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Which chai tea is best?
Technically, “chai” means “tea” in Hindi, and what is commonly referred to as chai tea is really masala chai, a blend of black tea and spices. Whatever you want to call it, chai’s sweet, spicy flavor has made it a popular drink across the globe.
If you want to make your own chai at home, you’ll need to pick a decent chai tea, whether you opt for loose or bagged, for a classic flavor profile or something a bit different. The Tao of Tea 500 Mile Chai is an excellent loose-leaf option.
What to know before you buy chai tea
Loose vs. bagged
You can buy either loose or bagged chai tea. Loose tea generally gives you the best flavor, but bagged tea is more convenient.
- Loose: Loose chai is made up of tea leaves and whole spices that you steep and then strain or use with an infuser. It contains higher-quality leaves and spices than most bags, so the flavor is superior. However, some people don’t want the extra time and effort it takes to prepare and clean up after.
- Bagged: Chai tea bags might not give you quite the same flavor complexity you’d get from loose varieties, but the tea still tastes good. It’s much more convenient than loose tea for brewing and throwing away.
Flavor profile
Most chai has a classic flavor profile of fragrant spices, but you can also find variations.
- Classic: While there’s no rule about which spices must be in classic masala chai, most contain at least cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and ginger. Some also contain star anise, fennel seed, black or white pepper, nutmeg or allspice.
- Alternatives: You can also find alternatives to classic chai, such as vanilla chai, pumpkin spice chai or golden turmeric chai. They contain standard chai spices, plus some extras.
What to look for in a quality chai tea
Tea varieties
Chai is traditionally made with black tea. A blend of Assam and Darjeeling teas is typical, but you can find alternatives. Oolong chai has a milder flavor but is still in the black tea family. You can also find a handful of chai green teas for an even more subtle tea flavor.
Organic
Some chai claims to use organic ingredients, but if you want to make sure it’s above board, look for versions with organic certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. By default, this is also free of genetically modified organisms.
Resealable
Tins or resealable bags help your tea stay fresh longer. Of course, you can use your own tea canister or another container, so this isn’t a dealbreaker for most buyers.
Unbleached
If you choose tea bags, look for ones that are unbleached and free from other unwanted substances, such as dyes and adhesives.
How much you can expect to spend on chai tea
Basic boxes of tea bags and loose tea cost under $5, while the highest quality blends and large packs can cost as much as $20.
Chai tea FAQ
Is it OK to drink chai tea every day?
A. Yes, it’s perfectly safe to drink chai every day, assuming there’s no medical reason why you can’t consume caffeine or any of the spices chai contains. It’s essentially just tea with added spices, so it’s no different from drinking regular tea daily.
Can you drink chai tea without milk?
A. Although it’s traditionally served with milk, you can drink your chai however you prefer it. So, if you want to forgo milk, that’s absolutely fine. If you’re dairy-intolerant or vegan, know that it also tastes great with non-dairy milk, including oat milk and soy milk.
Is chai high in caffeine?
A. The amount of caffeine depends on the chai you choose, but it isn’t high compared to coffee or highly caffeinated teas, such as matcha. Traditional chai consists of black tea and a blend of spices, so it contains roughly the same amount of caffeine as a standard cup of black tea. Although it varies, chai and other teas contain about half as much caffeine as coffee.
However, you can also find some caffeine-free chai teas made with rooibos tea or just spices and no true tea element. These are sometimes called chai herbal teas.
What’s the best chai tea to buy?
Top chai tea
What you need to know: Perfect for serious tea drinkers, this loose-leaf chai contains curled tea leaves that are perfect for brewing using the traditional boiling method.
What you’ll love: It’s made using organic tea and spices, containing a traditional blend of black tea, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and ginger. It’s nicely balanced with a classic flavor and is great sweetened or unsweetened.
What you should consider: Some buyers seem to receive their tea in tins and others in cardboard containers, so don’t buy it just for the tin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top chai tea for the money
Clipper Tea Organic Chai Herbal Tea
What you need to know: Naturally caffeine-free, it’s ideal for anyone who likes the spicy flavors of chai without the buzz.
What you’ll love: It has a complex flavor from a blend of cinnamon, fennel seed, ginger root, orange peel, licorice root, cloves and chicory. It’s USDA-certified organic and verified non-GMO. Since it comes in bags, it’s convenient to brew. Plus, the bags are unbleached and plastic-free.
What you should consider: The tea bags are individually wrapped, which isn’t the most eco-friendly option, although some people find it convenient.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: With 100 tea bags in a resealable packet, this is perfect for chai lovers who want to stock up.
What you’ll love: The eco-friendly bags are made from hemp fiber and aren’t bleached or dyed. The chai contains a blend of Assam and Keemun teas, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and pepper. It’s certified USDA organic.
What you should consider: The spices could be stronger, so you may need two bags for mugs larger than 8 ounces.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2023-04-01T02:08:21+00:00
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The review, funded by the Delta Dental Institute, indicates streamlined communication and care team collaboration and adaptability are best practices for positive patient outcomes
AURORA, Colo. and WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2022 Increasing communication between dental and medical providers reduces barriers to care. According to a new report from the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine, Medical-Dental Integration (MDI) improves positive health outcomes in vulnerable populations, such as at-risk children, pregnant women, seniors, and those in need of chronic disease management.
Dr. Tamanna Tiwari, assistant professor in the department of community dentistry and population health at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus led the review of MDI models over the last decade.
"The review finds that in an MDI model, coordinated, streamlined communication and collaboration among the entire care team is critical for positive patient outcomes and provider engagement," Dr. Tiwari said. "Identifying creative ways to adapt to specific situations may help increase access to oral health screenings, diagnosis and referral of patients for chronic disease management. This has the potential to reduce the number of appointments and providers a patient must interact with, which increases the likelihood that patients will receive critical preventive care."
The Delta Dental Institute funded the report, which supports the research-based exploration of care delivery models like MDI that improve health care outcomes and advance patient-centered care.
"Oral health is a critical component of whole person health," said Joseph Dill, DDS, MBA, Head of Dental Science at the Delta Dental Institute. "Care delivery models that rely on collaboration and integration between primary and dental care teams, when implemented successfully, can create more inclusive approaches that help the health care system work better for everyone."
Key takeaways from the report include:
- Best practices for implementation
- Recommendations for the sustainability of integrated services
- Snapshot of successful care models
Dr. Tiwari will present her report discoveries at the Interprofessional Collaborations to Improve Oral Health poster session on November 7, 2022, during the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting.
The Delta Dental Institute is dedicated to advancing oral health for all Americans in partnership with the Delta Dental companies and dedicated partners across the country. With expertise rooted in Delta Dental's rich history of oral health leadership, we engage in and support oral health research, community outreach, and advocacy, striving to ensure that everyone understands the importance of oral health to overall health and has access to the care they need. Visit deltadentalinstitute.com for more information.
The only dental school in the Rocky Mountain region, the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine, is a leader in innovation. The school has five incredible dental programs, including three residencies and eight clinics on the Anschutz Medical Campus. Students learn in all dimensions, from virtual reality to the real world. The school provides inter-professional experience, research activities, and patient care. Patients can get quality care from our esteemed faculty, staff and students. Additional information about the school: https://dental.cuanschutz.edu/.
The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education, and healthcare. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked hospitals treating more than 2 million adult and pediatric patients yearly. Innovative, interconnected, and highly collaborative, we deliver life-changing treatments, patient care, and professional training and conduct world-renowned research powered by more than $500 million in research awards. For more information, visit https://www.cuanschutz.edu.
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2022-09-20T10:18:53+00:00
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NEW YORK, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Loyalty Ventures Inc. (NASDAQ: LYLT) (OTC: LYLTQ) between November 8, 2021 and June 7, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important June 26, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline. Loyalty Ventures was created as a result of a November 2021 spinoff from Alliance Data Systems Corporation n/k/a Bread Financial Holdings, Inc., the defendant company in this case. A class action lawsuit has already been filed.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Loyalty Ventures common stock 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 Loyalty Ventures class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6803 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 June 26, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Air Miles program suffered from a lack of investment prior to the spinoff; (2) as a result, Sobeys Inc., the second-largest supermarket chain in Canada and the second-largest sponsor in the Air Miles program, had informed defendants it was considering exercising its early termination rights; (3) the threat of Sobeys' departure loomed throughout 2021 including in the timeframe leading up to the spinoff; (4) defendants expected the departure of any single large sponsor, such as Sobeys, would have "network effect" on the value of the entire Air Miles program; (5) the high leverage and debt service obligations foisted upon Loyalty Ventures, in conjunction with the "network effect" impact on the value of the Air Miles business, threatened the Company's ability to continue operations; and (6) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's financial guidance, business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Loyalty Ventures class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6803 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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2023-06-06T03:16:02+00:00
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Proactive Exit Will Generate Additional Cash and Improve Margins in Non-SAFE Banking Environment
2023 Free Cash Flow Expected to Exceed $125 Million
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf" or the "Company"), a leading international provider of consumer cannabis products, today announced the proactive closure of the majority of its operations in California, Colorado and Oregon, beginning this month, as part of its continued effort to streamline its business. Additionally, in an effort to further optimize operations and reduce costs, the Company will consolidate cultivation and processing operations in Massachusetts to a single facility in Webster, resulting in the closure of its Amesbury facility. Curaleaf expects to record non-cash restructuring and impairment charges that it will detail on its fourth quarter earnings call in March.
Concurrent with these actions, the Company has reduced its payroll by 10% which, when coupled with other cost savings initiatives, it expects to realize $60M in gross run-rate expense savings in 2023, exceeding its initial savings target by 50%.
The Company will exit production and cultivation facilities in California, Colorado and Oregon. While these states have contributed to the growth of Select and other Curaleaf wholesale brands, the Company acknowledges the difficult operating environment in these investment states and will instead place a laser focus on cash generation in its core revenue-driving markets moving forward.
Curaleaf began aggressive cost-cutting measures in these states in 2022 through facility closures and reductions in workforce. These adjustments were necessary for the future success and profitability of the business and were made as a result of recent legislative decisions, price compression, and lack of enforcement of the illicit market. For context, these markets contributed less than $50M in revenue to Curaleaf last year. Curaleaf expects these market closures will be immediately accretive to its adjusted EBITDA margins and positions it for robust positive free cash flow generation in excess of $125M this year as management executes on its strategic priorities.
"Today's announcement reflects a decision that we did not arrive at lightly, and one that makes sense for our business at this time," said CEO, Matt Darin. "We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to improve margins and fortify our balance sheet by controlling what we can in our business. We believe these states will represent opportunities in the future, but the current price compression caused by a lack of meaningful enforcement of the illicit market prevent us from generating an acceptable return on our investments. We are confident that these moves, made to improve our cashflow and margins, are the right ones to bolster the future success and profitability of Curaleaf. Optimizing the existing portfolio in this way allows us to enter 2023 in a position of strength and further enhances our visibility around continued margin expansion and highly profitable growth. We remain excited about our future growth prospects both domestically and internationally, and now can devote greater resources to tangible growth opportunities in emerging markets such as Europe."
About Curaleaf Holdings
Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to improve lives by providing clarity around cannabis and confidence around consumption. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. In the United States, Curaleaf currently operates in 19 states with 147 dispensaries, and employs around 5,500 team members. Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Curaleaf is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol CURA and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol CURLF. For more information, please visit https://ir.curaleaf.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This media advisory contains forward–looking statements and forward–looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These statements relate to future events or future performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward–looking statements or information. Generally, forward-looking statements and information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or, "proposed", "is expected", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. More particularly and without limitation, this news release contains forward–looking statements and information concerning the Company's operations in California, Colorado and Oregon. Such forward-looking statements and information reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the company with respect to the matter described in this new release. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which are based on current expectations as of the date of this release and subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Additional information about these assumptions and risks and uncertainties is contained under "Risk Factors and Uncertainties" in the Company's latest annual information form filed March 9, 2022, which is available under the Company's SEDAR profile at http://www.sedar.com, and in other filings that the Company has made and may make with applicable securities authorities in the future. Forward-looking statements contained herein are made only as to the date of this press release and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. We caution investors not to place considerable reliance on the forward looking statements contained in this press release. The Canadian Securities Exchange has not reviewed, approved or disapproved the content of this news release.
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2023-01-26T14:02:43+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/01/26/curaleaf-announces-closure-operations-california-colorado-oregon/
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For Naomi Judd’s family, tour is a chance to grieve, reflect
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fans of Naomi Judd, the late matriarch of the Grammy-winning country duo The Judds, will have a chance to say goodbye and rejoice in their hits in a final tour helmed by daughter Wynonna and all-star musical partners.
The Judd family continues to grieve her sudden death during a year that should have been a celebration. The tour was announced only weeks before Naomi Judd, 76, took her life on April 30, the day before their induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
“It’s devastatingly beautiful to go back to the past and relive some of these memories,” said Wynonna Judd this week as she sat on a tour bus after rehearsals. “Yesterday I was in rehearsal and there’s a part in the show where they sync up Mom singing with me. And I turned around and I just lost it.”
The 11-city tour starts Friday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and will include stops in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Fort Worth, Texas, and Nashville before ending in their home state in Lexington, Kentucky. Special guests include Brandi Carlile, Ashley McBryde, Little Big Town, Kelsea Ballerini, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill and tour opener Martina McBride.
Judd’s husband Larry Strickland, and her two daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, reflected on their mother’s legacy, not only in music, but as a caregiver and an advocate. The red-headed duo scored more than a dozen No. 1 hits, combining young Wynonna’s powerful vocals with Naomi’s family harmonies and stage charm. Reflecting their Appalachian roots with polished pop stylings, their hits included “Why Not Me,” “Mama He’s Crazy,” “Rockin’ With the Rhythm of the Rain,” and “Love Can Build a Bridge.”
Naomi’s husband of nearly 33 years said he hopes that fans feel uplifted to hear their hit songs performed again in arenas. But he knows he will struggle when he sees his wife on the big screens or hears her voice again.
“I’m having trouble now just seeing pictures of her. I don’t know how much I can handle,” Strickland said.
Strickland said his wife was excited to tour again with her daughter because she loved the connection with the fans. The storyline of the single mother supporting two daughters becoming one of the biggest duos in country music history, along with Naomi’s flashy wardrobe and bubbly approachability, made fans identify with her.
“She loved being on the stage and singing,” Strickland said. “She loved people. And she would do her twisting and twirling. She was the harmony singer. She was all about her hair and the little dresses that she would have made. And so that was her world.”
Her family has endless stories of Naomi Judd’s empathy and passion for helping, her love of animals, especially dogs, and her desire to learn. A nurse by trade before her music career, she was on the board of the American Humane Association and was a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her daughter Ashley recalled how she walked around with $20 and $50 bills in her bra and would hand them out to people, especially women.
Wynonna Judd said that recently she visited the same hospital outside Nashville where her mom died. And she noticed that on one of the walls in the emergency room were pictures of volunteers who helped assist patients.
“And there’s a picture of my mother in the cutest little wig and she has her name tag, ‘Naomi Judd,’” she said.
Naomi Judd struggled most of her life with depression, which she shared openly in her book “River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged With Hope.” Her family said she was also being treated for bipolar disorder and PTSD.
“That’s the complexity of this issue, because my mother, even in her darkest hour, would put on her wig and go down to the emergency room and help other people during their emergencies,” Wynonna Judd said, her strong voice cracking. “So I find it pretty devastating that she got to a point where she was done helping herself.”
Strickland, too, noted how mental illness affected his wife. Despite feeling incredibly excited for the tour, her mental state was deteriorating, he said. Strickland said she was seeing a psychiatrist, but her depression was resistant to treatment, and they were trying different types of medication to help her.
“The lows that she would experience with her mental illness just seemed to get worse,” he said.
Since The Judds debuted in the 1980s, the family has lived under the public eye, headlining awards shows and appearing on magazine covers, in books and TV shows. But Naomi’s death has only intensified scrutiny, to the point where the family is dispelling rumors that there is a dispute over the estate. Strickland, who is Ashley and Wynonna’s stepfather, was named the executor of the estate.
Ashley Judd said it was “obviously natural, good, and proper that Mom’s estate would flow to Pop, her partner of 43 years and then upon his eventual passing, come to her daughters.”
The actor was with her mother when she died and has advocated for the family’s legal request to keep police investigative records relating to her mother’s death from being publicly released. After an appeal, the Tennessee Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower court. Ashley Judd said that privacy should be afforded to any family dealing with suicide.
“We are an open family,” she said. “We’re committed to raising awareness about the walk with mental illness and reducing shame and stigma, guiding people towards resources, and helping families build resistance to and resilience from the devastation. And there’s also a certain dignity and decency that’s necessary around the actual day of the death.”
Wynonna Judd said since her mother’s death, people who have had similar experiences have reached out to her to ask that mental illness resources and information are provided to fans during the tour.
“This is very real to me. This is not just show business. This is an opportunity to help someone out there not end their life,” she said. “We must get rid of the stigma of the words mental illness because people will not reach out for help.”
Wynonna’s relationship with her mother was sometimes filled with drama, but it continues to this day, when she sits under a tree at her home in Tennessee and processes her grief. “I love my mother and she makes me crazy still. Your relationship with your mother never ends,” she said. “I still talk to her and it’s awesome and it’s hard.”
The family wants the fans to remember Naomi Judd as a beautiful, talented, smart and colorfully complex woman, who had highs and lows, and was honest about her journey.
“I want them to see that in adversity, in death, there is life,” said Wynonna Judd.
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The national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org.
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2022-09-30T15:31:33+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/for-naomi-judds-family-tour-is-a-chance-to-grieve-reflect/
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Justin Turner is Named Chief Revenue Officer, West Owens as Chief Financial Officer as Nationwide Demand for EV Infrastructure Intensifies
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraWatt Infrastructure, a company powering electrified fleets with the most reliable network of charging centers, today announced the appointment of Justin Turner as Chief Revenue Officer and the promotion of West Owens, Senior Vice President of Finance and Structuring, to Chief Financial Officer. Turner brings deep domain expertise to the role, having previously held the CRO role at Flock Freight, while Owens brings years of financial leadership experience in the energy and consumer finance sectors.
Following significant local and national policy tailwinds aimed at curbing emissions within the transportation sector, these appointments will support TeraWatt's mission to build the nation's first multi-state EV charging network for medium- and heavy-duty fleets. Providing a full stack EV charging solution that includes site selection and acquisition, infrastructure buildout, and operation and maintenance, TeraWatt is positioned to meet the demand for accelerated electrification and lead the transition to zero-emission transport.
At TeraWatt, Turner will oversee the global revenue, marketing and customer success functions as the company enters its next phase of growth following last year's billion dollar fundraise. Bringing over a decade of leadership experience, Turner has grown organizational revenue over 20x in prior roles, and oversaw a variety of functions such as GTM strategy, sales, acquisition, retention and overall customer experience at logistics companies including Flock Freight, STORD, GlobalTranz and Coyote Logistics.
Owens joined TeraWatt in 2021 as Senior Vice President, Finance and Structuring, and brings a speciality in opening up new asset classes to scalable capital market financing. Taking on the role of CFO, Owens will be responsible for setting the financial reporting and capital strategy and execution for TeraWatt, including deal sourcing, structuring, diligence, negotiations, management, accounting, FP&A, operations and strategic advisory. Prior to TeraWatt, he successfully advised multiple early stage energy companies, including OhmConnect, Gradient and SunShare. As a former senior executive at multiple other companies, including SolarCity (acquired by Tesla), AMS and Future Family, Owens raised more than $2 billion in diversified capital.
As part of the White House's EV Acceleration Challenge to support America's historic transition to electric vehicles, TeraWatt recently committed to delivering one terawatt-hour of charging for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by 2025, which is equivalent to powering over 160,000 homes for a year.
"The demand for EV charging infrastructure continues to accelerate on both a federal and state level as new policies and mandates emerge to curb emissions from commercial vehicles and increase the number of zero-emission vehicles on the road," said Neha Palmer, CEO of TeraWatt. "Justin and West's deep expertise in driving strategic growth is a huge asset to TeraWatt as we rise to meet the rapidly growing charging demands of fleets with our high-powered charging solutions."
About TeraWatt Infrastructure
TeraWatt Infrastructure provides reliable charging solutions for the future of fleet transportation. The company designs, operates and owns electric vehicle charging hubs for fleet operations combining property assets with energy and charging expertise. TeraWatt was founded, in the absence of anything like it, to be the nation's reliable, long-term partner in the inevitable transition to all-electric transportation. For more information: www.terawattinfrastructure.com.
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2023-05-10T13:46:29+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/05/10/terawatt-bolsters-executive-leadership-bench-with-two-appointees-amid-accelerated-push-ev-adoption/
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AZMARIN, Syria (AP) — A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 1,300 people. Hundreds were still believed to be trapped under rubble, and the toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area.
On both sides of the border, residents jolted out of sleep by the pre-dawn quake rushed outside on a cold, rainy and snowy night. Buildings were reduce to piles of pancaked floors, while major aftershocks, some nearly as strong as the first, continued.
Rescue workers and residents in multiple cities searched for survivors, working through tangles of metal and concrete. A hospital in Turkey collapsed, and patients, including newborns, were evacuated from facilities in Syria.
In the Turkish city of Adana, one resident said three buildings near his home were toppled. “I don’t have the strength anymore,” one survivor could be heard calling out from beneath the rubble as rescue workers tried to reach him, said the resident, journalism student Muhammet Fatih Yavus.
“Because the debris removal efforts are continuing in many buildings in the earthquake zone, we do not know how high the number of dead and injured will rise,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “Our hope is that we recover from this disaster with the least loss of life possible.”
The quake, felt as far away as Cairo, was centered north of Gaziantep, a Turkish provincial capital.
It struck a region that has been shaped on both sides of the border by more than a decade of civil war in Syria. On the Syrian side, the swath affected is divided between government-held territory and the country’s last opposition-held enclave, which is surrounded by Russian-backed government forces. Turkey, meanwhile, is home to millions of refugees from that conflict.
The opposition-held regions in Syria are packed with some 4 million people displaced from other parts of the country by the fighting. Many of them live in buildings that are already wrecked from past bombardments. Hundreds of families remained trapped in rubble, the opposition emergency organization, called the White Helmets, said in a statement.
Strained health facilities and hospitals were quickly filled with wounded, rescue workers said. Others had to be emptied, including a maternity hospital, according to the SAMS medical organization.
The region sits on top of major fault lines and is frequently shaken by earthquakes. Some 18,000 were killed in a similarly powerful earthquakes that hit northwest Turkey in 1999. The U.S. Geological Survey measured Monday’s quake at 7.8. At least 20 aftershocks followed, authorities said, including one that measured 7.5.
Buildings were reported collapsed in a wide area extending from Syria’s cities of Aleppo and Hama to Turkey’s Diyarbakir, more than 330 kilometers (200 miles) to the northeast. Nearly 3,000 buildings came down in Turkey, according to Erdogan. A hospital collapsed in the Mediterranean coastal city of Iskanderoun, but casualties were not immediately known, his vice president Fuat Oktay, said.
Offers of help — from search-and-rescue teams to medical supplies and money — poured in from dozens of countries, as well as the European Union and NATO.
In Turkey, people trying to leave the quake-stricken regions caused traffic jams, hampering efforts of emergency teams trying to reach the affected areas. Authorities urged residents not to take to the roads. Mosques around the region were opened to provide shelter for people unable to return to damaged homes amid temperatures that hovered around freezing.
The quake heavily damaged Gaziantep’s most famed landmark, its historic castle perched atop a hill in the center of the city. Parts of the fortresses’ walls and watch towers were leveled and other parts heavily damaged, images from the city showed.
In Diyarbakir, hundreds of rescue workers and civilians formed lines across a mountain of wreckage, passing down broken concrete pieces, household belongings and other debris as they searched for trapped survivors while excavators dug through the rubble below.
In northwest Syria, the quake added new woes to the opposition-held enclave centered on the province of Idlib, which has been under siege for years, with frequent Russian and government airstrikes. The territory depends on a flow of aid from nearby Turkey for everything from food to medical supplies.
The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense described the situation there as “disastrous.”
In the small Syrian rebel-held town of Azmarin in the mountains by the Turkish border, the bodies of several dead children, wrapped in blankets, were brought to a hospital.
The Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums in Syira said the earthquake has caused some damage to the Crusader-built Marqab, or Watchtower Castle, on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. Part of a tower and parts of some walls collapsed.
The USGS said the quake was centered about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from Gaziantep. It was 18 kilometers (11 miles) deep.
More than 900 people were killed in 10 Turkish provinces, with more than 5,400 injured, according to Turkey’s president. The death toll in government-held areas of Syria climbed over 330 people, with some 1,000 injured, according to the Health Ministry. In rebel-held areas, more than 200 people were killed, according to the White Helmets, though the SAMS medical organization put the toll at more than 135; both said hundreds were hurt.
In Damascus, buildings shook and many people went down to the streets in fear. The quake jolted residents in Lebanon from beds, shaking buildings for about 40 seconds. Many residents of Beirut left their homes and took to the streets or drove in their cars away from buildings, terrorized by memories of the 2020 port explosion that wrecked a large portion of the city.
Huseyin Yayman, a legislator from Turkey’s Hatay province, said several of his family members were stuck under the rubble of their collapsed homes.
“There are so many other people who are also trapped,” he told HaberTurk television by telephone. “There are so many buildings that have been damaged. People are on the streets. It’s raining, it’s winter.
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Twin sweeps at Stanford netted top-ranked Hawaii two Big West men’s volleyball player of the week awards on Monday.
UH opposite Dimitrios Mouchlias’ production on the pins earned the junior the Big West Offensive Player of the Week honor. Middle blocker Guilherme Voss picked up the fourth Big West Defensive Player of the Week award of his career after leading UH’s top blocking performance of the season.
Mouchlias averaged 4.83 kills per set while hitting .462 in UH’s sweeps of then-No. 8 Stanford on Friday and Saturday. He led the Warriors with 12 kills while hitting .391 in UH’s 25-22, 25-19, 26-24 win in the opener. Mouchlias was even more efficient on Saturday in putting away 17 kills on 29 swings to hit .571 in a 27-25, 25-19, 25-19 victory. He was charged with just five attack errors in his 52 attempts in the series and assisted on nine blocks.
Voss finished with five of UH’s eight blocks in the opener. He had five more on Saturday, including one solo, when the Warriors set a season high with 12 1/2 blocks. Offensively, he posted 11 kills on 17 error-free attacks to hit .647 against the Cardinal and served up two aces.
UH (9-0) remained the unanimous pick atop the NVA/AVCA Men’s National Collegiate Poll released Monday. The Warriors return to SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center to face Concordia University Irvine (4-5) on Thursday and Friday in their first home matches since Jan. 20.
Pair of Hawaii Hilo hoops players honored
Hawaii Hilo guard Mandi Kawaha was named PacWest Women’s Basketball Player of the Week and Vulcans center Nadjrick Peat was selected the conference’s Men’s Basketball Defender of the Week on Monday.
Kawaha, a senior from Hilo, combined for 46 points in victories over Holy Names and Fresno Pacific.
In the process, Kawaha became the Vulcans’ all-time leading scorer with 1,420 points.
Peat, a sophomore, totalled 12 rebounds and six blocks in wins over Holy Names and Fresno Pacific.
HPU basketball swept by Fresno Pacific
Mason Landdeck scored 16 points, but the Hawaii Pacific men’s basketball team lost to Fresno Pacific 64-62 on Monday at St. Francis’ Shark Tank.
The Sharks fell to 9-15, 5-11 PacWest, while the Sunbirds improved to 8-16, 5-12.
>> Abby Spurgin scored 21 points, but the Hawaii Pacific women lost to Fresno Pacific 72-64.
The Sharks dropped to 13-10, 11-5 PacWest, while the Sunbirds improved to 11-13, 6-11.
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COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Competing with an elegance that makes the sport look easy. Technically brilliant. Highly successful. Humble. And Swiss.
Marco Odermatt has plenty in common with Roger Federer.
The smooth and fluent run that earned Odermatt gold in the men’s downhill at the Alpine skiing world championships by a large margin on Sunday prompted French veteran Johan Clarey to label him the Roger Federer of skiing.
“Roger did way bigger things then I do,” Odermatt said. ”(But) like Roger, for me it’s very important to be a humble guy. To not just kill for the victory, to have big respect for all the other athletes. And I think this is what Roger (did).”
Big mutual respect can also characterize the season-long rivalry between Odermatt and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway.
“It’s easy. If a guy is faster, you just have to respect it, then congratulate,” Odermatt said.
On Sunday, Kilde finished 0.48 behind Odermatt to collect another silver after also finishing second in super-G.
“It’s a fun battle,” the Norwegian said. “It’s fun because we are so (nice) and we are humble, decent people. We’re trying to do it in a good way. Fighting against Odermatt is always a joy. It brings a smile on my face more than anything. So that’s cool.”
Kilde, the pre-race favorite who won five World Cup downhills this season, smiled and hugged Odermatt in the finish area after being beaten.
“When someone delivers a run like Odermatt did today, then it’s just hats off and just respect it,” Kilde said.
Watched by 13,000 spectators, lots of them waving Swiss flags, ringing cow bells, and blowing air horns, Odermatt ended his four-year wait for a world championship medal in impressive style and let out a few screams after posting the fastest time.
“It was definitely something I’d never felt before, this scream at the finish,” said Odermatt. “Also, those two minutes during Alex’s run, I was shaking all over my body like never before.”
Cameron Alexander finished 0.89 behind to take the bronze for Canada’s second medal of the worlds after teammate James Crawford won the super-G.
Odermatt had not won a medal in eight previous starts at senior world championships, after winning five golds at the 2018 junior worlds.
He had also never won a top-level downhill before, though he has finished runner-up in seven World Cup races.
“I knew something was possible but that it works like this is unbelievable,” said Odermatt, who won Olympic gold in giant slalom a year ago.
Odermatt is the defending overall World Cup champion and is dominating the circuit again this season. His gold medal came three days after he finished fourth in the super-G, an event in which he was heavily favored after winning four of this season’s six World Cup races.
“The fourth place from three days ago makes this gold even nicer,” Odermatt said, adding that he “went all-in” on what was a risky but smooth and fluent run from top to bottom.
Kilde, who leads the World Cup downhill standings after winning five races this season, led Odermatt by 0.20 seconds at the first split but lost time on his Swiss rival once he entered the shady part of the course.
“A couple of turns I messed up a bit, on the top and in the middle,” Kilde said. “I tried to charge, nearly nailed it. I gave it a battle and I’m happy with that.”
The Norwegian praised Odermatt for his “mental strength.”
“He comes from a fourth place in Super-G, which for the whole Swiss community was a disaster,” Kilde said. “He’s an amazing athlete and he does great skiing.”
The start of the L’Eclipse course was bathed in bright sunshine, but racers soon entered a lengthy shaded middle section through a forest before coming out into the sun again for the finish.
Odermatt’s victory made it a Swiss downhill double after teammate Jasmine Flury won the women’s downhill Saturday.
Crawford stood third for a while before his time was beaten by Alexander and by Austria’s Marco Schwarz, who finished four-hundredths of a second off the podium in fourth.
Alexander was competing in his first race at a major championship.
“Just pushing and feeling like I was hanging on a bit,” he said. “When you’re fighting and hanging on in downhill, usually it means you’re going fast. I had a couple of mistakes but they weren’t too costly.”
Crawford, who finished fifth, said he was “not surprised at all” with his teammate’s performance.
“Cam, he’s always had the speed, he has battled through some unfortunate injuries that have kind of sidelined him for a little while,” Crawford said. “His speed and ability is right up there with me and the other guys on our team.”
It’s the first time since 2015 that the Austrian men’s team failed to medal in the marquee event of the world championships.
Defending champion Vincent Kriechmayr lost his chance at a medal when he struggled in the Trou Noir (Black Hole) midway down, where racers land a jump amid dark shade and cannot see the tracks and bumps of the course.
“It was a good run but you have to race error-free here, and I didn’t manage to do that. All in all, just not good enough,” Kriechmayr said. “Odermatt had the perfect run, for sure.”
The race was interrupted for 20 minutes after Brodie Seger awkwardly landed a jump and appeared to injure his right knee. The Canadian had to be taken off the hill on a stretcher.
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2023-02-13T05:29:26+00:00
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Mega Millions continued its streak of drawings without a winner on Tuesday. No one matched 7-13-14-15-18 and a Mega Ball of 9 during Tuesday's drawing.
Mega Millions' jackpot for Friday is set for $1.35 billion as the multi-state lottery has failed to produce a winner in nearly three months. The last time a winning ticket was sold was Oct. 14, 2022. That drawing had two tickets match all six numbers, resulting in a split jackpot of $502 million.
The only other time the jackpot was this large was on Oct. 23, 2018, when a $1.537 billion ticket was sold in South Carolina.
The jackpot marks the third-largest in U.S. history for all lotteries, behind another Mega Millions drawing and a 2022 Powerball drawing. The Nov. 7, 2022, Powerball was the first in U.S. history to top $2 billion.
Although no one matched all six numbers, 6,154,167 won smaller prizes ranging from $2 all the way up to $3 million. Sixteen of the tickets matched all five white balls, resulting in a prize of at least $1 million.
Mega Millions is played in all states except Hawaii, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, and Alabama. The odds of drawing all six numbers in Mega Millions are 1 in nearly 302 million.
Friday’s drawing will be held at 11 p.m. ET
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2023-01-11T14:02:14+00:00
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Lawmakers to push through first legislative response to January 6 Capitol attack by week’s end
By Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN
Lawmakers reached an agreement to include in must-pass legislation a measure aimed at making it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, marking the first legislative response to the US Capitol insurrection and then-President Donald Trump‘s relentless pressure campaign to stay in power despite his 2020 loss.
Several congressional sources told CNN that the legislation — to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act — will be added to a bill to fund the federal government before Friday’s deadline to avoid a shutdown. If it becomes law, as is expected, the vice president’s role would be clarified to be completely ceremonial while overseeing the certification of the electoral result. It also would raise the threshold in Congress to make it harder for lawmakers to force votes attempting to overturn a state’s certified result and prevent efforts to pass along fake electors to Congress. The House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, called for the bill’s passage in a summary of its report released Monday.
The bill is a result of intense bipartisan negotiations over several months that won over the support of top Republicans, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, but has drawn pushback from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. With Republicans set to take control of the House within days, lawmakers pressed to send the bill to President Joe Biden‘s desk knowing its fate is likely doomed in the next Congress.
One part of the legislation is focused on modernizing and overhauling the Electoral Count Act, an 1887 law that Trump had sought to exploit and create confusion over how Congress counts Electoral College votes from each state. As part of that proposal, senators are attempting to clarify that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in overseeing the certification of the electoral results.
The bill includes a number of changes aimed at making sure that Congress can clearly “identify a single, conclusive slate of electors from each state,” the fact sheet says.
This comes as revelations surfaced about an effort by Trump allies to subvert the Electoral College process and install fake GOP electors in seven key states.
The legislation creates a set of stipulations designed to make it harder for there to be any confusion over the accurate electors. For example, it states that each state’s governor would be responsible for submission of a certificate that identifies electors. Congress would not be able to accept a slate of electors submitted by any other official. “This reform would address the potential for multiple state officials to send Congress competing slates,” the fact sheet states.
While constitutional experts say the vice president currently can’t disregard a state-certified electoral result, Trump pushed then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct the Electoral College certification in Congress as part of his pressure campaign. But Pence refused to do so and, as a result, became a target of the former President and his mob of supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6.
The proposal “raises the threshold to lodge an objection to electors to at least one-fifth of the duly chosen and sworn members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.” Currently, only one member of each body is required to make an objection.
Final legislative text of the sweeping government funding bill has not yet been formally unveiled but is expected to be released imminently as lawmakers race the clock to avert a shutdown at the end of the week.
The expectation on Capitol Hill is that Congress will be able to avoid a shutdown, but pressure is on for lawmakers as congressional leaders have little room for error given the tight timeline they are facing. Government funding is currently set to expire on Friday at midnight.
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2022-12-19T22:56:55+00:00
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TipRanks Ltd. announced today it has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based The Fly, a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news.
"TipRanks is committed to empowering investors with the best data and research tools, and now with one of the fastest and most accurate breaking news services," said Uri Gruenbaum, Chief Executive Officer, TipRanks. "We have been working with the excellent team at The Fly for many years, and we have always been impressed by the professionalism, speed, and accuracy with which they analyze data and publish breaking news stories. We see a lot of synergy between our companies and are excited that we can expand our offerings to provide breaking news – one of the top requirements of our Enterprise customers and end users. With The Fly, TipRanks is furthering its vision of becoming the ultimate one-stop-shop platform for the retail investor."
Founded in 1998, The Fly is a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news, reporting on and explaining the news that impacts publicly traded companies. The Fly's exclusive live-streaming subscription service breaks the material information moving stocks. The Fly's team scours all sources of company news, from mainstream to cutting-edge, then filters out the noise to deliver short-form stories consisting of only market-moving content. Analyst research notes, company press releases, SEC filings, newspapers, blogs, social media and trading desk sources are among the many areas monitored by its experts.
"TipRanks is a natural home for The Fly," said Ron Etergino, The Fly's President. "Both companies strive to level the playing field for investors and TipRanks' institutional-grade research tools and data will enhance The Fly's financial news products. We have been impressed with TipRanks' vision and are very excited about entering this new chapter, both for our employees and our clients. The combination will further The Fly's mission of breaking the news that is moving stocks."
Completion of this transaction is expected to close in Q1 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
About TipRanks Ltd.
TipRanks is a multi-award-winning financial technology company that analyzes financial big data to provide market research tools for retail investors. The TipRanks Financial Accountability Engine scans and analyzes financial websites, corporate filings submitted to the SEC, and analyst research, to rank financial experts in real time. Its alternative datasets allow all types of investors to use institutional-grade tools.
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SHOREVIEW, Minn., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxwell Healthcare Associates (MHA), the industry's leading post-acute consulting firm, is partnering with Forcura, a cloud-based healthcare workflow and care coordination solution, to enhance patient care within the post-acute industry.
Through its HITRUST-certified healthcare workflow management platform, Forcura streamlines care transitions and coordinates ongoing patient care, connecting care for better performance. Forcura partners with clients to optimize their solution to manage incoming referrals, receive authorization and signature of care plans, communicate between field and back-office team members, manage patient documentation, adhere to compliance requirements and support many other processes.
Through this partnership, the post-acute space will have the necessary tools to improve in-home care with MHA's customized solutions and Forcura's premier workflow management technology.
Specifically, MHA's team is outfitted with long-standing industry experts that bring a vast array of experience troubleshooting in the post-acute space. Partnering with Forcura adds yet another unique tool to optimize holistic agency success. Through Forcura's automated services, MHA experts can streamline referrals and automate workflows, reducing administrative expenses and maximizing ROI. This partnership is a definitive step in operational excellence with MHA's reach enforced by Forcura's unique suite of solutions.
Chief Operating Officer for Forcura, Annie Erstling, is thrilled to align initiatives with MHA and looks forward to the opportunities that await both organizations. "Forcura has long admired the intelligent solutions the MHA team brings to complex challenges in the post-acute care sector. We are energized to work alongside Maxwell as partners to introduce technology that can help providers solve for their administrative workflow inefficiencies, improve their revenue cycles and ultimately, drive better patient outcomes," said Erstling.
Chief Executive Officer of Maxwell Healthcare Associates, Jennifer Maxwell, shares in the enthusiasm and believes the partnership with Forcura will make a substantial difference in the industry. "We're deeply invested in delivering tools to our clients that will improve in-home care, and we believe our partnership with Forcura will prove to be an unmatched solution for them," said Maxwell.
As partners and in response to the 2023 marginal payment increase finalized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Jennifer will be a featured expert in Forcura's upcoming webinar, "Back to the Basics: Navigating the Market After the CMS Final Rule."
Forcura, a healthcare workflow management company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, facilitates continuity of care and improves business performance for providers via its HITRUST-certified automated workflow, collaboration and analytics SaaS solutions. The company is deeply committed to empowering better patient care and elevating the role of post-acute in the broader healthcare continuum. The company is a KLAS® certified technology vendor, is a certified Great Place to Work™ employer, and has ranked for the sixth consecutive year on the Inc. 5000. For more information visit forcura.com, call 800-378-0596 or follow Forcura on LinkedIn.
Maxwell Healthcare Associates boasts an average of 20 years of experience in the post-acute space and has a pulse on what's relevant now in the industry. MHA can work with home health and hospice agencies to strategize, optimize, and transform agencies across the nation. For more information, visit www.maxwellhca.com.
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2022-11-02T17:22:06+00:00
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Katie Boulter 2023 Viking Open Nottingham Odds
The Viking Open Nottingham field is dwindling in Nottingham, United Kingdom, as Katie Boulter competes in a quarterfinal versus Harriet Dart. Boulter has +600 odds (third-best) to take home the trophy from Nottingham Tennis Centre.
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Boulter at the 2023 Viking Open Nottingham
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 9-19
- Venue: Nottingham Tennis Centre
- Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Boulter's Next Match
After beating Daria Snigur 7-5, 6-3, Boulter will face Dart in the quarterfinals on Friday, June 16 at 5:00 AM ET.
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Katie Boulter Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +10000
- Viking Open Nottingham odds to win: +600
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Boulter Stats
- Boulter is coming off a 7-5, 6-3 win over No. 157-ranked Snigur in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
- Boulter is 13-11 over the past year, with no tournament victories.
- Boulter is 4-3 on grass over the past 12 months.
- Boulter, over the past 12 months, has played 24 matches across all court surfaces, and 24.1 games per match.
- On grass, Boulter has played seven matches over the past year, and she has totaled 23.7 games per match while winning 45.2% of games.
- Boulter, over the past 12 months, has won 64.5% of her service games and 32.3% of her return games.
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2023-06-15T19:49:44+00:00
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Angels reliever Archie Bradley broke a bone in his elbow while climbing over the dugout railing during Los Angeles’ massive brawl with the Seattle Mariners on Sunday.
Bradley will be out for at least one month, Angels athletic trainer Mike Frostad said Tuesday. Bradley won't start a throwing program for four weeks while his elbow heals.
Bradley’s injury is the second to result from the lengthy fracas at Angel Stadium: Mariners catcher Luis Torrens went on the 10-day injured list Monday with a sore left shoulder.
Bradley slipped and fell off the railing when the brouhaha broke out in the second inning immediately after Angels opener Andrew Wantz hit Seattle’s Jesse Winker with a pitch. Bradley didn’t pitch Sunday or in Los Angeles’ win over the White Sox on Monday night.
Wantz also threw a pitch behind Julio Rodriguez in the first inning Sunday, one night after Seattle’s Erik Swanson threw a pitch near the head of Mike Trout in the ninth inning. Six players and both managers were ejected after the fight, and 12 suspensions were handed out Monday to players, coaches and team personnel.
The heavily bearded Bradley is in his first season with the Angels, who signed him last March to bolster their perpetually poor bullpen. He is 0-1 with a 4.82 ERA and two saves in 21 appearances for Los Angeles, but he spent time on the injured list earlier this season with an abdominal strain.
Angels interim manager Phil Nevin began serving his 10-game suspension Monday. He declined Tuesday to give his opinion about MLB's handling of the brawl and the subsequent suspensions.
But Nevin found a silver lining: He will be eligible to return for the third game of Los Angeles' four-game series at Baltimore next weekend. Nevin's son, Tyler, plays for the Orioles, and Nevin will be able to enjoy two games as a fan.
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2022-06-29T01:09:28+00:00
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Arkansas GOP governor says Trump’s meeting with Holocaust denier is ‘very troubling’ and ’empowering’ for extremism
By Devan Cole, CNN
Former President Donald Trump’s meeting last week with White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes was “very troubling” and “empowering” for extremism, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday.
“No, I don’t think it’s a good idea for a leader that’s setting an example for the country or the party to meet with (an) avowed racist or anti-Semite. And so it’s very troubling and it shouldn’t happen and we need to avoid those kind of empowering the extremes,” Hutchinson told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “You want to diminish their strength, not empower them. Stay away from it.”
Trump had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate last Tuesday with both Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, who himself became engulfed in controversy after repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories and making other offensive claims last month.
The Anti-Defamation League has identified Fuentes as a White supremacist and he has been banned from most major social media platforms for his White nationalist rhetoric. Fuentes was present on the grounds of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and has promoted Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about fraud in the 2020 election. The House select committee investigating the events of January 6 issued a subpoena to Fuentes in January.
Trump’s meeting with the two figures has drawn intense criticism in recent days, with Hutchinson saying on Sunday: “Well, I hope some day we won’t have to be responding to what former President Trump has said or done. In this instance it’s important to respond.”
Hutchinson, a former US Attorney in Arkansas, is term-limited and leaving office in January. He’s currently mulling a 2024 White House bid, and he used Trump’s controversial meeting to note his own record on such issues, telling Bash, “the last time I met with a White supremacist it was in an armed standoff. I had a bulletproof vest on. We arrested them, prosecuted them and sent them to prison.”
During last week’s dinner, Trump was engaged with Fuentes and found him “very interesting,” a source familiar with the dinner said, particularly Fuentes’ abilities to rattle off statistics and data, and his familiarity with Trump world. At one point during the dinner, Trump declared that he “liked” Fuentes.
Trump acknowledged the dinner in a post on Truth Social Friday stating: “This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
Trump repeated later Friday that he “didn’t know” Fuentes and had offered West business as well as political advice.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jonathan Toews scored in his final game with the Chicago Blackhawks, but Ivan Provorov scored 3:09 into overtime to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-4 victory Thursday night in the season finale for each team.
Toews won three Stanley Cup titles in 15 seasons with Chicago, but general manager Kyle Davidson announced earlier in the day that the team would not re-sign its longtime captain. Toews turns 35 on April 29, and the lowly Blackhawks are rebuilding.
Toews had a chance to win the game in overtime, but he was denied by Felix Sandstrom on a breakaway with about 2:15 remaining. Provorov then closed it out for Philadelphia, beating Alex Stalock for his sixth goal of the season.
Toews' last game with Chicago (26-49-7) added some electricity to a matchup of teams long eliminated from the playoff race. And Philadelphia (31-38-13) played up to the challenge, earning a second straight win behind two goals and an assist from Travis Konecny.
When it was over, Toews and the Blackhawks took to the ice, and the team played a video honoring the center for his time with the franchise. Toews patted his heart and waved to the crowd of 20,219 — many dressed in various Toews jerseys — as it chanted “Jonny! Jonny!”
Toews was showered with cheers all night long, especially when he redirected an Andreas Athanasiou pass for a power-play goal 7:40 into the second period.
It was Toews’ first goal since Jan. 28 and No. 15 on the season. He has 372 goals and 511 assists in 1,067 regular-season games — all with Chicago.
Philadelphia had a 4-3 lead for much of the third period, but Tyler Johnson found Athanasiou in front with 2 minutes left. It was Athanasiou's 20th goal of the season.
Anders Bjork and Jujhar Khaira also scored for Chicago, which is in the mix for a prime position in the upcoming NHL draft. Stalock finished with 31 saves.
Owen Tippett had a goal and an assist for Philadelphia. Noah Cates also scored, and Sandstrom finished with 34 stops.
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2023-04-14T04:34:50+00:00
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I-25 Partially Closed In Wyoming Amid Blow-Overs, 82 MPH Gusts
The Wyoming Department of Transportation has partially closed a section of Interstate 25 as at least one tractor-trailer has blown over thanks to high winds.
WYDOT announced Tuesday afternoon that Interstate 25 is closed to light, high-profile vehicles from Douglas to Cheyenne. There's also an extreme blow over risk.
"We're seeing some ridiculously strong wind gusts at our weather stations along I-25 between the Glendo area and Wheatland," the department wrote on social media. "This stretch is currently closed to light, high-profile vehicles."
The department added that one weather station in the area reported 82 mph wind gusts with 53 mph sustained winds.
Winds between Glendo and south of Chugwater are averaging 40 mph with gusts in the mid-40s to in excess of 50 mph.
"Please don't risk it if you're pulling a light camper or trailer or driving a high-profile vehicle," the department said.
The National Weather Service in Cheyenne has issued a high-wind warning for the area. It's expected to expire at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
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2022-06-16T19:51:14+00:00
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Get ready for a new performance-oriented Ford Mustang Mach-E in showrooms soon.
Ford on Friday presented a prototype for the Mustang Mach-E Rally at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K. and confirmed the start of orders this fall.
On hand for the debut was rally driver Ott Tänak, who drove the prototype up Goodwood’s hill-climb course. He currently competes in the World Rally Championship with a rally car based on the Ford Puma subcompact crossover.
“Mustang Mach-E took the freedom and fun of Mustang and made it free from emissions,” Darren Palmer, head of electric vehicle programs at Ford’s Model E division, said in a statement. “Now with Mustang Mach-E Rally, we’re providing our customers the freedom to venture off the asphalt and beyond the beaten path.”
Ford is holding back details until closer to the market launch but said the vehicle has been inspired by the rally cars that compete in rallycross, the closed mixed-surface racing with jumps galore. Ford has been a regular in rallycross competition over the years, typically with rally cars based on the Fiesta subcompact hatchback.
Judging by the prototype, the Mustang Mach-E Rally will feature unique designs for the front fascia and wheels, plus an aerodynamic package that includes a front splitter and an oversized roof spoiler. There are also driving lights mounted to the grille panel, as well as sport seats in the cabin.
Given the performance focus, the Mustang Mach-E Rally will likely employ the most powerful powertrain configuration offered in the Mustang Mach-E. Currently found in the GT Performance grade, the dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain is rated at 480 hp.
There will most likely be a few chassis upgrades, too, including potentially a slight increase in ride height given the need for off-road capability.
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2023-07-14T20:59:49+00:00
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Scientists are finally publishing all the details of what happened when a NASA spacecraft smashed into an asteroid to try to push it off course in September of 2022.
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Scientists are finally publishing all the details of what happened when a NASA spacecraft smashed into an asteroid to try to push it off course in September of 2022.
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2023-03-01T23:24:11+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of migrants encountered at the southern border fell 50% during the last three days compared with the days leading up to the end of a key pandemic-era regulation, U.S. officials said Monday.
But a high number of migrants are still in U.S. custody, although the number has fallen “significantly” since last week, said Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security.
The ability of U.S. Border Patrol to hold migrants has been a key concern as more migrants came to the border in the days leading up to the end of immigration restrictions linked to the pandemic, referred to as Title 42. The administration is facing a lawsuit aimed at curtailing its ability to release migrants from custody even when facilities are over capacity.
At one point last week, more than 27,000 migrants were in custody along the border, a number that may top 45,000 by the end of May if the powers to more quickly release migrants from custody when facilities are over capacity are curtailed, said Matthew Hudak, deputy Border Patrol chief, in a court filing last week related to the lawsuit.
Nunez-Neto said border officials had been encountering a little less than 5,000 people a day since Title 42 expired at midnight Thursday and new U.S. enforcement measures went into effect Friday. He did not give exact numbers.
“It’s still too early to draw firm conclusions. We are closely watching what’s happening. We are confident that the plan that we have developed across the U.S. government to address these flows will work over time,” said Nunez-Neto.
He credited the U.S. planning as well as enforcement measures Mexico and Guatemala have carried out in recent days along their own southern borders. He gave no details about what those two countries were doing.
The head of the U.S. Border Patrol, Raul Ortiz, said on Twitter on Monday that his agents had apprehended 14,752 people over the past 72 hours; that averages out to 4,917 per day.
The figures given Monday are sharply below the 10,000-plus encountered on three days last week as migrants rushed to get in before new policies to restrict asylum took effect.
Title 42 allowed U.S. officials to quickly expel migrants without letting them seek asylum, but it also carried no consequences for those who entered the country and were expelled. In the leadup to the end of Title 42, the U.S. introduced tough enforcement measures to discourage people from just arriving at the border, encouraging them instead to use one of the pathways the U.S. has created to facilitate migration.
Many migrants, worried about these tough enforcement measures, came before Title 42 expired.
The U.S. is in litigation about whether it can release migrants without what’s called a “notice to appear.” Usually migrants who are released into the United States — as opposed to those held in custody or immediately expelled — get a “notice to appear,” which includes a court date and some type of monitoring with immigration officials. But it can take up to two hours to process a single person for this, potentially choking Border Patrol holding facilities when they’re at capacity.
Since 2021 the U.S. has often released migrants from custody with instructions to report to an immigration office in 60 days. It’s a process that takes only 20 minutes but it’s come under attack by those who say it doesn’t offer enough oversight. On Thursday a Florida court temporarily put an end to the process, following news reports that the administration was using it to relieve overcrowding in Border Patrol facilities; the administration is appealing that decision. On Monday the judge, in a preliminary injunction, narrowed the order so it only applies to migrants who say they plan to stay in Florida until their court hearings.
DHS said in a court filing Monday that it had released 6,413 individuals under the quicker release policy before the judge’s order temporarily ending it was put in place.
In court filings last week, U.S. authorities said they cannot confidently estimate how many people will cross the border. Hudak said authorities predict arrests will spike to between 12,000 and 14,000 a day. Hudak also noted that intelligence reports failed to quickly flag a “singular surge” of 18,000 predominantly Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021.
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2023-05-16T16:59:02+00:00
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Faurecia Aptoide Automotive, the leading Automotive App Store, is partnering up with Vector Unit, to bring a new dynamic gaming experience to the automotive environment.
LISBON, Portugal, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faurecia Aptoide is a joint venture between Forvia, one of the world's leading automotive technology companies, and Aptoide, one of the largest independent Android App Stores. Faurecia and Aptoide joined forces in 2019 to develop and operate Android App Store solutions for the global automotive market. Vector Unit are the creators of Beach Buggy Racing, a distinguished racing game series with 200M+ downloads on mobile phones and game consoles.
With the work Faurecia Aptoide and Vector Unit are doing together, drivers around the world will have the chance to play the Beach Buggy Racing game in their car, directly on the infotainment system. This partnership stands as a great opportunity to develop a more fun and dynamic car environment, where vehicle users will have access to different sources of entertainment on their dashboard.
Thijs van Herkhuizen, General Manager at Faurecia Aptoide, states: "Partnering with Vector Unit is incredibly exciting as Faurecia Aptoide is creating a diverse and complete connected automotive environment. Bringing Beach Buggy Racing on board to allow vehicle users around the world to play such a well-known game directly from their infotainment system is a testimony of the entertainment capabilities of the next-gen cars."
Matt Small, CEO at Vector Unit, declares: "Our passion is to create fun games, and we want to bring those games to whatever device our customers want to play them on, whether it's dedicated game consoles, mobile phones – or cars. We see automotive gaming as the next frontier."
Vector Unit joins 250+ applications on Faurecia Aptoide's apps portfolio, making the racing game available to millions of vehicle users worldwide, while entering this new automotive experience.
About Faurecia Aptoide
Faurecia Aptoide is a joint venture between FORVIA and Aptoide. FORVIA comprises the complementary technology and industrial strengths of Faurecia and HELLA. With over 300 industrial sites and 77 R&D centers, 150,000 people, including more than 35,000 engineers across 40+ countries, FORVIA provides a unique and comprehensive approach to the automotive challenges of today and tomorrow. Composed of 6 business groups with 24 product lines, and a strong IP portfolio of over 14,000 patents, FORVIA is focused on becoming the preferred innovation and integration partner for OEMs worldwide. FORVIA aims to be a change maker committed to foreseeing and making the mobility transformation happen.
Aptoide is the 3rd largest Android App Store in the world and is the game-changing Android App Store. With over 300 million users, 7 billion downloads and 1 million apps, Aptoide provides an alternative way to discover apps and games, with no geo-restrictions and one of the best malware detection systems in the market.
Faurecia Aptoide already counts with 250+ app partners and it has been chosen by multiple OEMs as their App Store solution.
More about Faurecia Aptoide: www.faurecia-aptoide.com
About Vector Unit
Vector Unit is an independent NorCal developer specializing in action-packed arcade and racing games. Titles include Riptide GP: Renegade, Beach Buggy Racing, and MouseBot: Escape From CatLab.
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2022-12-13T06:50:18+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/12/13/faurecia-aptoide-vector-unit-partner-up-bring-beach-buggy-racing-automotive/
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A WINTER STORM WARNING continues for extreme southeast Montana.
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY continues for parts of eastern Montana.
It has long felt cold and snowy so far this year but Mother Nature will finally flip the switch as warmer weather is heading towards Montana. The pattern is about to flip but not before one more chilly day with scattered snow showers. Wednesday will start out mostly sunny but have increasing clouds and scattered snow showers across most of western and central Montana. There will be a significant amount of instability in the air leading to widespread convective snow showers. Some of these snow showers could briefly be heavy through the afternoon into the evening. An accumulation of a coating in the lower elevations and 1-2" in the mountains is possible. Highs will be in the 30s and 40s. West wind will gust higher than 20mph. Thursday will start to get warmer for most of the state. Skies will be mostly cloudy for western Montana and just along and east of the Continental Divide. Central and eastern Montana will be mostly sunny. Highs will generally reach the 40s and 50s, with 30s in far northeast Montana and in the mountains. Good Friday will be mostly cloudy with highs in the 40s and 50s. A strong southwest wind will blow across the plains. Saturday the warming trend continues with highs in the 50s to low 60s. There will be more cloud cover across western Montana than the eastern side. Easter Sunday looks magnificent. Skies will feature a lot of sunshine and temperatures will warm through the 50s to low 60s. Wind will be strong across the plains and on the Divide, but Easter Egg hunts will not have to be in the snow this year. It might just be a little muddy or soggy in the yard from melting snow. Minor flooding is a possibility through the weekend into early next week. While the warmth is welcomed, too much of a good thing could be bad, meaning if it got warm and stayed really warm for a while that could lead to more significant flooding. It does look like this warm-up will cool off some on Tuesday with a cold front moving through. Temperatures will drop back down into the 40s and 50s with a chance of snow showers around midweek. This cool-down will slow down the melt, which is good news.
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2023-04-05T00:18:44+00:00
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https://www.ktvh.com/weather/flipping-the-switch-to-warm
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2022-12-15T07:23:43+00:00
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CHICAGO, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Bank of America Chicago Marathon announced its full elite field for the 45th running of the event. One of the deepest, most-decorated assemblies of athletes in race history, including all four defending champions, will come together to continue the tradition of competitive racing on Sunday, October 8.
"Chicago has been home to world-records, historic debuts and has served as an introduction to runners who became legends of the sport," said Executive Race Director Carey Pinkowski. "As we prepare to celebrate a landmark year in the race's history, we anticipate historic performances that we will talk about for years to come."
A regular podium finisher in the Abbott World Marathon Majors over the last two years, Benson Kipruto of Kenya will defend his title in the men's race. Kipruto broke away in the 25th mile last year to win in 2:04:24, the fourth fastest time ever in Chicago. Should Kipruto win again, he'll be the first back-to-back men's open field champion since the late Sammy Wanjiru in 2010.
Known for breaking his competitors with his top end speed in the race's final miles, Kipruto will face perhaps his toughest competition yet when he lines up alongside the second-fastest man in history. Fellow Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum will make his U.S. marathon debut in Chicago. Kiptum won the 2023 London Marathon, only his second marathon ever, in 2:01:25, just 16 seconds shy of Eliud Kipchoge's world record.
Looking to upset the headliners is Bashir Abdi of Belgium. Abdi is the marathon bronze medalist from the 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Championships. He won the Rotterdam Marathon in April. Chicago's 2021 champion Seifu Tura of Ethiopia will return for the third consecutive year. Tura was runner-up to Kipruto in 2022.
After running the second-fastest marathon debut in American history in Chicago last year, Conner Mantz will return to lead the American men's field. Mantz will be chasing the Paris 2024 standard of 2:08:10, just six seconds faster than his finishing time last fall. He'll be joined by Galen Rupp, the 2017 Bank of America Chicago Marathon champion and the only American man to win the race in the last 20 years. Rupp, the second fastest American marathoner of all-time and the 2016 Olympic Marathon bronze medalist, was the 2021 Chicago runner-up.
Among the other top men in the field are Dawit Wolde (ETH), Daniel Do Nascimento (BRA), John Korir (KEN), and Americans Matt McDonald, Frank Lara and Chicago's own Colin Mickow.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland set the course record when he won the men's wheelchair division for the third time at the 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. He'll return to defend that title and record, but he will have to hold off three-time Chicago champion Daniel Romanchuk (USA) who was runner up to Hug last year. Aaron Pike (USA) and Sho Watanbe (JPN) who were third and fourth last year respectively, return in 2023, along with five-time Chicago winner Ernst Van Dyk (RSA) who is in his final year of competition. Jetze Plat (NED) will make his Chicago Marathon debut after placing second and third at this year's London and Boston Marathons, respectively.
As previously announced, the women's elite field will be led by 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Champion Ruth Chepngetich (KEN), American record holder Emily Sisson and 2023 London Marathon winner Sifan Hassan (NED). Joining one of the most competitive women's fields in marathon history is Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya. Jepkosgei, winner of the 2021 London Marathon and 2019 New York City Marathon will make her Chicago debut. Also making her Chicago debut is Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia. One of the most decorated athletes of all-time, Dibaba has held six world records from the 1500m to the 5000m. She made her marathon debut in Amsterdam last fall placing second in 2:18:05.
Along with Sisson, the American contingency features four of the country's brightest marathon stars. Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel will take to the streets of Chicago for the first time. In her most recent marathon finish, Seidel made history as the fastest American woman to ever run the New York City Marathon when she placed 4th in 2:24:42 in 2021. Two-time Olympian and 2018 Boston Marathon Champion Des Linden is coming back to Chicago for the first time in 13 years. Linden last raced the Bank of America Chicago Marathon in 2010, placing second. Emma Bates, who placed fifth in this year's Boston Marathon in 2:22:10, returns to Chicago vying for another podium finish. Bates secured two top five finishes in her previous Chicago performances, placing 4th in 2019 and second in 2021. Rounding out the top American competitors is 2020 Olympian Aliphine Tuliamuk who will make her Chicago Marathon debut. Tuliamuk, the winner of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon, was the top American finisher at the 2022 New York City Marathon and placed 11th in Boston in April with a new personal best time.
Other notable competitors in the women's field include Ethiopia's Ababel Yesheneh and Americans Nell Rojas, Sara Vaughn and Dakotah Lindwurm.
The women's wheelchair division includes the return of 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Champion Susannah Scaroni of the United States. Last year, Chicago was the beginning of a winning streak for Scaroni who broke the tape at the most recent New York City and Boston Marathons. Scaroni will face two of the greatest competitors of all-time. Nine-time Chicago champion Tatyana McFadden will be seeking her 10th victory. The American was runner-up last year and set the course record in her 2017 victory. Manuela Schär of Switzerland who withdrew from last year's race will attempt her third Chicago win. Schär is the 2018 and 2019 Chicago champion.
2022 Berlin Marathon winner Catherine Debrunner (SUI), Merle Menje (GER) and American Paralympian Jenna Fesemyer will also be among the top contenders.
Media interested in covering the 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon can apply for media credentials now through Friday, September 8. Visit chicagomarathon.com/mediacredentials for more information on the media credential application.
More than 45,000 participants will take part in the 45th edition of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, October 8, 2023. For the latest event updates, registered participants and community members are encouraged to visit the Event FAQ which is available at chicagomarathon.com.
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About the Bank of America Chicago Marathon
The Bank of America Chicago Marathon welcomes thousands of participants from more than 100 countries and all 50 states, including a world-class elite field, top regional and Masters runners, race veterans, debut marathoners and charity participants. The race's iconic course takes participants through 29 vibrant neighborhoods on an architectural and cultural tour of Chicago. The 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, a member of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, will start and finish in Grant Park on Sunday, October 8, 2023. In advance of the race, a three-day Abbott Health & Fitness Expo will be held at McCormick Place Convention Center on Thursday, October 5, Friday, October 6, and Saturday, October 7. For more information about the event and how to get involved, go to chicagomarathon.com.
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2023-07-25T14:43:56+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/07/25/defending-champions-lead-competitive-field-looking-continue-tradition-record-breaking-performances-streets-chicago/
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is pledging $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve the speed of internet for rural residents, tribes and businesses in remote parts of 11 states from Alaska to Arkansas.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters Wednesday, ahead of the Thursday announcement, that farmers, store owners, schoolchildren and people seeking telehealth medical checkups will benefit from the ReConnect and Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan and Loan Guarantee programs.
“Connectivity is critical to economic success in rural America,” Vilsack said in a statement tallying the number of people who could be helped at about 31,000 in states also including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota and Texas.
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The statement said the Department of Agriculture plans more spending on high-speed internet in coming weeks as part of a $65 billion Biden administration plan to expand affordable, high-speed internet to all communities in the U.S.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto joined Vilsack and Mitch Landrieu, White House infrastructure coordinator, to point to the effect the grants and loans are expected to have in the northern Nevada community of Lovelock, home to fewer than 2,000 people, and the Lovelock Indian Colony.
“There is a need for this connectivity on so many levels,” Cortez Masto said, “whether it brings telehealth, telemedicine, e-learning, workforce development. A connection is so important for so many Nevadans.”
Internet provider Uprise LLC will receive more than $27 million to connect almost 4,900 people, 130 businesses, 22 farms and seven public schools in Lovelock and surrounding Pershing County, officials said.
Cortez Masto, a Democrat seeking reelection in November, said federal funds will offer eligible Nevada residents a $30-per-month discount on their internet bill discount and up to $100 toward a computer.
Elsewhere, Midvale Telephone Co. will get $10.6 million to bring high-speed fiber-optic internet to people, businesses and farms in four central Idaho counties — Elmore, Blaine, Custer and Boise — and five southeast Arizona counties: Gila, Graham, Pinal, Cochise and Pima.
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The Arkansas Telephone Co. will receive $12 million to connect almost 1,000 people, 10 businesses and 145 farms to high-speed internet in Searcy and Van Buren counties, with low-cost with voice and voice/data starter packages.
Alaska Power & Telephone, Unicom Inc. and Cordova Telephone Cooperative, combined, are slated to receive almost $55.4 million in to connect almost 3,300 people, 118 businesses and seven schools in remote areas by fiber-optic network.
In New Mexico, Continental Divide Electric Cooperative and ENMP Telephone Cooperative are due to receive a combined $18 million in grants to install affordable fiber networks, and Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative will get a nearly $29 million loan to connect “socially vulnerable communities” in Chaves, Eddy, Lincoln and Otero counties.
Vilsack said the programs will particularly help residents in what he called “persistent poverty counties,” where he said most have access to broadband, but about one in three don’t have high-speed networks needed for telemedicine and distance learning.
He said the goal was “to do what is necessary to make sure every rural resident, regardless of ZIP code has access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet.”
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2022-07-29T03:38:07+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/28/nation/feds-401-million-will-add-high-speed-internet-rural-us-places/
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Acquisition significantly expands Flagship's portfolio of biomarker and analytics services
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagship Biosciences, Inc., a leader in spatial biology and biomarker analytics services, announced the acquisition of Interpace Pharma Solutions® ("IPS"), a division of Interpace Biosciences and provider of cytogenetic, molecular pathology, and genomic profiling solutions. This acquisition follows a growth equity investment in Flagship from Ampersand Capital Partners, BroadOak Capital Partners, and Research Corporation Technologies. The strategic combination of Flagship and IPS creates a full repertoire of biomarker lab and analytic services to advance precision therapeutic development and adds a state-of-the-art laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Flagship Biosciences offers cutting-edge spatial biology services, powered by its patented AI image analysis technology that improves the accuracy of tissue-based pathology by delivering thousands of measurements on every cell and enabling the discovery of biomarkers that might be missed using traditional histology methods. Experts in pathology and regulatory strategy, the team at Flagship offers advanced end-to-end biomarker and analytics services to support drug trials, biomarker discovery, and clinical diagnostics. They also offer guidance in the development of companion diagnostics.
To better serve their biopharma and diagnostics clients, Flagship Biosciences will integrate the technologies and services of IPS to support all phases of clinical trials and diagnostic development in immuno-oncology, hematology, solid tumors, and various non-oncology sectors. Flagship Biosciences' expanded services menu will now include advanced molecular biomarker solutions, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, genomics, and bioinformatics solutions. New genomic profiling capabilities will enhance biomarker characterization and improve patient stratification for clinical trials and treatment selection.
"By combining these organizations, we create a single-source provider offering a larger range of biomarker and analytics services while maintaining and expanding the proven expertise of each laboratory," said Trevor Johnson, CEO at Flagship Biosciences. "This will allow our customers to gain deeper insights into their clinical projects through multiple biomarker testing paradigms with cohesive data and analytical capabilities, managed in a simplified project workflow."
To learn more about Flagship Biosciences, please visit flagshipbio.com.
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Flagship Biosciences, Inc. is a technology-driven tissue analysis services company delivering the most accurate and informative data available. We are revolutionizing tissue analysis to improve drug development and diagnostics using the power of AI with a consultative approach. Our services and technology dramatically improve on the data and interpretation from traditional pathology methods, eliminating variability associated with typical tissue assessments, and bringing new insights to tissue analysis results. We provide expert scientific consultation for every client. Our team interprets results, contextualizes tissue biology, and identifies the best course for success. For more information, please visit flagshipbio.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Based in Research Triangle Park, NC, Interpace Pharma Solutions provides complex molecular analysis services supporting clinical trials and diagnostic development. These services include genomic profiling, biomarker solutions, project and data management, bioinformatics analysis, and biorepository services.
Founded in 1988, Ampersand is a middle market private equity firm with more than $3 billion of assets under management dedicated to growth-oriented investments in the healthcare sector. With offices in Boston, MA and Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ampersand leverages a unique blend of private equity and operating experience to build value and drive superior long-term performance alongside its portfolio company management teams. Ampersand has helped build numerous market-leading companies across each of the firm's core healthcare sectors. Additional information about Ampersand is available at www.ampersandcapital.com.
BroadOak Capital Partners, with headquarters in Washington, DC, and San Francisco, is a life-sciences focused boutique financial institution that provides direct investment and investment banking services to companies in research tools and consumables, diagnostics, biopharma services, and adjacent markets. BroadOak has led or participated in investments in more than fifty companies across multiple funds and investment vehicles. Learn more about BroadOak at broadoak.com.
Research Corporation Technologies is a Tucson, Arizona based technology investment and management company that provides funding and development for promising life science and biomedical companies. RCT has assets of more than $500 million to advance technology and product development through flexible, long-term investment options. To learn more about RCT, see www.rctech.com.
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Bus driver following GPS takes students to wrong state
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) - A series of wrong turns caused quite a panic when a new school bus driver accidentally took her students to an entirely different state.
Students headed to La Salle Academy in Providence, Rhode Island, were surprised when their bus passed a sign Monday that said “Welcome to Connecticut.”
The First Student bus company says a new driver punched the right address but wrong city into a GPS while transporting students. Instead of heading to the school in Providence, she drove toward Sterling, Connecticut, a 30-mile difference.
Students were surprised to see on their GPS that they were headed far from the city and began texting their parents pictures of the rural area they were in.
The wrong-way bus ride went on for nearly an hour, long enough for at least one parent to track the bus down and demand their child be let off.
The bus driver did not let any students off and called police, who responded to sort out the incident. It turned out the driver was just unfamiliar with the route and followed her GPS, which she believed was taking her to the correct location.
Police say the children were never in any danger and no one was being kidnapped. A detective escorted the bus back to Providence.
The students were upset and late to class but safe.
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Erling Haaland: ‘My super strength is scoring goals,’ says Manchester City striker after record-breaking Champions League performance
By Ben Morse, CNN
Erling Haaland turned in another record-breaking performance as he scored five goals in Manchester City’s emphatic victory over RB Leipzig in the Champions League.
Haaland score a first-half hat-trick before adding two more goals after the interval in City’s 7-0 win over the German side to complete an 8-1 aggregate victory over two legs in their last-16 tie.
Haaland was given a standing ovation by fans at the Etihad Stadium when he was substituted in the 63rd minute on Tuesday.
İlkay Gündoğan and Kevin De Bruyne grabbed the other two goals as City cruised into the Champions League quarterfinals.
But the evening was all about Haaland and his seemingly insatiable desire to put the ball in the back of the net.
The 22-year-old surpassed numerous records over the course of the game; notably becoming City’s highest goalscorer in a single season as broke Tommy Johnson’s record of 38 goals set in 1928/29.
The Norwegian international now has 39 goals in 36 games — and it’s only March.
Haaland also became the fastest and youngest player to reach 30 goals in the Champions League, as well as the youngest player to score five times in a single Champions League game.
Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano are the only other players to have scored five goals in a Champions League match.
“My super strength is scoring goals,” Haaland told BT Sport. “A lot of it is being quick in the mind and trying to put it where the goalkeeper is not.
“I was so tired after my celebrations,” he then quipped.
City manager Pep Guardiola lavished praised on the prolific Haaland.
“Five goals, what can I say?” Guardiola said. “I said many times, he’s a joyful guy. His mood in the locker room is always happiness.
“He is a gift to all of us. He is a huge competitor, his mentality is there. He scored five goals which is not easy.”
The Norwegian striker now has five hat-tricks this season and looks set to smash the record for the most goals in a Premier League season — he currently has 28 and the record is 34 held by Alan Shearer and Andy Cole, with City still to play 11 league games.
And it wasn’t just the volume of goals which astounded on-lookers on Tuesday, it was the variety of the finishes.
From decisively slotting home from the penalty spot for his opener to being first to every rebound or loss clearance to punish Leipzig the irrepressible Haaland showed why he is such a goalscoring predator.
Guardiola, who was Messi’s coach at Barcelona in 2012 when he scored five goals against Bayer Leverkusen, said he didn’t know at the time when he substituted Haaland that the Norwegian had equaled the Argentine’s record.
“If he achieves this milestone at 22, his life will be boring!” Guardiola said. “Now he has a target to do it in the future, that’s why I made the substitution.
“I didn’t know it happened with Messi, they told me. I made a substitution because normally when a game is over and I want use as many players as possible.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry thought he had a perfect plan, until it backfired.
The reigning NBA Finals MVP called a timeout the defending champions didn’t have — and nearly cost Golden State a crucial playoff game.
The Warriors held on to beat the Kings anyway.
“I ain’t gonna lie, I thought it was the smartest play in the world,” Curry said after a 126-125 victory that evened the best-of-seven first-round series with Sacramento at 2-all.
“When I grabbed the ball and turned around and saw the trap, realized there was no real outlets instead of turning it over, it’s kind of the heady play but it turned out not to be. I looked over at the bench and everyone was shaking their head, so it was an unfortunate situation in that respect.”
Coach Steve Kerr took responsibility for the ill-advised timeout.
“We took the challenge and when the challenge was unsuccessful, as we were exiting the huddle, it’s on me,” Kerr said. “I’ve got to remind the guys, we’re out of timeouts and I didn’t say that, and so Steph wasn’t aware. That’s on me for not making that clear.”
The most famous excessive timeout in basketball history came in the NCAA championship game on April 5, 1993, when Michigan’s Chris Webber called a timeout the Wolverines didn’t have late in a loss to North Carolina. Webber went on to star for the Kings.
Curry — who scored 32 points — called the timeout with 42.4 seconds left and Malik Monk made the technical free throw to pull Sacramento within 126-122 then De’Aaron Fox hit a 3 with 28.7 seconds remaining. Harrison Barnes missed a 3 at the buzzer that would have won the game for the Kings.
“Thankfully we came away with the win but good learning lesson on how important all those details are,” Curry said. “We know it but knowing timeouts, knowing the situation, it was just an unfortunate sequence right there.”
Golden State had unsuccessfully challenged an offensive foul called against Kevon Looney with 2:14 remaining, losing a timeout.
Looney rebounded a miss by Monk and passed the ball to Curry before the miscue. Looney said nobody was aware of the timeout count.
“I was actually surprised like everybody else,” Looney said.
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TORONTO, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Kognitiv Corporation ("Kognitiv"), a global SaaS company inspiring customer loyalty through data-driven personalization, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jon Ott as Chief Revenue Officer, leading Kognitiv's sales and account management teams.
Jon is a proven sales leader in the SaaS space, known for successfully building and leading high-performance client-facing teams within a highly competitive landscape. With nearly 20 years of experience in technology, enterprise solutions, sales and account management, Jon is a transformative leader who is passionate about data and the impact it can have on the ROI of customer-centric companies.
"I am incredibly excited to welcome Jon to the Kognitiv executive leadership team," said Tim Sullivan, chief executive officer of Kognitiv. "Jon's strengths as a high-performance sales leader will be invaluable in growing our commercial team, driving revenue growth, and fostering deeper relationships with our clients."
Jon most recently served as the area vice president of sales at Amperity, a customer data management company that uses AI to enable identity resolution for enterprise companies. Prior to Amperity, Jon spent over a decade at Salesforce, including pivotal roles driving revenue for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud and the Salesforce Data Management Platform.
Jon is passionately people-first in his approach to life and work, which has contributed to his success leading and scaling world-class sales teams during his time at Salesforce. He is currently an executive member of Pavilion, an international group of sales, marketing and customer success leaders, and is a council member of Ascendant Network, a community of progressive executives leading digital transformation and elevating the customer experience.
"I am delighted to be joining the extraordinary team at Kognitiv, which is trusted by some of the world's most well-known brands and delivers some of the best loyalty programs out there," said Jon. "With an innovative product roadmap and compelling new products to bring to market, it's clear that Kognitiv is poised for growth, and I couldn't be more excited to be leading the global team responsible for revenue."
Kognitiv inspires lifetime loyalty by helping brands build deeper relationships with their customers. Their intelligent, omnichannel SaaS platform delivers data-driven personalization across the entire customer lifecycle, enabling superior marketing effectiveness and consumer engagement.
In June 2020, Kognitiv and Aimia's Loyalty Solutions business came together to become a global loyalty solutions leader. Today Kognitiv serves a broad portfolio of global brand customers and has employees in over 20 countries. With decades of loyalty solutions experience, Kognitiv has the history, the technology and the expertise to help marketing professionals stay ahead of the customer expectation curve.
Kognitiv's largest investors include Aimia Inc., a publicly traded holding company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: AIM).
Learn more at www.kognitiv.com.
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Peru’s dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest
QUINUA, Peru (AP) — This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that secured South America’s independence from Spain in the 19th century.
But on Saturday, the streets of Quinua were overrun by weeping residents commemorating a far more senseless loss: the death of Clemer Rojas, a 23-year-old student who left his parents’ home Thursday to protest the ousting of President Pedro Castillo and never returned.
A funeral procession of a few thousand peasant farmers, led by a steady drumbeat and people speaking in their native Quechua language, carried Rojas’ casket draped in Peru’s red and white flag to a colonial church where a mass was celebrated, and he was later buried in a nearby cemetery. Interspersed amid the crowd were signs calling for the closure of Congress and denouncing caretaker President Dina Boluarte as an “assassin.”
“My son is leaving. Tell me he’s not leaving,” Nilda Garcia, a street vendor, wailed as friends and family members struggled to keep her from falling down.
Rojas died in clashes with the army in the nearby provincial capital of Ayacucho, which has emerged as an unlikely epicenter of unrest in Peru’s still unfolding political crisis. The tumult was triggered by Castillo’s attempt to close Congress — a futile act of gamesmanship widely condemned by the U.S. and others as a self-coup but seen here, in Peru’s long-neglected countryside, as a pride-filled display of defiance against a hostile establishment that never allowed the former rural school teacher to govern since his shock victory 17 months ago.
Boluarte has tried to quell the protests, emphasizing her own humble roots and support for protesters’ demands that elections, scheduled for 2026, be pushed up to next year. At a news conference Saturday, Peru’s first female president delivered extensive remarks in Quechua — a foreign language to past Peruvian presidents — comparing the highway blockades, acts of arson and violent protests engulfing Peru to the invisible, emotional damage suffered by children growing up in a broken home with constantly feuding parents.
“Didn’t you see me walking across the country, filling plazas and looking for votes among brothers and sisters?” said Boluarte, who served as Castillo’s running mate and only broke with him following his attempt to dissolve Congress. “Then why this violence in the streets? I didn’t look to be here. I tried to protect him as much as I could.”
Authorities blame the bloodshed in Ayacucho on a horde of young protesters who on Thursday attacked an army patrol with sharp objects, explosives and homemade weapons as it was racing toward the airport to break up an unruly crowd.
Nine people died that day — more than a third of the total deaths reported nationwide — as soldiers hustled from the barracks as part of a 30-day state of emergency and indiscriminately fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammo into large crowds.
In a tragic irony, Rojas was killed by a fellow soldier’s bullet. Like his father, still a teenager he joined joined the Peruvian army, which recruits heavily from impoverished, Quechua-speaking homes.
“He wasn’t armed,” says his father, Reider Rojas, who was dressed in black. “They fired at point-blank range. The autopsy said a bullet fired by a Galil rifle used by the army pierced his liver and lungs.”
In his hometown, Rojas is remembered as a good kid and an avid participant in folk dances around Carnival time who drove a moto taxi to pay for his studies at a vocational school.
Ayacucho’s small size and sclerotic agro-based economy belie the oversized role it has played in Peru’s history.
Once a thriving outpost of the Incan empire, it was vanquished in the 16th century by Spanish colonizers. Centuries later, it was renamed Ayacucho, in reference to the battle where a rebel army led by Venezuelan-born Simon Bolivar gained the definitive upper hand against royalist forces sent from Spain. Its name in native Quechua translates as “corner of death” in honor of the battle’s many casualties.
The region’s poverty — even today 45% of children under the age of 3 suffer from iron deficiency, according to the government — made it a hotbed of clandestine activity for Maoist guerrillas that once terrorized much of Peru. The spread of the Shining Path in decades past, in turn, generated a ferocious backlash by Peru’s military that has forever embittered residents against the ruling elite in the far away capital.
In an echo of past statements stigmatizing residents of Ayacucho to terrorist sympathizers, Jose Williams, who as the head of Congress is next in the line of succession should Boluarte resign, blamed the violence on a “black hand” operating behind the scenes.
“The same behavior is appearing in one place, then another,” said Williams, a retired army general. “Something is behind the scenes leading us to chaos.”
In recent years, investigators discovered on the abandoned edge of the Los Cabitos barracks outside Ayacucho a giant oven containing shoes, clothes and human remains of more than 100 victims killed during the army’s own macabre killing spree in the 1980s — part of a dirty war estimated to have claimed the lives of 70,000 people across the country between 1980 and 2000.
That dark past was front and center for the thousands who poured into Ayacucho’s cobblestoned streets Friday — a day after the deadly disturbances — demanding Boluarte’s resignation. Some sang a popular folk song whose lyrics recall an even earlier tragedy here, in 1969, when 20 students protesting against the then-military dictatorship were brutally killed.
“We are returning to those painful years,” said Rocio Leandro, a community leader who was among those who marched Friday seeking justice for those killed. “They consider us third- and fourth-class people.”
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AP Writer Joshua Goodman contributed to this report from Miami.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Champaign County Crime Stoppers is asking the public for help in identifying a man who robbed Champaign’s Five Guys restaurant last month.
Officials said that on Feb. 7, a man walked into the Five Guys, located at 901 West Anthony Drive, just before 9:40 p.m. and displayed a gun. He demanded money from the cash register and subsequently left with $400.
The suspect was described as being a Black male, weighing approximately 170 pounds and approximately 6′ 4″ tall. He was last seen wearing all-black clothing and may have left in a dark-colored SUV. It appeared that the suspect had a tattoo of flames on his right hand.
Anyone who has information regarding this or any other crime in Champaign County is asked to contact Crime Stoppers using one of three ways: calling 217-373-8477, visiting their website or using the P3 Tips app. All tips are 100% anonymous when contacting Crime Stoppers and can be rewarded with up to $5,000 if an arrest is made using the information provided.
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2023-03-20T20:01:16+00:00
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Continental Europe, led by Francesco Molinari raised aloft the Hero Cup as they beat Great Britain and Ireland in the inaugural competition on Sunday.
Now he wants back in for an even bigger team event in golf -- the Ryder Cup, being held in his native Italy later this year.
"It's a great motivation for me," Molinari, who captained Continental Europe to a 14.5-10.5 win over Britain & Ireland, said.
"[The Ryder Cup] is a long way away, there's a lot of golf to play and I need to focus on my game, which is much better than it has been. Being in Rome will be incredible."
Molinari led from the front in Abu Dhabi, scoring 3.5 points for the week -- tied for the most across the four sessions -- and laying the platform in the Sunday singles by taking down Shane Lowry, the highest-ranked player in the event, in the first match with a 3&2 win.
Continental Europe started the day leading 8.5-6.5 and won the singles 6-4, with Adrian Meronk holing a 25-foot putt at No. 18 to claim the clinching point. It was the Polish player's only one of the week.
The renewal of the competition -- formerly called The Seve Trophy -- gave European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald a chance to assess a new generation of players, given that a number of veterans like Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia are likely to be absent in Rome because they play in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf league.
Donald knows all about the 40-year-old Molinari, a major champion and a star of Europe's Ryder Cup win outside Paris in 2018 when forming an inseparable and unbeatable pairing with Tommy Fleetwood.
Molinari's form has dipped since then and he has even dropped outside the world's top 200, but he believes he is on his way back.
Donald will have learned more about another Italian -- 25-year-old Guido Migliozzi -- and other younger players.
Molinari's victory over Lowry, who finished the week with zero points, was followed by Perez beating Jordan Smith 4&2, Hojgaard having a 1-up win over Seamus Power and Migliozzi -- in the last match -- beating Richard Mansell 4&3.
It was Meronk's 1-up win over Callum Shinkwin that pushed Continental Europe past 13 points -- the target needed for victory.
"I would say European golf is in very good hands," Molinari said.
MacIntyre is growing as a future star of European golf and beat Alex Noren 5&3 to finish a good week for the Scot. Fleetwood had a 3&2 win over Thomas Pieters in the second match out, then spent the rest of the afternoon at Abu Dhabi Golf Club supporting his teammates.
In the trophy ceremony, Fleetwood congratulated Continental Europe "through gritted teeth," he said, smiling -- and tried to look at the bigger picture.
"Back in September nearly two years ago, one of the first things we spoke about was the chance to play more team golf and have that opportunity," he said.
"The passion from all of us and the competitiveness came out."
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Three giant otter pups were recently born at Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP) in the United Kingdom, a big win for the endangered species.
The triplets were born on March 27. It is too early to know their sex, but proud mama otter Alexandra and her pups are doing well.
This isn’t the otter mama’s first litter — Alexandra and her partner Orimar welcomed another set of triplets just last year in 2022. Before that, Alexandra welcomed her first baby and the very first otter pup to be born at the wildlife park, Bonita, in 2020. Now the eldest sibling of seven, Bonita is helping Mom by looking after the older set of triplets.
“Mum Alexandra is very relaxed this time — you can see she is an experienced mother,” Kelsie Wood, YWP’s aquatics team leader, said on the YWP website. “Meanwhile, Bonita, the eldest sibling, is taking charge of the last litter of triplets born in February last year so that Alex can concentrate on the new cubs. It is a real family effort! We can’t wait to see them all grow up together.”
YWP has more giant river otters than any other wildlife sanctuary or zoo, with these three new pups bringing their total to nine.
“We are overjoyed at welcoming a second litter of giant otters in such a short time,” Wood said. “Giant otters don’t always breed easily and every birth is a significant and valuable one for the breeding program.”
These rare otters are only found in the wild in rivers in South America, according to Birmingham Zoo. Giant river otters are an endangered species. Their habitat has been reduced and degraded, and overfishing by humans can leave the otters with little to eat.
YWP’s Wildlife Foundation has partnered with Instituto Araguaia in Brazil in a three-year project aimed at protecting the otter habitat and preventing poaching.
“It is important we carry on the work to protect otters,” Wildlife Foundation Trustee Cheryl Williams said in a statement on the YWP’s website. “Despite all that has been done, giant otters remain at risk. The Foundation has been able to carry out this work thanks to the generosity of visitors and let’s hope that more people are inspired to support our work when they see the delightful new cubs at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.”
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WASHINGTON, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning Without Tears, a leading early childhood education company, is announcing new literacy initiatives at International Society for Technology in Education's ISTELive 22 conference and expo. Widely seen as the leading EdTech event for the Education industry, ISTELive 22 is taking place June 26-29 both virtually and in-person. After being shut down for years due to the pandemic, ISTELive 22 is generating a great deal of buzz and excitement in the education world.
"Our presence at ISTELive 22 is expanding as is our portfolio of powerful solutions," explained CEO Terry Nealon. "Learning Without Tears saw significant growth and interest during the pandemic, and our teams have responded to the growing and changing needs of the market with exciting new products and professional learning that are research based, outcomes driven and using all formats, technology, print, manipulatives and services to ensure teachers are best equipped to meet the needs of their students. We will be announcing and presenting new products, new partnerships, greatly enhanced product features, integrated print and digital curricula, and efficacy research that demonstrates the quantifiable effectiveness our products have on successful learning. There is no better place for us to make these exciting announcements than ISTELive 22."
Learning Without Tears will be launching and demonstrating for the first time Phonics, Reading, and MeÔ - a K-3 supplemental phonics program designed to help children learn the skills they need to become proficient readers. This breakthrough literacy program provides an integrated print/digital instruction model and combines the powerful use of technology, assessment and embedded professional learning for teachers. With a partnership with Dublin-based SoapBox Labs - which will also be announced at ISTE - Phonics, Reading, and Me will leverage speech recognition technology to provide first-of-its-kind digital assessments, making it easier for teachers to provide personalized learning paths and instruction for each student. It will be a first introduction for many to the new A-Z Mat Man and MeÒ program, the new assessment for Pre-K in Get Set for SchoolÒ and the new digital assessment teaching for Keyboarding Without TearsÒ. All these programs are supported by new Professional Learning and Development.
"This is a pivotal time in education," Nealon continued. "Students have fallen behind, foundational learning skills like reading have suffered, and teachers are exhausted. For 40 years, Learning Without Tears has leveraged its expertise in early childhood education to meet the needs of teachers and students, and we are continuing to do so today - putting equity and access at the center of our products, so all young students have the opportunity for successful learning and a bright future."
There will be a reception on Monday, June 27 6:30-8:30pm at the Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, where Learning Without Tears' leaders will share exciting information about upcoming news.
Company education experts will be presenting Modern Test Prep for a New Age of Online Assessments– a new approach to prepare students for online assessments on Wednesday, June 29, 9:30-11:00am in the La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 19.
Learning Without Tears will be exhibiting in booth 2848 in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
Learning Without Tears is a leading early education company offering a proven and unique approach to teaching and learning, from crucial readiness skills in Pre-K to foundational writing and typing skills, including handwriting, keyboarding and cursive. The elementary school-level programs benefit all learners with multisensory, developmentally appropriate, proven practices, and are used by millions of students around the world. Learning Without Tears professional development programs deliver early education expertise to thousands of teachers, tutors, and occupational therapists in the US and across the globe.
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BATURAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Soldiers from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia joined a live-fire drill on Friday, part of annual joint combat exercises on Sumatra island amid growing Chinese maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific region.
A total of more than 5,000 personnel from the U.S., Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Singapore are participating in this year’s Super Garuda Shield exercises, making them the largest since they began in 2009.
The expanded drills are seen by China as a threat. Chinese state media have accused the U.S. of building an Indo-Pacific alliance similar to NATO to limit China’s growing military and diplomatic influence in the region.
The United Kingdom, Canada, France, India, Malaysia, South Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and East Timor also sent observers to the exercises, which began early this month.
The U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, Adm. John C. Aquilino, said the 14 nations involved in the training are signaling their stronger ties as China grows increasingly assertive in claiming virtually the entire South China Sea and holds exercises threatening self-ruled Taiwan.
“The destabilizing actions by the People’s Republic of China as it applied to the threatening activities and actions against Taiwan is exactly what we are trying to avoid,” he said at a joint news conference with Indonesian military chief Gen. Andika Perkasa in Baturaja, a coastal town in South Sumatra province.
“We’ll continue to help deliver a free and open Indo-Pacific and be ready when we need to respond to any contingency,” Aquilino said.
Indonesia and China enjoy generally positive ties, but Jakarta has expressed concern about what it sees as Chinese encroachment in its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
Despite its official position as a non-claimant state in the contested South China Sea, Indonesia has been “dragged along” in the territorial dispute since 2010 after China claimed part of Indonesia's exclusive economic zone in the northern region of the Natuna Islands, said Connie Rahakundini Bakrie, a security analyst at the University of Indonesia.
The edge of the exclusive economic zone overlaps with Beijing’s unilaterally declared “nine-dash line” demarking its claims in the South China Sea.
Increased activities by Chinese coast guard vessels and fishing boats in the area have unnerved Jakarta, prompting Indonesia's navy to conduct a large drill in July 2020 in waters around Natuna at the southern portion of the South China Sea.
Indonesia sees the current exercises with the U.S. as a deterrent in defense of the Natuna Islands, while for Washington, the drills are part of efforts to forge a united front against China’s military buildup in the South China Sea, Bakrie said.
"Indonesia wants to send the message that it is fully prepared for any high-intensity conflict in the South China Sea area,” she said.
The joint combat exercises end Sunday.
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Karmini reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.
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2022-08-12T12:26:41+00:00
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expressnews.com
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Hurricanes 5, Tigers 3
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1. Medicine Hat, Krebs 3 (Wiesblatt, Lee) 12:17.
2. Lethbridge, Wormald 10 (Marques, Shepard) 13:32.
Penalties — St. Martin Mh (hooking) 2:17.
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3. Lethbridge, Marques 3 (Arntsen, Wormald) 6:51.
4. Lethbridge, Zimmer 9 (Laventure, Astashevich) 14:02.
5. Medicine Hat, MacNeil 4 (Smythe, St. Martin) 14:21.
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6. Medicine Hat, Boehm 11 (Bocharov) 17:59.
Penalties — Wormald Let (slashing) 1:13; Astashevich Let (tripping) 11:43.
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7. Lethbridge, Zimmer 10 (Jones) 9:36.
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Goal — Medicine Hat: May (L, ). Lethbridge: Meneghin (W, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Medicine Hat: 0-3; Lethbridge: 0-1.
Referees — Ward Pateman, Brody McGrath. Linesmen — Aidan Henderson, Logan Parsons.
Attendance — 5,000 at Lethbridge.
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2022-12-10T06:36:54+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Six people — including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby — were killed in a shooting early Monday at a home in central California, and authorities are searching for at least two suspects, sheriff’s officials said.
Deputies responded around 3:30 a.m. to reports of multiple shots fired at the residence in unincorporated Goshen, just east of Visalia, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said.
“Actually the report was that an active shooter was in the area because of the number of shots that were being fired,” Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told reporters.
Deputies found two victims dead in the street and a third person fatally shot in the doorway of the residence, Boudreaux said.
Three more victims were found inside the home, including a man who was still alive but later died at a hospital, he said.
The sheriff said investigators are searching for at least two suspects. They believe there is a gang connection to the killings. The sheriff’s office conducted a narcotics-related search warrant at the residence last week, Boudreaux said.
“We also believe this was not a random act of violence. We believe this was a targeted family,” he said.
Two of the victims, the young mother and her child, were shot in the head, the sheriff said.
Samuel Pina said Monday that his teenage granddaughter, Alissa Parraz, and her baby, Nycholas Nolan Parraz, were among those killed.
“I can’t wrap my head around what kind of monster would do this,” he told The Associated Press.
Pina said Parraz and her baby were living with her father’s side of the family in Goshen, and that her dad’s uncle, her dad’s cousin, and her grandmother and great-grandmother were also killed.
He said the family is in shock.
“It comes in big waves,” he said.
Goshen is a semi-rural community of about 3,000 residents 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Fresno in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley.
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2023-01-17T07:07:07+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-baby-teen-mom-among-6-killed-in-shooting-at-california-home/
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a practical plate accessory to divide foods and keep them from touching," said one of two inventors, from Las Vegas, Nev., "so we invented the SUPREME FOOD DIVIDE. Our design offers a convenient barrier to prevent different food items, juices, and sauces from contacting one another."
The invention provides an effective way to divide and separate food on a plate. In doing so, it prevents the different food items from touching. As a result, it could improve daily meals. The invention features a practical and secure design that is easy to use, clean and store so it is ideal for individuals with OCD or autism, dieting individuals, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Las Vegas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-LGT-178, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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2023-01-03T01:07:50+00:00
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2023/01/02/inventhelp-inventors-develop-practical-plate-accessory-divide-food-items-lgt-178/
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen have both retained divorce lawyers, multiple outlets reported Tuesday.
While it appears neither has filed for divorce, NBC News notes this could mark the possible end to the couple’s high-profile marriage. The pair have been married since early 2009 and have two children together. Brady has a 15-year-old son from his previous relationship with actor Bridget Moynahan.
In February, Brady decided to retire after 22 seasons and seven Super Bowl titles. However, just a few weeks later, he changed his mind and returned to the sport.
Last month, Bündchen opened up about their relationship in a conversation with Elle Magazine. She expressed concerns about Brady playing another season in the NFL, and said she “would like him to be more present.”
Around the same time, outlets like People and CNN reported the couple were living separately and dealing with “marital issues.”
Brady took an 11-day break during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason training camp, which fueled split rumors.
When Brady returned from the break he told reporters, “I’m 45 years old, man. There’s a lot of s— going on. So you just have to try and figure out life the best you can. You know, it’s a continuous process.”
Brady is off to a slow start on the field by his lofty standards. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback has thrown for 1,058 yards and has six touchdowns through four games. He has just one interception.
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2022-10-05T02:03:00+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/tom-brady-and-gisele-bundchen-reportedly-hire-divorce-attorneys/
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Dozens of Evanston city employees allege the city fosters an unhealthy workplace for its Black employees, citing pay disparities, lack of professional development opportunities and unfair disciplinary measures as primary complaints in a report delivered this month to city officials.
In a report sent to Mayor Daniel Biss, the Evanston City Council and city administration, 25 of the 33 participating staff members say they have been discriminated against or treated differently due to their race.
“Many of us grew up and/or live in this community, so we pay attention to our work environment,” the employees wrote in the report. “Sadly, we commonly see and experience inequitable actions by other city staff that contribute to the marginalization of Black lives, Black bodies and Black voices. We have decided that for this work community to function equitably, silence is no longer an option.”
The report provides supporting data and a proposed action plan for change. It also says the employees bringing forward these allegations come from various departments, educational backgrounds and seniority levels.
Only one of the 33 employees included in the data pool could confidently say they believe the City of Evanston offers a racially equitable workplace, the report states. Additionally, 84.4% of remaining participating employees said they have experienced or witnessed Black employees receive lackluster support, 78.1% experienced or witnessed lacking transparency and 71.9% experienced or witnessed microaggressions. Nearly all of the report’s categories outlining pain points were experienced or witnessed by at least half of its participants.
Another section of the report focused on professional duties. This section states that Black staff members receive fewer opportunities for professional development but 21.2% of the participants could confidently say their professional development has not been limited. Some of the stories included in the report allege Black job candidates have been passed up for white candidates with less experience as well as professional development opportunities.
“I asked about the (city) paying for me to go to school to get a master’s degree in social work instead of their desired field,” one of the report’s participants wrote. “They told me no and then told a white co-worker yes.”
“A white person with no electrician certification was hired as an electrician,” the report alleges. “He did not have the training but was given the job despite Black candidates (with) the certification having expressed their interest.”
The report also includes pay discrepancy complaints. The report states that 76.7% of the city’s 30 highest-paid staff in 2018 were white despite only 60.7% of staff and 58.6% of Evanstonians being white.
The report also provided a list of 20 action items with a proposed timeline for the city to implement changes. These action items include hiring an outside agency to investigate the human resources department, provide equal pay compared to white counterparts, create a pay equity ordinance and implement an affirmative action plan.
The group had several local community organizers, such as former Evanston librarian Lesley Williams and Evanston North Shore National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Michael Nabors, speak on their behalf at the Nov. 14 City Council meeting to avoid individual retaliation from the city.
“Speaking up is a difficult thing. Employees have expressed concerns about retaliation for speaking the truth, this cannot happen,” Nabors said. “The employees that were courageous enough to do something about the long-standing inequitable workplace they have experienced need to be supported.”
The City of Evanston Black Employee Action Group could not be reached for comment on how the study was conducted and paid for.
The city has faced several discrimination-based lawsuits in recent years, including former Community Services Manager Kevin Brown and former Public Works Director Suzette Robinson. Brown, in a September 2022 federal court complaint, alleges that he was fired in November 2019 on grounds of racial discrimination after he voiced racism concerns in a letter to senior city employees that March. The City of Evanston said it fired Brown for abusing city credit card privileges to pay parking tickets issued to outreach workers at Civic Center’s short-term parking lot.
“I … support the Black employees here at the City of Evanston who submitted their report regarding systemic racial discrimination at the city, which has been happening for decades,” Brown said at the Nov. 14 City Council meeting. “I was really quite saddened by the report and even sadder after meeting with some of these employees (and heard) about their fear of retaliation.”
Robinson, like Brown, said she started experiencing issues after expressing concern about how former City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz treated Black employees and residents.
Biss responded to the allegations outlined in the report earlier this month saying an action plan will be put into place.
“The concerns you raise are important and troubling,” Biss wrote. “I have already spoken about this matter with Luke (Stowe) several times since we received your email, and he and I, along with the rest of Council, will be in close contact as he works swiftly to put in place an action plan.”
Evanston City Manager Luke Stowe was not available for comment.
Corey Schmidt is a freelance reporter with Pioneer Press.
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2022-11-17T20:34:45+00:00
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Strong storms moved across Kansas Thursday evening, bringing damaging wind, hail, rain, and reports of tornadoes.
The KSN Storm Track 3 Weather team said there were six tornado reports in north-central Kansas. Two reports south of Glendale may have been the same tornado, just from different vantage points.
Here are the official reports.
- Three miles northeast of Bunker Hill at 5:25 p.m.
- One mile northeast of Dorrance at 5:54 p.m.
- Six miles south of Sylvan Grove at 6:20 p.m.
- Ten miles north of Ellsworth at 6:39 p.m.
- Four miles south of Glendale at 7:26 p.m.
- Three miles southwest of Glendale at 7:30 p.m.
The tornadoes were all brief and there are no reports of injuries.
These are some of the rain amounts from Thursday’s storm:
- One mile north of Russell, Russell County – 2.20 inches
- Six miles west-southwest of Sylvan Grove, Russell County – 1.68 inches
- Five miles northwest of New Cambria, Saline County – 1.42 inches
- Thre miles northeast of Salina, Saline County – 1.11 inches
If you have any pictures to share or damage to report, let KSN News know. You can submit news tips, pictures and video through this link on KSN.com.
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2022-06-24T14:32:14+00:00
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https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-stories/some-tornadoes-hit-north-central-kansas/
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy energy industry press releases from PR Newswire, including the DOE's new battery workforce challenge with Stellantis.
NEW YORK, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the energy and natural resources industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- The U.S. Department of Energy and Stellantis Announce the Battery Workforce Challenge
This government and industry partnership will build the next generation of engineers, technicians, and workers to address the unprecedented demand for a domestic EV/Battery workforce. - LG Energy Solution to Invest KRW 7.2 Trillion (USD 5.5 Billion) to Build Battery Manufacturing Complex in Arizona
The complex will consist of two manufacturing facilities - one for cylindrical batteries for electric vehicles (EV) and another for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pouch-type batteries for energy storage systems (ESS). It marks the largest single investment ever for a stand-alone battery manufacturing facility in North America. - SparkCognition's AI-Enabled Renewable Suite Announces GPT Capabilities Wind, solar, and storage owners and operators can now use generative AI to discover key operational insights in real time using simple conversational prompts.
- Air Products Wins Over $130 Million in NASA Contracts to Supply Liquid Hydrogen to Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Other NASA Facilities
NASA uses liquid hydrogen, combined with liquid oxygen, as fuel in cryogenic rocket engines, and hydrogen's unique properties support the development of aeronautics. - AutoGrid Joins RMI's VP3 Initiative
The Virtual Power Plant Partnership (VP3) initiative aims to accelerate the scaling of virtual power plants in order to enable a cleaner, more reliable, and cost-effective grid. - Birch Creek Energy Acquires Foundation Solar Partners
Together, Birch Creek and Foundation Solar have developed over 1.7 GW of solar and storage projects since 2019, and have a combined development pipeline of 13.5 GW in varying stages of development. - Cowboy Clean Fuels Completes Series A Financing to Advance Renewable Natural Gas Commercialization Plan
The innovative energy transition start-up's patented technology utilizes subsurface coal seams as geologic bio-reactors to produce carbon-negative renewable natural gas from alternative biomass feedstocks. - Nacero is Developing a World Scale Methanol to Jet Fuel Complex with TOPSOE's Support using their MTJet™ Technology for SAF
Nacero will produce SAF and LCAF from renewable natural gas (RNG) sourced from dairy farms and landfills, and from mitigated flared gas sourced in the Permian Basin. The SAF and LCAF products will contain no sulfur, while produced utilizing 100%, low-cost renewable power, and utilizing integrated carbon capture within the process. - Ballard announces 150-million-kilometer milestone
To reach this milestone, Ballard fuel cells powered over 3,800 buses and trucks, providing zero-emission mobility solutions in approximately 15 countries around the world. - Swift Current Energy Ramps Up Construction of 800 MW Double Black Diamond Solar Project with McCarthy Building Companies
"It's projects like these that have America reclaiming its legacy as an energy powerhouse," stated Dan Shugar, Nextracker founder and CEO. "We are building this country's energy security with American-made solar panels on Pittsburgh-made steel."
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2023-03-31T12:27:45+00:00
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The Providence School Board is expected to elect a new president tonight, and newcomer Erlin Rogel appears to have the inside track.
Rogel, who works as a top aide to Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos and was appointed to the school board by Mayor Brett Smiley last month, confirmed Tuesday that he has been meeting with his colleagues about leading the nine-member panel.
Former president Kinzel Thomas did not seek another term on the board.
Travis Escobar is expected to be voted in as vice president at the 6 p.m. meeting.
The leadership change comes as the board grapples with its very purpose during the state’s oversight of Providence schools. The mayoral-appointed board has little authority during the intervention, and officials from the Rhode Island Department of Education and Providence Public School Department have been dismissive of the board’s role.
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But control of the school department is expected to shift back to Providence at some point during Smiley’s first term in office (which ends in January 2026). The board itself will also see changes beginning in 2024, when five members will be elected by voters and five will be appointed by the mayor.
Rogel will bring plenty of political and education experience as the new president. He attended the city’s public schools and then taught in the district through Teach for America. He has also worked as a chief of staff to the Providence City Council and was a top aide to Superintendent Javier Montañez before joining Matos’ staff.
His challenge as president will be to restore some institutional credibility to the board while picking his spots to use his bully pulpit to try to improve the lives of the 20,000 students in the district.
It won’t be easy. Tensions between the teachers’ union and the state have never been higher, support for the takeover among elected officials has never been lower, and good luck trying to figure out how Governor Dan McKee plans to turn things around.
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This story first appeared in Rhode Map, our free newsletter about Rhode Island that also contains information about local events, data about the coronavirus in the state, and more. If you’d like to receive it via e-mail Monday through Friday, you can sign up here.
Dan McGowan can be reached at dan.mcgowan@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @danmcgowan.
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2023-02-15T16:13:42+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/15/metro/providence-school-board-elects-new-president-tonight/
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Democrats will hold their 2024 national convention in Chicago, according to three sources familiar with the decision.
The decision to hold the 2024 Democratic National Convention there will place the party and President Biden in the heart of a battleground region that has proven pivotal in the last several election cycles.
Party officials were torn between a few finalists as they weighed where to hold the gathering, including New York and Atlanta.
Brett Samuels and Hanna Trudo contributed.
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2023-04-11T14:47:27+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/hill-politics/chicago-to-host-2024-democratic-convention/
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WASHINGTON — Facebook users who had an account between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022, can now apply for their share of a $725 million class-action settlement.
The settlement is the result of numerous lawsuits against Facebook, now known as Meta, claiming the company shared private user data with data mining firm Cambridge Analytica and other third parties without their permission. They also claim Facebook did not sufficiently monitor and enforce its rules on third parties who had access to user data.
Meta, which denies any liability or wrongdoing, agreed in December 2022 to pay $725 million to resolve these claims outside of court.
Who is eligible for the Facebook settlement?
Most individuals who had an account at any point between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. Facebook confirmed to VERIFY it has sent some users notifications from within the platform alerting them to the class-action lawsuit involving the company.
How to apply for the Facebook class-action settlement?
You can submit your claim online at facebookuserprivacysettlement.com or download the claim form and mail it in. You can also request a paper copy of the form by calling the settlement administrator at 1-855-556-2233. The deadline to submit your claim is Aug. 25, 2023.
As part of the claim process, you have to provide some personal info including your name, home address, e-mail and how you'd like to receive your share of the settlement.
How much could you get from the Facebook settlement?
That's the big question and we won't know the answer for at least several months because a number of factors are still unknown.
First, the court still needs to determine how much the lawyers involved in the case will receive from the $725 million settlement. According to the settlement agreement, that could be up to 25%.
After that, the answer will depend on how many other users submit valid claims and how long you were a user on Facebook during the eligible period.
Settlement payments will be distributed after the court grants final approval of the settlement and after any appeals are resolved. A final approval hearing for the settlement of this case has been scheduled for Sept. 7, 2023.
What happens if you don't submit a claim in the Facebook settlement?
If you don't do anything, you won't receive a payment from the class-action settlement. You also forfeit your right to sue Meta about the legal issues in this matter, according to the settlement website.
VERIFY contributed to this report.
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2023-04-19T19:58:26+00:00
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5newsonline.com
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https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/how-to-apply-for-facebook-class-action-settlement/507-6e5d371d-f7fb-4a9f-a319-f919ede7d322
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2023-07-19T20:28:59+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/entertainment/beyonc-helps-choose-the-perfect-wedding-song-for-renaissance-concertgoer/article_cd918b42-f2cc-5634-a532-d94e941c9320.html
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WASHINGTON (AP)Jameer Nelson Jr. scored 28 points, five in the overtime, as Delaware beat Northeastern 77-74 on Saturday night in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament.
Nelson added three steals for the Fightin’ Blue Hens (17-15). Jyare Davis scored 21 points while going 7 of 16 and 7 of 9 from the free-throw line, and added 14 rebounds. Christian Ray shot 4 of 10 from the field and 3 for 4 from the foul line to finish with 11 points, while adding six rebounds.
Jahmyl Telfort led the Huskies (10-20) in scoring, finishing with 20 points and three blocks. Masai Troutman added 12 points for Northeastern. In addition, Chris Doherty had 10 points and seven rebounds.
Davis led Delaware with 15 second-half points as the teams ended regulation tied 72-72. Nelson scored his five overtime points while going 1 of 2 and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line.
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2023-03-05T12:07:04+00:00
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Senators on both sides of the aisle were caught off guard Tuesday by the news that classified documents were found at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence, materials that were ultimately turned over to the FBI.
An attorney for Pence told the National Archives that the former vice president used outside counsel to review records stored at his personal home after several classified documents were found at the home and a former office of President Biden. The Pence news left some Senate lawmakers floored over yet another discovery of classified documents belonging to a former vice president.
“I don’t know what the hell is going on around here. It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,” Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told The Hill. “I have no reason to believe it’s nefarious in any way, but clearly at the executive branch they’re just packing boxes.”
Rubio told reporters that he expects the subject to come up on Wednesday when Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is set to appear before the committee to discuss unrelated topics. The Wednesday afternoon briefing is closed to the public.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.), along with Rubio, has requested information from Haines following an FBI search in August of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property that turned up more than 100 documents with various classified markings.
Their requests, however, have not yielded much due to the appointment of a special counsel in the Trump case. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a separate counsel to review the documents that were found in the Biden locations, which date back to his time as vice president and as a senator.
“So far, we’ve really had no reaction or response or any more information,” Rubio noted. “But we will have answers to these, one way or another, they will have to give us answers.”
There are, however, major differences between how lawmakers on Capitol Hill and executive branch figures view such documents, at least in the minds of members of Congress. Senators and representatives may only view classified documents in a sensitive compartmented information facility in the basement of the Capitol, and documents are not allowed to leave with lawmakers.
That same sort of process does not appear to be used at the White House under administrations of multiple stripes, lawmakers said.
“I don’t get it,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters. “Anybody that deals with classified materials knows that they have to be maintained in a secure place and not available to our adversaries by putting them in a place that’s easy to penetrate. So — that’s not good.”
“I don’t know how this happens, but obviously it’s something that needs to be corrected,” Cornyn added.
Pence has repeatedly said in interviews that he did not have any such documents in his possession upon leaving office. Still, he decided to have his home searched after news reports revealed what was discovered from Biden.
Warner expressed shock at the latest development before pressing for ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents to “check their closets” to ensure they, too, did not have any classified documents in their possession.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) added that it seems as though there is a “cavalier attitude” at the White House generally when it comes to the handling of such materials.
A number of senators initially argued that overclassification, especially of information that might become dated over time, is a problem, which Rubio noted is a separate issue.
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) was particularly struck because during a recent appearance on Larry Kudlow’s Fox Business show, Pence appeared before him and detailed every step of the process that was involved in his viewing of classified documents during his time as vice president, which included Pence telling the host that some materials were put in a burn bag after he viewed them.
“It sounded like a very nice routine for making sure that you don’t hang onto things. … A nice routine would be a good way to avoid problems like this,” Cramer said, noting that “clearly” this wasn’t enough.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) noted that Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is working on legislation aimed at maintaining and preserving presidential and federal agency records.
Some senators, however, couldn’t help but be bemused by the situation. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters that his attorney went through his files and “found Jimmy Hoffa’s remains.” Others wondered whether other former presidents and former vice presidents would similarly scour their homes for classified papers.
“Is Dan Quayle suddenly going through his golf bag to find out if he accidentally took something? I don’t know,” Cramer quipped to reporters.
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2023-01-24T23:50:32+00:00
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https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/senators-bewildered-by-pence-classified-document-revelation/
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Shreveport offering doorbell cameras to help combat crime. Here's how to get one
The City of Shreveport announced Monday that it is undertaking a grassroots community effort to help citizens combat crime in their neighborhoods.
“Operation Safe Neighborhoods will be tremendous for our city,” said Mayor Tom Arceneaux. This effort is part of Operation Safe Neighborhoods, the goal is to provide homeowners and law enforcement with additional tools to assist with public and personal safety.
According to the City of Shreveport, the equipment included in a video doorbell with free installation and a year subscription to security monitoring services.
“We are very encouraged by our citizens having the opportunity to embrace technology throughout our city,” said Chief Wayne Smith. “These types of cameras have proven to be an integral tool to law enforcement in deterring and investigating crimes in our area. We look forward to implementing these cameras and commend those taking action to keep our community safe. We encourage these citizens to contact the Real Time Crime Center to ensure that these cameras are registered so that they can be utilized to prevent and solve crimes in the area.”
To be eligible for this program, participants must:
- Reside within the city limits
- Register with the City of Shreveport’s Real Time Crime Center
- Provide a copy of a driver’s license or identification card
- Must not already own a video doorbell
Program applications can be submitted online or can be hand-delivered to the City Council's office.
For online submittals visit the Department of Community Development’s homepage and scroll down to 'Operation Safe Neighborhoods'.
More:Early morning Shreveport shootings, including at Phoenix night club, leave 3 people dead
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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2023-07-19T14:36:57+00:00
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https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2023/07/19/shreveport-offering-doorbell-cameras-to-help-combat-crime/70421194007/
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Call them stocking stuffers — small, one-bedroom homes for sale that may be just the right fit for someone seeking a little privacy and a place to call their own.
They’re listed as single-family homes but some might be better described as single-person homes.
Here’s a look at several now on the market for $250,000 or less around New Jersey:
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2022-12-22T12:50:42+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/news/2022/12/stocking-stuffers-here-are-5-small-1-bedroom-houses-for-sale-in-nj.html
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WACO, TX (FOX 44) — On November 12th, the Baylor Bears will get a late season test from the Kansas State Wildcats, who are plenty familiar with pulling big upsets over the past few years.
Take a look at our preview of the team which led the conference in Preseason All-Big 12 selections.
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2022-08-03T06:21:38+00:00
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/baylor/baylor-schedule-preview-kansas-state/
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Orangeburg's evening forecast: Partly cloudy. Low 57F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. The forecast is showing a hot day in Orangeburg Sunday. It looks to reach a balmy 84 degrees. Expect a drastic drop in temperatures though, with a low reaching 57 degrees. We will see a mix of sun and clouds. The UV index Sunday is high. Be careful outside, especially during late morning through mid-afternoon. If your shadow is shorter than you, seek shade and wear protective clothing and generously apply sunscreen on exposed skin. The Orangeburg area should see a light breeze, with winds only reaching 7 miles per hour, coming from southeast. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Keep an eye on thetandd.com for forecast information and severe weather updates.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. and TULSA, Okla., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHI Global, LLC ("WHI"), an integrated manufacturer of metal and composite structures for the aerospace & defense industry, has been selected by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company to produce the Cockpit Escape Hatches, Transition to Cabin Joining Kit and Transition to Tail Rotor Pylon Joining Kit for the CH-53K© Heavy Lift Helicopter. The contract is valued at over $60 million, and the assemblies will be produced at WHI's Springfield and Tulsa facilities.
WHI's relationship with Sikorsky dates back decades as a long-term supplier on the UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter, among other commercial and military rotorcraft platforms. Al Altieri, Chief Executive Officer of WHI, commented "We are very excited and honored by the trust Sikorsky has placed in our relationship, and our ability to execute on this critical statement of work. We are honored to have the opportunity to serve our military as a key supplier on this remarkable aircraft".
The Marine Corps' CH-53K© King Stallion helicopter replaces the legacy CH-53E using proven and mature technologies and will deliver more than three times the capability of its predecessor. The CH-53K© is designed to improve aircraft, aircrew, and passenger survivability, reduce pilot workload, increase pilot situational awareness, and significantly reduce operating and support costs. The CH-53K© is the most capable heavy lift helicopter in the world.
About WHI
WHI is a vertically integrated manufacturer of precision components, composite structures and assemblies for the aerospace and defense markets. With industry-leading closed-die forging, composite fabrication, 3-, 4- and 5-axis CNC machining, assembly and NADCAP heat treat / NDT capabilities, WHI serves a global customer base. WHI's operating history dates back to 1951 with over 250,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing footprint that includes four ITAR registered facilities carrying AS9100 Rev. D and ISO 9001 certifications. For more information, please visit www.whiglobal.com.
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BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Inflation is hurting the pockets of Americans across the country.
But what is Massachusetts doing when it comes to tax relief?
Tax relief has been a topic of debate here at the State House for months, and today Governor Baker made another push for his tax relief package, much of which will benefit seniors.
The state has been seeing major revenue surpluses this fiscal year, and Governor Baker would like to see some of that money back in the pockets of the Massachusetts residents who need it most.
On Monday, Governor Baker held a press conference to push his $700 million tax relief package.
Baker filed his relief package back in January and it features many measures that would help seniors.
Governor Baker is proposing doubling the maximum senior circuit breaker credit, increasing the rental cap deduction, doubling the dependent care credit, and increasing the state’s threshold for no-tax status.
It also proposes lowering the short-term capital gain tax rate and changing the threshold for the state’s estate tax from $1 million to $2 million.
Governor Baker is also in favor of suspending the gas tax.
During the press conference, Governor Baker stressed the need for quick action by saying:
There’s a lot of stuff that’s moving around when you get to the last thirty days of the session, and I just really want to make sure that these tax proposals don’t get lost, and especially the impact it would have on our older adults here in Massachusetts doesn’t get lost.
Governor Charlie Baker
Leaders on Beacon Hill have been saying for weeks they plan to produce their own separate tax relief package.
However, they only have a little over a month to get a plan through the legislature and to Governor Baker before the end of the session.
Baker’s proposal is still before the Revenue Committee, which gave itself until July 1st to report on the bill.
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2022-06-27T20:37:53+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/state-politics/inflation-hurting-american-pockets-across-the-country/
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT) plans to release financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022 on Monday, October 31, 2022, after the market closes. PriceSmart management will host a conference call at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (9:00 a.m. Pacific time) on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, to discuss the financial results. Individuals interested in participating in the conference call may do so by dialing toll free (855) 209-8211 or (412) 317-5214 for international callers and asking to join the PriceSmart earnings call. A digital replay will be available through November 8, 2022, shortly following the conclusion of the call by dialing (877) 344-7529 for domestic callers, or (412) 317-0088 for international callers, and entering replay passcode 1071897.
PriceSmart, headquartered in San Diego, owns and operates U.S.-style membership shopping warehouse clubs in Latin America and the Caribbean, selling high quality merchandise and services at low prices to PriceSmart Members. PriceSmart operates 50 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory (nine in Colombia; eight in Costa Rica; seven in Panama; five in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala; four in Trinidad; three in Honduras; two each in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Jamaica; and one each in Aruba, Barbados and the United States Virgin Islands). The Company plans to open a warehouse club in San Miguel, El Salvador in the spring of 2023 and a warehouse club in Medellín, Colombia in the summer of 2023. Once these two new clubs are open, the Company will operate 52 warehouse clubs. Our operating segments are the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, and Colombia.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements concerning PriceSmart, Inc.'s ("PriceSmart", the "Company" or "we") anticipated future revenues and earnings, adequacy of future cash flows, omni-channel initiatives, proposed warehouse club openings, the Company's performance relative to competitors and related matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements containing the words "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "project," "estimate," "anticipated," "scheduled," "intend," and like expressions, and the negative thereof. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including, but not limited to: various political, economic and compliance risks associated with our international operations, adverse changes in economic conditions in our markets, natural disasters, volatility in currency exchange rates and illiquidity of certain local currencies in our markets, competition, consumer and small business spending patterns, political instability, increased costs associated with the integration of online commerce with our traditional business, whether the Company can successfully execute strategic initiatives, our reliance on third party service providers, including those who support transaction and payment processing, data security and other technology services, cybersecurity breaches that could cause disruptions in our systems or jeopardize the security of Member or business information, cost increases from product and service providers, interruption of supply chains, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) related factors and challenges, exposure to product liability claims and product recalls, recoverability of moneys owed to PriceSmart from governments, and other important factors discussed in the Risk Factors section of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other factors discussed from time to time in other filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date that they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update them, except as required by law.
For further information, please contact Michael L. McCleary, EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer (858) 404-8826 or send an email to ir@pricesmart.com.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AllianceBernstein L.P. ("AB") and AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. ("AB Holding") (NYSE: AB) today announced that Seth Bernstein, President and CEO, will participate in the Goldman Sachs 2022 US Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 in a session that begins at 9:00 a.m. (CT).
A live audio webcast will be available in the Investor & Media Relations section of AB's website at www.alliancebernstein.com/investorrelations. An audio replay of the webcast will also be available on the site.
About AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals and private wealth clients in major world markets.
As of September 30, 2022, including both the general partnership and limited partnership interests in AllianceBernstein, AllianceBernstein Holding owned approximately 36.5% of AllianceBernstein and Equitable Holdings, Inc. ("EQH"), directly and through various subsidiaries, owned an approximate 64.3% economic interest in AllianceBernstein.
Additional information about AB may be found on our website, www.alliancebernstein.com.
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2022-11-22T21:13:39+00:00
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/11/22/seth-bernstein-president-ceo-participate-goldman-sachs-2022-us-financial-services-conference-december-6th-2022/
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Overnight rain helped firefighters get control of a wildfire burning in Nebraska along the Missouri River.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen told KETV that the fire south of Lake Waconda in southeast Nebraska was between 70% and 90% contained by Monday afternoon. The fire burned roughly 650 acres since it started Saturday evening after sparks blew across the Missouri River from Iowa.
COLORADO WILDFIRE BURNS OVER 1,200 ACRES, HOMES EVACUATED
But the fire didn't grow any overnight Sunday in Nebraska thanks to the rain and diminishing winds as firefighters from 26 different departments worked to control it. It wasn't immediately clear how many acres had burned on the Iowa side of the border.
A few people near Lake Waconda had to evacuate Saturday, but no homes were damaged by the fire in Nebraska and those residents were able to return home over the weekend.
NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL TO PROHIBIT PRESCRIBED BURNS AS FOREST MANAGEMENT IN RESPONSE TO 2022 DISASTER
"It’s looking pretty good right now," Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Jodie Fawl said Monday afternoon.
In addition to the main fire near Lake Waconda, a second fire started near Beaver Lake Sunday when more sparks blew across the river from Iowa.
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2023-04-10T23:25:10+00:00
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Katy Perry’s holiday tune “Cozy Little Christmas” went Platinum, and she celebrated by wearing her platinum Dellilah Jingle heels from her Katy Perry shoe collection. She posted photos on Instagram, captioning them, “When Cozy Little Christmas goes platinum, ya go platinum with the Dellilah Jingle too!”
The Rockettes want to dance with Meghan Trainor. The famous dance troupe posted a TikTok video doing Meghan’s “Made You Look” dance and captioned it, “Officially inviting @meghantrainor to join us for the next one.”
A TikTok user is going viral after sharing an awesome story about the time Pink defended her against a snobby British girl group while at an awards show after-party in the early 2000s.
Alessia Cara gave fans an early Christmas present Wednesday, dropping the official music videos for her holiday tracks “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Make It to Christmas.” The “Jingle Bell Rock” video made its broadcast debut Wednesday on MTV Live, MTVU and MTV Biggest Pop, as well as on the Paramount Times Square billboards. The “Make It to Christmas” video is available on all platforms.
Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani admits he thought Harry Styles‘ cameo in the film was a joke … until the pop star showed up on set. “I started hearing rumblings about it here and there and I thought it was bulls***,” he tells the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I was like, ‘The guy from One Direction, no way.’ And then you show up for work one day and there’s gorgeous Harry Styles.” Kumail also reveals he actually shot a different post-credits scene with Harry than the one that ultimately made the cut.
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2022-12-15T00:27:41+00:00
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LeBron in Vegas? He makes an expansion pitch to Adam Silver
LAS VEGAS (AP) — LeBron James came to Las Vegas for a preseason game. And a pitch.
James, who has spoken in the past about wanting to eventually own an NBA franchise — with Las Vegas on his mind — has sent another crystal-clear message to Commissioner Adam Silver, reminding him of his plans.
“I know Adam is in Abu Dhabi right now, I believe. But he probably sees every single interview and transcript that comes through from NBA players,” James said after the Lakers’ matchup with the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night. “So, I want the team here, Adam. Thank you.”
James smiled after finishing that thought, knowing full well that Silver would soon hear every word.
Silver is indeed in Abu Dhabi, for preseason games this week between the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks. The league certainly was aware of James’ remarks; a story about what he said was posted Thursday morning to the NBA website.
Silver has spoken of expansion plans many times in recent years, but there has also been a clear belief that the NBA won’t move forward on adding teams until the next collective bargaining agreement and television deals are complete.
That said, Silver has called Las Vegas “a great sports market.”
“As I said before, at some point, this league invariably will expand, but it’s not at this moment that we are discussing it,” Silver said earlier this year. “But one of the factors in expanding is the potential dilution of talent.”
James said in June on his show “The Shop: Uninterrupted” that he wants to own a team and wants it to be in Las Vegas, which has long been mentioned as a possible expansion site. The city has become a basketball epicenter of sorts in recent years, playing host to the NBA Summer League — featuring all 30 teams, and often with James sitting courtside for some Lakers games — along with many major USA Basketball events. It’s also the home of the newly crowned WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and was the site of the 2007 NBA All-Star Game.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham said he thinks “it’s only a matter of time” before Las Vegas gets a team, calling it “a no-brainer.”
“It has rapidly become an NBA market,” Ham said. “When you look at Summer League and that whole layout, the way it’s done now, I remember a day when you barely knew the NBA was in the city during Summer League. And now, it’s like a huge extravaganza. It’s a whole rollout, a whole layout of excitement.”
Fans in Las Vegas gave James loud ovations Wednesday night, and he responded by scoring 23 points in 18 minutes. He appeared in only the first half, making 8 of his 11 shots.
He looked right at home. And if Las Vegas becomes a business home one day, James clearly wouldn’t mind.
“It’s the best fan base in the world and I would love to bring a team here at some point,” James said. “That would be amazing.”
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2022-10-06T15:32:11+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/2022/10/06/lebron-vegas-he-makes-an-expansion-pitch-adam-silver/
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‘Every day matters’: Man with ALS renews vows with wife
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (WDAY) - A rare diagnosis for a 39-year-old father means he renewed his wedding vows sooner than he ever dreamed because it’s unclear how much time he has left to spend with his family.
Stormi Proulx spent Thursday morning with a party of primpers, prepping her to say “I do” all over again. She and her husband, Josh Proulx, met in a Wal-Mart parking lot, got married in 2004 and have three kids, the youngest just 2 years old.
But then, two years ago, Josh Proulx received the devastating diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS.
“That was the speech and the excess saliva, and the sound of his laugh drastically changed. That’s actually the first thing we noticed,” Stormi Proulx said. “With ALS, it’s a terminal illness – no cure, no treatment – we don’t know how much time we have.”
The diagnosis pushed up the plan to renew their wedding vows.
“We just know how important it is now because every day matters,” Stormi Proulx said.
The day had some tough moments, like seeing cellphone video and audio of a once-vibrant dad and husband, who can no longer walk or talk.
“I miss him running around, too, but when I hear his voice, I forget that is what he sounded like. I haven’t heard that for so long. He is amazing, seriously. People can say I have the most amazing husband or my kids have the most amazing father, but even before he got sick, I knew those things,” Stormi Proulx said.
As his wife got ready, Josh Proulx’s care team at Valley Senior Living prepped him for the ceremony on their day off. The loving husband and father uses his eyes to type messages that activate a computerized voice box.
“I am so grateful to everyone making this day possible,” he said, adding he had just one word for the day: “Love.”
The couple exchanged vows once again in front of 150 people, including their children. They refused to allow ALS to derail their long-time romance.
“You look absolutely beautiful,” Josh Proulx told his wife when he saw her in her dress.
The vows ended with a kiss, with a night of dancing and more time together ahead for the family.
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2022-09-19T08:10:10+00:00
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https://www.kttc.com/2022/09/19/every-day-matters-man-with-als-renews-vows-with-wife/
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SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PolarityTE, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTE), a biotechnology company developing regenerative tissue products and biomaterials, today confirmed that on November 1, 2022, it received an unsolicited, non-binding offer (followed by an amended offer on November 8, 2022) from Michael Brauser to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of the Company not owned by him for $1.25 per share in cash. The offer is subject to various contingencies, including, among others, (1) settlement with warrant holders and satisfactory negotiations with insiders with change of control agreements, (2) minimum tender conditions, (3) a sixty-day due diligence period, and (4) satisfaction of other conditions and requirements that may arise, which are commonplace in transactions of this nature.
The Board of Directors of the Company and a special committee formed by the Board of Directors will carefully review the terms and conditions of the offer to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all Company securityholders. If the Board of Directors determines to proceed with the offer, there can be no assurance that all required contingencies will be satisfied and that a transaction will result.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "intend," "plan," "will," "would," "should" and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the unsolicited, non-binding offer received by the Company. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include the risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and other filings with the SEC (copies of which may be obtained at www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.
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STAGECOACH, Nev. — Authorities are trying to determine the cause of the crash of a medical transport flight that killed all five people aboard the plane, including a patient, in a mountainous area in northern Nevada.
The crash occurred amid a winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service in Reno for large swaths of Nevada, including parts of Lyon County. It was snowing steadily with winds around 20 mph (30 kph) with gusts up to 30 mph (50 kph).
Visibility was under two miles (3.2 kilometers) with a cloud ceiling about 2,000 feet (600 meters) above ground when the flight left Reno for Salt Lake City, Utah, and went down, according to the weather service.
Care Flight, which provides ambulance service by plane and helicopter, identified the downed aircraft as a Pilatus PC-12 and said the pilot, a flight nurse, a flight paramedic, a patient and a patient’s family member all died.
Robin Hays, a Stagecoach resident and a former flight nurse, said she heard the sputtering plane fly over her house before crashing behind her property.
“I knew the plane was in trouble,” Hays told the Reno Gazette Journal. “I knew it was going to crash. I was just hoping it wasn’t going to crash into my house.”
Hays called 911 and went outside but could not see the wreckage because of the blowing snow.
Misty Gruenemay told the newspaper that the wind was howling and the snow blowing hard when she heard what sounded like a whiz and a thump behind her house in Stagecoach. The rural community is home to around 2,500 residents and located about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of Reno.
Gruenemay said she wanted to help but conditions were terrible and she didn’t have a vehicle that could safely travel the unpaved roads buried in 6 inches of snow.
“It was snowing and visibility was horrible. I don’t even understand why that plane was allowed to take off,” Gruenemay said.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s office said authorities began receiving calls about the crash near Stagecoach, Nevada, around 9:15 p.m. and found the wreckage two hours later.
Care Flight officials said it was halting all flights and will work with each of its operations to determine when it will return to service.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane was registered to Guardian Flight, based in South Jordan, Utah. Care Flight is a service of REMSA Health in Reno and Guardian Flight.
More than half a million medical patients use air ambulance services each month in the U.S., according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ website.
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2023-02-26T19:51:29+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/cause-sought-in-crash-of-medical-transport-flight-in-nevada/2023/02/26/dc082e70-b609-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html
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The Reporter's Notebook Podcast, Ep. 40: The Aggie Wagon
In this week’s episode, we’re talking to Sun-News sports reporter Stephen Wagner.
We’re talking about, well, a lot of things. Stephen was recently selected as a voter in the Associated Press Media Poll for college football. The Aggie basketball team just had their first Crimson/White scrimmage, giving us an early look at the team. I want to know what Stephen is thinking of both of these teams as the seasons progress — or, in the case of basketball, as the season approaches.
We’ll also share the latest episode of The Aggie Wagon podcast, to take you a little deeper into the story. It includes some WAC predictions, some off-season recaps and more.
This week, we’re honored to be joined by Stephen, who will talk about his reporting and how he has covered the sports beat as a reporter.
Damien Willis is a Lead Reporter for the Las Cruces Sun-News. He can be reached at 575-541-5443, dwillis@lcsun-news.com or @DamienWillis on Twitter.
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2022-10-30T00:07:34+00:00
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https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/sports/college/2022/10/29/the-reporters-notebook-podcast-ep-40-the-aggie-wagon/69602633007/
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Kayla Montgomery to plead guilty Friday to perjury charges
Kayla Montgomery also agrees to cooperate in state proceedings
Kayla Montgomery also agrees to cooperate in state proceedings
Kayla Montgomery also agrees to cooperate in state proceedings
Kayla Montgomery, the stepmother of Harmony Montgomery, is set to plead guilty Friday to two felony counts of perjury.
The charges Kayla Montgomery will take responsibility for are not related to the disappearance or death of her stepdaughter, Harmony.
Kayla Montgomery allegedly lied to a grand jury in May about when and where she was at the time Harmony was last seen in December 2019, when she was 5 years old.
Under a plea agreement, Kayla Montgomery has agreed to fully cooperate in future state proceedings, which could include testifying in Adam Montgomery’s murder trial. He is charged with second-degree murder in his daughter’s killing.
According to court documents, Kayla Montgomery reported to police that Harmony had been killed by Adam Montgomery.
She also told them he "encouraged her to on multiple occasions to lie to police about Harmony's whereabouts.”
Under the terms of the deal, Kayla Montgomery will face back-to-back sentences of three-and-a-half to seven years, but a total of five years of her minimum sentence will be suspended unless she breaks the terms of the agreement.
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2022-11-18T13:50:46+00:00
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wmur.com
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https://www.wmur.com/article/kayla-montgomery-guilty-plea-perjury-111822/42004051
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Charlbi Dean, the South African model and actress who made a splash in the Palm d'Or-winning Triangle of Sadness at this year's Cannes Film Festival, has died. She was 32.
Dean died of an unexpected and sudden illness on Monday, her rep confirms to TMZ.
The up-and-coming star had scored her first big screen lead role with Triangle of Sadness, appearing opposite Woody Harrelson in the film about a wrecked cruise ship and its passengers. Prior to that, she was known for playing Syonide on The CW series, Black Lightning.
Triangle of Sadness is slated to hit theaters on Oct. 7.
A successful model, Dean's final social media posts included photos and videos from her latest denim campaign.
According to TMZ, Dean was engaged to male model Luke Volker.
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2022-08-31T01:33:44+00:00
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Coroner: Death of former Ohio AMBER Alert infant unexplained
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An autopsy has concluded that the death of one of two Ohio twin boys who became the center of a statewide AMBER Alert that garnered nationwide attention last year was due to “sudden unexplained infant death” that involved an “unsafe sleep environment.”
The Franklin County Coroner’s Office on Friday cited “no evidence of trauma, foul play, abuse, or neglect” in the Jan. 28 death of the 6-month-old Columbus boy.
The office said the child had been placed face-down on an adult bed with excess bedding and pillows, which it called an unsafe sleep environment, after being fed and was left unsupervised, but it could not be determined whether such “significant conditions” played a role in his death.
The coroner’s office said young infants have limited neck muscle strength to reposition their airway which can lead to a form of oxygen deprivation, but the office couldn’t confirm or exclude “a contributory component of mechanical or obstructive asphyxia” so the manner of the child’s death “is best ruled as undetermined.”
“The cause of death is ruled sudden unexplained infant death with other significant conditions including unsafe sleep environment; post-prandial infant placed facedown, unsupervised, on an adult bed, surrounded by excess pillows and blankets,” the coroner’s office said.
On Jan. 28, the boy’s mother reported that he had suffered a seizure and he later died at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Columbus police identified him as one of two boys who were the subject of an Amber Alert, used to publicize a child’s disappearance, after an idling car was taken Dec. 20 while their mother was picking up an order at a Columbus pizza restaurant.
One child was found hours later in a car carrier seat between two vehicles in a parking lot near Dayton International Airport, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) west of Columbus. Police officers in Indianapolis, which is 175 miles (282 kilometers) west of Columbus, found the other boy on the evening of Dec. 22 in an abandoned car that had been stolen three days earlier in Columbus, Ohio, authorities said.
Nalah Tamiko Jackson, 24, was arrested on kidnapping charges and was later indicted on two federal counts of kidnapping of a minor.
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2023-03-11T17:33:34+00:00
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https://www.kswo.com/2023/03/11/coroner-death-former-ohio-amber-alert-infant-unexplained/
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NEW YORK, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA) between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important July 18, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased PEGA 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 PEGA class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6286 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 July 18, 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) PEGA had engaged in corporate espionage and misappropriation of trade secrets to better compete against Appian; (2) Defendants' product development and associated success was, in significant part, not the result of its own research and product testing but rather the result of such corporate espionage and trade secret theft; (3) Defendants had engaged in a scheme to steal Appian trade secrets, which was not only known to, but carried out through the personal involvement of PEGA's CEO; (4) PEGA's CEO and other officers and employees did not comply with PEGA's written Code of Conduct; (5) PEGA was "unable to reasonably estimate damages" in the Appian Litigation; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' statements about PEGA's business, operations, prospects, legal compliance, and potential damages exposure in the Appian Litigation were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis when made.
The truth regarding PEGA's fraudulent conduct was revealed after the close of the markets on May 9, 2022, when PEGA issued a press release announcing that the jury in the Appian Litigation had awarded Appian more than $2 billion for PEGA's misappropriation of trade secrets. In response to this news, PEGA's stock price fell 21%, from a closing price of $65.93 per share on May 9, 2022, to a closing price of $52.25 on May 10, 2022. As the market continued to digest the verdict, PEGA's stock price dropped another 8% to close at $48.07 per share the following day.
To join the PEGA class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6286 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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2022-07-04T18:43:31+00:00
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National fashion retailer hires Tana Ward and announces new business and organization
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stand Out For Good, Inc., parent company of popular women's fashion brand Altar'd State, announces the opening of a new contemporary home brand and welcomes Tana Ward as brand president, leading the San Francisco-based team.
"Stand Out For Good, Inc. understands what it means to lead in the lifestyle space, and I am proud to drive the vision and next phase of growth with this exceptional family of brands," said Ward. "I look forward to working closely with Chairman and CEO Aaron Walters to build the leading purpose-based home brand, making a difference every day for guests and communities in need."
Tana Ward brings over 25 years of retail industry experience driving growth, building teams and delivering industry-leading results as a senior executive at retailers like Gap, Inc., American Eagle Outfitters and Restoration Hardware. Tana served as chief merchandising officer at both American Eagle Outfitters and Restoration Hardware and was most recently co-president at Ben Soleimani, leading all functions of the business.
"We're delighted to welcome Tana Ward as our new brand president. Her experience and vision continue our growth in the consumer lifestyle space where we deliver quality products with unparalleled service and experience," said Aaron Walters, chairman and CEO of Stand Out For Good, Inc. "This new brand expands our reach further into the contemporary, curated lifestyle that we know our guest is searching for."
Most recently, the company announced the addition of Leila Heydari as head of design for Altar'd State. She will be leading the new Altar'd State design office in Los Angeles.
About Stand Out For Good, Inc.
Stand Out For Good, Inc. is a purpose-based, inspiring lifestyle and fashion family of brands rooted in community and committed to giving back. From welcoming experiences and warm associates to thoughtfully curated products in-store and online, Stand Out For Good, Inc. represents 127 Altar'd State stores, 35 Arula boutiques, six Vow'd boutiques and three Tullabee boutiques in 39 states. Stand Out For Good is built upon the founding principles of giving back and making a difference in the world. Locally in communities nationwide and globally too, Stand Out For Good, Inc. has partnered with over 4,000 nonprofits that provide relief, compassion, resources, education and love. To learn more about the Stand Out For Good, Inc. family of brands, visit their websites at altardstate.com, arula.com, vowdweddings.com and tullabee.com.
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2022-07-21T14:06:57+00:00
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D.C. home to ‘Ugliest Building in America’ as bi-partisan bill aims to diversify federal architecture
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - They say only an architect could love it.
The FBI building in Washington D.C., was just voted ugliest building in the United States from a survey by BuildWorld.
Constructed in 1975, the behemoth brutalist structure has been an eyesore on Pennsylvania Avenue for decades, taking up 2 million square feet. It’s also crumbling.
Now lawmakers are trying to change the rules around architecture for federal buildings.
“All buildings don’t need to look the same,” said Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) “They don’t have the same function, and they aren’t located in the same place.”
Titus is trying to pass a bill that would give more power to local architects and governments in designing their federal buildings.
“New Mexico compared to New England. Those are very different histories and styles and populations. So the building that is the federal building that represents government for the people should reflect what the people have experienced and would like to see,” said Titus.
The bill is in response to an executive order made by President Trump in 2020.
“The previous administration wanted to set the standard that they would all be neoclassical. Now I’m thinking we don’t want everything to look like Mar-A-Lago,” said Titus.
But what do the people want?
We asked some architecture experts their thoughts on the FBI building.
“It’s very weird coloring” said 9-year-old Asher.
“We need some blues or pinks, or reds or greens” chimed in 9-year-old Gus.
“If they put some Giant waterslides and some bungee jumping stuff I think that’d be fantastic” said Scott Massey of upstate New York.
The bill has bi-partisan and bi-cameral support, and are hoping to get it through this congress.
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2023-02-23T20:33:56+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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Edeburn brings 25+ years of industry expertise to the active adult living portfolio
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arden, an innovative portfolio of 55+ active adult living communities delivering in the Southeast, is pleased to announce the promotion of Charlotte native Natalie Edeburn to the role of Director of Operations. In this inaugural position, she will be instrumental in establishing best-in-class methodologies to support operational performance and developing company policies and procedures.
Edeburn joined Arden earlier this year with over 25 years of real estate and property management industry experience throughout the Southeast. She is a proven leader known for her passion in operational excellence, implementing new systems, and building high-performing teams. In her new role, Edeburn will be actively involved in all aspects of the assets and oversee the entire active adult portfolio. "I am excited about this new role which blends my experience in organizational leadership and my passion for creating effective strategies.
The end goal of positively impacting our resident's lives is my personal motivation and perfectly aligns with both my vision and Arden's."
Prior to joining Arden, Edeburn served as Regional Vice President for RKW Residential and Pegasus Residential. Edeburn was previously a Director of Real Estate at Greystar where she managed over 6,500 units and a team of Regional Property Managers.
"Under Natalie's leadership, we know that she will be integral in inspiring excellence, growth, and consistently impressive property management operations," said Jim Lindsey, Managing Partner of Arden 55+ Living. "We know that she is perfectly positioned with the variety of skills needed to lead our new and growing active adult vertical."
Arden 55+ Living active adult communities will offer maintenance-free living with robust person-centered amenity areas featuring universal design concepts. Arden is also dedicated to inspiring healthier communities by connecting people and purpose to their greater local communities.
To learn more about Arden, visit www.onearden.com.
Founded in 2020, Arden is expertly designing a new option for 55+ community living across the Southeast that is dedicated to empowering residents' lives through possibility, inclusivity and accessibility. Housing is essential, but the traditional senior housing option is inaccessible to most. Arden provides a brand new value-driven option for those seeking to be part of an engaged and active living community. For more information, visit www.onearden.com.
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Fire reported at Idaho Falls apartment complex
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI)-A fire has been reported at an apartment complex on Poplar St. in Idaho Falls.
The fire has been extinguished.
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The best gear for kids getting into baseball and softball
If your child will play baseball or softball this spring, you must stock up on appropriate clothing and equipment. Comfort is the most important consideration when shopping for baseball or softball gear for your child. If your child doesn’t feel comfortable in what they’re wearing, they likely won’t perform to the best of their abilities. However, it would be best to look for durable athletic wear made with quality fabrics that’ll help keep them dry and last for at least a few seasons.
In this article: Under Armour Boys’ Utility Relaxed Piped Baseball Pants, Under Armour Girl’s Glyde RM Jr. Softball Shoes and Adidas Kids’ Superlite Relaxed Adjustable Performance Cap.
What kind of gear does your child need?
Firstly, your child will need a pair of cleats that provide enough protection and traction. Most leagues require children to wear cleats with molded or plastic studs, but it’s best to ensure they have a durable build and offer sufficient breathability.
Baseball pants are also required in most leagues and will help protect your child if they slide on the ground during gameplay. Athletic socks are also a good idea since they help prevent fatigue. Other accessories to consider are caps and belts, which can enhance comfort and performance.
Best baseball and softball athletic wear for kids
Nike Kids Force Trout 7 Pro MCS Baseball Cleats
These cleats have a durable leather upper and a mesh tongue collar for increased breathability. The full-length foam cushioning provides long-lasting comfort, and the outsole has several plastic studs strategically positioned to provide superior traction and flex. They have a midfoot strap for a secure fit and are available in white and black.
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Under Armour Boys Utility Relaxed Piped Baseball Pants
These lightweight baseball pants are durable and are made with quality fabrics for a comfortable feel and elite performance. They have moisture-wicking properties to help keep kids dry, dual-layer knees for added durability and a stretchy waistband for all-day comfort and increased mobility. Plus, they’re available in eight variations of gray and white.
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Under Armour Girls Glyde RM Jr. Softball Shoes
These softball shoes have a midfoot construction, the heel pocket offers a secure, locked-down fit, and the textile forefoot and mesh box offer superior breathability. The plastic toe cap provides extra durability and protection, the molded studs deliver excellent traction, and the cushioned midsole helps kids move with increased agility.
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Adidas Kids Superlite Relaxed Adjustable Performance Cap
If your child’s league doesn’t offer a baseball cap, or if you prefer they wear a different one when training, getting them a comfortable one with an adjustable fit like this Adidas cap is a good idea. It’s a six-panel cap and has several perforations for improved ventilation.
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New Balance Kids 4040 V6 Molded Baseball Shoes
These cleats are affordable, but they have a durable build and deliver high performance. The rubber outsole and molded plastic studs provide lightweight traction on turf and dirt, and the synthetic upper provides long-lasting durability. Also, the REVlite midsole provides improved shock absorption and comfort.
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Under Armour Kids Team Over-the-Calf Baseball/Softball Socks
These socks offer plenty of cushioning underneath the foot for improved comfort and stability and have embedded arch support for reducing fatigue. The top of the foot features multiple mesh panels for added breathability, and the heel contours around the foot for a secure fit. Plus, they’re available in five colors.
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Adidas Youth Baseball/Softball Belt
A belt can add a bit of flair to your child’s appearance and keep their pants in place as they move. This belt features high-quality stitching for improved durability and an elastic construction that lets it withstand more wear and tear than other belts. It fits waist sizes 18 to 32 inches and comes in 10 colors.
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G-Form Youth Pro Sternum Shirt
Safety is the most important thing when playing any sport, and if your child doesn’t feel safe during their baseball or softball games, their performance may suffer. Its compression fit and impact-absorbing pads make this pro sternum shirt a must-buy for youth players. It can be worn under any uniform and is made with moisture-wicking fabrics.
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Worth checking out
- This Funny Softball T-shirt lets others know your little girl is a softball enthusiast and a dedicated player.
- Keep your child’s uniform clean until game day and instead let them wear the Adidas Youth Triple Stripe Three-quarter Sleeve Baseball Practice Shirt while training.
- These Under Armour Youth Clean-Up Batting Gloves will improve your child’s grip while batting and protect their hands when running the bases.
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2023-03-04T14:07:59+00:00
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CARY, N.C. -- On Nov. 6, 2022, Helen Elizabeth Dukes Berrie passed away at home in Cary, N.C., with her daughter, Sandi Berrie. She was 94 years old.
She is survived by her daughters, Sandi Michelle Berrie and Sandy Berrie Shields; her granddaughters, Stephanie Shields Ranly, Jessica Carson Montgomery and Ashley Shields Robertson; her five great-grandchildren; and her four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marion Eugene Berrie; her son, Bill Berrie; her daughter, Debra Berrie Gibson; and her brother, Richard “Rit” Dukes.
Helen was born on May 30, 1928, in Orangeburg. She graduated from Orangeburg High School. She worked for many years at the Orangeburg Farm Bureau, where she retired. Her main job was to take care of her “men” in the office.
Helen married Marion Eugene “Gene” Berrie on June 14, 1946. They met on a blind date arranged by a Helen's cousin. Their children came soon after. They had 43 years of marriage.
As a wife of a Navy man, Helen was able to live in many areas of the country, such as Texas, Rhode Island and California, but Orangeburg was home. When Gene retired from the Navy, they settled right down the road from her family home in the Four Holes community, where she stayed until 1998. Helen loved to read, travel and sneak sweets, especially chocolate. She was quick with a sneaky smile and some sass. She loved her family dearly and will be missed by all.
Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday, Nov. 12, at Four Holes Baptist Church, 1622 Four Holes Road, Orangeburg. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
Honored to serve as pallbearers are Ricky Dukes, Gene Dukes, Gary Ranly, Patrick Tyler Ford Jr., Andy Woltgen and Dr. Bill Moore Jr.
Memorials may be made to Four Holes Baptist Church, 1622 Four Holes Road, Orangeburg, SC 29115.
Please sign the family's online guest book at www.thompsonfh.net.
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2022-11-09T07:03:08+00:00
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thetandd.com
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2022-04-05T14:33:29+00:00
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Broadcasting, Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire WADL-TV in Detroit, Michigan from Adell Broadcasting Corporation. The MyNetworkTV affiliated station has been serving Detroit, the nation's 14th largest market, since its launch in May 1989, and currently reaches nearly two million television households. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition of WADL is Mission's second entry into the state of Michigan; the broadcast group also owns WLAJ-TV, the ABC affiliate serving Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital.
"The purchase of WADL represents a rare opportunity to acquire a full-power station in a top-15 market," said Dennis Thatcher, President of Mission Broadcasting, Inc. "We are very excited about playing a role in the continued renaissance of this great American city."
Kevin Adell, Chief Executive Officer of Adell Broadcasting, commented, "I started this journey 34 years ago at my parents' kitchen table, where I mortgaged their home in order to build what would later become WADL-TV. I could not have selected a better successor of my legacy than Mission Broadcasting."
The transaction, subject to regulatory and other customary approvals, is expected to close in the third quarter of this year.
About Mission Broadcasting, Inc
Mission Broadcasting is led by Nancie J. Smith, Chairwoman, and majority shareholder. The privately held company currently owns twenty-nine television stations in twenty-six U.S. DMAs. Mission portfolio includes ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont.
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2023-05-17T22:08:49+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/05/17/mission-broadcasting-acquire-wadl-tv-detroit-adell-broadcasting/
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Louisiana mother considered restraining order against man accused of killing her execution-style
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - A desk at the First City Court in New Orleans sat empty Tuesday after Casandra Jones was murdered by a man she reportedly considered filing a restraining order against.
The First City Clerk of Court, Austin Badon, says Jones was leaving her house, headed for work and that’s when suspect BJ Brown shot her just before 9:30 a.m.
Cell phone video of her horrific execution-style killing was widely shared on social media.
In the harrowing video, a man believed to be Brown walks over to Jones after she’s shot and nearly dead in the apartment parking lot and fires two more rounds into her body.
“Walked down the street with a gun, a long gun, without any fear of repercussions and shoots someone for whatever reason in broad daylight,” Badon said. “Seemingly, this individual walked away and came back and finished her off.”
After the shooting, Brown fled to Tennessee where he reportedly shot a cop during a traffic stop and escaped into the woods. The New Orleans Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for Brown for second-degree murder.
Badon says Jones had domestic issues with Brown and even considered filing a temporary restraining order against him.
We spoke about it, and I told her she had my full support, and I encouraged her to go through with it, but I believe she decided not to,” he said.
Actor and mentor Ameer Baraka says the video shows Brown hunting down his victim.
“This generation has no fear... they have no fear,” Baraka said. “Animals don’t do this. This is barbaric. This is inhuman behavior. It is pure evil to do something like that.”
Badon, like others, is upset that the brutal killing was circulated on social media.
“What did we come to as a society when we put that stuff out there on social media?” he asked. “It’s just heartbreaking that instead of rendering aid and help, people decided to pull out their phones and put that stuff out there.”
Jones leaves behind two children. She’s described as being a hard worker, only trying to provide for her family.
“Her future has now been cut short,” Badon said. “Now she’s a statistic for gun violence and domestic violence.”
A search is underway in the small city of Erin, Tennessee, about 65 miles west of Nashville.
Brown is considered armed and dangerous. If you know anything about his whereabouts, you’re asked to call the police.
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2022-06-29T01:39:17+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/2022/06/29/louisiana-mother-considered-restraining-order-against-man-accused-killing-her-execution-style/
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Police: 9 victims hit but no deaths in San Francisco mass shooting
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Multiple victims were struck by bullets during a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District Friday night, but authorities said there were no fatalities.
“We can confirm there are 9 shooting victims — all are expected to survive their injuries,” the San Francisco Police Department said in a tweet.
Police said there was no ongoing threat and the shooting “appears to be targeted and isolated.”
The city’s Department of Emergency Management issued an earlier tweet asking people to avoid the area of 24th Street and Treat Avenue.
Police said officers responded to the shooting shortly after 9 p.m., KPIX-TV reported.
The victims were transported to a hospital but their conditions were not immediately known, KPIX-TV reported.
The police did not immediately report making any arrests.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-06-10T08:28:26+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/2023/06/10/police-9-victims-hit-no-deaths-san-francisco-mass-shooting/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with Tuya's March 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO") of the important October 11, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tuya securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement 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 Tuya class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7007 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 October 11, 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, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (2) prior to the IPO, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, among other things, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (3) as a result, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (4) as such, the IPO's Registration Statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of Tuya at the time of the IPO. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Tuya class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7007 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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2022-08-26T01:24:39+00:00
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ksla.com
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s Democratic Party leader used a rally Tuesday evening to try to galvanize center-left voters, especially young people, trying to confound opinion polls that indicate a right-wing campaign alliance is headed to triumph in this month’s election of a new Parliament.
“No destiny is already written,'' former Premier Enrico Letta told a few hundred people in a Rome square. ”We will make a democratic and progressive Italy win" in the Sept. 25 balloting.
His chief rival, far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, is intent on becoming the first woman to hold Italy's premiership.
As Letta tried to instill confidence among the Democrats' base, an opinion poll published Tuesday said Meloni’s nationalist, fast-growing Brothers of Italy party and Letta's Democrats are running neck and neck at just over 20% support for each.
But Meloni has a crucial advantage over Letta that could prove her springboard into the premier's office. She is in a broad campaign alliance with two well-established right-wing and conservative figures — anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, who has led three governments with his Forza Italia party.
The survey of eligible voters by the Ixe’ Institute polling firm said the 5-Stars had just under 14% support and Salvini’s League nearly 11%. The opinion poll incidated Meloni’s alliance could clinch an absolute majority in both chambers of Parliament.
Letta failed to secure similarly sized campaign allies. On principle, he refused to ally with the populist 5-Star Movement, whose yanking of support in Parliament helped collapse the government earlier this summer of now caretaker Premier Mario Draghi, triggering elections six months early.
Letta's plan to unite the Democrats' electoral forces with centrists backfired after the latter refused to campaign with the tiny Greens and far-left forces that are allied with the Democrats.
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, a prominent Democrat who opened the rally, told the crowd that “this country cannot afford to make a profound regression on social values. We can beat these surveys.”
Other speakers said allowing the far-right to take power could lead to a retreat on rights such as legalized abortion.
A rising star in the party, Elly Schlein, who is deputy governor of the northern Emilia Romagna region, referred to a successful battle in recent years waged by the Democrats to allow same-sex civil unions.
One of the most applauded rally speakers, Schlein said Italians deserve to obtain “something more,” including a same-sex marriage law and a law cracking down on hate crimes, including aggression against the LGBTQ community.
Schlein cited the recent case of two young women who said they were slapped and pushed in a beach town near Rome after they kissed and held hands in public.
Meloni has railed against what she calls the LGBTQ lobby but says she isn't prejudiced against members of that community.
Closing the rally, Letta said, "it will be be our Italy, democratic and progressive and European and ecological, that wants to change the history of this country.”
He said he was heartened that recent polling data indicates the Democrats are now the most popular party among young Italians.
Letta is also pitching heavily for the support from the undecided, which the Ixe' Institute said accounted for nearly a quarter of eligible voters who were polled. The institute said the survey, conducted Sept. 2, had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
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2022-09-06T21:34:17+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Italy-s-left-insists-far-right-isn-t-destined-to-17422893.php
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TX Brownsville TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
TXZ253-151700-
Southern Hidalgo-
Including the cities of McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr, Mission,
and Weslaco
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the lower 60s. North winds around 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
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Inland Cameron-
Including the cities of Brownsville and Harlingen
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing
to northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Cooler
with highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling to around 60 in
the afternoon. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 70. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
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Coastal Cameron-
Including the cities of Port Isabel and Laguna Vista
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs
in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph,
becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy
with highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling to around 60 in
the afternoon. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 70. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Breezy. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
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Cameron Island-
Including the cities of South Padre Island and Boca Chica Beach
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs
in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Windy with lows in the lower 60s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, increasing to northeast 20 to
30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Windy with highs in the mid 60s.
Temperature falling into the upper 50s in the afternoon. North
winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Breezy. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Breezy with lows in the lower
60s. Temperature rising into the upper 60s after midnight. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Near steady temperature in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
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TXZ252-151700-
Starr-
Including the cities of Rio Grande City and Roma
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ254-151700-
Inland Willacy-
Including the city of Raymondville
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s. East winds around 10 mph, becoming northeast
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Cooler
with highs in the lower 60s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ354-151700-
Coastal Willacy-
Including the city of Port Mansfield
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs
in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph, becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy
with highs in the mid 60s. Temperature falling into the upper 50s
in the afternoon. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 70. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Breezy. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ248-151700-
Zapata-
Including the city of Zapata
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Light and
variable winds, becoming southeast around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the upper
50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ249-151700-
Jim Hogg-
Including the city of Hebbronville
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows
in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ250-151700-
Brooks-
Including the city of Falfurrias
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the upper
50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Not
as cool. Near steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ353-151700-
Northern Hidalgo-
Including the city of San Manuel
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
around 50. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ251-151700-
Inland Kenedy-
Including the city of Sarita
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Lows
around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ351-151700-
Coastal Kenedy-
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Cooler
with highs around 60. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy
with highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ454-151700-
Willacy Island-
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs
in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Breezy with lows in the upper
50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming
northeast 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely. Windy with highs in the mid 60s.
Temperature falling into the upper 50s in the afternoon. North
winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Near steady
temperature in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Breezy. Near steady temperature
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Breezy with highs in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ451-151700-
Kenedy Island-
357 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2022
.REST OF TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s.
Southeast winds around 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Breezy with lows in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Breezy,
cooler. Near steady temperature in the upper 50s. North winds
20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Breezy. Near steady temperature
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Breezy with lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Breezy with highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
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2022-12-15T10:20:38+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/TX-Brownsville-TX-Zone-Forecast-17655684.php
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LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Ukraine can go to trial to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the European Union.
The court rejected a bid by a British company acting on Russia’s behalf to order Ukraine to repay the loans without facing a trial. Ukraine said it borrowed the money while facing the threat of military force and massive illegal economic and political pressure nearly a decade before Russia invaded its neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that the ruling was “another decisive victory against the aggressor.”
“The Court has ruled that Ukraine’s defense based on Russia’s threats of aggression will have a full public trial,” he tweeted. “Justice will be ours.”
The case was argued in November 2021, and the court was not asked to consider Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three months later.
Ukrainian authorities allege that the corrupt government of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych borrowed the money from Moscow under pressure before he was ousted in protests in February 2014, shortly before Russia illegally annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.
After the 2014 Ukraine revolution, the country’s new government refused to repay the debt in December 2015, saying Moscow wouldn’t agree to terms already accepted by other international creditors.
The case came to British courts because London-based Law Debenture Trust Corp. had been appointed by Ukraine to represent the interests of bondholders. The company initially won a judgment ordering repayment of the loans, but Ukraine appealed.
An appeals court overturned the lower court ruling, agreeing that Ukraine could challenge repayment of the loans on the grounds of duress but rejecting several other legal claims.
Both sides appealed to the Supreme Court, which reached a similar conclusion in favor of Ukraine for different reasons.
The Supreme Court rejected several of Ukraine’s legal arguments, including that its finance minister didn’t have authority to enter into the loan agreement and that Ukraine could decline payment as a countermeasure to Russia’s aggressions.
The ruling, however, said a court could consider whether the deal was void because of threats or pressure that are illegitimate under English law.
While the court noted that trade sanctions, embargoes and other economic pressures are “normal aspects of statecraft,” economic pressures could provide context to prove that Russia’s threats to destroy Ukraine caused it to issue the bonds.
“The success of Ukraine’s defense turns on whether Russia’s threatened use of force imposed what English law regards as illegitimate pressure on Ukraine to enter into the trust deed and related contracts,” the court wrote. “That question can only be determined after trial.”
Ukraine said that a month before it entered into the deal, Yanukovych told his Lithuanian counterpart that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to have Moscow’s banks bankrupt eastern Ukrainian factories if it signed an association agreement with the EU.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the U.K. court recognized the coercion.
“Now, the Kremlin will have to disclose all information about the actions against Ukraine in open court,” Shmyhal said. “Justice will definitely prevail. Russia will definitely answer for all its illegal actions and crimes.”
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Associated Press writer Yuras Karmanau contributed from Tallinn, Estonia.
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2023-03-16T12:09:17+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/business/court-ukraine-can-try-to-avoid-repaying-3b-loan-to-russia/
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Nigerian officials have seized thousands of donkey penises that were about to be exported to Hong Kong, an official said on Thursday.
Sacks of the donkey male genitals were seized at the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, Sambo Dangaladima, the Nigeria Customs Service area commander, told reporters.
The consignment was “falsely declared … as cow male genitals (but) after due examination, my export officers discovered they were donkey male genitals,” said Dangaladima. A total of 16 sacks of the genitals were seized, he said.
An investigation has been launched to find out more information about the seized items, the customs service said.
Although the seizure of donkey genitals meant for export from Nigeria is rare, donkey skins are known to be frequently exported or smuggled out of the country. In July, the Nigerian customs seized $116,000 worth of donkey skins being smuggled into the country from neighboring Niger.
Nigeria is trying to curb the export of donkey skins which has drastically diminished the country's population of the work animals, particularly in the north. Nigerian senators in 2021 proposed to ban the killing of donkeys and the export of their skins.
The lawmakers said such a ban on killing donkeys would further curb the export of donkey skins and genitals — which Nigeria prohibits — to countries like China where the skins are used in popular traditional medicines. That proposed legislation has not yet been passed into law.
“The major beneficiary in this trade is the donkey (skin) merchants in China,” Muhammad Datti, one of the federal lawmakers supporting the proposed ban, has said. “This animal is facing extinction (in Nigeria) and it is an animal you cannot breed in large numbers because of the very low rate of fertility.”
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2022-09-08T16:28:41+00:00
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nbcchicago.com
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/nigeria-seizes-thousands-of-donkey-penises-that-were-being-smuggled-to-hong-kong/2934488/
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its coverage of the war in Ukraine, earning recognition for its breaking news photography of the Russian invasion, as well as the prestigious public service award for its startling — and exclusive — dispatches from the besieged port city of Mariupol.
AP journalists were also finalists in two Pulitzer categories, for breaking news photography of Sri Lanka’s political crisis and for feature photography of the Ukraine war’s impact on older people.
For the public service award, the Pulitzer judges acknowledged AP — which had the only international journalists in Mariupol for nearly three weeks — for capturing notable images of an injured, pregnant woman being rushed to medical help and Russia firing on civilian targets.
AP’s Mariupol team was made up of videojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and video producer Vasilisa Stepanenko on the ground in the besieged city, and reporter Lori Hinnant in Paris.
Other winners of two Pulitzers apiece were AL.com, of Birmingham, Alabama, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The Pulitzers honor the best in journalism from 2022 in 15 categories, as well as eight arts categories focused on books, music and theater. The public service winner receives a gold medal. All other winners receive $15,000.
Kyle Whitmire, of AL.com, won a commentary award for “measured and persuasive columns” about Alabama’s Confederate heritage and a legacy of racism.
His Alabama colleagues John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens won a local reporting award for a probe into a local police force.
It was a second Pulitzer win for John Archibald, who previously won in 2018 for commentary, and the first for his son, Ramsey Archibald. Remkus and Stephens were also picking up their second Pulitzers, after being part of a team that won in 2021 for national reporting.
“The recognition is tremendous and we’re grateful our work is being honored on the national stage like this,” Kelly Ann Scott, editor in chief and vice president of Alabama Media Group, said in a statement. “This is local journalism at its best – and local journalism is the heartbeat of this country’s journalism in general.”
The New York Times was honored with an international reporting award for its coverage of Russian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Pulitzers were also given for work surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion standard, the government’s policy of child separation at the border, and welfare spending in Mississippi.
The Washington Post’s Caroline Kitchener won for “unflinching reporting” on the consequences of the abortion decision, including the story of a Texas teenager who gave birth to twins after new restrictions denied her an abortion. The Post’s Eli Saslow won for feature writing.
The Los Angeles Times won for breaking news for its stories revealing a secretly recorded conversation with city officials making racist comments. The newspaper’s Christina House won for feature photography, for her images of a 22-year-old pregnant woman living on the street.
The AP coverage of Mariupol, according to the Ukrainian city’s deputy mayor, focused the world’s attention on the devastation there and ultimately pressured Russians to open an evacuation route, saving thousands of civilian lives.
“They told the world of the human toll of this war in its earliest days,” AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said during a staff Zoom celebration. “They served as a counterweight against Russian disinformation, and they helped open up a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol with the power of their work.”
The AP team that won for breaking news photography included Maloletka, who was part of the Mariupol coverage, along with Bernat Armangue, Emilio Morenatti, Felipe Dana, Nariman El-Mofty, Rodrigo Abd and Vadim Ghirda.
AP’s director of photography, David Ake, credited winners in the breaking news photography category for simply staying put in a war zone to bear witness.
“You can’t make the moment that captures the world if you’re not there, and being there is often dirty and difficult and dangerous,” he said.
Pulitzer Prize Board co-chair Neil Brown highlighted the dangers faced by journalists, noting the imprisonment in Russia of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on spying charges, which his family and the newspaper vehemently deny. Brown said the board demands Gershkovich’s immediate release.
The Atlantic won the Pulitzer for explanatory journalism for Caitlin Dickerson’s exhaustive probe of the Trump administration policy of separating parents from children at the U.S. border.
The Wall Street Journal won for its investigation into federal officials holding stock that could have been affected by government action, including dozens who reported trading stock in companies shortly before their own agencies announced enforcement actions against them.
Anna Wolfe, of Mississippi Today, was honored for her reporting on a former Mississippi governor sending federal welfare money to family and friends, including NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre.
Andrew Long Chu, of New York magazine, won a Pulitzer for criticism. Nancy Ancrum, Amy Driscoll, Luisa Yanez, Isadora Rangell and Lauren Constantino, of the Miami Herald, won for editorial writing. Mona Chalabi, a contributor to The New York Times, won for illustrated reporting and commentary. The staff of Gimlet Media won for audio reporting.
The prizes were established in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and first awarded in 1917.
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2023-05-09T14:17:07+00:00
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abqjournal.com
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https://www.abqjournal.com/2597387/ap-wins-public-service-photo-pulitzers-for-ukraine-coverage.html
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Jeep is looking to take self-driving cars off-road.
The automaker on Wednesday released a short video clip of autonomous prototypes testing in Moab, Utah. The clip shows a pair of Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrids with added sensors tackling some of Moab’s famous trails with no human at the wheel. Jeep was vague on where these tests might lead, though.
“These advanced off-road driving systems will help more customers in more countries around the world join and enjoy the adventure,” Jeep CEO Christian Meunier said in a statement. “These features and technology will have real-life applications on and off the trail in a wide range of driving conditions.”
Neither Meunier nor Jeep provided more detail on what those applications might be, or a production timeline, though. An autonomous driving system designed for off-road use would likely face fewer regulatory hurdles than tech intended for use on public roads, however.
While the Grand Cherokee models used for these tests are based on a legacy platform, Jeep parent Stellantis has said it plans to bake advanced driver-assist capability into its future EV platforms. In late 2021, the automaker announced new software systems to be introduced starting in 2024 in Stellantis’ four dedicated EV platforms. One, called STLA AutoDrive, promises SAE Level 3 capability, meaning hands-off, eyes-off operation in certain conditions.
The first confirmed Jeep models that will use one of the dedicated EV platforms, and thus potentially incorporate some of this software, are the Wrangler-esque Recon and the Wagoneer S. Both are scheduled to be unveiled later this year, with production due to start in 2024.
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2023-05-31T18:44:36+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/automotive/internet-brands/jeep-testing-autonomous-driving-tech-for-off-road-use/
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After operating a temporary store over the holidays at Tanger Outlets, Ugg is now opening a permanent store at the Route 30 shopping center in East Lampeter Township.
Expected to open by the end of October, Ugg will take a 4,000-square-foot space between Sperry and Banana Republic Factory outlet at the southwest corner of the shopping center, the spot where it had its temporary store until January.
Ugg is a fashion retailer primarily known for its fleece-lined boots that also sells loungewear, blankets and accessories for men, women and children. Founded in California in 1978, it is now a division of Decker Brands, whose brands also include Teva, Hoka and Sanuk.
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2022-10-23T09:40:54+00:00
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lancasteronline.com
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https://lancasteronline.com/business/whats_in_store/sheepskin-boot-retailer-ugg-to-open-store-at-tanger-outlets/article_cee85f80-4fbb-11ed-9023-efb4f3cb1828.html
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FORT DODGE – Justin Rygh, a Lake Mills junior, put the finishing touches on his cross country season on Friday, standing on the awards deck overlooking Lakeside Municipal Golf Course as a top-15 state medalist in 1A competition.
Rygh is the first medalist for the Bulldogs since his older brother Carson a handful of years ago. Rygh placed seventh in the state meet in 16 minutes, 32.41 seconds.
From the start of the year on, Rygh had the mindset of it being “make or break” and he wasn’t willing to break. After disappointments as a freshman and sophomore, Rygh was all-in for a junior year to remember.
Now, he officially is on the same level as his brother.
“Long time in the making,” Rygh said.
Rygh took a similar strategy to an earlier race in Waverly, picking off people around the 1.5-mile mark.
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“There were few trailing (runners) that started with that pack, but fell behind and I just had to keep catching,” Rygh said.
“I’m so proud of Justin,” Lake Mills head coach Beth Van Roekel added. “This has been his dream to get here. He’s learned how to run a good race.”
Lake Mills finished 11th in the team race with 263 points. Freshman Knute Rogne was the only one in the top-100, crossing the line in 64th in 17:55.51.
It returns everybody in the scoring five for 2023.
Zach Martin is a sports reporter for the Globe Gazette. Reach him via email at zachary.martin@globegazette.com and follow him on Twitter @zach_martin95.
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2022-10-29T19:37:52+00:00
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globegazette.com
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https://globegazette.com/community/rygh-makes-statement-with-all-state-performance-at-final-xc-meet-of-season/article_b8819806-0947-50bd-90a3-0ffd1e0d76e6.html
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Customer Orders Increase 48 percent Year Over Year
LEHI, Utah, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LGCY Power (pronounced Legacy Power), the fastest growing residential solar installer in the nation, today announced that LGCY Installation Services has grown its installation capacity 175 percent quarter over quarter, having deployed more than 6 megawatts of residential solar in June 2022. LGCY is now a top 10 residential solar installer in the U.S.
LGCY also installed an additional six megawatts through its partner network and increased overall customer orders 48 percent year over year. The company has originated more than 125,000 residential solar customer orders to date, provided more than $60 million in energy cost savings to its customers and has now completed more residential solar installations in its first nine months than any residential solar company in history.
"It's nothing short of incredible to watch the LGCY Power installation footprint grow at a pace never before seen in the residential solar industry," said Alex Mortensen, President & CFO of LGCY Power. "LGCY completed its first in-house install nine months ago, and has continued to grow amid industry supply chain restrictions, historically low unemployment and broad inflation."
"Our solar installation team has quickly grown to be one of the best, most efficient and dynamic teams in solar," said Chris Iglesias, COO of LGCY Power. "LGCY has grown headcount more than 500 percent to meet our expansion, and we have much more growth in our forecast to keep up with our incredible sales team."
LGCY Power is the fastest growing residential solar installer in the United States and has been named to the Inc. 5000, an Emerging Eight company, A Best Place to Work by Glassdoor.com, and is focused on providing an extraordinary solar experience for customers in the United States. By offering a cleaner, cheaper alternative to traditional electricity, LGCY assists residential homeowners by providing solar power at little to no upfront cost. LGCY Power offers solar in 30 states and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah. For more information visit https://www.lgcypower.com/
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2022-07-06T14:50:34+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/lgcy-power-installation-services-installs-6mw-residential-solar-june-2022/
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Which gifts are best for my boyfriend?
Whether it’s his birthday, an anniversary, the holidays or an attempt to reward and celebrate a milestone or accomplishment, you want to make sure you get your boyfriend the gift he deserves.
Shop this article: Callaway Golf Men’s Strata Complete Set, HoMedics Percussion Action Plus Handheld Massager with Heat and YETI Roadie 24 Cooler
Pay attention to the little details
If you’re celebrating a birthday, don’t be afraid to go all out with decorations and even breakfast in bed to start the day. Be sure to pick out the birthday card and birthday cake. If you’re celebrating at night, maybe go a different route and utilize a mixology kit to make some drinks.
For the athlete and the outdoors person
For a guy who loves sports and prefers to stay active, the latest gear and accessories may be exactly what he’s looking for. If his shoes are looking raggedy, the backpack is falling apart and the golf clubs are getting rusty, an upgrade might be in order.
Beef up the wardrobe
If you’ve been together long enough, you probably know your boyfriend’s style and where it’s lacking. However, you don’t want to turn what should be a celebration into an argument. Don’t force him out of his comfort zone, but he’ll appreciate the right clothes and accessories.
You can’t go wrong with technology
When all else fails, turn your attention to the latest gadgets. Phones, music, video games and more, the list of what you can upgrade is endless. Slip him an extra set of phone chargers if his tech is always dying, or get him a new pair of headphones.
Best athletic and outdoor gifts for a boyfriend
Callaway Golf Men’s Strata Complete Set
Give your boyfriend the gift of top-level performance with a complete set of golf clubs. A driver, three wood and six hybrid irons are all included in this complete set. The bag and headcovers are available in multiple colors.
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This cooler offers PermaFrost insulation to keep your snacks and drinks cold. The Rotomolded construction, slim design and HeftyHauler handler make it light and easy to transport.
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Modern Surfboards Love Child PU Surfboard
If your partner’s favorite pastime is shredding the waves, then this surfboard upgrade might be the best thing you can get him. It’s a versatile cruiser that is part longboard while having the stability of a shortboard. He can catch more waves without losing top performance.
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Best cozy and comfortable gifts for a boyfriend
HoMedics Percussion Action Plus Handheld Massager with Heat
The handheld massager comes with dual pivoting heads and warm muscle-relaxing heat. Sooth his muscles with three sets of massage nodes, variable speed control and an ergonomic handle that makes it easy to use.
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Charter Club Dorenda Moccasin Slippers
Keep his feet toasty and warm in these lush faux fur slippers with a red check print exterior and leather bowtie. These slippers are a wonderful holiday gift or a great way to surprise him on your trip to the mountains.
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Best technology gifts for a boyfriend
Upgrade your boyfriend’s technology game, and stop him from stealing your tablet, by gifting him an iPad with a 10.2-inch Retina display. If he’s a gamer, the A13 Bionic chip offers an amazing performance so that he can pair this with his Xbox, PlayStation or MFI controller.
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Bose QuietComfort 35 II Wireless Bluetooth Headphones, Noise-Cancelling, with Alexa Voice Control
Are you looking to give the gift of peace and quiet? Go for these top-of-the-line noise-canceling headphones with three levels. The dual-microphone makes for the clearest voice pick-up. The Bluetooth pairing is hassle-free and AR-enabled to help create the highest sound level.
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Best accessory gifts
Seiko Men’s Automatic 5 Sports Stainless Steel Bracelet Watch 42.5mm
This classic dive-style watch is a timeless gift that is sure to impress your boyfriend. The three hands are automatic and powered by hand and wrist movement, so you never need a new battery.
This kit comes with Deep Dive Facial Cleansers for removing dirt and unclogging pores. The Supreme Clean Triple Cushion Shave Lather protects his skin while allowing a close shave. Double-Duty Face Moisturizer with SPF 20 gives lasting hydration.
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2023-07-10T17:20:58+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/reviews/br-reviews/sports-fitness-br/golf-br/top-notch-boyfriend-gifts-for-every-occasion/
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Global Apparel and Accessories Brand unveils a new spring 2023 premium lifestyle collection of Rugs, Bedding, Decor and more
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Banana Republic, a Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) brand, continues to establish itself as a premium lifestyle brand with the expanded announcement of BR Home — an extraordinary selection of home categories that are exquisitely crafted by the finest artisans and craftspeople around the globe, exclusively created and curated by Banana Republic.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9139851-banana-republic-launches-new-home-categories/
"Our expanded Home collection is central to our vision to be the premier lifestyle brand that positions BR as an experiential and cultural cornerstone in our customers' lives," said Sandra Stangl, President and CEO of Banana Republic. "Banana Republic is a destination for discovery, adventure and imagination."
Encouraging customers to build a sanctuary of comfort and style, BR Home expands offerings with an exclusive spring collection of premium bedding, rugs, pillows, and decor. The brand remains focused on its dedication to unparalleled craftsmanship and utilizing the highest-quality materials and natural fabrics, such as fine European linen, plush cotton cashmere, and organic cotton.
"Discovery and self-expression are an integral part of our customers' lives at home, work and away," said Aaron Rose, Head of Commerce & Experience for Banana Republic. "We know our customers care deeply about great style, design, and quality in all aspects of their lives, and we are excited for BR Home to be a central part of their personal lifestyle."
The expanded collection builds on last fall's launch of ART, Curated by Banana Republic, a collection of exclusive works from artists and photographers.
The BR Home collection is available online and in select stores in the United States today, with prices ranging from $40 for our washed cotton pillowcase sets to $7,550 for our most luxurious handwoven, oversized rugs made in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
Follow @bananarepublic with hashtag #BRHome to discover the new spring collection and learn more about future collections.
About Banana Republic @bananarepublic
Banana Republic is a global apparel and accessories brand that creates iconic pieces for everyday and special occasions. Inspired by a heritage of expedition-ready daywear, the new BR Look redefines modern luxury. Informed by more sustainable practices, the finest materials and fabric innovations are incorporated to create timeless, versatile clothing, eyewear, jewelry, shoes, handbags, and fragrances. Founded in 1978 in San Francisco, Banana Republic connects with customers across online, company-operated, and franchise retail locations globally. For more information, please visit www.bananarepublic.com or follow @BananaRepublic
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2023-03-28T18:14:04+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/03/28/banana-republic-launches-new-home-categories/
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(NerdWallet) – A successful yard sale involves hours of preparation and plenty of hard work. So does an unsuccessful sale. I’ve had both kinds and can confidently say the version that makes money is better.
If you’re ready to take advantage of warmer weather and the opportunity to declutter, consider these tips culled from experts (and bitter experience) for having a good sale.
Determine your goals
First, consider whether a yard sale is the right method for your goals. Yard sales and their cousins — garage, estate, moving and tag sales — can help you get rid of stuff and raise some cash. But you can’t expect to get top dollar.
If making money is your priority and you have time to wait for buyers, consider offering your more valuable items elsewhere. Check out auction sites such as eBay; apps including Letgo and OfferUp; platforms like Craigslist, Nextdoor or Facebook Marketplace; and consignment stores or even pawnshops.
If you just want to get stuff out of your house, donating your unwanted goods is usually the fastest and easiest option. (You’ll get a tax break for your donation only if you’re one of the few who itemize deductions.)
If your goals are relatively balanced — you want more space and more money, for several hours’ worth of work — a yard sale may be the best option.
Go big
Consider enlisting at least one other household that can contribute helpers and stuff for your sale. Shoppers want to see a wide variety of goods — there’s a reason many yard sale ads use the headline “Multifamily sale!” — and the whole experience is a lot more fun with friends.
Tools, kitchen gadgets, sporting goods and camping gear are often the best draws, says Chris Heiska, who has operated the yardsalequeen.com site since 1996. What usually doesn’t sell: anything broken or badly stained. Outdated technology can be hit or miss. Our friends found no takers for their VCR tapes or Princess telephone. But vinyl records can be hot sellers.
Expect to spend several hours collecting, sorting and pricing your items. Pricing is essential — many people won’t ask what something costs, so you’ll be losing sales if there’s no sticker, Heiska says. You can find lists of suggested yard sale prices online or check other sales in your area. When in doubt, Heiska suggests pricing something at one-quarter to one-third of what the item costs new. In some areas, 10% to 20% of the original cost is often the norm.
“You have to think of your shoppers,” says professional organizer Cyndi Seidler of Los Angeles, who manages estate and moving sales for clients. “They don’t go to these things to pay retail prices.”
Pro tip: Price as you go, so you’re not trying to do it all right before the crowds arrive. You can use masking tape and a Sharpie, but I invested $8 in a big package of pre-marked pricing stickers ordered online. Each of the three sellers used a different color, which made it easy to keep track on the day of the sale. We also procured some change: quarters, singles and a few larger bills. How much we started with is a matter of dispute; I’ll get to that later.
Get the word out
Craigslist is a good place to advertise your sale for free, but it shouldn’t be the only site. That’s the mistake I made with the yard sale that flopped a few years ago, with few attendees and even fewer sales. One of those attendees explained that veteran shoppers check the sites devoted to yard and garage sales. (Search for “yard sales near me” to see which ones pop up and offer free listings.)
This time, we advertised on a few of those sites plus Craigslist, Nextdoor and Facebook Marketplace. We also used some of our social media accounts to let local friends know about our sale. We employed old-school signage as well: bright yellow yard sale signs, scored from a dollar store and duct-taped at several local intersections with the address, date and time drawn large enough for passing drivers to easily see.
We also made our sale “a shopping experience,” in Seidler’s words. That meant borrowing tables and clothes racks from friends to keep things off the ground, grouping like items together and, toward the end, creating bundles of items and slashing prices. For example, we scooped all the leftover craft items into a box and sold the lot for $5. (By this point in the day, I no longer cared whose items were whose; I just wanted it all off my driveway.)
Our five-hour sale was a blast and netted around $600. As mentioned above, we didn’t keep careful track of how much money we brought into the sale, so how much we cleared is a matter of some debate. We’ll pay more attention next time, because there definitely will be a next time.
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2022-06-04T17:23:10+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/national/how-to-make-more-green-at-your-next-yard-sale/
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(CNN) — The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is expected to ask Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone during a closed-door interview on Friday about what he witnessed in the waning days of Donald Trump’s administration when the former President and his allies tried to overturn the election.
The interview will be videotaped and could be featured at upcoming hearings, including one on Tuesday about how the violent mob came together and the role of extremist groups as well as another hearing — which hasn’t yet been scheduled — on the 187 minutes of Trump’s inaction as rioters stormed the US Capitol.
Cipollone’s appearance is the result of months of negotiations between his lawyers and the panel about what topics can be discussed. He had previously met with the committee informally in April.
Cipollone was among the handful of people who spent time with Trump as he watched the Capitol riot unfold on television from a dining room off the Oval Office, according to two sources familiar with the panel’s investigation. The committee has heard from other witnesses who said Cipollone, along with other senior Trump advisers including Ivanka Trump and Dan Scavino, were with the President at various points during this time.
Like others who were present and have testified before the committee, Cipollone could help shed light on Trump’s state of mind as the violence was taking place. Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, for example, testified that she heard a conversation in the dining room at one point about rioters chanting “hang Mike Pence.”
Cipollone’s presence in the dining room — which several witnesses have described to the committee — underscores why the committee is seeking his on-the-record testimony as a key fact witness.
Cipollone’s concerns about executive privilege surrounding the role of the White House counsel could lead to him limiting his cooperation with the committee, according to sources familiar with his thinking.
The committee has sought to piece together a comprehensive account of what Trump was doing on January 6, whom he talked to and how he reacted to the violence in real time. The panel has been leaning heavily on witness testimony to do so because of an hours-long gap in White House records during that time period, CNN previously reported.
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a member on the committee, pushed back on the claims of privilege Cipollone could assert saying on CNN earlier this week.
“Well, executive privilege is held by the current President, who has not asserted it when it comes to finding out information about the January 6th plot,” Lofgren said. “The attorney-client privilege could be asserted. But, remember, the presidency is his client, not Mr. Trump as a person.”
But Lofgren affirmed, “I’m sure we will get information that’s of use to him and we will also respect his dedication to these principals that he holds dear.”
Cipollone’s name has repeatedly come up during the committee’s hearings so far as he is viewed as a key witness by the committee.
Cipollone was in a key oval office meeting on January 3, 2021, when Trump was considering replacing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with DOJ environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark, because Clark, unlike Rosen, was willing to use the powers of federal law enforcement to back his baseless claims of election fraud.
In that meeting, Rosen and Cipollone discredited Clark’s credentials for the job and categorically dismissed a draft letter Clark had written that falsely claimed the Department of Justice had found evidence of election fraud.
Rosen’s deputy Richard Donoghue testified in a committee hearing that Cipollone said of the drafted letter in that meeting, “that letter that this guy wants to send, that letter is a murder-suicide pact. It’s going to damage everyone who touches it. And we should have nothing to do with that letter. I don’t ever want to see that letter again.”
The committee has revealed that in its previous, informal conversation with Cipollone, Cipollone told the select committee that “he intervened when he heard Mr. Clark was meeting with the president about legal matters without his knowledge, which was strictly against White House policy.”
Hutchinson testified that Cipollone was against Trump calling on his supporters to march to the Capitol in his speech in the morning of January 6 and was particularly against Trump joining his supporters at the Capitol.
Hutchinson said that Cipollone told her on January 3, “We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen, this would be legally a terrible idea for us. We have serious legal concerns if we go to the Capitol that day.”
When the violence broke out at the Capitol, Cipollone marched into the office of Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to Hutchinson, and demanded they talk to Trump about doing something to intervene.
Hutchinson testified that Meadows told Cipollone that the former President did not want to do anything and Cipollone said something to the effect of Mark, ‘something needs to be done, or people are going to die, the blood’s going to be on your f***ing hands.’
Cipollone wanted Trump to say in his January 7, 2021, speech that the rioters should be prosecuted and described as violent, but Hutchinson said those original lines did not make it into the final version of the speech Trump delivered.
Hutchinson added that from what she understood at the time, the reason individuals like Cipollone wanted that language in there was because there was a “large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked.”
The committee has played video of testimony from Jared Kushner saying that Cipollone and his team “were always saying, ‘Oh, we’re going to resign. We’re not going to be here if this happens, if that happens.’” But Kushner said, “I kind of took it up to just be whining to be honest with you.”
Prior to Cipollone’s interview being set, the committee had made a public push to get him to testify under oath.
“Our Committee is certain that Donald Trump does not want Mr. Cipollone to testify here,” said GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who serves as vice chairwoman of the committee, at the close the panel’s fourth hearing on June 21.
“We think the American people deserve to hear from Mr. Cipollone personally,” she added. “He should appear before this Committee, and we are working to secure his testimony.”
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2022-07-08T12:12:36+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/pat-cipollone-to-meet-with-january-6-committee-behind-closed-doors-friday/
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In the wake of being blindsided by Southern California and UCLA leaving for the Big Ten Conference, the Pac-12 is doing its best to stay together.
USC and UCLA announced their decision last week to leave the Pac-12 in 2024. The conference quickly responded by deciding it will explore expansion. Then came a decision to expedite the timeline for media rights negotiations. There have also been reports of a “loose partnership” with the ACC.
“Those are all like, really, spaghetti at the wall things,” Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt told BuffZone. “That, to me, views as flailing.”
While the Pac-12 searches for answers, what is the best move for Colorado? A dozen years after leaving the Big 12 to join the Pac-12, CU is now forced to evaluate its future.
“I do know that those that are proactive tend to do much better in these types of scenarios than those that are reactive,” Klatt, a CU quarterback from 2002-05. “I know that Colorado has been proactive.
“The Arizonas (Arizona and Arizona State) and the mountain schools (CU and Utah), I think have some real urgency. I think that they want to land something quick.”
On Tuesday, chancellor Philip DiStefano and athletic director Rick George released a joint statement that said they support the Pac-12 decision to start media rights negotiations, adding, “We are committed to the Pac-12 Conference and look forward to being an active participant in those conversations.”
That doesn’t mean the Buffs have shut the door on leaving the conference. In fact, on Tuesday evening, the CU board of regents held a special executive session to discuss the situation. According to a BuffZone source, officials from athletics and campus educated the regents on the options facing CU as it looks to the future, but no action was taken in the meeting.
Those options likely don’t include an invitation from the Big Ten or SEC, which have clearly pulled away from the rest of the country. Those are the two power conferences going forward, which is why USC and UCLA bolted.
CU doesn’t bring anywhere near the same economic value to the Big Ten or SEC. In fact, there aren’t many schools that do.
“There’s really only one left, which is Notre Dame,” Klatt said. “There’s no reason for the SEC and the Big Ten to expand past where they currently are.”
So, where does that leave CU?
“I think that Colorado ends up in the Big 12,” said Klatt, who led CU to back-to-back Big 12 title games in 2004 and 2005.
With Oklahoma and Texas leaving for the SEC, the Big 12 doesn’t have any more teams that are attractive to the Big Ten or SEC, Klatt said, adding, “Which weirdly makes them way more stable than either the ACC or the Pac-12.”
Without USC and UCLA, Oregon and Washington are the marquee schools in the Pac-12. The ACC is led by Clemson, Florida State and Miami.
Whether or not the Big Ten and SEC add more teams, Klatt believes that in the not too distant future, major college football will have four conferences, with the Big Ten and SEC being at the top.
“I think that keeping the Pac-12 afloat is a fool’s errand,” he said. “Whether it’s the Pac-12 absorbing the Big 12, or the Big 12 absorbing the Pac-12, or the three of them — the ACC, Big 12 and the Pac-12 — making two conferences, it’s going to four, max: Two that are going to rule the whole thing and two that are going to be left behind.”
Former Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott has been blamed by many for putting the conference in this position. George Kliavkoff replaced Scott a year ago and has been praised by George and others in the conference, but now finds himself in a tough spot.
“I feel really bad for George Kliavkoff because I think he’s really good and he was dealt one of the worst hands of all time,” Klatt said.
It’s a hand that has left CU and others scrambling and many worried about the health of college football in the future.
“This is not a great situation to be in (for some), and I want to acknowledge that and yet at the same time, this was coming, and it has been coming for a long time,” Klatt said. “The reality is that college football for a long time has been too big. No one wants to hear that and I understand that that’s sad for some people and that makes them upset but that’s the reality. You can’t subsidize this many athletic departments without the ones that are doing the subsidizing just at some point saying, ‘Hey, listen, we’ve got to go and take care of ourselves.’ That’s kind of what’s going on now.”
Klatt doesn’t believe CU is in a bad spot, however. Among the Pac-12 schools, it could be California, Oregon State, Stanford and Washington State struggling to find their place.
“They’re the ones that are looking and they’re like, ‘Hold on, we’re out?’” Klatt said. “You can think, if you’re a Colorado fan, that you’re out; you’re not, because there’s still pathways back to the Big 12.”
While it’s a volatile situation now, Klatt believes college football will be better in the long run.
“As it currently stands, the current model has zero sustainability,” he said.
With the Big Ten and SEC leading the way, however, there could be a governance structure that leads to better scheduling and a defined recruiting/transfer portal/coach hiring calendar. There could also be a more clearly defined path to the postseason, even for those not in the Big Ten or SEC, with an expanded playoff.
“I personally believe that we are headed, and it might take some time, but we are headed into a direction that the sport will be much better as a whole,” Klatt said. “In my mind, I still believe that at the end of all this, it’s going to be better. … College football will be better.”
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2022-07-07T01:28:58+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/06/former-cu-buffs-qb-joel-klatt-i-think-colorado-ends-up-in-big-12/
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican authorities said Wednesday that eight employees or officials are being investigated for possible misconduct at a migrant detention center where a fire killed 39 detained men.
Anger and frustration in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez boiled over as hundreds of migrants walked to a U.S. border gate hoping to make a mass crossing.
Mexican officials appeared to place blame for the deaths in the fire late Monday largely on private, subcontracted security guards at the detention center in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Video showed guards hurrying away from the smoky fire apparently without trying to free detainees.
No charges were announced, but authorities said they would seek at least four arrest warrants later in the day, including one for a migrant who was part of what they described as a small group that started the fire. They said a migrant also damaged a security camera inside the cell where the fire occurred.
Five of those under investigation for possible misconduct are private security guards, two are federal immigration agents and one is a Chihuahua state officer, federal Public Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said.
The investigation has centered on the fact that guards appeared to make no effort to open cell doors for the detained men — almost all from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador — before smoke filled the room in a matter of seconds.
The deaths caused frustration, and may have played a role in a mass march late Wednesday afternoon by hundreds of migrants, who began walking toward a U.S. border crossing in the belief that American authorities would let them through.
Adding to anger over the deaths was pent-up frustration of migrants who have spent weeks trying to make appointments on a U.S. cellphone app to file asylum claims. Rumors spread among the migrants that they might be let in into the U.S.
Jorman Colón, a 30-year-old Venezuelan migrant, walked hand-in-hand with his 9-year-old daughter, saying he had heard on social media that acquaintances had gotten through.
"We want to turn ourselves in," Colón said, referring to the first step in the asylum process.
Several hundred of the migrants crossed the shallow Rio Grande from Mexico toward the U.S. and approached a gate in the border fence that separates El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Armed agents stood guard at the U.S. gate entrance.
Venezuelan migrant Victoria Molina, 24, complained that "the app never gives us an (appointment) date."
A group of about 50 migrants initially approached a Border Patrol vehicle and personnel and sat or kneeled on the ground. About 25 of them were then led in single file through the gate into the U.S. and onto a white school-bus style vehicle that drove away.
U.S. officials said Wednesday night that a total of about 1,000 migrants had crossed the river and were being processed in an orderly manner. It was unclear if they would be allowed to remain or be bussed to a formal border crossing for expulsion.
Smoke began billowing out of the migrant detention center late Monday after a group of detained migrants set fire to foam mattresses, to protest what they thought were plans to move or deport them.
Immigration authorities said they released 15 women when the fire broke out, but have not explained why no men were let out.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that both immigration agents and security guards from a private contractor were present at the facility.
Also Wednesday, Pope Francis offered prayers at the end of his general audience for those who died in the "tragic fire."
Leaked surveillance video shows migrants, reportedly fearing they were about to be moved, placing foam mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and setting them on fire.
In the video, later confirmed by the government, two people dressed as guards rush into the camera frame, and at least one migrant appears by the metal gate on the other side. But the guards don't appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.
It was unclear if the two guards actually had the keys, but authorities suggested Wednesday that they should have gotten them or broken the lock — a highly difficult task, given the quick spread of smoke.
U.S. authorities have offered to help treat some of the nearly 30 people who are hospitalized in critical or serious condition, most apparently from smoke inhalation.
The migrants were stuck in Ciudad Jaurez because U.S. immigration policies don't allow them to cross the border to file asylum claims. But they were rounded up because Ciudad Juarez residents were tired of migrants blocking border crossings or asking for money.
"There were several complaints from neighbors about a group of migrants, we don't know if it was this group or another, that was allegedly acting aggressively, asking people in the street for money, demanding it," said Rodríguez.
The high level of frustration in Ciudad Juarez was already evident earlier this month when hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants tried to force their way across one of the international bridges to El Paso, acting on false rumors that the United States would allow them to enter the country. U.S. authorities blocked their attempts.
After that, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Cruz Pérez Cuellar started campaigning to inform migrants there was room in shelters and no need to beg in the streets. He urged residents not to give money to them, and said authorities removed migrants intersections where it was dangerous to beg and residents saw the activity as a nuisance.
On Wednesday, the mayor told AP his office had not received any report of rights abuses of migrants in detention facilities. He insisted that his government shared no responsibility for what happened.
"It's a terrible tragedy that pains all of us. We are grieving," he said, adding that authorities should "come down with the full weight of the law on those responsible – the people that for instance, didn't open the doors for the migrants."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-03-30T13:42:46+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/2023-03-30/mexico-investigates-8-workers-and-officials-over-the-fatal-fire-at-a-migrant-facility
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The summer transfer window might not be open yet in Europe, but teams are getting ready for it, and there's plenty of gossip swirling around. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings, goings and, of course, done deals!
TOP STORY: Chelsea prepare talks for PSG's Neymar
Chelsea have approached Paris Saint-Germain regarding a possible deal for winger Neymar, according to Le10 Sport.
The 31-year-old notched 18 goals and 17 assists in 29 appearances across all competitions this season, but injuries and the club's desire to offload several high-profile names, could see PSG part ways with the Brazil international.
PSG have identified Bernardo Silva as a priority signing, ahead of next season, with the potential departure of Neymar allowing for funds to secure the services of the Manchester City player.
The report suggests the club will seek a "good" price for Neymar's transfer, who signed for a world-record fee of €222 million from Barcelona in the summer of 2017.
Chelsea suffered a disappointing campaign, finishing 12th in the Premier League, and new manager Mauricio Pochettino is eyeing up several high-profile names ahead of next season. Pochettino is no stranger to Neymar, having managed the winger during his stint as PSG manager during the 2021-22 season.
Since the arrival of Todd Boehly as the club's co-owner last summer, Chelsea have spent over €600m. But with the likes of Mason Mount and Kai Havertz linked with moves, there could be room to sign Neymar.
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09.40 BST: Angel Di Maria has bade farewell to Juventus after one season in Turin.
Di Maria, 35, scored eight goals in 40 appearances for the Bianconeri. But the former Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and Man United winger leaves as a free agent after not renewing his contract.
A World Cup winner with Argentina, Di Maria wrote on social media: "I have reached the end of a difficult and complicated stage. I'm leaving with the peace of mind of someone who gave everything to help the club continue to win titles, but it wasn't possible. I leave with the bitter taste of not succeeding, but with the happiness of bringing with me many friends of this wonderful locker room of which I was a part."
09.03 BST: Real Madrid's Lucas Vazquez is Juventus' preferred choice to strengthen their right-back position, according to Sky Italia.
Vazquez, 31, has one year left on his contract and recently completed his eighth season at Madrid, where he scored four goals in 30 appearances. But he is considering his options.
Juve have already contacted Vazquez to express their interest in signing him this summer.
08.30 BST: Karim Benzema's surprise exit from Real Madrid, headed for Saudi Arabian club Al Ittihad on a free transfer, could well create a ripple effect as several elite teams are looking for strikers.
What might Madrid do, and what will it mean for everyone else? Ryan O'Hanlon assesses what could happen in soccer's summer transfer window.
Alex Kirkland reacts to Real Madrid's confirmation of Karim Benzema's departure from the club this summer.
PAPER GOSSIP
- Aston Villa have been offered the chance to sign Atletico Madrid forward Joao Felix, reports Football Insider. The 23-year-old spent the second half of the season on loan at Chelsea, but the club have reportedly turned down the opportunity to sign the Portugal international permanently. That leaves Felix in an uncertain position, with Atleti keen to offload the forward after a falling out with manager Diego Simeone. Villa are said to be in the market for attacking reinforcements this summer, as manager Unai Emery looks to add to his squad as he tries to balance domestic competition with the Europa Conference League.
- Tottenham Hotspur are weighing up a move for Manchester United defender Harry Maguire, per the Daily Mail. Newly appointed Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou is said to be an admirer of the England international, who will be allowed to depart Old Trafford this summer. The north London outfit are keen to bolster their defensive ranks ahead of next season, and while Maguire is not desperate to leave United, the 30-year-old is open to a move in a bid to secure first-team action.
- PSG are set to battle it out with Premier League clubs to secure the services of midfielder Adrien Rabiot, according to Rudy Galetti. The 28-year-old will be out of contract at the end of the month, with the France international not signing an extension with Juventus. PSG have identified midfield as an area that needs improvement, having also been linked with Sporting CP's Manuel Ugarte. Other clubs interested in Rabiot include Manchester United, who tried to sign the player last summer but a deal could not be agreed.
- Brighton are preparing a new £40m offer for defender Levi Colwill after having their £30m approach rebuffed by Chelsea, according to Fabrizio Romano. The England youth international spent last season on loan with the Seagulls, where the 20-year-old impressed, helping them secure Europa League qualification. Romano suggests that Chelsea have no plans to part ways with Colwill, and view the youngster as integral to their long-term project.
- Saudi emissaries will present an official proposal to midfielder N'Golo Kante worth up to €100m, according to Fabrizio Romano. The 32-year-old is out of contract with Chelsea at the end of the month, and while the France international would prefer to stay in west London, talks over a new deal have long stalled. Romano reveals that both Al Ittihad and Al Nassr are interested in securing the services of Kante, where he'll join the league's other big name stars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema.
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2023-06-07T09:44:37+00:00
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espn.com
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https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37808341/live-transfer-talk-chelsea-prepare-talks-sign-psgs-neymar
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SPRINGFIELD — Christmas came early for Donald Mitchell, director of DM Renaissance Development, who received a $2.1 million Build Back Springfield grant from the city.
“This is one of the best Christmas gifts I’ve got in a long time,” Mitchell said on Wednesday.
This funding will allow Renaissance Development to begin to redevelop the old Kavanagh Building at 443 State St. that has been vacant since 2008 so it can be used as a commercial and residential space.
Mitchell said this project is expected to create 30 affordable housing units. Each unit will have one bedroom. Renaissance Development is also partnering with Mental Health Association, which plans to occupy some of the commercial space for its day program.
“We are also going to work with them to provide some affordable housing units for some of their residents,” Mitchell told The Republican.
Mitchell said this project, which costs approximately $8 million, will provide 30 to 40 construction jobs. Also, the remaining commercial space, which retailers can occupy, could create between 30 and 40 full- and part-time jobs.
On Wednesday, Mayor Domenic J. Sarno announced the names of businesses and nonprofits who received awards during the city’s eighth round distributing American Rescue Plan Act money.
About $1.7 million went to 20 small business and nonprofits in awards ranging between $300,000 and $5,500.
DM Renaissance Development is one of three companies to receive $3.27 million in Build Back Springfield grants, a program intended to assist in the redevelopment of historic properties in the city.
Business owners such as Tommy Le, owner of Imperial Aquatics, also expressed gratitude for the $10,000 he was awarded during Wednesday’s press conference.
Le reflected on the struggles he faced keeping his exotic tropical fish safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although he was able to keep his business running, the funding he got will assist him in giving his customers the best shopping experience possible.
“Whether it be $100, 1,000, or $10,000, I will take anything that will keep the business afloat,” Le said. “I just want to keep a smile on everyone’s faces and hopefully keep the business afloat for generations to come.”
Springfield Mayor Domenic J. Sarno was ecstatic to let award recipients take the podium and express their gratitude but reminded the public that a thorough process and review of applications must take place before any awards are distributed.
“We adhere to all of the strict guidelines, rules and regulations of this federal grant,” Sarno said. “There have been many fraudulent claims.”
Springfield’s American Rescue Plan Act advisory committee reviewed a total of 20 applications from 14 small businesses and six nonprofits. Fourteen of the recipients identify as either minority-owned, women-owned, or minority and women-owned.
Additionally, 2,276 American Rescue Plan Act household applications have been processed and approved. Approximately $3.2 million has been awarded to residents and seniors.
In total, around $90 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds have been awarded from the $123.8 million grant that was given to the city last year.
The city is on track to achieve the federal requirement of having all the funds dispersed and allocated by 2024, according to a press release from the city.
Other grant recipients are:
- White Lion Brewing — $250,000
- Dewey’s Jazz Longue — $250,000
- Souper Sweet Sandwich Shop — $75,000
- Beaute Within, Inc. — $50,000
- Mom & Rico’s — $29,000
- A Brighter Future Child Care — $25,000
- MGB, dba Elegant Affairs — $22,625
- Yaritza Paula — $15,000
- Liberty Mediterranean Giant Grinders — $10,000
- Dewey’s Jazz Lounge — $250,000
- Hanna’s Diner — $10,000
- Kenia Hair Center — $10,000
- Pine Point Variety LLC — $10,000
- 413 Multi-Service — $5,500
- Catholic Charities Agency — $300,000
- New North Citizens Council — $214,000
- Revitalize CDC — $200,000
- Central City Boxing and Barbell — $150,000
- Art for the Soul — $50,000
- Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau — $19,005
- Develop Springfield — $670,000
- Charlou Realty, LLC — $500,000
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2022-12-23T00:57:57+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/springfield/2022/12/springfield-awards-49-million-in-arpa-funds-in-eighth-round-of-distributions.html
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas about his new book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living.
Copyright 2022 NPR
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas about his new book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-09-13T21:57:47+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-13/rituals-are-important-to-human-life-even-when-they-seem-meaningless
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