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Decision coming soon on student loans, Education chief says
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 9:56 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
(CNN) - The Biden administration is expected to decide on the repayment of school loans soon.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told NBC’s “Meet the Press” it could come within the next week or so.
The White House has already extended the pandemic-related pause four times, the last time in April.
But the frozen payments are set to end Aug. 31.
While some advocates say up to $50,000 should be forgiven, the administration is suggesting a smaller break.
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After watching two episodes of the Inside Amy Schumer revival on Paramount+, I had a couple of reactions:
I'm glad Schumer is bringing her voice back for a fifth season of her Peabody and Emmy award-winning sketch show, just when pop culture and comedy need another strong, female-centered voice.
And I wish she had come back with stronger material.
As it is, the skits which fill the new version of Inside Amy Schumer too often feel like undercooked ideas which may have started as a funny line pitched by somebody in a writers' room. Or something somebody thought of while they were walking down the street on the way to that pitch meeting.
Looking for laughs in "Fart Park"
That's how I felt watching "Fart Park," a parody of pet and kid-friendly park spaces that features an area where people can, um, expel certain personal gases without judgement. Of course, it ends in a murder when somebody doesn't follow the rules – kinda like a sketch thought up by a 5-year-old and scripted by an immature older sibling.
Another sketch features Schumer as a contestant on an unscripted dating show, asked to re-record things she said on camera that weren't completely captured by the microphone in the moment. When Schumer's character realizes she said stuff like she hopes her competitors get COVID and "the Jews are trying to replace us," she rethinks her participation.
The takeaway – that dating shows are built around encouraging people to behave badly in ways they regret later – is obvious and not necessarily worth a full-on sketch.
"Reality dating shows are bad for women," Schumer says, speaking to the camera after the sketch ends. "They're bad for men. And I will watch them all until I die." It's a great line; I just wish the sketch had explored the idea a little better.
Moments where Schumer or another performer speak to the camera after the sketch ends, adding a bit more context or another funny line, happen often (in the original series, Schumer would drop similar observations in a nightclub setting in front of an audience, like she was midway through a standup comedy set).
Unfortunately, in the new series, such asides come close to the biggest cardinal sin in comedy: explaining a joke after you've already let it fly.
Shorter sketches fared better – like a bit where Michael Ian Black plays an obnoxious pitchman selling products which make women feel terrible about their bodies, like Spanx for the shower or Skinny Girl coffins.
And a public service announcement for Colorado that hints women might want to travel there to get a certain unnamed procedure done that has been banned in other states after a Supreme Court decision, captured the growing desperation of our times, unfolding behind a TV host's tight smile.
There's some cool cameos from stars like Olivia Wilde, Ellie Kemper and Bridget Everett. But other than brief appearances Grey's Anatomy alum Jesse Williams and performer/writer Yamaneika Saunders, Schumer's lineup of onscreen collaborators seem dominated by white folks, which is an odd look for 2022.
Humor is an incredibly subjective arena, so I'm sure lots of Schumer's fans will enjoy her return to sketch comedy more than I did. But much of the new material here felt undone by a lack of execution — intriguing ideas that just didn't blossom past the initial set-up.
It's been six years since Inside Amy Schumer originally aired on Comedy Central – that the revived show is on streamer Paramount+ instead of its original home tells you a lot about how media has changed in that time.
As a fan of the original series, I loved how Schumer found comedy in jarring sketches with a message – like a scene showing a woman playing a shoot-em-up video game who finds her onscreen character forced to deal with how the military mishandles sexual assault, sending up both gamer culture and a real-life scandal.
There is nothing that insightful or subversive in the two episodes of Inside Amy Schumer I previewed. But three more episodes are coming, so there's hope Schumer amps up the execution and gives us the kind of cutting, insightful comedy we need, at a moment when the absurdity and oppression of real life threatens to overshadow anything a satirist can put on TV.
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FORT LAUDERDALE — Nate Berkus had never been on a cruise, had no interest in going on a cruise, and definitely harbored no aspirations of designing for a mega-ship.
So when Celebrity Cruises approached him to design an outdoor bar on its newest ship, the Celebrity Beyond, he was ready to decline politely. Then he met Lisa Lutoff-Perlo.
Lutoff-Perlo, a Gloucester native, president, and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, and an all-around livewire asked for a 30-minute in-person meeting with Berkus to explain the project. By the end of their meeting, the Oprah-endorsed Berkus agreed to design the ship’s Sunset Bar.
“I was honestly the last person who would embrace cruising,” Berkus said in an e-mail. “The fact that I’m a convert is a testament to Lisa. In our first meeting, which I took purely as a courtesy, thinking there was no way I was doing this, Lisa played me [Celebrity’s] latest campaign, and I realized that the brand stood for something and that Lisa stood for something.”
Lutoff-Perlo’s career has progressed from selling cruises as a travel agent in Boston in the early 1980s to becoming one of the most powerful women in a male-dominated industry. She’s the head of a $3 billion company and was the first woman to be named CEO of a major cruise line when she took the job in 2014 (Celebrity Cruises is part of the Royal Caribbean Group). Since then, the 65-year-old has been using her position to open doors for other women, creating more history in the process.
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A year after she became CEO, she brought on Kate McCue as captain for the Celebrity Edge. As a result, McCue became the first American woman to captain a mega-ship. She’s also a hit on social media.
“Coming in as the first woman CEO, I thought, ‘I need a woman captain.’ I wanted Kate to take the job,” Lutoff-Perlo said. “Before I was CEO, I had suggested bringing her on three times. I was always told, “Her time will come.” So when I got to this job, I said, ‘Oh yeah? It’s coming now.’ I have a saying, ‘Find a way or make a way.’”
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She has several such stories that she energetically recounted during a weekend naming ceremony and a short cruise to the Bahamas last month. She took what was likely her only break to sit down and chat about how she progressed from a woman without a plan to an industry powerhouse.
She landed her first job when she was 6, making change for customers at her parents’ coffee shop in Gloucester. She stood on an upside-down milk crate behind the register of the Harborview Coffee Shop.
“They wanted to give me something to do,” she said. “I was always industrious, even then. I wanted to get right to work because I’m crazy like that. That’s where I started in hospitality.”
She hasn’t forgotten about her hometown. She bought a house in Gloucester five years ago to spend time with family there.
She graduated from Bentley with a degree in accounting but was unsure what she wanted to do with it. On a whim, she answered a classified ad in The Boston Globe in 1983 for a job as a travel agent at Crimson Travel and thus began her career in the travel industry. She was only there a short time before she left to work directly for Royal Caribbean in sales and marketing, slowly moving up the ladder. She had no ambition to lead a company.
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“I was in sales for 17 years and I was determined to be the vice president of sales,” she said. “And then, all of a sudden, the big boss moved me and put me into marketing. The one time in my career I had a plan, and it was derailed.”
The bosses always had bigger plans for her. As trite as it sounds, it’s easy to see why. When she walked around the ship during the naming ceremony cruise, passengers wanted to talk to her and take selfies with her. People didn’t step out of her way because she’s the big boss. They were drawn to her.
At the time she ascended to the position of president and CEO, Celebrity was in the process of designing a new ship, the Edge. The ship was being launched with the intention that it would transform the brand. But when she looked at plans for the ship, she didn’t see industry-defining changes, she saw more of the same. So work began on redesigning. She said her fingerprints can be seen all over the Edge and its sister ships, Apex, Beyond, and (coming soon) Ascent. The line is generically called the Edge series.
Her intention wasn’t to step in and make changes simply because she was the new boss. Lutoff-Perlo was looking to create a brand that would appeal to an ignored demographic: Gen X.
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“Gen X really is the perfect target for Celebrity,” she said. “‘The forgotten generation,’ as we like to call them. Other cruise lines are going after Gen Z, boomers, millennials, blah, blah, blah. But Gen X has parents who are boomers, kids who are older, and they cruise with their families. We’re Gen X all the way. We want to lock in that demographic now.” In order to do that, she envisioned the Edge series as elegant but not stuffy. She often referred to the ship as a resort, a place where travelers can eat at a restaurant created by a Michelin-starred chef, lounge by a pool with curated fine art sculptures, or take in adult-focused entertainment. Her favorite space on the new ship is one that she envisioned and the one she convinced Berkus to design. The multi-level Sunset Bar.
But it’s not the Berkus story that gets Lutoff-Perlo misty-eyed. The day before she sat down to be interviewed, she made history yet again. Traditionally a new ship has a godmother. For Celebrity Beyond, it’s gymnast Simone Biles. Usually, the godmother is the only woman on stage during the formal naming ceremony. But for Beyond, the tables were turned. Lutoff-Perlo sat alongside captain McCue, Biles, and Royal Caribbean CEO Jason Liberty.
“It’s unheard of to have three women on the stage like that,” she said.
It’s not a cultural shift that has gone unnoticed by other women at Celebrity.
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“Lisa isn’t a reason why I came to Celebrity,” McCue said. “Lisa is the reason why I came to Celebrity. She is the reason that I stay with Celebrity. I have been approached by other cruise lines, but Lisa’s the one that put me in the captain’s chair. Lisa’s the one that keeps me in the captain’s chair, and wherever she goes is wherever I will go.”
Christopher Muther can be reached at christopher.muther@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @Chris_Muther and Instagram @chris_muther. | 2022-12-08T12:31:00+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/08/lifestyle/meet-gloucester-native-who-shattered-cruise-industrys-glass-ceiling/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — “Space Disco Cowboy.” “Yacht Shabbat.” “Burning Man Formal”? More couples are tossing tradition when it comes to what wedding guests should wear, to some befuddlement among invitees.
Maggie Long, 34, recently attended the nuptials of a close friend in a low-key Denver lounge. The suggested dress? “Dive Bar Semiformal.”
“I love a theme,” said Long, who lives in New York. “It’s fun that people aren’t taking weddings so seriously, but I had no idea what that meant.”
After exchanging thoughts for months with the officiant, who is also a friend, Long took her outfit idea — a strappy ultra-mini dress — to the bride. The bride deemed it a bit too “Kardashian cosplay.” Long finally settled on a slinky gold lamé number by Norma Kamali, and a great time was had.
“There were a lot of vintage jumpsuits. One of our friends went full 1960s with go-go boots and a bouffant. A lot of sequins were happening,” Long said.
Some couples are offering mood boards as a way to guide guests, including older ones. At the dive bar wedding, Long said plenty of older guests got into the spirit. One donned a rainbow tie-dye T-shirt, à la the Grateful Dead.
Other wedding guests have contended with “Tropical Formal,” “Snappy Casual” and “Garden Party Whimsical.”
Heading into the busy summer season for weddings and other special events, Indya Wright in Washington, D.C., has had enough.
She recently posted on Twitter: “These new age event dress codes are the bane of my existence. What happened to just ‘casual,’ ‘cocktail’ and ‘formal’? Now I gotta Google ‘After 5 Formal Festive Renaissance attire’ to figure out if you want me to give Great Gatsby or King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table.”
Wright, 35, remains frustrated. The wedding of a college classmate had a “smart, but not too smart casual” dress code.
Renée Strauss, co-founder and CEO of the destination wedding planning company Wedaways in Beverly Hills, California, said wacky dress codes come down to couples striving to make their nuptials custom and unique.
“The key is making sure there’s communication behind the dress code. Don’t just confuse guests,” she said.
When her company builds wedding websites for clients, it includes descriptions for dress codes like “Wine Country Chic,” urging couples to offer a broad enough palette for people to express themselves. “Tropical Formal,” for instance, could be long, flowing dresses in bright summer colors and linen suits with playful ties.
“Most guests have a lot of fun with it,” Strauss said.
Rikki Gotthelf, 32, in Los Angeles, attended a wedding recently and has three more this year. She was a bridesmaid for the “Space Disco Cowboy” nuptials of friends who shuttled their guests to an abandoned ghost town near Austin, Texas.
“We had these shiny intergalactic Batsheva prairie dresses. Mine was iridescent,” Gotthelf said. “Another wedding I went to was ‘Funky Formal.’”
For guidance, Gotthelf turned to Sophie Strauss, who bills herself as a “stylist for regular people.” Strauss suggests following up with the couple if they haven’t made themselves clear.
“They won’t be offended,” she said. “They’re invested enough in how everyone looks to have put forth a kooky dress code.”
One of her clients has a “Music Festival Formal” wedding coming up.
“He clarified with the couple that it’s more Woodstock, less Burning Man. Good to know,” the stylist said.
The difference? Hippie flowy dresses, bell bottoms, tunics, tie dye, big round sunglasses and woven headbands for the former. “Mad Max-meets-Carnival on mushrooms” in lamé, combat boots, rhinestones, body paint and goggles for the latter, she said. Her client decided on a neutral-tone linen suit with a vintage beaded necklace or two.
She implored guests staring down out-there dress codes to remember: “It’s not a costume. Unless, of course, it’s literally a costume party.”
Small adjustments may be enough, like wearing a regular suit but swapping out a dress shirt for one in an on-theme pattern. James Berger, 32, in Las Vegas, was among guests told to express their inner spirit. He managed a bow tie with multicolored polkas and a formal suit that left him feeling “slightly out of place” among a sea of vibrant colors.
Strauss, the stylist, regularly faces the issue among her clients.
“I had a client who had to do a ‘Fancy Ranch’ theme a few months ago and she was tempted to go buy a new outfit from head to toe,” she said. “But pairing some cowboy boots with a sundress or swapping a tie for a bolo tie goes a long way. And if you’re really into it you could add a cowboy hat. You don’t need to dress like Orville Peck to fit the theme, though if that’s your style, oh my god go for it!”
There’s often sentimental meaning behind wedding themes. Madison Smith, 32, is a May 2024 bride and her dress code calls for “Black Tie Sunset Glam.” The wedding will be held at the Bonnet Island Estate in Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
“It’s in honor of my late grandfather,” she said of the theme. “His favorite thing was the sunsets where I’m getting married.”
Her vision? Sunset-colored gowns of oranges, yellows, purples, blues and pinks with fun accessories, and tuxedoes with bow ties and pocket squares of the same colors.
Smith, in Arlington, Virginia, hasn’t left guests guessing. She works for Pinterest and has already been pinning inspiration to give them a boost. Her bridal shower guests have a board of their own to tackle Smith’s “LoveShackFancy” dress code.
“They have no precedent for an unusual dress code where a couple calls for something other than black tie, formal, cocktail or casual attire. When you receive an invitation that reads ‘Festive Hudson Valley Chic’ or ‘Tropical Hipster,’ it can certainly bode more questions than less for those used to more traditional themes,” said Amy Shey Jacobs, founder of Chandelier Events in New York.
“Chic as F—k.” “Gay Garden Party.” “Black Tie Fabulous.” “Colorful Cocktail.” “Sparkle and Shine.” “Red Carpet Ready.” Jove Meyer, owner and creative director of an eponymous event planning company in Brooklyn, has handled all of the above in dress codes.
“As much as I love a fun and unique dress code, I always suggest couples clarify exactly what they mean with a descriptive sentence or two so there’s no guessing,” he said.
Brittny Drye, editor in chief of the wedding resource magazine Love Inc., said guests shouldn’t be reluctant to quiz the bridal couple about a puzzling dress code.
“We never want to bombard the couple,” she said, “but when they’re asking their guests to abide by a nontraditional dress code, they’re signing themselves up to be asked questions.”
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Find Leanne Italie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/litalie | 2023-06-28T20:16:16+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/space-disco-cowboy-couples-ditch-traditional-dress-codes-in-favor-of-out-there-themes/ |
David Trimble, a leading Protestant politician in Northern Ireland who set aside his hard-line stance to become a key negotiator in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, an accord that ended the decades of sectarian violence known as the Troubles and brought him a share of the Nobel Peace Prize, died July 25 at a hospital in Belfast. He was 77.
The Ulster Unionist Party, which Mr. Trimble led from 1995 to 2005, announced his death but did not cite a specific cause.
Mr. Trimble was the inaugural holder of the office of first minister of Northern Ireland, a position created — along with the coequal rank of deputy first minister — in the power-sharing agreement between British loyalists and Irish republicans established under the Good Friday Agreement. The two groups had been engaged in an often violent conflict since the late 1960s, when the Troubles began.
Loyalists, or unionists, were largely Protestant and wished for Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. Irish republicans, also known as nationalists, drew mainly from the region’s Catholic minority and argued for an independent, united Ireland. The struggle between the two factions resulted in more than 3,500 deaths, as Northern Ireland endured years of bombings, shootings and unrest that at times appeared intractable.
Mr. Trimble, a law professor and nonpracticing barrister in Belfast, had grown up in a Presbyterian family and initially aligned himself with the unyielding Vanguard movement, which has been described by the Guardian as an “extreme unionist grouping.”
During the Persian Gulf War, Mr. Trimble likened the Republic of Ireland’s claims on Northern Ireland to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s attempt to overtake Kuwait. Once, after a march through a Catholic neighborhood near Belfast, Mr. Trimble danced a jig with the Rev. Ian Paisley, a Protestant minister whose fiery rhetoric had long fueled anti-Catholic sentiment and violence in Northern Ireland.
“I would personally draw the line at violence and terrorism,” the Independent quoted Mr. Trimble as saying. “But if we are talking about a campaign that involves demonstrations and so on, then a certain amount of violence may be inescapable.”
Over time, however, Mr. Trimble moderated his views and he found a new political home in the more mainstream Ulster Unionist Party in the late 1970s. He began a political rise, winning election to the British Parliament in 1990. To the amazement of many observers of the political turmoil in Northern Ireland, he became a principal figure in a peace process that he had once opposed.
“Ulster Unionists, fearful of being isolated on the island, built a solid house, but it was a cold house for Catholics,” Mr. Trimble later said, reflecting on the view he came to hold. “And northern nationalists, although they had a roof over their heads, seemed to us as if they meant to burn the house down.”
Other key participants in the Northern Ireland peace process included John Hume, a Catholic politician who led the Social Democratic and Labour Party; Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army; and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine), who helped broker the Good Friday Agreement as a special envoy under President Bill Clinton.
The 1998 Nobel Peace Prize ultimately went to Hume and Mr. Trimble. (Hume died in 2020.)
“As the leader of the traditionally predominant party in Northern Ireland,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee declared, “David Trimble showed great political courage when, at a critical stage of the process, he advocated solutions which led to the peace agreement. As the head of the Northern Ireland government, he has taken the first steps towards building up the mutual confidence on which a lasting peace must be based.”
That mutual confidence at times appeared tenuous, as Mr. Trimble faced criticism from within his party for his role in the peace process. He lost his seat in parliament in 2005, prompting the Guardian to report that “the center dropped out of Northern Ireland politics.” Mr. Trimble became a member of the House of Lords in 2006 and joined the Conservative Party the following year.
“David faced huge challenges when he led the Ulster Unionist Party in the Good Friday Agreement negotiations and persuaded his party to sign on for it,” Adams said after Mr. Trimble’s death in a statement cited by the Associated Press.
“While we held fundamentally different political opinions on the way forward nonetheless I believe he was committed to making the peace process work,” Adams went on. “David’s contribution to the Good Friday Agreement and to the quarter century of relative peace that followed cannot be underestimated.”
William David Trimble was born in Bangor, a seaside resort town near Belfast, on Oct. 15, 1944. His parents worked in the civil service.
Mr. Trimble studied law at Queen’s University in Belfast, where he graduated in 1968 and remained as a lecturer into the early years of his political career.
His first marriage, to Heather McComb, ended in divorce. In 1978, he married Daphne Orr. Besides his wife, survivors include their four children: Richard, Victoria, Nicholas and Sarah.
In his Nobel lecture, Mr. Trimble declared himself “personally and perhaps culturally conditioned to be skeptical of speeches which are full of sound and fury, idealistic in intention, but impossible of implementation.”
“I resist the kind of rhetoric which substitutes vapor for vision,” he continued. “Instinctively, I identify with the person who said that when he heard a politician talk of his vision, he recommended him to consult an optician!”
He did, however, achieve a rhetorical flourish in that speech, evoking the green hills of his homeland.
“Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains,” Mr. Trimble observed. “We should be encouraged by having come so far, and face into the next hill, rather than the mountain beyond. It is not that the mountain is not in my mind, but the hill has to be climbed first.
“There are hills in Northern Ireland and there are mountains,” he continued. “The mountain, if we could but see it clearly, is not in front of us but behind us, in history. The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind — a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.” | 2022-07-27T03:26:16+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/26/david-trimble-northern-ireland-dead/ |
TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Royal Bank of Canada – Canada's #1 fossil fuel financing bank – announced its latest climate targets, essentially more greenwashing as the bank continues to bankroll high-polluting sectors like fossil fuels. The bank released only 'intensity-based' targets for energy sector clients, essentially a license to continue to pollute.
Richard Brooks, Stand.earth Climate Finance Program Director, said:
"There's a dictionary-official definition for RBC's climate targets: it's called greenwashing. With RBC continuing to bankroll polluters, these pledges are just more smoke and mirrors. While people across Canada bear the brunt of fires, floods, and deadly heat, Canada's #1 fossil fuel-financing bank continues to pour gas on the flames, bankrolling gas, tar sands, oil, and coal. Instead of financing Indigenous rights-violating fracked gas pipelines, RBC has the opportunity to reinvest in climate-safe solutions and truly live into its climate rhetoric."
Canada's Competition Bureau recently opened an investigation into RBC's allegedly misleading climate advertising.
Bank of Montreal set absolute emissions reduction targets for energy sector clients. Last week, Deutsche Bank, French bank SocGen, and the UK's Lloyds all released absolute emissions targets for oil and gas clients. Citibank, the world's second largest fossil fuel financier, set an absolute target for energy sector clients of 29% by 2030. Even these targets, already inadequate, were not met by RBC today.
"By continuing to pump billions into fossil fuels and failing to set science-based targets for reducing financed emissions, RBC is out of step with Canada's climate plans," Brooks added. "We can't advance towards meeting our national goals and global responsibility if the country's largest bank is dragging us backwards."
RBC remains one of the largest funders behind new fossil fuel projects, including Indigenous rights-violating pipelines like Coastal GasLink through unceded Wet'suwet'en land, and co-lead arranger and financer of the latest $10 billion loan to build the over-budget, much-delayed TransMountain pipeline.
RBC joined the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ) a year ago, promising to align the bank's lending and investment portfolios with a science-based pathway to net zero by 2050. Ahead of COP27, RBC risks getting booted from the network as they push back against global financial standards for climate risk.
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$3.1 Million Senior Bridge Loan
BIRMINGHAM, Mich., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomfield Capital announces the closing of a $3.1 million senior bridge loan, which provided the capital to refinance and renovate a 25,000 square foot flex office/industrial building located in Golden, CO. The Sponsor required immediate funding due to tenants that had already executed leases and were waiting to occupy the completed space.
The Sponsor originally acquired the property in 2020 and commenced interior demolition immediately thereafter. Bloomfield's bridge loan allowed for the completion of the renovations and conversion of the building to multi-tenant occupancy. Simultaneously with the closing of the refinance, the Sponsor acquired a nearby business that will vacate its existing space to occupy a portion of the subject property.
"Oftentimes, we meet Sponsors, and then don't talk to them for several months or years until they need capital for a fast moving opportunity", stated Jason Jarjosa, a Partner at Bloomfield Capital. "This transaction is a great example of that. Once we'd engaged with the Sponsor, we were able to quickly fund this transaction and allow the backlog of motivated tenants to move into the renovated space", he added.
The Sponsor plans to refinance Bloomfield's bridge loan with a conventional loan in approximately 12 months once interior upgrades are complete and the new tenants take occupancy.
Bloomfield Capital is a direct lender and equity investor in commercial real estate assets nationwide. With offices in Detroit, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and NYC, Bloomfield Capital's team draws from a broad base of commercial real estate and finance experience. The firm provides debt and equity solutions to meet the demands of time-sensitive and complex transactions. Bloomfield Capital specializes in small- to medium-sized financings from $3-30 million in the form of bridge loans, mezzanine loans, and preferred equity investments.
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By COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — When conductor Daniel Harding lands in Rome to take over the role of music director at one of the world’s oldest music institutions, there is a chance he could be piloting the plane.
The 47-year-old British conductor has a second career as an Air France pilot, earning his private and commercial pilot licenses after age 40 to satisfy a lifelong “curiosity and passion.”
“I found that flying and the different discipline, the different way of working, helped me as a musician, a conductor and as a person,’’ Harding told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement Monday of his new post at the The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra, starting in the fall of 2024.
He takes over from Antonio Pappano, who is leaving to become chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Harding had an unusually young start as a conductor, and will arrive at the Santa Cecilia orchestra — listed by BBC Music Magazine as one of the top 20 in the world — after 18 years as the principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The gigs will overlap for one year.
By his own reckoning, he is still learning the role of conductor.
“Conducting is the ultimate long game. What you do in your early 20s, your 30s, none of it matters. It is all about trying to find your way to being a real conductor in your 60s. There is a long way still to go,’’ Harding said.
It takes “a very, very long time,’ he said, to learn how to balance a musician’s need for freedom while also imposing discipline “to make something coherent and tight,” Harding said. “I think we all try to do interesting, and hopefully beautiful things, along the path.”
His schedule breaking up conducting with flying for Air France eight or nine days a month helps by changing his focus. ”I think all conductors should spend some months a year as a normal employee, part of a team, serving others,” he said. “It’s great!”
Harding’s parents were both amateur musicians “very keen that the children should enjoy music,” he said. He was just 16 when he conducted alongside Simon Rattle, who took him under his wing after receiving a tape of the teenager conducting a school orchestra. “He introduced me to the public and he said, ‘When I met Daniel I watched him conduct and I decided I have two choices. I can help him, or I can kill him,’’’ Harding said.
He soon became an assistant to Claudio Abbado, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic at just 21. Daniel Barenboim — who subbed for him at La Scala last month after Harding’s father fell ill — has shared precious advice.
“Barenboim told me that when you start conducting full time, when you’re conducting every week, it will take you 15 years, then you will start to understand what you’re doing. Start. It is such an elusive thing how you harness all this incredible ability and possibility there is around you in an orchestra,” Harding said.
Harding will open his tenure with the Santa Cecilia with a concert performance of Tosca, which he called “the most Roman of operas.” It is one he hasn’t conducted before, and will therefore be “learning from the orchestra’s language and the orchestra’s experience. And that’s very exciting.”
He also is planning a Mahler cycle, the composer he said he has most conducted, and with many orchestras, “so therefore is the composer where I feel I have the most perspective on the music.”
As he makes his mark on Santa Cecilia, Harding plans to take advantage of the layers of Rome’s history as backdrops. That includes getting out into the city’s basilicas with the Santa Cecilia chorus with the sacred repertoire, like the Mozart Requiem.
He also wants to work across artistic disciplines to come up with new ways of representing classical music to the Roman audience, “to confront different eras and epochs and see what the contrast teaches us.”
“We will have to find the repertoire that is nourishing and interesting for us, the musicians, and for our public,” Harding said. | 2023-03-06T18:46:19+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2023/03/06/daniel-harding-pilots-to-new-post-as-music-director-in-rome/ |
PASAY CITY, Philippines, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Six SM companies were cited during the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard (ACGS) Awards conducted online on December 2, 2022.
SM Investments Corporation (SM Investments), SM Prime Holdings Inc., BDO Unibank Inc. (BDO), China Banking Corporation (China Bank), 2GO Group Inc., and Belle Corporation were recognized among the top-performing companies in the Philippines as part of the ASEAN Asset Class. The ACGS, hosted by the Institute of Corporate Directors Philippines, is an initiative to recognize the valuable efforts of publicly listed companies in the region to elevate the standards of corporate governance in their respective industries.
"We are humbled by this recognition that further affirms our holistic approach to raising the standards of good corporate governance across our businesses," said SM Investments Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Frederic C. DyBuncio.
China Bank, SM Investments and SM Prime were named among the ASEAN Top 20 Awardees. China Bank, for its part, was also named among the Top 3 Publicly Listed Companies in the Philippines. It marks two consecutive years that the universal bank has garnered one out of the three highest scores among publicly listed companies in the country.
The ACGS is a collaborative effort between the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) intended to secure that the corporate governance climate in the ASEAN countries remain competitive and conducive to the growth of businesses in the region.
About SM Investments Corporation
SM Investments Corporation is a leading Philippine company that is invested in market-leading businesses in retail, banking, and property. It also invests in ventures that capture high growth opportunities in the emerging Philippine economy.
SM's retail operations are the country's largest and most diversified with its food, non-food, and specialty retail stores. SM's property arm, SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is the largest integrated property developer in the Philippines with interests in malls, residences, offices, hotels, and convention centers as well as tourism-related property developments. SM's interests in banking are in BDO Unibank, Inc., the country's largest bank, and China Banking Corporation, the 6th largest bank.
For more about SM, visit www.sminvestments.com
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by: Linda Cook Posted: Jan 15, 2023 / 07:30 PM CST Updated: Jan 4, 2023 / 07:39 PM CST SHARE A virtual webinar, “From the Cradle to the Grave: Extracting Information from German Vital Records,” will be 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22. Cost is $20 for German American Heritage Center members, and $25 for non-members. Register here. Birth, marriage, and death records are goldmines of information for German genealogists, according to a news release. During the webinar, you will learn how to extract the information you need from these clue-filled documentsKatherine Schober will teach you how to research effectively in your genealogy search. Born in St. Louis, she earned her master’s degree in the German language through Bowling Green State University/University of Salzburg. She then spent three additional years in Austria, teaching English and translating German (with a focus on history). In 2014, she moved back to the States with her Austrian husband, and, although they are now in America, German is still the main language spoken in their home. This webinar will be recorded and available to view for 30 days after the program.
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6 most popular makeup brands at Sephora Sephora’s most popular, top-rated makeup brands deliver skin-perfecting benefits and products with a wide range to please all of its customers. | 2023-01-16T03:27:12+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/webinar-will-teach-research-of-german-vital-records/ |
LONDON (AP) — The pound is taking a pounding.
The British currency has taken a plunge, sliding against the U.S. dollar to touch an all-time low. It’s a sign of the alarm in financial markets over new Prime Minister Liz Truss’ emergency budget measures unveiled last week aimed at jump-starting the ailing economy.
Investors are spooked by a sweeping package of tax cuts likely to cost tens of billions of pounds in extra government borrowing and amounts to a risky gamble to stave off a looming recession.
But that’s not all. The currency chaos is playing out against the wider backdrop of the dollar’s rally to a two-decade high.
Here’s a look at what it all means:
EVERYDAY IMPACT
Many Britons are struggling amid soaring inflation driven by rising prices for food and energy, in a cost-of-living crisis that’s been dubbed the worst in a generation.
The pound’s slump threatens to make it even worse. One of the most visible ways is by feeding into the energy crisis because oil and natural gas is priced in dollars. The impact is being felt at the pump.
British drivers are paying 5 pounds ($5.45) more on average to fill up their cars since the beginning of the year as the pound has fallen, according to an analysis by motoring association AA. U.K. gas prices would be at least 9 pence per liter cheaper if the pound was still at its mid-February level of $1.35, compared with the now-outdated $1.14 level that the group used last week for its calculation.
“There’s every chance that a falling pound will make life more expensive,” said Sarah Coles, senior personal finance analyst at financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown. Anything bought from overseas — components, raw materials, supermarket staples and household basics — will be pricier.
“These rising costs will feed into higher prices, and push inflation even higher,” Coles said. “For anyone whose budget was already stretched to breaking point, this will mean even more pain at the tills.”
Finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng hopes that big tax cuts will spur economic growth and generate wealth, but the sliding pound raises the possibility that will be offset if the central bank steps in with bigger-than-expected interest rate increases.
Some analysts are speculating rates could rise as high as 6% by next spring, a sharp contrast to the near zero level they were at just a few years ago. Rising rates mean many homeowners face bigger monthly mortgage bills, leaving them less to spend on other goods and services.
HOW LOW CAN IT GO?
Fifteen years ago, 1 British pound was able to buy $2. Now, the pound is getting closer to parity with the greenback, a once-unthinkable event and a psychologically important milestone. The pound has tumbled more than 5% since the government outlined its economic plans Friday, dropping as low as $1.0373 early Monday, before bouncing back to above $1.06.
The markets are raising the prospect that the two currencies might soon reach equal footing. A lot of the decline has been driven by the strength of the dollar, which has climbed against a wide range of other currencies as the U.S. Federal Reserve aggressively raises rates, drawing interest from investors fleeing riskier assets.
The euro, for example, has been on a similar trajectory to the pound, having fallen below parity with the dollar recently and then hitting a fresh 20-year low Monday.
The pound has dropped more than most, though, because of local factors. Investors are alarmed at Kwarteng’s “lack of focus on fiscal prudence,” which outweighs any optimism about his pro-growth, anti-red tape agenda, said Victoria Scholar, head of investment at interactive investor.
“On top of being bullish towards the dollar, the international investor community is now also very bearish towards the pound amid fears about the UK’s economic outlook and investment case,” Scholar said.
TUG OF WAR
The plummeting pound highlights what analysts are calling a “tug of war” between Britain’s Treasury and the central bank, which has independence from the government to operate free of political influence.
The Truss government is gambling that slashing taxes and borrowing more to pay for it will kick-start economic growth as a recession looms.
That puts government officials at odds with the Bank of England, where policymakers are trying to rein in inflation that threatens financial stability by raising interest rates, with seven hikes so far this year and more in the pipeline.
The central bank said Monday that it wouldn’t hesitate to raise interest rates by as much as needed at its next meeting in November, which did little to soothe markets. An interim meeting to decide on an emergency rate hike could be needed, “though that would risk escalating tensions with the new government,” said Jeremy Lawson, chief economist at asset manager abrdn.
“There are no good options from here, just less bad ones, with the U.K.’s already struggling household and businesses left to pick up the pieces,” Lawson said.
IS THERE ANY UPSIDE?
British exports will be cheaper for buyers paying in dollars. But the economic impact is likely to be limited, given that the United Kingdom runs a trade deficit with the rest of the world by importing more than it exports.
It’ll be a lot cheaper for foreign visitors, especially Americans. Pub beers, theater tickets for shows in London’s West End, and hotel bills will be more affordable for tourists.
And for investors and wealthy people, the slumping pound makes it cheaper to buy real estate in Britain, especially in exclusive London neighborhoods that have long been favored by the global superrich. | 2022-09-27T12:52:47+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-the-british-pound-has-taken-a-tumble-whats-the-impact/ |
BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Friday threw out a lawsuit against a guideline issued by automaker Audi that called for employees to use gender-sensitive language.
An employee of Audi’s parent company, Volkswagen, objected to Audi colleagues using such language in their communications with him and went to the state court in Audi’s home city of Ingolstadt to challenge the guideline. He alleged a violation of his personal rights.
But the court ruled the person who brought the lawsuit had no right to demand the non-application of the guidance, German news agency dpa reported. Judge Christoph Hellerbrand said it was directed only at Audi employees and the plaintiff. as a Volkswagen employee, was not required to follow it.
The court also found that being on the receiving end of gender-sensitive wording wasn’t enough to justify a ruling in the Volkswagen employee’s favor. He didn’t have a right “to be left in peace,” the judge ruled.
Some other companies have introduced similar guidelines.
German nouns referring to people and their professions have different masculine and feminine forms.
The Audi guideline in question was introduced last year. It called for the use of a form of German words that includes an underscore to encompass both masculine and feminine forms and is meant to show broader gender inclusiveness — writing “employees” as “Mitarbeiter_innen,” for example.
That and another gender-sensitive form that uses an asterisk — in which “employees” would be written as “Mitarbeiter(asterisk)innen” — annoy conservatives, some language experts and others.
They prefer more traditional forms such as the “generic masculine” — using the masculine plural, “Mitarbeiter,” to refer to all genders, or in some cases referring genders separately as “Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter.” | 2022-07-29T18:54:43+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/german-court-rejects-suit-over-gender-sensitive-language/ |
Cinco De Mayo is Celebration in Idaho Falls bringing communities together
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Tautphaus Park in Idaho Falls has been home to the city's Cinco de Mayo celebration for many of years. Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7 the park and Idaho Falls Ice rink were filled with people celebrating the holiday and partaking in the music, food, and traditions.
"I think the most important part for the celebration is to get together, you know, to change culture and motivate other people to come and celebrate," said Sergio Romero, a member of the Eastern Idaho Cinco de Mayo Committee.
"Looking around right now and it warms my heart to see everybody come together... like it feels like a big, huge family because I'm seeing a lot of people that I know and I love it. I enjoy this so much," Claudia Beck, another member of the committee, said.
Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of Mexico's victory over France in 1862. Although it is not a widespread celebration in Mexico, it is more widely celebrated here in the States. "It's kind of weird, but it's nice," Romero said.
"I think it's awesome seeing a lot of people from different cultures come together for Cinco de Mayo celebration. I, myself, am of Peruvian heritage, Peruvian blood. My last from Mexico, but I love I adopted the culture my family so it's awesome time and it's cool thing everyone here," Gabriel Roca said.
Many enjoyed the festivities and traditions during the celebration. "It's a good family tradition for sure," said Roca.
"It's good to come out here and enjoy the food, the people, the environment. You know, they got performers going up there, I think, by the hour. So, if anybody is looking to do something, why not come over here at the Tautphaus Park and enjoy Cinco de Mayo?" said Noel Leon.
Sunday May 7 will have more fun in the park, with more live music, dancing and traditions. | 2023-05-07T22:47:43+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/top-stories/2023/05/07/cinco-de-mayo-is-celebration-in-idaho-falls-bringing-communities-together/ |
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There is not a cynical molecule in the makeup of George Miller’s “ Three Thousand Years of Longing, ” a patient and occasionally dazzling fantasy about love, myth, hope, companionship and perhaps, most of all, about storytelling. Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, wrapped in plush white bathrobes, will reiterate the storytelling point over and over again during a vulnerable, sprawling conversation in a stately Istanbul hotel suite that’s nice enough to make one consider a career in academia.
Though the setting and wardrobe might feel familiar, this story is anything but. Only one of the parties, Swinton’s Alithea Binnie, is human. Elba is an immortal djinn, the fancy term for the anglicized “genie,” whom Alithea has stumbled upon in a small, striped glass bottle in an unsorted bin of an Istanbul antique store.
In most stories, the ability to suddenly get your heart’s desire with a wish comes as good news, at least at first. But Alithea isn’t one who has a list of wants. Not only is she a proud, contented single and child-free woman — she’s also a “narratologist” who is so well-versed in mythology that she knows all the ways in which wish-making and granting can go wrong. And yet by not fulfilling her duty to make three wishes, she also is condemning the djinn to nonexistence. He tries to convince her otherwise, by telling fantastical stories from his past, spanning some three thousand years, and all the times he was sent back to the bottle for caring too much about the wisher, from Sheba (Aamito Lagum), to a servant who longs for a prince, Gulten (Ece Yüksel), and finally child bride of an old merchant who desires knowledge, Zefir (Burcu Gölgedar).
These stories are enchanting, brutal, sensual, grotesque and often involve power struggles and irrational decisions made for love. Miller gets to play in a wide array of cultures as the djinn skips through time, all with their own shimmering palettes and fairy tale hyperrealism. It’s a nice reminder that Miller is a man who can tackle both “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Babe: Pig in the City.”
At times, you may grow impatient wondering what it’s all building towards and if you even care, as Alithea doubles down on her stance that she’d rather not make any wishes at all. But she, and the audience, are in for a surprise. It’s the kind of moment that doesn’t make a lot of emotional sense on paper, but that’s why we go to the movies, isn’t it? Swinton and Miller make it work.
Still for all its romanticism, the film may also sit upon an uneasy foundation: The inglorious trope of the “magical, mystical Negro.” The term, was popularized by Spike Lee, who in a lecture to Yale students over 20 years ago identified a trend exemplified in films like “The Legend of Bagger Vance” and “The Green Mile” in which the powers belonging to Black characters, often exoticized, seem to only be used to benefit white characters. No matter how the various films try to justify it, the relationship, as Matt Zoller Seitz later wrote in Salon, “is that of a master and servant.”
You don’t get a more literal depiction of master and servant than that of genie and the person who released them, and here, the fact is that the djinn is Black and the human is white. But “Three Thousand Years of Longing” does not seem like the kind of movie that is internationally embracing this idea. One could even argue that Elba’s djinn exists outside of race somehow. Would it have made a difference if he was blue?
Or perhaps the phrase, like the Bechdel Test, was never supposed to be a literal line of demarcation between movies that are acceptable and movies that are not, but a way of talking about representation and, yes, storytelling. Maybe, like Swinton herself once said when faced with criticisms around the race of another fictional character, it can all be true.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a United Artists Releasing release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for “brief violence, some sexual content and graphic nudity.” Running time: 108 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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MPA Definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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Follow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr | 2022-08-23T18:27:27+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Review-Love-hope-and-Three-Thousand-Years-of-17392408.php |
HONOLULU (AP) — A swimmer at a beach in Waikiki was injured this weekend after encountering an endangered Hawaiian monk seal with a young pup.
Hawaii Marine Animal Response, a nonprofit conservation organization that helps monitor protected species, said their workers witnessed a swimmer come into contact with the mother monk seal known as Rocky on Sunday morning.
The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources said in a statement that the victim is a 60-year-old elementary school teacher from California. The woman received lacerations to her face, arm and back, the agency said.
State officials said they would not recommend charges or fines for the woman and are not naming her because she requested anonymity.
The Hawaii Marine Animal Response said in a statement that the seal gave birth to a pup about two weeks ago on Kaimana Beach in Waikiki, the same area where the swimmer was injured.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Hawaii Marine Animal Response have been watching the pair and warning people to stay away.
It is against the law to touch, harass, injure or kill monk seals. People are told to stay at least 150 feet (46 meters) away from a mother seal and pup, though that recommendation is not a law.
The shoreline where the seals live is roped off, and beachgoers are warned of the dangers of getting too close to the nursing mother.
“We ask people to please follow the guidance and instructions provided by HMAR, NOAA, Ocean Safety, or other authorized parties on the beach,” the organization said in the statement. They said the swimmer was transported by EMS.
A message left with the Honolulu Emergency Services Department was not immediately returned.
NOAA Fisheries is still reviewing the incident. But in a statement emailed to The Associated Press, the agency said, “Mother seals can move incredibly fast in the water, and we urge people to consider using alternate areas for water activities when mothers with pups are in the area.”
They anticipate these seals will remain in the area for about a month and said people must observe signs and guidance from officials.
It is a felony to disturb monk seals, of which there are less than 1,600 remaining in the wild. The animals are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
“People are again reminded that Hawaiian monk seal moms with pups are protective, can be dangerous, and have inflicted serious wounds on nearby swimmers,” Hawaii Marine Animal Response said. “We continue to warn people not to engage in in-water activities when a monk seal mother with a pup are in the area and to stay at least 150 feet from mother seals with pups.”
A witness shared video of the encounter with The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The footage shows the mother seal in the water with its pup as the swimmer approaches. The seal then comes into contact with the swimmer and pulls the person under water.
The person was able to make it back to shore with help from bystanders.
“It’s a mama seal that’s protecting its pup, and there happens to be a human who is at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Markus Faigle, who captured the incident on video, told the Star-Advertiser. “So it’s not a seal attacking a human; that’s for me the totally wrong way of looking at this.” | 2022-07-26T22:09:26+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/swimmer-injured-by-hawaiian-monk-seal-with-pup-in-waikiki/ |
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Suggested by the Lakewood Youth Council, city council is currently considering a vaping and smoking ban in community parks.
“When the Lakewood Youth Council came to us with this, I was frankly a little surprised that we hadn’t already done it,” said Lakewood City Council Vice President Sarah Kepple, who is also the chair of the health and human services committee. “A lot of other communities have taken this step when we researched it.
“Usually Lakewood is a leader so we certainly don’t want to be behind on any initiative regarding our public health. It seemed like something that would be good for Lakewood and good for all of the community members and folks who use our parks.”
Expected to be passed later this year, the ordinance -- introduced by Kepple and Ward 1 City Councilman Kyle G. Baker -- relates to smoking, e-cigarette and tobacco use in parks.
While the legislation does include penalties for violators, Kepple stressed the goal is compliance with a public health warning attached.
The city reached out to the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, which fully supports the initiative.
“Lakewood Youth Council felt it would protect the health and wellbeing of members in the public, as well as reduce litter,” Kepple said.
“Vaping usage has gone up so much, especially young people, so we took that seriously.”
As for the Lakewood Youth Council bringing the ordinance forward, Kepple said she’s proud of the next generation of city leaders.
“Lakewood Youth Council were not only very thoughtful and wise to bring this to us but also their communication was incredibly well written,” Kepple said. “We have incredible young people in Lakewood.
“We’re really proud to have their leadership. This shows exactly why we have a Youth Council, for them to bring things to our attention. I’m excited that we’re able to follow through and show when they get involved in their government that we listen to them.”
Read more news from the Sun Post Herald here. | 2022-07-20T12:02:55+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/community/2022/07/lakewood-city-council-considers-vaping-and-smoking-ban-in-parks.html |
Alachua and Marion County have numbers to call for information and hurricane questions
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HARTFORD, Conn., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund (NYSE: NFJ), today announced the following quarterly distribution:
The Fund previously announced the following quarterly distribution on March 7, 2022:
Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution level that may be paid, in part or in full, from net investment income and realized capital gains, or a combination thereof. Shareholders should note, however, that if the Fund's aggregate net investment income and net realized capital gains are less than the amount of the distribution level, the difference will be distributed from the Fund's assets and will constitute a return of the shareholder's capital. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan.
The Fund provided this estimate of the sources of the distributions:
Information regarding the Fund's performance and distribution rates is set forth below. Please note that all performance figures are based on the Fund's NAV and not the market price of the Fund's shares. Performance figures are not meant to represent individual shareholder performance.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
About the Fund
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund is a diversified closed-end fund that seeks current income and gains, with long-term capital appreciation as a secondary objective. The Fund will generally invest approximately 75% of its total assets in equity securities and approximately 25% in convertible securities. The Fund will employ an option strategy of writing (selling) covered call options on equity securities held in the Fund. The equity portion of the Fund generally invests in U.S. equities and American depositary receipts (ADRs) with attractive quality characteristics, shareholder yield, and consistent financial output. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund and and NFJ Investment Group and Allianz Global Investors are its subadvisers.
For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (800) 254-5197, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the Closed-End Funds section of virtus.com.
Fund Risks
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about the Fund's investment objective and risks, please see the Fund's annual report. A copy of the Fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the end of this press release.
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Announcements Include Launch of Hyperledger Solang, Release of Hyperledger FireFly 1.1, Details on Hyperledger Besu Ethereum Client Incentive Program, Introduction of Free Self-Sovereign Identity Training Course
SAN FRANCISCO and DUBLIN, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, today announced news from across its diverse and expanding ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF). From launches and releases on the Hyperledger project front to new products, partnership, deployments and innovations from Hyperledger Members, there is a surround sound of developments being unveiled at this week's event.
The opening keynote today addresses one of the biggest developments on the horizon. The talk, Hyperledger Besu and the Upcoming Merge, will feature Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation and Hart Montgomery, CTO of the Hyperledger Foundation.
Other keynotes taking place today include:
- Blockchain as a Public Good: How Public Infrastructure Networks are Driving Adoption and Making an Impact across Europe and Latin America - Juan Jiménez Zaballos, Alastria; Ilan Melendez Lugo, LACChain / LACNet; Hilary Carter, Linux Foundation
- ESG with a Bit of Help from Indy - Dr. Andreas Kind, Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG
- Decentralized Identity: Where We Are and Where We Going - Heather Dahl, CEO, Indicio; Kaliya Young, Identity Expert, Identity Woman; Marie Wallace, Distinguished Engineer, IBM; Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services, Avast
Free live streaming of keynotes is available here.
"The energy and excitement of the global Hyperledger community is on full display here at Hyperledger Global Forum," said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. "From demos and workshops to keynotes and case studies, there is endless evidence of the scope and scale of what we are building together and the growing market impact of this collective work. And, as this line-up of news from across the community shows, we are just getting started. The innovation and adoption will only accelerate from here."
Project and Ecosystem News
New Project: Hyperledger Solang
The Hyperledger Technical Steering committee approved a new project, Hyperledger Solang, which is a compiler for Solidity source code and targets different blockchains. The Solidity programming language is the most popular language for smart contracts, and there is clear interest from many blockchains to have support for it. Although some blockchains emulate an EVM environment to maintain compatibility with Solidity built with Solc, they then cannot access features that are missing from Ethereum. Hyperledger Solan offers the ability to compile Solidity to the native execution environment, opening up access to new features and creating many possibilities for innovation in the Solidity language.
Currently, Hyperledger Solang supports Solana and Polkadot (Substrate).
Hyperledger FireFly 1.1 Release
A new Hyperledger FireFly release, version 1.1, includes new functionality that makes it possible for FireFly users to deploy multiple blockchain applications connecting to multiple chains from a single console. The FireFly Supernode now supports two operation modes: Web3 Gateway and Consortium. Web3 Gateway mode configures the FireFly Supernode to connect to a number of chains with transaction orchestration and state indexing. A revamped and expanded connector framework now includes EVMconnect, a robust connector for simple connection management to public blockchains with templates available for Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, and more. Consortium mode activates a number of capabilities for FireFly nodes to connect in a B2B network and exchange data through off-chain and on-chain rails. FireFly also now supports multi-tenancy through the use of namespaces. These new features enable enterprises to accelerate their web3 adoption.
Creation of Hyperledger Cacti
In a Hyperledger first, the community has decided to merge two systems (architectures as well as code bases). Hyperledger Cactus and Weaver, a Hyperledger Lab, will come together to be Hyperledger Cacti, a multi-faceted interoperability platform that will draw on the cutting-edge technical features of Cactus and Weaver and provide a clear path forward for users of both technologies.
Hyperledger Besu Client Incentive Program Kicks Off
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has opted to include Hyperledger Besu in the Execution Layer Client Incentive Program (ELCIP) to foster the community development of enterprise-grade blockchain software. The program, which kicks off with the Merge, will provide execution-layer client teams with locked ETH in the form of live validators to be released according to certain milestones, including post-merge performance and progress towards enabling withdrawals from the beacon chain.
Hyperledger Besu is one of the top three most popular Ethereum execution clients according to Ethernode. EF is making this strategic investment to engage the Hyperledger Besu community in ensuring a diversity of clients and overall health of the network.
"The diverse community is what makes Ethereum special, empowering from builders in underserved or emerging economies to leading enterprises and beyond," said Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at Ethereum Foundation. "Similarly a diverse client distribution helps keep Ethereum distributed and healthy, and I applaud the Hyperledger Besu team for their Execution Layer work for Ethereum, and wish you all a great Global Forum this year."
New, Free "Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity" Course
To make it easier for enterprises to implement Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) to put their users at the center of their digital identity, Linux Foundation Training & Certification has released a new online training course, Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity (LFS178x). The free, six-to-seven hour course is geared to business and government decision makers looking to get started with SSI on a solid foundation. The course provides a 360 degree overview of its evolutionary journey, key concepts, standards, technological building blocks, use cases, real-world examples and implementation considerations.
Hyperledger Foundation is also hosting an In-depth Member Webinar with Indicio on "Scaling verifiable digital credentials using open source technology" on October 5.
Hyperledger Member News
BTP – announced the general availability of its blockchain-backed, domain-agnostic provenance solution Chronicle. Organizations across industries can now take advantage of Chronicle's capabilities, and keep immutable provenance records that capture the origin and life journey of their physical and digital assets, including ownership history. By recording it on a distributed ledger, provenance information becomes more trustworthy, and its management is more efficient. Chronicle is available with Hyperledger Sawtooth as its default backing ledger, with support for other industry-leading distributed ledgers in the pipeline. Read the full press release here.
BTP – upgraded its blockchain management platform Sextant, by adding support for the distributed ledger software Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. Fabric is now joining Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Sawtooth, which the company's clients have already been using in production. Sextant's makeover also includes a marketplace for deployments that will allow users to easily select the option that best suits their needs and use case requirements. Chronicle on Sawtooth will now appear as a new deployment option – in this marketplace – that clients can choose. Read the full press release here.
Espeo Blockchain – recently connected Microsoft Sharepoint technology with a transparent and immutable layer of Hyperledger Fabric for HLB, which is a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms. The new blockchain backend is a game changer in terms of transparency. It's because only verified, approved and standardized data points will be added to the blockchain ledger. At the same time, users still work with the same Microsoft UI they are used to. That enables member firms to access and verify referral and project data in real-time. It also eliminates the need for a siloed process of reconciliation, which makes settlements far simpler and more reliable. More information is available at https://espeoblockchain.com/
Indicio – recently announced the launch of Indicio Proven™, a complete, open source solution for authenticating and sharing high value data in a privacy-preserving way using verifiable digital credentials. Built on Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Ursa, Hyperledger Indy, AnonCreds, and DIDComm, Proven is designed to make implementing and using these open source codebases simple, providing users with a fully-owned solution that's easy to integrate with existing systems, to innovate on, and to scale. Proven uses the Indicio Network (TempNet, TestNet, DemoNet, MainNet), a professionally maintained, enterprise grade Hyperledger Indy-based network for the exchange of verifiable credentials. Learn more at Indicio.tech.
IoBuilders – has coordinated, designed and implemented a digital bond platform as partner of the Spanish Stock exchange BME. Using the platform, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the help of BBVA, issued a two year $10 million blockchain-based bond, the first Spanish bond to be listed on a regulated market. The platform uses a private network based on Hyperledger Besu Ethereum client, where the bond and the money are tokenized, and overall security and cash payment are settled. Read more about it here.
Kaleido – has introduced support for enterprise App Chains, an exciting technology allowing the creation of highly scalable, application-specific chains that can connect to the Web3 ecosystem via bridges or rollups. The first App Chain framework to be supported on the Kaleido Platform is Polygon Edge, and we have formed a partnership with Polygon to accelerate enterprise web3 adoption. Kaleido is also pleased to announce that Hyperledger FireFly version 1.1 is now supported on Kaleido's Blockchain Business Cloud. With the new functionality in FireFly, users will be able to manage multiple blockchain use cases from a single console and connect with leading public blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Moonbeam, Fantom and more.
The National FinTech Center at Morgan State University – announced The 3rd Annual National HBCU Blockchain and FinTech Conference. This conference is The Center's premier event for connecting with university leaders, faculty, and students discussing today's challenges and opportunities, and shaping the future of FinTech education and research. On November 06-08, 2022 in Orlando, FL, The National FinTech Center will provide a forum for the faculty, students, and administrators in the FinTech Center's HBCU Network to hear and discuss the findings of sponsored research, outcomes of sponsored innovative blockchain projects at various HBCUs, FinTech workshops, and HBCU Presidents' Summit: Digital Transformation, Research, and Education at HBCUs. Click HERE for more information. Any questions, please contact tyneissa.walters@morgan.edu.
SIMBA Chain - recently released SIMBA Blocks, a Smart-Contract as a Service platform. Blocks allows users to build on private, public and hybrid chains, including Hyperledger Fabric, with no chain lock-in. The SIMBA Blocks platform auto-generates virtual REST APIs that connect to smart contracts on various protocols - letting you write once and deploy to many with minor configuration. These chain-agnostic APIs simplify application integrations, reducing deployment times by weeks or months. Learn why companies like Boeing (using Hyperledger Fabric to track F/A-18 parts across four data warehouses) rely on SIMBA Chain for their blockchain solutions at simbachain.com.
Zeeve – introduced a major upgrade to its platform, a best-in-class offering for enterprise-grade Hyperledger Fabric automation. Now users can add more organizations to their deployed Hyperledger Fabric networks on runtime and scale up/down the number of nodes. Zeeve has also improved network monitoring & alerting and added the ability to directly download connection profiles of Fabric networks to applications. In addition, in addition to support for Golang, Zeeve has added NodeJS chaincodes support in CD pipelines using Zeeve CLI. Learn more: https://www.zeeve.io/blockchain-protocols/deploy-hyperledger-fabric/
Zeeve – launched IPFS as a service for decentralized applications with two options:- endpoints and dedicated nodes. The focus has been to make it very easy for any business application to switch to the power decentralized file storage without having to worry about the learning curve of infrastructure or development. This has been possible with the ZDFS (Zeeve Distributed File System) service, which allows users to have dedicated or shared endpoint services for IPFS, while ZDFS SDK makes integration with IPFS very seamless. Users can create access credentials for their applications for data APIs as well as pinning services of IPFS. IPFS comes with console-based resource management and an in-depth analysis of consumption for ZDFS services. Learn more: https://zeeve.io/zeeve-distributed-file-system/
About Hyperledger Global Forum (#HyperledgerForum)
Hyperledger Global Forum is the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. It is a unique opportunity for contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world to meet, align, plan and hack together in person. The event is open to everyone involved or interested in using, developing or learning more about Hyperledger's open source enterprise blockchain technologies. Attendees will hear directly from those who are actively developing and deploying Hyperledger technologies as well as technology and business leaders who are shaping the future of enterprise blockchain. They will also have the chance to talk directly with Hyperledger project maintainers and the Technical Steering Committee, collaborate with other organizations on ideas that will directly impact the future of Hyperledger Foundation, and promote their work among the communities.
Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Keynote Translation), Siemens (Platinum), Digital Asset (Gold and Developer Lounge), Zeeve (Gold), AWS (Silver), BONbLOC (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), Corsha (Silver), Espeo Blockchain (Bronze), Huawei (Bronze), Kaleido (Bronze), DTTC (Diversity Scholarship), IBM (Birds of a Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community Partner), Blockchain Ireland (Community Partner), Blockchain Research Institute (Community Partner), Digital Euro Association (Community Partner), Diversity in Blockchain (Community Partner), European Blockchain Association (Community Partner), Global Blockchain Business Council (Community Partner), Kerala Blockchain Academy (Community Partner), International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (Community Partner),Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community Partner), Trust over IP Foundation (Community Partner), Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (Community Partner), Blocknews (Media Partner), BeinCrypto (Media Partner), Cointelegraph (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), Forkast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Merge by Fintech Nexus (Media Partner).
About Hyperledger Foundation
Hyperledger Foundation was founded in 2015 to bring transparency and efficiency to the enterprise market by fostering a thriving ecosystem around open source blockchain software technologies. As a project of the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Foundation coordinates a community of member and non member organizations, individual contributors and software developers building enterprise-grade platforms, libraries, tools and solutions for multi-party systems using blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. Organizations join Hyperledger Foundation to demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate and network with others, and raise awareness around their efforts in the enterprise blockchain community. Members include industry-leading organizations in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing, technology and beyond. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation's projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger Foundation, RISC-V, and more, are critical to the world's infrastructure. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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Linux Foundation/Hyperledger
PR@Hyperledger.org
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TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government stepped up its alarm over Chinese assertiveness, warning in a report issued Friday that the country faces its worst security threats since World War II as it plans to implement a new strategy that calls for a major military buildup.
The 2023 defense white paper, approved by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet, is the first since the government adopted a controversial new National Security Strategy in December, seen as a break from Japan’s postwar policy limiting the use of force to self-defense.
China, Russia and North Korea contribute to “the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II,” according to the 510-page report. It says China’s external stance and military activities have become a “serious concern for Japan and the international community and present an unprecedented and the greatest strategic challenge.”
On Thursday, Russian and Chinese delegates joined North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in North Korea’s capital for a military parade that showed off the country’s latest drones and long-range nuclear-capable missiles.
Russia and China have also stepped up strategic ties, the white paper said, noting five joint bomber flights since 2019, and several joint navigations of Chinese and Russian warships that it said were “clearly intended for demonstration of force against Japan and of grave concern” to both Japan and the region.
The report predicted that China will possess 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035 and increase its military superiority over Taiwan, in what Japan views as a security threat, especially to its southwestern islands including Okinawa.
While Okinawan Gov. Denny Tamaki has called for U.S. bases there to be reduced and for greater efforts in diplomacy and dialogue with Beijing, the central government has been reinforcing the defenses of the remote southwestern islands, including Ishigaki and Yonaguni, where new bases for missile defense have been installed.
Many residents of Okinawa have bitter memories of the Battle of Okinawa, in which Japan’s wartime military essentially sacrificed the local population in an attempt to delay a U.S. landing on the main Japanese islands. Many Okinawans worry they would be the first to suffer in the event of a Taiwan emergency.
Earlier this week, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno visited Ishigaki and acknowledged the challenges of evacuating residents from remote islands, and pledged to give firm support. Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama asked for airport and port facilities to be reinforced and for underground shelters to be built as preparation for a possible Taiwan emergency.
China claims self-governing Taiwan as its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who in 2017 set a goal of building a “world-class military” by the mid-21st century, may move the target forward, the report said, noting his call for a rapid advancement of the People’s Liberation Army in his speech at the Communist Party congress in October.
North Korea is rapidly progressing in its nuclear and missile development and poses “a graver, more imminent threat to Japan than ever before,” the report said. North Korea has test-fired around 100 missiles since the start of 2022, including ICBMs, and the report noted it is now believed to have an ability to conduct nuclear attacks on Japan and the continental United States.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the Japanese defense paper interfered in China’s internal affairs and “deliberately played up the so-called Chinese threat and created tensions in the region.” She said Japan’s own military buildup has drawn concern from its Asian neighbors and the international community, and urged Tokyo to “stop finding excuses for its military expansion.”
She said China’s military policy is defensive, and “military cooperation such as joint patrols with relevant countries is in line with international law and practice.”
South Korea, despite the rapid improvement of its ties with Japan this year due to shared concern over China’s threat, slammed Japan’s claim in the defense report to a South Korean-controlled contested island, calling it “unjust.”
The report comes seven months after Kishida’s government adopted new national security and defense strategies that called for doubling the defense budget to 43 trillion yen ($310 billion) by 2027.
Questions have been raised about whether the ambitious expansion of military capability and funding for it is feasible in a country that has a rapidly aging and shrinking population.
A government-commissioned panel recently adopted a package of recommendations for Japan’s military to maintain troop numbers despite population concerns, including scholarships, extension of the retirement age, hiring retirees, improving the workplace environment and tackling harassment.
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Associated Press writers Joe McDonald in Beijing and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. | 2023-07-28T10:49:26+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-japan-raises-alarm-over-chinas-military-russia-ties-and-taiwan-tensions-in-new-defense-paper/ |
President Biden outlined a slew of tax hikes on wealthy Americans as an avenue for reducing the deficit and funding key programs like Medicare in his proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 released on Thursday.
It gives a glimpse of the policy proposals and issues Biden hopes to emphasize ahead of a reelection bid. The budget, with a topline total of $6.8 trillion, will not be enacted into law, but it will serve as another starting point for debates on spending as the White House and Congress head toward a debt ceiling fight later this year.
Biden’s budget priorities aim to reinforce his position as a president who wants to reduce the deficit, require wealthy corporations to pay a bigger share in taxes, lift up working class Americans and fund programs with widespread support — like Social Security and Medicare — that are under attack from Republicans.
The White House said the budget would reduce the federal deficit by roughly $3 trillion over a 10-year period through significant tax increases on corporations and billionaires in particular.
The White House called the budget a “blueprint” to build on progress from the first two years of the administration. It claims that Republicans “have taken a very different approach” and want to add to the nation’s debt.
Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said releasing the budget is “a start of a healthy dialogue” and that the White House is ready to have a debate with Republicans who will likely argue that the president’s budget will hurt growth.
“When you look at this president’s view of the world and what this budget puts forward, it shows you what he values,” Young said. “And that’s what this is going to be about. And we’re happy to have that debate with anybody.”
The White House’s wish list of policies includes: restoring the full Child Tax Credit, which was first enacted in the American Rescue Plan; a billionaire minimum tax, which would impose a tax of at least 25 percent on total income for Americans whose wealth exceeds $100 million; making increases to the corporate tax rate; making permanent some tax credits related to the Affordable Care Act; and providing national paid leave.
Some of those proposals are extensions of the Inflation Reduction Act, a piece of legislation passed with only Democratic votes last year that some in the GOP have said they will try to repeal.
Biden also wants to expand entitlement programs by extending the lifetime of Medicare. And, while the budget doesn’t also include a solvency plan for Social Security, the White House argues it makes clear that cuts to the program are non-starters.
“The number one threat to Social Security and benefits for folks like my 94-year-old grandmother is those on the other side of the aisle who say they want to cut benefits. That’s why this budget takes the position that that is not on the table,” Young said.
The budget includes funding to compete with China and continued aid for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, as well as to respond to the intense criticism the administration has received over the situation at the southern border. It includes almost $25 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — an increase from the $15.3 billion proposed for the agency in the president’s fiscal 2023 budget — while Biden faces backlash over the influx of migrants at the border throughout his administration.
Biden is set to detail the key parts of his proposed budget in remarks to supporters Thursday afternoon at a union hall in Philadelphia. The decision to travel to a swing state and address unionized workers shows how the White House is using the document to hit on key themes that will resonate through Biden’s likely reelection bid in 2024.
The White House has long argued that Biden’s budget will be a transparent demonstration of his priorities. At the same time, White House officials have called on Republican lawmakers in the House to release their own budget proposal, believing that by doing so the GOP would expose its desire to cut spending for popular government programs.
The budget proposal also serves as something of a launching pad for more serious negotiations over the debt ceiling, an issue that will loom over Washington for the next several months.
Congress must raise the debt ceiling, likely by June, in order to avoid a default that would have catastrophic effects on the economy. Biden has said he will not negotiate with Republicans over cuts to government programs as part of a debt ceiling deal, but his proposal to increase taxes in order to make Medicare solvent for an additional 25 years has already landed with a thud on Capitol Hill.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday called Biden’s proposal “completely unserious,” citing the trillions of dollars in proposed new taxes.
“Mr. President: Washington has a spending problem, NOT a revenue problem,” McCarthy tweeted.
The budget will also play into the broader debate about the state of the economy.
The White House has for months argued that inflation is cooling and the risk of a recession is dwindling, while pointing to strong employment numbers and gains in manufacturing in particular to make the case that Biden inherited a weak economy and enabled a strong recovery during his first two years in office.
And while Biden has pledged not to raise taxes on Americans making less than $400,000, Republicans are likely to jump on the trillions of dollars of tax increases overall, as well as key spending proposals, to warn that Biden’s plan will drive the economy into the ground.
“Taxes, taxes, and more taxes,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) tweeted Thursday morning, reacting to news of Biden’s plans.
Updated 12:51 p.m. | 2023-03-09T19:21:51+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/bidens-budget-proposes-tax-hikes-on-wealthy-to-reduce-deficit-shore-up-medicare/ |
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.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ082-281530-
Terrell-
Including the cities of Dryden and Sanderson
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ274-281530-
Reeves County Plains-
Including the city of Pecos
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, windy with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming west 20 to
30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs around 50. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ273-281530-
Eastern Culberson County-
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny and windy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest
winds 20 to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny with strong winds. Highs in the upper 60s. West
winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts up to 55 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, windy, cooler with lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 20 to 30 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper
40s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Not as cool with highs in the
lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ271-281530-
Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains-
Including the cities of Guadalupe Mountains NP and Pine Springs
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022 /107 AM MST Mon Nov 28 2022/
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON CST /11 AM MST/ TODAY TO
7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny and very windy. Highs in the lower 60s.
West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph, increasing to
30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and very windy. Lows in the lower 40s.
West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny with strong winds. Highs in the lower 60s. West
winds 30 to 50 mph, increasing to 40 to 55 mph in the afternoon.
Gusts up to 80 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear with strong winds. Cold with lows in the
lower 30s. West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 55 mph,
becoming north 15 to 20 mph before midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 40s.
East winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the upper
20s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, windy and not as cool with highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ270-281530-
Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet-
Including the city of Guadalupe Mountains NP
107 AM MST Mon Nov 28 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM
MST TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny with strong winds. Highs in the mid 50s.
West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph, increasing to
35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 65 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear with strong winds. Lows in the upper 30s.
West winds 35 to 45 mph. Gusts up to 70 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny with strong winds. Highs in the mid 50s. West
winds 40 to 55 mph, increasing to 50 to 60 mph in the afternoon.
Gusts 75 to 85 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear with strong winds. Cold with lows in the
upper 20s. West winds 25 to 45 mph, becoming north 15 to 20 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Cooler with highs in the lower 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the mid 20s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 50.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, windy with highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 50s. Temperature falling into the upper 40s in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
TXZ272-281530-
Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor-
Including the city of Van Horn
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, windy with highs in the upper 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, increasing to 20 to
30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows around 40. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny and very windy. Highs around 70. Southwest winds
25 to 40 mph. Gusts up to 50 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 30s.
West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph, becoming north
10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower
50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ278-281530-
Davis Mountains Foothills-
Including the city of Alpine
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs around 70. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny and very windy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. West
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming northwest
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ277-281530-
Davis Mountains-
Including the city of Fort Davis
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny and very windy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph, increasing to west 25 to 35 mph in
the afternoon with gusts up to 60 mph above 6000 ft.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 30s.
West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph, becoming north
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ276-281530-
Marfa Plateau-
Including the city of Marfa
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, windy with highs in the lower 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming west 20 to
30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs around 60. East winds 10 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ275-281530-
Chinati Mountains-
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, windy with highs in the upper 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, increasing to west
20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ279-281530-
Central Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Panther Junction,
and Marathon
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ282-281530-
Lower Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Lajitas, and Castolon
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower
50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ280-281530-
Chisos Basin-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP and Chisos Basin
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ281-281530-
Presidio Valley-
Including the city of Presidio
207 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, increasing to 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. East winds
10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
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Which Home Depot pole saw is best?
If you find yourself wishing for longer arms when that dead limb is just out of reach, it may be time to upgrade your equipment. Home Depot offers a wide variety of pole saws for every level of experience and intensity of use.
When you are serious about maintaining order and a proper pruning schedule, or if you have a large property to maintain, the Milwaukee M18 FUEL 18-Volt Lithium-Ion Brushless Cordless Pole Saw With Attachment is a good choice.
What to know before you buy a Home Depot pole saw
Pole saw power source
Home Depot offers pole saws with four options for power.
- Gas: Traditionally used by professional landscapers and tree services, gas pole saws are durable and able to handle most jobs. However, they are more expensive and heavy.
- Electric: In terms of environmental benefits, electric pole saws win the day. They plug into an outlet and are quiet, lightweight and easy to operate. However, they may not have enough power, and you are limited by the length of the cord.
- Battery: Battery-powered saws combine some of the best benefits of each category. They are a bit heavier than electric and manual saws, but not quite as heavy as those that use gas. They are more affordable, especially if you buy the same brand of battery-powered yard tools and can swap batteries among them. However, some of them have an insubstantial battery life.
- Manual: Manual pole saws are lightweight and affordable, but it can be challenging to cut larger branches or limbs.
Type of work
Homeowners and professional landscapers need different tools. Homeowners are looking to clean up a few trees, while landscapers run across thousands in their weekly jobs. With a dedicated Pro desk, Home Depot has pole saws that cater to both.
Bar length
Because you are operating the pole saw at a distance from your center of gravity, the bar length matters. Too long, and you won’t be able to reliably direct the operation, but too short and you are limited in the width of branches or limbs you can cut.
To get a good idea of your needs, take the length of the cutting bar and divide it in half. That’s about the maximum width branch you can cut with your pole saw. This number increases as the pole gets shorter. But because you have less leverage when the pole is extended, cutting capacity is less.
What to look for in a quality Home Depot pole saw
Operating instructions
In addition to providing operating instructions in the box, many Home Depot locations offer classes in everything from pruning and removing brush to making firewood from downed trees.
Easy operation
A pole saw requires oil for the bar and tension to be maintained for safe operation. Most Home Depot pole saws feature automatic oilers and easy-to-access chain tensioners. These let you get the job done with fewer breaks.
Warranties and returns
Home Depot knows your tools need to work hard. The vast majority of their product lines come with limited warranties guaranteed against workmanship or manufacturing defects.
Additionally, with just a few exceptions, Home Depot accepts returns of new and unopened merchandise for 90 days with a receipt. Don’t have a receipt? An associate may be able to find your purchase on their computer to refund your original payment method, If not, you can still make the return for store credit.
How much you can expect to spend on a Home Depot pole saw
Prices vary depending on what type of power you select and whether or not a battery or other accessories are included with the tool. Expect to spend $100-$500.
Home Depot pole saw FAQ
What is the maximum extended length of a pole saw?
A. It depends on the type of saw you select. Professional models can extend an additional 10-13 feet past their initial length.
Is there a trick to using a pole saw?
A. As with anything, more practice increases your skill.
- The longer the extension, the harder it is to cut.
- The thicker the limb, the more tiring cutting will be.
- Never use a pole saw near power lines.
- Clear a work area underneath where you’ll be cutting.
- Make sure a helper is nearby.
- Position yourself so that the branch you are cutting is as close to chest height as possible. Never cut while underneath a branch.
- Start by cutting a small groove, then use a rhythmic motion to complete the cut.
- When in doubt, ask for help or hire a professional.
What’s the best Home Depot pole saw to buy?
Top Home Depot pole saw
Milwaukee M18 FUEL 18-Volt Lithium-Ion Brushless Cordless Pole Saw With Attachment
What you need to know: It is a hardworking, heavy-duty choice that fits with all of Milwaukee’s M18 line of tools.
What you’ll love: Make 150 cuts per charge of the lithium-ion battery. The saw head is 10 inches and reaches full power in 1 second. The chain tensioner is easy to access, and the saw comes with a three-year limited warranty.
What you should consider: It is heavy, just under 13 pounds, and it is expensive. If you only occasionally need a pole saw, this might be more equipment than is necessary.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top Home Depot pole saw for the money
2-in-1 8-amp Electric Convertible Pole Chainsaw
What you need to know: This is perfect for pruning and cutting downed limbs to length.
What you’ll love: The telescoping pole extends to 15 feet for longer reach. The 10-inch bar can also be converted to a handheld chain saw to cut limbs up to 9.5 inches. It weighs just under 8.5 pounds and has a built-in safety switch. The operation is quiet.
What you should consider: The cord is very short, and some users report leaking oil. This is best reserved for smaller yards.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Greenworks Pro 60-volt Battery Cordless Pole Saw (Tool Only)
What you need to know: If you already have tools in the Greenworks line, this “tool only” choice may work well for you.
What you’ll love: It is perfect for small yard cleanup jobs. It’s light and easy to handle, and it works with either a 60- or 40-volt battery that is sized for Greenworks tools. It has an automatic chain oiler for smoother operation, and a 10-inch bar to tackle most jobs. It comes with a four-year limited warranty.
What you should consider: Maintaining chain tension is challenging.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Austin FC (15-8-6, second in the Western Conference) vs. Seattle Sounders FC (11-15-3, ninth in the Western Conference)
Seattle; Saturday, 8 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Seattle -120, Austin FC +286, Draw +281; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Sounders and Austin square off in Western Conference play.
The Sounders are 9-10-3 in conference matchups. The Sounders are 5-1-0 when they score two goals.
Austin is 9-7-5 in Western Conference games.
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. The last meeting ended tied 1-1.
TOP PERFORMERS:
LAST 10 GAMES: Sounders: 3-6-1, averaging 1.4 goals, three shots on goal and 5.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.7 goals per game.
Austin: 4-4-2, averaging 2.2 goals, 5.5 shots on goal and 5.9 corner kicks per game while allowing two goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Sounders: Obed Vargas (injured), Joao Paulo (injured), Andrew Delmos Thomas (injured), Cristian Roldan (injured).
Austin: Washington Corozo (injured), Hector Jimenez (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-09-09T07:02:50+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Seattle-Sounders-host-Austin-in-Western-17429418.php |
POCONO LAKE, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A homeowner in Monroe County received an unusual alert on his Ring doorbell earlier this month, a mother bear and her cubs impatiently waiting for him to open the door. By the time anyone was able to make it back to the house, it seems the family of bears couldn’t wait any longer.
On September 2, a mother bear and her cubs were caught by Jon Costanzo’s Ring doorbell waiting for someone to open the door. When Costanzo received the alert on his phone he immediately called the game warden and security.
But by the time the game warden could respond, it seems like Costanzo had no way to prevent this reverse sequence of Goldilocks and the Three Bears from taking place.
Thankfully, no one was injured and there was no major damage to the home, unless you count a completely empty fridge and a mess on the floor a lot of damage.
The bears were able to make their escape this time, but according to Costanzo, they returned the next day. They tried entering the same way as the day prior, but their plan was foiled when they learned Costanzo locked the doors and windows.
Costanzo said they were able to catch the family of bears and relocate two of the three bears. It’s unknown what happened to the third bear.
You don’t often think of home invasions as a family event, but in the case of these bears, they stick together when it comes to food. | 2022-09-26T15:45:46+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/pennsylvania-news/watch-family-of-bears-break-into-home-for-a-quick-snack/ |
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The Rotary Club of Sioux City helped give back to the community Monday afternoon.
At their weekly meeting, Rotarians put together birthday bags for children in placement homes like the Crittenton Center or Boys and Girls Home. Each bag was packed with a card, cup, and goodies that kids in their situation may not get often.
Heather Hennings with Sioux City Rotary planned the progam and told KCAU 9 about why it is so important.
“We not only see the smiles on the faces of the volunteers here at Rotary who are putting these bags together, but we can imagine the smiles at the shelters from the kids that are going to get these birthday bags on their birthday,” said Hennings.
The service project is a bit of a pilot program and if it goes well, they may expand it. | 2022-08-30T00:18:34+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/rotary-club-of-sioux-city-packs-birthday-bags-for-kids/ |
Preleasing rate at 87.2 and five percent rent growth impress analysts
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The student housing industry continued to break records in the second quarter of 2022, according to the new quarterly National Student Housing Report from Yardi® Matrix.
An 87.2 percent preleasing rate and rent growth of five percent in June were the highest Matrix researchers have seen thus far for Yardi 200 universities, and transaction activity remains elevated despite rising interest rates. The preleasing rate is 10.1 percent higher than last year and 7.7 percent higher than pre-pandemic 2019.
"With a few months to go in the leasing season, we expect Yardi 200 universities to start the fall term with record-breaking occupancy," state Matrix analysts. The Yardi Matrix student housing data set includes over 2,000 universities and colleges nationwide, including the top 200 investment grade universities across all major collegiate conferences. Known as the "Yardi 200," it includes all Power 5 conferences as well as Carnegie R1 and R2 universities.
"Confidence in the sector abounds as the fall semester approaches, and previous concerns of headwinds have largely been put to rest," state Matrix analysts in the new report.
While some sectors of academia are experiencing postsecondary enrollment declines, the losses have primarily been at community colleges and smaller schools rather than competitive private and public flagship universities. Fears about online learning diverting students from campus have also proven to be unwarranted, as students have a strong preference toward attending college in person.
Learn more about the expectations for student housing by downloading the new report.
Yardi Matrix covers multifamily, student housing, industrial, office and self-storage property types. Email matrix@yardi.com, call (480) 663-1149 or visit yardimatrix.com to learn more.
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Police K-9 recovering after rattlesnake bite during training exercise
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - A K-9 is recovering after being injured in a training exercise Wednesday.
Casa Grande Police Department Officer Thomas Scheurn said his K-9 partner Deutz was bitten by a rattlesnake that day, as reported by Arizona’s Family.
“We were walking around a vehicle; he was doing a mock drug sniff,” Scheurn said. “As we were walking around the vehicle, Deutz started crying, and I looked down at his foot and saw a little bit of blood on the top of his foot.”
Scheurn said Deutz had received a rattlesnake vaccine but knew he still needed anti-venom. He started calling around to animal hospitals.
Deutz was taken to the Arizona Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Center for treatment, and after spending the night, he returned to Scheurn’s side.
“He did quite well here at the hospital,” said veterinarian Ryan Reeves.
He also said a few pets come into the hospital weekly suffering from rattlesnake bites, and pet owners can discuss the rattlesnake vaccine option with their veterinarian.
When it comes to Deutz, the police department shared on its social media for the community to keep Deutz in their thoughts. Reeves said the K-9 is already back on his feet, which is a great sign.
“He’s 100 percent a part of the police department; I’ve received a multitude of text messages and calls inquiring about the status of Deutz and how he’s feeling, and it just goes to show how much people care about him, and they love him,” Scheurn said.
Copyright 2022 Arizona’s Family via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-20T20:54:30+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/05/20/police-k-9-recovering-after-rattlesnake-bite-during-training-exercise/ |
Leader in transportation solutions leverages artificial intelligence and data analytics to ensure packages are delivered efficiently, sustainably, and on-time
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and GREENWICH, Conn., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XPO Logistics, Inc., a leading provider of freight transportation services, and Google Cloud today announced a multi-year collaboration to further innovate how goods move through supply chains. Leveraging Google Cloud's expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data analytics, XPO is building faster, more efficient supply chains with greater visibility.
XPO customers across the supply chain, from manufacturers to consumer packaged goods companies to retailers, are facing an increasingly unpredictable marketplace filled with constraints, volatility, and rising demand. To help its customers address these challenges, XPO migrated several key applications to Google Cloud, enabling the transportation services provider to take advantage of the scalability and availability of cloud computing. For XPO and its customers, scalability is key for dealing with peak periods of seasonality, while high application availability is critical, as services need to run smoothly around the clock.
Google Cloud's data analytics, AI, and ML tools help XPO quickly provide insights to its operators–such as product managers, demand planners, route planners, and data analysts. Democratizing AI and analytics by placing them in the hands of those with greatest domain expertise enables faster decision-making and business agility. For instance, AI and ML tools like Vertex AI help XPO engineers experiment with algorithms in real-time, building a pipeline for data scientists to experiment, while improving and evaluating new algorithms for XPO Connect's proprietary load-matching and pricing technologies.
Additionally, tools like BigQuery, VertexAI, and Looker are helping XPO optimize network planning by providing real-time updates on shipment statuses, allowing operators to take action and avoid potential shipping delays.
"XPO is always looking for ways to innovate the ways goods move across the globe. Implementing the most cutting-edge technology is the best way for us to ensure that we achieve this goal," said Yoav Amiel, senior vice president of technology, XPO. "By working with Google Cloud's AI/ML and data analytics capabilities, we can operate the fastest, most efficient supply chains possible."
As part of the partnership, XPO is also achieving its sustainability goals by transporting goods in the most efficient way possible. With Google Cloud, XPO ensures for every application moved from a self-managed data center or collocation facility to the public cloud, the net operational emissions from running that application will be zero. As the cleanest cloud in the industry, Google Cloud matches 100 percent of electricity that powers cloud workloads with renewable energy. This allows products like XPO Connect to improve the carbon footprint of XPO's truck brokerage customers by optimizing lane assignments and reducing empty miles. Meanwhile, XPO maintains a modern less-than-truckload (LTL) fleet, optimizes routes, and trains drivers in eco-friendly techniques.
"We're bringing our innovative AI/ML and data analytics solutions to XPO, to help it transform supply chain management, ensure its deliveries are on-time, and give its customers accurate, up-to-date view on the location of their freight," said Hans Thalbauer, managing director, Global Supply Chain, Logistics & Transportation, Google Cloud. "As external factors continue to impact supply chains and create new challenges, we're dedicated to collaborating with XPO to help the company continually improve and run operations as efficiently and sustainably as possible."
Additional Resources
- At the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium, Google Cloud will showcase solutions that support supply chain operations, including Supply Chain Twin and Pulse.
- Keep up with the latest Google Cloud news on our newsroom and blog.
- Meet Google's unified data and AI offering
- Limitless Data. All Workloads. For Everyone
About XPO Logistics
XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) is a leading provider of freight transportation services, primarily less-than-truckload (LTL) and truck brokerage. XPO uses its proprietary technology, including the cutting-edge XPO Connect® automated freight marketplace, to move goods efficiently through supply chains. The company's global network serves 50,000 shippers with approximately 731 locations and 42,000 employees, and is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., USA. Visit xpo.com and europe.xpo.com for more information, and connect with XPO on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
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Google Cloud accelerates every organizations' ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky officials say they won’t start paying out $21 million in economic incentives for a proposed electric vehicle battery facility until the company further explains why the U.S. Department of Energy abruptly rejected a $200 million loan for the project after some congressional Republicans argued the firm has improper ties to China.
Texas-based Microvast was one of 20 companies to win preliminary grants totaling $2.8 billion to boost the domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles. The company is building battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee and was in talks with the Energy Department for a $200 million grant funded through the 2021 infrastructure law.
Yang Wu, Microvast’s founder and CEO, said the company was surprised by the Energy Department’s decision against awarding the loan, which would fuel plans for a Kentucky facility focused on a new technology for batteries called polyaramid separator. The department did not offer a reason for cutting off talks.
It’s unclear if the company will still try to build out the project in Kentucky. A company spokesperson did not respond to emails asking if plans for a facility there were still moving forward. A slideshow for an investors presentation days after news of the federal denial broke late last month did not mention Kentucky or the loan. The company has also sought to fight back against claims of inappropriate Chinese influence.
In March, Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration announced the project, which was expected to include a $504 million investment from the company and create 562 full-time jobs at a new Hopkinsville facility, which was expected to be finished by March 2025. It would be about 30 miles (48 kilometers) across the state border from the Microvast facility being built in Clarksville, Tennessee. The company has additional locations in Florida and Colorado, and internationally in China, England and Germany.
Now, Kentucky officials say they need more information from the company about the federal decision before they would move forward with the incentives deal they preliminarily approved. When initially considering the company’s plans for Hopkinsville, officials weighed “the presence of Microvast’s current operations in the U.S., the presence of U.S.-based leadership and the presence of federal funding” and other factors, said Brandon Mattingly, spokesperson for the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.
Officials are continuing an “open communication” with Microvast, Mattingly added.
“As these agreements are performance-based in nature, no state funding has been issued to date in connection with this project,” Mattingly said. “Additionally, no further action will be taken related to tax incentives until the company provides further information about the DOE’s decision to rescind funding to the satisfaction of our Cabinet.”
Wu, Microvast’s CEO, said “there will be some timing impact” on bringing the polyaramid separator technology to market due to the federal loan decision, which he assured “does not alter” the company’s plans for the technology.
After the decision, Microvast released a rebuttal about the claims of ties to China, including a note that Wu “is an American citizen.”
“Microvast is based in Texas, its shares are traded on Nasdaq, and the operations for our global business are centralized in the U.S.,” Wu said in a written statement after the loan decision. “Neither the Chinese government nor the Chinese Communist Party has any ownership in the Company, nor do they control or influence Company operations in any way.”
At a U.S. Senate Energy Committee hearing in February, Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, questioned whether the planned grant to Microvast would benefit China. Barrasso cited a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in which Microvast said it may not be able to protect its intellectual property rights in China.
In a May 1 letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Barrasso said Microvast’s CEO had “bragged to Chinese media about Microvast’s strong ties to the People’s Republic of China.″
In its annual filing from March, Microvast said it “has become subject to the recent scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity involving U.S.-listed companies with substantial operations in China” and that investigating and defending themselves if allegations arise will be “costly and time consuming and distract our management from growing our business.”
Microvast said its focus is on finishing its Tennessee facility, saying the firm is about half-way through its more than $300 million investment in the plant.
Tennessee economic development officials awarded Microvast a $3 million grant for its project in Clarksville, which was announced in 2021. The company has drawn down all of the grant money, which requires it create at least 90% of the 287 jobs it had promised, according to the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
The state department has declined any further opportunity to provide incentives for Microvast.
“To protect Tennessee’s strong economy and security, our administration is focused on recruiting trusted global partners who are looking to invest in our state and create good jobs for Tennesseans, while remaining vigilant with regard to companies that have ties to any designated foreign adversary,” said Jade Byers, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s spokesperson. | 2023-06-06T07:48:57+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/kentucky-pauses-incentives-for-battery-maker-whose-federal-loan-was-nixed-after-claims-of-china-ties/ |
Tonight's weather conditions in Kenosha: Mostly clear skies. Low 69F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Hot temperatures are predicted tomorrow. It looks like it will be a warm 84 degrees. Expect a drastic drop in temperatures though, with a low reaching 58 degrees. Don't leave the house without an umbrella tomorrow! Tuesday's outlook shows a 54% chance of rain. There is a moderately high UV index expected Tuesday. Seek shade during late morning through mid-afternoon. When outside, generously apply sunscreen, wear protective clothing, a wide-brimmed hat, and sunglasses. Breezy conditions can be anticipated, with winds reaching 18 miles per hour, coming from southwest. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Stay in the know. Visit kenoshanews.com for local news and weather.
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Experts are growing more concerned by the amount of deaths after a hurricane passes. They've seen indirect death totals increasing in recent years. | 2022-05-30T21:23:14+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/weather/may-30-2022-evening-weather-update-for-kenosha/article_68e775eb-377b-5768-a5b6-fa4efb146b09.html |
A school district in southwestern Missouri decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students — if their parents agree — despite warnings from many public health experts that the practice is detrimental to students.
Classes resumed Tuesday in the Cassville School District district for the first time since the school board in June approved bringing corporal punishment back to the 1,900-student district about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Springfield. The district had dropped the practice in 2001.
The policy states that corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline, such as suspensions, have failed and then only with the superintendent’s permission.
Superintendent Merlyn Johnson told The Springfield News-Leader the decision came after an anonymous survey found that parents, students and school employees were concerned about student behavior and discipline.
“We’ve had people actually thank us for it,” he said. “Surprisingly, those on social media would probably be appalled to hear us say these things, but the majority of people that I’ve run into have been supportive.”
Parent Khristina Harkey told The Associated Press on Friday that she is on the fence about Cassville’s policy. She and her husband did not opt-in because her 6-year-old son, Anakin Modine, is autistic and would hit back if he were spanked. But she said corporal punishment worked for her when she was a “troublemaker” during her school years in California.
“There are all different types of kids,” Harkey said. “Some people need a good butt-whipping. I was one of them.”
Morgan Craven, national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement with the Intercultural Development Research Association, a national educational equity nonprofit, called corporal punishment a “wildly inappropriate, ineffective practice.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that corporal punishment is constitutional and left it up to states to set their own policies. Craven said 19 states, many in the South, have laws allowing it in schools. The most current data from 2017-18 shows about 70,000 children in the U.S. were hit at least once in their schools.
Students who are hit at school do not fare as well academically as their peers and suffer physical and psychological trauma, Craven said. In some cases, children are hurt so badly that they need medical attention.
“If you have a situation where a kid goes to school and they could be slapped for, you know, some minor offense, it certainly creates a really hostile, unpredictable and violent environment,” Craven said. “And that’s not what we want for kids in schools.”
But Tess Walters, 54, the guardian of her 8-year-old granddaughter, had no qualms about signing the corporal punishment opt-in papers. She said the possibility of being spanked is a deterrent for her granddaughter, who has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
“I’ve read some some people’s responses on Facebook recently, and they’re just going over the top like, ‘Oh, this is abuse, and, oh, you’re just going to threaten them with, you know, violence.’ And I’m like, ‘What? The child is getting spanked once; it’s not beatings.’ People are just going crazy. They’re just being ridiculous,” Walters said.
Mitch Prinstein, chief science officer with American Psychological Association, said decades of research shows corporal punishment will not reduce inappropriate behavior and is likely to increase aggression, rage, hostility and could lead to depression and self-esteem problems.
Prinstein said better methods for eliminating undesirable conduct including problem-solving training; rewarding positive behavior, such as with extra recess; and providing extra attention in the classroom.
“Parents are experts on what works for their own children,” Prinstein said. “But it’s important for parents to be educated on very substantial science literature demonstrating again that corporal punishment is not a consistently effective way of changing undesirable behavior.”
Sarah Font, an associate professor of sociology and public policy at Pennsylvania State University, coauthored a 2016 study on the subject. Her research found that districts using corporal punishment are generally in poor, Republican-leaning rural areas in Southern states. Font said Black children are disproportionately subjected to it.
The disparity frustrates Ellen Reddy, of the Nollie Jenkins Family Center, which advocates on issues such as corporal punishment and special education.
“Look at the history of violence against Black and brown bodies,” said Reddy, who described herself as a Black mother of sons and a grandson. “Since we’ve been in this country, there’s been violence perpetrated against our children, our families, our foreparents. So when do we stop that kind of violence?”
Disabled students also are more likely to be subjected to corporal punishment, said Elizabeth Gershoff, a professor of human development and family sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She said that led four states — Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Louisiana — to ban using it for those students.
She noted that overall, corporal punishment is on the decline, with the numbers dropping steadily since the federal government started tracking it in the late 1970s.
“Most schools are realizing, ‘You know what, we can discipline children, we can guide their behavior without hitting them,’” said Gershoff, who authored the 2016 study with Font.
Cassville School District spokeswoman Mindi Artherton was out of the office Friday and a woman who answered the phone in her office suggested reading the policy. She said staff had already done interviews. “At this time, we will focus on educating our students,” she added, before hanging up.
The policy says a witness from the district, which is in a county that is around 93% white, must be present and that the discipline will not be used in front of other students.
“When it becomes necessary to use corporal punishment, it shall be administered so that there can be no chance of bodily injury or harm,” the policy says. “Striking a student on the head or face is not permitted.”
In Missouri, periodic efforts to ban corporal punishment in schools have failed to gain traction in the Legislature. The state does not track which districts allow spanking because those decisions are made at the local level, a spokeswoman for Missouri’s K-12 education department said.
U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, is pushing for a ban on the use of corporal punishment in schools that receive federal funding. He has called it a “barbaric practice” that allows teachers and administrators to physically abuse students. | 2022-08-27T01:35:51+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/08/26/breaking-news/missouri-school-district-reinstates-spanking-if-parents-ok/ |
Alexandria Utility Customers Beware of Fraudulent Calls and Bill Payment Scams
Alexandria, La. (May 12, 2022) — City of Alexandria utility customers have recently reported receiving fraudulent calls from individuals claiming to be City representatives demanding payment for bills or new meters or face power disconnection within hours.
The City reminds all residents that it will not call customers asking them to make a credit card payment or wire money for bill payment and threaten to terminate services. The City of Alexandria does not call customers for any bill payment.
These calls, which may or may not have a local area code associated with them, do not come from the City of Alexandria or any authorized agent for the City. Customers who receive one of these fraudulent calls should report them to APD at (318) 449-5099 and to Utility Customer Services at (318) 441-6319. | 2022-05-13T05:00:32+00:00 | klax-tv.com | http://klax-tv.com/alexandria-utility-customers-beware-of-fraudulent-calls-and-bill-payment-scams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alexandria-utility-customers-beware-of-fraudulent-calls-and-bill-payment-scams |
Competitive bidding process saves about 3.9% of buyout costs as of May 31
SEATTLE, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the latest results of its Milliman Pension Buyout Index (MPBI). As the Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) market continues to grow, it has become increasingly important to monitor the annuity market for plan sponsors that are considering transferring retiree pension obligations to an insurer.
During May, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process increased from 97.7% of a plan's total liabilities to 98.6% of those liabilities. For these plan sponsors, the estimated retiree PRT cost is now 98.6% of those plans' retiree accumulated benefit obligation (ABO). During the same time period, the average annuity purchase costs across all insurers inched downward, from 102.8% to 102.5%. This means that the competitive bidding process is estimated to save plan sponsors on average around 3.9% of PRT costs as of May 31.
"This month the competitive annuity index crept back up after last month's all-time low; however, historically, 98.6% is still quite low," says Mary Leong, a consulting actuary with Milliman and co-author of the MPBI. "It will be interesting to see how the Fed's recent rate hike will impact the market and plan sponsor decisions regarding pension risk transfers."
The MPBI uses the FTSE Above Median AA Curve, along with annuity purchase composite interest rates from eight insurers, to estimate the competitive and average costs of a PRT annuity de-risking strategy. Individual plan annuity buyouts can vary based on plan size, complexity, and competitive landscape.
To view the complete Milliman Pension Buyout Index, go to https://www.milliman.com/mpbi. To receive regular updates with Milliman's pension buyout analysis, contact us at pensionbuyout@milliman.com.
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Which Astro headset is best?
If you’re a gamer, chances are you’ve heard of Astro. They’re responsible for making iconic gaming gear, including controllers, bags and most notably, headsets. From their iconic design to wireless surround sound, there’s a lot to love about these headsets.
Looking to buy a solid gaming headset from Astro? We recommend the Astro A50 Wireless headset, a wireless headset compatible with PC/Mac, Xbox Series X and the PS5, depending on the model you get.
What to know before you buy an Astro headset
Which system/console will you use it with?
Astro headsets are designed to be compatible with specific systems. Some are compatible with PS5 while others are specifically for Xbox only. Typically speaking, Astro headsets are designed to work with PC/Mac and PS5 or PC/Mac and Xbox Series X, although some older models are compatible with all popular consoles.
Wired or wireless?
Just like headphones, gaming headsets often come in wired and wireless versions. Some gamers claim that wired headphones have greater audio clarity and connection. Wireless is more convenient, as you can walk around your living room or bedroom without having to step away from the microphone or audio. However, it’s worth noting that wireless audio will significantly add to the headset’s price.
Customization
Astro offers certain “mod kits” that allow you to switch things out like ear cushions, microphones and headbands to your liking. For example, you can switch out the standard cushions in an A40 headset for more noise isolation. These mod kits are model-specific, meaning you can’t buy a mod kit for the A40 and use them with the A50.
What to look for in a quality Astro headset
Sound quality
For most gaming headsets, sound quality will be your primary focus. After all, these products are designed to help you enjoy the sound of a game more closely, picking out the direction of gunfire or footsteps to give you a better competitive advantage. Premium headsets will come with wireless Dolby surround sound giving you a full, cinematic experience while you game.
Comfort
If you’re expecting to play games for a significant period of time, you’ll want to find a headset that fits and feels comfortable to wear. Luckily, most headsets come with padded ear cushions and adjustable headbands. It may be a case of trying one on before you buy and seeing which headsets are best for your particular head shape.
Durability
Nobody wants a headset that only lasts a few gaming sessions. Ideally, you’re looking for a headset that will last you a few years. Consider looking at the materials and build quality used, as well as other testimonials to see whether a headset stands the test of time. Fortunately, some Astro headset parts are replaceable, so if your mic stops working, you could simply buy or replace it with a new mic.
Customizability
The more premium Astro headsets have an awesome feature: they can be modded. That means if you want a more isolated ear cushion, you can simply switch it out. If you’d rather have your microphone on the other side, just detach and reattach. Look out for mod kits for your specific model to find out how far you can really change your headset.
How much you can expect to spend on an Astro headset
The most affordable Astro headsets, such as the A10, will only be about $50. The more expensive headsets like the A50 will reach up to $300 and boast numerous features, like surround sound and multi-platform support.
Astro headset FAQ
What is MixAmp?
A. For serious gamers or streamers, MixAmp is an accessory that is compatible with some headsets that allows you to adjust the volume levels for chat and gaming audio independently, and then channel them to your stream. If you want to listen to chat over a game or mute other players, you can do that easily.
Do I need an adapter to use the headset on different systems?
A. Most headsets should work without the Astro adapter, but using the included adapter will result in a much clearer sound quality overall. Some of the older headsets will not work with newer systems without an adapter.
What’s the best Astro headset to buy?
Top Astro headset
ASTRO Gaming A50 Wireless Headset + Base Station Gen 4
What you need to know: A wireless headset that comes with surround sound.
What you’ll love: The A50 is compatible with new generation consoles, as well as the previous generation. Wireless surround sound will give you the convenience of moving around while enjoying theater-level audio detail.
What you should consider: The PS5 version of the headset is not compatible with the Xbox, and vice versa.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Astro headset for the money
ASTRO Gaming A10 Gaming Headset
What you need to know: A basic headset for those who want an upgrade without breaking the bank.
What you’ll love: The A10 is affordable, functional and comfortable despite its low price point. The headband is durable and wrapped in a damage-resistant polycarbonate blend built to withstand intense gaming sessions.
What you should consider: The A10 lacks the other additional features such as Mixamp and wireless surround that the other headsets have.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
ASTRO Gaming A40 TR Wired Headset
What you need to know: A solid midpoint between the A10 and A50.
What you’ll love: This set provides some of the more premium features of the A50 at a more affordable price point. The A40 promises Astro Audio v2, a significant audio upgrade from most other generic gaming headsets.
What you should consider: The headset is still wired, so you won’t have the same level of convenience and comfort as an A50.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis is being detained in Italy on sexual assault and aggravated personal injury charges.
Italian police arrested Haggis on Sunday for allegedly raping a woman in Ostuni, in southern Italy, over a period of two days.
The woman was found in a local airport, allegedly left by Haggis in the morning despite her "precarious physical and psychological conditions," according to prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando. Airport staff alerted the police and took her to a hospital, La Presse and other Italian media outlets reported.
Prosecutors have not yet disclosed her nationality or age.
Haggis' attorney denied the accusations. "Under Italian Law, I cannot discuss the evidence. That said, I am confident that all allegations will be dismissed against Mr. Haggis. He is totally innocent, and willing to fully cooperate with the authorities so the truth comes out quickly," lawyer Priya Chaudhry told NPR in an email.
Haggis has been in Italy to teach master classes at an upcoming film festival that commences on Tuesday. In a statement, the directors of the Allora Fest said the news was shocking and expressed solidarity with the woman involved. They also said they immediately removed Haggis from participating in the event.
The 69-year-old Canadian director won Oscar awards for writing the 2005 Best Picture winner Million Dollar Baby and directing the following year's best picture winner Crash.
This isn't the first time Haggis has been implicated in a sexual assault case. In 2018, Haggis was sued by a publicist who accused him of assaulting her after a film premiere. During the civil trial, which has been delayed because of COVID, three other women came forward accusing Haggis of sexual misconduct. Haggis has denied the claims.
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Nissan hasn’t turned over a new leaf yet when it comes to its entry-level electric vehicle. The 2024 Nissan Leaf arrives for the new model year with no changes except for a minor price increase of $100 on the base Leaf S and $150 on the top Leaf SV Plus compared to existing prices for the 2023 Nissan Leaf, Nissan announced Friday.
Nissan had raised the price of the refreshed 2023 model by $340 mid-year. The Leaf S with the small 40-kwh battery pack and a range of 149 miles costs $29,235 this year. In addition to Nissan’s standard safety suite that includes automatic emergency braking, active lane control, and blind-spot monitors, the Leaf S also comes with 16-inch alloy wheels, cloth seating, and an 8.0-inch touchscreen display with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility.
The Leaf SV Plus costs $37,285 this year. It has a 60-kwh battery pack with a range of up to 212 miles. It adds adaptive cruise control, navigation, a heated steering wheel and heated mirrors, fog lamps, and hands-free driver assistance.
Since it launched in late 2010 as the first mass-produced EV, the Nissan Leaf electric hatchback has been one of the more affordable electric cars. That was until Chevy last year slashed prices on the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV. The 2023 Chevrolet Bolt remains the most affordable electric vehicle with a starting price of $27,495, including destination.
The Chevy has more range, too.The 2023 Bolt EV and Bolt EUV are powered by a 200-hp electric motor at the front wheels, with a 65-kwh battery pack affording a range of 259 miles for the Bolt EV or 247 miles for the Bolt EUV. Unlike the Nissan Leaf, the Bolt still qualifies for up to $7,500 of the new federal EV tax credit, bringing its price closer to $20,000, depending on owners’ tax liabilities.
The 2024 Nissan Leaf is on sale now, alongside the 2023 Nissan Ariya electric crossover that launched new last year with an 87-kwh battery pack and a range of 304 miles.
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BOSTON, Mass. (WXIN) — Parents are being urged to take certain bamboo plates away from their children after elevated levels of lead and formaldehyde were discovered.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves Primark bamboo plates sold in the northeast region, Florida and Chicago from October 2021 through August 2022.
The plates were sold in the shape of a bunny, a bear, a Winnie the Pooh character and a rainbow with 6041901, 7981401, 8096001 or 8096002 printed on the product packaging.
Primark said it is conducting the recall because the plates have been found to release trace amounts of lead and formaldehyde at levels higher than allowed.
Lead is toxic if ingested by young children, and the CPSC said exposure can cause adverse health issues such as:
- Damage to the brain and nervous system
- Slowed growth and development
- Learning and behavior problems
- Hearing and speech problems
Children who experience these adverse effects can have a lower IQ, decreased ability to pay attention and underperformance in school. The CDC said there is also evidence that childhood exposure to lead can cause long-term harm.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said exposure to formaldehyde can irritate the skin, throat, lungs, and eyes. Repeated exposure to formaldehyde can possibly lead to cancer.
Anyone with the recalled plates should take them away from children, stop using them and return them to a Primark store for a full refund. They can also contact Primark for instructions on how to properly dispose of the product and get a full refund.
Anyone with questions can contact Primark US collect at 617-946-3236 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit Primark’s recall website for answers to frequently asked questions. | 2023-03-02T18:21:04+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/childrens-bamboo-plates-recalled-over-toxic-materials/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
7-4-5-8
(seven, four, five, eight)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
7-4-5-8
(seven, four, five, eight) | 2022-08-16T04:02:01+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17375937.php |
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) was included in Forbes magazine's America's Best Employers for Women 2022 list for the third consecutive year.
The list was compiled based on an independent survey of 50,000 U.S. employees, including 30,000 women, working for companies with at least 1,000 employees. Participants were asked to rate their employer based on working conditions, salary and wage, diversity and likelihood to recommend their employer to others. These responses were then reviewed for potential gender gaps, which were then reflected in the company's score. Female respondents were then asked to rate their organization based on parental leave, family support, discrimination and pay equity. Respondents were also asked to rank their employer based on the share of women in executive roles and nominate other companies based on their diversity efforts. The 400 companies that received the highest total scores were named to the list.
"AEP prides itself on attracting and retaining a talented, diverse workforce representative of the communities we serve," said Nicholas K. Akins, AEP chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This award showcases our dedication to building an inclusive, supportive company culture, and we'll continue to develop programs to support our female colleagues."
Learn more about AEP's strategy to build the workforce of the future.
American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is powering a cleaner, brighter energy future for its customers and communities. AEP's approximately 16,700 employees operate and maintain the nation's largest electricity transmission system and more than 224,000 miles of distribution lines to safely deliver reliable and affordable power to 5.5 million regulated customers in 11 states. AEP also is one of the nation's largest electricity producers with approximately 31,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including more than 7,100 megawatts of renewable energy. The company's plans include growing its renewable generation portfolio to approximately 50% of total capacity by 2030. AEP is on track to reach an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2030 and has committed to achieving net zero by 2050. AEP is recognized consistently for its focus on sustainability, community engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion. AEP's family of companies includes utilities AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana, east Texas and the Texas Panhandle). AEP also owns AEP Energy, which provides innovative competitive energy solutions nationwide. For more information, visit aep.com.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Swift Current 4 Brandon 2
Prince Albert 2 Moose Jaw 1
Red Deer 4 Edmonton 1
Portland 4 Calgary 1
Wednesday's results
Medicine Hat 6 Brandon 1
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 9 Regina 5
Friday's results
Saskatoon 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT)
Moose Jaw 5 Swift Current 4
Lethbridge 3 Red Deer 2 (SO)
Edmonton 5 Brandon 3
Portland 4 Everett 1
Kelowna 10 Spokane 3
Prince George 9 Victoria 1
Calgary at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kamloops 4 Vancouver 1
Saturday's results
Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Regina at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Calgary at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Lethbridge at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Lethbridge at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m. | 2022-11-19T07:41:06+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17596974.php |
No threat found after University of Oklahoma shots reported
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A report of shots fired sent dozens of police cars to the University of Oklahoma Friday night and the campus was locked down for nearly two hours before authorities said no threat was found.
At about 9:30 p.m., people were told to shelter in place and avoid the South Oval area of the sprawling campus in Norman. The university tweeted: “There is an active shooter at the Van Vleet Oval. Take immediate action now. Run. Hide. Fight!”
However, the university later said only that police were investigating “possible shots fired.”
Dozens of patrol cars from various agencies, including the Highway Patrol, converged on the campus along with ambulances and an armored vehicle.
Officers with flashlights spread out as they searched the area.
Shortly before 11 p.m., university police issued an all clear, tweeting: “After a thorough search, no threat was found. There is no threat to campus. Alert has been canceled.”
The library and a nearby area were searched and there was “no evidence that any shooting had occurred,” University Police Chief Nate Tarver said. No injuries were reported.
While the investigation continues, “at this point, we will probably say that it was a bogus call,” he added.
More than 100 officers from various law enforcement agencies responded, Tarver said.
“Everyone’s on pins and needles, obviously,” he said, referring to a deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27. “And they should be, you know, we never know what’s going to happen from day to day.”
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27-year-old man killed in crash near Georgetown
Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed a 27-year-old Georgetown man. The incident closed Lewes-Georgetown Highway at Fawn Lane for approximately 3 hours Saturday evening.
Delaware State Police said that around 5:02 p.m., yesterday, the man was driving a 2020 Ford Eco Sport westbound on Lewes-Georgetown Highway (Route 9) just west of Fawn Lane. For an unknown reason, the Ford left the roadway. It began to rotate clockwise traveling in a northwesterly direction. The driver’s side of the Ford hit a large tree off the roadway.
The Georgetown man was pronounced deceased at the scene. His identification is being withheld pending notification to his next of kin.
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This incident is under investigation. Investigatiors in the Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit are asking witnesses to contact Senior Corporal R. Albert at 302-703-3266.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street pointed toward declines before the market opened Wednesday after Target reported a huge decline in profits on the same day that the U.S. posts retail sales data for July.
Futures for the S&P 500 slipped 0.8% and futures for the Dow fell 0.6%.
Target slid almost 2% after reporting a nearly 90% plunge in second quarter profits as it was forced to slash prices to clear unwanted inventories.
Target warned earlier this summer that it was canceling orders from suppliers and aggressively cutting prices because of a pronounced spending shift by Americans as the pandemic eased.
The U.S. Commerce Department will release July retail sales data Wednesday, with economists surveyed by FactSet expecting modest 0.2% growth from June, when sales rose 1%.
Analysts warned major risks remain, such as surging COVID-19 cases in some countries in Asia, along with worries about global inflation and China's policies to curb infections.
"Expectations of economic growth in China and the U.S. will likely remain key to gauging recession fears. China's 'zero-COVID' policy is still an important headwind for global growth," said Anderson Alves at ActivTrades.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.2% to finish at 29,222.77. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.3% to 7,127.70. South Korea's Kospi lost 0.5% to 2,521.84. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.5% to 19,922.45, while the Shanghai Composite edged up 0.5% to 3,292.53.
In Europe, France’s CAC 40 fell 0.6% in midday trading, while Germany’s DAX tumbled 1.2%. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.4%
In New Zealand, the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate from 2.5% to 3% as it continues trying to battle inflation. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said domestic spending had remained resilient in the face of local and global headwinds, and employment was robust. Lower oil prices had given some reprieve from inflation, the bank said, but it needed to continue tightening monetary conditions until inflation was brought back to its target range of 1% to 3%.
New Zealand’s inflation is running at 7.3% and unemployment at 3.3%.
In Japan, government data showed a trade deficit in July for the 12th consecutive month. Soaring oil prices and the sliding yen were key factors. Japan imports almost all its oil.
New COVID-19 cases have been surging in recent weeks as restrictions on economic activities ease. Ambulances have had to circle for hours looking for hospitals that could accept patients. But domestic travel and shopping appear to be back, boosting consumption.
The market's latest gyrations came as traders cautiously reviewed mostly encouraging financial results from major U.S. retailers. U.S. stocks had their best month in a year and a half in July and the winning streak has been continuing into August, partially on hopes that inflation is easing. The latest government report on consumer prices showed that inflation essentially stalled from June to July.
The latest results from retailers show that spending remains solid, even as American consumers face the hottest inflation in 40 years. Wall Street has been concerned that higher prices on everything from food to clothing could eventually stunt the economy's main engine of growth, consumer spending.
The recent retail reports are capping off the latest round of corporate earnings, which have been closely watched by investors trying to determine inflation's impact on businesses and consumers, while trying to gauge how the U.S. Federal Reserve will react.
The central bank is raising interest rates in an effort to slow down economic growth and rein in inflation, though it risks hitting the brakes too hard and veering the economy into a recession.
The Fed in July raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a point for a second-straight time. On Wednesday, Wall Street will get more details on the process behind that decision when the Fed releases minutes from that meeting. Investors expect a half-point increase at the Fed's upcoming meeting in August, according to CME's FedWatch tool.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude inched down 6 cents to $86.47 a barrel. U.S. crude oil prices fell 3.2% Tuesday. Brent crude, the international standard, lost 47 cents to $91.87 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar edged up to 135.08 Japanese yen from 134.22 yen. The euro cost $1.0166, down from $1.0171.
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If you've ever had strawberries, there is a good chance they were grown in a province in southern Spain called Huelva.
Spain is the second largest producer of strawberries, behind the United States.
And the jurisdiction of Huelva is where 80% of the country's berries are grown, in an industry that is increasingly demanding.
The work is year-round and requires field workers who take on the repetitive task planting seedlings and then harvesting when ready. This job usually falls on migrants, many from Africa.
They describe challenging conditions in the fields and with their bosses, who are often slow to give them work papers. When they are not working, they have to worry about ducking the police and danger in a nearby settlement where most of them live.
Listen to our full report by clicking or tapping the play button above.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. – It’s halftime in Blacksburg where the Virginia Tech Hokies lead the Boston College Eagles 17-3.
The Hokies started the game on defense and that unit found an early spark. On just the second play of the game, Armani Chapman intercepted BC’s Phil Jurkovec and returned it to the Eagles 25-yard line. Virginia Tech would cash in with a 1-yard touchdown rush from Jalen Holston for the 7-0 advantage.
The lead was 10-0 in the second quarter when Keshawn King found a seam and bolted 65 yards for another Hokies touchdown, giving them a commanding 17-0 lead.
Virginia Tech’s defense played mad in the first half – creating all sorts of pressure and havoc for the Eagles’ offense. Their three points came from the foot of sophomore kicker Connor Lytton – a Christiansburg native and Radford High School graduate. | 2022-09-11T02:22:02+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/09/11/halfway-there-virginia-tech-leads-boston-college-17-3-at-halftime/ |
GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse violated a plea agreement with U.S. authorities by failing to report secret offshore accounts that wealthy Americans used to avoid paying taxes, U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday, releasing a two-year investigation that detailed the role employees at the embattled Swiss bank had in aiding tax evasion by clients.
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee pointed to an ongoing, possibly criminal conspiracy tied to nearly $100 million in accounts belonging to a family of American taxpayers that the bank did not disclose. It also said Credit Suisse helped a U.S. businessman hide more than $220 million in offshore accounts from the IRS.
Credit Suisse revealed that it had found 23 accounts each worth more than $20 million that were not declared to tax authorities, many of them unveiled just days before the report was released, according to the committee. It said its findings show that more than $700 million was concealed in violation of the bank's 9-year-old plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department.
“Credit Suisse got a discount on the penalty it faced in 2014 for enabling tax evasion because bank executives swore up and down they’d get out of the business of defrauding the United States,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, the Democratic chairman of the committee.
“This investigation shows Credit Suisse did not make good on that promise, and the bank’s pending acquisition does not wipe the slate clean,” he said.
The Swiss government pressed for a $3.25 billion takeover of long-troubled Credit Suisse by rival bank UBS this month amid turmoil in the global financial system. The collapse of two U.S. banks ignited wider fears that sent shares of Switzerland's second-largest bank tumbling as customers withdrew their money.
The Senate findings pose new problems for UBS as it tries to absorb Credit Suisse and create a single Swiss megabank, coming the same day that UBS named a new CEO to help push through the takeover. It's also Credit Suisse's latest run-in with U.S. authorities, following settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars over mortgage-backed securities that were behind the 2008 financial crisis.
Credit Suisse, whose yearslong troubles range from hedge fund losses to fines for failing to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine ring, said it "does not tolerate tax evasion" and insisted that the Senate report described "legacy issues" — some dating to a decade ago — that have been addressed since.
“We have implemented extensive enhancements since then to root out individuals who seek to conceal assets from tax authorities,” the Zurich-based bank said.
“Our clear policy is to close undeclared accounts when identified and to discipline any employee who fails to comply with bank policy or falls short of Credit Suisse’s standards of conduct,” it said.
The Senate report noted Credit Suisse’s cooperation with the investigation, including having appointed new leadership. UBS didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The Swiss lender paid a discounted fine of $1.3 billion to the U.S. Justice Department after pleading guilty in 2014 to conspiracy to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers in filing false income tax returns and other documents with the IRS.
The bank acknowledged “knowingly and willfully” helping thousands of Americans open accounts that weren't declared to tax authorities and concealing offshore assets. It avoided criminal charges in exchange for agreeing to report undeclared accounts and provide other information to U.S. officials.
The Senate committee said secret offshore accounts belonging to a family of dual U.S.-Latin American citizens and worth nearly $100 million were closed in 2013 but the money was transferred to other banks without telling U.S. authorities.
With that maneuver, "Credit Suisse enabled what appears to be potentially criminal tax evasion by a client to go undetected for almost a decade," the report says.
The committee said former senior bankers helped manage that family's accounts. In addition, Credit Suisse employees helped a U.S. businessman hide $220 million from U.S. authorities despite long knowing he was an American, according to the report, which said whistleblowers flagged the scheme after the plea deal.
Credit Suisse workers were incentivized to help accounts hide U.S. ties because their bonuses depend on the amount of money being managed, the report said. To that end, employees who had clients with assets above $20 million or $30 million may have given those accounts special consideration because it would mean they got larger bonuses, the committee said.
Investigators say bankers figured out how to code accounts for Americans who possess dual citizenship. Those bankers would use the non-U.S. passport of wealthy individuals to evade internal systems designed to look for identifying marks in U.S. passports.
Lawmakers on the committee became aware of 13 out of 23 potentially undeclared accounts worth over $20 million just days before releasing their report. That raises concerns Credit Suisse is still disclosing hundreds of millions of dollars in large, undeclared accounts belonging to ultra-wealthy Americans years after signing the plea deal and facing additional scrutiny, the committee said.
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Bonnell reported from London. AP reporters Michelle Chapman and Charles Sheehan in New York contributed.
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Police respond to report of officers shot in Newark, NJ
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Police in Newark, New Jersey, were responding to a report of officers shot Tuesday in a residential neighborhood about a mile west of the city’s airport.
Details on the number of officers injured or the extent of their injuries weren’t immediately available.
Video taken from news helicopters showed police officers in tactical gear staging on streets in the neighborhood and searching at least one rooftop.
Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement that he was monitoring “an unfolding situation in Newark,” but didn’t immediately share details.
“I am in touch with local authorities and the state is providing resources as requested. We will continue to support local law enforcement and ensure that all residents are safe,” he said.
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WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, January 4, 2023
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain, mountain
snow and freezing rain. Snow level 4000 feet. Lows in the upper
20s to lower 30s. Temperature rising into the in the mid 30s
through sunrise. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain snow. Snow
level 5000 feet. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. South wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, except south 10 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph in the mountains. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and mountain
snow overnight. Snow level 5000 feet. Lows in the lower to mid
30s. South wind 5 to 15 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable. Gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s. South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Lows in the
lower 30s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Lows in the lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain
snow. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Temperature rising into the
in the mid 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and mountain snow.
Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain
and mountain snow. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the upper 30s
to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
$$
WAZ034-035-051200-
Moses Lake Area-Upper Columbia Basin-
Including the cities of Moses Lake, Ephrata, Othello, Quincy,
Ritzville, Grand Coulee, Odessa, Wilbur, and Coulee City
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain, snow and
freezing rain. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Northeast wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain, freezing rain or
snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the lower 30s. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the upper 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the upper 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of rain. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the upper 30s to lower
40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain or snow. Lows around 30. Highs in the upper 30s to lower
40s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
$$
WAZ038-051200-
Okanogan Highlands-
Including the cities of Republic, Inchelium, and Wauconda
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows 18 to 26. Temperature rising into the in the mid 20s
through sunrise.
.THURSDAY...Snow likely in the morning, then a chance of rain or
snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches valleys
and 1 to 3 inches in the mountains. Highs in the lower to mid
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
mountain snow. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain or snow. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the mid to upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the mid to upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
$$
WAZ041-044-051200-
Wenatchee Area-Waterville Plateau-
Including the cities of Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, Cashmere,
Waterville, and Mansfield
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THURSDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows
in the mid to upper 20s. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. Snow and a chance of freezing rain in the
morning, then a chance of rain, snow and freezing rain in the
afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Snow level
2500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 30s. Chance
of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Snow
level 2000 feet. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the 30s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
or snow. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain or snow. Lows in the upper 20s. Highs in the lower to mid
30s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
$$
WAZ043-051200-
Okanogan Valley-
Including the cities of Omak, Okanogan, Brewster, Bridgeport,
Oroville, Nespelem, and Tonasket
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows
in the lower to mid 20s. Temperature rising into the in the upper
20s through sunrise.
.THURSDAY...A chance of freezing rain. Snow in the morning, then
rain or snow likely in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches. Snow level 2000 feet. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Snow
level 2000 feet. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the mid to upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain or snow. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Highs in
the mid to upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the 30s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain or snow. Lows around 30. Highs in the 30s. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
$$
WAZ047-051200-
Central Chelan County-
Including the cities of Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THURSDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow likely. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches
valleys and up to 2 inches in the mountains. Lows in the mid to
upper 20s. Temperature rising into the in the mid 20s through
sunrise. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in
the mountains. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Highs in
the upper 20s to mid 30s. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph in the mountains. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Snow level
2500 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Snow
level 2500 feet. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. East wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the mountains. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain or snow likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs
in the 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain or snow. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the
30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
WAZ048-051200-
Western Chelan County-
Including the cities of Stevens Pass, Holden Village,
and Stehekin
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THURSDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow likely. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s. Temperature rising into the in the
mid 20s through sunrise. Southeast wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph in the mountains. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches.
Highs in the lower to mid 30s. East wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph in the mountains. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch
valleys and 1 to 3 inches in the mountains. Lows in the mid to
upper 20s. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Not as
cool. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. South wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph in the mountains.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
$$
WAZ049-051200-
Western Okanogan County-
Including the cities of Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp, Methow,
and Conconully
1132 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. Temperature rising into the
in the mid 20s through sunrise. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph in the mountains.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. Snow in the morning, then a chance of snow in
the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Highs in the
upper 20s to mid 30s. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph in the mountains. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s. Temperature rising into the
in the upper 20s after midnight. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph in the mountains.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs in the
lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the
30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow.
Lows in the 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
$$
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SEATTLE, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark Expeditions, the global leader in polar adventures, recently launched the Arctic 2022 season with the 7-day Spitsbergen Highlights: Expedition in Brief voyage, which earned rave reviews from guests whose experiences in the Norwegian Arctic surpassed all expectations. The successful expedition also marked Ultramarine's inaugural voyage in Arctic waters.
The technologically-advanced Ultramarine, with its 20 quick-deploy Zodiacs, advanced sustainability systems, superb onboard amenities (including a sauna with floor-to-ceiling windows), and the largest portfolio of off-ship adventure options in the industry, enabled guests to explore the Norwegian Arctic unlike never before. "Ultramarine was designed to be more than a ship," said Andrew White, President of Quark Expeditions. "It was built to be an unrivalled operational base for polar adventures. Proof of that is in the unforgettable adventures guests enjoyed on Ultramarine's first voyage in the Arctic."
Guests aboard the game-changing ship were able to witness up close the transformative beauty of Spitsbergen, which is known for its towering cliffs, immense glaciers, snow-covered mountains and deep fjords. The guests on Ultramarine were equally awed by the wildlife sightings—of whales, walruses, seabirds and the almighty polar bear!—which were made possible by Ultramarine's fleet of quick-launching Zodiacs and spacious viewing decks.
Guests also attributed the astounding success of their voyage to the polar expertise of the Quark Expeditions staff and crew. "The team of expedition leaders was very impressive in the scope of their expertise and backgrounds," wrote guest Christine F. "The staff and crew made it their mission to [offer] us the most activities and photo ops they could stuff into each day. We will talk about this fulfilling adventure for a very long time and will recommend it to anyone who asks." Other guests appreciated the onboard presentations by staff and guest speakers, which enhanced their appreciation for the Polar Regions and deepened their knowledge of the wildlife, geology and history of Arctic Norway. The shore visit at Smeerenburg, for example, allowed guests to visit the remains of an abandoned Dutch whalers' settlement, which was one of Europe's northernmost outposts dating back 1619.
With the surge in demand for polar voyages due to the recent lifting of travel restrictions around the world, Quark Expeditions has extended the Arctic 2022 season to the end of September, offering guests additional opportunities to explore this fascinating, wildlife-rich destination in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
View all voyages in Ultramarine's upcoming Arctic season.
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About Quark Expeditions: Specializing exclusively in expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, Quark Expeditions® has been the leading innovator of polar adventure since the company took the first group of consumer travelers to the North Pole in 1991. Quark Expeditions has been innovating ever since. With a diverse fleet of specially-equipped small expedition vessels and icebreakers—some of them equipped with helicopters—Quark Expeditions delivers deeply immersive polar experiences—and is able to take guests deeper into the Polar Regions than anyone else. Led by passionate and seasoned expedition teams, including scientists, wildlife experts and researchers, Quark Expeditions offers an onboard program that enriches the passenger experience.
About Travelopia: Travelopia is one of the world's leading specialist travel groups. A pioneer in the experiential travel sector with a portfolio consisting of more than 50 independently operated brands, most of which are leaders in their sector. From sailing adventures, safaris and sports tours, to Arctic expeditions, each brand is diverse and focused on creating unforgettable experiences for customers across the world.
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SOURCE Quark Expeditions | 2022-06-16T17:16:52+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/06/16/quark-expeditions-celebrates-successful-arctic-2022-season-launch-with-ultramarines-inaugural-voyage-spitsbergen/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will hit the stage as headliners at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Organizers announced the hefty list of performers Tuesday. The festival will run for two weekends between April 14-16 and April 21-23 in Indio, California.
Other notable performers include Rosalia, Calvin Harris, Gorillaz, Pusha T, Bjork, Becky G, SG Lewis, Burna Boy, Earthgang, Labrinth and Chemical Brothers.
Bad Bunny is expected to perform on both Fridays, Blackpink will go on both Saturdays, and Frank Ocean will close out both Sundays.
Festival officials mentioned that the first weekend would have very limited passes. | 2023-01-11T22:02:59+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/ap-bad-bunny-blackpink-frank-ocean-to-headline-coachella/ |
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - News 10 is on the scene after a heavy police presence was reported at Dreiser Square in Terre Haute.
Details are limited, but here's what we know.
Our crew says there are around a dozen police cars from several different agencies on the scene.
The officers our crew witnessed appeared to focused on a specific apartment.
We will continue to follow this story and bring you more information as it becomes available. | 2023-05-11T19:28:41+00:00 | wthitv.com | https://www.wthitv.com/news/heavy-police-presence-reported-at-dreiser-square-in-terre-haute/article_24d21cca-f02e-11ed-83b7-6b8ed24685e4.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration estimated Monday that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers’ tab for Medicare Advantage care.
Federal watchdogs have been sounding the alarm for years about questionable charges on the government’s private version of the Medicare program, with investigators raising the possibility that insurance companies may be bilking taxpayers of billions of dollars every year by claiming members are sicker than they really are to receive inflated payments.
The Department of Health and Human Services said it will begin collecting payments from insurers when an audit turns up that they charged for diagnoses that are not reflected in the patient’s medical records. The government has not sought refunds for those payments in over a decade, the agency said.
“Today, we are taking some long overdue steps to move us in the direction of accountability,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday during a phone call with reporters.
The penalties are expected to return $4.7 billion over the next decade, the agency estimated.
The questionable payments are submitted through Medicare Advantage, a booming program that nearly half of the 60 million people enrolled in Medicare sign up for. Medicare Advantage is different from traditional Medicare, with private companies offering plans that are reimbursed by the government for care. The government spent $900 billion last year overall on Medicare.
With the rise in popularity has come growing concern that insurers are ripping off taxpayers by overstating how sick a patient is to unlock higher reimbursements from the government. The HHS Office of the Inspector General raised red flags about $6.7 billion worth of payments for patients whose diagnoses were not supported by medical records in 2017, for example.
Insurers have been gearing up for a fight against the long-awaited final rule, with company leaders raising concerns about the accuracy of the audits. The move will raise insurance rates, warned Matt Eyles, the president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the lobbying arm for health insurance companies.
“Our view remains unchanged: This rule is unlawful and fatally flawed, and it should have been withdrawn instead of finalized,” Eyles said. | 2023-01-31T19:09:19+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/ap-feds-expect-to-collect-4-7b-in-insurance-fraud-penalties/ |
PLYMOUTH, Mass. , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CDF Corporation, a global leader in flexible packaging for fifty years, announces the launch of the DN50 and Camlock top fitments for filling. The DN50 and Camlock are top fitments that replace the traditional 2-inch BSP fitment for Intermediate Bulk Container liners. They offer a new way for customers to fill their IBC liners efficiently and effectively.
"The DN50 and Camlock fitments thread more easily and eliminate the need for adaptors," said Jay Waltz, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at CDF Corporation. "The combination delivers a superior user experience and better performance."
Features and benefits of the DN50 and Camlock include.
- A simple and direct connection eliminates the need for additional couplers. By removing the couplers, we avoid potential contamination introduced by using traditional BSP fitments.
- The tamper-evident feature prevents unauthorized access as the product moves through the transit journey.
- DN50 and Camlock connections thread from the outside rather than the inside in traditional BSP fitments. The outside threading feature ensures product integrity by removing the risk of contamination and misalignments in the threading.
- The DN50 and Camlock are a replacement for all 2-inch BSP fitments and are available for all Form Fit and Pillow style liners.
The DN50 and Camlock will be available starting immediately. For more information on the DN50 and Camlock, visit https://www.cdf1.com/the-camlock-and-dn50/.
About CDF Corporation: CDF Corporation is a global company that utilizes a broad and deep knowledge base to create high-quality packaging systems tailored to meet its customers' needs. CDF excels in three key packaging areas: Deep Draw Vacuum-Forming, Blow Molding, and Heat Sealing. CDF manufactures products ranging in sizes from 1 liter to 1,000 liters in its Plymouth, Massachusetts ISO and SQF certified facility. CDF's products satisfy a variety of markets and applications, including the food and beverage, chemical, and cosmetic industries.
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SOURCE CDF CORPORATION | 2022-07-07T15:32:44+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/07/07/cdfs-new-top-fitments-intermediate-bulk-container-liners-set-transform-operations/ |
TEXAS, USA — Post Malone's hitting the road again, and he's got plans to perform in his home state.
The rapper/singer announced Tuesday morning that he'll be on tour in July and August. The "If Y'all Weren't Here, I'd Be Crying" Tour will consist of 24 shows, including two in Texas.
It's only fair that the Grapevine native stops in North Texas first! So, you can plan to party like a rockstar on Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas.
Post Malone will then head to the Houston area on Tuesday, Aug. 8. You can catch him at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands.
Presale tickets will be available starting this Wednesday, May 17, at 10 a.m. through Citi Entertainment. If you have a Citi credit card or a Citibank debit card, the passcode for the presale is the six digits of that card.
The presale will run until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, May 17, then they'll be open to the public on Friday, May 18 starting at 10 a.m.
"I love y’all so very much, and I’m so excited to get out and do some more shows for y’all," wrote Post Malone on social media. "Help me put a baby through college, and come on out 🍻 Some cool new production, new songs, and a very very handsome man up on stage 😎 Sending love to you and yours."
Other upcoming Texas events: | 2023-05-17T22:14:30+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/entertainment/events/post-malone-dallas-houston-woodlands-texas-concert-tour-2023/287-fc247505-c243-418f-8c7e-055a3f38a6d9 |
Coast Guard rescues fishermen after boat capsizes in rough seas
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A daring rescue was captured on camera as the United States Coast Guard rescued two fishermen when their fishing boat capsized Wednesday near San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The USCG posted the video showing how crews used "heaving lines to pull them from the rough sea conditions" and onto the vessel.
"The boaters were equipped and holding on to multiple lifejackets and a life ring when rescued," USCG told Storyful.
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One of the officers emphasized "the importance of carrying proper live-saving equipment onboard; today, it saved their life."
The survivors were reunited with their families at the Coast Guard Base San Juan.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. Storyful contributed. | 2023-01-08T16:54:48+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/coast-guard-rescues-fishermen-after-boat-capsizes-in-rough-seas |
(NEXSTAR) — Home prices have been hot across the U.S. recently, largely postponing the dreams of potential first-time homebuyers. While navigating and affording the housing market seems challenging nationwide, a new report found there are some cities that offer more hope for first-time homebuyers.
In its recent analysis, SmartAsset compared 181 of the largest cities in the U.S. based on four factors: favorability, affordability, livability, and employment. Data for each was collected from the Census Bureau, the FBI, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Redfin.
Of the cities within the report, Newark, New Jersey was ranked as the worst for first-time homebuyers. Two other Garden State cities – Jersey City and Paterson – also landed in the bottom portion of SmartAsset’s rankings. Metro areas throughout New York and California joined New Jersey on the lower third of the list.
The best city for first-time homebuyers? Bellevue, Washington, according to SmartAsset. Found across Lake Washington from Seattle, Bellevue was determined to have one of the lowest unemployment rates of the 181 cities evaluated, and has seen one of the largest five-year increases in income. The city jumped from No. 14 on SmartAsset’s 2021 list.
Below are the top 10 cities for first-time homebuyers:
- Bellevue, Washington
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Olathe, Kansas
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Sunnyvale, California
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Denton, Texas
- Huntsville, Alabama
Multiple cities from California – 22 to be exact – comprise the majority of the worst cities for first-time buyers. Florida was second-worst with five earning a rank of 121st or worst.
Other notably large cities were among the bottom third, including Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Houston, Anchorage, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and St. Louis.
To view the full list, click here.
If you’re looking for an affordable place to buy a home, you’ll want to look at areas that are more rural and without large metro areas, a recent report from Realtor.com suggests. West Virginia was found to have the most affordable housing market in the nation, followed by Ohio and Arkansas.
Nationally, housing costs are still climbing. The government’s shelter index, which includes rents, hotel rates and a measure of what it costs to own a home, increased 5.5% in the past year, the most since 1991.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-06-14T13:38:32+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/first-time-homebuyers-these-are-the-cities-for-you-report/ |
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Many people believe there is much to fear with artificial intelligence — that there are so many unknowns.
It's one reason the Senate recently held hearings with Intelligence and Defense officials to explore how AI could affect the country's safety.
But Scott Beck of Boulder, Colorado, the founder and CEO of Gloo, said he believes that AI is simply a tool that when used properly has the potential to benefit human flourishing — as God intended.
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Beck said, "We don't believe that God is surprised by AI. Don't think that He was surprised by the printing press. I don't think He was surprised by television. Don't think He was surprised by the internet."
Gloo is a technology platform that has launched the algorithm-based "AI & the Church" initiative. As Beck explained, it's designed to release the power of God's grace and mercy, love and justice, compassion and caring.
"What I'm talking about are not only all the churches, but also all those other ministries, the campus ministries, the relationship ministries, the marriage ministries, financial, vocational recovery, behavioral health, suicide prevention, all those other ministries," he said.
For example, let's say someone is having trouble in their marriage and starts searching the web for answers. The AI algorithm could direct that person not to divorce lawyers — but to faith-based marriage counselors.
That's because the Church that Jesus Christ created wants marriages strengthened and relationships between husbands and wives healed.
Also, imagine a depressed teen searches a site for advice about living or dying. Then imagine that within less than a minute, that same teen gets a phone call from a pastor of a nearby church asking to have a talk about life — and to be a listening ear.
This is what Beck said he's working to create through Gloo. It already has more than 38,000 churches signed up for access to Gloo's "AI & the Church" — with more than 100 joining each day.
Pastor Eric Parks, lead pastor of Forest City Church in Illinois and a member of the teaching team at Plum Creek Church in Colorado, was one of the first to sign up.
He is full of praise but noted his reservations regarding its limitations.
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Said Parks, "I believe that God created us to thrive. If you look at what Jesus promises, life with Him — that there is a fullness in Him. And so can AI create that? No. Not according to my theology. That comes from a relationship with Christ."
However, he also said, "Can AI put tools in front of me and in people that I love that may help move us toward flourishing? Yeah."
Parks said he is astounded at AI's ability to not only analyze his sermon but then create, in very little time, 10 questions for small group discussions.
"Oh gosh, yes, I could use that often," he said.
Parks also said he is particularly hopeful about AI's ability to help people who are struggling, who may have emotional issues and who could be suicidal.
He recounted with anguish, "How often have I presided over a funeral of a 22-year-old kid who, you'll make the statement, ‘If we only had known that you were struggling.’"
Mental health professionals say there are clues that friends and family of a suicide victim see only in hindsight.
But Beck said that AI has the ability to pick up those very same clues — days, if not weeks, earlier.
Said Beck, "One of the things that we can do then is we immediately apply AI to listen to the message. And if the message has got the keywords such as ‘suicide’ or, you know, ‘I want to end my life,’ or those types of things, within a moment we're able to go ahead and route those people into a suicide prevention ministry. Or we may also then route those people into a relationship ministry or into a local church."
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Park noted, "If AI were able to identify these warning signs and create pathways for humans to connect with someone in these spaces, we know the likelihood of someone surviving a mental health crisis goes up exponentially if that person can connect with help in a certain amount of time."
But the good of AI's potential has been vastly overshadowed by AI's darker side already in progress, some people believe — one that works against faith and human flourishing.
David Curry, CEO of Global Christian Relief, based in California, warned, "The thing about artificial intelligence, though, [is that] it begins to take case studies and learn and make its own assumptions. So that's where we don't know where this is going to lead. It's algorithms on steroids."
Curry said that China already has used AI's facial recognition technology to target religious minorities, especially Christians.
"They are deemed a threat to the country because they put loyalty to God above their political allegiance. So AI helps the regime target those considered socially undesirable."
Added Curry, "If you have a low social score, you can't get in or out of your apartment through the key code. You're not allowed online. There are any number of ways in which this artificial intelligence begins to be like a boa constrictor around the human rights of an individual simply because the computer has decided … It's been taught and then has learned further to punish religious expression."
Beck, however, said AI is only as dangerous as the people who program it, who give it the plethora of information for it to learn from.
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Beck himself is a man of faith, one who also has strong business acumen.
He's been in business for 40 years.
He understands how companies can do what they do better. He grew Blockbuster Video to a national chain with more than 7,000 stores before selling it to Viacom in 1993. He's also been a part of Boston Market and Einstein Bagels, companies whose successes are owed to Beck.
He said, "Being able to be CEO or president of those companies taught us a lot about what does it mean to put infrastructures underneath industries so that they could all get the benefit of their scale?"
Now he's turning that expertise toward faith with "AI & the Church" — helping small churches gain access to information that mega churches can create on their own.
It will also help the general population — whose younger generations are pulling away from organized religion — find their way back into the welcoming arms of a God who cares and loves them. That is the vision.
The challenge, however, for AI is: Can it learn the nuances of mercy, grace or turning the other cheek?
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These are divine qualities that even stymie humans.
How can technology be taught to love those who hate it?
Beck said our ultimate faith should not be in a technology — but in the God who created us and the world.
AI is morally neutral. But humans are not. | 2023-07-27T09:30:33+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ai-and-the-church-tech-initiative-aims-to-bring-gods-power-to-those-in-need/article_fcd81cb3-f091-5baa-af6b-c095a87b3584.html |
CUTE: Zoo welcomes litter of tiger cubs born on Mother’s Day
Published: Jun. 13, 2022 at 1:04 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) – The Minnesota Zoo is celebrating an exciting birth announcement.
A litter of three endangered Amur tiger cubs was born there, appropriately enough, on Mother’s Day.
Better known as Siberian tigers, when full-grown, they are amongst the largest cats in the world.
While it’s good news for the zoo, it’s great news for the conservation of the species, with only 500 Amur tigers left in the wild.
The three cubs, two males and a female, are bonding well with their mother, who is showing strong maternal instincts.
If all continues to go well, the rare baby tiger cubs will go on exhibit in July.
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Application Deadline is Feb. 24, 2023
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that scholarship applications are now being accepted for college-bound high schoolers as well as current college and continuing education students with a primary residence in Northern and Central California.
More than 150 awards totaling more than $200,000 are being made available through scholarships created by PG&E's 11 employee resource groups (ERG) and two engineering network groups (ENG). These groups support and advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging within PG&E and the hometowns it serves.
These scholarships are awarded annually to help offset the cost of higher education. ERG and ENG scholarship winners will receive awards ranging from $500 to $6,000 for exemplary scholastic achievement and community leadership.
PG&E ERG and ENG scholarship information, including criteria and applications, is available on PG&E's website. To be considered for a scholarship, all applications must be submitted by Feb. 24, 2023.
"Many recipients of our ERG and ENG scholarships are the first in their families to attend college. These awards help develop our future leaders and breakthrough thinkers and are part of how we're living our purpose at PG&E—delivering for our hometowns, serving our planet, and leading with love," said Marie Waugh, PG&E Vice President, Chief Talent, Culture and Inclusion Officer.
"I do not have enough words to express my gratitude for the award, especially as a first-generation college student. I'm excited to see where my future education and experiences will take me. I couldn't be more thankful for your kindness in supporting my future," said Alexis Renihan, a 2022 Women's Network ERG scholarship recipient, who's majoring in dietetics at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Since 1989, PG&E's ERGs and ENGs have awarded more than $5 million in scholarships to thousands of recipients. The funds are raised totally through employee donations, employee fundraising events and Campaign for the Community, the company's employee giving program.
More than 10,000 PG&E coworkers belong to ERGs and ENGs. Each group helps further the company's commitment to serving its hometowns and growing coworker engagement.
PG&E's ERG and ENG scholarships are available through these 13 groups:
- Access Network (individuals with disabilities)
- Asian
- Black
- Latino
- Legacy (tenured coworkers)
- MEENA (Middle East, Europe, and North Africa)
- National Society of Black Engineers (STEM career coworkers)
- NuEnergy (newer coworkers)
- PrideNetwork (LGBTQ+ coworkers)
- Samahan (Filipino)
- Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (STEM career coworkers)
- Veterans
- Women's Network
In addition to the PG&E scholarships, the Pacific Service Employees Association (PSEA), a nonprofit mutual benefit organization serving PG&E coworkers and retirees, also provides scholarships for dependents of company coworkers.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com/ and http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) ("Omega"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines by leveraging its OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform, today announced that members of management will participate in two upcoming investor conferences.
Fireside Chat
Date: September 30, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. ET
Gene Regulation Panel
Date: October 4, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. ET
Fireside Chat
Date: October 4, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET
Live webcasts of the fireside chats and panel discussion will be available on the Investors & Media section of the Company's website at www.omegatherapeutics.com. An archived replay of the fireside chats will be available on the same website for approximately 90 days.
Omega Therapeutics, founded by Flagship Pioneering, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines. The company's OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform harnesses the power of epigenetics, the mechanism that controls gene expression and every aspect of an organism's life from cell genesis, growth, and differentiation to cell death. Using a suite of technologies, paired with Omega's process of systematic, rational, and integrative drug design, the OMEGA platform enables control of fundamental epigenetic processes to correct the root cause of disease by returning aberrant gene expression to a normal range without altering native nucleic acid sequences. Omega's modular and programmable mRNA medicines, Omega Epigenomic Controllers™, are designed to target specific epigenomic loci within insulated genomic domains, EpiZips, from amongst thousands of unique, mapped, and validated genome-wide DNA-sequences, with high specificity to durably tune single or multiple genes to treat and cure diseases through Precision Genomic Control™. Omega is currently advancing a broad pipeline of development candidates spanning a range of disease areas, including oncology, regenerative medicine, multigenic diseases including immunology, and select monogenic diseases, including alopecia.
For more information, visit omegatherapeutics.com, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Investor and Media Contact:
Eva Stroynowski
617-949-4370
estroynowski@omegatx.com
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Martina Navratilova diagnosed with throat, breast cancer
NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis great Martina Navratilova said Monday that she has been diagnosed with throat cancer and breast cancer.
In a statement released by her representative, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame said her prognosis is good and she will start treatment this month.
“This double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I’m hoping for a favorable outcome,” the 66-year-old Navratilova said. “It’s going to stink for a while but I’ll fight with all have I got.”
She said she noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck while attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in November, and a biopsy showed early stage throat cancer. While Navratilova was undergoing tests on her throat, she said, the unrelated breast cancer was discovered.
Navratilova was diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
She won 59 Grand Slam titles overall, including 31 in women’s doubles and 10 in mixed doubles. The last was a mixed doubles championship with Bob Bryan at the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her 50th birthday.
Navratilova originally retired in 1994, after a record 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She returned to the tour to play doubles in 2000 and occasionally competed in singles, too.
Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. She has worked as a TV analyst in recent years.
The statement issued Monday said Navratilova would not be a regular part of Tennis Channel’s coverage of the Australian Open later this month “but hopes to be able to join in from time to time” via video conference.
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Masten District voters are lucky to have two energetic and highly qualified candidates vying for the honor of representing them in City Hall.
Zeneta B. Everhart and India B. Walton – both on the ballot in the June 27 Democratic primary – have specific ideas about how to make life better in this poor East Side neighborhood.
Notably, if either wins and then defeats Murray Holman – who is running on the Conservative line – there will be a woman on the Common Council for the first time since 2014.
We award a slight edge to Everhart as a candidate with valuable experience both on the ground in the community and as director of diversity and inclusion for State Sen. Tim Kennedy. But Walton also has plenty of community work behind her as well as a strong activist profile.
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Both candidates have targeted, thoughtful approaches. Walton founded the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust and got two houses built in that neighborhood before she stepped down from the organization to run – unsuccessfully – for mayor of Buffalo in 2021. She thinks the land trust model is a good one and would use it, employing private and public partnerships, to replace vacant lots with affordable homes. Walton would also hold landlords accountable for maintaining their properties and provide eviction protections to renters.
Everhart wants to help renters become homeowners by creating a fund that would enable them to transform dilapidated properties and empty lots into good housing. She would pay for it through state and federal sources, banks and foundation support.
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There are many other needs in this district. Walton would get kids busy and help elderly or disabled homeowners by putting area youths to work cutting grass and shoveling. Everhart has already organized a single moms club that provides emotional and wellness support.
Both would work to bring more grocery stores.
These are serious, experienced candidates with good ideas. Masten wins either way. | 2023-06-17T11:50:21+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/opinion/editorial/the-editorial-board-everhart-has-the-edge-but-both-masten-candidates-are-well-qualified/article_531d33d4-0c63-11ee-baad-cb526bd44749.html |
WASHINGTON — Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home last year.
The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him the hammer over his head. The blow to Pelosi occurs out of view and the officers — one of them cursing — rush into the house and jump on DePape.
Pelosi, apparently unconscious, can be seen lying face down on the floor in his pajama top and underwear. Officials later said he woke up in a pool of his own blood.
The release comes after a coalition of news agencies, including The Associated Press, sought access to the evidence that prosecutors played in open court last month. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office had refused to make the exhibits available to journalists.
A state court judge Wednesday ruled there was no reason to keep the video secret.
The evidence includes portions of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call on Oct. 28, as well as video images from Capitol police surveillance cameras, a body camera worn by one of the two police officers who arrived at the house and video from suspect DePape’s interview with police.
The Capitol Police video shows DePape walk up to a glass-panel door, leave and then return wearing a large backpack and carrying two other bags. He set all the items down and pulled out a hammer, pausing to put on gloves, and used it to smash the door glass so he could step through an opening.
DePape has pleaded not guilty in ongoing state and federal cases. He is being held in jail without bail. He faces charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, and assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official.
The San Francisco public defender’s office, which is representing DePape, 43, said they planned to issue a statement later Friday.
Editor's note: The body camera footage showing the attack on Paul Pelosi is graphic. Viewer discretion is advised.
Members of Congress have faced a sharp rise in threats in the two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
During the Jan. 6 attack, rioters chanted menacingly for the speaker as they rampaged through the halls trying to halt certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election. One man was convicted this week of eight criminal counts after he put his feet on a desk in Pelosi’s office and left a note to her punctuated with a sexist expletive.
Paul Pelosi was asleep at the couple’s home when DePape allegedly broke in. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington at the time and under the protection of her security detail, which does not extend to family members.
Her husband of nearly 60 years later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. He has since appeared in public wearing a hat and a glove that covered his wounds.
Nancy Pelosi on Thursday told reporters her husband’s well-being was paramount and she did not know if she would view the video once it was released.
“I don’t even know if I will see that,” she said. “I mean, it would be a very hard thing to see an assault on my husband’s life, but I don’t know.”
San Francisco Officer Kolby Wilmes' body-camera video begins with officers approaching the brick home and rapping on the door. It takes about 20 seconds for the door to open and during that time, the officers discuss whether they have the right house.
When the door opens, Paul Pelosi says, “Hi, guys, how are you?”
Both men are facing the officers at the door. Initially, the hammer is in the shadows and it takes about five seconds before a flashlight shows DePape holding the handle of a hammer with his right hand and clutching Pelosi’s right hand, which is gripping around the hammer head, with his left hand. The struggle is not apparent in the first few seconds.
“What’s going on, man?” the officer asks.
“Everything’s good,” DePape replies.
“Drop the hammer,” the officer says.
DePape says no and begins to pull it from Pelosi’s grip. Pelosi says, “Hey, hey.”
DePape wins control of the hammer and winds up with his right and delivers a vicious overhand blow as Pelosi disappears out of view and officers rush in. The officers called for backup as they struggled with DePape and Pelosi was lying on the ground.
In an interview with San Francisco Police Lt. Carla Hurley after he was taken into custody, DePape said he didn’t regret the attack even though it was not on Nancy Pelosi, his intended target. DePape told Hurley he was going after Nancy Pelosi for lying to the American public and that he planned to hold her hostage for her crimes. He believed the discredited conspiracy that Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump.
“Day in, day out, the person who was on the TV lying every day was Pelosi,” he said.
He said he planned to hold her hostage and would “break her kneecaps" if she lied.
He said he was surprised to find Paul Pelosi in the house. DePape said he planned to tie Paul Pelosi up so he could get some sleep, because carrying a heavy backpack to the home had tired him out.
When Hurley asked why DePape did not leave when he realized Nancy Pelosi wasn’t home and the police were on the way, he compared himself to the Founding Fathers.
“They fought the British, they fought the tyranny. They didn’t just (expletive) surrender to it. And when I left my house, I went to go fight tyranny, I did not leave to go surrender,” he said.
The U.S. Capitol Police investigated nearly 10,000 threats to members last year, more than twice the number from four years earlier.
Public officials across the U.S., from local school board members to election workers, have also endured harassment and intimidation.
This month, a former Republican candidate for a state House seat in New Mexico was arrested in a series of shootings targeting the homes or offices of elected Democratic officials and a Kansas man was convicted of threatening a GOP congressman. | 2023-01-27T20:45:34+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/paul-pelosi-attack-footage-released/507-2219a50c-8935-4bfc-95f8-1ad495e5ced9 |
NEW YORK, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell Inc. (Nasdaq: STGW) ("Stagwell" or the "Company"), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of an aggregate of 16,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Class A Common Stock"), by entities affiliated with The Stagwell Group LLC and Goldman Sachs (collectively, the "Selling Stockholders") at a public offering price of $6.75 per share. The offering is expected to close on or about March 14, 2023, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The Selling Stockholders also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,400,000 shares of Class A Common Stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares in the offering.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are acting as joint lead book-running managers and as representatives of the underwriters for the offering, SVB Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are also acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Rosenblatt Securities Inc. is acting as co-manager for the offering.
The Company has filed a registration statement (including a base prospectus) and a preliminary prospectus supplement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for the offering to which this communication relates and will file a final prospectus supplement relating to the offering. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. Before investing, prospective investors should read the prospectus supplement, accompanying prospectus and documents incorporated by reference therein for more complete information about Stagwell and the offering. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting: Morgan Stanley, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014; or Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, by telephone at (866) 471-2526, or by email at Prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor does it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements in this press release that are not historical facts constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, the expected completion of the offering.
These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside Stagwell's control. Important factors that could cause actual results and expectations to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company's and the Selling Stockholders' ability to satisfy the conditions to closing and consummate the transaction and other risks and uncertainties discussed in the prospectus supplement related to the offering, Stagwell's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and its other reports filed from time to time with the SEC. Unless required by law, Stagwell undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events after the date they are made.
Contact:
Jason Reid
Stagwell Inc.
IR@StagwellGlobal.com
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Getting Answers: Are RTC buses safe?
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A week after a bizarre incident on an RTC bus involving a barricade and several Metro officers sent to the hospital, RTC is touting its robust security system as a means to prevent similar events.
“The safety and security of our passengers and our drivers are really our top priority,” RTC Deputy CEO Francis Julien said in reference to riders feeling unsafe.
Julien says RTC has invested millions of dollars in security measures, including a state-of-the-art surveillance system.
“Basically, it offers a canvas of pretty much all the nooks and crannies inside a vehicle,” he explained.
Julien hopes this will quell doubts about riding on RTC buses safely.
One business owner whose restaurant is across the street from last week’s incident says he is getting fed up with the amount of crime a nearby bus stop is bringing to his doorstep.
“It’s the same old thing going on,” Montana Meat Co. general manager Scott Cheche said. “This bus has not been good for us. It’s not been good for the businesses around us.”
Cheche says while he understands the need for public transportation, he believes there must be some way to make buses and bus stops safer.
“How can we help rectify this situation if you’re transporting somebody to an area of businesses that might not want that person around here?” Cheche asked.
RTC has officers on some buses, including the one that was barricaded last week. Still, Julien says the key to keeping buses safe will be using those new cameras to provide valuable data for police.
“We analyze all of the incidents that happen,” Julien explained. “We actually build heat maps and deploy officers according to where we’re seeing activities going on.”
The surveillance system also has a live feature that allows Metro to look inside if a dangerous situation happens. Julien says that part was used in last week’s incident.
RTC started installing the upgraded surveillance system in the fall, with plans to have the cameras on all buses soon.
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Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan has detailed steps the company is taking to avert another operational disaster.
Already, Jordan said, the airline has put measures in place to “further reduce the risk of future operational disruptions,” including adding supplemental workers who can quickly handle scheduling problems if large numbers of crew are out of place. Unions had warned Southwest about outdated technology that contributed to the problems last month, including systems for scheduling crew.
Jordan said in the email Southwest is already enhancing some of its technology to better communicate with large numbers of crew when their schedules change frequently. Updating and optimizing its crew recovery system is also a priority, Jordan said.
Looking ahead, the chief executive said the issues last month would accelerate the airline’s plans to enhance technology and processes; the company has budgeted more than $1 billion of its annual operating plan for upgrading, maintaining and investing in IT systems.
To get a better understanding of the weaknesses that caused the holiday failure, Southwest has brought in consulting firm Oliver Wyman to examine the issues and recommend additional steps. The airline’s board of directors has also appointed an operations review committee to address what happened and oversee the response.
Southwest’s holiday meltdown — which snowballed after massive storm systems strained the carrier’s network of flights — drew scrutiny from government officials, ruined holiday plans for untold number of travelers and is expected to cost the airline as much as $825 million.
“They were the airline Grinch that stole Christmas,” said Mike Boyd, president of aviation consulting firm Boyd Group International.
In his email to loyalty members, Jordan said “virtually all” bags that were still separated from their owners had been returned by the end of last week, and “nearly all” refunds had been processed. Workers are still handling “tens of thousands of reimbursement requests” every day.
“We fell short of your expectations and the high standards we have of ourselves, and for that we are deeply sorry,” Jordan wrote. “It is our steadfast commitment to make the necessary changes to address the issues we faced and to regain your trust and confidence.”
Boyd said Jordan appears to be taking necessary steps to address the issues that plagued the airline.
“They’re on it,” he said. “There’s no question: You don’t fix something like that overnight.”
Travel analyst Henry Harteveldt, president of Atmosphere Research Group, said he would like to see more specifics from Southwest, such as the timeline for a review and what precise technology improvements are being made.
He expects some travelers will want the same information before they are comfortable booking again with Southwest, especially considering the airline suffered cascading cancellations on a smaller scale in October 2021.
“Southwest has now, twice within 15 months, been shown to be tangibly inferior to its competitors in its ability to recover from weather-related disruption,” he said.
Harteveldt said he believes the issues shook the company’s leader and board “to their cores” and that they realize they will have to make smarter investments in their technology moving forward.
“I think that Southwest is committed to doing everything it can to keep a disruption like the one we saw in December from occurring again,” he said. “I think we have to be fair to the airline in acknowledging that there’s a lot of work necessary to do that and the process is going to be one of incremental progress and improvement.” | 2023-01-17T23:05:30+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/01/17/southwest-investments-it-staffing/ |
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world’s burning of coal, oil and natural gas this year is putting 1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air than last year, bad news for the fight against climate change but with an odd twist, according to scientists who track emissions.
China’s carbon pollution was down 0.9% this year compared to 2021, while emissions in the United States were 1.5% higher, said a study by scientists at Global Carbon Project released early Friday at international climate talks in Egypt. Both are opposite long-term trends. American emissions had been steadily dropping while Chinese emissions had been rising — until this year.
In both cases, it is a reaction to the pandemic and perhaps a bit of the energy crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, study lead author Pierre Friedlingstein of the University of Exeter told The Associated Press. He said those two factors make this year’s data chaotic and hard to draw trends from. China’s lockdown in 2022 to try to control renewed COVID-19 is a major factor in that country’s drop, he said.
Much of the jump was in transportation — cars and air travel — with people’s limits on travel during the pandemic wearing off, Friedlingstein said.
While global carbon pollution is still increasing, it isn’t increasing at as fast a rate as 10 or 15 years ago. But overall scientists said this is bad news because it is pushing Earth closer to hitting and then passing the globally adopted threshold of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times.
“It means we better get ready to blow past the target and enter a world that humans have never experienced,’’ said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who wasn’t part of the research team.
Friedlingstein’s team — along with other scientific reports — figure Earth can only put 380 billion metric tons (419 U.S. tons) of carbon dioxide into the air before Earth reaches the 1.5-degree mark. That’s about 9 to 10 years worth of emissions, meaning the globe will likely hit that point around 2031 or 2032.
“The time for 1.5 is running out,” Friedlingstein said.
“This is bad news,” said Brown University climate scientist Kim Cobb, who wasn’t part of the research team. “It’s hard to see any silver lining in rising emissions, when we must cut emissions in half by 2030 to keep global warming to an absolute minimum.”
In 2022, the world is on track to put 36.6 billion metric tons (40.3 billion U.S. tons) of carbon dioxide in the air from energy and cement use, the study calculated. That’s the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza in carbon dioxide spewed every 75 minutes.
In addition to the United States seeing emissions go up, India had a 6% increase in 2022, while Europe had a 0.8% drop. The rest of the world averaged a 1.7% carbon pollution jump.
Pollution from coal jumped 1% from last year, for oil it went up 2% and for natural gas it went down 0.2%, the report said. About 40% of the carbon dioxide comes from burning coal, 33% from oil and 22% from natural gas, Friedlingstein said.
The team calculates emissions levels through the early fall using data provided by top carbon-emitting countries, including the U.S., China, India and Europe, and then makes projections for the rest of year.
While there are limitations to projections, Oppenheimer said: “This is the A-team on CO2 emissions and the carbon cycle. They know what they’re doing.”
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels plunged 5.3% in 2020 but rebounded 5.6% last year, spurred by China, and now have completely erased the pandemic drop and are back on a slowly rising trend, Friedlingstein said.
The team also looks at overall emissions, including the effects of land use. When land use is factored in, emissions are flat, not rising slightly, he said.
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Goodwill find in Texas turns out to be ancient Roman bust
San Antonio — A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.
The bust, which art collector Laura Young found at Goodwill in 2018, once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art, which is temporarily displaying the piece until it is returned to Germany next year.
The ancient Roman bust dates to the first century B.C. or first century A.D. and historians believe it may depict a son of Pompey the Great, who was defeated in civil war by Julius Caesar, the museum said. The sculpture was last seen in Aschaffenburg, Germany, and experts believe a soldier took the sculpture and brought it to the United States, the museum said.
A Sotheby's consultant identified the work and it was further authenticated, the museum said.
“We are very pleased that a piece of Bavarian history that we thought was lost has reappeared and will soon be able to return to its rightful location," said Bernd Schreiber, president of the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens, and Lakes.
Young said there were a few months of “intense excitement” after learning the history behind the piece, which she found on the floor beneath a table at a Goodwill in Austin, Texas.
“But it was bittersweet since I knew I couldn’t keep or sell the (bust),” she said. "Either way, I’m glad I got to be a small part of (its) long and complicated history, and he looked great in the house while I had him.” | 2022-05-06T18:25:06+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/06/goodwill-find-texas-turns-out-ancient-roman-bust/9675906002/ |
George Carlin rose to prominence as a stand-up comedian in the 1960s and '70s, reinventing himself multiple times over a career that reveled in the use of language and took sharp aim at society. The complexity of that life and resonance of those words, dirty or otherwise, is neatly distilled into "George Carlin's American Dream," a perceptive two-part look at a comedy legend who, as W. Kamau Bell observes, "still seems to be talking to us."
Indeed, Carlin's granular dissection of US politics is still widely quoted today, and the who's who of comedians who weigh in on his legacy reflect how his influence has echoed well beyond his death in 2008.
"I wanted to be just like him, getting every word in the right spot," Jerry Seinfeld says. "Because when he did it, it thrilled me."
Assembled with a level of ambition worthy of Carlin's verbal dexterity, directors Judd Apatow (who not long ago produced a similar ode to Garry Shandling) and Michael Bonfiglio have endeavored to contextualize the comic's work through key events that framed those years, beginning with the clean-cut Carlin of the '60s who rebelled against Vietnam and assassinations before growing his hair and striking an anti-establishment tone.
Originally inspired by comic actors like Danny Kaye, Carlin, in the extensive interviews with him woven into the four hours, says, "I only knew that I loved standing up in front of people and having their attention," having grown up raised by a single mother without knowing his abusive father.
Influenced by Lenny Bruce, who also championed his early career, Carlin made the obligatory compromises (it's strange to see him and Richard Pryor participating in sketches on hokey variety shows) before flexing his comedic muscles, freely rattling off the "filthy words" that won legions of young fans while putting his right to say them in front of the Supreme Court.
Made with considerable input from Carlin's daughter, Kelly, "American Dream" is also a love story, recounting his whirlwind romance with wife Brenda, their respective struggles with drugs and alcohol, the pain he experienced in losing her to cancer and his second marriage after her death.
As Stephen Colbert notes, Carlin was in many respects the Beatles of comedy. After producing a string of bestselling albums in the '70s, he was deemed increasingly irrelevant as that decade came to a close, before reintroducing himself, yet again, in part through the relatively nascent format of HBO standup specials.
Carlin also recognized shifts in the comedic tides, responding to a standup flamethrower like Sam Kinison and evolving his act in ways that grew darker and more pessimistic about the prospects for humanity in the twilight of his career and life.
Simply as an act of curation, some of the clips are pretty spectacular, such as seeing Carlin with John Lennon and Yoko Ono on "The Mike Douglas Show," cracking up Dinah Shore, or the gamut of his appearances on "The Tonight Show" through the years.
As noted, Carlin's mastery of the standup craft has resonated across decades, and continues to do so as news events prompt admirers to quote and recirculate his old routines. ""I still refer to him all the time," Jon Stewart says.
While the title is intended to be slightly ironic, in that sense, Carlin's "American Dream" marches on.
"George Carlin's American Dream" will air May 20-21 at 8 p.m. ET on HBO, which, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years killed at least six people, dumped a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroyed roads and felled power lines on Tuesday. The death toll could have been higher if not for proactive evacuations and school closures, officials said.
There was also greater public awareness about the storm and its risks. Typhoon Hinnamnor made impact just weeks after heavy rain around the capital, Seoul, caused flooding that killed at least 14 people.
Government officials put the nation on high alert for days as Hinnamnor approached, warning of potentially historic destruction and putting in motion life-saving measures.
After grazing the resort island of Jeju and hitting the mainland near the port city of Busan, Hinnamnor weakened as it blew into waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
South Korea’s weather agency said Hinnamnor was over the open sea 400 kilometers (248 miles) northwest of the northern Japanese city of Sapporo as of 9 p.m. and had weakened to a tropical storm.
However, the damage was still severe in the southern city of Pohang, where five people were found dead and at least five others were missing after the storm submerged roads and buildings, triggered landslides and flooded a shopping mall.
Cars with smashed windows and trunks open lay scattered on roads like garbage. An entire two-story pool villa was uprooted from the ground and swept away by flash floods. Troops were deployed to assist with rescue and restoration efforts, moving in armored vehicles through streets turned into chocolate-colored rivers.
Firefighters navigated flooded neighborhoods in rubber boats, rescuing people and their pets. Merchants scrambled to salvage furniture and other belongings at the famous Guryongpo outdoor market, where workers deployed excavators to clear huge piles of debris.
The rain and flooding eroded the foundations of bridges and motorways, which were often broken in chunks or blocked by fallen trees and electricity poles. Factory buildings were tilted, while a shipping container blew away and landed above cars in a parking lot.
“I woke up at 5 a.m. at because of the explosive rain, and I got really concerned because the water rose right up to my doorway,” Kim Seong-chang, a Pohang resident, said in an interview with JTBC. “The water was still thigh-high at 7 a.m. and those who parked their cars in the streets were in panic because their vehicles were submerged. … Other residents were bucketing out water from their homes.”
The storm dumped more than 105 centimeters (41 inches) of rain in central Jeju since Sunday, where winds peaked at 155 kph (96 mph). Southern and eastern mainland regions also had damage — knocked-off signboards and roofing, toppled trees and traffic signs, and destroyed roads.
In Pohang, a woman in her 70s died after being swept away in flash floods, while four others were found dead in a submerged basement parking lot, where the search was continuing for five people.
Wading in the parking lot’s neck-high waters with ropes tied to their bodies, emergency workers on Tuesday night managed to pull out two people who had been trapped. President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a congratulatory message after the first survivor’s rescue, calling it a “miracle.”
In the neighboring city of Gyeongju, a woman in her 80s died after her home was buried in a landslide. In Ulsan, another southern city, a 25-year-old man was unaccounted for after falling into a rain-swollen stream, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.
Also in Pohang, firefighters extinguished flames that damaged at least three facilities at a major steel plant operated by POSCO. A presidential official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in a background briefing, said officials were investigating the cause of the fires.
Local fire officials said the flames destroyed a building housing electricity equipment and damaged a separate office building and a coking factory before being put out.
The Safety Ministry said about 3,700 of 4,700 people who had been forced to evacuate returned home Tuesday afternoon. Thousands of homes, buildings and factories were flooded or destroyed, and hundreds of roads, bridges and facilities were damaged.
More than 600 schools were closed or converted to online classes. Workers had managed to restore electricity to most of the 89,203 households that had lost power.
In North Korea, state media reported “all-out efforts” to minimize damage from flooding and landslides. The state Korean Central News Agency reported that leader Kim Jong Un had issued “detailed tasks” at government meetings to improve the country’s disaster response capacity but didn’t elaborate on the plans.
North Korea sustained serious damage from heavy rains and floods in 2020 that destroyed buildings, roads and crops, hurting the country’s already-crippled economy. | 2022-09-06T18:25:30+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-typhoon-leaves-20000-homes-without-power-in-south-korea/ |
WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — The TFB&B-BCCC Barber Academy is now accepting clients. Beaufort County Community College’s new barbering program has 18 students enrolled in its first session.
Like its Cosmetology and Manicuring Salon on campus, the TFB&B-BCCC Barber Academy invites the public to receive discounted services so that students can improve their barbering skills. The academy is located at 102 Cypress Commons Way in Chocowinity.
Services at the academy are available Mondays through Fridays from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Appointments & walk-ins are welcome. Senior citizens aged 55 and older receive a discount, as do Beaufort County Community College students and employees and public safety personnel when they show valid ID. Appointments can be made by calling 252-833-0297 or emailing tapersacademy2022@gmail.com. The academy accepts cash, debit, and credit cards.
The price list is available here.
The TFB&B-BCCC Barber Academy is a partnership between William Stokes and the college. TFB&B stands for “Tapers, Fades, Beards, and Baldies”. This academy is designed to train and prepare students for the profession of barbering. Students learn the information needed to pass the state licensure exams as well as the most contemporary techniques to ensure success in school and employment on the job. They will learn skills, safety judgments, proper work habits, business skills, and desirable attitudes necessary to obtain licensure and for competency in job entry-level positions in barbering or a related career field.
Under the Beaufort Promise, the college is currently offering scholarships to cover the cost of registration fees, textbooks, and supply kits.
“We are incredibly excited to partner with TFB&B to offer our community a Barber Academy training program,” said Dr. Stacey Gerard, VP of Continuing Education. “The barber profession is a well-respected career pathway offering flexible work hours, rewarding work, and opportunities to open your own successful business.”
The next Level 1 class of the Barber Academy will begin on October 21, and a part-time evening class will begin on September 1. Call 252-940-6375 to register for upcoming classes. | 2022-07-12T22:05:30+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/features/online-originals/bccc-barber-academy-now-open-to-clients/ |
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Riders on an Amtrak train that runs from Maine to Boston will soon have to hold off on buying alcoholic beverages during the 35-mile stretch of the trip that goes through New Hampshire.
The Amtrak Downeaster takes passengers 145 miles from Brunswick, Maine, to Boston. The train includes a cafe car that serves alcohol.
However, the New Hampshire Liquor Commission has told the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority that the train can’t serve alcohol during the New Hampshire portion of the journey.
The change is set to go on the books on March 20, the Portland Press Herald reported. It stems from a New Hampshire law that forbids the serving of alcohol that hasn’t been purchased in the state.
The company that provides the train’s food and beverage service, Mansfield, Massachusetts-based NexDine Hospitality, buys its alcoholic drinks in Maine for the 145-mile route, the newspaper reported.
The train brings hundreds of thousands of passengers to Boston every year, and its advertising sometimes plays up the ability to relax with a drink during the ride. It’s a popular alternative for sports and concerts because it terminates steps from TD Garden, one of New England’s biggest performance venues. | 2023-03-07T20:40:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/ap-live-free-or-dry-no-buying-booze-on-amtrak-in-new-hampshire/ |
$78 Billion Annual Cost for Limited-English Proficient Students Revealed in New Report by FAIR
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that one in ten students in our nation's public schools are considered Limited English Proficient (LEP), requiring an annual expenditure of $78 billion to provide remedial English language instruction. Moreover, the surge of illegal migration instigated by Biden administration policies – including an unprecedented number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) – is outpacing the nation's education system's ability to hire enough teachers qualified to meet the needs of LEP kids.
It's also worth noting that due to an approximately two year delay in releasing official enrollment and detailed cost data in most states and school districts, the figures in this report are accurate as of the 2020 school year, and do not include education costs incurred by the millions of illegal aliens who have entered the country since President Biden took office. Because of this, the true cost today is almost certainly at least several billion dollars more than the estimates detailed in this report.
"By almost every metric, America's education system is already failing our kids whose critical skills lag behind those of almost every one of our global competitors," noted Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "Meanwhile, schools all across the country are being burdened with a surge of new non-English-speaking kids by Biden administration policies that virtually assure admission to UACs and anyone who enters illegally in the company of a minor."
The report, The Elephant in the Classroom: Mass Immigration Imposing Colossal Cost and Challenges on Public Education, finds that there are currently only 370,000 teachers qualified to deal with the educational needs of LEP students, and that an additional 76,000 instructors will be needed over the next five years just to keep pace with the consequences of the Biden administration's open border policies. Worse yet – for the children themselves and the future of our nation – only about 4 percent of LEP students are proficient in math by the time they complete 12th grade, and only about 3 percent are English proficient by the time they complete high school.
"As a nation, we are failing to adequately educate the next generation of workers and taxpayers – even those for whom English is their native tongue. At the same time, our immigration policies are adding millions of LEP students, whose academic prospects are even more abysmal. Under the Biden administration, our failing educational system is being asked to cope with our failed immigration policies, which is a recipe for disaster," concluded Stein.
Among the key findings of The Elephant in the Classroom: Mass Immigration Imposing Colossal Cost and Challenges on Public Education:
- 5.1 million students in American public schools were classified as LEP in 2020. That figure represents about 10 percent of all K-12 enrollment.
- The additional cost to American taxpayer to educate LEP students is $78 billion a year, an increase of $18.8 billion just since 2016. This estimate does not include additional costs, like free or subsidized meals that they may qualify for.
- All but 9 states now have more than 10,000 students designated as LEP, and 26 states have more than 50,000 LEP students. California and Texas now exceed 1 million LEP students.
- The large influx of new illegal LEP students under the Biden administration amounts to an unfunded federal mandate on state and local governments. As a result of a narrow 1982 Supreme Court decision, all K-12 students must be provided a taxpayer-funded public education.
The full report, The Elephant in the Classroom: Mass Immigration Imposing Colossal Cost and Challenges on Public Education, can be found here.
Contact: Ron Kovach, 202-328-7004 or rkovach@fairus.org
ABOUT FAIR
Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.
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(The Hill) — Amazon generated 709 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021, an 18 percent increase from 2020, according to a new report from environmental group Oceana.
About 26 million pounds of the company’s plastic waste flowed into the world’s waterways and oceans last year — up from 23.5 million pounds in 2020 — despite Amazon’s repeated pledge to reduce its plastic pollution from harming aquatic life, the group said.
The amount of total plastic waste created by the e-commerce giant is enough to circle the Earth more than 800 times in the form of air pillows, Oceana estimated in its report released Thursday.
Asked about the report, Amazon said “Oceana’s numbers are exaggerated and inaccurate.”
In a blog post on Tuesday, Amazon said it produced 214 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021, but that number does not include waste generated by third-party sellers, which Oceana said it included in its estimate.
The standard plastic used by Amazon is plastic film, the type used in plastic bags. Plastic film is recyclable — but is often not recycled by consumers because it is not accepted by local county and municipal facilities.
Plastic film is the most common plastic found in waterways, according to Oceana. It can entangle sea critters in the ocean and kill marine life.
Matt Littlejohn, Oceana’s senior vice president for strategic initiatives, said “the type of plastic used by Amazon for its packaging is a threat to the oceans.”
“It’s time for Amazon to lead and end its reliance on a material that is devastating the world’s oceans and make a company-wide plan for reporting and reducing its plastic packaging footprint,” he said in a statement to The Hill.
Last year, Amazon criticized Oceana’s 2020 plastic pollution report for using industry reports and market share data, adding the organization’s estimate was 300 percent higher than company data.
The company explained it has a dedicated team pushing to reduce its plastic waste footprint, citing goals to reduce its paper-and-plastic mailer to a fully paper-padded one and increased efforts to use lighter and smaller packaging boxes.
The e-commerce company said it has greatly reduced the amount of plastic used in its packaging, eliminating more than 1.5 million tons of packaging materials it would have otherwise used since 2015.
“While we are making progress, we’re not satisfied,” the company wrote in the blog post. “We have work to do to continue to reduce packaging, particularly plastic packaging that’s harder to recycle, and we are undertaking a range of initiatives to do so.”
The e-commerce industry as a whole produced 3.4 billion pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2021, a number that is expected to more than double in 2027, according to Oceana. The most plastic waste is produced in China and the U.S.
Amazon’s share of plastic waste has grown in world markets in recent years, by Oceana’s estimates. In 2020, 39 percent of plastic waste generated in the U.S. was from Amazon, which increased to 41 percent in 2021, with a similar increase in other countries.
Oceana has pointed out that more than 740,000 Amazon customers have asked the company to provide plastic-free packaging.
The amount of plastic waste in the world has become a leading concern for environmentalists and citizens across the world. Nearly a quarter of Americans want Congress to prioritize addressing plastic waste.
Studies this year revealed just 5 percent of plastic waste generated in 2021 was recycled, with the rest heading to landfills or waterways.
Plastic is actually becoming so ubiquitous that microplastics were found in human blood for the first time this year. | 2022-12-15T13:39:38+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/amazons-plastic-waste-increased-by-18-percent-in-2021/ |
Enhanced Asset Discovery and Monitoring capabilities integrate with the leading Digital Risk Protection solution to create the most comprehensive external protection platform available
BOSTON, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CybelAngel, a global leader in cybersecurity technology focused on protecting the external attack surface, has announced the release of Xtended External Attack Surface Management (EASMX) - the most comprehensive solution available for protecting organizations from cyber-attack via an external threat vector.
CybelAngel EASMX provides an extensive and continuous 'outside-in' search of an organization's internet-facing attack surface to discover exposed and unknown assets, produces a living map of online infrastructure, and uncovers hidden vulnerabilities and threats. CybelAngel analysts then contextualize the most critical findings based upon business severity and perceived risk. This unique combination of machine and human intelligence leads to the highest signal-to-noise ratio on the market, leaving IT and security teams free to focus on core business operations.
"With cloud services, online interactions and e-commerce increasing, the magnitude of a company's exposures has followed suit. Exposed and unknown digital assets, such as shadow IT, cloud service misconfigurations, and exposed credentials, whether the result of an unwitting employee or a threat actor can cause similar harm," says Erwan Keraudy, Co-Founder and CEO of CybelAngel. "We are proud to continue the expansion of our solutions as part of our continued pursuit to protect our customers from dynamic and growing threats."
EASMX reduces the risk of external attack by discovering exposed assets and threats before attackers do, wherever they reside, from the cloud to supply chain and third-party exposures to dark web mentions.
EASMX enables organizations to:
- Improve external security posture.
- Gain visibility and control of unknown assets and shadow IT.
- Detect exposures, vulnerable services, and compromised credentials.
- Uncover dark web mentions, lookalike domains, and data leaks.
- Remediate rapidly with contextualized reporting, scoring and prioritization.
Stevan Keraudy, Co-Founder and CTO at CybelAngel, said: "As interactions between employees, businesses, and customers expand to web-based services, applications and online forums, organizations' external digital landscapes have seen explosive expansion, now surpassing their internal digital footprint by orders of magnitude. We are excited to bring to market a comprehensive solution that has, at its foundation, the powerful ability to massively and continuously scan the internet to discover unknown exposures and vulnerabilities that other solutions can't secure."
About CybelAngel
CybelAngel is a global leader in cybersecurity technology focused on External Attack Surface Protection and Management. As an early pioneer in 'outside-in' search technology, approaching cybersecurity just as an attacker would carry out infiltration, CybelAngel has developed the industry's most extensive defense for external attack vectors, where the majority of cyber-attacks are initiated. Combining expanded discovery and analysis, CybelAngel finds unknown assets and exposures to pre-emptively diffuse attack vectors that cyber criminals use to breach systems and wreak havoc.
CybelAngel proudly protects some of the largest global enterprises representing various sectors including the Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services. CybelAngel's Xtended External Attack Surface Management (EASMX) is the only solution comprehensive enough to protect an enterprise's entire external attack surface, whether first- or third-party.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — JT Shumate and Dante Maddox Jr. combined to score 39 points and Toledo needed five starters scoring in double-digits to offset a 43-point effort from Emoni Bates and lift the Rockets to an 84-79 victory over Eastern Michigan on Tuesday night.
Bates scored 29 straight EMU points in the first half and he established career highs for points scored (43), field goals made (15), and 3-pointer made (9). He was 15 of 23 from the field, 9 of 14 from deep and 4 for 4 from the line while grabbing seven rebounds.
Eastern Michigan (4-16, 1-6 Mid-American Conference) held an 11-point lead with 6:51 left after Jalin Billingsley hit two free throws to make it 67-56, but Maddox hit two 3s and added three more from the line and Shumate hit a 3 and knocked down five straight free throws and the Rockets (14-6, 5-2) pulled out the win.
Shumate was 3-of-5 from beyond the arc and went 9-for-9 from the line and scored 20 points to go with nine rebounds. Maddox hit 4 of 7 from distance and 7 of 10 from the line to post 19 points. RayJ Dennis added 17 points, Setric Millner Jr. had 16 and Ra'Heim Moss contributed 10.
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Five people rescued after being trapped in underground cavern
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (KNXV) - What started as a 45-minute tour at Grand Canyon Caverns for the family of eight on Sunday afternoon turned chaotic when the elevator they went down in broke.
The family said staff urged them to walk up 21 flights of stairs to get out, but the stairs are narrow and steep, like a fire escape.
“There was no protection from anybody slipping and falling,” Sherry Jimenez said.
The cavern has a suite at the bottom, an area that the family was offered to stay in, but Sherry Jimenez’s daughter-in-law, Felicia Jimenez, had her two babies with her and had run out of diapers and formula.
Her husband, Michael Jimenez, went up and called for help after noticing no work was being done on the elevator.
Eventually, Peach Springs Fire Department came to rescue them.
“I asked the chief right when he got down there. I said immediately, ‘I need to ask you this question. Did you get a call earlier and did you guys say that you refused?’ and he was like, ‘I’ve been working all day since this morning and we have received no phone call from them about anything,’” Felicia Jimenez said.
The stairs were not an option because several family members have various disabilities and health conditions.
Before going on the tour, they said they made sure that it was handicapped accessible.
“I’m super frustrated because it’s 2022, almost 2023, and I think handicap accessible should definitely be advanced by now,” Felicia Jimenez said.
The family said after being trapped for more than 26 hours, they will not be going down into a cavern ever again.
Copyright 2022 KNXV via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-26T00:12:22+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/10/25/five-people-rescued-after-being-trapped-underground-cavern/ |
(NEXSTAR) – The price of sending a piece of mail is about to go up. The United States Postal Service is set to increase the cost of postage to cope with the rising cost of operations.
Starting Sunday, Jan. 22, the USPS plans to increase prices of some postage by 4.2%, which generally amounts to a few cents per stamp.
The cost of a Forever stamp would go up 3 cents, from 60 cents to 63 cents – the third price hike in about a year.
Forever stamps, regardless of when they are purchased, will be accepted in perpetuity – hence the name. That means if you have some already, even if you bought them at a lower price, they will still be accepted to mail letters next year and the year after that. It also means you can buy stamps in bulk now to avoid paying more after Jan. 22.
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The USPS is also increasing the cost of sending Priority Mail by about 5.5%. Priority Mail Express will get 6.6% more expensive, and First-Class Package Service prices are set to increase by 7.8%. Priority Mail commercial rates will bump up about 3.6%.
At the same time, the cost of some Priority Mail shipping materials, including flat-rate envelopes and boxes, will go down. Using a flat-rate box or envelope lets you send a package of up to 70 pounds to any U.S. state for a flat fee.
The USPS points out that most its price hikes are “well below the rate of inflation.”
The price for two other shipping services, Parcel Select Ground and USPS Connect Local, will remain unchanged, the Postal Service says. | 2023-01-15T16:13:54+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/2023-stamp-price-increases-are-about-to-kick-in/ |
New Studio adds to Globant's Reinvention Studios portfolio, which includes Smart Payments, EdTech, Airlines, and Gaming, among others.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, today announced the launch of its Automotive Studio. With this new offering, the company aims to become the bridge the automotive industry needs toward mobility and digital revolutions.
As the newest addition to Globant's Reinvention Studios portfolio, the Automotive Studio will help reinvent the industry by capturing the best capabilities from different technologies, including Metaverse, Gaming, Blockchain, Sustainability, Data & AI, IoT, UI Engineering, and Conversational Interfaces, leading to immersive customer experiences and augmented design.
"The automotive industry has been changing over the last decade with exceptional speed. Software is quickly becoming the value of the car. Security aspects such as ADAS, connected vehicles, and service-based functionality are all increasing the demand for our capabilities," said Diego Tartara, Chief Technology Officer at Globant. "With this new Studio, Globant will leverage its cutting-edge capabilities to empower and support the ultimate mobility reinvention."
The Automotive Studio provides eight innovative practices that deliver added value:
- Software-Defined Vehicle: Help original equipment manufacturers and mobility companies implement software architecture to better access, understand, use, and update services necessary for new mobility solutions.
- Mobile Customer Engagement: Design personalized marketing content, engaging digital experiences, and real-time data analysis.
- Connected Mobility: Unlock the power of a vast data lake to build intelligent, personalized features and revenue-generating mobility services.
- Autonomous Driving: Help clients implement robotics and machine learning to accelerate autonomous vehicle development.
- Manufacturing & Supply Chain: Implement AI and machine learning to process supply chain information to track and trace the entire production process with unparalleled efficiency.
- Product Engineering: Reduce time to market by empowering product developers and engineers to solve complex problems using high-performance computing, model-based design, and large-scale parallel simulations.
- Mobility enters the Metaverse: Help clients boost new revenue streams through the development and launch of gaming platforms, NFT design, product showcases, virtual venues, and even virtual immerse training.
- Sustainability: Counsel clients on embedding sustainability and sustainable innovation across the value chain.
"Vehicles are quickly evolving into digital software platforms, with AI, IoT, and data and other technologies accelerating the change," said Marina Saint-Lary, Globant CSO and Automotive Studio Lead. "We're enthusiastic about leveraging opportunities in this industry, building the bridge from where the automotive industry is coming from to where it's going. Our experts and partners are creating cutting-edge solutions, scaling and enhancing customer experiences, leveraging AI to increase efficiency in the ICE business and boosting new business models, building the future of mobility."
In the past year, Globant launched Reinvention Studios to leverage its industry knowledge and enable the profound transformation of specific industries by leaning on the deep technology expertise of the existing Digital Studios (which are focused on technologies like the Metaverse, Data & AI, and Blockchain, among others). Its portfolio includes Airlines, Bluecap Future Finance, EdTech, Gaming, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Smart Payments, and Travel & Hospitality Studios.
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OAK BROOK, Ill., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health iPASS, a patient payment, intake, and check-in software company acquired by Sphere in late 2020 announces today its upgraded partnership with NextGen, a leading healthcare solutions provider with a focus on ambulatory care.
Health iPASS previously integrated with NextGen via a third-party application, but the most recent partnership enables a direct integration, which unlocks additional Health iPASS services and features for NextGen users. Health iPASS will now be available in the NextGen API marketplace, which focuses on application program interface (API) developer organizations compatible with NextGen for seamless integration.
Health iPASS offers a full product suite that boosts patient payments from pre-arrival to post insurance adjudication via a 100% mobile check-in platform. Health iPASS also offers in-office check-in options for those who prefer to check-in and pay in person. "Health iPASS is truly an end-to-end solution for providers looking to collect more from patients while also increasing patient engagement. We offer everything from patient self-scheduling to digital forms management, to innovative billing and collection tools. And now we can offer all these features to NextGen users directly," commented Rajesh Voddiraju, Founder and Group President at Health iPASS.
"Our existing relationship with NextGen has been fantastic," remarked Joseph Bush, VP of Business Development at Health iPASS. "However, we are excited to enter this new chapter with NextGen so that we can offer our full product suite with all of its features, such as discreet data writebacks and auto posting of patient payments, among others."
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Cardinals first. Lars Nootbaar lines out to center field to Jason Heyward. Paul Goldschmidt singles to right field. Nolan Gorman walks. Paul Goldschmidt to second. Nolan Arenado strikes out swinging. Willson Contreras singles to right center field. Nolan Gorman to third. Paul Goldschmidt scores. Brendan Donovan strikes out on a foul tip.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cardinals 1, Dodgers 0.
Cardinals second. Paul DeJong hit by pitch. Alec Burleson doubles to deep left center field. Paul DeJong scores. Tommy Edman grounds out to second base, Miguel Vargas to Freddie Freeman. Alec Burleson to third. Lars Nootbaar out on a sacrifice fly to deep center field to Jason Heyward. Alec Burleson scores. Paul Goldschmidt flies out to center field to Jason Heyward.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 3, Dodgers 0.
Dodgers sixth. Mookie Betts singles to left field. Freddie Freeman singles to center field. Mookie Betts to third. J.D. Martinez homers to center field. Freddie Freeman scores. Mookie Betts scores. Max Muncy pops out to shallow infield to Tommy Edman. Miguel Vargas grounds out to shallow infield, Miles Mikolas to Paul Goldschmidt. David Peralta lines out to left center field to Lars Nootbaar.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Dodgers 3, Cardinals 3.
Cardinals eighth. Tommy Edman doubles to deep left field. Lars Nootbaar strikes out swinging. Paul Goldschmidt is intentionally walked. Nolan Gorman homers to right field. Paul Goldschmidt scores. Tommy Edman scores. Nolan Arenado singles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras grounds out to shallow infield to Freddie Freeman. Brendan Donovan called out on strikes.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 6, Dodgers 3.
Dodgers ninth. Miguel Vargas doubles to left field. David Peralta singles to right center field. Miguel Vargas to third. Jason Heyward doubles to right center field. David Peralta to third. Miguel Vargas scores. James Outman pinch-hitting for Chris Taylor. James Outman lines out to shallow center field to Tommy Edman. Will Smith pinch-hitting for Austin Barnes. Will Smith out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Lars Nootbaar. David Peralta scores. Mookie Betts called out on strikes.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 6, Dodgers 5. | 2023-05-21T03:19:10+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/l-a-dodgers-st-louis-runs-18110642.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — You may be sick of politics, but Wall Street is just getting to its favorite part of the presidential calendar.
The third year of the presidential cycle has historically been the best for the stock market. Going back to the start of 1945, the S&P 500 has risen an average of 15.9% during the last full year before an election, compared with an overall average of 9.2% for every year.
Most of that better-than-usual performance is packed into the first half of Year 3, according to data from CFRA Research. In the first three months of Year 3, for example, the S&P 500 has historically climbed an average of 6.9%, which is more than triple the 2.1% average for every first quarter over that span.
One line of thinking says Wall Street rises in anticipation of the White House passing economically popular measures in hopes of staying in office. The difference could also just be statistical luck. But it’s happened enough that professional investors pay at least some attention to it, even if not all the candidates running in 2024 are known yet.
The last time a president was in Year 3, in 2019 under Donald Trump, the S&P 500 soared nearly 29%.
This year, there may be less appetite for big government programs that could stimulate the economy, because they could also potentially ignite inflationary pressures.
Averages also only tell part of the story. Across 23 completed four-year terms since 1925, the S&P 500 gain in Year 3 was the best seven times according to Doug Ramsey, chief investment officer at Leuthold Group — better than random, but not by much.
The last time a first-term Democratic president was in Year 3, as Joe Biden is now, was in 2011 under Barack Obama. That time, the S&P 500 ended the year virtually flat. Much of that was because of a steep tumble in the summer, triggered by worries about the European debt crisis and the downgrade of the U.S. debt rating by Standard & Poor’s.
“That was one of the few times where we really had nothing,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. “Investors usually expect the president to try to ensure that he gets reelected by stimulating the economy.” | 2023-02-02T13:53:56+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/its-wall-streets-favorite-year-of-the-presidential-cycle/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
THOMASVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — Three teachers at Thomasville Primary School have died in the past three months, according to Thomasville City Schools.
Andrea White-Hunter, a second grade teacher, died on Nov. 14, 2022, per the school district. Eva Shetley, a kindergarten teacher, died on Jan. 13, and Terry Register, a second grade teacher, died on Saturday.
The school district says that they are unable to release information about the causes of death out of respect for the families of the deceased. They did however state that “each teacher had different and unique health concerns that contributed to their passing.”
TCS released the following statement on their response to the deaths:
“Our crisis team and counselors from across our district were on site in each instance and stayed for as long as needed to ensure the needs of students and staff were met. On Friday, February 17, 2023 Thomasville Primary School will be on a remote instruction day. This will allow us to provide important resources for our school staff, our students and our families. There will be opportunities throughout the day on Friday, February 17th for students, families and our staff to engage with the resources being made available by many of our community partners. Our entire community is rallying around the school and our district and we appreciate the love and support of all those around us during this difficult time.”
Statement from Thomasville City Schools
The district says that they hired a full-time teacher for White-Hunter’s class and placed a teacher from a different grade level in Shetley’s class. A long-term substitute will work with Register’s class until the district is able to hire another teacher. | 2023-02-18T14:11:07+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/3-teacher-deaths-in-3-months-at-nc-school/ |
MINNEAPOLIS — Nate Sudfeld led a 14-play, 79-yard drive for a go-ahead touchdown early in the fourth quarter and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Minnesota Vikings 17-7 in a preseason game featuring mostly backups Saturday night.
Robbie Gould converted each of his three field-goal attempts for San Francisco.
It was largely a sloppy performance for both teams after nearly all the projected first-team players were held out. The teams were coming off a week of joint practices.
There were four combined turnovers, three by Minnesota, with three fumbles — with each team losing one. San Francisco averaged 4.6 yards per play and the Vikings were held to 3.9 yards per play in their first home game with Kevin O’Connell as head coach.
Second-year quarterback Kellen Mond started for Minnesota, but was intercepted on the first drive of the game. Mond finished 10 of 20 for 82 yards and was also picked off on his final throw of the night.
Sean Mannion was 10 of 15 for 65 yards as he and Mond battle for the backup job to Kirk Cousins. Rookie Ty Chandler had 19 yards rushing, including a 3-yard TD on an eight-play, 60-yard drive engineered by Mannion.
Purdy finished 14 of 23 for 128 yards for San Francisco and had some strong moments, but he dropped an exchange with running back Tyrion Davis-Price with the 49ers at the goal line.
Lance, a Minnesota native, didn’t play, nor did Jimmy Garoppolo.
TRAINERS ROOM
49ers: Several 49ers have been banged up and didn’t play, though any projected starters likely would have been out anyway. Those included DT Arik Armstead (knee), CB Emmanuel Moseley (hamstring) and S Jimmie Ward (hamstring). Ward is expected to be out a while. ... RB Elijah Mitchell (hamstring) was held out. RB Trey Sermon (ankle) started and had five carries for 8 yards. ... Another hamstring injury occurred in the game with WR Austin Mack going down in the first half and not returning. ... Backup OT Sam Schlueter, an undrafted free agent from Minnesota, sustained a knee injury.
Vikings: CB Andrew Booth Jr., a second-round rookie, left in the first half with an ankle injury and was ruled out for the rest of the game. ... TE Irv Smith Jr. (thumb surgery) remains on track to be ready for the regular-season opener. He’ll be eased back into practice soon, O’Connell said this week. ... OL Chris Reed, who’s been in the mix at center and right guard, has an elbow injury. He didn’t play Saturday after not practicing this week. ... RG Jesse Davis was held out of practice Thursday, wearing a sleeve on his right knee. He didn’t play.
SORRY, NOT THIS TIME
In total, the teams declared 54 players out before the game, 27 for each team.
For San Francisco, only three players listed with the first-team offense and defense played. Guards Aaron Banks and Spencer Burford started on offense. Tackle Javon Kinlaw was the lone defensive starter, though nickelback Samuel Womack III also played.
The lone projected starter for the Vikings to play was defensive end Armon Watts.
UP NEXT
49ers: Wrap up the preseason on Aug. 25 at Houston.
Vikings: Play at Denver on Aug. 27 in the preseason finale.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-08-21T02:42:48+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/sudfeld-49ers-beat-vikings-17-7-in-battle-of-backups/2022/08/20/4a94ae98-20f7-11ed-9ce6-68253bd31864_story.html |
McBAIN — Emma Schierbeek knew where she wanted to go.
It was just a matter of making it happen, and she did.
The McBain senior guard will sign Wednesday with the Ferris State University women’s basketball team, going to the same school her older sister is at now and the one her father, Jon, graduated from.
Not only did she primarily zero in on one school, but she ran track in spring instead of playing travel basketball. That resulted in less exposure, despite her talents.
“It did make it challenging,” McBain head coach Drew Bronkema said. “She took it as a challenge, and said, ‘Hey, I’m going to accomplish my dream without playing AAU.”
Bronkema took the entire Rambler squad to Ferris’ team camp last summer, almost solely so the coach could see Schierbeek play. That led to an invitation to the Bulldogs’ elite camp, and FSU head coach Kurt Westendorp then came to three of her high school games this season.
The Bulldogs were 6-13 last year and lose only three seniors. Schierbeek joins this year’s recruiting class of Ally Schultz (St. Ignace), Elle Irwin (Rockford) and Mia Riley (Fowler). Those three already signed in November, making Schierbeek the only new one committing to FSU on Wednesday.
“For me, it’s close to home,” Schierbeek said. “As a kid, I loved watching to program grow.”
She also drew interest from Albion, Alma and Mid-Michigan Community College, but Ferris was always the top target for Schierbeek.
“I wanted to play there so bad,” Schierbeek said. “But I didn’t play AAU, so it made it a little tough.”
Instead, she ran track, where she qualified for the state finals in the long jump as a senior and also ran the 100-meter dash and 400- and 800-meter relays.
She earned honorable mention all-state in Division 3 as a junior, then drew first-team honors this year.
“Just the type of person she is, she’s never one to tear anyone down,” Bronkema said. “She’s a great role model. It’s just constant positivity. Even behind closed doors, the things you don’t see, she’s the exact type of kid you want on your team.”
That applies to her shooting as well, as the long-range bomber shouldn’t have much problem adjusting to the longer 3-point line in college. She routinely took shots from several feet behind the arc anyway, and still shot 38 percent from three.
McBain posted a 58-23 record in Schierbeek’s four-year varsity career, including 34-5 the last two seasons. The Ramblers won two Highland Conference championships and two district titles in that time.
Schierbeek progressively improved every year, leading McBain in scoring all four years on varsity. She ended up with averages of 14.9, 15.5 and 17.0 the last three seasons, surpassing the 1,000-point mark this campaign and ending with 1,108. That was even with a position change as a junior, playing point guard out of necessity before switching back to her more natural role as an off guard.
But what sets Schierbeek apart is not only her extended range but quick release. That opens the court for teammates as well.
“Everybody nowadays likes to shoot the three-ball and thinks they are Steph Curry,” Bronkema said. “But she can really shoot it. I haven’t seen a kid in high school shoot with the range she has.”
Schierbeek also put up 1,000 career kills in volleyball, leading the Ramblers to a Final Four appearance last fall that McBain lost 3-0 by a combined five points against powerhouse Monroe St. Mary, 23-25, 23-25, 24-26.
Ashley Schierbeek is already at Ferris, majoring in optometry. They overlapped for one year in high school on the basketball team. | 2022-04-21T11:01:10+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/range-rover-schierbeeks-shooting-talent-leads-to-spot-with-ferris/article_8d7b6e08-bf69-11ec-bbe1-ff357e4d380d.html |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire Portfolio Group ("Empire"), a leading Area Developer and Franchisee of Orangetheory® Fitness, the heart rate-based interval training fitness franchise, announced today it will open a new studio in Matthews, North Carolina. The new studio will be located at 1813 Matthews Township Pkwy, Ste B, Matthews, NC 28105.
The new studio will offer new member specials throughout the month of January 2023, giving locals the chance to try out the heart rate-based interval training fitness franchise as a founding member. The studio will feature state-of-the-art fitness equipment with a large lobby area to encourage community members to socialize before and after class. The studio will be celebrating its grand opening on December 30, 2022.
The group workouts incorporate endurance, strength, and power to generate the 'Orange Effect' – which keeps calories burning for up to 24 hours after the 60-minute workout. The studio will also have Orangetheory's new personalized MaxHR algorithm, which updates heart rate zones in real-time to improve individual performance results. The studio treadmills and rowers are integrated with OTconnect technology, a proprietary platform that creates an ecosystem of data and feedback highlighting each member's total distance, average/max incline, max miles per hour, and total moving time as part of the Orangetheory Fitness mobile app.
As one of the world's fastest-growing franchise companies and a leader in the boutique fitness space, Orangetheory Fitness was originally introduced to Charlotte in 2014. Since then, popular demand has fueled the opening of now 13 total locations in the area, including another new studio that opened earlier this month.
There are fitness programs that focus on technology to track your stats and separately there are fitness programs that focus on great coaching to motivate you— but Orangetheory gives you the best of both worlds in one great workout. "Over the past few years, the Charlotte area has shown us its dedication to wellness and a healthy lifestyle. That's why we can't wait for residents of Matthews, regardless of their fitness level, to become part of the Orangetheory family and start seeing results from the science-backed, high-energy workout", said Empire's CEO, Adam Krell.
For more information on the Matthews Orangetheory Fitness studio and membership packages, please call 980-920-8151. Additional information on Orangetheory Fitness is available at www.orangetheory.com. Follow Orangetheory Fitness on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the latest news and trends.
Orangetheory® (www.orangetheory.com) makes it simple to get More Life from your workout. One of the world's fastest-growing franchise companies, Orangetheory has developed a unique approach to fitness that blends a unique trifecta of science, coaching and technology that work together seamlessly to elevate participants' heart rates to help burn more calories. Backed by the science of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), Orangetheory workouts incorporate endurance, strength and power to generate the "Orange Effect," whereby participants keep burning calories for up to 24 hours after a 60-minute workout. Orangetheory franchisees have opened over 1,500 studios in all 50 U.S. states and 25 countries.
Empire Portfolio Group, founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, is a leading franchisee and area representative of Orangetheory Fitness. Empire has over 130 Orangetheory Fitness studios across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit empireportfolio.com.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s government says it has received more than 5,000 doses of Ebola vaccines for a clinical trial to assess their protection against the Sudan strain of the virus that caused an outbreak with over 50 deaths.
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told journalists on Thursday that a global expert consultation will be held on Jan. 12 to determine when the trials should start.
That’s a day after the World Health Organization is expected to declare the Uganda outbreak over if no new cases are reported. According to WHO guidelines, an outbreak is declared over if there are no new infections within 42 days.
Uganda has recorded 142 cases including 56 deaths since the Ebola outbreak was announced in September. The Sudan strain of the virus, unlike the Zaire strain that has caused outbreaks in neighboring Congo in recent years, has no proven vaccine.
This outbreak, the first in a decade of the less common Sudan strain, is a chance for clinical trials of the three vaccines donated by the U.S.-based Sabin Vaccine Institute, University of Oxford and Merck.
Uganda’s health minister said participation in the trials will be voluntary, and the vaccines will not be used outside the trials.
She thanked the U.S., British and Canadian governments as well as international agencies like the WHO, the Health Emergency and Preparedness and Response Authority and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations for funding the trial process.
Ebola, which can sometimes manifest as a hemorrhagic fever, spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. The World Health Organization has said the fatality rate of the current outbreak is about 40%. | 2022-12-22T15:18:14+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/uganda-gets-ebola-vaccine-doses-for-trial-on-sudan-strain/N7AL6DFDEFE2DO4AO4CVIKICRI/ |
Enhancements and new features bring unmatched insights and automation to fermentation, from data collection for real-time decision-making to data analysis and automated cleaning
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision Fermentation®, a leading provider of technology for the fermentation industry, today announced BrewIQ, the next generation of its fermentation management solution. Harnessing insights and experience from more than 250 breweries and nearly 5,000 fermentations, BrewIQ (formerly known as BrewMonitor) gives brewers real-time visibility into fermentation, process automation with event-driven alerts for quickly addressing problems, and the ability to analyze data for more efficient, consistent and profitable production at scale.
"Brewers today face higher ingredient and labor costs and thinner operating margins," says Jared Resnick, CEO of Precision Fermentation. "With real-time data and the tools to glean valuable insights, brewers can overcome these challenges and turn out consistent, high-quality products more quickly to improve product quality and consistency and drive profits. BrewIQ is the result of input from hundreds of breweries of all types and production levels. We're excited to drive the brewing industry's evolution forward by solving the biggest problems brewers face today."
A complete, end-to-end fermentation monitoring system, BrewIQ delivers a return on investment in four to six months. New features and enhancements that shorten fermentation cycles, reduce costs and increase top-line revenue include:
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LGBTQ+ Pride month begins with protests, parades, parties
NEW YORK - The start of June marks the beginning of Pride month around the U.S. and some parts of the world, a season to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities and to protest against recent attacks on hard-won civil rights gains.
This year’s Pride takes place in a contentious political climate in which some state legislators have sought to ban drag shows, prohibit gender-affirming care and limit how teachers can talk about sexuality and gender in the classroom.
Events have been disrupted. Performers have been harassed. And in Colorado in November, five people were killed and several injured when a gunman shot them inside a gay nightclub.
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"What we’re seeing right now is probably the worst that it’s been since the early days, in terms of the demonization of our communities," said Jay W. Walker, one of the co-founders of the Reclaim Pride Coalition, a New York City-based group.
But that won’t stop people from coming out to mark Pride this month, he said.
"You can’t keep our communities down. No one can. It’s basic human rights," Walker said.
How it started
June has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement since New York City's first Pride march — then dubbed the "Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day" march — on June 28, 1970.
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That event marked an act of defiance from the year before, a 1969 uprising at New York City's Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the gay bar, a crowd partly led by trans women of color channeled their anger to confront authorities. It was a catalyst to what became a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights.
For more than a half-century, the annual marches have been an opportunity to demand action on specific issues such as the AIDS epidemic and same-sex marriage while also serving as a public celebration.
How it’s going
These days, Pride celebrations and events can be found all over the country.
Many of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Minneapolis — hold their main marches on the last weekend of June, while some cities host their events throughout the month or even at other times of the year.
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Along with the marches, Pride organizers fill the month of June with events ranging from readings and performances to parties and street festivals.
In Florida this weekend, Orlando-area theme parks and hotels will play host to annual Gay Days events, which are going ahead even after Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators passed a series of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, some of which barred classroom discussion of sexual orientation.
Pride events are happening globally as well, drawing major crowds in places including Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, Madrid and Toronto.
At some past events, there have been concerns about commercialism and corporate presence that overshadow real issues that are still unresolved.
In New York City for the past few years, there has been a second event on the same day of the larger Pride march. The Reclaim Pride Coalition says their event hearkens back to the spirit of protest that animated Stonewall.
The New York City Dyke March channels the idea that Pride is about protest, not just parades.
What are the flashpoints?
Pride parades had plenty to celebrate in recent years, such as in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
But the last several years have been more difficult; Pride events were restricted during the pandemic, and when they returned to in-person last year, it was with a sense of urgency, given the rise of hateful rhetoric and anti-LGBTQ legislative action.
Around the country, at least 17 states have put restrictions or bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors, and transgender athletes are facing restrictions at schools in at least 20 states.
"This is a year where sentiment is going to be revolving around resistance and about finding strength and community and centering our joy and our right to exist and our right to be here," said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign organization.
LGBTQ+ communities, Oakley said, need to "commit ourselves to continued resistance against the forces that are trying to prevent us from being our full, joyful, happy, thriving selves. ... And band together and fight back against the very oppressive forces that are coming for us." | 2023-06-01T22:48:45+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/lgbtq-pride-month-protests-parades-parties |
BROCK AND SALK
Huard: How new DL Mario Edwards fits the Seahawks’ defense
May 12, 2023, 12:20 PM
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The Seattle Seahawks kicked off rookie minicamp this week, but those young players aren’t the only new players coming to the Pacific Northwest.
While it hasn’t been made official yet, the Seahawks have reportedly agreed to a one-year deal with free-agent defensive lineman Mario Edwards, who is 29 years old.
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Edwards is 6 foot 3 and 280 pounds and was a second-round pick of the then-Oakland Raiders in 2015. He was most recently with the Tennessee Titans, where he had three sacks and 11 QB hits in 13 games last season.
So how does the big defensive lineman fit in with the Seahawks? Former NFL quarterback Brock Huard broke it down during this Friday’s Brock and Salk on Seattle Sports.
Edwards’ deal was first reported by ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and Brady Henderson Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the day, it was reported that the Seahawks and star receiver Tyler Lockett restructured his deal to free up some salary cap space. Huard said Friday that he initially wondered if that move was done in order to help with signing the team’s 10-man draft class and/or to go after a free-agent defensive lineman.
“If it was Ndamukong Suh, if it was Akiem Hicks, if it was one of those veteran pieces,” Huard said.
Ultimately, it was Edwards rather than those two, and Huard thinks there’s a few reasons why.
“No. 1, familiarity with scheme. He’s been in just about every scheme you could possibly be as a walrus. I think this is his seventh NFL team, so there’s not going to be any scheme that’s thrown his way – three-down (linemen), four-down, bear front – whatever it is, he’s going to be pretty comfortable with it,” he said. “No. 2, I think compared to those other guys I just mentioned, I think his age and his health. He’s just 29 years old. So you’re not looking (at someone in their) mid-30s, late-30s like some of those other guys. So while he has kicked around the league a long time and as far as teams go, I think there’s still an age factor there that they do like.”
When Huard thinks of Edwards, he thinks of great power, especially in his lower-half. He compared him to a former Seahawks’ defensive lineman.
“Think of like Quinton Jefferson but with legs and power,” Huard said. “Quinton was a good football player, a savvy football player and he is now in Buffalo and has kicked around this league in a bunch of different spots because he’s a savvy guy and he knows the game. Mario has just got a just a lot stronger lower half.”
Huard thinks Edwards profiles as an “elephant” defensive end, playing as a five-technique. Huard thinks Edwards may fit in that role better than Jefferson and another former Hawks’ D-lineman who left this offseason in free agency.
“He’s got a lot more power and strength than Quinton Jefferson does, he’s got more length than Poona Ford does,” Huard said. “So just a system fit, an ideal age, probably a very comfortable financial number for the Seahawks, and somebody that I think they’re pretty excited in-house to get done.”
Listen to the full second hour of Friday’s Brock and Salk at this link or in the player below.
Seattle Seahawks HC Pete Carroll talks defensive scheme, pass rushers, more | 2023-05-13T01:01:58+00:00 | sports.mynorthwest.com | https://sports.mynorthwest.com/1756466/huard-how-new-dl-mario-edwards-fits-seattle-seahawks-defense/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who has admitted to killing five members from a single family will be allowed to testify at the death penalty trial of his brother, who is charged in the same crime, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday.
George Wagner IV, his parents and his brother, Jake Wagner, were charged in the 2016 fatal shootings of the Rhoden family near Piketon in southern Ohio. Authorities say the shootings of seven adults and a teenage boy stemmed from a dispute over custody of a child that Jake Wagner had with one of the victims.
Jake Wagner pleaded guilty last year in the shootings, admitting to killing five of the victims as part of a plea deal with prosecutors that spared him from being sentenced to death. Wagner's mother, Angela Wagner, also pleaded guilty to helping plan the slayings.
John Parker, a lawyer representing George Wagner, argued Tuesday that the deal Jake Wagner struck with prosecutors limits his ability to conduct a thorough cross examination. Parker has said that Jake Wagner told prosecutors that his brother didn't shoot anyone.
Jake Wagner isn't in a position to testify truthfully because he faces the death penalty if he doesn't strictly obey the terms of his plea deal, Parker said. “Our right to confrontation is more or less meaningless because he’s got a script he has to follow,” he said.
Special prosecutor Andrew Wilson argued that there's nothing unusual about Jake Wagner's plea deal, and added that his testimony will be bolstered by other evidence implicating George Wagner.
Pike County Judge Randy Deering, without comment, denied Parker's request to keep Jake Wagner and his mother from testifying. Deering also denied a request from George Wagner's attorneys to drop charges that involve crimes committed outside Pike County.
Special prosecutor Angela Canepa argued that the defendants were in and out of Pike and Scioto counties the night of the crimes and the killings were part of a single course of conduct.
Jake and George’s father, George “Billy” Wagner III, has pleaded not guilty. | 2022-06-21T23:55:10+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-allows-testimony-against-man-accused-in-8-17256498.php |
Thousands of Kennedy assassination records released
(CNN) - The CIA said the agency has now released almost all its documents involving the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
On Thursday, the National Archives released nearly 13,000 government documents related to JFK’s assassination.
Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Congress passed legislation in 1992 requiring the release of all remaining government records about the assassination.
They gave the original deadline of 2017, but presidents have extended that deadline, including President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Biden ordered the documents released in a memo earlier in the day.
This is the largest dump of files from the National Archives’ JFK assassination record collection since 2018.
Biden has also ordered the remaining records to be publicly released by June 30, 2023.
For its part, the CIA reports that 95% of its records related to JFK have now been made public in their entirety.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Breaking is in Victor Montalvo’s blood. He is a descendant of twin breakers — his father and uncle — who were performing in Mexico long before they taught a young Montalvo to spin on his back.
Born in Kissimmee, Florida, the 28-year-old who also goes by B-Boy Victor has mastered the foundations of the dance form. He has power. He has the flavor and swagger expected of a diehard b-boy. His movement syncs with the breakbeat flowing from the DJ’s turntables.
Scribble, chirp, rip, boom, blip.
He hopes to take breaking further than his relatives ever dreamt, to battle his way to a medal ceremony, when the now-global dance art debuts at the Olympic Summer Games less than two years from now.
“I feel like I have a really high chance,” Montalvo told The Associated Press.
He is among dozens of champion b-boys and b-girls — a term for a male or female entrenched in the culture of hip hop — who are charting a path to the 2024 Games in Paris. The International Olympic Committee announced two years ago that breaking would become an official Olympic sport, a development that divided the breaking community between those excited for the larger platform and those concerned about the art form’s purity.
But after the Red Bull BC One World Final, held earlier this month in the birthplace of hip hop and a short distance from the very streets where Black and Puerto Rican New Yorkers pioneered the art of breaking, the field of Olympic competitors is starting to take shape. The Nov. 12 event also attracted some of the original b-boys and b-girls, as the hip hop community prepares to celebrate 50 years since the culture’s founding in 1973.
“You never thought that something you were doing for fun was going to go around the world,” said Douglas “Dancin’ Doug” Colón, a b-boy of the first generation of breakers from Harlem who beamed with pride over the dance form’s acceptance into the Olympics.
Along with Colón, first generation b-boy Trixie sat near a circular stage in the center of Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom. One by one, Red Bull BC One World Final competitors from Canada, China, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Venezuela took to the battle stage. The energy drink beverage company runs the world’s largest breaking competition.
The OGs offered blessings to their descendants by giving them dap — a friendly gesture of greeting in the Black and Latino communities that communicates solidarity and well wishes to the recipient. Joe Conzo, Jr, a photographer known in the community as “Joey Snapz,” who documented hip hop in the Bronx from its infancy, also sat stageside taking pictures of the Olympic hopefuls.
“Nothing’s going to change the culture, the culture stays the same,” Colón said. “Even though it’s now an Olympic sport, people back in the hood will still be doing their thing.”
Victor Alicea, a Red Bull BC One World Final judge, told the AP that judging competitions within the hip hop culture has always been very subjective. But that won’t be the case with the Paris Olympics, where officials will use a newly developed judging system to decide which b-boy or b-girl bested their opponent in one-on-one battles.
The Trivium judging system, created for the debut of breaking at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, is a digital scoring platform that allows judges to react in real time to breakers’ physical, artistic and interpretative qualities or their “body, mind and soul.” A panel of five judges scores each breaker on creativity, personality, technique, variety, performativity and musicality. The scores can adjust throughout the battle, based on how a breaker responds to their opponent.
Scores can be lowered if a breaker “bites,” or copies, a set of moves from their opponent. Misbehavior, such as deliberate physical contact with an opponent, and other unsportsmanlike conduct can also lower a breaker’s score.
“I look for someone that takes over the floor. It’s a battle. It’s not just you dance and then I dance. You’ve got to bring it,” said Alicea, who is also known as B-boy Kid Glyde.
Montalvo, who was ranked as the world’s top b-boy after a world championship competition in Paris last December, said his path to the Olympics will require intense training. It will also require more winning performances at competitions sanctioned by the World DanceSport Federation, an IOC-approved body administering the battles. Breakers who do well in those events score points that help them qualify for the Paris Games. Olympic qualifiers kick off in September and run through June 2024.
At the end of the process, 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls will be allowed to compete over two days at the iconic Place de la Concorde, an outdoor public square in Paris.
That gives Olympic hopefuls lots of opportunities to sharpen their skills for the high stakes battles.
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B-BOY VICTOR
What sets Montalvo apart from other b-boys, he said, is his command of judge-favored foundations of breaking: “toprock” moves, footwork, “downrock” moves done closer to the floor, “power” moves showing acrobatics and strength, along with the classic “headspins,” “windmills” and “freeze” poses.
“I feel like the foundations are the most important thing,” he said. “I see a lot of dancers doing big moves, but then they don’t have those small details. They don’t know how to get out of those big moves. It’s important to create a story, and the foundations are like creating a story.”
B-BOY YU-KI
During a Red Bull BC One quarterfinal round battle against Japan’s Yuki Minatozaki, Montalvo transitioned from a windmill into a downrock move in which his legs moved back and forth so quickly that they looked like turning Double Dutch ropes. Minatozaki responded with a smirk, half-hearted applause and sarcastic thumbs up — all in the spirit of good sportsmanship — before exploding into a headspin and showcasing energetic standing footwork.
“It feels great that the sport now has a lot more eyeballs on it,” Minatozaki, who goes by B-boy Yu-Ki, told the AP through a translator. The 23-year-old has been breaking since the age of five. He intends to seek a spot in the Paris Games, he said.
Minatozaki lost his battle against Montalvo, who also went on to the final to defeat Lee-Lou Demierre of the Netherlands, another likely Olympic contender. That victory did not earn Montalvo points toward qualifying for the Olympics.
B-GIRL INDIA
India Sardjoe, a 16-year-old breaker from the Netherlands, won the Red Bull BC One World Final b-girl title. She said she planned to focus next on competing in crew battles – this entails a team of breakers competing against another for a group title and bragging rights, reminiscent of breaking’s roots in the Bronx. Sardjoe was fresh off of claiming the top honor at the European Breaking Championships, a WDSF event held in Manchester, England on Nov. 6.
The Red Bull title is an accomplishment, nonetheless.
“I had to battle the defending champion, so that’s not nothing,” Sardjoe said. “But I was super happy to battle against her.”
B-GIRL LOGISTX
Sardjoe defeated 19-year-old Logan Edra, also known as B-girl Logistx, who won last year’s Red Bull BC One World Final in Gdansk, Poland. Hailing from San Diego, Edra began breaking at age eight, after first training in ballet and jazz. Her father nudged her into hip hop lessons.
Like Sardjoe and Montalvo, Edra told the AP she will compete in WDSF events over the next year and half for a spot in the Olympics. On Saturday, she competed in the Breaking for Gold Challenge Series in Tokyo and took home a silver medal behind Lithuania’s Dominika Banevič, known as B-Girl Nicka, who won gold.
“I’m competing against the best of the best,” Edra said. “Because I have such a high standard for myself, I try to out-train everybody. The training is crazy — I’ve got bruises on my elbows and my knees from practicing moves over and over. It’s a lot of commitment because we don’t have as many resources as other sports do.”
B-GIRL ISIS
Isis Alexandra Granda Chalen, a b-girl who grew up in Ecuador before moving to the U.S., started young in ballet, folk and contemporary dance. But breaking spoke to her rebellious nature, particularly at a time when she questioned if those other dance forms were aligned with her dreams.
“The moment that I understood that I have more responsibility for myself, I put more work into breaking and I got the opportunities to be here,” Chalen, 27, said ahead of the Red Bull BC One World Final.
“Now, we’re going to do this transition, from artists to athletes,” she said of her Olympic dreams. “It’s a big opportunity for every country. I came from Latin America, where there aren’t as many opportunities. But the Olympics are for everybody.”
B-GIRL SUNNY
Sunny Choi, a Queens, New York-based b-girl who won the 2022 Red Bull BC One Cypher USA in September, said there’s an accessibility to the art and sport of breaking that will make it a huge draw at the Paris Olympics. She hopes to earn a spot on the U.S. team.
“We have a lot of diversity in breaking, which is really beautiful about what we do, because there aren’t many financial barriers to entry,” Choi told the AP. “If you have a clean floor and, nowadays, access to YouTube or something where you can learn, and some music, you can just do this on your own.”
She said her nascent Olympic journey has already required personal and professional sacrifices that initially had her questioning if she wanted to compete at all.
“I’m one of those all or nothing people,” Choi said. “I’ve done a lot of soul searching to remove some of the mental blocks. I feel like this journey is going to pull out a lot from me and I just need to be ready for that.”
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Aaron Morrison is a New York City-based national writer and member of the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aaronlmorrison. | 2022-11-22T20:12:56+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/break-it-down-dancers-begin-charting-path-to-paris-olympics/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heffernan Insurance Brokers, one of the largest full-service, independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States, acquired Beals Insurance Agency located in Ventura, Calif. Charley Beals, president of Beals, joined Heffernan Insurance Brokers effective August 1, 2022.
Charley Beals has over 19 years of experience in the insurance industry and founded Beals Insurance Agency in 2014. He will be joining Heffernan's HeffDirect division, combining the two firms' specialty in residential long-term care facilities for the elderly.
"We are very excited to be partnering with Heffernan and feel that the substantial resources available to us through this partnership will allow an unparalleled customer experience and position us to bring a level of service that the industry has never seen," said Charley Beals, now Vice President at Heffernan Insurance Brokers.
"We're looking forward to partnering with Charley Beals to provide an excellent customer experience and expanded resources to his loyal clients," said F. Michael Heffernan, President and CEO of Heffernan Insurance Brokers. "With a focus on residential long term care facilities, Beals is a welcome compliment to Heffernan's existing expertise, and we're confident we will deliver great products and services to existing clients while also seeking new opportunities."
As part of the next phase of Heffernan's growth strategy, we are interested in collaborating with privately held independent brokers across the United States. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Matt McKenna, Director of Corporate Development, at 925-746-7962 or matthewmc@heffgroup.com.
Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides insurance and financial services products to a range of businesses and individuals. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., Heffernan has offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Menlo Park, Truckee, Bakersfield, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles and Irvine, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Seattle and Olympia, WA; St. Louis, MO; Philadelphia, PA; and London UK.
Employee-owned, Heffernan Insurance Brokers was named the Top Mid-Sized Broker in the United States to work for in 2009 by Business Insurance Magazine. The firm has been among the Top Greater Bay Area Philanthropists since 2003.
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Together, Feeding Georgia leads a statewide effort to end hunger in Georgia
ATLANTA, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Food Bank Association announced today that it has changed its name to Feeding Georgia to better reflect the broad scope of its work to end hunger in Georgia, as well as its longstanding ties to its national partner, Feeding America.
Feeding Georgia acts not only as an association of seven member food banks but also as a provider of education and advocacy to end hunger in the state. Its goal is to build a path to a healthier, food-secure Georgia.
"With collaboration at our core, we believe we're at our strongest when we are working together – working with member food banks and their incredibly strong network of partner agencies; with our state and federal partners; and with generous communities who want to help their hungry neighbors," said Executive Director, Danah Craft. "Together, we are Feeding Georgia."
Georgia food banks and the statewide network continue to respond to an increase in demand for food assistance that is 30% above pre-pandemic levels. As pandemic relief programs unwind and low-income families struggle with rising food and fuel costs, Feeding Georgia's network of food banks and community partners will serve Georgians through innovation and collaboration.
"In 2020 when the pandemic hit and demand surged up to 60%, we provided a unified voice to advocate for resources that our food banks needed to respond, and they stepped up to meet the need in their communities. By working together – and with the support of generous donors and state and federal partners – we were fortified as a network and able to provide resources to communities across the state despite all challenges," said Craft. "Our organization will continue to advocate for more funding and resources, and we will seek out partnership opportunities for our network in the fight against hunger."
About Feeding Georgia
Feeding Georgia comprises seven regional Feeding America food banks, amplifying their impact through education, collaboration, and advocacy in a statewide effort to end hunger in Georgia. Founded in 1985, Feeding Georgia distributes over 180 million pounds of food through more than 2,000 partner agencies across Georgia each year. Its member food banks include Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, Golden Harvest Food Bank, America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, Middle Georgia Community Food Bank, Feeding the Valley Food Bank, Atlanta Community Food Bank with Georgia Mountain Food Bank, and Chattanooga Area Food Bank (Food Bank of Northwest Georgia). To learn more, visit www.FeedingGeorgia.org.
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Dubai’s next big thing? Perhaps a $5 billion man-made ‘moon’ as the city’s real estate market booms
By NICK EL HAJJ
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Who says you cannot reach for the moon? A proposed $5 billion real estate project wants to take skyscraper-studded Dubai to new heights — by bringing a symbol of the heavens down to Earth.
Canadian entrepreneur Michael Henderson envisions building a 274-meter (900-foot) replica of the moon atop a 30-meter (100-foot) building in Dubai, already home to the world’s tallest building and other architectural wonders.
Henderson’s project, dubbed MOON, may sound out of this world, but it could easily fit in this futuristic city-state. Dubai already has a red-hot real estate market, fueled by the wealthy who fled restrictions imposed in their home countries during the coronavirus pandemic and Russians seeking refuge amid Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
And even though a previous booms-and-bust cycle saw many grand projects collapse, Henderson and others suggest his vision, funded by Moon World Resorts Inc., where he is the co-founder, might not be that far-fetched.
“We have the biggest ‘brand’ in the world,” Henderson told The Associated Press, alluding that the moon itself — the heavenly body — was his brand. “Eight billion people know our brand, and we haven’t even started yet.”
The project Henderson proposes includes a destination resort inside the spherical structure, complete with a 4,000-room hotel, an arena capable of hosting 10,000 people and a “lunar colony” that would give guests the sensation of actually walking on the moon.
The MOON would sit on a pedestal-like circular building beneath it and would glow at night. Henderson discussed the project at the Arabian Travel Market earlier in May in Dubai.
Already, artist renderings commissioned by Moon World Resorts have played with the location for his MOON — including at the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building at a height of 828 meters (2,710 feet). Others have placed it at the Dubai Pearl, a long-dormant project now being destroyed near the man-made Palm Jumeirah archipelago, and on its unfinished sister, the Palm Jebel Ali.
The Pearl and the Palm Jebel Ali represent two “white elephant” projects left over from the 2009 financial crisis that rocked the sheikhdom and forced Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to provide Dubai with a $20 billion bailout.
Now nearly 15 years later, Dubai largely has turned around. Rents on average across Dubai are up 26.9% year-on-year, even with anti-price-gouging protections. Dubai saw 86,849 residential sales last year, beating a previous record of 80,831 from 2009.
“Dubai is in a completely different world compared to” 2009, said Lewis Allsopp, the CEO of the prominent Dubai real estate agency Allsopp & Allsopp. Launched products are “selling out on the spot.”
Inflation and interest rate hikes around the world have led to fears of a global recession. The UAE’s currency, the dirham, is pegged to the dollar, meaning it has followed lock-step the hikes imposed by the Federal Reserve.
But cash still remains king for Dubai buyers, with fourth-fifths of transactions paid in currency without financing in 2022, said Faisal Durrani, the head of Middle East research at real estate agency Knight Frank.
“You could argue that the interest rate hikes that are taking place, to an extent the market is a little bit shielded from that given the fact that so much of the transactional activity has been driven by cash,” Durrani said.
Other major projects are moving ahead.
Nakheel, the state-owned developer behind the Palm Jebel Ali, has relaunched development plans for it. The developer also unveiled a multibillion-dollar plan to build 80 resorts and hotels on the man-made Dubai Islands, though it remains largely empty and under the flight path of the nearby Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel.
The MOON project also includes space for a possible casino as well. Gambling remains illegal in the UAE, a federation of seven hereditarily ruled sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula. However, major brands like Caesar’s Palace already exist or hope to build in Dubai. Wynn Resorts plans to build a $3.9 resort in Ras al-Khaimah north of Dubai with gambling to open in 2027 — meaning a change to the law is likely to come.
Like other high-profile, eye-catching marvels, the MOON could fit well into “the legitimacy formula of Dubai’s ruling elite,” said Christopher Davidson, a Middle East expert who wrote the recent book “From Sheikhs to Sultanism.” Dubai also hosts the UAE’s space center, which has sent a probe to Mars and unsuccessfully tried to put a rover on the moon.
“They can be seen as a non-democratic elite but nonetheless believe strongly in science and progress — and that’s ultimately very legitimizing and a megaproject like this would seem to tick all of those boxes,” Davidson said.
Henderson’s plan would go a step further than other globe-shaped projects, such as the MSG Sphere, a $2.3 billion dome blanketed by LED screens, that is set to open in Las Vegas later this year.
His structure would be fully spherical, and could be illuminated alternatively as a full, half or crescent moon.
The brightness may not go down well with potential neighbors — plans to build another MSG Sphere in London were halted after residents protested the significant light pollution and disruption the structure would cause.
“It’s hard to please everybody,” Henderson acknowledged. “You might need dark curtains.”
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Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. | 2023-05-19T08:11:55+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2023/05/18/dubais-next-big-thing-perhaps-a-5-billion-man-made-moon-as-the-citys-real-estate-market-booms/ |
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