeway daily from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"Beacon at Bridgeway offers everything a homeowner could wish for – estate-style homes that are surrounded by the Bay Area's stunning natural wonders, but also near Silicon Valley and just minutes away from San Francisco, one of the world's most exciting cities and economic centers," said Brian Olin, Lennar Bay Area Division President. "We are excited to offer our newest Lennar community within the Bridgeway master plan and look forward to helping Lennar homebuyers establish themselves in this fantastic location."
Homes at Beacon at Bridgeway range from 2,152 to 2,698 square feet, with three to four bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths. All homes feature generous open layouts, gourmet kitchens, resort-style owner's suites and California rooms that seamlessly link indoor and outdoor spaces. Homeowners will have the choice of Farmhouse or Craftsman exterior styles.
All homes at Beacon at Bridgeway incorporate the latest technology with conveniences like the Ring alarm security systems, keyless entries, and smart thermostats. Every home also comes with Lennar's signature Everything's Included® program, where the homebuilder's most popular options and upgrades are built into the base price of the home. At Beacon at Bridgeway, this includes GE stainless steel appliances, quartz or granite countertops, and a host of other carefully curated interior touches and designer fixtures.
Residents at Beacon at Bridgeway will enjoy an active lifestyle within the Bridgeway master-planned community with amenities including a clubhouse with a resort-style pool, spa, kitchen and lounge space. Bridgeway also offers a dog park and access to the Bay Trail, a walking and cycling path running through all nine Bay Area counties. Future development at Bridgeway includes additional community parks, a fitness park, children's playground, amphitheater and boardwalk.
Lennar has also developed, and is selling, several other home collections within Bridgeway, including the Villas single-family homes and the Towns and Terraces condominium collections.
Beacon at Bridgeway is close to neighborhood shopping and dining, including the 1.1 million-square-foot NewPark regional mall, and offers easy access to Dumbarton Bridge and I-880. It is also minutes from the San Francisco Bay, nature trails and wildlife preserves.
The Beacon at Bridgeway model homes and sales office are located at 9321 Enterprise Dr. in Newark, California. For more information, call (888) 216-2330 or visit the Beacon at Bridgeway community website or www.lennar.com/BayArea.
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit lennar.com.
Contact: Danielle Tocco
Vice President Communications
Lennar Corporation
Danielle.Tocco@Lennar.com
Direct Line: 949.789.1633
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2023-01-19T17:02:12+00:00
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/01/19/lennar-announces-grand-opening-beacon-bridgeway-bay-area/
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Hutchinson Fire Department to collect school supplies for its annual back-to-school drive
The Hutchinson Fire Department and its partners are collecting school supplies again.
They will be collecting donations from Aug. 5 to 7 at a variety of locations, including the fire departments.
The Hutchinson Fire Department began a two-weekend school supply drive in 2017 to donate to teachers and students in Hutchinson's schools.
After receiving a surplus of donations, the department and its two partners, RCB Bank and Allen Samuels, decided to reach out to every school in Reno County. Last year, the drive raised more than $78,000 in school supplies.
"It's really a chance for us to give back to the community that supports us incredibly," said Fire Marshal Michael Cain of the Hutchinson Fire Department.
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The 2022 Reno County school supply drive
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The drive opens from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5. The program runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6 and 7.
The donation locations include the 30th Ave. and Fifth Avenue Dillons stores in Hutchinson, as well as Walmart and the East Avenue A and two East 30th Avenue RCB Bank locations, Allen Samuels and six Hutchinson Fire Department stations.
"Allen Samuels donates two pickup trucks, so we just drive those around each place continually and empty carts into the back of the pickup," Cain said. "It'll be a full pickup bed for each time."
Fire stations one, three, four, five, six and seven will accept donations throughout the day and the following week, as will RCB Bank and Allen Samuels.
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Cain said the donations and community support were worth putting up with the heat and the long days.
"As the baskets fill up outside of Walmart and Dillon's, it's just incredible," Cain said. "It was after the first year we saw what it was actually going for — there's an incredible need not only in Hutchinson but throughout Reno County for the supplies."
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2022-07-26T19:00:15+00:00
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hutchnews.com
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https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/26/hutchinson-fire-department-continues-annual-school-supply-drive/10070817002/
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SHANGHAI, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SOFAR, the global leading supplier of PV & ESS solutions, unveils its latest utility ESS innovation SOFAR PowerMaster embodied with state-of-the-art technological breakthroughs at SNEC 2023.
The launch of the fully self-developed PowerMaster marks a milestone of the company's comprehensive range of PV & ESS solutions for all scenarios. It can be seen as a portfolio of 5 key revolutionary breakthroughs pioneering in utility ESS sector, able to tackle key pain-points through increasing power yields at a lower cost, and safe and operation around the clock.
Industry-leading Hybrid Cooling System
The innovative combination of air and liquid cooling system provides intelligent monitoring which can reduce heat dissipation loss by about 30% and avoid condensation in battery compartments, thus realizing efficient and consistent cooling. Apart from this, the system comes with a lower battery temperature difference ≤2.5℃, able to maintain battery cells within the optimal temperature range and help extend the battery lifetime by 14%.
Ultimate Proven Safety
Upholding strict safety priorities, SOFAR PowerMaster is equipped with 3+2 safety systems including triple FFS (fire suppression system), flammable gas emission and explosion-proof design to prevent secondary combustion. Meanwhile, the built-in safety design effectively protects the cells against high voltage or current short circuits, ensuring the stable operation around the clock.
Flexible Expansion
The modular design is highly adaptive and capable of expanding single chamber storage capacity up to 3.93MWh, which is ideal for flexible needs of capacity expansion. Furthermore, the smart rack-level management increase system discharge capacity by 7%. By virtue of three-level topology and 99% maximum conversion efficiency, the system maintains less losses and optimal power performance.
Optimized Costs with Lower LCOS
The highly-integrated design and refined management further improve power yields and offers lower LCOS for investors compared to traditional energy storage systems. Compatible with 320Ah cells, it minimizes the initial investment cost and enables higher energy density. Therefore, SOFAR PowerMaster is expected to be one of the most prudent choices for energy storage in the utility sector.
Smart Control
In order to streamline the management process, SOFAR PowerMaster adopts the real-time automatic coordination control which guarantees PCS operating at full power. In addition, smart control algorithms make flexible and adjustable system capacity possible.
Yu Feng, Vice President of SOFAR, points out that SOFAR PowerMaster is expected to inspire a technological revolution in utility ESS sector, for being fully self-developed on the basis of ten years of R&D strength accumulation. "As a leading player in global energy storage market, SOFAR has been recognized by customers worldwide. Furthermore, in collaboration with TÜV Rheinland, we have embarked on the development of the utility ESS white paper. We are excited for what is to come while focusing on delivering advanced technological breakthroughs to build up a more sustainable society for all," he added.
About SOFAR
SOFAR is a global leading supplier of solar PV and energy storage solutions and committed to be the leader of digital energy solutions with a comprehensive portfolio, including PV inverters, hybrid inverters, battery storage system, central energy storage and smart energy management solutions for residential, C&I, and utility-scale applications. By 2021, SOFAR entered the TOP5 Global Hybrid Inverter Suppliers, set up a global R&D network with three R&D centers and two manufacturing bases. In 2022, SOFAR annual production capacity reached 10GW for PV & storage inverters and 1GWh for batteries. By 2022, SOFAR has shipped over 18GW inverters to more than 100 countries and regions around the world.
Learn more about SOFAR by visiting: https://www.sofarsolar.com/.
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2023-05-24T12:49:20+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/05/24/sofar-powermaster-game-changer-utility-ess-with-pioneering-power-technology/
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Editorial: More of the same for Indiana
As high drama hung over the nation in the aftermath of the Nov. 8 midterm election, Hoosier voters found themselves mere spectators.
In many states, voters defied expectations and shrugged off traditions. They punished candidates who echoed the baseless claims of former President Donald Trump that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulently decided in favor of Joe Biden. In doing so, they returned control of the U.S. Senate to the Democratic Party, and denied Republicans the red wave they so hoped would give them a large majority in the House of Representatives.
Indiana voters, at least those who bothered to go to the polls, were not part of that movement. Rather, they adopted a status quo approach to Hoosier politics, handing Republicans a legislative super majority once again and electing GOP candidates to all statewide offices on the ballot.
This performance at the polls was mostly expected. Indiana has become a reliably red state in the past decade, aided in part by gerrymandering that produces more than 70% of legislative seats despite top GOP state candidates garnering less than 57% of the votes. It seems an eternity since Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won Indiana in 2008 en route to the White House and Democrat Joe Donnelly captured a Senate seat in 2012.
The 2022 voting results were unambiguous. Indiana's Democratic Party continues to struggle to rally enough support to propel it to statewide election victories. Even when it presents voters with quality candidates, the results are the same.
Never has that reality been so stark as it was this year in the Indiana Secretary of State race. Democrat Destiny Wells mounted an aggressive and competent campaign against Republican Diego Morales, an exceptionally weak candidate who once spouted claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and pledged to pursue more restrictions on state voting systems. He was accused of misrepresenting his military service, and generated claims of committing election fraud by voting in one county while obtaining a property tax exemption on a home in another county.
As if that wasn't enough to raise doubts about Morales' fitness for office, he had also twice previously left jobs in the secretary of the state's office after poor performance reviews.
He won the election anyway by a comfortable margin, although his vote totals did lag the rest of the statewide GOP ticket it.
Morales' election poses uncomfortable questions. Did voters not know about the Republican candidates' poor qualifications for the office he sought? Or, because he had an "R" behind his name, did they just not care? Most likely the answer is: A bit of both.
With voter turnout remaining among the lowest in the nation, Indiana's political makeup is unchanged. Meanwhile, heavily gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts ensure that Republicans will continue to have an advantage in Hoosier politics that is greater than the electorate it governs.
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2022-11-24T14:52:43+00:00
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tribstar.com
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https://www.tribstar.com/indiana/opinion/editorial-more-of-the-same-for-indiana/article_e386f2d6-6536-11ed-a09b-db867945fec1.html
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This week, the Biden Administration announced plans to reduce homelessness in the U.S. by 25 percent by 2025.
Los AngelesMayor Karen Bass issued a state of emergency on homelessness as her first act in office. She also announced a program launching next week that will move people off the street and into hotels and motels.
At the same time, New York City Mayor Eric Adams began allowing officials to involuntarily hospitalize people they deemed to be in a psychiatric crisis.
What’s the best way to address unhoused populations? And how exactly does the administration plan to reduce and prevent homelessness? We talk to the head of the federal agency behind the new plan.
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2022-12-21T18:16:36+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/2022-12-20/how-america-is-grappling-with-homelessness
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Duke vs. Oral Roberts: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - First Round
The No. 5 seed Duke Blue Devils (26-8) and the No. 12 seed Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (30-4) will meet in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday at 7:10 PM. Duke is favored by 6.5 points in the matchup, which airs on CBS. Here's everything you need to know about this 5-12 matchup when filling out your brackets. The matchup has a point total of 145.5.
Duke vs. Oral Roberts Odds & Info
- Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: CBS
- Where: Orlando, Florida
- Venue: Amway Center
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Duke vs Oral Roberts Betting Records & Stats
- The Blue Devils have a 15-18-0 record against the spread this season.
- Duke has been at least a -275 moneyline favorite 13 times this season and won all of those games.
- The implied probability of a win from the Blue Devils, based on the moneyline, is 73.3%.
- Oral Roberts is 13-15-0 ATS this year.
- This season, the Golden Eagles have come away with a win one times in four chances when named as an underdog of at least +225 or worse on the moneyline.
- Oral Roberts has an implied victory probability of 30.8% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
Duke vs. Oral Roberts Over/Under Stats
Additional Duke vs Oral Roberts Insights & Trends
- Duke is 6-4 against the spread and 9-1 overall over its past 10 contests.
- The Blue Devils have gone over the total in five of their past 10 contests.
- Over its past 10 games, Oral Roberts has two wins against the spread, and is 10-0 overall.
- The Golden Eagles have hit the over twice in their past 10 games.
- The 72.5 points per game the Blue Devils put up are just 2.4 more points than the Golden Eagles allow (70.1).
- Duke is 10-8 against the spread and 17-1 overall when scoring more than 70.1 points.
- The Golden Eagles score 20.3 more points per game (84.2) than the Blue Devils give up to opponents (63.9).
- When it scores more than 63.9 points, Oral Roberts is 12-12 against the spread and 27-3 overall.
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2023-03-17T14:48:15+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/sports/betting/2023/03/16/duke-vs-oral-roberts-college-basketball-first-round-betting-trends-stats/
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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Imagine calling a place home for your entire life, then having to make the decision to leave it behind because of the immigration system.
That’s the reality for Athulya Rajakumar, a long-time Texas resident who is making tentative plans to self-deport back to India—where she was born— right before the Christmas holiday.
According to Improve the Dream, an immigration nonprofit, there are roughly 250,000 documented dreamers in the United States. Texas has about 10,000. These are people who were brought to the U.S. legally, as a dependent on their parents’ work visa.
By the time a dependent turns 21 though, they’re no longer eligible to receive benefits from their parents’ visas.
You may have heard of undocumented dreamers who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and who are allowed to stay in the U.S. as DACA recipients.
On the contrary, documented dreamers, who were brought here legally don’t qualify for DACA, and therefore aren’t offered the same protections.
The looming date of turning 21 for documented dreamers isn’t a surprise. They’ve always known they needed to figure out a path to long-term U.S. citizenship. However, the problem is the country’s immigration system is so backlogged, documented dreamers eventually age out of the system without finding an immediate solution to stay in America.
Negotiations in the Senate are ongoing for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which has to pass by the end of the year. Advocates are hoping a provision is passed that allows documented dreamers to continue pursuing their permanent path to U.S. Citizenship as they have their entire lives.
This story will be updated by reporter Jala Washington.
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2022-12-06T21:36:40+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/national/thousands-of-legal-texas-immigrants-at-risk-of-deportation-if-senate-doesnt-pass-bill-by-end-of-year/
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Be sure to catch today’s edition of cleveland.com’s exclusive online show, “Sports 4 CLE,” brought to you by Tri-C, live each day at 4 p.m. You also can find previous shows here.
On today’s show:
YouTube personality Quincy Carrier and Casey Kinnamon from Dawg Pound Daily join to discuss what the Browns might do in the 2022 NFL Draft. We will also discuss remaining free agent options the Browns can explore and if Baker Mayfield could be traded at some point this weekend.
More Browns coverage
See the composite big board’s top 100 prospects
How Berry did in 2020 draft: Cabot
Zegura replaces Dieken on 2022 radio broadcasts
Decade’s best third-round selections at 78 or later
Browns hope to get lucky in Vegas: Crowquill
WR Browns should trade up to get: Podcast
Thomas still believes Wills Jr. has All-Pro talent
What are draft’s weakest positions?
Answering draft needs: Lesmerises Mock 7
What if Browns drafted the best player with each pick?
Team reaches betting partnership with Bally’s Interactive
Another late-round 5-star target: Lesmerises
If Ojabo falls, is he a DE option at No. 44?
7 sleepers to watch in the late rounds
Will Mayfield be dealt during draft? Hey, Mary Kay!
What are the strongest position groups?
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2022-04-28T19:08:38+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/sports-4-cle/2022/04/nfl-draft-2022-preview-and-the-browns-quincy-carrier-casey-kinnamon-on-thursdays-sports-4-cle.html
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Oklahoma governor signs the nation’s strictest abortion ban
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas law that was passed last year. The law takes effect immediately upon Stitt’s signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions. Abortion providers have said they will stop performing the procedure as soon as the bill is signed.
“I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk and I am proud to keep that promise today,” the first-term Republican said in a statement. “From the moment life begins at conception is when we have a responsibility as human beings to do everything we can to protect that baby’s life and the life of the mother. That is what I believe and that is what the majority of Oklahomans believe.”
Abortion providers across the country have been bracing for the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court’s new conservative majority might further restrict the practice, and that has especially been the case in Oklahoma and Texas.
“The impact will be disastrous for Oklahomans,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the abortion-rights supporting Guttmacher Institute. “It will also have severe ripple effects, especially for Texas patients who had been traveling to Oklahoma in large numbers after the Texas six-week abortion ban went into effect in September.”
The bills are part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states to scale back abortion rights. It comes on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the nation’s high court that suggests justices are considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nearly 50 years ago.
The only exceptions in the Oklahoma law are to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.
The bill specifically authorizes doctors to remove a “dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion,” or miscarriage, or to remove an ectopic pregnancy, a potentially life-threatening emergency that occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube and early in pregnancy.
The law also does not apply to the use of morning-after pills such as Plan B or any type of contraception.
Two of Oklahoma’s four abortion clinics already stopped providing abortions after the governor signed a six-week ban earlier this month.
With the state’s two remaining abortion clinics expected to stop offering services, it is unclear what will happen to women who qualify under one of the exceptions. The law’s author, State Rep. Wendi Stearman, says doctors will be empowered to decide which women qualify and that those abortions will be performed in hospitals. But providers and abortion-rights activists warn that trying to prove qualification could prove difficult and even dangerous in some circumstances.
In addition to the Texas-style bill already signed into law, the measure is one of at least three anti-abortion bills sent this year to Stitt.
Oklahoma’s law is styled after a first-of-its-kind Texas law that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in place that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion. Other Republican-led states sought to copy Texas’ ban. Idaho’s governor signed the first copycat measure in March, although it has been temporarily blocked by the state’s Supreme Court
The third Oklahoma bill is to take effect this summer and would make it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That bill contains no exceptions for rape or incest.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-05-26T01:24:06+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/05/25/oklahoma-governor-signs-nations-strictest-abortion-ban/
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LAS VEGAS, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "CONEXPO-CON/AGG is North America's largest construction trade show representing asphalt, aggregates, concrete, earthmoving, lifting, mining, utilities, and more. In 2020, it was cut short by the COVID pandemic. This year, they knocked it out of the park with a tremendous attendance of professionals from across the industry.
During the show, which ran from March 14th through the 18th, CICB met with over 1000 attendees to discuss options available to improve safe lifting operations. Topics included personnel qualification assessments, the CCO certification process, compliance evaluations to assess operation efficiency and techniques, the value of classroom and hands-on training to properly educate lifting personnel, effective communications in lifting operations, the use of simulators for basic crane operator training, etc.
The company's booth featured a mobile crane operator simulator (provided by CM Labs), a rigging inspector activity, an interactive mobile crane model, and more.
On Thursday, March 16th, CICB hosted a breakfast and networking reception. The breakfast featured a presentation from Michael Rubin, a highly experienced OSHA Defense Attorney. Michael's presentation provided a step-by-step approach to being prepared for an OSHA audit. In case you missed it, contact us and we will send you some details.
Larry Kime, CICB's Technical Advisor and Senior Instructor, recalled, "CONEXPO was a great opportunity to converse with our clients and others to review their needs and concerns and to offer ideas and solutions to improved safety and operations."
About CICB
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, CICB is a veteran-owned company that provides customized solutions for lifting operations across the world through training, inspections, and support services. CICB is known as the Subject Matter Expert Team that the crane and lifting industry engages as an essential partner for safe and effective practices in planning, supervising, executing, and evaluating crane and lifting operations.
CICB has built lifelong partnerships with thousands of companies for over half a century wherever people interact with lifting equipment, continuously reducing accidents, injuries, deaths, equipment failures, and lost production globally. Their obsessive pursuit to Elevate Your Expertise is what has made CICB the oldest, most experienced, and most trusted company in the industry. For additional information, please visit cicb.com.
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2023-03-29T12:54:12+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/03/29/cicb-exhibits-conexpo-2023/
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FMC Corporation delivers solid third quarter 2022 results reflecting continued growth momentum, maintains full-year profit outlook
Published: Nov. 1, 2022 at 3:30 PM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
Results driven by robust start to the Latin American season and strong pricing actions across all regions
Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
Revenue of $1.38 billion, an increase of 15 percent versus Q3 2021 and up 19 percent organically1
Consolidated GAAP net income of $118 million, down 27 percent versus Q3 2021
Adjusted EBITDA of $261 million, down 11 percent versus Q3 2021
Consolidated GAAP earnings of $0.95 per diluted share, down 23 percent versus Q3 2021
Adjusted earnings per diluted share of $1.23, down 14 percent versus Q3 2021
Full-Year Outlook2
Raises revenue outlook to a range of $5.6 to $5.8 billion, reflecting 13 percent growth at the midpoint versus 2021
Narrows adjusted EBITDA outlook to a range of $1.37 to $1.43 billion, reflecting 7 percent growth at the midpoint versus 2021
Narrows adjusted earnings per diluted share outlook to a range of $7.10 to $7.60, reflecting 7 percent growth at the midpoint versus 2021, excluding any impact from potential 2022 share repurchases
Reduces free cash flow outlook to a range of $440 to $560 million, reflecting the increased revenue outlook and inflationary impacts on working capital
Expects up to $200 million in share repurchases, including $100 million completed in October
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) today reported third quarter 2022 revenue of $1.38 billion, an increase of 15 percent versus third quarter 2021, driven by strong volume and pricing. Excluding the impact of foreign currencies, organic revenue grew 19 percent year-over-year. On a GAAP basis, the company reported earnings of $0.95 per diluted share in the third quarter, down 23 percent versus third quarter 2021. Adjusted earnings were $1.23 per diluted share, a decrease of 14 percent versus third quarter 2021, and $0.13 above the midpoint of the guidance.
"FMC's strong growth continued in the third quarter driven by a robust start to the Latin American season and continued pricing actions across all regions. In addition, we are starting to see the benefits of our expanded market access in several key geographies. EBITDA results were down versus the prior year as expected with peak cost headwinds in the quarter," said Mark Douglas, FMC president and chief executive officer.
FMC revenue growth in the third quarter was driven by a 12 percent contribution from volume and a 7 percent contribution from price, offset partially by a 4 percent currency headwind.
Sales in North America grew 21 percent versus the third quarter of 2021. In the US, demand in the Midwest on corn and other crops offset weakness on the West Coast due to challenging weather conditions. Latin America sales grew 35 percent year over year driven by strong herbicide and insecticide demand. In Brazil, FMC is reaping the benefits of investing in expanding market access for its products, especially on soybean and corn acres. In Asia, revenue was down 6 percent (up 2 percent organically) versus prior year period. Erratic weather in several countries including India and Pakistan, as well as currency headwinds, offset the continued progress made with new product launches in Asia. In EMEA, sales were down 12 percent (up 1 percent organically) year over year; regional performance was driven by strength in diamides, especially in Germany, and herbicides for cereals. The global biologicals portfolio grew 9 percent in the quarter, continuing the rapid development of this platform.
Third quarter adjusted EBITDA was $261 million, a decrease of 11 percent from the prior-year period. Pricing gains across all regions, as well as volume gains, primarily in Latin America, were more than offset by cost and currency headwinds in the quarter.
Full Year 2022 Outlook2
The company raised its forecast for full-year 2022 revenue to be in the range of $5.6 billion to $5.8 billion, representing an increase of 13 percent at the midpoint versus 2021 driven by volume and price growth in all regions partially offset by foreign currency impacts. Full-year adjusted EBITDA range has been narrowed and is now expected to be $1.37 billion to $1.43 billion, representing 7 percent year-over-year growth at the midpoint. The range for 2022 adjusted earnings per share is also narrowed and is now expected to be $7.10 to $7.60 per diluted share, representing an increase of 7 percent year-over-year at the midpoint. Interest expense is now expected to be $148 million to $154 million. Adjusted earnings per share excludes any impact from potential 2022 share repurchases and assumes weighted average diluted shares outstanding (WADSO) of approximately 127 million. Full-year free cash flow is lowered to a range of $440 million to $560 million, reflecting the increased revenue outlook and inflationary impacts on working capital. The company expects to repurchase up to $200 million of FMC shares in 2022, which includes $100 million already repurchased in October.
Fourth Quarter Outlook2
Fourth quarter revenue is now expected to be in the range of $1.42 billion to $1.62 billion, an 8 percent increase at the midpoint compared to fourth quarter 2021. Adjusted EBITDA is now forecasted to be in the range of $395 million to $455 million, representing a 15 percent increase at the midpoint versus fourth quarter 2021. FMC now expects adjusted earnings per diluted share to be in the range of $2.05 to $2.55 in the fourth quarter, which represents growth of 9 percent at the midpoint versus fourth quarter 2021.
"FMC's performance in the third quarter has set us up well for a strong finish to the second half of the year. We continue to expand our market access and are on track to deliver record results for the year, overcoming significant headwinds from both cost inflation and currency volatility," said Douglas.
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After the tragic shooting on the Saint Francis campus this week, many people in the community are looking for ways to move forward.
For some, that might involve seeking professional help.
Crystal Cross with Improving Lives Counseling Services said one of the main goals of trauma therapy is to give people back the power they feel they lost after a traumatic event.
“To be able to take that power back from someone that has taken it from you, that was out of your control, it really helps to heal the brain,” said Cross.
She says for some people the brain has trouble processing what happened after a traumatic event.
That’s why mental health professionals recommend a form of therapy called EMDR.
“If they hear a loud noise, they go back to that point, and it’s like they’re there again,” Cross said. “EMDR takes those memories, or those experiences, and turns them into memories that have no control over them.”
EMDR, which is short for Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, replicates sleeping patterns that help your brain process information and uses those to update the past thoughts with present information.
“EMDR kind of helps to reconnect the logical thinking, which uses the word adaptive, way of living, with the negative experiences and emotions someone is experiencing in everyday life,” said Cross.
Cross says while people might suppress their emotions at first, it’s important to seek help sooner than later.
“Sometimes, people like to just bury it, and ignore it, and act like it didn’t happen, and that’s okay, for a little while,” Cross said. “But it will eventually come up somewhere else.”
She says she hopes people in Tulsa know that it’s okay to ask for help in these situations.
“If you feel, dissettled, if you feel upset, if you have any kind of fear or anxiety around what has happened in Tulsa, talk to somebody about it,” said Cross. “See where it’s coming from, and investigate it.”
Cross said she wants people to know that seeking professional help after a traumatic event should not be seen as a sign of weakness, but instead, a sign of strength.
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2022-06-05T01:47:53+00:00
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newson6.com
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https://www.newson6.com/story/629b9b5a5d2ad70725545b26/mental-health-professionals-give-ways-to-combat-ptsd-after-saint-francis-shooting
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Man found shot to death in home of another man who’s been missing since last week, police say
By Jeff Ehling
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A homeowner has not been seen since a murder victim was found at the missing man’s house, and Houston police say they need your help finding him.
Officers were called last Friday at about 8:30 a.m. to the home in the 1700 block of T.C. Jester Boulevard for a welfare check.
It was the homeowner’s neighbors who called police after seeing a pickup truck had been left running in the garage for several hours and the homeowner wasn’t picking up his phone.
Police said they have not been able to locate 37-year-old James Gerald Martin III since Thursday of last week.
Once inside the home, police found a 35-year-old man who had been shot multiple times. Detectives tell us the man’s injuries came from the day before.
Police are trying to locate Martin, though he has not been charged in the incident. Police are also looking for a missing 2022 white Dodge Ram pickup truck with Oregon license plate 915LP.
Police said neighbors knew something was not right in the home.
“It was unusual, so the neighbors reached out to family, and ultimately, they decided to call 911,” Det. Blake Roberts with HPD said.
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2023-01-30T19:24:36+00:00
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BOULDER, Colorado (KDVR) — In less than a week, the popular doughnut shop Voodoo Doughnut is opening one of its newest U.S. locations and the fourth in Colorado. But this Boulder store will be missing the brand’s signature pink color.
Voodoo is known for its bright pink branding. Their boxes are even stamped with the slogan, “Good things come in pink boxes.” But Boulder’s location will not feature the bright color — instead, the exterior was painted gray.
On Oct. 13, the Voodoo Doughnut Instagram account posted a sneak peek of the Boulder building.
“You guessed it. The building has been painted pink and we’re coming for you, Boulder!” the post reads.
On June 11, Voodoo posted a new rendering of the building and instead of the eye-catching pink, the building appeared to be gray on the exterior with the pink painted on the inside.
“Hey Boulder. We’re still coming,” Voodoo said in its most recent update.
Cate Stanek, communication program manager for Boulder, told Nexstar’s KDVR that the city required the color change because the pink was a violation of the city’s sign code. The company had to repaint the building as required by its building permit.
The city’s sign code includes the use of branding colors in a signage area, said Stanek.
The violation was not a problem for Voodoo and the bakery will open, just in a different color scheme.
During the grand opening on August 1, doughnut fans will get to enjoy a featured “Golden Buffalo” doughnut that was created specifically for the event, according to Voodoo.
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2023-07-28T21:36:11+00:00
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wate.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury has been chosen for the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four other members of the far-right extremist group charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power by attacking the U.S. Capitol after the 2020 election.
Jurors are expected to hear attorneys’ opening statements in Washington’s federal court on Wednesday after the panel is sworn in, defense attorney Carmen Hernandez said. It’s one of the most serious cases to emerge from the deadly insurrection that halted Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
Jury selection took 10 days of questioning as many potential jurors expressed negative views about the Proud Boys. The panel ultimately chosen Monday includes seven men and nine women, WUSA-TV reported.
Tarrio and his co-defendants could face up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of seditious conspiracy. Opening statements will begin more than a month after a jury convicted two leaders of another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors said was a separate plot to stop the transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump, a Republican, to Biden, a Democrat.
The Nov. 29 guilty verdicts for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs were the first seditious conspiracy trial convictions in decades. A trial for four other Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy started earlier this month in Washington.
Tarrio, of Miami, was the national chairman of the Proud Boys when a mob that included several of its members stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Defense attorneys have said there was never any plan to go into the Capitol or stop Congress’ certification of the vote.
The others on trial — Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Joseph Biggs — also are charged with other riot-related crimes besides seditious conspiracy.
Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6. Police had arrested him two days earlier on charges that he vandalized a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a December 2020 protest. Tarrio left the nation’s capital on the eve of the riot.
Prosecutors allege that even after his arrest, Tarrio kept command over the Proud Boys who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 and cheered on their actions from afar. As rioters stormed the building, he posted “don’t (expletive) leave” on social media, and then later “We did this…”
Nordean, Pezzola, Biggs and Rehl were part of the first wave of rioters to push onto Capitol grounds and charge past police barricades toward the building, according to prosecutors. Pezzola used a riot shield he stole from a Capitol police officer to break a window, allowing the first rioters to enter the building, prosecutors allege.
Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president. Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Pezzola was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the Capitol riot at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege.
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2023-01-11T02:28:50+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-jury-chosen-to-hear-proud-boys-jan-6-sedition-trial/
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WASHINGTON – Steve Bannon's lawyers are expected Thursday to begin their defense of the former adviser to then-President Donald Trump as Bannon's contempt of Congress trial enters a new phase.
Bannon was in an unofficial capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and is charged with defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the events leading up to the deadly riot.
It is unclear whether Bannon, 68, will take the stand or whom the defense might call as witnesses.
Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a month after the Justice Department received the House panel's referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars upon conviction.
The Justice Department rested its case Wednesday after calling just two witnesses: Kristin Amerling, the House committee’s chief counsel, and FBI special agent Stephen Hart. The prosecution's case was dominated by testimony from Amerling, who explained the extent to which the committee tried to engage Bannon and the timeline leading up to the missed deadline.
Bannon’s lawyer tried Wednesday to establish that the deadline for the onetime Trump strategist to appear before the House committee investigating the Capitol riot was flexible as long as the two sides were on negotiating terms.
Bannon lawyer Evan Corcoran asked Amerling whether it was common for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena. Amerling answered “yes,” but added only “when witnesses are cooperating with the committee.”
Amerling said Bannon was uncooperative from the start, so there was no such leeway.
The committee heard nothing from Bannon until after the first deadline had passed, at which point his lawyer sent a letter to the committee stating that Bannon was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege and would not be providing documents or appearing. The committee responded in writing that Trump’s claim was invalid — Trump was no longer president, and Bannon was not employed at the White House at the time of the riot.
The panel gave Bannon a hard deadline of Oct. 14 to come before the committee. When that deadline passed, the committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote Bannon’s lawyer on Oct. 15 threatening criminal prosecution.
The committee, which is holding a prime time hearing Thursday, wanted to speak with Bannon because it had information that Bannon was actively involved in planning, logistics and fundraising for efforts by Trump, a Republican, to overturn the 2020 election and stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. The subpoena demanded any documents or communications relating to Trump and other people in his orbit, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
The emphasis on the subpoena timeline is one of the few avenues of defense that U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols left Bannon’s legal team after a hearing last week. Nichols ruled that major elements of Bannon’s planned defense were irrelevant and could not be introduced in court. The judge said Bannon could not claim he believed he was covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to withhold confidential information from the courts and the legislative branch, or that he was acting on the advice of his lawyers.
In opening statements Corcoran argued that the charges against him were politically motivated and that Bannon was engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged.
“No one ignored the subpoena,” Corcoran told the jury.
In reality, Corcoran said, one of Bannon’s previous lawyers, Robert Costello, contacted an attorney for the House committee to express some of Bannon’s concerns about testifying.
“They did what two lawyers do. They negotiated,” Corcoran said, adding that Bannon and his legal team believed “the dates of the subpoena were not fixed; they were flexible.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege.
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2022-07-21T13:48:31+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2022/07/21/steve-bannons-defense-to-begin-in-trump-advisers-trial/
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Southland choir group performs with South Shore Opera
The male ensemble from the Richton Park-based Southland College Prep Choir performed Sept. 9 at Chicago’s South Shore Cultural Center with the South Shore Opera Company.
Elizabeth Norman-Sojourner, choir director at the school and the first artistic director of the South Shore Opera Company, is the choir director at the high school in Richton Park. The concert, titled “Elizabeth Norman-Sojourner and Friends,” featured Norman-Sojourner and other artists such as tenor Christopher Joyner and the musical singing trio Tre Diva.
Stephen Ford, a Southland senior, performed “Nessun Dorma,” an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot.” Ford, who has been a member of the choir since freshman year, performed the same piece and earned a perfect score in the Illinois High School Association solo competition last year. The 12-member Southland male ensemble performed “Agony” from the musical “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim.
“As a little kid I didn’t think about being on stage,” Ford said. “But as you progress, you get more comfortable. You start to feel proud and accomplished about sharing your gift.”
Knights of Columbus welcome Honor Flight home
Members, spouses and friends of Father Perez Knights of Columbus Council 1444 in Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood joined an estimated throng of more than 1,000 at Midway Airport on Sept. 21 to welcome home 114 veterans who participated in the 105th Honor Flight Chicago.
Doug Meffley, director of communications for Honor Flight Chicago, noted that this was the first flight that did not include World War II veterans, and it was the largest and loudest reception since prior to Midway’s 2018 construction project.
The Father Perez contingent gathered to honor Past Grand Knight Rich Doyle, who was in the Army from 1966 to 1968 and in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. Doyle, a 1965 Leo High School graduate, was overcome by emotion when he entered the baggage claim area along with his escort from Great Lakes Naval Station.
“The reception was beyond my wildest dreams. It is most certainly one of the best days of my life. I was amazed at the number of people who greeted us so enthusiastically,” he said. “They reminded me that there are and were many people who supported and prayed for those of us who served in Vietnam.”
Also on the honor flight were Jerry McGovern, St. Kilian Class of 1961, who served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam 1966-1967 and was awarded a Purple Heart, and 19th Ward resident Dennis Moster, McGovern’s classmate from St. Kilian who was with the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam April of 1968 to January 1969.
“Mini Monsters” clinic brings former Bear to Frankfort school
Students at Grand Prairie Elementary School in Frankfort had the opportunity to train like the Chicago Bears during a “Mini Monsters” clinic Sept. 7.
Physical education teachers Barb Borden and Kris Vandenberg applied for the opportunity over the summer. During the clinic, students rotated through six stations, working on their passing, catching, throwing, jumping and running skills, and hand-eye coordination.
The 2nd graders also were visited by former Bears offensive lineman Chris Edwards.
Old Plank Road Trail section to close for repairs Oct. 4
A section of Old Plank Road Trail from Harlem Avenue to LaGrange Road will close Tuesday, Oct. 4, as asphalt repairs begin on the path.
Over the next three weeks or so, asphalt repairs will take place on a 7 mile section of the trail from Harlem Avenue in Frankfort to Schoolhouse Road in New Lenox Township. This section of the 22-mile trail is 25 years old and in need of repairs, according to a release from the Forest Preserve District of Will County.
Because the paving work will be a moving operation, path users are asked to use caution and to follow any signage that is posted, district officials said.
Homewood church collecting for asylum-seekers
St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 18850 Riegel Road, Homewood is a collection site for donated items for the more than 750 asylum-seekers from Central and South America who have arrived in Chicago on buses sent from Texas since Aug. 31.
The donations will be taken to the city to welcome and assist these migrants, according to a release from the church. A list of needed items and drop off times are available at homewoodsaintandrew.org, or by emailing standrewspeaks@gmail.com or calling 708-798-8904.
Franciscan Health Diaper Drive begins
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields seeks to ease a silent crisis that impacts many parents in the region with its annual Diaper Drive in October.
Last year’s Diaper Drive resulted in the delivery of 9,000 diapers to Southland families in need. This year’s Diaper Drive, which begins Monday, has a goal of collecting 10,000 diapers to be donated to local community organizations including Respond NOW, Aid for Women and Franciscan Health Family Birth Center’s patients in need, according to a news release from the hospital.
Donations of new and/or unused opened packs of diapers or pull ups can be dropped off at the Franciscan Health Olympia Fields main lobby, 20201 South Crawford Ave., Olympia Fields. Financial donations, which allow the purchase of twice as many diapers due to discounted hospital purchase rates, are accepted by calling the Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Foundation at 708-852-2430.
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2022-09-30T16:01:14+00:00
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy health industry press releases from PR Newswire, including the FDA approval of a medication to moderate hot flashes.
NEW YORK, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the healthcare industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- FDA Approves Novel Drug to Treat Moderate to Severe Hot Flashes Caused by Menopause
"Hot flashes as a result of menopause can be a serious physical burden on women and impact their quality of life," said Janet Maynard, M.D., M.H.S., director of the Office of Rare Diseases, Pediatrics, Urologic and Reproductive Medicine, in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "The introduction of a new molecule to treat moderate to severe menopausal hot flashes will provide an additional safe and effective treatment option for women." - Alife Health Launches Mobile App to Help Patients Navigate their IVF Journey
The Alife app offers easy-to-use tracking, reminders, educational resources, and personalized timelines to support patients through the IVF process. - Google Cloud Launches AI-powered Solutions to Safely Accelerate Drug Discovery and Precision Medicine
Now available worldwide, the Target and Lead Identification Suite helps researchers better identify the function of amino acids and predict the structure of proteins; and the Multiomics Suite accelerates the discovery and interpretation of genomic data, helping companies design precision treatments. - Survey Finds that Americans Know They Feel Their Best and Have Reduced Stress After Getting a Good Night's Rest - Yet Most Adults Won't Give Up Late-Night Guilty Pleasures
Despite knowing the importance of the connections between stress and sleep, as well as sleep and mood, only four in ten adults from the Natrol Sleep Stress Cycle survey said they would give up their late-night TV (44%), late night snacking (43%), smartphone (41%), or online scrolling (40%) in exchange for better sleep and reduced stress the next day. - Erase PTSD Now Kicks Off Campaign to Change the Term PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) to PTSI (Post-Traumatic Stress Injury)
PTSI, deemed a more accurate term, recognizes that the condition is not a disorder, but rather an injury that can be treated as such. This simple name change can help remove the stigma surrounding this diagnosis and encourage individuals to seek the help they need. - Bearpaw Partners Launches Fentanyl Test Strip Campaign for StopHIVATL
The campaign has already yielded significant results in addressing the fentanyl crisis, disproportionately affecting Georgia's most vulnerable populations. - Loneliness Has Increased 314% as a Result of COVID-19 Safety Measures More Than 2 Years into Pandemic
Chris Fernandez, CEO of The Roots Of Loneliness Project, explained, "What we found really surprised us. Despite certain parts of the country opening up and having more lax masking or social distancing standards (or none at all), loneliness actually became more pervasive." - Modern Health and Naomi Osaka Host Its First-Ever Family Huddle to Navigate Mental Health
To empower families and caregivers, Modern Health's first Family Huddle will explore strategies for building positive mental health habits to help families openly discuss this important, and traditionally stigmatized topic. - Debbie's Dream Foundation: Curing Stomach Cancer Hosts Free Stomach Cancer Educational Symposium in Partnership with Moffitt Cancer Center
Topics covered include the latest on gastric cancer research, such as treatment options, clinical trials, genetics, nutrition, integrative medicine, and more from the experts at Moffitt. - Cedars-Sinai to Send Stem Cells to the Space Station to Aid in the Advancement of Stem Cell-Based Therapies
On Earth, the production of large quantities of stem cells has been challenging because 2D culture conditions do not entirely recapitulate the native environment of the human body. However, the microgravity conditions on the ISS enable three-dimensional cell growth that more closely resembles how cells grow in the human body. This makes microgravity an ideal platform to produce stem cells to improve treatments and patient care on Earth.
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Can't-Miss Earnings
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Catch up on all the latest earnings reports here.
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2022-12-02T13:11:19+00:00
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Here & Now hosts Deepa Fernandes and Scott Tong speak with journalists Marc Caputo and Jesse Holland about how the week in politics has been dominated by a spat over whether Republicans want to cut popular social welfare programs like Medicare and Social Security.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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2023-02-10T20:26:11+00:00
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first shipment of grain as part of Ukraine’s own initiative to supply countries in need arrived in Djibouti Monday for delivery to neighboring Ethiopia amid the region’s worst drought in decades.
Ukraine’s embassy in Ethiopia confirmed that the “Grain from Ukraine” shipment of 25,000 tons is separate from a United Nations World Food Program effort that has funded humanitarian grain shipments from Ukraine.
A second ship with 30,000 tons of wheat will be heading to Ethiopia next week, while a third vessel is currently being loaded with 25,000 tons of wheat bound for Somalia, an embassy statement said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky last month announced the initiative aimed at helping “countries the most struck by the food crisis.” Ukraine has said it plans to send more than 60 ships to Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Congo, Kenya, Yemen and other countries.
Millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are going hungry due to drought following the fifth straight failed rainy season, while conflicts in Ethiopia and Somalia have worsened the crisis.
Ethiopia has not yet commented on the new grain shipment from Ukraine. But Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in August criticized reports of a U.N. effort to ship grain from Ukraine to Ethiopia as an attempt to paint “a picture that we are starved.”
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2022-12-05T22:13:35+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-25000-tons-of-ukraine-grain-reach-east-africa-amid-drought/
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Elon Musk threatens to boot Twitter account impersonators
BOSTON (AP) — Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another.
The platform’s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names — not their account names — and tweeted as ‘Elon Musk’ in reaction to the billionaire’s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 month as he simultaneously laid off a big chunk of the workforce.
“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended,” Musk wrote. While Twitter previously issued warnings before suspensions, now that it is rolling out “widespread verification, there will be no warning.”
In fact, “any name change at all” would compel the temporary loss of a verified checkmark, the world’s richest man said.
Comedian Kathy Griffin had her account suspended Sunday after she switched her screen name to Musk. She told a Bloomberg reporter that she had also used his profile photo.
“I guess not ALL the content moderators were let go? Lol,” Griffin joked afterward on Mastodon, an alternative social media platform where she set up an account last week.
Actor Valerie Bertinelli had similarly appropriated Musk’s screen name — posting a series of tweets in support of Democratic candidates on Saturday before switching back to her true name. “Okey-dokey. I’ve had fun and I think I made my point,” she tweeted afterwards.
Before the stunt, Bertinelli noted the original purpose of the blue verification checkmark. It was granted free of charge to people whose identity Twitter employees had confirmed; with journalists accounting for a big portion of recipients. “It simply meant your identity was verified. Scammers would have a harder time impersonating you,” Bertinelli noted.
“That no longer applies. Good luck out there!” she added.
The $8 verified accounts are Musk’s way of democratizing the service, he claims. On Saturday, a Twitter update for iOS devices listed on Apple’s app store said users who “sign up now” for the new “Twitter Blue with verification” can get the blue check next to their names “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.”
It said the service would first be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. However, it was not available Sunday and there was no indication when it would go live. A Twitter employ, Esther Crawford, told The Associated Press it is coming “soon but it hasn’t launched yet.”
Twitter did not respond on Sunday to an email seeking comment on the verified accounts issue and Griffin’s suspension.
Musk later tweeted, “Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That’s our mission.”
If the company were to strip current verified users of blue checks — something that hasn’t happened — that could exacerbate disinformation on the platform during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Like Griffin, some Twitter users have already begun migrating from the platform — Counter Social is another popular alternative — following layoffs that began Friday that reportedly affected about half of Twitter’s 7,500-employee workforce. They fear a breakdown of moderation and verification could create a disinformation free-for-all on what has been the internet’s main conduit for reliable communications from public agencies and other institutions.
Many companies have paused advertising on the platform out of concern it could become more unruly under Musk.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, sought to assuage such concerns in a tweet Friday. He said the company’s front-line content moderation staff was the group least affected by the job cuts.
Musk tweeted late Friday that there was no choice but to cut jobs “when the company is losing over $4M/day.” He did not provide details on the daily losses at Twitter and said employees who lost their jobs were offered three months’ pay as severance.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-11-07T02:33:34+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/2022/11/07/elon-musk-threatens-boot-twitter-account-impersonators/
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(KTLA) – Actress Anne Heche likely died as a result of the fire that broke out after her car crashed into a home earlier this month, authorities say.
Her death about a week after the fiery wreck in Mar Vista was due to smoke inhalation and “thermal injuries,” the Los Angeles County Coroner announced Wednesday. The coroner added that the manner of death was an “accident,” and that Heche suffered a “sternal fracture due to blunt trauma.”
Witnesses recorded video of Heche speeding through city streets before crashing into the two-story home and sparking a fire on August 5. A Venice salon owner spoke with Nexstar’s KTLA, saying Heche had visited his store minutes before the crash.
Authorities believe Heche was under the influence of cocaine and possibly other drugs at the time of the crash, TMZ reported over the weekend.
Heche was removed from life support on Sunday after her organs were harvested for donation. She was 53.
The Ohio native, who won an Emmy Award for the NBC soap opera “Another World,” was also known for roles in movies “Donnie Brasco” and “Six Days, Seven Nights,” as well as her high-profile relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.
After her split from DeGeneres, Heche was hospitalized after knocking on the door of a stranger in a rural area near Fresno, California. Authorities said she had appeared shaken and disoriented, and spoke incoherently to the residents.
In her memoir “Call Me Crazy,” Heche talked about her lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse.
Over the past two decades, Heche’s career pivoted several times. In 2017, she hosted a weekly radio show on SiriusXM with Jason Ellis called “Love and Heche.”In 2020, Heche made her way into the podcast world. She launched “Better Together” which she cohosted alongside Heather Duffy Boylston. The show was described as a way to celebrate friendship.
She also worked in smaller films, on Broadway, and on TV shows. She recently had recurring roles on the network series “Chicago P.D.,” “All Rise,” and was a contestant on Season 29 “Dancing With the Stars.”
Heche was married to camera operator Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. The two had a son, Homer, together. She had another son, named Atlas, during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series “Men In Trees.”
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2022-08-18T06:54:23+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/anne-heches-cause-of-death-revealed/
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ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. went 1 for 5 with two stolen bases in his return to the Braves lineup and Kyle Wright turned in another stellar performance, giving Atlanta its first series win of the season with a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night.
Wright (3-0) pitched three-hit ball over a career-high seven innings as the World Series champion Braves, off to a sluggish start, made it two of three over the Cubs.
Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson hit solo homers off former Braves pitcher Drew Smyly (1-2), while Adam Duvall provided some insurance with a two-run shot against Ethan Roberts in the eighth.
Wearing sparkly, gold-topped cleats with matching armbands and batting gloves, Acuña grounded out twice, struck out twice and punched an opposite-field single to right in the seventh.
A pair of stolen bases seemed to back up his pregame assessment that his reconstructed right knee actually made him faster than before the ACL was torn last July. Playing right field, Acuña fielded the carom perfectly on Jason Heyward’s liner off the fence, holding him to a single.
While much of the attention was on Acuña rejoining the Braves, it was Wright who starred again.
He has pitched 24 innings over his first four starts, allowing just 14 hits and three runs for an ERA of 1.13. In a sign of how nasty his stuff is, Wright has recorded 34 strikeouts with just six walks — four of those coming against the Cubs. He also hit a batter but benefitted from a couple of double plays while allowing only one runner past second base.
Wright looked like a first-round bust as he struggled to gain a foothold in the majors over the last four seasons. Bouncing up and down between the majors and minors, he combined to go 2-8 with a 6.56 ERA over 21 appearances.
Finally, the talented right-hander seems to have figured things out. Coming off a career-best 11 strikeouts against the Marlins, he rang up eight more Chicago hitters.
Smyly went 4 2/3 innings, surrendering five hits, walking one and striking out four.
The Cubs scored their lone run in the second without picking up a hit, taking advantage of Wright walking the first two hitters.
With runners at first and third and two outs, Nico Hoerner appeared to have made a baserunning blunder when he was caught off first by a pickoff throw from Wright.
But the rundown went on long enough for Alfonso Rivas to sprint home from third before Hoerner was tagged out.
TRAINER’S ROOM
The Braves placed catcher Manny Piña on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Monday, with left wrist inflammation. William Contreras was recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett to serve as the backup behind Travis d’Arnaud. The move came just in time for Contreras to be reunited with older brother Willson Contreras, the Cubs’ starting catcher. Before the game, the brothers carried out the lineup cards to home plate, gave each other a hug and posed for pictures.
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Cubs: RH Kyle Hendricks (1-1, 3.98) faces Brewers RH Adrian Houser (1-2, 3.52) on Friday to start a three-game weekend series at Milwaukee.
Braves: RH Ian Anderson (1-1, 5.40 ERA) gets the start as Atlanta opens a three-game series at Texas. RH Spencer Howard (0-1, 14.40) will go for the Rangers.
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2022-04-29T02:52:09+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/acuna-returns-wright-dominant-again-braves-beat-cubs-5-1/
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DUBLIN (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday said while he was concerned that sensitive government documents had been leaked, “there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence.”
It was the first time Biden has commented publicly about the release of Pentagon documents that were posted on several social media sites. They appear to detail U.S. and NATO aid to Ukraine and U.S. intelligence assessments regarding U.S. allies that could strain ties with those nations. The Justice Department has opened an investigation.
“I’m concerned that it happened, but there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence,” said Biden, who is in Dublin visiting with Irish leaders Thursday.
Biden noted that a “full-blown” investigation was underway by the intelligence community and the Justice Department on who leaked the information. “We’re getting close,” he said on answers. “But I don’t have an answer.”
There are no clear answers on how many documents were leaked. The Associated Press has viewed approximately 50 documents; some estimates put the total number in the hundreds.
Some of the document s may have been altered or used as part of a misinformation campaign, U.S. officials said. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby on Monday urged caution, “since we know at least in some cases that information was doctored.”
No one knows for sure where they came from, not even the Pentagon chief.
“They were somewhere in the web, and where exactly, and who had access at that point, we don’t know. We simply don’t know,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a news conference Tuesday. “We will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it.”
It’s possible, though, that the leak may have started on a site called Discord.
Discord is a social media platform popular with people playing online games. The Discord site hosts real-time voice, video and text chats for groups and describes itself as a place “where you can belong to a school club, a gaming group, or a worldwide art community.”
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre urged social media companies to “avoid facilitating the circulation of material detrimental to public safety and national security.”
“We do believe that social media companies have a responsibility to their users and the country to manage the private sector infrastructure that they create and then operate,” she said.
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2023-04-14T07:02:09+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/biden-says-nothing-of-great-consequence-in-pentagon-leaks/
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