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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to tour a clean energy technology manufacturer in suburban Minneapolis on Monday as part of his effort to highlight his investment agenda ahead of an expected reelection campaign.
Biden plans to highlight job growth and investments nationwide while pushing clean energy and manufacturing in the U.S. during his visit to engine maker Cummins Inc. The company intends to announce in conjunction with the Democratic president’s visit that it’s investing more than $1 billion in its U.S. engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York to update facilities so they can produce low- to zero-carbon engines.
According to the White House, Biden’s economic plan has led to $2.7 billion in federal funding for roughly 182 infrastructure projects across Minnesota, including transportation projects and better access to clean water.
The president regularly highlights the CHIPS Act, the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, the $1 trillion infrastructure legislation and a roughly $375 billion climate bill — major legislation that his administration steered into law before Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans.
Now the administration is looking for ways to contrast its agenda and a proposed budget that includes $2.6 trillion in new spending with Republicans’ plans for spending and economic growth. Republicans have rejected Biden’s budget but have yet to unveil a counteroffer to the Democrats’ blueprint, which is built around tax increases on the wealthy and a vision statement of sorts for Biden’s yet-to-be-declared 2024 campaign.
Other members of Biden’s administration are traveling to more than 20 states this week to buttress his message. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, for example, is visiting Connecticut on Monday for a fireside chat at Yale University on the economic agenda. And first lady Jill Biden this week visits Colorado, Michigan, Maine and Vermont to discuss investments in education. | 2023-04-03T11:56:33+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/biden-to-push-clean-energy-economic-agenda-in-minneapolis/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
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Note: x - clinched playoff berth; 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
Saskatoon 4 Edmonton 0
Red Deer 5 Portland 4 (SO)
Prince George 5 Kelowna 1
Wednesday's results
Moose Jaw 6 Edmonton 3
Winnipeg 8 Calgary 2
Prince George 7 Kelowna 2
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 7 Calgary 6
Friday's results
Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 0
Brandon 4 Edmonton 1
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | 2023-02-11T04:17:37+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17778067.php |
(The Conversation) – Intensive livestock farming is a huge global industry that serves up millions of tons of beef, pork and poultry every year. When I asked one producer recently to name something his industry thinks about that consumers don’t, he replied, “Beaks and butts.” This was his shorthand for animal parts that consumers – especially in wealthy nations – don’t choose to eat.
On Thanksgiving, turkeys will adorn close to 90 percent of U.S. dinner tables. But one part of the bird never makes it to the groaning board, or even to the giblet bag: the tail. The fate of this fatty chunk of meat shows us the bizarre inner workings of our global food system, where eating more of one food produces less-desirable cuts and parts. This then creates demand elsewhere – so successfully in some instances that the foreign part becomes, over time, a national delicacy.
Spare parts
Industrial-scale livestock production evolved after World War II, supported by scientific advances such as antibiotics, growth hormones and, in the case of the turkey, artificial insemination. (The bigger the tom, the harder it is for him to do what he’s supposed to do: procreate.)
U.S. commercial turkey production increased from 16 million pounds in January 1960 to 500 million pounds in January 2017.
That includes a quarter-billion turkey tails, also known as the parson’s nose, pope’s nose or sultan’s nose. The tail is actually a gland that attaches the turkey’s feathers to its body. It is filled with oil that the bird uses to preen itself, so about 75 percent of its calories come from fat.
It’s not clear why turkeys arrive at U.S. stores tailless. Industry insiders have suggested to me that it may simply have been an economic decision. Turkey consumption was a novelty for most consumers before World War II, so few developed a taste for the tail, although the curious can find recipes online. Turkeys have become larger, averaging around 30 pounds today compared to 13 pounds in the 1930s. We’ve also been breeding for breast size, due to the American love affair with white meat: One prized early big-breasted variety was called Bronze Mae West. Yet the tail remains.
Savored in Samoa
Rather than letting turkey tails go to waste, the poultry industry saw a business opportunity. The target: Pacific Island communities, where animal protein was scarce. In the 1950s U.S. poultry firms began dumping turkey tails, along with chicken backs, into markets in Samoa. (Not to be outdone, New Zealand and Australia exported “mutton flaps,” also known as sheep bellies, to the Pacific Islands.) With this strategy, the turkey industry turned waste into gold.
By 2007 the average Samoan was consuming more than 44 pounds of turkey tails every year – a food that had been unknown there less than a century earlier. That’s nearly triple Americans’ annual per capita turkey consumption.
When I interviewed Samoans for my book “No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise,” it was immediately clear that some considered this once-foreign food part of their island’s national cuisine. When I asked them to list popular “Samoan foods,” multiple people mentioned turkey tails – frequently washed down with a cold Budweiser.
How did imported turkey tails become a favorite among Samoa’s working class? Here lies a lesson for health educators: The tastes of iconic foods cannot be separated from the environments in which they are eaten. The more convivial the atmosphere, the more likely people will be to have positive associations with the food.
Food companies have known this for generations. It’s why Coca-Cola has been ubiquitous in baseball parks for more than a century, and why many McDonald’s have PlayPlaces. It also explains our attachment to turkey and other classics at Thanksgiving. The holidays can be stressful, but they also are a lot of fun.
As Julia, a 20-something Samoan, explained to me, “You have to understand that we eat turkey tails at home with family. It’s a social food, not something you’ll eat when you’re alone.”
Turkey tails also come up in discussions of the health epidemic gripping these islands. American Samoa has an obesity rate of 75 percent. Samoan officials grew so concerned that they banned turkey tail imports in 2007.
But asking Samoans to abandon this cherished food overlooked its deep social attachments. Moreover, under World Trade Organization rules, countries and territories generally cannot unilaterally ban the import of commodities unless there are proven public health reasons for doing so. Samoa was forced to lift its ban in 2013 as a condition of joining the WTO, notwithstanding its health worries.Author Michael Carolan cooks turkey tails for the first time.
Embracing the whole animal
If Americans were more interested in eating turkey tails, some of our supply might stay at home. Can we bring back so called nose-to-tail animal consumption? This trend has gaining some ground in the United States, but mainly in a narrow foodie niche.
Beyond Americans’ general squeamishness toward offal and tails, we have a knowledge problem. Who even knows how to carve a turkey anymore? Challenging diners to select, prepare and eat whole animals is a pretty big ask.
Google’s digitization of old cookbooks shows us that it wasn’t always so. “The American Home Cook Book,” published in 1864, instructs readers when choosing lamb to “observe the neck vein in the fore quarter, which should be of an azure-blue to denote quality and sweetness.” Or when selecting venison, “pass a knife along the bones of the haunches of the shoulders; if it smell [sic] sweet, the meat is new and good; if tainted, the fleshy parts of the side will look discolored, and the darker in proportion to its staleness.” Clearly, our ancestors knew food very differently than we do today.
It is not that we don’t know how to judge quality anymore. But the yardstick we use is calibrated – intentionally, as I’ve learned – against a different standard. The modern industrial food system has trained consumers to prioritize quantity and convenience, and to judge freshness based on sell-by-date stickers. Food that is processed and sold in convenient portions takes a lot of the thinking process out of eating.
If this picture is bothersome, think about taking steps to recalibrate that yardstick. Maybe add a few heirloom ingredients to beloved holiday dishes and talk about what makes them special, perhaps while showing the kids how to judge a fruit or vegetable’s ripeness. Or even roast some turkey tails.
This article was originally published by The Conversation on November 12, 2017. | 2022-11-21T01:55:12+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/the-strange-story-of-turkey-tails/ |
Apaches get new chance to argue mine will harm sacred sites
By ANITA SNOW
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — An Apache group battling a foreign firm that wants to build one of the largest U.S. copper mines on what tribal members say is sacred land is getting a new chance to make its point to a full federal appeals court panel. The 11-member panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals meets Tuesday to review the appeal by Apache Stronghold to save Oak Flat, a site east of Phoenix that the group considers sacred. A smaller 9th Circuit panel previously ruled 2-1 that the federal government could give the Oak Flat land to Resolution Copper for a mining project that would swallow the site, ending Apache religious practices there. Resolution Copper says it will continue trying to address concerns. | 2023-03-21T06:34:43+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/20/apaches-get-new-chance-to-argue-mine-will-harm-sacred-sites-2/ |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nikola Jokic was back in Denver’s starting lineup Tuesday night against New Orleans after missing the Nuggets’ previous two games because of tightness in his left hamstring.
The 7-foot center from Serbia is a two-time NBA MVP. He’s averaging 25.1 points, 11 rebounds and 9.9 assists this season.
His return comes against a Pelicans squad missing two if its top offensive players in Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram.
Pelicans coach Willie Green said before tipoff that if Jokic returned, it would complicate his game plan.
“He’s a great player for a reason, because he makes it very difficult on coaching staffs to figure him out. He makes it difficult on teams and players,” Green said. “Guys that touch the ball that much, they’re going to have an impact on the game at some point.”
The Nuggets entered the night leading the Western Conference with a 33-14 record. They have gone 3-3 in the six games Jokic has missed, including a loss in their previous game against Oklahoma City on Sunday that snapped a nine-game winning streak.
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TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- About 20 field organizers with the Kansas Democratic Party joined Teamsters Local 696 and have been recognized by the party's leadership.
The new bargaining unit made up of temporary workers organized earlier this month, becoming the latest group of campaign workers to join the union. The Teamsters have been a leader in organizing campaign workers nationally, highlighted by its representation of President Biden's staff during the 2020 election. The union also represents workers with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Iowa Democratic Party, and the Georgia Democratic Party, among others.
"Campaign workers have been overworked and underappreciated for too long," said Matt Hall, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 696. "We look forward to working toward improving their working conditions."
"We chose to join the Teamsters because of this union's history of standing up for campaign workers," said Santiago Vasquez, a field organizer with the Kansas Democratic Party. "We are now just asking the party to negotiate in good faith."
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BENGALURU, India (AP) — Life for many in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru was disrupted on Tuesday after two days of torrential rains set off long traffic snarls, widespread power cuts and heavy floods that swept into homes and submerged roads.
With several parts of the city still heavily waterlogged, videos on social media showed people hopping onto tractors to get to work. Many schools were shut on Monday over the heavy downpours and authorities have warned of interruptions to the water supply. Boats were deployed to rescue people submerged in floodwaters.
The city, dubbed India’s tech capital, is home to several technology companies and many of their offices have been lashed by the rains, prompting employees to work from home.
Even though September is usually the wettest month in Bengaluru, this year has seen more rains than normal.
The two zones that make up the city, Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural, have seen 141% and 114% excess rainfall respectively. On Monday night, 131.6 millimeters (5.2 inches) of rain was recorded, making it the wettest September day in the last eight years.
According to the India Meteorological Department, Karnataka, the southern state that’s home to Bengaluru, is among the regions that have received maximum rainfall this year. It has seen 34% more rainfall in the past three months than what it usually receives this time of the year.
While there is no direct connection between the excessive rains in Bengaluru and climate change, there is growing evidence that the monsoons, the most important weather system for the Indian subcontinent, are being altered due to climate change. Scientists say this is making extreme events such as excess rainfall the new normal. | 2022-09-06T19:02:18+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/science/ap-science/ap-indias-bengaluru-flooded-after-days-of-torrential-rains/ |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, June 10, 2022
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OneShield, a leading enterprise and cloud-based solutions provider for fast-growing and established insurers, is proud to announce its strategic collaboration with HAI Group. HAI Group, the nation's leading member-owned property-casualty insurance company for the affordable housing industry, has chosen OneShield's cutting-edge Enterprise 7.0 platform to revolutionize its business operations.
Headquartered in Cheshire, Connecticut, HAI Group operates in 48 states and the District of Columbia, offering a range of commercial insurance products. Recognizing the need for transformative change, HAI Group's executive team embarked on an extensive search for the ideal platform to optimize their business operations and handle the complexities of their policyholder accounts. OneShield Enterprise's platform emerged as HAI Group's top choice, offering robust insurance capabilities, extensive experience with AAIS products, and proficiency in managing large schedules.
"Our partnership with OneShield has offered us a clear path to our complex technology transformation," stated Troy LePage, HAI Group's Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. "OneShield Enterprise provides us with commercial lines experience, prebuilt insurance processes, as well as reusable workflows and use cases that are critical to our transformative journey. Their partnership approach, deep insurance expertise, and in-house consulting services have all proved extremely beneficial."
OneShield Enterprise offers a comprehensive suite of insurance solutions, delivering a unified platform for all lines of business and deployment options. Its highly configurable nature empowers clients to prepare for future needs with minimal limitations. At the same time, the seamless upgrade path ensures continuous service enhancements, eliminating the burden of large-scale upgrade costs.
"We are thrilled to join forces with HAI Group in their pursuit of digital transformation," announced Cameron Parker, Chief Executive Officer of OneShield. "Our full Enterprise Suite offers the comprehensive capabilities and advanced technology that HAI Group sought to elevate their operations, enhance customer experience, and drive substantial growth. We eagerly anticipate a successful partnership with HAI Group and the remarkable results we will achieve together."
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Walgreens expects to close 150 US stores, CFO says
Walgreens says it expects to close 150 stores nationwide and 300 stores in the United Kingdom, according to multiple reports.
Walgreens Boots Alliance CFO James Kehoe announced the closings during the pharmacy company’s earnings call on June 27.
FOX Television Stations reached out to Walgreens for comment.
The Chicago-based company, which operates 9,000 stores in the U.S., is expected to close the 150 locations on Aug. 31, 2024, the end of its next fiscal year, CNN noted.
RELATED: CVS, Walmart cut pharmacy hours as pharmacist shortage persists
USA Today reported that Walgreens is also cutting over 500 corporate personnel jobs as part of a cost-saving strategy.
However, Walgreens didn’t say which stores are closing.
Citing a transcript from the earnings call, USA Today reported that Kehoe shared that the company lowered its earning expectations for the year, but Walgreens expects to have saved $3.3 billion by the end of 2023 and another $800,000 in 2024.
Walgreens made $118 in net income last quarter and is dealing with a decline in consumer spending and less demand for COVID-19 vaccines, CNN reported.
This story was reported from Washington, D.C. | 2023-07-03T17:40:49+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/walgreens-expects-to-close-150-us-stores-cfo-says |
Childhood obesity is at epidemic rates.
“We started seeing weights status change dramatically through the ‘90s and then it became very evident by the early 2000s that something very different was going on.”
“Every single day that I am in clinic, I’m caring for a child with obesity,” Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha says. “I can probably only find a handful of successful stories where we were able to reverse that obesity.”
So the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines. Things like Family counseling, healthier diets.
“I literally would tell my patients, ‘You need to eat better. Consider things like avocados and kale,'” Dr. Hanna-Attisha says. “And my parents would literally just stare at me, ‘Where am I going to get that? Like, where am I going to afford to buy that?’”
The guidelines go farther. They suggest medicines and even surgery for children at ever younger ages.
Today, On Point: How to treat childhood obesity in America.
Guests
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician at Hurley Children’s Clinic in Flint. Professor of public health at Michigan State University and founding director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative. Author What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City. (@MonaHannaA)
Dr. Christopher Bolling. One of the lead authors of the American Academy of Pediatrics new guidelines on treating childhood obesity. Volunteer professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. Community Partner with The Center for Better Health and Nutrition at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Also Featured
Santana Lee, mother of 9, an emotional support aide in Milwaukee public schools. She lives in a food desert.
Star Simmons, grandmother of a 13-year-old with obesity in Washington, D.C. She works with children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Transcript
MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician at Hurley Children’s Clinic in Flint, Michigan. She’s also a professor of public health at Michigan State University and founding director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative. And she joins us today. Dr. Hanna-Attisha, welcome back to On Point.
MONA HANNA-ATTISHA: It’s great to be here with you.
CHAKRABARTI: On any given week. Dr. Mona, how often do you see children in your clinic who’d be considered technically obese?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Absolutely. Every single day in clinic I am caring for children who are obese.
CHAKRABARTI: Every day?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Every day.
CHAKRABARTI: And what ages are we talking about here?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Oh, as young as two, maybe even younger. You know, our growth charts have been unable to catch up with the weights and the BMI’s that we see in our clinic.
CHAKRABARTI: As young as two and then obviously as old as 16, 17, 18.
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yeah, absolutely.
CHAKRABARTI: Wow. And was it always like this?
HANNA-ATTISHA: It’s gotten worse. Absolutely. So I work in an underserved community. In Flint, Michigan, it’s really hard for folks to find healthy food. It’s hard for kids to go outside and play because of safety reasons. There’s, you know, a lot of reasons why these rates have been climbing year after year after year. And we just haven’t had the tools to be able to treat patients properly.
CHAKRABARTI: And so then what other kinds of health concerns or considerations are related to the child’s obesity that you see?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yeah. So there’s all kind of a whole milieu of things that are consequences of a child being obese. It impacts their mental health. They are often bullied, made fun of at school. In the home environment, they have low self-esteem. So the mental health issue is real for children with obesity, but there’s also significant health complications, high cholesterol, hypertension, which is high blood pressure, you know, bone and orthopedic issues.
So there’s, you know, many, many complications and long-term chronic consequences of being obese. Kids who are obese grow up to be young adults who are obese, who grow up to be adults who are obese. So it’s really important that we can identify this and address it and really reverse it. Prevent it, ideally, in childhood.
CHAKRABARTI: Now, of course, weight is such a sensitive issue, no matter who you are. So how do you how do you talk about it during your appointments with these families?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yeah, that’s a that’s a great question. And that’s what I love about these new guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics is, you know, really focuses the attention on not so much the patient, but also kind of the society and the community and the policies that have created this epidemic of obesity. When I am sitting with a patient, you know, humbly kind of shoulder to shoulder with them, I am listening, I am empathizing, and I am understanding that this is not their fault, and this is not their family’s fault.
When you think about things like marketing and sugar subsidies and, you know, the impact of the built environment and racism and poverty, all of these interconnected and complex issues have created the child in front of me with this significant health issue. So the first thing I do is I empathize. I listen, I try to assess where they’re at, you know, and what they want to do about it. And it’s a long term continuity of care model that we have to follow to make sure that, you know, that we can help kids and families through this.
CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Now, you mentioned the new guidelines that have just recently been released by the American Academy of Pediatrics. That is the reason why we’re doing this show today, because it’s the first ever set of guidelines that the American Academy of Pediatrics has put out to physicians and clinicians about how to help treat children with obesity in this country. And I’d also like to put out some numbers here, because I’m looking at some of the latest CDC data that runs through 2020.
And CDC reports that the prevalence of obesity in American children between the ages of two and 19 was 19.7% of all American kids. So 14.7 million kids and adolescents. That’s for those children considered obese, which is a body mass index at or above the 95th percentile in this country, for children of given their age and sex. When we would add in children who are not technically obese, but overweight, Dr. Mona, how many additional children would you be thinking about in your practice?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Oh, my goodness. It far exceeds the majority. So it’s well over 50% of children in our practice who are in both categories, overweight and obese.
CHAKRABARTI: So … essentially weight is a major factor in how you consider how to treat the kids who you see.
HANNA-ATTISHA: Absolutely. It’s a major factor. And we really have limited resources to be able to properly address it. You know, we notice this as an issue, you know, years ago in our practice, and we’ve tried to do preventative things. We moved our pediatric clinic to the second floor of a farmer’s market. I mean, it’s the only clinic that I know that’s co-located in a farmer’s market, to try to, you know, preventively address this issue.
Every single kid that comes to our clinic gets a prescription for healthy fruits and vegetables that they fill the farmer’s market. You know, we’re trying to address transportation barriers. We have an embedded dietitian and a social worker and psychologists. But it’s not enough. So we definitely need more tools in our doctor’s bag to be able to address this epidemic.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, I’m glad you mentioned that, because we’re already getting a lot of comments from listeners, which I’ll share a little later in the show about the food supply in this country. And we will definitely talk about that in detail. But Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, if you could just hang on for just a second. I now want to introduce Dr. Christopher Bolling into the program.
He is one of the lead authors of this new set of guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a pediatrician who just retired after 31 years in practice. Dr. Bolling, welcome to On Point.
CHRISTOPHER BOLLING: Thank you, Meghna. It’s really truly a pleasure to be here and also to be here with Mona, who’s a bit of a rock star in pediatrics for everything she’s done in Flint, really.
CHAKRABARTI: … Let me ask you. So 31 years of practice, it just so happens your experience in the clinic, Dr. Bolling overlaps almost exactly with the time period in which we’ve seen this dramatic rise in obesity in all Americans, but especially in children. So take us back to the beginning of when you first became a newly minted pediatrician. How often did you see a child who was obese, say, in the in the ’90s?
BOLLING: You’re really spot on with that. It really started, we started seeing something happen in the early ’90s. And there were a lot of things that we think were going on. The growth charts really were set in stone probably in the seventies and eighties and we saw a decoupling where we saw a real increase in the number of kids who had obesity and who had overweight statuses.
So we saw it really begin to accelerate. And if you look at CDC data over those many years, there just was a steady progression. You know, certain areas were affected more severely than others. As Mona very eloquently stated, some of our kids of color or some of our kids in lower socioeconomic status groups really suffered disproportionately, but it really affected the entire country.
There were little pockets that looked better, but it was just a continuous march. And we really saw an abrupt worsening with the pandemic as well. It’s just been a constant move toward greater and greater number of kids who suffer from this chronic disease.
CHAKRABARTI: So for you, in your personal experience, it sounds like it wasn’t necessarily that central of an aspect of how you treated children in your practice 30 years ago. Or should I say, was it? Versus how central the issue of being overweight or obese was in your practice upon your retirement?
BOLLING: Oh, it definitely became much more of an issue as we went along. I have been involved in this work for about the past 20 years or so. I have a bit of a background in preventive cardiology and fitness and health, and I revisited that about 20 years ago and started doing some work in pediatric obesity. And that was when we really started seeing a large increase in the number of patients. We started seeing kids with co-morbidities of obesity that we had not seen in children before, children with type two diabetes, children, as Mona mentioned, with high blood pressure, children with sleep apnea, children with orthopedic complications from their obesity, just a wide variety of complications that we had never seen in kids before.
CHAKRABARTI: So we’re going to talk about the guidelines specifically here in just a few minutes. But Dr. Mona, can I turn back to you? I have to say, it’s so heartbreaking to hear that there are children in this country and many of them who even before they enter the creepiness of middle and old age are suffering from things like high blood pressure. I mean, it’s astounding to hear.
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yes, and it’s totally preventable. And I think that’s what’s most maddening. You know, we shouldn’t have to be caring for so many children with this chronic disease. We can prevent it, especially when we address kind of the public health and the policy solutions. And I know it wasn’t part of this guideline. And there’s a forthcoming guideline that specifically looking at the prevention aspect.
But we spend billions, trillions of dollars addressing things like hypertension and diabetes and chronic disease in all these chronic diseases. But, you know, if we spend a little more on preventing this, making sure kids do have access to healthy foods and they do have that economic stability to be able to provide for their families and transportations and, you know, safe places to play. So, you know, this is touched on in the guidelines, which is fantastic. But I really look forward to those conversations where we’re not talking so much about kind of the consequences, but really getting at the prevention.
CHAKRABARTI: So, Dr. Bolling, let’s go through these guidelines sort of step by step here. And it seems as if the first intervention, if I can call it that, that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends, is really about healthy habits and lifestyles and even therapy, not just for the child, but for the family. So explain what that is.
BOLLING: So a bit of it gets back to what Mona said right before the break. There’s a not a lot in here about prevention, and that’s because we don’t exactly have enough evidence to make a clinical practice guideline on some of those prevention strategies. However, we know that those early feeding habits are incredibly important as pediatricians. Those are things that we are good about talking with our families.
We wanted to stress that it’s important for pediatricians to take the time like they do with their families, to talk about nutrition, to talk about activity, to talk about healthy lifestyles, making a healthy choice, the easy choice, you know, snack foods, screen time, all these things that we know modify weight status in our patients are very readily available and very easy to access. So we’re trying to get healthy habits onto an equal footing with some of these less healthy habits. So life is easier [for parents], basically, and kids can have a better shot at maintaining health through life.
CHAKRABARTI: I mean, Dr. Mona, are they easy to access?
HANNA-ATTISHA: It’s very hard for some patients, you know, And in my community, we have a child poverty rate that exceeds 50%. I tell my patients, you know, I used to tell my patients naively, you know, eat healthier, like just go and buy, you know, fresh apples and, you know, kale, all these things. And the response I would get was like, there is nowhere we can find that. And there’s no way we can afford that.
We have no very limited field, full-service grocery stores in our community. It is much easier to go to a fast food or liquor store to fill a child’s belly. So some of these recommendations, you know, are obviously, you know, what we should be doing. And what we do tell our patients are all time. But it’s very difficult for patients to comply because of these socioeconomic issues.
CHAKRABARTI: Now, when you say liquor store, you mean like getting some food items from the liquor store for the child?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yeah, yep.
CHAKRABARTI: So, Dr. Bolling, want to give you a quick chance to respond to that.
BOLLING: Oh, and I got exactly the same blank stares. You know, it’s one of those things that parenting is hard. It is very difficult. And we need to not be in the position of blaming parents for these choices, because parents are trying to get by. We can’t make plans for them that they can’t follow through on. And part of the responsibility on this is us as a society trying to make these things more available.
Our families face so many hurdles in life, and it’s virtually impossible, as Mona said, to go ahead and make a kale salad. How would they even know how to do that, for starters? So it’s a discussion and it’s something that we have to meet parents where they are. We have to help them figure out ways that may be better. You know, we don’t want perfect to be the enemy of good here. We want them to be able to do things that they can do and to partner with them. But yeah, we can’t be sitting there telling them to do impossible things.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, so let me let me just focus, let me just dig a little deeper here, because from what I understand, we’re not just talking about like a conversation in the doctor’s office, right? I mean, these sort of healthy habits, creation or lifestyle changes involve like very intensive intervention.
I’m seeing, you know, reporting here that says even 26 hours over 3 to 12 months of in person behavior and lifestyle treatment from health care providers so that parents can learn, can get coaching on nutrition, physical activity, better their own role modeling. This sounds like a very intensive process, Dr. Bolling.
BOLLING: So and that’s a good place to sort of step off into what these clinical practice guidelines really address. So the first step in these guidelines is really to evaluate and assess kids, where are they on their growth curve, what is this excess weight potentially having? What kind of effect is it having on their health? So that’s the first step and that doesn’t apply to everybody. We’re talking about the kids who are already suffering from obesity. And the first step in this evaluation and assessment is to really use very non stigmatizing language, non-stigmatizing statements.
About obesity not being, Mona mentioned it earlier, this is no one’s fault. This is not about placing blame. Kids are who they are. They’re a product of many things. So the first step in the guideline is really trying to identify those kids who have health complications. And then we move into the second part of the recommendations, which are that for places that can provide it. Intensive behavior modification does help. So we’re not talking about every child. There’s no way you could do that. Mona and I live on a schedule of, you know, seeing patients every, you know, 20 minutes in an hour on a good day. So we can’t possibly do this with every patient.
But patients who need it, patients who are suffering from obesity, patients who are having health complications, intensive health behavior changes work. And that was sort of the first major piece of the clinical practice guideline with regard to treatment.
CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So let me turn back to you, Dr. Mona. Because I heard Dr. Bolling very clearly emphasize for the places who can provide it. It makes me wonder, is it possible that some of these guidelines, you know, they need to meet some kind of clinical standard. I understand that. But because of that, do they risk sort of reaffirming the inequities that are part of the differences that we see in childhood obesity rates?
Like I’m seeing obesity prevalence is 19% amongst children in America’s lowest income groups, and then it drops down to 10% in the highest income groups. So, you know, when we say for the places who can do it, are the kids who most need this kind of help living in the places that can’t do it?
HANNA-ATTISHA: That’s a great question. And the guideline talks quite a bit about inequities and disparities and how these resources really should, in a very equitable way, be focused and placed in these communities that need it the most. Right now, they’re not there.
But I hope that these guidelines encourage payers and health systems to create these systems, to create these really intense programs that we don’t have today, in a very data driven way to address health inequities. So, yes, there is a concern if we don’t see these intensive evidence-based programs in the communities that need it the most. But I hope that these guidelines will really push, once again health systems and health insurers who should fully reimburse these things to put them in places that need them.
CHAKRABARTI: So we got to talk about insurance here. And any conversation about the American health care system. We’ll get to that. But, you know, my mind is still drawn back to the listener who sent us the comment about just stop letting your kids have whatever they want, Find some personal discipline and pass it on to them.
Well, okay. We’ve talked to family members who have children in their families who are obese, and one of them is Star Simmons. She works with children and adults with special needs in Washington, D.C. and she’s also a grandmother. Her 13-year-old grandson has several health challenges, including being severely overweight.
STAR SIMMONS: The doctors do say that he fits in the category of obesity. They always tell me he needs to lose weight. I need to just make sure he’s having that healthy diet, make sure he gets exercise and everything else. And I do try to feed him healthy on my budget. So, one, I’m offended by that because we have what we can afford. … But number two, I tell her that I do the best I can on my income. And then she says, well, you know, you can cut back on this or cut back on that, as if they know what our household can afford.
CHAKRABARTI: Star lives in southeast Washington, D.C. Her neighborhood is what is known as a food desert.
SIMMONS: There is really no healthy food places to shop at all. We did have one store that we rallied for. We actually rallied to the mayor. We rallied and said we want to have the grocery store over here. They actually put a store called Mom’s Organic. It did not last long because we could not afford to shop in it.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, so Mom’s organic didn’t last, but there still are two other supermarkets in her neighborhood.
SIMMONS: So when I walk down in the produce section of my supermarket, you see lettuce. I definitely tell you about this. Try to get a bag of salad. You see brown lettuce, yellow tomatoes. We went in the grocery store the other day and I couldn’t even find a good tomato at all.
And right now, if you can find really anything that’s good, the cucumbers are old. You know, we find some carrots and stuff. So literally, my staples have had dogs, Oodles of Noodles, canned vegetables. So I would like to get some fresh Brussel sprouts. I would like to get some fresh vegetables. But if I only have $30 to spend for definitely two weeks, that’s what I’m going to do.
CHAKRABARTI: Now, about that $30. Star says she is one of America’s working poor. That’s what she calls herself, because after she pays off all of her recurring bills, including mortgage and utilities. She says she’s got $30 left for food every two weeks. That lack of affordable, healthy food that she’s also talked about hurts kids in her neighborhood in two ways.
SIMMONS: In this area, half our children are overweight. And I just say it like this. We have some that are overweight, but we also have some malnutrition because they’re not even getting the food that they should be getting, or the nutrients they should be getting either.
CHAKRABARTI: So that’s Star Simmons, a grandmother and a special needs worker in Washington, D.C. area schools. Dr. Mona, I’d love you to respond. Love to hear you respond to this, because again, it just links back to that listener who has the not uncommon critique, a critique of get some personal discipline here.
HANNA-ATTISHA: Oh, Star is brilliant. And that’s, you know, the lived experience of most of our patients that I care for. You know, when we started this fruit and vegetable prescription program, you know, we did qualitative assessments of families and what they thought of it. And we had families tell us that it was the first time their kid had a fresh blueberry or, you know, the first time they got to try a new vegetable because they couldn’t try new foods on a limited budget.
Because if they didn’t like it, then it was wasted. So there are so many challenges of having so many of our nation’s children who live in poverty or near poverty that directly impact their ability to eat healthy.
CHAKRABARTI: So, you know, all the headlines when the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines first came out really cottoned on to two things. The recommendation possibly for surgery for children at younger ages and medicines as well. I want to be clear about something. The reason why we did not start the show with that is because I see those specific guidelines as treatments of symptoms that come out of an underlying system.
Sorry, I’m having trouble articulating today, but that underlying system is the food system and the environment that we’re all living in. So we’re going to come back to that. But Dr. Bolling, I guess we have to touch that third rail here. Why did the American Academy of Pediatrics even go so far as to recommend surgery for children at younger ages who are suffering from obesity?
BOLLING: Well, I definitely want to talk about that. I’d also like to say thank you very much for putting Star’s opinions out there. She speaks volumes. As Mona said, she’s brilliant in identifying a lot of the challenges that we face. So I’m very grateful that you put her out there. I would also say that, you know, the reason we went to those areas with regard to pharmacology and surgery for certain patients is because there are many patients.
The biggest group of that is growing in terms of prevalence, are children with severe obesity. So we see patients who have these very severe complications from obesity and they are suffering currently. Those are children who can be benefited. The evidence demonstrates to us that these are kids who can receive very effective treatment with either pharmacologic agents or with surgery. As you said, Meghna, this is not the answer for the obesity crisis in the nation. This is a treatment for kids who suffer the greatest, who have severe obesity. And there are very specific parameters on how we define that and how we evaluate them for significant co-morbidities.
CHAKRABARTI: So let me press you here a little bit, because you could also, given the American health system, given what it is, my first response to those, you know, the surgery and pharmacological guidelines was, frankly, isn’t it the most American thing in the world that part of the guidelines had to include methodologies that might benefit big pharma or hospitals that are just, you know, costly and involve a lot of influence from insurance companies? Like isn’t there a better way?
BOLLING: Well, certainly we know that intervening early is desirable and being able to prevent kids from getting to severe obesity is very important. However, we know there are a lot of kids that have genetic reasons, have other causes for their severe obesity. And we have kids that are in those situations. So I look at it very much from my individual patients.
I have wonderful kids who are absolutely beautiful people who really need our help. And these methodologies, while not used very frequently, are very important for those patients who need that kind of assistance. It’s a sad fact that they have to have this, but they are therapies that are tested now that we have enough evidence on them that are very effective.
CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So, Dr. Mona, what do you think about seeing surgery and potential medications in the guidelines?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Well, I know that when the American Academy of Pediatrics releases guidelines that they are based on science and evidence. So I welcome these recommendations. We need more tools in our doctor’s bag to be able to address severe obesity, especially. I think the guidelines mentioned that, you know, severe obesity is an epidemic within an epidemic. Like Dr. Bolling said. So we need more tools. We need more tools that work. And that’s what the science has told us. It works.
CHAKRABARTI: We do have some questions coming in, though, about how much insurance is going to play a role here, whether insurers would even approve those kinds of treatments because of, you know, biases in the medical system against treating obesity as a medical problem versus a behavioral one.
So, for example, Bich-May Nguyen is a family doctor and professor at the University of Houston. And we reached out to ask her what she thinks about the guidelines. And she likes what she sees on paper, but she wonders:
BICH-MAY NGUYEN: If you were to prescribe these medications for a kid like some of these more expensive, newer drugs. How would that work? Would it get approved? We had to fill out some kind of prior authorization? The insurance companies have to come up with tiers like they probably try to make people use metformin first before they jump to some of the other medications. And I would worry about the surgical approval and access to it.
CHAKRABARTI: So, Dr. Bolling, your response to that?
BOLLING: That’s exactly why we wrote this clinical practice guideline. There are so many barriers to this, and insurers are able to say, Oh, this is not recommended. This is, you know, experimental. And really, the data says it has worked, it’s effective. Are there limitations? Absolutely. Do we need to learn more? We positively need to learn more. However, these things work. And so part of the reason for the clinical practice guideline, it’s a bit of a call to say we need to increase capacity and we need to increase appropriate payment for these services. Patients need them.
One of the other things that I think is an important take home message from this clinical practice guideline is to start thinking about obesity as a chronic disease. You know, when we have a patient with asthma, for example, we of course talk about lifestyle things, not being around smoking, not smoking yourself, but also we have medications that are available for us.
We have other interventions that are available for us. And it’s the same way with obesity. Certainly there are lifestyle modifications that need to be made, but for certain patients, with the help of people who are specialized, sometimes in the care of children with obesity, they need other modalities to achieve a healthier status.
CHAKRABARTI: So, Dr. Bolling and Dr. Mona, I would like you to listen along with me because I cannot help but still dwell in this mental and intellectual space about, in a sense, what a tragedy it is that we’ve come to the point in this country where the American Academy of Pediatrics has to go so far as to put surgical options in its guideline guidelines for, you know, a disease that was basically nonexistent amongst children, some, you know, 50 years ago.
So I want to just take a few minutes to look deeper into some of those numbers now. And I’m going to be quoting numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics. And they’ve conducted a national health and nutrition examination survey for years. And so according to to the National Center, from 1963 to 1974, childhood obesity rates in this country were about 4%. And that number didn’t really budge much throughout that decade plus.
But then something happens. The rate starts rising. Suddenly in the mid-seventies, between 1976 to 1980, then 6.5% of kids aged 6 to 11 were obese. 1988 to 1984, the number rises to 11.3%, 1999 to 2000, 15.1%. 2003 to 2004, 18.8%. And as mentioned earlier, by 2020, the obesity rate topped 20% for 6- to 11-year-olds.
So when you look at the trend, it really forces the question, was America’s childhood obesity epidemic created? Perhaps not intentionally, but created nonetheless. I mean, what happened around 1974? Well, the answer in part begins with this man. Who in the early 1970s told American farmers to get bigger, get out and plant fence row to fence row.
EARL BUTZ: I probably said it. I said a lot of things when I was secretary, and I expect I did say it, but it was the market who dictated the farmers plant fence row to fence row. Prices were up, exports were good. And the market dictated, expand your production. They not only planted fence row to fence row, they tore out the fence row. I can’t even find the fence rows out there. Now I guess that’s because of large tractors and large combines.
CHAKRABARTI: This is Earl Butz. He served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1971 to 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford. When first appointed. He had also served on the boards of several agribusiness firms. But Butz denied the criticism that those ties would influence his work at USDA. But actions speak louder than words, of course, and the actions Butz took transformed American agriculture.
Because since the Roosevelt administration and the New Deal era, the government had managed prices by managing supplies. So essentially they paid farmers not to flood the market. Now, Earl Butz equated that to a form of socialism. So in 1973, as secretary, he helped usher in the farm bill, a massive piece of legislation that shifted government influence from supply management to subsidies. So the USDA was now supporting farmers with direct payments if market prices fell below production costs.
And apparently, Butz did not see that as a form of socialism. And to this day, the U.S. government continues to subsidize rice, cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. So, unsurprisingly, production of these grains rose dramatically in the mid-seventies, as did the corporatization of American farming. Its impact was immediate.
And in 1977, Indiana’s Manchester College held a remarkable debate between Earl Butz and Wendell Berry. Now, Berry was the well-known writer, activist and farmer who just published The Unsettling of America, a scathing critique of American agribusiness. And in the debate, Wendell Berry described the changes he’d seen in his home state of Kentucky as agribusiness bought more and more farmland.
WENDELL BERRY: Planting them to corn and soybeans. They’re not showing any cover crops. They’re plowing up the waterways, cutting the fences. They’re driving in, producing the crop, loading it and driving out with it. In other words, in their practice, the industrialization of farming is complete. They’re treating the farm exactly as you would treat a factory or a mine.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz agreed wholeheartedly with Berry on this point. Hyper productive corporate farming meant that Americans were spending less on food than ever, just 17% of their income in the mid-seventies, a huge step forward. It also allowed America to feed itself and the world, Butz said in the debate. So he welcomed the innovations that industrial farming brought to America’s food supply.
BUTZ: You get the frozen TV dinners that you poked in the oven the night before you came down here. You see, you take that ounce and half of those TV dinners multiplied up to price per pound. It’s not for cheap. It’s all these frozen pot pies we get. I was out in Idaho a couple of weeks ago and it took me one of these potato processing plants, and they said we now process at or near the point of production two thirds of potatoes we eat in America.
A young graduate student from Purdue and I stopped out here at McDonald’s a while ago to get our supper. A third of the meals eating outside the home. That’s all in the 17%. That means we got 83% as a nation left to do something else with besides feed ourselves. This is the very basis of strength in America. Never forget it.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, there’s another way of looking at it. Agribusiness had found a way to create massive amounts of corn and soy in order to profitably produce convenience products for Americans to eat. And of course, there’s one ingredient in particular that I think deserves special attention, as we think about the childhood obesity epidemic kids are enduring now, because recall that obesity rates began that sharp upward turn around 1980. Well, in the mid 1970s, ag giant Archer-Daniels-Midland began developing a technology originally created in Japan, a concentrated liquid sweetener made out of corn, high fructose corn syrup. And by 1999, Americans were eating more than 63 pounds of high fructose corn syrup per person per year. It is virtually inescapable in the American diet.
SANTANA LEE: A majority of the kids, when I say snack time, it’s just a whole bunch of sugary snacks, not really having access to healthy snacks. And even if you give them a choice of healthy snacks and unhealthy snacks, they probably don’t choose a sugary snack just because that’s what they’re accustomed to.
CHAKRABARTI: This is Santana Lee, a mom of nine. She lives in Milwaukee and also works with teens at her local schools. And she says changes in the American food supply have made it nearly impossible for many families to cut the amount of sugars in their diet.
LEE: Even with the healthy foods, they’re more expensive than the unhealthy foods. You know, you can go to the store with $100 and buy a whole bunch of unhealthy food, have access to unhealthy foods, the abundance of that. But then you get the fruits and vegetables that everything is just upcharge and is really expensive. So a lot of families just try to decide, do I maximize this amount of money that I have to spend on food, or do I just buy like a couple of healthy meals and then figure out how to get the rest later? That’s a lot of what’s happening, too. Not only is it not access to healthy foods, but the prices for healthy foods are more expensive as well.
CHAKRABARTI: So Dr. Mona and Dr. Bolling, as we kind of turn the corner to the last few minutes of this conversation, here’s what I wonder. If the obesity crisis, childhood obesity crisis specifically was created, even if not intentionally so, can it be unmade through the same mechanisms, through national policy?
So, Dr. Bolling, it makes me wonder why the American Academy of Pediatrics, instead of coming out with guidelines that say, focus on clinical or medical treatments for childhood obesity. And in a sense, it means the responsibility is still focused on families. Why not instead declare an all-out campaign, even a war for the transformation of the American food supply? Dr. Bolling.
BOLLING: Well, first of all, we need to advocate for our patients who are sick currently, and we definitely want to help those children who are suffering from obesity at this point. And that is absolutely essential to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Mission is for the health and welfare of all children. So your other statement about, you know, do we need to address these things?
We absolutely do. Star’s comments earlier. Some of the things that you laid out are absolutely affecting childhood health. And the American Academy of Pediatrics is very active in trying to lobby for those sorts of things as well. I would love to have healthy foods be on an equal footing with unhealthy foods. When you have a limited budget and you have shelf stable items that are ultra processed but are very unhealthy. Parents are going to do what they can to feed their kids. So you’ve identified a crusade that many of us feel like we have to be on to make the environment more healthy for our families and children.
CHAKRABARTI: But if I could if I could just push a little more here. You know, organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and also, you know, the American Medical Association, etc., actually do have a lot of sway and influence beyond the doctor’s office.
I mean, just the existence of these new guidelines has forced once again, sort of publicize an important conversation in this country. So, I mean, do you think the American Academy of Pediatrics has some plans to … start this kind of campaign that I talked about?
BOLLING: Well, you know, this is not a zero-sum game. Now, we are trying to raise attention about this health crisis. And there are many solutions to this health crisis. We need to help our children individually, but we also need to advocate for them on a system wide basis. So it’s something that is very much a part of the feeling at the American Academy that we are in this for kids of all types and of all socioeconomic status.
CHAKRABARTI: So, Dr. Mona, we’ve got a couple of minutes left. I’m going to give you the last word here. So first of all, I mean, what do you think of my assertion there that some of the major factors, for the reasons why you’re seeing obese children walk into your clinic today actually have nothing to do with them, but to do with decisions made in Washington, you know, 40 years ago, 40 plus years ago. And if so, what should we do about it?
HANNA-ATTISHA: It’s been said that pediatricians are the ultimate witnesses to failed social policies. You know, it’s in our exam rooms where we see the consequences of often kind of political inaction for the best interests of our children. We put our kids on a pedestal. We talk, you know, we tell ourselves are the future. But we don’t often put policies in place that respect the science of really, truly what kids need.
So, you know, I would love for that all-out war against the agro business, against these subsidies. You know, we often just have to follow the money to see, you know, what’s happening. And really often that’s not in the best interests of public health and often not in the best interests of children’s health.
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Emergency crews responded at 3:17 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, in the 1400 block of New Holland Avenue for a report of a pedestrian struck. First responders found 71-year-old Gordon Kopf lying in the roadway unconscious and with serious injuries, police said.
Kopf later died of his injuries at Lancaster General Hospital. The Lancaster County Coroner's Office determined on Monday that Kopf’s cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries, and the manner of death was accidental.
The driver of the vehicle that hit Kopf stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators, police said.
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Dodgers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Dodgers rank second-best in baseball with 130 total home runs.
- Los Angeles is fourth in MLB with a .449 slugging percentage.
- The Dodgers' .243 batting average ranks 19th in the majors.
- Los Angeles has the No. 4 offense in baseball, scoring 5.5 runs per game (445 total runs).
- The Dodgers are sixth in MLB with an on-base percentage of .330.
- The Dodgers' 8.9 strikeouts per game rank 17th in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Los Angeles has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 18th in the majors.
- Los Angeles has the 21st-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.49).
- Pitchers for the Dodgers combine for the 12th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.261).
Royals Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Royals' 73 home runs rank 27th in MLB this season.
- Kansas City ranks 27th in MLB with a team slugging percentage of just .372 this season.
- The Royals' .231 batting average ranks 24th in the league this season.
- Kansas City has scored 304 runs (just 3.7 per game) this season, which ranks 29th in MLB.
- The Royals have an OBP of just .295 this season, which ranks 29th in MLB.
- The Royals rank 24th with an average of 9.1 strikeouts per game.
- Kansas City has an 8.3 K/9 rate this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 22nd in the majors.
- Kansas City has the 28th-ranked ERA (5.22) in the majors this season.
- The Royals have a combined WHIP of 1.436 as a pitching staff, which ranks 25th in MLB.
Dodgers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Julio Urias (5-4 with a 4.39 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 55 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Dodgers, his 11th of the season.
- In his last time out on Thursday, May 18, the lefty tossed three innings against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving up six earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- Urias is trying to collect his sixth quality start of the year in this outing.
- Urias will try to pick up his ninth matchup of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in one of his 10 appearances this season.
Royals Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Royals will hand the ball to Lynch (1-3) for his seventh start of the season.
- The left-hander's last start was on Sunday, when he tossed six innings while giving up one earned run on six hits in a matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his third quality start in a row.
- Lynch has six starts in a row of five innings or more.
- He has made six appearances and finished one of them without allowing an earned run.
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ALLENDALE, MI – Grand Valley State University Lakers could soon be able to crack open a cold one at football and basketball games in the future.
GVSU is exploring plans to start selling alcohol at Lubbers Stadium and Fieldhouse Arena, pending the passage of state legislation ending the prohibition of alcoholic beverage sales at college stadiums.
The GVSU Board of Trustees approved a resolution at its Friday, June 23, meeting to begin seeking the proper liquor licenses.
It’s not clear yet when the university could begin selling alcohol at football and basketball games, since the state legislature hasn’t yet passed two bills that would allow universities to apply for liquor licenses to sell alcohol at sporting events.
RELATED: Allowing alcohol at college sporting events gets another shot in Michigan legislature
But Friday’s board vote gives the university the green light to start planning for future alcohol sales at authorized athletic events, said Gregory Sanial, GVSU chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration.
“If the state approves legislation allowing for sales at collegiate games, Friday’s board vote provides Grand Valley the opportunity to move forward with planning a safe, responsible alcohol service program,” Sanial told MLive in an emailed statement.
“Our first priority is safety for our fans and the community. If we move forward with sales at our events, we will do so when we are confident we can provide an enhanced fan experience in a safe and responsible manner.”
Currently, Michigan liquor laws prohibit in-state universities from acquiring liquor licenses to sell booze at college athletic events.
But two bills that are currently working through the state legislature would amend the state’s liquor control code to allow the Liquor Control Commission to grant licenses to the governing board of a public university if certain conditions are met.
House Bill 4328 and Senate Bill 247 are identical and would allow the governing board of a university to apply for up to three liquor or tavern licenses to be used to sell alcohol one hour before a sporting event.
Sales could then continue throughout the game and conclude a half-hour after the event has ended. The bill does not just pertain to beer, but could also include wine or liquor as well.
State lawmakers say the bills would bring Michigan in line with many other states after the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) began allowing alcohol sales at college athletic events in 2019. Currently, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan are two of the only three Big Ten schools (along with Nebraska) that do not sell alcohol to the general public inside athletic stadiums.
No decisions have been made yet whether or not GVSU will begin selling alcohol at football or basketball games during the 2023 season, said GVSU spokesperson Chris Knape.
After Friday’s approval, the next steps for GVSU will be working with the Michigan Liquor Control Commission to apply for proper licenses, as well as exploring plans and procedures for selling alcohol at Lubbers Stadium and Fieldhouse Arena.
“Safety is the key for us,” Knape said. “If we’re going to do this, we want to make sure we’re doing it right, and that we’re doing it in a safe and responsible manner that makes for a more fun environment and does not detract from the fan experience.”
GVSU’s 2023 football season kicks off Thursday, Aug. 31, with an away game at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The next game is at home Saturday, Sept. 9, against Colorado State Pueblo.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says he raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.
The deposition gave Carroll’s lawyers a chance to interrogate Trump about the assault allegations, as well as statements he made in 2019 when she told her story publicly for the first time.
Details on how the deposition went weren’t immediately disclosed.
“We’re pleased that on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump’s deposition today. We are not able to comment further,” the law firm representing her, Kaplan Hecker & Fink, said in a statement.
Trump has said Carroll’s rape allegation is “a hoax and a lie.”
His legal team worked for years to delay his deposition in the lawsuit, which was filed when the Republican was still president. A federal judge last week rejected Trump’s request for another delay, saying he couldn’t “run the clock out on plaintiff’s attempt to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a serious wrong.”
Alina Habba, an attorney representing Trump, said Wednesday, “My client was pleased to set the record straight today. This case is nothing more than a political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump.”
Carroll was to have been questioned by Trump’s lawyers last Friday. Neither her attorneys nor Trump’s have responded to questions about how that deposition went.
The lawyers also haven’t disclosed whether Trump’s deposition was done in person or remotely, over video. Trump was in Florida on Wednesday. The lawsuit is being handled in a court in New York City.
Anything Trump said during his deposition could potentially be used as evidence in an upcoming civil trial. He hasn’t faced any criminal charges related to Carroll’s allegations, and any prosecution is unlikely. The deadline for criminal charges over alleged sexual assaults that occurred in the 1990s has long expired.
Similar legal deadlines also applied to civil lawsuits claiming sexual assault. As a result, Carroll chose to sue Trump for defamation over comments he made in 2019 when he denied any wrongdoing. She maintains that her reputation was damaged by his denials and attacks on her credibility and character.
However, New York lawmakers recently gave people a one-year window to take old sexual assault claims to civil courts. Carroll’s lawyer has told the court she intends to file such a suit against Trump after that window opens in late November.
According to Carroll’s account, she bumped into Trump as the two were shopping at the Bergdorf Goodman store across Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower. At the time, Carroll was on television as the host of an advice program, “Ask E. Jean.”
She said the two engaged in friendly banter as she tried to help him pick out a gift. But when they were briefly alone in a dressing room, she said he pulled down her tights and raped her.
In a recent statement, Trump called that story “a complete con job.”
“I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event,” Trump said.
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BOSTON, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The five John Hancock closed-end funds listed below declared their monthly distributions today as follows:
Premium Dividend Fund (the "Fund") declared its monthly distribution pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan (the "PDT Plan"). Under the PDT Plan, the Fund makes monthly distributions of an amount equal to $0.0975 per share. This amount will be paid monthly until further notice.
Distributions under the PDT Plan may consist of net investment income, net realized long-term capital gains, net realized short-term capital gains and, to the extent necessary, return of capital.
The Fund may also make additional distributions (i) for purposes of not incurring federal income tax on investment company taxable income and net capital gain of the Fund, if any, not included in such regular distributions and (ii) for purposes of not incurring federal excise tax on ordinary income and capital gain net income, if any, not included in such regular monthly distributions.
The Board may amend the terms of the PDT Plan or terminate the PDT Plan at any time.
Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (the "Fund") declared its monthly distribution pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan (the "HTD Plan"). Under the HTD Plan, the Fund makes monthly distributions of an amount equal to $0.1380 per share. This amount will be paid monthly until further notice.
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The U.S. financial system is still reeling from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, the second- and third-largest bank failures in history.
Despite the turbulence, regulators and bank executives say they don’t foresee a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis — but they’ve cautioned that the banking sector isn’t out of the woods yet.
Banks face huge unrealized losses on long-term investments, the threat of more bank runs and looming defaults in the commercial real estate market. As banks face stress, they may pull back on lending, hurting the economy.
Here are some of the trouble spots the banking sector and market watchers still have on their radars.
US banks face $620 billion in unrealized losses
SVB’s tech and venture capitalist clients pulled their money amid concerns about the bank’s massive unrealized losses on its long-term Treasury bond investments. Outflows forced SVB to sell securities at a loss to raise money, but the bank still wasn’t able to stay solvent.
Banks of all sizes made similar bets on government and mortgage-backed bonds.
While they’re normally a safe investment, these securities lost value when the Federal Reserve aggressively hiked interest rates, driving up the yields on new bonds and making older bonds less attractive.
U.S. banks had a whopping $620 billion in unrealized losses on these kinds of securities at the end of 2022, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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Many banks might have to sell them at an enormous loss if they were to face liquidity issues.
Analysts have pointed to large unrealized losses at regional banks that saw deposit outflows following the SVB failure. While bigger banks face losses too, it’s a smaller percentage of their assets, so they don’t face the same threat of a bank run.
“It’s not a problem unless your depositors decide it’s a problem and ask you for their money back, which is sort of what happened with Silicon Valley Bank,” said David Sacco, a finance professor at the University of New Haven.
Following the SVB collapse, the Fed created a lending program aimed at enabling banks to fulfill customer withdrawals without having to sell securities. That’s helped lessen the threat of unrealized losses, experts said.
Midsize and regional banks still face bank run threat
Perhaps the most imminent threat facing the banking system is the outflow of funds from midsize and regional banks, which are a key part of the U.S. financial system.
Wealthy depositors moved their funds from these banks to larger institutions over fears of additional bank runs. San Francisco’s First Republic Bank lost around $70 billion in deposits within weeks of SVB’s collapse, prompting large banks to throw the lender a lifeline.
While the FDIC only insures deposits up to $250,000, federal regulators used an exception to insure all deposits at SVB and Signature Bank to boost confidence in the banking system.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hinted that regulators would take the same step in the event of future bank failures, which slowed the outflow of money from banks with a high percentage of uninsured deposits.
“This banking system is based on confidence,” Sacco said. “Some percentage of all bank assets are illiquid, so that the nature of our banking system is one where if everybody wanted their money back, basically every bank would fail.”
The panic has appeared to ease. Total deposits at U.S. commercial banks reached $17.35 trillion in late March, up from $17.31 trillion a week earlier but still down from $17.62 trillion at the start of the month, according to Federal Reserve data.
Upcoming earnings reports and subsequent stock selloffs could halt that momentum. First Republic Bank will reveal its first-quarter figures on April 24, nearly two weeks later than expected. The bank’s stock is down roughly 90 percent since early March.
“There’s clearly continuing market jitters,” said Karen Petrou, managing partner at research firm Federal Financial Analytics. “If there are surprises in earnings, particularly for some of the regional banks where markets are particularly spooked, that could start another run or market reaction.”
As banks seek to bolster their deposits, they face heightened competition for cash. Rising interest rates are making bonds, money market funds and other investments a more lucrative place for individuals and businesses to store their money.
Regional banks are paying upwards of 5 percent interest on certificates of deposit — where an individual pledges to keep their money in the bank for a fixed period of time — up from less than 1 percent just a few months ago.
US banks hold $3.1 trillion in commercial real estate loans
Smaller banks are particularly exposed to a downturn in the commercial real estate market.
The explosion of remote and hybrid work during the pandemic has left office buildings emptier than they were intended to be, hurting the value of buildings owned by commercial real estate companies that have mortgages with banks.
Roughly two-thirds of areas in the U.S. have seen their office vacancy rates increase compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Some analysts fear that vacancy rates will only rise as more companies go remote and decline to renew their leases.
Goldman Sachs analysts estimate that U.S. banks held $3.1 trillion in commercial mortgages at the start of the year. Small and regional banks hold around 80 percent of commercial real estate loans, the analysts said.
Default rates are inching up, and $270 billion in commercial mortgages held by banks are set to some due this year according to research firm Trepp.
Because of the Fed’s rate hikes and banks’ heightened worries about the commercial market, loans will need to be refinanced at higher interest rates. If borrowers are unable to refinance and honor their obligations, banks could suffer from a “wave of defaults,” Petrou said.
Mortgage lenders are losing money on loans as credit tightens
Commercial lending by U.S. banks declined by nearly $105 billion in the final two weeks of March, according to Fed data released Friday. The decrease, which was driven primarily by small banks, was the largest on record, Bloomberg reported.
The American Bankers Association’s credit conditions index, released Thursday, plummeted to the lowest level since the early days of the pandemic.
Sayee Srinivasan, the association’s top economist, pointed to “heightened uncertainty and broader economic headwinds.”
Struggles for lending: Mortgage lenders are losing money on loans for the first time in years
“Lenders are responding with cautious and prudent underwriting,” Srinivasan said in a statement.
While a lending slowdown would hurt the profitability of banks, it’s a larger risk to the broader economy that relies on financing to grow and create jobs.
Fed Jerome Powell said last month that officials are closely monitoring the availability of credit when considering whether to continue hiking rates in its effort to cool inflation.
“It could easily have a significant macroeconomic effect, and we would factor that into our policies,” Powell said.
Banks were sometimes self-regulating, so we don’t know what we don’t know
Powell and other federal regulators have said that banking regulations need to be examined after supervisors failed to prevent SVB’s collapse.
SVB and Signature Bank lobbied for a 2018 bill to loosen regulations on midsize banks, which made it so they weren’t subject to stress tests and capital requirements. The Fed opted not to use stricter oversight on midsize banks authorized under the law.
President Biden is also pushing lawmakers to toughen bank regulations to reduce the chance of future bank failures.
Existing rules also make it harder for investors to identify bank risks, some critics say, and banks have often found ways to reclassify losses.
For example, some banks with large unrealized bond losses have used accounting tactics to prevent billions of dollars in losses from appearing on their balance sheet by declaring they’ll hold the securities until they mature. That particular maneuver was dubbed “the switcheroo” and remains under scrutiny from regulators and investors.
Credit Suisse bondholders are exploring legal options after Swiss regulators wiped out around $17 billion in bank bonds, dubbed CoCo or A1 bonds, as part of the bank’s collapse and subsequent sale to UBS last month.
They were invested in high-yielding contingent convertible bonds, which banks created after the 2008 financial crisis to shift risk to investors and prevent government bailouts. These, too, are undergoing scrutiny from local and global regulators alike. | 2023-04-12T12:07:06+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/3-major-risks-still-facing-banks-and-why-you-should-care/ |
WESTMINSTER, Colo., July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cerapedics Inc., a commercial-stage orthopedics company dedicated to redefining the standard of care for bone repair, announced today it is expanding its headquarters in the Denver metro area to support the growth of its products, which include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved i-FACTOR® bone graft for cervical spinal fusion and its next-generation product currently being evaluated for lumbar spinal fusion.
"Since the launch of i-FACTOR, we have seen a continuous increase in its use in spinal fusion. We are committed to supporting the needs of surgeons and their patients by expanding our facility," said Valeska Schroeder, Chief Executive Officer of Cerapedics. "We are fortunate to be based in Colorado and to recruit from the area's experienced, innovation-focused talent pool as we prepare to launch our next-generation product."
i-FACTOR is the only spinal bone graft powered by P-15 Osteogenic Cell Binding Peptide™, and it is just one of two FDA approved Class III drug-device bone grafts with a spinal indication. i-FACTOR has proven statistical superiority vs. local autograft in overall success (defined as meeting Fusion, Function (Neck Disability Index), Neurological and Safety endpoints) at one and two-year endpoints for single-level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion.
Cerapedics has fully enrolled its 290-patient randomized controlled clinical study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the next-generation P-15 Peptide Enhanced Bone Graft in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery. This next generation product has been granted breakthrough status by FDA and is being studied under an investigational device exemption (IDE).
By expanding its facility, Cerapedics is adding over 50 percent more space to its Colorado headquarters to increase space for manufacturing, research and development and other key functions. Cerapedics has hired more than 100 employees in Colorado in the last five years and plans to hire another 60 Colorado-based employees by the end of 2024.
About Cerapedics
Cerapedics is a global, commercial-stage orthopedics company that aspires to redefine the standard of care for bone repair by healing bones faster and at higher rates, without compromising safety, so that patients can live their healthiest lives. Bone grafts, including Cerapedics' products, are used in over four million annual spine, orthopedics, trauma and interventional procedures worldwide. i-FACTOR is a Class III FDA approved product indicated for single-level ACDF. Cerapedics' next-generation product is currently being evaluated for use in lumbar interbody fusion through ASPIRE, a pivotal clinical study, and has been granted a Breakthrough Device Designation by the FDA. Cerapedics is headquartered in Westminster, CO.
For more information, visit us at www.cerapedics.com.
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The third Saturday in May marks a momentous occasion for whiskey enthusiasts and aficionados around the world. It's World Whiskey Day, a time to raise our glasses and toast to the exquisite amber libation that has been tantalizing taste buds for centuries. So sit back, relax, and maybe pour yourself a glass as we explore the fascinating history of whiskey.
Spirited roots
Whiskey, derived from the Irish word "uisce beatha" meaning "water of life," has a history as rich and sophisticated as its flavor. While the Babylonians, Greeks and Egyptians all dabbled in the alchemical process of turning grains into spirits, the origins of whiskey can be traced back to the Medieval monks of Ireland and Scotland.
Seeking comfort and spiritual fulfillment during the Middle Ages, these resourceful men began experimenting with the art of distillation to create medicinal concoctions. Little did they know their dedicated pursuits would lead to a global infatuation with this succulent elixir.
From monks to masses
As centuries unfolded, whiskey-making techniques were refined, and the spirit's popularity spread far and wide. Irish whiskey has garnered international acclaim with its light and fruity aroma and evident notes of the cereal grain from which it is made. Meanwhile, Scotland's iconic Scotch whiskey has captured the characters of its rugged landscapes, with smoky and malty flavors that shock the palate.
While one can assume that beer was among the first alcoholic beverages produced by early American settlements, they too began forging a new whiskey legacy. Eager to replicate the spirits of their homelands, colonists turned to corn and rye to create the first American whiskeys.
Through the years, it developed into complex, distinctively American bourbons, ryes, and Tennessee whiskeys. Bourbon emerged as the pride of the South, crafted with a minimum of 51% corn and aged in charred oak barrels. In fact, bourbon is so American that in 1964 Congress designated it as "a distinctive product of the U.S.A."
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A toast to innovation
As whiskey production became more refined, new techniques emerged. The maturation process evolved to incorporate the use of various barrels, from sherry and port casks to rum and wine barrels. These subtle, unique changes lent all new flavors and complexities to the diversity of the final product.
At the turn of the 20th century, America witnessed an entirely new period of economic challenges in the industry and, eventually, prohibition. But even with alcohol being banned in the U.S. from 1920 to 1933, Americans found cunning ways to obtain these sought after delicacies. From hip flasks and hollowed canes to back room speakeasies, the stream of whiskey never stopped flowing.
True to its resilient spirit, whiskey persevered the era, and then came the boom of craft distilleries. With passionate artisans continuing to develop the craft, the boundaries of tradition expanded to create all new innovative blends and flavors.
Cheers to me, cheers to you, live long and prosper, as whiskey will too
Today, on World Whiskey Day, let us celebrate the versatile libation that has stood the test of time. Whether you prefer an iconic old fashioned, a classical Manhattan, or a peaty Scotch on the rocks, there is a whiskey for everyone — as long as they're of age.
Gather your friends, raise your glasses, and toast to the countless distillers, blenders, bartenders and all who cherish this beloved spirit. Cheers!
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-19T19:20:29+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/from-monks-to-mixologists-a-history-of-whiskey-for-world-whiskey-day |
By ZEN SOO
Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions following increasingly vocal public frustrations.
The National Health Commission said one death was reported each in the provinces of Shandong and Sichuan. No information was given about the ages of the victims or whether they had been fully vaccinated.
China, where the virus first was detected in late 2019 in the central city of Wuhan, is the last major country trying to stop transmission completely through quarantines, lockdowns and mass testing. Concerns over vaccination rates are believed to figure prominently in the ruling Communist Party’s determination to stick to its hard-line strategy.
While nine in 10 Chinese have been vaccinated, only 66% of people over 80 have gotten one shot while 40% have received a booster, according to the commission. It said 86% of people over 60 are vaccinated.
Given those figures and the fact that relatively few Chinese have been built up antibodies by being exposed to the virus, some fear millions could die if restrictions were lifted entirely.
Yet, an outpouring of public anger appears to have prompted authorities to lift some of the more onerous restrictions, even as they say the “zero-COVID” strategy — which aims to isolate every infected person — is still in place.
The demonstrations, the largest and most widely spread in decades, erupted Nov. 25 after a fire in an apartment building in the northwestern city of Urumqi killed at least 10 people. That set off angry questions online about whether firefighters or victims trying to escape were blocked by locked doors or other anti-virus controls. Authorities denied that, but the deaths became a focus of public frustration.
The country saw several days of protests across cities including Shanghai and Beijing, with protesters demanding an easing of COVID-19 curbs. Some demanded Chinese President Xi Jinping step down, an extraordinary show of public dissent in a society over which the ruling Communist Party exercises near total control.
Beijing and some other Chinese cities announced that riders can board buses and subways without a virus test for the first time in months. The requirement has led to complaints from some Beijing residents that even though the city has shut many testing stations, most public venues still require COVID-19 tests.
On Sunday, China announced another 35,775 cases from the past 24 hours, 31,607 of which were asymptomatic, bringing its total to 336,165 with 5,235 deaths.
While many have questioned the accuracy of the Chinese figures, they remain relatively low compared to the U.S. and other nations which are now relaxing controls and trying to live with the virus that has killed at least 6.6 million people worldwide and sickened almost 650 million.
China still imposes mandatory quarantine for incoming travelers even as its infection numbers are low compared to its 1.4 billion population.
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One week ago Sunday, coach Mike Small’s Illinois men’s golf team captured its eighth consecutive Big Ten championship, matching the tenth-best streak in the 127-year history of the nation’s oldest intercollegiate conference.
Illinois’ accomplishment was rewarded this past Wednesday when Small was recognized for a record 13th time as Coach of the Year and four of his athletes — fifth-year seniors Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Tommy Kuhl, Matthis Besard and sophomore Jackson Buchanan — earned First-Team All-Big Ten honors.
The golf squad’s feat is the school’s third-longest streak, ranking behind only an 11-year streak by coach Charlie Pond’s men’s gymnastics program from 1950-60 and nine straight years of success by coach Craig Tiley’s tennis team from 1997-2005.
Eight straight titles, however, is less impressive when comparing it to the stretches that other Big Ten schools have compiled. At the top of the list are 25 consecutive titles by coach Dan Gable’s Iowa wrestling team (1974-1998), 20 in a row by Doc Counsilman’s Indiana Hoosier swimmers and divers (1961-1980) and 16 straight by Brian Eisner’s Michigan tennis squad (1968-83).
Illini men’s athletics’ longest title streaks
- 11: Gymnastics (1950-1960)
- 9: Tennis (1997-2005)
- 8: Golf (2015-2023)
- 7: Fencing (1911-1922)
- 5: Golf (2009-2013)
- 5: Wrestling (1924-1928)
- 5: Fencing (1929-1933)
- 5: Fencing (1950-1954)
- 4: Indoor track and field (1951-1954)
- 4: Outdoor track and field (1951-1954)
Big Ten men’s athletics’ longest title streaks
- 25: Iowa wrestling (1974-1998)
- 20: Indiana swimming and diving (1961-1980)
- 16: Michigan tennis (1968-1983)
- 14: Wisconsin cross-country (1999-2012)
- 11: Illinois gymnastics (1950-1960)
- 10: Michigan swimming and diving (1986-1995)
- 9: Ohio State tennis (2006-2014)
- 9: Illinois tennis (1997-2005)
- 9: Indiana soccer (1996-2004)
- 8: Wisconsin cross-country (1985-1992)
- 8: Wisconsin indoor track and field (2000-208)
- 8 – Ohio State swimming and diving (1949-1956)
- 8 – Illinois golf (2015-2023)
Illini Birthdays
Sunday: John Holecek, football (51)
Monday: Caleb Reams, football (26)
Tuesday: Lisa Panique, tennis
Wednesday: Guy Teafatiller, football (59)
Thursday: Dan Shea, football (63)
Friday: Peter Bihl, swimming & diving (65)
Saturday: Mike Pickering, football (73) | 2023-05-07T12:13:03+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/newsletter/content/sports/illini_basketball/illini-legends-lists-and-lore-impressive-title-streaks/article_8feb26a2-518d-576f-a1db-c14a90e56a0a.html |
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer" or the "Company") (NYSE: ET) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Energy Transfer investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ET investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Energy Transfer during the relevant time frame, you have until August 2, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Novozymes and AgroFresh form partnership to unlock the potential of biotechnology to improve post-harvest quality and reduce food waste.
RALEIGH, N.C., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novozymes, the leading biotech powerhouse, and AgroFresh, a global leader in post-harvest freshness solutions, are forming a research and commercialization partnership towards developing biological solutions that can improve post-harvest food quality and minimize waste by fighting fungal pathogens. Resulting products, which will be developed for post-harvest applications, will benefit growers, retailers, and consumers, as well as the environment.
"This is a very exciting venture into a groundbreaking area for Novozymes – with the intention to satisfy an increasing consumer demand for fruits and vegetables with less food waste and less impact to the environment," says Thomas Stenfeldt Batchelor, Vice President, Agriculture Marketing & Strategy. "With great synergies, that include Novozymes' expertise in pioneering bioinnovation and AgroFresh's R&D capabilities and application knowledge, we will explore the development of viable and sustainable post-harvest solutions to also alleviate significant supply chain issues."
"AgroFresh and Novozymes share very similar missions around sustainability and the introduction of differentiated technologies to address unmet needs across the food chain," says Duncan Aust, Chief Technology Officer, AgroFresh. "We are excited to partner with Novozymes to pioneer the use of biological solutions in the post-harvest sector to reduce food loss and waste and help improve the quality of our food system overall."
Around one third of food produced is lost or wasted before it even gets to the consumer, with fruits and vegetables accounting for over half of this amount. As soon as crops are harvested and removed from their growing environment, they begin to lose quality and eventually deteriorate. Fresh crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and flowers, are particularly vulnerable to microbial attack and subsequent losses during this post-harvest stage, which includes cooling, cleaning, sorting, and packing of the crop.
Novozymes and AgroFresh anticipate that development of new bioproducts will be accelerated by the combination of advanced biotechnologies from Novozymes and AgroFresh's deep scientific expertise in post-harvest solutions, global commercial footprint, and unparalleled portfolio of integrated solutions to help maintain freshness and quality of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
With increasing demands on the global agricultural industry from consumer, economic, and environmental perspectives, the partnership has the potential to create new sustainable products.
"The partnership with AgroFresh brings us the opportunity to expand our BioAg offerings into the post-harvest sector, just at a time when fruit and vegetable producers face some of their toughest challenges ever," adds Novozymes' Thomas Stenfeldt Batchelor.
"We are excited to combine the unique industry and technology insights and scientific expertise provided by both organizations in the development of novel, sustainable solutions for the control of fungal decay in post-harvest fruits, vegetables, and flowers, with the shared goal of minimizing food loss, improving quality, and increasing the overall sustainable footprint of the industries that we collectively serve," finishes Duncan Aust of AgroFresh.
Facts about the partnership
- Novozymes and AgroFresh have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement
that will explore co-development of biological based solutions to control fungal pathogens in fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and will leverage the AgroFresh commercial footprint. - AgroFresh will lead the commercialization of these new solutions for post-harvest application in fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
- Novozymes' BioAg business produces biological solutions for both broad acre and specialty crops. Its products increase plant productivity and protect crops from pests so farmers can produce more food, feed, and fuel with fewer inputs and on less land.
Novozymes is the world leader in biological solutions. Together with customers, partners and the global community, we improve industrial performance while preserving the planet's resources and helping build better lives. As the world's largest provider of enzyme and microbial technologies, our bioinnovation enables higher agricultural yields, low-temperature washing, energy-efficient production, renewable fuel, and many other benefits that we rely on today and in the future. We call it Rethink Tomorrow. www.novozymes.com
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AgroFresh is an AgTech innovator and global leader with a mission to prevent food loss/waste and conserve the planet's resources by providing a range of science-based solutions, data-driven digital technologies, and high-touch customer services. AgroFresh supports growers, packers, and retailers with solutions across the food supply chain to enhance the quality and extend the shelf life of fresh produce. The AgroFresh organization has 40 years of post-harvest experience across a broad range of crops, including revolutionizing the apple industry with the SmartFresh™ Quality System for more than 20 years. This is powered by a comprehensive portfolio that includes plant-based coatings, equipment and proprietary solutions that help improve the freshness supply chain from harvest to the home. www.agrofresh.com
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NEW YORK — Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s education TV series “Sesame Street,” which uses empathy and fuzzy monsters including Abby Cadabby, Elmo, and Cookie Monster to charm and teach generations around the world, has died. He was 93.
His death was announced Tuesday by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Sesame Workshop hailed Dr. Morrisett as a “wise, thoughtful, and above all kind leader” who was “constantly thinking about new ways” to educate.
Dr. Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney worked with Harvard University developmental psychologist Gerald Lesser to build the show’s unique approach to teaching that now reaches 120 million children. Legendary puppeteer Jim Henson supplied the critters.
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“Sesame Street” is shown in more than 150 countries, has won 216 Emmys and 11 Grammys, and in 2019 received the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime artistic achievement, the first time a television program got the award (Big Bird strolled down the aisle and basically sat in Tom Hanks’s lap).
Born in 1929 in Oklahoma City, Dr. Morrisett initially trained to be a teacher with a background in psychology. He became an experimental educator, looking for ways to educate children from less advantaged backgrounds. He received his bachelor’s at Oberlin College, did graduate work in psychology at UCLA, and earned his doctorate in experimental psychology at Yale University. He was an Oberlin trustee for many years and was chair of the board from 1975 to 1981.
The germ of “Sesame Street” was sown over a dinner party in 1966, where he met Cooney.
“I said, ‘Joan, do you think television could be used to teach young children?’ Her answer was, ‘I don’t know, but I’d like to talk about it,’” he recalled to The Guardian in 2004.
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The first episode of “Sesame Street” — sponsored by the letters W, S, and E and the numbers 2 and 3 — aired in the fall of 1969. It was a turbulent time in America, rocked by the Vietnam War and raw from the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the year before.
Children’s programming at the time was made up of such shows as “Captain Kangaroo” and “Romper Room” and the often violent cartoon skirmishes between “Tom & Jerry.” “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” was mostly teaching social skills.
“Sesame Street” was designed by education professionals and child psychologists with one goal: to help low-income and minority students aged 2-5 overcome some of the deficiencies they had when entering school. Social scientists had long noted kids who were white and from higher-income families were often better prepared.
The show was set on an urban street with a multicultural cast. Diversity and inclusion were baked into the show. Monsters, humans, and animals all lived together peacefully.
It became the first children’s program to feature someone with Down syndrome. It has had puppets with HIV and in foster care, invited children in wheelchairs, dealt with topics such as jailed parents, homelessness, women’s rights, military families, and even had girls singing about loving their hair.
It introduced the bilingual Rosita — the first Latina Muppet — in 1991. Julia, a 4-year-old Muppet with autism, came in 2017 and the show has since offered help for kids whose parents are dealing with addiction and recovery and children suffering as a result of the Syrian civil war. To help kids after 9/11, Elmo was left traumatized by a fire at Hooper’s store but was soothingly told that firefighters were there to help.
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The company said upon the news of his death that Dr. Morrisett left “an outsized and indelible legacy among generations of children the world over, with ‘Sesame Street’ only the most visible tribute to a lifetime of good work and lasting impact.” | 2023-01-25T18:53:51+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/25/metro/lloyd-morrisett-who-helped-launch-sesame-street-dies/ |
LONDON (AP) — A computer hacker who stole unreleased songs from British pop star Ed Sheeran and American rap artist Lil Uzi Vert has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, U.K. prosecutors said Friday.
Adrian Kwiatkowski, 23, of Ipswich in southern England, hacked the artists’ cloud-based accounts and sold their songs on the dark web in exchange for cryptocurrency. City of London Police, which investigated the case, said Kwiatkowski made 131,000 pounds ($147,000) on the transactions.
“Kwiatkowski had complete disregard for the musicians’ creativity and hard work producing original songs and the subsequent loss of earnings,’’ said Joanne Jakymec of the Crown Prosecution Service. “He selfishly stole their music to make money for himself.”
In August, Kwiatkowski pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, including 14 copyright offenses and three counts of computer misuse. He was sentenced Friday in Ipswich Crown Court.
City of London Police worked with authorities in the United States to investigate the case after the management companies of several musicians reported that an individual, known online as Spirdark, had gained access to their clients’ cloud-based accounts and was selling their content.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office launched an investigation in 2019, and linked the email address used for Spirdark’s cryptocurrency account to Kwiatkowski. It then identified the IP address of the device used to hack one of the accounts as his home address.
After further investigation, Kwiatkowski was arrested by the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit in September 2019.
“Cybercrime knows no borders, and this individual executed a complex scheme to steal unreleased music in order to line his own pockets,’’ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr said. | 2022-10-21T16:47:48+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/uk-hacker-who-stole-sheeran-songs-sentenced-to-18-months/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told reporters Wednesday that he will not resign despite facing a 13-count criminal indictment.
Federal prosecutors charged Santos earlier Wednesday with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, a significant escalation of the months-long controversy surrounding his biography and finances.
Shortly after entering a not guilty plea at a Long Island courthouse — and being released on a $500,000 bond — the congressman delivered a full-throated defense.
“I will not resign,” Santos told reporters outside the courthouse, later adding, “I believe I’m innocent.”
“I’m gonna fight my battle, I’m gonna deliver, I’m gonna fight the witch hunt, I’m gonna take care of clearing my name and I look forward to doing that,” he said.
Santos has been the subject of scrutiny for months — since before he was sworn into the House — amid questions about his personal and professional background and finances. Lawmakers from both parties have called for Santos to resign or be expelled, but the congressman has remained adamant that he will not step down from his seat.
He reiterated that sentiment Wednesday, noting that he will return to the Capitol on Thursday.
“I’m gonna keep fighting, I’m gonna keep fighting for what I believe in, I’m gonna keep fighting to represent my district, I’m gonna keep fighting to deliver results and now I have to keep fighting to deliver, you know, to defend my innocence and I’m gonna do that,” he said.
While a number of lawmakers have called on Santos to resign, House GOP leadership has stopped short of doing so. On Wednesday, top House Republicans said they would let the legal process surrounding Santos play out.
The charges against Santos do not — by rule — disqualify him from serving in Congress. According to House rules, members charged with criminal conduct as a felony that carries a sentence of two or more years in prison should resign from committees and step aside from party leadership as the legal process plays out. Santos stepped down from his committee assignments in January amid his mounting controversy, and he does not serve in House GOP leadership.
Prosecutors allege Santos directed an unnamed person to connect with potential donors and falsely tell them that their contributions would go toward purchasing television advertisements for the New York Republican’s congressional campaign.
But in actuality, according to the indictment, the contributions were transferred to Santos’s personal bank accounts and subsequently used for personal expenses — including buying designer clothing and discharging his personal debts.
The indictment also accuses Santos of fraudulently receiving more than $24,000 in unemployment benefits after falsely asserting that he was unemployed during parts of the pandemic. Additionally, it alleges that Santos made false statements to the House of Representatives in financial disclosure reports during his congressional campaigns, and that he failed to disclose some income sources.
The top charge Santos faces — wire fraud — carries a maximum jail time of 20 years. If Santos is convicted on multiple counts, a judge will decide whether to make any sentences run concurrently.
Santos told reporters Wednesday that he will continue with his 2024 reelection campaign despite the charges against him. He announced his reelection bid last month.
“Yes I am,” he told reporters when asked if he will run for re-election.
“I will prove myself innocent and then we’ll move from there, and reelection is a very far time away,” he added. | 2023-05-10T23:08:33+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/hill-politics/defiant-santos-says-he-wont-resign-amid-criminal-indictment/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - IDLE LIFESTYLE INC. ("IDLE" or the "Company") (CSE: IDLE) (FSE: 99L.F) (OTC: IDLSF) (formerly Poda Holdings, Inc.) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared the payment of a special dividend, and approved the return of capital, on its Subordinate Voting Shares ("SVS") and Multiple Voting Shares ("MVS") together amounting to a distribution of CDN$0.41 per SVS, and CDN$0.41 per MVS on an as-converted to SVS basis (the "Distribution"). The Distribution is expected to be paid on or about August 10, 2022 (the "Payment Date") to holders of record of SVS and MVS on August 3, 2022 (the "Record Date"). Accordingly, the timetable for the Distribution on Canadian Securities Exchange is expected to be:
* Ex-Dividend Date is the date on which the shares start trading without the subsequent Distribution value, therefore only shares acquired on or before August 1, 2022, will entitle the Shareholder to participate in the Distribution. The Company notes that August 1, 2022, is an optional holiday in Ontario, Canada, and the CSE market will be closed for trading.
The Distribution will be of an aggregate amount of approximately CDN$68.2 million, and comprised of a return of capital of approximately CDN$28 million and dividends of approximately CDN$40.2 million. The Shareholders will receive CAD$0.41 per each SVS held, being $0.215 in connection with the return of capital, and $0.195 in connection with the dividend payment and CAD$410 per each MVS held, being $56.00 in connection with the return of capital, and $354.00 in connection with the dividend payment.
These dividends are designated by the Company as eligible dividends as defined by the Income Tax Act (Canada) and similar provincial or territorial legislation. An enhanced dividend tax credit applies to eligible dividends paid to Canadian residents.
The Distribution follows the completion by the Company, together with Ryan Selby and Ryan Karkairan, of the sale of substantially all of the assets and properties used in the Company's former business (the "Purchased Assets") to Altria Client Services LLC ("ALCS"), a subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE:MO) for a total purchase price of US$100.5 million, subject to certain adjustments and holdbacks on June 24, 2022, pursuant to a definitive agreement dated May 13, 2022 (the "Transaction"). As consideration for the Purchased Assets, ALCS paid US$55,275,000 to the Company, as further described on the Company's news release of June 24, 2022.
As a result of completion of the Transaction, the Company no longer has any material property or assets other than cash-on-hand plus the cash proceeds of the Transaction, which amount to approximately CDN$69.2 million after satisfying the Company's obligations and liabilities. After the Distribution, IDLE expects to retain approximately CDN$1 million in cash to explore new business opportunities for the economic benefit of its Shareholders, subject to the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement.
The dividend portion of the Distribution is subject to the non-resident withholding tax at the statutory rate of 25%, unless a non-Canadian resident shareholder has certified that it is a resident of a country with a tax treaty with Canada and that they qualify for a lower rate of withholding tax under such tax treaty. All registered shareholders who are non-residents of Canada and who are entitled to tax treaty benefits should complete a Canadian Tax Form NR301, NR302, NR303 (as applicable), and return it by email to the Company's paying agent, Endeavor Trust Corporation, on or before 5:00 p.m. PST on August 9, 2022. Please send your completed and signed form by email on or before such time to:
Attn: Corporate Actions Department
admin@endeavortrust.com
Failure to do so will result in the Company withholding from your pro-rata share of the dividend portion of the Distribution at the statutory 25% withholding tax rate.
Non-Canadian resident shareholders who hold their shares through a broker do not need to return a form to the Company and should contact their broker directly.
Further details regarding the Distribution are set in the management information circular (the "Circular") sent to Shareholders in connection with the special meeting held on June 22, 2022, which is available under IDLE's profile at www.sedar.com.
On Behalf of the Board,
Ryan Selby
CEO, Director, and Chairman of the Board
Idle Lifestyle Inc.
Toll-free North America: +1-833-879-7632
Outside North America: +1-406-879-7632
investors@idle-lifestyle.com
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains "forward-looking information" which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as "plans," "expects," "is expected," "budget," "scheduled," "estimates," "forecasts," "intends," "anticipates," or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Such forward-looking information includes, among other things, information regarding: the anticipated timetable for the payment of the Distribution, the tax consequences of the Distribution, the anticipated amount of the Distribution per SVS and MVS, the anticipated amount of the proceeds to be retained by the Company to explore new business opportunities, and the Company's ability to identify such opportunities. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Although such statements are based on assumptions management considers reasonable, there can be no assurance that the Distribution will be completed on the timetable set out in this news release or that events or facts will not arise that reduce the anticipated amount of the Distribution per SVS and MVS.
Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change.
Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the Circular, copies of which are filed under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com, any information released or received with respect to the Distribution may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon.
The Canadian Securities Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this news release.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Even though Uvalde's school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn't feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time since his teacher was shot at Robb Elementary School.
"There were a lot more officers that were there and they should take responsibility for their own actions," Jimenez said.
The firing of embattled Uvalde school Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who for more than 70 minutes during the May 24 massacre made no attempt to confront a gunman firing an AR-15-style rifle inside a fourth grade classroom, did not satisfy or reassure many Uvalde residents nervously facing a fast approaching school year.
The restlessness illustrates the depths of the broken trust in Uvalde between residents and law enforcement more than three months after the slaying of 19 children and two teachers in one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. The demands are constant: more firings, more security, more gun restrictions. But even then, some are unconvinced that any change is enough.
The first day of school in Uvalde is Sept. 6 and a big question is how many students will return.
Jimenez is putting his son back in the district, this time with an iPhone so he can track his location and have him phone for help if needed. His son's teacher, Elsa Avila, was wounded in attack.
"He just runs up to her, hugs her and starts to cry because he knows that she is okay," Jimenez said. "Everyday all he does is ask about how everybody else is doing even though his mental state is horrible."
Ronnie Garza, a Uvalde County commissioner, has five grandkids returning to class next month — three to Uvalde schools and two to a private school. He has noticed a reluctance from parents to reenroll their children in the district and said many families are switching their children to the local private Catholic school.
Virtual schooling is another option, but a new Texas law passed during the pandemic caps the number of students who can learn at home to 10% of a district's enrollment. The Uvalde school district has not requested a waiver, according to the Texas Education Agency.
The district is installing higher fences, more security cameras and spreading more than 30 state troopers on campuses across the small South Texas town. To some families, that provides little peace of mind; the Texas Department of Public Safety had more than 90 troopers, many heavily armed, who were at Robb Elementary as the massacre dragged on.
"They were on campus that day and they also didn't do anything, so I don't know how much comfort that brings to us," said Kimberly Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, was among the students killed.
She has four other children between the ages of 8 and 18, the youngest of whom was also at Robb Elementary and now may do school virtually this year.
"They failed me, they failed us. I don't know that I will ever be the same after this as far as law enforcement," she said.
Arredondo's dismissal Wednesday followed months of pressure from Uvalde residents and investigations that revealed how nearly 400 law enforcement officers on the scene waited outside for more than an hour before they took down the 18-year-old gunman. Signs carried by parents into a heated school board meeting ahead of Arredondo's firing included one that read, "If you did not do your job, turn in your badge."
But it is not clear whether any officers besides Arredondo will have to do so over a fumbled response that Col. Steve McCraw, the head of the state police force, has called "an abject failure." Only one other officer, Uvalde Police Lt. Mariano Pargas — who was the city's acting police chief on the day of massacre — is known to have been placed on leave for their actions during the shooting.
An investigation into Pargas' actions is ongoing. Texas DPS also launched an internal review over the response by its troopers after a damning report by lawmakers revealed that the lengthy inaction by law enforcement went beyond Arredondo and local police.
It is not clear when either review will finish.
"Every officer that was in there that did nothing, we are going to go after them too," said Donna Torres, a Uvalde resident who since the shooting has demanded accountability at school board and city council meetings.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott called Arredondo's dismissal "the first step for accountability." Abbott's first comments after the shooting praised the law enforcement response but said days later he had been misled, a reversal that laid bare the conflicting and at times inaccurate statements by authorities in the days after the tragedy.
"This is a good start, but there is more work to be done," Abbott said in a statement. "There must be accountability at all levels in the response at Robb Elementary School."
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Weber reported from Austin, Texas.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carmel Partners ("Carmel"), announced today the final close of Carmel Partners Investment Fund 8, its U.S. multifamily real estate value creation fund. Fund 8 exceeded its target size of $1.5 billion.
At $1.58 billion, Fund 8 is Carmel's largest fund to date. Investors include U.S. and international pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and select high net worth individuals and family offices. Carmel has successfully raised over $7 billion since the inception of its Fund series in 2003.
Carmel has a vertically integrated platform that focuses on multifamily investments in supply-constrained, high barrier-to-entry U.S. markets including Northern and Southern California, Boston, Denver, Hawaii, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C. These investments include ground-up development, renovation and debt instruments.
Ron Zeff, Founder and CEO of Carmel Partners, said, "We are grateful for the continued support of existing investors and welcome our new investors, and we value the trust they place in us to invest on their behalf. We believe that the wide-ranging expertise Carmel has developed through decades of investing in acquisitions, renovations, ground-up projects as an owner/builder and real estate debt instruments, will enable us to find compelling investments in any market cycle."
About Carmel Partners
Founded in 1996, Carmel is one of the nation's leading specialists in real estate investment management, focusing on U.S. multifamily development, renovation and debt investments. Through its vertically integrated platform, Carmel seeks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns across varying market cycles by investing in relatively supply-constrained, high barrier-to-entry markets in the United States. Since its founding, Carmel has bought and renovated or developed, or is in the process of renovating or developing, more than 50,000 apartment units and has made 22 debt investments with a combined estimated Gross Value of more than $19.5 billion.
Carmel has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Seattle and Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit www.carmelpartners.com.
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Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” returns for its third season at a time when newer “Star Wars” hits like “Andor” have garnered acclaim and some fans are wondering if the show has run its course.
NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the season’s slow start reveals a show facing one of the most important challenges yet.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The online travel magazine TravelMag.com invited more than 100 travel writers, photographers and selected professionals to name the Tennessee towns they consider the most appealing. Those surveyed were asked to choose their top three towns and cities with populations of less than 100,000 people. All of the votes were then tallied to produce the final selection.
Tennessee stretches through the heart of the American south to the banks of the mighty Mississippi River. And while its big cities such as Memphis and Nashville are the main draw, this land of Appalachian Mountains, 10,000 caves, and river-fed plains is also home to hundreds of small city and town wonders as well.
Among those that made our list is Franklin. Located just south of Nashville, the city was founded in 1799 and boasts a charming historic Downtown: a well maintained, 16-block district that's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Victorian architecture on vibrant streets full of shops, restaurants, and antiques stores surround the town square. Franklin is also known for its annual festivals and parade that take place at regular intervals throughout the year.
Situated in Maury County, the city of Columbia also boasts a scenic downtown offering plenty of shopping and a picturesque, café-lined square. There's also a thriving art scene centreed around the Colu-mbia Arts District, which was established as a haven for artists and artisans. For the historically inclined traveller, Columbia also claims the former home (now a museum) of James K. Polk, who served as the 11th U.S. President from 1845-49.
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BENGALURU, India (AP) — Global average temperatures have risen and weather extremes have already seen an uptick, so the short answer to whether it’s too late to stop climate change is: yes. But there’s still time to prevent cascading effects, as every degree of additional warming has exponentially disastrous impacts, experts say.
A 2021 report by the top body of climate scientists provided new analysis of the chance the world has to cap warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) or 2 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times in the coming decades, in line with global climate goals.
Although scientists estimated it’s still possible to stay within these limits, they said it would require immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It’s more likely that global temperature will reach or exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the report said.
The 1.5-degree goal is “on life support,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series answering some of the most fundamental questions around climate change, the science behind it, the effects of a warming planet and how the world is addressing it.
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Without major action to reduce emissions, the global average temperature is on track to rise by 2.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, scientists say.
And researchers warn that the situation will get very serious before then: Once the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold is reached, there will be increasing heat waves, longer warm seasons and shorter cold seasons. When the 2 degrees Celsius mark is crossed, critical tolerance levels for agriculture and health will be reached.
But all hope is not lost, they urge.
At the time of the report’s release, Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College of London, said achieving the 1.5-degree goal “is still possible from a physical science point of view.”
“If we reduce emissions globally to net zero by 2040 there is still a two thirds chance to reach 1.5 degrees and if we globally achieve net zero emissions by the middle of the century, there is still a one third chance to achieve that,” she said.
If all human emissions of heat-trapping gases were to stop today, Earth’s temperature would continue to rise for a few decades but would eventually stabilize, climate scientists say. If humans don’t emit any additional planet-warming gasses, then natural processes would begin to slowly remove the excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and global temperatures would gradually begin to decline.
“There is a direct relation between delay and warming, and between warming and risk of what we would call extreme impacts,” said Ajay Gambhir, a senior research fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, based at Imperial College London. “ Unfortunately, we’re already seeing all these extreme impacts — whether it’s extreme heat waves, increased risk of crop failures, forest fires or bleaching coral reefs— already happening.”
He added: “The further we delay action on addressing climate change by reducing our emissions, the warmer the world will get.”
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HONOLULU (AP) _ Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (HE) on Monday reported second-quarter earnings of $53 million.
The Honolulu-based company said it had profit of 48 cents per share.
The the parent of Hawaii's largest electricity generator posted revenue of $895.6 million in the period.
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Hurricane Roslyn forecast to bring dangerous surge to Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn was expected to deliver a treacherous storm surge to parts of Mexico Sunday after plowing over the Pacific as a powerful Category 4 storm just offshore from the resort of Puerto Vallarta.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Sunday that Roslyn had become “extremely dangerous” with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph).
The storm was forecast “to bring damaging winds, a life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains to portions of west-central Mexico today,” the hurricane center said at 12 a.m. Sunday.
The center placed Roslyn’s core about 45 miles (75 kilometers) west of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving north at 12 mph (19 kph).
Forecasters said Roslyn likely would pass close to Cabo Corrientes and the Puerto Vallarta region during the night, but warned that those areas would still see high winds, heavy rains and rough surf.
A hurricane warning was in effect for Las Islas Marias and Playa Perula to Escuinapa. A hurricane watch was in effect for the area north of north of Escuinapa to Mazatlan, the center said.
The storm was expected to come ashore in Nayarit state Sunday morning. Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3 a little farther north in roughly the same region, about 45 miles (75 kilometers) southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.
Hurricane-force winds extended out 30 miles (45 kilometers) from Roslyn’s center, while tropical storm-force winds extended out to 80 miles (130 kilometers), the U.S. hurricane center said.
A hurricane warning was posted on a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.
Seemingly oblivious to the approaching storm, tourists ate at beachside eateries Saturday around Puerto Vallarta and smaller resorts farther north on the Nayarit coast where the storm likely was headed.
“We’re fine. Everything is calm, it’s all normal,” said Jaime Cantón, a receptionist at the Casa Maria hotel in Puerto Vallarta. He said that if winds picked up, the hotel would gather up outside furniture “so nothing will go flying.”
While skies began to cloud up, waves remained normal, and few people appeared to be rushing to take precautions. Swimmers were still in the sea at Puerto Vallarta
“The place is full of tourists,” said Patricia Morales, a receptionist at the Punta Guayabitas hotel in the laid-back beach town of the same name, farther up the coast.
Asked what precautions were being taken, Morales said, “They (authorities) haven’t told us anything.”
The Nayarit state government said the hurricane was expected to make landfall around the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of Puerto Vallarta.
The head of the state civil defense office, Pedro Núñez, said, “Right now we are carrying out patrols through the towns, to alert people so that they can keep their possession safe and keep themselves safe in safer areas.”
In the neighboring state of Jalisco, Gov. Enrique Alfaro wrote that 270 people had been evacuated in a town near the hurricane’s expected path and that five emergency shelters had been set up in Puerto Vallarta.
The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. hurricane center warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast, as well as 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of rain. | 2022-10-23T11:32:28+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/10/22/category-4-rosyln-brushing-vallarta-on-way-to-mexico-coast/ |
DENVER (KDVR) — Gas prices continue to surge across the country, with the national average for a gallon of regular fuel now up to $4.91, according to the AAA.
If you’re looking for relief at the pump, there are some free apps that you can download to help.
Gas Buddy
The Gas Buddy app provides several resources to save money. Once you download the app, you can order your free GasBack card. It just has to be linked to a personal bank account. You will also have to provide your driver’s license information to verify your identity.
“GasBack is free money for gas earned from everyday purchases. Earning GasBack is easy and it’s automatically applied at the pump at gas stations nationwide,” Gas Buddy stated.
Once you get the GasBack card, you’ll be able to swipe it to pay for gas. The card will also save you up to $.25 per gallon, according to Gas Buddy.
Additionally, the app will allow you to find the cheapest gas price wherever you are. You can also turn your daily purchases into free gas by shopping in the app.
Upside
Another free app that can save you money at the pump is Upside.
“You’ll pay however you normally do (with a credit or debit card) and cash back will be deposited directly to your Upside account. There’s no limit on how much you can earn – Upside even works with other coupons, discounts, and loyalty programs!” Upside explained.
The app says you can save up to $.25 per gallon.
Here’s how it works, according to Upside:
- Find local offers on everything from gasoline prices to restaurants and everything in between.
- Pay as usual: Shop as you would at favorite spots around town, and pay with any credit or debit card.
- Check in to log your purchase, and be on your way. (If you can’t check in, just snap a photo of your receipt and upload it to the app.)
- Earn cash back, and cash out whenever you want via PayPal, e-gift card or directly into your bank account.
Upside said you can get cash back at over 45,000 locations nationwide.
Fuel Rewards
Many gas stations, such as Exxon, Shell and Phillips 66, also offer fuel rewards when you use their apps. There are also grocery stores that provide discounts on fuel based on the amount of money you spend.
Costco and Sam’s Club offer their members discounted gas prices as well. A yearly membership at Costco starts at $60. A yearly membership at Sam’s Club starts at $45. | 2022-06-07T20:15:24+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/here-are-2-free-apps-that-can-save-you-money-on-gas/ |
NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Okta, Inc. ("Okta") (NASDAQ: OKTA) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Okta, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/okta-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=29124&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Okta includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 19, 2022
Aggrieved Okta investors only have until July 19, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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SEOUL, South Korea, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloocus, a leading cloud experts group specialized in Microsoft, today announced it has won the Country of the Year 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
"The partner of the Year Award is awarded to the partner that has shown the highest performance in Microsoft business. Receiving this award for the second consecutive year, I feel great responsibility to strive more," said Steve Hong, the CEO of Cloocus. "We will do our best to become a partner with the best technology to support 3 Cloud – Azure, Microsoft365, and Dynamics365 & Power Platform."
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Cloocus was recognized for providing outstanding and services in Korea.
Despite being founded for only three years, Cloocus has grown in a rapid pace this year. Since its earlier stage, Cloocus has heavily invested in Microsoft's cloud technology and acquired "Azure Expert MSP," which is Microsoft's top global technology grade. Among the Korean partners, it holds the most advanced specialization certifications, which is the highest grade of Azure technology per specific workloads, for Cloud Migration, Hybrid Cloud, Security, Application Modernization, Data & AI, and more. By utilizing the latest technologies of "Azure Digital Twin Platform," "Azure Databricks," and "Azure Machine Learning" for its recent project with Hyundai Motor Group, it has proven its exceptional expertise in Data and AI services.
An e-approval solution optimized for Korean work environments, "ClooWorks," has also been launched based on Microsoft Teams. As the first Microsoft Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) partner in Korea, it is recruiting partners to do its Microsoft business together and is striving to expand its Microsoft-based cloud ecosystem. With Microsoft Korea, Cloocus opened the "Global Tech Hub" in Busan to strengthen strategic cooperation in expanding its regional cloud business.
Furthermore, Cloocus is also actively engaged in Microsoft Enabler Program to implement an inclusive workplace for disabilities in the APAC region.
"I am honored to announce the winners of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards," said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. "These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees and I'm continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for its customers."
Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company's global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year. Additional details on the 2022 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner Network blog: https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/congratulations-to-the-2022-microsoft-partner-of-theyear-awards-winners-and-finalists/. The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards.
About Cloocus Co Ltd
Founded in 2019, Cloocus Co Ltd is recognized as a Microsoft Azure expert MSP (Managed Service Provider)(NASDAQ: MSFT) and currently houses the most Microsoft Azure experts in South Korea and is also recognized as Korea's first Cloud Modernization, AMP, and Azure Advanced Specializations partner with over 500+ clients.
Cloocus has been working tirelessly to serve customers from Enterprise to SMBs and startups of various industries including Hyundai Motor Group, SK Group, Hanwha Solutions, CJ, Netmarble, NC, PearlAbyss, Krafton, and more.
In July 2021, Cloocus was named as the winner of "Microsoft Partner of the Year 2021 Korea".
It has overseas offices in New York and Kuala Lumpur and will continue to expand its global business, mainly in Asia.
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Drummer Fred White, who backed up his brothers Maurice and Verdine White in the Grammy-winning ensemble Earth, Wind & Fire, has died. He was 67.
Verdine White, a vocalist, percussionist and bass player for the band, posted Sunday on his Instagram account that his younger brother Frederick Eugene “Freddie” White had died. He didn’t say how or where his brother died.
Earth, Wind & Fire began in 1970 under the leadership of Maurice White, who created a band that could combine elements of jazz, funk, R&B, soul, dance, pop and rock, and celebrated African musicianship and spiritualism. Driven by their horn section the Phenix Horns and a reputation for energetic and bombastic live performances, the group’s popularity grew after they moved to Columbia Records, which was then under the leadership of Clive Davis.
Fred White was already an accomplished drummer, playing for Donny Hathaway, before he joined Earth, Wind & Fire in the mid-1970s. Paired alongside drummer and percussionist Ralph Johnson, the band’s rhythm section was tight and upbeat and set the stage for songs like “Boogie Wonderland” and “September” to become instant favorites.
Verdine White called his brother Fred was a gifted child musician, “with gold records at the young age of 16 years old!” Fred White remained with the band until 1983.
“But more than that at home and beyond he was the wonderful bro that was always entertaining and delightfully mischievous! And we could always count on him to make a seemingly bad situation more light hearted!” wrote White.
Some of the band’s biggest hits are still widely popular, often sampled and used in countless movies. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, played the 2005 Super Bowl halftime show and has six Grammys. The band’s “Got to Get You Into My Life” was on President Barack Obama’s first Spotify playlist.
The band’s most successful period started with the 1975 album “That’s The Way of The World” and continued through the rest of the decade. Other hits included “Serpentine Fire,” ″Shining Star” and a cover of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life.”
Maurice White died at the age of 74 in 2016. | 2023-01-03T19:24:47+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/ap-earth-wind-fire-drummer-fred-white-dies-at-age-67/ |
HAVANA (AP) — As Belkis Fajardo, 69, walks through the dense streets of downtown Havana with a small bag of lettuce and onions in hand, she wonders how she’ll feed her family over the holidays.
Scarcity and economic turmoil are nothing new to Cuba, but Fajardo is among many Cubans to note that this year is different thanks to soaring inflation and deepening shortages.
“We’ll see what we can scrap together to cook for the end of the year,” Fajardo said. “Everything is really expensive … so you buy things little-by-little as you can. And if you can’t, you don’t eat.”
Basic goods such as chicken, beef, eggs, milk, flour and toilet paper are difficult and often impossible to find in state stores.
When they do appear, they often come at hefty prices, either from informal shops, resellers or in expensive stores only accessible to those with foreign currency.
It’s far out of the range of the average Cuban state salary, approximately 5,000 pesos a month, or $29 USD on the island’s more widely used informal exchange rate. Nearby, a pound of pork leg was selling for 450 pesos (around $2.60.)
“Not everyone can buy things, not everyone has a family who sends remittances (money from abroad),” Fajardo said. “With the money my daughter earns and my pension, we’re trying to buy what we can, but it’s extremely hard.”
In October, the Cuban government reported that inflation had risen 40% over the past year and had a significant impact on the purchasing power for many on the island.
While Fajardo managed to buy vegetables, rice and beans, she still has no meat for Christmas or New Years.
The shortages are among a number of factors stoking a broader discontent on the island, which has given rise to protests in recent years as well as an emerging migratory flight from Cuba. On Friday, U.S. authorities reported stopping Cubans 34,675 times along the Mexico border in November, up 21% from 28,848 times in October.
The dissatisfaction was made even more evident during Cuba’s local elections last month, when 31.5% of eligible voters didn’t cast a ballot — a far cry from the nearly 100% turnout during Fidel Castro’s lifetime.
Despite being the highest voting abstention rate the country had seen since the Cuban revolution, the government still hailed it as “a victory.” However in an address to Cuban lawmakers last week, President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged the government’s shortcomings in handling the country’s complex mix of crises, particularly food shortages.
“I feel an enormous dissatisfaction that I haven’t been able to accomplish, through leadership of the country, the results that the Cuban people need to attain longed-desired and expected prosperity,” he said.
The admission provoked a standing ovation in the congressional assembly, made up solely of politicians from Díaz-Canel’s communist party.
But Ricardo Torres, a Cuban and economics fellow at American University in Washington, said he saw the words as “meaningless” without a real plan to address discontent.
“People want answers from their government,” he said. “Not words — answers.”
For years, the Caribbean nation has pushed much of the blame for its economic turmoil on the United States’ six-decade trade embargo on Cuba, which has strangled much of the island’s economy. However, many observers, including Torres, stress that the government’s mismanagement of the economy and reluctance to embrace the private sector are also to blame.
On Friday, a long line of Cubans waited outside an empty state-run butchery, waiting for a coveted item: a leg of pork to feed their families on New Year’s Eve.
About a dozen people The Associated Press asked for an interview said they were scared to speak, including one who said “it could have consequences for us.”
Estrella, 67, has shown up to the state butcher every morning for more than two weeks, waiting her turn to buy pork to share with her children, grandchildren and siblings. So far, she’s come up dry.
Although pork is available to buy from private butchers, it’s often far more expensive than at state-run facilities, which subsidize prices.
So she waits, hopeful that she’ll be able to cook Cuba’s traditional holiday dish.
“If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to buy it today,” she said. “If we’re not, we’ll come back tomorrow.” | 2022-12-24T17:19:48+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-cubans-search-for-holiday-food-amid-deepening-crisis/ |
Lt. Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety, told CNN on Wednesday that all 21 victims in Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas were in the same classroom.
The gunman killed 19 students and two teachers, authorities said. All 21 victims have been identified.
Olivarez said the incident started at a residence when the 18-year-old suspect shot his grandmother. The suspect then crashed his car and attempted to run into the elementary school. There, he was met by officers.
Olivarez reported that the gunman shot two officers and entered the school. The two officers had non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
The gunman then barricaded himself in a classroom, shooting at will.
"It is a small classroom, anywhere from 25 to 30 students in there, two teachers in there," Olivarez told CNN. "So don't have exact number of how many students were in that classroom, but it could vary as I mentioned right now from 25 to 30, could be more. But we do know there was — it was a classroom setting, a typical classroom setting. You have mass groups of children inside that classroom, all together, with nowhere to go.
The DPS spokesperson said officers began evacuating students from nearby classrooms by breaking windows.
Once additional resources arrived, Olivarez said officers shot and killed the suspect.
"The initial group of officers that were on scene... were at a point of disadvantage because the shooter was able to barricade himself inside that classroom," Olivarez said. "There was not sufficient manpower at that time and their primary focus was to preserve any further loss of life, so they started breaking windows around the school, and trying to rescue, evacuate children, and teachers, while that was going on.
"At that point, we had a specialized tactical team arrive, comprised of federal officers, local police officers as well. They made forcible entry into the classroom. One of those officers was met with gunfire, he was shot."
Olivarez told CNN that the officer also had non-life-threatening injuries.
The San Antonio Express-News reported the suspect purchased 375 rounds of 5.56 ammunition. | 2022-05-25T14:13:32+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/official-details-how-gunman-entered-texas-classroom-killing-19-students-2-teachers |
The train derailment that occurred in early February contaminated creeks and rivers running through East Palestine, Ohio, with chemicals. Some residents and scientists are questioning whether the cleanup is being done correctly.
Julie Grant of The Allegheny Front reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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WIMBLEDON, England — (AP) — Caty McNally was one of the few female entrants at Wimbledon with a female coach: Her mother, Lynn Nabors McNally.
Mom does not travel full-time on tour with Caty — someone else she’s worked with for six years, Kevin O’Neill, does — but they use a two-coach setup at the biggest events, including Grand Slam tournaments.
McNally, a 21-year-old from Ohio who was the runner-up in women’s doubles at the U.S. Open each of the past two years, once alongside Coco Gauff and once alongside Taylor Townsend, wishes female coaches weren’t so rare at the pro level. There are just 13 women ranked in the Top 200 with a female coach; four of those coaches are the player’s mother.
It would be nice, McNally says, if there were more women around. She looks at her male counterparts — every man who was in the singles field at the All England Club is coached by a man — and thinks, "Why can't it be that way for us?"
“There’s a different vibe because of it. A different environment. On the men’s side, the coaches are always in the locker room with the players, just hanging out. On the women’s side, you don’t see that; it’s only the players in the locker room,” McNally said last week after a session at the All England Club’s Aorangi Park practice courts with her mother and O’Neill.
“It might let the guys be more loose: The coaches are right there to help take things off their shoulders. On the women’s side, after a loss, a lot of the girls are like, ‘I don’t want to talk to anyone. I want to be by myself.’ You don’t see any female coaches hanging around in the locker room,” said McNally, who missed the French Open with a torn right hamstring and wore athletic tape on the back of that leg during first-round exits in singles and doubles at Wimbledon. “I do wonder what it would be like if there were more females coaches. Maybe the players and coaches would hang out and have group dinners more.”
McNally, a successful junior who is now 67th in singles and 26th in doubles in the WTA rankings, was one of just six of the 128 women in the singles bracket at Wimbledon with a female coach. The WTA is hoping to increase the number of women in that role at the highest levels of tennis, in part through a Coach Inclusion Program that is in its first full year.
“It’s embarrassing how few of us there are, to be honest with you,” Nabors McNally said, sitting next to her daughter on a wooden bench near the practice courts. “It’s going to take a lot more time and effort to see the numbers where they should be.”
Nabors McNally, a teaching pro after being a professional player in the 1980s and 1990s, and her daughter have been a tennis tandem for nearly all of Caty’s life. She started at age 2 by hitting a balloon over the couch at home with her older brother, John, who went on to earn all-Big Ten honors at Ohio State.
The next step was hitting balls in the driveway. Then there would be Sunday night all-in-the-family matchups: Caty and Mom against John and Dad.
“I would say, ‘Just make contact, Sweetie.’ And all of a sudden, she did,” Nabors McNally recalled. “And then we had rallies. And then we played points.”
From the time Caty was 7 or 8, she would spend 12 or more hours a day at the The Club at Harper’s Point in Cincinnati, where Mom has given lessons seven days a week for years.
“I liked being around the sport,” Caty said. "I liked being around her.”
Katherine Sebov, a Canadian player who lost in qualifying at Wimbledon, has always been coached by her mother, too. Sebov picked up the sport after watching her parents play tennis and deciding to join in — uninvited.
“I 100% crashed the party,” Sebov said. “Then they stopped playing, and it was all me.”
Both McNally and Nabors McNally say they are able to navigate the two spheres of their relationship: mom-child and coach-player.
“It’s a very fine line, and you just have to find it. ... As I’ve matured, I’ve just realized to not take certain things so seriously, and (think), ‘Maybe she meant it one way but it came across in another,’” McNally said. “It’s just like probably any 21-year-old who at times doesn’t always want to be around their mom.”
Mom’s take? “We’ve had a lot of conversations about Caty being the CEO of her business. But you can’t have a bigger person in your support system than family.”
One rule they adhere to: no tennis talk when at home.
As a teen at the junior level in 2018, McNally was the singles runner-up to Gauff at the French Open — after eliminating current WTA No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the semifinals — and won doubles titles with Gauff at the French Open and U.S. Open.
Her goals these days?
“I want to win Slams in (singles and doubles). And mixed, as well. And also be No. 1 in the world,” Caty said with a smile. “Might as well dream big.”
Mom agrees.
“Once Caty grabs ahold of the kite string,” McNally Nabors said, “I hope she can hold on for a long time.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
2-4-7-7, SB:
(two, four, seven, seven; SB: zero)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
2-4-7-7, SB:
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NEW YORK – Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, has a book deal.
The Open Field, a Penguin Random House imprint overseen by Maria Shriver, announced Tuesday that Kinzinger's “Renegade: My Life in Faith, the Military, and Defending America from Trump’s Attack on Democracy” is scheduled for release on Oct. 17.
“Ever since my final falling-out with the GOP, on the day of the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s followers, I have wanted to tell the inside story of how my party and also my faith have been hijacked by extremists who represent a real danger to our democracy,” Kinzinger said in a statement.
“This book is the result, a full telling of my experience from a pilgrim with genuine values to a conservative who has no home but is determined to play a role in our recovery from a devastating political war,” he added.
Kinzinger, an Iraq War veteran first elected to Congress in 2010, became a leading GOP critic of Trump and his Republican colleagues after Jan. 6. He denounced Trump for inciting “an angry mob” with false claims the 2020 election was stolen and voted to impeach the then-president. He was later one of two Republicans, along with Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who joined the House committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack.
Last fall, he announced he would not seek reelection after the Democrat-controlled Illinois Legislature approved new congressional maps that would have forced Kinzinger and a fellow Republican incumbent, Rep. Darin LaHood, into a primary matchup.
Kinsinger "examines the forces that allowed such an attack to happen in the first place, from the misinformation campaign waged by Fox News and partisan media to the inculcation of extremism in families and faith communities," according to his publisher.
The publisher described the book as “part memoir, part searing examination.”
The book will offer "an inside account of one of the most tumultuous events in recent American history and sounds the alarm on the devastating consequences of letting extremism go unchecked,” the publisher said. | 2023-02-21T22:03:38+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/02/21/former-us-rep-adam-kinzinger-to-release-book-in-october/ |
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Matthew Murrell scored 21 points and Daeshun Ruffin had 17 with the two combining for 28 in the second half when Mississippi rallied to beat Temple 63-55 on Saturday.
After shooting just 27% and giving up 16 points off turnovers in the first half the Rebels (8-3) rebounded to shoot 48% in the second half and overtake the Owls.
Damian Dunn scored 16 points and Khalif Battle 15 for Temple (6-6), which shot 24% in the second half.
Ole Miss led 51-44 with five minutes to after play after two baskets each from Ruffin and Murrell and Murrell's first 3-pointer after seven misses. Ruffin assisted on a Myles Burns dunk to make it an eight-point edge with 3:43 left.
Despite the lead, the Bulldogs gave up fouls that sent Temple to the line four times where the Owls converted seven free throws and left them trailing by three with 1:14 remaining.
The Rebels' Jayveous McKinnis swatted a Temple shot into the face of teammate Jaemyn Brakefield that knocked Brakefield to the floor but McKinnis recovered the ball and made a free throw with 45 seconds remaining. Burns took a long inbounds pass and broke away for a layup and Murrell added four free throws from there to ice the win.
A Ruffin layup followed by his feed to Murrell for a transition dunk tied the game at 35-all with just under 14 minutes remaining and seconds later a three-point play by TJ Caldwell gave the Rebels their first lead since the opening minutes.
Zach Hicks hit a pair of 3-pointers in a 9-2 run to give Temple a five-point lead early and the Owls led by as many eight before going into halftime ahead 27-24.
Ruffin came in averaging a little over six points per game but was 5 of 10 from the field on this night with two 3-pointers while going 5 of 6 at the line. Burns grabbed 12 rebounds.
Temple was without 6-foot-11 Jamille Reynolds, who had started all 11 previous games and had been averaging 11.1 points, third on the team, and was the Owls' leading rebounder. He had right thumb surgery Wednesday and is expected to miss six to eight weeks.
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Lewis came up in rock, but proved his country chops on the 1968 album Another Place, Another Time. The music suited his piano style, and the lyrics fit the emotions he brought to every performance.
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Lewis came up in rock, but proved his country chops on the 1968 album Another Place, Another Time. The music suited his piano style, and the lyrics fit the emotions he brought to every performance.
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The Southern Baptist Conventions' top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday — an LGBTQ-friendly church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it cited for "alleged discriminatory behavior."
The votes of the Executive Committee came at the end of a two-day meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, even as the committee copes with a Department of Justice investigation. The federal-level scrutiny follows a blistering report by a consultant earlier this year into sexual abuse in Southern Baptist settings and mistreatment of survivors by past Executive Committee officials.
The committee on Tuesday approved a statement that College Park Baptist Church of Greensboro, North Carolina, was not in "friendly cooperation" due to its "open affirmation, approval and endorsement of homosexual behavior," which conflicts with the denomination's theological conservative positions.
In fact, College Park had voted in 1999 to leave the denomination, and its website makes a point of stating it's not a member of the Southern Baptist Convention but rather of more progressive Baptist bodies.
It wasn't immediately clear why the Executive Committee decided now to put the matter to a vote. But Executive Committee Chairman Jared Wellman said afterward that the convention still had the congregation on its rolls until now.
On its website, the church describes itself as an "LGBTQIA Affirming Baptist Church" and says it "fully welcomes and affirms all persons without distinction regarding race, ethnicity, national origin, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other human category."
The committee, in a separate vote, declared that Amazing Grace Community Church of Franklinville, New Jersey, was no longer in friendly cooperation. It cited its "lack of cooperation ... to resolve concerns regarding alleged discriminatory behavior."
Requests for comment from both congregations via phone and email were not immediately returned.
Since Baptist congregations are self-governing, the denomination can't force them to follow their policies, but it can effectively expel them by declaring them not in "friendly cooperation" if they don't conform to denominational stances in particular areas, such as for pro-LGBTQ polices, alleged support for racism or alleged failure in responding adequately to child sexual abuse, such as employing offenders as pastors.
There could be more congregations in the last category in the pipeline.
The committee learned that more than 200 referrals had been made to a newly established hotline about alleged mishandling of abuse cases by SBC churches or organizations.
That news came from the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force — created after the release of consultant Guidepost Solutions' scathing report earlier this year into the sexual abuse of children in SBC settings and the mistreatment of survivors by the Executive Committee.
Mike Keahbone, vice chair of the task force, said it is working to hire personnel to receive and investigate reports of abuse and of mishandling abuse in Southern Baptist circles.
The convention said in August that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the convention. The DOJ didn't confirm the report, but the convention suggested in a statement that it related to sexual abuse. On Tuesday, the committee voted to transfer $500,000 from investments to its operating budget, in part to respond to that investigation.
The Executive Committee on Tuesday also added a "Caring Well Sunday" to the official Southern Baptist calendar of activities, which would aim to spread awareness and education about abuse. Churches have the option whether to observe such dates. But Wellman urged them to do so: "We want to be building a culture that addresses and prevents abuse, and this is a really great educational opportunity."
"Our dream ... is that our churches would be safe for the vulnerable and unsafe for abusers," Wellman said, citing numerous reforms underway. "There is no place, there is no tolerance for abuse in a Southern Baptist church."
Some abuse survivors, following the meeting on social media, found the committee's actions lacking. Long-time advocate and survivor Christa Brown criticized it for "self-congratulatory" talk on Twitter and said it's failed to take concrete steps toward making amends to survivors or to take disciplinary steps toward former officials faulted in the Guidepost report.
Keahbone said he understands the criticism and that compared to what survivors endured, "there's nothing we could say or do that would be worthy of any praise at all." He said the task force is doing what it can to implement reforms correctly.
"We're not celebrating anything," he said. "We're just trying to have markers of improvement."
Wellman echoed the thought. "I've just grieved and been broken-hearted for what they've experienced," he said. "We recognize we have a really long way to go."
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Farming First is currently building what will become the largest contiguous outdoor cultivation operation in California.
VENTURA, Calif., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifth generation agriculturalist William Terry and entrepreneur Stephen Walden today unveiled a new operation focused on bringing best-in-class farming practices to California sun-grown cannabis. Rooted in verdant Santa Barbara County, Farming First Holdings, LLC (the "Company") has established 134 acres of rolling outdoor cultivation, possessing entitlements for what will become the largest contiguous outdoor cultivation operation in California.
Farming First offers a variety of products and services to the cannabis industry: single-source bulk wholesale flower; white-labeling; co-packaging; and custom farming contracts for specific needs, including dried and cured flower, fresh frozen, and unique phenotypical and cannabinoid specific strains. All of Farming First's cannabis plants are sustainably sun-grown under hoop houses, focusing on rich terpene profiles expressed through the Company's hybrid farming methodology.
"Farming First isn't just our name—it's our mission," said co-founder and CEO Terry. "My family has farmed California's Central Coast region for more than 125 years, giving me immense respect for the land and surrounding community. Along with Walden and the other founders, we've assembled an incredible team that brings together unrivaled cultivation know-how and modern innovation, including agricultural experts, legacy cannabis farmers, lifelong entrepreneurs, and visionary designers and engineers."
Farming First's recently appointed executive leadership team includes:
- William Terry, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer: Terry has served on a variety of boards, including as president of the Ventura County Farm Bureau, University of California's Hansen Fund, California Pepper Commission, and others. He also serves as vice president of Terry Farms, a 2,000+ acre specialty crop operation.
- Stephen Walden, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer: Prior to co-founding Farming First, Walden founded Bosse Tools, revolutionizing hardware tools with ergonomic design that he patented and later licensed. He also launched a lifestyle cannabis brand in 2018.
- Jered Micheli, Co-Founder and Agricultural Officer: Micheli is a fourth-generation farmer from northern California with over 15 years of experience in the cannabis industry. He previously managed western U.S. agricultural operations for Canopy Growth, and helped shape the regulatory framework for recreational cannabis.
- Scott Wilson, Chief Branding Officer: Wilson is the former Chief Experience Officer at Cresco Labs, responsible for creating the industry-leading MSO's House of Brands. He is the founder and principal designer of the product development, brand strategy and business innovation firm MNML, creating billions of dollars of commercial success for brands including Nike, Nespresso, Theragun, Bang & Olufsen, Google, Meta and Xbox. Wilson received the prestigious Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, an honor bestowed by the White House on the nation's top designer each year.
- Thomas Salzillo, Chief Finance Officer: A Southern California native with a background in accounting, Salzillo's demonstrable influence and financial prowess in the cannabis industry has been recognized with the designation of 2019 CPA of the Year by the California Cannabis Awards.
- Mario de la Piedra, Vice President of Operations: Born and raised in Ventura County, de la Piedra has been involved in all aspects of agriculture, including farming, political advocacy and most recently, the founding of an agribusiness insurance company. He currently serves as an advisor to Seso, an agtech labor marketplace.
"Farming First is showcasing quality flower through a diversity of strains by applying the best of indoor, greenhouse, and outdoor growing techniques to our crop," said Walden. "We like to call our farm a one-lighter because our plants are 100 percent solar-powered by the sun—the best and most natural source there is."
Added Wilson, "Today's cannabis consumer is curious about where their product comes from: where it's grown, how it's grown, and the stories behind the brands they put in their bodies and bring into their homes. We're providing California operators with flower they can be proud to put their name on, and anticipate launching our own lineup of product brands very soon."
Farming First is on a mission to revolutionize and lead the sun-grown cannabis market in California. With a focus on sustainable growing practices and ethical land management, the Company employs energy-efficient farming practices such as water saving irrigation technology, solar powered hoop house venting and sunlight deprivation, as well as sustainable cattle grazing on over 1,200 acres of surrounding lands. Additionally, Farming First is working with environmental groups to help protect the endangered California Tiger Salamander indigenous to its land.
The Company has raised over $35M in private funding since its inception, with plans to expand the farm's scale and yield.
For more information on Farming First, visit www.farmingfirst.com.
ABOUT FARMING FIRST, LLC.
Founded in 2019, Farming First is an outdoor cannabis cultivator, processor, and distributor in the heart of California's Central Coast focused on bringing best-in-class farming and sustainability practices to the state's cannabis industry. With 134 acres of rolling cultivation, Farming First possesses entitlements for what will become the largest contiguous outdoor cultivation operation in California. The Company offers a plethora of options for the cannabis industry: single-source bulk wholesale cannabis; white-labeling; co-packaging; and custom farming contracts for specific needs, including dried and cured flower, fresh frozen, unique phenotypes, cannabinoid specific strains and more. Harnessing the natural resources of California's Central Coast, Farming First supplies some of the state's leading cannabis brands, in addition to having its own soon-to-launch portfolio of brands. The team includes fourth- and fifth-generation farmers who know the land and are committed to growing high-quality sun-grown cannabis in the most sustainable way possible.
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IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Western Trailer ("GWT") announced today the acquisition of Southwest Trailer & Equipment, LLC. Southwest Trailer & Equipment, based in Oklahoma City, OK, is a full-service trailer dealership providing new and used equipment sales as well as repair, maintenance and parts solutions. Southwest Trailer & Equipment distributes trailers for a broad range of manufacturers including Transcraft Trailer Corporation, Construction Trailer Specialists, Holden Trailers, Strick Trailers, LLC, and Nuttall Trailers.
"We are excited to have completed the acquisition as it expands our reach into the Southwest, an area we had targeted for growth," stated Jeremy Amen, Chief Executive Officer of Great Western Trailer. "We are also looking forward to enhancing Southwest Trailer & Equipment's service offerings to include the finance, leasing and rental solutions we provide at our other 8 locations across the United States."
"We are thrilled to complete our 10th acquisition since starting Great Western Trailer in 1997," stated Sean Norton, Founder of Great Western Trailer. "The Southwest Trailer & Equipment's employees and facilities in Oklahoma City and Tulsa are a great fit for GWT. We are always on the lookout for quality businesses to add to the GWT family, and Southwest Trailer & Equipment certainly fits that description."
"We are happy to have completed the sale to Great Western Trailer," stated Mike Dye, Southwest Trailer & Equipment's founder. "I believe they will be great partners for our employees and will maintain the high level of service and responsiveness our customers have come to expect from us."
"Great Western Trailer will continue to pursue acquisitions as a way to fulfill its long-term plan of building out a larger geographic footprint," stated Seth Wilson, a Managing Partner of Headhaul Capital and the Vice Chairman of Great Western Trailer. "We believe that as we develop a larger network of locations we will be better positioned to provide creative trailer solutions for our customers."
Previously, Great Western Trailer acquired certain assets of Pacific Truck & Trailer, Quality Trailer Sales, Trinity Trailer Sales, All Points Trailer, and Patriot Trailer Sales. Southwest Trailer & Equipment marks GWT's 6th acquisition in 6 years. The company offers a full suite of trailer sales, leasing, rental, repair, maintenance, and parts solutions at each of its ten locations.
Great Western Trailer, based in Irvine, CA, is a leading full-service, integrated solutions provider to the flatbed and specialized trailer industry. The Company operates a network of strategically located facilities in the Western United States that offer customers a broad range of sales, financing, leasing and rental options for new and used trailers, as well as after-market trailer repair and maintenance. The Company distributes trailers for a broad range of manufacturers including Fontaine Trailer Company, Wilson Trailer Company, Manac Trailers USA, XL Specialized Trailers and Side Dump Industries. Visit https://www.greatwesterntrailer.com/.
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CALGARY, AL, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TransAlta Corporation ("TransAlta" or the "Company") (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) announced today that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem all or any part of the currently outstanding cumulative redeemable rate reset first preferred shares Series C ("Series C Shares") (TSX: TA.PR.F) on June 30, 2022 (the "Conversion Date").
As a result and subject to certain conditions set out in the prospectus supplement dated November 23, 2011 relating to the issuance of the Series C Shares, the holders of the Series C Shares will have the right to convert all or any of their Series C Shares into cumulative redeemable floating rate first preferred shares Series D of the Company ("Series D Shares") on the basis of one Series D Share for each Series C Share on the Conversion Date.
With respect to any Series C Shares that remain outstanding after June 30, 2022, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly fixed cumulative preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of TransAlta. The annual dividend rate for the Series C Shares for the five-year period from and including June 30, 2022 to but excluding June 30, 2027, will be 5.85400%, being equal to the five-year Government of Canada bond yield of 2.75400% determined as of today plus 3.10000%, in accordance with the terms of the Series C Shares.
With respect to any Series D Shares that may be issued on June 30, 2022, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly floating rate cumulative preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of TransAlta. The annual dividend rate for the 3-month floating rate period from and including June 30, 2022 to but excluding September 30, 2022 will be 4.57700%, being equal to the annual rate for the most recent auction of 90-day Government of Canada Treasury Bills of 1.47700% plus 3.10000%, in accordance with the terms of the Series D Shares (the "Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate"). The Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate will be reset every quarter.
As provided in the terms of the Series C Shares, if TransAlta determines after reviewing all Series C Shares tendered for conversion into Series D Shares that: (i) there would remain outstanding on June 30, 2022, less than 1,000,000 Series C Shares, all remaining Series C Shares shall be converted automatically into Series D Shares on a one-for one basis effective June 30, 2022; or (ii) there would remain outstanding after June 30, 2022, less than 1,000,000 Series D Shares, the holders of Series C Shares shall not be entitled to convert their shares into Series D Shares effective June 30, 2022. There are currently 11,000,000 Series C Shares outstanding.
The Series C Shares are issued in "book entry only" form and must be purchased or transferred through a participant in the CDS depository service ("CDS Participant"). All rights of holders of Series C Shares must be exercised through CDS or the CDS Participant through which the Series C Shares are held. The deadline for the registered shareholder to provide notice of exercise of the right to convert Series C Shares into Series D Shares is 3:00 p.m. (MST) / 5:00 p.m. (EST) on June 15, 2022. Any notices received after this deadline will not be valid. As such, holders of Series C Shares who wish to exercise their right to convert their shares should contact their broker or other intermediary for more information and it is recommended that this be done well in advance of the deadline in order to provide the broker or other intermediary with time to complete the necessary steps.
If TransAlta does not receive an election notice from a holder of Series C Shares during the time fixed therefor, then the Series C Shares shall be deemed not to have been converted (except in the case of an automatic conversion). Holders of the Series C Shares and the Series D Shares will have the opportunity to convert their shares again on June 30, 2027, and every five years thereafter as long as the shares remain outstanding.
The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has conditionally approved the listing of the Series D Shares effective upon conversion. Listing of the Series D Shares is subject to TransAlta fulfilling all the listing requirements of the TSX.
About TransAlta Corporation:
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia with a focus on long-term shareholder value. TransAlta provides municipalities, medium and large industries, businesses and utility customers with clean, affordable, energy-efficient and reliable power. Today, TransAlta is one of Canada's largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydroelectric power. For over 100 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud community-member where its employees work and live. TransAlta aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
For more information about TransAlta, visit our web site at transalta.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-looking Information:
This news release contains certain information that is forward-looking and is subject to important risks and uncertainties (such statements are usually accompanied by words such as "may", "will", "should", "estimate", "intend" or other similar words). Specifically, this news release contains forward-looking information with respect to the Company, the Series C Shares and the Series D Shares, including but not limited to future conversions, redemptions and dividends. All forward-looking information reflect the Company's beliefs and assumptions based on information available at the time the statements were made and as such are not guarantees of future performance. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this press release. TransAlta undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information except as required by law. For additional information on the assumptions made, and the risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking information, refer to the Company's Annual Report and Management's Discussion and Analysis, and the risks set out in the prospectus supplement dated November 23, 2011 relating to the issuance of the Series C Shares, filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
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Targeted at entrepreneurs, professionals, and leaders in the process of reinvention, this seminar will be held in a hybrid format (online and in-person) to discover the keys to personal and professional success.
MIAMI, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 31 and August 1, the "El Negocio de ser tú" seminar will take place in Miami, offering a unique event where participants will develop a strategic vision of business and marketing to boost their entrepreneurship and personal brand.
"El Negocio de ser tú" is an initiative created by Ismael Cala, a renowned speaker and best-selling author, in collaboration with the distinguished marketing and personal branding expert, Vilma Núñez. This two-day event will bring together creative minds and thought leaders in an inspiring environment, where participants can learn proven strategies for success, develop key skills, and establish valuable connections with professionals from various industries.
Ismael Cala, creator of Cala Academy, expressed his enthusiasm, stating: "This meeting represents a unique opportunity to share knowledge and experiences with those who wish to propel their personal and professional development. Over these two days, we will address relevant topics that will help participants discover their true potential and achieve their goals."
Vilma Núñez, CEO of Convierte Más group, shared her thoughts on the importance of this meetup: "The significance of this gathering for ambitious entrepreneurs with a mission is that there will be a before and after in this event, as they will not only gain knowledge but also an action plan to achieve results."
During the seminar, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel, participants will have the opportunity to attend keynote speeches by experts in various fields, interactive workshops, and networking sessions. Topics to be covered include the entrepreneurial mindset, time management, effective leadership, persuasive communication, and personal branding, among others.
"El Negocio de ser tú" promises to be an enriching and motivating experience for all attendees, providing practical tools and valuable insights for personal and professional growth.
For more information about the event and to secure your spot, whether in-person or online, please visit the official website: https://cala.academy/evento.
About Ismael Cala:
Ismael Cala is a life and human development strategist, journalist, bestselling author, philanthropist, and international speaker. For over five years, he hosted the show CALA on CNN in Spanish, becoming one of the most beloved and influential communicators in the Americas. He is the president of the CALA Group business consortium and the Ismael Cala Foundation, and author of books such as The Power of Listening, Life is a Pinata, The Emotional Illiterate, Un buen hijo de P..., The Secret of Bamboo, and Wake Up with Cala, among others. He currently serves as the rector of the Hispanic University of Mentors.
About Vilma Núñez:
CEO of Convierte Más Group and Business Marketing Advisor. Dean at American Business University. Through her consulting, mentoring, and training, she helps brands and professionals sell more using online marketing, advertising, and sales techniques. Vilma is a marketing communicator, creator of digital methodologies, author of books, international speaker, and one of the first women to venture into digital businesses with ebooks, online courses, and certifications in 2013.
She currently leads as CEO of Convierte Más group, a conglomerate of software companies, consulting firms, agencies, and online schools that provide online marketing and advertising solutions.
Host of "Vende Más con Vilma" podcast, which has over 4,500,000 listens worldwide.
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DALLAS — Ryan Poles knew pretty quickly he was interested in the path that led to his hiring as general manager of the Chicago Bears, while Dallas Cowboys personnel man Will McClay toiled in arena football before scouting beckoned.
Both credit relationships built along the way for their spots in a promising trend of diversity hiring for the NFL, plagued for years by a poor record in opportunities for minorities in the coaching ranks.
Poles is among six minorities picked to fill the past 12 openings for general managers going back to early 2021, and McClay could have pushed the ratio past 50%. Instead, he has turned down several chances to take that title, choosing to stay as vice president of player personnel for Dallas owner, president and GM Jerry Jones.
Relationships are crucial to maintaining or expanding the roles of minorities in front offices, and the effort is never-ending, said C. Keith Harrison, lead author of the annual NFL Diversity and Inclusion Report.
“People say time is money. Trust is money, and people invest in relationships that they trust,” said Harrison, a sports business professor at UCF. “We have data that when you network and connect, engage with people that are different from you by gender and race, you have a better chance of being what we call upwardly mobile.”
McClay says ownership, which is overwhelmingly white in the NFL, has a role in getting to know promising minority candidates in organizations. McClay was head coach of an arena league team owned by Jones' Cowboys before becoming a scout, and has been with the club for 20 years.
“Jerry didn’t know me until I got to be able to spend time with him, talk to him, him to know how much I knew about football, how much I knew about relationships and trying to get that together,” McClay said. “He wouldn’t have known that if I didn’t get the opportunity.”
Poles was about to go into marketing after he was released by the Bears, but took a job as a graduate assistant at Boston College, his alma mater, instead. Conversations with visiting pro scouts sparked his interest in the personnel side.
The 36-year-old Poles credits former Kansas City GM Scott Pioli for making the advancement of minority candidates a priority.
“He’s always taken a lot of pride in making sure that there was a pipeline from scouting assistant to area pro scout to directors and then doing that the right way,” said Poles, who was with the Chiefs for 13 years before joining the Bears in January.
“So I was fortunate to have someone that was very aware of it, and my growth and development happened probably faster because of just mentors that wanted to spend time to develop me as a person and as a personnel person and a leader,” Poles said.
Five of the six recent minority additions among GMs are Black: Poles, Washington's Martin Mayhew, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah of Minnesota, Atlanta's Terry Fontenot and Brad Holmes in Detroit. Pittsburgh hired Omar Khan, an Indian American, in May. Overall, eight of the 32 GMs are minorities.
“It’s huge progress that’s been made,” Holmes said. “Hopefully that progress continues.”
Fontenot, hired by the Falcons in early 2021 after 18 seasons in New Orleans under longtime GM Mickey Loomis, said the goal should be to get to a point where race doesn't have to be a factor for head coaches or personnel chiefs.
At its recent spring meetings in Atlanta, the league conducted an accelerator program for minorities in coaching and the front office, with two members of the staff from each club participating.
“The league shouldn’t have to have accelerator programs,” Fontenot said. “We should be able to do that with everyone — not just people that are a certain color, a certain race, a certain sex. We should be inclusive in all of our processes.”
While Harrison said he is optimistic about minorities having opportunities in some aspects of management with NFL teams, that feeling doesn't carry over to head coaching.
In a league with 70% of rosters filled by Black players, five head coaches are minorities. In 2011, that number was eight. Whether a better hiring record with GMs can translate to head coaching is a tricky question, Harrison and Poles said.
First, it's difficult to know how much influence a GM will have with an owner, Harrison said, adding that a Black GM in charge of hiring a coach might have stronger ties to white candidates.
“It’s hard to oversimplify,” Harrison said. “There’s only 32 teams. So our sample sizes, they’re so small and these positions are so challenging and elite to come by. They’re just so competitive.”
Jones of the Cowboys made a similar point, while also saying he wasn't inclined to give up his GM title to keep McClay because he believes the role goes well beyond personnel. Jones said he values McClay, who runs the draft for a club with plenty of recent success in picking players, and doesn't want to minimize his role.
McClay said he has stayed because he believes his voice is important to Jones, and he has direct contact with the owner/GM. McClay also said he doesn't feel pressure to take a job as a general manager elsewhere because he is Black.
“I’m a grown man,” the 55-year-old said. “You've got to do your job first, so I’m doing my job to the best of my availability first. Then, if that opportunity comes and I’m comfortable with it, then that’s what it is.”
The uptick in minority hiring of GMs in the NFL will be meaningful only if it continues, McClay said.
“It will make that much of a difference if you continue the practices that are now being used because it's a hot topic,” McClay said. “Instead of reacting to it, planning for it and giving people the opportunity based on the quality of their work more so than just saying, ‘OK, we did it this time.’ It’s got to continue because it’s not just something you can do right now and say it’s solved.” | 2022-08-24T22:00:22+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/sports/nfl/gm-hires-give-nfl-bright-spot-in-diversity-but-work-remains/535-d0b7bfde-8b4c-42bf-8453-beb062fbee0c |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
6-0-1-3
(six, zero, one, three)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
6-0-1-3
(six, zero, one, three) | 2022-12-11T04:02:04+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17645826.php |
SAO PAULO (AP) — Kevin Magnussen shocked Formula One in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying by earning pole position for the sprint race at Interlagos on Friday.
It was the first pole after 142 races for the Danish driver, who celebrated by making faces at the cameras before the third qualifying session was over. Then he jumped on his car and punched the air in the drizzle. He gave his Haas team boss Guenther Steiner an emotional hug.
“The team put me out on track exactly at the right moment,” an exultant Magnussen said.
Asked whether he expected to earn pole, he replied: “Not even close. It is incredible.”
Magnussen started in F1 in 2014 and returned to the series this year after a one-year absence as the replacement for Russian driver Nikita Mazepin.
On team radio, Magnussen was even more excited: “I never felt like this in my life,” he said. Minutes before, when he was told he was in first position, he replied: “You’re kidding.”
Meanwhile, Haas teammate Mick Schumacher, who is still seeking a seat for the next season, finished not surprisingly in 20th and last place.
Steiner said on Thursday he has yet to decide whether Schumacher will race for the team next year, adding he hopes a decision will be made next week. Schumacher has earned only 12 points this season. Magnussen has a paltry 24.
Magnussen was almost five seconds faster than Schumacher. World champion Max Verstappen was second by almost two-tenths of a second. Mercedes’ George Russell was third.
Qualifying was delayed by rain, which helped Magnussen. The last five minutes of the session were severely affected by the wet track.
Haas spoke about Magnussen’s pole position with a touch of disbelief: “What did we just do?” the team posed on Twitter. “That was a Viking performance!”
Friday’s results set the grid for Saturday’s sprint race, which will determine the starting positions for Sunday’s race at Interlagos.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who will start the sprint in fifth position, will have a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race. The Spaniard has added a new internal combustion engine for the weekend, a penalty-inducing sixth of the season.
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, who is still fighting to secure the runner-up position in the drivers’ championship, was first during free practice earlier on Friday. He had a design on his helmet in collaboration with Disney.
“It is for the Black Panther movie, a movie that represents a lot of my country,” the Mexican driver said. “The helmet itself is unique and I really like it.”
Perez will start the sprint, which is expected to go under rain agan, in ninth position.
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Plants make an indoor atmosphere more cheerful and vibrant. Fortunately, you don’t need a lot of space or even sunlight to create a thriving garden in your home — as long as you pick plants that will flourish in whatever environment you have.
After you’ve researched plant types and determined what species might do well with the available sunlight and space, there are a few basic things to know in order to ensure that your plants thrive.
Here are all the basics for growing greenery in your home.
1. Know how much sun and water each plant needs
Research plants based on your environment (ex: plants that live in low light, plants that live in direct sunlight) and level of expected time commitment (ex: low-maintenance plants).
Take stock of your space. How much sunlight enters the room, and for how long each day? Is it direct or indirect?
Be realistic about how much attention you’ll be able to give your plants. Will you remember to water every day or do you need something less demanding?
2. How to tell when your plant needs water
First, you need to find out how much water each species of plant needs. Some plants need to have dry soil before another watering, while others prefer to live in constantly moist soil. For most common houseplants, the topsoil should dry out before the next watering.
The best way to know when it’s time to water is to test the soil.
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If your plant is large enough that you won’t disrupt the plant itself, dip your pointer finger about an inch into the soil or up to your first knuckle. If the soil is dry, then it’s time to water it. If any part of the soil is wet on your finger, leave it be.
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For smaller plants, you can use a wooden chopstick. Place it away from the plant in the soil about two inches down and leave it for about 10 minutes. When removed, if the wood comes out dry, it’s time to water. If it’s become stained or absorbed water, you need not water it for at least another day.
3. Know when a plant is getting too much water (or not enough)
When overwatered, most plants will begin to yellow in the leaves. However, the leaves can also yellow if they are not receiving enough sunlight, so you should take stock of the environment and your plant’s needs before you jump to any conclusions.
When a plant is not receiving enough water or is getting too much sunlight, the leaves will brown.
Water plants at the base or at the roots (versus pouring or spraying water on the leaves, which can damage them). But be careful of root rot, which occurs when plant roots sit in too much water for too long.
4. Pruning basics
Pruning is very important because your plant is sending all of its energy to every part of itself. If a leaf is dying (either turning yellow or brown), then the best thing for the plant is for you to remove it. This will direct the energy to healthy leaves or new growth.
A burnt leaf (crispy and brown) will never return to green. A yellowing leaf does not have to be removed, but if you don’t like the look of it, you can snip it off. Note that a yellowing leaf is a sign that something is wrong (either too much water or not enough sunlight).
5. Where to keep plants
There are four types of light that can be achieved indoors: direct, bright indirect, medium light and low light (shade).
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Direct light is when the sun is in direct contact with your plant, like on a windowsill.
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Bright indirect light bounces off something else first. It’s enough light on your plant to create a shadow.
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Medium light can also be described as dappled light, or the light that filters through a thin window curtain.
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Low light can be found in the darkest parts of the room, where sunlight never casts. Some plants can survive in low light, but they will not grow larger.
Tip: Be careful when placing sensitive plants in front of glass windows, as the sun shining through can burn the leaves similar to a magnifying glass creating fire.
6. Will artificial light do the same job as sunlight?
No. Lightbulbs do not carry enough UV light rays to sustain plant life. However, there are light bulbs designed for indoor plant growth called grow lights that can be used in spaces where sunlight isn’t possible.
7. How to know if your plant has outgrown its pot
If your plant outgrows its pot, you’ll need to move it to a larger one. This is called transplanting or repotting. You need to transplant if:
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The soil is old and not retaining water. You’ll notice when watered, it drains out the bottom faster than usual.
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The roots outgrow the pot. You’ll be able to see roots peeking through the drainage holes.
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If your plant is getting adequate sunlight and fertilizer but not growing, it could need to be repotted.
8. How to transplant indoors
Although transplanting it can be dirty, it’s possible to do it in your home with minimal mess. Here’s how:
1. Lay down a trash bag large enough to catch the dirt from spilling onto your floor.
2. Fill the new pot a little more than one-third full with fresh soil. If your old pot is thin plastic, squeeze the sides to loosen up the soil.
3. Gently turn your plant over into your palm (over the top of the new pot so excess dirt falls in) and let gravity help slide the plant out of the pot.
4. Holding the plant over the new pot, gently use a few fingers to loosen up the soil around the roots, being careful not to break them — but remember that your plant is resilient so if you do break some, it is OK.
5. Settle the new plant within the half-filled new pot of dirt. Arrange the plant so it’s upright and the base of the plant’s stem is about a half-inch lower than the rim of the pot. Fill the empty spaces with more dirt and pack it in.
6. Once the plant feels stable within the soil, water it thoroughly, allowing the water to drain out through the bottom of the pot. Do this over a sink or bathtub.
9. What to do if your pot doesn’t drain water
If your pot does not have drainage holes, line the base of the pot with rocks. Lava rocks work the best. This is to make sure that the roots of the plant do not sit in the water that drains to the bottom of the pot, because this can lead to root rot which will destroy your plant and the soil it sits in.
10. All about propagation
Many herbs, along with many houseplants, can be rooted in water. Common species are: pothos, spider plants, umbrella plants, Tradescantia, ZZ plants, snake plants, Philodendron, prayer plants and holiday cacti.
To propagate in water, you will need a cutting from an established plant. Cut the stem about one inch below a leaf. The location at which the leaf connects to the stem is a node; to properly root a cutting, you will want to cut about half an inch below the node on a diagonal slant. Place that end in water.
Refresh the water once a week for the best results. However, you can go weeks before changing the water, and plants will often root anyways. While the cutting is sitting in water, be careful to keep it in indirect light and out of direct sun.
A common mistake is making multiple cuttings along a stem and placing them upside down into the water. Roots will only grow from the base end of the plant.
11. What type of soil do you want to use?
Most soils are named after what they are best used for. They might be labeled for indoor potting, vegetable/fruit soil, cactus soil, etc. If you have a plant that needs easy water drainage, mix in some sand to add air pockets allowing room for more oxygen and nutrients to be absorbed by the roots. If you need the soil to stay moist, you can add wood chips on top.
12. Ideas for DIY planters
A DIY planter can be made from pretty much any vessel, but those that can be punctured at the base for drainage holes are best. Milk cartons, juice containers, olive oil tins, and coffee tins are suitable for smaller plants, while seeds can sprout in empty egg cartons.
13. Do you need to clean leaves?
You do not have to. There are some products that can be used to make leaves shiny, but many plants are sensitive to these products. It’s better to use a wet terry cloth towel and gently clean the leaves.
14. Hard-to-kill plants for most homes
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For city spaces with small or no windows: ZZ plants and snake plants both need medium/low light. Let the soil dry out between waterings and do not mist — just give the plants some sun time once a week or so.
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For rooms with larger, sunnier windows: Spider plants need indirect/direct sunlight. Like ZZ and snake plants, let the soil dry out between waterings.
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For first-time or busy plant owners: Pothos is fantastic for anyone new to indoor plants because it’s really obvious when they need water — their leaves will begin to droop and they will be really flimsy. They will live in any type of light, and you should let the soil dry out between waterings.
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For slightly more confident plant parents: Dracaena needs a bit more attention than others in this list because its leaves like to be misted, but it’s still fairly low-maintenance as you can let the soil dry out between waterings and it needs medium/low light.
All the above prefer drier soil, so if you forget to water for a week, they won’t mind.
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SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Experlogix, whose CPQ software and document automation solutions simplify the most complex sales and other processes, today announced its plans to consolidate all Experlogix LLC and Xpertdoc Technologies products and services into a unified Experlogix brand. The brand transition follows an operating name change of Xpertdoc Technologies Canada to Experlogix Technologies Canada.
After the acquisition of Xpertdoc Technologies in December of 2020, Experlogix expanded its best-in-class CPQ offering to include integrated document generation and automation capabilities through Xpertdoc. Under the new corporate Experlogix brand, all customers — CPQ and document automation customers alike — can expect the same dedication and support of all products and services, now offered as a set of solutions.
Xpertdoc document generation and automation products will now be offered as part of Experlogix Document Automation. The Experlogix Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) product will now be sold as Experlogix CPQ.
The two existing company web domains will be merged to facilitate the transition into one brand. The new website will incorporate Xpertdoc content and support into Experlogix.com, with the transition of all digital properties currently slated for early 2023 of this year.
"CPQ and document automation share one common element: They help companies effectively manage complex processes to enhance their customer and employee experiences and accelerate revenue generation," said Bill Fox, CEO of Experlogix. "From the beginning, we knew we wanted to be one strong company with multiple product offerings. Now, as a singular brand, Experlogix can bring our team of over 300 experts and unmatched experience together to drive success for customers and partners."
The acquisition has enhanced value to customers and helped fuel significant company growth, including the addition of more than 100 new hires across multiple regions, 49% increase in year-over-year revenue, and support for over 600 companies worldwide — marking Experlogix's position as the No.3,079 Fastest-Growing Private Company in the U.S., as ranked in the 2022 Inc. 5000.
"We've grown from a small to a medium-size company that can still be nimble and flexible, with the resources and stability of a larger organization," Fox said. "As a combined entity, our goal is for the Experlogix brand to reflect that evolution and become more navigable for our customers, partners, and industry-watchers — allowing us to bring them into our vision of the future."
The announcement follows new leadership hires to bolster expertise, market expansion, and continued company growth, including:
- Beth Thornton, Chief Revenue Officer
- Renee Gregor, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
- Mark Conway, Vice President, Sales EMEA
- Angie Cox, Vice President, Sales North America
- Arjun Nukal, Chief Financial Officer
Experlogix will invite customers to an upcoming Community Summit North America in booth 406, where it will share more information on its world-class suite of products, partnerships, and powerful CRM and ERP platform integrations.
Experlogix solutions simplify and humanize the most complex products and processes to unlock workflow velocity and create a better customer experience. Experlogix CPQ makes configuration and other processes faster than you ever thought possible and simpler than you dared to imagine. Experlogix Document Automation simplifies and optimizes even the most complex document processes for companies worldwide, in any industry. Experlogix — simplifying the complex.
Experlogix is a global company headquartered in Salt Lake City, with European headquarters in Veenendaal, Netherlands. We're online at www.experlogix.com
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A compromise presented by Downtown Councilman James Solomon would give a Downtown Jersey City school exclusive use of a city playground for large chunks of the school day, but the neighborhood association isn’t ready to agree.
Paulus Hook Park, a pocket playground at the corner of Grand and Washington streets and next to Cornelia Bradford School 16, has been the center of a tug of war between the Historic Paulus Hook Association (HPHA) and School 16 parents since it was renovated last year. | 2022-07-07T20:59:34+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/07/solomon-proposes-compromise-in-fight-over-jersey-city-public-playground-sought-by-school.html |
Reilly McGlinn scored a hat trick and added two assists as Cherry Hill West scored a 6-1 win over Seneca during an Olympic Conference National Division showdown at Cherry Hill.
West improved to 6-4 overall and is the last unbeaten team in National Division play with a 3-0 mark. Seneca fell to 7-3, 3-1.
McGlinn now has eight goals and a team-high 13 assists.
Kennedy Erdman added two goals and two assists, increasing her team-high goal total to 12. Julie Short scored the other goal, while Abigail Leporati made six saves.
The win was the third in the last four games for West.
Ava Palladino scored the goal for Seneca.
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FREMONT, Calif. , Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amprius Technologies, Inc. ("Amprius") (NYSE: AMPX), the leader in lithium-ion batteries with its Silicon Nanowire Anode Platform, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Dr. Kang Sun and Chief Financial Officer Sandra Wallach will be participating at the UBS Future of Electric Mobility Virtual Conference on Monday, October 3, 2022.
The company will hold one-on-one investor meetings during the day. To schedule a one-on-one meeting, request a conference invitation or receive additional information, please contact your UBS salesperson or Amprius' investor relations team at (949) 574-3860 or IR@amprius.com.
About Amprius Technologies, Inc.
Amprius Technologies, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high-energy and high-power lithium-ion batteries producing the industry's highest energy density cells. The company's corporate headquarters is in Fremont, California where it maintains an R&D lab and a pilot manufacturing facility for the fabrication of silicon nanowire anodes and cells.
For additional information, please visit amprius.com.
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CALGARY, AB, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL) (NYSE: PBA) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a common share cash dividend for November 2022 of $0.2175 per share to be paid, subject to applicable law, on December 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on November 25, 2022. The common share dividends are designated "eligible dividends" for Canadian income tax purposes. For non-resident shareholders, Pembina's common share dividends should be considered "qualified dividends" and may be subject to Canadian withholding tax.
For shareholders receiving their common share dividends in U.S. funds, the November 2022 cash dividend is expected to be approximately U.S. $0.1596 per share (before deduction of any applicable Canadian withholding tax) based on a currency exchange rate of 0.7337. The actual U.S. dollar dividend will depend on the Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange rate on the payment date and will be subject to applicable withholding taxes.
Pembina pays cash dividends on its common shares in Canadian dollars on a monthly basis to shareholders of record on the 25th day of each month (except for the December record date, which is December 31st), if, as and when determined by the Board of Directors. Should the record date fall on a weekend or a statutory holiday, the effective record date will be the previous business day. The dividend payment date is the 15th day of the month following the record date. Should the payment date fall on a weekend or on a statutory holiday, the business day prior to the weekend or statutory holiday becomes the payment date.
Subject to approval of future common share dividends by the Board of Directors, Pembina intends to move from a monthly to a quarterly common share dividend payment, with payments to be made in March, June, September and December of each year. Subject to approval by the Board of Directors, the monthly dividend is expected to end with the dividend to be declared in early December 2022 and paid on December 30, 2022, to shareholders of record on December 15, 2022. The first quarterly dividend is expected to be effective for the dividend to be paid in March 2023.
Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a leading energy transportation and midstream service provider that has served North America's energy industry for more than 65 years. Pembina owns an integrated network of hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas pipelines, gas gathering and processing facilities, oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics services, and a growing export terminals business. Through our integrated value chain, we seek to provide safe and reliable infrastructure solutions which connect producers and consumers of energy across the world, support a more sustainable future and benefit our customers, investors, employees and communities. For more information, please visit pembina.com.
Purpose of Pembina:
To be the leader in delivering integrated infrastructure solutions connecting global markets:
- Customers choose us first for reliable and value-added services;
- Investors receive sustainable industry-leading total returns;
- Employees say we are the 'employer of choice' and value our safe, respectful, collaborative and inclusive work culture; and
- Communities welcome us and recognize the net positive impact of our social and environmental commitment.
Pembina is structured into three Divisions: Pipelines Division, Facilities Division and Marketing & New Ventures Division.
Pembina's common shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under PPL and PBA, respectively. For more information, visit www.pembina.com.
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and statements (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of applicable securities legislation, that are based on Pembina's current expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "continue", "anticipate", "schedule", "will", "expects", "estimate", "potential", "planned", "future", "outlook", "strategy", "protect", "trend", "commit", "maintain", "focus", "ongoing", "believe" and similar expressions suggesting future events or future performance.
In particular, this news release contains forward-looking statements relating to: future dividends which may be declared on Pembina's common shares; the timing and the amount of such dividend payments; and the expected tax treatment thereof. The forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that Pembina has made in respect thereof as at the date of this news release regarding, among other things: the success of Pembina's operations and growth projects; prevailing commodity prices, margins, volumes and exchange rates; that Pembina's future results of operations will be consistent with past performance and management expectations in relation thereto; the availability of capital to fund future capital requirements relating to existing assets and projects; future operating costs; that all required regulatory and environmental approvals can be obtained on the necessary terms in a timely manner; prevailing regulatory, tax and environmental laws and regulations; maintenance of operating margins; and the availability of coverage under Pembina's insurance policies (including in respect of Pembina's business interruption insurance policy).
Although Pembina believes the expectations and material factors and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date hereof, there can be no assurance that these expectations, factors and assumptions will prove to be correct. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to: the regulatory environment and decisions; Indigenous and landowner consultation requirements; the impact of competitive entities and pricing; reliance on third parties to successfully operate and maintain certain assets; the strength and operations of the oil and natural gas production industry and related commodity prices; non-performance or default by counterparties to agreements which Pembina or one or more of its affiliates has entered into in respect of its business; actions by governmental or regulatory authorities; the ability of Pembina to acquire or develop the necessary infrastructure in respect of future development projects; fluctuations in operating results; adverse general economic and market conditions in Canada, North America and worldwide; risks relating to the current and potential adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ability to access various sources of debt and equity capital; changes in credit ratings; counterparty credit risk; the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and its potential impact on, among other things, global market conditions and supply and demand, energy and commodity prices; interest rates, supply chains and the global economy generally; and certain other risks and uncertainties detailed in Pembina's management's discussion and analysis and annual information form, each for the year ended December 31, 2021, and from time to time in Pembina's public disclosure documents available at www.sedar.com, www.sec.gov and through Pembina's website at www.pembina.com.
This list of risk factors should not be construed as exhaustive. Readers are cautioned that events or circumstances could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, forecasted or projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date hereof. Pembina does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information contained herein, except as required by applicable laws. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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PROVO, Utah (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit filed after an 11-year-old autistic boy was left in a hot car while under the watch of a care facility in Utah has been settled.
The lawsuit filed against Roost Services and some of its employees in April stemmed from the July 2021 death of Joshua “Joshee” Hancey, who was left in a car for nearly three hours in American Fork south of Salt Lake City as temperatures reached the mid-90s, KSL-TV reported Sunday. Police Lt. Josh Christensen told reporters at the time that the car's windows were up, the doors were closed and the engine was off.
Terms of the settlement have not been released.
David S. Bridge, an attorney for one of the employees, declined to comment about the settlement out of respect to the parties in the lawsuit. The attorneys for Roost Services and two other employees did not respond to KSL's requests for comment.
Peter Mifflin, the attorney for the boy's estate, said his clients hope the lawsuit leads to improvements in care to prevent similar mistakes from happening again.
According to the lawsuit, Roost employees said they were understaffed and overworked at the time. A report filed by American Fork police also said a lack of communication led to the boy being left in the car, and police investigators recommended the employee in charge of watching the boy be charged with child abuse homicide and obstruction of justice.
Utah County Attorney David Leavitt declined to file charges, saying the death was unintentional.
Mifflin said he hopes Utah County will revisit the case with a new county attorney at the beginning of next year.
“I still, to this day, find it interesting that, in the current environment in the state of Utah, someone who leaves a dog in the back of a car is charged immediately for animal cruelty without blinking, and that exact same conduct with regard to a human being is not charged at all. That still bothers me,” he said. | 2022-07-17T21:38:08+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Suit-filed-after-autistic-Utah-boy-dies-in-hot-17310888.php |
FEEDS SENIORS DURING MAY OLDER AMERICANS MONTH
SUPERMARKETS IN 40 STATES STOCKED WITH LIMITED-EDITION 75TH ANNIVERSARY FROZEN PIZZA BOXES
10,000 pizzas to be distributed to Chicagoans in need throughout the year
CHICACO, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Home Run Inn, (HRI) the oldest family-owned pizza brand that has captured the hearts of Chicagoans since it opened its first tavern on the South Side, continues its 75th anniversary celebration with City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) during May Older Americans Month, distributing to their five Regional Senior Centers and 15 satellite centers throughout Chicago.
Today, the kick-off of week-long Home Run Inn pizza parties, was held at the Regional Service Centers, at the Southwest Regional Senior Center at 6117 S. Kedzie Avenue.
With the aid of Open Kitchens, the meal delivery service which has helped DFSS provide 5 million meals for the Chicago seniors over the course of the last year, aging residents will enjoy a complete lunch featuring freshly-baked Home Run Inn pizza.
The joint effort will continue to feed Chicago seniors through a distribution of 2000 pizzas, allowing them to pick up and take and bake their own pizzas at home during the month of May.
"Our great-grandparents would be proud," says Gina (Perrino) Bolger, Senior Vice President and fourth-generation family member of Home Run Inn.
"They were visionaries and laid the groundwork for us to give back to the community over the past 75 years," says Dan Costello, CEO of Home Run Inn.
"We are grateful for Home Run Inn's ongoing support to those experiencing food insecurity in Chicago, which recently began with giving away pizzas to our many homeless shelters," says DFSS Commissioner Brandie Knazze. "During Older Americans Month we are proud to feed seniors as we honor their deep-seated contributions to the communities."
The 2022 partnership between Home Run Inn and City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services is distributing 10,000 pizzas throughout the year to Chicagoans experiencing homelessness, Chicago Seniors and low-income families.
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ABOUT HOME RUN INN
Home Run Inn is considered Chicago's very own thin crust pizza known for its irresistible flavor, hand-pinched buttery crust, zesty sauce, plentiful cheese and homemade sausage. The small tavern of the 1920's was named Home Run Inn in 1947. Now, the company has 9 pizzerias throughout the Chicagoland area and frozen pizza sold in more than 40 states. Home Run Inn also is currently the official pizza of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field and sold at Chicago's Midway International Airport. Still family-owned and operated, Home Run Inn ranks among the top 10 in pizza brands sold nationally and number one in the Chicagoland area. For further information, visit www.homeruninnpizza.com.
ABOUT DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND SUPPORT SERVICES (DFSS)
DFSS works with community partners to connect Chicago residents and families to resources that build stability, support their well-being, and empower them to thrive. As the 5th largest City agency and one of the largest social service funders in Chicago, DFSS provides direct services at six Community Service Centers, six Regional Senior Centers, and through partnerships with 360 community-based organizations across the city. In total, DFSS services and funding supports over 400,000 vulnerable Chicagoans each year.
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Learn more about DFSS at www.chicago.gov/fss
ABOUT OPEN KITCHENS
Open Kitchens is a a family-owned food service company serving Chicagoland since 1969. Offering a wide variety of food services for a wide range of companies who need assistance in operating their food service, Open Kitchens serves meals on wheels, daycare meals, onsite management, school meals and catering. They have partnered with Chicago institutions like Public Schools, the City of Chicago, and the Arch Diocese of Chicago to support city-wide food-access. For further information, visit https://www.openkitchens.com
Contact: Janie Goldberg-Dicks, President of Margie Korshak Inc.; jdicks@korshak.com
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New Croquet Plugin Deploys Multiuser, Social, 3D Metaverse Worlds in Any WordPress Site with Collaborative Browsing and Spatial Audio Conversations among Site Visitors
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation, provider of Croquet OS, the Operating System for the Open Metaverse, announced today the first WordPress Plugin that allows developers to deploy 3D immersive, multiuser Metaverse worlds in any WordPress website or blog. Croquet Metaverse Web Showcase is free, no-code, easy to use and gives anyone using WordPress a quick and easy way to engage customers and visitors in a fully immersive, multiuser, social 3D world in less than five minutes. Web Showcase launched in December 2022 and quickly rose to the #1 spot on Product Hunt, the leading technology review forum.
Available today in the official WordPress Plugin Directory, Web Showcase enhances existing 2D websites, which typically depend upon scrolling and menu navigation, with an immersive environment that lets site visitors move freely throughout a showcase gallery to learn about the business while remaining interoperable to the existing site navigation. The result is significantly increased engagement by site visitors and an enormous new dimension in functionality.
Web Showcase is perfect for small business WordPress users such as agencies, consultants, non-profits, web developers, photographers or designers looking to create dynamic and unique experiences for site visitors. It provides a rich, highly interactive capabilities showcase that is highly customizable and displays company presentations, video testimonials, customer references and more, all in a social, multiuser immersive space. Web Showcase can be extended by brands and agencies to enable highly social in-site activations, games and promotions, improve engagement, dramatically enhance site experience and increase customer support and satisfaction while keeping customers close to home and not sending them away to 3rd party platforms.
Examples of small businesses utilizing Web Showcase include JJA Recruiting firm, A Friendly Fox Photography, and the publication Metaverse Professional.
Web Showcase site visitors can easily invite friends and colleagues to join them via text message, email, Slack or any other DM channel to collaboratively browse the space and converse using Dolby.io Spatial Audio Chat. Bloggers can add an immersive world to a blog post, making it even more social by inviting readers to come together for live audio discussion in a customized Metaverse gallery. It is cross-platform and can be accessed by any Internet device regardless of operating system, including desktops, tablets, phones and VR headsets.
"The web is the Metaverse and it will rapidly become multiuser and immersive," said David A. Smith, founder and CTO of Croquet. "WordPress powers the web with 65.1% of all websites that use CMS technology(1). We will see the web evolve quickly as these websites deploy immersive multiuser technology to serve new and existing customers and facilitate ecommerce."
Web Showcase is built on Croquet OS, the only operating system for the Open Metaverse, using Croquet's open source Microverse World Builder. Developers and brands can extend Web Showcase, building completely customized spaces, promotions, ecommerce, games, interoperable portals and Ready Player Me(R) avatars using World Builder and a free developer API key from croquet.io. Microverse developers can use WordPress Plugins to distribute customized worlds, experiences, games and other activations they create with World Builder to hundreds of millions of websites and blogs.
Croquet worlds are part of the Open Metaverse and can be published to any web server, including within brand web properties, using this new WordPress Plugin, with full access to the entire ecosystem of the web including conventional payment, login and security systems and Web3 services. This Plugin and the basic version of Web Showcase are free to acquire and use. Croquet offers Croquet OS multiuser, low latency Metaverse infrastructure plus enhanced products and development environments for larger deployments which are priced based upon engagement.
Croquet offers a Partner Program with special support for WordPress hosts, agencies and web development shops. For more information, contact partnerships@croquet.io.
About Croquet
The web is the Metaverse and Croquet Corporation is on a mission to enable the rapid Metaverse evolution of more than 200,000,000 active websites with Croquet OS, its web standards based open operating system for the Metaverse. Based on browser technologies that are cross platform to any device, it delivers interoperable virtual worlds on the Metaverse that can be published in any website or blog and be accessed today by hundreds of millions of Internet and mobile users. Croquet was awarded the leading Auggie Award at the AWE Conference in May of 2022 as "Startup to Watch" out of 100+ companies. The company was formed in 2018 and is funded by SIP Global Partners and a group of experienced technology and financial industry veterans. Visit www.croquet.io.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company continues selling off its BYD shares despite the positive comments he has made about the Chinese electric car maker in the past, but Berkshire Hathaway remains a major shareholder.
Berkshire said in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange Monday that it had sold another 1 million shares, leaving it with 13.97% of the Hong Kong-issued shares of BYD. Berkshire is only required to disclose the sales when its ownership stake decreases into another percentage point such as when it crossed below 14% here.
Buffett hasn’t explained why he’s selling the shares that he bought back in 2008, and he didn’t immediately respond to questions about it Monday. Berkshire has cut its stake from 225 million shares in August to 153.3 million shares as of this latest filing. Buffett previously praised BYD founder Wang Chanfu generously and even visited a BYD factory in China back in 2010.
Investors may have to wait for Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders next month to learn more about why he decided to reduce Berkshire’s stake in BYD although he might not even address it then if he plans to continue selling the shares. Buffett doesn’t routinely comment on his stock moves until after he is done making them.
The sales do allow Berkshire to bank some of the tremendous gains the stock has recorded as the market for electric cars took off in China. BYD said it sold 911,140 all electric vehicles and 946,239 hybrids last year.
The stake Berkshire paid $232 million for in 2008 had ballooned in value to nearly $7.7 billion by the end of 2021. Berkshire’s remaining stake is worth a little under $4 billion ($30.88 billion in Hong Kong dollars).
In addition to its roughly $300 billion portfolio of stocks, Berkshire owns more than 90 companies outright including Geico insurance, BNSF railroad and several major utilities. Berkshire also owns an eclectic mix of manufacturing and retail firms that include aviation partmaker Precision Castparts, Dairy Queen and See’s Candy. | 2023-01-09T21:44:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-buffetts-firm-keeps-selling-byd-shares-despite-past-praise/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, the frontrunner in the Republican primary for Arizona governor, condemned the growing cultural clout of drag queens, jumping into the latest social grievance taking hold on the right.
But her comments were quickly criticized over the weekend by one of the most popular drag performers in Phoenix, who says Lake is a hypocrite who frequented his performances.
Richard Stevens, who performs as Barbra Seville, said Lake, a former television news anchor, regularly attended drag shows and even hired him to dress as Marilyn Monroe at a private party and brought her young daughter. He posted photos on his social media accounts of Lake posing with drag queens and screenshots of his conversations with her.
The dispute between the gubernatorial frontrunner and the prominent drag queen drew national attention and put Lake on the defensive two weeks before early voting begins ahead of Arizona’s Aug. 2 primary. It also fuels a persistent criticism of Lake’s conversion from Barack Obama donor to Donald Trump conservative.
“They kicked God out of schools and welcomed the Drag Queens,” Lake tweeted on Friday night. “They took down our Flag and replaced it with a rainbow. They seek to disarm Americans and militarize our Enemies. Let’s bring back the basics: God, Guns & Glory.”
Stevens responded on social media the next morning: “I’ve performed for her. I’ve performed for her family. I’ve met her kids. I’ve been in her home, and I have her private phone number and her private Facebook account.”
He told The Associated Press on Monday that he stayed in touch with Lake and privately defended her even as she ran a far-right campaign that he disagreed with. But when she came after drag queens, he said, “this hypocrisy really bothered me.”
“I was just personally offended by that tweet,” Stevens said.
Stevens said he first met Lake in the late 1990s, when he performed regularly at a gay bar near the KSAZ studios, where Lake was an evening anchor. He said Lake and her coworkers would sometimes stop by the bar’s weekly drag show after the broadcast, and he recognized her from watching the news. They eventually struck up a friendship, he said. She would ask him for sources to discuss issues affecting the LGBTQ community, and he occasionally appeared on Fox 10 broadcasts.
Lake once hired him to perform as Marilyn Monroe at a coworker’s baby shower about a decade ago, and there he met her daughter, whom he remembers being around 9 or 10 years old.
As Stevens’ post quickly gained traction on social media Saturday, Lake’s campaign initially responded by drawing a distinction between a drag performer and a man impersonating a female celebrity.
The campaign published a statement Sunday condemning the media for covering the controversy and threatening to sue Stevens for defamation.
“Like most sane people, Kari Lake is very much opposed to grown men or women dancing provocatively for children, especially at the expense of the taxpayer,” the statement said. “Why would anyone be opposed to this?”
The statement called Stevens a “talented comedian and performer that Kari Lake covered during her TV career” and pointed to his support for Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
A spokesman for Lake, Russ Trumble, declined to comment further Monday, saying “it’s a legal matter now.”
Lake jumped quickly into the frontrunner’s position after launching a campaign that energized the GOP base and earned Trump’s endorsement. She has aggressively promoted false claims that the 2020 election was marred by fraud. But she faces a challenge from businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson, who’s family fortune has allowed her to vastly outspend Lake on television ads, and from former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon.
Drag shows feature men dressing in flamboyant women’s clothing while dancing and singing or lip-syncing. Once a relatively obscure subculture, they’ve have exploded into the mainstream with the popularity of the television hit “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Some performances, particularly light-night events at bars, can be risque. Others are promoted as family friendly affairs, such as drag queen story hour.
Lake’s drag queen tweet latched onto an issue that caught fire this month with conservatives around the country who say drag shows are sexualizing children.
Lawmakers in several states have introduced legislation attempting to ban children from drag shows, and GOP leaders of the Arizona Senate say they have plans for a similar bill.
“The fact is, drag has existed forever,” Stevens said. “I’ve been doing drag longer than Kari has been a Republican. But if you want to outlaw drag in front of kids, you better free up your calendar because it’s ingrained in our culture. The first drag queen I saw was Bugs Bunny.” | 2022-06-21T03:09:38+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/drag-queen-blasts-gop-candidate-for-arizona-governor/ |
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Tudor Popescu swings his ax down on a log, then feeds the split wood into a stove that heats his home in the capital of Moldova. As the nights turn chilly, the stack of firewood has been growing higher around him — his provisions for the coming winter.
In the past, Popescu relied on natural gas to keep warm in the mornings and firewood in the evenings. But gas is now in shorter supply, creating a crisis in his small Eastern European country.
“I won’t use gas anymore, so it’s going to only be wood,” Popescu said. “But what I have isn’t enough.”
Europe’s energy crisis, triggered by Russia slashing natural gas flows amid its war against Ukraine, has forced some people to turn to cheaper heating sources like firewood as the weather gets colder. But as more people stock up and burn wood, prices have skyrocketed, shortages and thefts have been reported, and scams are emerging. Foresters are putting GPS devices into logs to track the valuable stocks, and fears are rising about the environmental impact of increased air pollution and tree-cutting.
In the former Soviet republic of Moldova, leaders worry that this winter could be devastating for many of its people because of the high cost of electricity and heat, with European natural gas prices roughly triple what they were in early 2021 despite falling from August’s record highs. Europe’s poorest country, with pro-Western aspirations but part of its territory controlled by Russian troops, has seen Russian energy giant Gazprom slash natural gas supplies by 30% recently and threaten more cuts.
The clamor for firewood is not limited to poorer nations like Moldova but has surged across richer regions of Europe, too. Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic’s state-owned forests are seeing much stronger demand for the limited amounts of firewood they sell as part of their sustainable forest management.
Often it’s coming from people who have never ordered firewood before and seem unaware that it needs to be purchased two years ahead so it can dry out enough to be burned in wood stoves, according to the forest service in southwest Germany’s state of Hesse.
German forest rangers also are seeing more people gathering fallen wood in forests, often not knowing it’s illegal.
Czech state forests, which sell wood only for household consumption, have had to limit the amount of firewood sold to individuals to prevent speculative purchases.
In Poland, demand for small firewood from state forests grew 46% and larger firewood was up 42% through the end of August from a year earlier. This was even before fall, when demand for firewood is highest.
“There is, of course, an increased interest in firewood in forest districts because today it is the cheapest fuel available,” said Michal Gzowski, spokesman for Poland’s State Forests. “Small firewood is probably the cheapest heating material in the EU countries.”
He said theft of firewood, which has always existed to some extent, is rising.
To deter theft, the forestry department in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia is experimenting with hiding GPS tracking devices in logs, spokeswoman Nicole Fiegler said.
There hasn’t been a sudden rash of large-scale thefts, but the recent price increases have stirred fears from small forest plot holders, who could face major losses if a stack of logs gets swiped.
“It’s more a situation of anxiety and fears,” Fiegler said, noting the increased value of firewood.
Foresters in the neighboring Hesse region have been using GPS trackers since 2013 and say they have been able to solve several thefts that way.
Austrian police warned last week of a significant rise in fraudsters claiming to sell firewood and wood pellets online, while several companies across the country were raided on suspicion that they had engaged in price rigging.
The German Pellet Institute also is warning buyers to beware of fake sellers who demand payment in advance and then disappear.
Germany’s statistics agency says prices for firewood and wood pellets made from sawdust that can be used in central home heating rose over 85% in August from a year earlier.
Pellet prices per ton fell 2.6% in October but remain almost 200% higher than a year ago, the pellet institute says. Even so, heating with pellets is cheaper than natural gas for those equipped to burn them, it says. Gas costs 20.9 cents per kilowatt hour of heat, while pellets cost 14.88 cents.
In the United Kingdom, prices of firewood also are going up.
“We’ve seen a massive increase in demand” as energy costs rise, said Nic Snell, managing director of Certainly Wood, which bills itself as the biggest firewood supplier in the U.K. selling about 20,000 tons of wood a year.
Snell estimated that his company’s kiln-dried hardwood is 15% to 20% more expensive than last year and “could become more as the weather gets colder.”
He said demand for his domestically sourced firewood was boosted by pricier imported wood from countries like Latvia and Lithuania. Transport costs, mainly for fuel, have pushed up the price of imports, which used to be cheaper than British wood but are now more expensive.
In Denmark, the demand for wood-burning stoves is growing along with firewood itself. The Danish sales site DBA said searches for wood pellets have exploded by over 1,300% in the past year.
The government and environmentalists have warned Danes planning to burn firewood to consider the risks: fire can be a hazard to health, while smoke contributes to particle pollution.
There is also the damaging environmental impact of chopping down more trees.
Egzona Shala, head of an environmental organization in Kosovo, where electricity prices have spiked, says the cutting of forest trees there has significantly increased. Her group, EcoZ, has been monitoring forests in mountainous areas and has found people illegally cutting trees at 5 a.m. in some cases. The firewood is then sold around the capital.
Often those cut are young trees. The forests, she said, are being subjected to “vulgar deforestation without any criteria and control.”
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Gera reported from Warsaw, Poland, and McHugh from Frankfurt, Germany. AP reporters Monika Scislowska in Warsaw; Kelvin Chan in London; Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark; Philipp Jenne in Austria; Llazar Semini in Tirana, Albania; and Karel Janicek in Prague contributed. | 2022-10-27T19:29:32+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-europes-energy-crisis-raises-firewood-prices-theft-fears/ |
For most Americans, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a historical event long since passed from public consciousness.
Today marks the 59th anniversary of Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was murdered, gunned down in a motorcade passing through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. It was, in the words of Bob Dylan in a recent song epic, “A Murder Most Foul” that began a descent for America that continues today.
The identity and culpability of the gunman – or, for many baby boomers, the gunmen – gave rise to a somewhat new phenomenon in America life: conspiracy theories. Today, conspiracy theories, however outlandish or based on false evidence, again threaten to topple the relationship of trust between the governed and the government.
It doesn’t help that our government continues to keep many documents relating to the assassination off limits to researchers and the public. More than 14,000 classified documents about the assassination remain locked away, in part or in full, at the National Archives – in, as journalist Philip Shenon wrote last week in Politico, “clear violation of the spirit of a landmark 1992 transparency law intended to force the release of virtually all of them years ago.”
Shenon is hardly a conspiracy theorist. He’s a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and the author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination.
But as he notes, keeping these files classified, along with the refusal by the CIA, FBI and other agencies to give a detailed explanation of why — has convinced the still-robust ranks of conspiracy theorists their cynicism over the case and about the official declaration that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone killer, remains justified.
Much of the classified information likely involves the government’s surveillance in the 1960s of the Mafia, of actors on both sides of the fierce battle over the future of communist Cuba, and, it’s likely, of Oswald himself, a somewhat enigmatic figure, who may have been an unwitting instrument of U.S. intelligence, several times removed. When Oswald was murdered on Nov. 24, 1963, by Jack Ruby, a strip-club owner with Mafia connections, the chaos cast a shadow over the investigation that remains to this day.
And while Oswald’s identification as a gunman has been proven, much about the ex-Marine who defected to the Soviet Union then returned to the U.S. is buried with him.
Shenon found that correspondence, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, shows the Archives has tried, and often failed, to insist other government agencies comply with the 1992 law by declassifying more documents.
That battle became even more pitched in 2017, when then-President Donald Trump sided with the CIA and FBI and agreed to waive the legal deadline to release all classified documents related to the assassination. Last year, President Joe Biden ordered another review of the documents to allow more to be made public this December.
The Archives correspondence reveals how the CIA and FBI have pressed to keep documents secret because they contained the names and personal details of still-living intelligence and law-enforcement informants from the 1960s and 1970s who they say could be at risk if publicly identified. The correspondence shows many of the documents the FBI has withheld, which include case files on Oswald and Ruby, involved organized-crime investigations. Some JFK researchers have long believed that an unholy alliance of Mafia figures, anti-Castro Cubans and, even, rogue elements from intelligence agencies, were somehow involved in the assassination – though nothing has ever been proven that backs that up.
Archives officials told Shenon their review of did not reveal any bombshells within the still-classified documents, and that they are continuing to press the CIA and FBI to release the files. But no matter what Biden decides next month, about 500 documents and other items in the collection will remain secret, since the 1992 law exempts them from public release.
Secrets are ultimately corrosive. It’s long past time for the public to find out just what ghosts still swirl across Dealey Plaza. | 2022-11-22T00:57:38+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/11/21/editorial-after-59-years-many-jfk-files-still-hidden/ |
Tim Regan never noticed coyotes or wild dogs in Highland Park. But in 2017, he walked past an old rail yard that was once part of the St. Paul Ford Motor Co. site, which had closed years earlier and was being torn down.
“And I turned around and there was this coyote there,” he said.
He quickly went home to get his camera, and when he came back, it was still lounging.
“And then I just started seeing them,” Regan said. “They’re kind of everywhere if you look for them.” He didn’t stop photographing, either. Since 2017, he’s been chronicling the “Highland dogs,” learning their behaviors and assessing common misconceptions people have about them.
This hobby connected him with the researchers spearheading the Twin Cities Coyote and Fox Project, a University of Minnesota effort to understand habitat use and diets and measure disease prevalence in coyote and fox populations in the metro area.
‘Coyotes and foxes’
James Forester, a principal investigator of the project, said looking into community reactions to coyotes as well as the adaptability of wild dogs in urban areas prompted the research focus.
“People are always talking about the wildlife they see,” said Forester. “I was thinking about ‘what are the kinds of charismatic species that we see here in the Cities?’ … It’s gonna be coyotes and foxes.”
The researchers began trapping the animals and putting tracking collars on them in 2019, and have since been gathering data and analyzing their findings. They mainly focused on tracking coyotes in the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington areas, though some animals they tracked extended into suburban areas.
Geoff Miller, a fourth-year Ph.D. student working on the project, typically does the collaring. On April 21, Miller visited two coyote dens, one on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus and one along a popular trail near the Mississippi Gorge, checking for signs of activity and setting up cameras to monitor the dens.
With their research recently renewed, the team plans to expand the work they started in the metro area north to St. Cloud and more rural areas outside the Twin Cities.
Hidden in plain sight
Miller said in urban green spaces and residential areas, it’s often easier for coyotes to go unnoticed.
“A lot of people are surprised to know that there is a coyote living in their neighborhood,” Miller said. “One of the things that people think is, if there’s a coyote there, you’re gonna see negative interactions between coyotes and people’s pets, for example. … There’s a misconception about the risks posed of living alongside these animals in urban spaces.”
Publicizing where coyotes are located better allows people to take precautions, such as keeping watch over pets at night, Miller said. In addition, he emphasized the importance of preserving spaces where coyotes live separately from people, such as wetlands and green spaces like those where Regan spots his photo subjects.
“It appears like we have a lower rate of human-coyote conflict as compared to some of those other spaces where they might not have as much of the wetland area,” Miller said.
Regan said as he spent more time observing coyotes, he realized his own preconceptions about them were flawed.
“There’s all sorts of these stories, you know, a coyote’s gonna lure your dog away or, you know, it’s going to attack your children or something along those lines,” he said. “They’re just about as docile as anything I’ve ever seen.”
Miller and Regan said coyotes will often take dog toys and balls from people’s yards and bring them to their dens.
“They’re collectors,” Regan said. He recounted that he had a tennis ball in his pocket on one of his walks and decided to throw it near a coyote he was watching.
“It absolutely picked it up and took off, dropped it, ran off and waited for me to pick it up,” Regan said. “I played catch with a coyote.”
‘Territorial behavior’
However, Regan always keeps a respectful distance and makes sure not to disrupt coyotes’ habitats.
Demonstrating coyotes’ territorial behavior also has important implications, Miller said. The researchers created a map of 11 coyotes they’ve been tracking since 2020 to get a sense of how far they travel and how closely they stay within their boundaries.
Researchers said coyotes stay within their boundaries to a tee and do not tolerate coyotes outside of their few-animal pack within their space. However, these territories can be large, so the same coyote seen in Highland Park could “easily” be the same one in downtown Minneapolis, more than six miles away.
But coyotes are considered “behaviorally complex” and some may follow their own rules, researchers said. One transient female they tracked at times would traverse more than 10 miles from Clifton E. French Regional Park in Plymouth to Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove.
Forester said “citizen scientists” like Regan often assist in their work, and reporting sightings at iNaturalist.org helps researchers locate potential animals to monitor.
An undergraduate researcher is also looking to study fox dens over the summer, so those who have seen “fox kits rolling around in their yards” are encouraged to report potential den locations. One that’s “a little harder for people to buy into,” but important to understanding coyote and fox diets, Miller said, is collecting scat samples to send to researchers. More information about these initiatives is available on the project’s website.
“Working with the community and these people who are really interested in getting outside and looking at things has just made our jobs so much easier,” said Forester. “I have a lot of respect for what they’re doing and appreciate their work.” | 2023-05-13T17:21:09+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/13/coyotes-st-paul-minneapolis-umn-researchers-urban/ |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least 38 people have been rescued and 11 bodies found as the U.S. Coast Guard scoured the open waters northwest of Puerto Rico on Friday via boat, plane and helicopter in a bid to find more survivors after a boat carrying suspected migrants capsized.
The group was first spotted Thursday morning by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter, with authorities warning it likely would have been too late to rescue anyone otherwise. Rescue efforts were concentrated in an area more than 11 miles (18 kilometers) north of the uninhabited island of Desecheo, which lies west of Puerto Rico.
“We always look for the possibility of finding survivors,” said Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad, adding that crews worked through the night.
It was not immediately clear how many people were in the boat. Of the 38 survivors, 36 were Haitian and two were from the Dominican Republic, he said. At least eight Haitian nationals have been hospitalized, although the nationalities of all those aboard was not immediately known.
“Our hope and prayers are with the survivors and those still missing,” said Coast Guard Rear Admiral Brendan McPherson. “Our highest priority is saving lives, and that is what my crews will exhaust themselves doing.”
Authorities in recent months have noted a sharp increase in migrants, especially from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, making what they describe as dangerous voyages aboard rickety ships that often capsize or drop people off in uninhabited islands. It is one of the cheapest ways for migrants to flee poverty and violence, especially in Haiti, where a spike in inflation, kidnappings and brutal gang violence have prompted people to take the risk and board a boat in search of a better life elsewhere.
From October 2021 to March, 571 Haitians and 252 people from the Dominican Republic were detained in waters around Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The majority of those Haitians, 348 of them, landed in Puerto Rico’s uninhabited Mona Island and were rescued.
In fiscal year 2021, 310 Haitians and 354 Dominicans were detained, compared with the 22 Haitians and 313 Dominicans apprehended in fiscal year 2020.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard said that in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, it apprehended 1,527 Haitians, 838 Cubans and 742 people from the Dominican Republic in the region, which includes Florida and the Caribbean.
In January, the Coast Guard searched for at least 38 people missing off Florida’s coast after a suspected human smuggling boat that had left the Bahamas capsized in a storm. A sole survivor was reported.
More recent incidents include 68 migrants rescued Saturday in the Mona Passage, a treacherous area between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. One woman believed to be from Haiti died. Meanwhile, on May 7, Customs and Border Protection detained 60 Haitian migrants that the agency said were smuggled through southwest Puerto Rico. On May 4, another 59 Haitian migrants were detained in northwest Puerto Rico. In late March, officials said they detained more than 120 migrants in three separate maritime smuggling incidents.
The increase in Haitians fleeing their country comes as gangs grow more powerful and fight for control over more territorial amid a political vacuum following the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry has pledged to crack down on gangs with help from the international community given that Haiti's National Police is understaffed and has few resources.
The country also has been hit with double-digit inflation, severe gas shortages and gang violence that has shuttered hundreds of schools and businesses and prompted some hospitals and clinics to temporarily close. In addition, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has deported more than 20,000 Haitians in recent months amid heavy criticism given the country's downward spiral. | 2022-05-13T13:39:10+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/38-rescued-11-dead-as-us-searches-waters-near-puerto-rico/PSHQI3VX3RFJFEWSAE4P7TEOTY/ |
Simon Cowell hit his “X” button before WBUR anchor Jack Lepiarz’s performance as “Jack the Whipper” was over on “American’s Got Talent.”
The performance, which aired this week, showcased Lepiarz’s whip-cracking skills. But Cowell wasn’t a fan.
Lepiarz, 33, said he had planned to use judge Howie Mandel in his performance but Mandel wasn’t there. Instead, the crowd began chanting for Cowell to join the stage.
In a squat position, Cowell held a thin wooden target between his knees while Lepiarz chopped it in half with his whip.
“That was the best thing I’ve seen in a long time,” Sofia Vergara said.
Cowell then stated he’s taking his “X” away and the Boston anchor walked away with 3 yeses.
“You are going to die when you see yourself,” Vergara said, while both her and Cowell laughed.
Although he got the votes he needed, Vergara wasn’t a fan of his name.
“Oh,” Vergara said disappointed. “Well.”
She did, however, like his costume and overall performance with Cowell comparing him to the prince in “Beauty and the Beast.”
The anchor told judges he grew up with a dad in the circus.
He told NBC Boston his dad was a clown in the Big Apple circus and that he spent his childhood traveling with his dad.
“I was 6 years old and performing with my dad at King Richard’s Faire, which is up in Massachusetts,” Lepiarz told WRKF Baton Rouge. “I was working at an ice cream shop making, I think it was $6.25 an hour, and my dad called me and said, ‘I need some help with the show. I’ll pay you $50 an hour.’ And I said, ‘Whoa! I’m in the wrong business.’”
He also has multiple Guinness World Records.
In 2020, he set the record for “the most bullwhip cracks in one minute.” His record is is 298.
“Jack beat his own previous record of 289 bullwhip cracks in one minute,” the Guinness website stated. “He also previously held the record in 2016 as well.”
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Delta Air Lines has settled allegations by a pilot who said the airline ordered her to undergo a psychiatric examination and barred her from flying in retaliation for raising safety concerns to company executives.
The settlement approved Friday ends a long-running dispute in which a federal arbiter agreed with many of the pilot’s claims and said Delta failed to show any faults in her flying ability. In 2019, the case threatened to derail former President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Federal Aviation Administration.
Terms of the settlement were confidential, although the pilot’s law firm said they were “consistent with” the arbiter’s 2020 ruling, which said Karlene Petitt deserved to get $500,000 in compensation for damage to her career.
Atlanta-based Delta declined to comment.
Pilot filed claims under whistleblower law
Petitt pressed her case under a 2000 law designed to protect whistleblowers who report issues of aviation safety.
In early 2016, Petitt gave two top Delta executives a report running more than 40 pages in which she raised allegations about pilots being forced to fly when they were fatigued, gaps in Delta’s pilot training, falsification of training records and other issues. She also emailed the airline’s CEO.
After meeting with Delta officials, Petitt was referred to a psychiatrist picked by the airline, who diagnosed a bipolar disorder. Petitt was grounded for nearly two years until independent doctors found her fit to fly.
Federal safety regulators looked into Petitt’s allegations and determined that Delta was not counting time that pilots spent commuting by air to flights toward their maximum work day. Delta said it changed the policy.
In 2019, the case delayed a vote on the nomination of Delta executive Stephen Dickson to lead the FAA. Dickson had authorized grounding Petitt for a psychiatric evaluation. Senate Democrats said the allegations raised questions about Delta’s safety culture and Dickson’s candor because he did not mention the case in a questionnaire that asked if he were involved in any legal proceedings.
The Senate confirmed Dickson by a 52-40 vote in July 2019, but he stepped down from the FAA this year before the end of his five-year term, citing personal reasons.
The settlement between Delta and Petitt was approved Friday by Labor Department administrative law judge Scott Morris in New Jersey. | 2022-10-22T21:07:18+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/money/ap-delta-air-settles-with-pilot-who-raised-safety-concerns/ |
Nashua man accused of threatening kids with gun
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HERE ON AIR AND INSIDE YOUR NEWS APP. TONIGHT, A NASHUA MAN FACING CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE THREATENED TWO KIDS WITH A GUN. OFFICERS RESPONDING FOR A REPORT OF CRIMINAL THREATENING WITH A FIREARM. 69 YEAR OLD LAWRENCE WELLER TAKEN IN. POLICE HAVEN’T GIVEN ANY OTHER DETAILS AT THIS POINT. HE IS NOW BEING HE
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Nashua man accused of threatening kids with gun
A Nashua man is facing charges after police said he threatened two kids with a gun. Officers responded to the report of criminal threatening with a firearm.Lawrence Weller, 69, was arrested. Police did not give any other details.He's being held on preventative detention and will face a judge Friday.
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A Nashua man is facing charges after police said he threatened two kids with a gun.
Officers responded to the report of criminal threatening with a firearm.
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Lawrence Weller, 69, was arrested. Police did not give any other details.
He's being held on preventative detention and will face a judge Friday. | 2022-11-18T05:08:56+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/nashua-man-accused-threatening-kids-gun-111722/41999529 |
Modesto's Frank Sinatra singer raises funds for scholarships with holiday show
For the last 10 years, Matt Henderson has used his love and passion for Frank Sinatra to give back to the Modesto community.
Every year, he packs the State Theater of Modesto to host a Sinatra-themed holiday event, which goes toward raising money for seven scholarships accessible to area high schoolers.
Henderson pays out of his own pocket to put the show together, but he said he has been fortunate enough to make a good living and felt it was necessary to help others.
The first year Henderson put on the show, he said he saw about 150 attendees. Now, he and co-host David Halvorson could get around 500 people on a weekday afternoon.
"But it's appropriately priced: free," Halvorson said.
To be frank, there is nothing easy about orchestrating a holiday show.
"Usually when I do my show, I go by myself to the senior homes around the city of Modesto and Stanislaus County," Henderson said.
The annual holiday event continues to grow.
"It's always amazing — since we never practice this show — that it comes out great," Henderson said. | 2022-12-06T04:20:20+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/modesto-frank-sinatra-singer-holiday-show-fundraiser/42159223 |
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Badminton upheld its ban on Russian and Belarusian players in international competitions on Thursday, days before Olympic qualifying begins.
Badminton’s qualifying period for next year’s Paris Olympics starts on May 1 and uses a calendar-year ranking.
Meanwhile, modern pentathlon said it would set up a “pathway” for athletes from the two countries to return but didn’t commit to a date.
The Badminton World Federation cited security concerns and the need for “more clarity” on the International Olympic Committee’s “complex criteria” to admit some Russians and Belarusians as neutral athletes without national symbols but keep excluding others, such as military personnel or those who have supported the invasion of Ukraine.
The IOC also recommends allowing athletes from only Russia and Belarus to compete individually and not in team sports or “team events in individual sports.” That raises the prospect in badminton of players being allowed to play singles but not doubles as a national team, a point the BWF did not address directly in its statement on Thursday.
The recommendations from the IOC last month aren’t binding on sports’ governing bodies, which can implement them as they wish. The IOC has said it hasn’t made a decision on what happens at the Paris Olympics.
Modern pentathlon’s governing body, known as the UIPM, said it would follow the IOC’s recommendations but didn’t set any timetable. It will be up to an “independent panel” to decide when and how Russians and Belarusians are readmitted, the governing body said.
“It is our firm belief that sport should be politically neutral and now, more than ever, must act as a vehicle for peace and a symbol of solidarity between athletes,” the UIPM said.
Other Olympic sports which have followed the IOC and said they want to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutral athletes include wrestling, taekwondo and triathlon. Athletics, weightlifting and equestrian have all maintained bans.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- United Enertech Holdings is pleased to announce Darby Benroth as its new president, effective January 1, 2023.
In his role as president, Benroth will lead the five manufacturing companies that make up the United Enertech Holdings family of brands. These include Air Conditioning Products, Air Performance, Metal Form Manufacturing, Evergreen UV, and United Enertech.
Benroth succeeds Ken Trent, who has served as CEO and president since 2016. During the past six years, the company has rapidly grown through the acquisition of manufacturing locations in Alabama, Arizona, Tennessee, and Michigan. Trent will remain on the United Enertech Holdings Board of Directors.
Benroth joins United Enertech Holdings from American Warming and Ventilating, a subsidiary of Mestek, where he served in various leadership positions for the past 11 years, and as president since 2014. In addition to his prior leadership experience, Benroth brings engineering and sales expertise, having served as national sales manager for Mestek for six years, and as an application engineer for five years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Toledo, and a Master of Business Administration from Bluffton University.
"Darby is a highly experienced, successful, and well-regarded business leader with an impressive background in the industrial HVAC and architectural metals markets," states Trent. "United Enertech Holdings is growing, and the timing is right to bring in a seasoned leader like Darby, who can lead us through our next growth phase and help leverage the capabilities of all of our brands."
"Because of the brand reputations of the companies under United Enertech Holdings, I leapt at the opportunity to be part of the team that is doing such wonderful things in the market," states Benroth. "They've assembled a strong group of talented individuals along with a powerful product mix that works well in the market, offering a strong foundation with ample opportunity for growth."
United Enertech Holdings brings together the power of several industry leading brands including Air Conditioning Products, Air Performance, Metal Form Manufacturing, Evergreen UV, and United Enertech.
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VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was convicted Tuesday of murder in the 2015 killing of his wife — a case built partly on evidence provided by her Fitbit exercise activity tracker.
A jury in Rockville Superior Court found Richard Dabate guilty of all three charges — murder, tampering with evidence and making a false statement to authorities — following a five-week trial and on the second day of deliberations. The murder charge carries up to 60 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 16.
Court marshals handcuffed Dabate and led him out of the courtroom after Judge Corinne Klatt increased his bond to $5 million. He had been free after posting $1 million bail following his arrest.
Dabate’s lawyer, Trent LaLima, said an appeal of the convictions is planned.
“I think we put on a very strong case for why Rick did not commit this offense,” he said outside the courthouse after the verdicts were announced.
Wayne Rioux, a spokesperson for Connie Dabate’s family, said justice prevailed with the convictions of Richard Dabate.
“The trial was not about Fitbit,” he said. “The trial was about the cold-blooded, planned murder of Connie Margotta Dabate. … There will be no closure for the Margotta family, but there is finally justice for Connie.”
Dabate maintained his innocence and testified that a large masked man with a voice like actor Vin Diesel and dressed in camouflage shot his wife, Connie Dabate, and tied him up at the couple’s Ellington home in December 2015.
Police said information on Connie Dabate’s Fitbit contradicted her husband’s story and showed she was moving around an hour after he said she was killed.
Prosecutor Matthew Gedansky said in his closing argument that Dabate hatched a plan to kill his wife and stage a home invasion as his life was about to unravel with the birth of a child he was having with another woman.
LaLima questioned the reliability of the data from the Fitbit tracker, saying the devices were not designed with the accuracy needed for court testimony.
LaLima also pointed to unknown DNA that was found in the Dabates’ home, including on the gun that killed Connie, and testimony from a house cleaner, who said they may have seen a dark green figure move past the window around the time of the crime.
A jury was picked for the case in early 2020, before state courts shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. A judge dismissed that jury last August, saying it had been empaneled too long and some jurors had moved out of state, and a new panel was selected beginning in late February. | 2022-05-11T02:14:41+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/technology/ap-technology/jurors-in-fitbit-murder-trial-convict-man-of-killing-wife/ |
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Ahead of a "major announcement" in his hometown of North Charleston, S.C., on Monday, Republican Sen. Tim Scott has quietly made his run for president official. In a filing with the Federal Election Commission Friday, Scott filed a Statement of Candidacy as a member of the Republican Party. The office sought? President.
This filing comes after months of speculation about Scott's political ambitions. He previously announced a presidential exploratory committee in April which allowed him to raise money without the strict scrutiny of the FEC. A little over a month later, he is now poised to make that exploratory committee a conventional campaign.
This filing and the upcoming announcement also come after Scott's "Faith in America" tour, where he traveled the country — particularly early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire — sharing his vision for America, leaning heavily into cultural war issues including education.
At a Faith and Freedom event in Iowa, Scott compelled a crowd of conservative Christian voters in the style of an Southern preacher — a job he said his mother wanted him to have.
"If you believe we need a little more A-B-Cs and a little less C-R-T, let me hear you scream!" Scott said. "Hallelujah."
The comment about CRT, or Critical Race Theory, highlights the lane that Scott will take as a candidate. He is the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate and has long espoused conservative views while talking frankly about race and his experiences as a Black man in America.
Scott will be the second South Carolina Republican to jump into the race; former Gov. Nikki Haley announced her candidacy in February. South Carolina is an early voting state for both Republicans and Democrats in 2024.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) today reported second-quarter 2022 earnings, prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), of $525 million or $1.02 per share, compared with GAAP earnings of $578 million or $1.16 per share in second-quarter 2021. Operating earnings for second-quarter 2022 were $618 million or $1.20 per share, compared with operating earnings of $590 million or $1.18 per share in second-quarter 2021.
Operating earnings is a non-GAAP measure representing GAAP earnings excluding special items. The difference between 2022 GAAP and operating earnings for the quarter was largely due to the write-off of an equity investment in the Flat Ridge 2 wind facility in Kansas, charges related to the anticipated sale of AEP's Kentucky operations, a gain on the sale of mineral rights, and the mark-to-market impact of economic hedging activities. A full reconciliation of GAAP earnings to operating earnings for the quarter and year-to-date is included in the tables at the end of this news release.
"AEP is delivering on our long-term strategy to invest in new energy resources and grid enhancements that improve service and reliability for our customers, support a clean energy future and provide value to our customers, communities and investors," said Nicholas K. Akins, AEP chairman, president and chief executive officer.
"We're making significant progress on our plan to responsibly transform our generation fleet as we work to add approximately 16,000 megawatts of regulated renewable generation by 2030 and achieve our goal of net zero emissions by 2050. Appalachian Power recently received approval to own 409 megawatts of wind and solar, and SWEPCO filed in May for regulatory approval to purchase three renewable projects totaling 999 megawatts.
"We're currently seeking new wind and solar proposals in multiple states and continue to add generation in line with our integrated resource plans to best meet the future energy needs of our customers. We also are making substantial progress on our planned investments of nearly $25 billion in transmission and distribution from 2022 through 2026 as we develop a modern, reliable and resilient energy grid that will benefit our customers. Net plant for our Transmission Holding Co. grew $1.2 billion, or 10.5%, since June 2021," Akins said.
"As part of our strategic focus, we continue to simplify and de-risk the company. This includes the sale of our Kentucky operations, which we continue to make progress on and expect to complete this summer. We're also preparing to launch the sales process for our unregulated renewables portfolio by early September. The proceeds from that process will aid in the financing of planned direct investments in our regulated businesses where we see a pipeline of opportunities to enhance service for customers and advance our clean energy transition. In May, we closed on the sale of five unregulated renewable development sites in the Midwest, and we expect to finalize the sale of an additional solar development site in Ohio in the third quarter," Akins said.
"Our service territory has fully recovered from the economic impacts of the pandemic. We're seeing job growth and business expansion across every operating company and most sectors, building on the momentum we experienced in 2021. We continue to focus on economic development activities that are bringing new load into our communities, helping to mitigate the impact of macroeconomic challenges," Akins said.
EARNINGS GUIDANCE
AEP management reaffirmed the 2022 operating earnings guidance range of $4.87 to $5.07 per share. Operating earnings could differ from GAAP earnings for matters such as impairments, divestitures or changes in accounting principles. AEP management is not able to forecast if any of these items will occur or any amounts that may be reported for future periods. Therefore, AEP is not able to provide a corresponding GAAP equivalent for earnings guidance.
Reflecting special items recorded through the second quarter, the estimated earnings per share on a GAAP basis would be $4.88 to $5.08 per share. See the table below for a full reconciliation of 2022 earnings guidance.
WEBCAST
AEP's quarterly discussion with financial analysts and investors will be broadcast live over the internet at 9 a.m. Eastern today at http://www.aep.com/webcasts. The webcast will include audio of the discussion and visuals of charts and graphics referred to by AEP management. The charts and graphics will be available for download at http://www.aep.com/webcasts.
AEP's earnings are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and represent the company's earnings as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's operating earnings, a non-GAAP measure representing GAAP earnings excluding special items as described in the news release and charts, provide another representation for investors to evaluate the performance of the company's ongoing business activities. AEP uses operating earnings as the primary performance measurement when communicating with analysts and investors regarding its earnings outlook and results. The company uses operating earnings data internally to measure performance against budget, to report to AEP's Board of Directors and also as an input in determining performance-based compensation under the company's employee incentive compensation plans.
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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This report made by American Electric Power and its Registrant Subsidiaries contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although AEP and each of its Registrant Subsidiaries believe that their expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, any such statements may be influenced by factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are: changes in economic conditions, electric market demand and demographic patterns in AEP service territories; the impact of pandemics, including COVID-19, and any associated disruption of AEP's business operations due to impacts on economic or market conditions, costs of compliance with potential government regulations and employees' reactions to those regulations, electricity usage, supply chain issues, customers, service providers, vendors and suppliers; the economic impact of escalating global trade tensions including the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the adoption or expansion of economic sanctions or trade restrictions; inflationary or deflationary interest rate trends; volatility in the financial markets, particularly developments affecting the availability or cost of capital to finance new capital projects and refinance existing debt; the availability and cost of funds to finance working capital and capital needs, particularly if expected sources of capital, such as proceeds from the sale of assets or subsidiaries, do not materialize, and during periods when the time lag between incurring costs and recovery is long and the costs are material; decreased demand for electricity; weather conditions, including storms and drought conditions, and AEP's ability to recover significant storm restoration costs; the cost of fuel and its transportation, the creditworthiness and performance of fuel suppliers and transporters and the cost of storing and disposing of used fuel, including coal ash and spent nuclear fuel; the availability of fuel and necessary generation capacity and the performance of generation plants; AEP's ability to recover fuel and other energy costs through regulated or competitive electric rates; the ability to transition from fossil generation and the ability to build or acquire renewable generation, transmission lines and facilities (including the ability to obtain any necessary regulatory approvals and permits) when needed at acceptable prices and terms, including favorable tax treatment, and to recover those costs; new legislation, litigation and government regulation, including changes to tax laws and regulations, oversight of nuclear generation, energy commodity trading and new or heightened requirements for reduced emissions of sulfur, nitrogen, mercury, carbon, soot or particulate matter and other substances that could impact the continued operation, cost recovery, and/or profitability of AEP's generation plants and related assets; the risks associated with fuels used before, during and after the generation of electricity, including coal ash and nuclear fuel; timing and resolution of pending and future rate cases, negotiations and other regulatory decisions, including rate or other recovery of new investments in generation, distribution and transmission service and environmental compliance; resolution of litigation; AEP's ability to constrain operation and maintenance costs; prices and demand for power generated and sold at wholesale; changes in technology, particularly with respect to energy storage and new, developing, alternative or distributed sources of generation; AEP's ability to recover through rates any remaining unrecovered investment in generation units that may be retired before the end of their previously projected useful lives; volatility and changes in markets for coal and other energy-related commodities, particularly changes in the price of natural gas; changes in utility regulation and the allocation of costs within regional transmission organizations, including ERCOT, PJM and SPP; changes in the creditworthiness of the counterparties with contractual arrangements, including participants in the energy trading market; actions of rating agencies, including changes in the ratings of debt; the impact of volatility in the capital markets on the value of the investments held by AEP's pension, other postretirement benefit plans, captive insurance entity and nuclear decommissioning trust and the impact of such volatility on future funding requirements; accounting standards periodically issued by accounting standard-setting bodies; other risks and unforeseen events, including wars and military conflicts, the effects of terrorism (including increased security costs), embargoes, naturally occurring and human-caused fires, cyber security threats and other catastrophic events; and the ability to attract and retain the requisite work force and key personnel.
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On the night that North Carolina A&T hosted its annual "Fight for Literacy" game, the Aggies took Drexel to school in the second half.
Looking to reverse its luck at home in the Colonial Athletic Association, A&T rode a hot touch in the final 20 minutes to stop the Dragons, 68-55, on Thursday night.
“Club Corbett” hasn’t had a lot to celebrate in this inaugural season in the CAA. The Aggies (11-12, 6-4 CAA) entered the game against the Dragons with a 1-3 record at home. On the other hand, A&T is 4-1 in CAA road games.
To break the slide, the Aggies went 16-for-27 in the final 20 minutes, including a huge scoring run that turned a large deficit into an insurmountable advantage. It led to the team's fifth win in its last six games.
"It was a tale of two halves," A&T interim head coach Phillip Shumpert said. "We had a good defensive effort and we rebounded the ball well in the first half, but we couldn't score. Our defensive effort ramped up a little bit in the second half, limiting them to one shot. From there, we were able to push the tempo."
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In the CAA, A&T has overcome a 13-point halftime deficit to win at Hofstra, an 11-point first-half gap to win at Elon and a 10-point first-half deficit to beat Stony Brook. Drexel joins the list.
Coming home after beating William & Mary last weekend, it looked in the first half as if the Aggies would suffer more heartache at Corbett. The Dragons (12-9, 6-3 CAA) took a 31-19 halftime lead after a 3-pointer by Lamar Oden Jr. with 33 seconds left before the break.
Drexel held the edge despite hitting 33 percent from the field. A&T was even colder on an 8-for-32 performance.
But the teams would reverse roles in the second half and the Aggies would reap the benefit of the change, starting with a 30-4 run highlighted by a 3-point play by Marcus Watson with 12:25 to play. The lead ballooned to 20 before reaching the final score.
"He's on fire," Shumpert said of Watson. "He hit some big-time shots to ignite that big run we had that enabled us to get out to a 20-point lead."
Watson had a game-high 22 points to lead the Aggies on 4-for-7 shooting from 3-point range and 4-for-4 from the line. Watson has now made 13 straight free throws.
Demetric Horton finished with 16, Kam Woods had 11 and 11 rebounds for his first career double-double, and Austin Johnson added 10.
Justin Moore and Coletrane Washington had 14 apiece for Drexel, which had a three-game winning streak snapped.
A&T hosts Monmouth on Saturday, while Drexel stays in the Triad area to play Elon, also on Saturday. | 2023-01-27T20:43:32+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/sports/basketball/second-half-surge-leads-aggies-past-drexel/article_962633ce-9e59-11ed-8e47-674bee102d37.html |
WASHINGTON — A second freight train derailment in Ohio within a month is giving new impetus for rail safety legislation in Congress, as Democrats and Republicans prepare to grill Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw when he testifies to a Senate committee Thursday.
“The big railroads have weakened safety rules or resisted safety rules for years,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “But you’d think a disaster that happened in East Palestine would have gotten their attention.”
Saturday’s train derailment happened outside Springfield, Ohio — about 180 miles west of East Palestine, where a derailment last month spilled toxic chemicals into the rural community along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
Initial reports indicate that there were no hazardous materials spilled in the Springfield incident, and officials quickly lifted a shelter-in-place order. But Brown said he wants to know if there were any residual contaminants left in the 20 mostly empty train cars that went off track.
“The railroad’s got a lot of questions they’ve got to answer and they really haven’t done it very well yet,” he said.
Brown is the lead sponsor of a rail safety bill that would require more disclosure of hazardous materials traversing states, inspections of wheel bearings and mandate minimum crew sizes. And it would increase penalties for violations.
Brown’s bill has co-sponsors from across the political spectrum, including Republicans J.D. Vance of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida and Josh Hawley of Missouri as well as Democrats Bob Casey and John Fetterman of neighboring Pennsylvania.
Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner, who represents the area around Saturday’s derailment, added his own frustration with the rail industry, calling the spate of Ohio derailments — now four in the last five months — “outrageous.”
“What we’ve seen, you know, recently with the risk to communities is unacceptable,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “And the fact that we’re having derailment after derailment shows really the lack of investment, the disinvestment, in our infrastructure, and that needs to change.”
Still, some ideological rifts were apparent. Brown blamed the derailments in part on stock buybacks, CEO pay and workforce reductions — issues unlikely to get agreement from Republicans.
Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, said opposition to pipelines had put more stress on the rail system. “Pipelines would help alleviate a lot of this problem with the oil that we need in our country,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
And Vance told Fox News on Friday that attempts to blame President Donald Trump’s administration — which killed a train braking rule designed to prevent incidents like the one in East Palestine — are “complete partisan hackery.” | 2023-03-05T22:38:40+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/05/second-ohio-derailment-raises-ire-in-congress-on-rail-safety/ |
From bold and abstract to sheer and subtle, fall 2022 makeup trends are here to reset your routine
Fall makeup tends to recycle the same trends, with warm-toned eyeshadows, vampy lips, and more muted colors to match the cooling temperatures. This year, though, runway trends are signaling bold eyeliner, attention-grabbing shimmer, and some of the bright colors normally associated with summer makeup. Refresh your makeup bag and start practicing fall 2022 makeup trends with these popular products.
In this article: Urban Decay All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray, Eyeko Black Magic Vegan Liquid Eyeliner, Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil
Fall 2022 makeup trends
Natural, light makeup
The “no-makeup makeup” look isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Thanks to skin tints, BB creams and tinted moisturizers, your complexion can look dewy and perfected without feeling heavy and layered-on. As an added bonus, these products tend to offer skin care benefits, as well as light coverage. Plus, a lighter foundation is the perfect base for the kinds of bolder eye and lip looks anticipated this fall.
Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40
This award-winning product combines skin care and foundation in an easy-to-wear, light-coverage foundation that also provides mineral SPF 40 sun protection. The formula also includes plant-based squalane, hyaluronic acid and niacinamide to smooth and hydrate skin. It comes in 30 shades that leave skin with a dewy finish. Sold by Dermstore and Sephora
Fenty Beauty Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint
This liquid, buildable tinted moisturizer gives skin light to medium coverage whether it’s layered over primer or worn alone. The formula is vegan and humidity-, sweat-, and transfer-resistant. It comes in 25 shades. Sold by Ulta Beauty and Sephora
Trending fall colors: coral and periwinkle
Periwinkle has been popular almost all year, and this soft shade of blue is expected to stick around through the fall. Experiment with wearing periwinkle in an eyeliner or as a soft wash of color across your lids. Try pairing it with a bold, glossy red lip.
Coral has also been popular on runways recently. Try a bold monochrome look by wearing coral eyeshadow with a coral multi-use stick on your lips and cheeks. Alternatively, sweep on a coral lipstick paired with graphic black eyeliner.
Stila Stay All Day Dual-Ended Liquid Eye Liner in Periwinkle/Midnight
Get two trendy, satin-finish colors in one with this cult-favorite eyeliner pen. The user-friendly, marker-like tip makes it easy to draw on bold eyeliner designs or perfect cat-eye flicks. The formula is waterproof, transfer-proof and long-wearing. Sold by Ulta Beauty
NYX Professional Makeup Shout Loud Satin Lipstick in Day Club
The shade ‘Day Club’ is a vibrant, sunny coral that lets you experiment with bold lip color at a wallet-friendly price. It’s formulated with mango and shea butters for hydrating color that applies smoothly and lasts for hours. Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Ilia Color Haze Multi-Use Pigment in Temptation
This two-in-one product delivers dewy color to cheeks and transforms into a soft matte finish on lips. It’s formulated with jojoba, linseed and coconut oils to soften and nourish skin and lips. The shade “Temptation” is a soft pinkish coral that eases into the fall coral trend. Sold by Sephora
Soft, smudged metallic eyeshadow
The Y2K vibes continue to trend in makeup looks, and metallic, foiled eyeshadow is making a return this fall. This shimmery style looks particularly good with still-trending dewy skin. Create an intensely shiny foiled eyeshadow look by spritzing your brush with a setting spray, then applying a metallic eyeshadow in a tapping motion.
Pat McGrath Labs Mothership X Eyeshadow Palette
The latest in the cult-favorite eyeshadow line, this palette includes trendy coral and periwinkle shades, as well as shimmery neutrals and a bold duochrome that shifts blue-plum. The shades are beautifully pigmented and apply smoothly. Sold by Sephora
Colourpop Super Shock Shadow in Dream Much
Soft, sparkly, and budget-friendly, this single eyeshadow in the shade “Dream Much” features a creamy periwinkle base with pink and silver shimmer. The cream-to-powder formula applies easily and is buildable for bold or sheer, natural looks. Sold by Ulta Beauty
Urban Decay All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray
This weightless spray locks in makeup for up to 16 hours, but it can also be used to create a foiled effect with eyeshadow. It comes in two sizes and is waterproof and smudge-proof. Sold by Sephora, Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Graphic liner with colorful accents
One of the most popular runway trends has been bold, graphic eyeliner accented with a pop of bright color. While the classic cat-eye is always in style, bold eyeliner tracing the brow bone or lining the inner corner is also expected to be a popular look this fall. Create your look using a brightly-colored eyeliner pen or stick with black or brown and add visual interest with a pop of bright yellow or blue in the inner corner.
Eyeko Black Magic Vegan Liquid Eyeliner
For effortless application, try this liquid eyeliner, which delivers rich black pigment smoothly thanks to its calligraphy-inspired brush tip. It even includes tripeptides to help promote long, healthy eyelashes. Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Kulfi Underlined Kajal Clean Waterproof Long-Wear Eyeliner
Try one of these creamy, richly pigmented eye pencils to create bold lines and abstract designs. The formula includes aloe vera, vitamin E and safflower seed oil to condition eyelids and make application smooth and skip-proof. The eye pencil is retractable and comes in five matte and shimmer shades. Sold by Sephora
Smudged eyeliner
No need to worry if you struggle with applying precise eyeliner: Smudgy, messy eyeliner is in this season, too. Achieve a relaxed, slept-in look with a pencil or gel eyeliner that’s been lightly blended out using a smudge brush. Wear eyeliner alone or as part of a vampy eye look.
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil
Available in more than 30 matte, shimmer and glitter shades, this pencil can be used to create a smokey eye in any color story you can think of. The waterproof pencil is also handy for filling in your waterline. Sold by Sephora, Amazon and Ulta Beauty
NYX Slide On Eye Pencil Waterproof Eyeliner
This smudge-proof, waterproof eye pencil comes in 16 vivid matte and metallic shades that can create a smoky eye or add a pop of color to your eye look. The formula is long-lasting and easy to apply. Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
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OPA-LOCKA, FLA. (WSVN) - More than two years after an arrest was caught on camera, an Opa-Locka Police officer is now being charged with battery. The man who was seen in the video is now speaking publicly for the first time.
“They treat me like an animal, and I am happy for the people arrested that do it,” Jafet Castro said.
Thirty-five-year old Lt. Sergio Perez surrendered Tuesday related to the September 2020 arrest.
“We appreciate the work of the state attorney and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to do what should have been done two years ago,” said Michael Pizzi, Castro’s attorney.
The day of the arrest, Castro’s family called for help, claiming the then 19-year-old was suffering with mental health issues.
According to arrest report, the family had already restrained him.
Cameras captured Perez punching the teen in the face, then dragging him down steps. The first investigation into the arrest was carried out internally by the Opa-Locka Police Department, which found no wrongdoing.
But when a new top cop took over, he called for another look.
“It’s my job to make sure officers are held accountable,” said Opa-locka Police Chief Scott Israel.
Israel held a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
“When I reviewed the case, I appropriately and properly sent it to the Dade County State Attorney’s Office for review after the [Florida Department of Law Enforcement] investigated, and that’s where we stand now,” Israel said.
The attorney for officer Perez told 7News he believes the second look into the case is related to another case against his client.
Perez was charged with battery last year, accused of shocking a co-worker with a Taser, but that officer, the star witness, has since been fired from the force himself.
Attorney Richard Diaz offered this assessment of the new charge in a statement that read as follows, “It’s the state attorney’s office and FDLE desperately doubling down with this late, selective and vindictive charge. We look forward to a jury trial in both cases.”
Perez has been relieved of duty without pay.
Meanwhile, Castro and his family filed a lawsuit in federal court against the officers involved in his arrest and the city, alleging civil rights violations.
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President Biden and several of his top Cabinet officials will travel across the country over the next two days to tout "Bidenomics" as polls continue to show strong disapproval of the administration’s economic policies.
Biden will travel Thursday to South Carolina to announce new spending on clean energy manufacturing, according to a White House official. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel Thursday to the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona to highlight how the infrastructure law will boost spending on Native American land.
Other top officials traveling Thursday on behalf of the administration include Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to Washington, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to Ohio, and Interior Secretary Debra Haaland to New York.
Biden had a 60% disapproval rating on the economy in Fox News’ June poll, which was a 7% improvement from the prior year.
ECONOMISTS MOCK 'BIDENOMICS' PUSH FROM WHITE HOUSE: 'THEY SPEND LIKE DRUNKEN SAILORS'
Ben LaBolt, the communications director for the White House, said this week is an opportunity for the Biden administration to share its accomplishments with the American public.
"You aren’t done hearing about Bidenomics," LaBolt told Fox News Digital. "Following his major address in Chicago, the president, vice president, Cabinet members and senior administration officials will continue to make a full-court press on Bidenomics this week – highlighting how the president’s economic plan is investing in America and increasing competition to lower costs for hardworking families."
Small Business Administration head Isabel Guzman travels Thursday to California. Mitch Landrieu, a senior adviser to Biden, will host an event Thursday in New Mexico with Democratic Gov. Lujan Grisham.
Buttigieg, Becerra, Haaland and Landrieu each have a second trip scheduled Friday for similar events.
FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS AREN'T CONVINCED ECONOMY IS IMPROVING
The trips will largely focus on Biden’s legislative accomplishments, most notably the infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act, which together will cost nearly $2 trillion. Officials will also note the historic job creation under the Biden administration, which Republican critics counter is inflated by jobs that returned after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden took office in January 2021 with inflation at a rate of just over 1%, which rose to 9.1% by June 2022 and has since dropped to under 4%.
The "Bidenomics" tour over the next two days comes as Republicans have tied the term to the economic woes amid a competitive GOP presidential primary.
'BIDENOMICS' RIPPED APART BY BODEGA OWNER, VETERAN AND COLLEGE STUDENT: 'SHOULD BE ASHAMED'
"‘Bidenomics’ is high taxes, crippling regulations, crushing inflation, war on American energy, soaring energy costs, job killing globalist intentional agreements like the Paris Climate Accord, and total economic surrender to China and other foreign countries," former President Donald Trump said in a campaign statement last week.
"Well, I can tell you what Bidenomics is," Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a campaign event last week. "It is: everybody pays more for basic staples of life. People are paying way more for groceries, they’re paying way more for other necessities like utilities. The cost of buying a new home has gone up dramatically because all the materials have gone up." | 2023-07-07T19:59:01+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/biden-top-officials-launch-bidenomics-tour-as-polls-show-opposition-to-wh-plan/article_836e67d6-1536-5fc9-a29c-edc20673582c.html |
The informative Nov. 5 news article “What Twitter layoffs will mean for the platform, advertising and workers” addressed several questions concerning the recent outsize layoffs at Twitter. One of the issues of major interest is why Elon Musk chose to act in such a precipitous manner. Having been on both sides of the layoff process, I know that one of the primary reasons any large organization has for haste in downsizing is the potential for employee sabotage. Although not familiar with the workings of the tech industry, I can only imagine the damage a disgruntled employee could effect in the areas of both computer programming and hardware.
The Twitter layoff is extreme, disregards the impact on employees (both those let go and those who remain) and is plausibly damaging to the company. However, it is not different from business practices in use in the United States today.
Charles G. Sarau, Riva | 2022-11-10T19:26:33+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/10/damaging-effects-twitters-mass-layoff/ |
Top Player Prop Bets for Golden Knights vs. Panthers Stanley Cup Final Game 5 on June 13, 2023
Jack Eichel is one of the top players with prop bets available when the Vegas Golden Knights and the Florida Panthers play at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday (starting at 8:00 PM ET).
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Golden Knights vs. Panthers Game Info
- When: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, truTV, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
NHL Props Today: Vegas Golden Knights
Jack Eichel Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -222, Under Odds: +165)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -111, Under Odds: -120)
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- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -154, Under Odds: +115)
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Chandler Stephenson has accumulated 65 points (0.8 per game), scoring 16 goals and adding 49 assists.
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Jonathan Marchessault Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -167, Under Odds: +125)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +145, Under Odds: -200)
Jonathan Marchessault has 28 goals and 29 assists for Vegas.
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Chicago Fire loves a classic cliffhanger and Wednesday's fall finale is no different. This time, it's not Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) caught in the middle of a distressing situation, but Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) who's in danger, along with fellow 51 firefighter Sam Carver (Jake Lockett), as revealed in the fall finale teaser.
The climactic moment comes when S.W.A.T. and Firehouse 51 race to the scene of a report of a grenade caught in someone's leg that has yet to detonate, elevating the threat level tenfold. Severide reports to the scene minutes too late as he watches his wife, Kidd, and Carver -- suited up in bomb gear -- go inside the house with the directive to safely remove the grenade and bring everyone to safety.
"We've done a bunch of cliffhangers where Severide was in danger. In fact, the memorable ones are him in the boat that's sinking to the bottom of Lake Michigan. Kidd was on the shore of that one, and we wanted to flip it and have Severide being outside of a very harrowing call and helpless," co-showrunner/executive producer Derek Haas tells ET. "That's a helpless feeling when you can't go in, and it's not only just co-firefighters that are in there, but it's his wife that's in there. And he is ready to unleash holy hell on whatever is happening."
That scene is a culmination of built-up tension and drama for Severide, who in the fall finale grapples with helping Detective Pryma (Troy Winbush) with the Martucci case.
"This is that case that has been really going on since the end of last season, which involved a traitor police officer who gave away personal information about Severide and his wedding night, which almost got him and his wife killed. Severide's already running at 11, as you know from the previous episode," Haas tees up. "He is not happy with what's going on there, and this all culminates and is like a snowball falling down a hill becoming an avalanche that ends in this final scene where decisions that Severide made to help Pryma have manifested in a really, really dangerous standoff that involves Pryma and the firefighters, including his wife, and Severide is on the outside."
"Every firefighter that [co-showrunner] Andrea [Newman] and I have ever worked with, talked to or done a ride-along with, their personality types are the ones who say, 'Let me run into that situation.' Severide has that innately in him, so you are even more helpless feeling when you're stuck on the outside. Because he would change in one heartbeat, he would change places with his wife and make him be the one there," he notes. "But that's what makes Stella Kidd so great, is she's been growing as a lieutenant over the course of the last couple of seasons and then blooming with Carver who Boden forced upon her, so we get to see her in a leadership moment too."
There's also the return of a familiar face who may or may not stir up trouble for the firefighters at 51, and may just be the start of another roller-coaster for them to navigate through. "There's more to come," Newman coyly teases.
The Fire producers share the immediate fallout from the fall finale will be felt for a long time.
"The incident has repercussions for everybody involved going forward. It's going to change some things," Newman hints. "Severide is definitely going to probably be the most impacted and we'll see the fallout on him going forward."
The fall finale of Chicago Fire airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. and SUZHOU, China, Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune, ophthalmology and other major diseases, announces that the first participant has been successfully dosed in the higher-dose cohort of a phase 2 clinical trial of mazdutide (R&D Code: IBI362), a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) and glucagon receptor (GCGR) dual agonist, in Chinese adults with obesity.
This randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04904913) was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mazdutide in Chinese participants with overweight or obesity. Results for the low dose cohorts (3.0 mg, 4.5 mg and 6.0 mg) were disclosed in June of this year and the primary endpoint was met. At Week 24, each dose of mazdutide showed significant efficacy on body weight loss compared with placebo in a dose-dependent manner and brought multiple cardio-metabolic benefits to participants; meanwhile, mazdutide was well tolerated and the overall safety profile was similar to other drugs of the same class. In addition, mazdutide titrated to 9 mg showed a good safety profile and a 12-week body weight loss of 11.7% in the phase 1b study (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04440345). Based on these results, Innovent will further evaluate the efficacy and safety for a higher dose (9.0 mg) mazdutide in Chinese patients with obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). A total of 80 participants are planned to be enrolled and will be randomized in a 3:1 ratio to receive mazdutide 9.0 mg or placebo for 24 weeks. The primary endpoint was the percent change from baseline in body weight at Week 24.
Professor Linong Ji, the principal investigator of the study, Peking University People's Hospital, stated, "Obesity is associated with a variety of chronic non-communicable diseases and is listed as one of the important risk factors affecting the disease burden. The prevalence and growth rate of obesity in China rank first in the world[1], and drugs that can achieve effective and safe weight loss are therefore urgently needed in the clinic. Clinical studies of mazdutide in overweight or obese population have demonstrated significant efficacy on body weight loss and comprehensive metabolic improvement. Treatment of mazdutide 6.0 mg for 6 months resulted in 11.6% body weight loss in participants in the low-dose cohorts of the phase 2 study, demonstrating its best-in-class potential. I am confident that a 9.0 mg dose of mazdutide will show even more satisfactory efficacy on body weight loss and will offer a new treatment option for participant with moderate to severe obesity."
Dr. Lei Qian, Vice President of Clinical Development at Innovent, stated, "In the Phase 2 study in Chinese participants with overweight or obesity, low-dose mazdutide showed robust efficacy on body weight loss and multiple improvement in metabolic parameters, reflecting the Best-in-Class potential of mazdutide among GLP-1 receptor agonists and co-agonists. To further extend its clinical utility, we will continue to explore the clinical benefit of mazdutide 9.0 mg in adults with obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). The result of the phase 1 study suggests that mazdutide is the first single-agent anti-obesity molecule, among all approved or under development, that achieves a 12-week body weight loss by more than 11.5%. We hope that the higher-dose mazdutide will provide a safer, bariatric surgery-like and more accessible treatment option to patients with obesity."
About Overweight and Obesity
China has the largest obese population in the world, with obesity rate likely to increase. Obesity can lead to a range of complications or related diseases that impact life expectancy and deteriorate quality of life. In more severely obese patients, the incidence and mortality of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and certain tumors increase significantly. Obesity is a chronic disease that requires long-term management, and there is a lack of long-term effective and safe treatments. Lifestyle intervention is the first choice and basic treatment for patients with overweight or obesity. However, a considerable percentage of patients fail to achieve the desired weight loss goal upon lifestyle intervention due to various reasons and may require pharmacological intervention. Traditional anti-obesity drugs have limited weight-loss effects and are associated with safety issues.
About Mazdutide
Innovent entered into a licensing agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) for the development and potential commercialization of OXM3 (also known as mazdutide), a GLP-1R and GCGR dual agonist, in China. In parallel, Lilly is developing OXM3 outside China. Mazdutide is a long-acting synthetic peptide related to mammalian oxyntomodulin (OXM), which uses a fatty acid side chain to prolong the duration of action and allow once-weekly administration. Mazdutide is thought to exert its biological effects by activating GLP-1 receptor and glucagon receptor in human beings, which improves glucose tolerance and induces weight loss, mimicking the effects of endogenous oxyntomodulin.
In addition to the effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists on promoting insulin secretion, lowering blood glucose and reducing body weight, mazdutide may also increase energy expenditure and improve hepatic fat metabolism through the activation of glucagon receptor. The treatment of metabolic diseases by activating multiple metabolism-related targets simultaneously is currently the worldwide trend in drug development.
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop, manufacture and commercialize high-quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high-quality innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, metabolic, ophthalmology and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801.HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully integrated multi-functional platform which includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 34 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune disease and other major therapeutic areas, with 7 products – TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor) , NAILIKE (olverembatinib) and Cyramza® (ramucirumab), 3 asset under NMPA NDA review, 4 assets in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and an additional 20 molecules in clinical studies.
Innovent has built an international team with advanced talent in high-end biological drug development and commercialization, including many global experts. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Sanofi, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center and other international partners. Innovent strives to work with many collaborators to help advance China's biopharmaceutical industry, improve drug availability and enhance the quality of the patients' lives. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com. and www.linkedin.com/company/innovent-biologics/.
Note:
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO®, and HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection) are not approved products in the United States.
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection, Innovent)
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor, Incyte Corporation). Pemazyre® was discovered by Incyte Corporation and licensed to Innovent for development and commercialization in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
CYRAMZA® (ramucirumab, Eli Lilly). Cyramza® was discovered by Eli Lilly and licensed to Innovent for commercialization in Mainland China.
Disclaimer:
1. This indication is still under clinical study, which hasn't been approved in China.
2. Innovent does not recommend any off-label usage.
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These forward-looking statements are based on the existing beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, projections and understandings of the management of the Company with respect to future events at the time these statements are made. These statements are not a guarantee of future developments and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond the Company's control and are difficult to predict. Consequently, actual results may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of future changes or developments in our business, the Company's competitive environment and political, economic, legal and social conditions.
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MIAMI GARDEN, Fla. (AP) — For a moment, it looked as if the Miami Dolphins would cruise to an easy win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night after playing in so many close games this season.
Tua Tagovailoa completed six of seven passes for 68 yards on the Dolphins’ opening drive and capped it with a touchdown pass to Raheem Mostert. Miami forced a three-and-out and an interception on the Steelers’ first two possessions.
As the game went on though, Miami’s offense sputtered. Tagovailoa’s passes sailed high. Some passes were behind receivers. At least three could have been intercepted if not for drops by Pittsburgh defenders.
“We just weren’t really coming together. We lacked that rhythm,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said, “and especially after we had in the third quarter, that first drive that we went for it on fourth-and-3 in the tight red, felt like right after that we kind of hit a lull that we can all learn from because it was like we got punched in the stomach or something.”
Because of injuries at quarterback, the Dolphins’ offense has had uneven performances all season, which was a big reason for their three-game losing streak.
Sunday was no different, even with Tagovailoa back after missing two games with a concussion.
Miami scored 16 points in the first half and none in the second.
“There were just little misses here and there that we had offensively,” Tagovailoa said. “A lot of the misses could have turned into really big plays. Just better execution, and it starts with me.”
Miami has played in four one-possession games this season and has won three of them.
Moving the ball hasn’t been the problem, with players such as Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle catching passes. The two receivers continuously find soft spots in the middle of defenses.
The Dolphins aren’t taking advantage of trips to the red zone.
“It is frustrating for the whole team,” McDaniel said, “and we’re not going to be able to just have to outscore 10 points every time to win games, so we’ve got to find a way to get better at that, which we’ll be focused on moving forward.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Despite missing several key players on defense, the Dolphins forced three turnovers and came away with an interception for the first time since the season opener against New England. Miami also only allowed the Steelers to convert four of 14 third down attempts.
“This is something that we’ve been making a big point of emphasis within the team on turnover differential,” McDaniel said.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Red zone efficiency. Miami scored once in three trips to the red zone. Getting Hill and Waddle more involved in the red zone should be a priority moving forward, as neither player has a touchdown since Week 2.
STOCK UP
Noah Igbinoghene, a 2020 first-round pick, had a rocky start to his NFL career but has seen an increased role in the past two games because of injuries in the secondary. The cornerback has stepped up when he has needed to. After being involved in several pass breakups against the Vikings last week, Igbinoghene caught a game-sealing interception of the Steelers’ Kenny Pickett.
STOCK DOWN
Running back Chase Edmonds dropped two passes against the Steelers, including a wide-open one in the first half that would have been good for a first down. He has taken a backseat to Raheem Mostert, who has emerged as Miami’s clear No. 1 option at running back. Edmonds hasn’t had double-digit carries since the season opener and finished Sunday’s game with seven carries for 17 yards.
INJURED
The Dolphins suffered another injury in their secondary when safety Brandon Jones left the game in the third quarter with a knee injury. McDaniel said Monday that Jones will be placed on injured reserve.
KEY NUMBER
16 — The Dolphins have forced 16 punts in the past two games. The previous time Miami forced that many punts over a two-game span was on Oct. 18, 2020, against the Jets (10) and Nov. 1, 2020, against the Rams (6).
NEXT STEPS
After two straight home games, the Dolphins will be on the road next week to face the Detroit Lions (1-5) for the first of what should be an easier stretch of games than they’ve seen in the first seven weeks. Five of Miami’s next six games are against teams with losing records.
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DOVER, Del. — Martin Truex Jr. has the blueprint for how to win at Dover Motor Speedway on Mondays.
It’s the fourth time out of 104 career Dover races it will run on a Monday.
With a green flag start just after 3 p.m., and no lights at the concrete mile track, NASCAR faced a tight window to reach the halfway mark needed for an official race. So they’ll fire the engines again at noon Monday with Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott starting 1-2. Ryan Blaney is third, Truex is fourth and William Byron fifth.
Larson used his umbrella as a de facto cane as he walked back from pit road into the garage area. He stopped and posed for pictures with members of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Dover.
Truex is winless this season with two top-five finishes over the first 10 Cup races. He won four races last season and would certainly like to break through into the win column, especially in the midst of contract negotiations with Joe Gibbs Racing. The 41-year-old Truex made his 596th career start at Dover and is set to join Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch as active drivers with 600 starts.
“It’s a lot of races, but pretty cool though to be around as long as we have,” Truex said. “My career has not been easy. We have had a lot of tough years, been through a lot of stuff and to still be here battling, fighting for wins is pretty cool.”
Truex’s 2007 Dover win his only one from his 2004 debut until 2013. He won once in 2013 and once in 2015 before his career skyrocketed, first with Furniture Row Racing, and now with JGR. He won the 2017 Cup champion at Furniture Row and won seven races in 2019 driving for Joe Gibbs.
He’s now a driver with solid Hall of Fame credentials.
“I see guys in the Hall of Fame and what they have done, and stat-wise it’s there,” Truex said. “But I don’t know. I’ve not really given it much thought.”
He had time to think on Sunday. Dover ordered a grandstand evaluation and asked fans to seek shelter or return to vehicles. Chris Buescher tweeted he was bored during the delay and held an AMA on Twitter. Among the revelations, a 1979 Ford Bronco is his dream car, and Rusty Wallace, and later Mark Martin, were his favorite drivers growing up.
Buescher won his only career Cup race in a weather-shortened race in 2016 — yes, on a Monday — at Pocono Raceway. Successes have been rare for Buescher since that checkered but he took the pole at Dover - his first in more than 230 career Cup races and 74 Xfinity starts.
“I guess it is not something that I have ever had a whole lot of emphasis on,” Buescher said. “At the end of the day, it is all about that checkered flag at the end of the race.”
It’s one he’ll have to chase at Dover on Monday.
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The one-time president of the far-right Proud Boys group Enrique Tarrio and three subordinates were convicted of numerous felonies including seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
A federal jury in Washington, D.C. found Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl and Joseph Biggs guilty of conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and using force and prior planning to hinder the 2020 presidential election certification.
There was no verdict for Dominic Pezzola on the most serious charge, seditious conspiracy, and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. After the reading of the partial verdict, Judge Timothy Kelly sent the jury back to deliberate on these charges and several other felonies that they did not come to verdict on.
All five were found guilty of several other felonies, including obstructing an official proceeding; obstructing Congress; conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging duties; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and aiding and abetting and destruction of government property.
But Tarrio, who arrested on Jan. 4, 2021, and not at the Capitol, was found not guilty of assaulting officers. Only Pezzola was found guilty of that charge.
They now likely face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors had argued the defendants had conspired to unlawfully use force — and the crowds gathered in Washington, D.C. — to keep former President Donald Trump in office.
Soon after the election, investigators alleged Tarrio began posting on social media and in message groups about a "civil war," later threatening, "No Trump…No peace. No Quarter."
Proud Boys leaders saw themselves as "a fighting force" that was "ready to commit violence" on Trump's behalf, the government alleged.
According to charging papers, Nordean, Rehl, Biggs and Pezzola gathered with over 100 Proud Boys near the Washington Monument on Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that Trump was speaking at the White House Ellipse. They allegedly marched to the Capitol grounds and communicated by radio.
Prosecutors said the defendants were among the first wave of rioters to breach Capitol grounds over police barricades and lead the mob toward the building.
Some defendants – like Pezzola – were accused of breaking windows at the Capitol, while others roused the mob and pushed through metal barricades and police lines to enter the Capitol.
Tarrio wasn't in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 because he had been arrested for unrelated charges a day earlier. Still, the Justice Department alleged his planning before the attack, support for the rioters during the assault and comments afterward were sufficient to charge him with seditious conspiracy.
"Make no mistake, we did this," Tarrio wrote on social media during the riot.
"The spirit of 1776 has been resurfaced and has created groups like the Proud Boys. And we will not be extinguished," Nordean allegedly wrote in Nov. 2020. "Hopefully the firing squads are for the traitors that are trying to steal the election from the American people," Rehl posted.
Prosecutors said Tarrio exhorted protesters to violence, posting before Jan. 6, "Let's bring this new year in with one word in mind: revolt." In text messages, he later compared Proud Boys' actions that day to those of George Washington, Sam Adams and Benjamin Franklin.
Defense attorneys countered that the Proud Boys were just a glorified "drinking club" where men shared their anger, and they contended Tarrio and others had no explicit plan to resist the election results or obstruct Congress. Tarrio was merely exercising his constitutional rights, his lawyer argued.
"Did Enrique Tarrio make comments that were egregious? Absolutely," Tarrio's attorney rhetorically asked the jury in closing arguments last week. "You may not like what he said, but it is First Amendment-protected speech."
The trial, which began on Jan. 12, dragged from winter into spring with dozens of witnesses called by both sides and thousands of exhibits. Witnesses included a documentary filmmaker who followed Tarrio around after the 2020 presidential election, numerous FBI agents who investigated the case, Secret Service employees, and former Proud Boys.
Only two of the five defendants — Rehl and Pezzola — testified in their own defense. Rehl said he knew of no plans for violence and encouraged no one to engage with police.
Prosecutors showed video of Pezzola using a stolen police shield to smash a window and smoking a "victory cigar" inside the Capitol. He said he acted alone and testified he was not part of any criminal enterprise. Pezzola's attorney, Steve Metcalf, called the government's case a "fairy dust conspiracy,"
Matthew Greene — a former Proud Boys member — testified as a government witness and told the jury he first joined the group to defend against ANTIFA.
He testified there had been no explicit call to violently resist Joe Biden's presidency, but a "collective expectation" that they were to respond if provoked.
"I can't say it was overtly encouraged, but it was never discouraged," Greene said of violence, "And when it happened, it was celebrated."
Greene, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and entered into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was pressed by the defense about whether the violence on Jan. 6 was planned. He said the crowd was angry, but the violence seemed "spontaneous." However, he testified the mob's actions were "either implicitly or overtly accepted and encouraged by the Proud Boys" on Jan. 6.
Another cooperating witness at trial, 43-year-old Jeremy Bertino, was considered to be Tarrio's top lieutenant and pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy last year. Like Tarrio, Bertino wasn't at the Capitol during the attack.
Bertino told the jury the Proud Boys nearly unanimously believed the 2020 election results were stolen from Trump as part of a broad "conspiracy." He testified that the Proud Boys saw themselves as the footsoldiers of the right, calling themselves the "tip of the spear" in the fight.
And after the attack, Bertino, who was recovering from an injury, messaged Tarrio, "I wanted to be there to witness what I believed to be the next American revolution…I'm so proud of my country today."
But he also told the court under cross-examination, "I didn't have conversations with anybody about going into the Capitol building." In closing arguments, Tarrio's lawyers questioned Bertino's reliability as a witness.
They blasted Bertino as a liar and alleged his testimony had been affected by his agreement with the government.
Prosecutor Conor Mulroe countered the defense argument that the seditious conspiracy had to be explicitly planned to be criminal.
"A conspiracy is nothing more than an agreement with an unlawful objective," Mulroe said of the law, "A conspiracy can be unspoken. It doesn't have to be in writing, hashed out around the table, or even in words. It can be implicit."
"They were there to threaten and if necessary use force to stop the certification of the election and that is exactly what they did," he told the jury.
Defense attorneys disagreed.
"If you don't like what some of them say, that doesn't make them guilty," said Rehls' attorney, Carmen Hernandez.
The trial was expected to last a few months, but squabbles between attorneys, sealed hearings, and shifting court schedules hampered efforts to expedite the proceedings.
"We're learning to work together. We have seven very different personalities," defense attorneys cautioned Judge Kelly in January as the trial began.
At times, the judge's patience particularly with defense attorneys appeared to wear thin as he attempted to stem the tide of objections, sidebars, and interruptions. "For God's sake," he pleaded with one defense attorney as they attempted to speak last month. "Goodness gracious," the judge said, exasperated during closing arguments. The days of testimony limped on.
The verdict came less than a month before Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes will be sentenced for a conviction of seditious conspiracy. A jury in Washington, D.C., found him and codefendant Kelly Meggs guilty of the high crime but acquitted three others of the charge.
A group of four more Oath Keepers was separately convicted of the seditious conspiracy count earlier this year, all in spite of efforts by defense attorneys to argue the charge is too extreme and Washington, D.C. jurors too biased.
Defense attorneys in the trial consistently laid the blame for the riot at the feet of Trump himself, many mentioning the former president in their opening and closing arguments.
Tarrio's attorney, Nayib Hassan, was even more explicit, telling the jury in closing arguments that "it was Donald Trump's words, it was his motivation, it was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6."
"They want to use Enrique Tarrio as a scapegoat for Donald Trump and those in power," Hassan said. | 2023-05-04T18:14:32+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national-news/proud-boys-members-ex-leader-enrique-tarrio-guilty-in-seditious-conspiracy-trial |
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights.
“Taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,” Kirby said in a statement issued by the airline. “I sincerely apologize to our customers and our team members who have been working around-the-clock for several days — often through severe weather — to take care of our customers.”
Kirby concluded by promising “to better demonstrate my respect for the dedication of our team members and the loyalty of our customers.”
Kirby caught the private flight from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Denver on Wednesday, when United canceled 750 flights — one-fourth of its schedule for the day. That figure does not include flights on United Express.
United has canceled nearly 3,000 flights this week, with the largest number at its Newark Liberty International Airport hub in New Jersey, which was hit by thunderstorms for much of the week.
Kirby blamed disruptions in Newark last weekend on a shortage of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. He said in a note to employees “that the FAA frankly failed us” by reducing the rate at which planes could arrive and depart the airport, where United is the dominant carrier.
Canceled flights left United planes and crews out of position, hobbling the airline when bad weather hit on Sunday, Kirby said.
As United continued to struggle throughout this week, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose department includes the FAA, said on Twitter that airlines had recovered from the storms “with the exception of United.” He drove home the point by including a bar graph that compared United’s cancellation rate with the rest of the industry.
United’s operation has improved since midweek. The percentage of canceled flights fell from 26% on Wednesday to 18% Thursday and 8% through Friday evening, according to tracking service FlightAware. However, even on Friday, United was on pace to lead all U.S. carriers in canceled flights for a seventh straight day.
United vowed to fix its operation in time for the July 4 holiday weekend, which promises to be a hectic one at the nation’s airports. More than 2.7 million people were screened Thursday at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, and Friday was expected to bring similar crowds — possibly bigger.
United passengers have taken to social media and talked to reporters about long airport lines and sleeping in airports after flights were canceled.
Unions representing the airline’s pilots and flight attendants have joined in the criticism, accusing United management of poor planning, a lack of crew schedulers, and operating too many flights.
Chicago-based United said it did not pay for the CEO’s flight on Wednesday. The airline declined to say whether Kirby frequently takes private planes. | 2023-07-02T21:23:39+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/ap-passengers-were-stuck-because-united-airlines-canceled-their-flights-the-ceo-took-a-private-plane/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-China relations are teetering on a precipice after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
Pelosi received a rapturous welcome in Taipei and was applauded with strong bipartisan support in Washington, despite the Biden administration’s misgivings. But her trip has enraged Beijing and Chinese nationalists and will complicate already strained ties even after her departure.
Already, China is preparing new shows of force in the Taiwan Strait to make clear that its claims are non-negotiable on the island it regards as a renegade province. And, as the U.S. presses ahead with demonstrations of support for Taiwan, arms sales and diplomatic lobbying, the escalating tensions have raised the risks of military confrontation, intentional or not.
And the trip could further muddle Washington’s already complicated relationship with Beijing as the two sides wrest with differences over trade, the war in Ukraine, human rights and more.
Wary of the reaction from China, the Biden administration discouraged but did not prevent Pelosi from visiting Taiwan. It has taken pains to stress to Beijing that the House speaker is not a member of the executive branch and her visit represents no change in the U.S. “one-China” policy.
That was little comfort for Beijing. Pelosi, who is second in line to the U.S. presidency, was no ordinary visitor and was greeted almost like a head of state. Taiwan’s skyline lit up with a message of welcome, and she met with the biggest names on the island, including its president, senior legislators and prominent rights activists.
Chinese officials were enraged.
“What Pelosi has done is definitely not a defense and maintenance of democracy, but a provocation and violation of China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said after her departure.
“Pelosi’s dangerous provocation is purely for personal political capital, which is an absolute ugly political farce,” Hua said. “China-US relations and regional peace and stability is suffering.”
The timing of the visit may have added to the tensions. It came ahead of this year’s Chinese Communist Party’s Congress at which President Xi Jinping will try to further cement his power, using a hard line on Taiwan to blunt domestic criticism on COVID-19, the economy and other issues.
Summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear China’s complaints, U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns insisted that the visit was nothing but routine. “The United States will not escalate and stands ready to work with China to prevent escalation altogether,” Burns said, according to the State Department.
The White House also said that Pelosi’s visit “doesn’t change anything” about the U.S. posture toward China and Taiwan. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the U.S. had expected the harsh reaction from China, even as she called it unwarranted.
“We are going to monitor, and we will manage what Beijing chooses to do,” she added.
Alarmed by the possibility of a new geo-strategic conflict at the same time the West sides with Ukraine in its resistance to Russia’s invasion, the U.S. has rallied allies to its side.
The foreign ministers of the Group of 7 industrialized democracies released a statement Wednesday essentially telling China — by the initials of its formal name, the People’s Republic of China — to calm down.
“It is normal and routine for legislators from our countries to travel internationally,” the G-7 ministers said. “The PRC’s escalatory response risks increasing tensions and destabilizing the region. We call on the PRC not to unilaterally change the status quo by force in the region, and to resolve cross-Strait differences by peaceful means.”
Still, that status quo — long identified as “strategic ambiguity” for the U.S. and quiet but determined Chinese opposition to any figment of Taiwanese independence — appears to be no longer tenable for either side.
“It’s getting harder and harder to agree on Taiwan for both Beijing and Washington,” said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, an emeritus professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.
In Taipei and the U.S. Congress, moves are afoot to clarify the ambiguity that has defined U.S. relations with Taiwan since the 1970s. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will soon consider a bill that would strengthen relations, require the executive branch to do more to bring Taiwan into the international system and take more determined steps to help the island defend itself.
Writing in The New York Times, committee Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., lambasted China’s response to Pelosi’s visit.
“The result of Beijing’s bluster should be to stiffen resolve in Taipei, in Washington and across the region,” he said. “There are many strategies to continue standing up to Chinese aggression. There is clear bipartisan congressional agreement on the importance of acting now to provide the people of Taiwan with the type of support they desperately need.”
But China appears to be pressing ahead with steps that could prove to be escalatory, including live-fire military exercises planned for this week and a steady uptick in flights of fighter jets in and near Taiwan’s self-declared air defense zone.
“They are going to test the Taiwanese and the Americans,” said Cabestan, the professor in Hong Kong. He said the actions of the U.S. military in the area, including a naval force led by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, will be critical.
China had ratcheted up potential confrontation weeks ago by declaring that the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from the mainland is not international waters. The U.S. rejected this and responded to by sending more vessels through it. Cabestan said that showed that “something had to be done on the U.S. side to draw red lines to prevent the Chinese from going too far.”
Meanwhile, Taiwan is on edge, air raid shelters have been prepared and the government is increasing training for recruits serving their four months of required military service —- generally considered inadequate — along with annual two-week annual refresher courses for reservists.
“The Chinese feel that if they don’t act, that the United States is going to continue to slice the salami to take incremental actions toward supporting Taiwan independence,” said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund.
She said that domestic U.S. support for Taiwan actually gives China added incentive to take a strong stance: “China does feel under pressure to do more to signal that this is an issue in which China cannot compromise.”
Despite the immediate concerns about escalation and potential miscalculation, there are others who don’t believe the damage to U.S.-China ties will be more long-lasting than that caused by other, non-Taiwan-related issues.
China is “going to raise a huge fuss and there will be military exercises and there will be embargoes on importing Taiwan goods. And after the shouting is over, you will see a gradual easing,” said June Teufel Dreyer, a Chinese politics specialist at the University of Miami.
“The situation never goes back to completely normal, whatever normal is, but it will definitely die down,” she said.
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AP writers Zeke Miller in Washington, Joe McDonald in Beijing and David Rising in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, contributed to this report. | 2022-08-04T18:19:45+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-china-ties-on-a-precipice-after-pelosi-visit-to-taiwan/ |
Alerts Delivered Directly to Sapiens IDITSuite Users Speeds Identification and Investigation of Suspicious Claims
BOSTON and PARIS, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shift Technology, a provider of AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions for the global insurance industry, and Sapiens International Corporation , a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, today announced the two organizations have entered into a strategic partnership. As a result, users of Sapiens IDITSuite for P&C insurers will soon be able to have alerts generated from Shift Claims Fraud Detection delivered directly into the claims management environment they use every day.
It is estimated that claims fraud costs the insurance industry more than $80 billion per year in the U.S. alone. Empowering claims professionals to identify suspicious claims effectively and efficiently and quickly refer them for further investigation is a powerful value proposition. This allows insurers to avoid paying out on fraudulent claims, improve their combined ratio, and deliver an exceptional policyholder experience by paying claims as quickly, accurately and fairly as possible. Delivering fraud alerts from Shift directly into the Sapiens claims management solution insurance professionals use every day streamlines the fraud detection process for everyone involved, saving both time and money.
Shift Claims Fraud Detection has a demonstrated capability to detect suspicious claims in real-time or in scheduled workflows with a 3X detection hit rate when compared to manual or rules-based implementations. Its ability to incorporate third-party data, structured and unstructured data, along with carriers' claims and policy data is key to the solution's accuracy. Furthermore, Shift Claims Fraud Detection delivers clear and detailed rationale for all its conclusions as part of every alert. This allows investigators to make fraud decisions with speed, accuracy, and confidence. Working in conjunction with Sapiens IDITSuite, the two solutions create a powerful way to modernize the fight against insurance fraud.
"Insurance fraud costs the industry billions of dollars every year because fighting insurance fraud is not easy. Fraudsters are clever and traditional detection methods are inefficient," explained Drew Whitmore, global head of partnerships, Shift Technology. "Working together with Sapiens, we are replacing inefficiency with efficiency and empowering claims professionals by giving them a holistic view of the claims process."
About Shift Technology
Shift Technology delivers AI decisioning solutions to benefit the global insurance industry and its customers. Our products enable insurers to automate and optimize decisions from underwriting to claims, resulting in superior customer experiences, increased operational efficiency, and reduced costs. The future of insurance starts with Decisions Made Better. Learn more at www.shift-technology.com.
Contacts:
Rob Morton
Corporate Communications
Shift Technology
+1.617.416.9216
rob.morton@shift-technology.com
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Nine additional Pega professionals recognized by CRN for IT channel impact and growth
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider empowering the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change®, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Judy Buchholz, senior vice president of global partner ecosystem, Pegasystems, to its 2023 list of Channel Chiefs. In addition, nine Pega professionals have been named in the 2023 CRN Women of the Channel list, recognizing that their vision, expertise, and contributions have a daily impact on the industry.
Buchholz took over as senior vice president of the global partner ecosystem late last year, acting as the connective vision for the partner ecosystem across the business. Under Buchholz's leadership, the ecosystem team has focused on bolstering our partners' ability to deliver excellent client outcomes to ensure Pega is positioned for future success. The industry has received this positively, with CRN Magazine naming Pega Partners in its 2023 5-Star Partner Program Guide, a list of the most notable partner programs from leading technology vendors.
Earlier this year, CRN Magazine named Buchholz to its 2023 Channel Chiefs list. The annual list recognizes leading IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate outstanding leadership, influence, innovation, and growth.
In addition, nine other Pega professionals were named in the 2023 Women of the Channel Awards for their strategic vision, thought leadership, and advocacy, impacting growth and innovation in the channel while supporting partners and customers with exceptional leadership. These professionals demonstrate Pega's commitment to developing and advancing its diverse talent into mid, senior, and executive-level positions. They include:
- Jamie Mendez, vice president, global partner ecosystem transformation and programs
- Karen Griffith, senior director, partner marketing
- Kimberly Hawkins, director, global partner management
- Lena Lisitskaya, senior manager Pega Launchpad GTM execution
- Lisa Hansoty, senior director, global partner management
- Megan Jackson, digital partner campaign manager
- Sarah Huang, director, global partner management
- Siaron van Wetten, senior director, global partner management
- Suzanne Clayton, senior director, global partner management
Quotes & Commentary
"We believe our partner ecosystem is comprised of the best and brightest talent in the market," said Judy Buchholz, senior vice president of the global partner ecosystem, Pega. "Having nine Pega professionals recognized by CRN's Women of the Channel list and the partner program recognized as 5-Star validates our reinvigorated client-first, partner-centric strategy is working. I'm honored to be recognized as a 2023 Channel Chief and credit this achievement to everyone in the Pega community who has contributed to the continued growth of our ecosystem."
"We are ecstatic to announce this year's honorees and shine a light on these women for their significant achievements, knowing that what they've accomplished has paved the way for continued success within the IT channel," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "The channel is stronger because of them, and we look forward to seeing what they do next."
Supporting Resources
- CRN 2023 Women of the Channel list
- CRN 2023 Channel Chiefs
- CRN 2023 5-Star Software Vendor Programs
- Pega Partner program
About Pegasystems
Pega provides a powerful low-code platform that empowers the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change®. Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information, please visit www.pega.com.
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Sarah King
Pegasystems Inc.
Sarah.King@pega.com
Twitter: @pega
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DALLAS, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Argent Trust Company, as Trustee of the Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (the "Trust") (NYSE:CRT), today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.193559 per unit, payable on August 14, 2023, to unitholders of record on July 31, 2023. The following table shows underlying oil and gas sales and average prices attributable to the current month and prior month distributions.
Excess Costs
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that excess costs increased by $89,000 on properties underlying the Texas Working Interest net profits interests. However, these excess costs did not reduce net proceeds from the remaining conveyances. Underlying cumulative excess costs remaining on the Texas Working Interest net profits interests total $2,333,000, including accrued interest of $730,000.
For more information on the Trust, please visit our website at www.crt-crosstimbers.com.
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