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Cadillac’s slow rollout of EVs seems to be a precursor to a flood that’s on the way.
On Wednesday during a media briefing, Cadillac Global Vice President Ron Harvey confirmed the luxury automaker will debut three new EVs in 2023.
Harvey said all three EVs will go into production in 2024, but it gets complicated from there.
Some of the undisclosed EVs will be global vehicles sold in multiple markets. This will lead to them being produced in multiple factories in different regions with staggered rollouts for various markets.
Harvey would not comment on what type of vehicles these new EVs will be in regards to body style or any other details.
General Motors has filed trademarks for future nameplates that fit Cadillac’s -iq naming strategy, including Ascendiq, Optiq, and Symboliq, along with Vistiq, Lumistiq, and Escalade IQL.
In 2020 GM laid out its EV plans. The roadmap for Cadillac included the Lyriq and Celestiq flagship, plus an attainable SUV akin to the XT4, a “globally sized” three-row SUV, and a full-size SUV inspired by the Escalade.
Lyriq production ramps up
Harvey wouldn’t comment on the Lyriq’s slow ramp, but said it was purposeful to catch issues early in production.
The executive confirmed a software issue arose with the Lyriq early in production and that slowed things.
Harvey said Cadillac by the end of this week will have shipped 1,000 Lyriqs in the last 30 days, and the run rate will continue to ramp.
Cadillac currently plans to have all Debut Edition Lyriqs delivered by the end of the first quarter. Harvey said some 2023 orders will be pushed to the 2024 model year.
Harvey also affirmed that production of the Celestiq will kick off in December.
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- Ford patents solid-axle hub-motor combo with EV off-roading in mind | 2023-02-16T02:01:09+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/automotive/internet-brands/trio-of-cadillac-evs-to-debut-in-2023-start-production-in-2024/ |
Man meets daughter he didn’t know existed thanks to DNA test
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) – Gary Aukes, 76, said his life changed forever when he took a simple DNA test a few years ago.
What began as a curious search on Ancestry.com linked him to a daughter he never knew he had.
“Well first it was a shock, and then, I was really happy,” Aukes told KPHO. “It’s kind of surprising but there was an immediate bonding.”
Aukes learned about his daughter’s existence on Nov. 23 and said they’ve communicated every day since.
Less than two months later, Aukes planned to meet his 53-year-old daughter, Chancey, whose last name was not given, for the first time at Sky Harbor Airport in Arizona.
“It’s kind of weird,” he said of the meeting. “It’s like we have known each other our entire life.”
The meetup Wednesday didn’t come without challenges. The FAA had a systemwide outage that left thousands of flights delayed or canceled across the country.
Aukes wasn’t sure their plans would fall into place, but Chancey’s plane finally touched down Wednesday afternoon.
“I would never in 76 years on Earth think that this would happen,” Aukes said of the moment that started with nerves and anticipation and quickly turned to one of love.
Chancey lost the man that raised her years ago.
“Now I get a chance to have another amazing dad, which a lot of girls don’t get. A lot of people don’t get that,” she said. “When I just hugged him, I didn’t want to let go. I still don’t want to.”
Aukes and Chancey say their story shows it’s never too late for new beginnings.
“It’s just been amazing. It’s like we’ve known each other all our lives,” Aukes said.
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A Detroit grandmother is left to raise 12 children after daughter dies during childbirth
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN
Patricia Pouncey feels numb whenever she thinks about her daughter Nikita Washington’s tragic death last December.
Washington, a Black mother from Detroit, died at Harper University Hospital one day after giving birth via cesarean section to her 12th child, a boy named Nathaniel.
Pouncey, who is now raising Nathaniel and her daughter’s 11 other children, says the pain of her loss has been made worse by confusion about what led to her death.
“I just have a lot of questions right now,” Pouncey said. “I ask myself all the time, ‘What went wrong?'”
Pouncey says her daughter went to the hospital alone to give birth because her husband is incarcerated, and she had to stay home caring for her other grandchildren.
Pouncey now regrets not accompanying her daughter to the hospital, she says.
Washington was treated for high blood pressure at the hospital, she told her family, and went in for a cesarean section the night of December 22. After several hours went by with no news, Washington’s sister went to the hospital to check on her, Pouncey said.
The following morning, the family learned that the baby was born healthy. However, while doctors were treating Washington for a loose stitch and excessive bleeding, she passed away, Pouncey said.
A death certificate from the Wayne County Clerk reviewed by CNN indicates that Washington, 35, died from “postpartum hemorrhage” and “complications from multiple cesarean sections.”
But Pouncey says she wonders if the doctors did everything to save her daughter.
“I haven’t talked to anyone from the hospital. I have not received anything from them. All I have is the death certificate,” Pouncey said.
A spokesman for Detroit Medical Center, which operates Harper University Hospital, released a statement to CNN saying it could not comment on Washington’s death.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family for the loss of their loved one,” the statement said. “We cannot discuss specifics regarding the treatment of any individual due to patient privacy laws.”
Black Maternal Health Week
The nation’s maternal death rate rose significantly in 2021, with Black women dying at a rate 2.6 times higher than White women, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
As part of Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), events are being held across the nation to raise awareness of this issue, including a five-city tour sponsored by Irth, a social change app that provides reviews from Black and brown women of doctors and hospitals that offer prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric care. Also this week, Baby Dove launched a new Black Doula Directory to connect expecting moms with Black doulas. Doulas are trained professionals who provide an extra layer of support and advocacy for women during pregnancy.
Pouncey is urging family members of pregnant, and birthing women to help advocate for their loved ones, ask questions, and demand that doctors and nurses break down medical terminology.
“I’m worried about every mother,” Pouncey says. “Don’t ever, ever make the mistake that I made, letting your child go (to the hospital) alone. We need to give more attention to what’s going on.”
Pouncey is leaning on her faith to move forward and raise Washington’s children, ages three months to 19, she said. And she’s thankful for the donations that helped the family buy a bigger home and a reliable vehicle.
She wants her daughter to be remembered as a sweet, giving person who enjoyed doing hair, music, and being with family.
“God’s got us,” Pouncey said.
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- A leader in creating jobs through the advancement of RNA-based therapeutics
- A contributor to a high employment rate in Korea's healthcare industry
BOSTON, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIORCHESTRA ("BIORCHESTRA" or the "Company"), a RNA therapeutics company with offices in Daejeon, South Korea, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and focused on neurodegenerative and rare genetic diseases, announced that the Company recently received a citation from the Korean Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy at the 2022 Bio Entrepreneur Day, recognizing its contribution to a high employment rate in Korea's healthcare industry.
This award is granted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, with recommendations from Korea Bio and the Korean Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology, to recognize companies that have made major contributions in 2022.
Dr. Branden Ryu, CEO and Founder of BIORCHESTRA, started the company with five scientists to expand on the work of his PhD thesis and identify novel pathways in neurodegeneration. Having identified such a novel pathway and validating it in mice and higher animal models, the Company has developed a drug to address this pathway and has further developed an encapsulating and targeting delivery formulation to ensure its delivery to the central nervous system (CNS). Delivered in this manner, BIORCHESTRA's lead compound has been shown to reverse the phenotypic and cognitive manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in relevant rodent and non-human primate models.
BIORCHESTRA is now a company of over 100 people based in Daejeon and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is expanding beyond its lead compound to deliver drugs to the CNS for a variety of rare and neurodegenerative diseases. The Company has established relationships with a number of large and international pharmaceutical companies and, to support its internal and collaborative needs, has opened a research and development and manufacturing facility close to its headquarters in Daejeon.
Dr. Ryu affirmed, "BIORCHESTRA is developing innovative therapeutics that can go beyond the limits of already existing treatments, with disease-modifying benefits, by targeting the disease pathway itself early on rather than tackling its devastating pathophysiological damages. I believe we have validated our novel approach of attacking disease upstream of its manifestations. In developing this approach, we are expanding the use of our delivery technology to target other unaddressed diseases and partner with other companies who share our sense of urgency to address the needs of patients with neurodegerative and rare CNS diseases. On our own, and with partners, we are focused on changing the life trajectory of patients of all ages with these diseases."
About BIORCHESTRA Co., Ltd.
BIORCHESTRA, with offices in Daejeon, South Korea, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is a RNA-based therapeutics company focused on neurodegenerative and rare genetic diseases through the discovery of novel drug targets and the creation and development of an adaptive, tissue-specific drug delivery technology platform, BDDSTM (BIORCHESTRA Drug Delivery System), for targeted delivery of therapeutics to specific organs such as brain and muscle.
BMD is the Company's lead RNA-based compound series in preclinical development targeting specific microRNAs which, in turn, regulate multiple messenger RNAs (mRNAs) centrally involved in disease pathophysiology initiation and progression. BIORCHESTRA believes that the exclusive targeting of a single pathological protein, such as Aβ in AD, may occur too late in the course of the disease. As BIORCHESTRA has demonstrated, the targeting of an upstream, specific microRNA signaling 'hub' via an anti-sense oligonucleotide holds the potential of reversing epigenetic changes and downstream pathophysiology and cognitive impairment in the AD brain. BIORCHESTRA also resolved the brain drug delivery challenge upon intravenous administration of the drug, through the successful development of a proprietary drug delivery system (BDDS™).
For further information visit: www.biorchestra.com
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NEW YORK – California is suing Amazon, accusing the company of violating the state's antitrust and unfair competition laws by stifling competition and engaging in practices that push sellers to maintain higher prices on products on other sites.
The 84-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court mirrors another complaint filed last year by the District of Columbia, which was dismissed by a district judge earlier this year and is now going through an appeals process.
But officials in California say they believe they won’t encounter a similar fate, partly due to information collected during a more than two-year investigation that involved subpoenas and interviews with sellers, Amazon’s competitors as well as current and former employees at the e-commerce giant.
In the lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said Seattle-based Amazon used contract provisions to effectively bar third-party sellers and wholesale suppliers from offering lower prices for products on non-Amazon sites, including on their own websites. That, in turn, harms the ability of other retailers to compete.
The suit maintains merchants that do not comply with the policy could have their products stripped from prominent listings on Amazon and face other sanctions such as suspensions or terminations of their accounts. It alleges Amazon’s policy essentially forces merchants to list higher prices on other sites, helping it maintain its e-commerce dominance.
Among other things, the California lawsuit seeks to stop Amazon from entering into contracts with sellers that harm price competition. It also seeks a court order to compel Amazon to pay damages to the state for increased prices. State officials did not say how much money they are seeking.
The company has said in the past that sellers set their own prices on the platform. It has also said it has the right to avoid highlighting products that are not priced competitively. In a statement sent Wednesday, Amazon reiterated those points and said Bonta has it “exactly backwards.”
“The relief the AG seeks would force Amazon to feature higher prices to customers, oddly going against core objectives of antitrust law,” the company said. “We hope that the California court will reach the same conclusion as the D.C. court and dismiss this lawsuit promptly.”
Amazon controls roughly 38% of online sales in the U.S., more than Walmart, eBay, Apple, Best Buy and Target combined, according to the research firm Insider Intelligence. About 2 million sellers list their products on Amazon’s third-party marketplace, accounting for 58% of the company’s retail sales.
During a news conference on Wednesday, Bonta said some vendors have expressed they would offer lower prices on other sites with lower seller fees, but don't do so to avoid punishment from Amazon.
“Amazon has stifled its competition for years, not by successfully competing, but by blocking competition on price," Bonta said. "As a result, California families paid more, and now Amazon must pay the price.”
He said the lawsuit is also a message to other companies who “illegally bend the market at the expense of California consumers, small business owners and the economy."
The tech industry's allies also slammed the lawsuit. Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the industry trade group Chamber of Progress, which receives funding from Amazon and other tech companies, said the case would force Amazon to raise prices.
“That makes no sense while consumers shop for bargains to counter inflation, and it’s based on a legally unsound theory already rejected by federal courts," Kovacevich said.
Despite that defense, Amazon’s market power has been a subject of scrutiny from lawmakers and advocacy groups calling for stricter antitrust regulations. Earlier this year, congressional lawmakers urged the Justice Department to investigate if the company collects data on sellers to develop competing products and offer them more prominently on its site. Critics have also lambasted the increasing fees imposed on sellers, which makes it more difficult for merchants to enter the market.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been pushing bipartisan legislation aiming to limit Amazon and other Big Tech companies, including Apple, Meta and Google, from favoring their own products and services over rivals. The bill has cleared key committees but has languished in Congress for months amid intense pushback from the companies.
Meanwhile, regulators have also been looking into Amazon’s business practices and deals. In July, the company offered concessions to settle two antitrust investigations in the European Union, including a promise to apply equal treatment to all sellers when ranking product offers on the site’s “buy box,” a coveted spot that makes items more visible to shoppers.
In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary health organization One Medical as well as the sign-up and cancellation practices of Amazon Prime, the company’s paid subscription service that offers deals and faster shipping. | 2022-09-14T23:56:03+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/business/2022/09/14/california-sues-amazon-alleging-antitrust-law-violations/ |
A gas station manager was fired after recently punching in the wrong price at a California filling station.
John Szczecina, the now-fired manager, told KOVR he accidentally punched in 69 cents instead of $6.99. Szczecina said he put the decimal point in the wrong place, causing the mix-up.
“I put all three prices on except the diesel, but the last one kind of didn't go, you know, right,” he told KOVR.
Word then spread quickly on social media about the price glitch. He said that the mistake cost the station $16,000.
“I thought this was a nightmare,” he said.
Despite being fired, Szczecina launched a GoFundMe page in hopes of recouping some of the station’s losses. He also is concerned that he could be liable for losses.
Business attorney Craig Zimmerman said in cases like this, employees generally aren’t liable.
“The only way he would be responsible absent a written agreement is if he was acting outside the scope of his employment. For instance, if his boss said whatever you do, don't ever set the price on that gas pump. And then he did,” Zimmerman told KOVR. | 2022-06-14T19:04:54+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/manager-fired-after-charging-69-cents-for-gas |
United Airlines had canceled more than 400 flights as of Wednesday afternoon, a fourth day of heavy disruptions that mark the airline’s most turbulent stretch since demand for air travel bounced back two years ago.
The airline has been shaken by storms in the New York area that have caused setbacks at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of its major hubs. JetBlue, which also has a heavy presence in the region, has also been affected. Among all carriers, more than 860 flights had been canceled nationwide Wednesday.
The disruptions were set to continue, with the Federal Aviation Administration issuing ground stops for Newark and LaGuardia Airport because of thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon. The continued bad weather raises the prospects of a troubled start to the July Fourth holiday weekend.
United chief executive Scott Kirby has sought to deflect some of the blame, saying in a message to staff Monday that air traffic controller shortages have exacerbated problems brought on by the weather. That contention is disputed by unions at the airline, who have pointed to internal problems with scheduling crews.
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, shared a picture on Twitter of people resting on cots at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
“Unacceptable!” she wrote. “Passengers should know this means these crews are not legal to work a reassignment, which exacerbates the problem. This is NOT an ATC problem.”
The Federal Aviation Administration, which runs the air traffic control system, has not directly responded to Kirby’s message but has said it is willing to work with partners to improve operations. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke with Kirby on Wednesday, his office said.
United did not respond to questions Tuesday or Wednesday about what it was doing to recover. Passengers have complained about long waits on hold or in airport lines, disappearing baggage, and a lack of information from United.
The airline industry has faced waves of delays and cancellations since 2021, as carriers struggled to rebuild after the onset of the pandemic. But until this week, United had largely been unscathed, even as competitors American Airlines and Southwest Airlines faced extended spells of trouble.
This summer travel season, beginning with Memorial Day weekend, had largely gone smoothly. Heading into the July Fourth weekend, United had been confident it was prepared.
“Operationally, we’re headed into the Fourth of July holiday with good momentum, having led all airlines in on-time departures for five out of the last nine days,” the company said in a memo last week. “United’s network is built to run well and recover fast, and we expect our operation to reflect that through the peak summer season.”
Instead, the carrier is now facing a major test.
The week started off badly, with storms on Sunday that caused delays at the three major New York-area airports that rippled throughout the system. Those problems were exacerbated when FAA officials were forced to halt flights into three D.C.-area airports — Baltimore-Washington International Marshall, Reagan National and Dulles International — after issues with an overheated power cable at a control center that manages regional air traffic forced it to switch to backup power until the cable could be replaced.
The Association of Flight Attendants said United is offering triple pay to flight attendants to agree to pick up extra trips through July 6.
Announcing a grant in South Carolina on Wednesday, Buttigieg said he had been caught up in the disruptions, although it wasn’t clear what airline he was flying on. Buttigieg said he had a flight canceled and another delayed and didn’t end up getting to his hotel until 2:30 a.m.
Despite a difficult week for travelers, Buttigieg said the overall picture was improving.
“We’ve seen the system perform much better than it did a year ago,” he said. “I think that reflects the work we’ve done. I think it reflects the airlines stepping up. I want to give them credit where credit is due. But clearly there’s a long way to go.”
With July Fourth falling on a Tuesday, the FAA and the Transportation Security Administration forecast that Thursday and Friday will be the busiest days in the skies. The TSA expects to see about 2.8 million travelers Friday. | 2023-06-28T20:53:47+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/06/28/united-delays-cancellations-new-york-weather/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, it is important to take a deeper dive into different forms of therapy that might be what works best for you.
Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT) practices the regulation of Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and more.
DBT puts other forms of therapy into action such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It focuses on helping people who might have extreme emotional reactions assimilate within their environment using a Wise Mind rather than just an Emotional or Rational Mind.
I have been practicing DBT for two years, and the art of being less reactive and more cautious during an emotional time has saved me from creating a larger mess on many occasions,” says Living East Tennessee co-host, Tala Shatara.
The Middle Path focuses solely on helping their patients practice DBT.
If you or a loved one experience impulsivity, anger, self-harm, PTSD, and other forms of emotional regulation, DBT might be something to consider.
Their services offer a wide variety of treatment options for all ages, sexual orientations, expectant mothers, and even physicians themselves.
They have locations all across East Tennessee including in Knoxville, Maryville, Kingsport, Chattanooga, and even a location in Charleston, SC. They recently just opened their Cool Springs location.
If you are looking to try out DBT and get more information, visit their website to find a location nearest you. | 2023-05-26T21:50:02+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/living-east-tennessee/what-is-dbt-therapy/ |
LONDON – The British monarchy's publicly-funded spending rose by 17% to 102.4 million pounds ($124 million) in the past year, with the renovation of Buckingham Palace taking up a large part of the expenses, royal accounts published Thursday showed.
The palace’s annual Sovereign Grant report showed that royal spending went up by 14.9 million pounds compared to the previous year.
Critics described the spending as excessive amid Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.
Property maintenance accounted for a big chunk of the spending — about 64 million pounds — because of a 10-year project to overhaul pipes, wiring and electricals at Buckingham Palace.
Costs for official tours also went up, as the royals returned to making overseas visits after the lifting of coronavirus restrictions.
The most expensive official royal tour in the past year was the trip taken by Prince William and his wife, Kate, to the Caribbean in March that cost about 226,000 pounds.
The trip, meant to boost Commonwealth ties, was instead marred by protests, calls for slavery reparations, and photo opportunities criticized as a throwback to colonialism.
The Sovereign Grant is public funding to support the official duties of Queen Elizabeth II and other costs such as official travel, staff for working royals and the upkeep of occupied palaces.
The amount of the grant — 86.3 million pounds in 2021-22 — is based on a proportion of profits from the Crown Estate, a vast collection of property across the U.K. The amount is equivalent to costing 1.29 pounds per person in the country.
Britain's royals also have other sources of income, including from tourists paying to visit royal palaces.
The Daily Mirror tabloid questioned the royal spending on its front page with a headline reading: “£100M for the royals? Record payout for The Firm as nation feels pinch.” And anti-monarchy campaign group Republic said the expenditure was too much.
“As always, while the rest of us face a cost-of-living crisis and continued squeezes on public services, the royals walk off with hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money," the group's chief executive Graham Smith said.
Palace officials have said Prince Charles and the royal family pay close attention to rapidly soaring living costs and are “extremely conscious" of the crisis.
The annual financial report was published amid heightened scrutiny of Charles' finances, with recent news reports claiming the heir to the throne had been given millions of pounds in cash in a suitcase and carrier bags by the former prime minister of Qatar.
The Sunday Times reported the prince was given a total of 3 million euros ($3.2 million) by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani. Charles' office said the donations were “passed immediately” to one of the prince’s charities and that “appropriate governance” was carried out.
The newspaper did not allege that anything illegal was done, and Charles' office denied any wrongdoing.
Still, Charles' spokespeople said Wednesday: “that is then and this is now," stressing he would never again handle large cash donations.
“For more than half a decade, with the situation as it has evolved, this has not happened and it would not happen again," a palace official who was not named in line with palace policy told British media.
London police are investigating a separate allegation that people associated with another of the prince’s charities, the Prince’s Foundation, offered to help a Saudi billionaire secure honors and citizenship in return for donations. Clarence House has said Charles had no knowledge of any such offer. | 2022-06-30T14:23:28+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2022/06/30/uk-royals-spending-up-17-mostly-for-palace-overhaul-costs/ |
Coach Tom Mott is in his 21st season as a high school basketball coach but his team this season at St. Joeseph High School could be the most talented team he’s ever had.
“We’re obviously far from perfect…and we still haven't played our perfect game,” Mott said. “If we ever play that perfect game, then absolutely, we're the most talented team that that I've been lucky enough to coach.”
Despite finishing the regular season with an undefeated league record, the Knights have lost six games total by a margin of no more than six points to some of the best teams in the state and even the country.
In early December, the Knights played one of the most popular high school basketball teams in the country thanks to one of the most watched high school players; Bronny James of Sierra Canyon High School.
The Knights lost 71-65 but set the tone that this team had enough firepower to play with anybody.
“Once you play the best, you can compare yourself and see where you're at, what you need to get better at and see I'm really not that far away from being as good as these guys,” senior guard Luis Marin explained.
The high-profile nature and hype of this year’s team doesn’t change the fact last year they lost the Central Section Open championship to Clovis West in overtime. In order to remedy that loss, it’ll take chemistry paired with the star-studded talent to get back to the top.
“With a lot of individual good players, it can be easy sometimes for people to be selfish or just have certain spurts where we're not playing as a team,” Marin commented.
Speaking of individually talented players, the Knights have the number one sophomore of the 2025 class the state: Tounde Yessoufou. Averaging over 28 points and 11 rebounds per game, even a national recruit of his caliber isn’t satisfied with the numbers and recognition he’s received thus far.
“I tell myself that I'm not good enough already into setting my goal of going to the NBA,” Yessoufou explained. “I always put the work in. It doesn't matter what people say, it doesn't affect me at all, because I know I still have a lot of work to do.”
Trust is another big component to the St. Joseph’s team. The players trust Mott and the rest of the coaching staff to get to where they need to be. Mott, no stranger to winning section championships with their last in the 2020-2021 season.
“They're not just coaches, I see them more as like parental figures,” Marin said.
With a first round bye in the Division I playoffs, St. Joseph will already be in the state tournament in March and for Mott and his group, the goal is simple.
“Ultimately, these guys know what the goal is and the goal always at the end of the year to play for a CIF championship.” | 2023-02-17T06:55:22+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/sports/st-joseph-boys-basketball-searching-for-another-cif-central-section-title |
ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson // Becker, PLLC is a nationwide products liability law firm with extensive experience representing victims of pressure cooker explosions. The firm has represented over 500 clients who have been severely burned by exploding pressure cookers.
Johnson//Becker filed this Complaint against manufacturer Instant Brands, on behalf of Feruze Edun, a resident of Ozone Park, New York, alleging that Mr. Edun was burned during the normal use of his Instant Pot.
The pressure cooker explosion occurred when Mr. Edun's Instant Pot lid opened while the contents were under pressure, an outcome that disproves Instant Pot's claim that its lid will "automatically lock to prevent opening the cooker" while it is pressurized. Mr. Edun purchased his Instant Pot from Amazon.com, where the brand consistently ranks as the bestselling pressure cooker on the market. The Complaint alleges Instant Pot was "placed into the stream of commerce in a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition for consumers." Johnson//Becker has represented more than 80 people injured by an exploding Instant Pot pressure cooker.
This suit is filed by Adam J. Kress of Johnson // Becker, PLLC. Adam exclusively handles injury cases, with an emphasis on national products liability litigation, including cases involving burn injuries from defective products.
Questions about an Instant Pot pressure cooker Lawsuit? Contact a Johnson//Becker lawyer today for a free case review.
If you or a loved one has been injured by a defective Instant Pot, you may want to speak with the lawyers at Johnson//Becker. We are filing new Instant Pot pressure cooker lawsuits across the country, and you may be entitled to financial compensation for your defective pressure cooker injuries.
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Saint Peter’s Peacocks (2-1) at Saint Francis (BKN) Terriers (1-2)
Saint Peter’s finished 7-7 on the road and 22-12 overall a season ago. The Peacocks averaged 67.0 points per game while allowing opponents to score 62.5 last season.
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Which blender/food processor combos are best?
While they’re commonly confused, blenders and food processors are two distinct kitchen appliances. A blender/food processor combo is ideal when you want the pureeing power of a blender and the chopping capabilities of a food processor without filling your kitchen cabinets to the brim.
Finding the right one for your kitchen is a matter of working out which features are important to you. For instance, if you have a large household, capacity might be vital, or you might prioritize high wattage for crushing ice or making smooth peanut butter.
What is a blender/food processor combo?
Blenders are great for pureeing or liquidizing ingredients with a watery component, such as soups, smoothies and sauces. Food processors are great for chopping, mincing and shredding dry ingredients. Blender/food processor combos do both equally well.
Although some exceptions exist where the same bowl or jug blends and processes, most have separate blender jugs and food processor bowls that fit onto the same base. This way, you get the same level of performance as you’d expect from a dedicated blender or food processor but with less cabinet or counter space taken up.
What to look for in a blender/food processor combo
Food processor bowl
Bowl capacity can range from around 3 to 9 cups.
- Small: Bowls with 3- to 4-cup capacities are usually choppers rather than full processors, which isn’t a suitable choice if you want to shred and slice ingredients.
- Midsized: Those with 5- to 6-cup capacities can usually slice and shred in addition to chopping but are best for smaller households.
- Large: Anyone who lives in large households or cooks from scratch regularly should pick a large 7- to 9-cup capacity food processor bowl.
Blades and discs
Food processors should come with blades for chopping, mincing and dicing as well as discs that shred and slice ingredients. Some also have dough hooks or dough blades for kneading dough. Make sure your processor includes all the blades and discs you need.
Blender jug
Full-size blender jugs hold around 56 to 72 ounces, but you can also find more compact offerings of around 40 to 50 ounces. If you’re short on space and live in a small household, you may find a compact jug suits you better than a full-size one. However, blenders that are too small can become annoying when you’re trying to make soup or frozen drinks for a crowd and have to do so in several batches.
Personal blending cups
Some blender/food processor hybrids come with one or more personal blending cups as well as the standard jug. These are great for making personal servings of smoothies or juices. If smoothie-making is among the primary reasons you need a blender, compact blending cups are handy additions.
Power
The watt rating tells you how powerful an appliance is. Blender/food processor combos can have motors with anywhere from 500 to 2,000 watts, though few offer more than 1,500 watts. If you want a powerful blender that can crush ice and make silky-smooth sauces, opt for at least 1,200 watts.
Speed settings
Most blenders and food processors have several speed settings. This helps you blend more effectively by starting on the lowest setting and gradually increasing. You generally don’t need to worry about speed settings as much when using the food processor attachment.
Programs
You’ll find some appliances with preset programs — for smoothies or frozen drinks, for instance. This takes the guesswork out of getting the best results.
Best blender/food processor combos under $100
Goodful by Cuisinart Food Processor/Blender Combo
This affordable appliance doesn’t pack a huge punch, but it’s solid and reliable. It’s great for anyone who doesn’t need to do heavy-duty blending. The jug holds 56 ounces, while the 3-cup processor attachment is great for chopping.
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Oster Pro 1200 Blender with Food Processor Attachment
With a 1,200-watt motor behind it, you can easily take on heavy-duty tasks, such as crushing ice and making nut butters. The 5-cup processor bowl comes with blades for chopping and a disc for slicing and shredding.
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Hamilton Beach Wave Crusher Blender
This compact hybrid blender has a 40-ounce jug, a personal blending cup and a 3-cup vegetable chopper. The wave action system in the blender gives you smoother results with no need to stir or scrape down the sides.
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Cuisinart Smart Power Duet Blender/Food Processor
The compact size of this appliance makes it a great choice for households of one or two. The blender jug has a capacity of 48 ounces, and the processor bowl has capacity of 3 cups.
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Best blender/food processor combos over $100
Ninja BL770 Mega Kitchen System
Thanks to its 1,500-watt motor, large 72-ounce blender jug and 8-cup food processor bowl, this is a great choice for people who are serious about cooking. It also comes with two personal blending cups that are great for smoothies.
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Cuisinart Kitchen Central 3-in-1 Food Processor
The 500-watt motor is perfect for food processing, but it lacks the punch needed for heavy-duty blending tasks. However, it’s an excellent processor with an 8-cup capacity, so it’s perfect for buyers who mainly want to shred, slice and chop, only occasionally blending.
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Ninja AMZ493BRN Compact Kitchen System
With a 1,200-watt motor, this powerful appliance includes a 72-ounce blender jug, a personal blending cup and a food processor attachment. The 5-cup processor bowl comes with regular blades, a dough hook and discs for slicing and shredding.
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Cuisinart Velocity Ultra Trio Blender/Food Processor
This three-in-one appliance has a full size blender jug, two personal blender cups and a processor bowl, complete with blades and discs. It has low- and high-speed settings, plus preset programs for crushed ice and smoothies.
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BEIJING, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont (NYSE: DD), a premier multi-industrial company, is excited to announce its participation in the 23rd China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (CIPPE). This marks the first time that DuPont will exhibit at the event where it will introduce its cutting-edge solutions, including DuPont™ Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer parts and DuPont™ Vespel® parts and shapes for the oil and gas industry.
DuPont's team of experts will be available at booth W1545 in Beijing from May 31 to June 2 to meet with professionals across the value chain and discuss the current industry challenges and pressing sealing needs. The exhibition will showcase two major product lines enabling energy, oil, and gas solutions, including:
- DuPont™ Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer parts, elastomeric sealing solutions engineered for mission-critical applications, and
- DuPont™ Vespel® parts and shapes that enable high-performance sealing in demanding industrial operating environments.
DuPont will also share a technical presentation on the first day of the exhibition. Huang Hui, Technical Service & Development Engineer-Kalrez®, will demonstrate how DuPont™ Kalrez® OG193 elastomers help to solve demanding energy and oil & gas sealing challenges. This product exhibits an excellent balance of properties for oil & gas applications, combining best-in-class Rapid Gas Decompression (RGD) performance and chemical resistance with good low temperature and thermal stability.
During the past four years, DuPont has invested in new laboratory equipment to best support its customers and operators. This includes a high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) test bench, two new pieces of rapid gas decompression (RGD) test equipment, and sour tests capabilities on seals in harsh conditions related to oil & gas upstream and downstream services, as well as innovations for Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS) and hydrogen sealing. The product offering reflects the current energy market and supports the growing focus on energy transition. Kalrez® OG193 parts resist rapid gas decompression events in hydrogen service or with pure CO2: Kalrez® Spectrum™ 7390 parts can resist very high-temperature steam service with peaks up to 250 – 280 °C which can be found in some potential geothermal drilling services.
DuPont is ready to partner with the oil & gas industry to provide sealing solutions for the most demanding applications with Kalrez® elastomers and Vespel® parts and shapes. According to Donna MacSwain-Santos, Global Marketing Manager for DuPont's Electronics & Industrial business, "Whether your application is with harsh chemicals, in extreme temperatures, or you are looking for materials to serve demanding conditions in the energy transition initiative, our material scientists are ready to work with you. Kalrez® custom perfluoroelastomer seals and parts can be made with different geometries to match unique sealing applications. We are proud to showcase our latest technology in China and help to solve the most critical challenges the industry is facing."
About DuPont Electronics & Industrial
DuPont Electronics & Industrial is a global supplier of new technologies and performance materials serving the semiconductor, circuit board, display, digital and flexographic printing, healthcare, aerospace, industrial and transportation industries. From advanced technology centers worldwide, teams of talented research scientists and application experts work closely with customers, providing solutions, products and technical service to enable next-generation technologies.
About DuPont
DuPont (NYSE: DD) is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life. Our employees apply diverse science and expertise to help customers advance their best ideas and deliver essential innovations in key markets including electronics, transportation, construction, water, healthcare and worker safety. More information about the company, its businesses and solutions can be found at www.dupont.com. Investors can access information included on the Investor Relations section of the website at investors.dupont.com.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CropX Technologies, Inc., a digital farm management solutions company, is advancing European biodiversity goals by helping farmers adopt farming practices that protect important species. Through a longstanding partnership with BoerenNatuur, an organization of 40 farmer collectives across the Netherlands, CropX built and maintains the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) system that helps farmers voluntarily apply for subsidies to adopt conservation practices.
CropX has a history of working with clients to build digital tools that support sustainable farming practices. Using the digital system developed by CropX, farmers receive over 85 million euros yearly to adopt practices such as delaying the hay harvest to allow for nesting birds to complete their birthing cycle and creating borders with flowers to increase the available habitat for insects.
For BoerenNatuur, the digital recording and mapping system developed by CropX replaces time-consuming paperwork for the farmers and the collectives, the members of BoerenNatuur.
Evelien Verbij, director of BoerenNatuur: "We are very happy with the valuable input CropX provides on the different challenges we face. Together we are building a sustainable and efficient ICT system that supports collectives and farmers with their important work for biodiversity on farmland."
The relationship began in 2013 with a pilot of 300 farmer participants, and as the capabilities of the system grew, so did the participants, which now number over 11,000 farmers, or around 20% of the farms in the Netherlands.
"I am proud of our efficient collaboration with BoerenNatuur. This means that the available budget can be used for what it is intended: protecting biodiversity in the Netherlands," says Janneke Hadders, CEO of CropX Europe.
About CropX
CropX is one of the fastest growing providers of agribusiness farm management solutions in the world, deployed in over 50 countries and across all the arable continents. The CropX platform synthesizes data from the earth and sky to offer advanced soil and crop intelligence and a suite of digital decision and planning tools, all on an easy-to-use app capable of tracking multiple farms and fields. CropX is backed by the world's leading agribusinesses and VCs, who recognize that CropX's precision-ag technologies set new standards of best practices for environmental sustainability and greater farm productivity. Learn more at https://cropx.com
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High court: Trans girl can run girls track in West Virginia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues. The justices refused to disturb an appeals court order that made it possible for the girl, Becky Pepper-Jackson, to continue playing on her school’s track and cross-country teams, where she regularly finishes near the back of the pack. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would have allowed West Virginia to enforce its law against Pepper-Jackson. | 2023-04-06T21:00:27+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/04/06/high-court-trans-girl-can-run-girls-track-in-west-virginia/ |
Police officer wants badge back after spy charges dropped
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed his toddler goodbye and was about to drive to work when he was surrounded by rifle-toting FBI agents.
You’re under arrest, the bewildered cop was told. The charge: Being a secret agent for China.
Angwang, a former U.S. Marine, spent six months in a federal detention center before he was freed on bail while awaiting trial on charges that he fed information about New York’s Tibetan community to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York.
Then, just as suddenly, it was over. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn dropped the charges Jan. 19, saying only that they were acting “in the interest of justice.” They didn’t explain further.
Now Angwang says he wants to be reinstated to the police force, which suspended him with pay while the case was pending. But more than that, he wants answers.
“Why did you start the investigation on me? Why did you drop all the charges?” said Angwang, who was born in Tibet but was granted political asylum in the U.S. as a teenager.
“We want an explanation. We’re demanding it because you owe me,” he said during an interview at his attorney’s office. “You can’t just put me in jail for six months and ruin my name, ruin my reputation and give all this stress to my family members and friends, and then you say, ‘in the interest of justice.’ You just going to leave it like that?”
China’s Communist Party has ruled over Tibet for seven decades and China has claimed a vast stretch of the Himalayas as part of its territory since the 13th century. But the relationship has been fraught with tension, with many Tibetans — some in exile — seeking independence.
The original charge against Angwang was that he began supplying information to Chinese officials on Tibetan independence groups in New York in 2018.
In court documents, prosecutors said Angwang was a threat to national security. He was charged with being an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements to federal investigators, obstruction of justice and wire fraud. There were no allegations of espionage, a more serious accusation.
In building its initial case against Angwang, prosecutors argued that he provided intelligence on ethnic Tibetans who might cooperate with Chinese officials and advised them on how to expand China’s “soft power” in New York.
Specifically, the government said, he sought a tit-for-tat arrangement that would give him a 10-year visa to his homeland in return for surveillance information and access to the police department.
The case was built partly on recorded phone calls, including some in which authorities said Angwang called a consular official “big brother” and “boss.”
Angwang told The Associated Press his words were either mistranslated from Mandarin or taken out of context. He said he became superficially friendly with Chinese officials because he needed the visa to visit his homeland, so his parents and other relatives could finally meet his daughter.
The judge presiding over the case sought answers about why the charges were dismissed, but federal prosecutors declined to divulge classified information that might have given clues.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn declined to comment.
The judge agreed to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning the government could press charges again, a possibility hanging over Angwang but his lawyer suggests is unlikely.
The attorney, John Carman, surmised his client became caught up in the Trump administration’s effort to root out Chinese espionage across U.S. institutions, including the economy, academics and other facets of public life. Angwang contends there were shades of racism targeting people with Chinese links.
“I think our criminal justice system sometimes goes off the track when it has a publicity aspect to it and when it has a political aspect to it. And this case had both,” Carman said.
Angwang first visited the U.S. as a teen on a cultural exchange visa. He went back to Tibet but later returned to the U.S., saying he had been arrested and beaten by Chinese authorities. He moved in with an uncle in Queens and was granted asylum at age 17.
In his adopted country, Angwang enlisted in the U.S. Marines and served in Afghanistan. After being discharged, he joined the Army Reserves and enrolled in the police academy.
He said it was his way of giving back to a country that has been so good to him.
With the charges dropped, he said he wants to regain the good graces of his Tibetan community, which remains suspicious.
“I’m very proud of my heritage. I love my culture and I love the community,” Angwang said. He said he was wrongly depicted as a three-way traitor.
“So I’m a traitor of my birthplace? I’m a traitor of America? I’m a traitor of the Tibetan community — which I was never a traitor. I never betrayed anyone — my fellow Tibetans, my fellow Americans, anybody.”
Norbu Choezung, the president of the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey, a group comprising some 10,000 members of Tibetan heritage, remains wary. He, too, wants the government to provide more details about why it dropped the case.
“It’s a little fishy,” Choezung said. “We as a community definitely want to dig deeper why his charges have been dropped, and how those things happened.”
U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee, who presided over the case, was left with questions but said he was glad Angwang’s ordeal was over.
“In some ways a straightforward case but also in some ways, especially given the landscape of statutes at issue, a complicated matter,” the judge said, also noting the “fanfare” in which the case was brought.
“It’s unfortunate, obviously, that Mr. Angwang did serve as much time as he did in jail pretrial or in detention pretrial,” the judge said, “but better late, as they say, than never.”
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A federal judge on Tuesday struck down an Arkansas law that sought to ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, siding with four transgender children, their families and two doctors who challenged the state’s first-in-the-nation ban in a 2021 lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Jay Moody on Tuesday issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law, which would have prohibited health care providers in the state from administering puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and surgeries to transgender youths under 18.
Moody in his order wrote that the law, which he temporarily blocked in 2021, violated the constitutional rights of transgender young people and their families and would cause “immediate and irreparable harm” if it were to go into effect. It also violated the First Amendment rights of doctors by prohibiting them from referring minor patients to other providers, he said.
“The Act also discriminates against transgender people,” Moody wrote Tuesday. “The law prohibits medical care that only transgender people choose to undergo, i.e, medical or surgical procedures related to gender transition.”
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Arkansas in 2021 passed the nation’s first law restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender youths. It was vetoed by then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), who in April announced his bid for the White House but became law after the state’s GOP-controlled legislature voted to override Hutchinson’s veto.
Moody blocked the law from taking effect in July 2021, pending litigation in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others.
“I’m so grateful the judge heard my experience of how this health care has changed my life for the better and saw the dangerous impact this law could have on my life and that of countless other transgender people,” Dylan Brandt, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Arkansas and one of the plaintiffs in the case, said Tuesday in a statement.
“My mom and I wanted to fight this law not just to protect my health care, but also to ensure that transgender people like me can safely and fully live our truths,” he said. “Transgender kids across the country are having their own futures threatened by laws like this one, and it’s up to all of us to speak out, fight back, and give them hope.”
Including Arkansas, 20 states have passed laws that heavily restrict or ban gender-affirming health care for transgender people. Laws in Alabama, Florida and Indiana are blocked by preliminary injunctions from federal courts.
In a statement on Tuesday, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) said he plans to appeal Moody’s decision. | 2023-06-20T22:49:23+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-gender-affirming-care-ban-in-first-for-nation/ |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. women’s national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo pleaded guilty Monday to driving while impaired, almost four months after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside.
Solo also was charged with misdemeanor child abuse and resisting a public officer in connection with the March 31 incident. Her attorney, Chris Clifton, said those two charges were voluntarily dismissed, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.
A news release from the Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office said a judge gave Solo, 40, of Roaring Gap in Alleghany County, a suspended sentence of 24 months and an active sentence of 30 days. She was given 30 days’ credit for time she spent at an in-patient rehabilitation facility. The judge also ordered Solo to pay $2,500 in fines and a $600 fee for the cost of the lab tests. She also has to get a substance abuse assessment and complete all recommended treatment.
Roaring Gap is approximately 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Winston-Salem.
In a statement released after her guilty plea, Solo said that although she took pride in motherhood and how she and her husband handled her children during the pandemic, “it was incredibly hard and I made a huge mistake.”
“Easily the worst mistake of my life. I underestimated what a destructive part of my life alcohol had become,” she said. “The upside of making a mistake this big is that hard lessons are learned quickly. Learning these lessons has been difficult, and at times, very painful.”
A police report said Solo was arrested in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem. According to an arrest warrant, a passerby noticed Solo passed out behind the steering wheel for more than an hour with the vehicle’s engine running and the two children in the backseat.
A responding officer could smell alcohol, and the warrant said Solo refused a field sobriety test.
Solo was taken to the magistrate’s office, where she refused to take an alcohol breath test, so police got a search warrant for a blood sample. Solo had a blood alcohol content of 0.24%, three times the legal limit. Tests also showed that Solo had THC in her system, according to a police report.
Solo was dismissed from the national team following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics after calling the Swedish team “cowards” for taking a defensive stance against the defending gold medalists, ending a laudable playing career that was also marred by controversy.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and husband Jerramy Stevens were pulled over in a U.S. Soccer-owned van and Stevens was charged with DUI. She was also benched after publicly questioning coach Greg Ryan’s decision to start Briana Scurry against Brazil during the 2007 World Cup, comments many saw as a slight against Scurry.
Solo also was involved in an altercation with family members in 2014 that resulted in Solo’s arrest, although charges in that case were eventually dropped.
Solo made 202 appearances with the national team, with 153 wins and an international-record 102 shutouts. She won a World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals with the team.
During the 2015 World Cup championship run, she allowed just three goals in seven games with five shutouts.
She was elected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in January. The induction ceremony was set for May 21, but the newspaper reported that Solo requested that the ceremony be delayed until next year.
Solo married Stevens, a former tight end for the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 2012. The couple’s twins, Vittorio Genghis and Lozen Orianna Judith Stevens, were born on March 4, 2020.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)Tanner Holden made a 3-pointer as time expired to give No. 25 Ohio State a 67-66 victory over Rutgers on Thursday night.
Rutgers’ Clifford Omoruyi blocked Brice Sensbaugh’s shot with nine seconds left, and the Scarlet Knights led by three with seven seconds to go.
Bruce Thornton made a pair of free throws to pull the Buckeyes within one with five seconds left, and Caleb McConnell then made one of two for Rutgers.
Thornton assisted on Holden’s winner – his lone basket of the game.
”I think I might have saw it go through,” Holden said. ”I think I heard the crowd more, so I think that reassurance helped me.”
Zed Key had 22 points and 14 rebounds for Ohio State (7-2, 1-0 Big Ten).
”We weren’t great with all the changing defenses, but I thought we were OK,” Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said. ”All things considered with some of the youth we had out there, I thought we did a pretty good job with it.”
Omoruyi scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half for Rutgers (6-3, 1-1). Aundre Hyatt added 13 points and Cam Spencer had 11.
”I just thought with our 3-point lead right there, just get them to not be able to heave up a 3 with that little time left on the clock,” Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell said. ”We got what we wanted. We got to the free throw line and we just didn’t kind of finish the deal.”
PHOTO FINISH
Holden sidestepped across midcourt and out of bounds before stepping back onto the court. Thornton ran toward the top of the sideline before looking to pass.
Holden caught Thornton’s assist after re-establishing himself inbounds and officials counted the basket.
Pikiell said he was unsure if Ohio State was out of bounds on the final play.
”I thought we executed when we needed to, just didn’t get I guess that last stop,” Pikiell said. ”I thought he kind of went out of bounds, I’m not sure, but hit a huge 3 and won the game.”
STATUS REPORT
Guards Eugene Brown III and Isaac Likekele were unavailable for the Buckeyes. Brown remains in concussion protocol and Likekele is tending to a personal matter.
MAKING AN IMPRESSION
A season removed from helping Wright State claim its first NCAA Tournament win during a 37-point performance in March, Holden made an early impact in his first Big Ten game.
Since joining Ohio State as a transfer over the offseason, Holden has appeared in all nine games this season. The Wheelersburg, Ohio, native had gone 2-of-5 from 3 all season and sunk his first in six games to claim the win.
”It’s a confidence builder,” Holden said. ”This is one game we’re going to learn from. We’re going to get back in the gym tomorrow.”
THAT’S KEY
Key matched up against Omoruyi down low and, despite a 3-inch disadvantage, held the edge on the glass to post his fourth double-double of the season.
”My teammates found me in the right spots,” Key said. ”They trust me with the ball, and I was making plays.”
BIG PICTURE
Rutgers: The Scarlet Knights gave up field goals at a 46% clip, just a game after holding then-No. 10 Indiana to 30.4% in a 63-48 victory Saturday.
Ohio State: Without assists leader Likekele, Thornton spread the ball around and had five assists. The Buckeyes managed 14 assists.
UP NEXT
Rutgers: Hosts Seton Hall on Sunday.
Ohio State: Plays North Carolina on Dec. 17 in the CBS Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Trump’s sexual assault verdict marks a rare moment of accountability. And women are noticing
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cassandra Nuñez and her grandmother cast their first ballots in a U.S. presidential election in 2016. She was a first-year college student; her grandmother, a newly minted citizen. They both hoped to elect the first woman president over a man who bragged about grabbing and kissing women at will.
But Donald Trump became president, and it would be nearly seven years before a Trump accuser could press her claims at trial. This week, jurors in a New York civil case said they believed that Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in the 1990s — making him the first U.S. president found liable by a jury in a sexual battery case. The panel awarded her $5 million in damages.
“It’s a victorious moment, but why did the people of the United States let this happen?” said Nuñez, now 25, of Los Angeles, noting the number of sexual misconduct accusations against Trump during the campaign and since his election. “It’s kind of late.”
The verdict — a rare moment of accountability for a former president and powerful men like him — comes as women across the U.S. ponder the cultural landscape amid sweeping threats to their hard-won progress, including Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016, the Supreme Court’s repeal of abortion rights last year and the uneven success of the #MeToo movement.
Juliet Williams, a professor of gender studies at UCLA, called it an ambiguous time for women.
“It’s very hard to feel at this moment that the accounting, the reckoning that we need has yet happened,” she said. “I feel this is a small step in the right direction.”
Some may find “yet another day contemplating the behavior of Donald Trump just feels like a colossal waste of attention,” Williams said. But she believes it’s important to address “the everyday abuses of power that have real consequences for victims.”
With a string of investigations swirling around Trump, the sex-abuse case — a civil verdict, with no criminal prosecution possible — hit only so hard across a news-weary America. Nuñez followed the trial and discussed it with a few colleagues at her public relations job. For others, the news barely hit their radar, if they were aware of the decision at all, even as Trump campaigns for the presidency again.
“Trump’s long list of scandals makes any single moment seem less surprising,” said Kelly Dittmar, a scholar with the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “What might certainly derail other candidates or elected officials meets an eye roll among many Trump detractors — and only further mobilizes Trump supporters around the idea that this is a ‘witch hunt’ against him.”
Carroll this week savored the outcome of the lawsuit she filed the day New York, like some other states, opened a one-year window for adults to file suit over old sexual assault claims. Advocates say it can take years for victims like the 79-year-old advice columnist to move past their sense of shame and go public. But it’s often too late, as it was for her, to pursue criminal charges.
Trump dismissed the accusation as a way to boost sales of Carroll’s 2019 book, “What Do We Need Men For?”
But Carroll, in the wake of the verdict, said the case was never about money. She said she only hoped to clear her name, one the jury — in awarding nearly $3 million for defamation — agreed Trump had sullied.
Trump, in hours of deposition questioning, denied he knew Carroll despite photographic evidence, and he denigrated her as “not my type.” He also mused that celebrities had gotten away with sexually abusing women for centuries, “unfortunately, or fortunately.”
Trump doubled down on his insulting, often misogynistic rhetoric about women in a CNN Republican town hall Wednesday evening, mockingly calling Carroll a “wack job” in a comment that drew glee from the New Hampshire audience.
The day after his inauguration in January 2017, millions of people around the world took part in a Women’s March to protest his rise to power. Many sported bright pink hats that were the brainchild of the Pussyhat Project — a cat-earred design meant as a wry clapback to Trump’s infamous comments on women’s genitals.
“The Women’s March demonstrated that we are watching,” Williams said. “But in terms of the scope of sexualized violence, a $5 million fine to somebody who commands immense resources and will certainly not show that this does any material harm to him, there’s a grotesque imbalance with this outcome.”
Los Angeles screenwriter Krista Suh, who helped launch the Pussyhat Project, is not sure Tuesday’s verdict strikes a death knell for Trump’s political career.
“He’s very good at skirting the truth, and I’m just not sure this verdict pins him down, but it definitely helps,” the 35-year-old said.
The crowd at the Women’s March in Washington included an anonymous observer from Toronto: Andrea Constand, whose sexual abuse claims against actor Bill Cosby would soon go to trial.
In the years that followed, she would see Cosby convicted, sent to prison and then released when his conviction was overturned on appeal. Amid that setback, and the inability of victims like Carroll to pursue criminal cases, she believes the civil court process can alone be effective. Constand had received $3.4 million from Cosby in a civil settlement in 2006, long before the criminal case was reopened, and she used the money to rebuild her life and career.
“If that’s what it takes to get justice and you have no other option, then it is about the money, because the money helps you heal and move forward and accomplish things that you haven’t been able to accomplish because you’ve been gripped by your trauma,” she said.
Despite the jury’s view that Trump is a sexual offender, millions of women would likely still vote for him given the chance in 2024, to maintain the country’s social, economic or racial order, Williams said. More than half of white women voted for Trump in 2020.
“There are people that like Trump’s brand of masculinity. They like the bravado, they like the confidence, they like a certain type of patriotism, they like the performance of a certain kind of virility,” Williams said. “So when these episodes of sexual misconduct come out, I think people are willing to give it a pass.”
For Nuñez, Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 was “a double whammy” given his behavior. His presidency, and later the #MeToo movement, spanned her time in college at Loyola Marymount University. She sees progress in small victories, like when her workplace required sexual misconduct training.
“These beginnings give me hope that one day when I have my own children,” she said, “leaders will be held accountable for all their actions, and all types violence against women will not be tolerated.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge issued a court order Thursday that immediately halts 10 gun distributors from selling or shipping gun parts and kits to New York — the types of materials officials say can be used to build untraceable ghost guns, which can then be sold without background checks, eventually ending up in the wrong hands.
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The order from Judge Jesse Furman comes after state Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the distributors in June in a state Supreme court in Manhattan. The court order temporarily blocks the gun sellers from shipping or selling unfinished frames or receivers, which oftentimes do not have serial numbers, meaning they aren’t registered and hard to trace.
“Today’s court order will help protect New York communities and save New Yorkers’ lives,” James, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Ghost guns and easy-to-assemble ghost gun kits have caused violence and devastation throughout our state.”
The lawsuit was filed under a state law that allows New York to target gun makers as public nuisances. The suit switched from the state Supreme Court to a federal court in Manhattan in July, according to James’ office.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, also a Democrat, filed a separate federal lawsuit against five of the companies in an attempt to stop them from selling to customers in the city.
Brian Barnes, an attorney for four companies named in the New York attorney general's lawsuit, said he has no comment on the court order.
Email and phone messages left for attorneys representing the other companies named in the lawsuit, including GlockStore, self-proclaimed as the largest distributor of Glock parts, and Florida-based Indie Guns LLC, were not immediately returned.
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Maysoon Khan is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter. | 2023-03-09T23:02:20+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/court-order-blocks-sales-of-ghost-guns-in-new-york-17830205.php |
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For Collin O'Mara, keeping wetlands near his home base in Wilmington, Delaware recently became murkier.
"Over the last 20 or 30 years, we tried to restore a lot of habitats here. We had some kind, responsible development on the other side," O'Mara said, describing the state protected wetlands near the Dupont Environmental Education Center.
O'Mara is the CEO and executive director of the National Wildlife Federation and says the wetlands surrounding the center are more exposed following a May Supreme Court ruling narrowing regulations.
"These are some of the most important systems to protect our health, protect us from flooding, protect us for, for water quality" O'Mara said. "And they're all at risk right now."
The Sackett vs. EPA decision makes it harder for the federal government to police water pollution in isolated wetlands, the same wetlands that were once covered under the 'Clean Water Act.'
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito, part of the 5-4 vote on the ruling, said in the opinion that 'wetlands can only be regulated...if they have continuous surface connection.'
Abbey Tyrna, who lives in Florida, worries about the more than 31% of wetlands in that state that don't meet those criteria.
"If we want clean water, that's almost impossible in the state of Florida without recognizing the contribution of wetlands," Tyrna said.
She's the executive director of Suncoast Waterkeeper, a non-profit that's gone after local municipalities for irresponsibly disposing of waste prior to the ruling.
She says forcing new ordinances on the local and state level helps push back against land development interests.
"Just because you can't see the connection doesn't mean the connection doesn't exist. There's a large body of research right now that does show the connection via groundwater, animals, energy, nutrient transfers," Tyrna said.
O'Mara says he's focused on coordinated state protections with hopes of finding a consensus soon.
"I mean these are the systems that are going to protect us from climate change. And if we don't protect them now, we're going to regret it later," he said.
Congress could amen the Clean Water Act to include those vulnerable wetlands, but past efforts to lay out and legislate a true definition of 'waters of the United States' have fallen short.
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July 20th, 2023 | 2023-07-21T05:40:13+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/64b97c4c64abe31fd1ca3fda/conservation-groups-are-taking-new-approaches-to-safeguard-wetlands |
It was a relatively calm week in the area, as the top teams mostly took care of business. Just five ranked teams went down in the last seven days, a small number at the tail end of a topsy-turvy regular season.
In the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament, Jackson-Reed will be the top seed with an undefeated league record. The Tigers, looking to repeat as conference champions, have mostly blown out city competition this winter.
And in Northern Virginia, district tournaments begin this week. Perhaps the most intriguing of the bunch is the Cedar Run bracket, where we could see yet another game between rivals Patriot and Battlefield in the district final.
1. Paul VI (24-1) Last ranked: 1
The Panthers cruised last week, beating St. Mary’s Ryken and Good Counsel by 25-plus points each.
2. St. John’s (23-2) LR: 2
Junior Donnie Freeman scored a game-high 29 points as the Cadets topped No. 7 Gonzaga last week, 68-58.
3. Bullis (23-2) LR: 3
The Bulldogs closed out regular season IAC play with wins against St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes and St. Albans last week.
4. Hayfield (21-1) LR: 4
The Hawks wrapped up the regular season and begin their postseason title defense.
5. Bishop McNamara (22-5) LR: 5
The Mustangs, third in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference standings, picked up conference wins against Bishop Ireton and Archbishop Carroll last week.
6. Sidwell Friends (19-4) LR: 7
The Quakers will close Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference play with a big game against St. Andrew’s on Friday.
7. Gonzaga (21-5) LR: 6
After losing at No. 2 St. John’s on Tuesday, the Eagles beat O’Connell on a buzzer-beating three.
8. Patriot (20-3) LR: 8
The Pioneers begin the Cedar Run district tournament this week, where they could face No. 13 Battlefield in Friday’s final.
9. Jackson-Reed (25-6) LR: 9
The Tigers are the top seed in this week’s DCIAA tournament.
10. Riverdale Baptist (22-2) LR: 12
The Crusaders remain undefeated in Maryland Independent School Athletic League play.
11. Shabach Christian (23-6) LR: 13
The Eagles came back from a double-digit deficit to beat Carmel Christian (N.C.) by two.
12. St. Andrew’s (18-4) LR: 10
The Lions suffered their first conference l0ss of the season last week, falling to Potomac School by two.
13. Battlefield (21-2) LR: 11
The Bobcats lost to rival Patriot on Wednesday but could get another shot at the No. 8 Pioneers this week.
14. DeMatha (16-9) LR: 14
Playing their first game in over a week, the Stags had no problems in a 102-73 win against The Heights.
15. Wise (18-2) LR: 16
The Pumas had three players in double-figures in a 57-53 win over Eleanor Roosevelt.
16. Damascus (20-0) LR: 17
The Hornets are two wins away from an undefeated regular season.
17. Friendship Tech (23-5) LR: 19
The Titans won comfortably against Friendship Collegiate and Parkside last week.
18. Churchill (17-3) LR: 20
The Bulldogs played one game last week, a double-digit win against Einstein.
19. Good Counsel (16-10) LR: 18
The Falcons beat The Heights and lost to top-ranked Paul VI last week.
20. Landon (14-8) LR: NR
The Bears have gotten hot at the right time, winning their final five regular season games.
Dropped out: No. 15 Meade
On the bubble: Largo, South Lakes, Theodore Roosevelt | 2023-02-13T16:41:26+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/02/13/boys-basketball-top-20-calm-week-before-postseason-storm/ |
MOREHEAD CITY, NC (WNCT) — The Millersville Marauders, Felician Golden Falcons, Molloy Lions and Assumption Greyhounds are all gearing up for a President’s Day weekend round robin tournament at Big Rock Stadium in Morehead City.
Big Rock Stadium is the home of the Morehead City Marlins.
The tournament will start on Feb. 16 at 2:30 p.m. as the Millersville Marauders face the Felician Golden Falcons. The second day of the tournament, Feb. 17, the Felician Golden Falcons will play against the Molloy Lions at 1 p.m. as the Assumption Greyhounds prepare to take on the Millersville Marauders at 5 p.m.
On Feb. 18, the Assumption Greyhounds will go head-to-head with the Felician Golden Falcons at 11 a.m. At 3 p.m. the Millersville Marauders will play the Molloy Lions.
The tournament will wrap up on Feb. 19 with two final games. At 10 a.m. the Molloy Lions will hit the field to play against the Assumption Greyhounds. The Felician Golden Falcons and Millersville Marauders will then play the last game of the tournament at 2 p.m.
Go to the Morehead City Marlins website for more information. | 2023-02-10T02:10:33+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/big-rock-stadium-preps-for-college-baseball-tournament/ |
Brother's Bond Bourbon's Newest Releases Have Received Over Eight Double Gold and Platinum Awards from International Spirit Competitions To-Date
NEW YORK, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Founded by co-stars and longtime friends Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder, Brother's Bond Bourbon introduces two new expressions, Brother's Bond American Blended Rye, and Brother's Bond Cask Strength to their award-winning portfolio. Launched in in 2021 with its flagship offering, Brother's Bond Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the brand has become one of the fastest growing ultra-premium spirit brands with over 100,00 cases shipped across the U.S.
Distilled and aged in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, these high-quality whiskeys have received critical acclaim from top international spirit competitions. Brother's Bond American Blended Rye Whiskey (47.5% ABV / SRP $59.99) and Brother's Bond Cask Strength Bourbon (57.5% ABV / SRP $84.99) are now available now online and located in retailers nationwide.
Newcomer, Brother's Bond Bourbon American Blended Rye Whiskey has a distinctive full-flavored profile using a four-grain mash bill creating a well-integrated and complex rye whiskey with an extra-long finish at 95-proof.
Brother's Bond Bourbon Original Cask Strength offers whiskey connoisseurs a higher ABV, this release at 115.1 proof, has a richer and more complex taste experience. Batch-barrel blended from three hand-selected bourbon mash bills from 70 of the finest barrels.
"We've been dedicated to the growth of Brother's Bond Bourbon since its inception, and the new release of our Cask Strength and launch of our Rye Whiskey is proof that we've established our place in the industry and can compete with top distillers," said Co-Founder Paul Wesley.
Co-Founder Ian Somerhalder added, "We've put a great deal of passion and hard work into the expansion of our portfolio, so we hope anyone having our whiskey loves the new Rye and Cask Strength as much as we do." He continued, "As we were hand selecting the three unique mash bills, we wanted to push the limits with more robust and dynamic flavors and match the richness of our Original Cask Strength bourbon. We also knew that we had to create a rye like no other that will continue to develop consumer palates as they dive deeper into the whiskey world."
Since its launch in 2021, Brother's Bond Bourbon has received recognition for its liquid. Recently, the received Platinum & Best in Show at the 2023 TAG Awards, Double Gold at the 2023 International Wine & Spirits Competition, 90 Points & Gold at the 2023 London Spirits Competition, Double Gold & Gold at the 2023 New York World Spirits Competition Gold and 2023 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, respectively.
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Games are going down to the wire in the NFL at an unprecedented rate.
With a record 15 of 16 games last week within one score in the fourth quarter, the league is having the most competitive start to a season in its history.
Of the 64 games, 50 of them have been within one score in the fourth quarter for the most ever through four weeks.
There have been a record 23 games decided by three points or fewer and 38 decided by eight points or fewer, tied with the 2018 season for the most through four weeks.
Sixteen games have been decided by a score in the final 2 minutes of regulation or in overtime, one shy of the record through four weeks set in 2012.
The average point differential of 8.6 per game is the second lowest since the merger through weeks, trailing only 8.2 ppg differential in 1983
The close calls have led to tight standings throughout the league with this being the first time since 1990 that every team enters Week 5 with at least one win or one tie.
There are 15 teams that are 2-2 so far this season, tying 2017 season for the most teams splitting their first four games. All four teams in the NFC West are 2-2. The only other time in the 21 seasons of the eight-division era that an entire division started 2-2 came in 2019 in the AFC South.
GROUND IT OUT
Seven teams gained more yards on the ground than through the air led by the 262 yards rushing by the New York Giants in a rare 4,000-yard rushing week in the NFL.
The teams combined for 4,052 yards on the ground for the fifth most prolific rushing week in the past 10 seasons and sixth time in that span that the league topped 4,000 in a week.
The combined 233.4 yards rushing per game are the second most through four weeks of a season since 2000, just 6 yards behind the 2020 season.
The ground game hasn’t been prolific through the league. Tampa Bay had just six rush attempts for 3 yards in a loss to Kansas City. That marked the fifth time in NFL history a team had six or fewer rushes in a game with Brady the QB in three of those games.
It also happened in 2004 in a New England loss at Pittsburgh and in 2020 in a Tampa Bay loss to New Orleans.
LIGHT UP THE SCOREBOARD
No team has ever had quite a start to the season like the Detroit Lions who are lighting up scoreboards when they are on offense and defense.
The Lions are the 30th team in the Super Bowl era to average at least 35 points per game through the first four games of a season and the 18th to allow at least 35 points per game. But they are the first to do both in the same season.
The previous 29 teams to score at least 140 points in their first four games had a combined record of 109-7 (.940), with only the 2002 Chiefs failing to have a winning record before the Lions did it this year while losing three of four games.
The 281 combined points in Detroit’s games are the most for a team through four games.
Jared Goff is tied for the league lead with 11 TD passes and Jamaal Williams leads the NFL with six TD runs. The Lions are the sixth team in the Super Bowl era to have the league leader in passing and rushing TDs, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
ROOKIE PASSERS
The 2022 season will finally get a rookie starting quarterback.
Kenny Pickett will get the nod for Pittsburgh on Sunday at Buffalo, marking the latest in the season since 2000 for the first start by a rookie QB.
That year, Doug Johnson and Spergon Wynn both made their first starts in Week 14.
Rookie Bailey Zappe could also get his first start for New England if Mac Jones and Brian Hoyer are still hurt. Zappe came off the bench to throw a 25-yard TD pass last week, marking the first time since 2007 that it took until Week 4 for a rookie to throw a TD pass. Trent Edwards had the first that year in Week 4 for Buffalo.
Pickett did run for two scores on Sunday after replacing Mitchell Trubisky, becoming the 22nd player and first QB to run for at least two TDs in his NFL debut.
INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE
The Green Bay Packers (3-1) will be the final team to play an international game when they take on the New York Giants (3-1) in London this week in the NFL’s 35th international game.
This will be just the second of those games to feature two teams with winning records heading into the game, with Houston (6-3) and Oakland (7-2) doing it in 2016 in Mexico City.
The Giants are 2-0 abroad and can join New England (3-0) and Minnesota (3-0) as the only teams to play at least three international games and win them all.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-10-05T20:05:13+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/ap-close-calls-happening-at-record-setting-pace-in-nfl/ |
Doug Schantz joins as Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and Phil McNamara to serve as Vice President of Communications
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), an independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, is adding two industry veterans to advance clinical operations and lead corporate communications. Doug Schantz will serve as the Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and will ensure that all clinical trials are executed expeditiously, in full regulatory compliance and to the highest quality standard. Phil McNamara, serving as Vice President of Communications, will be responsible for all internal and external communications and media relations.
"Doug and Phil bring a wealth of experience to the AskBio team and are reflective of the quality of individual talent we have at the company," said Phil Dana, Chief Human Resources Officer. "Both represent key hires for AskBio as we continue to advance our pipeline and establish our position as a global leader in genetic medicine."
Doug Schantz is a seasoned clinical operations expert in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. He comes to AskBio from Alexion Pharmaceuticals where he most recently served as Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations. At Alexion, he was responsible for program leadership across all phases of clinical development in several therapeutic areas, including hematology, metabolic diseases, neuroscience, and nephrology. Prior experience was with AstraZeneca as the Executive Director of Development Operations, as well as successfully serving a 17-year stint at Pfizer and eight years with Eli Lilly.
Phil McNamara joins AskBio from Novartis where he led Global Communications for its Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Franchise. He successfully built and led a team that supported various facets of the business and helped to enable a favorable market standing with patient and professional communities. Prior to Novartis, Mr. McNamara held global and US communication roles at Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb, respectively, and collectively brings over 20 years of diverse strategic communications experience to AskBio.
Canwen Jiang, MD, PhD, AskBio's Chief Development Officer and Chief Medical Officer adds, "Both Doug and Phil are vital members of our senior management team who will equally strengthen our presence within the industry and contribute to our success in all our clinical endeavors."
About AskBio
Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG acquired in 2020, is a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to developing life-saving medicines that cure genetic diseases. The company maintains a portfolio of clinical programs across a range of neuromuscular, central nervous system, cardiovascular and metabolic disease indications with a clinical-stage pipeline that includes therapeutics for Pompe disease, Parkinson's disease, and congestive heart failure. AskBio's gene therapy platform includes Pro10™, an industry-leading proprietary cell line manufacturing process, and an extensive capsid and promoter library. With global headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and European headquarters in Edinburgh, UK, the company has generated hundreds of proprietary capsids and promoters, several of which have entered clinical testing. Founded in 2001 and an early innovator in the gene therapy field, the company holds more than 750 patents in areas such as AAV production and chimeric and self-complementary capsids. Learn more at www.askbio.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
About Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to help people and the planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer is committed to driving sustainable development and generating a positive impact with its businesses. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth. The Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability, and quality throughout the world. In fiscal 2021, the Group employed around 100,000 people and had sales of 44.1 billion euros. R&D expenses, before special items, amounted to 5.3 billion euros. For more information, visit www.bayer.com.
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PARIS (AP) — France’s Greens and the party of far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon reached an agreement Monday to join forces against newly reelected President Emmanuel Macron ahead of next month’s parliamentary election.
Both parties agreed not to compete against each other in the two rounds of voting on June 12 and 19.
Mélenchon leads the La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party and he came in third in the first round of last month’s presidential election. He is now hoping for a comeback in the upcoming legislative elections as the head of what he hopes will be a coalition of leftist parties who have spent the past five years in Macron’s shadow.
Mélenchon’s third-place finish in April with 22% of the vote in the first round of voting gave him leverage in trying to rally other parties on the left behind him for the legislative vote.
Under the deal that his party struck on Monday with the Greens, the environmental party will field candidates in 100 districts where Melenchon’s party won’t run, so they don’t compete against each other. The Greens agreed that if the coalition wins a parliamentary majority, then they’d back Melenchon as prime minister.
The Communist and Socialist parties also appear close to a deal with Melenchon’s party.
Socialists, however, have been deeply divided about whether to also join the coalition. Some have publicly denounced Mélenchon’s views that France should “disobey” EU rules, including free-market regulations.
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More on France’s 2022 elections at https://apnews.com/hub/french-election-2022 | 2022-05-02T11:42:09+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/french-greens-far-left-party-in-deal-before-june-elections/ |
Certification comes ahead of annual celebrations recognizing team member legendary loyalty, including "Elaine Miseta Day" and the 25-Year Club induction ceremony
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain and popular retail CPG brand, is proud to share that it has once again earned the Great Place to Work® Certification™. It's the second consecutive year that White Castle has been included among this elite group of employers.
The 101-year-old, family-owned business has long been recognized as a leader in the food industry with incredible team member loyalty and engagement scores. More than 1 in 4 of the company's 10,000 team members have worked at White Castle for 10 years or more. And nearly all 450 of White Castle's regional directors, district supervisors, general managers, and operations leadership team members started their careers behind the counter at White Castle.
"Our team member loyalty is distinctive, and their engagement sets the standard in our industry," said John Kelly, chief people officer and fourth-generation family member. "We have the best team in the business, hands down!"
The prestigious Great Place to Work® designation is based entirely on what current team members say about their experience working at White Castle. This year, 80% of White Castle's nearly 10,000 employees said the company is a great place to work. That's 57 percentage points higher than the average for U.S.-based companies.
The certification news came just ahead of a cherished day on the White Castle calendar — "Elaine Miseta Day" — celebrated each year on June 8. Named for the administrative assistant who worked 67 years at White Castle for the company's first three presidents, the day is an annual opportunity to acknowledge the service of all of its team members, past and present. This celebration in 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of Elaine's first day on the job.
In September, White Castle will induct a special group of 42 team members to the 25-Year Club. In 1946, the company's founder Billy Ingram became the first team member to reach 25 years of service. Since then, many have followed in his footsteps. This year's inductees will bring the total 25-Year Club members to 2,205.
"Whether you are with us for two years or 20, we celebrate the great contributions of all our team members," added John Kelly. "The memorable moments they create for our customers truly can last a lifetime!"
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White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain, has been making hot and tasty Sliders as a family-owned business for 101 years. Based in Columbus, Ohio, White Castle started serving The Original Slider® in 1921. Today, White Castle owns and operates more than 350 restaurants dedicated to satisfying customers' cravings morning, noon and night. Through its retail division, which launched in 1987, White Castle also offers its famous fare in freezer aisles of grocery, convenience and club stores nationwide. The Original Slider, named in 2014 as Time magazine's "Most Influential Burger of All Time," is served alongside a menu of creatively crafted Sliders and other mouthwatering food options, including White Castle's Impossible™ Slider, named by Thrillist in 2019 as the "Best Plant-Based Fast-Food Burger." White Castle's commitment to maintaining the highest quality products extends to the company owning and operating its own meat processing plants, bakeries and frozen-food processing plants. In 2021, 100 years after the first Slider was sold, Fast Company named the fast-food pioneer one of the "10 Most Innovative Dining Companies." White Castle is known for the legendary loyalty of its team members, more than 1 in 4 of whom have worked for White Castle for at least 10 years, and also for its faithful fans ("Cravers"), many of whom compete each year for entry into the Cravers Hall of Fame. The official White Castle app, available at iTunes App Store or Google Play, makes it easy for Cravers to access sweet deals and place pickup orders at any time. They can also have their orders delivered using one of White Castle's delivery partners. For more information on White Castle, visit whitecastle.com.
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Bixby Police identified the two people killed Friday in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide.
Police said Jin Yu Wang, a local Bixby spa operator, was shot and killed by Rocchio Vincenzo in a parking lot near 13161 S. Memorial. Vincenzo then shot himself. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
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Police said that nearby security cameras captured Vincenzo using his vehicle to block Yu Wang and a friend from leaving the parking lot. Footage shows Vincenzo brandishing a pistol and shooting Yu Wang before shooting himself.
The crime scene is still being investigated, but police said it is classified as a murder-suicide.
The OSBI is assisting Bixby Police with the investigation.
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Roughly three years after moving in, General Electric is bidding farewell to its Fort Point headquarters.
The company notified employees Tuesday morning that it plans to vacate the 100,000 square feet it occupies in two renovated brick buildings at 5 Necco Street and seek out smaller office space elsewhere in Boston. While the company initially envisioned an 800-person campus along Fort Point Channel, fewer than 200 people are based there now and many only come in on a part-time basis. The headquarters opened just months before the COVID-19 pandemic upended office life in the city in March 2020.
In another sign of the once-ginormous conglomerate’s shifting ambitions, GE also said it will put its longtime corporate campus known as Crotonville, in Ossining, N.Y., up for sale. GE is splitting itself into three companies over the next two years, and none of them will need such a large conference center; current CEO Larry Culp has often encouraged learning sessions that take place on factory floors, as opposed to a bucolic countryside setting.
These two moves are part of GE’s broader efforts to downsize its corporate office footprint as it prepares to split itself up. In 2023, GE HealthCare will spin out as a separate company. The following year, GE’s various energy-related businesses will spin out together as GE Vernova. The remaining GE business will be known as GE Aerospace, and will focus on aviation.
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“Winding down our physical office space in Boston and other corporate sites is the next step as part of our plan to create three independent businesses,” a GE spokesman said.
GE has already shrunk considerably since it relocated to Boston from Connecticut with much fanfare in 2016. GE divested a number of business lines — including biotech, lighting, and transportation — under Culp, and his predecessor, John Flannery.
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GE initially promised to bring 800 new jobs to Boston under then-CEO Jeff Immelt, but they never materialized as his two successors pared back GE’s ambitions. GE also eventually dropped plans for a 12-story tower along Fort Point Channel next door to its Necco Street buildings; GE and MassDevelopment instead sold the site in 2019 to Alexandria Real Estate Equities and National Development, who are now building a facility there for drugmaker Eli Lilly.
As a result, GE never accepted any of the $25 million in tax breaks that had been offered the company by the city of Boston. And the company paid back $87 million in state funds used to renovate its headquarters property, along with an additional $11 million in profit for the state, after selling the headquarters site. GE did, however, stick with its original pledge to make $50 million in charitable commitments in Massachusetts for community health, science and math education, and workforce training.
GE’s real estate team is now looking at locations in Boston for a smaller office; the company plans to move early next year. GE had signed a 12-year lease in 2019 for the Necco Street address. It was unclear on Tuesday whether GE would look to sublease the space, or negotiate an exit with the property ownership.
One selling point for the original Boston relocation was this city’s relative proximity to Crotonville, a three-plus hour drive away. Crotonville has hosted corporate meetings and training sessions for GE since the 1950s. The 62-acre campus features more than 320,000 square feet of conference space and 248 guest rooms, and even inspired a memorable episode of the TV comedy “30 Rock” (at a time when NBC was still owned by GE).
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Linda Boff, GE’s chief marketing officer, sent a letter to employees on Tuesday explaining the decision to put Crotonville on the market. The reasons, she said, are twofold: GE’s strong belief in the importance of learning on factory floors, “closest to where the work is done,” and the fact that a corporate campus of that size is no longer needed as GE moves to split itself into three independent companies.
“Crotonville will always be an important and cherished part of GE’s leadership legacy, and while this unique place will move on to new ownership, I know its spirit and purpose will remain,” Boff wrote. “The word ‘Crotonville’ has gown to mean much more than just the campus. Over the years, ‘going to Crotonville’ has become synonymous with any activity — on or off campus — where you are learning, growing, improving.”
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers star tight end George Kittle missed his second straight practice with a groin injury, leaving his status for the season opener against the Chicago Bears in doubt.
Coach Kyle Shanahan has characterized the injury as day to day.
The loss of Kittle would be significant for the Niners in their first game since handing the team over to second-year quarterback Trey Lance.
Kittle is one of San Francisco’s top pass catchers and is a key part of their running game as one the better blocking tight ends in the league.
Kittle has been hampered by injuries in recent years. He missed three games with a calf injury last season, eight games in 2020 with injuries to his knee and foot, and three games in 2019 with a groin injury.
Kittle still managed 71 catches for 910 yards and six touchdowns in 14 games last season. His 335 catches since entering the league in 2017 rank third among all tight ends in that span and he is second with 4,489 yards receiving.
If Kittle is unable to go, the Niners have Charlie Woerner, Ross Dwelley and Tyler Kroft as options on the active roster and Troy Fumagalli on the practice squad.
Kroft is the most experienced of that group with 48 career starts for Cincinnati, Buffalo and the New York Jets. He has 101 career catches for 1,024 yards and 13 TDs in 81 games since entering the league in 2015.
“We’ve been a fan of Kroft his whole career,” Shanahan said Wednesday. “I was a real big fan of him coming out of college. He’s done well everywhere he’s been. He had some injury trouble last year, I think the last couple years he’s struggled to stay out there. I think that’s one of the reasons we were able to get him. But Kroft, he’s an NFL tight end. We feel very fortunate to have him here.”
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JPMAM's first ETF to invest primarily in the equity securities of large cap companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market®
NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J.P. Morgan Asset Management today announced the launch of JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPQ), the firm's first ETF to list on The Nasdaq Stock Market®. The active equity ETF seeks to deliver an attractive distributable yield while also delivering a significant portion of the returns associated with the fund's primary benchmark, the Nasdaq-100 Index®, with less volatility.
JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPQ) will be comprised of a portfolio of equity securities of large cap companies included in the Nasdaq-100 Index® and will incorporate an options strategy to generate income while lowering the volatility of the overall portfolio. This management style aims to deliver returns, offer incremental income and better manage risk within portfolios as investors navigate today's rising rate and inflationary environment.
The fund will be managed by 35-year industry veteran Hamilton Reiner as the lead portfolio manager alongside portfolio managers Eric Moreau and Andrew Stern.
"Investors are looking for yield, which is proving particularly challenging given the current economic backdrop. JEPQ is an innovative income solution which employs our differentiated options overlay strategy," said Hamilton Reiner, Portfolio Manager and Head of U.S. Equity Derivatives at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. "Leveraging our differentiated alpha engine, JEPQ is an active solution for investors looking to drive portfolio allocations while maximizing risk-adjusted expected returns."
"JEPQ was built for investors that are seeking income while also owning companies that provide exposure to Nasdaq's innovative marketplace. This strategy benefits from the intentionality of an active manager while being delivered through the ETF technology," said Bryon Lake, Global Head of ETF Solutions at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. "We're excited to expand our suite of active ETF capabilities and meet client needs with a tested investment strategy that balances income and equity exposure essential to portfolio construction."
The addition of JEPQ brings J.P. Morgan Asset Management's full U.S. suite of ETFs to 41 products with more than $75 Billion in assets under management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management ranks as a top ten ETF issuer in the U.S. with respect to AUM1, and number one in net active flows across active ETFs in the U.S. for 20212.
About J.P. Morgan Asset Management
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with assets under management of USD 2.6 trillion (as of March 31, 2022), is a global leader in investment management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management's clients include institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals in every major market throughout the world. J.P. Morgan Asset Management offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity and liquidity. For more information: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.com.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the marketing name for the asset management businesses of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates worldwide.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading financial services firm based in the United States of America ("U.S."), with operations worldwide. JPMorgan Chase had $4.0 trillion in assets and $285.9 billion in stockholders' equity as of March 31, 2022. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. Under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the Firm serves millions of customers in the U.S., and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients globally. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
J.P. Morgan ETFs are distributed by JPMorgan Distribution Services, Inc., which is an affiliate of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. receive fees for providing various services to the funds. JPMorgan Distribution Services, Inc. is a member of FINRA. More information is available at https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/gim/adv/products/etfs.
Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives and risks as well as charges and expenses of an ETF before investing. The summary and full prospectuses contain this and other information about the ETF and should be read carefully before investing. To obtain a prospectus: Call 1-844-4JPM-ETF.
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1 Data according to ETFdb.com as of 4/29/2022.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi sovereign wealth fund now holds 8.26% of the stock in the video game maker Nintendo, making it the largest outside investor in the Japanese gaming company, a company filing said Friday.
The investment comes as part of efforts by the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund to diversify Saudi Arabia’s economy away from oil, including billions already spent on video game firms. The fund has been a major component in the plans of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, himself said to be an avid gamer.
However, the purchase of Nintendo and other gaming stocks also entangles the video game companies into the politics surrounding Saudi Arabia and its assertive 37-year-old crown prince. American intelligence agencies believe Prince Mohammed ordered the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Saudi investment.
A filing to Japanese regulators on Friday revealed the Public Investment Fund’s holding in Kyoto-based Nintendo. Saudi Arabia has been steadily building its stake over recent months in the company, best known for its Super Mario Brothers franchise and its Nintendo Switch gaming console.
The Saudi fund remains behind Nintendo’s own holdings in the gaming company. Nintendo is valued at $52 billion.
Nintendo stock closed slight down Friday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at $40.50 a share.
The Public Investment Fund did not immediately acknowledge increasing its holdings in Nintendo. It runs the Savvy Games Group, which aims to establish 250 gaming companies in Saudi Arabia and create 39,000 jobs. Savvy Games plans to invest some $38 billion into the gaming industry over the coming years.
Already, the Saudi wealth fund holds stock worth $2.9 billion in Activision Blizzard, $1.7 billion in Electronic Arts, $1.2 billion stake in Take-Two Interactive, according to data from the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The Saudi expansion into gaming, however, has sparked criticism. Riot Games, which makes the popular online multiplayer game League of Legends, cancelled a partnership with Prince Mohammed’s planned futuristic city Neom in 2020 after an outcry from gamers.
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SUMMERLAND — Led by Dr. Jennifer Freed, a 90-minute “Astrology Oracle” workshop will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. June 17 at The Sacred Space, 2594 Lillie Ave. in Summerland.
Participants will learn how to draw on a wealth of astrological wisdom to reveal the primitive, adaptive and evolving choices available to them in every moment, relationship and opportunity.
It will deepen their understanding of the happenings in their world, magnify their impact and enhance their daily joy by aligning their energy, thoughts and responses with their highest potential, according to The Sacred Space.
For more information about the workshop, which is limited to 14 people and costs $150, call 805-565-5535.
— Marilyn McMahon | 2023-05-09T13:06:02+00:00 | newspress.com | https://newspress.com/sacred-space-to-host-astrology-oracle-workshop/ |
Arctic front to dump weekend snow from Rockies to Midwest, including Chicago and Milwaukee
Any locations that pick up accumulating snow from this system will likely see it stick around for a while as temperatures plummet in the wake of the arctic front.
An arctic front plowing across the northern tier of the U.S. through the weekend will be accompanied by a burst of snow from the northern Rockies and Plains to the Upper Midwest.
Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories have been hoisted across much of the northern Rockies, while a stripe of winter weather alerts also extends eastward into parts of the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley.
In southeastern Wyoming, a Blizzard Warning is in effect until Friday evening for the North Snowy Range Foothills, including the Interstate 80 corridor between Laramie and Rawlins. Several inches of additional snow will overlap with wind gusts to 70 mph, resulting in extremely dangerous or impossible travel conditions due to the combination of icy, snow-packed roads and near-zero visibility caused by falling and blowing snow.
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Along the leading edge of the arctic air moving south out of Canada, heavy snow will pile up across the northern Rockies on Friday and Saturday. Between 1 and 2 feet of snowfall is expected through Saturday, including at Yellowstone National Park. As much as 2 to 4 feet of snow is possible in the region's highest mountains, including the Teton Range in northwestern Wyoming to the south of Yellowstone.
"Particularly across the northern Rockies, this is where this is going to be really significant," FOX Weather meteorologist Ian Oliver said. "What a fantastic ski weekend you have coming up here … 2 to 3 feet of snow in some of those areas."
MONTANA ANIMAL SHELTER REOPENS 7 MONTHS AFTER YELLOWSTONE'S HISTORIC FLOODS
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East of the Rockies, a weak area of low pressure is expected to develop along the arctic front late Friday, and it will bring disruptive snowfall from Friday night into Saturday morning across western and southern South Dakota, northern Nebraska, southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. A band of 5- to 8-inch snow totals is possible from Valentine in Nebraska to Sioux City in Iowa.
During the day Saturday, that band of heavier snowfall will swing eastward through the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, where a few inches of snow is expected for cities such as Des Moines in Iowa, Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit.
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Any locations that pick up accumulating snow from this system will likely see it stick around for a while as temperatures plummet in the wake of the arctic front. Some of the coldest air seen in the U.S. since December will invade the Plains and Midwest, and bitterly cold air will likely remain entrenched over the central states throughout much of next week.
"For most folks, it's going to be the cold that follows all of this snow that's going to be the biggest deal," Oliver said. | 2023-01-27T17:20:07+00:00 | foxweather.com | https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/arctic-front-weekend-snow-rockies-plains-midwest-chicago-milwaukee |
(The Hill) — The state of Georgia is putting former President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party to the test.
Trump-backed candidates have faced a handful of setbacks in recent primary races, but nowhere has that been as evident as Georgia. Trump’s revenge-driven push to take down Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) fell short, and his preferred congressional candidates failed to win their runoff races this week.
Overall, six of the president’s eight endorsed candidates in competitive races lost their primaries, with the two exceptions being Senate candidate Herschel Walker and Burt Jones, who is running for lieutenant governor.
Experts say Trump remains popular in the state, and his backing of Walker in particular made a difference in that race, but that his primary setbacks show the limits of his endorsement power and of his singularl focus on relitigating the 2020 election.
“The big takeaway of all of this is that we should be skeptical of any proposition that suggests an endorsement from Donald Trump is the be all end all of winning a race,” said Andrea Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta. “Endorsements are important, but you need more than endorsements to be able to win an election.”
Trump’s struggles in Georgia date back to the 2020 election, when he lost to Joe Biden by roughly 11,000 votes in a state that had not gone Democratic in a presidential race since 1992. Republicans then lost both Senate seats in the state’s January 2021 runoff elections after Trump used a campaign rally in the state to repeat false claims of fraud.
Georgia is also home to the two officials Trump perhaps blames most for his inability to keep the White House: Raffensperger, who resisted relentless pressure from Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election and has since become a key GOP voice against the former president’s claims of fraud, and Kemp, who certified the state’s election results despite Trump’s efforts.
Both cruised to double-digit primary victories last month. Kemp defeated former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), whom Trump had persuaded to run, by more than 50 points. Raffensperger came out about 19 points ahead of Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.).
The former president’s bid to unseat Kemp was flawed from the start, experts said. Kemp, who won a first term in 2018 with Trump’s backing, is a popular incumbent who delivered on key conservative promises by enacting a restrictive abortion law, giving parents more control over their child’s education, raising teacher salaries and approving new voting laws.
Notably, some high-profile Republicans felt comfortable bucking Trump and throwing their support behind Kemp during the gubernatorial primary, including former Vice President Mike Pence, who is believed to be eyeing a 2024 presidential campaign of his own.
Raffensperger focused on outreach to Republicans and played a role in passing the new voting laws, which critics have said will make it harder for minorities to vote in certain areas.
As incumbents, both men also had the benefit of name recognition, campaign resources and the backing of other Republicans in the state.
“Perdue and Hice were running exclusively on the stolen election and nothing else,” said Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University.
In two down ballot races, Trump-backed candidates also came up short in statewide primaries for insurance commissioner and attorney general. In both cases, the former president had endorsed challengers to allies of Kemp.
On Tuesday, Trump’s difficulties in Georgia continued.
Vernon Jones, a former Democrat who fully embraced Trump two years ago, lost by 20,000 votes in a runoff in the 10th Congressional District, while Jake Evans lost by nearly 14,000 votes in the 6th Congressional District.
In those cases, experts said Trump’s preferred candidates were up against better known and better funded candidates. In Jones’s case, he did not have ties to the district and was encouraged by Trump to run there instead of in the governor’s race.
Taken together, experts and strategists said the underwhelming performance of Trump’s preferred candidates in Georgia underscores the risks of his often emotional endorsements and reflects how the former president’s stamp of approval is often not enough to carry a lesser-known candidate over the finish line.
Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, chalked it up to a combination of “bad candidates and not being willing to put money behind them.”
But Bullock and others cautioned against assuming Trump’s poor track record in Georgia meant voters in the state were ready to move on from him entirely. Bullock recounted seeing scores of Trump-Pence yard signs still visible in the northwest corner of the state, and polls have shown a significant number of Georgia Republicans still believe the 2020 election was stolen.
Seth Weathers, a Georgia Republican strategist, said he believes there is some fatigue with Trump among voters who likely didn’t support him in 2016 “but then got on board once he was in office.”
“But I think if he were to be on the ballot today in Georgia he would win by a pretty large majority,” Weathers said. | 2022-06-27T14:37:44+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/why-trumps-preferred-candidates-keep-losing-in-georgia/ |
After more than two weeks of incredible soccer, the 2022 World Cup's quarterfinals begin Friday. Last month, 32 countries sent their best to compete for the championship title in Qatar. Most of the competitors were eliminated after this past week's Round of 16. The final eight countries' teams will advance to their quarterfinals matchups Friday and Saturday.
The quarterfinals lineup currently includes Brazil, Croatia, Argentina, the Netherlands, Morocco, Portugal, England and France. Brazil and Croatia will be first to face off.
On Tuesday, Dec. 6, Portugal dominated Switzerland with a final score of 6-1. Morocco qualified for the quarterfinals for the first time after a stunning penalty shootout. Brazil, a top contender, secured their spot with a decisive 4-1 win over South Korea. Croatia pulled ahead in a penalty shootout at the end of a close game with Japan. France and England also won their Sunday matches. The United States exited Saturday after facing a strong performance by the Netherlands.
Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, 82, was hospitalized last week due to a lung infection. During their Round of 16 match, Brazil's players and fans honored Pelé, who led Brazil to three World Cup titles decades ago. Doctors at Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, say his health is improving.
The United States' exit came days after a long and tense match with Iran, which also put a spotlight on the political tension between the two countries. Germany, Uruguay and Mexico were also strong competitors who exited the tournament unexpectedly early.
Argentina and Brazil both appear to have the clear paths to victory. But with 10 days left and eight teams still competing for the title, anything can happen.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s election commission announced the first results late Sunday from the country’s closely watched presidential election, but it could days before a winner is declared.
The ruling All Progressives Congress party’s candidate, Bola Tinubu, secured the most votes in southwest Nigeria’s Ekiti state, the commission said at the national collation center in the capital, Abuja.
Results from 35 other states and Abuja were still pending after logistical problems and security concerns caused voting delays. People across the country continued casting ballots Sunday even though the general election, which included choosing a new national legislature, had been scheduled to end Saturday.
“We are aware there will be many more states concluding tonight and )tallies) coming to Abuja,” Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, said.
Voters keenly awaited for the announcement of the winner in the race to lead Africa’s most populous country, where incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is stepping down after two four-year terms.
There were three front-runners in the 18-party race: Tinubu, the main opposition party’s Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi with the Labour Party, the surprise candidate in what was long regarded as a two-person contest.
A winner is not expected to be announced until at least Monday. After the last presidential election, it took four days for a declaration of victory. A runoff election will be held if no candidate secures one-quarter of the votes from two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states and the capital city along with receiving the highest number of votes.
On Sunday, worshippers at the House on the Rock church in Abuja were asked to sing and dance in thanksgiving for a successful election. And in Enugu state, Catholic Bishop Igwebuike Onah urged the election commission to be transparent:
“We beg especially the Independent National Electoral Commission to be careful, judicious and transparent in handling the votes of the people,” he said.
Some frustrated voters who were unable to cast ballots Saturday waited overnight at polling stations that stayed open on Sunday.
“I waited from morning till night to vote on Sunday and now they are taking time to announce (the winner),” Kate Imadu, 26, in Abuja.
Election officials blamed the delays on logistical issues, though other observers pointed to the upheaval created by a redesigned currency that has left many residents unable to obtain bank notes.
The cash shortage affected transportation not only for voters but also for election workers and police officers providing security. The challenges also likely resulted in low voter turnout, said Yiaga Africa, the country’s largest election monitoring body.
While Saturday’s election was largely peaceful, observers said there were at least 135 critical incidents, including eight reports of ballot-snatching, that undermined the legitimacy of the country’s democracy,
“It is unacceptable that Nigerians who have the constitutional rights to participate in an election go out to cast their vote and you have thugs who make it difficult for them,” said Samson Itodo, the head of Yiaga Africa. “The nation needs to really rise and condemn these acts of voter suppression that we observed yesterday,” he said.
Associated Press journalists saw armed men pull up to a voting station in a minibus Saturday, fire shots in the air and grab the presidential ballot box. The shots sent voters screaming and scattering, and ballots strewn across the floor.
In the capital, Abuja, some voters said they were barred from voting at all.
“They employed various strategies to make sure that we do not continue to vote,” said Emmanuel Ogbu. The 45-year-old trader waited with more than 100 people to vote Sunday but was told by election officials they didn’t have enough supplies, such as ink, and needed to wait for the supervisor who had yet to arrive.
The elections were being carefully watched as Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy. By 2050, the U.N. estimates that Nigeria will tie with the United States as the third most populous nation in the world after India and China.
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Associated Press reporters Taiwo Ajayi in Abuja, Nigeria, Hilary Uguru in Asaba, Nigeria, and Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed. | 2023-02-26T22:58:01+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-voting-continues-in-nigeria-a-day-after-polls-due-to-close/ |
Ed Ames, the youngest member of the popular 1950s singing group the Ames Brothers, who later became a successful actor in television and musical theater, has died. He was 95.
The last survivor of the four singing brothers, Ames died on May 21 from Alzheimer's disease, his wife Jeanne Ames said on Saturday.
“He had a wonderful life,” she said.
On television, Ames was likely best known for his role as Mingo, the Oxford-educated Native American in the 1960s adventure series "Daniel Boone" that starred Fess Parker as the famous frontiersman. He also was the center of a bit on "The Tonight Show" that — thanks to his painfully uncanny aim with a hatchet — became one of the show's most memorable surprise moments.
Ames had guest roles in TV series such as "Murder, She Wrote" and "In the Heat of the Night," and toured frequently in musicals, performing such popular songs as "Try to Remember" and the song that became his biggest hit single, "My Cup Runneth Over."
As part of the 1950s music scene, he and his brothers were one of numerous pop quartets that included the Four Aces, Four Lads, Gaylords, Hilltoppers, Lancers, Four Knights, Ink Spots and, still around from a previous era, the Mills Brothers. But the Ames Brothers — Ed, Joe, Gene and Vic — had a unique tone: they were basses and baritones, not tenors.
Their recordings of "Rag Mop," "Sentimental Me" and "Undecided" became big hits, and they launched a busy career appearing on TV variety shows, recording 40 albums and playing in night clubs and auditoriums across the country.
By the end of the 1950s, rock 'n' roll had overtaken the pop charts and singing quartets were on the decline. The Ameses, meanwhile, had tired of the constant travel and absence from their growing families. The finale for Ed came when he arrived home unexpectedly and his wife called to their 3-year-old daughter: "Who is it?" The girl replied, "One of the Ames Brothers."
"That did it," he told a reporter. "My brothers and I agreed that we had all had it and should go our separate ways." The group, which was earning $20,000 a week, played its last engagement at the Sahara in Las Vegas on New Year's 1961.
Ed's efforts to establish himself as a solo singer were not immediately successful and he turned to acting. He almost lost his house before he found a role in a production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible."
In the long-running musical "The Fantasticks" he sang "Try to Remember," which became one of his theme songs. He joined the traveling company of Gower Champion's "Carnival" and transferred to the New York company until the show's final performance.
In a role that presaged his future role on "Daniel Boone," he then won attention as the stoic Native American in the 1963 Broadway play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" with Kirk Douglas and Gene Wilder in the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel.
Ames earned top money at Las Vegas casinos and in hotel supper clubs and toured extensively in the musicals "Man of La Mancha," "Fiddler on the Roof," "South Pacific" and "I Do, I Do."
"I Do, I Do" provided his biggest hit single, "My Cup Runneth Over," a gold record winner in 1967. He had another hit in 1968 with "Who Will Answer?"
It was during his run on "Daniel Boone" that he contributed to what was called the longest sustained burst of laughter in the history of "The Tonight Show."
For a 1965 episode he was persuaded to demonstrate the hatchet-throwing skills he learned as Mingo. The silhouette of a cowboy was painted on a piece of wood, and Ames threw a hatchet at the target. It landed on squarely on the cowboy's crotch.
Ames was born Edmund Dantes Urick in Malden, Massachusetts, the youngest of 11 children, four who died in childhood. Their parents were Ukrainian immigrants and their mother taught the children to read Shakespeare and to appreciate music they heard every Saturday on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts.
The four youngest boys began singing at local events as the Urick Brothers. Ed was still in high school when they moved to night clubs, but as a husky six-footer with a deep voice, he was able to pass for 21.
In New York, comedy writer Abe Burrows advised a name change because Urick was hard to remember. Ames was the brothers' choice.
After the four brothers split up, the other brothers also continued performing and recording, but gained less notice than Ed. Vic died in 1978, Gene in 1997 and Joe in December 2007.
Ames married Sonja Saslaveski in 1948, and they had three children: Sonja, Ronald and Linda. The couple divorced in 1978, and in 1998 he married Jeanne Arnold.
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The late Associated Press writer Bob Thomas was a contributor to this report from Los Angeles. | 2023-05-28T00:56:12+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ed-ames-pop-singer-and-tv-star-dies-at-95/RGJOWAEKY5CKTIBHRIODJRTBDE/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Just seconds after Kansas City beat Philadelphia Sunday night, fans could score merch proudly naming the Chiefs the new Super Bowl champions. But the same would have been true if the Eagles had won.
That’s because the NFL is prepared to sell hats, T-shirts and hoodies for either team, no matter who wins. But what happens with all that clothing with the Eagles’ logo?
The NFL works with nonprofit Good360 to keep the pre-made, unused apparel out of the landfill. The organization collects the clothing items and ships them to “vetted nonprofit partners” in undisclosed locations in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Good360 said.
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“But you definitely won’t see it on anyone in America,” wrote Shari Rudolph, the nonprofit’s chief marketing and development officer.
The donation will include merchandise from the Super Bowl losers, as well as that of teams that lost the AFC and NFC Championships, the Cincinnati Bengals and the San Francisco 49ers.
Good360 works to make sure the merchandise doesn’t go to waste – or end up surfacing on eBay. “The NFL has strict controls to ensure that the general public will never see it,” said Rudolph.
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“Good360 will work closely with international NGOs to ensure that the apparel goes directly into the hands of the right communities—and not some place where someone might be able to profit from it,” Rudolph continued. “We also take pains to avoid sending the apparel to a location where a flood of donated clothing could disrupt the local economy.”
The amount of unused apparel to be donated amounts to a “few thousand items” each year, according to Rudolph.
To avoid wasting resources, the losing team’s merchandise first goes to a central Good360 warehouse. When there are enough donations to fill a shipping container, it will be shipped overseas. | 2023-02-13T04:06:06+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/super-bowl-losers-what-happens-to-the-teams-merchandise/ |
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A mother and her boyfriend face several felony charges after two children were found roaming the streets of Milwaukee without any clothes on, according to a criminal complaint.
Katie Koch, 34, and her boyfriend, Joel Manke, 38, face a total of 10 felony charges for chronic neglect of a child and false imprisonment.
The criminal complaint says that on July 13, neighbors spotted two naked children on the street in their neighborhood.
"It looked like they were wearing wigs," Rick Eder said. "When I got a closer look at them, I looked at my wife and tell her, that’s not costumes. It looked like they were hit with a belt. That was more terrifying than anything, seeing a child like that."
The children, both under the age of 10, according to the criminal complaint, had broken a window in the house to escape. The complaint states that the children were covered in lacerations to their backs, shoulders, and lower backs and were not clothed. A person who called 911 said it looked like they had bruises and red marks on their thighs.
As neighbors tried to approach the children to help, Eder said the older child would run away and the younger would plug their ears with their fingers and scream.
"It looked like they haven’t had a bath in a long time," Eder said. "The way their hair was, you can tell it wasn’t washed or even cut in a long time. Very disturbing."
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Police arrived and made contact with Koch. The complaint states that she walked officers through the home, which police described as a "terrible hoarding situation."
Trash was piled in a number of rooms, and officers noted a strong scent of urine and feces. As officers continued through the home, the scent reportedly got stronger as they neared the room the children were staying in. The complaint said the room had a lock on the outside of the door.
When police entered the room, the complaint says the walls were covered in feces. Koch claimed the substance on the walls of the room was "clay, paint, and chocolate," according to the criminal complaint.
Koch's boyfriend reportedly told police that the children had not been to a medical provider or school for more than three years.
During an interview with police, Koch said she "homeschools" the children. She said they got a new Hooked on Phonics workbook for the children, and they used "educational apps" on their tablets.
Koch told police the younger child could not write but could trace letters and read small words. While the older child was "learning how to put sentences together in proper form."
Several neighbors told the Scripps News Milwaukee that they had never seen children at the house.
Koch was arrested and remains in jail. Manke has been released from jail on a $6,500 cash bond.
The children are reportedly now in protective custody.
This story was originally published by RebeccaKlopf and Mary Jo Ola at Scripps News Milwaukee.
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LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday traveled down a dirt road to tour a farm outside Zambia’s capital that’s using new techniques and technology to boost its vegetable crop as she highlighted ways to secure food supplies in an age of global warming.
“It’s an example of what can be done around the world,” she said after walking past rows of peppers and inspecting a drip irrigation system.
Unlike in the United States, where conversations about climate change usually revolve around replacing fossil fuels with clean energy, the focus in Africa is on expanding access to food. Rising prices stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been damaging to poor countries, and global warming is expected to bring more challenges in the coming years.
Hunger can also create instability, leading to migration and conflict.
“The connection between these issues is quite clear,” Harris said.
She is pushing for $7 billion in private-sector investments, mostly to boost conservation and improve food production, to help Africa prepare for the effects of climate change. Her announcement about that goal came as she wrapped up her weeklong visit to Africa, which included earlier stops in Ghana and Tanzania. The trip was intended to advance U.S. efforts to make inroads in a part of the world where China’s influence runs deep.
It’s the biggest-ticket item that Harris has announced, but more work will be needed to follow through.
For example, African Parks, a nonprofit group, has committed to raise $1.25 billion over the next seven years in order to expand its conservation program. Another organization, One Acre Fund, plans to raise $100 million to plant 1 billion trees by the end of the decade.
The politics of climate change are complicated in Africa, which has contributed far less to overall greenhouse gas emissions than richer corners of the world such as the United States. According to the International Energy Agency, 43% of Africans didn’t have access to electricity in 2021, and recent outages have caused frustration.
In Ghana, Harris was questioned at a news conference about how the West can demand that Africa go green and forgo using its natural resources. She also was pressed on whether wealthy nations would supply $100 billion annually to help poor countries cope with climate change, a commitment made under the Paris climate accord.
Harris said it is “critically important that, as global leaders, we all speak truth about the disparities that exist in terms of cause and effect and that we address those disparities.” She said there were opportunities in the “clean energy economy” that could help generate growth in Africa.
As for the money, President Joe Biden has requested $11 billion in his proposed budget to meet its international commitments.
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Federal officials hope new website can prevent deaths from worsening heat
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government hopes a new website can help people and local governments beat the increasingly deadly heat of an ever-warming world.
Days after nearly half the country — 154.6 million people — sweated through a blistering heat wave, which for the West hasn’t quite finished, the Biden administration Tuesday unveiled heat.gov, which includes maps, forecasts and health advice. The government can’t lower temperatures in the short-term, but it can shrink heat’s death toll, officials said.
“July 2021 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth and summers are getting hotter and deadlier,” said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Rick Spinrad. “The annual average temperature of the contiguous U.S. has already warmed over the past few decades and is projected to rise by 5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (2.8 to 5 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.”
But officials said even though heat is the No. 1 weather killer, and warming is worsening, deaths can still be prevented. That’s the purpose of the website.
“We don’t have to accept” heat deaths, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Tuesday. “This doesn’t have to be this way.”
The new website is aimed at local planners to help them decide whether it is too hot for road work, at farmers for planting and harvesting advice, and even “a mom trying to decide this summer: Is it safe for your kids to play outside or to go to summer camp?” Raimondo said.
Pat Breysse, director of environmental health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the predictions the new website offers can help authorities plan for extreme heat in advance and protect people who are most at risk, by setting up cooling centers and providing water, for example.
“There’s a host of things that we can do with this advance warning from the data that NOAA provides us, particularly from a health standpoint,” Breysse said. He pointed to earlier efforts by Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to change weather service heat warnings to make them more effective for New England residents.
The new website could be put to use immediately because record-breaking temperatures are forecast for Spokane, Washington, and Boise, Idaho — heat in the low to mid 100s, Spinrad said.
The website follows other Biden administration action on heat, including financial aid to help on air conditioning for low-income residents, grants to build new cooling centers, upcoming rules for workers outside in the heat and help for cities to cool urban heat islands with more tree cover. Calling climate change “an emergency,” but stopping short of invoking emergency measures, President Biden last week promised more action to fight global warming.
Outside experts said the multi-agency website and action are overdue.
“This is an important step for elevating the risks of heat,” said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd, past president of the American Meteorological Society. “For too long, heat has been one of the deadliest weather hazards, but has languished from an urgency standpoint,” ignored by the public, media and decision-makers. Shepherd said people scamper inside at the threat of lightning or tornado, but exert themselves when the heat index is 100 or higher.
North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello said, “extreme heat is one of our greatest challenges as a county and I’m glad to see the interagency cooperation.”
It’s important that the website shows that heat isn’t just a problem for today “but in the future,” Dello said.
Given warming trends, this summer with its widespread heat waves “is likely to be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives,” Raimondo said. “That’s a pretty scary thing.”
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Wildeman reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
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Taking place December 9 – 11, the three-day celebrity tennis event will feature clinics and exhibitions by a dynamic roster of tennis legends to raise funds benefitting the Baha Mar Foundation and the Mark Knowles Children's Tennis Initiative
NASSAU, The Bahamas, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baha Mar, the leading resort destination in The Bahamas, announced today its third-annual Baha Mar Cup, the Caribbean's most prestigious celebrity tennis fundraising event taking place Friday, December 9 – Sunday, December 11. The most impressive roster of Tennis pros to date, including Andy Roddick, Milos Raonic, Victoria Azarenka, Jessica Pegula, Lindsay Davenport, James Blake and Mark Knowles, will all take the court at the Baha Mar Racquet Club for an all-star tennis tournament to benefit the Baha Mar Resort Foundation supporting Mark Knowles Children's Tennis Initiative.
The 2022 Baha Mar Cup will kick off with a special welcome reception presented by Rosewood Baha Mar on Friday, December 9. Tennis events start with an exclusive Pro-Am Kick-Off Clinic and Tournament, pairing eight pros with up to 24 amateur players, including culinary talent Marcus Samuelsson. Immediately following, tennis' top talent will take the court for the highly competitive Baha Mar Cup Pro Exhibition, hosted by Tennis Hall of Fame member and ESPN commentator Cliff Drysdale. Guests, players, and spectators are then invited to a special dinner with an awards ceremony, prepared by six-time James Beard award-winning celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson at his ocean-side restaurant, Marcus Up Top and featuring live music and entertainment.
The weekend's events will conclude on Sunday, December 11, when young tennis fans from the local community are invited to participate in the Youth Clinic, learning tips from the pros themselves.
"The Baha Mar Cup welcomes the tours elite players and supporters for an exciting weekend of clinics, exhibition games, and celebrations, all in commemoration of two great causes aimed to raise awareness and funds to support the Bahamian youth tennis community, enhance public tennis facilities, and provide opportunity for at risk children," said Graeme Davis, President, Baha Mar. "Following the success of previous Baha Mar Cups in 2019 and 2021, we know this year will be the biggest and best yet, filled with an array of tennis and entertainment activities set against a beautiful tropical landscape at Baha Mar."
"It is a tremendous honor to return to Baha Mar for the third time to host this tournament, aimed at raising awareness for the Mark Knowles Children's Tennis Initiative and the Baha Mar Foundation, two charities who share similar missions in supporting the local youth community," said Mark Knowles. "I look forward to building on the success of last year's event and joining in the fun alongside the stellar lineup of tennis legends playing this year."
To date, Baha Mar Cup has raised more than $160,000, supporting the Bahamian community through the Baha Mar Foundation, including those affected by Hurricane Dorian in 2019, and the support of the Mark Knowles Children's Tennis Initiative in 2021. Built on the three pillars of Community, Culture and Conservation, the Baha Mar Resort Foundation reflects the brand's deep commitment to building a strong future for The Bahamas.
Baha Mar Cup will take place at The Baha Mar Racquet Club featuring nine state-of-the-art tennis courts, with six professional hard courts, two Har-Tru clay courts, and the only grass court in the Caribbean. The tennis program is directed by Cliff Drysdale Tennis, a worldwide leader in services and instruction for tennis enthusiasts of all ages.
The schedule of the weekend's events is as follows:
For more information on tickets and participating in The Baha Mar Cup tennis tournament, please visit www.bahamar.com.
About Baha Mar
Baha Mar is a master planned integrated resort development situated on 1,000 acres overlooking the world's famous Cable Beach. The white sand beach destination includes three global brand operators – Grand Hyatt, SLS, and Rosewood – over 2,300 rooms and more than 45 restaurants and lounges, the largest casino in the Caribbean, a state-of-the-art convention center, Royal Blue Golf Course, an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus signature course, a brand new $200 million Baha Bay luxury water park, the Caribbean's first and only flagship ESPA spa, and over 30 luxury retail outlets. Baha Mar is a breathtaking location with dynamic programming, activities, and guest offerings in one of the most beautiful places in the world – The Bahamas. For more information and reservations, visit www.bahamar.com.
About Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles is a former World #1 in doubles. He has won all four majors in doubles. Winning the men's doubles titles at the Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon. He has contested 13 Grand Slam finals overall. He was ranked World #1 between 2002 and 2004. He is a 5-time Olympian and has coached top ten players Mardy Fish, Milos Raonic & Jack Sock. Since 2013, Knowles has worked on-air for Tennis Channel, providing in-match commentary, courtside interviews and tournament analysis.
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Real Madrid opened their 2022-23 season with a trophy, as they bested Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 to win the UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki, Finland.
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Goals from David Alaba and Karim Benzema were enough to topple the Bundesliga side on Wednesday night. Alex Kirkland recaps the game and picks the best/worst performers on a merry, historic night for the Champions League and LaLiga title-holders.
JUMP TO: Player ratings | Best/worst performers | Highlights and notable moments | Post-match quotes | Key stats | Upcoming fixtures
Rapid Reaction
Real Madrid's old boys have still got it
Some things never change: another season begins and Casemiro, Toni Kroos and Luka Modric are still bossing games at the highest level. This is supposed to be a season of transition in the Real Madrid midfield -- Aurelien Tchouameni is this summer's high-profile new arrival, Eduardo Camavinga impressed off the bench last year and Fede Valverde has already forced his way into the team -- but nobody told this age-defying midfield trio.
Madrid's control of the middle of the pitch was key here, dominating possession and leaving Frankfurt chasing shadows. Casemiro caught the eye -- his first-half header set up David Alaba with a straightforward finish for the opening goal, while he rattled the crossbar with a left-footed shot with an hour played -- and Kroos produced a seamless display, moving the ball quickly and efficiently and consistently making smart choices, while Valverde was electric on the right-hand side.
This was the same XI that started the Champions League final, with coach Carlo Ancelotti opting to treat this game as a reward for the players who got Madrid here, and that meant summer signings Tchouameni and Antonio Rudiger were only required to make late cameos off the bench. This is a strong, well-balanced Real Madrid squad and while repeating last year's glorious LaLiga and Champions League double is a tall order, you wouldn't want to bet against it either.
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Karim Benzema's legend keeps growing
There was a time, a decade ago, when Benzema was not thought to be enough of a predatory scorer to lead the line for Real Madrid. It seems absurd now, after his 324th goal for the club -- beating an unsighted Kevin Trapp after being picked out by Vinicius Junior -- saw him pull away from Raul Gonzalez into second place in Madrid's all-time scoring charts, with only Cristiano Ronaldo out ahead of him.
Last season was Benzema's best-ever scoring campaign, with 27 goals in LaLiga and a remarkable 15 in the Champions League, and in preseason so far, he's shown no signs of letting up. He wasn't at his most clinical here -- he put one presentable opportunity wide in the first half when set up by Kroos -- and there was an element of good fortune about the goal that put Madrid 2-0 up, with Trapp beaten far too easily, but Benzema will once again be the difference maker for the team this season. Only an injury would threaten his chances of producing another exceptional season, and the team's chances of winning more silverware.
Another European trophy for Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti, the man who was as surprised as anyone to end up back in charge of Real Madrid last summer, added another trophy to his extensive collection here. The Italian is now the most successful coach in UEFA Super Cup history having won it four times, twice with AC Milan in 2003 and 2007, and now twice with Real Madrid in 2014 and this year.
His overall record in European competition is outstanding -- nobody can touch his four Champions League titles as a manager, either -- and he keeps proving critics who see him as little more than a successful man-manager wrong. This was a near-flawless performance against a Frankfurt team that are some way ahead of Madrid in their early season preparations, with their Bundesliga campaign already underway. There were also some clever tweaks to the team when the German side looked like getting on top in the first half, switching Valverde inside to give Madrid another body in central midfield.
Ancelotti is ideally suited to cope with the unique demands at the Bernabeu. He has said the prospect of losing his job holds no fear for him at this stage of his career, and he might just be the most popular coach the club have ever had. After working miracles this season, the pressure this year will be just as great -- there's no respite from the need to win trophies at Real Madrid, ever -- and Ancelotti will deal with it as he always has, with unflappable calm.
Player ratings
Real Madrid: Thibaut Courtois 7; Dani Carvajal 6, David Alaba 7, Eder Militao 7, Ferland Mendy 7; Casemiro 8, Toni Kroos 8, Luka Modric 7; Fede Valverde 7, Vinicius Junior 7, Karim Benzema 7.
Subs: Rodrygo Goes 7, Eduardo Camavinga 7, Dani Ceballos 6, Aurelien Tchouameni 6, Antonio Rudiger 6.
Eintracht Frankfurt: Kevin Trapp 7; Almamy Toure 6, Tuta 7, Evan Ndicka 6; Ansgar Knauff 7, Sebastian Rode 6, Djibril Sow 6, Christopher Lenz 6; Jesper Lindstrom 5, Daichi Kamada 7, Rafael Borre 6.
Subs: Mario Gotze 6, Randal Muani 7, Lucas Alario 6.
Best and worst performers
BEST: Toni Kroos, Real Madrid
The German was often questioned last season, with many fans calling for the more dynamic Eduardo Camavinga to take his place and some speculation that this could be his last year at the club. He was at his effortless best here though. Frankfurt's midfielders couldn't get near him.
WORST: Jesper Lindstrom, Eintracht Frankfurt
It's hard to pick out just one player from a disappointing team performance, but the wide man had very little joy up against Mendy and failed to make the most of the times he did get into promising positions.
Highlights and notable moments
Congrats to Benzema for his remarkable accomplishment: what better way to commemorate becoming your club's second-highest scorer ever than with a nice tweet/graphic combo?
3⃣2⃣4⃣ GOALS!
— Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@realmadriden) August 10, 2022
Outright second-highest goalscorer in our history!#RealFootball pic.twitter.com/wicYsI8jua
Yeah, good point by these guys (including ESPN's Sid Lowe). Someone should look into this trio, they seem promising...
This Casemiro/Kroos/Modric midfield looks like it has potential
— The Spanish Football Podcast (@tsf_podcast) August 10, 2022
After the match: What the managers, players said
"It was a difficult game, at the start they were so close [together] with a low block and we had difficulty, but after we scored the first one at the end of the first half we had more control. We didn't take risks, we didn't play a game with super intensity but I think we had good control."
"They're used to playing together, they are comfortable, they know each other, so for them it's simple to play together, to find the right time of the game to sometimes play a low block and use a counter attack, they're so used to playing together." -- Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti
"We're happy. We've had a good preseason, we're ready, we've started well. There were one or two issues in defence but then we had a lot of chances to score with a larger margin. But the important thing is to win with a clean sheet, it's our third final in 2022 and our third clean sheet, that's very important."
"The second half was calmer, they had one (chance) at the end but without too much difficulty. Good defensive work always helps. When we defend well we'll always have a chance to win." -- Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois
Key Stats (provided by ESPN Stats & Information)
With Real Madrid's win, Carlo Ancelotti has tied Luis Molowny with the third-most trophies won by a manager in club history. Miguel Munoz is 1st with 14, followed by Zinedine Zidane with 11
The victory extends Real Madrid's unbeaten streak: Ancelotti's side are unbeaten in their last 31 games (entering today) when leading at HT (30-0-1); their last such loss came in the Copa del Rey, Jan 2021, against Alcorcón
Under Ancelotti, Real Madrid's record when leading at HT is 78-1-3 W-L-D in all comps; the lone loss came against Valencia (Jan. 2015)
Karim Benzema's remarkable year continues: he's had 32 goal contributions (25 goals, 7 assists) in 24 games (all competitions) so far in 2022. Ballon d'Or, anyone?
Also, with his goal, Benzema passes Raul in Real Madrid's all-time scoring charts (324). He is now alone in second place behind Cristiano Ronaldo (450)
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Real Madrid: After victory in Helsinki, LaLiga's champions open the 2022-23 season on Sunday at Almeria (4 p.m. ET, ESPN+) before traveling to Espanyol for their second league fixture (Aug. 20).
Eintracht Frankfurt: The Super Cup loss caps a chastening week for the German side, especially after losing 6-1 at home to Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich in their 2022-23 season opener. They'll travel to Hertha Berlin (Saturday, 9:30 a.m. ET, ESPN+), followed by a home date with Koln (Aug. 21, 9:30 a.m. ET, ESPN+) in league play. | 2022-08-10T22:29:41+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-the-match/story/4718274/real-madrid-begin-2022-23-season-with-another-trophy-as-carlo-ancelotti-and-co-claims-uefa-super-cup |
Two doctors, a receptionist and a former soldier accompanying his wife during a checkup were killed in a mass shooting inside a Tulsa medical building, authorities said Thursday.
Police, officials at Saint Francis Health System and others provided details about the victims of Wednesday’s shooting.
One of the doctors once worked for a pro basketball team, and the other was a huge college football fan. The receptionist supervisor cheered on her sons’ high school baseball team, and police said the fourth victim was an Army veteran who sacrificed his life for his wife during the shooting.
DR. PRESTON PHILLIPS
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said Phillips performed back surgery on the gunman last month and was the primary target of the shooting. Phillips, 59, was found dead in a second-floor exam room.
Phillips was an orthopedic surgeon with an interest in spinal surgery and joint reconstruction, according to a profile on the hospital system’s website. He had served as lead physician for Tulsa’s WNBA team before the franchise moved out of state, according to the Tulsa World.
In addition to his medical degree, Phillips had advanced degrees in organic chemistry, pharmacology and theology.
Dr. Cliff Robertson, president and CEO of Saint Francis Health System, said Phillips was a dedicated caregiver who considered medicine his calling. Robertson said Phillips was a “consummate gentleman.”
“He was — he is — a man that we should all strive to emulate,” Robertson said. “The fact that some individual would go after Dr. Phillips is mind-blowing. He’s one of those folks that, you know, his clinic can not always be on time because he will spend every minute with patients that they need.”
Phillips graduated in 1990 from Harvard Medical School and completed his fellowship at the university-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
“Tragically, this incident is the latest in a seemingly unending series of devastating shootings that serve as painful and recurring reminders that gun violence is a medical and public health crisis in this country,” Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley said Thursday in a statement.
In a statement, the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society said Phillips was one of its members. The Towson, Maryland-based group said its mission is to increase diversity within the orthopedic profession “and promote the highest quality musculoskeletal care for all people.”
The group called the shooting a “despicable act.”
DR. STEPHANIE HUSEN
According to the hospital system’s website, Husen, 48, focused on sports medicine. She graduated medical school in 2000 from Oklahoma State University and further trained at Greenville Memorial Hospital and the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas in South Carolina.
Robertson said Husen was “an incredible person.”
Husen’s ex-husband, John Reckenbeil, said Husen was a physical therapist when she broke her foot in a car accident in the late 1990s. As she was rehabilitating her injury, Husen made the decision to go to medical school and study orthopedics, Reckenbeil told The Associated Press.
Husen, who had two brothers, loved her family and enjoyed being a doctor, Reckenbeil said.
“That’s what is just so unacceptable,” Reckenbeil said. “She’s there doing her job … She loved helping people and she’s ripped from this planet doing what she loved to do.”
Husen grew up in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and was a big fan of Oklahoma Sooners football, Reckenbeil said.
“She was the greatest woman ever,” he said. “She was the best doctor, she was the best person, she was the best wife.”
Husen was cleaning out her house recently and sent him photos from their wedding of his late mother “out of the blue,” Reckenbeil said.
“That’s the type of woman she was,” Reckenbeil said.
Reckenbeil said Husen was often “the smartest person in the room, but she never let you know about it.”
AMANDA GLENN
Robertson said Glenn, 40, was a receptionist and served in a supervisory role.
The three employees were “the three best people in the entire world, the most committed to doing what they do every day and taking care of others. They didn’t deserve to die like that,” Robertson said.
The Charles Page High School baseball team said in a Facebook post that Glenn was a devoted wife, mother and friend.
“She was on our Booster Club Board and served the baseball boys and coaches selflessly. She was the biggest cheerleader for both of her sons and all of our boys!” the statement said. “Our baseball family is at a loss.”
WILLIAM LOVE
Franklin, the police chief, said Love, 73, was found wounded in a second-floor exam room and taken to the hospital’s emergency room for treatment. He died there.
Although Love was a patient at the clinic where the shooting happened, he didn’t have an appointment that day but was instead accompanying another patient, said Tulsa Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg.
Love was a retired Army sergeant with 27 years of service, including one tour in the Vietnam War, the Tulsa Police Department said in a statement posted on Facebook. Love enjoyed traveling and spending time with his family, which included eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Love had taken his wife, Deborah, to the clinic the day of the shooting for her six-month checkup, said their daughter, Karen Denise Love. Deborah Love had back surgery in December.
They were in an examination room with one of Phillips’ assistants when the couple heard the commotion outside. When they realized it was gunshots, Karen Love said her father grabbed the door handle from inside the room.
“As they heard this guy going up and down the hall, they knew it was gunfire,” Karen Love said. “They thought it was someone just shooting people. My dad was trying to hold the door the best he could.”
The shooter walked past their room, but they heard him come back. He then started shooting through the sheetrock walls and through the door, striking William Love, she said.
Karen Love said her father was born in Georgia, a “poor, sharecroppers’ boy.”
“He was a red, white and blue guy, my daddy,” she said. “He was a good, stable human being.”
Before he was killed, Love had planned to travel with his wife, his daughter said. They enjoyed California, Wyoming and Georgia, Karen Love said.
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Foody reported from Chicago. Williams reported from Detroit. Sainz reported from Memphis, Tennessee. Jill Zeman Bleed contributed from Little Rock, Arkansas. Associated Press researcher Randy Herschaft also contributed. | 2022-06-03T03:04:31+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/2-doctors-receptionist-and-visitor-killed-in-tulsa-shooting/ |
Salvation Army kicks off Red Kettle Campaign in Milwaukee with new way to donate
Salvation Army is testing out a new 'Tap to Give' option where donors can tap their credit card to pay.
Salvation Army is testing out a new 'Tap to Give' option where donors can tap their credit card to pay.
Salvation Army is testing out a new 'Tap to Give' option where donors can tap their credit card to pay.
It's the kickoff to the season of giving in Milwaukee.
The Salvation Army launched its annual Red Kettle Campaign Friday morning at the Milwaukee Public Market in the Third Ward.
The sounds of bells dinging and the Salvation Army band playing Christmas tunes rang through the morning while officials announced their fundraising goal for this year: $4 million.
It's a major goal that comes with a new way to pay.
The Salvation Army chose Wisconsin as one of the states to test a 'Tap to Give' option, allowing donors to tap a credit card and pay either $5, $10 or $20.
“It’s so important because need knows no season," said Salvation Army Major Steven Woodard. "It doesn’t stop, people still hurt and are suffering."
There are 120 Red Kettle sites and not all of them will have the Tap to Give option. Red Kettles will be out until Dec. 24.
You can see other donation options here. | 2022-11-11T19:33:32+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-salvation-army-red-kettle-campaign-new-tap-credit-card/41936835 |
OTTAWA, Canada (AP) — Canada suspended its consular services in Sudan on Sunday, saying a rapidly deteriorating situation has made it impossible to safeguard the safety and security of its staff in the capital city of Khartoum.
Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in just 10 days after power-sharing negotiations between the country’s armed forces and its paramilitary troops rapidly deteriorated.
“The situation in Sudan has rapidly deteriorated making it impossible to safeguard the safety and security of our staff,” Global Affairs Canada said in a statement. “After consulting with Canada’s Ambassador to Sudan, the decision has been made to temporarily suspend our operations in Sudan.
Canadian diplomats will temporarily work from a safe location outside of the country, the statement said, adding that they will continue working with others to coordinate the response to Sudan’s crisis.
Canada’s decision came as U.S. special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the American embassy in Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired and no major casualties were reported.
With the last U.S. employee of the embassy out, Washington shuttered the U.S. mission in Khartoum indefinitely. Left behind were thousands of private American citizens remaining in the east African country.
The New York Times reports that U.S. special forces evacuated six Canadian diplomats, while the BBC says Canadians are among a group evacuated by sea to Saudi Arabia. Global Affairs did not immediately confirm those reports.
As of Saturday, 1,596 Canadian citizens were formally registered as being in Sudan, though experts say the figure is likely much higher. | 2023-04-24T10:15:53+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/canada-suspends-consular-services-in-sudan-amid-crisis/ |
How to Watch the Brewers vs. Tigers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for April 26
Published: Apr. 26, 2023 at 8:17 AM EDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
Freddy Peralta and the Milwaukee Brewers will take the field against the Detroit Tigers and starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen on Wednesday at American Family Field.
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Brewers vs. Tigers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSWI
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Venue: American Family Field
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Brewers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Brewers average 1.3 home runs per game to rank eighth in baseball with 30 total home runs.
- Milwaukee is 15th in baseball with a .402 slugging percentage.
- The Brewers have the 14th-ranked batting average in the majors (.247).
- Milwaukee ranks 12th in runs scored with 113 (4.7 per game).
- The Brewers' .324 on-base percentage ranks 15th in MLB.
- The Brewers strike out 9.4 times per game, the No. 25 mark in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Milwaukee has a collective 7.7 K/9, the fourth-worst in the majors.
- Milwaukee's 3.52 team ERA ranks seventh among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine for the No. 9 WHIP in baseball (1.233).
Brewers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Peralta (2-2) gets the starting nod for the Brewers in his fifth start of the season. He's put together a 3.97 ERA in 22 2/3 innings pitched, with 23 strikeouts.
- The righty's last appearance came on Saturday against the Boston Red Sox, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings, surrendering four earned runs while giving up five hits.
- Peralta is aiming for his fifth straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.6 frames per appearance on the hill.
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Question: It was 55 years ago today — May 15, 1968 — that a tornado flattened the town of Wapella, just south of Bloomington, in a storm that was judged an F3 (158 to 206 mph winds) on the Fujita Scale that ranges from an F1 tornado (73 to 112 mph winds) to F5 (261 to 318). Has an F5 ever raked this area?
Answer: Only once, according to the National Weather Service. That was back in 1942 when a tornado completely destroyed Lacon, a town 20 miles northeast of Peoria. An F4 tornado raked and leveled a part of Washington with 190 mph winds in November 2013.
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - American Hotel Income Properties REIT LP ("AHIP") (TSX: HOT.UN, HOT.U, and HOT.DB.V) announces that at its annual and special meeting of unitholders ("the Meeting"), held earlier today, all directors nominated as listed in the information circular dated April 8, 2022 were elected as directors of American Hotel Income Properties REIT (GP) Inc. for the ensuing year. As a ballot was not required, the number of votes disclosed in the below table reflects only the proxies received by management of AHIP in advance of the Meeting.
The renewal and amendment and restatement of AHIP's securities-based compensation plan was approved by unitholders at the Meeting, with 12,302,035 votes (84.34%) in favour.
The reconfirmation and amendment and restatement of AHIP's unitholder rights plan agreement was also approved by unitholders at the Meeting, with 14,243,670 votes (97.65%) in favour.
AHIP has filed a report of voting results of all resolutions voted on at this meeting on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
American Hotel Income Properties REIT LP (TSX: HOT.UN, TSX: HOT.U, TSX: HOT.DB.V), or AHIP, is a limited partnership formed to invest in hotel real estate properties across the United States. AHIP's portfolio of premium branded, select-service hotels are located in secondary metropolitan markets that benefit from diverse and stable demand. AHIP hotels operate under brands affiliated with Marriott, Hilton, IHG and Choice Hotels through license agreements. The Company's long-term objectives are to build on its proven track record of successful investment, deliver monthly U.S. dollar denominated distributions to unitholders, and generate value through the continued growth of its diversified hotel portfolio. More information is available at www.ahipreit.com.
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DAYTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kendrell Flowers ran for a pair of touchdowns and South Carolina State beat Bethune-Cookman 33-9 on Saturday night.
Flowers scored from the 1 late in the first quarter and added a 67-yard touchdown run in the third that stretched the South Carolina State (1-1) lead to 20-3. Flowers finished with 147 yards rushing on 16 carries. Jr. Corey Fields threw an 87-yard touchdown pass to Shaquan Davis with 3:58 remaining. The Bulldogs added a pick-6 late.
Jalon Jones had 11 carries for 99 yards rushing for Bethune-Cookman (0-2). Jimmie Robinson III had a 5-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter for the Wildcats.
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SHREVEPORT, La., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Queensborough Elementary School and Fair Park Middle School will receive 25 color printers from Calumet Shreveport today.
"We wanted to find a way to support our schools, so we asked the teachers for a wish list," said Billy McClain, Plant Manager. "Right away we noticed the most common request was a color printer. We are excited to be able to fill that need and help our teachers educate the children in our community."
Calumet has been a part of the Shreveport community for 99 years, and also operates facilities is Cotton Valley and Princeton. The company has doubled down on community outreach in the region over the past years, specifically focusing on education and first responder support. In May, the Calumet Open Golf Tournament raised $17,000 for first responder agencies in the area.
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Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: CLMT) manufactures, formulates, and markets a diversified slate of specialty branded products to customers in various consumer-facing and industrial markets. Calumet is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and operates twelve facilities throughout North America.
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What is the best banker’s lamp?
Banker’s lamps were invented over a century ago to soften the harsh light of the lightbulbs of that time. They are versatile, stylish and employ attractive lampshades to capture and redirect the light. They make desk work easier on the eyes without taking up much space.
Most banker’s lamps are made with a brass base and green glass shade, but there are modern styles that use other materials and colors. You can find a banker’s lamp that fits your office or home decor. For its attractive curved design and easy assembly, the best banker’s lamp is the Catalina Traditional Bankers Lamp with Glass Shade.
What to know before you buy a banker’s lamp
Styles of banker’s lamps
Banker’s lamps come in three distinct styles.
- Traditional banker’s lamps have a thin metal base — usually brass— that supports a green shade, although there are other colors available.
- Modern banker’s lamps have curved and carved base designs with a variety of shade styles.
- Tiffany-style banker’s lamps are topped with stained glass lampshades reminiscent of the art style from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This style can be expensive.
How tall are banker’s lamps?
Banker’s lamps range in height from 12 to 20 inches. Most are 14 to 16 inches tall. The bottom of the lampshade should be at your eye level when sitting at your desk. Some lamps are adjustable to the size of your desk and as your lighting needs change.
What kind of lightbulbs work in banker’s lamps?
Each banker’s lamp uses a specific lightbulb. Most modern lamps use LED bulbs that last 20,000 hours or more. Other lamps use incandescent bulbs. Review the manufacturer’s information to ensure you are using the right kind.
What to look for in a banker’s lamp
Lampshade
There are three main aspects of a lampshade to consider.
- Color: This is not only important for matching your decor, it also affects how light is filtered, which can affect the overall illumination. Green is the traditional shade color, but there are many other colors to choose from.
- Material: It’s most often frosted glass, but clear glass, plastic and mica are also used.
- Thickness: Each lampshade is meant to be thick enough to protect the lightbulbs but not cause the lamp to become top-heavy.
Base material
Traditional banker’s lamps have a brass base. Modern designs may have a brass coating that looks like a traditional base. Some have artistic designs, while others are plain and smooth.
Number of lightbulbs
Banker’s lamps either have room for one or two lightbulbs. The size and overall ambiance of your office or home determine how much illumination is required.
Switch or pull cord
Most banker’s lamps use a metal pull cord that emulates the traditional design, but some use a switch on the lightbulb holder similar to those on table and floor lamps. Tug a pull cord gently, since some tend to snap upward and could crack the shade if pulled too hard.
How much you can expect to spend on a banker’s lamp
Lamps priced from $30-$40 are typically single-bulb, shorter and feature a green shade made from inexpensive glass or plastic. For $40-$60, you’ll find taller lamps with more design features. Tiffany-style lamps are often priced between $60-$100.
Banker’s lamp FAQ
Will I need an extension cord for my banker’s lamp?
A. If your desk or table is positioned close to a wall outlet, you should not need an extension cord since most banker’s lamp cords are 5 to 6 feet. Extension cords may be needed if your wall outlets are far away from where the lamp will be.
How do you clean a banker’s lamp?
A. A simple dust cloth used every two months should be enough to keep it clean. Brass polish and glass cleaner for brass bases and glass lampshades also can be used if the lamp gets extra grimy.
What is the best banker’s lamp to buy?
Top banker’s lamp
Catalina Traditional Banker’s Lamp with Glass Shade
What you need to know: This easy-to-assemble stylish lamp has a curved body and bronze finish with a metal pull chain.
What you’ll love: The lamp stands over 17 inches tall with an amber frosted glass shade. It has a 5-foot power cord and can be connected to smart home devices. It uses a 60-watt lightbulb. A one-year warranty is included.
What you should consider: A few reviewers complained that the lamp isn’t adjustable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top banker’s lamp for the money
Newhouse Morgan Banker’s Desk Lamp
What you need to know: This traditional-style banker’s lamp has a rectangular harp shade that looks great in any room.
What you’ll love: The antique brass base is stylish and comes with a pull cord. The LED lamp lasts 25,000 hours and saves up to 90% on energy costs. It provides flicker-free light for all desk activities. No assembly is required.
What you should consider: Some customers said the pull chain can be hard to operate.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
OttLite LED Pivoting Banker’s Lamp
What you need to know: This innovative banker’s lamp has a flexible neck and swing shade to adjust to your work area.
What you’ll love: The lamp neck moves between 12 and 21 inches with an LED lamp that lasts up to 40,000 hours. It has three brightness levels that alternate with a touch-sensitive switch. It is engineered to reduce glare and promote natural daylight.
What you should consider: Some consumers wished the base pivoted along with the arm for different setups.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Mexico imposed a visa requirement on Venezuelans in January, it briefly had the desired effect: The number of Venezuelans detained at the U.S.-Mexico border plunged. But it’s now clear that it only pushed the migrants onto more dangerous clandestine routes.
Suddenly unable to simply fly to Mexico as tourists, but still desperate to leave their country, Venezuelan migrants joined others traveling over land through the dense, lawless jungle on the Colombia-Panama border.
In 2021, when Venezuelans could still fly to Cancun or Mexico City as tourists, only 3,000 of them crossed the Darien Gap — a literal gap in the Pan-American Highway that stretches along 60 miles (97 kilometers) of mountains, rainforest and rivers. So far this year, there have been 45,000, according to Panama’s National Immigration Service.
“If they can’t arrive at Mexican airports, they’re arriving by land through the Darien,” said Adam Isacson, of the Washington Office on Latin America. From there it’s just series of stops: in southern Mexico, the remote middle of the Mexico-U.S. border and then a final destination in the U.S., usually on the East Coast.
Such visa requirements can stop some migrants — the pace of Brazilians and Ecuadorans slowed after Mexico imposed them last year — but not others, Isacson said. “It has to do with the level of desperation,” he said.
Venezuela’s economy has collapsed under a combination of mismanagement and U.S. sanctions. The minimum wage for public employees has fallen to the equivalent of $2 a month. Monthly salaries in the private sector average $75. Some of the Venezuelans arriving in the U.S. now, left Venezuela years ago, spent time in other countries and are moving north now.
In December, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained Venezuelans at the U.S.-Mexico border nearly 25,000 times. Mexico imposed the visa requirement in late January and in February there were barely 3,000 detentions. But that number began to rise again, slowly at first, and then sharply in June and July when detentions surpassed 17,000.
The information about the alternate route was passed among groups on platforms such as WhatsApp and through social media. Migrant smugglers who often infiltrate such groups influence the route, in this case a treacherous, yet well-established one, some 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) long.
Anderwis Gutiérrez, a 42-year-old construction worker, and his wife spent weeks watching videos online about crossing the Darien to judge whether they thought they could do it. When they finally made up their minds, they joined a group of 110 migrants of different nationalities. Only 75 of them emerged from the jungle together.
“They robbed us, took our money, we lasted four days without eating,” he said. “One broke his leg, another was bitten by a snake, we didn’t have medicine, we weren’t carrying anything.”
He said they saw bodies, witnessed two rapes and unable to hold back his tears said that his wife almost drowned when a swollen river carried her 100 yards downstream. “In the jungle no one helps anybody.”
Yonathan Ávila, a 34-year-old former Venezuelan National Guard soldier, traveled with his wife, their 3-year-old daughter and 4-month-old baby. In total, they were 14 relatives and friends. He believes his military training helped him lead them through without some of the tragedies that strike others.
The southern Mexico city of Tapachula near the border with Guatemala has been the second bottleneck for those traveling by land. Since the Trump administration, Mexico has employed a strategy of containment meant to keep migrants confined to the south, far from the U.S. border.
Thousands apply for asylum, but the process is lengthy and there is little work in Tapachula. Frustrated migrants have pressured the government by repeatedly walking out of the city en masse. Since June, Venezuelans have made up the majority.
The Mexican government started busing migrants to offices outside Tapachula or to other states in October for quicker processing of temporary documents and to stop the demonstrations.
Ávila led one such march and got a transit permit that allowed his family to continue north. A foundation also helped because his baby was sick. Gutiérrez got a humanitarian visa.
“To appease them, the National Immigration Institute is giving them passes,” Isacson said.
Venezuelans and some other nationalities also pose a problem for Mexico and the United States, because they generally can’t be deported. After much negotiation, Mexico was recently able to send back more than 100.
Once out of Tapachula, the migrants travel quickly to the U.S. border, usually buying bus tickets with money sent by relatives.
According to WOLA’s analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 92% of the Venezuelans crossed the U.S. border at two stretches in July: Yuma, Arizona, and Del Rio, Texas.
Gutiérrez and Ávila crossed at Del Rio with their families.
Both areas are “in the middle of nowhere,” Isacson said. “That tells us that they are being guided there by someone, it can’t just be rumors circulating on WhatsApp.”
Gutiérrez and Ávila made it to the United States with their families. Gutiérrez was in Maryland, but without work or a place to sleep, he and his wife were planning to return to New York, where they had spent a couple months in a homeless shelter.
Ávila has a sales job in Boston and a charitable foundation has found them shelter and helped get treatment for his kid. Each week he has to send a photograph and his location on a cellphone U.S. immigration authorities gave him while he waits to sort out his status.
Meanwhile, he says his friends in Venezuela haven’t stopped asking him for advice to make their own journeys to the U.S. “More are coming all the time.”
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AP writers Claudia Torrens in New York and Juan Zamorano in Panama City contributed to this report. | 2022-08-26T20:05:03+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-visa-rules-in-mexico-dont-stop-venezuelans-headed-to-us/ |
Letters to the editor, July 16, 2022
Problems looming
Reading about the proposed meat-packing plant in Rapid City, I see many problems looming on the horizon.
My husband Bill worked 30 years for Morrell’s in Sioux Falls (1969-99). The smell was always there. Fines for Morrell’s continuing pollution of the Big Sioux River were frequent.
I thought that by 2022, the smell would be gone.
I visited the Falls Park in Sioux Falls on July 7 and 9, and was surprised to be confronted with that same offensive smell.
In April, I was also at the Falls Park, which then had large signs saying, “Do not touch the yellow foam.” I didn’t see any foam at that time because of the extended drought, affecting the water flow.
People are also reading…
Now, with recent rains, more water is evident at that park, with foam flying above brown water.
Smithfield bought Morrell’s, which was then bought by the Chinese in 2013, said to be the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to that date. This Shuanghui Group also owns 146,000 acres of American farmland.
The funding for a billion-dollar plant at Rapid City presents more questions of possible foreign acquisition.
This meat-packing operation demands 5,000 gallons of water a minute. Here in the Black Hills, we have a limited water supply.
We need to protect our beautiful Black Hills, not pollute it.
Lois Wells, Custer | 2022-07-15T12:08:06+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-july-16-2022/article_f3c698d7-3add-5628-8aae-facd32791db6.html |
Analysis shows link between sleep health and clinically relevant depression symptoms
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) highlighted additional findings from its 2023 Sleep in America® Poll, which previously demonstrated meaningful connections between Americans' sleep health and their mental health and wellness. Among key findings were that nearly 1 in 5 (19%) US adults who sleep less than the NSF-recommended 7-9 hours per night meet criteria for a probable clinical diagnosis of a depressive disorder.
Released during the 25th anniversary of NSF's Sleep Awareness Week®, this year's poll uniquely co-administered three NSF sleep health assessments—Sleep Health Index®, Sleep Satisfaction Tool®, and Best Slept Self® Questionnaire—along with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), an established measure of symptoms of depression. Importantly, the PHQ-9 can be scored in a way to identify adults whose depression symptoms are consistent with a probable clinical depression disorder.
Additional key results from the research showed:
- One in every five adults (20%) with poor sleep health meet criteria for a probable depressive disorder
- One in four adults (25%) who are dissatisfied with their sleep meet criteria for a probable depressive disorder
- Almost 1 in 5 (19%) individuals who have difficulty falling asleep 2 or more nights per week meet criteria for a probable depressive disorder
- Adults who performed high levels of healthy sleep behaviors are less than half as likely to meet criteria for a probable depressive disorder as adults who perform low levels of health sleep behaviors.
"Where our initial focus was to help the public and policy-makers understand the very real connection between sleep health and depression symptoms in the general US population, we felt it was important to further highlight results that gave a clinically-relevant signal, such as we saw using the PHQ-9," said Joseph Dzierzewski, PhD, Vice President of Research and Scientific Affairs at National Sleep Foundation.
Sleep health is crucial to our overall health and well-being. As the United States continues to address the far-reaching effects of a national mental health crisis, this year's Sleep in America Poll findings come at an important time and support the ongoing work of other leading public health and advocacy organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), multiple divisions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Psychological Association (APA), National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and Mental Health America, among others who recognize mental health as a critical issue facing our nation today.
"These results go beyond just alerting people that sleep health and mental health are linked," said David Neubauer, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and member of National Sleep Foundation's Board of Directors. "The findings suggest there are cases where the connection between someone's poor sleep and depression symptoms may be clinically meaningful and possibly have implications for their care."
For more sleep health information and to learn ways to help be your Best Slept Self®, visit www.theNSF.org.
If you're still not getting the sleep you need after taking some basic steps, or if you have lasting symptoms, it's a good idea to talk with your healthcare provider. That's especially true if you are having challenges with your mood or feelings of depression. You are not alone. For anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts, please seek care. Contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
About the National Sleep Foundation
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving health and well-being through sleep education and advocacy. Founded in 1990, the NSF is committed to advancing excellence in sleep health theory, research and practice. TheNSF.org │SleepHealthJournal.org
About the Sleep in America® Poll
The Sleep in America Poll is the National Sleep Foundation's premier annual review of current sleep topics. The Poll was first conducted in 1991 and has been produced since 2018 by Langer Research Associates. The full Sleep in America Poll findings, including methodology, can be found at theNSF.org/sleep-in-america-polls/.
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SOURCE National Sleep Foundation | 2023-05-24T18:46:54+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/05/24/national-sleep-foundation-highlights-evidence-general-us-population-connecting-sleep-health-with-probable-depressive-disorder/ |
Extreme heat has caused five deaths at national parks so far this year, according to the National Park Service.
The deaths come as the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing the hottest summer on record.
The two most recent deaths occurred at Death Valley National Park in California. In both cases, officials said the daytime temperature exceeded 120 degrees.
Earlier this month, a 57-year-old woman succumbed to 114-degree heat at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
Two men died in June when temperatures reached 119 degrees at Big Bend National Park in Texas.
SEE MORE: 2 hikers found dead in Nevada park amid heat warning
In the last decade, at least 26 deaths have been tied to extreme heat at U.S. national parks, according to press releases obtained by Scripps News. The National Park Service has also reported numerous summertime deaths at parks without listing a cause of death.
While national parks are visited by millions of people every month, June, July and August remain the busiest time by far. Daily attendance at national parks during those months tends to be at least twice as busy as an average day in December.
One notable exception is Death Valley, which sees more consistent visitorship throughout the year. The park reported 84,000 visitors in the month of January. It also reported 84,000 visitors in June.
The incidents at Death Valley,Grand Canyon and Big Bend national parks underscore that heat in these regions can be deadly. From 2011 through 2020, Arizona, Texas and California were among the four states with the highest number of heat-related fatalities.
Texas led the U.S. from 2011-2020 with 1,650 heat-related deaths, followed by Texas with 764, Nevada with 750 and California with 629,according to government data.
SEE MORE: The many ways that extreme heat costs you and the US
At Grand Canyon National Park, officials discourage people from hiking the park's inner canyon between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Big Bend National Park officials say its park offers no shade or water on trails, making it dangerous during the heat of summer.
Hiking Death Valley at low elevations after 10 a.m. is discouraged during the summer. Officials suggest hiking Death Valley's higher-elevation trails or staying in air-conditioned vehicles.
According to the CDC,an average of 658 Americans die each year due to heat stroke.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-07-24T18:11:35+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/deaths-at-national-parks-underscore-risk-of-hiking-in-extreme-heat |
One of the early challenges for many NHL teams is adjusting to the busy first month of the season while trying to rack up as many points as possible.
The Tampa Bay Lightning and Los Angeles Kings have already experienced challenges with their schedules heading into their Tuesday night matchup in Los Angeles.
The Lightning will have played on back-to-back days three times in their first eight games when they face the Kings and then turn around and visit the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday.
The Kings are coming off five games in eight days on an East Coast trip that started with surprising success before running on fumes toward the end.
The Lightning haven’t let their hectic schedule affect them so far. They are coming off a nice weekend, beating the Florida Panthers, 3-2, in overtime on Friday in Sunrise, Fla., and a day later downing the visiting New York Islanders, 5-3.
They split their other back-to-back set, beating the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 on Oct. 14, and losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 the following day, both on the road.
Tampa Bay wasn’t as sharp on Saturday against New York as it was the night before against the Panthers, but Brayden Point, Brandon Hagel and Nick Paul each contributed a goal and an assist, as goalie Brian Elliott stopped 32 of 35 shots in his second start of the season.
“You have to find a way to win when you’re not at your best,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said.
Los Angeles posted one-goal wins against the Minnesota Wild, Detroit Red Wings and Nashville Predators to open their first road trip of the season, but then lost 6-1 to the Penguins on Thursday, and 4-3 to the Washington Capitals on Saturday.
“It’s taxing at the beginning of the year,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “You’re not used to the games coming quickly and spending eight or nine days on the road.”
McLellan’s main concern was the 23 goals allowed on the trip.
“If we left L.A. last Friday and somebody would have told me we would score 20 goals on this road trip, I’d be pretty darn excited about winning a lot of games,” McLellan said.
Cal Petersen, who is supposed to be the heir apparent to Jonathan Quick, started three of those games and won two, but had a 4.97 goals-against average and .842 save percentage in those games.
Viktor Arvidsson had a goal and two assists in the loss to the Capitals, his first points of the season.
Arvidsson said he’s beginning to feel more comfortable handling the puck and making plays with linemates Trevor Moore and Phillip Danault. He considered his line’s performance against the Capitals to be their best of the season.
“We’re starting to get our groove back,” Arvidsson said. “We’re starting to feel better.”
For Tampa Bay, Andrei Vasilevskiy will likely get the start in goal against the Kings with Elliott starting against the Ducks on Wednesday.
Vasilevskiy is 7-2-0 in 10 career starts against the Kings with a 2.73 GAA and .919 save percentage.
Los Angeles placed forward Alex Iafallo on long-term injured reserve on Sunday. He sustained a lower-body injury on Oct. 17 against the Red Wings. Iafallo had 17 goals and 20 assists in 79 games with the Kings last season.
Los Angeles recalled forward Austin Wagner from the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League. Wagner, 25, has played 171 games for the Kings over the past three seasons, scoring 22 goals with 18 assists.
–Field Level Media | 2022-10-25T16:10:13+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/nhl-hockey/schedule-weary-lightning-kings-square-off-in-la/ |
'Goblin mode' chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022
As you read this, look around. Are you still in bed? Are there piles of clothes and takeout food boxes strewn across the floor? Do you have chip crumbs on your sheets? Have you broken your self-care routine more times than you can count? Do you not even care? If so, you might already be in "goblin mode" -- chosen by the public as the 2022 Oxford word of the year.
According to Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers behind the Oxford English Dictionary, the slang term refers to a type of behavior which is "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations" — traits that may have become familiar to many during lockdown.
Social media can portray idealized versions of self-improvement, from waking at 5 a.m. and drinking a green smoothie, to keeping a journal, exercising and planning your weekly meal prep.
That era may be on the way out. In its place is goblin mode — the opposite of trying to better yourself.
The OUP word of the year — also known as the Oxford word of the year — was chosen by the public for the first time. A group of lexicographers at OUP gave people a choice of: "Goblin mode," "metaverse," and "#IStandWith."
"Goblin mode" triumphed, racking up 318,956 votes — 93% of the total. "Metaverse" came second and "#IStandWith" came third.
Casper Grathwohl, president of OUP's Oxford Languages, said in a press release Monday that the "level of engagement with the campaign caught us totally by surprise."
"Given the year we've just experienced, 'Goblin mode' resonates with all of us who are feeling a little overwhelmed at this point. It's a relief to acknowledge that we're not always the idealized, curated selves that we're encouraged to present on our Instagram and TikTok feeds," he said.
The rise of 'goblin mode'
The term was first used in 2009 but went viral on social media earlier this year, OUP said. It shot to prominence after a fake headline claimed that the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and Julia Fox broke up after she "went goblin mode."
"The term then rose in popularity over the months following as Covid lockdown restrictions eased in many countries and people ventured out of their homes more regularly," according to the OUP.
"Seemingly, it captured the prevailing mood of individuals who rejected the idea of returning to 'normal life', or rebelled against the increasingly unattainable aesthetic standards and unsustainable lifestyles exhibited on social media."
The term's popularity may also be linked to the growth of new social media sites like BeReal, where users are invited once a day at random to post a photo of whatever they're doing. Goodbye carefully curated social media feeds. Hello, goblin mode.
The release gives examples of examples of when the term has been used. Among the most vivid was quoted in The Guardian: "Goblin mode is like when you wake up at 2 a.m. and shuffle into the kitchen wearing nothing but a long T-shirt to make a weird snack, like melted cheese on saltines."
"People are embracing their inner goblin, and voters choosing 'goblin mode' as the Word of the Year tells us the concept is likely here to stay," added Grathwohl. | 2022-12-05T21:44:12+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/goblin-mode-oxford-word-of-the-year-for-2022/42156852 |
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia convicted a former police officer of publicly spreading false information about the country’s military for criticizing the war in Ukraine to his friends over the phone.
The ex-officer, Semiel Vedel, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison under a law the Kremlin adopted days after sending troops into Ukraine and has actively used to stifle dissent. In addition to the prison term, he was barred from working in law enforcement for four years after his release.
Authorities accused Vedel of spreading information about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that deviated from the Defense Ministry’s official statements.
During three phone conversations with friends last year, Vedel referred to Russia as a “murderer country,” used “Glory to Ukraine” as a greeting and claimed that Russia was suffering “huge losses” in Ukraine, according to the case prosecutor.
Officials deemed the conversations public because Vedel’s phone was wiretapped and an investigator listened in on the calls. That reasoning, which Vedel’s lawyer rejected as absurd, hadn’t been previously used in cases involving spreading misinformation charges.
Vedel, who was born in Ukraine, has said he was merely sharing information he got from his friends in the Kyiv police department whom he trusted.
A sweeping Kremlin campaign of repression has accompanied the invasion of Ukraine. Unprecedented since the Soviet era, it has effectively criminalized independent reporting on the conflict and any public criticism of the war.
Earlier this month, a Russian court convicted a top political opposition figure, Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., of treason for publicly denouncing Moscow’s war in Ukraine. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Another prominent opposition figure, Ilya Yashin, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison last year on charges of spreading false information about the military.
Last month, a Russian court convicted a father over social media posts critical of the war and sentenced him to two years in prison. His 13-year-old daughter, who drew an antiwar sketch at school, was sent to an orphanage.
Days later, Russia’s security service arrested Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal, on espionage charges.
A recent report by the Russian Supreme Court said that in 2022, courts ordered citizens to pay fines for discrediting the military 4,439 times, the equivalent of about $1.8 million, according to Russia’s independent news site Mediazona. | 2023-04-25T20:08:56+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/russia-convicts-ex-police-officer-over-ukraine-war-criticism/ |
WA Current Conditions as of 11:00 PM PDT Saturday, May 7, 2022
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Eastsound;Mostly cloudy;45;S;5;75%
Ellensburg;Mostly cloudy;40;WNW;15;67%
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Fort Lewis;Mostly cloudy;43;SSE;8;77%
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Renton;Mostly cloudy;47;SSW;8;65%
Seattle;Partly cloudy;44;S;3;81%
Seattle Boeing;Mostly clear;45;SSW;7;76%
Shelton;Cloudy;42;SW;9;88%
Spokane;Cloudy;47;SW;17;49%
Spokane Fairchild;Mostly cloudy;41;SW;16;61%
Spokane Felts;Cloudy;47;SW;17;49%
Stampede Pass;Fog;30;N;5;92%
Tacoma;Mostly cloudy;43;SSW;4;86%
Tacoma Narrows;Mostly cloudy;43;SSW;9;85%
Vancouver;Cloudy;47;W;5;68%
Walla Walla;Partly cloudy;43;S;16;65%
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Whidbey Island;Mostly cloudy;46;S;9;76%
Yakima;Mostly clear;44;W;10;50%
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If you’ve watched the show over the last few winters, you know that Ashley Thompson is a big fan of embracing the season. From the skiing to the ice fishing, spending time in the great outdoors all winter is at the top of her to-do list. After all, spending all that time in the cold outdoors makes walking into a cozy home even more rewarding.
If you’re looking to make your home even cozier, we were joined by essential oils expert, Emily Paulson on today’s show. She joined us to show us how we can embrace winter and bring a festive touch to our homes with the help of essential oils, and maybe a mocktail or two.
Cosmo Mocktail with Stevia
Ingredients
2 parts cranberry juice
1/2 part orange juice
1/4 lime, freshly squeezed
1 drop Lime essential oil
2 drops Wild Orange essential oil
*Sugar-free simple syrup*
1/4 cup warm water
3 1/2 tablespoons Stevia sweetener
Diffuser recipes:
Snow Angels
3 Frankincense
2 Wild Orange
2 Peppermint
Sleigh Bells
3 Wild Orange
2 Peppermint
2 Cypress
2 Holiday Joy
Spiced Cider
3 Wild Orange
2 Cinnamon Bark
2 Clove
1 Ginger | 2022-11-18T00:38:53+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/keloland-living/essential-oil-recipes-that-smell-like-winter/ |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House has voted to recognize two new symbols — the blueberry as the state fruit and the opal as the state gemstone.
Both bills passed Monday, and they will move to the Senate for more work.
Republican Rep. Jill Ford of Madison said a fourth grade civics class in Madison County proposed the blueberry legislation after they did research and learned that blueberries are the most-produced fruit in the state.
During a brief debate, Democratic Rep. Chris Bell of Jackson asked Ford whether any other types of fruit were considered for official recognition. She said no.
“I do not like blueberries,” Bell said.
The blueberry proposal, House Bill 1027, passed the House 110-1. House Speaker Philip Gunn noted that Bell cast the “one sour nay” vote.
The opal proposal is House Bill 772. It passed 115-0.
“In Mississippi, we don’t have diamonds, we don’t have rubies ... but we do have vast supplies of the opal,” said Republican Rep. Becky Currie of Brookhaven.
Mississippi has a long list of official state symbols, including a state song, fossil and reptile, according to a list maintained by the secretary of state. | 2023-02-07T00:53:25+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/mississippi-house-pushes-blueberry-and-opal-as-17767811.php |
PA live! (WBRE) — Monday for PA live! On the Road, Jim Hamill visited the Columns Museum in Milford.
The museum is well known for its exhibit featuring an American flag stained with the blood of President Abraham Lincoln from his assassination at Ford’s Theatre.
Jim also describes the Lenape – Original People exhibit, which will allow you to immerse yourself in the culture of the Lenape people who once lived along the Delaware River in the Pocono Mountains.
“We involved several of the federally recognized tribes, two from Oklahoma and one from Wisconsin, and they had a say in what the panel boards represent and what they say. ” said Lori Strelecki, who runs the Pike County Historical Society and the Columns Museum.
Strelecki explains how the Lenape refuted the notion of “owning” land, and Jim highlights pictures in the Lenape exhibit which depict “land greed.”
“It’s an unfortunate time of history, just like any other time of war,” stated Strelecki.
Jim also lists some Lenape artifacts featured in the exhibit, including a dugout canoe, pottery, and daily use tools, which show how the Lenape lived with the land, not off it.
“It’s important to see not only what they used as tools. What did they eat? Wear? We hope to grow the exhibit to that point with federally recognized tribes,” said Strelecki.
Jim talks about how the exhibit paints a picture of who the Lenape were and are.
“To learn more about them and their customs was very important. I think they’re very interesting. A matrilineal tribe, nice to give a nod to women, they did, that was their beliefs,” said Strelecki.
Jim talks about the Wolf Clan, the specific clan of the Lenape tribe that lived in the Poconos, as well as discussing where else the Lenape lived geographically.
“It’s up to them to create their own history now, and what’s going on in Oklahoma and Wisconsin, I think they’re doing great things for themselves there, making a name for themselves and also remembering fondly roots here and learning about them. That’s the important part,” said Strelecki.
For more information, visit .pikehistorical.org or call (570) 296-8126 | 2023-07-24T21:10:31+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/pa-live/sponsored-content/pa-live-on-the-road-the-columns-museums-lenape-exhibit-paints-a-picture-of-history/ |
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GREENWICH, Conn., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Southfield Capital, a premier lower middle market private equity firm, announced today that Franchise FastLane ("FastLane"), a leading franchise sales organization for emerging franchisors has acquired Raintree Franchise Growth ("Raintree" or the "Company"), a firm specializing in full-service brand development and marketing services for franchisors. Raintree's owners will remain actively involved in the business post-close and Brent Dowling will serve as Chief Marketing Officer for the combined entity.
"In the effort to apply a comprehensive approach to the lifecycle of emerging franchise brands, this acquisition is an opportunity to help even more franchisors grow," said Carey Gille, CEO of Franchise FastLane. "We've always had deep respect for the Raintree team. Now that we're aligned, we will be in a position to deliver even more for both our brand and consultant partners through an unmatched messaging, marketing, and branding experience. In combining the strength and expertise found in each of our organizations, we're looking to provide innovative new services for franchise development and other franchisor-related services."
Both Franchise FastLane and Raintree rely on lead generation provided by multiple franchise brokerages and consultancies. Franchise FastLane and Raintree intend to enhance and strengthen these valuable relationships by continuing to provide best-in-class branding, messaging and collateral, as well as innovative new technology and marketing solutions.
"With this partnership, two of the biggest names in franchise development have partnered together to bring further value to the franchise industry," said Brent Dowling, CEO of Raintree. "This is a big move, for not just us and our franchisor partners, but for future and current franchisees leveraging franchising as a pathway to wealth creation and community building."
Southfield Vice President Josh Sylvan commented, "We are excited to welcome the Raintree team to FastLane and believe it will be a great combination of franchise service expertise. FastLane and Raintree have unique and complementary strengths that will create a powerful platform to grow emerging franchisors and their franchisee communities."
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP provided legal counsel to FastLane and Southfield Capital.
About Franchise FastLane
Franchise FastLane provides outsourced franchise development services to emerging franchisors. It manages the entire franchisee sales lifecycle from initial lead generation to prospect qualification through to deal closure. FastLane works with franchisors to perfect their discovery process, bring qualified franchisee leads and drive explosive growth. FastLane leverages a rigorous diligence and onboarding process, industry-leading technology platform, and exceptional sales executives to drive successful franchise development for its franchisor clients. FastLane is based in Omaha, NE.
For more information, please visit www.franchisefastlane.com.
About Southfield Capital
Southfield Capital is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, lower middle market companies in the outsourced business services sector. The firm targets companies with $4 - 15 million in EBITDA and partners with management to scale the business through a combination of organic and acquisition growth strategies.
For more information, please visit www.southfieldcapital.com.
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Tuesday, partly cloudy. High temperatures will be around 40 or the 40s, locally colder near the Great Lakes. | 2022-04-06T18:00:04+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/weather/local-3-wednesday-afternoon-weather-forecast-4-6-2022/ |
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio
Weapons offense: Richmond Road
Officers responded to Five Points Grille around 1:30 p.m. Dec. 30 for a report of a disturbance involving a gun.
They learned a shooting had occurred but those involved had already left the area.
Theft: Homewood Drive
The daughter of a resident at an assisted living home reported Dec. 26 that her mother’s gold earrings were missing.
She said she locked them in a drawer the previous day and found them missing when she returned to visit her mother.
No suspects were identified.
Theft: Richmond Park Drive West
A woman reported Dec. 29 that a package delivered by Amazon was stolen from a mailroom at the 444 Park apartments. She said it contained five T-shirts, valued at $82.
No suspects or witnesses were identified.
Impaired driving: Richmond Road
A Mayfield Heights man, 34, was arrested for OVI Dec. 29 after following officers watched his vehicle veer left of center on multiple occasions.
Read more news from the Sun Messenger here. | 2023-01-05T03:12:39+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/01/shooting-reported-at-five-points-grille-richmond-heights-police-blotter.html |
Lisa Marie Presley was a devoted mom who lived in ‘horrific reality’ of son’s suicide
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Lisa Marie Presley loved being a mother to her “cubs.”
That’s how the singer-songwriter who died Thursday at the age of 54 referred to her four children, daughters Riley, Finley and Harper, and her son, Benjamin, in a 2019 post on her verified Instagram account.
Her love for her children was palpable. In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, Presley noted that “having all my children” was the happiest time in her life behind growing up at Graceland, the only child of superstar Elvis Presley.
Which is why she said she felt shattered when Benjamin died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.
Presley’s last post in August 2022 directed her followers to an essay she had written for National Grief Awareness Day that was published by People magazine “in the hopes that anyone who needs to hear all of this it helps in some way.”
In the essay, Presley wrote that she had “been living in the horrific reality of [grief’s] unrelenting grips since my son’s death two years ago” and went on to share her thoughts about grief and loss.
“Death is part of life whether we like it or not — and so is grieving,” she wrote. “There is so much to learn and understand on the subject, but here’s what I know so far: One is that grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss.”
“Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe,” Presley added. “You do not ‘get over it,’ you do not ‘move on,’ period.”
Benjamin was her son with her first husband, musician Danny Keough, who is also the father of their daughter, Riley, 33, a successful actress.
Twins Finley and Harper, 14, are by Presley’s last husband, musician and producer Michael Lockwood, whom she divorced in 2016.
“I keep going for my girls,” Presley wrote in her essay.
“I keep going because my son made it very clear in his final moments that taking care of his little sisters and looking out for them were on the forefront of his concerns and his mind. He absolutely adored them and they him,” she wrote. “My and my three daughters’ lives as we knew it were completely detonated and destroyed by his death. We live in this every. Single. Day.”
Presley leaned into her relationship with her daughters, writing in a post in honor of her February 1 birthday last year, “Like everyday, I couldn’t have made it through without these three by my side,” featuring a photo of them together.
Her beloved son was never far from her thoughts, however.
In July 2022, she shared a photo of matching tattoos she and Benjamin had on their feet.
“Several years ago, on Mother’s Day, my son and I got these matching tattoos on our feet. It’s a Celtic eternity knot. Symbolizing that we will be connected eternally,” the caption on her Instagram photo read. “We carefully picked it to represent our eternal love and our eternal bond.”
Presley told The Guardian in 2012 that she most feared death. After she was gone, Presley added, she wished to be remembered, “As a good mum mostly, and a pretty OK singer-songwriter.”
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Military officers in Somalia say at least five people were killed and 11 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the front gate of a military training camp in Mogadishu on Saturday evening.
The al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack at the camp that has been targeted multiple times in the past.
Gen. Odawa Yusuf, chief of Somalia’s defense forces, told state media the bomber had been pretending to be a recruit at the General Dhaga-Badan military training camp in Wadajir district.
A military officer, Abdirahman Ali, told The Associated Press that “there were some fatalities for both the civilians walking along the street and the recruits.”
The camp is located near the large Turkish military base in Somalia. | 2022-11-06T07:38:30+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/5-killed-in-attack-at-Somali-military-training-17562137.php |
Vendavo strengthens commercial excellence offering with acquisition of cloud-based rebate and channel management provider, Market Medium, empowering manufacturers and distributors to better plan, accrue, track, and distribute channel incentives across the partner ecosystem.
DENVER, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vendavo, the global market leader in B2B price management and commercial excellence solutions, has acquired cloud rebate and channel management solution provider, Market Medium. The acquisition significantly accelerates Vendavo's roadmap to enable manufacturing and distribution organizations as they optimize revenue growth and profitability.
The addition of Market Medium brings deeper and more robust channel incentive management capabilities to Vendavo's market-leading price optimization and CPQ solutions that will empower customers to maximize their revenue and profitability through intelligent supplier programs, pricing, sales intelligence, sales quoting and agreements, and channel revenue management.
"For more than two decades, we've been empowering enterprise B2B companies to unlock commercial growth and profitability," said Bruno Slosse, President and Chief Executive of Vendavo. "The breakthrough combination of Vendavo and Market Medium sets a new standard for price and channel management solutions and provides our customers with key new capabilities in managing commercial excellence and unlocking profitability."
Today's commercial excellence leaders are consistently looking for more ways to uncover additional revenue, improve margins, and reduce financial risks. Challenged by hyperinflation, supply chain issues, global crises, and economic uncertainties, it has never been more important for B2B enterprises to have complete control and visibility across the entire commercial landscape, sales channels, and partner ecosystems.
As Vendavo and Market Medium join forces, manufacturers will be able to more seamlessly manage manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler rebate programs, build and scale sophisticated incentives, and nurture partner engagement all while boosting sales, and preserving margins.
The combination further empowers businesses to more efficiently track supplier and vendor rebate programs, meet margin guidelines on sales, and pass-through promotions to B2B partners and customers without revenue leakage.
"Managing and optimizing channel management programs can be complex. Over the years, the team at Market Medium has taken strides to help our customers simplify through innovation, automation, and channel integration," said Saravanan Krishnakumar, Co-Founder of Market Medium. "Joining forces with Vendavo is a transformative step in our pursuit of partner experience excellence. We look forward to continuing to streamline rebate and pricing processes between suppliers, distributors, and retailers as part of the Vendavo family."
Vendavo's AI-embedded solutions have driven – on average – $26 million in annual incremental profit for B2B enterprises. Vendavo welcomes Market Medium customers like Genpak, McLane, and C&S Wholesale Grocers and is now poised to process billions of dollars in rebates and make deal management simpler.
This acquisition expands Vendavo's vertical expertise in the manufacturing, high tech, wholesale distribution, and life sciences industries, strengthens rebate management capabilities for current customers, and reinforces Vendavo's commercial excellence leadership position in the market.
About Vendavo – Vendavo's AI-embedded pricing and sales solutions power the shift to digital commerce for B2B companies, unlocking value, growing margin, and accelerating revenue. With the Vendavo SaaS commercial excellence platform and our best-in-class CPQ and price optimization solutions, our customers develop dynamic customer insights and execute optimal pricing strategies that maximize margin, boost sales effectiveness and improve customer experience. Vendavo has offices in Denver, Düsseldorf, Prague, and Stockholm. For more information, please visit http://www.vendavo.com
About Market Medium – Market Medium provides channel incentive management solutions in the cloud for manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers. It handles the end-to-end lifecycle for rebate calculation, processing and settlements with seamless integrations to a wide range of ERP applications.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MainStay CBRE Global Infrastructure Megatrends Fund (NYSE: MEGI) (the "Fund") has announced a webinar with the portfolio management team, to be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 4:00 PM ET. During the webinar, the team will provide an update on the portfolio and outlook for the year ahead.
Questions for the portfolio management team may be submitted in advance to the following email address: product_management@nylim.com. The deadline for email submission of questions is Tuesday, January 17, 2023, at 12:00 PM ET. Details for the webinar, including the dial-in information, will also be posted to the New York Life Investments website, www.newyorklifeinvestments.com, in advance of the webinar.
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The Fund intends to distribute monthly, all or a portion of its net investment income, including current gains, to common shareholders. There is no assurance the Fund will make any regular monthly distributions or that it will do so at a particular rate.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of its distribution to shareholders.
The Fund is a closed-end fund, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and invests primarily in income-producing equity securities issued by infrastructure companies. Holdings are subject to change. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
The Fund's daily New York Stock Exchange closing prices, net asset values per share, as well as other information are available by calling the Fund's shareholder servicing agent (855) 456-9683.
Before considering an investment in the Fund, you should understand that you could lose money. There are risks inherent in all investments. The Fund's risks include: New Fund Risk, No Operating History Risk, Limited Term Risk, Infrastructure Industry Risk, Leverage Risk, Equity Securities Risk: Foreign Securities Risk, Convertible Securities Risk: Debt Securities Risk, Maturity Risk, Investment and Market Discount Risk: Dividend Paying Securities Risk, Discount from Net Asset Value Risk and Emerging Markets Risk.
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing. The Fund's prospectus, which contains this and other information about the Fund, should be read carefully before investing. A copy of the final prospectus relating to this Fund may be obtained by contacting your financial advisor, or by calling 800-624-6782.
About New York Life Investments
With over $650 billion in Assets Under Management* as of June 30, 2022, New York Life Investments is comprised of the affiliated global asset management businesses of its parent company, New York Life Insurance Company (New York Life), and offers clients access to specialized, independent investment teams through its family of affiliated boutiques. New York Life Investments remains committed to clients through a combination of the diverse perspectives of its boutiques and a long-lasting focus on sustainable relationships.
*AUM includes assets of Investment Advisors affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company. AUM for Candriam and Ausbil is reported at the spot rate.
"New York Life Investments" is both a service mark, and the common trade name, of certain investment advisors affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company.
About CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets LLC
CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $143.9 billion in assets under management* as of September 30, 2022, operating in more than 30 offices and 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, people and communities thrive.
CBRE Investment Management is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2021 revenue). CBRE has more than 105,000 employees (excluding Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE Investment Management harnesses CBRE's data and market insights, investment sourcing and other resources for the benefit of its clients. For more information, please visit www.cbreim.com.
*Assets under management (AUM) refers to the fair market value of real assets-related investments with respect to which CBRE Investment Management provides, on a global basis, oversight, investment management services and other advice and which generally consist of investments in real assets; equity in funds and joint ventures; securities portfolios; operating companies and real assets-related loans. This AUM is intended principally to reflect the extent of CBRE Investment Management's presence in the global real assets market, and its calculation of AUM may differ from the calculations of other asset managers and from its calculation of regulatory assets under management for purposes of certain regulatory filings.
This press release is not an offer to sell securities and is not a solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor will there be any sales of securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
New York Life Investment Management LLC engages the services of SEC-registered advisors. CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets (CBRE Investment Management) is unaffiliated with New York Life Investments. The MainStay Funds® are managed by New York Life Investment Management LLC and distributed by NYLIFE Distributors LLC, 30 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company. NYLIFE Distributors LLC is a Member FINRA/SIPC.
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By YURAS KARMANAU (Associated Press)
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia and Belarus signed a deal Thursday formalizing the deployment of Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its ally, although control of the weapons remains in the Kremlin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of the shorter-range weapons in Belarus earlier this year in a move widely seen as a warning to the West as it stepped up military support for Ukraine.
When the weapons would be deployed wasn’t announced, but Putin has said the construction of storage facilities in Belarus for them would be completed by July 1.
Also unclear is how many nuclear weapons would be kept in Belarus. The U.S. government believes Russia has about 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, which include bombs that can be carried by aircraft, warheads for short-range missiles and artillery rounds.
Tactical nuclear weapons are intended to destroy enemy troops and weapons on the battlefield. They have a relatively short range and a much lower yield than nuclear warheads fitted to long-range strategic missiles that are capable of obliterating whole cities.
Speaking in Moscow, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said “the movement of the nuclear weapons has begun,” but was not clear whether any actually had arrived in his country. Lukashenko, who sparked rumors of being seriously ill when he cut short a Victory Day appearance in Red Square on May 9 before resurfacing in public May 15, was attending a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council with Putin and leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
The signing of the deal came as Russia prepared for a counteroffensive by Ukraine. Both Russian and Belarusian officials also framed the step as driven by hostilities from the West.
“Deployment of nonstrategic nuclear weapons is an effective response to the aggressive policy of countries unfriendly to us,” Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said in Minsk at a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu.
“In the context of an extremely sharp escalation of threats on the western borders of Russia and Belarus, a decision was made to take countermeasures in the military-nuclear sphere,” Shoigu added.
Putin has argued that by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russia was following the lead of the United States, noting that the U.S. has nuclear weapons based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya condemned the move.
“We must do everything to prevent Putin’s plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus, as this will ensure Russia’s control over Belarus for years to come,” Tsikhanouskaya told The Associated Press. “This will further jeopardize the security of Ukraine and all of Europe.”
Independent Belarusian military analyst Aliaksandr Alesin said about two-thirds of Russia’s arsenal of medium-range nuclear-tipped missiles were held in Belarus during the Cold War, adding that there are dozens of Soviet-era storage facilities that could still be used.
Soviet nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan were moved to Russia in a U.S.-brokered deal after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
“Documents in Minsk on the return of nuclear weapons were defiantly signed just at the moment when Ukraine declared a counteroffensive and Western countries are handing over weapons to Kyiv,” Alesin told the AP.
“This Belarusian nuclear balcony should spoil the mood for politicians in the West, since nuclear missiles are capable of covering Ukraine, all of Poland, the Baltic states and parts of Germany.”
Khrenin also announced plans to “build up the combat potential of the regional grouping of Russia and Belarusian troops,” including the transfer to Minsk of the Iskander-M missile system, capable of carrying a nuclear charge, and the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system.
Russia and Belarus have an alliance agreement under which the Kremlin subsidizes the Belarusian economy, via loans and discounted Russian oil and gas. Russia used Belarusian territory as a staging ground for invading neighboring Ukraine and has maintained a contingent of troops and weapons there.
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Follow AP coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-05-25T17:05:31+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/25/russia-signs-deal-to-deploy-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-belarus/ |
PARIS (AP) — In a show of France’s military prowess, President Emmanuel Macron visited a Caesar cannon firing range and missile testing facility Thursday.
The Elysee presidential palace said the presidential visit to the test center of the General Directorate of Armaments and to see ammunition manufacturing activities on the Nexter Arrowtech site — both in the Cher region of central France — is aimed to remind military “manufacturers of the objective of producing enough, more quickly and at controlled prices.”
He also visited the Bourges military preparatory school alongside Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
It comes four months after Macron set out the need to adapt the French military to new conditions amid war in Europe.
In June, the French leader ordered his armed forces ministers to reassess military strategy and weapon manufacturing because of “this high-intensity war that has returned to European soil.” He said that France must increase its military capacity and speed.
Macron’s rhetoric and visit in Cher highlights the dilemma of many NATO members, who have sent billions of dollars worth of arms to Ukraine to help the war effort — yet are well-aware the need to be prepared themselves if Russia targets them next.
Weapons shortages across Europe, including in France, could force hard choices for Ukraine’s allies.
Earlier this month, France pledged air defense systems to protect Ukrainian cities against drone strikes, as well as an expanded training program for Ukrainian soldiers, as it seeks to puncture perceptions that Macron’s centrist government has lagged in supporting Ukraine militarily against the Russian invasion.
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Follow all AP stories about the impact of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. | 2022-10-27T17:15:40+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-frances-macron-visits-military-sites-touts-arms-production/ |
DENVER, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KSL Capital Partners, LLC ("KSL"), a leading investor in travel and leisure businesses, today announced that an affiliate has acquired the Martin Resorts Collection of five independent boutique hotels along California's Central Coast, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The collection includes Avila Lighthouse Suites in Avila Beach; Pismo Lighthouse Suites and Shore Cliff Hotel in Pismo Beach; and Paso Robles Inn and The Piccolo in Paso Robles. Terms were not disclosed. KSL Resorts, a premier independent management company, will manage each of the hotels.
"We could not be more proud to be given the opportunity to continue on the traditions of Martin Resorts and its founding family," said Mike Mohapp, Partner at KSL. "More than 20 years ago, they created a spirit of hospitality to enrich the lives of their employees, guests, and the San Luis Obispo County community. We intend to fulfill the mission of the Martin family, and we look forward to building on this legacy through investments in these wonderful properties."
Noreen Martin, President and CEO of Martin Resorts – founded by her late husband Tom Martin in 1999 – added, "The Martin Resorts Collection has been the passion of my family for over two decades and finding the right partner to carry on our dedication to our local environment and community has been a priority for us. KSL shares our values and our commitment to providing guests with unforgettable and enduring experiences that reflect each resort's unique qualities. We are confident the firm is the right owner to nurture and enhance the attributes and traditions that have set the Martin Resorts Collection apart."
The five properties comprise 346 total rooms, including the 54 oceanfront, all suite Avila Lighthouse Suites, the 70 oceanfront newly-renovated all suite Pismo Lighthouse Suites, 100 oceanfront room Shore Cliff Hotel perched 90 feet above the Pacific Ocean, The Piccolo, a newly constructed 24 room intimate property in downtown Paso Robles, and the landmark 98 room Paso Robles Inn first established in 1889. Both The Piccolo and the Paso Robles Inn are located in the heart of wine country.
KSL will invest across the collection, providing guests a greater suite of amenities and more ways to engage with the local communities.
About KSL Capital Partners
KSL Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in travel and leisure enterprises in five primary sectors: hospitality, recreation, clubs, real estate and travel services. KSL has offices in Denver, Colorado; Stamford, Connecticut; London, England and Singapore. KSL invests across three primary strategies through its equity, credit and tactical opportunities funds. KSL's current portfolio includes some of the premier properties in travel and leisure. For more information, please visit www.kslcapital.com.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — An American push to establish “green shipping corridors” is key to reducing carbon emissions from the shipping industry, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday while touring the port of Yokohama near Tokyo.
Buttigieg was in Japan to attend a meeting over the weekend of transport ministers of the Group of Seven advanced economies, who reaffirmed a commitment to reducing emissions from the transport industry and to keeping navigation free and open in the Asia-Pacific region.
The U.S. is seeking to develop and strengthen partnerships with “like-minded countries” to improve maritime security and keep shipping and aviation corridors open, he told The Associated Press in an interview.
Emissions from maritime transport account for about 3% of total global emissions from human activities. Some 40% of Yokohama’s emissions come from its port.
About 90% of all traded goods are moved by sea, and maritime trade volumes are expected to triple by 2050, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Studies predict the industry’s share of greenhouse gas emissions could reach 15%. That has added urgency to efforts to cut such pollution.
The International Maritime Organization, which regulates commercial shipping, wants to halve its greenhouse gas releases by midcentury and may seek deeper cuts this year.
The Port of Los Angeles signed an agreement in March with port authorities of Yokohama and Tokyo to establish the so-called green shipping corridors, aiming to promote emissions reductions through use of net-zero emissions vessels and other efforts to reduce the flow of greenhouse gases from ports and shipping.
It also has formed similar partnerships with Singapore and Shanghai and the U.S. has begun discussing setting up such corridors in Southeast Asia. The initiative is also under discussion by the Quad, which includes Japan, the U.S., India and Australia.
Yokohama is the closest major port to North America across the Pacific and is a major regional hub.
Japan is working to reduce fossil fuel use and promote hydrogen and ammonia as alternative fuels. Yokohama plans to build a terminal for ships to import hydrogen, officials said. Other facilities in Yokohama allow a ship that is idling at the port to be powered electronically instead of burning heavily polluting marine fuel oil.
Similar initiatives are being promoted in U.S. ports, Buttigieg said, adding that Japanese leadership in developing hydrogen as fuel is going to be “a big part of the future.”
The Biden administration is pushing to speed up the transition to renewable and less polluting energy sources. While attending G7 meetings in April in Sapporo, northern Japan, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured the world’s first and only liquefied hydrogen carrier, a ship that showcases Japanese efforts to transform heavily polluting coal into emissions-free hydrogen power.
Japan aims to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, with a goal of becoming a “hydrogen society.” But its hydrogen industry is still in its initial stages, and still mostly reliant on hydrogen produced using fossil fuels.
“We know it will take more time for these to be deployed on a widespread basis, but you have to begin somewhere,” he said.
In a joint statement, Buttigieg and other G7 ministers reiterated their countries’ determination to support free and open navigation and expressed strong opposition to any attempts to change the “peacefully established status of territories by force” — a reference to concerns over China’s growing military presence and its longstanding claim to the separately governed island of Taiwan.
Disruptions to China-based manufacturing and trade during the pandemic, as well as the risk of conflict have prompted moves to diversify supply chains and reduce reliance on Chinese production of strategically important goods and commodities.
“We recognize that there will be a lot of geopolitical challenges affecting both trade and security in this region. This is party of why we have such an emphasis on de-risking and diversifying the economic relationships with regard to China,” Buttigieg said.
Yokohama is in the midst of a “blue carbon infrastructure” project that features promoting coastal structures like sea walls that can serve as habitat for marine life while absorbing planet-warming gasses emitted by the port.
While touring the port, Buttigieg was briefed about efforts to increase efficiency by accelerating use of remote-controlled cranes and autonomous-driven trailers, which can reduce waiting times for truck drivers and reduce emissions. | 2023-06-19T23:09:50+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/technology/ap-technology/buttigieg-says-us-green-corridors-initiative-key-to-cutting-shipping-industry-emissions/ |
Which New Balance basketball shoes are best?
You always want to look good when you’re on the basketball court, but you also want to play at your best. If you’re looking to upgrade your basketball shoes, it’s best to get something that fits well and enhances your performance.
New Balance is known for its comfortable shoes, and although it only offers two basketball shoes, they’re both made with high-quality fabrics and offer elite performance. The better shoes are the New Balance Kawhi 2 Basketball Shoes, as they have a stylish design and provide superior responsiveness and traction.
What to know before you buy New Balance basketball shoes
Size
Basketball requires a lot of quick and agile movements, so you don’t want to wear uncomfortable shoes when playing. Your basketball shoes could be made with the most comfortable fabrics, but you won’t perform at your best if you don’t wear the correct size. It’s best always to leave wiggle room in the toe box because although a snug fit is ideal, shoes can cause you discomfort or even pain if they’re too tight.
Ankle cut
There are three different ankle cut styles: low-cut, mid-cut and high-cut. Low-cut are suitable for speedy backcourt players, while mid-cut and high-cut shoes are ideal for forwards and centers since they tend to be more physical players who need more stability. However, even if you don’t play a frontcourt position, mid-cut and high-cut shoes offer more ankle support than low-cut shoes, so consider wearing them if you want a more secure feel and fit.
Material
The best basketball shoes are made with leather and synthetic materials, making them durable and providing more stability. Shoes made with canvas are regarded as inferior since they wear out faster, but they’re usually more lightweight and offer more flexibility and responsiveness.
You should look for durable shoes, but if they’re too stiff, you might find it awkward or difficult to move with agility as you play. In this case, a more flexible shoe is preferable.
What to look for in quality New Balance basketball shoes
Cushioning
Any sport that requires as much running and jumping as basketball begs the player to wear shoes with plenty of cushioning. High-quality basketball shoes have midsoles with soft foam cushioning for support, stability and comfort that should last for an entire game. Ethylene-vinyl acetate and polyurethane are the most common materials used for foam. EVA foam is softer and more responsive, but polyurethane foam offers more durability.
Traction
If your basketball shoes don’t have durable outsoles, you’re more likely to slip or slide on the court, which can affect your performance or cause injury. The outsole should be wide, flat and have a textured pattern for traction on hardwood and other indoor playing surfaces.
Color
As previously mentioned, New Balance is all about comfort and performance. Still, New Balance’s two basketball shoes are available in various colors and styles. This means you can choose shoes that complement your personal style or wear shoes that go with your school or team’s uniform and colors.
How much you can expect to spend on New Balance basketball shoes
Although there are different colors and styles, both New Balance basketball shoes usually retail for $130-$160.
New Balance basketball shoes FAQ
Is it a good idea to use additional insoles?
A. Additional insoles can be great if you want to boost comfort and stability for a more secure feel. However, many New Balance shoes are adequate in those areas, so it’s likely you won’t need to use them.
Can I play basketball shoes with another type of athletic shoe, such as tennis or volleyball shoes?
A. Although you can play wearing other athletic shoes, basketball shoes are engineered to provide elite performance and optimized stability, traction and support on the court.
What are the best New Balance basketball shoes to buy?
Top New Balance basketball shoes
New Balance Kawhi 2 Basketball Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes are comfortable, offer a secure feel and are inspired by star Los Angeles Clippers swingman Kawhi Leonard’s style.
What you’ll love: The upper provides a secure, locked-down fit and the FuelCell-infused midsole combines with a carbon fiber performance plate for more efficient energy transfer. The bottom of the tongue features plenty of cushioning, and the outsole has a durable textured pattern for superior traction.
What you should consider: They’re not made using any premium materials compared to what other shoe brands offer at the same price point.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top New Balance basketball shoes for the money
New Balance TWO WXY Basketball Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes offer superior flexibility and responsiveness and have a flashy color pattern.
What you’ll love: These mid-cut shoes provide excellent ankle support and have a durable synthetic upper with a midsole shank for superior stability. They have an Ortholite sockliner for added comfort and FuelCell foam for increased responsiveness as you stride.
What you should consider: They run small, so it’s advisable to purchase a size up.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Other basketball shoes you may like
Reebok Adult Resonator Mid Basketball Shoes for Men and Women
These mid-cut unisex shoes have a retro look and are made with high-quality leather for a durable build. They have a comfortable textile lining, a responsive rubber cup-sole and a rubber outsole for superior traction. They also have a premium embroidered logo and are available in 11 color styles.
Sold by Amazon
Nike Giannis Immortality Basketball Shoes
Inspired by superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, these shoes offer excellent comfort and have a midsole with curved cushioning for extra responsiveness and an upper with a lightweight mesh for breathability.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Deputy killed by suspected drunk driver during traffic stop, officials say
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WWSB/Gray News) – A deputy in Florida was killed Tuesday night when he was hit by a suspected drunk driver during a traffic stop, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
The deputy with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office has not yet been named, but officials said he was just 23 years old.
FHP said the deputy was conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 75 in Punta Gorda around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday and pulled over a car.
While the deputy and the driver were standing on the shoulder of I-75, an oncoming Jeep veered from the left-hand lane, crossed the center and right lanes, and drove onto the shoulder.
The Jeep then crashed into the deputy’s patrol vehicle, which then crashed into the car that was pulled over, hitting the deputy and the other driver.
The deputy and other driver were taken to the hospital, where the deputy later died. The other driver suffered serious injuries, FHP said.
A passenger in the car that was pulled over was not injured.
The driver of the Jeep was identified as 30-year-old Cassandra Smith from Massachusetts. She was uninjured in the crash.
Smith was arrested on charges of DUI manslaughter and booked into the Charlotte County Jail.
Charlotte County is located on the gulf coast of Florida, just north of Fort Myers.
Copyright 2022 WWSB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-23T17:11:49+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/11/23/deputy-killed-by-suspected-drunk-driver-during-traffic-stop-officials-say/ |
A Miami man was arrested last Friday for dumping contaminated waste near a southwest Miami-Dade body of water - the second time in the last seven months he has been charged with such crimes.
Julio Barreto, 51, was charged with a felony violation of Florida's litter law along with another felony and two misdemeanors after a viral video showed him dumping contaminated liquid wasted on the ground near a body of water in the 14300 block of Southwest 143rd Court.
Barreto is being held on $15,100 bond. The company who owned the truck in question, South Florida Van-Con Services, was fined $10,500 and the truck was seized.
Barreto and Dayron Barreto, who was 25 at the time, were both arrested in June for a similar violation of Florida's litter law. In that case, police said their investigation began after they learned of a viral video that showed workers disposing contaminated waste onto the lake of an apartment complex in the 10000 block of Northwest 45th Terrace.
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The two told detectives they received a contract to pump out 22 storm drains at the property for $3,300. After pumping out 21 drains, the vacuum truck reached capacity, so they decided to dump some of the contents near the lake, the reports said.
The truck in the June incident also belonged to South Florida Van-Con Services. Julio Barreto serves as the president while Dayron Barreto serves as the manger.
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"Once again, I am extremely proud of our Illegal Dumping Unit, for taking swift action and bringing the individuals to justice who recklessly disposed of contaminated waste into one of the lakes of our communities," Miami-Dade Police Director George A. Perez said in a statement after the June incident. "We appreciate the vigilance of our citizens who immediately posted the incident on social media. Caring for the environment is a shared responsibility." | 2023-01-31T13:18:35+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/miami-man-arrested-for-second-time-in-7-months-for-dumping-contaminated-waste/2962216/ |
Gemini XIII Expands Sales Reach and Services with Acquisition of Legendary Syndication Network
NEW YORK, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gemini XIII announces the acquisition of United Stations Radio Networks (USRN). USRN has served advertisers, broadcasters and content creators for over three decades.
The acquisition strengthens Gemini XIII's position in the audio landscape, expands its sales offerings, and solidifies its commitment to delivering top-notch content and premium services to audiences worldwide.
This marks the return to network radio for Spencer Brown, CEO of Gemini XIII, and Charles Steinhauer, COO of Gemini XIII, who built Dial Global, currently part of Westwood One. Brown also co-founded leading podcast network Cadence13, which sold to Audacy Inc. In 2019.
"We're excited to welcome USRN into the Gemini XIII ecosystem. We will be able to build on current successes and existing sales infrastructure to immediately grow and make Gemini a destination for producers, advertisers and sponsors looking to deliver to unique audiences.
The integration of Gemini XIII's digital expertise and podcasting prowess will result in a robust content ecosystem that provides an immersive and diverse range of audio experiences for listeners across platforms," said Steinhauer.
United Stations Chairman and CEO Nick Verbitsky commented, "Spencer Brown, CEO of Gemini XIII, and Charles Steinhauer, COO of Gemini XIII, have a track record of success in network radio having built Dial Global from the ground up. I am pleased that they will have the opportunity to continue to build United Stations, a company I started along with Dick Clark over thirty years ago and has been a leader in network radio."
For more information about the new United Stations please visit www.unitedstations.com.
About Gemini XIII
Gemini XIII serves the audio industry with premium sales, content, production, and marketing services for podcasting and radio. The company is based in New York, with offices in Dallas and Sydney, Australia. For more information about Gemini XIII, visit www.gemini13media.com.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Metropolitan School District announced Thursday the search to replace outgoing CEO Eric Gordon is down to two final candidates.
Dr. Warren Morgan and Dr. Ricardo “Rocky” Torres will advance to the final stage and will be interviewed by eight community panels, the district’s board of education and Mayor Justin Bibb on April 24 and 25. The panels will include teachers, staff, parents, students, community partners and union and district leadership, according to a letter released by the district and board.
The board and Bibb will select a candidate to appoint to CEO based on the two-day event.
Torres, a graduate of Cleveland State University, worked at CMSD from 2014 through 2019 as a school administrator before becoming an assistant superintendent of student services for Seattle Public Schools. Prior to CMSD, he worked for the New York City Department of Education as a bilingual special education teacher. The letter adds that throughout his career, he’s served as a mentor for educators and shared his expertise on curriculum, equity, restorative practices, instruction and community voice on both regional and national levels.
Morgan served as a network leader for CMSD’s Phase 2 Investment schools from 2014 through 2016. In his current capacity as chief academic officer for Indianapolis Public Schools, he’s in charge of the district’s academic vision, strategies and policies. Previously, Morgan has worked as the executive director of an education nonprofit and was a White House fellow under Presidents Obama and Trump, according to the letter.
The April 24 panel interviews with students, parents and caregivers will begin at 4 p.m. and will be available for live streaming at clevelandmetroschools.org/CEOSearch. The candidates’ biographies, video introductions and a link to provide feedback are also available on the page.
Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon announced in September that he will step down at the end of the 2022-2023 school year, after 11 years in that position, preceded by four years as chief academic officer. | 2023-04-20T21:31:41+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/04/cleveland-metropolitan-school-district-announces-two-finalists-for-ceo.html |
Western Media Group to market INEO's Retail Media Network to brands and advertisers
SURREY, BC, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - INEO Tech Corp. (TSXV: INEO) (OTCQB: INEOF) (the "Company" or "INEO"), the innovative developer and operator of the INEO Media Network, a digital advertising and analytics solution for retailers, is pleased to announce a partnership with Western Media Group ("Western Media") to market INEO's digital-out-of-home advertising inventory to brands and advertisers. Based in Vancouver BC, Western Media has been successfully selling digital and traditional advertising on a national level for 14 years and has developed an internationally respected programmatic advertising trading desk.
"Our new partnership with Western Media will provide a large boost to our ad sales efforts," commented Kyle Hall, CEO of INEO. "Western Media has already sold placements on the INEO Media Network to well respected national and regional brands, with several starting to run this month. With Western Media and our internal ad sales team working side by side, this will be a strong catalyst for the growth of INEO's advertising revenue."
"Western Media is a dynamic organization and has always been on the cutting edge of programmatic ad placement, which is now revolutionizing the Out-of-Home advertising industry," said Frank Halbach, Managing Director of Media Sales at INEO. "The INEO Media Network will benefit from Western Media's long-standing relationships with advertising agencies and media buyers across North America who can fill our digital screens with targeted advertising content."
David St. Laurent, CEO of Western Media commented, "We find this new partnership with INEO very exciting and believe from initial conversations with our advertising partners that there is a lot of interest in INEO's network. We are looking forward to working with INEO and placing advertising on INEO's growing Retail Media Network of in-store digital signage. INEO's patented technology delivers a unique ability to target consumers as they enter retail stores which advertisers find very alluring. We will help INEO showcase this advantage to the benefit of advertisers and work together to ensure success."
INEO's Retail Media Network reaches over 2.4 million motivated shoppers each month with highly visible digital display screens at the entrance of retail stores. INEO's intelligent demographic and analytics data enables unprecedented visibility and targeting for location-based advertising by brands and advertisers.
INEO Tech Corp.
Per: "Kyle Hall"
Kyle Hall, Chief Executive Officer and Director
About INEO Tech Corp. (TSXV: INEO; OTCQB: INEOF)
INEO Tech Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary, INEO Solutions Inc., operates the INEO Media Network, a digital advertising and analytics solution for retailers. INEO's patented technology integrates and monetizes digital screens with theft detection sensor gates at the entrance of retail stores. The Company's cloud-based platform uses IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to deliver customized digital advertising to each retail location based on the demographic mix, such as age and gender, of customer traffic at each location. The Company also deploys the INEO Welcoming Network technology through a SaaS-based solution to larger retail chains. INEO is headquartered in Surrey, Canada and publicly traded on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol "INEO" and on the OTCQB-Venture Market under the symbol "INEOF".
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Western Media Group is a leading Canadian provider of truly independent cross-media solutions. Spanning television, digital, programmatic, radio and out-of-home media, Western Media Group provides agencies and advertisers with access to a broad inventory of on-demand media properties. Please visit us at www.westernmediagroup.ca or on Twitter at @westernmedia.
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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
It's something we hear in every election season. Don't obsess over polls. Go tell it to Donald Trump.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
DONALD TRUMP: So CNN came out 33 for Trump; 20 for Cruz. That's good.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yeah.
TRUMP: Quinnipiac just came out 31 percent for Trump; 29 for Cruz. It's a little too close for comfort, folks. The PPP...
SIEGEL: That was Trump at an Iowa event earlier this month. He loves polls. He loves talking about polls, at least the ones that show him winning. And NPR political editor Domenico Montanaro loves polls, too, and he's here to guide us through the poll numbers that we're going to see in this next week before the Iowa caucuses next Monday. Hi, Domenico.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Hi, and I do love polls, maybe to not the specificity that Donald Trump does...
SIEGEL: (Laughter).
MONTANARO: ...And maybe to a little bit broader range, but we can talk about that.
SIEGEL: OK. A week away from the Iowa caucus - what's different about the polls we're going to see?
MONTANARO: Right now, pollsters are switching over from what's known as a registered voter model to a likely voter model, which means that they're essentially testing enthusiasm and whether or not people will go vote. And those lucky voter screens are making a lot of volatility right now. You can't compare what you saw five month ago to what you're seeing today 'cause it's a completely different universe of people.
SIEGEL: Because deciding who likely voters are, unlike who's a registered voter, it's a judgment call.
MONTANARO: It is. And part of that is because people are telling survey interviewers whether or not they voted, and it's not something that is based in fact because they're not using what's known as a voter file of real evidence of whether or not you voted.
SIEGEL: The rules for caucuses in Iowa are different for Democrats and Republicans. So the polls, as I understand - this could actually mean something different in terms of how well they predict the result.
MONTANARO: In a primary, a lot of times, poll track a little better. In a caucus, it's a lot harder because it's all about organization. And that's what's happening in this final week. Part of the problem is - is that, within certain precincts in Iowa, for example, you could have a concentration of support for Bernie Sanders in three counties where there are big universities. Well, if they don't spread out those folks, Hillary Clinton could wind up with more delegates in the same way Barack Obama wound up with more delegates in rural places than Hillary Clinton did out of big cities.
SIEGEL: It's like a little electoral college system system you describe...
MONTANARO: It kind of is, yeah...
SIEGEL: ...On the Democratic side.
MONTANARO: ...On the Democratic side. On the Republican side, it's very different. It's a little bit more like you would see in a primary system - more informal, though. People just fold over pieces of paper, hand them in. And both sides do make arguments for their candidates, but they don't have the same kind of process as Democrats.
SIEGEL: Four years ago in the Republican caucuses, Rick Santorum won by a whisker. Mitt Romney was second and Ron Paul third. That one didn't seem to be predicted by the most respected poll in Iowa.
MONTANARO: That's right. The most respected poll in Iowa that a lot of people talk about is the Des Moines Register Bloomberg Poll that's conducted by J. Ann Selzer. And her poll showed Ron Paul winning. Now, here's a caveat. She actually put a warning out about her own poll because this poll was conducted over four days, and she found, in the first two days - they had found Ron Paul in the lead. But by days three and days four, she saw a trend upward - an upward tick toward Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who got a lot of support from evangelicals in the western part of the state who appeared to be deciding late in the race more so toward Santorum.
SIEGEL: Are there any comparable internal trends that you can see, say, this time around in the Sanders-Clinton race?
MONTANARO: Well, one of the things I think is important to look at are trends, and I think one of the things you're seeing on both sides - I mean, on the Clinton-Sanders race, you're seeing them pretty much neck and neck. They're within the margin of error. On the Republican side, you've seen Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, over a long period of time now, be basically one and two. Who's to say who's first or second? It's very difficult to tell. We shouldn't go with the kind of specificity that Donald Trump might. We should look at the broader trend over time.
SIEGEL: And next week, Domenico, we can take all those polls and, well, grade them, would be a polite way of putting it.
MONTANARO: That's true, and I think people should just take a step back right now. Let everything settle with the volatility because Iowa voters will actually decide and tell us without a margin of error, very much so, who the winner is (laughter).
SIEGEL: That's NPR's political editor Domenico Montanaro. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-04-12T15:07:02+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/politics/politics/2016-01-25/poll-watch-how-to-examine-the-numbers-ahead-of-iowa |
Coming to a theater near you: $3 movie tickets for one day
NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,””Minions: Rise of Gru,“”Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
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The Smithsonian’s first great art donor is largely forgotten to history. In 1905, Charles Lang Freer offered his collection to the nation, but the Board of Regents wasn’t convinced that art was a good fit for an institution focused on history, science and technology. It took the intervention of President Teddy Roosevelt to close the deal (Alexander Graham Bell telegraphed the good news), and another 18 years to complete the Freer Gallery on the Mall, which opened on May 9, 1923.
On Thursday night, the gallery — now known as the National Museum of Asian Art — celebrated its 100th anniversary with a black-tie dinner for 200 donors, celebrities and diplomats at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industry building.
“These men understood the significance and symbolism of establishing a world-class art museum on the National Mall,” director Chase Robinson told the audience. “That the museum was devoted principally to Asian art reflected the internationalism and global ambitions of early-20th-century men.” Over the years, he said, the museum has evolved from a place of quiet contemplation to an engaged, global entity with the responsibility of contributing to what is “fast becoming an Asian century.”
Four years ago, the Smithsonian combined the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery into one museum displaying art from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia and the Middle East. The rebranding served both as a clearer description of the museum’s collection and a way to sidestep the problematic legacy of the Sackler name. The centennial celebration is a way for the museum to move on — acknowledging its past while focusing on the future.
100 years ago, the National Museum of Asian Art opened and was the first Asian art museum in the U.S. Today, it is a shining example of how art connects our cultures and communities.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) May 11, 2023
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A New York industrialist who made his fortune building railway cars, Freer traveled the globe and donated more than 9,500 pieces of American and Asian art to the Smithsonian. But he is best known for his patronage of artist James McNeill Whistler — and the gallery’s famed Peacock Room, which holds one of Whistler’s most famous paintings, “The Princess from the Land of Porcelain.” Freer was an unusual collector for his time, mixing Western and Eastern art into one, cohesive aesthetic.
“As an undergraduate, Washington, D.C., was tough for me,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Burch III told the audience. “But the Freer became my escape. It was the place where I could come and examine different cultures. It expanded my notions of creativity and allowed me to experience new ways of thinking.”
Freer was the first Gilded Age multimillionaire to donate his private collection and an endowment to the nation, launching Washington’s vast holdings of priceless art. (Three decades later, Andrew Mellon’s paintings and sculptures formed the foundation for the National Gallery of Art.)
The Freer grew over the next decades, but it was psychiatrist Arthur Sackler who made headlines in 1982 when he donated more than 1,000 pieces of Asian art valued at $50 million — and another $4 million for a building to showcase it. The gallery opened in 1987 with a three-day celebration that included philanthropists, politicians and even royalty.
Sackler died suddenly four months before the celebration. Eight years later, his younger brothers began selling OxyContin through their company Purdue Pharma. The Sackler name became synonymous with the global opioid crisis, and art institutions around the world cut ties and still face ongoing pressure to remove any trace of family’s donations. The Smithsonian, however, is legally bound to keep the Freer and Sackler names on the exterior of the buildings.
The damage to Sackler’s legacy is an ongoing source of frustration for his widow, Dame Jillian Sackler, a co-founder of the gallery who donated millions to the museum herself and attended Thursday’s celebration.
“His contribution has never been as respected as it should have been,” she said in an interview at the event. “Arthur was an extraordinary, great American and now he’s being lumped in with the Oxy-Sackler side of the family. It’s just so stupid and lazy and inaccurate.”
For the museum, it’s a complicated line to navigate. “For many, the opioid epidemic, although multi-causal, has become closely associated with one family’s name,” Robinson said in an interview. “Therefore, it’s a source for those of some unhappiness that that name remains in the gallery.”
There’s a public notice in the gallery, he said, that makes explicit mention of the opioid epidemic and notes the Smithsonian’s legal obligations to display the name. The Sackler debate is part of a larger historical examination of other institutions that bear the name of benefactors whose reputations have changed over time, how museum collections came together and who owns what art.
“We live in a time of reckoning, which, as a historian, I think is a good thing,” Robinson said. “To me, the absolute crucial response is candor and transparency.”
But the Sacklers were not the point of the gala. The theme for the night was “journeys” — both the literally journeys Freer made to amass his collection and the century-long evolution of the museum, Robinson said.
The formal, multicultural party brought together the ever-melding categories of East and West. Writer-actor Mindy Kaling, who joined the museum’s board last year, served as host, delivering lighthearted, occasionally profane commentary on the Hollywood’s writers’ strike, her love of the Smithsonian and her role as emcee, which consisted of one-liners and descriptions of the evening’s menu.
“When you think of Mindy Kaling, you don’t think ‘trustee of the Smithsonian museum,’” Kaling joked with the audience. “’Yes, she’s beautiful and put together, but she’s just a Hollywood starlet. She’s not an intellectual.’” (No joke: Her social media has introduced millions of her fans to the museum.)
The centennial celebration cumulates Saturday with an all-day festival, tours at the museum and a free, sold-out concert with K-pop star Eric Nam and singer Raveena. (Didn’t score a ticket? The concert will be simulcast on Freer Plaza near the Mall.)
The attention now is firmly on the next 100 years, with an eye on using the platform to showcase the changing definition of what it means to be an American and a global citizen.
Robinson thinks of the museum as “collection of collections” (it just announced a gift of rare Japanese lacquers from the late Jacqueline Avant) and said it fulfills a number of roles: conserving and preserving, scholarship and public programs.
“But I often think about it as an empathy and respect generator,” he continued. “That’s what it does. Visitors come in, many of whom are not deeply familiar with Asian art, and they spend a half an hour or an hour, and when they leave they have a newfound respect and admiration for the creative genius of Asian cultures. That’s what I like to think.”
So does Bunch: “This museum allows the public to find understanding, to find clarity, to find a way across cultural lines,” he told the audience. By using American and Asian art, the museum starts conversations about “identity, inclusion, and diversity. It’s telling a more complete version of the American story, and it helps to foster understanding and tolerance.” | 2023-05-12T18:22:22+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/12/smithsonian-asian-art-museum-centennial/ |
HOUSTON, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Imaging, a global leader in manufacturing advanced medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment, and Memorial MRI & Diagnostic, a leader in diagnostic and imaging services in Texas, celebrated the installation of new technology for its patients in Katy, TX.
According to Todd Greene, COO of Memorial MRI and Diagnostic, the uMR OMEGA purchased from United Imaging is the first 3T MRI in an outpatient imaging center in Katy and Memorial's first 3T MRI in the Houston area.
"We look for the right value and technology, so we have strategically aligned with United Imaging in some of our very strategic, high-end imaging modalities to provide best-in-class technology for our patients," he said. "You have to select technology that is scalable, relevant, and very usable. But, equipment is just equipment if it's not working well, if it's not upgraded in a timely way. We really look for a company that can walk with us down our path, be it quality, service, or our goals around providing access to the best MRI exams to our community. We look for all of those components to drive excellence." He cited as an example United Imaging's Software Upgrades for Life™ program, where all installed systems are upgraded with the latest software at no additional charge throughout the life of the equipment.
The uMR OMEGA in Katy is the 12th medical imaging system Memorial MRI has purchased from United Imaging to aid in its expansion, according to Abram Voorhees, Vice President of Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography in the U.S. "Memorial MRI & Diagnostic puts the patient first and cares so much about expanding to serve their community in the best way; we feel very aligned with them and their mission and we want to support them in achieving it for many years to come." The 75-cm ultra-wide bore uMR OMEGA was selected to reduce barriers for patients that historically have difficulty getting an MRI, including large athletes, bariatrics, and patients with claustrophobia and anxiety. In practice, the uMR OMEGA increases Memorial's ability to successfully scan more patients in their community.
Jeffrey Bundy, Ph.D, CEO of United Imaging Healthcare Solutions, added that his goal from the moment the company launched in the U.S. in 2018 has been to make sure every employee at every customer will have a superb experience with us. "Achieving that to this point has confirmed, three and a half years after entering this market, that United Imaging was needed in our market and industry."
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With peanut harvest getting into swing, Georgia growers will soon know how the extreme heat and rainfall this summer affected the crop. For more peanut harvest photos, go to AlbanyHerald.com.
Three tractors dig peanuts in a Worth County field on Friday. Baker, Mitchell and Worth counties are among the top 10 peanut producers in the state. For more peanut harvest photos, go to AlbanyHerald.com.
A week of projected sunny weather has allowed peanut pickers to get out in the fields in southwest Georgia for the annual harvest. For more peanut harvest photos, go to AlbanyHerald.com.
With peanut harvest getting into swing, Georgia growers will soon know how the extreme heat and rainfall this summer affected the crop. For more peanut harvest photos, go to AlbanyHerald.com.
Three tractors dig peanuts in a Worth County field on Friday. Baker, Mitchell and Worth counties are among the top 10 peanut producers in the state. For more peanut harvest photos, go to AlbanyHerald.com.
A week of projected sunny weather has allowed peanut pickers to get out in the fields in southwest Georgia for the annual harvest. For more peanut harvest photos, go to AlbanyHerald.com.
ALBANY – When it comes to the southwest Georgia peanut harvest, the proof is in the pudding, or more accurately, in the rows of goobers being plowed up in fields across the region.
The tasty legumes are big business in Georgia, with the top 10 counties for peanuts in the Albany vicinity, including the top two in 2020, Mitchell and Worth, as well as Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early and Miller counties.
“So far, so good,” Baker County grower Shane Kelly said. “It’s going along pretty good.”
After weeks of wet weather, the harvest has just gotten under way, and tractors have finally begun turning up peanuts in the region.
Kelly said his operation did not have as much rain as was the case in other nearby counties. In other locales, wet weather has been a factor. Heavy rainfall caused the postponement of the annual Field Day at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie in July, and frequent, heavy rains have been the norm for much of the region.
“If we can get them picked, I think we’ll have a pretty good crop,” Kelly said. “They look good.”
The value of peanuts for the top 10 counties, which is rounded out by Berrien, Irwin and Seminole counties in addition to the seven listed above, was $17.5 million, according to the University of Georgia’s 2020 Farm Gate Value report.
Georgia is the top producer in the nation of broiler chickens, pecans and peanuts, and row and forage crops added $12.9 billion to the state’s economy in 2020.
With the harvesting season just getting into swing, it may be a few weeks before an accurate assessment may be made for peanuts, said Jeremy Kichler, a farm extension agent in Colquitt County.
Kickler and his counterparts have been holding clinics for the past few weeks and making recommendations on the best time to start picking.
“People started digging,” he said. “I’ve heard we’ve had some decent grades so far. Dry weather is going to be in for the next week or 10 days.”
One of the questions is how the weather will affect yield and quality.
“We’ve had some decent weather extremes this year,” Kichler said. “We had the heat and then rainy spells in August and September. We won’t know how that will impact yield until we put the pickers in the fields. The verdict is out.”
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DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic has his co-star, and the Dallas Mavericks are set for their season essentially to start over after trading for Kyrie Irving.
The blockbuster deal with Brooklyn sending the mercurial Irving to the Mavericks became official Monday, two days before what figures to be his Dallas debut at the Los Angeles Clippers.
Dallas also gets Markieff Morris in a trade that sent Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, a 2029 first-round pick and two second-round choices to the Nets.
It’s unknown if Doncic will be available against the Clippers. He wasn’t with the Mavs at the start of a five-game trip out West after bruising his right heel in the final home game before the trip. He was ruled out of the second game on the trip at Utah on Monday night.
Whenever the All-Stars do get on the court together, Doncic and Irving instantly become one of the NBA’s top duos in a tightly packed Western Conference. Mavs coach Jason Kidd said that made the opportunity too good to pass up, despite the distractions Irving has caused off the court.
“To have the ability to have two starters that are going to start in the All-Star Game, for the Mavs, is probably a first,” Kidd said. “We have to be excited about this opportunity. It’s easy to look at all the talk of the negative, but let’s look at the positive of what he’s done on and off the court. That’s the way we approach it.”
The Nets hardly even said goodbye, perhaps fed up from all the drama Irving caused in just 3½ seasons.
Brooklyn’s news release on the trade barely mentioned Irving, whereas the announcement last year that they had dealt James Harden to Philadelphia included a quote from general manager Sean Marks thanking the star guard for his contributions and wishing him well in the future.
Irving’s departure was a far cry from the fanfare that followed his arrival along with Kevin Durant in 2019, when the player who was a Nets fan in New Jersey came home in hopes of leading the franchise to its first title.
But they never got close, and when Irving asked to be traded, just like he once did in Cleveland, the Nets quickly accommodated him.
Irving is set to become a free agent after the season. But negotiations will involve Dallas general manager Nico Harrison, who was a Nike executive before taking over the Mavericks in 2021.
Irving had a relationship with Nike for the entirety of his NBA career until earlier this season, when the sneaker giant dropped him and canceled the planned release of his next signature shoe just before it dropped. It was part of the massive fallout from Irving posting a link to an antisemitic film on his Twitter account.
That was one of many drama-filled sagas that marked Irving’s time with the Nets. He wouldn’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 and, because of New York City workplace rules, had to miss most of Brooklyn’s home games last season. He also took two leaves of absence during the 2020-21 season.
He has expressed no shortage of controversial opinions during his career — including repeated questioning whether the Earth was round before eventually apologizing to science teachers.
Doncic is in a dead heat for the scoring lead with fellow MVP candidate Joel Embiid of Philadelphia, and is the only one of the seven current 30-point scorers also averaging at least eight rebounds and eight assists per game. Irving is averaging 27.1 points, 5.3 assists and 5.1 rebounds.
The West has several title-contending teams beyond defending champion Golden State, which eliminated the Mavs in the conference finals last season.
Jalen Brunson was crucial to Dallas’ playoff run alongside Doncic last season, but decided he wanted his own starting role as a point guard and left for the New York Knicks in free agency.
While the Mavericks traded for a solid No. 2 scorer in Christian Wood in the offseason, they haven’t been able to win without Doncic this season.
Dallas was 0-7 without Doncic going into the game against the Jazz, when Wood was expected to return after missing eight games with a fractured left thumb.
A year ago, the Mavericks were right around .500 when their surge started just as the calendar turned to 2022. The arrival of 2023 hasn’t had the same effect — the high point so far is six games over .500 — but the Mavs hope the arrival of Irving will.
Dallas beat Utah twice in the first three games of a first-round series last season when Doncic was out with a calf injury, and Brunson was the biggest reason. Now Doncic has higher-profile help.
“Just being able to give Luka an opportunity to come down the court without having to dribble or run every play,” Kidd said. “We look back when we had (Brunson) and being able to have a playmaker like that. When you look at Ky, nothing against (Brunson), but Ky is at a different level.”
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities in the region but environmentalists say is counter to President Joe Biden’s climate goals.
A decision on ConocoPhillips Alaska’s Willow project, in a federal oil reserve roughly the size of Indiana, could come by early March.
Q: What is the Willow project?
A: The project could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the company — about 1.5% of total U.S. oil production. But in Alaska, Willow represents the biggest oil field in decades. Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the development could be “one of the biggest, most important resource development projects in our state’s history.”
On average, about 499,700 barrels of oil a day flow through the trans-Alaska pipeline, well below the late-1980s peak of 2.1 million barrels.
ConocoPhillips Alaska had proposed five drilling sites as part of the project. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in early February identified up to three drill sites initially as a preferred alternative, which ConocoPhillips Alaska said it considered a viable option. But the U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the bureau, took the unusual step of issuing a separate statement expressing “substantial concerns” with the alternative and the project.
The alternative showed extracting and using the oil from Willow would produce the equivalent of more than 278 million tons (306 million short tons) of greenhouse gases over the project’s 30-year life, roughly equal to the combined emissions from 2 million passenger cars over the same time period. It would have a roughly 2% reduction in emissions compared to ConocoPhillips’ favored approach.
Q: Is there support for Willow?
A: There is widespread political support in Alaska, including from the bipartisan congressional delegation, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and state lawmakers. There also is “majority consensus” in support in the North Slope region, said Nagruk Harcharek, president of the group Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat, whose members include leaders from across much of that region. Supporters have called the project balanced and say communities would benefit from taxes generated by Willow to invest in infrastructure and provide public services.
City of Nuiqsut Mayor Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, whose community of about 525 people is closest to the proposed development, is a prominent opponent who is worried about impacts on caribou and her residents’ subsistence lifestyles. But opposition there isn’t universal. The local Alaska Native village corporation has expressed support.
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat who is Yup’ik, said there is “such consensus in the region and across Alaska that this project is a good project.” She hoped to make a case to Biden that the project would create well-paying union jobs.
Ahtuangaruak said she feels voices like hers are being drowned out.
Q. What are the politics of the decision?
Biden faces a dilemma that pits Alaska lawmakers against environmental groups and many Democrats in Congress who say the project is out of step with Biden’s goals to slash planet-warming carbon emissions in half by 2030 and move to clean energy. Approval of the project would represent a betrayal by Biden, who promised during the 2020 campaign to end new oil and gas drilling on federal lands, environmentalists say.
Biden has made fighting climate change a top priority and backed a landmark law to accelerate expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, and move the U.S. away from the oil, coal and gas.
He faces attacks from Republican lawmakers who blame Biden for gasoline price spikes that occurred after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Q: Didn’t the Biden administration support Willow?
A: Justice Department attorneys in 2021 defended in court an environmental review conducted during the Trump administration that approved the project. But a federal judge later found flaws with the analysis, setting aside the approval and returning the matter to the land management agency for further work. That led to the review released in early February.
Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she was concerned the Biden administration would “try to have it both ways” by issuing an approval but including so many restrictions it would render the project uneconomical.
Earthjustice, an environmental group, has encouraged project opponents to call the White House, urging Willow’s rejection.
Q: What about greenhouse gas emissions?
A: Federal officials under former President Donald Trump claimed increased domestic oil drilling would result in fewer net global emissions because it would decrease petroleum imports. U.S. companies adhere to stricter environmental standards than those in other countries, they argued.
After outside scientists rejected the claim and a federal judge agreed, the Interior Department changed how it calculates emissions.
The latest review, under the Biden administration, is getting pushback over its inclusion of a suggestion that 50% of Willow’s net emissions could be offset, including by planting more trees on national forests to capture and store carbon dioxide. Reforestation work on federal lands was something the administration already planned and needed to meet its broader climate goals, said Michael Lazarus, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.
“That doesn’t help you meet a reduction goal. It’s absurd,” said Lazarus, whose work was cited by the judge who overruled the Trump-era environmental review. “It doesn’t address the fact that we’re increasing global emissions by doing this project. … We’re locking in emissions for 30 years into the future when we should be on a reduction schedule.”
Q: What about Biden’s promises to curtail oil drilling?
A: Biden suspended oil and gas lease sales after taking office and promised to overhaul the government’s fossil fuels program.
Attorneys general from oil-producing states convinced a federal judge to lift the suspension — a ruling later overturned by an appeals court. The administration ultimately dropped its resistance to leasing in a compromise over last year’s climate law. The measure requires the Interior Department to offer for sale tens of millions of acres of onshore and offshore leases before it can approve any renewable energy leases.
The number of new drilling permits to companies with federal leases spiked in Biden’s first year as companies stockpiled drilling rights and officials said they were working through a backlog of applications from the Trump administration. Approvals dropped sharply in fiscal year 2022.
The Biden administration has offered less acreage for lease than previous administrations. But environmentalists say the administration hasn’t done enough.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in a recent interview declined direct comment on Willow but said that “public lands belong to every single American, not just one industry.”
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Brown reported from Billings, Montana. Associated Press writer Matthew Daly in Washington contributed to this story. | 2023-03-01T12:11:01+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-biden-faces-dilemma-in-fight-over-large-alaska-oil-project/ |
By the time it's done, HBO's House of the Dragon will have adapted a hefty, 225-page chunk of George R.R. Martin's 737-page 2018 book, Fire & Blood. Season one is on track to churn through roughly 75 pages' worth. If you do the math, factoring in five seasons, it doesn't square.
But of course adaptation isn't a function of strict, empirical mathematics. Choices are made to condense or breezily elide certain characters and events, while assiduously and deliberately unpacking others. Also, Fire & Blood isn't a conventional fantasy novel filled with fully dramatized scenes to reproduce — it instead presents itself as one historian's attempt to reconcile various conflicting accounts of discrete milestone events that occurred long before his time. Hence this season's time-jumps and actor re-castings, which attempt to account for the sweep of years.
I think it's safe to say we're done with the time-jumps now, as the civil war this show is fixing to dramatize — the so-called Dance of the Dragons — takes place over the course of just three years. So with the coronation of Aegon II, the triggering event of the Dance, these are our players for the duration.
The characters in Blood & Fire are a lot more...linear, shall we say, than those of House of the Dragon. More ruthless, more single-minded, less troubled by stirrings of doubt and empathy. But the two works still co-exist neatly, if you imagine House of the Dragon as the real events, and Fire & Blood as the history of those events that's filtered down to someone writing about them centuries later.
Take this week's episode, in which a split occurs among those who back Aegon's claim, the Greens. A reluctant Alicent vies with her more ruthless father Otto — not over whether to crown Aegon the Aess, they're completely united on that front — but over how to go about it and how to deal with Rhaenyra and her allies.
No hint of any such split occurs in Fire & Blood, but inserting one into the series underscores the more compassionate elements of Alicent's character that the showrunners started introducing back in episode one. She's not the grasping schemer of the book, she's a woman who's deeply troubled by the means those loyal to her are willing to go to — even if she's distinctly untroubled by the end they arrive at.
Introducing such internal conflicts doesn't simply add nuance and enrich character, of course. It also helps to turn a paltry few pages of the book into a full hour of television. Not for nothing.
Red Keep at night, traitors delight
Open on: The Red Keep at night. The fires are are snuffed in the Throne Room, the Small Council chamber is dark, as is the courtyard. A small boy — a page, let's say — leaves the dead king's bedchamber and makes his way through the empty castle down to the kitchens. (Note that while up in the Red Keep proper, the pious Alicent ordered the dragon iconography of House Targaryen replaced with that of the Faith of the Seven, down here, in the bowels of the castle that only the servants ever see, the dragons persist, in the wall sconces that light his way.)
The boy whispers his dark news to Talia, Alicent's handmaiden, whom we know is one of the White Worm Mysaria's spies in the Red Keep. Talia dutifully informs Alicent, then not-so-dutifully lights candles in a specific window of the Red Keep — a signal to Mysaria that the king is dead.
One imagines they'd worked out a code. One if by Hand, two if by seizure, that kind of thing.
A tearful Alicent reports to Otto her (wildly misconstrued!) understanding of Viserys' last words — his wish that his (unworthy and detestable!) oldest son Aegon the Aess become king. Otto looks like she just told him it's Daddy Week in Oldtown, and his drinks are BOGO.
In the Small Council chamber, we see the convening of what will later be known as the Green Council:
Queen Alicent, at the head of the table, looking sad.
Standing by her side: Otto Hightower, Hand of the King, looking smug and Criston Cole, Alicent's personal guard and a member of the Kingsguard, looking like the jackass in a can that he is.
On the other end of the table sits Tyland Lannister, master of ships, looking squirrelly. As is his wont.
Also present: Jasper Wylde, master of laws, looking tough; Grand Maester Orwyle, looking soft; and kindly old Lord Beesbury, master of coin, looking for his Werther's Originals and his cup of tapioca pudding, which the nurse promised him.
Glowering nobly at everyone from the corner is Harrold Westerling, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. Also Grand Marshall of Oldtown's Daddy Week Parade, from the looks of him.
(In Fire & Blood, Larys Strong is also present for this scene; there's no sign of him here. But I mean: He's Larys. I like to imagine him just off-camera, skulking awkwardly behind some drapes. Everyone can see him, but they just roll their eyes at each other and collectively agree to pretend that they don't.)
And now his buzz has ended
Otto announces that the king is dead, and that his dying wish was for Aegon the Aess to replace him. It quickly becomes clear that several members of the Small Council, led by Otto, are relieved at this, because they'd been secretly planning as much already. This news leaves Alicent surprised, Lord Commander Westerling disgusted, and old Lord Beesbury blustering.
He rises, and starts shouting that he will take no part in this treason, when Criston Cole steps up behind him, grabs his shoulders and shoves him back into his seat. The Beesbury butt makes it back there safe and sound, but his head slams into the marble-sphere doohickey they each use to register their presence at the table.
Which is ironic, as it now registers only Lord Beesbury's permanent absence, as the blood pools around his head.
Swords are drawn: Westerling vs. Cole, with Cole ultimately backing down. (In this scene, Tyland leaves plenty of room between himself and the combatants, representing all of us who've taken our beers with us to a far corner of the bar the second we sensed a fight brewing.)
Alicent pieces together that Otto and the rest of the council mean to kill Rhaenyra to prevent her and Daemon attracting enough followers to challenge Aegon. Lord Commander Westerling — who, you'll remember, greeted young Rhaenyra home warmly in the very first scene of the series — goes from looking disgusted to horrified. It's not subtle; Jim Carrey has a better poker face. When Otto orders Westerling to go to Dragonstone and snuff out Rhaenyra and co. he balks, surrenders the White Cloak of the Kingsguard, and leaves.
You'd think Criston Cole would look shamed, or even chastened, by this. You'd be wrong.
Princess Helaena, Aegon's sister-wife, is in her chambers, happily cross-stitching herself a nasty-ass spider, staying ruthlessly on-brand. She lectures her nanny and her twins, Jaehaerys and Jaeheara — no, seriously, that's their names — about Targaryen natural order. The gist: Just go ahead and covet thy neighbor's everything, that's a-okay by us.
As Alicent tries to break the news about Viserys, Helaena busts out a variation on last week's vaguely prophetic non-sequitur: "There is a beast beneath the boards!" Also: she doesn't know where Aegon is.
Rhaenys has been locked in her bedchamber, but from her window she watches guards rounding up the servants who know about Viserys' death — including Talia — while Larrys looks pleased with himself. More than baseline, I mean.
Also: Rhaenys, Lady of Driftmark, the Queen That Never Was, only rates a room that overlooks the Red Keep's inner courtyard? The place is surrounded by the sea on three sides! Give my girl oceanfront! Oceanview, at the very least! Show some respect!
Where's Weirdo?
Otto dispatches Erryk Cargyll, a member of the Kingsguard, to head into King's Landing with his twin brother Arryk (resigned sigh), find Aegon the Aess and bring him back to Otto, and Otto alone — without telling the queen.
The queen, however, has sent Criston Cole on the same mission, with Aegon's younger brother Aemond One-Eye to guide him, as Aemond knows his brother's kinks. Alicent entreats Criston to bring Aegon to her, and her alone — and she knowingly exploits Criston's obvious, puppy-dog affection for her to do so. Hey, no judgment. Whatever works, queen.
In King's Landing, on the Street of Silk, Criston and Aemond question a brothel owner, who assures them that Aegon's a freak, and his tastes run rougher — less to the Street of Silk, and more to the Back Alley of Burlap, as it were.
The wacky comedy team of Erryk and Arryk are also doing some shoe-leather investigating, while arguing over Aegon's right to rule. Erryk is disgusted by the thought — even more so when they stumble across one of Aegon's frequent haunts, a fighting pit where feral children are unleashed upon on another. They also spy evidence that Aegon has sired a few of these adorable death-moppets himself.
An agent of the White Worm tells them she knows where to find Aegon — for a price, and only if she can talk to their boss.
Criston and Aemond are having no luck, which gives Aemond a chance to air his resentment of his lazy, stupid, rapey brother, and make a case for himself as someone with the intellect, drive and combat skills to rule — if not the depth-perception.
Back in the Iron Throne room, Otto has gathered various lords of the realm to announce that Aegon is now the heir, and to ask — which is to say: demand — that they swear fealty. Most do, but two refuse: House Fell, and House Sorry I Couldn't Tell Where The Dude Was From But The Actor Was Good.
One of the lords who (eventually) swears allegiance to Aegon the Aess is Lord Caswell, which doesn't make sense, if you remember that both times we've seen this guy before — in episode six, on the long staircase, and in episode eight, fawningly greeting Rhaenyra and family in the courtyard — he's acted like a total Team Rhaenyra fanboy.
Which it turns out he still is, and gets captured trying to leave the Red Keep and warn the diva for which he stans. He gets hanged in the courtyard for all to see; fandom is a bloodsport, y'all.
Arryk, Erryk and Otto Hightower meet Mysaria, the White Worm, at a kind of Fantasy Food Court (try the Orange Chicken at Fantasy Panda Express!). Otto tries to high-hand her — to high-Hand her, I suppose — but she's having none of it. She found Aegon in Flea Bottom, and she put him somewhere safe. She'll tell them where, if they agree that when he becomes king, he'll put a stop to the Li'l Scampz Fighting PitsTM. Otto, impressed, agrees to "look into it," which is Westerosi for "prepare a white paper on the potential to launch a task force to investigate the feasibility of forming a shadow-committee, pro-tem."
Yet another person tells Rhaenys she should have been queen. Bitch, she knows.
Back at the Red Keep, Alicent visits the detained Rhaenys, and they get a juicy scene together wherein Alicent tries to convince Rhaenys that Viserys had a deathbed change of heart. Rhaenys scoffs at this, because seriously - wouldn't you?
Alicent launches in, asking for Rhaenys' support by trying a pseudo-feminist appeal: House Velaryon's alliance with Rhaenyra never did anything for you — and anyway, it's Lord Corlys who clings to that alliance, you're smarter than that, surely? Also: You should have been queen. Boo, men! Men suck! We women can't rule, but we can guide the men who do!
My gal Rhaenys can see that Alicent's a smart cookie, but she turns the queen's argument right back on her: You're the one debasing yourself in service of men, girl. You're only doing what your husband, your father and your son want! Why isn't it your perky royal butt on the Iron Throne, not theirs?
Erryk and Arryk find Aegon in a sept and attempt to take him home, but he whines that he doesn't want to be king and tries several times to escape their custody. Arryk (I think?) frog-marches him out of the sept, while Erryk (probably?), who's more disgusted by Aegon than ever, hangs back.
They are met on the steps by Criston Cole and Aemond One-Eye. Criston engages Arryk in combat, Aemond engages a fleeing Aegon in a flying tackle. Aegon entreats his brother to let him go, so he can flee Westeros and never come back. Aemond seriously considers the proposal; you can see it in his eye.
But then Criston wins the duel, goes up to the royal twerps, puts his hand around Aegon's shoulder and is all like, "Can I steal you away for a minute?"
That night, Alicent has it out with Otto. He accuses her of squeamishness, and repeats that leaving Rheanyra alive is a mistake. You can't make an omelet without slaughtering a few children, is basically his argument.
Alicent is determined to make her omelet with egg-substitute, however. She puts her Big Queen Pantaloons on, and starts dictating how it's all gonna go. Rhaenyra will be given fair terms to accept Aegon. Aegon will be anointed right away, with the crown and Valyrian-steel sword of Aegon the Conqueror called Blackfyre.
The game's afoot. Afeet, technically, I suppose.
When she returns to her chambers, Larys is waiting for her with the news that Talia, her handmaiden, is part of the White Worm's spy network. Not only that, but the queen's own father fully aids and abets said spy network. Larys knows who leads it, and is prepared to take them out. (Later, we'll see a cloaked figure walking away from the blazing fire that's consuming the White Worm's home. But don't count Mysaria out just yet.)
As he's talking, Alicent removes her shoes and stockings in a practiced way. Larys...notices this.
And by "notices" I mean "slavers over."
Which, fine, okay: Larys is a feet guy. Whatever! It's Alicent's choice to go along with it, so you know: Life's Rich Pageant! Y'all do y'all! (That said, it's very clear that the show wants us to kink-shame Larys here — to see this whole setup as sick and twisted, or even somehow as something that logically follows out of his default, gestalt creepiness. Not loving that.)
Alicent turns away, careful to keep her feet fully visible; Larys then proceeds to...feel his oats, as it were. Which, again, seems like something they've both agreed to, so, yeah. That all happened.
I suppose what this whole sequence is doing thematically is re-establishing that Alicent is prepared to make sacrifices to get what she wants. Sex with Viserys was no fun, but she was queen. Her kids are monsters, but they'll rule. Criston Cole is lovesick over her, which she can use. It's also underscoring that her vaunted Faith, and her repeated appeals to "decency" and "propriety," are just so much hypocritical blather, because look: Here she is, fully prepared to bust out the royal gunboats and slap 'em on a table, if it means gaining a strategic advantage.
We get a nice, "Everybody Hurts" montage of characters in the Red Keep staring into space forlornly, then Erryk Cargyll enters Rhaenys' bedchamber and leads her out of the Red Keep in disguise.
That's right, we've got us an Erryk vs. Arryk split. Erryk for the Blacks, Arryk for the Greens. Brother against brother! Call Ken Burns!
(Here's a handy mnemonic: Arryk is Team Aegon. Erryk is Team Erhaenyra.)
(I'm still workshopping it.)
Duty and the beast
Rhaenys is led into the streets of King's Landing. She's determined to go to the Dragonpit and get her dragon Meleys, but Arryk tells her they'll be expecting her to do just that, so she should leave the beast behind and make for the river and find a ship. But she doesn't get the chance, as the Gold Cloaks are literally herding the townspeople in one direction. (How literal is "literally herding?" We get some shots of sheep. That's how literal.)
Rhaenys gets separated from Erryk and looks worried, but the minute she sees where she and everyone else is being herded to, she smiles.
Cut to: The Dragonpit, the site of Aegon the Aess's coronation, which is now thronged with the hoi-polloi of King's Landing.
In the carriage ride to his crowning, Alicent attempts to talk a sulking Aegon into ruling with compassion and sparing Rhaenyra's life. The Valyrian steel dagger makes still another cameo appearance, officially qualifying it for an Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series nomination.
Aegon doesn't listen to his mother's wise counsel on the subject of good governance, of course, and spends the scene whining that his father never loved him. For a moment I thought the show was gonna double down on this hoary gambit in an attempt to stoke some sympathy for Aegon; when he asks Alicent if she loves him, I sincerely worried they were gonna waste precious airtime to trying to humanize his detestable aess. But then Alicent calls him an imbecile, rightly, and we all dodge a bullet.
The coronation is full of pomp and circumstance (and the heady odor of dragon dung, presumably). Trumpets, anointing, the whole Westerosi nine yards. He's crowned with Aegon the Conqueror's Valyrian steel crown.
The crowd isn't too stoked about it all, until Criston Cole gooses them with a cry of "Aegon the King!" and the hilarious smattering of applause becomes real applause. Aegon raises the Valyrian steel sword called Blackfyre over his head.
If he was meant to give a speech (what a horrible thought), he doesn't get to, because the enormous she-dragon Meleys crashes up through the Dragonpit's floor (like some kind of beast beneath the boards, almost!) with Rhaenys on her back.
Some peasants tumble through the air, others get crushed, still others get whipsawed by Meleys's tail. From the looks of it, hundreds die, and hundreds more are injured.
Meleys approaches the stage where Aegon, Alicent, Criston, Otto and the others stand. Rhaenys and Alicent share a moment. The queen closes her eyes, fully expecting to be well and truly dracarysed into next Tuesday, but Meleys only roars at them, and turns away toward the massive Dragonpit doors — which the Gold Cloaks are attempting to close.
Under whose orders? Not Otto's — he's screaming for them to open the doors so the dragon can leave. Smartest order he's ever given.
Meleys and Rhaenys do make it out, and soar over and away from King's Landing, to inform Rhaenyra and Daemon of all the hubbub.
Parting Thoughts:
The Greens (Team Aegon the Aess) have:
The Blacks (Team Rhaenyra) have:
Plus, three dragon eggs. With Laenor "dead," Seasmoke is currently riderless. We know that Baela has a dragon, but we haven't met it yet. And we haven't gotten an update on Rhaena's dragon-status, either.
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INDIANAPOLIS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multifamily investment firm Gray Capital has closed on their acquisition of Club Meridian Apartments, a 406-unit property located in Okemos, MI just east of Lansing, MI.
Gray Capital intends to make strategic upgrades at the property, including siding and asphalt repairs, pool upgrades, re-painted balconies, new signage, and other exterior enhancements to boost the curb appeal of the property. Additionally, interior renovations like modern appliances, new flooring, and upgraded countertops will significantly increase the value of the asset and elevate its position in the rental market.
"Club Meridian is already a well-maintained property, and this solid foundation will allow us to dedicate our resources to those renovations and improvements that are most important to residents and the quality of the property itself," says Spencer Gray, President and CEO of Gray Capital.
George Tikijian, Hannah Ott, and Cameron Benz of the Indianapolis Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction, with Gray Capital representing itself.
Club Meridian is the second property within Gray Capital's $100 million multifamily investment fund, The Gray Fund, (http://gray.fund) and follows the acquisition of Indianapolis apartment property Stonybrook Commons one month prior.
The acquisition of Club Meridian and Stonybrook Commons in 2022 adds to Gray Capital's $600+ million in assets under management and more than $1 billion in commercial real estate projects to date since its founding in 2015. For more information, please visit www.GrayCapitalLLC.com .
DISCLAIMER: This is not an offer to invest. Any investment offer will be made through a private placement memorandum.
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BEIJING (AP) — The European Union’s climate chief on Monday expressed concern over the expansion of China’s coal industry, with the building of new coal-fired plants.
At a conference in Beijing, Frans Timmermans said that while China is forging ahead with plans to expand its use of renewable resources such as wind and solar energy, the country has also been constructing an ever-growing number of coal-fired plants in the past few years.
“And that seems to be in a contradiction and it is in contradiction,” said Timmermans. “But at the same time, I do understand the anxiety caused by potential blackouts.”
China is the world’s biggest and fastest-growing producer of renewable energy. It aims to turn one-third of its total power supply renewable by 2025.
As more cities are experiencing sweltering temperatures this summer, the country may face power shortages and challenges to electricity grids, similar to what happened last year. At the same time, water shortages have led to reductions in hydropower generation.
China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua attended the conference and presented a commemorative plate to Timmermans, who is on a two-day visit to China for the EU-China High-level Environment and Climate Dialogue.
Official plans called for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons last year, at least the third consecutive year of growth.
Although China is one of the biggest investors in wind and solar, anxious leaders called for more coal-fired power after economic growth plunged and shortages caused blackouts and factory shutdowns. Russia’s attack on Ukraine added to the anxiety that foreign oil and coal supplies might be disrupted.
China is the top producer and consumer of coal. Global trends hinge on what Beijing does.
The Communist Party has rejected binding emissions commitments, citing its economic development needs. Beijing has avoided joining governments that promised to phase out the use of coal-fired power.
China has said carbon emissions will peak by 2030 and the country will become carbon neutral by 2060 by planting trees and through other offsets.
Some European and American officials have called on China to adopt more ambitious targets. China accounts for 26.1% of global emissions, more than double the U.S. share of 12.8%. | 2023-07-04T21:57:17+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-eu-climate-chief-is-concerned-over-the-expansion-of-the-coal-industry-in-china/ |
NOVI, Mich., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerDel, a leading Li-ion battery pack manufacturer will display the next generation iEGO pack and greet customers at the Battery Show North America! The Battery Show presents the latest on advanced battery technology for a variety of electric and hybrid products. Meet the EnerDel Team at the show in the Pearl Meeting Room at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI on September 13th and 14th from 9:15am to 4:30pm (EST).
The latest chapter in EnerDel's long history is new ownership by Mr. Paul Herbert. We are now an American-owned company with a new leadership team members who will be in attendance at the Show to highlight our new products and operations.
Learn more about the new EnerDel by attending Kev Adjemian's (EnerDel CSO) talk on the New Beginnings at EnerDel. The speech will take place in the Gold Ballroom at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI on September 15th at 2pm (EST).
The iEGO Pack is the next gen pack answer for flexible configurations and state of the art battery management system controls! It is well suited for customers wanting custom pack configurations, used in many applications, like mining, agriculture, construction, industrial lift, micro-grid, specialty transportation, and marine.
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Airbus said its net income plunged in the second quarter and warned that supply-chain challenges were leading it to scale back production targets for its commercial aircraft.
Airbus said it now expects to deliver 700 aircraft this year, down from a target of 720 aircraft announced in May.
Over the long term, the company still expects to produce 75 A320 per month in 2025, but it is now targeting a monthly rate of 65 in early 2024, about six months later than previously planned.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said the “geopolitical and economic situation” is creating “further uncertainties for the industry,” although customer demand remains “strong.”
The market for “narrowbody” planes like the A320 and Boeing Co.’s 737 families is much stronger than demand for bigger, two-aisle “widebody” planes that are mostly for long-haul international flights.
Airbus said the first flight of the A321XLR took place in June, a milestone toward the aircraft’s entry-into-service that is expected to take place in early 2024. On widebody aircraft, Airbus said it is exploring the feasibility of further rate increases to meet growing market demand as international air travel recovers.
For the three months ended in June, the Toulouse, France-based company earned 682 million euros ($696.7 million), down 64% from 1.87 billion euros a year ago. Revenue slid 10% to 12.81 billion euros, mainly because of lower aircraft deliveries.
Airbus rival Boeing Co. also reported lower quarterly results on Wednesday, with net income and revenue both down year over year. The Arlington, Virginia-based company is unable to deliver one of its best-selling planes, the 787, while regulators review what steps Boeing is taking to eliminate production problems. Boeing’s normally steady defense business also saw revenue decline during the quarter. | 2022-07-27T23:01:24+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/airbus-reports-lower-q2-profit-trims-2020-production-target/ |
Mississippi is one of many states that have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with conservative U.S. lawmakers saying they are worried about young people later regretting irreversible body-altering treatment.
But just how common is regret? And how many youth change their appearances with hormones or surgery only to later change their minds and detransition?
Here's a look at some of the issues involved.
WHAT IS TRANSGENDER MEDICAL TREATMENT?
Guidelines call for thorough psychological assessments to confirm gender dysphoria — distress over gender identity that doesn't match a person's assigned sex — before starting any treatment.
That treatment typically begins with puberty-blocking medication to temporarily pause sexual development. The idea is to give youngsters time to mature enough mentally and emotionally to make informed decisions about whether to pursue permanent treatment. Puberty blockers may be used for years and can increase risks for bone density loss, but that reverses when the drugs are stopped.
Sex hormones — estrogen or testosterone — are offered next. Dutch research suggests that most gender-questioning youth on puberty blockers eventually choose to use these medications, which can produce permanent physical changes. So does transgender surgery, including breast removal or augmentation, which sometimes is offered during the mid-teen years but more typically not until age 18 or later.
Reports from doctors and individual U.S. clinics indicate that the number of youth seeking any kind of transgender medical care has increased in recent years.
HOW OFTEN DO TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REGRET TRANSITIONING?
In updated treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later regret is scant, but that patients should be told about the possibility during psychological counseling.
Dutch research from several years ago found no evidence of regret in transgender adults who had comprehensive psychological evaluations in childhood before undergoing puberty blockers and hormone treatment.
Some studies suggest that rates of regret have declined over the years as patient selection and treatment methods have improved. In a review of 27 studies involving almost 8,000 teens and adults who had transgender surgeries, mostly in Europe, the U.S and Canada, 1% on average expressed regret. For some, regret was temporary, but a small number went on to have detransitioning or reversal surgeries, the 2021 review said.
Research suggests that comprehensive psychological counseling before starting treatment, along with family support, can reduce chances for regret and detransitioning.
WHAT IS DETRANSITIONING?
Detransitioning means stopping or reversing gender transition, which can include medical treatment or changes in appearance, or both.
Detransitioning does not always include regret. The updated transgender treatment guidelines note that some teens who detransition "do not regret initiating treatment" because they felt it helped them better understand their gender-related care needs.
Research and reports from individual doctors and clinics suggest that detransitioning is rare. The few studies that exist have too many limitations or weaknesses to draw firm conclusions, said Dr. Michael Irwig, director of transgender medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
He said it's difficult to quantify because patients who detransition often see new doctors, not the physicians who prescribed the hormones or performed the surgeries. Some patients may simply stop taking hormones.
"My own personal experience is that it is quite uncommon," Irwig said. "I've taken care of over 350 gender-diverse patients and probably fewer than five have told me that they decided to detransition or changed their minds."
Recent increases in the number of people seeking transgender medical treatment could lead to more people detransitioning, Irwig noted in a commentary last year in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. That's partly because of a shortage of mental health specialists, meaning gender-questioning people may not receive adequate counseling, he said.
Dr. Oscar Manrique, a plastic surgeon at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has operated on hundreds of transgender people, most of them adults. He said he's never had a patient return seeking to detransition.
Some may not be satisfied with their new appearance, but that doesn't mean they regret the transition, he said. Most, he said, "are very happy with the outcomes surgically and socially."
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