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NEW YORK – New York City's latest plan to keep mentally ill people from languishing in public is billed as a common-sense strategy to get them help.
By encouraging police officers and city medics to take more psychologically disturbed people to hospitals, even if they refuse care, Mayor Eric Adams says he's humanely tackling a problem instead of looking away. But his policy will have to navigate a legal challenge and a cool reception from some city lawmakers. In emergency rooms, psychiatrists must determine whether such patients need hospitalization, perhaps against their will.
It's no simple decision.
“Some people come in and they are very agitated, and they need to be restrained as soon as they walk into the emergency room. ... But there are also people who come in and they’re very calm and quiet, but they just tried to kill themselves two hours ago,” says Dr. Joel A. Idowu, who chairs the psychiatry department at Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island.
“A person who’s stable now might become unstable tomorrow,” he said.
Adams, a police-captain-turned-politician, announced the plan in late November. The first-term Democrat has focused on what he views as restoring a sense of safety and civic functionality disrupted during the coronavirus pandemic. Among other things, less crowded streets and subways brought new visibility to the people living on them, some of them mentally ill.
Under state law, police can compel people to be taken to hospitals for evaluation if they appear to be mentally ill and their behavior poses a substantial risk of physical harm to others or themselves.
That's often interpreted to mean people who are violent or suicidal. But Adams said he's using room within the law to address people “whose illness is endangering them by preventing them from meeting their basic human needs.”
The mayor cites “a moral obligation to help them get the treatment and care they need," but civil liberties organizations and mental health advocacy groups decry his response as draconian, blinkered and legally suspect. Critics rallied outside City Hall this week and have asked a federal judge to halt the policy; a hearing is scheduled Monday.
It comes amid efforts around the U.S. to separate mental health treatment from law enforcement, including the new nationwide 988 mental health emergency hotline and moves in New York and other cities to handle at least some crisis calls with behavioral health professionals instead of police.
“We need to make mental health care like medical care, a health issue responded to and treated by the people with the right training, at the right time, in the right places,’’ said American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Rebecca Brendel. She maintains that using law enforcement authorities to respond to mental health crises unfairly criminalizes the mentally ill.
Adams said officers will have access to real-time input from mental health professionals and will strive to persuade people to accept help voluntarily. His administration has stressed that while police can send someone to a hospital, it's up to doctors whether the person needs to stay there or can be safely released for outpatient care.
The complexity, and stakes, became tragically clear when a Rochester, New York, family called 911 in March 2020 about a loved one who was behaving erratically and saying he wanted to die. Once at a hospital, Daniel Prude calmly and appropriately answered questions and said he wasn't suicidal or homicidal, according to a psychiatrist's grand jury testimony. The hospital released him.
Hours later, police found Prude running in Rochester's snowy streets. Officers eventually held him down until he stopped breathing; he was taken off life support days later.
In general, when a patient arrives for emergency psychiatric evaluation, the first step is to ascertain whether a medical problem or drug use is causing the person's behavior. If not, psychiatrists assess the patient partly by observing and asking questions. But they also seek information from loved ones, prior mental health providers and anyone else who can shed light.
“You can’t just go with what you see or what the patient has told the nurse,” because the person may be unable or unwilling to give a complete picture, says Dr. Madhu Rajanna, the interim chief of psychiatry at St. John's Episcopal Hospital on New York City's Rockaway Peninsula.
Staffers might need to calm combative patients — St. John's says it doesn't use restraints for that purpose and rarely employs sedatives — or discern whether cooperative patients who insist they're feeling better are truly well enough to leave.
St. John's emergency room usually is evaluating eight to 10 psychiatric patients at any given time, and each is supposed to be either admitted or released within 24 hours. (Some other hospitals can hold people for 72 hours for observation in specialized psychiatric emergency programs.)
Rajanna and emergency medicine chair Dr. Leigha Clarkson said St. John's 43 adult psychiatric beds are generally sufficient, though the hospital tries to release people swiftly once it's safe.
Citywide, however, Adams' new policy could test capacity after hundreds of psychiatric beds were converted for COVID-19 cases. The state recently pledged 50 new psychiatric beds, and Adams promised “to find a bed for everyone that needs” one.
It's possible many people won't. Richmond University Medical Center's psychiatric emergency program, for instance, discharges about 3/4 of patients after assessment, Idowu said.
Deciding whether patients stay or go “can be anxiety-provoking sometimes. Because it’s not perfect,” he said, but the goal is that “you don’t leave anything to chance.”
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Associated Press Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner contributed from Chicago.
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2022-12-12T03:36:23+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2022/12/11/with-nyc-plan-for-mentally-ill-hospitals-face-complex-task/
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NEW YORK (AP) — The MTV Video Music Awards are back Sunday with some of the biggest names in music vying for the network’s fabled Moon Person statue.
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar are tied for leading nominees with seven apiece. Harlow and Lil Nas X’s collaboration “Industry Baby” propelled their nominations, landing them in competition for artist of the year along with Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Lizzo.
Closely behind are Harry Styles and Doja Cat, who received six nominations apiece, while Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Tayler Swift and The Weeknd each have five.
Harlow is pulling double duty, joining LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show’s emcees. The VMAs are being being held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and will air beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Minaj will perform hits from throughout her career and accept the show’s video vanguard award, which MTV has said she’s receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
Eminem, Snoop Dogg, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bad Bunny are also set to perform
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, becomes the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album “Madame X.”
Lamar returns to the VMAs as a nominee for the first time since 2018, with nods for best hip-hop, direction, visual effects, editing, and a category known as video for good, while his songs “family ties” and “N95” are competing for best cinematography.
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2022-08-28T13:12:32+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-mtv-vmas-ready-to-host-honor-some-of-musics-biggest-acts/
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Did you lose money on investments in Outset Medical? If so, please visit Outset Medical, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset Medical" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OM) between September 15, 2020, and June 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Outset Medical is a medical technology company focused on kidney dialysis, the primary treatment for acute and chronic kidney failure. The Company's flagship product is the Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"). Tablo is a dialysis machine that purifies tap water and then artificially purifies and removes toxins from the blood of patients suffering from kidney failure.
Throughout the Class Period, Outset Medical touted that Tablo can "serve as a dialysis clinic on wheels" and had been "cleared by the [U.S.] Food and Drug Administration [(the "FDA")] for use in the hospital, clinic or home setting." Outset Medical contended it was "well-positioned" to "help accelerate th[e] shift to home-based hemodialysis therapy" prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, patient preferences, government initiatives, and reimbursement changes.
However, devices like Tablo that are used by non-professionals outside of a clinical setting and can present serious health consequences are subject to heightened scrutiny by the FDA, including post-market surveillance studies. Thus, though cleared by the FDA for sale, Tablo was subject to additional studies for use in the home setting, the results of which could require additional applications for clearance and approvals.
While performing further regulatory studies during the Class Period, the Company assured investors that it was conducting the studies "in accordance with the FDA approved protocol," which required an appropriate demonstration of "real-world" human testing given that the device would be used at home by non-professionals.
Undisclosed to investors, and as Defendants have now admitted, Outset Medical "continuously" made significant changes to Tablo for use in the home setting. The nature of these undisclosed changes: (1) made it likely that the FDA would order the Company to cease all marketing and selling of Tablo for use in the home pending additional applications and approvals; and (2) prevented the Company from performing the requisite "real-world" human testing on a device cleared for sale, contrary to representations to investors.
Investors began to learn the truth after the markets closed on May 4, 2022, when the Company announced disappointing results for the first quarter of 2022, which analysts attributed, inter alia, to the untested nature of Tablo in the home setting. In response to this disclosure, and as the market digested this news, the price of Outset Medical common stock declined more than 40% over the three trading days that followed, from a closing price of $39.94 per share on May 4, 2022, to a closing price of $23.06 per share on May 9, 2022.
Then, after the markets closed on June 13, 2022, Outset Medical announced that the FDA had forced the Company to hold all shipments of Tablo for use in the home until Tablo received proper regulatory clearance. During an "FDA Review Call" held that day with analysts, Company Chief Executive Officer Leslie Trigg acknowledged the "ship hold" had already been in place for weeks before investors were provided this material information. Trigg also disclosed for the first time that, rather than conducting studies using "real-world data" gathered in the "home environment", as the Company previously stated was required by the FDA, Outset Medical had "run with a protocol that involves a simulated use environment at a human factors lab." During the same call, it was also announced the Company was "suspending our prior full-year and long-term guidance."
On this news, the Company's stock price fell over 34%, to close at $13.46 per share on June 14, 2022.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery does not require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased Outset Medical common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Outset Medical, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years.
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WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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747 FPUS56 KOTX 260833
ZFPOTX
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern Washington and North Idaho
National Weather Service Spokane WA
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
WAZ031-271100-
Northeast Blue Mountains-
Including the cities of Anatone and Peola
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain and mountain snow. Mountain snow
accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the
40s, Lows in the lower to mid 30s, Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 40s to
mid 50s. South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower
40s. Temperature rising into the in the upper 30s after midnight.
South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. South wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Temperature rising into the in
the lower 40s after midnight. South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Lows in the upper 30s
to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain likely. Lows in the lower to mid
40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Windy. Rain likely. Highs in the 40s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and mountain snow likely. Lows in the mid to
upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
or snow. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Lows in the 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ034-035-271100-
Moses Lake Area-Upper Columbia Basin-
Including the cities of Moses Lake, Ephrata, Othello, Quincy,
Ritzville, Grand Coulee, Odessa, Wilbur, and Coulee City
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain. Highs in the lower to mid 50s, Lows in
the 30s, South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a
tenth of an inch.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Windy. South wind 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Windy. South wind 15 to
25 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph decreasing to 25 mph overnight.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of rain. Highs in the upper 50s, Lows in the mid 30s to lower
40s, South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the mid to upper
30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Windy. Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s to
lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Windy. Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs
around 50. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ038-271100-
Okanogan Highlands-
Including the cities of Republic, Inchelium, and Wauconda
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain and mountain snow. Mountain snow
accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the
upper 40s to lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 30s to lower 40s. South wind 5 to 15 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain and mountain snow. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Lows
in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain snow. Highs
in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain and mountain snow.
Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ041-044-271100-
Wenatchee Area-Waterville Plateau-
Including the cities of Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, Cashmere,
Waterville, and Mansfield
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the lower to mid 50s, Lows in the 30s, Southwest
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the 50s. Windy.
South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph increasing to
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. South wind 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph shifting to the southwest with
gusts up to 25 mph overnight. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. Lows in the mid to
upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Rain likely. Lows in the upper 30s to
lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. Lows in the lower to mid
30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ043-271100-
Okanogan Valley-
Including the cities of Omak, Okanogan, Brewster, Bridgeport,
Oroville, and Nespelem
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain likely. Highs in the
lower to mid 50s. Lows in the 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of an inch.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the 50s. Breezy. South wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. South wind 10 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Lows in the
mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the mid to upper 30s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ047-271100-
Central Chelan County-
Including the cities of Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow
showers. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s,
Lows in the lower to mid 30s, Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of mountain snow. A chance
of rain. Snow level 5000 feet. Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in the
afternoon. In the mountains, southwest wind 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. High
mountain snow likely. High mountain snow accumulation up to
2 inches. Snow level 6000 feet. Lows in the lower 30s to lower
40s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable. In the mountains, southwest
wind 15 to 25 mph, Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph
overnight. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain snow.
Snow level 5500 feet. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain
snow. Snow level 5000 feet. Lows in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain and mountain snow. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Lows
in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain and mountain snow likely. Highs in the upper 40s
to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and mountain snow. Lows in the 30s. Chance
of precipitation 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and
mountain snow. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ048-271100-
Western Chelan County-
Including the cities of Stevens Pass, Holden Village,
and Stehekin
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s, Lows in
the 30s, West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning, becoming partly sunny. A
chance of rain and mountain snow. Snow level 5000 feet. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s. Breezy. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. In the mountains, southwest
wind 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. High mountain snow likely. High
mountain snow accumulation of 2 to 5 inches. Snow level
6000 feet. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable. In the
mountains, southwest wind 15 to 25 mph, Gusts up to 40 mph
decreasing to 30 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
and mountain snow. Snow level 5500 feet. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain
snow. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and
mountain snow. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Temperature
rising into the in the mid 30s after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain and mountain snow likely. Highs in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Windy. Rain and mountain snow. Lows in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Windy. Rain or snow likely. Highs in the 40s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Highs in the
lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...
$$
WAZ049-271100-
Western Okanogan County-
Including the cities of Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp, Methow,
and Conconully
132 AM PDT Wed Oct 26 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Snow level 3500 feet. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Lows
in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Snow
level 3500 feet, rising to 5000 feet in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s. Breezy. South wind 5 to 15 mph in the
afternoon, Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. In the mountains,
southwest wind 20 to 30 mph, Gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain and mountain snow
likely. Mountain snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Snow level
5500 feet. Lows in the upper 20s to upper 30s. South wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable. In the mountains, southwest wind 15 to 25 mph, Gusts up
to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain snow.
Snow level 5000 feet. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. Southwest
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the mountains. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain
snow. Snow level 4500 feet. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
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Planned divestiture of Canadian cannabis business to cut costs and realign focus on increasing value of consumer products business
LAVAL, QC, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEPT) (TSX: NEPT), a diversified and fully integrated health and wellness company focused on plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands, today announced the launch of a new Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) focused strategic plan to reduce costs, improve the Company's path to profitability and enhance current shareholder value.
This plan builds on the Company's initial strategic review that took place in fall of 2021 and focuses on two primary actions: (1) planned accelerated divestiture of the Canadian cannabis business and (2) a realignment of focus and operational resources toward increasing the value of Neptune's consumer products business, which the Company believes is showing greater potential. These actions are also intended to preserve resources towards meeting its funding requirements in the near-term while driving long-term profitability and growth.
The intended divestiture of the cannabis business would include the sale of the Mood Ring™ and PanHash™ brands, along with the Company's Sherbrooke, Quebec facility, in one or more transactions. The value of the facility was recently appraised at $21 million CAD by a third-party appraisal company. Neptune has retained Stifel GMP to support the divestiture efforts, with a focus on maximizing the value to Neptune shareholders.
In order to accelerate its cost savings, the Company will focus on winding up its cannabis operations pending a transaction.
This planned action is intended to provide significant cost savings and help maximize operational efficiencies, resulting in a 50% reduction in workforce, over 30% reduction of total payroll costs and an estimated annual cost savings of $5.8 million CAD. In addition, the Company expects to see additional cost savings from corresponding reductions in corporate overhead costs and professional fees.
Finally, the exit of the Canadian cannabis business may impact the amount and structure of financing the company is currently seeking. It is expected to reduce the amount of financing the Company seeks, given a lower anticipated expense structure, along with anticipated cash inflows from the planned divestiture. Additionally, the divestiture is expected to facilitate working with a broader set of financing sources – including traditional banks and financial institutions that have policies restricting dealing with businesses exposed to regulated cannabis operations.
"This is the final stage of our transition to a pure play, purpose driven consumer packaged goods Company. This strategic divestiture greatly simplifies our overall structure, enabling us to hyper-focus on those areas of the business we believe are best positioned for profitability and growth," said Michael Cammarata, President and CEO of Neptune. "Of course, the most difficult part of the Company and Board making this decision is the impact on our workforce. We are committed to working with those employees to ensure they are supported throughout this transition. I extend my deepest gratitude to each and every person impacted by this decision and thank them for their hard work and dedication to Neptune throughout their tenure."
"Today's decision, while difficult, is a step that is necessary to best position Neptune for long term success," said Julie Phillips, Neptune's Chair of the Board. "Together with management, the Board has worked carefully to explore all possible avenues and we are confident that the decision to exit the Canadian cannabis sector and realign focus on our consumer goods brands is the best next move for both the Company and its shareholders."
With the planned divestiture of its cannabis business, Neptune is renewing its focus on the core brands – Sprout Organics and Biodroga Solutions – that align closely with future consumer trends and show a greater potential for future growth and profitability.
Sprout Organics, the fast-growing organic baby and toddler food brand, has made major distribution gains over the past year, expanding into Walmart and Target. The recent launch of licensed, co-branded product with CoComelon – the number one kids entertainment show globally – has far surpassed initial sales goals in Walmart stores. Neptune sees significant opportunity to continue to improve Sprout's margins and accelerate its path to profitability.
Biodroga Solutions, Neptune's B2B nutraceuticals business, has a strong foundation and a robust pipeline for continued growth. The Company's supply chain capabilities and product development expertise can also be applied to future Neptune brand and product innovations. Cedrick Billequey, Biodroga's business leader, also oversees Forest Remedies, a vegan Omega supplement brand, providing synergies between the B2B business and consumer brands.
The success of these businesses and their anticipated growth form the foundation for the future of Neptune as a CPG business built to serve the next generation of consumers.
As part of the Company's renewed focus on its CPG brands and Sprout Organics in particular, Neptune is delighted to announce that Sarah Tynan, current Sprout Chief Customer Officer, is promoted to CEO of Sprout, effective immediately. Ms. Tynan has been instrumental in garnering big distribution gains for Sprout, including Walmart and Target, and leading the highly successful CoComelon partnership. She brings deep sales experience and business acumen, including previous roles at Newell Brands and Unilever, and will continue to drive the Sprout business forward.
"Our goal with this strategic plan is to strengthen our cash position and enhance financial flexibility, centering focus on our higher potential CPG businesses," said Cammarata. "With Sarah Tynan as the new CEO of Sprout and Cedrick Billequey leading Biodroga Solutions and the personal care & beauty segments of our business, I'm confident we have not only the right plan, but the right team in place to take Neptune into its next stage of growth and profitability."
Neptune Wellness will provide further detail on the execution of this new plan over the coming months.
Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Neptune is a diversified health and wellness company with a mission to redefine health and wellness. Neptune is focused on building a portfolio of high quality, affordable consumer products in response to long-term secular trends and market demand for natural, plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands. The Company utilizes a highly flexible, cost-efficient manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure that can be scaled to quickly adapt to consumer demand and bring new products to market through its mass retail partners and e-commerce channels. For additional information, please visit: https://neptunewellness.com/.
Statements in this news release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance and achievements of Neptune to be materially different from historical results or from any future results, performance and achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements which explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms "believes", "belief", "cost savings", "estimates", "expects", "intends", "projects", "anticipates", "will", "should" or "plans" to be uncertain and forward-looking. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's expectations or beliefs regarding future events including, but not limited to, statements with respect to the review of strategic and financial alternatives, the anticipated cost savings and operational efficiencies related to the Company's divestiture of its Canadian cannabis business, management's assessment of the potential for growth and profitability of its Sprout Organics and Biodroga Solutions brands, restructuring initiatives and anticipated costs, the expected objectives and financial targets underlying Neptune's CPG-Focused Strategic Plan as well as the anticipated benefits of such transactions and their expected impact on the Company's outlook, operations, opportunities, financial condition, business plan and overall strategy.
Forward-looking statements are presented for the purpose of assisting investors and others in understanding certain key elements of the Company's current objectives, strategic priorities, expectations and plans, and in obtaining a better understanding of the Company's business and anticipated operating environment. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information" and "Risk Factors" sections contained in Neptune's latest Annual Information Form, which also forms part of Neptune's latest annual report on Form 40-F, and which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml. With respect to the pursuit of an accelerated divestiture of the Canadian cannabis business and a realignment of focus and operational resources toward increasing the value of the Company's consumer products business discussed herein specifically, certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward looking statements include, but are not limited to: the failure to satisfy the conditions to the completion of these transactions or delay in completing, and uncertainty regarding the length of time required to complete, such transactions, and all or part of the intended benefits therefrom not being realized and the anticipated proceeds therefrom not being available to the Company within the anticipated timeframe, or at all; and alternate sources of funding that would be used to replace the anticipated proceeds from such transactions may not be available when needed, or on desirable terms.
Neptune does not undertake to update any such forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Neither NASDAQ nor the Toronto Stock Exchange accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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2022-06-08T12:09:50+00:00
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A “people’s court” without legal powers has confirmed an indictment against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the crime of aggression in Ukraine and called for his arrest.
The symbolic decision Friday came on the anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of its neighbor that triggered Europe’s biggest and deadliest conflict since World War II.
After a week of hearings in The Hague, a panel of three international legal experts issued the order and called on the international community “to take every step necessary to ensure that a court with legal powers issues an indictment against President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and takes appropriate measures to arrest the perpetrator and put him on trial in an official Ukraine tribunal as soon as possible.”
The judges, including Stephen Rapp, a U.S. prosecutor who once headed the successful effort to bring former Liberian President Charles Taylor to justice for crimes in Sierra Leone, heard testimony from survivors of Russian attacks in Ukraine and from military experts before issuing their order.
The ruling comes amid international efforts to establish a tribunal that could prosecute Putin and other Russian leaders for the crime of aggression. The International Criminal Court has opened an investigation in Ukraine, but doesn’t have jurisdiction to prosecute the crime of aggression.
The presiding judge at the court, South African Zak Jacoob, said that he hoped the hearings would add to the pressure for a special court.
“Hopefully this is a step to prosecution. As I said, we have no legal authority or force, but hopefully we have the authority of moral force and moral persuasion, which would take us somewhere,” he told reporters.
The people’s court found that evidence presented was strong enough to indict Putin, saying that as head of state he “planned, prepared, initiated and executed — and continues to plan and execute — the Russian Federation’s acts of aggression in Ukraine.”
Jacoob, called Putin’s justifications for the war “pathetic.” An invitation for Putin or his legal representatives to take part in the hearings went unanswered, prosecutors said.
“It is an insult to the international community and to the integrity of the world to make the sort of claims that he has made. And I reject them in no uncertain terms,” Jacoob said.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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2023-02-24T13:07:12+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-peoples-court-endorses-putin-indictment-for-aggression/
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Officials in New Mexico have approved anxiety disorders as a qualifying condition under the state’s medical marijuana program.
When approving the move last month, the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board cited that up to 25 percent of New Mexico’s adult population — roughly 465,000 people — could be experiencing the effects of such disorders. The ruling takes effect Jan. 1.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the change, which could expand the medical cannabis program to thousands of new patients, came about after two advisory board members, physician assistant Stephanie Richmond and Dr. Jean-Paul Dedam, petitioned the board to add anxiety as a qualifying condition.
Richmond said she and Dedam asked if they could submit their own petition when public petitions to add conditions to the program abruptly ceased in 2021 after recreational cannabis was legalized for adults 21 and over. Richmond and Dedam excused themselves from voting on the petition, but four remaining board members voted unanimously to approve it.
Richmond said she hopes the measure will reduce the need for benzodiazepines, common pharmaceutical drugs prescribed for anxiety disorders with the potential for dependency and negative side effects. She also hopes it will encourage more discussions between patients and doctors about the plant’s use, especially because strong stigmas and misinformation still exist.
Dispensary managers view the measure as a positive step forward, but they say dosage and treatment protocols will ultimately remain the responsibility of cannabis shop employees until more medical doctors are versed in products and their effects.
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2022-12-17T18:49:22+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Anxiety-added-as-condition-for-medical-weed-in-17661124.php
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
11-13-31-33, Bonus: 5
(eleven, thirteen, thirty-one, thirty-three; Bonus: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
11-13-31-33, Bonus: 5
(eleven, thirteen, thirty-one, thirty-three; Bonus: five)
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2022-09-30T04:55:36+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Two-Step-game-17477044.php
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SHENZHEN, China, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 7, 2023, Huawei officially kicked off the HUAWEI XMAGE Awards 2023. As Huawei's open platform for smartphone photographic excellence, the annual competition celebrates inspiration and creativity, through amazing photos and videos captured with Huawei devices around the world. Since 2017, users from more than 170 countries and regions have participated in the yearly competition, contributing nearly 4 million entries to date. This makes the HUAWEI XMAGE Awards a cultural heritage of its own, containing fragments of human history from worldwide perspectives.
Capture and Inspire: A New Direction for XMAGE Awards
This year's XMAGE Awards hopes photographers everywhere – casual or professional – will seek inspiration in their photography. The award takes its name from Huawei's proprietary Imaging Research & Development arm XMAGE. Like its namesake, XMAGE Awards aspires to help photographers find inspiration and be innovative in photography.
Launched in 2022, the XMAGE brand focuses on optical system, mechanical structure, imaging technology, and image processing in photography. All four pillars of XMAGE now form the tenets of Huawei's new and upcoming smartphone camera technology, such as the latest HUAWEI Mate 50 Series' Ultra Aperture Camera and HUAWEI P60 Pro's Ultra Lighting Telephoto Camera.
New Night Walk category to capture Wonders of the Dark
This year's competition has the following categories: Night Walk, Portrait, Art & Fashion, Outdoor, Hello Life, Storyboard, Action and Storytelling.
Night Walk is a new category, encouraging users to photograph the hidden wonders of night life, using Huawei's unique night-photo settings.
Attractive prizes and new judges
This year, the following prizes will be given out to outstanding submissions: 3 Grand Prize winners, 24 Best-in-Category winners, 27 Runner-up winners, and 5 Honourable Mentions. Winners can receive up to USD 10,000 in prize money[1].
New judges were invited. This includes five leaders in photography: Chen Xiaobo, Vice President of China Photographers Association; Chinese fashion photographer Pei Tongtong; Portuguese landscape photographer José Ramos; Australian portrait photographer Jessica Hromas; and Li Changzhu, Vice President of the Consumer Strategy Marketing Dept at the HUAWEI Consumer Business Group.
The XMAGE Awards Submissions will close at 23:59 Beijing time (GMT+8) on August 15, 2023. We look forward to your participation and seeing your creativity come alive.
Users can visit the unified global submission channel via XMAGE Awards 2023 for their submission, as well as submit their entry via HUAWEI Community. Entries must be images or videos captured with a Huawei mobile phone, and there are no restrictions on when the work was captured or using which Huawei mobile phone.
For more information and competition terms and conditions, as well as submission, please refer to the competition website: https://gallery.consumer.huawei.com
[1] The aforementioned creation funds are pre-tax amounts. The organizer has the right to modify the physical prizes before the results are announced. The organizer has the right to modify the number of winners.
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2023-04-11T09:40:52+00:00
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Braves vs. Marlins Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 1
Saturday's game at Truist Park has the Atlanta Braves (54-27) going head-to-head against the Miami Marlins (48-35) at 4:10 PM (on July 1). Our computer prediction projects a 5-4 win for the Braves, who is a small favorite based on our model.
The Braves will give the nod to Charlie Morton (7-6, 3.81 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 8 on the season, and the Marlins will counter with Eury Perez (5-1, 1.34 ERA).
Braves vs. Marlins Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia
- How to Watch on TV: BSSE
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Braves vs. Marlins Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Braves 5, Marlins 4.
Total Prediction for Braves vs. Marlins
- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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Braves Performance Insights
- In nine games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Braves have a record of 8-1.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Atlanta and its opponents have combined to hit the over five times.
- The Braves covered the spread in its most recent opportunity.
- The Braves have won 47, or 67.1%, of the 70 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Atlanta has entered 33 games this season favored by -175 or more and is 24-9 in those contests.
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 63.6% chance of a victory for the Braves.
- Atlanta has scored the third-most runs in the majors this season with 457.
- The Braves' 3.75 team ERA ranks fifth among all MLB pitching staffs.
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2023-07-01T16:12:41+00:00
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NFL BAD BEATS BLOG: Raiders lead, small underdogs in 4th quarter
Welcome back to Week 17 of the NFL season.
Top matchups include the Raiders hosting the San Francisco 49ers, the Miami Dolphins at the New England Patriots, the Minnesota Vikings at the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Baltimore Ravens in the Sunday night game.
Refresh this blog throughout the games to track bad beats, movement on the live betting line, halftime bets and more.
UPDATES
3:20 p.m.: END OF THE THIRD QUARTER. Raiders 24, 49ers 21. The over is already in. The 49ers are -120 on the live line (Raiders -110), total 57½.
3:14 p.m.: They are chanting Brock Purdy’s name at Allegiant Stadium, and then he noodle-arms a throw that is intercepted by the Raiders. The 49ers are -190 on the live line (Raiders +155), total 57½.
3:00 p.m.: Christian McCaffrey scores on a 14-yard run for the 49ers to cut the Raiders lead to 24-21 with 5:22 left in the third quarter. The 49ers are -170 on the live line (Raiders +140), total 60½.
2:59 p.m.: Second-half line: Vikings -½, total 21½.
2:56 p.m.: HALFTIME: Packers 27, Vikings 3. First-half winners: Packers -2½, over 23½. The Packers scored in all three phases to easily cover the first half.
2:49 p.m.: What a play by Jarrett Stidham to find Davante Adams for a 60-yard touchdown. The Raiders lead the 49ers 24-14 early in the third quarter and are -145 on the live line (49ers +115), total 57½.
Jarrett Stidham! Davante Adams! Run it back.
📺: #SFvsLV on FOX
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/AWLwvE0huJ pic.twitter.com/TazRLCgZOZ— NFL (@NFL) January 1, 2023
2:45 p.m.: Second-half line: Chargers -2½, total 21.
2:41 p.m.: HALFTIME: Chargers 17, Rams 10. First-half winners: Chargers -3½, over 20½. Austin Ekeler ran for two scores to help secure the cover by the favorite.
2:38 p.m.: Second-half line: Jets -3½, total 22.
2:34 p.m.: HALFTIME: Seahawks 17, Jets 6. First-half winners: Seahawks +½, over 21. Seattle QB Geno Smith tossed two touchdowns for the outright cover by the home underdogs.
2:30 p.m.: UPDATE — Second-half line: 49ers -6.
2:29 p.m.: Second-half line: 49ers -6½, total 21.
2:25 p.m.: HALFTIME: Raiders 17, 49ers 14. First-half winners: Raiders +6½, over 20½. Davante Adams made a spectacular touchdown grab with 10 seconds left in the half to give the underdogs the outright cover.
2:21 p.m.: What a catch by Davante Adams.
ARE YOU SERIOUS @TAE15ADAMS! 😱
📺: #SFvsLV on FOX
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/AWLwvE0huJ pic.twitter.com/tZexoljpVx— NFL (@NFL) January 1, 2023
2:04 p.m.: Josh Jacobs is stacked up on fourth-and-goal, and the Raiders turn the ball over on downs. The 49ers are -800 on the live line (Raiders +525), total 49½.
1:56 p.m.: Darnell Savage’s 75-yard interception return for a touchdown puts the Packers ahead of the Vikings 14-3. The Packers are -600 on the live line (Vikings +420), total 57½.
1:51 p.m.: George Kittle gets his feet in bounds in the corner of the end zone and the 49ers lead the Raiders 14-10 with 9:38 left in the second quarter. The 49ers are -1000 on the live line (Raiders +625), total 51½.
1:41 p.m.: Keisean Nixon’s 105-yard kickoff return has the Packers up 7-3 over the Vikings. The Packers are -300 on the live line (Vikings +240), total 53½.
105 YARDS!
Keisean Nixon takes the kick to the house ‼️@keiseannixon | #GoPackGo
📺: #MINvsGB on CBS
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/ePbCm6rlT4 pic.twitter.com/7fk3nMZvCq— NFL (@NFL) January 1, 2023
1:38 p.m.: END OF THE FIRST QUARTER. Raiders 10, 49ers 7.
1:31 p.m.: The Raiders can’t punch it in after reaching the red zone and settle for Daniel Carlson’s short field goal. The Raiders lead the 49ers 10-7 with 1:45 left in the first quarter.
1:21 p.m.: FINAL: Buccaneers 30, Panthers 24. Tom Brady’s 1-yard sneak with 1:58 left gave the hosts the cover as 3½-point favorites and the NFC South title. The game went over the total of 40½.
1:15 p.m.: The Raiders have the early lead over the 49ers.
First drive of @Jarrett_Stidham's first NFL start ends in a TD 🙌
📺: #SFvsLV on FOX
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/AWLwvE0huJ pic.twitter.com/Mz5zciaOov— NFL (@NFL) January 1, 2023
1:12 p.m.: FINAL: Patriots 23, Dolphins 21. Mike Gesicki’s 4-yard touchdown reception with 1:04 left in the fourth quarter gave the Dolphins the cover as 3-point underdogs. The game went over the total of 41½ on the late score.
1:07 p.m.: FINAL: Chiefs 27, Broncos 24. Patrick Mahomes had three touchdown passes, and the 12½-point favorites avoided the outright upset. The game went over the total of 46.
1:03 p.m.: Here are some of the props we’ll be tracking for this afternoon’s Raiders-49ers game:
Team totals: Raiders 16½ (under -130), 49ers 26½.
Alternate point spreads: Raiders -3½ (+550), +14½ (-190); 49ers +3½ (-800), -14½ (+170).
General props: First score will be a touchdown (yes -150/no +130); largest lead 14½ points (over -140); longest TD 37½ yards; will there be a made field goal in the first quarter (yes even/no -120) will the game go to overtime (yes +1,400/no -4,000); will there be a defensive or special teams TD (yes +260/no -310); will there be a successful 2-point conversion (yes +375/no -450); will both teams make 33-yard or longer field goals (yes even/no -120); will there be a lead change in the fourth quarter (yes +425/no -550); will either team score three straight times (yes -240/no +200); will there be a score in the final two minutes of the first half (yes -280/no +240); will the game be tied again after 0-0 (yes +170/no -190).
Raiders props: Jarrett Stidham ½ TD passes (over -200), will throw an interception (yes -215/no +185); Josh Jacobs 58½ rushing yards, will score a TD (yes +165/no -185); Davante Adams 60½ receiving yards, will score a TD (yes +210/no -250); Daniel Carlson 4½ kicking points (over -125).
49ers props: Brock Purdy 220½ passing yards, 1½ TD passes (under -120), will throw an interception (yes +125/no -145); Christian McCaffrey 108½ rushing+receiving yards, will score a TD (yes -165/no +145); Brandon Aiyuk 50½ receiving yards; George Kittle 47½ receiving yards; Robbie Gould 7½ kicking points (over -130).
1:01 p.m.: FINAL: Falcons 20, Cardinals 19. Younghoe Koo made a 21-yard field goal as time expired to help the Falcons avoid the outright upset as 6½-point favorites. The game stayed under the total of 40½.
1:00 p.m.: FINAL: Jaguars 31, Texans 3. The Jaguars rode a strong rushing attack to the easy cover as 3½-point favorites. The game stayed under the total of 43½.
12:58 p.m.: FINAL: Lions 41, Bears 10. Jared Goff threw three touchdowns for the easy cover as 4-point favorites, but the game stayed under the total of 52½.
12:55 p.m.: FINAL: Saints 20, Eagles 10. Marshon Lattimore iced the upset with a 12-yard interception return for a touchdown with 5:27 remaining in the fourth quarter. The Saints won as +190 money-line underdogs, and the game stayed under the total of 42.
12:53 p.m.: The afternoon rundown:
— Jets (-1, 43, -120) at Seahawks (Even), 1:05 p.m.
— 49ers (-10, 41, -500) at Raiders (+400), 1:05 p.m.
— Vikings (+150) at Packers (-3, 47½, -170), 1:25 p.m.
— Rams (+225) at Chargers (-6½, 41, -265), 1:25 p.m.
— Steelers (+105) at Ravens (-1½, 35½, -125), 5:20 p.m.
12:51 p.m.: FINAL: Browns 24, Commanders 10. Deshaun Watson tossed three second-half touchdowns and the Browns pulled the outright upset as even-money underdogs. The game stayed under the total of 41½.
12:44 p.m.: FINAL: Giants 38, Colts 10. Daniel Jones threw two touchdowns and ran for two more as the 5½-point home favorites covered easily. The game went over the total of 39.
12:39 p.m.: Mike Evans hauls in the deep ball from Tom Brady, and the Buccaneers lead the Panthers 24-21 with 6:47 left in the fourth quarter after the two-point conversion. That sends the total over.
12:25 p.m.: The live line on William Hill is currently suspended.
12:23 p.m.: Skylar Thompson is in at quarterback for the Dolphins and he’s intercepted to put the Patriots in prime position early in the fourth quarter. Teddy Bridgewater is questionable with a hand injury.
12:11 p.m.: The Patriots defense scores for the fourth straight week. Kyle Duggar gets the pick-six and New England now leads the Dolphins 16-14 with 2:51 left in the third quarter.
.@Patriots take the lead on a pick-6!
📺: #MIAvsNE on CBS
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/b9AODMuLy1 pic.twitter.com/XZGMmfPCGj— NFL (@NFL) January 1, 2023
12:09 p.m.: Albert Okwuegbunam’s 25-yard touchdown reception gives the Broncos a 17-13 lead over the heavily favored Chiefs with 6:35 left in the third quarter.
.@Broncos take the lead and @DangeRussWilson is fired up 🔥
📺: #DENvsKC on CBS
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/68aUroVlUj pic.twitter.com/Asrr96IXsS— NFL (@NFL) January 1, 2023
12:06 p.m.: A.J. Brown scores on a 78-yard reception and the Eagles now trail the Saints 13-10 late in the third quarter.
12:01 p.m.: Colts-Giants over 39 is in.
11:56 a.m.: Teddy Bridgewater freelances and finds Raheem Mostert for the 2-yard touchdown reception and the Dolphins lead the Patriots 14-7 with 9:17 left in the third quarter.
11:37 a.m.: Second-half line: Giants -2½, total 17½.
11:36 a.m.: Second-half line: Patriots -3, total 20½.
Second-half line: Chiefs -7, total 23½.
11:34 a.m.: Second-half line: Buccaneers -3½, total 20½.
Second-half line: UPDATED: Texans -1, total 18½.
Second-half line: Lions -½, total 26.
11:32 a.m.: HALFTIME: Chiefs 13, Broncos 10. First-half winners: Broncos +7½, under 23½. Patrick Mahomes has a touchdown pass, but the hosts didn’t cover. Harrison Butker’s 51-yard field-goal attempt as time expired that would have sent the total over was blocked.
11:31 a.m.: Second-half line: Falcons -3½, total 20½.
11:29 a.m.: HALFTIME: Jaguars 21, Texans 0. First-half winners: Jaguars -3, under 21½. Travis Etienne Jr. has a 62-yard TD run, and the Jaguars added a defensive touchdown to cover.
11:26 a.m.: HALFTIME: Panthers 14, Buccaneers 10. First-half winners: Panthers +2½, over 19½. Sam Darnold threw two touchdowns to help the underdog cover outright. Mike Evans’ 63-yard TD reception with 2:10 left in the half sent the total over.
11:25 a.m.: HALFTIME: Lions 24, Bears 10. First-half winners: Lions -3, over 26½. Jared Goff’s second touchdown pass with 4:16 remaining in the second quarter sent the first-half total over.
11:25 a.m.: HALFTIME: Giants 24, Colts 3. First-half winners: Giants -3, over 18½. Landon Collins’ 52-yard interception return for a touchdown with 1:45 left in the second quarter sent the first-half total over.
11:24 a.m.: HALFTIME: Dolphins 7, Patriots 7. First-half winners: Dolphins +1½, under 20. Tyreek Hill has a touchdown run to help the underdogs cover.
11:23 a.m.: HALFTIME: Falcons 14, Cardinals 13. First-half winners: Cardinals +3½, over 20. Matt Prater made a 36-yard field goal with two seconds left until halftime to give the underdogs the cover.
11:20 a.m.: Second-half line: Eagles -6, total 20½.
11:18 a.m.: HALFTIME: Saints 13, Eagles 0. First-half winners: Saints +3, under 20½. The Eagles offense managed 61 yards and two first downs in the opening half.
11:16 a.m.: Second-half line: Browns -½, total 19½.
11:14 a.m.: HALFTIME: Commanders 7, Browns 3. First-half winners: Commanders -½, under 20. Carson Wentz’s QB sneak with 21 seconds left in the half to cap a 21-play, 11-minute drive gave the favorite the cover.
10:57 a.m.: Sam Darnold has two touchdown passes, and the Panthers lead 14-0 over the host Buccaneers midway through the second quarter. The Panthers are -280 on the live line (Buccaneers +225), total 41½.
10:53 a.m.: Patrick Mahomes is intercepted in the end zone and the heavily favored Chiefs can’t extend their 6-3 lead over the Broncos midway through the second quarter. The Chiefs are -700 on the live line (Broncos +475), total 39½.
10:42 a.m.: Tyreek Hill reaches the ball across the goal line before going out of bounds then adds a back flip. The Dolphins and Patriots are tied 7-7 early in the second quarter. The Patriots are -160 on the live line (Dolphins +130), total 46½.
10:40 a.m.: D’Andre Swift scores on a 17-yard run and the Lions go back ahead of the Bears 14-10 in the opening minute of the second quarter. The Lions are -5½ on the live spread, total 64½.
10:30 a.m.: Tyler Allgeier finds the end zone on a 5-yard run and the Falcons lead the Cardinals 7-3 early in the second quarter. The Falcons are -400 on the live line (Cardinals +300), total 40½.
10:24 a.m.: Tyquan Thornton makes a 7-yard touchdown grab to put the Patriots up 7-0 over the Dolphins. The Patriots are -350 on the live line (Dolphins +270), total 44½.
10:22 a.m.: Taysom Hill caps a long drive for the Saints with a 1-yard touchdown run. New Orleans leads the Eagles 7-0 midway through the first quarter. The Saints are -115 on the live line (Eagles -115), total 43½.
10:07 a.m.: The Panthers strike first in Tampa Bay and lead the Buccaneers 7-0 early in the first quarter. Tommy Tremble with the TD reception from Sam Darnold.
10:02 a.m.: We are off and running with a busy slate of nine games.
9:55 a.m.: More line movement this morning:
— Commanders from -2 to -1
— Eagles from -5 to -4½
— Lions from -5½ to -4
— Broncos-Chiefs total from 45½ to 46
9:44 a.m.: For those following the Circa contests:
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9:38 a.m.: The story at BetMGM:
Public teams (+60% of bets) for Week 17:
– 82% on 49ers -9½
– 77% on Giants -5½
– 75% on Jaguars -3
– 68% on Chiefs -12½
– 67% on Jets -1½
– 62% on Panthers +4
– 60% on Lions -6
Most bet player props:
– Justin Jefferson over 97½ receiving yards (-115)
– Justin Fields over 73½ rushing yards (-115)
– Curtis Samuel over 31½ receiving yards (-115)
– Travis Etienne over 71½ rushing yards (-115)
– Mike Evans over 58½ receiving yards (-115)
Updated NFL Week 17 betting 👇
Most bet games 🎟️
1. Saints-Eagles
2. Bears-Lions
3. Vikings-PackersMost bet teams 🎟️
1. Eagles -6
2. Lions -6
3. Vikings +3Most bet teams 💰
1. Jaguars -3
2. Panthers +4
3. Eagles -6— BetMGM 🦁 (@BetMGM) January 1, 2023
9:30 a.m.: The latest from Caesars Sportsbook:
NFL Week 17 splits 👀 pic.twitter.com/ryBP8NjNYO
— Caesars Sportsbook (@CaesarsSports) January 1, 2023
The Texans have won 9 straight vs. the Jaguars, but an Arizona bettor has $165,000 on the Jags ML (-165) 😯 pic.twitter.com/PTQCMGE9Fr
— Caesars Sportsbook (@CaesarsSports) January 1, 2023
9 a.m.: Here is the rundown of today’s games:
— Panthers (+165) at Buccaneers (-3½, 40½, -185), 10 a.m.
— Browns (+110) at Commanders (-2, 41½, -130), 10 a.m.
— Saints (+200) at Eagles (-5, 42, -240), 10 a.m.
— Cardinals (+240) at Falcons (-6½, 40½, -280), 10 a.m.
— Jaguars (-3½, 43, -185) at Texans (+165), 10 a.m.
— Bears (+210) at Lions (-5½, 52½, -250), 10 a.m.
— Dolphins (+140) at Patriots (-3, 41½, -160), 10 a.m.
— Broncos (+550) at Chiefs (-12½, 45½, -800), 10 a.m.
— Colts (+210) at Giants (-5½, 39, -250), 10 a.m.
— Jets (-2, 43½, -130) at Seahawks (+110), 1:05 p.m.
— 49ers (-9½, 41, -450) at Raiders (+375), 1:05 p.m.
— Vikings (+150) at Packers (-3, 47½, -170), 1:25 p.m.
— Rams (+225) at Chargers (-6½, 41, -265), 1:25 p.m.
— Steelers (+110) at Ravens (-2, 35½, -130), 5:20 p.m.
Notable morning line/total movement:
— Browns-Commanders total from 41 to 41½
— Eagles from -5½ to -5
— Patriots from -2½ to -3
— Dolphins-Patriots total from 41 to 41½
— Broncos-Chiefs total from 45 to 45½
Contact David Schoen at dschoen@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5203. Follow @DavidSchoenLVRJ on Twitter.
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Shawn Muhammed and Antonia Drew Norton
Shawn Muhammed and Antonia Drew Norton
Antonia Drew Norton, Director of The Asha Project, gave me a startling statistic: “Women of color are dying from domestic violence at higher rates than other women. We’re also up to nearly 175 non-fatal shootings of Wisconsin women (in 2022). Ninety percent are Black women. Our purpose is to find out what was happening in the time leading up to the near-fatal event.”
Domestic violence affects millions of women of all classes. However, it’s been especially hard on Black women in Milwaukee. Physical and sexual abuse can go unreported because the people involved might prefer privacy over the bureaucracy of the criminal justice system, or the victim reunites with her perpetrator after punishment or counseling. “Black people often don’t trust the criminal justice system,” said Norton
What to do? Unlike the traditional approach of running a victim through the snarled system, the Asha Project designs culturally-specific support programs. Norton told me, “The reason domestic violence shows up more in communities of color is because there are other issues present. Poverty, health care disparities, and lack of mental health resources are all factors that contribute to violence.” At 69, she has been counseling victims for 35 years.
What is your background? Are you from Milwaukee?
Yes, I was raised on the East Side. My father worked at American Motors/Chrysler, and my mother was an MPS social worker. Seven siblings in our family. I graduated from Riverside High School. From there, I went to UWM for college. I majored in African American Studies, but I took a lot of courses in social work.
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Unfortunately, I had to leave college because I was stalked by someone I didn’t know. The stalker had followed me around the college, and eventually robbed me at my door, tried to break into my house. He put a gun to my stomach and took my purse. All pretty terrifying. As a young woman, I had been a victim of domestic violence by my boyfriend who was also a drug addict. I actually married him but left him a day after the wedding because it was coerced. I determined no one would ever abuse me again, and I began building the base of my future agency, Asha Family Services.
Which later became The Asha Family Project, as I understand.
In 1987, I started The Asha Project, our treatment method focusing on mainly Black women. It revolved around my study of the Black family culture. Acceptance of domestic violence in Black communities is normal, but the ripples of consequence are extensive. Accepting abuse can be normalized in the Black community because women are viewed as objects. Women are devalued. Because of that, treating Black women victims is different.
How does the Asha Project work? How do you treat Black women victims?
The African American culture in Milwaukee is different in our responses to violence. At The Asha Project, we have a team of culturally responsive personnel. For example, a Black woman victim may be perceived as not being a “deserving victim.” After a violent attack, she might behave in an agitated state, be loud, emotional, swearing, gesticulating, saying things like, “You people better stop him, lock him up before I kill him.” Providers or police might perceive this behavior as aggressive, as a threat, even breaking the law. We view it as her being in pain, and we try to help her calm down. The police or providers might say, “What is wrong with her?” At The Asha Project, we say, “What happened to you?” She may not want law enforcement involved for fear of entanglement in punitive systems.
And there are other considerations for Black women like poverty and misfortune.
More Black women die from domestic violence than any other group except Native American women. We are both at the bottom of the socio-economic and political rung. And there often is generational violence, which filters on down family lines and is passed on to the next generation. In terms of domestic violence in the home, for example, a boy who sees his dad abuse his mother may end up as an adult perpetrator because this abuse often becomes accepted social behavior.
Something over 80 percent of inner-city Milwaukee families have no father figure in the home.
Currently a Black father’s role in the family has been terribly diminished. Boys cannot be left to raise themselves.
Why did the role of the Black father decline over the past few generations?
Loss of good jobs. The shutdown of Milwaukee factories increased unemployment and oppressed Black men, some of whom turned to criminal activity and drugs to make a living. Eventually, mass incarceration removed many Black males from the home and community. This affected the women. Despite being beaten up, Black women will often believe that the perpetrator won’t really kill them. Black women are often resistant to calling the police for a variety of historical reasons including the fear their children might be taken from them because they were exposed to violence.
If a woman has just been assaulted by her husband or boyfriend, and she comes into your office on Center Street looking for help, what is the process you go through to help her?
Understand that each case is treated differently based on the survivor’s needs. I greet her warmly, and I listen to her story. I try to build trust, establish a relationship. I may need to find her temporary housing if she needs to get away from her abuser. I might conduct a danger assessment and develop a safety plan.
I will give her available options regarding addressing the abuse. For example, we can help her access a shelter, continue to give her counseling, find medical help, or refer her to law enforcement. But our guidance is always based on what she wants to do. We will not report her perpetrator to law enforcement if she thinks that would put her in more danger. Ultimately, our goal is safety and security and helping her to a path of healing.
What if a victim tells you she wants to report the crime to law enforcement?
In some cases in the Black community, if a woman decides to file a restraining/protective order against a violent perpetrator and he is put in jail, there can sometimes be backlash from his or her own family, or she may feel she is betraying the community. In other words, she, the victim, is somehow to blame for her abuser being in jail. But the reality is that if he treats her with physical violence, he broke the law.
I’ve been told by street leaders that some young Black men have lost their way. It’s almost as if they have no hope for the future.
Yes, many have lost hope. It’s based on complex issues they experience as a result of systemic racism and discrimination. Some may not have hope because they are dealing with too many layers of childhood and adult traumas, and many have lost their dads or parents due to the trauma. When I was growing up, most Black children lived in two parent families where the dads had good paying jobs, and they were able to buy homes and provide for their families. Currently, two parent, inner city Black families are around 10 to 15%.
What role should Black men take in curbing domestic abuse?
Men have to hold men accountable. In the Black community, Black men leaders have to stop the domestic violence, take responsibility. Little boys may not often listen to their mothers, but they will listen to and obey men.
Norton introduced me to her associate director of 20 years, Shawn Muhammad. At 51, Shawn has been counseling trauma victims and perpetrators most of his adult life. Stress drives his engine. Yet, he looks like a young man, and, like a young man, his attitude was centered on hope. I wanted to hear about his background.
Tell me about your family history.
I’m an only child. My mom, Al'lean Davis, raised me alone. She is a retired MPS school teacher. I grew up on 14th and Atkinson, 17th and Capitol, and then later on 50th and Locust—heart of the inner city. I ended up graduating from Riverside High School. Out of high school, I enlisted in the Army, and ended up in Desert Storm in Iraq. Served in the Army for three years.
When I came back to Milwaukee, I worked for a little while, and ran the street for a little while, doing what young inner-city men do—dealing drugs, drinking alcohol, chasing women and doing stupid things. When I had my first child, I straightened out. I converted to Islam and went to Springfield College and then to UWM.
Around 1999, Antonia hired me at Asha Family Services. My mother just so happened to be a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of my father. She never did directly discuss it with me, but as a child, I did see her beaten up and bruised. I grew up hating my father, but two years ago we reconciled, I forgave him, and we now stay in touch. I’ve been working in the field of domestic abuse for over 20 years now, and it feels like this work has chosen me.
Let’s talk about what you are doing now with The Asha Project. From what I understand, The Asha Project believes there are specific methods to address the elimination of gender-based violence and the sexual exploitation of women and children in Black communities. Can you elaborate on that concept?
At The Asha Project, we use culturally responsive methods to deal with African American victims. Our founder, Antonia Drew Norton, understands Black women, how they think and talk and move. She makes sure Black victims feel comfortable getting the help that they need without feeling judged. She hires advocates who have an understanding of our culture. The typical picture painted of a domestic abuse victim is that she is passive and scared. The victims that we serve do not look like that. Some may seem loud and combative when talking about their abuse, but they might not even want their abusers incarcerated. Often, they just want the violence to stop.
In your own job responsibilities, are you able to counsel the abusers, the men perpetrators who are violent to women?
We have the UJIMA program. It’s not funded, but it’s a program where I work with a group of African American men that do harm. I conduct these UJIMA groups on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings.
UJIMA is a collaborative, multidisciplinary program geared to stop violent behavior patterns and reduce the number of domestic violence victims.
What do these men abusers say about why they resort to anger and violence with women?
Many Black men grew up in a family and community environment where they saw violence as a method to solve their problems. This translates into their relationships when they become adult men. In other words, they use violence to resolve a domestic dispute just as they do in the streets. They never learned to articulate their dissatisfaction or had the patience to resolve conflicts non-violently. Many of these men are frustrated because they can’t get a job or provide for their children, and this might be exacerbated by issues with alcohol or drugs.
In their childhood years, some of these men might not have had a male presence in their own homes. They may have seen their moms beaten up by a boyfriend or absent husband.
That is true. But in my work, I have to believe in behavior change, and that I can help them. Too often, the answer is punitive, put the perpetrators in jail. I mean, who wants to fund a program for abusers? Keep in mind, many of the women victims that we serve return to the men who abused them.
And this behavior can go back many generations. When I asked a domestic violence counselor why so many crimes go unreported, she said, “In the Black community, what happens in families behind closed doors stays in families.” Have you seen this?
When I was growing up, that was called: “You don’t tell my business.” My mother used to say that to me, “You don’t tell my business.” As a child, I made the mistake and told an older Black teacher of mine that my mother had been beaten up. She called my mother, and my mother was upset with me for telling. This is an unwritten rule in our community because our people are generally distrustful of systems. At the Asha Project, we understand why our sisters are distrustful of the criminal justice system. I have five full-time dynamic advocates working here that are very capable and relate well to victims.
Domestic violence is not just punches and black eyes. It can also be yelling, humiliation, stalking, manipulation, coercion, threats and isolation. Or keeping tabs online, perpetual texting, the silent treatment, or even calling the victim “stupid” so often they believe it. Do you agree with this definition?
Absolutely. Many times after the tears and bruises go away, the mental and emotional abuse stays. It’s like an old sink that has a leak, keeps dripping and wears out the porcelain. In domestic violence, those abusive words are the dripping. There is the statement: “Hurt people, hurt people.” We need to change the messaging that goes on in our community. I’m talking about anti-violence messaging, that domestic violence is unacceptable. For instance, I’d like to see a Community Code of Conduct, and have that code posted all over the community.
Neighborhoods can enforce good conduct. Residents looking out for one another. Parents disciplining kids, not even their own kids. Adults uniting to define the social culture, and families united in similar values.
I agree. One of our principles is the preservation of the Black family. But currently, our communities are a collection of mothers that work outside of a home where many fathers are absent. Worse, children seem to be raised by tech devices and the internet—TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, texting and video games that stress violence. Children's influences are social media, music, TV shows and streaming. These current social values are the opposite of what we believe is healthy messaging.
The concept of ‘neighborhood’ is disappearing. As a child, I’d readily accept correction from a Black man, because there was a different energy that as a Black boy I got from a Black man. Nowadays, people mind their business and isolate themselves in order to stay away from the threat of violence. People who live next door from each other often don’t even know each other.
I sense general anger among inner city Blacks. especially among young men and women. Am I reading this right?
Yes, you are reading that right. My heart aches for the younger generation. What have we built for them? What have we left them? They are frustrated. For many of them, the only route that they see is through illegal business or jail. A lot of our children don’t think they will live to be 21. They see life as a game, and it’s rigged for them to lose, so why play the game? The violence in our community is the worst I’ve ever seen in my 22 years of working in the field. There is an African proverb that states “The ruin of a people starts in their homes.” Think back to Martin Luther King Jr. His cry was “jobs and justice.” How many more generations have to go by before the Black community unites and does something for ourselves? I would guess that everyone in our neighborhoods knows someone who was lost to violence. Sometimes, I think that our community is drowning in trauma. I notice that many children have become hardened. There is a loss of innocence.
For more information, visit ashafamilyservices.org.
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BEIRUT (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said the Lebanese government's slowness to implement desperately-needed reforms was exacerbating the country's economic meltdown, even as officials met to discuss an urgent and long-delayed bailout.
The IMF statement followed a three-day visit to Beirut of the fund's representatives to discuss with Lebanese officials the implementation of reforms drawn up under a staff-level agreement between the two sides in April.
“Despite the urgency for action to address Lebanon’s deep economic and social crisis, progress in implementing the reforms agreed under the April SLA remains very slow,” the IMF said.
The Lebanese government has implemented few of the IMF’s demands from the agreement, which lists five “key pillars” that should be implemented, before finalizing a bailout program. These include restructuring Lebanon’s ailing financial sector, implementing fiscal reforms, the restructuring of external public debt, and putting in place strong anti-corruption and anti-money laundering measures.
The Lebanese economy has been in a free fall since late 2019 in an economic meltdown described by the World Bank as one of the worst the world has witnessed since the 1850s. The crisis is rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the political class that has been running the small nation since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.
“The Lebanese economy remains severely depressed against continued deadlock over much needed economic reforms and high uncertainty,” said the head of the IMF team Ernesto Ramirez Rigo.
The IMF said Lebanon’s GDP has contracted by over 40% since 2018, inflation remains in the triple digits, foreign reserves are dwindling, and the parallel exchange rate hit new lows this week reaching over 38,000 Lebanese pounds to the dollar.
“Amidst collapsing revenues and drastically suppressed spending, public sector institutions are failing, and basic services to the population have been drastically cut,” Ramirez Rigo said. “Unemployment and poverty are at historically high rates.”
The visit came a week after angry depositors stormed at least seven bank branches to get their trapped savings after local lenders imposed informal capital controls since the economic crisis began.
The IMF statement said the large losses in the banking sector need “to be recognized and addressed upfront, while respecting the hierarchy of claims. Small depositors must be fully protected.”
On Wednesday, the Association of Banks in Lebanon, said bank branches will not be opened as planned on Thursday but will remain closed “because of the dangers that employees and customers could be subjected to.” It said the banks will remain closed until they get assurances from the state and security agencies.
Earlier Wednesday, judicial authorities ordered the release on bail of two men who took part in a bank heist last week. The two men were ordered banned from leaving the country for six months.
On Tuesday, Lebanon’s caretaker Economic Minister Amin Salam said Lebanon hopes to adopt key reforms demanded by the IMF for a long-delayed but urgently needed bailout before the end of October if there is “political will”.
Salam added that the adoption of the reforms would provide Lebanon some $4 billion and unlock billions more from international governments and institutions. Lebanon’s central bank governor estimated that the country needs at least $12 billion in order to jumpstart its economy.
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2022-09-21T17:13:56+00:00
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 33 points and Darius Garland added 24 in the dynamic Cleveland backcourt’s return from injury absences, and the Cavaliers rolled past LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers 114-100 Sunday for their eighth consecutive victory.
Jarrett Allen added 16 points to back the Cleveland guards’ latest two-man show while the Cavs improved to 8-1, extending their longest winning streak since a 13-game run in late 2017 during James’ final season with the team.
James scored 27 points, but lost to his hometown Cavaliers for only the second time in 19 meetings during his 20-year NBA career. He took his only other loss in March 2011 while with Miami.
“You’ve always got to have respect for greatness,” said Mitchell, who grew up a fan of James and the Cavs. “When the greatest are on the floor, you just go out there and try to find a way to compete and get a win. We came out there and were just trying to do what we’ve been doing, and fortunately it was against Bron, but that wasn’t a talking point or anything.”
Mitchell remained in a groove with his new team, topping 30 points for the sixth time in eight games.
Cleveland hasn’t made the playoffs without James on its roster since 1998, but this current group appears primed to make its own history. The Cavs trailed by 12 in the first half during a slow start that coach J.B. Bickerstaff dryly attributed to “LA,” but they smoothly surged away in the second half.
“LeBron does a lot for the city, did a lot for the city,” Garland said. “So just having a whole different generation of guys with a whole bunch of talent, and just a great team overall that everybody loves, it would mean a lot for us and the city of Cleveland (to make the playoffs again). That’s what we’re pushing for.”
Anthony Davis had 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers, who dropped to 2-7 with their second straight home defeat. Russell Westbrook had 19 points and 10 assists with seven turnovers in another lively performance as a reserve, but the Lakers had no defensive answers for Mitchell or Garland.
“I got in trouble last time when I was just giving an honest opinion” about the Cavs during last season’s All-Star break, James said with a smile. “Which I don’t care, so I’ll give another. … They did a great job in the offseason of picking up a big-time player. They have a really good team and a great coach. A well-balanced team and a bunch of players (who) seem like they just really want to play ball.”
Garland had played in just one of the Cavs’ previous seven games due to an eye injury and a subsequent knee injury. Garland and Mitchell (left ankle sprain) sat out Cleveland’s win over Detroit on Friday, but both stars returned in top form with a combined 17-for-35 shooting, four 3-pointers and a 19-for-20 performance at the free throw line.
“We just didn’t come out ready (in the second half),” Westbrook said. “We were playing catch-up.”
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: USC product and Southern California native Evan Mobley had five points on 2-of-7 shooting and seven rebounds in 30 minutes.
Lakers: Had the lead after the first quarter of play for the first time this season. … Kendrick Nunn played 18 scoreless minutes in his first start in place of Patrick Beverley, who sat out with an illness. … James snapped his skid of 16 consecutive missed 3-point attempts across four games with a bucket in the fourth quarter.
UP NEXT
Cavaliers: At Clippers on Monday.
Lakers: At Jazz on Monday.
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2022-11-07T11:14:13+00:00
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Biden’s prime-time speech: Trumpism threatens democracy
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm Thursday night about what he views as extremist threats to American democracy from the restive forces of Trumpism. He’s aiming to reframe the November elections as part of an unceasing battle for the “soul of the nation.”
Nearly two years after he defeated Donald Trump, it’s a reprise of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm election stakes in as dire terms as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia is laying out what he sees as the risks from those he has dubbed “ultra-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its standing abroad and its citizens’ way of life.
The explicit effort by Biden to marginalize Trump and and his “Make America Great Again” adherents marks a sharp turn for the president, who preached his desire to bring about national unity in his Inaugural address. White House officials said it reflects his mounting concern about Trump allies’ ideological proposals and relentless denial of the nation’s 2020 election results.
“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards,” Biden is saying, according to prepared remarks released by the White House. “Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”
“For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not,” Biden says. “We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us.”
Biden, who largely avoided even referring to “the former guy” by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative wins and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is sharpening his attacks.
Trump plans a rally this weekend in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden’s birthplace.
At a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden likened the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.”
In Philadelphia, White House officials said, Biden intended to hark back to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he says brought him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden argues that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months.
Biden allies stress that he is not rejecting the entirety of the GOP and is calling on traditional Republicans to join him in condemning Trump and his followers. It’s a balancing act, given that more than 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020.
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said last week. “I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”
Delivering a preemptive rebuttal from Scranton Thursday evening, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy accused Biden of trying to divide Americans, and blasted the Democrats’ record in Washington, pointing to rising inflation, crime and government spending.
“In the past two years, Joe Biden has launched an assault on the soul of America, on its people, on its laws, on its most sacred values,” he said. “He has launched an assault on our democracy. His policies have severely wounded America’s soul, diminished America’s spirit and betrayed America’s trust.”
Asked about McCarthy’s criticism, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “we understand we hit a nerve” with the GOP leader, and quoted the Republican’s prior statements saying Trump bore responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Larry Diamond, an expert on democracy and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said calling Trump out for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or framed as being partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you are shrinking from an important challenge in the defense of democracy.”
Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution.
Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said it’s not unusual for there to be tension between a president and his successor, but it’s “unprecedented for a former president to be actively trying to undermine the U.S. Constitution.”
“The challenge that President Biden faces is to get on with his agenda while still doing what he needs to uphold the Constitution,” Naftali said. “That’s not easy.”
The White House has tried to keep Biden removed from the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Department of Justice’s discovery of classified documents in Trump’s Florida home. Still, Biden has taken advantage of some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement.
“You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection,” Biden said Tuesday in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
Biden’s appearance Thursday night was promoted as an official, taxpayer-funded event, a mark of how the president views defeating the Trump agenda as much as a policy aim as a political one. The major broadcast television networks were not expected to carry the address live.
Biden’s trip to Philadelphia is just one of his three to the state within a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor’s races. However, neither Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrats’ Senate nominee, nor Attorney General Josh Shapiro, their pick for governor, was expected to attend Thursday night.
The White House intended the speech to unite familiar themes: holding out bipartisan legislative wins on guns and infrastructure as evidence that democracies “can deliver,” pushing back on GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says are out of step with most people’s views, and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s election or diminish its standing abroad.
The challenges have only increased since the tumult surrounding the 2020 election and the Capitol attack.
Lies surrounding that presidential race have triggered harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts generated by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election.
Candidates who dispute Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election posts, promising to restore integrity to a system that has been undermined by false claims.
There is no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including ones appointed by Trump, dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general called the claims bogus. Yet Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling has shown about two-thirds of Republicans say they do not think Biden was legitimately elected president.
This year, election officials face not only the continuing threat of foreign interference but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats. Over the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller reported from Washington. Chris Megerian in Washington and Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed.
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Explore a dozen ways MCNC continues to close the digital divide across North Carolina
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It's the 12 Days of Broadband and MCNC gave to thee … tales of success from across the State of N.C.! For 12 consecutive years, the technology non-profit that builds, owns, and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) has hummed this tune by providing the 12 Days of Broadband annually to showcase how critical high-speed Internet and related technology services really are for businesses, intuitions of learning, and the lives of North Carolina's citizens.
From Dec. 1 to Dec. 16, the 12 Days of Broadband returns to feature a dozen ways how broadband and high-speed connections impact communities in North Carolina as well as previewing what's to come in 2023.
"As we continue to expand broadband across the state," explained MCNC President and CEO Tracy Doaks, "opportunities continue to accelerate and become more available for all residents and industries. From health care to education, cybersecurity to community outreach, North Carolina has seen record advancements in what high-speed Internet can do, and we can't wait to once again share these great steps forward with you."
Over the past 40 years, MCNC has connected some of the most disparate communities to ensure digital equity and inclusion for every resident, old and young, and from every background. As in years past, the 12 Days of Broadband highlights how investments in infrastructure, bandwidth, and technology help ensure those opportunities continue to grow for everyone as well as drive economic and social change throughout the state.
It's been another exciting year for advancing MCNC's mission to benefit North Carolina. Each day will explore a new topic that is crucial to the digital progress of the state; topics such as cybersecurity, health care, historic funding opportunities, digital equity and inclusion, new outreach efforts and collaboration, and the innovative steps taken at MCNC to streamline internal processes as well as expand research and development.
"The 12 Days of Broadband has something for everyone," added Doaks. "Students, teachers, researchers, businesspeople, cybersecurity experts, and other engaged citizens will enjoy these stories highlighting how broadband has changed our world this past year and what we hope to achieve in the years to come."
MCNC's network today spans more than 4,400 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure in every county in the state. This world-class network and MCNC's operational expertise provide critical connections and other important networking technologies and services for more than 1,000 community anchor institutions like research labs, libraries, health care sites, museums, public safety facilities, and all K-20 education in North Carolina.
Reflect back at the previous 11 years of the 12 Days of Broadband as MCNC continues working every day to level the digital playing field all across the state. Social media users can follow along using #MCNC12days.
MCNC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit client-focused technology organization. Founded in 1980, MCNC owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), one of America's longest-running regional research and education networks. With over 40 years of innovation, MCNC provides high-performance services for education, research, libraries, healthcare, public safety, and other community anchor institutions throughout North Carolina. NCREN is the fundamental broadband infrastructure for over 850 of these institutions including all public K-20 education in North Carolina. As one of the nation's premier middle-mile fiber backbone networks, MCNC leverages NCREN to customize protected Internet, cybersecurity services, and related applications for each client while supporting private service providers in bringing cost-efficient connectivity to rural and underserved communities in North Carolina.
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Album Released Friday, Sept. 30 via UMe, Produced by Dave Cobb
Sammy Hagar & The Circle Currently on Critically Acclaimed "Crazy Times" Summer U.S. Amphitheater Tour
LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame®-inducted, Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, entrepreneur, and New York Times #1 best-selling author Sammy Hagar has announced the release of his second studio album with his Billboard chart-topping supergroup, The Circle. Their forthcoming album, titled "Crazy Times," finds Hagar, fellow Hall of Famer and longtime bassist Michael Anthony, Grammy-winning drummer Jason Bonham and Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso Vic Johnson changing course, traveling to Nashville to record the album with 8-time Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A. Due out Friday, Sept. 30 via UMe on CD as well as digitally, with the vinyl following on Oct. 28, the band has released the title track today on digital and streaming platforms. The CD and vinyl configurations, including a translucent red color vinyl exclusive, are available for pre-order HERE. The album's first single, "Crazy Times," and music video directed by Travis Detweiler – is below and HERE.
Sammy shared about making the album,
"Working with Dave Cobb for the first time was enlightening. We went into the studio to record in the fall of 2021, when the world was starting to come out of the pandemic bubble we'd all been living in. The lyrics for 'Crazy Times' just came from that new freedom we were feeling, the freedom felt unbelievable, but a little uncertain, too. We had to ask ourselves 'what are we doing here and what do we want?'"
"Going back in the studio, creating and being with the music is just what felt natural. And it was just so different from any record I've ever made. There was joy in the hard work, catharsis and the comradery we'd craved. It was like those two years of not being able to do very much fell away and we really all came together and let it out in the music and lyrics. We were able to express what we all felt."
"Crazy Times," the band's long-anticipated sophomore album, is a follow-up to their much-lauded debut "Space Between," a multi-category #1 Billboard charting album. The new album will include 10 songs, nine of which Hagar wrote or co-wrote, along with a notable cover, "Pump It Up," a 1978 song by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. The song "Crazy Times" was written by the whole band along with Dave Cobb and recorded live. Sammy explains:
"Before I stepped into the studio with Dave, he'd told me he wanted the best of my career on this record, and he wasn't going to let me get out of that studio until I gave it to him. So, I said, 'If you expect that from me, at my age, as many records as I've made, you're going to have to push me,' and he said no problem. Obviously, I dug down and just tried to write good strong songs, great lyrics, great melodies and not worry so much about the arrangements because he had that covered. And he pushed and squeezed every one of us. We went in the studio with seven songs and came out with 10. We ended up cowriting three songs with Dave Cobb and the band—including the new track, Crazy Times."
CRAZY TIMES TRACKLIST
- INTRO: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
- SLOW DRAIN
- FEED YOUR HEAD
- PUMP IT UP
- BE STILL
- YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
- CRAZY TIMES
- FUNKY FENG SHUI
- FATHER TIME
- CHILDHOODS END
In support of the album release, Sammy Hagar & The Circle hit the road in June with the 21-city "Crazy Times" U.S. amphitheater tour. Fans and critics have been raving about the new songs, which have found their way into their explosive greatest hits-heavy setlist. Following the tour wrap on Saturday, Oct. 1 in Sacramento, California, Hagar will celebrate his 75th birthday at his annual week of Birthday Bash concerts at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Visit RedRocker.com for ticket information.
Sammy Hagar & The Circle "Crazy Times Tour" Tour Dates:
SAMMY HAGAR'S ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH IN CABO
Hagar remains committed to social advocacy and philanthropy through his Hagar Family Foundation. For more than a decade, the foundation uses music and Sammy's entrepreneur endeavors as a means to give back to causes special to him and his family; mainly food pantries and children's music and health related causes. To date, they have supported these causes with personal contributions of more than $4 million.
About Sammy Hagar:
For more than five decades, Sammy Hagar has been recognized as one of the best and most accomplished lead singers and songwriters in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the seminal hard rock band Montrose, to his multi-platinum solo career, to his ride as the frontman of Van Halen, Chickenfoot and his latest best-selling supergroup, The Circle, Hagar has amassed 25 Platinum albums on sales surpassing 50 million worldwide. Along his journey, he has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever written with songs like "I Can't Drive 55," "Right Now," and "Why Can't This Be Love," and earned the highest respect of the music industry with a Grammy Award and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Since launching his flagship Cabo Wabo Cantina in 1990, he's turned a lifelong passion for great food, music and spirits into a thriving and iconic lifestyle brand. A pioneer in the spirits industry, Hagar's development and 9-figure sale of his Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari in 2008 is widely credited as the start of the celebrity-owned spirits trend. His portfolio of spirits now includes Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, Santo Tequila, and Sammy's Beach Bar Cocktail Co., as well as several restaurants. Never one to hit the brakes, he's also found success in publishing, TV, radio and beyond, including five seasons of his hit TV show, "Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar," and as host of "Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown," his syndicated radio show that's broadcast on 90+ U.S. stations. He's also a #1 NYT bestselling author, a dedicated philanthropist and since January 5, 2022, the first Honorary Ambassador to Los Cabos, an honor he was bestowed in recognition of his longtime investment in the people and economy of Mexico.
Visit RedRocker.com information on his upcoming 2022 tours and Las Vegas residency dates and follow him on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and his newly launched TikTok.
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An expected meeting between Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen this week in California is a careful exercise in standing up to Beijing’s threats while holding back from triggering a war in the Pacific.
For Tsai, a Los Angeles run-in with Washington’s most powerful California representative, is a convenient and strategic cover story to defend against provoking a particularly dangerous military response from China.
Still, McCarthy is unlikely to use a California meeting in place of traveling to Taiwan personally.
Earlier this month, the Speaker told reporters that meeting the Taiwanese president in America “has nothing to do with my travel, if I would go to Taiwan or not.”
“China can’t tell me where or when to go, and none of that discussion ever happened. If the president happens to be in America, then I’m going to meet with her,” he said.
McCarthy has entered the Speakership having established a reputation as a savvy electoral strategist; now he is moving to make his mark on foreign policy, with an eye on China.
One of his first moves as Speaker was creating a House select committee on China, a panel that he said he tried to create with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in 2020 before Democrats backed out.
It is viewed as one of Congress’s best opportunities to find bipartisan agreement, with Taiwan being a major focus.
McCarthy said at the House GOP’s annual issues retreat earlier this month that it is of the upmost importance “that China does not think to go capture Taiwan,” and expressed concern about Chinese President Xi’s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
‘Transiting’ through the US
The Speaker is expected to welcome Tsai this week in Los Angeles, in cautiously orchestrated travel where the Taiwanese president is “transiting” through the U.S. to Taiwan on the way back from official engagements in Central America.
Tsai reportedly met with the Democratic House Minority Leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), while she was “transiting” through New York.
“We know it’s a ruse, but it’s enough of a face saver for the Chinese to say, ‘yeah, we’re gonna rattle the sabers, but it’s not a red line for us,’” Patrick Cronin, Asia-Pacific security chair at Hudson Institute, said about the meetings between Tsai and lawmakers.
Beijing has warned of “counter measures” and “consequences” if Tsai meets with U.S. officials, in particular McCarthy, and could carry out military maneuvers around the island to intimidate and scare the people of Taiwan – moves that experts view as somewhat restrained provocations.
“Beijing has said it will respond in some fashion, but it remains to be seen how extreme its reaction will be,” said Patricia Kim, fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
She added that China has tied its own hands in lashing out at Taiwan, given that President Xi Jinping is trying to portray himself as a global peacemaker – offering to mediate between Russia and Ukraine and recently breaking through tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
“A harsh military reaction to President Tsai’s visit to the United States would essentially undermine Beijing’s efforts to paint itself as a peace advocate and the United States as the instigator of trouble,” she said.
How would China react to McCarthy in Taiwan?
China’s reaction to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022 established, in a sense, one standard for how Beijing reacts to what it views as unacceptable interference by Washington in its affairs.
This included cutting off specific diplomatic cooperations with the U.S. and carrying out large-scale military exercises in six locations off Taiwan’s coast, complete with missile test launches over the island. And these types of military provocations from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have only increased in frequency since Pelosi’s visit.
A visit by McCarthy to the island would likely trigger a similar, if not more intense response from the PLA, but the benefits – for both the U.S. and Taiwan – likely outweigh the risks.
“Taiwan is a resilient society that believes in the power of democracy, but we cannot solve 21st century challenges or push back against authoritarianism alone,” Tsai said as part of remarks Thursday to the Hudson Institute in New York, where she was honored with a ‘Global Leadership Award’.
“We will continue to work with the United States and other like-minded democracies to demonstrate that democracy can deliver and that Taiwan is committed to safeguarding our way of life.”
A Taiwan trip for McCarthy, something he last year expressed interest in doing as Speaker, is also viewed as an important responsibility, given he is beginning his term as opposed to Pelosi closing out her tenure. Traveling to the island can be a significant signal of bipartisan solidarity while also allowing the Republican leader to gain insight into Taiwan’s political future as it heads to elections in January, Cronin said.
“My recommendation to the Speaker would be to try to get in before the election season is really serious in September,” he said, adding that McCarthy would get a chance to meet with potential presidential candidates and assess their views on Taiwan’s foreign policy, its relations with the U.S. and how it sees the future of relations with China.
Taiwan approaches an election
There are debates in Taiwan about the way forward in how Taipei interacts with Beijing.
While a key pillar of China’s ambitions is overtaking Taiwan, Beijing balances subsuming the island with economic, diplomatic and political coercion even as it builds up and prepares its military for a takeover.
While Tsai is at the end of her second, four-year term as president, her party, the DPP, is likely to put forth a candidate that shares her view of Taiwan operating on the global stage from a position of strength.
“The [People’s Republic of China’s] escalation of tension is evident, but Taiwan’s response has been measured and composed, demonstrating to the world that we are the responsible cross-strait stakeholder,” she said Thursday. “The Taiwanese people want peace, not conflict, and history tells us that the best way to avoid war is through building strength.”
But the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, is signaling closer ties with Beijing.
Taiwan’s former president and KMT party member, Ma Ying-jeou, traveled to Shanghai ahead of Tsai’s departure for the U.S.
Ma’s nearly two-week trip through China is being described as private travel for the former politician but is loaded with political significance.
Cronin said that Tsai, in remarks in New York, said, “China wants victory without a fight.”
“They just want to intimidate and coerce or in this case, try to persuade and seduce, probably the KMT more than the DPP,” he said.
Emily Brooks contributed to this report.
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2023-04-02T21:44:26+00:00
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Floodwaters were receding in parts of western Alaska battered by the worst storm in a half century, leaving behind debris flung by powerful Bering Sea waves into beaches and seaside communities.
The remnants of Typhoon Merbok were weakening Sunday as the storm system moved north from the Bering Strait into the Chukchi Sea on Alaska’s northwest coast, where it still threatens smaller communities, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kaitlyn Lardeo.
“This guy is going to hang out in the Chukchi Sea for the next few days and just rapidly weaken because it’s so stationary,” she said.
Several communities reported homes were knocked off their foundations by the force of the incoming water, often propelled by winds gusting near 70 miles per hour (113 kilometers per hour). One house in Nome floated down a river until it got caught under a bridge.
Many homes were flooded and about 450 residents on the western coast sought refuge in shelters, with more than half of them at a school in Hooper Bay, where they ate processed moose donated by village residents. Others rode out the storm on higher ground outside their communities.
It was a massive storm system — big enough to cover the mainland U.S. from the Pacific Ocean to Nebraska and from Canada to Texas. It influenced weather systems as far away as California, where a rare late-summer storm dropped rain on the northern part of the state, offering a measure of relief to wildfire crews but also complicating fire suppression efforts because of mud and loosened earth.
The storm’s crashing waves caused widespread flooding and damage along 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) of the Alaska coastline, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said.
There have been no reports of injuries, deaths or missing people in Alaska, the governor said during a Sunday news conference. A child reported missing Saturday was later found, he said.
Dunleavy said roads are damaged and state officials are assessing potential damage to seawalls, water and sewage systems, airports, and ports. He identified five communities — Hooper Bay, Scammon Bay, Golovin, Newtok and Nome — as being greatly impacted by a combination of high water, flooding, erosion and electrical issues in either the towns or their airports.
Emergency management and American Red Cross personnel will deploy to those communities as soon as Monday, while Alaska National Guard members will be sent to Nome, Bethel and Hooper Bay to assist residents. Red Cross volunteers from the Lower 48 will also conduct needs assessments for food, water and shelter in other flooded villages.
The storm caused Nome’s highest water level since 1974 — 11.1 feet (3.38 meters) above the normal tide — and other communities may have surpassed levels seen in 48 years ago.
“One of the big features of this storm was the wide swath of significant damage,” said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
“So, did it live up to the hype? I would say absolutely,” he said of the storm.
Becca Luce and her family live about a half mile from the Bering Sea coast in Nome.
“We have a pretty good view of the ocean from our living room,” she said. “We could see the waves crashing from our window and going over the road.”
Nome itself was inundated, including Front Street, the city’s main business thoroughfare that also doubles as the finish line for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
One downtown restaurant, the Bering Sea Bar and Grill, was destroyed by fire Saturday night, but the cause and whether it was related to the storm is not yet known, said interim city manager Bryant Hammond.
The receding water revealed the detritus left in streets and yards, including trash, logs and other organic debris, rocks, and asphalt, Hammond said. Part of a highway was washed out in Nome, forcing residents to use a bypass to reach the community of Council, adding up to 15 miles (24 kilometers) to the 72-mile (116-kilometer) trip, he said.
“Another major concern is that freeze-up is near, and all of this damage to the roads will need to be repaired before the month ends,” Luce said, using the local term for the onset of winter, which is in October in many parts of Alaska. “And it’s hard to say if that will be possible, especially for the remote village villages without as many resources as Nome has.”
Dunleavy, who issued a state disaster declaration Saturday and is considering seeking a federal disaster declaration, said Alaska officials intend to get communities up and running again as soon as possible.
“We just have to impress upon our federal friends that it’s not a Florida situation where we’ve got months to work on this,” he said. “We’ve got several weeks.”
The rain in Northern California helped firefighters increase containment on the biggest wildfire in the state so far this year. The Mosquito Fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of Sacramento was 34% contained after downpours early Sunday. More rain was expected, which fire spokesman Scott McLean called a mixed blessing.
“It did help a bit to stifle that aggressive fire,” McLean said. “But we’re going to have new safety issues now with all the mud that’s out there. And the ground moisture could cause some of those damaged trees to fall over.”
An average of a quarter-inch (2 centimeters) of rain fell overnight across Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties north of San Francisco, with more than double that amount recorded in some mountain areas, the National Weather Service said.
Winds gusting up to 40 mph (64 kph) were forecast Sunday along Northern California coastal areas and at higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada. Gusts that strong can blow down branches and drought-stressed trees and cause power outages, warned weather service meteorologist Ryan Walbrun. He said thunderstorms were expected on and off until at least Monday.
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Weber reported from Los Angeles. AP journalist Nishit Morsawala contributed to this report from London.
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AutoReturn integrates with Passport's enforcement API to continue to build safer, more efficient streets
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AutoReturn, the nation's leading towing management systems provider and Passport, a leading mobility software and payments company are partnering to transform parking enforcement. By combining Passport's state-of-the-art mobility management platform and AutoReturn's industry-leading cloud-based law enforcement towing solution, the companies are providing cities with a seamless and transparent end-to-end parking citation management system.
Passport's powerful immobilization API allows cities to integrate with any tow processing company, such as AutoReturn, to improve enforcement at the curb. With this integration, an enforcement officer can quickly issue a tow through their handheld enforcement device, receive calculated fees in real time and gain complete visibility of the tow's status in a centralized backend management system.
"AutoReturn optimizes the towing management process for everyone involved – think law enforcement agencies, towers, citizens, business owners and local communities. Our cloud-based solution not only protects lives by keeping roads clear, dispatching tow resources efficiently and reducing secondary accidents, but as importantly we save time and money for our constituents as well as ensuring that the lifeblood of community commerce remains vibrant by swiftly removing negligent vehicles," says Nina Carazas, COO at AutoReturn. "We're excited to partner with Passport to improve curbside management through an efficient and transparent end-to-end parking management system, which plays an integral role in the digital infrastructure of smart cities."
With the integration, parking enforcement officers will be able to easily request a tow truck from the Passport OpsMan Mobile handheld for parking offenses, empowering parking citation management teams to be flexible and make decisions more quickly to ensure that roadways are cleared efficiently. Additionally, cities using this integration will soon be able to manage all enforcement-related payments using a single backend system instead of multiple disconnected systems. The integration successfully went live in Buffalo, N.Y., with plans to expand in other cities.
"By enabling other innovations to integrate with Passport's platform, cities can promote new ways to improve public safety, reduce congestion and streamline backend efficiencies," says Garrett Vandendries, VP of Product at Passport. "With an end-to-end digital platform from Passport, data collected from enforcement along with other forms of parking and mobility, provides cities with a holistic view of their operations."
About AutoReturn
AutoReturn is a Boston based provider of towing and impound management SaaS software and services. AutoReturn helps clear roads quicker, makes communities safer, and adds transparency to the entire towing and parking enforcement process. AutoReturn counts 9 of the largest 20 cities in the U.S and large international cities like Rome and Naples as customers. For more information, please visit www.autoreturn.com.
About Passport
Passport is a mobility software and payments company that builds solutions to centrally manage complexities at the curb. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's mobility management platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also the 2021 Fintech category winner for the NC Tech Association's Industry Driven award.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors on Saturday:
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THE FUTURE IS NOW
The All-Star Game festivities start in earnest with the Futures Game, where some of the best prospects in Major League Baseball will play a seven-inning matchup at Dodger Stadium.
Among the minor leaguers set to play are: 20-year-old Mets catcher Francisco Álvarez, the No. 2-rated prospect in the majors; Texas pitcher Jack Leiter, son of former big league pitcher Al Leiter; and Washington second baseman Darren Baker, son of Houston manager Dusty Baker.
Former All-Star catcher and longtime manager Mike Scioscia will guide the NL squad, back in the ballpark where his Los Angeles Dodgers won two World Series championships. Three-time All-Star shortstop Jimmy Rollins will manage the AL side.
V FOR VERLANDER
Justin Verlander wraps up a dominant first half in his return from Tommy John surgery when he starts at home for Houston against the A’s.
Verlander (11-3, 2.00 ERA) tries to become the first pitcher in the majors this season with 12 wins. He’s won three straight starts, allowing just two earned runs in 21 innings.
This is the ninth time Verlander has been chosen as an All-Star. With the Midsummer Classic on Tuesday, it’s uncertain whether the 38-year-old right-hander will be able to pitch an inning in the game on only two days’ rest.
SEE YOU SOON?
Several big hitters will face each other, ahead of possibly squaring off in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night in Los Angeles.
At Nationals Park, Ronald Acuña Jr. and the Braves will take on Juan Soto and Washington. In Texas, Mariners rookie Julio Rodríguez plays against Corey Seager and the Rangers.
CENTRALIZATION
Dylan Bundy and the Minnesota Twins aim to extend their AL Central lead when they host the White Sox at Target Field.
Bundy (5-4, 4.68 ERA) is trying to regain his form after winning his first three start of the season. He’s won just two of his last 13 outings.
Lance Lynn (1-2, 6.97) was tagged by Cleveland for a season-high eight runs in four innings in his last start.
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2022-07-16T15:42:23+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/leading-off-all-star-futures-game-at-dodger-stadium/
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters continued to slow the advance of destructive wildfires in the Southwestern U.S., but officials warned they were bracing for the return Friday of the same dangerous conditions that quickly spread the wind-fueled blazes a week ago.
At least 166 homes have been destroyed in one rural county in northeast New Mexico since the biggest fire currently burning in the U.S. started racing through small towns east and northeast of Santa Fe on April 22, the local sheriff said.
Winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) were forecast Friday in the drought-stricken region. One expert said it’s a recipe for disaster on the wildlands where some timber has a fuel moisture drier than kiln-dried wood.
“It’s a very, very dangerous fire day tomorrow,” fire behavior specialist Stewart Turner said at a briefing Thursday night on the edge of the Santa Fe National Forest in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
“Like we saw last Friday, epic fire behavior,” Turner said. “It’s a day that as a firefighter, we’ll write about, we’ll read studies about. It’s going to be a big fire day.”
A swath of the country stretching from New Mexico and Colorado to Kansas and the Texas panhandle is expected to be hit the hardest by the return of the bad firefighting weather that has generated unusually hot and fast-moving fires for this time of year, forecasters warned.
Red flag warnings for extreme fire danger were in place Friday for nearly all of New Mexico and parts of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
The expected high winds will likely ground firefighting aircraft in some areas, officials said.
More than 3,000 firefighters were battling fires in Arizona and New Mexico on Friday — about half of those in northeast New Mexico, where more than 187 square miles (484 square kilometers) of mostly timber and brush has been charred.
They focused Thursday on preventing it from moving into the rural New Mexico community of Ledoux. That meant bolstering fire lines and sending in crews tasked with protecting structures.
“Great progress again today,” incident commander Carl Schwope said Thursday night. But “tomorrow has the potential to be a very destructive day.”
“It will be chaotic if anything close to what happened (last) Friday occurs,” added operations chief Jayson Coil.
Sheriff Chris Lopez, of New Mexico’s Miguel County, confirmed for the first time Thursday night the fire there has destroyed at least 166 homes, 108 outbuildings and three commercial buildings. He joined authorities in neighboring Mora County in pleading with residents to pay close attention Friday to sudden changes in closures and evacuation orders.
“Falling trees, possibly falling power lines, that’s the kind of winds we’re looking at,” Lopez said.
Turner, the fire behavior specialist, said the gusty winds are only part of the problem. He said moisture levels in downed logs and woody debris are “extremely dry” — just 2% in small twigs, pine needles and grasses that “actually carry a forest fire across the landscape.”
Moisture in a small log “the size of a 4-by-4 post you buy at the lumber store … are coming down to 8%,” he said. “Kiln-dry is 12%. So out there, that’s drying to what a kiln would do.”
In northern Arizona, authorities downgraded some some evacuation orders at a fire that has destroyed at least 30 homes near Flagstaff. It’s now estimated to be 43% contained. Another fire 10 miles (16 km) south of the community of Prescott was 23% contained, but officials at both blazes warned of worsening conditions expected Friday.
Elsewhere, one national wildfire management incident team continued to oversee a large prairie fire in Nebraska, where more than 200 firefighters were battling a blaze that has been burning since last week. 44024 acres (68.79 square miles)
About 68 square miles (176 square kilometers) of mostly grasses and farmland have been blackened near Nebraska’s state line with Kansas. Several homes were destroyed and at least one person was killed. That fire was 97% contained Friday.
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Sonner reported from Reno, Nevada. Associated Press writers Paul Davenport in Phoenix and Margery A. Beck in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed to this report.
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2022-04-29T18:57:29+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/dry-southwest-braces-for-stiffer-winds-epic-fire-danger/
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After a catastrophic 38-train car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some officials are raising concerns about a type of toxic substance that tends to stay in the environment.
Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance, the U.S. senators from Ohio, sent a letter to the state’s environmental protection agency expressing concern that dioxins may have been released when some of the chemicals in the damaged railcars were deliberately burned for safety reasons. They joined residents of the small Midwestern town and environmentalists from around the U.S. calling for state and federal environmental agencies to test the soil near where the tanker cars tipped over.
On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered rail operator Norfolk Southern to begin testing for dioxins. Testing so far by the EPA for “indicator chemicals” has suggested there’s a low chance that dioxins were released from the derailment, the agency said.
A look at dioxins, their potential harms and whether they may have been created by burning the vinyl chloride that was on the Norfolk Southern train:
HIGHLY TOXIC, PERSISENT COMPOUNDS
Dioxins refer to a group of toxic chemical compounds that can persist in the environment for long periods, according to the World Health Organization.
They are created through combustion and attach to dust particles, which is how they begin to circulate through an ecosystem.
Residents near the burn could have been exposed to dioxins in the air that landed on their skin or were breathed into their lungs, said Frederick Guengerich, a toxicologist at Vanderbilt University.
Skin exposure to high concentrations can cause what’s known as chloracne — an intense skin inflammation, Guengerich said.
But the main pathway that dioxin gets into human bodies is not directly through something burning. It’s through consumption of meat, dairy, fish and shellfish that have become contaminated. That contamination takes time.
“That’s why it’s important for the authorities to investigate this site now,” said Ted Schettler, a physician with a public health degree who directs the Science and Environmental Health Network, a coalition of environmental organizations. “Because it’s important to determine the extent to which dioxins are present in the soil and the surrounding area.”
DOES BURNING VINYL CHLORIDE CREATE DIOXINS?
Linda Birnbaum, a leading dioxins researcher, toxicologist and former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, said that burning vinyl chloride does create dioxins. Other experts agreed the accident could have created them.
The “tremendous black plume” seen at East Palestine suggests the combustion process left lots of complex carbon compounds behind, said Murray McBride, a Cornell University soil and crop scientist.
McBride said it will be hard to say for sure whether these compounds were released until testing is done where the train cars derailed.
Which is likely why residents, politicians, environmentalists and public health professionals are all calling for state and federal environmental agencies to conduct testing at the derailment site.
ROUTES TO THE ENVIRONMENT
Some level of dioxins are already in the environment — they can be created by certain industrial processes, or even by people burning trash in their backyards, McBride said.
Once released, dioxins can stick around in soil for decades. They can contaminate plants, including crops. They accumulate up the food chain in oils and other fats.
In East Palestine, it’s possible that soot particles from the plume carried dioxins onto nearby farms, where they could stick to the soil, McBride said.
“If you have grazing animals out there in the field, they will pick up some of the dioxins from soil particles,” he said. “And so some of that gets into their bodies, and then that accumulates in fat tissue.”
Eventually, those dioxins could make their way up the food chain to human consumers. Bioaccumulation means that more dioxin can get into humans than what’s found in the environment after the crash.
Animals “don’t metabolize and get rid of dioxins like we do other chemicals,” Schettler said, and dioxin is stored in the fat of animals that humans eat, like fish, and builds up over time, making the health effects worse.
SHOULD EAST PALESTINE RESIDENTS BE CONCERNED?
Birnbaum and Schettler agreed that residents have reason for concern about dioxins from this derailment.
Even though they are present in small amounts from other sources, the large amount of vinyl chloride burned off from the train cars could create more than usual, McBride said.
“That’s my concern, that there could be an unusual concentration,” he said. “But again, I’m waiting to see if these soils are analyzed.”
It takes between seven and 11 years for dioxins to start to break down in the body of a person or animal. And dioxins have been linked with cancer, developmental problems in children and reproductive issues and infertility in adults, according to the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
Still, Guengerich thought that other potential health risks from the derailment — such as concerns that exposure to the vinyl chloride itself could cause cancer — may be more pressing than the possible dioxins: “I wouldn’t put it at the highest level on my list,” he said.
Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, agreed that vinyl chloride should be of more concern than dioxins for the public and said that even the mental health of a community rocked by the catastrophic derailment should be a higher public health priority than dioxin exposure.
As with many environmental exposures, it would be hard to prove any dioxin present came from the derailment. “I think that it would be virtually impossible …. to attribute any presence of dioxin to this particular burn,” she said.
But most experts thought it was important to test the soils for dioxins — even though that process can be difficult and costly.
“The conditions are absolutely right for dioxins to have been formed,” Schettler said. “It’s going to be terribly important to determine that from a public health perspective, and to reassure the community.”
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Associated Press reporter John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.
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2023-03-03T15:31:52+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-did-dioxins-spread-after-the-ohio-train-derailment/
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Denison water bills could see an increase next year
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) -On June 21, Wildan firm, hired by the City of Denison presented a study on the findings of the city’s water rate.
Wildan suggested two different plans the city could take.
Both plans will include a nine to ten dollar increase on your water bill if passed by City Council.
On behalf of the city, Emily Akins says this rate hike has to do with inflation and renovations.
“We’re having to work on some of our older infrastructure and get it up to the status it needs to be,” adds Akins.
Those renovations include the Dean Rylant Water Treatment Plant located in Denison.
The study will be presented to the city council before the start of the year.
If passed, the rate increase will have an effect over the next five years.
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2022-06-27T21:54:59+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2022/06/27/denison-water-bills-could-see-an-increase-next-year/
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NEW YORK, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. ("Warner Bros. Discovery" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WBD) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. The results presented in this earnings release cover the period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 for Discovery, Inc., and do not include first-quarter performance for the WarnerMedia business, which was acquired on April 8, 2022.
David Zaslav, President and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Bros. Discovery said, "With Warner Bros. Discovery, we are creating a pure-play media company with diversified revenues and the most compelling IP ownership, franchises, and brand portfolio in our industry. Importantly, we also have an unrivaled global footprint of touchpoints to get our content into the hands of consumers on every screen. We are putting together the strategic framework and organization to drive our balanced approach to growing our businesses and maximizing the value of our storytelling, news and sports. To do this, we have brought together a strong leadership team in a streamlined structure to foster better command and control and strategic clarity across the entire company. I could not be more excited about the massive opportunity ahead."
Financial Highlights
- Q1 2022 total revenues of $3,159 million increased 13%, or increased 15% ex-FX(1), compared to the prior year quarter.
– U.S. advertising revenues increased 5% and distribution revenues increased 11%; and
– International advertising revenues increased 5%, or 11% ex-FX, and distribution revenues increased 4%, or 8% ex-FX.
- Net income available to Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. was $456 million.
- Total Adjusted OIBDA(2) was $1,027 million.
- Cash provided by operating activities increased to $323 million and free cash flow(3) increased to $238 million.
- Ended Q1 with $4.2 billion of cash and cash equivalents, gross debt(4) of $15.1 billion, and net leverage(4) of 2.7x.
- Ended Q1 2022 with 24 million DTC Subscribers(5), an increase of 2 million subscribers since the end of Q4.
- Generated nearly $450 million of Next Generation Revenues(5) in Q1, growth of 55% versus the prior year quarter.
Segment Results
U.S. Networks
First-Quarter 2022
- U.S. Networks revenues increased 7% compared to the prior year quarter to $1,932 million.
– Advertising revenue increased 5% primarily due to higher pricing and the continued monetization of content offerings on our next generation initiatives, partially offset by secular declines in the pay-TV ecosystem and lower overall ratings.
– Distribution revenue increased 11% primarily driven by the growth of discovery+ and an increase in contractual affiliate rates, partially offset by a decline in linear subscribers.
– Subscribers to our fully distributed linear networks at March 31, 2022 were 4% lower versus the prior year. Total subscribers to our linear networks were 8% lower, or 4% lower excluding the impact from the sale of our Great American Country linear network.
- Total operating expenses decreased 8% compared to the prior year quarter to $907 million.
– Costs of revenues increased 14% primarily due to higher content amortization at discovery+, which launched in January 2021, and the linear networks.
– SG&A expenses decreased 25% primarily due to lower marketing-related expenses for discovery+ compared to last year's launch period.
- Adjusted OIBDA increased 25% compared to the prior year quarter to $1,025 million.
International Networks
First-Quarter 2022
- International Networks revenues increased 25%, or 30% ex-FX, compared to the prior year quarter to $1,229 million.
– Advertising revenue increased 5%, or 11% ex-FX, primarily driven by the broadcast of the Winter Olympics across Europe.
– Distribution revenue increased 4%, or 8% ex-FX, primarily driven by discovery+ subscriber growth, partially offset by lower contractual affiliate rates in some European markets.
– Other revenue increased to $236 million, driven by sublicensing of Olympics sports rights to broadcast networks throughout Europe.
- Total operating expenses increased 28%, or 34% ex-FX, compared to the prior year quarter to $1,068 million.
– Costs of revenues increased 38%, or 45% ex-FX, primarily due to the Olympics.
– SG&A increased 8%, or 14% ex-FX, primarily due to higher personnel costs and marketing-related expenses to support discovery+ and the Olympics.
- Adjusted OIBDA increased 7% or increased 9% ex-FX, compared to the prior year quarter to $161 million.
Free Cash Flow
First quarter 2022 cash provided by operating activities increased to $323 million from $269 million in the prior year quarter. Free cash flow increased 33% to $238 million, primarily driven by higher Adjusted OIBDA, partly offset by higher content spend.
Other
Interest Rate Derivative Contracts
During the first quarter of 2022 the Company had total net gains on interest rate derivative instruments of $512 million that were recognized in "Other income, net" in the consolidated statements of operations. The derivative contracts were unwound with the closing of the $30 billion notes issuance to partially fund the cash consideration paid to AT&T at the closing of the WarnerMedia transaction.
Discontinuation of Operations in Russia
During the first quarter of 2022 we exited our operations in Russia and removed all of our channels and services from the market. We are currently evaluating the impact of these actions, but do not expect it to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
2022 Outlook(7)
Warner Bros. Discovery may provide forward-looking commentary in connection with this earnings announcement on its quarterly earnings conference call. Details on how to access the audio webcast are included below.
Earnings Conference Call Information
Warner Bros. Discovery will host a conference call today, April 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. ET, to discuss the first quarter 2022 financial results. These results will cover the period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 for Discovery, Inc., and will not include first-quarter performance for the WarnerMedia business, which was acquired on April 8, 2022. To listen to the audio webcast of the earnings call, please visit the Investor Relations section of the Corporate website at www.wbd.com.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this communication contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties and on information available to Warner Bros. Discovery as of the date hereof. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied due to risks and uncertainties associated with its business, which include the risk factors disclosed in the Company's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 24, 2022 and its subsequent filings made with the SEC.
Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "continue," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will" and "would" or similar words. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding future financial and operating results, the Company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, and other statements that are not historical facts. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), this communication may also contain certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations between the non-GAAP financial measures and the closest GAAP financial measures are available on the Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. investor relations website at: https://ir.wbd.com.
About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HBO Max, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
Definitions and Sources for Discovery, Inc.
(1) Methodology for Calculating Growth Rates Excluding the Impact of Currency Effects: The impact of exchange rates on our business is an important factor in understanding period-to-period comparisons of our results. For example, our international revenues are favorably impacted as the U.S. dollar weakens relative to other foreign currencies, and unfavorably impacted as the U.S. dollar strengthens relative to other foreign currencies. We believe the presentation of results on a constant currency basis ("ex-FX"), in addition to results reported in accordance with GAAP, provides useful information about our operating performance because the presentation ex-FX excludes the effects of foreign currency volatility and highlights our core operating results. The presentation of results on a constant currency basis should be considered in addition to, but not a substitute for, measures of financial performance reported in accordance with GAAP.
The ex-FX change represents the percentage change on a period-over-period basis adjusted for foreign currency impacts. The ex-FX change is calculated as the difference between the current year amounts translated at a baseline rate, which is a spot rate for each of our currencies determined early in the fiscal year as part of our forecasting process (the "2022 Baseline Rate"), and the prior year amounts translated at the same 2022 Baseline Rate.
In addition, consistent with the assumption of a constant currency environment, our ex-FX results exclude the impact of our foreign currency hedging activities, as well as realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction gains and losses. Results on a constant currency basis, as we present them, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
(2) Adjusted OIBDA and Adjusted OIBDA Excluding the Impact of Currency Effects: The Company evaluates the operating performance of its segments based on financial measures such as revenues and Adjusted OIBDA. Adjusted OIBDA is defined as operating income excluding: (i) employee share-based compensation, (ii) depreciation and amortization, (iii) restructuring and other charges, (iv) certain impairment charges, (v) gains and losses on business and asset dispositions, (vi) certain inter-segment eliminations related to production studios, (vii) third-party transaction and integration costs, and (viii) other items impacting comparability.
The Company uses this measure to assess the operating results and performance of its segments, perform analytical comparisons, identify strategies to improve performance, and allocate resources to each segment. The Company believes Adjusted OIBDA is relevant to investors because it allows them to analyze the operating performance of each segment using the same metric management uses.
The Company excludes share-based compensation, restructuring and other charges, certain impairment charges, gains and losses on business and asset dispositions and acquisition and integration costs from the calculation of Adjusted OIBDA due to their impact on comparability between periods. The Company also excludes the depreciation of fixed assets and amortization of intangible assets, as these amounts do not represent cash payments in the current reporting period. Certain corporate expenses and inter-segment eliminations related to production studios are excluded from segment results to enable executive management to evaluate segment performance based upon the decisions of segment executives. Adjusted OIBDA should be considered in addition to, but not a substitute for, operating income, net income, and other measures of financial performance reported in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the comments in footnote 1 for the methodology used to calculate growth rates excluding foreign currency effects.
(3) Free cash flow: The Company defines free cash flow as cash flow from operations less acquisitions of property and equipment. The Company believes free cash flow is an important indicator for management and investors of the Company's liquidity, including its ability to reduce debt, make strategic investments, and return capital to stockholders.
(4) Gross debt: the Company defines gross debt as total debt plus finance leases. Net leverage is calculated by dividing net debt (gross debt less cash and cash equivalents) by the sum of the most recent four quarters Adjusted OIBDA.
(5) Direct-to-Consumer ("DTC") Definitions:
Next Generation Revenues: Subscription and advertising revenues generated from the Company's DTC products, as well as revenues from TV Everywhere, our GO applications and other digital properties.
DTC Subscription: We define a DTC subscription as 1) a subscription to a DTC product for which we have recognized subscription revenue from a DTC platform; 2) a subscription received through wholesale arrangements for which we receive a fee for the distribution of our DTC platforms, as well as subscriptions provided directly or through third-party platforms; and 3) a subscription recognized by certain joint venture partners and affiliated parties. We may refer to the aggregate number of subscriptions across our DTC services as subscribers. A subscription is only counted if it is on a paying status, and excludes users on free trials. At the end of each quarter, subscribers include the actual number of users that rolled to pay up to seven days immediately following quarter end. Our quarterly subscriber count continues to include Ukraine subscribers to discovery+ who are temporarily receiving the service for free, the total of which is not material.
(6) SG&A Expenses: Selling, general and administrative expenses exclude employee share-based compensation and third-party transaction and integration costs.
(7) 2022 Outlook: Warner Bros. Discovery does not expect to be able to provide a reconciliation of the non-GAAP forward-looking commentary to comparable GAAP measures as, at this time, the Company cannot determine the occurrence or impact of the adjustments, such as the effect of future changes in foreign currency exchange rates or future acquisitions or divestitures that would be excluded from such GAAP measures.
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2022-04-26T11:47:08+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/04/26/warner-bros-discovery-inc-reports-first-quarter-2022-results/
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DELAWARE, Ohio, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF, GEF.B), a global leader in industrial packaging products and services, today announced webcast details for the Investor Day that will be hosted on Thursday, June 23, 2022 at Convene, 75 Rockefeller Plaza 31st Floor in New York City. The presentation will start at approximately 8:30 am EDT, conclude at approximately 11:30 am EDT and will include live question and answer sessions.
Investor Day 2022 will feature in-depth discussion of Greif's Build to Last strategy led by new President & Chief Executive Officer Ole Rosgaard, as well as an overview of the Global Industrial Packaging and Paper Packaging & Services business segments and a discussion of Greif's financial position and outlook by Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Larry Hilsheimer.
Please utilize this link to participate in the webcast. Alternatively, the webcast and presentation will be available on Greif's website at http://www.investor.greif.com and can be viewed under the "events calendar." To dial in please call 833-490-0898, for international calling +1 2132179332, and use the conference ID 9256917. The webcast will open at 8:00 am EDT on June 23, 2022. The event replay will be available at the above links shortly following the live presentation.
About Greif
Greif is a global leader in industrial packaging products and services and is pursuing its vision: to be the best performing customer service company in the world. The Company produces steel, plastic and fibre drums, intermediate bulk containers, reconditioned containers, containerboard, uncoated recycled paperboard, coated recycled paperboard, tubes and cores and a diverse mix of specialty products. The Company also manufactures packaging accessories and provides filling, packaging and other services for a wide range of industries. In addition, Greif manages timber properties in the southeastern United States. The Company is strategically positioned in over 35 countries to serve global as well as regional customers. Additional information is on the Company's website at www.greif.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "aspiration," "objective," "project," "believe," "continue," "on track" or "target" or the negative thereof and similar expressions, among others, identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based on assumptions, expectations and other information currently available to management. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those forecasted, projected or anticipated, whether expressed or implied. The most significant of these risks and uncertainties are described in Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2021. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
Investor Relations contact information
Matt Leahy, Vice President, Corporate Development & Investor Relations
740-549-6158 Matthew.Leahy@Greif.com
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2022-06-20T13:15:32+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/20/greif-inc-announces-webcast-details-investor-day-june-23-2022/
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CAIRO – Two days of tribal fighting in Sudan's south killed at least 220 people, a senior health official said Sunday, marking one the deadliest bouts of tribal violence in recent years. The unrest added to the woes of an African nation mired in civil conflict and political chaos.
Fighting in Blue Nile province, which borders Ethiopia and South Sudan, reignited earlier this month over a land dispute. It pits the Hausa tribe, with origins across West Africa, against the Berta people.
The tensions escalated Wednesday and Thursday in the town of Wad el-Mahi on the border with Ethiopia, according to Fath Arrahman Bakheit, the director general of the Health Ministry in Blue Nile.
He told The Associated Press that officials counted at least 220 dead as of Saturday night, adding the tally could be much higher since medical teams were not able to reach the epicenter of the fighting.
Bakheit said the first humanitarian and medical convoy managed to reach Was el-Mahi late Saturday to try to assess the situation, including counting “this huge number of bodies,” and the dozens of injured.
“In such clashes, everyone loses,” he said. “We hope it ends soon and never happens again. But we need strong political, security and civil interventions to achieve that goal.”
Footage from the scene, which corresponded to the AP's reporting, showed burned houses and charred bodies. Others showed women and children fleeing on foot.
Many houses were burned down in the fighting, which displaced some 7,000 people to the city of Rusyaris. Others fled to neighboring provinces, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Overall, about 211,000 people have been displaced by tribal violence and other attacks across the country this year, it said.
Authorities ordered a nighttime curfew in Wad el-Mahi and deployed troops to the area. They also established a fact-finding committee to investigate the clashes, according to the state-run SUNA news agency.
The fighting between the two groups first erupted in mid-July, killing at least 149 people as of earlier October. It triggered violent protests and stoked tensions between the two tribes in Blue Nile and other provinces.
The latest fighting comes at a critical time for Sudan, just a few days before the first anniversary of a military coup that further plunged the country into turmoil. The coup derailed the country’s short-lived transition to democracy after nearly three decades of the repressive rule of Omar al-Bashir, who was removed in April 2019 by a popular uprising.
In recent weeks the military and the pro-democracy movement have engaged in talks to find a way out of the ongoing situation. The generals agreed to allow civilians to appoint a prime minister to lead the country through elections within 24 months, the pro-democracy movement said last week.
However, the violence in Blue Nile is likely to slow down such efforts. Protest groups, who reject the deal with the ruling generals, have been preparing for mass anti-military demonstrations called for Tuesday, the anniversary of the coup.
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2022-10-23T11:54:06+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/10/23/sudan-official-deaths-from-southern-tribal-clashes-at-220/
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How to Watch the Lakers vs. Warriors: Streaming & TV Channel Info for Western Conference Semifinals Game 3
Published: May. 6, 2023 at 2:31 PM EDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
In Game 3 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors square off.
Keep reading for everything you need to know about this matchup between the Lakers and Warriors, including how to catch the action live with a free trial to Fubo.
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Lakers vs. Warriors Game Info
- When: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 8:30 PM ET
- Where: Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California
- TV: ABC
- Watch Lakers vs. Warriors with Fubo
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Lakers vs Warriors Additional Info
Lakers Stats Insights
- The Lakers make 48.2% of their shots from the field this season, which is 1.3 percentage points higher than the Warriors have allowed to their opponents (46.9%).
- Los Angeles has a 33-18 straight-up record in games it shoots better than 46.9% from the field.
- The Warriors are the eighth-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Lakers sit at sixth.
- The Lakers put up just 0.1 more points per game (117.2) than the Warriors allow (117.1).
- Los Angeles is 32-8 when scoring more than 117.1 points.
Warriors Stats Insights
- The Warriors have shot at a 47.9% rate from the field this season, one percentage point higher than the 46.9% shooting opponents of the Lakers have averaged.
- This season, Golden State has a 35-14 record in games the team collectively shoots higher than 46.9% from the field.
- The Warriors are the eighth-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Lakers sit at 18th.
- The Warriors average only 2.3 more points per game (118.9) than the Lakers allow (116.6).
- Golden State is 35-15 when it scores more than 116.6 points.
Lakers Home & Away Comparison
- The Lakers are putting up 117 points per game this season when playing at home, which is 0.3 fewer points than they're averaging when playing on the road (117.3).
- When playing at home, Los Angeles is giving up 5.6 fewer points per game (113.8) than in road games (119.4).
- When playing at home, the Lakers are averaging 0.9 more threes per game (11.2) than when playing on the road (10.3). They also have a better three-point percentage at home (35.4%) compared to away from home (33.8%).
Warriors Home & Away Comparison
- In 2022-23 the Warriors are averaging more points at home (119.7 per game) than away (118.2). And they are conceding less at home (111.7) than on the road (122.5).
- In 2022-23 Golden State is giving up 10.8 fewer points per game at home (111.7) than away (122.5).
- This season the Warriors are picking up more assists at home (30.5 per game) than on the road (29.2).
Lakers Injuries
Warriors Injuries
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2023-05-06T20:29:04+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/sports/betting/2023/05/06/lakers-vs-warriors-western-conference-semifinals-game-3-live-stream-tv/
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Competition seeks to promote sustainable mixology among the global bartending community.
GRANADA, Nicaragua, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In the highly anticipated Global Final of Flor de Caña's Sustainable Cocktail Challenge, Carlos Ferron from La Cuadra Market Bar in Panama (representing Latin America) was crowned as the Global Champion after competing against the regional champions of Europe, North America and Asia Pacific to create the most amazing sustainable cocktails.
The Global Final took place on Saturday, February 4th in the spectacular and unique natural scenario offered by the tropical volcanic islands of Granada in Nicaragua.
The judging panel was composed of some of the most influential industry personalities such as Giacomo Gianotti, owner of Paradiso Bar in Barcelona (#1 of The World's 50 Best Bars 2022); Alex Francis, Bar Manager of Little Red Door in France (2022 Most Sustainable Bar); Julio Cabrera, Owner of Café La Trova in Miami and 2019 Bartender of the Year; and Juliane Caillouette, Managing Director at Sustainable Restaurant Association in the UK.
The cocktails were evaluated by the judges based on elements such as: history and inspiration behind the cocktail, the use of sustainable ingredients/techniques and the level of creativity, in addition to its flavor and appearance.
Ferron, who qualified to compete in the Global Final after winning the Latin American Regional Final, took the competition's top spot by impressing the judges with his passion and skills to create his sustainable cocktails "Talamanca" and "5 Generaciones", both made with Flor de Caña 12 Year Rum and natural, home-made ingredients.
In addition to receiving the title of "Flor de Caña World's Most Sustainable Bartender", Ferron received the Global Champion trophy made from sustainable materials, a personalized bottle of Flor de Caña 25 Year Rum and a US$10,000 prize. Ferron will also receive a complimentary sustainability training and assessment from the competition's partner Food Made Good.
"It is an amazing honor to have been named 'World's Most Sustainable Bartender' representing Latin America. It's been a truly unforgettable experience and I thank everyone who supported me along the way, especially Flor de Caña who united us all under a single motto: sustainability, because being green is part of growing", said Ferron after receiving the highest distinction of the competition.
The other competitors were: Marco Pastanella from USA (representing North America), Tom Mchugh from Australia (representing Asia Pacific) and Dimitris Kaitalidis from Greece (representing Europe).
Over 30 countries participated in the Sustainable Cocktail Challenge, which is a celebration of Flor de Caña's historic commitment to sustainability and its way of sharing and promoting these values with the global bartending community. In addition to being the world's first Carbon Neutral and Fair Trade certified spirit, its rum is distilled using 100% renewable energy, all CO2 emissions during fermentation are captured and recycled and the brand plants 50,000 trees annually since 2005.
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2023-02-15T10:25:27+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2023/02/15/carlos-ferron-panama-wins-global-final-flor-de-caas-sustainable-cocktail-challenge/
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Today is Friday, June 2, 2023. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1923, at Urbana High School’s commencement, graduate Anna Sporleder was given the Daughters of the American Revolution prize for having the highest grade in American history class.
In 1973, University of Illinois law Professor Prentice Marshall was formally nominated by President Richard Nixon to be federal district court judge. When his name was first mentioned for the post, many Illinois Republicans, including state Rep. John Hirschfeld of Champaign, objected to the proposed appointment on the grounds that Marshall is a Democrat.
In 2008, heavy predawn rainfall caused temporary street flooding in Champaign-Urbana, and anchors at WCIA-TV on Neil Street in Champaign were delivering the morning news in a flooded studio.
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2023-06-02T09:53:58+00:00
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news-gazette.com
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https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/history/area-history-june-2-2023/article_f0112a6d-47bb-567e-9485-fd07b58cf695.html
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Many of the jobs are in cities and aimed at scientists and data engineers. Some can even be filled by people who have gone through a technical training program without a bachelor's degree.
Copyright 2022 Harvest Public Media
Many of the jobs are in cities and aimed at scientists and data engineers. Some can even be filled by people who have gone through a technical training program without a bachelor's degree.
Copyright 2022 Harvest Public Media
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2022-06-21T10:23:32+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-06-21/agriculture-companies-are-desperate-for-workers
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WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
WAZ026-022315-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation 20 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening.
Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of
an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a
tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in
thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the 60s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the 60s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s.
$$
WAZ027-022315-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce
heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to lower
80s. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then a chance of rain showers overnight. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows in
the mid to upper 50s. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of
an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind, becoming southwest
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in the lower to mid
50s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s
to mid 70s. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
$$
WAZ028-022315-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast wind
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy
rainfall in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. South wind 5 to
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in
thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s to mid 70s. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
$$
WAZ029-022315-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy
rainfall in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
East wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Rain showers likely and a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms overnight. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty
winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows in the
mid to upper 50s. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent. Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an inch, except
higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter
of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind 5 to
15 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Southwest wind 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Breezy. Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ030-022315-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy
rainfall in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts up to a half
of an inch possible, except higher amounts possible in
thunderstorms.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Rain showers likely and a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms overnight. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty
winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows in the
upper 40s to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Rainfall amounts between a tenth and a quarter of an inch
possible, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Rainfall amounts up to a half of an inch possible, except higher
amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely and a chance of
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s to lower
60s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in the upper 40s to
lower 50s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 50s to lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely and a chance of
thunderstorms. Lows in the 40s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the 50s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s to lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
$$
WAZ520-022315-
East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s to lower 70s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch, except
higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening.
Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch, except
higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 50s to lower 60s, except in the lower to mid 60s
valleys. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of
an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. West wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s, except in the upper
50s to mid 60s valleys.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Lows in the 40s. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the lower 50s to lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Highs in the
upper 40s to upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
WAZ521-022315-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
155 AM PDT Thu Jun 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce
heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs in the 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Some thunderstorms may produce
heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of an inch, except higher
amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Breezy. West wind
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Lows in the upper 40s to lower
50s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s
to mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s
to lower 50s. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
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2022-06-02T10:28:31+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/WA-Pendleton-OR-Zone-Forecast-17214321.php
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EASTON, Mass. (WPRI) — Police arrested a Rhode Island man early Monday morning after a woman reportedly found him asleep — and nearly naked — on the floor in the back seat of her car.
The woman noticed the man in her back seat after driving from Providence to Easton, Massachusetts, for work, according to Easton Police Chief Keith Boone.
The distance between Providence and Easton is roughly 30 miles, a trip that takes a little over a half-hour.
The woman said she believes the man, later identified by police as 21-year-old Jose Osorio, must have sneaked into her vehicle after she had started it in her driveway Sunday night. The woman explained that she had left her car unlocked and the engine running while she briefly went back inside her home.
The woman had been listening to a podcast and didn’t notice Osorio was in the back until she pulled into the parking lot around midnight, according to the police.
The victim told officers she did not know Osorio and had never seen him before. He was still sleeping when officers arrived.
Police said Osorio’s shorts were wrapped around one of his legs and his shirt was wrapped around one of his arms. The remainder of Osorio’s body was uncovered, police added.
Osorio later told police through an interpreter that he was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he got into the victim’s car and fell asleep.
The woman told officers Osorio didn’t threaten her, nor did he injure her. Osorio was arrested and charged with breaking and entering into a vehicle during the nighttime.
Osorio also had a warrant out for his arrest in Cranston, Rhode Island, for breaking and entering.
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2022-08-25T22:19:55+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/crime-tracker/woman-unknowingly-drives-30-miles-to-work-with-nearly-naked-man-asleep-in-her-car/
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Workload Capacity and Impact Analysis arm leaders with data to respond to evolving economic conditions
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ActivTrak today announced the availability of two new features, Workload Capacity and Impact Analysis, that support data-informed workforce planning and organizational design, and help organizations optimize efficiency and identify cost savings.
Hybrid work, layoffs and budget cuts continue to impact how, when and where people work. As a result, organizations need to understand: Who has capacity to take on more work? What is the impact of a RIF (reduction in force)? How much office space do we need? Where can we find software savings? In the absence of data, many lack the information they need to answer these questions.
ActivTrak's new Workforce Capacity dashboard gives leaders and managers a visual snapshot of employee workloads based on short- and long-term historical data. These insights help them make data-informed decisions about headcount planning, workload balancing and resource allocation.
ActivTrak's new Impact Analysis feature helps organizations assess the effects of organizational change by conducting before-and-after analyses or A/B tests of different work programs. These insights help leaders analyze shifts in productivity, engagement technology usage and take action to:
- Understand the impact of a leadership or management change
- Assess the implications of a new hybrid/flexible work policy
- Trial a new technology before rolling it out more broadly
- Determine the feasibility of implementing a 4-day work week
- Gauge employee productivity after a RIF
"Leaders face daunting challenges balancing the uncertainty of a weak economy with the shifting nature and conditions of hybrid work," said Javier Aldrete, senior vice president of product at ActivTrak. "Our Workforce Capacity and Impact Analysis insights help leaders better understand if and where they need to streamline operations, invest in more resources, or validate current course and speed — with the additional benefit of testing various scenarios to ensure they achieve the desired goal."
Workforce Capacity and Impact Analysis combined with ActivTrak Location Insights, help leaders define workplace policies and make better real estate decisions.
To learn more visit:
- Blog: Using Data to Make Strategic Decisions
- Blog: Workforce Capacity Planning: How to do More with Less
- Blog: How to Use ActivTrak's Impact Analysis to Understand the Effects of Organizational Change
- Webcast: Leveraging Data to Make Informed Workforce Decisions
- Videos:
About ActivTrak
ActivTrak helps employers and employees work better together to realize their full potential. Our workforce analytics cloud provides visibility and insights across people, processes and technology to help organizations inform key decisions and optimize outcomes. More than 9,000 customers trust ActivTrak, which has been recognized by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000 and Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology award. Founded in 2009, and based in Austin, Texas, ActivTrak is backed by Sapphire Ventures and Elsewhere Partners.
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2023-02-22T16:28:55+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/02/22/activtrak-adds-new-features-inform-workforce-planning-decisions/
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“I was spoken down to, didn’t really even feel heard, didn’t really get to say anything. It was almost like the commissioner was finding ways to defend my abuser instead of actually listening to what my complaint was,” said Nique, a King County resident who asked to go by a nickname out of fear that her husband might track her down.
Shortly after, the Superior Court denied the petition for a full protection order, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. Her husband’s total control of the family’s finances meant Nique couldn’t pay for her own attorney or housing, she said, putting her at a steep disadvantage in court compared to her ex, who had an attorney and remains housed.
“Because of my financial abuse, I had to jump through so many hoops just to get help. And I settled for help that just didn’t serve me,” she said.
Nique’s experience is not uncommon for survivors of domestic abuse. Domestic violence is a primary driver of homelessness for women and children across the country, with nearly 40% of domestic violence victims becoming homeless at some point in their lives, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Once homeless, lacking resources that their abuser may have, it can be difficult to obtain the court-ordered protection that could help keep them safe.
Unreliable access to technology and the internet, along with the cost of transportation and child care, can be insurmountable obstacles for some low-income survivors trying to file protection orders and keep up with court hearings. It can also be difficult for victims experiencing homelessness to find access to shelter, advocates or legal services that would vastly improve their chances of getting orders granted, advocates say.
On top of logistical barriers, attorneys representing domestic violence victims in Washington say the way that homeless victims appear in court — often exhausted and unkempt — can make them appear less credible in the court’s eyes and lead to a petition being rejected. About 51% of full civil protection orders for domestic violence in King County are denied, according to court data obtained by InvestigateWest.
Washington lawmakers passed legislation in 2021 to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of civil protection orders, with many changes taking effect in July 2022. Another law that passed this year, which takes effect July 23, expands training for law enforcement and judicial officers on protection-order enforcement and proceedings, adding to Washington’s robust protection-order policies that are already stronger than in many other states.
But advocates and service providers say the policy changes, while a step forward, fail to account for the unique needs of low-income and homeless survivors of domestic violence, who make up a large portion of those who seek protection orders.
They call for more funding for housing, shelters and legal services for domestic violence survivors. They also say the new provisions need to be implemented consistently across the state for the process to become truly accessible to low-income survivors of domestic violence.
“We need to take a look at those causes [of homelessness] — of which DV is a huge one — and say, ‘Hey, wait a minute. Are we putting enough resources into that thing that’s just dumping people into homelessness?’” said Laurie Davenport, communications director at Tacomaprobono Community Lawyers, a Pierce County legal aid nonprofit. “The fact that victims don’t have easy access to legal help to get some protections is a big deal.”
Stacey Marron (on right), domestic violence program manager at Broadview Shelter and Transitional Housing, meets with Kelsey Fleetwood, a legal advocate, at Solid Ground’s main headquarters in Seattle. Broadview is Seattle’s only remaining domestic violence shelter where a person with children can call directly seeking shelter without a referral. (Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest)
Lacking support
A week after Nique left her husband, he drained the money from their joint bank account, she alleged in court documents. With her money running out fast, she managed to get a spot at Broadview Shelter and Transitional Housing, the only remaining emergency domestic violence shelter in Seattle, according to the Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence, a member-based organization that supports domestic violence service providers in King County.
“Within weeks, I went from being in a four-bedroom house and retired to being at a homeless shelter with really nothing,” Nique said.
Seattle has lost two emergency domestic violence shelters in the past decade due to funding and program changes, leaving all of King County with just three designated domestic violence shelters, according to the Coalition. “There is definitely a gap in emergency domestic violence shelters in Seattle and King County,” said Lea Aromin, the Coalition’s co-executive director of programs.
Fortunately for Nique, she had enough money left to stay at hotels for a few weeks while waiting for a unit to open at Broadview, where access to advocates, legal services and housing assistance has been a game-changer for her, she said. Despite her protection order being denied, the support and privacy Nique found at the shelter allows her to feel safe.
“I was lucky to get into Broadview,” she said. “I was able to get my bearings back and get balanced so I could make a plan and go for it.”
But many survivors aren’t so lucky. Operated by the nonprofit Solid Ground, Broadview has 10 shelter units and 21 transitional housing units — far below the capacity needed to meet demand in the area, according to Stacey Marron, the shelter’s domestic violence program manager. In King County, 760 (37%) of 2,042 families seeking shelter through the county’s Emergency Family Shelter Intake line in 2022 identified as fleeing domestic violence, according to data from Mary’s Place, a Seattle shelter provider that operates the intake line.
Despite a spike in domestic violence rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal funding for domestic violence services and shelters has dwindled over the past five years.
To counteract a 23% cut in federal funding for crime victim services this year, the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, along with other service providers, requested $132 million in biennial state funding in January. The state approved $50.8 million in its budget, providing a mix of ongoing and one-time funding.
Still, advocates and attorneys serving domestic violence survivors across Washington agree there are not nearly enough legal and housing resources to meet the needs of clients, particularly low-income ones. Without housing or shelter, victims may stay with their abusers rather than risk filing a protection order that may not pan out.
Marla Rapp, an attorney with the Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program, has seen clients go back to their abusers for financial reasons.
“They didn’t know how they were going to make things work on their own. And in those situations, they almost always had children,” Rapp said.
If they do file for a protection order, unconscious bias within the court system can make it difficult for low-income or homeless domestic violence survivors without an attorney to appear credible to a judge, said Angela Rogness, manager of the King County Protection Order Advocacy Program, which helps King County residents file for protection orders.
In King County, just 9% of people filing for protection orders through the Superior Court between 2016 and mid-2021 had an attorney, according to a King County Auditor’s Office analysis. The analysis found petitioners with an attorney were 60% more likely to obtain a full protection order than those without.
In a typical scenario, an abuser comes to court looking confident and put-together, Rogness said. The survivor, on the other hand, often looks disheveled.
“Maybe they’re not in the best clothes, they look a mess, they’re not sleeping, they’re not housed,” she said. “Courts are supposed to look at credibility in terms of the words people are saying. But I don’t know how people can completely [ignore] if somebody just looks a mess.”
Sometimes victims decide not to move forward with a petition because they think they won’t be believed in court, said Riddhi Mukhopadhyay, executive director of the Sexual Violence Law Center, a statewide nonprofit law firm that serves sexual violence victims. The majority (61%) of full domestic violence protection orders in King County that are denied are denied because the person filing the order either requested a dismissal or failed to appear in court, according to court data obtained by InvestigateWest.
“The law is written to make it accessible — survivor-friendly, litigant-friendly — but there are definitely still issues with survivors being able to navigate systems without support,” Mukhopadhyay said. “It is really frustrating to see survivors sort of self-select out of a process that is meant to actually support them.”
Implementation challenges
Washington’s updated protection-order law allows virtual court hearings and the filing of petitions online. This is helpful for survivors who can’t afford transportation to the courthouse, parking or child care, Rogness said. It also helps, from a safety perspective, survivors like Nique who don’t want to be in the same space as their abusers.
But moving the protection-order process online comes with its own challenges, like the need for technology, internet and electricity to charge devices — none of which are guaranteed for low-income or homeless survivors.
“Online filing submissions are great for folks that understand technology and have the hardware to do it,” Rogness said. “I worry about leaving those behind that don’t have that physical hardware, that tech know-how.”
The King County Protection Order Advocacy Program offers to review survivors’ online protection-order petitions to ensure they’re written in a way that’s likely to be approved. “We really try to get to them fast, but we just can’t keep up,” Rogness said. “We regularly don’t get to those folks in a timely fashion, and then they end up filing on their own.”
When petitions are filed incorrectly or denied, consequences for survivors’ safety can be huge, Rogness said.
The denial can damage a survivor’s credibility in the court’s eyes, making their efforts to refile an uphill battle. “For the survivor psychology, it can be really terrible,” Rogness said. “They’re like, ‘I did what I was told to do … but the court didn’t believe me.’”
The uncertainty and instability that comes with fleeing a home can hold up the court process as well, especially in jurisdictions where new virtual options aren’t being implemented uniformly.
When victims file for a protection order, the alleged abuser — or “respondent” — must be served with the court hearing information. In Washington, law enforcement or process servers often carry out this service by meeting the respondent at an address provided by the victim.
Marron, Broadview’s domestic violence program manager, said the majority of her homeless clients filing for protection orders don’t know where their abuser is located, as the abuser has also left whatever home they previously lived in, making in-person service a challenge. Under the updated law, respondents can now be served electronically through email, social media or text messaging, a process called electronic service.
Marron said this virtual option is useful for homeless domestic violence survivors — when it’s accepted by law enforcement and the court.
Different judicial officers interpret the electronic service policy differently. Some require only proof that the message was sent to the respondent, while others require proof that it was read, according to Rogness.
While Marron said she’s been able to use electronic service in King County with ease, she’s struggled to use it in Pierce County, where the court typically accepts it only as a second option if it’s not possible to provide a physical address for the respondent, according to the Pierce County Clerk of the Superior Court.
Rogness thinks more clarity in the law regarding when electronic service is accepted, along with more resources and training for officers carrying out service, could help victims avoid these service issues.
“I think if we can get some more standardization to have, ‘This is the best practice. This is what the court shall accept,’ that would be good,” she said.
For Nique, getting a room at Broadview was crucial in her ability to navigate the court system and feel safe while doing it. Since the negative interaction with the commissioner during her first protection-order hearing, she’s had an advocate by her side at every subsequent hearing, she said.
“[Broadview staff members] do try their best to make it as comfortable for you as they can, but legally, they also walk you through all the steps that you need to walk through,” Nique said. “Because you’re at a disadvantage at the moment. It’s not easy being displaced.”
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2023-07-05T04:12:05+00:00
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crosscut.com
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Home Depot is seeing sustained demand for goods related to home improvement projects despite soaring prices and mortgage rates for homes.
Despite record profit and revenue, the Atlanta home improvement chain maintained its guidance for the year.
Revenue for the three months ended July 31 rose 6.5% to $43.79 billion, which topped projections of $43.35 billion on Wall Street, according to a survey by Zacks Investment Research.
Sales at stores open at least a year, a key indicator of a retailer’s health, climbed 5.8%, and 5.4% in the U.S.
While the number of customer transactions fell 3%, the amount shoppers spent per transaction rose 9.1%.
Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, said Tuesday that there was some inflation baked into the numbers.
“This is one of the reasons why Home Depot’s average ticket has risen by 9.1% over the prior year,” Saunders wrote. “While inflation does not account for all the gains, it has flattered Home Depot’s numbers.”
Saunders believes that it has been easier for Home Depot to pass along price increases to customers because the products on its stores shelves are considered essential to make home improvements. And contractors can pass along higher prices to clients, he added.
Home Depot earned $5.17 billion, or $5.05 per share, which also topped per-share projections for $4.95. It was also better than last year’s strong second quarter, when the company posted earnings of $4.81 billion.
Profit and sales levels were unprecedented for Home Depot, according to CEO Ted Decker.
The company stuck to its 2022 forecast for mid-single digits earnings per share growth and total sales growth and comparable sales growth of about 3%.
Home improvement stores have remained busy during the pandemic as people working from home took on new projects. The spring and summer is also a traditional busy season as home owners head out for flowers, vegetables and other gardening and landscaping goods.
Home Depot Inc. has continued to lure customers despite what may be a cooling of the housing market. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the fifth consecutive month in June as higher mortgage rates and rising prices kept many home hunters on the sidelines. Existing home sales fell 5.4% in June from May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.12 million, the National Association of Realtors said last month.
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates soared last week in a continued volatile market as the key 30-year loan rate jumped back over 5%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported that the 30-year rate rose to 5.22% from 4.99% a week earlier. By contrast, the rate stood at 2.87% a year ago.
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2022-08-16T21:09:50+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/business/home-depot-2q-sales-up-on-home-improvement-project-demand/
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The husband of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and brother of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn were given shares of a company that leased slot machines to a North Carolina tribal casino that needed political help to open last year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Clyburn’s brother and a spokesperson for Haley both said the men provided services for the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation’s casino in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, the newspaper reported.
The tribe’s leader said they met with dozens of federal officials in a transparent and public process over more than a decade as they sought to secure permission to build the casino.
The newspaper said it reviewed documents from Kings Mountain Equipment Supply LLC, which gets 20 cents for every $1 in profits the new Catawba Two Kings Casino generates from its hundreds of slot machines.
One stake in the supply company is held by John B. Clyburn, a brother of Rep. Clyburn. The high-ranking Democratic congressman introduced a bill that helped eliminate one of the final hurdles to get federal permission to build the casino.
Another stake is held by Michael Haley, husband of the former Republican governor who joined plenty of South Carolina politicians to fight against the Catawbas being able to open a casino in South Carolina. That led the tribe to its ultimately successful effort in North Carolina.
The documents reviewed by the newspaper show both men hold less than a 1% claim in the company.
Michael Haley was given his share as payment for his company doing physical and cybersecurity consulting for the project in 2018, a statement from his company said.
Nikki Haley was U.N. Ambassador for the U.S. at that time after leaving the governor’s office a year earlier before her term ended.
As governor, Haley was against the Catawbas opening a South Carolina casino. She attended the 2021 groundbreaking in North Carolina, but her office said she was only acting as her husband’s guest and never advocated to get federal approval for the North Carolina site.
John Clyburn told the newspaper he consulted on the project on and off for a decade introducing backers to people he knew, adding “I doubt that I discussed” the project with his brother.
John Clyburn received his share from the slot machine leasing company in September 2013, about a week after the Catawbas first asked for federal approval for the casino, the newspaper reported. He said he was surprised once the casino opened to get seven or eight payments from the company ranging from $600 to $1,300.
Rep. James Clyburn said he did not know about his brother’s financial interest in the casino and the two never talked about the project.
The congressman said his sponsorship of the bill that cleared the path for the casino was to help the tribe which has been long neglected.
If his brother is profiting from a bill he helped get enacted, Rep. Clyburn told The Wall Street Journal, “I don’t care. He gets to make a living. I don’t get his permission, and I don’t give him mine.”
The Catawba Indian Nation has about 3,600 members and a 1,000-acre reservation near Rock Hill, South Carolina.
The 1993 National Indian Gaming Act exempted the Catawbas from a list of tribes that could open casinos in states like South Carolina that don’t normally allow gambling.
The Catawbas spent decades trying to work around the law and after years of resistance from South Carolina lawmakers, switched their efforts in 2013 to opening in North Carolina, where they said their ancestors held land before Europeans came to North America.
The Kings Mountain, North Carolina, casino has about 1,000 slot machines in temporary buildings and doubled its floor plan after being open less than six months. The Catawbas plan a permanent facility with a 29-story hotel that could triple the number of slot machines.
Catawba Chief Bill Harris said the tribe is working with the National Indian Gaming Commission about unspecified problems that have held up the start of construction on the permanent casino.
The stakes held by Michael Haley and John Clyburn aren’t with Kings Mountain Equipment Supply LLC itself, but instead with a different company called AGS of North Carolina LLC that itself had a 10.1% stake in Kings Mountain Equipment Supply, according to the documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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2022-08-02T18:53:46+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/newspaper-families-of-haley-clyburn-got-casino-shares/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Authorities in Oregon have released security footage of a murder suspect’s escape from a Washington County Courthouse on Feb. 27.
Edi Villalobos, 28, is set to stand trial for allegedly stabbing two people and killing one of them in April 2021, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. He faces several charges including second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon.
Officials say jury selection was taking place on the day of Villalobos’ attempted escape. The jury was out of the room on a break, and Villalobos had just been taken to the bathroom.
Sgt. Danny DiPietro of Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Villalobos was put in restraints before going to the bathroom, but they were removed once the suspect returned to the courtroom, as required by Oregon law.
Just seconds after the shackles were removed, the suspect bolted from the first-floor courtroom and out the front door of the building, surveillance video shows.
Deputies searched for the suspect with help from drones, K-9 units and the local Hillsboro Police Department. Area residents were asked to shelter in place during the search.
After getting tipped off by a neighbor, officials say they found Villalobos hiding under a blanket in an empty apartment he had forced his way into.
When asked if this was a failure on the authorities’ end, DiPietro said no — but it means they should “reassess things.”
“What took place here and evaluation [of the] the actual circumstances in this incident — it could change things,” DiPietro said. “We’re always looking to do better, we can look back at this.”
Villalobos will now face new charges stemming from the escape, DiPietro said.
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2023-03-10T20:44:18+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/murder-suspect-escapes-oregon-courthouse-during-jury-selection-surveillance-video-shows/
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Founded in 1958 by AARP founder Ethel Andrus
BOSTON, Feb. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Circle Travel, which launched in 1958 to serve American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) members, is celebrating its 65th anniversary of changing people's lives through travel.
"We would not be here without our community of travelers, whose passion and curiosity about our world have grown with us throughout the years," said Brian FitzGerald, CEO of Grand Circle.
Ethel Andrus, who founded the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) in 1958, founded Grand Circle Travel. A former educator and activist, Ethel was retired herself, and, in the spirit of lifelong learning, dreamed of a way to help her peers lead more vital, active lives.
Alan and Harriet Lewis purchased Grand Circle in 1985 and stayed true to Ethel's founding principles. When the Lewises added Overseas Adventure Travel (O.A.T.) to their travel family in 1993, it became the first U.S. travel company to create, operate, and sell adventure trips to Americans aged 50 and over. The Lewises evolved Grand Circle into the family of companies it is today, which includes O.A.T., Grand Circle Cruise Line, Grand Circle Travel, and the philanthropic Grand Circle Foundation.
Alan Lewis passed away unexpectedly in November 2022 at age 74.
"We got into this business to change people's lives by opening their hearts and minds—and I am proud to continue this legacy along with my son, Edward, and daughter, Charlotte," said Harriet Lewis, Chair of Grand Circle Corporation.
Between 2022 and 2024, more than 124,000 travelers have departed on or reserved a Grand Circle trip. With the help of 1,000 associates in 29 worldwide offices, the company continues to craft experiences that are authentic, thought-provoking, and truly representative of the local culture and its people.
As the industry leader in solo-friendly travel, the company offers free single supplements on all O.A.T. adventures and Grand Circle vacations on land. O.A.T. Small Ship Adventures and Grand Circle Cruise Line River Cruises have the lowest single supplements in the industry. This, combined with immersive itineraries, earned O.A.T. Solo Traveler's "Best Tours" award in their annual Solo Travel Awards for two years in a row.
Grand Circle invites travelers to join in the 65th anniversary celebration by offering a $1,000 per person travel credit to use toward any new 2023 reservation with O.A.T., Grand Circle Cruise Line, or Grand Circle Travel when reserved by 5/1/23. Mention code ARCQ 101. Solo travelers are also eligible for this offer.
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A global enterprise committed to changing people's lives, Grand Circle specializes in trips of international discovery for Americans age 50 and older. The Grand Circle family of companies includes Overseas Adventure Travel (O.A.T.), Grand Circle Cruise Line and Grand Circle Travel. The nonprofit Grand Circle Foundation supports communities in which Grand Circle works and travels, including some 300 humanitarian, cultural, and educational endeavors worldwide—among them, 100 schools, in 50 countries. The Foundation is an entity of the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation, which has pledged or donated more than $250 million since 1981.
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2023-02-10T17:19:24+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/02/10/grand-circle-travel-celebrates-65th-anniversary/
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Latch, Inc. f/k/a TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. (NASDAQ: LTCH) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: May 13, 2021 to August 25, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Latch, Inc. f/k/a TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there were unreported sales arrangements related to hardware devices; (2) as a result, the Company had improperly recognized revenue throughout fiscal 2021 and first quarter 2022; (3) there were material weaknesses in Latch's internal control over financial reporting related to revenue recognition; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Latch would restate financial statements for fiscal 2021 and first quarter 2022; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Latch you have until October 31, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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2022-10-25T10:57:58+00:00
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kalb.com
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One of the pleasures of reading is discovering unfamiliar history and geography.
Jori Lewis' debut book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, offers myriad discoveries. With a focus on a discrete period, primarily the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a discrete geography — Saint Louis, Senegal, south along the West African coast to Freetown, Sierre Leone — Slaves for Peanuts weaves a complex story crossing time and oceans.
Lewis is an award-winning journalist focusing on agriculture and environment. In addition to publishing in a range of journals, she received a prestigious Whiting grant. She divides her time between Illinois and Senegal.
Worldwide peanut consumption is enormous. Americans alone devour over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products annually. Senegal has been one of the world's top peanut producers for more than a century. Lewis, who descends from American slaves and had a great-grandfather who grew peanuts in Arkansas, discovered that peanut cultivation in Senegal was intimately tied up with colonialism and slavery in that region.
As Lewis set out to give voice to those who were enslaved, she encountered difficulties.
"There is a fundamental silencing of Indigenous voices in the colonial archives, which privilege those of European officials," she writes. "And many of the available epic poems or oral histories that have been passed from generation to generation often tell stories of society's elites — the kings, nobles, warriors, and important religious leaders. Women rarely feature, and the enslaved almost never."
Lewis has more than diligently accessed griots and combed through archives, but there are inevitable holes. To circumvent them, Lewis unspools her narrative through individual stories, the history of peanuts as a cultivated crop, the important role of Islam in this part of Africa, France's relationship to slavery and colonialism, and the railroad — which French officials literally "railroaded through" to the detriment of local society.
The first individual profiled is Walter Taylor (1840s-1899). His parents were freed "from the belly of a Portuguese slave ship" and were returned to Africa by the British Navy patrolling for illegal cargo after Britain abolished slavery in 1807. Lewis provides fascinating details on the 100,000 enslaved people "freed" by British patrols. Some went into the British military — voluntarily or involuntarily — some became indentured servants to the West Indies, still others created settlements of freed slaves in Sierra Leone.
Walter Taylor grew up in a Sierra Leone farming community, where the Anglican church had aggressive missionaries whose aim was to stamp out local religious practices and culture. He received an Anglican education and became a schoolmaster. Imprisoned for three months for "stealing" a book, he had to leave. By about 1867, he was in Gorée as an accountant in the peanut trade. Gorée is the small island off Dakar notorious for its Door of No Return through which millions of African people sailed into bondage across the Atlantic.
Taylor ultimately joined a French Protestant mission in Saint Louis, a series of islands at the mouth of the Senegal River, and the seat of the French colonial governor, a French military base, and a mercantile hub for Europeans and local, mixed-race merchants. Saint Louis was unusual, Lewis writes, in that it was "to be a free city where no slaves would exist and where slaves could also find their liberty. It was to become a refuge," not only for people enslaved due to the peanut trade, but also for people enslaved by local Africans — kings, aristocrats, and religious leaders.
By dint of perseverance, Walter Taylor became a leader in the mission, where he provided a safe haven for escaping slaves. His tireless efforts to liberate his fellow Africans during his lifelong travels between Senegal and Sierra Leone form the backbone of the book.
Taylor's story is entangled with French colonialism, and the French government's complicity in slavery in this part of the world. While France proudly declared it had abolished the trade, it turned a blind eye to Africans being enslaved in the immensely profitable peanut business, Lewis writes. The racism suffered by Walter Taylor was emblematic of French occupation.
Lewis also profiles the independent African kingdom of Kajoor, and a succession of its leaders, including Lat Joor, Walter Taylor's contemporary, who tried unsuccessfully to oust the French in 1883. Lat Joor's trials and tribulations, woven throughout the book, provide rare insight into local 19th century royalty in this part of Africa.
Lewis also gives a history of the peanut plant, which likely originated in present-day Brazil. By the time it was under aggressive cultivation in 19th-century Senegal, the West's hungry maw insisted on profits over techniques such as crop rotation and other essential agricultural practices.
Slaves for Peanuts plumbs a fascinating and disturbing slice of history, shining a light on another glaring example of Western hypocrisy and oppression. The book is illustrated with extraordinary photographs, many from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also provides extensive endnotes and an index.
Although Lewis tells eye-opening stories, at times I found the book hard to follow. This was likely due to the many pieces of narrative Lewis ambitiously weaves together, and to the lack of connective tissue from the scant historical record. Lewis knows this. At the outset she asks: "How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?"
Lewis has much to teach us. Once Walter Taylor's mission closed its doors to runaway slaves, the real bottom line emerges. She writes: "The truth was that the missionary enterprise without the refuge for runaway slaves did not work. What use was it to evangelize in an area where slavery was still an active open secret?'
Martha Anne Toll is a DC based writer and reviewer. Her debut novel, Three Muses, won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in September 2022.
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2022-04-26T13:38:50+00:00
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mainepublic.org
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https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/2022-04-25/slaves-for-peanuts-weaves-a-complex-story-crossing-time-and-oceans
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Santa Barbara Music Events hosts Songwriters Showcase for youth scholarships
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Santa Barbara Music Events opened up a Songwriters Showcase on Sunday with entries from all over the nation, according to event director Joseph D'Arezzo Natale.
The festival was free to the public, and the winners will have their songs professionally produced, mastered and presented to industry professionals with the opportunity of their songs being used for series and movies.
Event organizers said all proceeds from the showcase will go towards youth scholarships for tutoring in academics and enrichment in music, art, theater and fitness.
For more information, click here to visit the Santa Barbara Music Events website.
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2022-04-24T23:24:27+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2022/04/24/santa-barbara-music-events-hosts-songwriters-showcase-for-youth-scholarships/
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GUANACASTE, Costa Rica, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peninsula Papagayo continues to add to its already impressive list of amenities with a new wilderness outpost inside its private 250-acre Palmares Preserve.
Exclusive to members and guests staying at Four Seasons and Andaz, The Outpost at Palmares Preserve is now ground zero at Peninsula Papagayo for once-in-a-lifetime eco-adventures on land and above ground.
The family-friendly experience was envisioned for self-discovery, giving guests of all ages and stages the freedom to pick their path and adventure. New activities include heart-pounding ropes challenge course, tree climbing, ziplines, offroading, mountain biking, wilderness hikes, birdwatching, and multi-adventure tours.
"We are creating an eco-adventure and cultural haven for active, multi-generational families looking for something completely fresh and different," says Francesca Poddie, Senior Vice President.
The launch of The Outpost at Palmares Preserve coincides with the first phase of a significant two-year renovation of the Arnold Palmer Signature golf course, which has just been completed.
Significant enhancements include more teeing area and native vegetation with less bunkering, geared to improve playability and enhance aesthetics. The newly revamped golf experience is less formal in pace and environment, reflecting a new kind of golf appealing to all generations.
As an Audubon-certified course, water conservation was a critical factor in the redesign. The renovation includes a new state-of-the-art precision irrigation system and replacing fifteen acres of Bermuda grass with low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, native plant species.
Adding to the list of exciting new amenities is a next-generation sports park opening in 2024. Featuring a fresh collection of nature-meets-movement activities for all ages, the 20-acre sports park will include a state-of-the-art standing surf wave, but the thrills won't stop there. A kitted-out waterpark with two hillside water slides and fun fountains will have kids splashing the day away. A multi-function lawn the size of a soccer field will be a hub for residents and guests to mingle over fun lawn games, pick-up sporting events, and pop-ups. There will also be bocce ball courts, an outdoor amphitheater for festivals, live music, and a dog park nestled under a tropical dry forest canopy.
Meanwhile, Peninsula Papagayo's flourishing residential community continues to grow with the upcoming launch of The Enclaves at Nacascolo Bay, an exciting new collection of ten tropical contemporary oceanfront homes designed by celebrated Costa Rica Architect Ronald Zurcher.
Located right in the center of Peninsula Papagayo, The Enclaves at Nacascolo Bay redefines walkability and well-being with unrivaled access to Peninsula Papagyo's new community hubs, parks, and recreation. The beach is a two-minute walk from the front door. Golf, tennis, and pickleball are ten minutes. The new sports park and wave pool – less than fifteen minutes.
Freshly reimagined for today's adventure-filled getaways, with the space and freedom to come as you are, each five-bedroom villa is sited for optimal light and cooling breezes. Southern aspects and large format window walls frame panoramic views of protected wildlands, turquoise waters, and golden sand beach. A private path will connect to a brand new beach house being developed on Playa Nacascolo, just two minutes away.
The Enclaves family size accommodations span over 7,500 sq. ft. of total floor area and start from $5.5 million USD. Interested homebuyers may make a reservation to purchase one of the new homes starting in January 2023. Completion of construction is expected in 2024. For more information, visit https://peninsulapapagayo.com/luxury-real-estate/the-enclaves/
Located in Costa Rica, one of the world's most peaceful and biodiverse countries, Peninsula Papagayo is regarded by many as Latin America's ultimate coastal retreat. The community includes Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo, Andaz Costa Rica Resort at Peninsula Papagayo, Bahias by Antoine Predock, the Clubhouse at Prieta Beach, the Arnold Palmer Signature Ocean Course at Peninsula Papagayo, Marina Papagayo, and the upcoming Nekajui, Ritz-Carlton Reserve Resort and Residences.
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JPMorgan Chase profits jump 52% amid banking turmoil
JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a 52% jump in its first-quarter profits, helped by higher interest rates, which allowed the bank to charge customers more for loans. The bank saw deposits grow noticeably, as businesses and customers flocked to the banking titan after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank last month.
With JPMorgan's strong results, as well as solid results from Citigroup and Wells Fargo on Friday, there seem to be few signs of potential trouble in the banking system — at least among the nation's biggest, most complex financial institutions.
"These were the most watched bank earnings announcements in over a decade, with market participants scouring the results looking for signs of cracks in the US banking sector. Those analysts looking for signs of the banking crisis were greatly relieved to not find any," said Octavio Marenzi, CEO of the consulting firm Opimas LLC, in an email.
JPMorgan, the nation's biggest bank by assets posted a profit of $12.62 billion, compared to a profit of $8.28 billion in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the bank earned $4.10 a share, up from $2.63 a share a year ago, beating analysts' expectations.
Most of the profit growth came from higher interest rates. The bank's net interest income was $20.8 billion in the quarter, up 49% from last year.
JPMorgan grew deposits by $37 billion during the quarter, up to $2.4 trillion. Deposits at big banks had been falling for several quarters as consumers spent down their pandemic savings and businesses tapped into their stored cash to pay bills. But with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, businesses have been withdrawing their funds from smaller banks and moving them into the larger banks, which are considered "too big to fail" and have an implicit government backstop.
In a call with reporters, JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum said most of the new deposits flowed into new business and company bank accounts opened in the past month. The new deposits reversed the flow of deposits exiting the bank for several quarters.
"What crisis?," analysts at UBS titled their report after JPMorgan, Wells and PNC reported their results.
JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon have been the industry's go-to problem solvers for banking issues for years now. After the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, JPMorgan helped put together a consortium of other big banks to keep First Republic Bank from being next to fail. The group of banks put $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic, which appears to have at least bought the midsize bank some time to repair its balance sheet and maybe find a buyer.
"The U.S. economy continues to be on generally healthy footings — consumers are still spending and have strong balance sheets, and businesses are in good shape. However, the storm clouds that we have been monitoring for the past year remain on the horizon, and the banking industry turmoil adds to these risks," Dimon said in a statement.
JPMorgan continued to benefit from consumers switching from saving to spending. Credit card spending rose 13% from a year earlier, and more customers are now keeping a balance instead of paying off their credit cards, so the bank is making money from processing the transactions as well as the interest off the balances.
Meanwhile business in the bank's corporate and investment bank remains relatively quiet, as many businesses and investors are holding off making big decisions amid high inflation. Revenue from advisory fees were flat, while revenue from trading stocks and bonds were flat to down.
JPMorgan shares rose more than 6% in early trading.
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- MCRA has assisted its Clients in obtaining over 60 breakthrough device designations in the last 2 years, which is about 20% of all such designations granted by the Food and Drug Administration during this time period.
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MCRA, LLC, a leading medical device focused regulatory advisory firm and clinical research organization (CRO) integrating U.S. and International Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Trial Operations, Reimbursement and Market Access, Healthcare Compliance, Cybersecurity, and Quality Assurance support is excited to announce its role in the successful granting of over 60 breakthrough device designations by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA Breakthrough Device Program is intended to help patients with life threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases receive more timely access to breakthrough technologies that have the potential to provide more effective treatment or diagnosis for their conditions. Devices that receive the breakthrough designation are granted priority review and more frequent interactions with the Agency to promote faster device development and review through to commercialization. The Program is available for devices and device-led combination products which are subject to review under a premarket approval application (PMA), premarket notification (510(k)), or De Novo classification request.
Obtaining the breakthrough designation for MCRA clients has led to them having more collaborative and frequent engagements with FDA through the special interactive mechanisms reserved for breakthrough devices. It has also led to reimbursement benefits for our clients. While Medicare Coverage for Innovative Technologies (MCIT) was repealed late last year, there are still several benefits only breakthrough technologies are eligible for on the payment side, including the New Technology Add on Payment (NTAP) and Transitional Pass-Through Payment.
John Doucet, PhD., Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at MCRA and former Policy Lead of the Breakthrough Device Program at FDA said, "While at FDA, I witnessed and supported the rapid growth of the Breakthrough Device Program, evaluated designation decisions for a diverse array of device technologies and patient populations, and gained valuable insight into how to obtain the designation and subsequently utilize the unique interaction mechanisms reserved for breakthrough devices. Working with my colleagues now to achieve this milestone affirms my decision to join MCRA and help our clients develop and commercialize better treatment and diagnostic options for patients."
Glenn Stiegman, MCRA's Senior Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs said "The Breakthrough Device Program is intended to promote new and more effective medical products for Americans who desperately need them. John's arrival, when combined with MCRA's broad and deep regulatory, clinical, and reimbursement expertise, has attracted clients developing a variety of cutting-edge device technologies to relieve suffering in key clinical areas such as cardiovascular, neurology, oncology, digital health, orthopedics, robotics, women's health, urology, respiratory, wound care and more. This milestone for breakthrough device designations is one indication of MCRA's goal to accelerate the pace of device development in all clinical areas and specifically for patients with life threatening and irreversibly debilitating conditions."
Tonya Dowd, MPH, Vice President, Head of Reimbursement, Health Economics and Market Access (RHEMA) at MCRA said, "Having breakthrough status for a device opens the potential opportunity for increased payment for facilities purchasing these breakthrough devices. MCRA's RHEMA team has worked alongside our regulatory team to successfully achieve this parallel pathway for regulatory and reimbursement."
MCRA looks forward to continuing to support innovation in the medical device industry by helping clients navigate novel pathways to commercialization.
About MCRA, LLC: MCRA is the leading privately held independent medical device and biologics Clinical Research Organization (CRO) and advisory firm. MCRA delivers to its clients industry experience at integrating five business value creators: regulatory, clinical research, reimbursement, healthcare compliance, and quality assurance to provide a dynamic, market-leading effort from innovation conception to commercialization. MCRA's integrated application of these key value-creating initiatives provides unparalleled value for its clients. MCRA has offices in Washington, DC, Hartford, CT, and New York, NY, and served nearly 1,000 clients globally. Its core focus areas of therapeutic experience include orthopedics, spine, biologics, cardiovascular, diagnostic imaging, wound care, artificial intelligence, dental, general surgery, digital health, neurology, robotics, and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices and medical device cybersecurity. www.mcra.com
About Viscogliosi Brothers, LLC: Viscogliosi Brothers, LLC (VB) founded MCRA in 2004. VB is headquartered in New York City and specializes in merchant banking activities for the neuromusculoskeletal industry as a full life cycle investor, investing in all stages in companies from inception through growth. VB is dedicated to financing healthcare innovation globally. www.vbllc.com
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Mother’s boyfriend arrested in killing of 8-year-old California girl
MERCED, Calif. (AP) — After a months-long manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found in March inside a central California home, authorities said Sunday.
Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Newark on suspicion of killing Sophia Mason, police and the California attorney general’s office said.
Investigators determined the child suffered continuous physical abuse, was malnourished and at times was forced to live in a shed in the backyard of Jackson’s home, Merced Police Department Lt. Joe Perez said during a news conference Sunday.
Jackson was in a relationship with the young victim’s mother, 30-year-old Samantha Johnson, who was arrested in March and has pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse, prosecutors said.
Jackson, 34, also faces murder and child abuse charges. It wasn’t known Sunday if he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Four other people were arrested Saturday on suspicion of helping Jackson evade arrest, Perez said.
“In my 20 years of law enforcement, this case is the most disturbing and horrific that I’ve seen,” the lieutenant said.
Sophia was reported missing by relatives in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward. They told police they had not had contact with the girl since December, and that she was known to stay at different locations between Hayward and Southern California.
The missing person report led Hayward police to arrest Johnson on a warrant stemming from a case of child abuse in Alameda County last year, police said.
Statements Johnson made to Hayward police prompted them to ask for assistance from the Merced Police Department, which served a search warrant in March at the house in Merced where Jackson lived, they said.
Merced police found Sophia’s body in a bathtub, inside a locked bathroom, according to court documents.
Johnson told a Merced police detective that Jackson, her boyfriend, had kept Sophia in a shed and that the child was subjected to physical and sexual abuse by Jackson.
Sophia twice personally told social workers that her mother had choked and hit her, according to child-welfare documents uncovered by the Bay Area News Group.
At one point, the internal documents show, a teacher and a social worker reported grave concerns over what they considered signs of abuse.
Sophia’s grandmother, Sylvia Johnson, last week filed a wrongful death legal claim against Alameda County, alleging the Department of Child and Family Services didn’t do enough to protect the little girl.
Alameda County has 45 days to respond to the family’s claims, the news group reported Sunday. If no settlement is offered by the county and the claim is rejected, the family has six months to file a lawsuit.
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Presented by Frito-Lay, Quaker and the PepsiCo Foundation, Super Bowl LVII's Premier
Purpose-driven Culinary Event, Held February 11, 2023, in Arizona, will Support GENYOUth's Commitment to End Student Hunger
NEW YORK, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GENYOUth, a national nonprofit organization which creates healthier school communities, today announced that the collective impact of the Taste of the NFL philanthropic event totaled $1.8 million, which will benefit 700 schools and 385,000 students by increasing access to 100 million school meals to foster nutrition security among students in all 32 NFL club markets. Celebrating over 30 years as the Super Bowl's largest purpose-driven culinary experience, Taste of the NFL was held at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix on February 11, 2023, with support from presenting sponsors Frito-Lay, Quaker and the PepsiCo Foundation.
The event featured over 30 chefs, including renowned celebrity chefs Andrew Zimmern, Carla Hall, Tim Love, Lasheeda Perry and Mark Bucher, as well as Arizona culinary stars including Maurice Gordon, Christopher Gross, Beau MacMillan, Maria Mazon, and Mark Tarbell; and chefs from the PepsiCo Foundation's IMPACTO Hispanic Business Accelerator and PepsiCo's Juntos Crecemos programs including Yesenia Ramirez, Miriam Ramirez, Lucia and Ramon Garcia, and Imelda Hartley. They were joined by over 30 NFL Legends and players including Najee Harris, Rashad Jennings, Doug Flutie, Mike Haynes, Chris Draft, David Caldwell, Jarrod Bunch, Kyle Rudolph and Drew Stanton; as well as over 2,300 football and foodie fans inspired to help end student hunger.
"For many students, school meals are a lifeline and the only source of good nutrition they receive on some days. The collective impact of the Taste of the NFL equips GENYOUth to provide grants to 700 school nutrition programs in the Super Bowl host city and 31 additional NFL markets," said Ann Marie Krautheim, M.A., R.D., L.D., CEO of GENYOUth. "We are grateful for the support of our Taste of the NFL supporters – the NFL, Frito-Lay, Quaker, and the PepsiCo Foundation; as well as GENYOUth End Student Hunger partners including American Family Insurance, Challenge Butter, Charles Woodson's Intercept Wine, Columbus Craft Meats, Danzeisen Dairy, FEED, Frontdoors Media, Hellmann's, Hormel Foods, Hensley, Hubbard Radio Phoenix, JAM Cellars, Kona Grill, PopCorners, Remy Cointreau, Remy Martin, Shamrock Foods, STK, Tequila Corrido, Teremana Tequila, Tito's Handmade Vodka, Undeniably Dairy, Valley Buick GMC Dealers, and Woodson Bourbon Whiskey."
"We are proud of GENYOUth's work to help tackle food insecurity and grateful for the engagement of NFL sponsors Frito-Lay, Quaker and the PepsiCo Foundation. Their support of Taste of the NFL and partnership in programs critical to increasing school meal participation is directly benefitting the Super Bowl's host community in Arizona," said Peter O'Reilly, NFL Executive Vice President, Club Business & League Events. "As Taste of the NFL's charitable partner and beneficiary, and as a long-standing NFL non-profit partner, GENYOUth's commitment to creating healthier school communities through school grants and programs, including NFL FLAG-In-Schools, is admirable."
Building a Framework of Nutrition Security in Phoenix and Arizona
In the lead up to Super Bowl LVII, Frito-Lay, Quaker and PepsiCo Foundation – along with the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, Dairy Council® of Arizona, BHHS Legacy Foundation, Fiesta Bowl Charities, Fry's Food Stores, and the ISA Foundation – partnered with GENYOUth on Mission 57: End Student Hunger, a community initiative which has provided Grab and Go school meal equipment packages and NFL FLAG-In-Schools kits to help tackle food insecurity and increase physical activity in 57 high-need Arizona schools. Mission 57 will provide access to over 8.5 million school meals and increase opportunities for physical activity among 31,000 Arizona students.
"Our support of Taste of the NFL and Mission 57 will drive meaningful impact to help end student hunger and uplift communities in Arizona and across the nation where our employees live and work," said Joan Cetera, Vice President, Communications and Community Impact, PepsiCo Foods North America. "We are proud of our partnership with GENYOUth in providing equitable access to critical resources and tools, which help schools alleviate food insecurity among our most vulnerable children and allow communities to thrive."
"We are proud of our long-standing support of GENYOUth, including the 2023 Taste of the NFL and accompanying Mission 57 initiative, both of which advance the PepsiCo Foundation's commitments to addressing food insecurity by increasing equitable access to nutritious food," said C.D. Glin, President, PepsiCo Foundation, and Global Head of Philanthropy, PepsiCo.
Planning is already underway for Taste of the NFL 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada with customized sponsorship opportunities available. Contact Kelianne Johnson, GENYOUth Director of Marketing & Development, at Kelianne.Johnson@GENYOUthNow.org for sponsorship details.
GENYOUth is also inviting school nutrition professionals and educators to apply for Fuel Up To Play 60 School Meal Equipment Grants at funds.genyouthnow.org through May 2, 2023.
About GENYOUth
GENYOUth is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that creates healthier school communities. Founded by America's dairy farmers and the NFL, GENYOUth convenes a network of private and public partners, including Fortune 100 companies and foundations, to raise funds for youth wellness initiatives that give youth the inspiration, motivation, and programs to be healthy high-achieving students. GENYOUth's flagship program, Fuel Up to Play 60, enrolls over 73,000 U.S. schools, reaching over 38 million students. Our school nutrition grants increase access to healthy school meals among food insecure students. NFL FLAG-In-Schools is the fastest-growing youth sport in the country (ages 6-14) with over 32,000 flag kits to school communities reaching over 15 million students. AdVenture Capital brings out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of students with the support of corporate mentors to solve real world problems. GENYOUth is the official charitable partner of Taste of the NFL, a purpose-driven Super Bowl culinary experience that raises awareness and generates funds to fight hunger and food insecurity to support the organization's commitment to end student hunger.
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com
About Frito-Lay North America
Frito-Lay North America is the $23 billion convenient foods division of PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP), which is headquartered in Purchase, NY. Frito-Lay snacks include Lay's and Ruffles potato chips, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips and branded dips, Cheetos snacks, Stacy's pita chips, PopCorners popped-corn snack, SunChips multigrain snacks and Fritos corn chips. The company operates 30+ manufacturing facilities across the U.S. and Canada, more than 200 distribution centers and services 315,000 retail customers per week through its direct-store-delivery model. Learn more about Frito-Lay at the corporate website, www.fritolay.com, on Twitter (@fritolay), on Instagram (@fritolay) and on Facebook (Frito-Lay).
About the PepsiCo Foundation
Established in 1962, the PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, invests in the essential elements of a sustainable food system with a mission to support thriving communities. Working with non-profits and experts around the globe, we're focused on helping communities obtain access to food security, safe water and economic opportunity. We strive for tangible impact in the places where we live and work—collaborating with industry peers, local and international organizations, and our employees to affect large-scale change on the issues that matter to us and are of global importance. Learn more at www.pepsicofoundation.com.
About Quaker
The Quaker Oats Company, headquartered in Chicago, is a unit of PepsiCo, Inc., one of the world's largest consumer packaged goods companies. For more than 140 years, Quaker's brands have served as symbols of quality, great taste and nutrition. Quaker® Oats, Quaker® Rice Cakes and Quaker Chewy® Granola Bars are consumer favorites. For more information, please visit www.QuakerOats.com, www.Facebook.com/Quaker, or follow us on Twitter and Instagram @Quaker.
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News marks Maven's latest investment in scaling its global enterprise offering, supporting more than 350 clients across 175+ countries since 2015
NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Maven Clinic, the world's largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, announced an agreement with Indira IVF to deliver high-quality fertility care to Maven members in India. Indira IVF is India's largest and most preferred fertility service provider, operating over 100 centers across the country, achieving a 70%+ pregnancy rate from fresh and frozen embryo transfers and helping over 100,000 couples become parents over the last decade.
Through this collaboration, Maven members in India will have access to best-in-class virtual family building care through the Maven platform, in addition to an added layer of local, in-person support, including high-quality clinical care and other benefits offered by Indira IVF.
This news comes at a time when the need for global family building care is at an all-time high. According to a survey from Maven, while 32% of companies plan to expand their family building benefits over the next year, the process is more complex for companies with a global workforce that have to navigate local nuances in each country. Having a benefits partner that understands these nuances and the needs of employees in each region — and can steer members to high quality in-person service providers — can help employers deliver locally-relevant family building care.
Maven has served members globally since 2015. Over the past year, the company has increased the number of international members it supports as employers with a global workforce seek to provide equitable family building care to all employees: Maven has served members across 175+ countries, and 60% of global clients use Maven to support international employees. In India alone, Maven saw a 3x increase in total lives covered since 2021. The collaboration with Indira IVF underscores Maven's commitment to working with leading clinics across the world that meet the highest standard of clinical quality and where members have the greatest likelihood of achieving a successful outcome.
Indira IVF marks the latest addition to Maven's global fertility clinic referral network, which is part of the company's Global Fertility and Family Building program. Maven provides around-the-clock, on-demand support to employees across all regions as they plan and raise a family, and easy reimbursement for covered fertility services through Maven Wallet. All Maven members have access to Care Advocates who understand each member's cultural and country-specific context, and can offer local guidance as they navigate any path to parenthood—including preconception, fertility treatments, fertility preservation, adoption, and surrogacy. Through care matching, members can also be paired with a personalized care team that is matched to their lived experiences and unique needs, including culture, language and time zone.
Maven is the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, offering continuous, holistic care for fertility, pregnancy, parenting and pediatrics, and menopause. Maven's award-winning digital programs are trusted by leading employers and health plans to reduce costs and drive better maternal health outcomes, as well as enhance DE&I in benefits programs. Founded in 2014 by CEO Kate Ryder, Maven has been recognized as Fast Company's #1 Most Innovative Health Company and has 15 million lives under management. Maven has raised more than $200 million in funding from leading investors including Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital. To learn more about Maven, visit us at mavenclinic.com.
Indira IVF is India's largest infertility speciality clinics chain with over 100 centres across the country, supported by a passionate workforce of over 2,500 people. Indira IVF performs about 33,000+ IVF procedures a year - the highest number in the country. As a responsible leader, Indira IVF constantly strives to dispel the stigma, taboo, myths and misinformation about infertility. Indira IVF is also committed to developing and grooming talent for fertility treatments. Through the Indira Fertility Academy it collaborates with like-minded organisations and institutions to further this cause. Having perceived the potential of Indira IVF in the sector, TA Associates, a leading global equity firm from the U.S., invested in the organisation in 2019. Indira IVF was founded in the year 2011 in Udaipur, Rajasthan by Dr. Ajay Murdia. For more information visit https://www.indiraivf.com/.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) today announced an order for a fuel cell system to CrossWind, a joint-venture between Shell and Eneco. The Ballard fuel cell system will be integrated in the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project.
The Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project, located off the coast of the Netherlands, will have a capacity of 759 MW to generate at least 3.3 TWh per year. This is enough renewable power to supply the equivalent of more than 1 million Dutch households with green electricity.
CrossWind intends to use various new technologies to manage the intermittent wind power generation, including the use of water electrolysis to convert wind power into green hydrogen for energy storage. Ballard's hydrogen fuel cells will utilize the green hydrogen as fuel to regenerate stable and dispatchable power.
Ballard will supply a containerized fuel cell power solution with a peak power capacity of 1 MW, with delivery expected in 2024. This is Ballard's second stationary power project deployed in Europe for peak shaving power generation applications.
"Hydrogen plays a critical role to support the energy transition. This project is an exciting proof point on how hydrogen and PEM fuel cells can provide an effective storage, load-following and firming solution for intermittent renewables. We are excited to be a part of this milestone demonstration project with CrossWind to prove out the reliability and efficiency of Ballard fuel cells, initially at megawatt scale," said Søren Østergaard Hansen, General Manager, Marine and Stationary, Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S.
Maria Kalogera, Crosswind's Innovation Manager commented, "In CrossWind, we are committed to demonstrate baseload power on a megawatt scale for a single full-scale wind turbine generator. We will introduce, for the first time, an offshore combination of battery storage and round-trip hydrogen integrated in an offshore wind farm. It's exciting to have Ballard on board and integrate their fuel cell solutions in our project."
Ballard Power Systems' (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) vision is to deliver fuel cell power for a sustainable planet. Ballard zero-emission PEM fuel cells are enabling electrification of mobility, including buses, commercial trucks, trains, marine vessels, and stationary power. To learn more about Ballard, please visit www.ballard.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements concerning anticipated product performance and other characteristics, product deliveries and deployments. These forward-looking statements reflect Ballard's current expectations as contemplated under section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any such forward-looking statements are based on Ballard's assumptions relating to its financial forecasts and expectations regarding its product development efforts, manufacturing capacity, and market demand.
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CrossWind is a joint venture between Shell Nederland and Eneco. CrossWind has won the tender for the construction and operation of wind farm Hollandse Kust Noord. CrossWind is doing this in collaboration with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for the supply of the wind turbines and with Van Oord for the supply of the foundations and the cables and the installation of the wind turbines at sea. CrossWind is in close contact with the developer of the offshore power socket, grid developer TenneT, as well as the relevant ministries, coastal authorities and other stakeholders.
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2023-01-23T14:02:55+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/01/23/ballard-announces-order-crosswind-supply-fuel-cell-system-1-mw-stationary-power-project/
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A former LSU student speaks out about the lawsuit she filed along with others in federal court against a large number of state and local officials for failing to prevent sexual assaults on college campuses.
“I came to LSU wanting to be a Tiger through and through, right? Obviously, that did not happen,” said former LSU student Mayumi Dickerson. “My mom and my dad dropped me off at LSU with the understanding that I was going to be protected… you send your kid off to college thinking that there is a system in place to help you, to help you grow and mature, and that didn’t happen here.”
Her team of attorneys stood by her side at the Louisiana State Capitol. They said with school starting they wanted to sound the alarms once again.
“If the University of Louisiana System and LSU is not the worst, it’s definitely in the top tier,” said Attorney Bakari Sellers. “There is a cancer and a problem in Louisiana with the way that women are treated, with the way that abuse victims are treated and with the fact that their voices are not heard.”
“For over six years, these survivors were the victims not only of assault but of systemic failures which a 2015 Louisiana law was designed to combat,” according to a statement from the Strom Law Firm. “The law, Act 172, was expressly designed to prevent sexual abuse on college campuses by mandating communication, cross-training and coordination between Louisiana’s public post-secondary institutions and law enforcement.”
The suit names the following persons and entities as defendants:
- The Lousiana Board of Regents
- The LSU Board of Supervisors
- University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors
- Lafayette Consolidated Government
- Lafayette Police Department
- Former Lafayette Police Chief Thomas Glover
- UL-Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie
- LSU President William F. Tate IV
- Former LSU President F. King Alexander
- Former LSU President Tom Galligan
- Louisiana Tech President Les Guice
- Other police chiefs in the jurisdictions of Jane Does 1-100
In Dickerson’s case, her alleged attacker was able to transfer from school to school, allegedly leaving a trail of victims in his wake.
“This has been a rough seven years, just knowing that no one has been held accountable, that universities can just pass on the problem from university to university and the assailant can get the degree that I have been struggling to get.”
BRProud reached out to LSU for comment and they replied that they don’t comment on pending litigation.
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2022-08-26T20:32:09+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/former-lsu-student-speaks-out-says-lsu-failed-her-after-sexual-assault/
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The final leg of the Triple Crown is here with the Belmont States, which will air at 7:05 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, June 10 by Fox.
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There will be no Triple Crown winner this year after Mage won the Kentucky Derby and National Treasure took the Preakness.
National Treasure and Forte are the favorites for the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, N.Y. Forte was the Kentucky Derby favorite, but an injury forced him to miss the first two legs of the Triple Crown. National Treasure skipped the Derby, allowing Mage to emerge victorious in that one.
Forte is a 3-1 favorite, while National Treasure is at 6-1 odds, followed by Tapit Trice and Angel of Empire.
Here is how to watch the race:
What: 2023 Belmont Stakes
When: 7:05 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, June 10, 2023
Where: Belmont Park, Elmont, N.Y.
TV: Fox
Cable channel finder: AT&T U-Verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DIRECTV, Dish, Verizon Fios, WOW.
WATCH LIVE FOR FREE: Fubo.tv (free trial); DirecTV Stream (free trial); Hulu + Live TV (free trial). Also, Sling TV (promotional offers).
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2023-06-10T21:53:12+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/tv/2023/06/belmont-stakes-2023-how-to-watch-the-triple-crown-race-for-free.html
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As doctors strike in Israel, Here & Now‘s Scott Tong gets the latest analysis on the opposition to Israel’s judicial overhaul from journalist Neri Zilber.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-07-25T18:14:20+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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https://www.delawarepublic.org/2023-07-25/existential-the-view-from-tel-aviv-amid-the-most-sustained-protests-in-israels-history
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Matt Carpenter never thought he would make it back. The infielder could not figure out his swing. He went 1-for-3 on Oct. 3, 2021 against the Cubs and the veteran Cardinals infielder walked out of Busch Stadium for what he figured would be his last time.
“The major leagues is a tough place to be when you’re not at your best and when you’re up at the plate searching for your swing and not full of a ton of confidence,” Carpenter said. “It’s a tough place to be in and that’s kind of the spot I was in the last couple seasons.”
A three-time All-Star and career .263/.369/.457 hitter who hit 36 homers in 2018, left St. Louis after hitting under .200 and with seven homers in 180 games over his last two seasons.
But the lefty-hitting Carpenter kept searching for that swing even after many thought he might be done. The 36-year-old revamped his swing to get the bat a more level path and more time through the zone and focused on pulling the ball more. He has also benefited from landing with the Yankees and being a savvy veteran in a lineup where pitchers are more likely to challenge him than Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo or Giancarlo Stanton.
The turnaround is dramatic as he returns with the Yankees for a three-game series in Busch Stadium this weekend where he says he left with no regrets.
“When you play for as long as I did at a place like that you always think that you’re going to finish your career there, but it just didn’t work out,” Carpenter said. “As far as regrets I have zero regrets of the way that my time in St. Louis went. The memories that I made, the friendships that I made, the success that we had as a team and also that I had individually. I raised a family there. My kids were born there and it’s just nothing but great memories.
“I have nothing to be ashamed of or sad about.”
Carpenter returns to face the team that he played most of his career for hitting .322/.435/.791 with a 1.226 OPS and 15 home runs as a key member of the ‘22 Bombers.
“I think he’s back to being the All Star-level hitter that he’s been for most of his career,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He’s got a great approach, great eye at the plate and he controls the strike zone. When you do that you usually get yourself in a good position. More often than not, you’re going to get yourself in good counts because you’re controlling the strike zone, and then he’s got the swing that allows him to handle mistakes, whether they’re secondary pitches or good fastballs.”
After leaving St. Louis, Carpenter signed a minor league deal with the Rangers and played for over a month in Triple-A Round Rock. The Yankees had scouted him in spring training and liked the underlying numbers they saw from his minor league time. Shortly after Carpenter opted out of his contract, the Bombers were looking for a lefty bat.
Carpenter is taking advantage of the lineup he is in and the place he plays. With the notorious short porch in right field at Yankee Stadium, Carpenter’s swing fits perfectly. He’s pulling the ball more than he ever has in his career, over half of his batted balls (55.4%) are pulled to the right-field side of the diamond.
It makes his return a little sweeter, not bittersweet. Carpenter comes back with nothing but love and appreciation for the city, fans, organization and former teammates. In fact his only regret is that for all the work he put in while with the Cardinals the results did not come those last two years.
“From my own standpoint, I mean, I’m certainly glad I’m playing well, and I’m certainly glad that I’m on the best team in baseball and get an opportunity to play for a championship,” Carpenter said. “But I don’t have any ill will to where I’m coming in and almost want to stick it to fans, like that’s not where my mindset is. I mean I would have loved to have played at this level the last two seasons. I’ve worked like crazy to do it, just didn’t happen.
“And, you know, for whatever reason, it’s happening now and I’m thankful for it.”
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2022-08-04T15:40:30+00:00
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twincities.com
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https://www.twincities.com/2022/08/04/matt-carpenter-left-st-louis-having-lost-his-swing-now-he-returns-as-a-key-member-of-the-yankees/
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During rush hour this summer, MBTA’s Blue Line riders can enjoy live music from Berklee College of Music students hoping to help “brighten the commute.”
With the closure of the Sumner Tunnel, MBTA and Berklee College of Music teamed up on Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to a press release.
Students will be performing outside Aquarium Station from 5-6:30 p.m. every Tuesday and at Wonderland Station from 8-10 a.m. every Thursday. It will last until the end of August.
Recent Berklee graduate elishéva and her backing guitarist Pritesh Walia performed inside the Aquarium T station Tuesday. She performed her own version of Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and “Finesse” by Bruno Mars, along with other songs.
It’s the singer’s last summer in Boston as she plans to move to New York in the fall, according to her website.
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2023-07-26T12:48:15+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2023/07/live-music-at-mbta-stations-hopes-to-brighten-the-commute.html
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I grew up in the 1980s and '90s with parents who strictly controlled my "screen time," which almost exclusively meant TV back then, as well as a pocket game that died when I was 10 and was never replaced. Like many in my generation, I absorbed a general sense that video games, like TV, were frivolous brain rot.
Now, my two boys, ages 12 and 13, are growing up in a digital world in a way I did not. Their generation lives online, spending more hours in virtual spaces since the pandemic began.
I'm lucky: My sons are hardworking and kind to their chronically frazzled single mother. They make raising them as easy and joyful as adolescence could possibly allow.
But still, our house rules about video games are arbitrary and our disputes over them constant. No amount of yelling "No games on school nights!" or "Not before dinner!" has worked, or inspired them to learn a new skill instead.
I feel like I'm flying blind when it comes to regulating their game use and I know I'm not alone. Many parents worry that they should be doing more to limit online play.
But as I learned from talking to numerous experts — psychologists, game designers and researchers — the impact of video games is more nuanced than that of other kinds of screen time, like social media. In fact, some research shows it can have positive effects, like promoting problem solving, or teamwork and communication.
Here are these experts' insights and advice for how to optimize the upsides of gaming and protect kids from potential hazards.
Video games are different from other screen time in crucial ways — and have some benefits
"Screen time" is an outdated concept. Kids study, play video games, use social media and watch videos on screens, but those do not all have the same developmental impact. Video games, in fact, do not show the kind of negative behavioral or emotional effects researchers correlate with social media use, says Kelli Dunlap, a clinical psychologist and community director for Take This, a mental health advocacy group within the gaming community.
"Research has shown again and again and again, time spent playing video games is not predictive of mental health outcomes," she says.
One reason for the difference in impact may be that social media is primarily about marketing, or comparing oneself to others, while gaming is generally about socializing with friends, solving a puzzle, or engaging in competition.
In fact, Dunlap says, parents often overlook some benefits of games: "They're a tool. You can use games to improve your social connection, to practice feeling emotions we normally avoid, like guilt or grief or shame. A lot of games bring those feelings out in us, and they give us a space to play with those feelings."
Games that involve joint projects like a battle or a quest can help develop useful social skills, says Peter Etchells, a research psychologist at Bath Spa University in the U.K. "It requires very kind of precise team-building," he says. "It requires thinking about timings and placement and good communication skills to coordinate with people. It's doing that kind of coordinated work that's really useful for all sorts of things."
Help kids prioritize offline activities so gaming doesn't subsume them
Children need some limits on their gaming, especially if it begins to crowd out other essential or healthy activities, many experts warn, like schoolwork and sleep in particular.
"Screen time is a hard thing to quantify," says Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital. "What is easier to quantify — and probably more in line with what is developmentally optimal — is quantifying non-screen time."
He advises parents to watch that family meals, chores, and outdoor or in-person play do not get subsumed into game time.
Kids also benefit from having periods of lower stimulation, away from technology, Rich says. "I want to bring back boredom," Rich argues, because that can also lead to imaginative play.
You need to start gaming with your kids
Every expert I spoke with recommended playing video games with your child to figure out what might specifically be motivating them to play — the needs the game might fill for them.
Online chess, for example, is a different experience than a multiplayer game with friends. Shy children might find it easier to socialize in games. Another child might regard it as stress relief. Some children may use games as a place to escape or process a difficult situation.
Boston Children's Rich says most things parents worry about with games — stranger danger, violence, sexuality — can be addressed by simply exploring the game through their eyes.
"What's happening is that you are saying, 'I love you, I respect you, I want to understand what is engaging you here,'" says Rich. "You're entering that space with a very different stance, that of essentially the student. You will get a sense for what the game is."
If you've noticed your kids yell, scream or cry about something that happened in a game, don't be disturbed, experts say. A child's reactions to emotions and interpersonal dynamics are real, even if the play itself takes place virtually, or on a device. Experts say outbursts during game play do not mean your child is more likely to act violently in real life.
Video games are like other spaces where your kids spend time. Ask yourself: Is it safe? Who else is there?
Games are social spaces — good or bad things can happen there — just as in real life. Think about the games your kids play as just another kind of space where you're letting them hang out, several experts suggested.
For example: If you have a 5-year-old, you wouldn't drop your child off alone at a mall, where strangers might approach. Now you might drop off your teen at the mall, but not before discussing who they're hanging out with, what they plan to do, and perhaps an agreement about when to come home for dinner. The same general principles can apply to teens who game.
Parents should ask themselves: Does the game culture itself seem conducive to age-appropriate behavior? Games with female characters with exaggerated sexual features, for example, might subject a child to sexual harassment.
If you don't like what you're seeing in a game, remember that outright bans and restrictions tend to backfire with adolescents. It's more vital to keep communication lines open, says Dunlap and other experts, so if something bad happens within the game, you can help them process or deal with it.
Watch for "dark designs" or designs that fuel nonstop playing
Be on the watch for certain "dark patterns" or "dark designs" in games, say several gaming experts. These terms refer to software or algorithms written to elicit certain negative behaviors in their users.
One of the most common is in-game purchases that can border on extortion, says Max Birk, an industrial-design researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. "It's important because it changes what the emphasis of the game designers is," he says.
Games fueled by in-game purchases (as opposed to games you buy up front, like NBA2K or Dance Dance Revolution) tend to have a financial stake in keeping children engaged for long periods of time. These games make it very easy to start a new game, or create steep incentives to keep players coming back.
Birk suggests talking to your kids about the game structure and directing them toward games that are more about story lines, or that have natural ending points that can allow the kid to wind down game play on their own.
Monitor games for toxic culture and harassment
Toxic culture and comments can thrive in certain games because parents are not monitoring those spaces. That often takes the form of harassment of female gamers. The onus is on parents of boys, especially, to make sure that they treat people equitably online, and to stand up against any sexist or misogynistic talk, says Jesse Fox, a communications professor at Ohio State University.
Remind your kids that rules about respectful behavior apply online as they do in life. "Gaming culture and gaming norms are going to imprint on their idea of normal behavior, what's acceptable behavior," Fox says. That's why it is critical for parents to monitor that play space — listen to conversations, keep the screen within public view.
Find the spaces that are safer and more inclusive by design. Fortnite, Fox notes, is an example of a game that has a huge diversity of characters in game, because it's trying to appeal to a very broad audience. That diversity makes it harder to distinguish players by race or gender.
Watch for these gaming red flags
For many children, gaming can be positive, but it's a good idea to keep an eye out for these signs of problematic game use.
Excessive spending in games: The game's financial incentives might be to keep your child engaged and encourage — even try to coerce — their characters into spending money to advance. Teach your child to recognize these kinds of tactics and redirect them to games where the game itself is the primary focus.
Negative reactions or anxiety over gaming friends: If your kid is repeatedly having big emotional reactions to the game, check in and figure out what elements of the game are so upsetting. Then redirect them to games and spaces that don't have these elements. Find single-player games to take a break from social dynamics.
Too little sleep: If your child is playing late into the night or turning up groggy in the morning, their game use might be out of hand. Make sure the child cannot access games all night long. Often, it's not the desire to play the game itself, but the social pressure to not miss out on experiences with friends that will keep them online, U.K. researcher Peter Etchells says. So shut down other technology as well, preferably well before bedtime.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-05-31T16:50:14+00:00
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kanw.com
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https://www.kanw.com/npr-news/npr-news/2023-05-31/worried-about-your-kids-video-gaming-explore-their-online-worlds-yourself
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian soldier opened fire in a military base, killing an aid worker and a fellow soldier in the country’s northeast region where troops are fighting decade-long extremist violence, authorities said.
Samson Nantip Zhakom, a spokesman for the Nigerian army, said troops at the Damboa base in Borno province took steps to “immediately neutralize” the unidentified soldier, indicating that he had been killed.
A helicopter pilot for the U.N. Humanitarian Aid Service was injured in the shooting and is in stable condition, said Zhakom of the incident which took place on Thursday.
“A detailed investigation into the incident and subsequent remedial actions have commenced into the highly regrettable incident,” said Zhakom.
The aid worker who was killed had worked for the group, Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), according to the U.N. in Nigeria.
The shooting incident shocked the humanitarian community in northeastern Nigeria where aid workers have provided life-saving assistance to millions affected by the insurgency by Islamic extremists.
The shooting prompted the UN air service – which transports humanitarian workers and supplies in the troubled region – to immediately suspend helicopter operations in the area.
The killing of the humanitarian worker is “deeply disturbing and sad,” Matthias Schmale, a humanitarian coordinator for the U.N. in Nigeria.
“All humanitarian staff working in northeast Nigeria deserve our fullest respect for their courage and commitment to stay and deliver life-saving assistance to people in need in often difficult and dangerous circumstances. Humanitarian workers must be protected,” said Schmale.
Little is known about the soldier in question or his motivation for the attack though analysts have in the past raised concerns about the mental well-being of some of the security personnel fighting the war.
Allegations of human rights abuses committed by soldiers are also rampant, especially from locals living close to them.
“The psychological problem — the trauma and all that – could have something to do with this but on the other hand, soldiers misbehave a lot with their guns,” said Jack Vince, a Borno-based security analyst.
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2022-11-19T12:13:53+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/international/ap-nigerian-soldier-opens-fire-at-northeast-base-killing-two/
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Which Oakley ski goggles are best?
There’s plenty of time left before winter officially hits, but once the snow starts to fall, it’s time to gear up for skiing season. Whether you’re a casual skier or a high-level competitor, having the best equipment is crucial for safety and performance.
Goggles may not seem important, but they’re necessary to protect your eyes when skiing. If you’re looking for a high-quality pair, Oakley offers several terrific goggles, such as the Oakley Fall Line L Prizm Goggles. Skiers love them for their durability, lens and comfortable fit.
What to know before you buy Oakley ski goggles
Fit
The way your ski goggles fit may vary depending on the shape of your face and head, but it’s essential to have a pair that rest firmly on your face. They shouldn’t feel too tight as they can constrict your face and cut off blood circulation, which can be dangerous. However, ski goggles that are too big can easily fall off your face when you’re skiing down a bumpy hill.
Cylindrical vs. spherical lenses
Ski goggles have lenses with a cylindrical or spherical build:
- Cylindrical lenses curve horizontally and stay flat vertically. They’re more affordable than spherical lenses but still provide excellent performance.
- Spherical lenses curve horizontally and vertically, providing a broader field of vision and reduced glare.
Visual light transmission
VLT refers to how much light a lens lets through. The higher the percentage of light a lens allows, the more effective the goggles are in low-light conditions, such as when it’s overcast or snowing. If you plan on skiing on a bright, sunny day, it’s best to have lenses hit a low VLT percentage to block out as much light as possible, letting you see better.
What to look for in quality Oakley ski goggles
Prizm lenses
The best Oakley ski goggles have a proprietary technology embedded in the lenses that lets them efficiently adapt to changing light conditions. It’s accomplished by the lenses blocking specific color wavelengths to adjust the contrast. Prizm lens goggles are expensive, but they’re excellent if you don’t want the trouble of switching lenses when the sun starts to go down in the evening.
Anti-fog coating
Ski goggles are designed to help you see better, but they’re useless if they fog up easily. Fogging is an issue many who wear glasses are forced to deal with at times and is most likely to occur if you’re emitting a lot of body heat. For that reason, wearing ski goggles with an anti-fog coating on the lenses is essential to ensure your field of vision remains uncompromised and you can see your path clearly in front of you.
Ultraviolet protection
Being out on the slopes all day has a similar effect to being in a swimming pool when it comes to sunlight. You may not feel the sun’s heat against your body, but it’s there and can take a toll on your skin if you don’t wear sunblock or layers.
UV rays can fatigue your eyes, especially at higher altitudes where they’re more intense. For that reason, many ski goggles have lenses with filters to prevent UV light from entering, keeping your face and your eyes protected.
How much you can expect to spend on Oakley ski goggles
Oakley ski goggles are made with high-end materials and offer elite performance, so you can expect to pay $150-$220 for a pair. However, there are more affordable models in the $100-$150 range if you’re looking for something more barebones.
Oakley ski goggles FAQ
Does lens color matter?
A. While lens color depends on your preference, some colors offer a more significant VLT percentage than others. Generally, yellow, blue and red lenses let in more light than black, gray and gold lenses.
Can I wear a helmet at the same time as goggles?
A. Yes, most goggles have a strap long enough to accommodate helmets of nearly all sizes.
What are the best Oakley ski goggles to buy?
Top Oakley ski goggles
Oakley Fall Line L Prizm Goggles
What you need to know: These goggles feature high-end technology and are excellent for skiing and snowboarding in any weather.
What you’ll love: The lens enhances color, contrast and depth perception, giving skiers optimal visibility on the slopes while protecting their eyes from sunlight, snow, rain and debris. The rimless frame offers a broad field of vision, and the silicone strap backing fits well with most helmets.
What you should consider: They run large, so they might feel awkward on those who are used to wearing smaller goggles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Oakley ski goggles for the money
Oakley O Frame 2.0 Pro M Goggles
What you need to know: These goggles are great for all weather conditions and offer long-lasting comfort.
What you’ll love: These goggles have a wide frame design that boosts peripheral vision and include a secondary pair of lenses so you can adjust when light conditions change. The anti-fog coating keeps the lenses clear, and the frame has a comfortable fleece-lined face foam that wicks away sweat.
What you should consider: Some users complained that replacing the original lens with the replacement is complicated and time-consuming.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Oakley Flight Deck L Prizm Goggles
What you need to know: These durable goggles provide skiers with the protection they need when hitting the slopes and come in six stylish colors.
What you’ll love: These goggles have a large frameless design for an enhanced view and special prism lenses that help you identify every knoll as you ski. The oversized strap makes them ideal for pairing with helmets of any size, and they come in a protective microfiber bag.
What you should consider: These goggles have a replaceable lens, but you can get goggles of nearly the same quality at a comparable price.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2023-01-18T11:26:35+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/reviews/br/sports-fitness-br/snow-sports-br/best-oakley-ski-goggles/
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For the first time in more than a year, the Bureau of Land Management will hold an oil and gas leases sale in Montana this June, with 10 parcels nominated in the far eastern part of the state.
BLM announced the June 28 lease sale Monday. The public land parcels are spread across Fallon, Powder River, Richland, and Roosevelt counties. Another 13 parcels are in North Dakota.
Combined, the acres offered between the two states are 3,405.8. BLM had announced the resumption of oil and gas lease sales in nine states, mostly in the West, with 144,000 total acres up for lease. The area is only 80% of what was expected. The scaled-down sale, combined with an increased royalty rate of 18.75%, up from 12.5% received some praise from environmentalists, but angered politicians.
“Today’s announcement is good news. It shows that Secretary (Debra) Haaland and her team at Interior are listening to Westerners and working in the best interest of taxpayers. By limiting the upcoming sale to areas with existing oil and gas infrastructure, Interior will prevent speculators from locking up public lands with little or no potential for future production,” said Aaron Weiss, Center for Western Priorities deputy director in a press release. “Raising the royalty rate ensures taxpayers will get a fair share from oil produced on these parcels.”
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Montana politicians, who have railed against the more than one-year federal pause on leasing, responded to the announced sales with a stream of invectives directed at President Joe Biden.
“It seems Biden hasn’t learned anything over the last few months about the importance of energy security, and Montana families will continue to pay the price. Biden needs to wake up, stop appeasing the far-Left green wokers and unleash American energy,” said U.S. Sen Steve Daines, a Montana Republican.
The new federal royalty rate was slightly higher than Montana's 16.67% rate for oil and gas leases on state land. Last month, the state Land Board approved $1.1 million in lease sales, an eight-year high. Though half the acres leased for $2 or less, the top sales fetched $285 an acre.
It’s been years since Montana had more than one active drilling rig in state at any given month, according to the Baker Hughes rig count. Montana’s minimal activity predates the Biden administration’s January 2021 suspension of lease sales by almost a decade.
The Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation reports that state oil production has steadily declined from 29.6 million barrels a year in 2014 to 18.9 million barrels in 2020.
Most oil production in the United States doesn’t take place on federal land. About 7% of the oil produced in the United States comes from federal land, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In September 2021, The Department of Interior reported that there were 9,600 drilling permits for oil and gas on public lands, which had been approved by BLM, but weren’t being put to use. Interior noted that the oil industry considered surplus leases and permits necessary for a successful business model.
When land is under contract for potential oil and gas activity, the shared public lands cannot be managed for other purposes, such as conservation or recreation, DOI reported.
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2022-04-20T03:54:00+00:00
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billingsgazette.com
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https://billingsgazette.com/news/montana-included-in-blm-oil-and-gas-sale/article_ec02ae43-a141-5b95-909b-a3da5dc489c4.html
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BALTIMORE, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Urological Association (AUA) announced Stacy Tanaka, MD, as the Editor of AUANews, AUA's official newsmagazine, published bi-monthly and free to all AUA members. Dr. Tanaka will start her term April 1, 2023, and continue for three years ending on March 31, 2026.
As the editor of AUA News, Dr. Tanaka will be responsible to maintain the highly regarded editorial integrity of this best-in-class urological newsletter and elevate its status as the most-read and highly trusted tabloid in urology. The Editor also collaborates with the Editors of The Journal of Urology®, Urology Practice® and JU Open Plus to facilitate cascade submission transfers and to retain all quality sound science research in the AUA's family of publications under the "Voice of Urology" umbrella.
"We are looking forward to working with Dr. Tanaka as the new editor for AUANews," said AUA President Edward Messing, MD. "Her skill, expertise and commitment make her a perfect fit for this a new position, and we are excited to see her take ownership of the role."
An active member of the urologic community, Dr. Tanaka currently works at The Children's Hospital of Alabama and the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center. She is a Professor of Urology and Chief of Pediatric Urology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as well. She brings extensive experience to the editor role as she has previously worked on the The Journal of Urology® as an editorial board member, as well as associate and assistant section editor.
Dr. Tanaka obtained her medical degree and postgraduate training from University of California, Davis, and completed her fellowship in Pediatric Urology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She then became a Professor of Urology and Pediatrics Vanderbilt University Medical Center and taught there until moving to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently she is the co-chair of the US News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals Urology working group, a scientific vice-chair of the Urologic Management Protocol to Preserve Initial Renal Function in young children with spina bifida, a treasurer of the International Children's Continence Society, and holds numerous other positions within the field of urology.
About the American Urological Association: Founded in 1902 and headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, the American Urological Association is a leading advocate for the specialty of urology and has nearly 24,000 members throughout the world. The AUA is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community as it pursues its mission of fostering the highest standards of urologic care through education, research and the formulation of health policy.
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2023-03-30T14:34:38+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/03/30/american-urological-association-announces-incoming-editor-auanews/
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 24, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
202 PM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
...HIGHEST TIDES OF THE YEAR...OR KING TIDES...WILL CAUSE PERIODS
OF MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOWS AND INCREASED RIP CURRENT ACTIVITY EARLY
FRIDAY THROUGH MIDDAY SATURDAY...
.The highest astronomical tides of the year, or King Tides, will
affect areas beaches and coastlines the next several mornings
when high tide is forecast to occur. King tides have historically
resulted in the minor flooding of beach walkways and normal dry
beach areas and increased rip current activity. The period of
greatest threat of minor coastal flooding looks to be through
midday Saturday.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to elevated
surf of 4 to 7 feet expected today, building to 5 to 8 feet.
Abnormally high tides around 7 feet are expected Saturday
morning. Minor tidal overflow is possible around the time of
morning high tide.
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Beaches and Santa Barbara
County Central Coast Beaches.
* WHEN...Through Saturday morning.
* IMPACTS...Pooling of sea water is possible around high tide at
beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal
ranges. Enhanced beach erosion is also possible. No
significant damage is expected. There is an increased risk of
ocean drowning due to increased rip current activity. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can
wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats
nearshore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Morning high tides of over 7 feet are
forecast for Saturday between 8 and 9 am local time.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Avoid flooded walkways and beaches. Remain out of the water due
to hazardous swimming conditions, or stay near occupied lifeguard
towers, if available. Rock jetties can be deadly in such
conditions, stay off the rocks.
surf of 3 to 6 feet expected. Abnormally high tides around 7
feet are expected Saturday morning. Minor tidal overflow is
possible around the time of morning high tide.
* WHERE...Greatest impacts are expected on the west facing
beaches of Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, Malibu Coast
and Los Angeles County Beaches.
Ventura County Beaches.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast and Santa
Barbara County Southeastern Coast.
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2022-12-23T23:39:41+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LOS-ANGELES-Warnings-Watches-and-17674867.php
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WICHITA, Kan (KSNW) – Colorful foliage and falling leaves are usually associated with the months of October and November, but many in the Wichita area are noticing some trees are already showing that fall season look.
The design manager for the Hillside Nursery said all these pretty fall colors that are beginning to pop up early is because of the drought and not a good sign for many trees in Wichita.
“I know a lot of the trees around my house have been starting to turn orange and I live by a lake so you would think that would help,” said Katrin Bobbin.
Gavin Macy and Katrin Bobbin spent Thursday evening at Riverside Park they said while the leaves are falling it certainly is not fall.
“Just because of this intense heat it doesn’t feel like the seasons are changing it feels more like the season are getting more intense,” said Macy.
John Firshing with Hillside Nursery said the Wichita area had a lot of rain in May and early June which flattened out the soil around the trees, and now the roots are drying out.
“Because we have had drought for the last two and a half months and no rain at all and the ground is cracking and if you dig down to about this far say 6 inches you are going to hit dry soil,” said Firshing.
The dry soil and stressed roots resulting in the leaves falling.
“They are compromised so they are thinking it is time to shut it down because it is so hot and the roots systems on these trees,” said Firshing.
Firshing said in this drought people should be giving their trees about 15 – 20 gallons of water every two weeks.
Macy said his dad tried to keep a garden this summer and lost half of his crop.
“Like, he did everything he could to save most of the plants and it just didn’t work because it is too hot,” said Macy.
Firshing said he believes most of the trees will be able to make it through this drought. They will just look a little more dead than you would expect at this time of year.
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2022-09-02T03:51:32+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-trees-changing-colors-too-soon/
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Militia members in central Somalia have helped kill scores of al-Shabab militants in an ongoing operation against the Islamic extremist rebels that is receiving air support from the United States, Somali authorities said.
Suspected Al-Shabab fighters are being hunted in the Hiran region areas of Yasoman and Aborey, and more than 100 had died as of Sunday, the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism said in a statement issued Tuesday.
Ali Abdulle, a community leader in the town of Beledweyne, told The Associated Press by phone that al-Shabab had made life for residents so miserable they had to fight back.
“Al-Shabab has burned our villages, blown up our wells and boreholes, destroyed telecommunication towers, planted IEDs and murdered civilians indiscriminately,” he said. "So there is no option left except to face them.”
After taking office in May, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud vowed an offensive against al-Shabab to dislodge the group from large parts of Somalia it has controlled for years. Mohamud then declared “total war” against the al-Qaida-linked rebels following a deadly attack on a hotel in Mogadishu last month.
Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage acknowledged the government’s uncompromising stance in his comments during a ceremony to graduate militants that was filmed and released Saturday. But he insisted al-Shabab was undeterred.
“Stick to your oath and know that we will not back down. Stand by your words ,and we will stand by ours, and we shall see which one of us is left standing,” he said. “We ask Allah by his grace and mercy to grant us swift victory over the disbelievers and their allies."
The government appears to be seeking, and receiving, help from one notable militia. The clan-based group known as Macawisley has for years clashed with al-Shabab. Its latest uprising was sparked by alleged al-Shabab brutality that includes the looting of livestock, said Samira Gaid, executive director of Hiraal Institute, a Mogadishu-based security think tank.
“It is always the people who bear the brunt of the excesses of rule under al-Shabab and they don’t enjoy popular support," she said. “Some populations who aren’t as armed are not able sometimes to take up arms against the group. But others are better equipped and are stronger politically to stand up against (al-Shabab) rule.”
Gaid warned that for an uprising by locals to be effective, “government support logistically is critical.”
Omar Abdi Jimale, a Mogadishu-based political analyst, said the government supporting militias to fight al-Shabab could be decisive after the authorities’ previous reluctance.
“Clans were unable to carry on protracted fighting because of the absence of official government support. As a result, their uprisings ultimately were ending up in signing a peace deal with al-Shabab,” he said. “The previous administration had the chance of providing direct support to the revolting clan militias without directly equipping them, but by not doing so gave al-Shabab a chance to consolidate their control over revolting clans’ territories.”
Forced to retreat from Mogadishu in 2011, al-Shabab has slowly made a comeback from the rural areas to which it retreated, defying the presence of African Union peacekeepers as well as U.S. drone strikes targeting its fighters.
Al-Shabab, which opposes the federal government and the presence of peacekeepers and other foreigners on Somali territory, has seized more territory in recent years, taking advantage of rifts within the Somali security service and disagreements between federal authorities and regional leaders.
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2022-09-21T10:34:46+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/With-support-from-allied-militia-Somalia-hunts-17456271.php
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The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of 12/05/2022
TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS
1. Bad Bunny; $7,218,806; $168.96.
2. Elton John; $6,359,336; $165.79.
3. Lady Gaga; $5,914,849; $156.90.
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers; $5,605,217; $134.39.
5. Ed Sheeran; $4,946,163; $79.14.
6. Harry Styles; $3,610,449; $209.22.
7. Grupo Firme; $3,235,188; $148.19.
8. Guns N’ Roses; $2,952,476; $82.35.
9. Daddy Yankee; $2,460,421; $98.36.
10. Morgan Wallen; $2,281,282; $124.72.
11. Karol G; $2,131,345; $169.75.
12. Pearl Jam; $1,947,409; $111.46.
13. My Chemical Romance; $1,877,352; $148.43.
14. Kendrick Lamar; $1,807,877; $135.34.
15. Roger Waters; $1,729,231; $126.87.
16. Post Malone; $1,715,030; $139.00.
17. Imagine Dragons; $1,712,106; $77.31.
18. Lizzo; $1,482,975; $113.48.
19. Billie Eilish; $1,433,812; $103.51.
20. Mary J. Blige; $1,429,079; $133.51.
For free upcoming tour information, go to www.pollstar.com
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2022-12-02T18:16:53+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Top-20-Global-Concert-Tours-from-Pollstar-17626900.php
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Extreme heat puts 'udder' toll on butter production ahead of holidays
Butter is a mainstay for Thanksgiving and might be part of a problem that people face when they head to the grocery store in search of the impacted holiday staple.
Beware of butter as you prepare to get your turkey and all the fixings. It will cost you to dress your biscuits.
With a year-over-year increase of 26.7%, the average cost of a pound of butter now sits at $4.70 - a dollar more than last year.
The extreme heat is just one of many factors in the drastic drop in butter production leading to the price spike.
TURKEY PRICES RISE AS HOLIDAY SEASON APPROACHES
Rising energy, feed and labor costs have impacted the production of milk, butter and other dairy products, according to Scott Grawe with Iowa State University's Supply Chain Management Department.
"And it's certainly leading to higher prices," he said.
Grawe said butter is still available in retail stores, but it's certainly not in inventory the way it has been in the past.
The US Department of Agriculture reports the amount of butter in stores is down 22% compared to last year. The reason is due to various oil substitutes and extreme summer heat.
DROUGHT-RAVAGED CORN IS STARVING THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND HIKING UP GROCERY BILLS
"The war in Ukraine has really affected and played havoc with some of the other cooking oils, sunflower oil, vegetable oil and so forth," Grawe said. "And a lot of those go into the production of margarine, which is an alternative to butter."
As people gravitate toward butter and not other cooking oils, Grawe adds, it's going to drive the demand further up, which will eat into inventories.
The U.S. also had one of the hottest June's on record, July over performed, and August was also exceptionally hot as major cities all across America set heat records. It's a pattern that could repeat with butter season after season.
IMPACTS TO PECAN CROPS FROM RECENT HURRICANES EXPECTED TO BE MINIMAL
"If weather is kind of back to a little bit more reasonable levels, we can see increase in butter production," Grawe said. "But from a supply and demand standpoint, it's always hard to catch up if the demand continues to outpace supply."
If the availability and pricing of butter alternatives continue to stay high, Grawe said it's going to make it more difficult to catch up as people flock to butter as their alternative.
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2022-11-12T17:46:58+00:00
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foxweather.com
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https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/butter-shortage-grocery-store-price-increase
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CLEVELAND, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 24, 2023, Federal Equipment Company in partnership with Holland Industrial Group and Proxio Group will present a multi-million dollar, online-only auction of immaculate late-model lab and processing equipment. The equipment, assets of iBio Corporation, includes a spectacular array of over 1,000 lots featuring HPLC's, AKTA chromatography systems, mass spectrometers, protein purification systems, bench top analyzers and systems, ultra-low temp freezers, extraction and lab equipment, stainless steel tanks & reactors, indoor growing equipment, lab furniture, and more.
"Simply put, this is one of the best lab auctions I have had the chance to catalog and offer," says Adam Covitt, President of Federal Equipment Company. "iBio has amassed an amazing production setup, and we are pleased to be able to auction this off to our clients and customers around the world."
"Our clients are accustomed to purchasing high-quality, previously owned process equipment and we're confident that they'll find the lots in our iBio auction to be of high demand," continues Covitt. "This auction enables them access to top-tier instruments that would normally require extended OEM lead times to be delivered directly to their facility or lab."
For more information on the upcoming iBio auction or to register for bidding, please visit: https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/proxio/catalogue-id-proxio10107
About Federal Equipment Company: Federal Equipment Company offers 65 years of expertise buying and selling processing and packaging equipment. We optimize the value you recoup for surplus equipment and ensure you get the equipment you need quickly from our broad, on-hand inventory of reliable used machines.
About Holland Industrial Group: With over 30 years of experience in plant liquidations and equipment auctions, Holland Industrial Group serves large and small corporations in asset recovery for their idle and surplus assets. Our Real Estate arm allows us to help companies understand their short-term and long-term value of their property. We have the capabilities to buy all-cash to complete a smooth transaction in connection with the disposition of all plant assets including the real estate.
About Proxio Group: The Proxio Group Ltd. Is a professional remarketing company of previously used machinery and equipment from the pharmaceutical, chemical, plastics, and food processing Industries. Utilizing numerous methods of remarketing with the single aim of maximizing value for our clients, we are ready to meet your needs on single machines or entire plants.
For more information about Federal Equipment Company:
https://fedequip.com/
+1 216-271-3500
marketing@fedequip.com
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2023-03-16T19:12:42+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/03/16/federal-equipment-company-holland-industrial-group-proxio-group-team-up-auction-ibio-assets/
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police said Monday they have arrested two people suspected of helping smuggle Cubans toward Spain as part of an international crime group.
The two Serbian citizens were arrested in a monthslong investigation in cooperation with Spain, the Interpol and Europol, police said in a statement. They said 18 more suspects have been arrested in Spain.
The suspects in Serbia are accused of organizing the illegal transfer of at least 53 people to neighboring countries — North Macedonia or Bosnia — and on to Spain, said the statement.
Serbia, a southeastern European nation located on the Balkan peninsula, is at the heart of a key land route for migrants trying to reach the European Union.
The country in April revoked a visa-free travel arrangement with Cuba following reports of Cubans moving on toward Spain and other EU countries after first coming to Serbia as tourists.
Serbia also imposed visas earlier this year for the citizens of Burundi, Tunisia and India for the same reason and under pressure from the EU, which is seeking to curb migration into the 27-nation bloc.
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2023-07-25T07:00:05+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-2-arrested-in-serbia-suspected-of-smuggling-cubans-to-spain-as-part-of-an-international-crime-group/
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BEIJING (AP) — Pressure from the West is strengthening Russia’s ties with China, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing Wednesday.
Mishustin’s visit comes as Russia is increasingly turning to China for diplomatic and economic support amid growing isolation over its invasion of Ukraine.
In opening remarks at his meeting Wednesday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Mishustin did not mention the 15-month-old war that China, in deference to Moscow, has refused to criticize, focusing instead on economic cooperation between the neighbors that have partnered in challenging the U.S. lead in global affairs.
Relations between the two countries are “at an unprecedented high level,” influenced by the “pressure of illegitimate sanctions from the collective West,” Mishustin said.
China says it is a neutral party between Russia and Ukraine and wants to help broker an end to the conflict. But it has blamed the West for provoking Moscow and has maintained strong diplomatic and trade ties with Russia in opposition to sanctions against it.
China’s special envoy met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials during talks in Kyiv this month. The visit followed a phone call last month between the Ukrainian leader and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Zelenskyy described as “long and meaningful” and which marked the first known contact between the two since the Russian invasion began.
Beijing released a peace plan in February but Ukraine’s allies largely dismissed it, insisting that Putin must withdraw his forces. Zelenskyy’s own 10-point peace plan includes a tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed by Russia.
While sidestepping the conflict, Mishustin emphasized Russia’s role as a provider of oil and gas to China and their bonds formed as initial allies among communist nations.
“The peoples of Russia and China cherish their history, rich culture and traditions. We support the further development of our culture, exchanges and communication,” Mishustin said.
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This story has been corrected with proper translation of prime minister’s quote.
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2023-05-24T13:32:12+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-on-beijing-visit-russian-prime-minister-says-pressure-from-west-is-strengthening-ties-with-china/
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 1, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased IonQ 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 IonQ class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6703 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 August 1, 2022. 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 handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) IonQ's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper round-tripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about IonQ's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the IonQ class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6703 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.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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2022-06-30T03:22:50+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/06/30/rosen-recognized-investor-counsel-encourages-ionq-inc-investors-with-losses-secure-counsel-before-important-deadline-securities-class-action-ionq/
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Agency Continues Its Commitment to Increase Availability of Home Diagnostic Tests
SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first over-the-counter (OTC) at-home diagnostic test that can differentiate and detect influenza A and B, commonly known as the flu, and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Test is a single-use at-home test kit that provides results from self-collected nasal swab samples in roughly 30 minutes.
"Today's authorization of the first OTC test that can detect Influenza A and B, along with SARS-CoV-2, is a major milestone in bringing greater consumer access to diagnostic tests that can be performed entirely at home," said Jeff Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. "The FDA strongly supports innovation in test development, and we are eager to continue advancing greater access to at-home infectious disease testing to best support public health needs. We remain committed to working with test developers to support the shared goal of getting more accurate and reliable tests to Americans who need them."
The Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Test is a single use test for individuals with signs and symptoms consistent with a respiratory tract infection, including COVID-19. The test can be purchased without a prescription and performed completely at-home using nasal swab samples self-collected by individuals ages 14 years and older or collected by an adult for individuals 2 years of age or older.
The test works by swirling the sample swab in a vial that is placed in the test unit. In 30 minutes or less, the test unit will display the results that show whether a person is positive or negative for each of the following: Influenza A, Influenza B and COVID-19. Individuals should report all results obtained to their healthcare provider for public health reporting and to receive appropriate medical care.
In individuals with symptoms, the Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Test correctly identified 99.3% of negative and 90.1% of positive Influenza A samples, 100% of negative and 88.3% of positive COVID-19 samples and 99.9% of negative Influenza B samples. Since there are currently not enough cases of Influenza B circulating to include in a clinical study, validation confirmed that the test can identify the virus in contrived specimens, and the EUA requires Lucira to continue to collect samples to study the test's ability to detect Influenza B in real-world settings.
As with all rapid diagnostic tests, there is a risk of false positive and false negative results. Individuals who test positive for either flu or COVID-19 should take appropriate precautions to avoid spreading the virus and should seek follow-up care with their physician or healthcare provider as additional testing may be necessary. Negative results for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza B should be confirmed, if necessary for patient management, with an authorized or cleared molecular test performed in a CLIA-certified laboratory that meets requirements to perform high or moderate complexity tests. Individuals who test negative and continue to experience symptoms of fever, cough and/or shortness of breath may still have a respiratory infection and should seek follow up care with their healthcare provider.
The collective impact of COVID-19, flu and RSV underscore the importance of diagnostic tests for respiratory viruses, and the FDA recognizes the benefits that home testing can provide. The agency will continue to use its authorities to increase the number of appropriately accurate and easy to use at-home tests available to the public, especially tests that detect these highly contagious respiratory viruses.
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Media Contact: Jim McKinney, 240-328-7305
Consumer Inquiries: Email, 888-INFO-FDA
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2023-02-25T01:16:36+00:00
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SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been waging an all-out campaign to shore up the crucial evangelical vote ahead of Oct. 2 elections.
Evangelicals helped carry him to power in 2018, and he proceeded to tap members of their churches for important ministries and for a Supreme Court nomination. But in this electoral cycle, Bolsonaro initially found more difficulty winning their favor.
The campaign involves the first lady and keyboard crusaders. Influential pastors and politicians are also warning their followers, on Facebook and in pulpits, that the race’s front-runner, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, would close Christian churches — which he vehemently denies. Users are liking, sharing and commenting in what appears a concerted tactic to distance evangelicals from da Silva, according to Marie Santini, the coordinator of NetLab, a research group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro that monitors social media and has focused on evangelicals.
“They want to make this election a religious war,” Santini said.
Self-declared evangelicals make up almost a third of Brazil’s population, more than double two decades ago, according to demographer José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, a former researcher at the national school of statistical sciences. He projects they will approach 40% by 2032, surpassing Catholics.
Many poor evangelicals fondly remembered da Silva’s 2003-2010 tenure as time when they could afford to buy meat and pay their bills, according to Esther Solano, a sociologist at the Federal University of Sao Paulo who conducts polling of Bolsonaro voters and evangelicals. Some moderate evangelicals felt Bolsonaro used them politically and isn’t a real Christian.
Since May, however, various polls have found that many evangelicals migrated from da Silva to Bolsonaro, a shift attributed to the incumbent’s campaign to portray Brazil as spiritually ill and argue only he can safeguard Christian faith. Overall, d a Silva still leads all polls against the incumbent.
Santini said religious and political disinformation websites have been generating content that candidates, pastors and politicians redistribute via social media. It set the news cycle for weeks, with TV pundits calling the race a holy war.
Brazil’s presidential palace and campaign declined to comment on strategy.
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Michelle Bolsonaro avoided the spotlight during most of her husband’s presidency, though there were glimpses of her faith. One video showed her repeating “glory to God,” speaking in tongues and hopping joyfully after the Senate approved his evangelical Supreme Court appointee.
Over the past two months, however, she has become the leading evangelical voice from Bolsonaro’s camp. She has said she prays at Bolsonaro’s chair and that, before his presidency, the palace had been consecrated to demons.
At a recent March for Jesus in Rio, she pumped up a crowd that buzzed with energy. Belting out gospel songs, she made heart signs and blew kisses.
“We will bring the presence of the Lord Jesus to the government and declare that this nation belongs to the Lord,” she declared. “The doors of hell will not prevail against our family, the Brazilian church or our Brazil.”
That sort of fervent display of faith resonates with many evangelicals. Political scientist Bruno Carazza likens Michelle Bolsonaro’s deployment in the home stretch to a “secret weapon.”
“She communicates very well with that public because she is authentically evangelical, unlike Bolsonaro who says he is Catholic and embraces evangelicalism because of political opportunism,” Carazza said. “She literally speaks the tongue of evangelicals.”
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The digital campaign also entails associating da Silva with Afro Brazilian religions. One video shared in evangelical circles this year was edited so he appeared to say the devil was speaking to him and taking control. The video influenced evangelicals’ perceptions at the time, according to Solano, who interviewed dozens of them.
In a campaign appearance Sept. 7, Bolsonaro told the crowd they should compare da Silva’s wife with his own — “a woman of God, family and active in my life.” Days earlier, a photo circulating in pro-Bolsonaro social media showed da Silva’s wife standing before figures of Afro Brazilian religious deities.
Brazil has seen efforts to promote interfaith respect. In 2007 da Silva signed into law a national day for combating religious intolerance, in memory of a priestess who was denounced as a charlatan by a prominent evangelical church’s newspaper.
Government data show there have been more reports of religious intolerance this year.
There has been a particular surge in the digital realm: 2,918 reports of online incidents in the first eight months of 2022, up from 516 in in the same months in 2021, according to the Salvador-based nonprofit SaferNet, which fields complaints via a hotline it runs with the prosecutor-general’s office.
The content is being more widely shared and reaching a far greater audience, therefore garnering more reports, according to SaferNet’s director, Juliana Cunha.
“Debate is polarized, the mood is tense,” Cunha said. “There’s a trigger. Something reinforces your perception, you pass it along.”
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Bolsonaro’s support among evangelicals has climbed to 50% from 39% in May, while da Silva’s tumbled, according to a survey pollster Datafolha conducted Sept. 20-22.
The former president’s camp has recognized he has lost ground; earlier this month da Silva held a much-heralded meeting with evangelicals in a stuffy gymnasium on Rio’s outskirts.
Da Silva told the crowd his rise from poverty to the presidency is testament to God’s existence, but did not expand upon his spirituality. He has said he wishes to treat all religions with respect, including Afro Brazilian faiths, and repudiates religious rivalries or anything resembling holy war.
“I learned that the state shouldn’t have religion, the state shouldn’t have church. It should guarantee the operation and freedom of however many churches people want to create,” he said.
Conservative evangelicals took to social media to portray his remarks as an attack on Christian churches.
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One of Bolsonaro’s most fervent backers is Silas Malafaia, a popular pastor who presided over the president’s wedding to the first lady, his third wife. Malafaia boasts millions of social media followers and regularly blasts da Silva, known universally as Lula, and his party.
At one service this month, Malafaia spent 15 minutes discussing the election. He expressed astonishment that believers might “rip up the Bible in their heart” by voting for a candidate who, he argued, hates their principles, is indifferent to defending traditional families and supports leftist leaders who persecute churches.
“I’m not going to go easy on them,” Malafaia said in an interview afterward. “It is a brand of lying, of cynicism to deceive the people. It’s ‘Lula, peace and love’ on the outside and the devil on the inside.”
“We are not fools. That time is over,” Malafaia continued. “Social networks ended the monopoly of information.”
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2022-09-27T14:43:28+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Bolsonaro-campaign-to-evangelicals-Brazil-s-soul-17469469.php
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2023-03-21T22:11:29+00:00
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Dashcam video from a Connecticut highway shows a speeding car clocked at 120 mph crash into a pizza truck, causing it to roll over.
The video shows the speeding car driving across several lanes before striking a Big Green Truck Pizza Company truck, causing it to tip on its side on I-91 on Saturday afternoon.
State police said the truck driver and its passenger suffered minor injuries and were taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Lianne Page, the owner of Big Green Truck Pizza, told WTNH that the truck is out of commission, which will impact events Thursdays through Sundays during the summer.
“My guys got very, very lucky,” Page said.
She said the speeding vehicle was clocked at 120 miles per hour — too fast for police to chase down.
“One of the state troopers told me you can’t pursue, so they saw the car speeding, clocked at 120, and they couldn’t pursue after a mile and had to pull over,” Page said.
After the crash, the driver ran away. State police said the driver was described as a Hispanic man wearing a gold Kobe Bryant jersey.
On Tuesday, state police released a picture of the suspect accused of causing the crash:
“It’s upsetting to us,” Page said. “The one who hit the boys ran off on foot. The car was unregistered, clearly uninsured.”
Page and her team assessed the damage to the truck Monday. She said it’s salvageable, but it’s likely to be out of commission for at least a year.
Weddings will have priority in having Big Green Truck Pizza, and local events will also have a higher priority. She said she’s already heard from five companies willing to donate their time, vehicles, and resources for their upcoming catering events.
“In order to get an oven, it’ll take 12 to 16 weeks, so we will rely on our friends from other pizza companies to help us out,” Page said.
If you have an event booked with Big Green Truck Pizza and are able to reschedule or no longer wish to keep your reservation, they’re asking that you email pizza.bgt@gmail.com. If they can no longer accommodate an event, your deposit will be returned in full.
If you would like to help Big Green Truck Pizza, visit the GoFundMe page here.
Anyone who has information on the case is asked to contact Trooper Robert Bentil #1418 at robert.bentil@ct.gov.
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2022-04-27T03:54:57+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/watch-car-going-120-mph-crashes-into-pizza-truck-causes-rollover/
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NORTHPORT, Ala. (WIAT) — An officer with the Northport Police Department was injured during a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon.
According to NPD, the officer was called to the 200 block of McFarland Boulevard just after 3:30 p.m. to assist the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office during a traffic stop. The driver allegedly had multiple felony warrants for his arrest in Texas.
During the stop, the driver attempted to flee the scene in his vehicle which led to the NPD officer being injured. The vehicle was then stopped on Union Chapel Road and the driver was taken into custody.
The injured officer was transported to DCH Medical Center in Tuscaloosa for treatment of their injuries. NPD says they don’t appear to be life-threatening.
No other information has been released at this time. Stay with CBS 42 as this is a developing story.
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2022-05-26T00:39:49+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/northport-police-officer-injured-during-traffic-stop/
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2022-07-27T14:41:54+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/27/thinking-about-trading-options-or-stock-paypal-meta-marriott-boeing-or-amazon/
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Chelsea hired Mauricio Pochettino as manager on Monday, tasking the Argentine coach with getting the best out of an expensively assembled squad that has underperformed at the start of a new era for the English club.
Pochettino will take up the role on July 1, Chelsea said, after agreeing to a two-year contract, with the club having the option of keeping him on for a further year.
It is Pochettino’s first coaching role since leaving Paris Saint-Germain in July last year and marks his return to the Premier League, where he had an impressive 5 1/2-year spell with Tottenham that included a run to the Champions League final.
Pochettino had been widely expected to take the Chelsea job, which is considered one of the most high-profile positions in European soccer.
He is the permanent successor to Graham Potter, who was fired in March after nearly seven months in charge. Former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has led the team on an interim basis since then and it finished the Premier League in 12th place — in the bottom half for the first time since the 1995-96 season.
That was despite Chelsea spending around $630 million over the last two transfer windows as the club’s new American ownership — led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital — made a whirlwind start to their reign.
The unprecedented heavy spending hasn’t immediately translated into success, though, with Chelsea amassing its lowest number of points — 44 — during the Premier League era.
Pochettino has been linked with some of the biggest clubs in European soccer since leaving Tottenham in 2019, including Manchester United and Real Madrid.
He won the French title with PSG, but left last year and has been out of work until now.
“Mauricio’s experience, standards of excellence, leadership qualities and character will serve Chelsea well as we move forward,” Chelsea sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley said in a statement. “He is a winning coach, who has worked at the highest levels, in multiple leagues and languages. His ethos, tactical approach and commitment to development all made him the exceptional candidate.”
Chelsea described Pochettino as a coach who is “renowned for his sides’ high-energy and eye-catching style.
“He has built a reputation for helping young players realize their full potential within a strong squad ethos,” the club said.
Lampard used his final news conference as interim manager — after the 1-1 draw with Newcastle on Sunday — to speak bluntly about what Pochettino can expect upon taking over.
Lampard said he saw immediately after taking charge that “standards collectively have dropped.”
“We are not physically competitive enough — that’s a strong opinion I have,” Lampard said. “Also, we’ll have the capability now to get the squad in the place he wants it to be. That’s going to be some work as well.
“The squad has been too big and that the biggest challenge I have found day to day is coming in and trying to work with big numbers and players who, for whatever reason, are disillusioned that they are not playing or they might be leaving. Those situations can be sorted out now — and they need to be.”
While Pochettino coached some of the world’s most high-profile players in Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar at PSG, he’ll have a less celebrated squad at Chelsea that is nevertheless full of talent and mostly young, such as Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez, wingers Mykhailo Mudryk and Noni Madueke, and defender Wesley Fofana.
They are among those players who joined for massive fees and on long-term deals over the past year but have lost their way amid a turbulent season at the club.
Chelsea’s appointment of Pochettino, meanwhile, will be a tough one to take for many Tottenham fans, who still idolize the former Argentina defender for briefly turning their team into one of the best in Europe.
Tottenham is currently without a permanent manager following the departure of Antonio Conte, and the outside possibility of a sentimental return for Pochettino has now been dashed.
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2023-05-30T04:30:51+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/ap-mauricio-pochettino-hired-as-chelsea-manager-to-lead-rebuild-after-turbulent-season/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Dave Joyce, R-Ohio; Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
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NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu; Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation" — Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Reps. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., and Mike Turner, R-Ohio; former Attorney General Eric Holder; Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.
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CNN’s “State of the Union” — Blinken; Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Rep.-elect Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.; Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill.
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“Fox News Sunday” — Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Angus King, I-Maine; former Vice President Mike Pence.
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2022-12-03T00:40:28+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Guest-lineups-for-the-Sunday-news-shows-17627822.php
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- This 6th generation Impreza features a sportier 5-door hatchback design, a 10-percent stiffer chassis and improved performance
- New RS trim level equipped with 2.5-liter 182 hp SUBARU BOXER® engine
- 11.6-inch SUBARU STARLINK® center information display available for the first time
- Improved EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology as standard
- Available wireless Apple CarPlay® and wireless Android Auto™
- MSRP starting at $22,995
CAMDEN, N.J., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc., today announced pricing on the all-new 2024 Impreza. The sixth-generation compact car receives an all-new design, improved performance, enhanced safety features, and updated multimedia technology. Also new for 2024 is the RS trim featuring a 2.5-liter SUBARU BOXER® engine, exclusive 18-inch wheels and unique exterior and interior elements.
For 2024, Subaru has streamlined the Impreza model line to greater emphasize the vehicle's sportiness, versatility and capability. The Impreza comes exclusively as a 5-door hatchback and is available in Base, Sport and new RS trim levels.
The Base and Sport trims are equipped with a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder direct-injection SUBARU BOXER® engine producing 152-hp and 145 lb.-ft. of torque. The new RS upgrades to a 2.5-liter BOXER engine delivering a responsive 182 hp and 178 lb.-ft. of torque. Standard on all trim levels is a Lineartronic CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission). The Sport and RS trims feature an 8-speed manual mode with steering wheel paddle shifters that allow the driver to control the transmission via eight pre-set ratios.
The Subaru Global Platform for the 2024 Impreza has been enhanced with 10-percent higher torsional rigidity. A full inner frame construction and additional structural adhesive (from 26.2 feet to 88.5 feet) contribute to better body rigidity and lighter weight. These updates deliver an improved dynamic performance, smoother ride, and quieter cabin.
Standard on all 2024 Impreza models is the latest version of the award-winning EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology. Automatic Emergency Steering is included on models equipped with Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Keep Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert. The safety feature works with EyeSight and Blind-Spot Detection to assist with steering control to help avoid a collision at speeds less than 50 mph.
Introducing the all-new 2024 Impreza
The 2024 Impreza has a starting price of $22,995 and comes with an extensive list of standard features including EyeSight Driver Assist Technology; steering responsive LED headlights; dual zone automatic climate control; combination meter with 4.2-inch color LCD; and Tire Pressure Monitoring System with individual tire display and automatic individual wheel ID registration.
A center information display with the SUBARU STARLINK dual 7.0-inch high-resolution touchscreens comes standard on the entry level Impreza. The top screen controls smartphone integration with Apple CarPlay®, Android Auto™ and Bluetooth® hands-free phone and audio streaming connectivity; AM/FM stereo; Rear Vision Camera; SiriusXM® All-Access Radio1 and Travel Link® 1; and HD Radio®. The bottom screen provides controls for climate and vehicle settings.
Additional standard features include Auto Stop-Start; power windows with auto up/auto down on front windows; power door locks and side mirrors; tilt and telescoping steering column; keyless entry; security system with engine immobilizer; USB-A input/charging port and 3.5 mm auxiliary input jack in front center console; 60/40-split fold-down rear seat; carpeted floor mats; crossbar mounting points; combination meter with color LCD; and welcome lighting.
The Base can be upgraded with 16-inch alloy wheels in silver finish for an MSRP of $350.
Impreza Sport
With pricing starting at $24,995, the Impreza Sport delivers a fun-to-drive performance feel thanks to the SI-Drive performance management system; 18-inch alloy wheels in dark gray finish; sport-tuned suspension; and a Lineartronic CVT featuring 8-speed manual mode with steering wheel paddle shifters.
The Sport trim upgrades from the Base with the SUBARU STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Plus system with six speakers; Keyless Access with Push-Button Start; and LED fog lights.
The interior features premium black cloth upholstery with red stitching; rear seat armrest with dual cup holders; USB-C input/charging port in front center console; and a high-grade combination meter with 4.2-inch color LCD.
An option package with Power Moonroof, Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert and All-Weather Package is available for an MSRP of $1,900.
Impreza RS
Priced from $27,885, the new RS trim comes standard with a responsive 2.5-liter BOXER engine paired with a Lineartronic CVT featuring an 8-speed manual mode with steering wheel paddle shifters.
The top-of-the-line trim builds on the Sport and adds standard features including All-Weather Package; Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert; and Automatic Emergency Steering.
The RS trim offers unique exterior trim elements including RS badging on the front doors and rear hatch; 18-inch alloy wheels in dark gray finish; black finish on the front grille, side spoilers, and side mirrors; and upgraded LED headlights.
The cabin of the RS is further distinguished by gunmetal and simulated carbon fiber interior trim accents as well as sport front seats in black cloth with red cloth bolsters, and carpeted floormats feature the RS logo. The RS also includes a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shifter handle; aluminum alloy pedals; wireless phone charger; and USB-A and USB-C charging ports in rear center console.
Available exclusively on the RS is a Harman Kardon® 10-speaker system with 432-watt equivalent amplifier, Power Moonroof, and 10-way power front driver seat with lumbar support for an MSRP of $2,070.
The 2024 Impreza will be produced in the Subaru plant in Gunma, Japan and begin arriving in Subaru retailers early summer.
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Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Subaru Corporation of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Camden, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 630 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile manufacturing plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SOA is guided by the Subaru Love Promise, which is the company's vision to show love and respect to everyone, and to support its communities and customers nationwide. Over the past 20 years, SOA and the SOA Foundation have donated more than $270 million to causes the Subaru family cares about, and its employees have logged nearly 78,000 volunteer hours. As a company, Subaru believes it is important to do its part in making a positive impact in the world because it is the right thing to do.
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2023-02-23T18:34:23+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/02/23/subaru-announces-pricing-all-new-2024-impreza-compact-car/
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South Carolina joined an exclusive group Monday, going wire-to-wire as No. 1 in consecutive years in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.
The defending national champion Gamecocks (32-0) became the third school to be the top team in the poll for the entire season in back-to-back years, equaling UConn and Louisiana Tech.
The Gamecocks, who are the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, have been atop the poll for 38 straight weeks, which is the second longest run behind UConn’s record 51-week streak (2008-10). Led by Aliyah Boston, the Gamecocks were once again a unanimous choice by the 28-member media panel.
“We have the best player in college basketball that puts our program in a position to be number one in consecutive seasons,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said.
Indiana switched places with Iowa in the final poll, moving back up to second after landing its first No. 1 seed in an NCAA tourney. Virginia Tech and Stanford, the other two top seeds, were fourth and fifth in the final Top 25.
UConn, which won the Big East Tournament last week, switched places with Maryland to follow the Cardinal. It’s the first time since 2006 that the Huskies didn’t finish the season in the top five in the poll. They have been in the top 10 in the final poll every year since 1994.
Utah, LSU and Villanova rounded out the top 10 teams.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Louisiana Tech had its 36-week run at No. 1 from 1980-82 while UConn’s was from 2008-10. The Huskies have gone wire-to-wire five other times. Texas (1985-86), Tennessee (1997-98) and Baylor (2011-12) are the only other teams to go one full season at No. 1.
JUMPING BACK IN
Iowa State ran through the Big 12 Tournament, winning three games in three days to re-enter the poll at No. 17.
“These are moments they’re going to remember,” Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. “It’s not just winning. They’ll remember what this environment was like their whole life. We beat a great team, and it was a great three days for us.”
Middle Tennessee fell out of the rankings.
CONFERENCE SUPREMECY
The Pac-12 finished the season with six teams in the Top 25, the most of any conference. The Big Ten was next with five while the ACC had four. The Big 12 and SEC each had three and the Big East two. The Mountain West and the West Coast Conference each had one.
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2023-03-13T22:43:53+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/sports/south-carolina-women-cap-wire-to-wire-no-1-run-in-ap-top-25/
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesco Inc. (NYSE: GCO) today announced that the Company will report results for the third quarter fiscal 2023 on December 2, 2022, before the market opens, and hold its quarterly earnings conference call at 7:30 a.m. (central) the same day.
- A live audio webcast of the conference call will be available at https://www.genesco.com/investor-relations/news-events/events
- An audio archive of the call will be available for up to one year at https://www.genesco.com/investor-relations/news-events/events
- In addition, a summary of the third quarter results will be available on the Genesco website on December 2, 2022, at https://www.genesco.com/investor-relations/news-events/events
About Genesco Inc.
Genesco Inc., a Nashville-based specialty retailer and branded company, sells footwear and accessories in more than 1,410 retail stores throughout the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, principally under the names Journeys, Journeys Kidz, Little Burgundy, Schuh, Schuh Kids, Johnston & Murphy, and on internet websites www.journeys.com, www.journeyskidz.com , www.journeys.ca , www.littleburgundyshoes.com, www.schuh.co.uk, www.schuh.ie, www.schuh.eu, www.johnstonmurphy.com, www.johnstonmurphy.ca, www.nashvilleshoewarehouse.com, and www.dockersshoes.com. In addition, Genesco sells footwear at wholesale under its Johnston & Murphy brand, the licensed Levi's brand, the licensed Dockers brand, the licensed Bass brand, and other brands. Genesco is committed to progress in its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and the Company's environmental, social and governance stewardship. For more information on Genesco and its operating divisions, please visit www.genesco.com.
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2022-11-18T01:07:49+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/11/17/genesco-report-third-quarter-fiscal-2023-results-hold-conference-call-december-2-2022/
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Amtrak on Thursday worked to accommodate travelers whose plans were disrupted this week ahead of a tentative railway labor agreement.
Crowds were noticeably smaller at New Jersey stop on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor line between Philadelphia and New York hours after the agreement was announced, customers said.
Amtrak cancelled several of its long-distance routes this week because there would not have been enough time for them to reach their destinations before the strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. Friday.
That strike would have disrupted commuter traffic as well as freight rail lines because Amtrak and other commuter train lines use tracks owned by major freight railroads.
Amtrak suspended its California Zephyr and Empire Builder lines that run from Chicago to the West Coast, and said Wednesday that it would stop running its City of New Orleans, Starlight and Texas Eagle lines along with several others.
Amtrak said Thursday that it is reaching out to customers whose plans were disrupted and that it will accommodate them on the earliest available departures.
“Thank you also to our customers for their patience and understanding, and we look forward to welcoming them back on the rails starting today and tomorrow,” Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said in a prepared statement.
Railroads and union representatives had been in negotiations for 20 hours at the Labor Department to hammer out a deal ahead of a strike, which would have created chaos in a national supply chain that is already stressed due to the pandemic.
The tentative agreement will go to union members for a vote after a post-ratification cooling off period of several weeks.
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2022-09-15T19:59:09+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/ap-amtrak-says-its-working-quickly-to-restore-canceled-trains/
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men's skin and injecting it into their veins.
Two dermatologists at the University of California, San Francisco — one of whom remains at the university — conducted the experiments on men at the California Medical Facility, a prison hospital in Vacaville that's about 50 miles (80.47 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. The practice was halted in 1977.
The university's Program for Historical Reconciliation issued a report about the experiments earlier this month, writing that the doctors engaged in "questionable informed consent practices" and performed procedures on men who did not have any of the diseases or conditions that the research aimed to treat. The San Francisco Chronicle first reported the program's findings Wednesday.
"UCSF apologizes for its explicit role in the harm caused to the subjects, their families and our community by facilitating this research, and acknowledges the institution's implicit role in perpetuating unethical treatment of vulnerable and underserved populations — regardless of the legal or perceptual standards of the time," Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dan Lowenstein said in a statement.
The report said further analysis is needed to determine the extent of harms caused to the prisoners as a result of the experiments and what the university should do in response.
“We are still in the process of considering the recommendations and determining appropriate next steps,” the university said in a statement Thursday. "As we do so, it will be with humility and an ongoing commitment to a more just, equitable and ethical future.”
A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Dana Simas, said officials had not yet read the report. However, the agency and California Correctional Health Care Services “strive to ensure the incarcerated population receive appropriate health care that meets the community standard of care and ethics,” Simas wrote.
The report focused on research by Dr. Howard Maibach and Dr. William Epstein. Maibach continues to work at the university, and Epstein died in 2006. It was not immediately clear whether Maibach would face any discipline in light of the report.
The experiments involved administering doses of pesticides and herbicides to the incarcerated men, who volunteered for the studies and were paid $30 a month for their participation — among the highest-paid roles at the prison and in high demand, according to a 1977 article of the university's student newspaper, The Synapse.
Other experiments included placing small cages with mosquitos close to the participants' arms or directly on their skin to determine “host attractiveness of humans to mosquitos,” the report stated.
The research ended in 1977 when California prohibited human subject research in state prisons, a year after the federal government halted the practice.
But Epstein in 1977 testified in state hearings in support of biomedical experimentation at prisons, the report found, and investigators could not find any evidence that he changed his opinion before he died.
While Maibach wrote that he regrets having participated in research that does not meet current standards in a letter to the university's dermatology department, he said he believed the experiments had offered benefits to some of the patients.
“What I believed to be ethical as a matter of course forty or fifty years ago is not considered ethical today,” he wrote. “I do not recall in any way in which the studies caused medical harm to the participants.”
The university says there is no evidence that the doctors' research was directed specifically at Black men, although they were trained by a now-deceased Philadelphia doctor whose research at a Pennsylvania prison was unethical and disrespectful toward the subjects, many of whom were incarcerated Black men.
The report also found that many of Maibach’s publications during his career perpetuate the biologization of race — which he addressed in his letter by saying he has now “come to the understanding that race has always been a social and not a biological construct, something not appreciated by so many of us in a prior era.”
“While one of his (Maibach's) recent articles hints at a possible reconsideration of the biology of race, we believe the long history of his research of skin differences along racial lines, with race as a possible biological factor, perpetuated the continuance of racial science in dermatology and has yet to be publicly addressed,” the report stated.
Maibach's son, Edward Maibach, wrote in an email Thursday to The Associated Press that his father had suffered a stroke last week and was unable to respond to press inquiries.
The younger Maibach said his father had not been allowed to meet with the report's authors or access their documents. The report and a press release from the university, he wrote, treated his father “as a ‘lone ranger’ who seemingly acted without knowledge or approval at others at UCSF. This, too, is incorrect.”
“Dr. Maibach’s activities at Vacaville were known to, and endorsed by, UCSF administrators, including the UCSF ethicist,” Edward Maibach wrote.
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2022-12-22T21:39:08+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/california-university-apologizes-for-prisoner-experiments/22DQPZJ5IFDVJDDKILQ6BFKJL4/
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Young Thug makes another attempt at securing bond
Jeffery Williams has been in jail for almost a year, awaiting trial in a massive RICO case.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Having been in jail for almost a year awaiting trial, Jeffery Williams - aka Young Thug - is reportedly making another attempt at securing bond.
According to a court document obtained by AllHipHop.com, attorney Brian Steel said, “Since on or about May 9, 2022, Mr. Williams has been languishing in the County Jail without bond. Mr. Williams has previously put forth compelling evidence, without doubt…that conditions can be imposed which permit bond to be set.
“This Honorable Court denied bond based upon proffers made by the prosecution, mostly repeating allegations contained in the Indictment,” Steel continued in the motion. “Undersigned counsel believes that conditions can be set to ensure that Mr. Williams comes back to Court when required to do so, and due to the extended nature of this trial, Mr. Williams respectfully requests this Honorable Court reconsider its position on bond.”
Jury selection in the trial has already lasted longer than any other in Georgia history, and has been repeatedly been plagued by arrests, charges and disruptions.
A few weeks ago, a potential juror was jailed for filming court proceedings. Back in January, the mother of Deamonte Kendrick - aka Yak Gotti - was arrested and charged with criminal attempt to commit a misdemeanor and issued a $1,500 bond. Latasha Kendrick is accused of trying to pass tobacco products to her son.
Also in January, Kahlieff Adams, a rapper who is also on trial with Young Thug was charged with possession of a schedule 2 controlled substance; possession of less than an ounce of marijuana; possession of an alcoholic beverage by an inmate; and two counts of willful obstruction of law enforcement officers.
Last week, attorney Anastasios Manettas - who represents Miles Farley - was arrested on charges of simple battery on law enforcement officers, possession (pills not in original container), obstruction and disruption of court proceedings.
After Manettas’ arrest, Judge Ural Glanville announced Farley’s trial has been severed from the overall YSL case. That means the number of YSL-related defendants in the case is now 13.
Farley is accused in the death of Shymel Drinks in a feud between YSL and another gang.
Manettas’ arrest came less than 24 hours after a Fulton County courtroom was evacuated after one of the defendants in the trial was removed from a holding cell after he began screaming.
According to the sheriff’s department, Rodalius Ryan, aka Lil Rod, was removed from the courtroom due to the suspicion of marijuana, “and did not want to be searched, per safety protocols.”
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Part one in the series looks at defendants’ desperate need for representation. Part two covers judges forced to take actions that may erode the public’s trust in the judicial system. In part three, former public defenders explain why they left the job. Part four looks at the search for solutions. Part five shows the agency’s director admits to lawmakers the Defender Council doesn’t have enough attorneys. Part six explains why the Defender Council does not want to pay for investigative resources for an indigent defendant. Part seven looks at the case of a Georgia man who has been in jail for more than a decade, awaiting charges.
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2023-04-28T15:28:03+00:00
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atlantanewsfirst.com
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https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/04/28/young-thug-makes-another-attempt-securing-bond/
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A new performance variant fills out the growing electric crossover SUV offerings in the Mercedes-Benz EQ family. The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV unveiled Sunday in Paris, France, will be followed by the 2024 EQE SUV AMG with an estimated 0-60 mph time of 3.4 seconds, Mercedes announced Sunday.
The EQE SUV shares the same components as the EQE mid-size electric sedan, but at 191.5 inches long and with a wheelbase of 119.3 inches, the EQE SUV is 5.1 inches shorter and has a wheelbase that’s 3.6 inches shorter than its sedan counterpart. The five-seater is more than 10 inches shorter than the related three-row EQS SUV, and the AMG version sits a bit lower and its bumpers make it a bit longer.
The smaller proportions and lighter weight might not translate to greater range than the EQS SUV. Instead of the larger 108-kwh battery pack standard in the larger EQS SUV, the new EQE SUV uses the 90.6-kwh battery in the EQE sedan. The battery feeds permanent magnet motors in essentially four configurations.
A single 215-kwh motor drives the rear wheels in the base EQE 350+, making 288 hp and 417 lb-ft of torque. Mercedes estimates a 0-60 mph time of 6.3 seconds in its lightest EQE SUV. Mercedes only disclosed the weight on its heaviest model, the 5,930-lb EQE SUV AMG. Estimated range hasn’t been disclosed either, but the 550-kilometer range on the WLTP European emissions testing cycle translates to about 305 miles on the EPA scale.
Range will decrease as shoppers climb the trim ladder. The EQE SUV 350 4Matic adds a motor up front for dual-motor all-wheel drive and a boost to 564 lb-ft of torque with an estimated 0-60 mph time in 6.2 seconds.
The EQE SUV 500 4Matic comes standard with dual-motor all-wheel drive, but the output from the 300-kw combined motors increases to 536 hp and 633 lb-ft of torque. The 500 4Matic goes from 0-60 mph in 4.6 seconds, but the AMG EQE SUV 53 variant does what AMG does.
Equipped with two AMG-specific motors (Mercedes hasn’t disclosed the size) generating 617 hp and 701 lb-ft of torque, the EQE SUV AMG matches the specs of the forthcoming AMG EQE sedan. The AMG Dynamic Plus Package boosts output to 677 hp and 738 lb-ft of torque, and a 0-60 mph time of 3.4 seconds.
Mercedes estimates the AMG model can recoup up to 100 miles of range in 15 minutes with DC fast-charging. For other EQE SUV models sharing its 400-volt architecture, fast-charging at up to 170 kw would take 32 minutes to charge the battery from 10% to 80%.
A home or destination charging station with a 240-volt output at 32 amps can charge the battery to full in 9.5 hours through the 9.6-kw onboard charger.
The first EQ Mercedes to employ a standard heat pump, the EQE SUV recycles the waste heat from the drive system to heat the cabin instead of using the battery, and it conserves energy on battery preconditioning as well.
A regenerative braking system has four levels selectable via paddle shifters; in our testing of other similarly-equipped EQ models, it can go down to a stop for one-pedal driving, but it also affects the throttle feel, which takes some getting used to.
An optional air suspension with adaptive dampers comes with all-wheel-drive models, which add an Offroad mode to the Eco, Comfort, Sport, and Individual modes. Optional rear-axle steering of up to 10 degrees adds some agility or stability, depending on speed. It’s limited to 9.0 degrees on the AMG due to the wider track and larger available wheels.
Standard features include a 12.8-inch central touchscreen and a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, wireless smartphone connectivity and charging, 64-color ambient lighting, synthetic leather upholstery, Burmester sound, satellite radio, a panoramic sunroof, and 19-inch wheels.
Options range from Mercedes’ Hyperscreen to an immersive Burmester 3D sound system with Dolby Atmos.
Pricing hasn’t been announced but the standard 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV 350+ isn’t as well equipped as the base EQS SUV, which has a starting price that exceeds $105,000. Pricing for the EQE sedan has not been announced either. Expect prices to be finalized before the early 2023 sale date for the 2023 EQE SUV. The AMG variant is expected in the middle of the year.
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2022-10-17T21:43:19+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/automotive/internet-brands/preview-2023-mercedes-benz-eqe-suv-rivals-bmw-ix-audi-e-tron/
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A larger panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday again blocked California’s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities, finding that it is trumped by the federal government.
A three-judge appellate panel last year rejected the 2019 state law that would have phased out privately run immigration jails in California by 2028. The law would have undermined a key piece of the nation’s detention system for immigrants.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta had asked the larger appellate panel to reconsider a ruling.
The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom was one of many efforts to limit California’s cooperation with the federal government as then-President Donald Trump imposed hardline policies on immigration enforcement. But the Biden administration continued the U.S. government’s opposition to the law on constitutional grounds.
The 11-member appellate panel said the state law is preempted by the federal government under the U.S. Constitution’s “supremacy clause.” It sent the case back to the trial court for a decision on other legal arguments.
The Geo Group Inc., which operates two such facilities in California, sued to block the law. Neither Geo nor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately commented on the ruling.
“AB 32 would prevent ICE’s contractors from continuing to run detention facilities, requiring ICE to entirely transform its approach to detention in the state or else abandon its California facilities,” Circuit Judge Jacqueline Nguyen wrote for the panel’s eight-member majority. “California cannot exert this level of control over the federal government’s detention operations.”
Bonta wrote the law when he was in the state Assembly. His office said it is still reviewing the decision but is “deeply disappointed” by the decision. The law “was enacted to protect the health and welfare of Californians and recognized the federal government’s own documented concerns with for-profit, private prisons and detention facilities,” his office said in a statement.
Two of the eight judges agreed with Nguyen on only part of the majority’s ruling.
And three of the panel’s 11 members dissented from the majority ruling, with Chief Judge Mary Murguia holding that the law is valid “because it neither directly regulates nor discriminates against the federal government.”
Both she and Nguyen are appointees of President Barack Obama.
The Dignity not Detention Coalition, which sought the California law, in a statement called the Biden administration’s support for the lawsuit “another grim marker of the administration’s descent into Trumpian immigration policy.” It urged the administration and Congress to not only end the contracts but to entirely end funding for immigration detention.
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2022-09-27T00:44:54+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/appeals-court-blocks-california-ban-on-for-profit-prisons/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Archaea Energy Inc. ("Archaea" or the "Company") (NYSE: LFG) in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by BP p.l.c. (NYSE: BP). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $26.00 in cash for each share of Archaea common stock owned. The transaction is valued at approximately $4.1 billion.
If you own Archaea shares and wish to discuss this investigation or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website:
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Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) Archaea's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the $26.00 per-share merger consideration adequately compensates Archaea's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed. Notably, the merger consideration is below the $30 median price target set by analysts, and at least one analyst set a price target for the Company of $35 per share, $9.00 above the per-share merger consideration.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
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2022-10-21T22:08:35+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/10/21/shareholder-alert-weiss-law-investigates-archaea-energy-inc/
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PRESTON, Md., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PSB Holding Corp. (OTCQX:PSBP) (the "Company"), the parent company of Provident State Bank, Inc. ("Provident" or the "Bank"), reported net income of $1.03 million ($.67 per diluted common share) for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $1.53 million ($1.00 per diluted common share) for the same period of 2021. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, net income totaled $2.03 million ($1.33 per diluted common share), compared to $2.74 million ($1.79 per diluted common share) for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The decline in net income during each comparative period was primarily attributable to a reduction in revenue associated with the Small Business Administration ("SBA") Payroll Protection Program ("PPP").
Performance Review
Small Business Administration's Payroll Protection Program
The Bank's participation in the SBA's PPP, established in April 2020, contributed more significantly to financial performance during the first and second quarters of 2021 as compared to the same quarters of 2022. During the three months ended June 30, 2021, Provident recognized fee income net of costs (amortized as a loan yield adjustment) of $833,000. During the same period of 2022, no net fee income was recognized as all outstanding PPP loans had been forgiven or repaid as of March 31, 2022. For the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2022, net fee income recognized totaled $1.50 million and $49,000, respectively, representing a decline of $1.45 million.
Second Quarter 2022 Compared to Second Quarter 2021
In addition to the reduced revenue associated with PPP lending activities previously noted, net income during the second quarter 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 was impacted by lower gain on sale of loans of $231,000, and higher other noninterest expenses of $135,000, offset by an increase in interest income on investment securities of $262,000 and lower interest expense of $258,000. Gain on sale of loans totaled $106,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $337,000 during the same period in 2021. The decline in mortgage banking activity was largely driven by rising interest rates. The increase in other noninterest expenses included an increase in employee recruiting fees of $50,000. The increase in interest income on investment securities reflected a larger average balance in 2022 compared to 2021. Lower interest expense reflected the continued benefit of the repricing of the Bank's time deposit portfolio to lower interest rates while not yet having to increase overall deposit rates in response to moves by the Federal Reserve. Exclusive of the influence of PPP, Management estimates the net interest margin (on a fully tax equivalent basis) increased from 3.09% in 2021 to 3.20% in 2022, reflecting the increase in the prime rate of interest and loan origination activity at higher interest rates.
Year-to-date 2022 compared to 2021
In addition to the reduced revenue associated with PPP lending activities previously noted, net income during the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 was impacted by lower gain on sale of loans of $298,000 and higher salaries and benefits expense of $224,000, offset by an increase in interest income on investment securities of $498,000, lower interest expense of $518,000 and lower loan loss provision expense of $120,000. The decline in mortgage banking income reflected increased interest rates. The increase in salaries and benefits was largely driven by a reduction in salary deferrals associated with loan origination activity totaling $179,000, reflecting lower origination activity associated with PPP loans, and an increase in core salaries of $168,000, offset by a reduction in mortgage commissions of $148,000. The increase in interest income on investment securities reflected a larger average balance in 2022 compared to 2021. Lower interest expense reflected the continued benefit of the repricing of the Bank's time deposit portfolio to lower interest rates while not yet having to increase overall deposit rates in response to moves by the Federal Reserve. Exclusive of the influence of PPP, Management estimates the net interest margin (on a fully tax equivalent basis) increased from 3.09% in 2021 to 3.12% in 2022.
Balance Sheet and Asset Quality
Assets totaled $580.4 million at June 30, 2022, increasing $10.0 million or 1.8% compared to June 30, 2021. Deposits and repurchase agreements totaled $525.2 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $494.7 million at June 30, 2021, representing growth of 6.2%. Gross loans, exclusive of PPP loans, totaled $371.0 million at June 30, 2022, representing an increase of $24.6 million or 7.1% compared to June 30, 2021. Stockholders' Equity totaled $41.6 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $51.6 million at December 31, 2021 and $50.6 million at June 30, 2021. The decrease in stockholders' equity was driven by growth in unrealized losses associated with the Bank's investment portfolio held as available for sale ("AFS"). As of June 20, 2022, accumulated other comprehensive losses associated with the AFS portfolio totaled $12.9 million compared to $846,000 at December 31, 2021 and a gain of $419,000 at June 30, 2021. The significant increase in unrealized losses at June 30, 2022 was driven by a dramatic jump in market rates during the first half of 2022 as the Federal Reserve positioned to combat inflationary pressures. These unrealized losses are not included in regulatory capital and the Bank remained well capitalized at June 30, 2022. As of June 30, 2022, non-performing assets and past due loans 30 days or more were .47% of total assets compared to .38% at the end of 2021 and .44% at June 30, 2021.
President and Chief Executive Officer Melissa Quirk commented on the Company's performance stating, "Second quarter performance was strong with solid loan and deposit growth and an improving net interest margin. We continue to seek opportunities to grow our business development activities in southern Delaware and central Maryland; and, while interest rate volatility is challenging and the threat of a recession is real, we remain committed to supporting our communities and the financial needs of our customers."
PSB Holding Corp. is the holding company of Provident State Bank, Inc., a full-service financial institution serving the eastern shore of Maryland since 1904. Provident State Bank, Inc. has ten locations in Preston, Federalsburg, Ridgely, Denton, Easton-Elliot Road, Easton-Harrison Street, Secretary, Cambridge, Salisbury and Lewes (Delaware). For more information on PSB Holding Corp. and Provident State Bank, Inc., visit www.providentstatebank.com.
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2022-07-27T20:19:55+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/27/psb-holding-corp-reports-second-quarter-2022-results/
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) announced today that it is the first commercial office REIT in the U.S. to join the United Nations Global Compact, as well as to commit to the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs).
The United Nations Global Compact brings companies together to align strategies and operations with 10 principles to advance societal goals. WEPs offer guidance to companies on how they can achieve the highest standards of gender equality and women's empowerment in the workplace.
"ESRT is committed to its industry-leading sustainability practices and culture of inclusion and equity," said Anthony E. Malkin, chairman, president, and CEO at Empire State Realty Trust. "We are pleased to be the first office REIT in the U.S. to adopt the Women's Empowerment Principles and sign on to the United Nations Global Compact to publicly show these commitments."
Both ESRT commitments are voluntary, principles-based approaches to business that meet fundamental responsibilities in human rights, gender equality, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. ESRT's long-term commitment to the United Nations Global Compact and WEPs will accelerate progress towards its aggressive ESG and DE&I goals. Through its annual Sustainability Report, ESRT continues to transparently share its ESG and DE&I strategies, targets, and progress.
More information about ESRT's sustainability practices can be found online.
About Empire State Realty Trust
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) is a REIT that owns and manages office, retail and multifamily assets in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area. ESRT owns the Empire State Building, the World's Most Famous Building, and Tripadvisor's 2022 Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Awards #1 attraction in the U.S. and #3 attraction in the world, the newly reimagined and iconic Empire State Building Observatory. The company is a leader in healthy buildings, energy efficiency, and indoor environmental quality and has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per square foot of any publicly traded REIT portfolio in New York City. As of June 30, 2022, ESRT's portfolio is comprised of approximately 9.2 million rentable square feet of office space, 700,000 rentable square feet of retail space and 625 residential units across two multifamily properties. More information about Empire State Realty Trust can be found at esrtreit.com and by following ESRT on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
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David Crosby, ‘legendary’ music icon of the 60’s, dies at 81, according to reports
David Crosby, a legendary musician and founding member of two of the most influential folk rock bands of the ‘60s, has died. He was 81 years old.
Variety first reported the death citing a statement from Crosby’s wife, Jan Dance.
"It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz) Crosby has passed away. He was lovingly surrounded by his wife and soulmate Jan and son Django. Although he is no longer here with us, his humanity and kind soul will continue to guide and inspire us. His legacy will continue to live on through his legendary music. Peace, love, and harmony to all who knew David and those he touched. We will miss him dearly. At this time, we respectfully and kindly ask for privacy as we grieve and try to deal with our profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers," Dance wrote.
Crosby is most well known for his involvement in the iconic bands the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash & Young.
His career spanned several decades and his performance at Woodstock is one that will forever cement itself in music history.
The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young both blended the sounds of country, folk and rock, along with political consciousness and harmonious vocals.
The Byrds’ version of ″Turn 3/8 Turn 3/8 Turn 3/8″ and Bob Dylan’s ″Mr. Tambourine Man″ became standards featuring Crosby’s high-voiced harmonies. From collaborations with Stills, Nash and Young came ″Teach Your Children,″ ″Woodstock″ and ″Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."
Besides an illustrious music career, Crosby’s was also known for his struggles with addiction, landing himself in prison in 1983 on various narcotics and weapons charges.
But eventually, Crosby would live a clean and sober life. His story of addiction, arrests, imprisonment and recovery all told in the book, ″Long Time Gone,″ written with Crosby’s friend, writer-director Carl Gottlieb.
During his life, Crosby made headlines for fathering two children with singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge.
One of those children, Beckett Cypher, unfortunately died in 2020, after struggling with an opioid addiction
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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2023-01-20T00:02:36+00:00
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on her father's shoulders.
At this zoo in a central California farming community, the 32-year-old African elephant is key not only to drawing visitors but also to ensuring there are elephants for zoogoers to see in the years to come — a future some animal lovers want to avoid.
Over the past year, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo has been pulled into a growing global debate over the future of elephants in zoos. In recent years, some zoos have phased out elephant exhibits due to the complexity of the animals and their needs. Still, others, like Fresno’s zoo, say they are committed to keeping elephants and are turning to breeding, arguing that a sustainable population of zoo elephants will help spur a commitment to wildlife conservation among future generations of visitors.
The zoo in Fresno, while beloved by local residents, has been targeted by animal activists in a report criticizing living conditions for the elephants and in legal actions trying to free them. Broadly, some elephant experts say urban zoos simply don’t have the space that African elephants, who roam extensive distances in the wild to forage for hundreds of pounds of vegetation each day, need for a normal life.
The zoo opened a revamped and expanded multi-species African Adventure exhibit in 2015 to better accommodate elephants, lions and gazelles by giving them more space to roam. It's also been working with other zoos around the country on breeding more of the animals, which are endangered in the wild, in the United States.
Mabu came to the zoo from one in Arizona last year after Vus'Musi, another male elephant, showed little interest in breeding. Mabu has sired offspring at other zoos and there's hope he can do so again to grow the Fresno zoo's population.
“Lions, tigers and bears. People are coming to see charismatic megafauna — that’s the term we use,” said Jon Forrest Dohlin, chief executive officer of the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, comparing an elephant to a larger-than-life figure like pop star Justin Bieber. He said visitors who see animals in real life — instead of in a photo or on a screen — are more likely to support conservation efforts. “We’re telling large stories, so it is something that is important for conservation writ large,” he said.
In recent years, some larger zoos such as the Toronto Zoo and San Francisco Zoo have phased out their elephant programs, sending their aging animals to sanctuaries in the United States that have far more space. The Los Angeles Zoo is also discussing sending its Asian elephant, Billy, to a sanctuary.
In some cases, animal rights activists have started legal efforts aimed at removing elephants from zoos.
In New York, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed legal papers to try to free the Asian elephant Happy from the Bronx Zoo but lost in court. The group then filed similar papers to try to free Fresno’s three African elephants — a mother-daughter pair and Vus’Musi — but a judge ruled against the group.
This month, the group filed a case in an appeals court and swapped in Mabu. Jake Davis, an attorney for the Nonhuman Rights Project, said the case isn’t over — especially since the zoo sent Vus’Musi to a zoo in San Diego so it could bring in Mabu in a bid to boost breeding.
“He really is their golden ticket,” Davis said. “Hopefully we can get him out.”
Some elephant experts argue the more humans learn about elephants' intelligence and social networks the more compelling the argument to release them — or at the very least to stop breeding them in zoos. They also note that poaching of elephants and habitat destruction in Africa continue despite conservation efforts by zoos and question the difference they're making in hosting visitors who are largely seeking recreation.
“It's wrong to be bringing more elephants into living 60 years, or whatever they live to, in a captive situation,” said Joyce Poole, co-founder of the advocacy group Elephant Voices, adding that in the wild elephants make decisions about where to find food and water and meet with relatives, something they simply can't do in zoos. “It's like seeing a person in prison.”
Elephants were brought to U.S. zoos for decades, but transfers of African elephants have become rare in recent years amid rising international concern over the numerous threats they face in the wild — which also prompted the International Union for Conservation of Nature to change the species from vulnerable to endangered in 2021. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is also drafting new rules for elephant imports aimed at protecting African elephants, which have dwindled from 26 million in the 18th century to 415,000.
At a meeting last year, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora put the trade of African elephants on hold to hash out conditions for transfers to take place.
As a result, the future of elephants — which have relatively few offspring and a 22-month gestation period — in zoos hinges largely on breeding. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which has a program aimed at sustaining the zoo population, said about 160 African elephants currently live in U.S. zoos.
Breeding plans are underway at various zoos through the association’s species survival plan to ensure elephants have a sustainable future, said David Hagan, the plan’s coordinator and chief zoological officer at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.
“From a population model standpoint, I think there is hope,” he said.
In Fresno, the 12,000-pound Mabu delights visitors as he pulls food from puzzle-like devices wedged inside the boulder to keep him intellectually stimulated. Joe Foster, a 42-year-old nurse, leans on the fence outside the exhibit, entranced by his movements, while on a date.
“My heart grew three sizes just sitting and watching him eat today,” he said.
Meanwhile, the zoo's female elephants — Nolwazi, 28, and her daughter Amahle, 13 — greet each other by crossing trunks and tapping each other's mouths before getting training and health checks inside a cavernous building. A zookeeper, standing behind a barrier, gives directions to Amahle, and she follows, turning to each side and allowing her ears and feet to be checked in exchange for chunks of apple and zucchini.
Some zoos have sent aging elephants to wildlife sanctuaries, including a sprawling habitat about 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of Fresno in San Andreas, California. Started by advocates disheartened by the treatment of elephants in the entertainment industry, the Performing Animal Welfare Society has 80 acres (32 hectares) of grassy hillsides where elephants can roam — more than 20 times the roaming space of the Fresno exhibit.
Ed Stewart, the society’s co-founder, relishes being able to provide elephants with more space than an urban zoo but said that it's still not enough and ideally the sanctuary wouldn’t exist.
“At some point, we're going to look back and think, we used to keep wild animals in cages — big cages, small cages, an enclosure, a habitat, whatever you want to call it," he said. “I think for the public, a light bulb is going to go on and they're going to say, ‘What in the world are we doing it for?’” __
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YORK – The York County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim of an early Wednesday morning shooting that occurred in the 100 block of S. Belvidere Avenue in York City. Police found 34-year-old Demetres Lewis of York with multiple gunshot wounds. Lewis was given medical aid, but unfortunately succumbed to his injuries at the scene. An autopsy at Lehigh Valley Hospital has ruled the manner of death as a homicide. York City Police are investigating the incident. There’s no word on any suspects or a motive for the shooting.
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Universal raises hourly wage to $17, setting pace for parks
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —
Universal Orlando Resort plans to raise its starting minimum wage by $2 to $17 an hour, becoming the wage leader among the big theme parks in central Florida, just as its crosstown rival, Walt Disney World, is in contract talks with service worker unions who are pushing to increase the starting hourly wage from $15 to $18.
The new wage structure, which includes raising pay for other workers based on the new rates and their time with the company, goes into effect in June, Universal Orlando Resort President and Chief Operating Officer Karen Irwin said in a letter Tuesday to the resort’s 25,000 workers.
The starting hourly wage hike is part of a larger effort aimed at improving worker benefits in a tight labor market that includes increasing 401(k) matches and tuition reimbursement, adding compassionate leave, doubling the amount of parental leave and upgrading behind-the-scenes areas for workers like break rooms and bathrooms, park officials said.
“But it doesn’t stop there, our culture seeks to create a path forward that supports our Team Members, gives them an opportunity to grow and fosters a real sense of purpose and belonging,” Irwin said in the letter.
Universal Orlando currently is recruiting for 2,500 positions across the resort. It also is gearing up toward opening a new park, Epic Universe, in 2025. The resort’s workers aren’t unionized.
At crosstown rival Walt Disney World, union members voted down a contract proposal covering 45,000 service workers earlier this month, saying it didn’t go far enough toward helping employees face cost-of-living hikes in housing and other expenses in central Florida. The company and unions plan to return to the negotiating table.
Disney World service workers who are in the six unions that make up the Service Trades Council Union coalition had been demanding a starting minimum wage jump to at least $18 an hour in the first year of the contract, up from the starting minimum wage of $15 an hour won in the previous contract.
The rejected proposal would have raised the starting minimum wage to $20 an hour for all service workers by the last year of the five-year contract, an increase of $1 each year for a majority of the workers it covered. Certain positions, like housekeepers, bus drivers and culinary jobs, would start immediately at a minimum of $20 under the proposal.
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2023-02-15T23:29:23+00:00
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Every state offers victim compensation. For the Longs and other Black families, it often isn’t fair
The cold formality of the letter is seared in Debra Long’s memory.
It began “Dear Claimant,” and said her 24-year-old son, Randy, who was fatally shot in April 2006, was not an “innocent” victim. Without further explanation, the New York state agency that assists violent-crime victims and their families refused to help pay for his funeral.
Randy was a father, engaged to be married and studying to become a juvenile probation officer when his life was cut short during a visit to Brooklyn with friends. His mother, angry and bewildered by the letter, wondered: What did authorities see — or fail to see — in Randy?
“It felt racial. It felt like they saw a young African American man who was shot and killed and assumed he must have been doing something wrong,” Long said of the decision from what was known as the New York Crime Victims Board. “But believe me when I say, not my son.”
Debra Long had bumped up against a well-intentioned corner of the criminal justice system that is often perceived as unfair.
Every state has a program to reimburse victims for lost wages, medical bills, funerals and other expenses, awarding hundreds of millions in aid each year. But an Associated Press examination found that Black victims and their families are disproportionately denied compensation in many states, often for subjective reasons that experts say are rooted in racial biases.
The AP found disproportionately high denial rates in 19 out of 23 states willing to provide detailed racial data, the largest collection of such data to date. In some states, including Indiana, Georgia and South Dakota, Black applicants were nearly twice as likely as white applicants to be denied. From 2018 through 2021, the denials added up to thousands of Black families each year collectively missing out on millions of dollars in aid.
The reasons for the disparities are complex and eligibility rules vary somewhat by state, but experts — including leaders of some of the programs — point to a few common factors:
— State employees reviewing applications often base decisions on information from police reports and follow-up questionnaires that seek officers’ opinions of victims’ behavior — both of which may contain implicitly biased descriptions of events.
— Those same employees may be influenced by their own biases when reviewing events that led to victims’ injuries or deaths. Without realizing it, a review of the facts morphs into an assessment of victims’ perceived culpability.
— Many state guidelines were designed decades ago with biases that benefited victims who would make the best witnesses, disadvantaging those with criminal histories, unpaid fines or addictions, among others.
As the wider criminal justice system — from police departments to courts — reckons with institutional racism in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, compensation programs are also beginning to scrutinize how their policies affect people of color.
“We have this long history in victims services in this country of fixating on whether people are bad or good,” said Elizabeth Ruebman, an expert with a national network of victims-compensation advocates and a former adviser to New Jersey’s attorney general on the state’s program.
As a result, Black and brown applicants tend to face more scrutiny because of implicit biases, Ruebman said.
In some states examined by AP, such as New York and Nebraska, the denial rates for Black and white applicants weren’t too far apart. But the data revealed apparent bias in other ways: While white families were more likely to be denied for administrative reasons, such as missing deadlines or seeking aid for crimes that aren’t covered, Black families were more likely to be denied for subjective reasons, such as whether they may have said or done something to provoke a violent crime.
In Delaware, where Black applicants accounted for less than half of the compensation requests between 2018 and 2021 but more than 63% of denials, officials acknowledged that even the best of intentions are no match for systemic bias.
“State compensation programs are downstream resources in a criminal justice system whose headwaters are inextricably commingled with the history of racial inequity in our country,” Mat Marshall, a spokesman for Delaware’s attorney general wrote in an email. “Even race-neutral policy at the programmatic level may not accomplish neutral outcomes under the shadows that race and criminal justice cast on one another.”
The financial impact of a crime-related injury or death can be significant. Out of pocket expenses for things like crime scene cleanup or medical care can add up to thousands of dollars, prompting people to take out loans, drain savings or rely on family members.
After Randy was killed, Debra Long paid for his funeral with money she had saved for a down payment on her first house. Seventeen years later, she still rents an apartment in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Thousands of people are denied compensation every year for reasons having nothing to do with the crime itself. They are denied because of victims’ behavior before or after a crime.
Applicants can be denied if police or other officials say they failed to cooperate with an investigation. That can inadvertently harm people who are wary of retribution for talking to police, or people who don’t have information. A Chicago woman who was shot in the back was denied for failing to cooperate even though she couldn’t identify the shooter because she never saw the person.
And compensation can be denied merely based on circumstantial evidence or suspicions, unlike the burden of proof that is necessary in criminal investigations.
Many states deny compensation based on a vaguely defined category of behavior — often called “contributory misconduct” — that includes anything from using an insult during a fight to having drugs in your system. Other times people have been denied because police found drugs on the ground nearby.
In the data examined by AP, Black applicants were almost three times as likely as applicants of other races to be denied for behavior-based reasons, including contributory misconduct.
“A lot of times it’s perception,” said Chantay Love, the executive director of the Every Murder is Real Healing Center in Philadelphia.
Love rattles off recent examples: A man killed while trying to break up a fight was on parole and was denied compensation, the state reasoned, because he should have steered clear of the incident; another was stabbed to death, and the state said he contributed because he checked himself out of a mental-health treatment facility a few hours earlier against a doctor’s advice.
Long scoured the police account of her son’s shooting. She called detectives and pleaded to know if they had said anything to the compensation program that would have implicated her son in some kind of a crime. There was nothing in the report. And detectives said they hadn’t submitted any additional information.
Every chance Long got, she reminded detectives and the state officials reviewing her claim that Randy had never been in trouble with the police. She wanted them to understand the injustice was also being felt by Randy’s then-toddler son, who would only know his father through other people’s memories.
Long kept information about her son’s case in a box near her kitchen. As more than 20 notebooks full of conversations with detectives piled up, Long tucked the state’s rejection letter inside a folder so she wouldn’t lose it, but also so she didn’t have to see it every time she searched for something.
“What plays in their mind is that their loved one wasn’t important,” said Love of the Philadelphia-based advocacy group. “It takes the power away from it being a homicide, and it creates a portion of blame for the victim.”
In recent years, several states and cities have changed eligibility rules to focus less on victims’ behavior before or after crimes.
In Pennsylvania, a law went into effect in September that says applicants cannot be denied financial help with funerals or counseling services because of a homicide victim’s behavior. In Illinois, a new program director has retrained employees on ways unconscious bias can creep into their decisions. And in Newark, New Jersey, police have changed the language they use in reports to describe interactions with victims, leading to fewer denials for failure to cooperate.
Long, who now works as a victims advocate, was in a training session in 2021 when a speaker began praising New York state’s compensation program. Long tried to stay quiet and get through the training session, but couldn’t. She told the group about her experience and the weight of the letter.
An Office of Victims Services employee approached Long after the meeting. She told Long the program had undergone an overhaul. There were no longer five board members who could make subjective decisions about claims. The program was now operating as a division, and there had been a cultural shift within the agency in the last decade including an increased focus to reach victims of color. She convinced Long to resubmit her claim.
A few weeks later, and nearly 15 years after Randy was buried, Long’s application was approved and the state sent her a check for $6,000 — the amount she would have received back in 2006. She used part of that money to help Randy’s son, who is now in college, pay for summer classes.
“It’s not about the monetary amount,” Long said. “It was the way I felt I was treated.”
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Catalini reported from Trenton, New Jersey, and Lauer reported from Philadelphia.
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Jorge Gaviria, founder of Masienda and author of Masa: Techniques, Recipes, and Reflections on a Timeless Staple, reflects on starting his own company devoted to corn. Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra studies the evolution of maize and its relatives. Claudia Serrato, an Indigenous culinary anthropologist, cooks North and Mesoamerican foods and, as a Native chef, works to revitalize ancestral taste memories through cuisine. Finally, Kathleen Fitzgerald, along with her partner Keith Stavely, are experts on New England food history. They've written two books on the subject including America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking. She details the raiding of the Americas that changed the way corn is grown and eaten.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
KCRW: Masa isn't just one thing. There are many different kinds of masa. There's fresh masa vs. dry masa. Then, you have to think about how you plan to use it. Masa meant for tamales is thicker than masa for tortillas.
In the United States, most of the masa that people eat today is made from masa harina, dehydrated nixtamalized corn flour. Although it's not fresh, it is convenient. But most of that masa harina comes from one source which is why Jorge Gaviria started Masienda.
Jorge Gaviria: I think the industrialization of food has done a number on the staples that we know and love. In a lot of ways there was good, it sped up a process that might otherwise take a really long time. It freed up the leaders of the household, the matriarch, usually in this case, to do other things. But I do think that too much of a good thing might be bad.
The kernel of the idea to start an independent masa harina company blew Gaviria's way while he was working at high-end, often farm-to-table restaurants in New York.
Jorge Gaviria: The more I got deep into the weeds of these restaurants, the more I realized that this kind of ethos that permeated my daily work was really absent from the conversation and the foods that I grew up eating. So many foods, masa being at the center of that — beans, rice, staples of a Latin household — to me lacked that kind of thoughtfulness from a both brand and storytelling perspective and certainly the sourcing wasn't there to match it either. I sought out to create a version of the kind of food company I wanted to consume myself.
To make great tortillas, you need great masa. And to make great masa, you need great maize, also known as corn.
Tell the truth. Before it became a meme thanks to one exceptionally cute child, when was the last time you thought about corn?
Whether you're eating elotes at a soccer game or scarfing down fistfuls of popcorn as you Netflix and chill, you probably haven't paused to pay tribute to the stuff. Which is too bad. Because corn is amazing!
It can grow in a wide range of latitudes and altitudes. It can survive without much water. It's great at adapting to a variety of microclimates. For most of the original human inhabitants of the Americas, corn was nothing less than a savior. It was the engine of civilization and the crop that built continents.
Before there was masa, there was maize. And before there was maize, there was teocintle, corn's wild and unruly ancestor.
Picture it — South-Central Mexico, roughly 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. We're in what is now known as the Balsas River Valley. It's hard enough for me to imagine what I ate for lunch last week, let alone a landscape from centuries ago. So I decided to ask an expert.
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: They're fields of millions and millions of plants just stretched as far as you can see over hillsides of just dense teosinte. You'll also see teosinte growing in and among acacia trees across the landscape, but you'll see just vast populations of this teosinte across the landscape. That's very different. That's the teosinte that is what we think the closest wild relative of maize.
Teocintle looked and tasted very different from the corn we modern humans are used to.
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: The plant looks a lot bushier than a corn plant. And if you just saw one in the field, you probably wouldn't think that it was a corn plant. And the most noticeable difference, of course, is that while we think of corn as having these large ears alongside the main stem, teosinte doesn't have that. Teosinte will have, instead of one or two ears, will have hundreds of ears along the plant, along the branches of the plant. And the ears are very, very tiny. They'll only have seven or eight kernels. And the kernels, rather than an exposed corn kernel like we're used to seeing on an ear of corn, the kernels are actually covered in this really hard fruitcase that you could break a tooth on.
How did teocintle become maize? That's the thing. Nobody quite knows. But it probably took hundreds of thousands of years and a lot of genetic changes.
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: We have a pretty clear idea, in terms of the origin of maize, of generally where it came from. We know its closest wild relatives, we know the general geographic area, but actually a lot of the hows and whys and whens of maize's origins are still uncertain. And while that lack of information on maize's origins is frustrating, it is good for my job security.
Unlike many other crops, corn didn't just happen. Its kernels are too closely packed; its husk, too protective. The kernels can't just drop on the ground and propagate on their own. Corn requires human intervention.
The indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, the vast swath of land that is now North America, Mexico, Central America and South America, figured this out millenia ago.
They practiced intercropping, often growing corn alongside beans and squash — a trio known as the Three Sisters. The ancient milpa was, to borrow a little modern language, organic, sustainable and regenerative. It was also what allowed civilizations to flourish.
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: Maize is actually pretty amazing in its ability to adapt to different climates in different environments. Maize is grown in rain fed agriculture in the deserts, the Mojave Desert. Maize is grown at 12,000 feet in the Andes. Maize has grown today in northern Europe. And by some metrics, at least, maize has colonized a greater breadth of environments than any other major crop.
It can grow fast. Some types of corn can go from seed to the next generation of seed in only 60 days.
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: Corn was an important staple crop for a number of civilizations in Mesoamerica before European contact, allowing increases in population size and really allowing for large dense populations.
The first step in cultivating corn is choosing which kernels or seeds to plant. The original farmers of Mesoamerica were probably selecting for tasty, hardy, high-yield kernels.
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: But farmers are also really smart. They like to experiment, choosing different types and mixing them up, keeping a diversity of options available, like planting some late flowering or some earlier flowering in case rain was unpredictable.
The earliest sort of modern-looking corn cob that I'm aware of is something like 5,000 years old. So that's still several thousand years after the first microscopic botanical evidence of corn.
There was so much variety in early corn, we have no real idea how it looked or tasted. We do know that its genetic diversity is what allowed it to adapt to all sorts of conditions.
If that's all that maize had done, it would've been enough. But for the indigineous inhabitants of this land, maize wasn't merely nourishment for the body, it was spiritual sustenance too. By some accounts it was the source of life.
Claudia Serrato: The corn itself has a responsibility to feed us as it's our responsibility to keep the corn alive because again, corn cannot survive without humans. And humans, at least us and my family, cannot survive without corn.
Maize played a crucial role in many indigineous religions and spiritual systems. The legends and stories about corn could be an entire episode on its own so we'll turn to Claudia Serrato for a quick rundown.
Claudia Serrato: What's really beautiful is that the ceremonies that were conducted and still conducted to this day, really celebrated the life journey of maíz. So we're talking from rituals that aligned with the preparation of the land in order to plant the seeds. And then you have rituals and ceremonies of the actual seeding. And then once the first sprout comes, it's also significant to a time, place and space, usually meaning the start of spring. Then there's also the growth as it's becoming into its adulthood as it begins to reproduce.
And then there's also the harvest ceremony. Then there's the seed saving ceremonies, and then ultimately the dinner, which is a time of convivencia. So there was never just one deity that was related to corn or to the masa harvest.
The creation story of the Mayan people, as laid out in their sacred text the Popol Vuh, speaks to the importance of maize. When the gods wanted to create humans, they first tried to do it with mud. Then, they used wood. Neither of those options worked out.
Claudia Serrato: What the gods did is they went ahead and gathered corn. They turned it into a corn meal, utilizing the volcanic elements to grind and pound. Eventually, they were able to form, according to mythology, four men and four women.
Maize was also important in Mesoamerican societies in other ways. Calendars were seasonally aligned, often based on the life cycle of maize. According to Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, author of the book Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother and a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez: Maíz is where philosophy, religion, ethics, morals reside and they're transmitted. And the way they're transmitted is through story and song and dance. I know that rice and wheat are important around the world. But I don't know if they're as important as the maíz is, as important to native peoples, because it's almost like everything revolves around corn.
In October 1492, Christopher Columbus and his raiding party landed on the islands of Guanahaní and what are now Cuba and Hispaniola. It set in motion a chain of events that would end life as countless indigenous inhabitants knew it. That includes the Taino people, who had been cultivating maize for who knows how long.
In fact, the word "maize" is a Spanish version of the word "mahiz," which means "bread of life" or "grain of the gods" in the Taino language.
Along with gold, native plants, birds and slaves, Columbus brought maize back to Spain. From there, it went to Germany then England. In Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones explains that in the 1500s, Portuguese traders brought maize to the west coast of Africa while Arab merchants carried it to the Mediterranean and North Africa.
In 1620, the first European settlers, separatists from the Church of England, landed in what is now Cape Cod. Corn was one of the first things they discovered, and it would go on to save them. But it isn't the feel-good story you probably learned in elementary school. It begins with an act of theft. Get ready for some Thanksgiving truth.
Among the hundred or so passengers on the Mayflower were two men — Edward Winslow and William Bradford.
Kathleen Fitzgerald: It was shortly after the Mayflower had dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay. There was an exploring party sent inland to find out what was around in the area. And they came across a harvested field and an adjacent mound of sand. And buried in the mound, and this is what Winslow and Bradford write, they found "a fine, great new basket full of very fair corn of this year. The basket held about three or four bushels, which was as much as two of us could lift up from the ground and was very handsomely and cunningly made."
Now, the exploring party took the basket with them. So that was the theft and its contents were added to the provision on board the Mayflower. Winslow and Bradford, in the account they wrote up, make sure to say that the Indians were compensated for the stolen corn later. But in fact, it's important to remember that that very first sort of gift of the Indians was something that the settlers stole from the native people.
That's Kathleen Fitzgerald. She and her partner, Keith Stavely, are experts on New England food history. They've written two books on the subject including America's Founding Food.
It's impossible to overestimate how crucial corn was to the English colonists.
Kathleen Fitzgerald: It's quite certain that the small band that came to settle in Plymouth would not have survived without corn. They were relying on the food on their ship, which was, of course, a supply that was dwindling daily. They had already lost over almost half their number from malnutrition over the winter of 1620, 21, and they were freezing.
The corn that the Mayflower colonizers ate was also pretty different than the corn we know.
Kathleen Fitzgerald: Some was yellow, some red, and others mixed with blue, and they called it a very goodly sight. It was not like the corn we eat today at all, however. It was a field crop. It was field corn of a particular variety called Northern Flint corn, which is still grown today.
We know that humans in Mesoamerica had been cultivating corn as long as 7,000 years ago. And we know masa also stretches back for countless generations. Although new tools altered the process, in many ways it remained fundamentally the same for centuries. You grow the corn. You harvest it. You nixtamalize it. You grind it into a dough. And boom, you've made masa! But today, the production process for most of the masa consumed on this planet is profoundly different. And that's not a good thing.
More: Did today's episode make you hungry? Find the works of those you heard on our masa show. You can also head to Masienda's website for their Masa Map, where you'll find a list of great masa spots around the country.
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2022-12-31T01:56:27+00:00
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kcrw.com
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LONDON — A former veteran London police officer, whose rape and murder of a young woman shocked a nation, was sentenced Monday for exposing himself to other women before the murder, raising questions about whether opportunities were missed to stop him.
In March 2021, Wayne Couzens, then a police officer, murdered Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive. The case sparked a national public outcry over women’s safety and deeply undermined confidence in policing.
It has also drawn wider attention to the culture within police forces around the country. Last year, the police watchdog found that culture and security lapses in police forces in England and Wales were leading to applicants with questionable backgrounds being cleared to join.
On Monday, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison for exposing himself to women, including at a McDonald’s drive-through just four days before Everard was killed.
This sentence will make no difference to the amount of time Couzens spends in prison, as he is serving a whole life sentence for the murder of Everard, the most serious punishment he could have received.
In her judgment, which was televised by the BBC, May said that the sentencing of the flashing incidents is a “public recognition that offenses have been committed,” and it noted the “impact on the victims.”
But the women whom he exposed himself to have said that more could have done to stop Couzens, given the evidence that has emerged showing he was a serial sex offender before killing Everard.
In her sentencing, May summarized some of the offenses, including the time in November 2020 when Couzens emerged naked from the trees on a quiet country lane to masturbate in front of a cyclist, while “looking directly into [her] eyes as he did so.” He was on duty at the time.
The judge said the cyclist reported the incident to some walkers, one of whom was a female police officer, and then reported it to the police, but no one followed up with her.
In her impact statement read out in court, the female cyclist said that her “freedom” to “walk on my own, or to cycle to the railway station, without fear, are now denied to me.”
“Four months after you exposed yourself to me, you raped and murdered an innocent woman,” she said. “There were opportunities to identify you, and they were not taken. I did not feel that, when I reported your crime, it was taken as seriously as I felt that it should have been.”
On two other occasions, on Feb. 14 and 27, 2021, Couzens exposed himself to staff at a McDonald’s drive-through while handing over money to pay for his food.
One staff member said that even though the incident was reported, she was not contacted until after Everard’s murder.
“If he had been held accountable when we had reported the crime, we could have saved Sarah,” said the employee.
She added that she no longer walks home after her shifts.
“It should not be for me to have to take measures to keep myself safe,” she said in a statement. “I should not have to be in fear of somebody attacking me and I should feel able to walk home while feeling safe.”
Annabelle Timsit contributed to this report.
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2023-03-06T15:53:03+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/06/wayne-couzens-london-police-exposure/
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In the past two weeks, the Texas National Guard has increased its militarized footprint with Humvees, razor wire and personnel stationed with rifles along the border with Mexico.
Migrants have traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to the El Paso/Juárez border in a search of a better life. Some were carrying their children in their arms and on their backs.
There are migrants on the streets and around the churches of El Paso's old downtown and in other border towns. The vast majority are turning themselves over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection seeking asylum.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's attempt to lift the pandemic border restrictions, known as Title 42, and agreed to decide in its February argument session. The restriction allows immigration authorities to quickly expel many migrants without allowing them to apply for asylum while in the U.S.
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2022-12-31T14:30:08+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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https://www.delawarepublic.org/npr-headlines/2022-12-31/the-future-of-migrants-in-el-paso-remains-uncertain-as-border-restrictions-continue
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The Celtics are looking to keep up their recent winning streak as they take on the Pelicans on Wednesday. New Orleans has been a pleasant surprise in the West because of a deep roster, though the Pelicans will be without Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram to injury. The C’s have bounced back after a brutal start to the road trip, including giving up 150 points to the Thunder. Now, the C’s are looking to stack up wins to add onto their league-best record.
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BOTTOM LINE: Boston hosts New Orleans aiming to prolong its five-game home winning streak.
The Celtics are 16-5 in home games. Boston is fourth in the league with 34.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Jayson Tatum averaging 7.1.
The Pelicans are 8-11 in road games. New Orleans ranks fifth in the Western Conference with 33.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Jonas Valanciunas averaging 6.8.
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Celtics won 117-109 in the last matchup on Nov. 19.
TOP PERFORMERS: Tatum is averaging 30.8 points, 8.1 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for Boston.
CJ McCollum is averaging 20.8 points and 5.8 assists for the Pelicans. Zion Williamson is averaging 19.2 points over the last 10 games for New Orleans.
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 7-3, averaging 119.4 points, 47.2 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points per game.
Pelicans: 6-4, averaging 116.9 points, 47.3 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.3 points.
INJURIES: Celtics: Danilo Gallinari: out for season (knee), Marcus Smart: day to day (knee).
Pelicans: E.J. Liddell: out (right knee), Zion Williamson: out (hamstring), Brandon Ingram: out (toe).
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2023-01-11T19:12:17+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2023/01/celtics-vs-pelicans-free-live-stream-tv-how-to-watch.html
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose unveiled legislation Wednesday that would clarify and standardize the way election data is organized, stored and shared across the state, a proposal that the Republican says can serve as a national model in addressing the “crisis of confidence” in American elections.
“It’s a question of, ‘Do we even all speak the same language about what constitutes a registered voter, what constitutes a voted ballot?’” LaRose, the state’s elections chief, said during a Statehouse news conference. “All of these kinds of things are various, not only across Ohio’s 88 counties, but across the 50 states, and the really thousands of jurisdictions that conduct elections in this country.”
The Data Analysis Transparency Archive Act, sponsored by GOP state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, would codify standard definitions of key election data points, mandate the transfer of that data from county election boards to a new state Office of Data Analytics and Archives and empower that office to analyze and organize the information and publish it online.
“Having good data to help clean the voter rolls will make it even tougher to cheat, and result in better elections and improved voter confidence,” Gavarone said.
The definitions contained in the legislation were developed in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Data Lab, and drafting help came from the America First Policy Institute, a think tank advancing former President Donald Trump’s public policy priorities, LaRose said.
Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election has helped fuel the culture of skepticism, paranoia and conspiracy theories currently enveloping U.S. elections. In that contest’s immediate aftermath, Trump and his allies zeroed in on voting systems and claimed without evidence that they had been manipulated to steal the election from him. This led to attempts across the country to examine voting equipment and voter data, but there is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud or tampering with election equipment.
LaRose said passing the DATA Act, which he is also promoting among secretaries in other states, could be an “antidote to (the) falsehoods.”
“I would put forth the supposition that, when people look behind the curtain, what they’re going to see is how well-run our elections are,” he said. “The problem is that the current ambiguity, the current lack of transparency in some ways, breeds those conspiracy theories that are often not based in reality.”
Voter advocates have cited the exceptional accuracy rate of Ohio’s elections in opposing many of the sweeping election law changes recently seen in the state, including a strict photo ID law that Gavarone championed last year. The senator said it is her view that “if we’re not actively working on ways to improve our elections, then we’ll move backwards and we’re just asking for trouble.”
Jen Miller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, said her organization needs to review the legislation before taking a position. The proposal appears on its surface to align with calls they’ve been making for years for uniform data collection and dissemination among Ohio’s county boards of elections for year “so that we can better understanding voting trends and voter needs.”
Still, Miller said she remains cautious.
“Unfortunately, the legislation that we have seen passed most recently has not been based on the actual needs of voters or boards of elections,” she said. “So, we are skeptical that legislation will be passed that will truly make the election system better without having robust input from voter advocates, which it doesn’t appear they’re seeking to get.”
Aaron Ockerman, a lobbyist for the Ohio Association of Election Officials, said he had not read the bill and could not comment.
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2023-02-22T22:20:42+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ohio-plan-aims-to-boost-trust-by-standardizing-election-data/2023/02/22/e76657fc-b2fc-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
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Cardiac events a frightening, familiar sight in the NHL
The horror that swept across the NFL when Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed and went into cardiac arrest during a game this week in Cincinnati was all too familiar to members of the hockey community.
Five players in the NHL over the past 25 years who collapsed during a game — terrifying scenes that stopped play while people scrambled to help — were diagnosed with a heart-related issue of some kind.
Big defenseman Chris Pronger went down after taking a puck to the chest. Jiri Fischer, Rich Peverley and Jay Bouwmeester all collapsed on the bench. Ondrej Pavelec went down on the ice.
All recovered — a couple of them went on to play for years — and the incidents prompted the NHL to adjust procedures to prepare for and handle cardiac events, rare as they may be.
"It allows you to make sure that your protocols are working," said Pronger, who suffered from the condition commotio cordis when he took a slap shot to the chest during a playoff game in Detroit in 1998. "You're able to kind of see where things went right, where things went wrong and you're able to really kind of dig in and enhance or say, 'No, this is exactly what we planned for, this is exactly what happened and this is how we're supposed to manage and take care of these situations.'"
Hockey has had enough of these situations to make doctors and trainers ready for handling the next one.
The NHL's emergency action plan requires at least three physicians, two ambulances and automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at all arenas, which now have removable benches to clear space for medical attention.
It's a plan that has evolved: electrocardiogram (EKG) tests first became mandatory for players in 1998, and in 2005 a doctor was simply required to be within 50 feet of the benches and AEDs to be in close proximity.
After Peverley collapsed during a game in Dallas in March 2014, the NHL required the doctor on hand to be an active, trained specialist in emergency management. In the years since, there have been enhancements in cardiac life-support capabilities and additional provisions for CPR and cardiopulmonary rehearsals involving paramedics and arena staff.
"The single most important thing is that everybody involved in either a practice or a competition is aware of an emergency action plan, and that includes an ability to recognize a cardiac arrest, to initiate CPR as quickly as possible and to get access to an AED as quickly as possible," said Dr. Ben Levine, a professor of internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center who treated Peverley. "The quicker you can initiate that cascade of events, the more likely there is to be a successful outcome."
University of Alberta Dr. Terry DeFreitas said 2 minutes is the ideal response time to begin CPR and the use of an AED. She said she believes it helps medical personnel to know the arena and for ambulances to be close to the ice.
"That doesn't give you a lot of time at all," DeFreitas said.
Quick work from trainers like the Blues' Ray Barile with Pronger and again with Bouwmeester in February 2020 and Detroit's Anthony Colucci with Fischer may have saved the players' lives. Now there's a blueprint for how to respond within seconds.
Retired defenseman Mathieu Schneider, who was next to Fischer when his teammate collapsed in 2005, said medical staffs deserve a lot of credit.
"I really think we're at a place, a point in time now, where we're prepared for almost anything that can happen within a game situation," said Schneider, who serves as special assistant to the NHLPA executive director.
The Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League in 2008 saw 19-year-old New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov die of heart failure during a game. At the time, there was no ambulance on site and no working defibrillator. Afterward, the league took steps to mandate not only those changes but require comprehensive physicals for players and more.
"The KHL certainly learned lessons there, especially if they were going to get players at that point in time to come over there," said John Davidson, who has spent nearly five decades in hockey and is now president of hockey operations for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Davidson took plenty of pucks to the chest and neck as an NHL goaltender from 1973-82 and was a broadcaster at the game when Pronger was struck. Davidson has grown to appreciate the amount of work that goes into protecting players.
"It's a major part of what we do," Davidson said. "We don't just show up, drop the puck, play the game and go home. There's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes, and I feel very comfortable with the standard of safety that we have with the NHL."
The NFL will now look at how Hamlin's cardiac arrest was handled, much like the NHL studied its cases to see what can improve.
"That's the key to doing anything well," Levine said. "See what happened in your event or another event, ask, 'What do we do, and can we do that better?'"
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2023-01-06T02:46:20+00:00
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krgv.com
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https://www.krgv.com/news/cardiac-events-a-frightening-familiar-sight-in-the-nhl
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Dominion-backed rates bill whittled down in House committee
By SARAH RANKIN
Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dominion Energy’s ongoing push for yet another year of legislative tinkering with the way its rates are regulated took a surprise turn this week. A Virginia House committee on Thursday whittled down a company-backed bill ratepayer advocates have fiercely opposed. The vote came after Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration weighed in publicly for the first time on the dispute, which has simmered since before this year’s legislative session officially kicked off. The measure initially contained provisions that effectively would have bumped up the company’s return on equity, a measure of profitability. Those pieces are now gone from the bill. A different Senate version is advancing. Lawmakers will eventually have to reconcile any differences.
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2023-02-03T22:05:58+00:00
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krdo.com
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https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/03/dominion-backed-rates-bill-whittled-down-in-house-committee/
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Integration enables revenue teams to make smarter, faster decisions
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gong, the Revenue Intelligence leader, today announced a new integration with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, that enables companies to securely combine customer conversation and activity data from Gong's Reality Platform with other datasets in their Snowflake instance to provide customer-facing teams with a complete picture of revenue performance and health. By adding unfiltered, AI-enriched customer data to business analytics, revenue leaders can unlock more insights to make smarter, faster decisions for winning outcomes.
Through the integration, Gong can securely share data from its Reality Platform in an analytics-ready structure directly to a customer's Snowflake instance in minutes, with no code required. Customers can then combine the data with other critical inputs, analyze and create visualizations in business intelligence tools, and surface insights that enable leaders to make more informed decisions.
"In the face of economic uncertainty, revenue teams and business leaders need a complete view of performance to adapt strategies and fine-tune execution," said Chris Degnan, Chief Revenue Officer at Snowflake. "Our partnership with Gong enables our customers to quickly and securely combine their data in Snowflake's single, integrated platform to provide a performance dashboard that helps businesses answer critical questions."
"Every customer interaction during the sales journey produces valuable insights into the next step, from initial engagement through closed-won," said Gong Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Eilon Reshef. "Gong captures and analyzes this data using its advanced AI engine and the new integration with Snowflake allows customers to utilize it in entirely new ways to solve business challenges and identify new opportunities. Importantly, we're making it quick and easy for our customers to get up and running, eliminating the need for extensive tech resources."
Snowflake is the latest company to join the Gong Collective, a large and expanding group of technology leaders that partner with Gong to seamlessly connect their tools and services to the Gong Reality Platform. The Gong Collective reduces integration complexity, simplifies setup, and enables customers to unlock more value from the platform. More than 100 integrations are available in the Gong Collective.
To learn more about the Gong and Snowflake integration, please visit the Gong Collective page.
Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential. The Reality Platform™ autonomously empowers customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, enabling revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for repeatable winning outcomes. More than 3,500 innovative companies like LinkedIn, Morningstar Inc., Paychex, Shopify, Slack, Sprout Social, Twilio, and Zillow trust Gong to power their business reality. For more information, please visit www.gong.io.
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2022-11-15T15:14:33+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/11/15/gong-partners-with-snowflake-help-customers-optimize-revenue-performance/
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