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NEW YORK (AP) — Parenthood and the death of his dear friend and former “Full House” co-star Bob Saget helped convince John Stamos it was time to write his memoir.
The publisher Henry Holt announced Wednesday that Stamos’ “If You Would Have Told Me” is scheduled for fall 2023.
“’If You Would Have Told Me’ is the book I never planned to write, but after losing Bob, finally becoming a father, and wanting to honor all the colorful people who have made me who I am today, I figured if not now, when?” Stamos, 59, said in a statement released through Henry Holt.
“Honestly, while writing this book I’ve realized I have about a million stories to tell, and I think you may like at least four hundred of them. It has been cathartic and healing and sometimes heartbreaking to dig in and reveal so much.”
Stamos’ long career ranges from his early appearances on “General Hospital” to his years on “Full House” as Uncle Jesse to touring with the Beach Boys. He became a father in 2018 after his wife Caitlin McHugh gave birth to their son Billy.
According to Holt, the Emmy-nominated actor will describe “the surreal highs and devastating lows of a misunderstood heartthrob who has always remained a dorky kid from Orange County, and of his midlife quest to find sobriety and a family of his own.” | 2022-09-14T15:06:57+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/ap-full-life-john-stamos-memoir-scheduled-for-fall-2023/ |
Which black apron is best?
Are you someone stains seem to find? Cooking and eating are ripe opportunities for splatters and food to get on your clothing. Not only is an apron a must to protect your clothes while you cook, but a black one will hide stains most effectively.
Whether cooking at home or professionally, finding the right black apron requires some consideration. For instance, if you want one with functional pockets, Arawak Brave Professional Cooking Apron is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a black apron
Material
Aprons come in various materials. Heavy cotton, linen, canvas and denim aprons use natural fibers and many are machine washable. You can also find aprons made of cotton-polyester blends or constructed entirely of synthetic fabrics, such as polyester, vinyl or neoprene. Vinyl aprons are waterproof and neoprene is resistant to punctures. Shop aprons, designed for woodworkers, welders and mechanics, are often made of leather.
Styles
There are many different styles of aprons.
- Server aprons cover the lower half of the body only and tie around the waist. They typically extend down to the mid-thigh. For a longer apron, opt for a bistro-style. Both apron types offer limited protection but provide a place to wipe your hands as you serve.
- Bib or chef’s aprons are what most people think of when they think of aprons. This style loops around the neck and ties at the waist. Their full-length coverage protects the chef from splashes while cooking.
- Cobbler aprons offer both front and backside protection, though shorter than bib styles, and typically feature front pockets. They are also used by artists or in the medical industry, not just in kitchens.
- Dishwasher aprons are water-resistant and designed to keep you dry while washing dishes. This style is knee-length.
- Disposable aprons are designed to be thrown away after a single use. They are ideal for volunteer situations or where cross-contamination of ingredients is a concern. You’ll be hard-pressed, however, to find them in black.
Size
Black aprons typically come in one, unisex size. However, the one-size option in one brand may differ from the single size offered in another brand. If multiple sizes are offered, consult with the sizing chart for the best fit. The straps of aprons also allow for you to tie it tighter if you’re smaller or looser if you’re bigger. Be sure the straps are long enough to accommodate your waist. Some straps, both neck and waist, are adjustable so you can customize the fit.
What to look for in a quality black apron
Water-resistant
Fabric aprons sometimes feature a water-resistant finish, such as wax, which may affect how you clean it. A waxed canvas apron, for instance, cannot be thrown in the washing machine but must be sponge cleaned. At a certain point, they may need to be refinished with fabric wax.
Protection
For a heavy-duty apron, select a leather, rubber or vinyl one. These offer the most protection from hot splashes or sharp objects. Canvas, cotton blends, polyester and denim aprons may be cooler to wear in a steamy kitchen or when operating a grill but don’t offer the same protection from hot liquids.
Stain-resistance
While black aprons will hide stains, the color alone doesn’t prevent substances from seeping into the fabric and leaving a permanent mark. Selecting an apron with a stain-resistant coating such as Teflon protects against oil and other tough stains. Typically you can’t toss aprons with this special coating in the dryer.
Machine-washable
For many cooks, a machine washable apron is a non-negotiable requirement. Aprons frequently collect stains and the ability to throw yours in the laundry is the most convenient way to keep it fresh. Look for a machine-washable black apron that you can toss in with a dark load. Check to see if you should tumble dry it because not all machine-washable aprons can go in the dryer and may shrink if they do. Most machine-washable black aprons need to be washed in cold water to prevent bleeding or shrinkage.
Pockets
Pockets come in handy in surprising ways when cooking. An apron with substantial pockets can stash a utensil while you wash your hands, carry spices out to the barbecue or hold your smartphone so you can rock out while you cook. If you’re listening to music on headphones, select aprons feature a headphone loop that keeps your wires safely tucked out of the way from snagging on pot handles and the like.
How much you can expect to spend on a black apron
A black apron costs between $5-$50. Leather and designer aprons can cost up to $100.
Black apron FAQ
What is a cross-back apron?
A. Cross-back aprons refer to a style that features straps that cross in the back in an X. This style requires that you slip your arms through the arm openings after putting the apron on over your head. It can take a little practice but stays secure once on. The advantage of this type of apron is that it doesn’t feature neck straps that can pull on the neck and cause pain.
Should I tie my apron in the front or in the back?
A. You can tie the waist straps of your apron in the back or in the front. It’s up to you. Most aprons have straps that are long enough to cross behind you and then wrap around the front where you can tie them.
What’s the best black apron to buy?
Top black apron
Arawak Brave Professional Cooking Apron
What you need to know: This durable cotton apron is highly functional and features many desirable design elements.
What you’ll love: It features multiple double-stitched pockets, including one to hold your smartphone. The cross-back straps eliminate neck pain. The 10-ounce cotton material is both thick and breathable as well as machine washable. It features a headphone loop.
What you should consider: It’s pricey, but reviewers are pleased with the high quality of this apron.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top black apron for the money
Utopia Kitchen Unisex Adjustable Bib Apron With Two Pockets
What you need to know: This two-for-one deal is quite the steal if you cook in pairs.
What you’ll love: The two-pack costs under $10 and it is a unisex design. The black polyester fabric resists wrinkles and can be tumble-dried. The dense fabric is good quality, durable and doesn’t show spots.
What you should consider: The neck strap is uncomfortably short for some users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Hudson Durable Goods Professional-Grade Chef Apron
What you need to know: This solid black apron features a cross-back and a belt strap that clips around the waist.
What you’ll love: Without a neck strap that can cause pain, users who hate aprons are fast converts to this style. It features a towel loop and four pockets, including a kangaroo pocket for your hands. The stitching is top notch. It’s highly adjustable for all body types and sizes.
What you should consider: It is quite pricey but lasts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Katie Boulter 2023 Viking Open Nottingham Odds
The Viking Open Nottingham field is dwindling in Nottingham, United Kingdom, as Katie Boulter competes in a quarterfinal versus Harriet Dart. Boulter has +600 odds (third-best) to take home the trophy from Nottingham Tennis Centre.
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Boulter at the 2023 Viking Open Nottingham
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 9-19
- Venue: Nottingham Tennis Centre
- Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Boulter's Next Match
After beating Daria Snigur 7-5, 6-3, Boulter will face Dart in the quarterfinals on Friday, June 16 at 5:00 AM ET.
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Katie Boulter Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +10000
- Viking Open Nottingham odds to win: +600
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Boulter Stats
- Boulter is coming off a 7-5, 6-3 win over No. 157-ranked Snigur in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
- Boulter is 13-11 over the past year, with no tournament victories.
- Boulter is 4-3 on grass over the past 12 months.
- Boulter, over the past 12 months, has played 24 matches across all court surfaces, and 24.1 games per match.
- On grass, Boulter has played seven matches over the past year, and she has totaled 23.7 games per match while winning 45.2% of games.
- Boulter, over the past 12 months, has won 64.5% of her service games and 32.3% of her return games.
- Boulter has claimed 65.4% of her service games on grass over the past 12 months and 25.9% of her return games.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Asia on Thursday after a rally on Wall Street spurred by the Federal Reserve chair’s comments on easing the pace of interest rate hikes to tame inflation.
Signs that China may be shifting its approach to containing COVID-19 outbreaks to focus more on vaccinations also helped drive buying of shares across the region.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index added 1.1% to 28,281.04 while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong advanced 1.6% to 18,895.51. The Shanghai Composite index climbed 0.7% to 3,171.85. In Seoul, the Kospi edged 0.2% higher to 2,478.01. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.8% to 7,340.10.
Bangkok’s SET rose 0.4% a day after the central bank raised its key interest rate by a quarter point to 1.25%, aiming to curb inflation.
On Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, said in comments at the Brookings Institution that the central bank could begin moderating its pace of rate hikes as soon as December, when its policymaking committee will hold its next meeting.
“We have a risk management balance to strike,” Powell said. “And we think that slowing down (on rate hikes) at this point is a good way to balance the risks.”
Stocks roared higher following Powell’s midafternoon remarks. The benchmark S&P 500 rose 3.1%, snapping a three-day losing streak and closing at 4,080.11. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.2% to 34,589.77 and the Nasdaq composite climbed 4.4% to 11,468.
Small company stocks also rallied. The Russell 2000 index rose 2.7% to 1,886.58.
More than 95% of the stocks in the S&P 500 advanced, with technology companies leading the gains. Apple rose 4.9% and Microsoft jumped 6.2%.
The major indexes ended November with their second straight month of gains, though they remain in the red for the year.
Powell’s comments sent Treasury yields sharply lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 3.65% from 3.75% late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year note, which tends to track market expectations of future Fed action, fell to 4.34%. It was trading at 4.48% late Tuesday and had been as high as 4.53% shortly before Powell’s speech.
While citing some recent signs that inflation is cooling, Powell stressed that the Fed will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period to ensure inflation comes down sufficiently.
“History cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy,” Powell said. “We will stay the course until the job is done.”
Major indexes have been unsteady all year as the economy and financial markets dealt with stubbornly hot inflation and the Fed’s attempt to cool high prices with aggressive interest rate increases.
Wall Street has been hoping that the Fed will slow the scale and pace of its interest rate hikes. It has raised its benchmark interest rate six times since March, driving it to a range of 3.75% to 4%, the highest in 15 years. The goal is to make borrowing more costly and generally slow the economy in order to tame inflation.
Higher mortgage rates have caused home sales to plunge and higher interest rates also have raised costs for most other consumer and business loans.
The economy has been slowing, and many economists expect the U.S. to slip into a recession next year. But there are strong pockets of growth. The government said Wednesday that the economy expanded at a 2.9% annual rate from July through September, an upgrade from its initial estimate.
Consumers have continued spending, despite inflation squeezing wallets. Overall, employment remains strong, though job openings dropped in October more than economists had anticipated and human resources company ADP reported an easing in private sector hiring in November.
Investors will get more data Thursday on the employment sector with a report on weekly unemployment claims. The closely watched monthly report on the job market will be released on Friday.
In other trading Thursday, U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 22 cents to $80.33 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It climbed 3% on Wednesday.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, shed 30 cents to $86.67 a barrel.
The U.S. dollar fell to 136.79 Japanese yen from 138.09 yen. The euro rose to $1.0431 from $1.0409.
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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga contributed.
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Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
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Inherent design risks leave the users of Okta exposed to potential theft of all employee passwords in clear text, privilege escalation by app admins, and impersonation, highlighting the need to add a security layer around IAM systems
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Authomize, the first Cloud Identity and Access Security platform, announced today its discovery of significant inherent security risks in Okta, one of the leading Identity Provider (IdP) services.
Authomize's Security Research lab has uncovered that with a very limited level of privilege and practically no difficulty, a malicious actor can remotely:
- Extract all passwords in clear text
- Impersonate other users in downstream applications and hubs
- Alter their appearance in logs to hide their activity
All while gaining long-term persistence that will allow them to maintain access within the target.
Authomize's CTO and Co-founder Gal Diskin describes the highly risky security exposures as flawed yet intentional designs that open the door to exploitation, and not simply a coding mistake. In their response to Authomize's responsible disclosure, Okta has stated that they do not believe these security issues to be vulnerabilities, but functions working according to their intended design and expected inherent risks.
"Our team discovered these risky designs during the course of our research into Identity Providers," says Diskin. "Following the news of the Okta breach earlier this year, we focused our efforts on understanding what sorts of actions a malicious actor could do if they achieved even a minimal level of access within the Okta platform. As we laid out in our technical write up of these major operational risks, we were very surprised to find that Okta's architecture for password synching creates a situation where an actor can simply pull out passwords in clear text, even over unencrypted channels (HTTP), and including the passwords of more senior admins."
In detailing the security exposures, Diskin explains that all that is needed for extracting the clear text passwords is for an actor to gain app admin privileges. Given the constantly expanding number of users within organizations of all sizes, especially in enterprises, he says that the probability of an app admin being compromised is statistically quite high with the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for 2022 finding that 82% of beaches involved human elements like stolen credentials and phishing. More concerningly, these app admins are generally not treated as privileged identities. Diskin noted that this functionality serves a real legitimate purpose for Okta customers, but the exchange of passwords using clear text transmission over unencrypted channels goes against the accepted best practices in the security industry.
Okta's Hub and Spoke architecture also leaves organizations open to exploitation. Spokes are meant to allow for segmentation between sub-groups or departments or even sub-contractors. However Diskin and his team discovered that a spoke admin, of which there are many within an organization, can easily impersonate another spoke admin within the hub if necessary controls, which are available from Okta but not explained or activated by default, are not implemented.
"Using this functionality an attacker, either internal or external, can impersonate other admins and achieve persistence within the hub and downstream apps that puts the whole organization at critical risk. It is important to note that the required security controls exist within Okta, just that rather than being secure by default and well highlighted in documentation, those are actually only mentioned in passing and not configured securely by default," explains Diskin, adding that anyone, admin or not, can alter the way they appear in the logs to cover up their activity while impersonating another user or performing other unsanctioned activity.
"While some of these risks are Okta specific and definitely require some addressing I think that there is a more fundamental issue here which is that some attacks are inherent to the way modern Identity Providers, Enterprise SSO, and IAM tools work. The key here is that just like with CSPs, the Identity Providers need to enable third party security monitoring by providing relevant APIs and audit logs," says Diskin.
"There are immediate steps that both Okta and organizations can take to mitigate the risks that we have uncovered," says Diskin. "The first step is for Okta to block the ability to export the master password for Okta user accounts, allowing instead only for the export of alternate passwords that is a much more secure option. Next is discontinuing the use of duplicate identities in their Hub and Spoke architecture, or at least making that the default configuration, and saving only the unique user identifier and not the mutable name in logs."
"For their part, organizations need to apply monitoring to Okta to look for changes in configurations and the actual actions performed by users," says Diskin, noting that it is essential to focus especially on the admins if they hope to catch a malicious actor in time to prevent damage or compromise.
"We are working closely with our customers to ensure that they are protected from being exploited," says Diskin, explaining that, "Our research highlights the criticality for organizations to implement an independent security layer around their Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools like Okta, monitoring, validating, and detecting risks within these systems to ensure that the infrastructure systems that they depend on for managing their identities and access are not themselves used as as the route of exploitation by malicious actors."
In response to Authomize's responsible disclosure, Okta has confirmed that all of these risks are intentional design decisions, and does not consider them as vulnerabilities. However, they say that their product team will work to address the password leakage issue and will look into the other issues outlined in Authomize's research that may impact their customers.
To learn more about the above risks in Okta, their impact, recreation and mitigation guidelines, please visit our detailed analysis.
About Authomize
The first Cloud Identity and Access Security Platform, Authomize continuously monitors identities, access privileges, assets, and activities to secure apps and cloud services. Our full-stack yet granular visibility across IaaS and SaaS environments enables organizations to understand how their access privileges are being used and ensure effective control over the security of their assets. Backed by Innovation Endeavors, Blumberg Capital, Entrée Capital and Microsoft's M12, Authomize is headquartered in Tel Aviv and Austin. Learn more at www.authomize.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for news and updates.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Automotive Components Group (IAC Group), a leading global supplier of automotive components and systems, has been awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal for its sustainability program. This award places IAC Group in the top 3% of companies rated in IAC's peer group by EcoVadis.
"IAC Group is committed to integrating sustainable opportunities into every aspect of our global operations. This award recognizes the importance of our constant focus on sustainable practices, product design, and processes," said IAC Group CEO, David Prystash.
The EcoVadis Gold Medal ranking is based on four key areas: Environment, Ethics, Human and Labor Rights, and Sustainable Procurement. IAC Group has been recognized previously by EcoVadis as a bronze winner in 2018 and winning silver ratings in 2020 and 2021. In 2022, IAC was noted for making significant improvements in the areas of environmental stewardship, ethics, and sustainable procurement.
"Our goal is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and decrease our carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030," said Prystash. "I am proud of the actions the entire IAC team has taken in the key areas of sustainability and look forward to our progress as our continued efforts turn into results. Working together enables us to do our part in making our world more sustainable, both now and in the future."
EcoVadis is the world's most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. Global supply chains, financial institutions and public organizations rely on EcoVadis to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their business and trading partners. Backed by a powerful technology platform, EcoVadis' evidence-based ratings are validated by a global team of experts, and are adapted to more than 200 industry categories, 160 countries, and companies of all sizes. Its actionable scorecards provide benchmarks, insights, and a guided improvement journey for environmental, social and ethical practices. Industry leaders such as Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Salesforce, Bridgestone, BASF, and ING Group are among the 90,000 businesses that collaborate with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth and positive impact worldwide. Learn more on ecovadis.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.
For more information regarding IAC Group's sustainability efforts, visit https://www.iacgroup.com/about-iac/iac-and-the-environment/.
Headquartered in Luxembourg, International Automotive Components (IAC) Group is a leading global supplier of automotive components and systems, including instrument panels, console systems, door panels, headliners and overhead systems to automakers around the world. Employing nearly 18,000 people, IAC Group is a multi-billion-dollar global manufacturing company that operates in 55 locations, including more than 40 manufacturing facilities in 17 countries. For more information, visit www.iacgroup.com.
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Biden, Trudeau say ‘inseparable’ nations won’t fail Ukraine
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (AP) — President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday celebrated the close, “inseparable” U.S.-Canada relationship and vowed that the two nations remain committed to defending Ukraine as it tries to repel a Russian invasion that has no end in sight.
Biden and Trudeau met just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks for the first time since the start of the war. The Chinese and Russian leader agreed to deepen economic bonds between their two countries. But Biden argued that Western resolve remains stronger and warned Russia that the U.S., Canada and their allies would defend “every inch of NATO territory.”
The president also bristled at the notion that Russia has managed to expand a partnership with Beijing that is allowing Moscow to sustain its economy and war effort despite the U.S. lining up an international coalition to economically isolate Russia with a barrage of sanctions. China, however, thus far has refrained from providing Russia weapons since the start of the war, according to the White House.
“We have significantly expanded our alliances,” Biden said with Trudeau by his side during a joint news conference. “Tell me how in fact you see a circumstance where China has made a significant commitment to Russia? What commitment can they make?”
At an earlier appearance with Biden before the Canadian Parliament, Trudeau said his country — which has provided Kyiv with artillery, ammunition, armor and tanks — remained committed to Ukraine’s cause.
“As you well know, Mr. President, Canada will continue to stand strong with Ukraine, with whatever it takes,” Trudeau said.
The whirlwind visit by Biden — his first visit to Canada as president — was meant to showcase U.S.-Canada ties, and both leaders offered full praise of each other.
Biden, addressing Canada’s Parliament, even said the U.S. was “lucky” to have Canada as its neighbor as both countries grapple with the rapidly changing global economy, climate change, war in Europe and more.
“Today our destinies are intertwined and they are inseparable,” Biden said. “Not because of inevitability of geography, but because it’s a choice, the choice we made again and again.”
“Two people, two countries, in my view sharing one heart.”
On one often-difficult subject, immigration, Biden and Trudeau used the visit to announce an agreement aiming to stem the flow of asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings from the U.S. to Canada.
The accord eliminates a loophole under existing rules and will allow both countries to turn away asylum seekers at their borders. At the same time, Canada announced that 15,000 migrants from the Western Hemisphere will be given official slots to apply to enter the country.
The leaders also sat down with top aides for a private conversation. Besides Ukraine and defense spending, the wide-ranging talks touched on shared concerns about China’s aggressiveness and violence and political instability in Haiti.
Trudeau noted Beijing’s growing economic power and a need for the U.S. and Canada to work together to address it. To that end, Canada said Friday it was entering an arrangement with IBM to expand domestic research and development and advanced packaging of semiconductors — and planning an investment of up to $250 million to “improve North American competitiveness and supply chain resiliency, help cut pollution, foster economic and national security.”
Trudeau also spoke of a need to coordinate even more closely to combat climate change and grow both countries’ economies.
“We have to stick together,” Trudeau said. “We have to continue to face down authoritarian threats, both at home and abroad. We have to continue to defend what is right. This is not the time to compromise on our values.”
At their joint news conference later, Biden briefly veered away the day’s themes to send a warning to Tehran, after a suspected Iranian-made drone on Thursday killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria.
U.S. forces responded to the attack with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people.
“The United States does not, does not seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said. But he said Iran and its proxies should be prepared for the U.S. “to act forcefully to protect our people.”
The subject of difficult relations with China was an undercurrent of Biden’s visit.
Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, arrested in China in 2018, were in the balcony for the speeches in Parliament.
The two were taken into custody shortly after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, technology company Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of the company’s founder, on a U.S. extradition request. The Canadians were held for more than than two years in China before the Biden and Trudeau governments managed to win their release. Kovrig is a former diplomat, Spavor a businessman.
Regarding Haiti, Canada is being nudged by the U.S. and other allies to lead an international mission there to deal with the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis. Canada on Friday announced $100 million ($72.7 million U.S.) in new aid for support and equipment for the Haitian National Police.
Biden said the idea of deploying an international force was “not in play at the moment” but had not been taken off the table. Trudeau said the international community can have the most impact in the long term by being “there to support the capacity of the police in Haiti.”
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the country’s Council of Ministers sent an urgent appeal last October calling for “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity” to stop the crisis caused partly by the “criminal actions of armed gangs.” But more than five months later, no countries have stepped forward. Canada’s top military official has suggested the country doesn’t have the capacity.
Biden endorsed Trudeau’s efforts to focus on capacity building but also noted the situation in Haiti remains fragile as “gangs have essentially taken the place of the government.”
“It’s a work in progress,” he said.
Friday’s meetings also included discussion of defense spending, an issue that’s in the spotlight after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that traversed part of Canada and the continental U.S. last month.
Canada has long faced calls to increase its defense spending to 2% of its gross domestic product, the agreed-upon target by NATO members. Ottawa spends about 1.2% now.
“Canada and the United States share a responsibility and a commitment to make sure NATO can deter any threat and defend against any aggression from anyone,” Biden said. “That’s the bedrock of the security of both our nations.”
The Trudeau government also announced plans for a $7.3 billion ($5.3 billion U.S.) project to upgrade and build infrastructure to support the arrival of a new fleet of F-35 fighter jets.
Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, closed the visit Friday night with a gala dinner in honor of Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
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Maren Morris' life has been a whirlwind these last few years. Following the success of her major label debut album, 2016's Hero, and last year's dance-pop hit "The Middle," the country-pop singer-songwriter is back with more experiences, more confidence and her latest album, Girl, out March 8.
A rising female voice in a male-dominated country music scene, Morris has been busy exploring her place in the world and adjusting to the changes. Her sophomore album represents that introspection and perseverance of an artist cutting through self-doubt and industry expectations.
Following the success of her first few singles, Morris had to learn how to write songs in the back of a tour bus. Even though it wasn't as structured of an environment as she preferred, Morris says she knew she had to song write on the fly.
"Initially, it was very daunting to start writing for a second record because I was on the road touring for the first time really heavily," Morris says. "I had to learn how to write in the back of a tour bus. It's not quite as structured as I prefer it, but you have to adapt and learn how to be creative and then also go work that night at a show. "
The 28-year-old artist constantly had to empower herself to create music according to her own standards and not anyone else's. That empowerment is apparent in the album's lead single, the R&B-country hybrid, "GIRL." It's a one-woman rally cry of reassurance that continues the climb up Billboard's Country Songs Chart.
Morris spoke to NPR's Audie Cornish from Nashville to talk about the concepts behind GIRL, giving herself time to "fill the well" of creativity after touring, flipping the status quo and more. Hear the radio version of their conversation at the audio link and read on for the adapted interview transcript.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Audie Cornish: At first, I wasn't sure if the song "GIRL" was a message to us out there or if this was a message to yourself.
Maren Morris: It started as just a message to myself and it changes perspective a little bit, the point of view, the way I speak to myself and to someone else throughout the song. But, yeah, it really was a self -reflective, therapeutic write. I wrote that with Greg Christian and Sarah Aarons last year. When I got the demo back from Greg a few days later, I think it just hit me in a way where I needed to hear it and that meant maybe some other people would too.
Cornish: There's a part about drawing comparisons and you're saying, "I don't want to wear your crown." I think for someone who's got a pop career going, that always feels like a pointed line — rejecting being crowned or being put on a pedestal.
Morris: It feels like this because I'm a woman in an industry that is very male-dominated, especially in country music. So, it's very easy to be competitive with other women because there are so few spots sometimes. I think when I was saying, "I don't wanna wear your crown, when there's enough to go around," I was saying to myself, "Quit comparing yourself to this other person." There is room for everybody. Don't let the outside world make you think that you need to be so dog-eat-dog for these opportunities, because that's what they are wanting you to think. Really, we should be fighting that status quo instead of upholding it.
Cornish: You were wrote in Lenny Letter about some of the limits you have felt sometimes in that music. You [wrote] at one point, "The frustration I felt with the perspective of women in country music is that you either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you."
There's pressures basically to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual. What's the distinction there? How do you try and play that out on this album?
Morris: It's funny because I wrote the Lenny Letter piece before I really had any of these songs written, so that was kind of my preamble to write this record. That was the head space I was in.
A lot has changed in just the two and a half years since I wrote that piece. I've put "The Middle" out, I got married, I went and toured the world for the first time. I've had so many huge moments. There are so many things that when I wrote that piece, I didn't know was going to happen yet. Now that I'm putting this record out, and I've had some time to really comb through all of the emotions I've been feeling and distilled them into these songs, I can see that I do embrace my independence and sexuality while also very comfortably singing on the album how in love I am with my husband and how appreciative I am as his partner and appreciative I am that he is my partner. So it's this dichotomy of not having to choose between your own independence and sexuality and also needing someone. I love that there are kind of two parts to this album that that really dive into those elements.
The first half of the record is very independent. It's kind of my point of view on the world, on women empowerment. And then the second half of the record really softens, and is me being a lot more vulnerable and talking about my love for this other human being who's been my equal through this whole process. So, I think I needed some time to really get those songs out. I feel like it's just a more mature perspective. It's okay to say that you're attracted to someone — that's not what I'm trying to deter people from writing about. I just think it's way more fun when you're the woman and you get to be the aggressor instead of putting out the hotness and wanting someone to notice you at a party or tailgate. I wanted to be the one with the power.
Cornish: What did you grow up with that you were kind of in your mind like, "This is my En Vogue moment" [for the song "RSVP"]?
Morris: Toni Braxton. You know, I'm a sort of child of the 90s, so all of that really female driven — everything from Sheryl Crow to Lauryn Hill to Shania Twain — I was all about, and still am. So I think when I wrote this song, the lyrics are actually very country structure.
Just the lyrics. It's like "I'm a glass of good whiskey with your name on it." Like the rhyme scheme is very country, Nashville writing structure to me. I wrote it with Nashville co-writers. So I definitely feel like the lyric is quite country. And then, the vocals and the the track, we really got to amplify that sensual R&B quality. I know all my influences as a kid got to come out when I sang that vocal.
Cornish: What are your responses when people say, "Look, I think you're pandering. I think you're trying to appeal to a certain audience or you're not being true to your roots in some way." How have you come to handle that criticism?
Morris: I mean, initially I'd get pretty defensive just because no one knows my roots except for me. So anyone trying to take umbrage of them, I used to really get defensive about. But I know that when I sing, it's always me that comes out. And even on "The Middle," just certain words that I say — you know I'm from Texas, like they're always gonna be southern sounding.
I don't think that you should hold any artist, especially a new artist, under a certain ceiling because that's how you see them. I've always kind of made moves in my career that were risky but my heart was telling me to do it. I don't think that you should hold any artist, especially a new artist, under a certain ceiling just because that's how you see them.
I've always kind of made moves in my career that were risky, but my heart was telling me to do it. I think in my deepest soul, I am a little bit of everything.
I've always kind of made moves in my career that were risky, but my heart was telling me to do it. I think in my deepest soul, I am a little bit of everything. I grew up listening to really classic country and outlaw country like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. I loved Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline. Then the 90's part of me is with Dixie Chicks, Shania, Lauryn Hill and the Spice Girls. I mean, there were all of these phases. So I just try to write a good song. I don't try to write a country song because I could write a really country song, because that's what fit the vibe in the room that day, and then the next day we would write "RSVP." I'm not one color.
Cornish: And the song "Flavor" really kind of speaks to that directly right? That seems to be the mission statement of that song.
Morris: Right.
I sang with Dolly Parton at the Grammys and she's been such a huge influence on me, not only as a songwriter, but just as a woman in this industry. I remember there's this really iconic interview in the late '70s with her and Barbara Walters, and Barbara kind of asks very pointedly to Dolly, "There are a lot of people that think you are going pop." Dolly just had the best answer. She was like, "I'm about bringing Dolly Parton to the world. I'm not about going pop or going this or that. I just want the world to know who I am." I think that that was such a graceful way of saying, "You can't fence me in."
Cornish: The first album is very kind of like, 'young independent woman.' And as you talked about in this album, there were like love songs and there are songs about about finding partnership with someone. And when I think about a song like "Hell and Back" that's a song that is really vulnerable. You really are kind of talking about your flaws in a way.
Morris: I cried during this. Yeah, I was a big mess, crying in the corner [Laughs]. This is one of my older songs. I wrote this a few years ago and it made it to this record of which I'm so proud. But just the simplicity of that sort of love, and that kind of acceptance from someone else where it's like, the skeletons in my closet you liked out in the light. You didn't save me, you didn't think I needed saving. Just that sentiment is so simple and so pure that yeah I get emotional even talking about it because I was so broken the day that we wrote this song. My [husband] really wasn't trying to tape me back together. He was like, "I like these pieces however they lay."
Cornish: It's funny, because usually I feel like this character in a song is like someone that a man is singing about. This is like the first time I've heard the song from the point of view of that woman character.
Morris: That is a huge compliment because I know exactly what you're talking about. It's not like this White Knight complex. It's honestly me saying, [with] all of this mess and all of this brokenness — you didn't think I needed to be saved, but you love me anyway. I'm just so proud of this song and that it made it on this record.
Cornish: Is it weird hearing that kind of vulnerability? I mean, you have to go out and perform this now.
Morris: [Laughs] It's actually one of my favorites to play live. I've done it a couple of times acoustic, but then the actual full band version we're doing for the tour is so beautiful and really respectful of the album version. I love that there are elements of this record that are very much just my songwriter heart coming out. I mean, I love being forthright and sassy and all of that, but really being vulnerable is tough. But I think that it's a side that my fans and a lot of people have not seen from me and this is the only way I know how to share it.
Cornish: You hear the word "girl" in so many country song titles, and so is this the girl singing back?
Morris: I think initially when I chose "Girl" to be the first single, I was looking at the Country Radio chart and there were no women. It was all men, but they had all their titles saying the word "girl" in it. I just thought, How funny and kind of tongue-in-cheek would it be at this point for me to put a song out as a girl, called "GIRL," and then name the album that, and name the tour that and bring my girlfriends out on tour. I mean, it just felt like being in on the joke and moving it forward instead of complaining about it. Just really doing something about it.
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Despite strong sales, dealership EV inventories are growing, according to data from Cox Automotive (via Automotive News).
EVs are approaching 7% of the U.S. new car market, and they’re on track to surpass sales of one million units in the U.S. for the first time this year, Cox Automotive estimates. But the data also show that EVs aren’t flying off dealer lots.
Through the end of the second quarter, EV inventory in the U.S. is expected to surpass 90,000 units for the first time. For context, last year, when the EV supply was much tighter, the national inventory was around 21,000 units. As Cox Automotive notes, EV sales have increased, but not as quickly as the supply of vehicles.
Several factors are still holding back greater EV sales growth. In a June survey of dealers and consumers, Cox also found that dealers still aren’t as ready for the electric future as consumers are. And while consumers may be more enthusiastic than dealers, EV interest is far from universal.
Ipsos has concluded that consumer interest in EVs is lagging, in part because of cost misconceptions over the overall ownership cost of EVs, which may in fact be much lower than gasoline cars. Confusion over the federal EV tax credit price cap and rules that appeared to shift several times over the past year could be an issue as well.
The actual cost picture may ultimately favor EVs, though. Led by Tesla’s 20% price cut at the beginning of the year, some have suggested an EV price war is already happening, even as higher battery and manufacturing costs potentially push price parity with internal-combustion vehicles further toward 2030. For now, ample supply likely means EV deals may finally be coming—and at the very least, the price gouging is gone.
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Date and place of birth: June 6, 1969; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
The Legislature in 2022 passed a law (HB 1467) that allows parents to object to books they consider “inappropriate.” Do you support or oppose this law and why?
The law creates a process by which a parent or community member can file a petition within 30 days after the District adopts an instructional material. It also clarifies that book adoption committees are open to the public and must include parents. Allowing parents and taxpayers to provide input and feedback seems a reasonable request.
The Legislature passed HB 1557, which bans classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in grades K-3 and in higher grades unless it is “age-appropriate.” Critics have called it the “don’t say gay” law. Do you support or oppose it and why?
The inclusion and LGBTQ youth and their parents is something to which Broward Schools does seem to be committed. I do not see anything in HB 1557, HB7, or HB 1467 that would substantively undermine the district’s ability to continue to fulfill its commitment, though there may be those who disagree. We need to ensure there is clarity and effective training surrounding the changes made by those bills, and advocate at the state level where necessary.
Define what you consider “age appropriate” for classroom discussion of sexual orientation.
When my youngest child took the gifted test, she was asked the meaning of “transparent.” Because we had recently watched a show with a parent who was transgender, that was the definition she provided. I don’t remember when my children first realized Uncle Rick and Uncle Henry were a gay couple. What was age appropriate for my children might not be what other people consider age appropriate. State standards based on best practices should be used to define “age appropriate.”
Do you believe that Florida schools try to indoctrinate students, and why?
I cannot speak for all schools in Florida, but I don’t believe Broward Schools is trying to indoctrinate students. It does, at times, forget to include parents in its decision-making processes. I remember several years ago being shocked my elementary school children were shown footage of the planes going into the Twin Towers as part of the 9/11 remembrance activities. While I believe we should never forget 9/11, and I am in favor of it being covered in schools. I would have preferred to decide whether or not my children saw that footage, but I wasn’t given the opportunity.
The school district will ask voters to extend and/or increase an existing property tax that is allowed by state law subject to voter approval. Do you support or oppose this tax increase, and why?
The current referendum provided supplements to teachers and other staff and hired security and mental health personnel. What we don’t know, because the District has not provided the level of transparency requested, is whether funds were spent as agreed upon. We also don’t yet know the planned allocations of the proposed referendum—something many would like to know prior to voting. While I support providing teachers and staff with continued supplements, I would require the District to fully report budget to actual allocations, and to ensure equity in the allocations themselves. In the future, rather than rely on referendum renewals, we need to advocate for better teacher pay, and ensure competitiveness in the wages and salaries of other essential staff.
What do you think of changes made in school safety since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School? What still needs to change?
It is unfortunate it took the MSD tragedy for Broward Schools to take school safety seriously.
I believe most, if not all, single point of entry projects are now complete. The Facilities Task Force is tracking the progress and equitable distribution of additional safety features being installed districtwide like the Avigilon door buzzers/cameras, outdoor speakers, and automatic locking doors.
The referendum increased the number of school safety personnel, but it also created the area security manager—a position for which I’d like to see a cost benefit analysis.
As a member of the District’s Audit Committee, I’ve pushed for current-year Behavioral Threat Assessment audits so we can better monitor process improvements. While it helps to have a person dedicated to ensuring Behaviorial Threat Assessment compliance, I’m not sure the task requires both a Director and Executive Director.
The prior Chief Safety & Security Officer had no school police experience—the new one is all school police experience. It will be interesting to see what effect this has on student and staff training and drills. Staff training could be improved, and students seem to be growing weary of drills, suggesting either the frequency or format—or perhaps both—need to change.
How would you assess the performance of Superintendent Vickie Cartwright?
At a time when Broward Schools desperately needs to restore public trust, Dr. Cartwright seems to be struggling. Rather than change district culture, Dr. Cartwright became immersed in it. In November, she relied upon false statements made by staff to lead the Board into exempting the Stranahan’s cafeteria from State Requirements for Educational Facilities (SREF) and inadvertently violating a settlement agreement designed to bring about equity, she has largely ignored advisory committees, and for months there were only rumors about her plans to restructure the District. Much of the public outcry of racially biased demotions in her restructuring plan could have been avoided had Dr. Cartwright held workshops to discuss the organizational chart and the consequences of returning to an area structure. Decisions like downgrading the HR Chief position and hiring an outsider to manage the Central Area are also questionable. Backing the Board into a corner on the organizational chart and adding positions and job descriptions on the fly might have gotten Cartwright what she wanted but did nothing to improve the Board’s public image. We won’t know the outcome of the restructuring decisions for months. The District formed a long-term facilities planning steering committee, but unlike districts following best practices, there are no external stakeholders, and the Superintendent has ignored repeated requests to add the Facilities Task Force and the Diversity Committee. It was the possibility of the District producing a long-term plan that once again fails to follow best practices, learn from past mistakes, or provide equity that drove me to become a candidate for School Board.
Grand juries for decades have accused the district and School Board members of corruption or incompetence. How do you change that culture?
In an ideal world the voters would not elect people to the School Board who are either incompetent, corrupt, or both. The 2011 Grand Jury suggested the School Board hire an independent Inspector General—something the District has repeatedly failed to do but is critical now. The School Board must lead by example and be committed to transparency, admitting to past mistakes, and continuous improvement. School Board decisions are supposed to happen in the Sunshine, yet it is a common practice for staff to all but count votes during the “Board Crawl”—where staff meets one on one with each Board member. The School Board must also ensure ALL staff—beginning with the Superintendent—follow all laws and policies.
How would you assess the district’s implementation of the $800 million bond issue that voters approved in 2014?
In the rush to get the SMART Bond on the 2014 ballot, best practices and industry standards were not followed in 2014 in that there was no long-term facilities planning. The District appears to have not even received the final Jacobs needs assessment report. There was no consideration of the age of the buildings in terms of Castaldi analyses or structural inspections. The roofing estimates in the needs assessments were consistent with roof repair, not replacement costs. As a result, because the conditions of most roofs required full replacements, the $800 million budget was insufficient for the scope of work. Compounding the lack of budget was a lack of well-defined scopes as projects were rushed through the procurement process to make it appear as though projects were in design. The original 2014-15 DEFP also ignored buildings slated for replacement before the recession—such as buildings at Parkway Middle School or Stranahan High School. Because so many buildings are being reroofed and given new HVACs with little else being done, buildings that could have been replaced because they no longer meet educational adequacy standards—like lacking windows—are unlikely to be approved for demolition and replacement for years to come. And the August 2000 CCC settlement that was supposed to ensure that when the District had funding it would begin to bring all facilities into parity with district standards was never part of the SMART Bond process, possibly due to the District discontinuing the annual Superintendent updates and Diversity Committee responses in 2012. In short, mistakes were made.
Do you support or oppose the School Board’s decision to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order on mask mandates in schools, and why?
Had the defiance occurred the first year, I probably would have supported it. By the start of the second school year, things were far less dire than the year before. While there were Board members genuinely concerned for the health and safety of students and staff, there were also Board members and others who seemed to be using the situation for political purposes. Furthermore, the same School Board refused to pass emergency rules that would allow its advisory committees to reduce quorum for the purpose conducting business. The entire District should have been focused on transitioning students back into the classroom, not fighting a losing battle with the state.
The governor advocates an agenda for school board candidates that emphasizes “parental rights” and “combatting the woke agenda from infiltrating public schools,” as quoted on his website. Do you support or oppose this initiative and why?
Schools are supposed to provide safe environments in which to educate students, and parents should have a say in the decisions related to the education of their child. There are six agenda items related to those two goals. The rest are politically driven distractions.
Should Florida’s commissioner of education be elected or appointed, and why?
The arguments for electing a Commissioner of Education include providing voters a means of directly influencing state education policy and having a Commissioner with some independence and accountability. The arguments for appointing one includes removing politics from the position, and possibly curbing unrealistic budget requests from certain constituents. I’m not opposed to the idea of an elected Commissioner of Education, but I’m not sure there is any way to remove politics from the position.
PERSONAL
List in reverse chronological order each college or university attended with years of attendance.
- Lynn University, 09/2002 - 10/2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Global Leadership - Corporate & Organizational Management
- Florida Atlantic University, 06/1998 - 06/2000, Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Fort Lewis College, 09/1991 - 05/1995, Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration - Accounting
List in reverse chronological order your work history for the past 15 years.
Being effective as an advisory chair requires a full-time commitment. I have spent more than ten years applying leadership, management, accounting, teaching, and research expertise to the district-level advisory group tasked with overseeing Broward County Public Schools facilities function, and five years providing oversight to the district’s audit function. Responsibilities involve interfacing with various staff members and consultants in monitoring, reviewing, and investigating fiscal and operational issues, related policies, processes, practices, and contracts, for the purpose of advising the School Board of potential problems related to errors, inefficiencies, lack of compliance, and other factors that might increase the risk of waste, mismanagement, or fraudulent use of taxpayer funds.
Assistant Professor/Adjunct, Broward College, Davie and Coconut Creek 2009 – 2010
- Responsible for teaching day and evening undergraduate applied organizational behavior, leadership, and general business courses.
- Curriculum and course development team - Developed course outlines for three courses in the college’s new bachelor’s degree program: MAN 3240: Applied Organizational Behavior, MAN 3303: Management and Leadership, and MAN 4120: Leadership Challenges and Supervision. Course outlines involved creating unit titles, general outcomes, and specific measurable learning outcomes for each unit.
- Developed Blackboard course content (Soft Chalk lessons, PowerPoints, assessments) for 8-week hybrid courses for use by multiple instructors. Courses were designed and completed within two weeks; and met or exceeded Broward College distance learning quality standards.
Adjunct Instructor, Lynn University, Boca Raton 2003 - 2009 Developed and taught online and ground versions of organizational culture/behavior and advanced statistical software application (SPSS) courses for the doctoral program. Developed and taught undergraduate Financial, Managerial, and Advanced Accounting, Accounting Systems, Auditing, Managing Organizations, and Principles in Marketing.
Have you ever been a party to a lawsuit, including bankruptcy or foreclosure? If so, provide details of the case and disposition.
No
Have you ever been charged or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, including an adjudication of guilt withheld? If so, provide charges, dates and terms of sentence.
No
List current and former memberships in civic, fraternal or social organizations.
In addition to District advisory experience, I also served as Vice Chair of the Plantation EAB
Why should voters elect you instead of your opponent(s)?
Because the next two years are critical given where we are as a district, particularly in District 5, where there are both under enrolled and underachieving schools. It is important to elect someone who can hit the ground running on day one. It is one thing to care about your community—it is another thing entirely to understand the system well enough to know how to effectively advocate for your constituents. I believe my education, business, research, and teaching background and more than ten years of Broward County Public Schools volunteer experience make me the best candidate to serve the needs of the people of District 5 and Broward County.
What in your life experience best qualifies you to serve
I’ve served the people of District 5 and Broward County for more than ten years. Serving as a volunteer on two oversight groups to a district resistant to substantive oversight has not been easy and has required unwavering commitment to the belief that the people of Broward County deserve a district committed to the equitable distribution of resources, fiscal responsibility, and the success of each child. | 2022-07-07T01:55:44+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-com-questionnaire-nathalie-lynch-walsh-20220707-pke3yd3iknhm7jcaovg6bfleka-story.html |
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Geno Smith has spent the first half of the season making game-winning plays that have moved the surprising Seahawks to the top of the NFC West.
His impressive response to a potential game-losing play is evidence Seattle's rise isn't a fluke.
Smith lost the lead for Seattle in the third quarter by throwing a pick-6, but then led the offense on touchdown drives of 75, 81 and 85 yards down the stretch, pushing the Seahawks to a 31-21 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
“What a bounce back, what a fantastic finish to this game,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said.
Smith threw for 275 yards and two touchdowns while rookie Kenneth Walker III ran for 109 yards and two scores. The Seahawks have won four straight games while the Cardinals (3-6) have lost four of five.
For a moment, the Seahawks looked like they were in trouble. The Cardinals grabbed a 14-10 lead in the third quarter when Zaven Collins returned an interception 30 yards for a touchdown.
Smith said all he could do was acknowledge that Collins made a great play and then work on making amends.
“The NFL's full of guys like that who make tremendous plays,” Smith said. "Sometimes things are going to happen where the ball doesn't bounce your way. It's how you respond. I think we responded great as a team.
“Going three straight drives, finishing with touchdowns, they were long drives, tough drives. Everyone in the stadium knew the magnitude of those drives. For us to go down, get scores, get touchdowns, it shows the type of team we are.”
Seattle took the lead for good late in the third quarter on Smith's 9-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Lockett. That capped a 13-play, 75-yard drive.
The Seahawks extended their advantage to 24-14 midway through the fourth. Smith led a 13-play, 81-yard march that ended when Walker ran for a 1-yard score.
Walker — a second-round pick out of Michigan State — is averaging more than 100 yards on the ground over the past five games.
Seattle sacked Kyler Murray four times, including two by Uchenna Nwosu, and held the Cardinals to 262 total yards.
Arizona scored a late touchdown to pull within 24-21, but Seattle immediately responded with a 51-yard gain on a pass from Smith to Noah Fant, who caught the short throw and rumbled down the right sideline. Four plays later, Walker ran for a 5-yard score to cap the 85-yard drive.
The Cardinals lost the first of a three-game stretch against division opponents. Murray threw for 175 yards and two touchdowns, but lost a crucial fumble in the second quarter.
Collins gave the Cardinals some hope in the third quarter. Smith lofted a short pass to the right side that was intended for Walker, but Collins shed a block and jumped into the throw's path, snatching the ball out of the air and running to the end zone.
But just like all season, the Cardinals were hurt by their own mistakes. They were called for 12 penalties and were plagued by dropped passes and botched snaps.
“We are hurting ourselves,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “We've got to give ourselves a chance. This self-inflicted stuff is killing us.”
Said Murray: “We are just playing bad football. It is not winning football and that is the result you are going to get when you are out there doing stuff like that.”
The Seahawks led 10-7 at halftime. They went ahead early in the second quarter when Smith found DK Metcalf for a 4-yard touchdown. The Seahawks caught a break on the previous play when cornerback Byron Murphy Jr. dropped a potential interception.
The Cardinals looked like they might score late in the first half, but Murray fumbled on a scramble when Seattle's Ryan Neal punched the ball out from behind. The Seahawks recovered.
It was Seattle's 16th forced fumble of the season, which leads the NFL.
Murray hit DeAndre Hopkins for a 22-yard touchdown midway through the first quarter for a 7-3 lead. Hopkins made it to the end zone untouched thanks to a downfield block by running back James Conner, who had missed the previous three games because of an injury to his ribs.
It was the first time this season the Cardinals scored a touchdown on their first possession and was their first TD in the first quarter.
INJURIES
Seahawks: WR Marquise Goodwin (groin), LB Darrell Taylor (groin) and S Joey Blount (quad) were among the inactives. ... LB Cullen Gillaspia (knee) was helped off the field in the second half and didn't return.
Cardinals: C Rodney Hudson (knee), G Max Garcia (shoulder) and LB Dennis Gardeck (ankle) were among the inactives. ... RG Will Hernandez (chest) left the game in the first quarter.
UP NEXT
Seahawks: Travel to Munich, Germany, where they will play Tampa Bay next Sunday.
Cardinals: At the Los Angeles Rams next Sunday.
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Wednesday's results
Portland 3 Saskatoon 1
Seattle 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT)
Red Deer 4 Moose Jaw 3 (SO)
Lethbridge 5 Swift Current 3
Kamloops 6 Vancouver 3
Everett 9 Spokane 3
Friday's results
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Seattle 3 Prince Albert 2
Moose Jaw 4 Portland 2
Medicine Hat 4 Brandon 3
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Prince George at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Portland at Regina, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Lethbridge at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Tri-City at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Lethbridge at Everett, 7:05 p.m. | 2023-01-14T04:22:22+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17717399.php |
FOREST, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi man known as “Case 1,” the first person to be diagnosed with autism, has died.
Donald G. Triplett was the subject of a book titled “In a Different Key,” a PBS documentary film, BBC news magazine installment and countless medical journal articles.
But to employees at the Bank of Forest, in a small city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Jackson, he was simply “Don,” WLBT-TV reported.
Triplett died Thursday, confirmed Lesa Davis, the bank’s senior vice president. He was 89.
Triplett worked for 65 years at the bank where his father Beamon Triplett was a primary shareholder.
“Don was a remarkable individual,” CEO Allen Breland said of Triplett, who was known as a fiercely independent savant. “And he kept things interesting.”
Triplett, a 1958 graduate of Millsaps College, enjoyed golf and travel and was frequently flying to exotic locales, Breland said.
“He was in his own world, but if you gave him two, three-digit numbers, he could multiply them faster than you could get the answer on a calculator,” he told the television station.
Triplett’s autism diagnosis arose from a detailed 22-page letter sent to a Johns Hopkins researcher in Baltimore containing telling observations by his parents about his aptitudes and behavior. The letter remains a primary reference document for those who study the disorder.
Oliver Triplett, Triplett’s nephew, told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate that his uncle’s story offers hope to parents of children who are different.
“They can see Don and a community who embraced him,” he said. “As a whole, Forest encouraged him and accepted him. It gives people who have children on different levels of the spectrum hope that their children can live happy and full lives.”
Funeral services for Triplett will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Forest Presbyterian Church. | 2023-06-17T15:03:25+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-health/donald-triplett-the-1st-person-diagnosed-with-autism-dies-at-89/ |
$7.5 million bond approved to fund renovations at Jackson planetarium, arts center
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Jackson has taken a major step forward in its efforts to renovate the Russell C. Davis Planetarium, with the city council approving a $7.5 million bond to help fund the project.
Tuesday, the council voted 5-0-1 to approve the bond, which will include $6 million for the planetarium and another $1 million going to the Arts Center of Mississippi.
David Lewis, deputy director of the city’s Department of Human and Cultural Services, says funds will help cover design costs, as well as some of the next phase of renovations.
“Our bond counsel will work with the city to retrieve the bonds, so we can start drawing down on [them],” he said.
In the meantime, he said the city will continue to secure the rest of the funding for the $16 million project.
“We already have committed $1 million from the Community Foundation of Mississippi’s Shackelford Fund, and another $500,000 from the Junior League of Jackson,” he said. “We have been working with about half a dozen other companies and foundations to secure [additional funding] and we hope to make those announcements soon.”
The city also has $1 million in state money allocated as part of the legislature’s 2020 bond bill.
Renovations include redoing the planetarium’s third-floor exhibit space, seating and lighting, and reworking restroom facilities. New exhibits also will be installed to replace the ones that were last updated during the days of the Space Shuttle.
The last Space Shuttle Mission was in July 2011.
Plans also included gutting the second floor and redesigning it for use as an adaptive learning space and building a new atrium on the first floor to better connect the planetarium with the arts center.
Renovations were drawn up by CDFL, an architectural firm in Jackson. They also did work on Thalia Mara Hall and the Two Mississippi Museums.
Exhibitions are being done by the Orlando-based Falcons Treehouse. Their resume includes the “Heroes and Legends” exhibit at Kennedy Space Center.
Demolition on the planetarium’s interior has already been completed by Hopkins Construction.
Lewis says he’d like to see a groundbreaking ceremony later this year, but it could come early next year.
“We’re trying to do everything we can before the end of the year. It depends on how we go through the fall,” he said.
Meanwhile, $1 million of the bond will go toward reimbursing the city for installing a new chiller at the arts center, as well as making additional HVAC repairs there.
The arts center is home to several arts organizations, including Opera Mississippi, Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Greater Jackson Arts Council, VSA Arts of Mississippi, and the International Museum of Muslim Cultures. The air conditioning was out for roughly a year before the city replaced it.
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Copyright 2022 WLBT. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-27T19:37:31+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/09/27/75-million-bond-approved-fund-renovations-jackson-planetarium-arts-center/ |
Dynamic capabilities and modular platform earn company top honors in newly-released report
MINNEAPOLIS, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MHC, a global enterprise automation software solutions provider, has been named as a Leader on the 2022 Aspire Leaderboard for Customer Communications Management (CCM) and Customer Experience Management (CXM) vendors. It's the second year MHC has been positioned as a Leader within the Aspire Leaderboard report for their customer communications platform EngageCX.
MHC EngageCX is packaged with several modules and business apps that enable organizations to configure end-to-end mass communication solutions in the cloud or deployed in a hybrid or on-premises model. The MHC EngageCX platform is cost-effective for customers given how it is built on open standards and comes with extensive integration capabilities out-of-the-box. The platform's capabilities are dynamic and modular, enabling solution teams to easily embed some or all of its communication services into a wider ecosystem of solutions.
MHC performed particularly well in the mid-market space within the report. With the comprehensive capabilities to compete among the most prominent CCM vendors, what sets MHC apart is their agility and personalized approach. In the 2022 report, Aspire noted "MHC's dynamic capabilities are second-to-none and its modular product portfolio makes it very adaptable to customer needs."
"Delivering effective communications reliably and efficiently is a critical part of any organization's operations, yet we also know organizations don't have one-size-fits-all requirements. The value and strength of EngageCX is its flexibility and scalability to fully support our customers' unique needs as they grow and evolve," says MHC CEO Gina Armada.
The Aspire Leaderboard is published by consulting firm Aspire Customer Communications Services. Assessment scores are generated by analyzing more than 1,200 data points relating to a company's platform strength, software capabilities, strategic direction, benefits, and other features.
"MHC's modern CCM platform has customer-centricity at its heart, enabling it to empower customers to meet their evolving business goals," commented Kaspar Roos, CEO & Founder of Aspire. "While EngageCX is a very rounded suite in itself, MHC has taken it even further by incorporating it within its newly developed MHC NorthStar platform, allowing it to serve as a versatile front-end CX layer to back-end automation processes. The new combination delivers a powerful and agile platform that is poised for exciting growth."
The full 2022 Aspire Leaderboard for CCM-CXM is available here.
MHC enables organizations to tackle digital transformation with speed and confidence, delivering solutions to automate the creation, capture, and distribution of documents and communications across core business processes. With the world's most flexible end-to-end automation platform, MHC empowers business users to eliminate manual interactions involving their organization's key stakeholders, increase efficiency and agility to achieve operational excellence goals, and strengthen the ever-important relationships with customers and suppliers to drive long-term growth. To learn more visit www.mhcautomation.com.
Aspire Customer Communications Services is a boutique consulting firm specializing in the Customer Communications Management (CCM), Customer Experience Management (CXM), and Customer Journey Mapping (CJM) industries. Through deep market expertise and global insights, Aspire works with Software, Services and Solution providers, and Business Advisories and Private Equity Firms to help them achieve their CCM goals. Find more information about how Aspire is helping organizations navigate the complexities of the customer communications world at http://www.aspireccs.com.
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Dog reunited with family after 301 days with Texas animal shelter
AUSTIN, Texas - A dog and her family have been reunited after nearly a year, thanks to a Facebook post.
The Austin Animal Center posted about adoptable dogs on its Spanish language Facebook page "Mascotas de Austin". A dog named Juicee had been included in the post; the pitbull mix had been brought in as a stray in June 2022.
The post was then shared in a Facebook group, where friends of Juicee's owners spotted her.
The family, who had since moved to Miami, Florida, had been told by a neighbor that the dog had died. "I never thought to see her again," said her owner, Dellys.
The family then dropped everything to drive 20 hours to Austin to pick up the dog, whose original name was Kardashian.
"Juicee was unsure of strangers while she was in the shelter, but the second she saw her family, she was all tail wags and smiles," said Austin Animal Center public health educator Luis Herrera.
"A simple share can be part of a miracle," Herrera added. "Today we had an amazing example of the importance of social media for Spanish speakers and their pets." | 2023-04-23T19:56:14+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/dog-reunited-family-juicee-austin-animal-center-texas |
The All-Star break is now behind us, and the second half of the MLB season has begun. We decided to get some of our betting experts together with our top fantasy analysts to discuss some of the more interesting storylines that lie ahead.
There are betting opportunities galore, from World Series winners to MVP and Cy Young races and more. We went through it all to find the best picks going forward.
All odds are provided by Caesars Sportsbook.
1. The New York Yankees (+400), Los Angeles Dodgers (+400) and Houston Astros (+450) have solidified themselves as favorites heading into the second half. Which one of these three teams (if any) are you backing to win the World Series?
I'm not sure how anyone can bet confidently against the Houston Astros. This franchise has competed in three of the past five World Series, and in those other two seasons it went to the American League Championship Series. Some of the names have changed but not many. Yordan Alvarez is awesome. Justin Verlander is awesome. The Astros don't need the No. 1 seed in the AL. Houston boasts impressive rotation depth, a bullpen it will likely build up before the trade deadline and a deep lineup. It really should have won all four games at Yankee Stadium back in June, winning two and leading late in the other two contests. Getting better odds on the Astros than the Yankees seems like quite a bargain. -- Eric Karabell
I don't feel passionate about any individual team at those odds, being that easy cases can be made for each to win it all. However, one factor that might sway me -- at least today -- is that the trade tendencies of these three teams at the deadline during the past half-decade indicate that the Los Angeles Dodgers tend to have the most all-in approach to supplementing their roster. (See: Yu Darvish, Brian Dozier, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer and Trea Turner.) Being that they are top three in the odds already, that's enough to swing things in their direction for me. -- Tristan H. Cockcroft
The Dodgers project as the best team in baseball by a huge margin, but betting on favorites is generally not sharp. Everyone knows they're good, and the lines accurately reflect it. That being said, +400 is a decent enough price for LA. Same price as NY and almost the same as Houston? LA is better than both and has the weaker league competition, so if you're betting anyone, it would have to be them. -- Derek Carty
2. Which long shot can you see making a run in October?
It's the Milwaukee Brewers. It has always the Brewers (+1800), and it's because of their pitching. Defending Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes is having another incredible season, and while Brandon Woodruff and Freddy Peralta are not, we still know what they are capable of doing. Milwaukee also has a dominant 1-2 bullpen punch in Devin Williams and Josh Hader, even though the lefty has struggled of late. The Brewers haven't had much playoff success in this five-year run, which started by losing Game 7 of the 2018 National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium, but aces carry major playoff weight, and Burnes is enough to take them seriously. -- Karabell
I'd love to pick the Brewers, but with the St. Louis Cardinals coming in at +3500, give me the latter at the longer odds, being that I think both teams are in position to make a deep postseason run. Sure, the starting pitching of the Cardinals lacks the elite status that stands out in a short series, but Adam Wainwright's tweaks in 2021-22 make him a legitimate ace (and one who can go deep in all his outings), and the bullpen is pretty solid. Plus, how about that offense? There's something to be said for the veteran leadership of guys like Wainwright, Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt in October. Considering the bottom three in the NL Central shapes up to be awfully weak, I think it's a virtual lock that the Cardinals will join the Brewers for October play. Beyond that, with the "right" injuries to Brewers pitchers at the wrong time, the NL Central just might belong to St. Louis. -- Cockcroft
The Cardinals, at +3500 to win the World Series and +1600 to win the NL definitely jump out. This is a 50-win club with a plus-65 run differential, which is more indicative of a 54-win team. That tells us the Cardinals have underperformed by four wins through the first half of the season. St. Louis is just a half-game back of Milwaukee at the moment, but more importantly, it has the easiest schedule in baseball the rest of the way, with opponents combining to produce a winning percentage of just .453. -- Joe Fortenbaugh
The Philadelphia Phillies at 35/1 to win the World Series or 17/1 to win the NLCS look really strong to me. This is a team that has been underrated all year from a talent perspective, with fans generally not giving them the credit they deserve and markets not treating them properly either (they've been the 6th-most profitable team against the spread this year, according to THE BAT X projection system). They also have one of the easiest schedules over the remainder of the season, with 3 inter-division series apiece against Washington and Miami, plus several strong non-division matchups, such as Pittsburgh twice, Cincinnati twice, plus the Cubs, and Arizona. With the eventual return of Bryce Harper, 35/1 to go deep are great odds for the team THE BAT X projects to have the third-best record in baseball over the rest of the season. -- Carty
3. Shohei Ohtani (-110) is the odds-on favorite for AL MVP, with Aaron Judge (+140) right behind him. Which one are you playing, or is there a dark horse emerging?
Ohtani winning another MVP award this season, while playing for a sub-.500 team, seems unlikely. The Angels are bad. Judge should have the best shot at MVP if he challenges for 60 home runs, but don't be surprised if Seattle Mariners rookie Julio Rodriguez (+10,000) becomes the hot name. Yes, he could pull off a Fred Lynn or Ichiro Suzuki and win both top rookie and MVP honors in the same season if the Mariners keep winning and break their 21-season streak of missing the playoffs. Rodriguez struggled in April, but since then he has been terrific. He is currently baseball's best shot for a 30-30 season. One would think that kind of success appeals to the voters, too. -- Karabell
I'm a Yordan Alvarez (+1400) guy, and this is a good time to get on board with the pick, being that he concluded the first half of the season on the injured list because of a hand injury that casts at least a hint of doubt about how he'll fare to begin the season's second half. This guy is amazing and deserves to be mentioned for his hitting exploits alongside both Ohtani and Judge. After all, Alvarez is by far the major league leader in wRC+ (197), wOBA (.442) and slugging percentage (.653). Plus, he's batting .306 to boot. -- Cockcroft
4. Shane McClanahan (+220) and Verlander (+260) are currently neck and neck in the AL Cy Young race. Do you like either of them, or is someone else, like Ohtani (+600) or Gerrit Cole (+800), worth betting?
Throw a betting dart on Toronto Blue Jays RHP Alek Manoah (+2000), too. After all, Manoah was one of the All-Star Game stars, impressively striking out three hitters in his scoreless inning and narrating for the TV microphones along the way, perhaps reminding voters that his numbers are nearly on par with both McClanahan and Verlander. Wins shouldn't matter, but Manoah is already in double figures in that category. Manoah might throw more innings. He might win more games. Who knows? It just seems like Manoah at least has a shot. -- Karabell
I like the Manoah pick quite a bit for the price, but give me Gerrit Cole, in large part because he has a noticeable advantage the others don't -- the Yankees are going to attempt to squeeze 33 starts and 200-plus innings out of him. That's something that resonates with the voters. That was a big factor in last year's balloting, and I expect it will be again this year, especially if he winds up with 25 more frames than the next-best candidates with final totals of 16-18 wins, 250-plus strikeouts and an ERA near 3.00. -- Cockcroft
5. Is there anything else you're monitoring in the betting world as we begin the second half of the season?
Three division races intrigue me: the NL Central, AL Central and NL East. I think at least two of the teams leading those divisions will fall out of first place by the time the season is done. The Cardinals are just a half-game behind the Brewers, have dealt with numerous injuries during the first half and have been consistently linked to Juan Soto as a potential deadline-deal addition. Whether they land Soto or not, they have the resources to bring in difference-making talent for the September push. I like St. Louis (+150) to win the NL Central. That price is way too enticing. -- Tyler Fulghum
I'm taking a flyer on Soto (+6000) to win NL MVP. There's a massive amount of risk involved here if he's traded to the AL, but if he stays in the NL, look out. That Home Run Derby performance proved he's finally healthy, and should he land on a contender like the Padres and help them finish strong, he's going to grab plenty of headlines. The current odds imply a 1.64% chance. Why not? -- Fortenbaugh
The saves leader prop is a more interesting one to me this year than in seasons past, if only because of the struggles of the current leader/favorite (Hader), as well as the presence of completely unexpected names in the top 12 (Daniel Bard, Gregory Soto, Jorge Lopez and Clay Holmes). So, here's a thought: Will Smith of the Atlanta Braves had a major-league-leading 19 saves after the All-Star break last season, and I expect the Braves to be plenty competitive in the second half yet again. Kenley Jansen (+900) is only five saves behind the lead and ready to get a ton of saves for Atlanta the rest of the way. -- Cockcroft
It will fall on the deaf ears of many (the public just never learns), but don't be afraid to bet on underdogs. Everyone knows who the good teams are, and sportsbooks know that people don't want to bet on bad teams. So in order to bet on the good teams, you have to pay a premium... which means you get a discount on the bad ones. Three of the four most profitable teams against the spread this year have been teams generally considered "bad": the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, and Arizona Diamondbacks. This isn't to say you should bet on teams like this every single time, but when the matchup and odds dictate it (a good projection helps a ton with picking these spots), don't be afraid to bet on "bad" teams. -- Carty | 2022-07-22T12:56:47+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/34274761/mlb-second-half-betting-preview-roundtable |
Yangtze River Delta Operation Hub in Taicang will receive a total investment of 22 million euros. The lab will offer testing for electronic products, automotive parts, and autonomous vehicle systems.
LITTLETON, Mass., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TÜV Rheinland, a world leader in independent testing, inspection, and certification services, has opened a new laboratory center in Taicang, China. The global testing services provider has invested around 11 million euros in the first construction phase of the "Yangtze River Delta Operation Hub," with a second construction phase adding a further 11 million euros in investment. "For TÜV Rheinland, the Yangtze River Delta Operation Hub is one of the largest single investments in recent years. This milestone project demonstrates the importance TÜV Rheinland attaches to the Chinese market," says Dr. Michael Fübi, CEO of TÜV Rheinland AG. "With our tests for safety and quality, we support Chinese customers as they enter global markets."
The laboratory center is located in Taicang (Jiangsu Province) and is also being built with the support of regional authorities. The city is around 50 kilometers from Shanghai and is already home to around 450 German companies. In the first phase of expansion, TÜV Rheinland will offer its customers testing services in the state-of-the-art testing facilities covering more than 12,000 square meters. These include a more than 5,000-square-meter laboratory for testing photovoltaic modules and a more than 2,000-square-meter laboratory for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing. There is also a 4,000-square-meter laboratory for EMC testing specifically of automotive electronics and automotive parts, as type testing of autonomous vehicle systems as well as electric vehicles is becoming increasingly important.
In further expansion, TÜV Rheinland plans to have laboratory space totaling 37,000 square meters by the end of 2023, making it the largest laboratory site in China. So far, 150 additional jobs have been created in Taicang, and once the expansion is complete, up to 500 TÜV Rheinland employees will work there. The site will be closely integrated into the testing company's global laboratory network.
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The U.S. Coast Guard says it has concluded that the five men on the underwater submersible that was headed to the wreckage of the Titanic area are dead — likely to have perished after their tiny vessel underwent a “catastrophic implosion,” with debris of the sub found on the ocean floor.
What happens next?
Mystery still surrounds the circumstances that caused the implosion. The bodies of the men have not been recovered and the debris is yet to be fully collected and examined, leaving more to do, maritime experts said.
“We’re gonna continue to investigate the site of the debris field … I know that there’s also a lot of questions about how, why and when did this happen?” Rear Adm. John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard said at a news conference Thursday. “Those questions about the regulations that apply and the standards, that’s going to be, I’m sure, a focus of future review.”
It was important for relatives of the victims to “have an understanding of what happened, [to] begin to find some closure,” Mauger said, adding that the site of the debris was an incredibly remote, difficult environment to work in. Given the victims were from different countries around the world, governments would be meeting to discuss “what an investigation of the nature of the casualty might look like.”
Some of the vessels already at the scene, and medical personnel would start to remobilize immediately, he said, while remote operations on the sea floor would continue. Authorities would be “documenting the scene” Mauger said, adding he could not say what the prospects were for recovering the passengers’ bodies.
The families of the French navy Cmdr. Paul-Henri Nargeolet; British adventurer Hamish Harding; British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman Dawood; and OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush have expressed their shock and grief.
“These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans,” OceanGate spokesperson Andrew Von Kerens said in a statement.
According to oceanographer Simon Boxall, a fellow at the University of Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre, their bodies are highly unlikely to be recovered, having experienced pressure levels the equivalent of “the Eiffel tower landing on top of you,” he said in an interview Friday.
The power of the implosion meant at least that the individuals were probably unaware of what was happening and their death would have been “quick and instantaneous,” he added.
Boxall said many people who work in the field had been “fairly certain this was going to happen,” but did not want to strike a “defeatist” tone while the widespread search and rescue operation was continuing.
Now, the focus would shift to piecing together what went wrong, he said, treating it similarly to an air accident investigation. Extensive underwater photography and mapping of the area would likely get underway, followed by using remote-operated vehicles on the ocean floor near the Titanic to gather remaining debris and attempt to reassemble it on land to analyze exactly how and when the implosion occurred.
“It will be a painstaking job,” said Boxall, “we’re not going to get an answer next week.”
Figuring out what happened from a technical perspective could take weeks, agreed John Carlton, director of maritime studies at City, University of London. And any legal battle could take “many months and even years to resolve” because of the loss of life involved, he said in an interview Friday.
“Liability is a complex matter and will have to be discussed by the lawyers as it seems there were several disclaimers that had to be signed by the passengers,” Carlton said, noting that jurisdiction would also be a tricky issue with the accident occurring in international waters that don’t come under any one nation’s legal rules.
There are also questions over the final cost of the massive search effort, with some commentators noting that taxpayer-funded government entities were responding to an expedition run by a private corporation.
“It’s no different than if a private citizen goes out, and his boat sinks,” Paul Zukunft, a retired commandant who led the Coast Guard from 2014 to 2018, said in an interview this week. “We go out and recover him. We don’t stick them with the bill after the fact.”
The National Association for Search and Rescue recommends against agencies charging for rescue operations, as it may discourage people from seeking help in emergency situations.
The deaths also raise the question of whether the company which operated the vessel, OceanGate, will pay to have the remnants of the vessel recovered — and at what cost.
Zukunft said that typically, the U.S. government pays for the cost of search-and-rescue operations after a crisis at sea, but a private company must decide how and if it will pursue salvage operations once the search is complete.
Recovering debris from the Titan, at a depth of about 13,000 feet, would be a significant and costly endeavor.
Anumita Kaur, Amber Ferguson, Justine McDaniel, Timothy Bella, Maham Javaid and Alex Horton contributed to this report. | 2023-06-23T12:32:47+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/23/titanic-implosion-debris-what-next/ |
(WFLA) — Former actress Nicki Aycox, known for her roles in “Supernatural” and “Jeepers Creepers 2,” died last week at the age of 47, according to her family.
Aycox’s sister-in-law, Susan Raab Ceklosky, announced the actress’ death on Thursday.
“My beautiful, smart, fierce, incredibly talented, and loving sister-in-law, Nicki Aycox Raab, passed away yesterday with my brother, Matt Raab, by her side,” she wrote. “Nicki and Matt had a wonderful life together in California. She was definitely a fighter and everyone who knew her loved her.”
The late actress announced her leukemia diagnosis on Instagram in March 2021.
“I became very ill thinking I had covid in Jan and Feb,” she wrote. “Well, things came to a head. I ended up in a hospital diagnosed with [leukemia].”
Aycox played the original Meg Masters in the show “Supernatural,” a character who was possessed by a demon.
Show creator Eric Kripke expressed his sorrow at Aycox’s death on Twitter, saying she was “too young” to die.
“She was a delight & delivered lines like honey & venom,” Kripke wrote. “I marvel at how she made a simple word like ‘lackluster’ legendary.” | 2022-11-21T18:11:57+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/supernatural-actress-nicki-aycox-dies-after-battle-with-leukemia/ |
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Some regional fisheries management organizations that were set up by the United Nations to measure and conserve fish populations — but are difficult to hold to account — need to be more transparent about how they make their rules and regulations if fish species are to be protected and maintained for people reliant on healthy fish stocks for their livelihoods, conservation agencies and fishing industry players say.
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The 50-some regional fisheries management organizations worldwide bring together local, coastal states and bigger international players to regulate how companies and countries can fish in waters worldwide in a way that best conserves populations of fish and other ocean species based on scientific evidence.
For years, these regional regulators have been accused of undemocratic practices that favor large, industrial fishers but now several conservation groups are banding together to renew calls for a culture change.
A coalition of conservationists and market players like Accountability.Fish, the Ocean Foundation, the Global Tuna Alliance and others have endorsed more open access to fisheries organizations’ proceedings so that more members of the public can participate in conservation efforts.
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Larger regional fishing management organizations contacted and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization — the RFMO's parent body — did not respond to requests for comment.
For local and non-commercial fishers who rely on well-managed fish stocks, it's unclear if more open measures will make a difference.
“I only hear of meetings on fisheries, but I have no idea what it is they discuss there. I have never been invited," said Kassim Abdalla, a fisher on Kenya's coast, who's part of a cooperative group of fishers. "In any case it is always a meeting of unequals. How can I compete with the well-financed fishing fleets from the developed nations and all I have is an outrigger canoe?”
The concern among environmentalists and smaller-scale fishers is that large fleets are permitted by fishery organizations to use practices that are only accessible to vessels big enough to go far into the open ocean, depleting fish stocks for those more confined to the coasts or forcing them to travel into choppy, more dangerous waters their smaller boats aren't fit for.
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Many industrial fishing fleets rely on a highly-effective scooping method called purse seining — a two-kilometer-long (1.2-mile) net positioned around schools of fish by a smaller support vessel, explained Frederic Manach, a marine scientist with the ocean conservation group Bloom. “The seine is then closed from below with a sliding system, allowing the entire school to be caught” which makes it difficult to sustain populations, he said.
The European Union, a prominent actor in eight regional fisheries management organizations worldwide, including Abdalla's Indian Ocean, has been accused of using these fish-aggregating devices as well as pressuring coastal states in order to secure privileged access to regional fishery management organizations.
The EU Commission denied the claims, saying the bloc is not suppressing Global South countries or other actors for more favorable access. It also previously said that it would stop using fish-aggregating devices if the science backed up a ban, adding that “it is essential that science is the backbone” of decision-making at regulatory bodies.
How its decided how much fish each party is able to catch is what fishery regulatory bodies need to be more open about, said Manach.
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“There is absolutely no transparency regarding how quotas are allocated and who gets them,” he said.
Ryan Orgera, the global director of Accountability.Fish, an organization that calls for greater awareness in fishery management said that's the result of the makeup of regulatory bodies, made up mostly of industrial fishers.
“We seek to reduce the power of industrial fishers in regional fisheries and balance out the space with market players and non-governmental organizations,” including artisanal and small boat fishers, Orgera said.
Regulations for the high seas — the world's deep oceans — and the marine life that lives there have for a long time been patchwork and it's been hard to reach a global consensus on how best to protect them.
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Then last month, the long-awaited worldwide framework to protect the high seas was finally approved. The U.N. high seas treaty will create a new body to manage conservation of ocean life globally and establish marine protected areas in the world’s oceans.
But even with the treaty, Orgera said, "if industrial fishers are given a green light by the fisheries management organizations to overfish for, say five years, the effects on the oceans could become irreversible.”
The hope for conservation groups is that even before the creation of marine protected areas in the oceans, which could take a few years, fishery bodies involve more and varied stakeholders — no matter the size of their fleet — in open discussion and decisions about conserving fish populations.
Abdalla, the Kenyan fisher, said knowledge-sharing programs in other regions of the world, like China, the Seychelles and among Pacific Ocean states are a better model for those reliant on the same fish stocks to communicate and preserve populations.
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Orgera said the key is transparency.
“No nation on earth benefits from mismanaged oceans, especially developing states," said Orgera. He added that more openness can make sure that "societies have access to what happens to our collective resources.” ___
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Former President Trump is anticipating federal criminal charges for his role in trying to cling to power after the 2020 election, the most serious legal trouble he faces in a summer of indictments.
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Former President Trump is anticipating federal criminal charges for his role in trying to cling to power after the 2020 election, the most serious legal trouble he faces in a summer of indictments.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-24T11:38:17+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2023-07-24/trump-could-face-federal-indictment-soon-over-effort-to-overturn-2020-election-defeat |
Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee made history at the Tony Awards Sunday night.
They are the first nonbinary performers to win in their respective categories.
Newell won for best actor in a featured role in a musical.
"To anyone who thinks that they can't do it, I'm going to look you dead in your face, that you can do anything that you put your mind to," said a shocked Newell after winning the award.
Newell plays Lulu in "Shucked," a comedy about family trying to save their corn crop. The performer has been wowing audiences with their solo of "Independently Owned."
SEE MORE: The long history of nonbinary identities
Ghee won their Tony for best leading actor in a musical.
The first person Ghee thanked after winning the award was their mother.
"Thank your for teaching me how to live, how to love, how to give," Newell said.
The performer then had a message for people in the LGBTQ+ community.
"For every trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming human who ever was told you couldn't be, you couldn't be seen, this is for you," Ghee said.
Ghee plays Jerry/Daphne in "Some Like it Hot." The character is a musician who is on the run from gangsters when they transform into Daphne.
SEE MORE: The history and meaning of the most popular LGBTQ+ Pride flags
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-12T17:07:30+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/nonbinary-performers-make-history-becoming-first-to-win-tony-awards |
NEW YORK (AP) — Take my chard, please!
The season has come when many home gardeners, their numbers booming since the pandemic began, are being rewarded with fully matured, ready-to-pick vegetables and flowers. It’s also vacation season, and this summer travel is back.
How do you maintain your garden and take advantage of all that homegrown goodness during extended trips away? Even experienced gardeners can end up with more tomatoes, beans and zucchini than they’d expected come late summer.
Garden sitters are one answer.
Some home gardeners hire professionals, while many just rely on neighbors and hope for the best.
“It’s really hard to leave the garden,” said Theresa Fiumano-Rhatigan, a longtime home gardener in Brooklyn. She relies on her parents and other nearby relatives as garden sitters during her five weeks each summer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. “Nobody does it quite like I do.”
Having an experienced sitter who isn’t afraid to take control can help. Avoid a free-for-all of inexperienced neighbors and friends traipsing through to pick what they want with no care given to the plants and no idea when to water.
“The first thing is to find one friend with a garden you like and make sure you’re willing to return the favor,” said Adam Choper, associate director for outdoor gardens and sustainable horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
He suggests walking your garden sitter through the process beforehand to make sure things are done just right. Setting up sprinklers or soaker hoses will make things easier while you’re away. For container gardens, group the containers together in the shade so your plants won’t dry out as quickly if your vacation is just a week or two, Choper said. Some gardeners place containers in kiddy pools with water that a garden sitter need only fill up if necessary.
Choper also recommends putting down mulch before heading out for long periods. That helps the soil conserve water and keeps weeds at bay.
For gardeners without trusted neighbors or loved ones, garden sitters for hire are abundant on local online message boards or at nurseries and horticultural societies.
Rachel Mulkerin tends to about 3,000 square feet of garden space on her 9-acre property in Sherman, Connecticut, and has hired special needs helpers she found through her mother, a former adult education teacher.
“It’s a wildly mutually beneficial arrangement,” she said.
Mulkerin uses about half of what she produces for herself and her family and gives away the rest to those in need in her community.
Through time, gardens have offered a sense of safety and comfort, so entrusting them to others can be difficult, said Ambra Edwards, a gardening historian and co-author of “The Story of Gardening.”
Edwards, who gardens herself in England’s rural Dorset, considers holiday a reprieve from the toil, but she knows a lot of manic gardeners who can’t tear themselves away.
“I’ve got one friend in particular and she has to travel a lot. She travels the length and breadth of the country. And when she does, she takes all her vegetable plants, all her sweet peas and a particular myrtle in a pot that she got from a very dear friend, now deceased, and loads them in the car. They go with her. She’s the snail carrying a house,” Edwards said.
Gardeners, generally speaking, are sharers, and sharing vegetables while away not only produces more after picking, but also avoids rotting tomatoes and other crops.
“Rotten tomatoes will cause other tomatoes to rot, and they’re also really smelly,” Choper said.
Some vegetables, like cucumbers and zucchini, need to be picked so they don’t grow into monsters that aren’t as pleasant to eat.
A designated garden sitter can take what they want and leave the rest on a front porch or at the end of a driveway after putting out the word of free fresh food.
Heather Grabin in Hampton, New Jersey, has 10 garden plots on her 40-acre property. She also owns a cafe in a city an hour away that doesn’t have access to much fresh produce. She uses her vegetables and herbs at her restaurant, and sells some of her excess there at low cost.
Grabin had to delay a three-week trip to California this year because of a new school schedule for her two kids. By the time she and her family left, her tomatoes and zucchini were abundant. With such an overwhelming amount, she went the hired garden sitter route.
“It’s different when you’re doing it yourself versus when you have to ask someone else to do it for you,” she said. “He’s been flash freezing everything. It’s a lot.”
Doug Guttenberg and his wife, Tal, grow herbs in their backyard and vegetables in a community garden plot just a few minutes from their Brooklyn home. They also own a house in Detroit and spend a month in Michigan every summer. They entrust their Brooklyn plants to a neighbor, a fellow gardener, and know firsthand what happens without a sitter after choosing to forgo one last year.
“When we came back, the cucumbers had attacked everything,” Tal said. “It was like this tornado of cucumbers. It was a bit crazy, and they didn’t even fruit. I mean, no cucumbers came of it.”
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Follow Leanne Italie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/litalie | 2022-08-19T01:19:10+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/for-hire-or-food-garden-sitters-save-the-day-during-summer/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — After 15 years running SXSW’s film festival, director Janet Pierson is stepping down. Her longtime deputy, Claudette Godfrey, will take over leading the annual Austin, Texas, gathering, one of America’s premier film festivals.
SXSW announced the change Wednesday, saying that Pierson, a longtime champion of independent film, will shift to a director emeritus role. That will include serving as a programmer at the next SXSW Film & TV Festival in March 2023. In a statement, Pierson called her years at SXSW “a wonderful and quite unexpected adventure.”
“It’s been glorious to present so much great work at our unique event, yielding so many transformative experiences for creators and audience alike,” said Pierson. “I’m intensely proud of the work our small and very mighty team has accomplished.”
Since taking the reins of film at SXSW in 2008, Pierson had helped develop the festival as a major destination for independent film and genre movies. Films like “Bridesmaids,” “The Cabin in the Woods” and, earlier this year, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” have debuted at SXSW. Filmmakers like Lena Dunham, Joe Swanberg and Paul Feig have been regularly celebrated at the festival.
In the last few years, Pierson helped steer the festival through the pandemic, including a canceled 2020 edition, a virtual 2021 festival and an in-person comeback SXSW earlier this year.
Godfrey has been with the festival since first serving as a volunteer crew manager in 2006. Three years later, she became coordinator of the festival.
“Janet is an incredible leader and mentor, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to watch and learn from her example,” Godfrey said in a statement. “I’m a hype woman at heart, and it’s a great joy in my life to discover and elevate new talent by curating and evolving an event that celebrates film, TV, and creativity. I started from the bottom and the journey has been exceptional — it’s an immense honor to continue to build on the legacy of SXSW Film & TV and take it into the future.”
The SXSW change in leadership follows some musical chairs at other top U.S. film festivals. In June, Tabitha Jackson stepped down as director of Utah’s Sundance Film Festival. Last month, Eugene Hernandez, director of the New York Film Festival, was announced as Sundance’s new leader.
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | 2022-10-05T19:15:50+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-sxsws-pierson-steps-down-after-15-years-leading-film-fest/ |
Jimmy V Classic more than game for Iowa’s Patrick McCaffery
By ERIC OLSON
AP Sports Writer
Iowa’s meeting with No. 15 Duke at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night is more than just another game to Patrick McCaffery.
The game opens the Jimmy V Classic doubleheader, which raises funds for cancer research through the V Foundation. The second game matches No. 2 Texas against No. 17 Illinois.
McCaffery, the 22-year-old son of Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery, was 13 when he was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid, the small gland at the base of the front of the neck that regulates a person’s metabolism.
“The fact I’m able to play at that level and be a starter in this game is something crazy to think about,” McCaffery said. “I’m someone who has benefited from things like the Jimmy V and have seen first-hand how the Jimmy V can help people. Having the opportunity to play in that event is something I’ll forever cherish and I’m really looking forward to.”
Patrick had two surgeries in 2014, the first to remove half his thyroid and, after tests showed it was malignant, a second to remove the rest of the gland and nearby tissue.
His follow-up treatment included taking two radioactive iodine pills to eliminate any possible remaining cancer cells from his lymph nodes. It was a grueling few days when he had to isolate to such an extreme that he rode home from the hospital in the car trunk and had to sleep in the basement.
Anything he touched, such as video game controllers, had to be thrown away. His mom, Margaret, cared for Patrick while his dad and siblings stayed at a hotel because of the potential danger of radioactive iodine exposure to others.
Three months after his diagnosis, he was declared cancer-free and was able to rejoin his summer basketball team. He went on to become the all-time leading scorer at Iowa City West High and a top-60 national recruit before he joined older brother Connor and his dad with the Hawkeyes.
Patrick has played in 72 games since 2019-20 and started 38 of 39 since the start of last season. He goes into Tuesday’s game averaging a career-best 12.9 points, second on the team behind Kris Murray’s 21.
Having no thyroid means Patrick must deal with occasional fatigue and low energy and a desire to eat at odd times. He has blood tests regularly to monitor his metabolic activity.
“I understand I’m not going to be able to do things the same way people who have one do,” he said. “I have to work through that, and I think I’ve done a good job of it. I feel good. Obviously there’s no more cancer, just lingering effects that I’ll have to deal with the rest of my life and be cognizant of.”
Patrick said some people might be surprised he’s able to play basketball at such a high level, but he was determined to not let cancer stop him from pursuing his goals.
“I’ve always had this strong belief in myself,” he said. “I knew I was going to be a good high school player, I knew I was going to be a good college player and I’m pretty confident I’m going to be a good professional player as well whether that’s overseas or in the NBA.”
Fran McCaffery, whose parents died of cancer, and the entire family have been involved in raising awareness and money for cancer research.
The V Foundation was founded by Jim Valvano, the college basketball coach and broadcaster who died of cancer in 1993. The foundation has awarded over $310 million in cancer research grants.
Pediatric thyroid cancer is highly curable but has not been researched much historically, said Dr. Vivian Weiss, who was awarded a $200,000 V Foundation grant in 2019 to study differences in how the disease behaves in children and adults and develop individualized treatment plans for children.
Weiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University, said she and her colleagues have performed genetic analysis on 100 children and the results have been promising for improving detection and treatment.
Weiss said Patrick’s willingness to share his story has put a spotlight on the disease.
“His ability to perform at that level and be as amazing and as successful as he is is really incredible,” she said, “and I think he serves as a wonderful role model for other children struggling with thyroid cancer. It’s not an easy journey for any of these children. It’s wonderful to see how resilient and how much potential there is for these children to live full, healthy and happy lives.”
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Japan Stymies Team USA to Level Series at Riley Park
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Japan’s Kaito Shimomura held the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team hitless for five innings, before three relievers closed out a 4-3 victory Tuesday evening at Joseph Riley Jr. Park, leveling the 44th Collegiate All-Star Championship Series at two games apiece.
Shimomura retired 12 straight U.S. batters en route to posting five scoreless frames. The right-hander allowed just two first-inning baserunners and a two-out walk in the fifth.
After Team USA responded with three runs in the sixth, Japan answered with three of its own in the home half to reclaim the lead for good. From there, Sho Kusaka struck out three over an inning-and-two-thirds, before Haruki Hosona and Hayato Tsunehiro combined to retire the final four U.S. hitters of the game in succession.
The U.S. did all of its offensive damage in the sixth, riding a Griff O’Ferrall (Virginia) double and a JJ Wetherholt(West Virginia) two-run homer to a one-run lead. Kaelen Culpepper (Kansas State) added a two-out solo shot to extend the lead to 3-1.
But Japan scored the final three runs of the night, using RBI singles from Rui Muneyama and Ryuta Hirose to reclaim the lead in the home half of the sixth.
KEY MOMENTS
- Shimomura faced his biggest threat in the opening frame after hitting a pair of U.S. batters; but the right-hander recorded the first of his four strikeouts and induced a comebacker for the final out of the inning.
- Team USA starter Trey Yesavage (East Carolina) nearly equaled Shimomura, retiring 10 of the first 11 batters of the game in order.
- Seiya Watanabe was the lone Japan hitter to reach in the first three innings, clubbing a one-out home run to left in the bottom of the second for the lone run of the first five frames.
- After Shimomura’s exit after the fifth, O’Ferrall and Wetherholt put the U.S. on the board in a blink; O’Ferrall lined a double to left on a two-strike offering, before Wetherholt launched an 0-1 pitch over the wall in left-center.
- Culpepper added to the lead with his team-leading third home run of the CNT campaign to stretch the U.S. advantage to two runs.
- Ippei Amai started Japan’s decisive sixth-inning rally with a leadoff double to left, before Muneyama’s one-out single brought him home to slice the deficit in half.
- Misho Nishikawa added a third hit, before Watanabe’s ground ball to the right side tied the game and Hirose’s two-out, RBI single plated the go-ahead run.
- Kusaka fanned three of the first four batters he faced before walking Wetherholt in the eighth; Hosono induced an inning-ending ground ball to second to preserve the narrow lead.
- Tsunehiro closed out the victory by fanning two of the three U.S. hitters to come to the plate in a 1-2-3 ninth.
NOTEWORTHY
- O’Ferrall extended his CNT hit streak to nine-straight games, finishing 1-for-4.
- Wetherholt reched base in three of his four trips to the plate, going 1-for-2 with two RBIs.
- Yesavage allowed just one hit—the Watanabe homer in the second—and struck out three over his 4.0 innings.
- Jay Woolfork (Virginia) worked around a leadoff error—just the third U.S. error defensive miscue in its nine contests—in his lone inning of work, a scoreless fifth.
- Tyson Neighbors (Kansas State) worked a perfect eighth for Team USA, coaxed a trio of ground balls to keep the deficit at one run.
ON DECK
- Team USA will conclude its 2023 CNT season with the fifth and deciding game of the 44th USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star Championship Series sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Wednesday (July 12) at 6:30 p.m. ET at Joseph Riley Jr. Park.
- Tickets for this year’s Collegiate National Team’s series with Japan can be found HERE.
Copyright 2023 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-12T15:14:51+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/07/12/japan-stymies-team-usa-level-series/ |
TROY — A Miami County jury Thursday found a former Miami County man guilty of reckless homicide and a weapons charge in the March 26 shooting death of a longtime friend.
The jury deliberated for 4½ hours in Common Pleas Court before returning its verdicts.
Brian Mason, 58, was charged in the death of Michelle Elliott, 57, at her North Montgomery County Line Road home in Union Twp. She was shot in the chest with a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol that Mason said he was showing her how to use for personal safety.
Credit: Miami County Jail
Credit: Miami County Jail
He was indicted on felony charges of reckless homicide and having a weapon while under a disability following a prior felony conviction in 2012 for attempted cultivation of marijuana. The reckless homicide charge also included a firearm specification, which carries a mandatory three-year sentence.
Judge Jeannine Pratt said a sentencing date will be scheduled.
Mason reported the shooting the following day, telling a Miamisburg police officer that he wanted to turn himself in. Miami County law enforcement went to Elliott’s home where they found her body on the floor covered by a blanket.
Mason testified Thursday as the only defense witness.
He said he and Elliott had known each other since grade school, living about two miles apart and riding the same bus to Milton Union schools. They remained friends following their graduation. He said he talked with Elliott a few days before the shooting about her concerns about safety following a brief relationship with a man.
Mason said he brought the weapon to her home March 26 and was in the process of explaining when he noticed he had neglected to pull the magazine out and a round was in the chamber. He said he was having difficulty releasing the magazine and, as he attempted to look for what was wrong, he heard a bang.
“I’ve never been so scared in my life,” Mason said describing his reaction after the gun fired and Elliott collapsed.
He left her home within five minutes and drove for hours, stopping for milk at a convenience store and by a music shop. He said he finally went to the Miamisburg Police Department the following evening after, “I eventually manned up … I needed to take responsibility for my actions.”
In closing arguments Thursday, Paul Watkins, first assistant county prosecutor, asked, “Why are we here? Because this man fired a gun and killed Michelle with a gun he should have never even possessed.”
Public defender Joe Fulker said Mason was not reckless in his actions, saying he loved his friend. “It was a clumsy mistake with a tragic consequence,” he said. Mason wanted to help his friend and will be remorseful for the remainder of his life, Fulker said.
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RIVERDALE, Calif. (KFSN) -- With Valley temperatures soaring this week, many ranchers and dairy operators are concerned over the health of their animals.
Cows, like many people, don't like to eat when it's too hot.
"Cows are really resilient to the cold. The heat is where they have their issues," says Riverdale farmer Donny Rollin.
Rollin has used a sprinkler system for decades. During extreme hot spells, it helps the cows keep eating because they're less bothered by the heat.
"The best way to keep cows cool is soaking them with some water and then turning the water off and then allowing the heat to evaporate off their backs," says Rollin.
Rollin's barn is designed in a way that offers shade throughout the day.
A cool breeze helps move hot air up through the opening of the tilted roof. But the soaking sessions are still needed.
A refreshing drink and regular showers keep these dairy cows comfortable, and cool cows will keep giving milk.
Rollin believes most Valley dairy operators have ways to keep their cows comfortable because the hotter they get, the less milk they make.
"Right now on the super hot days I do notice a depressed milk production level. We'll lose, I don't know, 5%.4%," he says.
Watching cows chew on their cud is a welcome sight.
"Anything we do to keep their appetites up allows them to be healthy and that's my primary goal - to keep cows healthy. I want to cool them as best I possibly can," says Rollin.
The cows seem to enjoy the short soakings.
"On a day like today and tomorrow, you could have cows just collapse in there from the heat exhaustion," says Rollin.
The sprinklers ensure the high heat won't be a problem on Rollin's dairy.
The cows at Rollin's dairy also have dry beds to lie down and eat.
Other dairies use big fans that cool off the cows after they're lightly doused with water. | 2022-09-06T01:05:58+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/heat-wave-cows-farm-animals-dairy-operators-ranchers/12201123/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is on trial in federal court on charges of corruption and lying to the FBI, facing a potentially long prison sentence if convicted of multiple wire fraud counts and conspiracy.
WHAT IS THE CASE ABOUT?
Gillum, 43, is accused of accepting about $57,000 in political contributions that were secretly funneled through a co-defendant’s company to his personal accounts. The co-defendant is Sharon Lettman-Hicks, a longtime political adviser to Gillum and former executive with the People for the American Way Foundation, a progressive group. She ran unsuccessfully in 2022 for the state House.
Prosecutors also say Gillum lied about his interactions with undercover FBI agents posing as developers who paid for a 2016 trip he and his brother took to New York, which included a ticket to the hit Broadway show “Hamilton.” Gillum is accused of falsely telling the FBI later that he never received anything from these undercover “developers” and that his brother provided the Broadway ticket.
Gillum and Lettman-Hicks have pleaded not guilty. Gillum said after he was indicted that he had “a target on my back” since he was the state capital’s mayor, and predicted he will be vindicated.
HAS GILLUM HAD OTHER TROUBLES?
In 2020, Gillum was found in a Miami Beach hotel room with a man who had apparently overdosed on drugs. Police said Gillum himself was too inebriated to talk about what happened.
No one was ever charged with any crime involving the incident, but Gillum withdrew from public life for months afterward while seeking treatment for alcohol abuse and depression. He told a television interviewer some months later that he had to come to grips with what he had done.
“So much of my recovery has been about trying to get over shame,” Gillum said on the Tamron Hall talk show in September 2020.
WHAT IS GILLUM’S POTENTIAL PRISON SENTENCE?
Each of the 17 counts of wire fraud and the wire fraud conspiracy count in the Gillum indictment carries a maximum of 20 years behind bars. The charge of lying to the FBI has a five-year maximum sentence.
Although that technically adds up to a possible prison term of 365 years, if Gillum is convicted it’s more likely the multiple sentences would be served concurrently rather than consecutively under federal sentencing guidelines.
And with no prior convictions, generally those guidelines would favor a more minimal prison sentence for Gillum.
WHO IS THE JUDGE IN GILLUM’S TRIAL?
U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor is presiding over the case in Tallahassee federal court. He was appointed in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump.
Previously, Winsor was Florida’s solicitor general, overseeing civil and criminal appellate work for the state. His boss then was former Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican.
Gillum argued that the indictment was politically motivated, but Winsor refused last year to dismiss it, and ruled that Gillum and Lettman-Hicks had to be tried together because their actions are so closely intertwined. | 2023-04-18T17:11:31+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/18/gillum-florida-trial-corruption-governor/519a0534-ddfe-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html |
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The city of Bentonville has a new park and $100,000 for park improvements.
Bogle Park and the money were donated to the city by the Bogle family. Wade Tomlinson, the city’s parks planner, says they haven’t decided exactly how to spend the money, but plan on keeping the park’s general use the same.
“These are very important,” Tomlinson said. “Pocket parks are more and more important as cities grow out. Pocket parks are parks that are probably an acre or less that are usually walked to from the community.”
Tomlinson says the park, located on 3rd Street, is in a historic part of town and hopes families continue to spend time together there. | 2023-01-13T04:42:55+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/park-money-for-improvements-donated-to-bentonville/ |
MISSION, Texas (Border Report) — Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector are putting rescue placards along the banks of the Rio Grande to help prevent migrant drownings.
It’s part of the Rescue Water Placard Initiative, and once completed, there should be 550 of these warning and locator signs spaced throughout three counties in the Rio Grande Valley, Border Patrol Agent Alex Jara told Border Report on Wednesday.
“We’ve had several rescues but there’s also been several deaths and that’s what we’re trying to mitigate with these placards,” Jara said. “Someone on land can call 911 and say, ‘We’re by this number and this sign’ and we know exactly where that sign is.”
The signs are in English and Spanish and say “Drowning Hazard” and each has a number for the caller to give to law enforcement. The numbers coincide with GPS-mapped locations and Jara says that will quickly allow law enforcement to locate them.
About 20 of the signs have so far been put up, starting near Falcon Dam in western Starr County. Eventually, the signs will span Hidalgo and Cameron counties to where the Rio Grande drains into the Gulf of Mexico, he said.
The RGV Sector currently is the only sector with this program, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they hope it will be expanded to other sectors in the Southwest, including the South Texas sectors in Laredo and Del Rio.
“The water rescue placards are another tool our agents will utilize to increase the rescue and enforcement capabilities of those who become lost or distressed,” RGV Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez said. “Humanitarian assistance and safety protocols must always be allowed to reach those who need it in the safest manner possible for all involved.”
Jara says the Rio Grande is much more dangerous than most people realize.
“In Eagle Pass, you can see the river moving and people get in trouble. Here you cannot see the river. The current is underneath. So people jump in and they start getting dragged under by the current. It is very dangerous,” he said.
Eagle Pass has had dozens of drownings this past year as heavy rains flooded the region. The Rio Grande is much narrower there where it divides the South Texas city from Piedras Negras, Mexico.
That resulted in many unidentified remains buried in local cemeteries, which officials still are trying to identify.
This week, heavy rains have fallen in the Rio Grande Valley, and Jara says it’s perfect timing to get the signs up to prevent migrants from trying to cross into the United States by way of the Rio Grande.
If they do get in trouble, however, he says someone on land should immediately call 911 and give the number of the nearest placard to law enforcement.
“A lot of times people who get in trouble call their families in Mexico, who then call the consulate, who then call police. It takes too long. Just call 911 and give this number and it will be much quicker,” he said.
Jara says 911 service will work in the United States even if a phone is registered in Mexico. | 2023-03-30T19:58:51+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/border-report/drowning-hazard-placards-in-rio-grande-valley-urging-migrants-in-distress-to-call-for-help/ |
DALLAS (AP) — Most U.S. airlines lost money in the first quarter, traditionally the weakest time of year for travel, but they are all eagerly looking ahead to a summer of full planes and high fares.
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines said Thursday that they expect to be solidly profitable in the second quarter. They joined Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in giving an upbeat outlook for the April-through-June period, which includes the start of peak season for carriers.
“We see a strong demand environment this summer, and we’re highly confident that will continue,” American CEO Robert Isom said on a call with analysts.
Airlines are getting a tailwind from leisure travelers, who are still eager to leave home after a long pandemic lockdown. Their gaze is shifting this summer from domestic destinations to overseas.
“Demand is smoking hot for international destinations,” said Ryan Green, Southwest’s chief commercial officer, “and then it’s the typical summer destinations that you would expect — Florida, the Southwest, Hawaii.”
Southwest lost $159 million in the first quarter, which it blamed on fallout from a December meltdown that continued to hurt bookings early into this year. The airline said that it made money in March, however, as revenue picked up, giving it momentum heading into summer.
American stood out from its peers by eking out a $10 million profit for the first quarter as revenue jumped 37% from a year earlier. The airline predicted second-quarter earnings per share that would easily beat Wall Street expectations.
American cited strength in both domestic and international bookings.
In the last two weeks, both Delta and United posted large losses for the first quarter but also spoke in glowing terms about the summer outlook.
Air travel began to rebound from the pandemic last year, and that has carried into 2023. The number of travelers screened at U.S. airport checkpoints in January, February and so far in April exceeded the same months in pre-pandemic 2019.
There was a brief scare about bookings slowing down a few weeks ago, and United said it saw a temporary drop in sales to corporate travelers after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank raised fears of a widespread banking crisis.
Both concerns seem to have subsided, however. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said he saw no impact on bookings after scary headlines about bank failures and tech-industry layoffs.
Airlines do face headwinds, however. Costs for labor and jet fuel are up, and airlines can’t get all the planes they want because of production problems at Boeing that will delay deliveries of new 737 Max jets.
Southwest planned to take 90 Max jets this year but now expects to get only 70. That will cause the airline to hire fewer new workers, CEO Robert Jordan said.
Jordan said Southwest had planned to hire 7,000 people this year. He did not say how much that number will be cut.
Southwest is Boeing’s biggest airline customer, and its fleet consists entirely of 737s, while American uses both Boeing and Airbus jets.
“Fortunately with this latest issue with the Max, we haven’t had to make too many changes,” said Isom, the American CEO. “Boeing has been a great partner … we need them to get their act together.”
American, based in Fort Worth, Texas, said Thursday that its profit excluding one-time items was 5 cents per share, a penny better than analysts predicted after the company lowered expectations two weeks ago.
American said it expects to earn between $1.20 and $1.40 per share in the second quarter, which would beat analysts’ average forecast of $1.04 per share in a FactSet survey.
The airline continued to pay down debt, which peaked at more than $53 billion in mid-2021. American ended March with $14.4 billion in liquidity — cash, short-term investments and available credit.
“We have some flexibility with this excess liquidity to either further invest in the business or potentially use it to pay down debt at a faster rate,” Chief Financial Officer Devon May said in an interview. “That’s a decision we will be making in the coming months.”
Southwest had already indicated it would lose money in the first quarter. Thursday’s loss was narrower than Southwest’s $278 million loss a year earlier. After one-time items, it worked out to 27 cents per share, matching Wall Street expectations.
Revenue rose 22% to a first-quarter record of $5.71 billion, slightly less than analysts expected.
Dallas-based Southwest said the winter breakdown cost $380 million in the quarter from lingering lost bookings and extra expenses — on top of $800 million in last year’s fourth quarter. Southwest failed to bounce back after a winter storm just before Christmas, and its problems were compounded when its crew-rescheduling system broke down, leading to 16,700 canceled flights in a 10-day stretch.
Southwest’s average fare was $169, up $10 from a year ago. American doesn’t provide the same figure, but it said that passengers paid 21% more for each mile they flew.
Airlines are counting on that kind of pricing power continuing and growing into summer. Strong demand for tickets and a limited supply of flights are keeping average fares high, which will boost airline revenue. But the carriers are facing higher costs for labor and fuel, plus the possibility of a recession that could hu.1t ticket sales.
Shares of Southwest closed down 3.3% while American gained 1.1%. | 2023-04-28T02:35:12+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/southwest-reports-159-million-1q-loss-on-meltdown-effects/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. World Cup team is truly of the video generation. Players who received a FaceTime from coach Gregg Berhalter were headed to Qatar and those given audio calls missed the cut.
“I think the best part of it the last couple of days was really seeing genuine smiles from the guys when I told them, and that’s priceless,” Berhalter said Wednesday night after the televised announcement of his 26-man roster.
Tim Ream, Haji Wright, Joe Scally and Sean Johnson made it.
Ricardo Pepi, Zack Steffen, Paul Arriola and Jordan Pefok fell short.
Norwich’s Josh Sargent and Antalyspor’s Wright beat out Pepi, the 19-year-old whose three goals in qualifying were second behind Christian Pulisic’s five. Berhalter rated Sargent playing in England’s second-tier League Championship higher than Pepi in the Dutch Eredivisie, especially with the U.S. opening the tournament against Wales on Nov. 21 and facing England four days later before finishing group play against Iran on Nov. 29.
“The Dutch League is a great league, but it doesn’t bring the same physicality that the Premier League brings and the Championship brings,” Berhalter said. “Ricardo Pepi could have a great argument for why he should be there, and I can understand that argument.”
Players started getting texts from Berhalter on Sunday afternoon: “Are you available?” He spent three days going through the roster, then turned to just over a dozen dealt the devastation of falling short.
On what figures to be the youngest of the 32 teams by average age, 29-year-old right back DeAndre Yedlin is the only holdover from the 2014 World Cup. Yedlin, Pulisic, Kellyn Acosta and Ream are remaining players from the infamous loss at Trinidad that prevented the Americans from reaching the 2018 tournament.
“This could be a little bit of a redemption or revenge tour if you want to call it that,” Yedlin said. “This is now our time to really — I don’t want to say apologize for that, but show how much we do want it.”
With central defenders Miles Robinson and Chris Richards sidelined by injuries, the 35-year-old Ream returns to the national team for the first time since the opening window of qualifying in September 2021. Ream didn’t play in the final four qualifying windows as Berhalter preferred more mobile options, then was selected over Mark McKenzie and Erik-Palmer Brown.
“He’s playing in the best league in the world and he’s playing at a very high level,” Berhalter said.
Cameron Carter-Vickers, a son of former NBA player Howard Carter, also was picked as a central defender. Carter-Vickers, Johnson, Scally, Wright and goalkeeper Ethan Horvath did not appear in any of the 14 qualifiers.
Shaq Moore was picked as a backup over Reggie Cannon at right back and Cristian Roldan ahead of Malik Tillman in midfield, where Berhalter called Arriola “the odd man out.”
“These past few days have been extremely difficult. Some of the hardest I’ve had in a while,” Arriola wrote on Twitter. “I am heartbroken.”
Johnson, 33, was a surprise pick over Steffen, who started six qualifiers. He received the news while sitting on a sofa at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.
“I wasn’t going to move very far away from my phone, just waiting for the call,” Johnson said. “The first thing he said, I think, was, `Why are you still wearing the same shirt from (training) camp?’ Then we talked about yoga and doing yoga that morning. Yeah, I was sweating a little bit. But ultimately we got to that point in the conversation and the weight was just lifted and it was just pure elation.”
Nine players are from Major League Soccer; eight are with English clubs; two each are based in Germany, Italy and Spain; and one apiece plays in France, Scotland and Turkey.
Scally and midfielder Yunus Musah are just 19. Winger Gio Reyna, a son of former U.S, captain Claudio Reyna, turns 20 on Sunday. The average age of 25 years, 175 days as of the opener is the second-youngest for the U.S. at a World Cup behind 24 years, 24 days in 1990.
Pulisic, the biggest U.S. star, has started just five matches for Chelsea this season. Outside back Sergiño Dest has made just two starts for AC Milan and hasn’t played at all since Oct. 30 due to an adductor injury. Midfielder Weston McKennie has been sidelined at Juventus since Oct. 29 by a thigh problem.
Reyna is coming off repeated leg issues and has played one 90-minute match for Borussia Dortmund since April 2021. Matt Turner, the likely No. 1 goalkeeper, has yet to make his Premier League debut with Arsenal and has been limited to four Europa League matches for the Gunners this season, the last Oct. 20.
Midfielder Luca de la Torre has not played for Spain’s Celta Vigo since Oct. 24 because of a torn muscle in his left leg and might not be 90-minute fit. Sargent returned Saturday for Norwich in England’s second-tier League Championship after missing two matches with a calf injury.
Berhalter, the first former U.S. player to coach the Americans at a World Cup, reminded those who fell short of how he was left off the roster in 2006. Three weeks later, he was riding the monorail between the Magic Kingdom and Disney-MGM Studios in Florida on vacation when he learned he was replacing Cory Gibbs, who injured a knee.
“I wanted to acknowledge that it is unpleasant news that they’re getting, but there also is this sliver of hope,” Berhalter said.
Even players considered locks, such as McKennie, Tyler Adams and Antonee Robinson, had anxiously awaited Berhalter’s call.
“It’s still a relief and still a weight off your shoulders,” McKennie said, “when you can actually hear the words that you are on the final roster.”
The roster:
Goalkeepers: Ethan Horvath (Luton, England), Sean Johnson (New York City), Matt Turner (Arsenal, England).
Defenders: Cameron Carter-Vickers (Glasgow Celtic, Scotland), Sergiño Dest (AC Milan, Italy), Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls), Shaq Moore (Nashville), Tim Ream (Fulham, England), Antonee Robinson (Fulham, England), Joe Scally (Borussia Mönchengladbach, Germany), DeAndre Yedlin (Miami), Walker Zimmerman (Nashville).
Midfielders: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds, England), Kellyn Acosta (Los Angeles), Tyler Adams (Leeds, England), Luca de la Torre (Celta Vigo, Spain), Weston McKennie (Juventus, Italy), Yunus Musah (Valencia, Spain), Cristian Roldan (Seattle).
Forwards: Jesús Ferreira (Dallas), Jordan Morris (Seattle), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea, England), Gio Reyna (Borussia, Dortmund, Germany), Josh Sargent (Norwich, England), Tim Weah (Lille, France), Haji Wright (Antalyspor, Turkey).
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-11-10T19:35:41+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-ream-wright-make-us-cup-roster-steffen-arriola-cut/ |
Germany: ‘Uncooperative’ squirrel freed from manhole cover
BERLIN (AP) — Firefighters say they have freed an “uncooperative” squirrel that was stuck in a manhole cover in western Germany. The Dortmund fire department said it was alerted to a distressed red squirrel by a pedestrian Monday afternoon. A crew of firefighters who arrived at the scene carefully removed the manhole cover and tried to free the rodent. The fire department said that “this turned out to be quite complicated as the squirrel was uncooperative.” After further attempts the crew was able to extract the animal unharmed and it vanished up a nearby tree. In 2019, a similar squirrel rescue drew international attention. Authorities said they weren’t able to determine whether it was the same squirrel. | 2023-04-11T14:50:36+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2023/04/11/germany-uncooperative-squirrel-freed-from-manhole-cover/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading international rights group appealed on Monday for the U.N. Human Rights Council to address the ongoing, “relentless abuses” by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, including severe restrictions on women and freedom of speech.
Despite initial promises for a more moderate stance, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since taking power in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces were in the final weeks of their pullout from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
The Taliban have banned women from public life and girls education beyond the sixth grade, carried out public executions after sentences before Taliban courts and cracked down on minority communities.
Amnesty International said the Taliban have also targeted women’s rights defenders, academics, and activists in recent months and detained them unlawfully. The arrests are arbitrary and those detained have no legal recourse or access to their families.
The London-based watchdog called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigative mechanism in Afghanistan as soon as possible and for United Nations members to act toward ending impunity and ensuring justice for victims of Taliban abuses.
“The human rights situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating rapidly, and the Taliban’s relentless abuses continue every single day,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty's secretary general.
“It is clear that the Taliban are not willing nor able to investigate actions by their members that grossly violate the human rights of Afghanistan’s population,” she added.
The group also said that people who publicly criticize “abusive rules” of the Taliban have been arrested without any explanations while the crackdown on women's rights and public killings of minority ethnic Hazaras continue unchecked.
Among those detained are Narges Sadat, a women’s rights defender; civil society activist Fardin Fedayee; author and activist Zekria Asoli and also Afghan-French journalist Mortaza Behboudi. Former Afghan lawmaker Qais Khan Wakili and journalist Muhammad Yar Majroh are also in custody, Amnesty said.
In many cases, no information was given for the arrest and whereabouts of those detained, amounting to enforced disappearance, the group said.
Taliban spokesmen were not immediately available to comment on Amnesty's report.
Separately, Amnesty reported Taliban abuses in northern Panjshir province, where their forces are fighting resistance members of the so-called National Resistance Front. The rights group said it authenticated photos and videos on social media posts of at least eight incidents between May and August 2022, showing arbitrary arrests and detentions of some 87 people in Panjshir.
Amnesty cited an unnamed witness as saying that in one of those incidents, the Taliban called residents in the village of Dan-i-Rivat in Panjshir from a mosque loudspeaker to a meeting, then tied some 50 men who showed up, hands behind their backs, and beat them with their rifle butts before taking them away. | 2023-03-06T11:41:56+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/amnesty-says-taliban-must-halt-their-abuses-in-17821920.php |
Laverne Pientok
Laverne Michael Pientok, age 93, of Whitehall, died on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 in the Pigeon Falls Health Care Center in Pigeon Falls.
Laverne was born February 21, 1930 in Independence to Peter and Martha (Bautch) Pientok. He attended the Montana Ridge Country School, Saints Peter & Paul Catholic School and the Independence High School.
Laverne entered the military in March of 1951 and attended the US Army Ordnance School in Aberdeen, MD and the Atlanta Ordnance Training School in Atlanta, GA. He also served in an Army Ordnance vehicle facility in Leghorn, Italy in 1952 and 1953.
After his discharge from the military, Laverne joined his father and brother in the family construction business. In 1971, the business acquired Tri-City Sanitation. In 1985, Laverne took over Tri-City until he later sold it to his son, David. In addition to the business operations, he was an avid antique car collector and was often seen cruising around town in one of his vintage Pontiacs. Laverne was well-known for his popcorn, and most notably, his tradition of popcorn ball making during the Holiday Season. He always loved to tell a good story and his sense of humor was contagious. He enjoyed cooking and made sure no one ever went away hungry. Laverne was a kind-hearted person and was willing to lend a helping hand to anyone.
He and Mary Wood were united in marriage on April 18, 1953 at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Whitehall, WI. Together they established residency in Whitehall and were the parents of five children, Gary, David, Thomas, LouAnn and Linda.
Laverne is survived by three children and their spouses, David (Laura Tomasko) Pientok, Tom (Christine) Pientok and Linda (Gary) Crawford; eight grandchildren, Scott, Jacob, Anna, Grant, Garrett, Gracie, Michael and Adam and one great-grandchild, Memphis.
Laverne was preceded in death by his wife, Mary, on September 5, 2011; a daughter, LouAnn; a son, Gary; his parents, Peter and Martha Pientok; a sister, Monica Dejno and a brother, Alfred.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Whitehall on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m., where Laverne was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the church choir prior to his nursing home stay. Father George will officiate. Burial and military rites conducted by the Hutchins-Stendahl American Legion Post #191 will be in the Lincoln Cemetery in Whitehall.
Visitation will be in the Jack Funeral Home in Whitehall on Monday, April 24, 2023 from 4-7 p.m., followed by a Christian prayer service and parish rosary at 7:30 p.m. Friends may also call one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorials to be directed to St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, the Tri-County Therapy Center or the Pientok Family Scholarship Fund. | 2023-04-25T08:42:01+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/obituaries/laverne-pientok/article_c4367642-e2a7-11ed-aab0-8f4c73dc3862.html |
Books We Love is NPR's interactive reading guide. In the past, it's been a year-end guide we put out annually. But this year, we've decided to offer it in summer and winter! This summer edition of Books We Love focuses on books that publish in the first six months of the year, between January and July 2022; what hasn't changed is the bounty of hand-picked books. Mix and match tags such as Book Club Ideas, Biography & Memoir or Eye-Opening Reads to filter results and find the book that's perfect for you or someone you love.
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Ozzie Albies Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Phillies - June 20
Published: Jun. 20, 2023 at 7:33 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
The Atlanta Braves, including Ozzie Albies (.419 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 97 points above season-long percentage), battle starting pitcher Ranger Suarez and the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, Tuesday at 6:40 PM ET.
He racked up four RBI (going 3-for-5 with a home run and a walk) in his previous game against the Rockies.
Ozzie Albies Game Info & Props vs. the Phillies
- Game Day: Tuesday, June 20, 2023
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Citizens Bank Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Phillies Starter: Ranger Suárez
- TV Channel: TBS
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +190)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Ozzie Albies At The Plate
- Albies has 13 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs and 20 walks while hitting .269.
- He ranks 56th in batting average, 98th in on base percentage, and 19th in slugging among qualifying hitters in MLB action.
- Albies has picked up a hit in 65.3% of his 72 games this season, with more than one hit in 26.4% of them.
- He has homered in 22.2% of his games this season, and 5.6% of his plate appearances.
- In 38.9% of his games this season, Albies has tallied at least one RBI. In 16 of those games (22.2%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in six contests.
- He has scored in 29 of 72 games this season, and more than once 7 times.
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Ozzie Albies Home/Away Batting Splits
Phillies Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Phillies has a collective 9.3 K/9, the sixth-best in the league.
- The Phillies have a 4.31 team ERA that ranks 17th among all league pitching staffs.
- Phillies pitchers combine to give up the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (75 total, one per game).
- Suarez gets the start for the Phillies, his eighth of the season. He is 1-2 with a 3.82 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 37 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Thursday, the left-hander tossed seven scoreless innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks while surrendering four hits.
- The 27-year-old has an ERA of 3.82, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in seven games this season. Opposing hitters have a .264 batting average against him.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-20T12:10:38+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/sports/betting/2023/06/20/ozzie-albies-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
TROTWOOD — Officers are investigating after a vehicle crashed into a Trotwood church early Saturday morning.
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Trotwood Police officers and medics were dispatched to the 4500 block of Wolf Road at around 2:24 a.m. on initial reports of a car into a building, Montgomery County Regional Dispatched confirmed.
The vehicle crashed into a church, but the extent of the damage is unknown, dispatchers told NewsCenter 7.
We are also working to learn if anyone was hurt.
NewsCenter 7 will continue to provide updates on this developing story.
©2023 Cox Media Group | 2023-07-29T07:40:57+00:00 | whio.com | https://www.whio.com/news/crime-and-law/officers-medics-scene-after-vehicle-crashes-into-trotwood-church/7FN73MRYSVC2ZKOM3LERT4F36Q/ |
(NEXSTAR) – With heat records already falling this summer, you may be running your ceiling fan nearly non-stop, but did you know you may not be as cool as you could be?
If you’ve ever taken a close look at the fan, you may have noticed a small switch located on the side of the fan base. The switch, which is found on nearly every fan, can change the direction the fan spins.
Using that switch according to the season will not only keep you more comfortable, but it can also help you save money.
In the summer, make sure that your fan is going in a counterclockwise direction, which forces cool air directly downward and creates a “wind chill effect,” according to Home Depot. In the winter, you can switch it up so the fan rotates clockwise at a low speed, circulating the warm air that gets trapped near the ceiling.
If you have ceiling fans as well as air conditioning, using the fan correctly will allow you to raise the thermostat by roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit and still feel just as comfortable, according to the Department of Energy. In moderately hot weather, you may even be able to turn off the AC. The DOE reminds people to turn off fans in unoccupied rooms.
According to Energy Star, if you raise your thermostat by just two degrees and use your ceiling fan, you can lower the cost of air conditioning by up to 14%.
If you’re in the market for a ceiling fan, larger fan blades will move more air than smaller ones, but you have to make sure it’s an appropriate size for the space.
The Department of Energy recommends blades be 7 to 9 feet above the floor and 10 to 12 inches away from the ceiling. The blades should be no closer than 8 inches from the ceiling and 18 inches from any walls. | 2023-07-31T23:26:21+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-stories/overlooked-ceiling-fan-switch-could-make-you-cooler-this-summer/ |
Which volleyball is best?
Volleyball is a great game for people of all ages and skill levels. Whether you are a serious player for a school or club or just the occasional recreational player, volleyball is a fun team sport that you can play inside a gymnasium or outside in the sand. Nearly 50 million Americans play volleyball regularly.
Using the right volleyball is crucial for the type of court and the skill level of the players. Young players and recreational players can use softer volleyballs that still meet the size regulations but limit the injuries to arms and wrists. More serious players can use the balls typically used at the collegiate and professional tournament levels.
There are many options to consider, but for its high-quality cover and color pattern used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the top-recommended volleyball is the Molten FLISTATEC Indoor Volleyball.
What to know before you buy a volleyball
Sanctioned balls aren’t for every player
It can be enticing to purchase a volleyball approved by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or Association of Volleyball Professionals Tour. Still, these official balls will be harder on the outside and could hurt the arms and wrists of inexperienced players. If you’re playing recreationally, look for replica balls that are softer and lighter. They still work just as well, but you will feel better when you finish playing.
Indoor and outdoor volleyballs have key differences
Indoor volleyballs are slightly smaller and harder than outdoor volleyballs. They have more internal pressure and a molded cover. Outdoor volleyballs used on the beach are slightly bigger and lighter. They use a paneled cover comprised of composite materials that help it withstand the constant contact with sand and water. Make sure you are using the right volleyball for your court’s environment.
Consider a set of volleyballs if you play frequently
If you often play with friends or a club team, consider buying a set of volleyballs. Typically, you will save money per unit and have a backup ball available just in case. If you play infrequently, one volleyball may be enough.
Have an air pump nearby
Some balls are shipped deflated. Make sure you have an air pump available to get started. If you purchase a volleyball that is already inflated, double-check the pressure to ensure it is ready to use. Indoor volleyballs should be inflated between 4.3 to 4.6 pounds per square inch, while outdoor volleyballs are usually inflated between 2.3 to 3.2 PSI.
What to look for in a quality volleyball
Material
Indoor volleyballs have molded covers, while outdoor volleyballs have paneled covers made from composite material. Composite can stand up to sun, beach and water better than leather covers normally used for indoor volleyballs. If you are new to volleyball or have a younger player, look for volleyballs with softer covers ideal for training.
Color patterns
Across the many brands of volleyballs are a nearly endless array of color patterns. Some are two-toned, while others are three-color and intended for style and spin detection by advanced players.
Spin detection
Some volleyballs have a special color pattern that helps advanced players detect the spin mid-air to know how to respond properly. This is something the average player probably won’t be interested in but could still be helpful as your skills improve.
How much you can expect to spend on a volleyball
Some basic volleyballs are available for under $15, intended for casual play. Between $15-$45 are a wide range of volleyballs for indoor and outdoor use that also feature different color patterns and textures, while competitive volleyballs are usually $45 or more.
Volleyball FAQ
Can an indoor volleyball be used outdoors or vice versa?
A. It is recommended that indoor volleyballs only be used inside because their cover isn’t meant to withstand the elements. You can use other outdoor volleyballs both inside and outside, but keep in mind that for tournament competitions, outdoor volleyballs are larger and have a different weight than what is normally used inside.
What are the best ways to prevent bruises while playing volleyball?
A. The best solution to bruising is learning the proper technique in returning a volley. If you are new to the game and still learning the fundamentals, consider taping your wrists or wearing a protective sleeve for your forearm.
Do volleyballs have warranties?
A. Many volleyballs have limited warranties that provide replacements within a set time frame. Check out your manufacturer’s policy to know the provisions that apply to your purchase.
What’s the best volleyball to buy?
Top volleyball
Molten FLISTATEC Indoor Volleyball
What you need to know: The official ball used in the NCAA men’s tournament, this volleyball offers exceptional performance and grip.
What you’ll love: The swirled color pattern- with three different patterns available- offers increased visibility. There is better flight stability and a tighter grip. The FLISTATEC technology helps players make better passes and shots.
What you should consider: It can only be used indoors. This volleyball is more expensive than many competitive brands.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top volleyball for the money
Tachikara Volley-Lite Indoor Volleyball
What you need to know: Great for training, this volleyball is lighter and softer for new and younger players to learn the basics.
What you’ll love: The volleyball is regulation size despite its training focus. A micro-fiber leather cover provides extra durability. The light and soft design keeps young players from hurting themselves. Comes in multiple color patterns.
What you should consider: It can only be used indoors. You should avoid getting the cover wet, which can cause damage.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Wilson AVP II Replica Beach Volleyball
What you need to know: This outdoor volleyball is made by the official manufacturer of the AVP Tour and is ideal for all skill levels.
What you’ll love: Designed for playing on the beach, this volleyball has high performance outdoors. There is color variance to help detect the spin and react to the game quickly. The 18-panel cover with pebbled texture makes it easier to grip.
What you should consider: There were some reports of leaks that required frequent re-inflation.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Hospitality Corp. ("Target Hospitality", "Target" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TH), one of North America's largest providers of vertically-integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services, today announced that Brad Archer has agreed to remain in his positions as President and Chief Executive Officer and continue serving as member of the Company's Board of Directors through June 30, 2025.
"The decision to extend my tenure with the Company is a result of personal reflection, ongoing conversations with the Board and the transformational changes occurring within the business," said Mr. Archer. "We continue to make significant progress advancing our strategic diversification efforts and are close to executing a highly attractive contract that will enhance our position as the largest provider of permanent solutions to the United States Government's domestic humanitarian aid missions. This development, together with the opportunities we have identified to broaden our commercial reach, are important catalysts that will drive sustained growth and value creation. Target's future has never been brighter, and I look forward to continuing to work closely with the team to ensure flawless execution of our business plan."
Stephen Robertson, Chairman of the Board for Target, stated, "We appreciate Brad's decision to extend his tenure with the Company and help guide it through its next phase of evolution and growth. This is a mutually beneficial partnership that is aligned around the common goals of maximizing value for our shareholders, delivering exceptional service to our customers, and creating more opportunities for our talented employees to thrive. Speaking on behalf of the entire Board, we are excited and energized by the path ahead."
About Target Hospitality
Target Hospitality is one of North America's largest providers of vertically integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services in the United States. Target builds, owns and operates a customized and growing network of communities for a range of end users through a full suite of value-added solutions including premium food service management, concierge, laundry, logistics, security and recreational facilities services.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behavior have filed a complaint accusing the company of violating labor laws.
The complaint, made Wednesday to the National Labor Relations Board, details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, among other things, called on executives to condemn Musk’s public behavior on Twitter — including making light of allegations he sexually harassed a flight attendant — and hold everyone accountable for unacceptable conduct.
The letter was sent weeks after a media report surfaced that Musk paid $250,000 to the flight attendant to quash a potential sexual harassment lawsuit against him. The billionaire has denied the allegations.
Employees in their letter urged SpaceX to uniformly enforce its policy against unacceptable behavior and commit to a transparent process for responses to claims of misconduct. A day later, Paige Holland-Thielen and four other employees who participated in organizing the letter were fired, according to the filing, which was made by Holland-Thielen to a regional NLRB office in California. Four additional employees were fired weeks later for their involvement in the letter.
A company spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and is currently running Twitter, prefers to do things his own way even if that means running afoul of rules and regulations. He’s currently in a defiant fight with Civil Rights department, a California regulator that is suing Tesla for alleged racial discrimination.
Some view Musk’s management style as autocratic and demanding, as evidenced by a recent email he sent to Twitter staff giving them until Thursday evening to decide whether they want to remain a part of the business. Musk wrote that employees “will need to be extremely hardcore” to build “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0″ and that long hours at high intensity will be needed for success.
A number of engineers also said on Twitter they were fired last week after saying something critical of Musk, either publicly on Twitter or on an internal messaging board for Twitter employees.
In a statement, Holland-Thielen said as a woman engineer at SpaceX, she experienced “deep cultural problems” and comforted colleagues who had experienced similar issues.
“It was clear that this culture was created from the top level,” she said.
Still, she said part of what she liked about the company was that any person could escalate issues to leadership and be taken seriously.
“We drafted the letter to communicate to the executive staff on their terms and show how their lack of action created tangible barriers to the long term success of the mission,” Holland-Thielen said. “We never imagined that SpaceX would fire us for trying to help the company succeed.”
The firings coincide with Musk’s $44 billion buyout of Twitter. Around the same time, the billionaire used a sexual term to make fun of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ belly and also posted a poop emoji during an online discussion with then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
After terminating the first set of employees, SpaceX allegedly interrogated dozens of others over the next two months in private meetings, telling them they couldn’t disclose those conversations to anyone else due to attorney-client privilege, according to the complaint. Four additional employees who helped draft or share the letter were fired in July and August, the filing said, adding up to nine terminations in total.
“Management used this ‘ends justifies the means’ philosophy to turn a blind eye to the ongoing mistreatment, harassment, and abuse reported by my colleagues, much of which was directly encouraged and inspired by the words and actions of the CEO,” said Tom Moline, who was also fired from SpaceX after organizing the letter.
Jeffery Pfeffer, a professor who specializes in organizational behavior at Stanford University’s business school, said that the allegations were hardly a surprise given Musk’s leadership style at Twitter. Musk’s success at companies like Tesla and SpaceX have created what he labeled as hubris under the false notion that it was “all about individual genius.”
“Powerful people get to break the rules. They don’t think they are bound by the same conventions as other people,” Pfeffer said, criticizing Musk’s behavior. He said it showed the arrogance of Musk, one of the world’s richest men: “Why would he think he is a mere mortal?” | 2022-11-18T17:48:18+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/fired-spacex-employees-accuse-company-of-violating-labor-law/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge who previously concluded Arizona was providing inadequate medical and mental health care to prisoners said she will give the state three months to ensure it has enough health care professionals to meet constitutional standards.
In a filing late Monday, Judge Roslyn Silver outlined the changes she plans to impose on the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry to remedy its constitutional violations of prisoners’ rights.
She previously concluded there weren’t enough health employees to care for the roughly 25,000 incarcerated people housed in state-run prisons and that corrections officials had made no significant attempts to fix the understaffing problem.
The case went to trial in late 2021 after Silver threw out a 6-year-old settlement over prison health care, saying the state showed little interest in making many of the improvements it promised under the deal. She had concluded that $2.5 million in contempt of court fines against the state didn’t motivate authorities to comply with the settlement, either.
“Given this history, the court cannot impose an injunction that is even minutely ambiguous because defendants (state officials) have proven they will exploit any ambiguity to the maximum extent possible,” Silver wrote on Monday.
The judge laid out the draft terms of what will be the court-ordered overhaul of prison health care, giving lawyers a chance to comment on the changes. But she cautioned that attorneys shouldn’t expect significant changes to her upcoming order.
The number of health professionals needed at state prisons wasn’t specified by the judge, but she set ratios for the number of professionals needed to treat a given number of prisoners.
Silver said she plans to appoint four officials who will monitor the corrections department’s compliance with the court-ordered changes. When the settlement was in effect, lawyers representing prisoners said the state did a poor job of such monitoring and inflated its compliance numbers.
American Civil Liberties Union attorney David Fathi, who represents prisoners in the class-action lawsuit, expressed hope that Gov. Katie Hobbs would appoint a corrections director who will treat the health care of incarcerated people seriously.
Corrections Director David Shinn, who was appointed by then-Gov. Doug Ducey in October 2019 and announced his resignation in late December, was criticized previously by Silver for testifying that prisoners often have greater access to health service than people who aren’t locked up. Silver had said the claim was “completely detached from reality.”
“You can’t turn around the Titanic on a dime,” Fathi said. “There has been a broken system for a long time. It will not be fixed overnight.”
The corrections department, which in the past had denied it provided inadequate care, didn’t respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
In a blistering verdict last summer, Silver said the state’s inaction showed it is acting with “deliberate indifference” to the risks of inadequate care and said the state has adopted a health care system for prisoners that has led to preventable deaths. The judge had said prisoners weren’t getting timely access to emergency treatment, medications, treatment for chronic diseases and specialty care.
Lawyers representing prisoners had previously asked Silver to set up a receivership where the court would take over health care operations in state prisons and appoint an official to run those services there.
Though she has shied away from a receivership, Silver said she would revive that possibility if the state acts in bad faith or fails to comply with the court-ordered changes. | 2023-01-10T21:32:51+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/judge-outlines-fixes-to-poor-health-care-in-arizona-prisons/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
The event takes place on Roblox and includes a virtual performance by rapper Denzel Curry and a collaboration with street artist Shepard Fairey, as well as minigames and virtual goods for a cause
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2020, the family of Joaquin "Guac" Oliver has thrown a lively birthday party for him, dubbed "Guacathon," riffing on Joaquin's nickname "Guac" and making it an annual tradition following Joaquin's assassination at the Parkland, FL school shooting.
Joaquin's parents Manuel and Patricia Oliver, vocal advocates of creative activism and youth empowerment toward common sense gun laws, want more young people to experience the party and celebrate Joaquin's birthday and life—and to make a positive impact on their world. To do this, they and the organization they founded, Change the Ref, have enlisted the leading metaverse development studio MELON to bring Guacathon to Roblox on August 4, 2022.
On August 4, Joaquin's 22nd birthday, a celebration will take place in the Guacathon experience. An in-person, exclusive event will accompany this day's celebrations in New York City, with invitees that are close friends and allies to Patricia and Manuel Oliver, who have been invited to this gathering to commemorate the life and continued legacy and activism of their son.
Guacathon will unfold as a virtual urban festival, packed with people listening to music, interacting with art, and shooting hoops. Fiercely independent Miami-raised MC Denzel Curry will perform on the mainstage, bringing songs from his most recent album, the critically-acclaimed Melt My Eyez See Your Future, as well as his storied catalog to the stage. Curry has worked closely with some of the most exciting names in music, from rap titans like Ross Ross and T-Pain, to idiosyncratic bass maestro Thundercat and legendary producer Robert Glasper, among others. He has recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, NPR's Tiny Desk Concert and performed show stopping freestyles for Funk Flex and LA Leakers. 2022 has seen Denzel Curry cement himself as one of the most vital names in rap after a decade-long ascent from underground icon.
"There's been a lot of misuse of guns in the United States that claim the lives of many, I've lost a lot of friends and family members to gun violence," remarks Curry. "Today isn't a sad day for the family of Joaquin…today is a day we celebrate the life of Joaquin to the fullest to show his legacy will never be forgotten and that we have brighter days yet to come."
Around the virtual block party, Roblox community members will be able to view a new portrait of Joaquin, created by underground legendary artist and viral phenom Shepard Fairey, whose ubiquitous OBEY campaign and Obama HOPE poster designs impacted and moved millions. In addition, Fairey's work has been exhibited in museums such as MOMA and the Victoria and Albert. This is Fairey's first interactive public art project on Roblox.
"I've seen how art can shift the conversation and bring us together in politically and culturally meaningful ways," notes Fairey. "I'm eager to watch this same thing unfold in the metaverse and to see if we can start a new conversation around gun safety and violence that's led by the young people too often impacted by it."
Along with performances and participatory art experiences, Guacathon will also feature custom minigames reflecting Joaquin's loves, including street art and basketball. Paint Zone lets visitors grab a virtual spray paint can and compete in a race to tag as many areas and earn as many points as possible. Hoop Jam challenges sports fans to beat the clock and make increasingly difficult shots. In both minigames competitors earn tokens that can be used to unlock virtual merch that commemorates the event, including a Roblox version of Guac's guitar and a special Guac jersey. All proceeds from these sales go to Change the Ref. In addition, Shepard Fairey and Denzel Curry will offer several special virtual items, with half the proceeds from the sale of these items going to Change the Ref.
In celebrating Joaquin's life, the Olivers want to highlight the role young people can play in speaking up and supporting meaningful change in their communities. "We're not having a moment of silence. We're having a party," explains Joaquin's mother Patricia. "I'm grateful for the metaverse, for having a place where my son can help people connect and share his life. I want his peers to enjoy a party in his honor and make friends with his metaverse self."
Most importantly, Joaquin will appear as an avatar at his family's request throughout the experience, serving as an inspiration for the festivities. It reflects Change the Ref's belief that we can shift our relationship to gun violence and safety through positive, artful work together. This metaverse edition of Guacathon continues several years of tech-forward, celebrity-hosted virtual events on platforms like Facebook Live and Twitch, all of which reflected this commitment to creative activism and youth empowerment.
"It's an honor to work with the Oliver family and bring Joaquin to the metaverse. Manuel and Patricia's strength and love for life is an inspiration that has driven this project," notes Josh Neuman, co-founder and co-CEO of MELON. "We hope that Guacathon moves young people through this celebration, and that they can feel the passion of this special family and the community they have built around them."
Guacathon opens on August 4, 2022. Denzel Curry's premier performance takes place at 3pm PST on Friday, August 5 and he will repeat an encore performance every hour until 11pm PST on August 7.
About Change the Ref
Change The Ref (CTR), was formed to empower Future Leaders. CTR gives the kids of today the tools they need to be empowered to make changes to critical issues that affect our nation, through education, conversation, and activism. It uses urban art and nonviolent creative confrontation to expose the disastrous effects of the mass shooting pandemic. Change The Ref's ultimate goal is to give the young generation of survivors and victims a disrupting voice to help lead the way to change – a more peaceful future.
About MELON
Founded in 2017, MELON is a powerhouse development studio for the metaverse. They are creating original game properties and building some of the most innovative experiences across sports, music, film/TV, fashion and brands on the Roblox platform and beyond. MELON's partnerships with major music labels and consumer product IP have gathered and engaged hundreds of millions of visits around the world.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – In just a few years, we’ll be able to celebrate the 200th birthday of the image at the top of this story.
For those who have never seen View from the Window at Le Gras, that picture up there is the earliest surviving photograph, captured in either 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from out of an open window at his estate. If you ever want to go see it, you can visit the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, where it’s been for the better part of the last 60 years.
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These days, though, there’s no need to set up the same 8-hour exposure that Niépce did in order to take a photo. As technology continues to get smaller, cheaper and better, every year seems to make it easier to take pictures and videos, not even just at the press of a button, but now often of a touch screen. Much more convenient.
Even more to the point, Aug. 19 is World Photo Day. We here at ClickOrlando.com thought it was a great opportunity to request that readers and News 6 viewers submit their favorite photo of the year. I’ll get this started:
I went to Guatemala at the end of July and visited Tikal, considered the best-preserved Mayan ruins still around. I wouldn’t say this was my favorite picture of the year, but it’s the only one I took that conveys how huge those temples are. Also, I chose a travel picture in the spirit of World Photo Day, the key word being “World,” but we want you to submit a picture regardless of where it was taken, whether it was at Petra or Publix!
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CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless 9-under 63 during a round she felt holes kept getting larger to take one-stroke lead over Megan Khang after the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday.
Nasa Hataoka, who won in Los Angeles in April before taking time off, was third after a 65 on the Upper Montclair Country Club course, roughly 10 miles from New York City.
Bianca Pagdanganan, Amy Yang and Giulia Molinaro were tied for fourth at 66, a shot ahead of group that included Lexi Thompson and Minjee Lee. Two-time defending champion and top-ranked Jin Young Ko shot a 69.
Sagstrom, a runner-up last year in the Women’s British Open, made birdies in batches, finishing with nine in a bogey-free round. The two-time European Solheim Cup from Sweden birdied the first four holes and had another run at Nos. 12-14.
“It was one of those days,” Sagstrom said. “Like everything was easy. It’s like I was hitting the fairways, hitting the greens, and I was making all the putts. The hole just kept growing.”
Sagstrom recalled turning to her caddie, Sean Codd, and telling him, everything felt like a tap-in
“It’s one of those days,” she said. “You just trying to hold on to momentum and just keep it going.”
The round was her best of the season and one shot off her career best of 62 in winning the 2020 Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Yuka Saso had the low round on tour this year, a 62 at the LPGA Hondo in Thailand in March.
Khang, who like Sagstrom played in the afternoon, was almost as good, making eight birdies on the course laid bare because of soft, slower-than-normal greens and a lack of wind.
“Definitely stroking it really well, reading the greens well,” said Khang, who tied for third at Palos Verdes in the last event.
The event, which is being played on its third course since 2019 — the pandemic canceled the 2020 edition, honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour. The field of 144 will be cut to the low 70 and ties after the second round of the 72-hole tournament Friday.
Hataoka ignited her round with a 10-foot eagle putt on the par-5 second and added five birdies the rest of the way in posting her fifth straight round in the 60s.
“I was originally planning to play in Palos Verdes last week, but I decided take the two weeks off and gear up for this tournament,” Hataoka said.
Ko, who finished second at Palos Verdes in the last event, had six birdies and three bogeys — caused by failing to hit the fairways.
“I want to play a bogey-free round next three days,” she added. “This course is really tough, so hit the fairway and hit the greens, make a par. Birdie or par.”
Anna Davis, the 16-year-old who won the recent Augusta National Women’s Amateur, shot a 70 playing on a sponsor’s exemption. She made the cut in the Palos Verdes Championship in California, which was won by Marina Alex.
Alex of nearby Wayne, New Jersey, will have to rally to make the cut after shooting a 74.
Ally Ewing had a 67 in a round that included a 63-foot eagle putt and a flubbed chip shot from the edge of the green on No. 13.
“It is what it is. I laughed it off,” Ewing said.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Nolan Grooms fired five yards to Jackson Hawes with 6:29 left in the game to lift Yale to a 19-14 win over Harvard on Saturday in the 138th meeting of the second-longest rivalry in college football.
The Bulldogs won the Ivy League championship in the process after Penn knocked off Princeton 20-19.
Yale captured its third Ivy League title in the last five seasons, capturing the outright title in 2017 and a share of the championship in 2019. The Bulldogs came into the game with three straight wins, including a thrilling, 24-20 win over previously unbeaten Princeton.
The Yale ground game, the best in the Ivy League and the eighth-ranked rushing offense in the FCS, ran for 219 yards. Joshua Pitsenberger had 82 yards on 21 carries, Tre Peterson carried 13 times for 74 yards and a touchdown and Grooms added 63 yards on 15 carries.
Harvard's Charlie Dean threw for two touchdowns, hitting Scott Woods II from 64-yards out to tie the game at 7-7 in the second quarter and connecting with Tyler Neville on a 24-yards touchdown early in the fourth quarter to put the Crimson in front, 14-13. But after Yale scored to retake the lead, the Crimson could not manage a first down.
Yale leads the series 69-61-8, but since Ivy League play in 1956, Harvard leads 37-28-1.
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The United States grew older, faster, last decade.
The share of residents 65 or older grew by more than a third from 2010 to 2020 and at the fastest rate of any decade in 130 years, while the share of children declined, according to new figures from the most recent census.
The declining percentage of children under age 5 was particularly noteworthy in the figures from the 2020 head count released Thursday. Combined, the trends mean the median age in the U.S. jumped from 37.2 to 38.8 over the decade.
America’s two largest age groups propelled the changes: more baby boomers turning 65 or older and millennials who became adults or pushed further into their 20s and early 30s. Also, fewer children were born between 2010 and 2020, according to numbers from the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident. The decline stems from women delaying having babies until later in life, in many cases to focus on education and careers, according to experts, who noted that birth rates never recovered following the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
“In the short run, the crisis of work-family balance, the lack of affordable child care, stresses associated with health care, housing, and employment stability, all put a damper on birth rates by increasing uncertainty and making it harder to decide to have and raise children,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland.
There are important social and economic consequences to an aging population, including the ability of working-age adults to support older people through Social Security and Medicare contributions. The Census Bureau calculates a dependency ratio, defined as the number of children plus the number of seniors per 100 working-age people. While the dependency ratio decreased for children from 2010 to 2020, it increased for seniors by 6.8 people.
At the top end of the age spectrum, the number of people over 100 increased by half, from more than 53,000 people to more than 80,000. The share of men living into old age also jumped. Buddy Lebman, a 98-year-old in the St. Louis area, said the key to longevity is good genes and staying active. He plays bridge twice a week, leads a discussion on current events at his retirement community, and is still involved with his synagogue and a school he helped found. Up until five years ago, he went on regular bicycle rides.
“I just recently had my pacemaker checked out, and the doctor told me it’s good for 4 1/2 more years,” Lebman said. “So I have to live at least that amount.”
People reaching age 100 benefited from a century of vaccines and antibiotic developments, improvements in surgery and better treatment of diseases, said Thomas Perls, a professor of medicine at Boston University.
“Many more people who have the genetic makeup and environmental exposures that increase one’s chances of getting to 100, but who would have otherwise died of what are now readily reversible problems, are able to fulfill their survival destiny,” Perls said.
The Census Bureau released two earlier data sets from the 2020 census in 2021: state population figures used to decide how many congressional seats each state gets and redistricting numbers used to draw political districts. Thursday’s data release was delayed by almost two years because of pandemic-related difficulties gathering the information and efforts by the Census Bureau to implement a new, controversial privacy protection method that uses algorithms to add intentional errors to obscure the identity of any given respondent.
This was the first census since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. The tally showed that more than half of U.S. households contained coupled partners or spouses who lived together, and same-sex households made up 1.7% of those households. Since the census didn’t ask about sexual orientation, it didn’t capture LGBTQ+ people who are single or don’t live with a partner or spouse.
The median age varied widely by race and ethnicity. Non-Hispanic whites were the oldest cohort, with a median age of 44.5. Hispanics were the youngest, with a median age of 30; and a quarter of all children in the U.S. were Hispanic. Black Americans who weren’t Hispanic had a median age of 35.5. The number was for 37.2 for Asians.
Utah, home to the largest Mormon population in the U.S., was the youngest state, with a median age of 31.3, a function of having one of the nation’s highest birthrates. The District of Columbia’s median age of 33.9 was a close second due to the large number of young, working-age adults commonly found in urban areas. North Dakota was the only state where the median age declined, from 37 to 35.8, as an influx of young workers arrived to work in a booming energy sector.
Maine was the oldest state in the U.S., with a median age of 45.1, as more baby boomers aged out of the workforce. Puerto Rico had a median age in the same range, at 45.2, as an exodus of working-age adults left the island after a series of hurricanes and government mismanagement. Older adults in four states — Florida, Maine, Vermont and West Virginia — made up more than a fifth of those states’ populations.
Sumter County, Florida, home of the booming retirement community The Villages, had the highest median age among U.S. counties, at 68.5; while Utah County, home to Provo, Utah, and Brigham Young University, had the lowest at 25.9.
As one of the youngest baby boomers, Chris Stanley, 59, already lives in The Villages. She said her mission in later life is to let younger generations know they can change things despite perhaps not having the same economic opportunities she did.
“I want to impart the urgency that I feel,” she said. “They can make it better.”
While people 65 and older made up 16.8% of the 331 million residents in the U.S. in 2020, the share was still significantly lower than it was in countries like Japan, Italy and Greece, where the age cohort makes up between more than a fifth and more than a quarter of the population. However, their share of the U.S. population will continue to grow as baby boomers age.
“In the long run, immigration is the only way the United States is going to avoid population decline,” Cohen said.
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BALTIMORE, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ-GS: TROW), a global investment management firm and a leader in retirement services, is pleased to announce Kelly Shen as its new chief data officer.
"We are excited to work with Kelly to enhance our data capabilities and unlock new business value," said Chief Operating Officer Kimberly Johnson. "She has a proven track record in optimizing the use of data, analytics, and technology to enable business growth and product innovation and will be an incredible resource for the T. Rowe Price team."
As chief data officer, Shen sets and operationalizes T. Rowe Price's strategy to leverage data as an asset. She ensures that the firm delivers timely, accurate, and reliable data to the workforce to enable analytics, reporting, and insights to drive business. Additionally, Shen will be leading the establishment of a centralized data team to serve and facilitate the firm's data needs.
Shen has over 25 years as an experienced data and analytics leader. Most recently, Shen served as senior managing director and chief technology and data officer at CPP Investments, Canada's largest pension plan, where she led technology, data, cybersecurity, and innovation efforts.
Shen earned her M.B.A. from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business and her B.S. from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.
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Mother of woman allegedly killed by ex-husband says she felt unsafe in their home
MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - The grandmother of a woman who was allegedly killed by her bodybuilder ex-husband said she felt she was in danger while in their home.
In September 2022, 39-year-old Katie Baunach’s life was allegedly taken at the hands of her ex-husband, 43-year-old Ian Baunach, who is a bodybuilder and former Marine. After killing her, Ian Baunach was accused of burning her body in an attempt to hide the evidence.
He pleaded not guilty to the accusations.
Carolyn McKinney, Katie Baunach’s mother, said the couple had met on Christian Mingle and she was concerned from the start because he was a total stranger. She said her concern turned to dread when she looked him up online and found “page after page after page” of arrests.
She told WLBT it was “a mother’s worse nightmare.”
McKinney said she asked to meet Ian Baunach face-to-face without her daughter knowing. During this meeting, McKinney said he gave her an explanation for all of his arrests. She said he told her he was a bodybuilder, and women would often take advantage of him and accuse him of doing things he didn’t do. Because of his size compared to the women, police would always take their sides, Ian Baunach claimed.
Despite the many accusations, Ian Baunach was never convicted of a crime. His cases in Indiana were also expunged, according to reports. Ian Baunach’s two ex-wives also said they had reported the bodybuilder’s abuse, but that the authorities never took their claims seriously.
McKinney told WLBT that, despite her misgivings, she knew her daughter was smart and “would not put up with anyone mistreating her or disrespecting her, so I kept pushing my feelings aside.”
The couple eventually had two children, a boy and a girl. They also got married and began to build a life together in Florida.
McKinney said Ian Baunach would ask her to retire early and move in with his family. He told her he was raised by his grandmother and wished for his children to have that experience as well.
McKinney said she was taken by his kindness, but wanted to take time to pray about the decision first. Eventually, she said she decided to take him up on the offer, but as soon as she moved into the home, she said something was off.
McKinney said Ian Baunach’s dog, Zeus, was severely punished after it killed one of the couple’s chickens that had escaped from a chicken coup in the backyard. She said she witnessed Ian Baunach beating Zeus with a piece of wood before tying him to a tree and hitting him with the chicken’s corpse.
KcMinney said she raised these concerns with her daughter, but was told Ian Baunach “was an idiot” and brushed off.
Despite her daughter’s dismissals, McKinney said living at the house always felt tense. She said Ian Baunach would be angry with her every time she left the home to run errands because he had not given her permission to leave.
During one fight, McKinney said she watched her son-in-law “transform into the Hulk.”
“He turned from his regular self to this monster,” she told WLBT.
The grandmother said Ian Baunach began screaming at her, and she said she felt she was in danger and knew she had to leave.
Without saying goodbye to her grandchildren, McKinney said she escaped to Mississippi to live with her brother, a retired U.S. Marshal.
In late 2020, McKinney said she bought a house, got a job, and set up a new life for herself in Canton.
Eventually, McKinney said things devolved between Ian Baunach and her daughter. She said Katie Baunach would call her to tell her about her husband’s erratic mood swings which would see him calm one moment before screaming in her face the next moment.
However, Katie Baunach stayed in the relationship, thinking she could love Ian through this behavior, and that one day he would change, McKinney said.
Katie Baunach would eventually try to leave after the physical abuse started. McKinney said Ian Baunach tried to strangle her daughter in one circumstance. Before she could escape, Ian Baunach allegedly told his wife he had found the Lord, and the charges against him were dropped as the two tried to make things work again.
McKinney said things only got worse from there. She said the couple divorced in January of 2022. Katie Baunach was gone eight months later.
At that time, Katie Baunach was trying to receive a restraining order against her ex-husband. For reasons still unknown, that restraining order was denied.
“I want law enforcement and judges to believe women when they say they are being hurt,” McKinney said.
McKinney said her daughter was funny and talented and that she always went after what she wanted.
“Katie was a wonderful person,” McKinney said. “Other kids, you ask them what they want to be when they grow up, they want to be doctors and firemen and such. She said she wanted to be a mommy.”
McKinney said her daughter was working to become a nurse practitioner, and that she just had her clinicals left before she was murdered.
Between working a full-time job and taking care of her grandchildren, McKinney said she hasn’t had time to grieve the loss of her daughter. She said the two children are also in grief counseling and working to process the loss of their mother.
McKinney said the future for her and her grandchildren is uncertain, and the kids don’t like living in Canton
“This doesn’t feel like home,” McKinney says at one point. “Nothing feels like home anymore.”
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UTAH (ABC4) – Park rangers are searching for the suspects who stole fossils from the Capitol Reef National Park dating back over 200 million years.
The National Park Service (NPS) is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s identification and arrest.
Officials say the trace reptile track fossils were stolen sometime between August 2017 – August 2018. The fossils, dating back to the Triassic Period, were removed from a trackway inside the national park.
Authorities are hoping to hold the suspects who have vandalized “irreplaceable paleontological resources” responsible for their actions.
“Vandalism hurts,” says NPS. “Some of the oldest and most extensive reptile tracks in the western United States are found within Capitol Reef National Park. Fossils preserve the record of life on earth and are exceedingly rare.”
Officials are asking anyone with information on the case to contact authorities in one of these ways:
- Call or text the NPS tip line at (888) 653-0009
- Submit an online tip here
- Email NPS: nps_isb@nps.gov
- Dial 911
“Information from other visitors is often very helpful to investigators,” officials say. “If you have information that could help recover the stolen fossils or that could help identify those responsible, the park asks you to please submit a tip.” | 2022-05-11T22:31:51+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/200-million-year-old-fossils-stolen-from-utah-national-park/ |
The owner of a sports memorabilia auction house says he has offered $2 million to the fan who caught Aaron Judge’s American League-record 62nd home run.
JP Cohen, president of Memory Lane Inc. in Tustin, California, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he has texted and emailed Cory Youmans, the man who caught Judge’s milestone shot Tuesday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. Cohen says Youmans has not yet replied.
“I feel the offer is way above fair, if he is inclined to sell it,” Cohen said in a telephone interview with the AP on Wednesday.
Youmans grabbed the historic souvenir on the fly as it sailed into the front row of section 31 in left field. The homer pushed Judge past Roger Maris for the AL season record — a mark many consider baseball’s “clean” standard because the only National League players who hit more have been tarnished by ties to steroids.
Youmans, who is from Dallas, works in the financial world. He was asked Tuesday what he planned to do with the prize while security personnel whisked him away to have it authenticated.
“Good question. I haven’t thought about it,” he said.
The record price for a home run ball is $3 million, paid for Mark McGwire’s record 70th from the 1998 season.
Cohen had previously pledged to offer $2 million for Judge’s 62nd homer. He said his company has a good relationship with the Yankees and it would be willing to loan the ball to the team for an exhibit. He added the team has frequently exhibited items owned by Memory Lane at Yankee Stadium.
“We did make an offer of $2 million and that offer is still valid,” Cohen said.
After the Yankees lost 3-2, Judge said he didn’t have possession of the home run ball.
“I don’t know where it’s at,” he said. “We’ll see what happens with that. It would be great to get it back, but that’s a souvenir for a fan. He made a great catch out there, and they’ve got every right to it.”
Youmans was among the crowd of 38,832, the largest to watch a baseball game at the 3-year-old ballpark.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank said Monday she does not believe inflation has peaked after reaching the highest levels on record.
ECB President Christine Lagarde also told European lawmakers that the bank isn’t through raising interest rates to combat those price spikes.
There is too much uncertainty to know whether inflation, which hit 10.6% in October, would come down soon in the 19 countries that use the euro currency, Lagarde said.
When looking at what is driving inflation, “whether it is food and commodities at large, or whether it is energy, we do not see the components or the direction that would lead me to believe that we have reached peak inflation and that it is going to decline in short order,” she said.
That means the central bank will “continue to tame inflation with all the tools that we have,” primarily interest rate hikes, Lagarde told the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Following the bank’s third major rate hike in October, marking its fastest pace of increases ever, the ECB expects “to raise rates further to the levels needed to ensure that inflation returns to our 2% medium-term target in a timely manner,” she said.
The ECB has joined the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world in rapidly raising rates to combat inflation that spiked as the global economy recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, then got worse after Russia invaded Ukraine. Central banks risk tipping economies into recession as the world copes with an energy crisis, higher food costs and currencies weakening against the U.S. dollar.
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted the international economy would expand only 2.2% next year. Most economists expect a recession in places like Europe, the U.S. and the United Kingdom next year, with ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos saying this month that risk “has become more likely” in the eurozone.
Russia’s war hit Europe particularly hard, “given our proximity to the conflict and our dependence on energy imports” from Russia, Lagarde said Monday.
After Russia cut back most natural gas to Europe, sending energy prices soaring, governments have provided aid to help households and businesses with their bills.
Lagarde warned officials not to worsen inflation by ensuring support is “targeted, tailored and temporary” to those most at need and avoids weakening the push to cut energy use. | 2022-11-29T01:55:45+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-europes-inflation-likely-hasnt-peaked-ecbs-lagarde-says/ |
Which Dae product is best?
Dae is an Arizona-based hair care company specializing in simple and effective solutions made from clean, natural ingredients that are cruelty-free. While the brand’s shampoos and conditioners are its leading solutions, its styling formulas, hair masks and tools have also won near-perfect customer ratings.
The Dae Monsoon Moisture Mask is a top pick, working on all hair types and textures to improve your hair’s health.
What to know before you buy a Dae product
About the Dae brand
The Arizona desert’s beauty inspired the Dae product line — not just its colors, but its fragrance and simplicity as well. The brand’s founder, Amber Fillerup Clark, is a cosmetology-trained beauty blogger and entrepreneur. She built her vegan hair care line around simple solutions that style, restore and preserve a healthy mane and scalp.
The brand’s name is an acronym representing the sun’s movement throughout the day: dawn, afternoon and evening. Its sand, green, orange and mauve hues match that of a slightly muted Arizona landscape and skyline. Its scents emulate the array of aromas found in the desert.
Dae’s nature-inspired palette, bouquets and name leave you with more than just healthier hair that smells great. It also lets you adopt an entire vibe.
Dae hair care line
The Dae product line includes eight types of hair care solutions:
- Shampoos
- Conditioners
- Moisturizing masks
- Targeted hair treatments
- Styling solutions
- Brushes
- Hair tools
- Scalp care
Your hair care concerns
Each Dae product is formulated to address one or more of six hair concerns:
- Dryness
- Excess oil
- Damage
- Frizz
- Curl definition
- Dry scalp
Focus on two or three of your primary hair care goals as you consider which concerns you wish to address. That will let you build a results-oriented hair care routine.
Also, many of its product benefits overlap. So even if your primary aim is to define your curls and hydrate your hair, the same formulas might also address frizz and damage.
What to look for in a quality Dae product
Fragrances
Dae’s products aim to capture the fragrant Arizona desert, and its scents are derived from plant-based solutions such as extracts and essential oils. For example, its cactus flower leave-in conditioner is infused with the brand’s signature citrus scent, but others are fruity, floral or earthy.
Before committing to a formula, check its bouquet profile to ensure it is a good fit for you.
Bottle size
Varied product sizing lets you choose more sustainable products that are better for the environment and kinder to your wallet. Generally, if you go for the bigger size, you are apt to pay less per ounce and go through fewer bottles.
The brand’s shampoos and conditioners typically come in 3-, 10- and 32-ounce bottles. Many of Dae’s styling products and leave-in conditioners come in 1.7- and 5-ounce bottles, though some only come in one size.
Dispenser type
A product’s dispensing method can significantly affect the user. For example, those who struggle with manual dexterity might not want a thick, plastic container you have to squeeze hard.
Dae’s collection lets you spray, pump, scoop or squeeze. If a formula’s bottle requires a squeeze that’s not your best fit, consider a larger size, which is more likely to come with a pump.
How much you can expect to spend on a Dae product
Depending on the size and formula, expect prices between $10-$64, with an average around $30.
Dae product FAQ
How can you get more from Dae’s deep conditioning treatments?
A. While Dae’s deep conditioning hair treatment is highly effective when used as recommended, you can also use it as an overnight mask for more dramatic results.
Can you use Dae hair care products on color-treated hair?
A. Since the line is formulated without the use of color-fading parabens and sulfates, they are safe for color-treated hair.
How should you apply your conditioner if you struggle with oily hair?
A. Avoid applying conditioner to your scalp. Instead, only add it to the ends of your hair.
What’s the best Dae product to buy?
Top Dae product
What you need to know: It moisturizes your hair to improve its manageability, texture and overall condition.
What you’ll love: It works well for all hair types and textures to address damage, split ends and breakage. It also enhances curls, adds shine and strengthens the hair. It sports a fresh, earthy aroma and comes in a wide-mouth jar, making access easy.
What you should consider: A few customers found the scent too masculine.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top Dae product for the money
What you need to know: This lightweight solution creates texture and waves and is suitable for all hair types.
What you’ll love: This hydrating product uses hibiscus flower extract to restore and smooth your hair as it infuses it with a floral scent. It enhances curls, adds volume with buildable texture and fights frizz. It also comes in a spray bottle for effortless dispensing.
What you should consider: A few reviewers said it was drying and sticky.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Worth checking out
Dae Deep Conditioning Hair Treatment
What you need to know: This ultra-hydrating formula uses natural ingredients to calm frizz and add shine to your hair.
What you’ll love: ​This curl-enhancing solution tames frizz, increases shine and addresses dryness. It uses dragon fruit to lock in moisture, prickly pear seed oil to soften and meadowfoam seed oil to restore your hair’s luster. Its clean ingredients are suitable for all hair types and textures.
What you should consider: Some might find it a little too thick and texturizing for fine, straight hair.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
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DENVER — Who knew Colorado was so good at playing tag? The new international champions in World Chase Tag winners are from Denver, Colorado.
Team APEX, with the parkour gym APEX Denver, just won the World Chase Tag championship in London, England.
It is like the game we all grew up playing, only with a giant jungle gym in the way. It was invented in England back in 2016, and has gotten so popular that it gets broadcast on ESPN every summer.
"Imagine you're playing tag, confined in a space, and being chased by a professional parkour athlete," said gym co-owner Rob Shihl.
In the above story, you can hear more about their journey to becoming world champions, including a GoFundMe campaign that helped them build a "quad" here in Denver.
This story was originally published by KMGH in Denver, Colorado. | 2022-08-17T22:26:59+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/champions-announced-as-team-from-this-us-city-celebrates-world-chase-tag-win |
DALLAS, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Hotels Dallas, the 260 room luxury lifestyle hotel located in the Dallas Design District, is proud to announce that it has been honored with the Equity Leadership award presented by D CEO at their annual Nonprofit & Corporate Citizenship award ceremony. The Equity Leadership award is given each year to a corporation in the Dallas community that supports efforts that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Since the hotel opened in 2019, Virgin Hotels Dallas has supported local organizations that champion diversity and equity such as Cafe Momentum, Unlock Potential, and My Possibilities. Through these initiatives, the hotel has been able to provide mentorship and employment opportunities to justice-involved youth as well as adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"It is an honor for Virgin Hotels Dallas to be recognized as a leader in diversity within the Dallas community," says Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group. "Creating an inclusive environment where our guests and teammates always feel welcomed to be who they are has always been our priority at Virgin."
Looking ahead, Virgin Hotels Dallas is dedicated to continuing to evolve their diversity program with new partnerships, teammate training, and more. The Dallas Design District boutique hotel is committed to being Autism Double Checked by the end of 2024. According to the online autism training company, over 20 million people are parents to one or more children with autism. Due to the current landscape and lack of autism-friendly travel experiences, 87% of parents of autistic children currently do not travel or take family vacations. However, 93% of parents with autistic children said they would travel if autistic-friendly travel experiences were available.
With the certification, teammates at Virgin Hotels Dallas will undergo neurodiversity training and guests with special needs will receive a detailed visitors guide ahead of their stay that highlights potential sensory issues such as crowds, temperature, noise, body awareness and more.
In addition to the property's Autism Double Checked commitment, Virgin Hotels Dallas will also implement a new policy with Hidden Disabilities that will allow teammates and guests to wear a sunflower lanyard that indicates that they have a non-visible disability and may need more time, assistance, etc.
The brand's commitment to diversity goes beyond external partnerships. Internally, Virgin Hotels strives to hire individuals that are reflective of the world and encompass a variety of racial backgrounds, genders, etc. In an effort to be the most inclusive employer in the hotel industry, Virgin Hotels launched the J.E.D.I program which stands for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The idea behind this people-focused approach is to implement new guidelines for community partners, recruitment, and training in a phased approach. Currently, the brand is in its third phase which involves a complete demographic analysis to identify gaps in our workforce. Future phases will include J.E.D.I committees at each hotel, unconscious bias training, and more.
"I am so proud of the team at Virgin Hotels Dallas for leading the charge in diversity within the Dallas community and hospitality industry as a whole," says James Bermingham, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Hotels Collection. "Their efforts are a testament to the brand's purpose of 'everyone leaves feeling better'. We are so thankful to have an amazing team that prioritizes our dedication to being an inclusive and comfortable environment."
For more information on Virgin Hotels diversity & inclusivity commitment, visit https://virginhotels.com/diversity-and-inclusivity/.
About Virgin Hotels Dallas
Virgin Hotels Dallas is the second property from Virgin Hotels - the lifestyle hospitality brand that combines heartfelt service, straightforward value and a seamless, personalized hotel experience with the track record of innovation and smart disruption that Sir Richard Branson's global Virgin Group has pioneered for 50 years. The property intermixes a passion for food and beverage with music and culture that fuses with the local landscape, providing an inclusive environment for travelers and locals alike. Located in the Dallas Design District on 1445 Turtle Creek Blvd, the hotel features 260 Chambers (rooms) and two Penthouse Suites. Dining and drinking outlets include Commons Club the brand's flagship restaurant and bar, Funny Library Coffee Shop and The Pool Club. Reservations accepted and can be made directly on the hotel's website, www.virginhotels.com/dallas or by calling 469.359.7003.
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Carbon emissions dip, at least briefly, in China, study says
By CHRISTINA LARSON
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s carbon emissions have dipped notably over the past three quarters — but it’s not clear how long the drop will continue. An analysis of China’s economic data shows emissions dropped 1.4% in the first three months of the year, compared to the prior year, making it the third consecutive quarter with a drop and the longest sustained dip in a decade. China’s recent emissions decline was driven by decreased production of cement and steel and lower electrical generation, as well as COVID lockdown measures. But it’s not clear whether China’s emissions will continue to decline this year. Over the past decade, five shorter dips were followed by rebounding emissions. China is the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide. | 2022-06-02T04:28:05+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/06/01/carbon-emissions-dip-at-least-briefly-in-china-study-says/ |
Indiana Jones, and executives at the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, made a somewhat dispiriting discovery this weekend. Moviegoers didn't rush to the theater in significant numbers to see " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" and say goodbye to Harrison Ford as the iconic archaeologist.
The film, reportedly budgeted north of $250 million, came in on the lower end of projections with $60 million in ticket sales from 4,600 North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Including $70 million from international showings in 52 markets, “Dial of Destiny” celebrated a $130 million global opening. It easily earned the No. 1 title but was not the high-rolling sendoff for one of modern cinema’s most iconic actor/character pairings that anyone hoped. Disney is projecting that it will make $82 million domestically through the fourth of July holiday and $152 million globally.
"Dial of Destiny" is the long-delayed fifth installment in the Steven Spielberg/George Lucas-created adventure series that began in 1981, and the first Spielberg himself hasn't directed. Veteran James Mangold stepped in to take the reins overseeing the Spielberg-approved script, which finds an older Dr. Jones retiring from his university job and swept up on a new adventure with his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
The film made its splashy premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, with a fitting celebration of Ford, who has said this was his last time playing the character.
But then it was hit with lukewarm reviews. This was an unexpected and unwelcome hurdle, considering it was coming after the maligned fourth film, 2008’s “Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Another contributing snag was that a significant portion of the target audience, older viewers, don't tend to buy many tickets on opening weekend for big blockbusters. But even “Crystal Skull,” budgeted at a reported $185 million, managed to gross over $790 million.
Second place went to “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” with $11.5 million, bringing its domestic total to around $340 million. “Elemental” landed in third place with $11.3 million.
Aside from “Dial of Destiny,” the weekend's other main new opener was the animated “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,” which debuted in sixth place with $5.2 million.
"Dial of Destiny's" underwhelming debut comes just a few weeks after both Warner Bros.' "The Flash" and Disney/Pixar's "Elemental" had lackluster openings in North America. "Elemental," like Indy 5, also premiered at Cannes to middling reception.
Things will only get more challenging for “Dial of Destiny” in the coming weeks with a crowded July. “Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I” opens on July 12, followed by “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” on July 21.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees’ Hal Steinbrenner says he’s open to other baseball owners’ consideration of proposing a salary cap for 2027, but only if small-market teams like the Oakland Athletics are subject to a payroll floor, too.
Major League Baseball owners are meeting in New York this week following renewed discussion of a potential salary cap and amid the possibility of the A’s relocating to Las Vegas. Oakland owner John Fisher is attempting to get $380 million in public funding from Nevada to construct a 30,000-seat ballpark in Las Vegas. The A’s began the day a big league-worst 18-50 and are averaging a big league-low 8,555 fans at Oakland Coliseum.
Players have long opposed any salary cap for fear it would curb overall spending on player contracts, and they would likely fight off a cap proposal through a work stoppage.
Steinbrenner’s support of a cap would depend on the figure, but he and the players agree over worries about small-market teams not investing enough in their major league rosters.
“Any time a team is putting out a product that’s not good for the industry as a whole, yes, I am absolutely concerned about that,” Steinbrenner said Tuesday at the start of three days of owners meetings. “I’ve always said that fans should not go to the first spring training game knowing that their team has no chance of making the playoffs. That’s just not good for the game. It’s not good for the industry.”
The Las Vegas stadium would have the smallest capacity in the major leagues and the A’s would move from the 10th-largest television market in the U.S. to the 40th, possibly putting the A’s in line to became a perennial revenue-sharing payee.
“It’s a very different market. It’s unique. There’s no doubt about it,” Steinbrenner said. “That would always be a concern. But let’s hear their case.”
The Yankees opened the season with a $275 million payroll, second only to the record $355 million of the Mets. Oakland was last at $58 million and Tampa Bay, which has the major leagues’ best record, was 27th at $75 million.
“I understand some markets struggle more than others. I live in Tampa, so I know what the Rays go through,” Steinbrenner said. “What really gets me going in a negative way is owners that aren’t putting money into the team when they could. And it’s happened in the past. It probably happens every year to a certain extent. That’s what a lot of the owners like me don’t like.”
Steinbrenner’s luxury tax payroll, based on average annual values of contracts and including benefits, is right around the $293 million fourth threshold that triggers the steepest penalties. He is willing to take on additional payroll if needed as the Aug. 1 trade deadline approaches.
“This industry took a lot of hits the last few years, COVID and all, the losses we’ve had were unbelievably significant,” Steinbrenner said. “The losses we’ve had the last few years, that most teams if not all teams have had, it’s just not sustainable. It’s just not. So it’s easy to say, let’s have a $400 million payroll, but there’s no way to increase revenues.”
On other topics, Steinbrenner said:
— Yankees’ play amid a 38-29 start that has them third in the AL East: “We got to start hitting. We’re putting way too much pressure on the pitchers. And there’s several of our veterans that need to step up.”
— Missing Aaron Judge, sidelined because of a toe injury: “It’s been a two-week sample size and it hasn’t been promising.”
— DJ LeMahieu, hitting .236 with 21 RBIs: “It is concerning because he’s striking out a lot, which is very unlike him.”
— Rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe, batting .186: “Pitchers have adjusted to him and now he’s going to have some adjustments to make himself. … I don’t think any of this is out of the ordinary. I told Anthony at the end of spring training, I said, ‘You were the starting shortstop of the New York Yankees. This isn’t a three-week trial. So you’re going to be that through the ups and through the potential downs. And there probably will be downs.’”
— General manager Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone: “End of the year, I’m going to reevaluate what we did, what we didn’t do and whose fault it is. That’s something I do every year.”
— A long-term deal for center fielder Harrison Bader: “If somebody comes to me and says, ‘Look, I really think we need to do this,’ yes, I will absolutely consider doing that. … It really isn’t something we do very often, but he’s a special player.”
— Last summer’s trade for Frankie Montas, who has mostly been hurt: “I would do it again. Montas clearly so far hasn’t worked out. But for what we gave up, a couple of minor league pitchers, I would do that again.”
— On how his father, George Steinbrenner, would have criticized underperforming players: “I know he would have … but I am not he.”
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MIAMI (AP) — A major effort backed by Democratic fundraisers to purchase Spanish-language radio stations is stirring up opposition in Miami, where Cuban exiles describe it as an attempt to stifle conservative voices in markets where Democrats have lost ground.
The Latino Media Network, a startup founded by two political strategists who worked for President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, reached a $60 million deal to acquire 18 AM and FM stations in ten U.S. cities from Televisa/Univision. The agreement announced June 3 still needs Federal Communications Commission approval.
These markets are diverse — Hispanics with roots all over Latin America listen to the stations in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, McAllen, Fresno and Las Vegas, including some Hispanic communities where Democrats have lost ground to Republicans.
The network said it “will focus on creating content that addresses the different cultural and political nuances that impact different types of Latinos.”
But the deal isn’t going over well in Miami, where Radio Mambi is popular among hardline Cuban exiles.
“We would need to be deaf and blind not to understand the motives behind this buyout,” Irina Vilariño, who co-owns a chain of Cuban restaurants in South Florida, said at a news conference held by a coalition called the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance.
The network has raised a total of $80 million from high-profile investors such as actress Eva Longoria, who is also a Democratic political activist, and former Florida Republican Party chairman Al Cardenas, now a critic of former President Donald Trump. The debt involved is financed by Lakestar Finance LLC, a company affiliated with Democratic mega-donor George Soros.
The deal has been harshly criticized by Republicans in Florida, from the Cuban American House delegation to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Ron DeSantis. Coalition members said they are exploring legal ways to contest the takeover.
Democrats have pointed to some shows on Radio Mambi and other Spanish-language radio stations when raising concerns about disinformation, especially following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Republicans say those accusations are used to distract from the Democrats’ lackluster performance among Hispanic voters in South Florida and Texas in the 2020 election.
Stephanie Valencia, who helped lead Obama’s White House Office of Public Engagement, co-founded the Latino Media Network. The Latina strategist heard about four or five months ago that TelevisaUnivision had plans to sell radio stations. TelevisaUnivision said in a statement it met with dozens of potential buyers.
“We did not want to miss that opportunity to obtain such a large number all at once and keep them in Latino hands,” Valencia told The Associated Press, adding that other interested parties did not appear to have Latino programming.
Valencia said she wants to ensure a smooth transition.
“We are going to be looking at this from a business perspective. How do we maintain the spirit of what these stations are? How do we balance journalistic integrity and ensure we build spaces for free speech?” she said.
One of the most popular commentators, Ninoska Perez, a fervent Trump supporter, has assured listeners that they have been told there would be no major changes.
Martha Flores, who hosts an evening show on Radio Mambi, isn’t sure about that. She attended the news conference but declined to speak.
“Look at this,” Flores said, pointing at her eyes watering. “I know I would just cry.”
Radio Mambi got its start in the 1980s with support from the Reagan administration and has long received federal funding to beam Radio Marti’s anti-communist content into Cuba for an hour after midnight each morning. Cuba, in turn, tries to jam the station’s signal from reaching the island.
Cubans in Miami recall growing up listening to the station in the kitchen or while in the car. Lieutenant Gov. Jeanette Nunez shared at the news conference that as a girl she would she would hear it so much that she get annoyed with her father.
“Why do I have to listen to this?” Nunez said she would tell her father while he drove her to school. “He insisted. He would never let me change the dial,” Nunez said, adding that she later followed the same tradition with her own daughter.
The group still has to file with the FCC to transfer the broadcast licenses. A public comment period will follow. If approved, the startup would take full ownership in late 2023, after a one-year transition period. | 2022-06-10T10:44:14+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/miami-cubans-oppose-democrats-spanish-language-radio-deal/ |
Lilt Provides Dual Method Instant and Verified Translation in Craft, Zendesk, and Figma Connectors
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lilt, the leading global experience platform, today announced the launch of the Craft Content Management System (CMS) Connector. This adds to Lilt's dual method Connector portfolio, which also includes Zendesk and Figma Connectors. Dual method Connectors support both Instant and Verified Translation, allowing Lilt to immediately return a localized version of customer content while simultaneously sending that same content to Lilt's in-house translators for localization with a quality guarantee.
Dual method Connectors provide a differentiated customer solution by offering both Instant and Verified Translation optionality, increasing the versatility of Lilt's offerings. Instant Translation provides bespoke, custom-trained machine translation for localization projects when translations are needed immediately, while Verified Translation ensures quality through Lilt's human-in-the-loop approach. Offering these two modes of translation through a Connector allows Lilt customers to send a wider variety of content for localization within their existing business systems and workflows, empowering customers to access translations more quickly and ultimately go to market in less time.
Nearly 90% of documents translated by Lilt this year have been received through Connectors. Rather than being emailed to Lilt, content is pulled for translation directly from the customer's CMS, TMS, or other business system of choice via Lilt Connectors. Connectors highlight the importance of streamlined, efficient access to high-quality translation on demand, enabling quicker turnaround times, higher cost savings, and reduced opportunity for manual errors.
With dual method Connectors, the Lilt platform can generate a machine-translated localized version of customer content within seconds, known as Instant Translation. Instant Translation is beneficial not only for increased speed of translation but also for rapid design, prototyping, and content iteration. With 100+ supported languages, Instant Translation is the perfect way to securely and instantaneously localize content while ensuring your organization's unique stylistic preferences, terminology, and tone are incorporated into the machine translation's training and output. This method is powered by a continuously learning, customer-specific Lilt Engine, which allows each customer to scale application of their linguistic data across their business systems.
"The Lilt Connector for Figma has significantly improved the design process for my team," said Jamie Denke, Senior Product Designer for Neato Robotics. "Using Instant Translation, Lilt imports the translations directly into my design project in seconds. That means no longer waiting weeks for translations and then having to manually cut and paste translated text once it arrives."
The demand for high-quality translation services and best-in-class global experiences go hand in hand. With the Verified Translation method of the Craft CMS Connector, Lilt human linguists translate content, empowered by the Lilt platform's adaptive Neural Machine Translation (NMT) technology. Verified Translation delivers localized content three to five times faster than other providers without compromising on industry-leading quality standards, as validated by Lilt's ISO certifications.
"The flexibility of these two translation methods, available directly within the CMS, allow for both velocity and scale of website content localization," said Brittney Benchoff, Director of Product. "This empowers organizations to create a memorable global experience for their prospective customers regardless of what language they speak."
Lilt's Craft CMS Connector and other dual method Connectors are available today for all customers. For more information about Lilt and its solutions, please reach out to contact@lilt.com.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Lilt is the leading global experience platform, enabling organizations to build and deliver multilingual experiences at scale across every step of the global customer journey through its translation technology and services. The Lilt Platform uses AI and automation to make the localization process faster, better, and simpler, bringing human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. Lilt gives industry-leading organizations like Intel, ASICS, Emerson, UiPath, and Canva everything they need to scale their global experience programs and go-to-market faster. Lilt has additional global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Visit us online at www.lilt.com or contact us at contact@lilt.com.
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FILE - Rolls of razor wire line the top of the security fencing at the Raymond Detention Center in Raymond, Miss., on Aug. 1, 2022. Four prisoners are on the loose after escaping over the weekend from the Mississippi jail already under federal scrutiny for alleged mismanagement. In an escape that began around 8 p.m. Saturday, the four detainees broke free from the Raymond Detention Center, a facility near the state capital of Jackson, through breaches in a cell and in the roof, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said at a Monday, April 24, 2023 news conference.
This booking photo provided Jackson, Miss., Police Department Dylan Arrington, one of four Mississippi prisoners who escaped from the Raymon Detention Center over the weekend. He is now a suspect in the Monday night, April 24, 2023, murder and carjacking of Anthony Watts, 61, in Jackson, Miss.
FILE - Rolls of razor wire line the top of the security fencing at the Raymond Detention Center in Raymond, Miss., on Aug. 1, 2022. Four prisoners are on the loose after escaping over the weekend from the Mississippi jail already under federal scrutiny for alleged mismanagement. In an escape that began around 8 p.m. Saturday, the four detainees broke free from the Raymond Detention Center, a facility near the state capital of Jackson, through breaches in a cell and in the roof, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said at a Monday, April 24, 2023 news conference.
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This booking photo provided Jackson, Miss., Police Department Dylan Arrington, one of four Mississippi prisoners who escaped from the Raymon Detention Center over the weekend. He is now a suspect in the Monday night, April 24, 2023, murder and carjacking of Anthony Watts, 61, in Jackson, Miss.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail over the weekend is suspected of killing a man and stealing his pickup truck in Jackson, authorities said Tuesday.
Anthony Watts, 61, was shot and killed Monday night around 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 after he pulled over to help a man who had wrecked a motorcycle. Police say that man shot Watts several times and then stole his Red Dodge Ram. Watts died at the scene.
“Based on information gathered from investigators, the suspect ... fit the description of 22-year-old Dylan Arrington,” Jackson Police Chief James E. Davis said.
Arrington is one of four prisoners — along with Casey Grayson, Corey Harrison and Jerry Raynes — who escaped Saturday night from the Raymond Detention Center, a facility near Jackson, through breaches in a cell and the roof. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said the men might have camped out on the roof before fleeing the facility and going their separate ways.
The four were in custody for various felony charges, most involving theft. Arrington had charges of auto theft and illegal possession of a firearm, WAPT-TV reported.
Watts' stolen Red Dodge Ram, which has tan trim and Cowboys stickers on the front and the back, was last seen heading south on I-55 in Terry, Mississippi, police said.
Jones said one of the prisoners stole a Hinds County Public Works vehicle that was later recovered in a suburb of Houston. Investigators also believe a stolen Chevy Silverado is connected to the escape. None of the men had been captured as of Tuesday afternoon.
In July, a federal judge ordered a rare takeover of the jail after he said deficiencies in supervision and staffing led to “a stunning array of assaults, as well as deaths.” In December, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed that order after the county filed a motion for reconsideration.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As temperatures and humidity start to rise this summer, the Energy Efficiency Program from Virginia Natural Gas is providing tips and tools to help customers save energy and money – all while keeping it cool.
High temperatures bring higher energy usage, which can translate into higher bills. Here are some simple tips that can help energy users manage their bills and save money.
- Change air filters regularly. A dirty air filter makes an HVAC system work harder, which uses more energy.
- Set your thermostat at the highest comfortable setting. The smaller the difference between the inside and outside temperatures, the lower your energy usage, and the bill will be.
- Find and seal leaks. Be sure to check for air leaks or gaps around walls, ceilings, windows, doors, switches and outlets. Sealing leaks helps keep the cool air in, and the warm air out.
- Maintain your HVAC system. A well-maintained cooling system runs more efficiently. A complete tune-up of your HVAC system is a worthwhile investment and can reduce monthly energy bills.
- Close blinds, drapes, and curtains during the hottest part of the day. Keeping your blinds, drapes, and curtains closed will help prevent the sun's rays from heating your house.
- Use a ceiling fan in occupied rooms to supplement your air conditioning. Make sure the fans are set to operate in a counterclockwise direction to push cool air down into living spaces. Only use ceiling fans in rooms that are occupied. Remember – fans cool people, not things.
- Grill outdoors. Using your electric oven and stovetop creates a lot of indoor heat. Help save energy by firing up the grill outdoors or preparing meals that don't require cooking.
- Turn off unnecessary lights. Be sure to turn off lights when you leave a room. Lights emit heat and cause your air conditioning system to work harder.
- Set your water heater to 120 degrees. Simply lowering the thermostat on your hot water heater can have a significant effect on your energy bill. Take shorter showers instead of baths and use low-flow showerheads for additional savings.
- Clean your dryer's lint filter after every use to ensure more efficient drying and do not overload it or add wet clothes mid-cycle.
- Even out the seasonal highs and lows of your bill with a Budget Plan. At VNG, we'll calculate your predicted natural gas usage and estimate an average monthly payment so you can better balance your budget. Each quarter we'll perform an actual usage review to determine any adjustments (higher or lower) to your monthly bill amounts.
For more energy savings tips and ways to save, visit virginianaturalgas.com/energyefficiency.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A woman who family members believe was the toddler who was kidnapped by a babysitter 51 years ago has been reunited with her family in Fort Worth, in a meeting filled with long-overdue hugs and joyful tears.
Melissa Highsmith was 22 months old when she was abducted by a purported babysitter in 1971. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that she lived in Fort Worth most of her life as Melanie Brown and didn’t know she was kidnapped until her biological father, Jeffrie Highsmith, submitted DNA to 23andMe and learned that he was a match to Brown’s children.
The family said in a news release that they worked with an amateur genealogist to help interpret the DNA results and mine public records to find Melissa, who reunited with her parents and two of her siblings this weekend.
“It was just a mixture of joy and terrifying. Being terrified and excited and just trying to understand, you know, make sense of everything,” Melissa Highsmith told KDFW-TV.
In a statement Monday, the Fort Worth Police Department said it’s “overjoyed” to hear that 23andMe led the Highsmiths to Melissa, and they will conduct official DNA testing to confirm her identity. The investigation into her kidnapping will continue.
“I couldn’t stop crying,” Melissa’s sister, Victoria Garner, wrote on Facebook. “I was overjoyed and I’m still walking around in a fog trying to comprehend that my sister is right in front of me and that we found her.”
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Melissa Highsmith’s biological mother, Alta Apantenco, had recently separated from the girl’s father and moved to Fort Worth when she placed an ad for a babysitter in the newspaper. A woman who answered the ad said she wanted to watch the girl at her own house, and Apantenco agreed. The babysitter picked up the baby from Apantenco’s roommate on Aug. 23, 1971 and never brought her back.
The family said they never forgot about Melissa.
“It’s overwhelming and incredible to me,” said Sharon Highsmith, Melissa’s younger sister. “For 50 years, my mom has lived with the guilt of losing Melissa. She’s also lived with community and nationwide accusations that she hurt or killed her own baby. I’m so glad we have Melissa back. I’m also grateful we have vindication for my mom.”
Jeffrie Highsmith told KDFW that the family never gave up the hope of finding Melissa.
“We had several tips, we would go off to other states. We would go off and talk to different girls, have DNA made, and our hopes were dashed,” he said. “It was hard.” | 2022-11-30T16:06:24+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-woman-believed-to-be-1971-kidnap-victim-reunites-with-family/ |
The Journey will make four stops in the Wichita-Dodge City area, from June 21 to July 6. Please see locations and timing below.
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The All of Us Research Program's Journey mobile exhibit is traveling across the country to engage communities that have been historically underrepresented in medical research. All of Us is inviting one million or more people to help build one of the most diverse health databases of its kind and advance precision medicine.
Since the program launched in 2018, the mobile exhibit has visited more than 100 cities in over 40 states. In Kansas, the Journey will be available to educate and register new participants for the program. With more enrollment and representation from area residents, researchers can help better address health issues that are prevalent in the community.
- FIRST STOP: Evergreen Park Recreation Center, 2700 N Woodland Street, Wichita, KS 67204 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT on Tuesday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 22; and 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. CT on Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24
- SECOND STOP: Downtown Dodge City, Gunsmoke and 1st Avenue, Dodge City, KS 67801 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT on Monday, June 27 and Tuesday, June 28
- THIRD STOP: YMCA Dodge City, 240 San Jose, Dodge City, KS 67801 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT on Wednesday, June 29 and Thursday, June 30
- FOURTH STOP: Village Square Mall, 2601 Central Avenue, Dodge City, KS 67801 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT on Tuesday, July 5 and Wednesday, July 6
- All of Us tour managers will be available for interviews before the event or at the event via Zoom or phone.
- Journalists are welcome to shoot B-roll and take photos at the event.
- The mobile exhibit features hands-on activities to learn more about the program, including a digital gaming hub, an augmented reality experience, and more.
- Only adults aged 18+ are able to register for the program at this time.
- COVID-19 safety guidelines:
- All staff are vaccinated against COVID-19.
- Staff and attendees are required to wear masks, social distance, sanitize hands, and complete temperature screenings and digital tracing forms.
- All surfaces are cleaned pre-, during, and post-event to reduce any possible contamination.
More than 320,000 people nationwide have enrolled and completed the initial steps, and over 80% of these participants belong to communities that have been historically underrepresented in biomedical research, including 50% from racial and ethnic minority groups. Researchers will use the data participants contribute to learn how biology, lifestyle, and environment affect health. This may one day help them find more tailored ways to treat and prevent disease.
For more information, visit allofus.nih.gov. | To sign up, visit joinallofus.org.
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Huddle up! Here’s a look back at this weekend on the gridiron, with three key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.
Cooper Rush outshines Joe Burrow in Dallas win
There isn’t as much talk about doom and gloom with the Dallas Cowboys as there was this time last week.
Following a season-opening loss to Tampa Bay that saw starting quarterback Dak Prescott suffer a fractured thumb that will keep him out roughly two months, there didn’t seem to be a lot of optimism with defending AFC Champion Cincinnati next on the schedule.
But backup quarterback Cooper Rush not only held his own, but he actually outplayed Bengals star Joe Burrow in a 20-17 Dallas win.
Rush went 19-of-31 passing for 235 yards a touchdown and a 95.5 quarterback rating, while Burrow had an 89.9 quarterback rating.
With Dallas taking possession of the ball in a tie game at its own 35-yard line with 57 seconds remaining, Rush led the Cowboys down the field and set up the game-winning, 50-yard field goal by Brett Maher as time expired.
The Cowboys now enter a crucial four-game stretch against division opponents and the Super Bowl champion Rams knowing they can succeed without Prescott.
Aggies rebound with win over ranked foe
It wasn’t pretty, but Texas A&M started a brutal portion of its schedule with a 17-9 home win over No. 13 Miami.
Head coach Jimbo Fisher benched starting quarterback Haynes King in favor of backup Max Johnson, a transfer from LSU who didn’t rack up big stats (140 yards, 1 touchdown), but led the Aggies to enough points.
The defense bent by allowing 392 yards, but didn’t break by keeping Miami out of the end zone.
Now, the fun really begins for Texas A&M with a game against No. 10 Arkansas on Saturday kicking off a stretch where the Aggies play four ranked opponents in their next six games.
UTSA plays Texas tough
There figured to be an emotional letdown for Texas coming off its game against No. 1 Alabama last week, and Texas-San Antonio nearly took advantage.
The Roadrunners were in the thick of it late in the third quarter against Texas in Austin on Saturday, scoring to make it 24-20 with 3:31 remaining in the third.
But the Longhorns took charge from there, scoring the final 17 points of the game to win going away and avoid an upset, which is no small feat given what happened at home to Kansas last year.
Next up for Texas is another rivalry game at Texas Tech on Saturday. | 2022-09-19T15:43:20+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/sports/2022/09/19/monday-huddle-what-a-rush-cooper-rush-shows-theres-hope-for-cowboys-without-dak-prescott/ |
-- Revenue of $122.5 million --
--From 1Q22 to 4Q22, reduced costs by over $80M on annualized basis--
--Uniquely Positioned to Deliver Enterprise Grade AI Leveraging Large Language Models--
NEW YORK, March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSN) ("LivePerson" the "Company", "we" or "us"), a global leader in conversational AI, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022.
Fourth Quarter Highlights
Total revenue was $122.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, a decrease of 1% as compared to the same period last year as the company continues to execute on its plan to exit non-core lines of business. Within total revenue, business operations revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022 decreased 1% from the comparable prior-year period to $113.0 million, and revenue from consumer operations decreased 3% from the comparable prior-year period to $9.4 million.
LivePerson signed 90 deals in total for the fourth quarter, consisting of 44 new and 46 existing customer contracts, including 1 seven-figure deal. While the aggregate number of existing customer deals is down year over year, the aggregate number of Enterprise deals is up 21.7% year over year. Trailing-twelve-months average revenue per enterprise and mid-market customer increased 11% for the fourth quarter to $680,000, up from approximately $610,000 for the comparable prior-year period.
"As an AI & Automation company, LivePerson empowers enterprises to harness and leverage proprietary data and Large Language Models to achieve better business outcomes," said founder and CEO Robert LoCascio. "For the past several years, we have focused on the AI opportunity presented by conversational commerce experiences. I can confidently tell you that we are at the forefront of Conversational AI and leading the enterprise market with our vision to digitize conversations between brands and their consumers. This market sets us up well for significant growth ahead, with a long runway for future growth. At the same time, we believe the unit economics of our business and our cost initiatives will provide the ingredients for a highly profitable business model. I am very confident in the trajectory that our business is on and believe 2023 will be a strong and pivotal year for the company."
"Our success in reducing costs last year, coupled with additional cost reductions in the current quarter, is expected to yield double-digit adjusted EBITDA margins and positive free cash flow in our B2B Core beginning in the second quarter," said John Collins. "We have materially improved the P&L and reallocated resources to focus on the B2B Core, establishing a solid foundation to execute on AI-led growth in the second quarter and beyond, despite expecting a decline of more than $70 million in non-Core revenue year over year, much of which was set in motion by the profitable growth strategy we launched last year."
Customer Expansion
During the fourth quarter, the Company signed 90 total deals for the quarter, including:
- One of Australia's largest banks;
- One of the largest personal injury law firms in the U.S.; and
- A leading provider of pension and investment products in Australia.
The Company also expanded business with:
- A top 3 global airline ;
- One of the largest online travel companies; and
- One of the world's largest online gambling operators.
Additional Information
As previously disclosed, the Company's subsidiary WildHealth participated in a Medicare demonstration program (the "Program") during 2022, under which certain non-core services were provided and reimbursed by Medicare. In November 2022, WildHealth received a notice that Medicare was suspending reimbursements for services rendered under the Program pending further review. While the Company currently believes that the services rendered under the Program in the fourth quarter of 2022 were valid, in view of the inherent uncertainty as to the timing and amount of further reimbursement for services rendered under the Program, the Company has elected to take a reserve for revenue associated with services delivered under the Program in the fourth quarter of 2022 for which payment has not yet been collected. Had the Company recognized revenues associated with services delivered under the Program during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, our revenue would have been within the previous guidance ranges for the fourth quarter and full year.
In February 2023, in light of remaining capacity under our 2019 Stock Incentive Plan and to reduce dilution to our stockholders, our board of directors elected to pay accrued 2022 employee bonuses in cash instead of settling those obligations in stock as previously intended (and assumed for purposes of providing our annual and quarterly guidance, as we elected to pay such bonuses in stock for the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years).
In calculating our net income (loss) in accordance with GAAP, we accrued $9.2 million for 2022 employee bonuses for the year ended December 31, 2022, which would have been an add-back to Adjusted EBITDA but for the board of directors' February 2023 decision to settle such bonus in cash. If the Company paid such bonuses in stock, Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2022 would have been $(6.9) million. As such bonuses will now be paid in cash, our stock-based compensation add-back to Adjusted EBITDA has been reduced by $9.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 and reported Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2022, giving effect to this change, is $(16.2) million. Had the Company not (1) taken the WildHealth revenue reserve referenced above and (2) elected to pay the 2022 bonus in cash, then adjusted EBITDA would have been within the previous guidance ranges for the fourth quarter and the full year.
Net Loss and Adjusted Operating (Loss) Income
Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2022 was $41.7 million or $0.55 per share, as compared to a net loss of $49.9 million or $0.70 per share for the fourth quarter of 2021. Adjusted operating loss, a non-GAAP financial metric, for the fourth quarter of 2022 was $16.1 million, as compared to an $11.4 million adjusted operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2021. Adjusted operating (loss) income excludes amortization of purchased intangibles and finance leases, stock-based compensation, other litigation and consulting costs, restructuring costs, contingent earn-out adjustments, acquisition costs, interest income (expense), and other expense (income).
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, for the fourth quarter of 2022 was $(5.2) million as compared to $(4.4) million for the fourth quarter of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA excludes amortization of purchased intangibles and finance leases, stock-based compensation, depreciation, other litigation and consulting costs, restructuring costs, contingent earn-out adjustments, provision for income taxes, acquisition costs, interest income (expense), and other expense (income).
A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP measures has been provided in the financial tables included in this press release. An explanation of the non-GAAP financial measures and how they are calculated is included below under the heading "Non-GAAP Financial Measures."
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company's cash balance was $391.8 million at December 31, 2022, as compared to $521.8 million at December 31, 2021.
Financial Expectations
The following forward-looking measures and the underlying assumptions involve significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and actual results may vary materially from these forward-looking measures. The Company does not present a quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and non-GAAP gross margin to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures (or otherwise present such forward-looking GAAP measures) because it is impractical to forecast certain items without unreasonable efforts due to the uncertainty and inherent difficulty of predicting, within a reasonable range, the occurrence and financial impact of and the periods in which such items may be recognized. In particular, these non-GAAP financial measures exclude certain items, including amortization of purchased intangibles, stock-based compensation, depreciation, other litigation and consulting costs, restructuring costs, contingent earn-out adjustments, benefit from income taxes, interest income (expense), and other expense (income), which depend on future events that the Company is unable to predict. Depending on the size of these items, they could have a significant impact on the Company's GAAP financial results.
For the first quarter of 2023 guidance, we expect total revenue to range from $106 million to $109 million or (18.5%) to (16.1%) year over year. We also expect Adjusted EBITDA loss to range from $(8) million to $(5.5) million, or a margin of (7.4)% to (5.1)%. The year over year decrease in revenue and the sequential decrease in adjusted EBITDA are both driven primarily by decreases in non-Core revenue expected beginning in the first quarter including decreasing Gainshare labor and variable revenue and decreasing professional services revenue from healthcare. We also observed smaller-than-expected deal sizes in the fourth quarter relative to the third quarter of 2022, indicating friction in our sales cycle from the macroenvironment. Lower deal sizes in the fourth quarter also negatively impacted our expectations for the first quarter.
For full year 2023 guidance, we expect total revenue to range from $422 million to $436 million or (18)% to (15)% year over year. We also expect Adjusted EBITDA to range from $15 million to $32 million, or a margin of 4% to 7%.
Consistent with the themes of transparency and focus on B2B Core, we think providing guidance on B2B Core recurring revenue would also be instructive for investors.
For the first quarter of 2023, we expect recurring revenue to range from $80 million to $83 million or (6.9)% to (3.4)% year over year. For adjusted EBITDA, we expect a loss in the range of $(8.3) million to (5) million, or a margin of (9.6)% to (5.8)%.
For the full year of 2023, we expect recurring revenue to range from $334 million to $347 million or 0% to 4% growth year over year and adjusted EBITDA to range from $27 million to $40 million, or a margin of 7.6% to 10.9%.
On an annualized basis, we expect the B2B Core to exit the year with 16% to 19% adjusted EBITDA margins and 7% to 10% free cash flow margins.
Disaggregated Revenue
Included in the accompanying financial results are revenues disaggregated by revenue source, as follows:
Stock-Based Compensation
Included in the accompanying financial results are expenses related to stock-based compensation, as follows:
Amortization of Purchased Intangibles and Finance Leases
Included in the accompanying financial results are expenses related to the amortization of purchased intangibles and finance leases, as follows:
Supplemental Fourth Quarter 2022 Presentation
LivePerson will post a presentation providing supplemental information for the fourth quarter 2022 on the investor relations section of the Company's web site at www.ir.liveperson.com.
Earnings Teleconference Information
The Company will discuss its fourth quarter of 2022 financial results during a webcast today, March 15, 2023, at 5:00 PM ET. CEO Robert LoCascio and CFO John Collins will be joined by LivePerson AI team leaders who will share insights about the company's AI strategy, including product demonstrations and Q&A.
The video webcast can be accessed by logging onto the investor relations events section of the Company's web site at www.ir.liveperson.com.
If you are unable to participate in the live webcast, it will be available for replay until March 29, 2023. To access the replay, please visit the Company's web site at www.ir.liveperson.com.
About LivePerson
LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is a global leader in Conversational AI. Hundreds of the world's leading brands — including HSBC, Virgin Media, and Burberry — use our Conversational Cloud platform to engage with millions of consumers as personally as they would with one. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set to build connections that reduce costs, increase revenue, and are anything but artificial. Fast Company named us the #1 Most Innovative AI Company in the world. To talk with us or our Conversational AI, please visit liveperson.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Investors are cautioned that the following financial measures used in this press release are "non-GAAP financial measures": (i) adjusted EBITDA, or earnings/(loss) before (benefit from) income taxes, interest income (expense), other expense (income), depreciation, amortization, stock-based compensation, restructuring costs, acquisition costs and other costs; (ii) adjusted EBITDA margin, or earnings/(loss) before (benefit from) income taxes, interest income (expense), other expense (income), depreciation, amortization, stock-based compensation, restructuring costs, acquisition costs and other costs divided by revenue; (iii) adjusted operating (loss) income, or operating income (loss) excluding amortization, stock-based compensation, restructuring costs, acquisition costs, deferred tax asset valuation allowance, and other costs; (iv) free cash flow, or net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment, including capitalized software; and (v) non–GAAP gross profit and non–GAAP gross margin, or GAAP gross profit and GAAP gross margin, respectively, adjusted to exclude, as applicable, certain expenses as presented the Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA.
Non-GAAP financial information should not be construed as an alternative to any other measures of performance determined in accordance with GAAP, or as an indicator of our operating performance, liquidity or cash flows generated by operating, investing and financing activities as there may be significant factors or trends that it fails to address. We present non-GAAP financial information because we believe that it is helpful to some investors as one measure of our operations.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release and on our earnings call regarding LivePerson that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual future events or results to differ materially from such statements. Any such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to financial guidance, are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. It is routine for our internal projections and expectations to change as the quarter and year progress, and therefore it should be clearly understood that the internal projections and beliefs upon which we base our expectations may change. Although these expectations may change, we are under no obligation to inform you if they do. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein include, without limitation: major public health issues, and specifically the pandemic caused by the spread of COVID-19, and their effects on the U.S. and global markets; our ability to retain key personnel, attract new personnel and to manage staff attrition; strain on our personnel resources and infrastructure from supporting our existing and growing customer base; the ability to successfully integrate past or potential future acquisitions; our ability to secure additional financing to execute our business strategy; delays in our implementation cycles; payment-related risks; potential fluctuations in our quarterly revenue and operating results; limitations on the effectiveness of our controls; non-payment or late payment of amounts due to us from a significant number of customers; volatility in the capital markets; recognition of revenue from subscriptions; customer retention and engagement; the migration of existing customers to our new platform; our ability to attract new customers and new consumer users of our consumer services; our ability to develop and maintain successful relationships with social media and other third-party consumer messaging platforms and endpoints; the highly competitive markets in which we operate; general economic conditions; privacy concerns relating to the Internet that could result in new legislation or negative public perception; new regulatory or other legal requirements that could materially impact our business; governmental export controls and economic sanctions; industry-specific regulation and unfavorable industry-specific laws, regulations or interpretive positions; future regulation of the Internet or mobile devices; greater than anticipated income, non-income and transactional tax liabilities; failures or security breaches in our services, those of our third party providers, or in the websites of our customers; regulation or possible misappropriation of personal information belonging to our customers' Internet users; technology systems beyond our control and technology-related defects that could disrupt the LivePerson services; our dependence on the continued viability of the Internet; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights or potential infringement of the intellectual property rights of third parties; the use of AI in our product offerings; the presence of, and difficulty in correcting, errors, failures or "bugs" in our products; our ability to license necessary third party software for use in our products and services, and our ability to successfully integrate third party software; potential adverse impact due to foreign currency and cryptocurrency exchange rate fluctuations; additional regulatory requirements, tax liabilities, currency exchange rate fluctuations and other risks as we expand internationally, as we expand into new offerings including AI-assisted healthcare and/or as we expand into direct-to-consumer services; risks related to our operations in Israel and Ukraine, and the civil and political unrest and potential for armed conflict in those regions; potential failure to meeting service level commitments to certain customers; legal liability and/or negative publicity for the services provided to consumers via our technology platforms; technological or other defects that could disrupt or negatively impact our services; our ability to maintain our reputation; our lengthy sales cycles; changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States; natural catastrophic events and interruption to our business by man-made problems; potential limitations on our ability to use net operating losses to offset future taxable income; risks related to our common stock being traded on more than one securities exchange; and other factors described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2023. This list is intended to identify only certain of the principal factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Readers are referred to the Company's reports and documents filed from time to time by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of these and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in forward-looking statements.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Former President Donald Trump kicked off his 2024 White House bid with stops Saturday in New Hampshire and South Carolina, events in early-voting states marking the first campaign appearances since announcing his latest run more than two months ago.
“Together we will complete the unfinished business of making America great again," Trump said at an evening event in Columbia to introduce his South Carolina leadership team.
Trump and his allies hope the events in states with enormous power in selecting the nominee will offer a show of force behind the former president after a sluggish start to his campaign that left many questioning his commitment to running again.
“They said, ‘He’s not doing rallies, he’s not campaigning. Maybe he’s lost that step,’" Trump said at the New Hampshire GOP’s annual meeting in Salem, his first event.
But, he told the audience of party leaders, “I’m more angry now and I’m more committed now than I ever was.” In South Carolina, he further dismissed the speculation by saying that ”we have huge rallies planned, bigger than ever before."
While Trump has spent the months since he announced largely ensconced in his Florida club and at his nearby golf course, his aides insist they have been busy behind the scenes. His campaign opened a headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida, and has been hiring staff. And in recent weeks, backers have been reaching out to political operatives and elected officials to secure support for Trump at a critical point when other Republicans are preparing their own expected challenges.
In New Hampshire, Trump promoted his campaign agenda, including immigration and crime, and said his policies would be the opposite of President Joe Biden's. He cited the Democrats' move to change the election calendar, costing New Hampshire its leadoff primary spot, and accused Biden, a fifth-place finisher in New Hampshire in 2020, of "disgracefully trashing this beloved political tradition.”
“I hope you’re going to remember that during the general election,” Trump told party members. Trump himself twice won the primary, but lost the state each time to Democrats.
Later in South Carolina, Trump said he planned to keep the state's presidential primary as the “first in the South” and called it “a very important state."
In his speech, he hurtled from criticism of Biden and Democrats to disparaging comments about transgender people, mockery of people promoting the use of electric stoves and electric cars, and reminiscing about efforts while serving as president to increase oil production, strike trade deals and crack down on migration at the U.S-Mexico border.
While Trump remains the only declared 2024 presidential candidate, potential challengers, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, are expected to get their campaigns underway in the coming months.
After his South Carolina speech, Trump told The Associated Press in an interview that it would be “a great act of disloyalty” if DeSantis opposed him in the primary and took credit for the governor's initial election.
“If he runs, that’s fine. I’m way up in the polls,” Trump said. “He’s going to have to do what he wants to do, but he may run. I do think it would be a great act of disloyalty because, you know, I got him in. He had no chance. His political life was over.”
He said he hasn’t spoken to DeSantis in a long time.
Gov. Henry McMaster, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and several members of the state's congressional delegation attended Trump's event at the Statehouse.
Trump's team has struggled to line up support from South Carolina lawmakers, even some who eagerly backed him before. Some have said that more than a year out from primary balloting is too early to make endorsements or that they are waiting to see who else enters the race. Others have said it is time for the party to move past Trump to a new generation of leadership.
South Carolina House Speaker Murrell Smith was among the legislative leaders awaiting Trump's arrival, although he said he was there not to make a formal endorsement but to welcome the former president to the state in his role as speaker.
Otherwise, dozens of supporters crammed into the ceremonial lobby between the state House and Senate, competing with reporters and camera crews for space among marble-topped tables and a life-sized bronze statue of former Vice President John C. Calhoun.
Dave Wilson, president of conservative Christian nonprofit Palmetto Family, said some conservative voters may have concerns about Trump's recent comments that Republicans who opposed abortion without exceptions had cost the party in the November elections.
“It gives pause to some folks within the conservative ranks of the Republican Party as to whether or not we need the process to work itself out," said Wilson, whose group hosted Pence for a speech in 2021.
But Gerri McDaniel, who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign, rejected the idea that voters were ready to move on from the former president. “Some of the media keep saying he’s losing his support. No, he’s not," she said. “It’s only going to be greater than it was before because there are so many people who are angry about what’s happening in Washington.”
The South Carolina event was in some ways off-brand for a onetime reality television star who typically favors big rallies and has tried to cultivate an outsider image. Rallies are expensive, and Trump added new financial challenges when he decided to begin his campaign in November — far earlier than many had urged. That leaves him subject to strict fundraising regulations and bars him from using his well-funded leadership political action committee to pay for such events, which can cost several million dollars.
Trump's campaign, in its early stages, has already drawn controversy, most particularly when he had dinner with Holocaust-denying white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who had made a series of antisemitic comments. Trump also was widely mocked for selling a series of digital trading cards that pictured him as a superhero, a cowboy and an astronaut, among others.
He is the subject of a series of criminal investigations, including one into the discovery of hundreds of documents with classified markings at his Florida club and whether he obstructed justice by refusing to return them, as well as state and federal examinations of his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Biden.
Still, early polling shows he's a favorite to win his party's nomination.
“The gun is fired, and the campaign season has started,” said Stephen Stepanek, outgoing chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Trump announced that Stepanek will serve as senior adviser for his campaign in the state.
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Kinnard reported from Columbia, South Carolina, and Colvin from New York. Associated Press writer Michelle L. Price in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-01-30T06:35:16+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/01/28/trump-kicks-off-2024-bid-with-events-in-early-voting-states/ |
Strategic association enables more financial institutions to leverage AI responsibly
BOSTON, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Saifr™, a Fidelity Labs-incubated regulatory technology provider, has announced a strategic relationship with Pinpoint Global Communications (Pinpoint). As a result, Pinpoint clients will be able to use Saifr's artificial intelligence (AI) modules in their workflows, helping them to create compliant marketing communications more efficiently.
Pinpoint clients now have the ability to integrate Saifr's AI modules to further enhance their workflow efficiencies. Saifr's AI models will scrutinize content and flag potential regulatory risks before the materials are sent to compliance teams. Using AI, clients can review written documents, audios, and videos, to help ensure compliance.
"Our work with Pinpoint illustrates how the financial industry is utilizing AI and advanced language models to help create compliant content," said Vall Herard, Co-Founder and CEO of Saifr. "We worked closely with the Pinpoint team to integrate our AI modules into their robust workflow API, creating a more efficient compliance review process."
"Through our integration with Saifr, our clients can access the AI tools they need to help create compliant content more efficiently," said Bob Sullivan, President and CEO of Pinpoint. "This gives Pinpoint a competitive advantage."
To learn more, please visit Saifr.ai or PinpointGlobal.com.
About Pinpoint Global Communications
Pinpoint is the recognized leader in on-demand, online training, and compliance solutions for financial services and health insurance companies. Pinpoint's learning management system (LMS) is customized for companies to easily deliver required training and education to get salespeople, agents, and advisors ready to sell quickly with real-time tracking and reporting for administrators and users. Pinpoint's ComplianceConnect™ SaaS provides companies the security of knowing they can provide decision-ready data to deliver, monitor, and report to support SEC requirements. https://www.pinpointglobal.com/
About Saifr™
Saifr™, a RegTech incubated by Fidelity Labs, brings AI to help disrupt content creation, approval and filing processes in order to make them easier, faster, less expensive and more accurate. Saifr leverages unique access to millions of documents representing more than 15 years of work by thousands of marketing and compliance experts in various lines of business to create deep-learning AI models. Saifr's natural language processing models can be accessed via SaifrReview®, APIs or Add-ins. Saifr doesn't replace marketing or compliance professionals; it streamlines and enriches the creation and review process to help mitigate brand, reputational and regulatory risk.
Learn more at https://www.saifr.ai and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Fidelity Labs
Fidelity Labs is Fidelity Investments' in-house software incubator and digital studio. Founded in 2005, Fidelity Labs has played a critical role in driving growth and innovation for the firm. The Fidelity Labs organization has a portfolio of new businesses and is constantly prototyping concepts for Fidelity's next new ventures. Learn more at https://labs.fidelity.com.
Copyright 2023 FMR LLC. All Rights Reserved. Please note that all compliance responsibilities remain solely those of the end user(s) and that certain communications may require review and approval by properly licensed individuals. Fidelity is not responsible for determining compliance with rules and will not be liable for actions taken or not taken based on Saifr's products and services.
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Highlights:
- Revenue from continuing operations of $691 million in the quarter increased 22% compared to prior year; organic revenue from continuing operations increased 9%
- GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $0.33 compared to $0.38 in the prior year; adjusted EPS from continuing operations of $0.74 increased 14% compared to prior year
- Record backlog of $1.97 billion increased 16%, or 3% organically compared to prior year
- Operating cash flow of $50 million increased $65 million compared to prior year
- Updated Outlook: Updating FY23 adjusted EPS from continuing operations to $3.30 - $3.50, previously $3.25 - $3.55; Fiscal Q3 adjusted EPS from continuing operations of $0.88 - $0.94
BATESVILLE, Ind., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI) reported results for the second quarter, which ended March 31, 2023.
"Overall, our performance for the second quarter was ahead of our expectations, with strong orders in our Advanced Process Solutions segment and sequential improvement in our Molding Technology Solutions segment. We exited the quarter with record backlog and continued to see strong demand for aftermarket parts and service, though demand for our high margin hot runner equipment remained soft, in line with our expectations," said Kim Ryan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hillenbrand.
"Looking ahead, while we continue to experience some customer decision delays, we're encouraged by the demand pipeline. We are focused on deploying the Hillenbrand Operating Model to further integrate our recent acquisitions, drive productivity, and manage costs in this dynamic operating environment. We remain confident in our ability to execute our profitable growth strategy to create long-term shareholder value through our industry leading brands and highly-engineered processing equipment and solutions."
Second Quarter 2023 Results of Continuing Operations
(Batesville financial results reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented)
Revenue from continuing operations of $691 million increased 22% compared to the prior year, primarily due to acquisitions. On an organic basis (which excludes the impacts of acquisitions and foreign currency exchange), revenue increased 9% year over year, primarily due to higher aftermarket parts and service revenue and favorable pricing.
Net income from continuing operations of $24.1 million, or $0.33 per share, decreased $0.05 compared to the prior year primarily due to inflation, discrete tax items, an increase in business acquisition costs, unfavorable foreign currency translation, and inventory step-up charges, partially offset by pricing and productivity improvements, higher APS volume, the impact of acquisitions, and fewer shares outstanding. Adjusted net income from continuing operations of $52 million resulted in adjusted EPS of $0.74, an increase of $0.09, or 14%, primarily due to pricing and productivity improvements, higher APS volume, the impact of acquisitions, and fewer shares outstanding, partially offset by inflation, unfavorable foreign currency translation, and higher interest expense. The adjusted effective tax rate for the quarter was 33.5%, an increase of 50 basis points compared to the prior year.
Adjusted EBITDA of $109 million increased 8% year over year, or 3% on an organic basis. Favorable pricing and productivity improvements were partially offset by cost inflation and an increase in strategic investments. Adjusted EBITDA margin of 15.7% decreased 200 basis points, primarily due to unfavorable product mix and the dilutive effect of the acquisitions. As previously highlighted, the recently acquired businesses have lower relative margins but are expected to be brought in line with the historical Advanced Process Solutions segment margins over the next few years through the deployment of the Hillenbrand Operating Model.
Advanced Process Solutions (APS)
Revenue of $431 million increased 37% compared to the prior year, primarily due to acquisitions. On an organic basis, revenue increased 11% year over year, primarily due to higher aftermarket parts and service revenue and favorable pricing.
Adjusted EBITDA of $73 million increased 12% year over year, or 2% organically, as favorable pricing, higher volume, and productivity improvements were largely offset by cost inflation and an increase in strategic investments. Adjusted EBITDA margin of 17.0% decreased 370 basis points primarily due to the dilutive effect of the acquisitions and an increase in strategic investments.
Backlog of $1.67 billion increased 30% compared to the prior year. On an organic basis, backlog increased 13%, primarily driven by increased orders for large plastics systems and aftermarket parts and service. Sequentially, backlog increased 3%.
Molding Technology Solutions (MTS)
Revenue of $260 million increased 4% year over year. On an organic basis, which excludes the impact of foreign currency exchange, revenue increased 7% as an increase in injection molding equipment sales, favorable pricing, and higher aftermarket parts and service revenue were partially offset by a decrease in hot runner equipment sales.
Adjusted EBITDA of $48 million decreased 6%, or 2% on an organic basis. Adjusted EBITDA margin of 18.2% decreased 190 basis points primarily due to an increased mix of injection molding equipment, which has lower relative margins compared to hot runner equipment.
Backlog of $298 million decreased 29% compared to the prior year primarily due to a decrease in orders for injection molding equipment. Sequentially, backlog decreased 11% as the execution of existing backlog was partially offset by a sequential increase in orders.
Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and Capital Allocation
The Company generated operating cash flow from continuing operations of $50 million, an increase of $65 million compared to prior year, primarily due to favorable timing of working capital. Capital expenditures were approximately $17 million in the quarter. During the quarter, the Company paid approximately $15 million in quarterly dividends.
As of March 31, 2023, net debt was $999 million, and the net debt to pro forma adjusted EBITDA ratio was 2.2x. Liquidity was approximately $1,108 million, including $315 million in cash on hand and the remainder available under the Company's revolving credit facility.
As previously announced, the Company closed the sale of Batesville to LongRange Capital for $761.5 million on February 1, 2023. At closing, the Company received pre-tax cash proceeds of $698 million and an $11.5 million subordinated note. The pre-tax cash proceeds were used in part to repay the Company's $100 million Series A notes, and the remainder of the proceeds were used to repay outstanding borrowings on the Company's revolving credit facility. The Company expects to make a tax payment related to the Batesville sale of approximately $146 million in June 2023. Following the tax payment, pro forma net debt to pro forma adjusted EBITDA ratio is expected to be 2.5x as of March 31, 2023.
Updated Fiscal 2023 Outlook - Continuing Operations
Hillenbrand is providing updated annual guidance for fiscal year 2023 and quarterly adjusted EPS guidance for fiscal Q3 on a continuing operations basis. The Company is maintaining the midpoint of its adjusted EPS guidance, while slightly raising its revenue estimate at the midpoint.
Note: Year-over-Year ("YOY") growth figures presented in the guidance table above are on a continuing operations basis, which exclude the discontinued operations of Batesville.
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Hillenbrand's financial statements on Form 10-Q are expected to be filed jointly with this release and will be made available on the company's website (https://ir.hillenbrand.com).
In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this earnings release also contains non-GAAP operating performance measures. These non-GAAP measures are referred to as "adjusted" measures and exclude the following items:
- business acquisition, disposition, and integration costs;
- restructuring and restructuring-related charges;
- intangible asset amortization;
- inventory step-up charges;
- gains and losses on divestitures;
- other individually immaterial one-time costs;
- the related income tax impact for all of these items; and
- certain tax items related to acquisitions and divestitures, the revaluation of deferred tax balances resulting from fluctuations in currency exchange rates and non-routine changes in tax rates for certain foreign jurisdictions, and the impact that the Molding Technology Solutions reportable operating segment's loss carryforward attributes have on tax provisions related to the imposition of tax on Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) earned by certain foreign subsidiaries, the Foreign Derived Intangible Income Deduction (FDII), and the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT).
Refer to the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures for further information on these adjustments. Non-GAAP information is provided as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, or as superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Hillenbrand uses this non-GAAP information internally to measure operating segment performance and make operating decisions and believes it is helpful to investors because it allows more meaningful period-to-period comparisons of ongoing operating results. The information can also be used to perform trend analysis and to better identify operating trends that may otherwise be masked or distorted by items such as the above excluded items. Hillenbrand believes this information provides a higher degree of transparency.
One important non-GAAP measure Hillenbrand uses is adjusted earnings before interest, income tax, depreciation, and amortization ("adjusted EBITDA"). A part of our strategy is to pursue acquisitions that strengthen or establish leadership positions in key markets. Given that strategy, it is a natural consequence to incur related expenses, such as amortization from acquired intangible assets and additional interest expense from debt-funded acquisitions. Accordingly, we use adjusted EBITDA, among other measures, to monitor our business performance. We also use "adjusted net income" and "adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS)," which are defined as net income and earnings per share, respectively, each excluding items described in connection with adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, and adjusted diluted EPS are not recognized terms under GAAP and therefore do not purport to be alternatives to net income or to diluted EPS, as applicable. Further, Hillenbrand's measures of adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, and adjusted diluted EPS may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
Organic revenue and organic adjusted EBITDA are defined respectively as net revenue and adjusted EBITDA excluding net revenue and adjusted EBITDA directly attributable to TerraSource, which was divested on October 22, 2021, as well as recent acquisitions, including Linxis, Herbold Meckesheim, Peerless Food Equipment, and Gabler Engineering, and adjusting for the effects of foreign currency exchange. In addition, the ratio of net debt to pro forma adjusted EBITDA is a key financial measure that is used by management to assess Hillenbrand's borrowing capacity (and is calculated as the ratio of total debt less cash and cash equivalents to the trailing twelve months pro forma adjusted EBITDA). Hillenbrand uses organic and pro forma measures to assess performance of its reportable operating segments and the Company in total without the impact of recent acquisitions and divestitures.
Hillenbrand calculates the foreign currency impact on net revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and backlog in order to better measure the comparability of results between periods. We calculate the foreign currency impact by translating current year results at prior year foreign exchange rates. This information is provided because exchange rates can distort the underlying change in sales, either positively or negatively.
Another important operational measure used is backlog. Backlog is not a term recognized under GAAP; however, it is a common measurement used in industries with extended lead times for order fulfillment (long-term contracts), like those in which our reportable operating segments compete. Backlog represents the amount of consolidated net revenue that we expect to realize on contracts awarded to our reportable operating segments. For purposes of calculating backlog, 100% of estimated net revenue attributable to consolidated subsidiaries is included. Backlog includes expected net revenue from large systems and equipment, as well as aftermarket parts, components, and service. The length of time that projects remain in backlog can span from days for aftermarket parts or service to approximately 18 to 24 months for larger system sales within the Advanced Process Solutions reportable operating segment. The majority of the backlog within the Molding Technology Solutions reportable operating segment is expected to be fulfilled within the next twelve months. Backlog includes expected net revenue from the remaining portion of firm orders not yet completed, as well as net revenue from change orders to the extent that they are reasonably expected to be realized. We include in backlog the full contract award, including awards subject to further customer approvals, which we expect to result in revenue in future periods. In accordance with industry practice, our contracts may include provisions for cancellation, termination, or suspension at the discretion of the customer.
Hillenbrand expects that future net revenue associated with our reportable operating segments will be influenced by order backlog because of the lead time involved in fulfilling engineered-to-order equipment for customers. Although backlog can be an indicator of future net revenue, it does not include projects and parts orders that are booked and shipped within the same quarter. The timing of order placement, size, extent of customization, and customer delivery dates can create fluctuations in backlog and net revenue. Net revenue attributable to backlog may also be affected by foreign exchange fluctuations for orders denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars.
See below for a reconciliation from GAAP operating performance measures to the most directly comparable non-GAAP (adjusted) performance measures. Given that backlog is an operational measure and that the Company's methodology for calculating backlog does not meet the definition of a non-GAAP measure, as that term is defined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a quantitative reconciliation is not required or provided. In addition, forward-looking revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted earnings per share for fiscal 2023 exclude potential charges or gains that may be recorded during the fiscal year, including among other things, items described above in connection with these and other "adjusted" measures. Hillenbrand thus also does not attempt to provide reconciliations of such forward-looking non-GAAP earnings guidance to the comparable GAAP measure, as permitted by Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K, because the impact and timing of these potential charges or gains is inherently uncertain and difficult to predict and is unavailable without unreasonable efforts. In addition, the Company believes such reconciliations would imply a degree of precision and certainty that could be confusing to investors. Such items could have a substantial impact on GAAP measures of Hillenbrand's financial performance.
Forward-Looking Statements
Throughout this earnings release, we make a number of "forward-looking statements" that are within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and that are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provided under these sections. As the words imply, these are statements about future sales, earnings, cash flow, results of operations, uses of cash, financings, share repurchases, ability to meet deleveraging goals, and other measures of financial performance or potential future plans or events, strategies, objectives, beliefs, prospects, assumptions, expectations, and projected costs or savings or transactions of the Company that might or might not happen in the future, as contrasted with historical information. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that we believe are reasonable, but by their very nature are subject to a wide range of risks. If our assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks and uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from Hillenbrand's expectations and projections.
Words that could indicate that we are making forward-looking statements include the following:
This is not an exhaustive list, but is intended to give you an idea of how we try to identify forward-looking statements. The absence of any of these words, however, does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking.
Here is the key point: Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events, and actual results or events could differ materially from those set forth in any forward-looking statements. Any number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, could cause our performance to differ significantly from what is described in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: global market and economic conditions, including those related to the financial markets; the impact of contagious diseases, such as the outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus ("COVID-19") and the escalation thereof due to variant strains of the virus and the societal, governmental, and individual responses thereto, including supply chain disruptions, loss of contracts and/or customers, erosion of some customers' credit quality, downgrades of the Company's credit quality, closure or temporary interruption of the Company's or its suppliers' manufacturing facilities, travel, shipping and logistical disruptions, domestic and international general economic conditions, such as inflation, exchange rates and interest rates, loss of human capital or personnel, and general economic calamities; risks related to the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and resulting geopolitical instability and uncertainty, which could have a negative impact on our ability to sell to, ship products to, collect payments from, and support customers in certain regions, in addition to the potential effect of supply chain disruptions that could adversely affect profitability; the risk of business disruptions associated with information technology, cyber-attacks, or catastrophic losses affecting infrastructure; negative effects of the Linxis Group SAS ("Linxis") acquisition or other acquisitions on the Company's business, financial condition, results of operations and financial performance (including the ability of the Company to maintain relationships with its customers, suppliers and others with whom it does business); the possibility that the anticipated benefits from the Linxis acquisition and other acquisitions cannot be realized by the Company in full or at all or may take longer to realize than expected; risks that the integrations of Linxis or other acquired businesses disrupt current operations or pose potential difficulties in employee retention or otherwise affect financial or operating results; increasing competition for highly skilled and talented workers as well as labor shortages; our level of international sales and operations; the impact of incurring significant amounts of indebtedness and any inability of the Company to respond to changes in its business or make future desirable acquisitions; the ability of the Company to comply with financial or other covenants in debt agreements; cyclical demand for industrial capital goods; the ability to recognize the benefits of any acquisition or disposition, including potential synergies and cost savings or the failure of the Company or any acquired company to achieve its plans and objectives generally; impairment charges to goodwill and other identifiable intangible assets; competition in the industries in which we operate, including on price; impacts of decreases in demand or changes in technological advances, laws, or regulation on the revenues that we derive from the plastics industry; our reliance upon employees, agents, and business partners to comply with laws in many countries and jurisdictions; increased costs, poor quality, or unavailability of raw materials or certain outsourced services and supply chain disruptions; the dependence of our business units on relationships with several large customers and providers; the impact to the Company's effective tax rate of changes in the mix of earnings or tax laws and certain other tax-related matters; exposure to tax uncertainties and audits; involvement in claims, lawsuits and governmental proceedings related to operations; uncertainty in the United States political and regulatory environment or global trade policy; adverse foreign currency fluctuations; labor disruptions; and the effect of certain provisions of the Company's governing documents and Indiana law that could decrease the trading price of the Company's common stock. Shareholders, potential investors, and other readers are urged to consider these risks and uncertainties in evaluating forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements. For a more in-depth discussion of these and other factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements, see the discussions under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of Hillenbrand's Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on November 16, 2022, and in Part II, Item 1A of Hillenbrand's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on May 8, 2023. The forward-looking information in this release speaks only as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information.
About Hillenbrand
Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.
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Honolulu Ocean Safety rescued a 28-year-old paddler this morning in waters off Lanikai Beach.
According to an email from the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, the Kailua man’s Outrigger canoe broke off and flipped over after hitting the reef.
A 911 call alerted Ocean Safety and lifeguards to the paddler in trouble. At 9 a.m., rescuers brought the man to safety, while his canoe washed onto the shore, EMS said.
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Nearly seven months after a Clark County man killed his mother and a sheriff’s deputy before he died in a fire that engulfed his mobile home, state investigators have released their detailed files.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation this month released a file that contained more than 70 documents, plus several video and audio files, in BCI’s review of the July 24 deaths of Cole White, 27, his mother, Jodie Arbuckle, 47, and Clark County deputy Matthew Yates, 41.
The case went before a Clark County grand jury in February, where it determined White shot and killed his mother, then killed Yates who responded to 911 calls, before White died in a fire hours later in Harmony Estates east of Springfield.
The file provided details about what happened on July 24, as well as details about what led up to the day. For example, investigators determined multiple people tried talking to White through his windows because of worry about his mental health and safety.
Among key topics of the BCI investigation:
- Several factors were considered for possible sources of ignition to the mobile home fire.
The fire started hours after the shootings of Arbuckle and Yates, but minutes after SWAT teams were able to retrieve Yates’ body from the mobile home.
A representative from the Ohio Division of State Fire Marshal arrived the following day to assist with debris removal and fire pattern analysis.
Although the state fire marshal ruled the cause of the fire was “undetermined,” several possible ignition sources were investigated. Those included intentional human act, a failure in the electrical system or a device within the mobile home, a failure of a lithium battery in a downed police drone, a candle or other open flame being disrupted, and heat or sparks of chemical agents used during retrieval attempts, according to the report.
Investigators determined the fire began somewhere in the area of the dining room, living room and kitchen of the mobile home.
“With the resultant damage, a more defined area of origin could not be determined,” the report said.
The fire was able to spread rapidly because of the availability of oxygen to feed the fire. Investigators determined this resulted from glass being broken out of multiple window openings after an armored vehicle struck the southeast corner of the mobile home in an attempt to retrieve Yates.
- Multiple loved ones of White, who was estranged from his family, were concerned for his mental health, and reached out to him.
The fiancee of Arbuckle, Kristin Mills, told investigators in an interview that White cut ties with Arbuckle’s family two years prior while he was experiencing poor mental health.
Mills said Arbuckle was contacted by the Logan County Sheriff’s Office in March 2022 after White had an incident with deputes. Cole was sent to Columbus for a psychological evaluation, but he was later transported back to Logan County, where he gave deputies his mother’s name and number for his release, the interview report stated.
Mills told investigators that neighbors would tell them White appeared frail when he would go for walks at night, as if he hadn’t been eating.
She and Arbuckle would often drive past his mobile home during evenings to try to communicate with him through a window, asking him to switch lights on and off in response to questions they asked.
Arbuckle and Mills were also covering the cost of rent for White after Harmony Estates mobile home community was attempting to evict him for non-payment, according to the interview report.
Mills told investigators she and Arbuckle attended a court hearing for White for firearm related charges out of Greene County. He did not attend the hearing, and Arbuckle called the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to ask for a wellness check after two of White’s friends went to his mobile home and saw him lying on the ground with a gun near him.
A childhood friend of White who lived near him at the mobile home park described him as “hyper-intelligent” and “battling demons.” He told investigators White had poor mental health and may have been using hallucinogenic drugs. He would often drop off food at White’s trailer.
The childhood friend said he tried to communicate with White through his window two days before the shooting, but was only greeted with a “thousand-yard stare.” He told investigators he and White hadn’t had a single conversation within six months before July 24.
Arbuckle’s sister and White’s aunt, Deanna, told investigators that White’s mental health declined four to five years before. He talked about spirituality, nature, and the earth frequently during that time.
Arbuckle’s sister at one point a few years ago contacted the sheriff’s office after White discontinued contact with his family. White later agreed to a mental health evaluation after police could not locate him at his residence and found him elsewhere, but he received inpatient treatment for less than seven days before his release. White sought out out-patient care and self-reported he was experiencing delusional thoughts. He refused to take medications, according to the interview report.
His aunt believes he was taking the psychedelic DMT before his hospital stay, the interview report stated.
- White’s mother remained on the phone with her fiancee as she checked on White in the trailer.
In the morning of July 24, Abuckle entered into White’s mobile home after attempting to call him several times and not getting a response. Arbuckle told her finacee before entering that she was not afraid of her son, as he had never been violent to her.
Mills remained on the phone with Arbuckle as she made her way through the trailer, announcing her presence and calling out to White as she entered every room. Arbuckle had trouble seeing inside the mobile home, as every room was dark.
Mills told Arbuckle to turn back if she was too scared to search the residence. Arbuckle told her finacee that she was not afraid, and the couple exchanged an “I love you.”
Arbuckle searched through White’s bedroom and found him in a closet.
Moments later, Mills said she heard her fiancee scream and then heard White say “I’m sorry, mom. I’m sorry,” before hearing a gunshot.
Mills tried to enter the mobile home herself, but could not make herself go down the hall toward the bedroom. She also tried calling Arbuckle’s phone again, but it was powered off. She then called police, the investigative report said.
Mills told investigators she will be “forever thankful” that Deputy Yates tried to save Arbuckle.
- White had multiple weapons in his possession and wanted to be “self-sufficient”
Mark Arbuckle, Arbuckle’s brother and the uncle of White, said White severed ties with him a year before the shooting and fire because White thought his uncle was “toxic for his lifestyle.”
His uncle said White had a few guns and a crossbow in his possession after he took up hunting several years before.
A few neighbors of White in other interviews indicated seeing him walk around in the evenings with a machete-like weapon.
The uncle told investigators White was “pretty good at killing squirrels” and “wanted to be self-sufficient.”
At one point during White’s seven-day long hospital stay three to four years prior to the July 24 incident, Mark Arbuckle said he confiscated White’s weapons. Sometime months later, he returned the weapons to White, believing White seemed better. White cut off contact with him a couple of years after that.
Three guns were located in the remains of the trailer: two handguns and a rifle, all legally purchased. | 2023-03-13T13:29:22+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/state-releases-files-for-deaths-of-clark-county-mother-son-and-deputy/ELCDB7EHUJHCXM3MSQZKJE6PMU/ |
TULSA, Okla. — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma works to ensure Green Country’s youth has someone to look admire.
Those partnerships can last several months or a few years, but the bond between Leslie Chavis and Janice Holland has lasted more than four decades.
All starting, they say, with a decision to sign up for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
"I have no idea how my mom decided to sign me up for it,” Chavis said. “I just remember she said a lady was going to come and meet you and be your big sister. And I was like, 'what? My big sister?' and she's like 'yeah' and she knocked on the door and I was like 'oh my gosh she's so pretty.'"
That first meeting set the course forever.
"She was just a very wonderful, wonderful child,” Holland said. “And it was a bonding right away.”
That bond was so strong Leslie became a part of the family.
"And they just thought, 'Where is Leslie?'” Holland said. “If I didn't bring her to a family event. 'Where is Leslie?' So, we bonded pretty good."
Chavis, now a teacher, credits Holland for making that happen.
"I don't know what or where I would have done without her in my life," Chavis said.
Holland became a guiding light for Chavis.
"I was a better mother because of her,” Chavis said. “I was more open and more able to listen to my children.”
Chavis married and, at one point, moved away when the military stationed her husband in another state or country.
"We would sit at the restaurant till they'd say, 'could you all leave now?'” Chavis said. "We just start talking, as you can see, and we can't stop."
Each of them credits the success of their friendship to Big Brothers Big Sisters and said it changed their lives forever.
"I just dearly love her,” Holland said. “And I know it's going to continue for the rest of my life.”
"Oh, you're stuck with me,” Chavis said. “If you stuck with me this long, you're stuck with me."
Chavis thought, at one point, she would become a real member of the family — something that eventually happened.
"And funny story I told her one day that I will actually become part of your family. In real life. I will be related to you,” Chavis said. “And my husband's mother is actually her brother's wife's cousin. So, I actually did make it, not knowing I did make it into that family. I knew I would make it, somehow. Not that I married my husband for that reason, until about 10 years into our marriage we were talking and found that out."
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A new school year is beginning. But a lot of teachers aren’t coming back. As the new school year gets underway, across the country there has been a growing shortage of teachers. From the ongoing pandemic to divisive politics, teachers have endured a lot of uncertainty.
Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would beef up oversight of the Federal Reserve following two high-profile bank failures.
The bill would require an independent inspector general, who would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, to oversee Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The current inspector general for the Federal Reserve reports to the Fed board.
“After the Federal Reserve’s failure to properly identify and prevent the shocking failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, it’s clear we can’t wait any longer for big change at the Fed,” Scott said in a release announcing the bill. “It’s outrageous that the Federal Reserve, the world’s largest and most powerful central bank, does not have a truly independent inspector general to investigate it – an independent authority to fight for the transparency and accountability our citizens need.”
Warren, who has been an outspoken critic of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his leadership of the bank, echoed the call for an independent inspector general for the Federal Reserve.
“The recent bank collapses and regulatory failures by the Fed have underscored the urgent need for a truly independent Inspector General to hold Fed officials accountable for any lapses or wrongdoing,” Warren said in the release.
Warren blasted Powell earlier this week for rolling back regulations that she argues are key in preventing irresponsible banking behavior in the industry, since he took over the top position at the bank in 2018.
“Donald Trump ran for president saying he would lighten the regulations on these banks,” Warren said during an interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” on Sunday. “And then Jerome Powell just literally took a flamethrower to these regulations, in order to make them less and less effective.”
Scott said in a letter to Powell on Wednesday that the Fed had failed in its duty to regulate large financial institutions.
“For too long, the Federal Reserve has used its claim of independence to thwart Congress and the American people while being unable or unwilling to properly regulate and supervise the large financial institutions under its care,” Scott wrote. | 2023-03-22T18:53:33+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/sens-rick-scott-elizabeth-warren-join-forces-for-federal-reserve-oversight-bill/ |
LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi — A tranquilized baby elephant is hoisted into the air and gently placed in a large truck that will take it to a new home.
One by one, 250 elephants are being moved from Malawi's overcrowded Liwonde National Park to the much larger Kasungu park 380 kilometers (236 miles) away in the country's north.
The elephants are tracked in the park and darts are fired to sedate them. While in slumber they are moved into the large trucks that take them to Kusungu park.
So far at least 40 elephants have been moved and the rest should go by the end of the month at a total cost of about $1.5 million to $2 million, according to officials. In addition, about 405 other wildlife, including buffalo, impala, sable, warthog and waterbuck will be moved to Kasungu.
The entire process is a cooperation between Malawi's Department of National Parks and Wildlife, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and African Parks.
"This will establish viable elephant populations, and ensure the prosperity of local communities living around the parks. It will also alleviate habitat pressure and reduce human-wildlife conflict," African Parks representative in Malawi Sam Kamoto said.
African Parks is a non-profit organization that manages and rehabilitates national parks in partnership with governments and local communities. The group currently manages 20 national parks and protected areas in 11 African countries, including Malawi.
Since 2015 Liwonde National Park has been managed by African Parks which found that its more than 600 elephants are threatening the park's vegetation and biodiversity.
Liwonde's 548 square kilometers (211 square miles) of floodplains, lagoons and woodlands support more than 400 species of birds and many mammals. But its elephants, breeding at a rate of 10% per year, could soon overwhelm the park, said experts.
In contrast, Kasungu National Park is about four times larger at 2,100 square kilometers (810 square miles) but has much less wildlife. Kasungu once had about 1,200 elephants but years of poaching reduced the number to about 49 in 2015, said parks officials.
Since then Malawi's national parks and international groups, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, have collaborated to improve protection for the elephants and Kasungu park's elephant population has grown to about 120. The introduction of 250 elephants from Liwonde will promote population viability in Kasungu, he said.
"The translocation of the elephants and other wildlife is a significant achievement and proves the national parks' approach to working with partners to secure its natural resources is a sound one," said Patricio Ndadzela, a representative in Malawi of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
A 40-kilometer (25-mile) elephant-proof fence has been built along Kasungu park's eastern boundary to prevent elephants from straying into farmland and will prevent conflict between communities and the elephants, said Ndadzela.
Restoring Kasungu's elephant population will boost its appeal as a tourist destination and in turn improve the local economy, he said.
This isn't the first time that a large number of elephants have been moved from one park to another in Malawi. In 2016, African Parks relocated 520 elephants to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve.
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Former Albanian President Bujar Nishani, who was often criticized for his center-right political affiliation from the leftist coalition, died following a serious health problem, the country’s presidential office said Saturday. He was 55.
President Ilir Meta wrote on Facebook that he had learned “with sadness and deep regret that President Bujar Nishani passed away.”
“President Nishani will always be remembered as a personality with rare values of a leader with integrity and vision. His contribution for Albania and democracy will always be remembered respectfully,” wrote Meta.
No further details were released but a month ago Nishani went to Germany to seek treatment for a serious liver illness.
Nishani served as president from 2012 until 2017. At 45, he was elected as the youngest and sixth president in post-communist Albania, supported only by lawmakers from the center-right Democratic party of then-Prime Minister Sali Berisha. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote, demanding a consensual candidate.
Albania’s presidents are elected in the 140-seat Parliament.
Before that, Nishani served as the country’s interior and justice ministers.
Born in the port city of Durres, 20 miles west of capital of Tirana, Nishani graduated from the military academy and later the law faculty. He first lectured at the military academy and then worked in senior jobs in Albania’s Defense Ministry. His political career started a few years before he was elected as a lawmaker in 2005.
Nishani, who always kept a low profile, was often criticized by the leftist Socialist Party of being too close to the Democrats.
“European Albania is the greatest expectation of our citizens because a European Albania will be the country of guaranteed freedom, a European Albania will be the country where the rights are protected from law and order, the country where the free market strengthens businessmen every day,” said Nishani in his inauguration speech as president.
Still, there was little change in the country’s justice system during his term, even though that was always considered the country’s Achilles’ heel in its path toward joining the European Union.
Due to the constant political bickering between Berisha’s Democratic Party and Edi Rama’s Socialist Party, Nishani rarely attempted to reach a compromise between the two opposing political camps. His nominations of Albania’s top army generals, judges and prosecutors were controversial and always in line with what Berisha wanted.
Nishani was physically not fully fit after surgery in 2008 for a cerebral cavernoma, a vascular abnormality of the central nervous system, according to his physician Dr. Mentor Petrela. The illness left Nishani’s left foot and arm partially non-functional.
Nishani is survived by his spouse, a son and a daughter. There was no immediate word on funeral arrangements. | 2022-05-28T18:55:11+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/former-albanian-president-bujar-nishani-dies-at-55/ |
MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to give the opening address Friday at a major annual conference on international security policy, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was expected to dominate the event after almost a year of war that has produced worldwide repercussions.
About 40 heads of state and government, as well as politicians and security experts from almost 100 countries, including the United States, Europe and China, were expected to attend the three-day Munich Security Conference in Germany. Zelenskyy is participating by video link.
For the first time in two decades, conference organizers did not invite Russian officials. Western countries have sought to isolate Russia diplomatically over the invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24 2022.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Russia’s war in Ukraine would overshadow the proceedings. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is approaching a critical phase as it enters its second year next week.
The war is “not merely a European conflict” but has implications far beyond the continent, Pistorius said. Economies around the world have reeled from the war’s impact on grain supplies, energy prices and inflation.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was set to join the leaders of France, Germany and the U.K. at the Munich conference.
At the same conference last year, held just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine, Harris shared U.S. warnings that Russia was about to attack its neighbor and said, “Not since the end of the Cold War has this forum convened under such dire circumstances.”
In a speech scheduled for Saturday, the vice president will lay out what’s at stake in the war and why it matters, to bolster the case for maintaining U.S. support for Ukraine for as long as it takes, the White House said.
Ukraine is depending on Western weapons to thwart Putin’s ambition of securing control of large areas of the country, in what has become a test of governments’ resolve amid increasing financial costs.
Zelenskyy portrays Ukraine as defending Western values of freedom and democracy against tyranny and argues that his country needs to be properly provisioned to fend off Russia’s much bigger force. Western countries have sided with him, but at times they have been slow to meet his requests.
Kyiv, after receiving Western pledges of tanks and more ammunition, is now hoping for fighter jets, but some countries have balked at sending them.
Frans Timmermans, the executive vice president of the European Union’s executive commission, said the 27-nation EU so far has maintained unity on the issue.
“I think everyone can see how important it is for Ukraine to win this war,” Timmermans said. “This is important for our Europe, too, because Putin isn’t just attacking Ukraine, he is also attacking us in the sense that he doesn’t support our values.”
He said it was important to make clear that Europe will support Ukraine however long the war lasts. “Putin is in difficulty,” Timmermans said, adding that the Russian leader would seek to put severe military pressure on Ukraine in the coming weeks and months.
Timmermans also expressed hope that China could exert pressure on Russia to end the war.
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Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-02-17T12:32:32+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/leaders-focus-on-ukraine-war-at-munich-security-conference/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
“Gymkhana 2022” was a worthy addition to the popular gymkhana viral video series started by Ken Block, with plenty of insane stunts performed by Travis Pastrana in his 1983 Subaru GL wagon called the Family Huckster. But nearly every stunt in the video almost didn’t happen.
Subaru of America’s “Launch Control” YouTube show is doing a three-part behind-the-scenes look called “Road to Gymkhana 2022” showing just how much of a scramble it was to overcome injuries, mechanical issues, and plain old bad luck. (This second episode was filmed before the death of series creator Ken Block.)
The problems started when Pastrana was injured attempting a BASE jump off a building in Fort Lauderdale for the video. A parachute malfunction led to a hard landing, which left Pastrana hospitalized and put shooting on hold for six months. Despite being bedridden, Pastrana was remarkably upbeat, owing to his years of experience putting his body on the line.
“Travis has an unusual amount of experience being injured,” William Stokes, Subaru of America motorsports manager, said in the video. So he had no problem getting back behind the wheel after his recovery.
Once filming restarted, there was an issue shooting a drag race between Pastrana and YouTube personality Cleetus McFarland, who drove a 3,000-hp Chevrolet El Camino. A fault in the Chevy’s engine mapping meant it refused to launch hard, and then the Family Huckster developed problems as well. This was especially problematic because the race was being filmed on a closed public street, with only a limited amount of time available to get the shot.
Another time constraint was daylight. By the time everything was set up to shoot Pastrana performing stunts in tandem with a monster truck, the sun was going down and the clock was ticking. That left time for two or three attempts, which could easily get eaten up during multiple takes looking for the right camera angles, or by mechanical issues.
In that high-pressure situation, Pastrana clipped a concrete barrier, damaging the suspension and rear axle. Switching to rally pit crew mode, Subaru’s mechanics descended on the wounded car and got it working again in time to get the shot.
If you’ve seen “Gymkhana 2022,” Subaru’s behind-the-scenes videos are definitely worth watching to see just how much effort goes into making something as dangerous and unpredictable as a gymkhana video.
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(The Hill) – The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas to five Republican members of Congress on Thursday as the panel prepares for a slate of public hearings next month.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) received subpoenas.
It marks the first time the select committee has sent subpoenas to its own House colleagues.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, said the committee decided to issue subpoenas after the GOP lawmakers refused the opportunity to speak with the lawmakers voluntarily.
“The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the attack on January 6th and the events leading up to it. Before we hold our hearings next month, we wished to provide members the opportunity to discuss these matters with the committee voluntarily. Regrettably, the individuals receiving subpoenas today have refused and we’re forced to take this step to help ensure the committee uncovers facts concerning January 6th,” Thompson said in a statement.
“We urge our colleagues to comply with the law, do their patriotic duty, and cooperate with our investigation as hundreds of other witnesses have done,” he added.
The move is a significant escalation in the committee’s inquiry. Investigative panels have rarely used their subpoena powers on fellow legislators, but there is some precedent from entities like the House Ethics Committee. So far the panel has focused its subpoenas on members of the Trump administration and various figures linked to the attack on the Capitol.
GOP members could try to challenge the subpoenas with lawsuits, as at least a dozen other potential witnesses have done, raising the possibility that the partisan battle over the select committee’s work will spill into court.
So far, federal courts have largely upheld the panel’s investigative demands and its authority to issue subpoenas in the face of various legal challenges. But any legal challenge from the GOP lawmakers is sure to be tied up in court for months as the panel races to complete its work ahead this year’s midterm elections.
The panel said the group of lawmakers issued subpoenas include members who took part in meetings at the White House, had conversations with then-President Trump in the lead-up to the Capitol attack and were involved
Late last month, after The New York Times published audio of McCarthy airing concerns about his GOP colleagues in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, Thompson told reporters that the Republican leader would be issued another invitation “in all probability.”
He did not, however, rule out the possibility of a subpoena for McCarthy if he rebuffed the second invitation, saying “that will be a consideration for the committee.”
In a statement announcing the subpoenas, the committee said McCarthy was in communication with Trump and White House staffers before, during and after the Capitol attack.
The panel also said McCarthy “claimed to have had a discussion with the President in the immediate aftermath of the attack during which President Trump admitted some culpability for the attack,” likely a reference to an interview the GOP leader did with a local California radio station in the days after the attack.
McCarthy told KERN on Jan. 12, 2021, “I say he has responsibility,” adding, “He told me personally that he does have some responsibility. I think a lot of people do,” according to CNN.
McCarthy told reporters on Thursday that he had not seen the subpoena and would not say if he will comply.
“My view on the committee has not changed. They’re not conducting a legitimate investigation. It seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents,” he said.
The panel in its statement claimed that Perry “was directly involved” with efforts to install Department of Justice attorney Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general, an undertaking that was reportedly considered to forward election fraud probes when other department officials refused to.
The committee also said the Pennsylvania Republican communicated with the White House “about a number of matters relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation, including allegations that Dominion voting machines had been corrupted.”
Perry reacted to the subpoena in a statement, claiming that the panel, which he called an “illegitimate body” had leaked the subpoenas before contacting lawmakers. He said such a move was “proof positive” that the probe is a “political witch hunt.”
“That this illegitimate body leaked their latest charade to the media ahead of contacting targeted Members is proof positive once again that this political witch hunt is about fabricating headlines and distracting Americans from their abysmal record of running America into the ground,” Perry wrote.
He told reporters that the investigation is a “charade.”
The panel said Jordan communicated with Trump on Jan. 6 and said he took part in meetings and conversations in late 2020 and early 2021 that focused on “strategies for overturning the 2020 election.”
Biggs, according to the committee’s statement, engaged in meetings regarding plans for Jan. 6 and had involvement in “plans to bring protestors to Washington for the counting of Electoral College votes.”
The group also said Biggs “was involved in efforts to persuade state officials that the 2020 was stolen.” Additionally, the panel said former White House personnel have indicated that Biggs was potentially involved with an effort to receive a presidential pardon for actions related to Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the presidential election.
The committee noted in its statement that Biggs spoke at the rally that preceded the Capitol riot and said he encouraged those in the crowd to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”
The panel also said Brooks has publicly spoken about conversations he had with Trump.
“Mr. Brooks has publicly described conversations in which the former President urged him to work to ‘rescind the election of 2020’ and reinstall Mr. Trump as President,” the committee wrote.
Additionally, the panel said it has evidence that members of Brooks’s staff met with staff working for then-Vice President Mike Pence prior to Jan. 6 where his team “conveyed the view that the Vice President does not have authority to unilaterally refuse to count certified electoral votes.”
The subpoenas come less than one month before the committee is scheduled to begin a series of eight public hearings. Thompson in April said the hearings will pull together a “combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through the tens of thousands of exhibits we’ve […] looked at, as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general.”
The committee has already spoken to almost a thousand individuals, according to The Associated Press, including those close to Trump.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters on Thursday that the subpoenas are “not an escalation at all.”
“We ought to all be subject to being asked to tell the truth before a committee that is seeking information that is important to our country and to our democracy,” he said.
Asked if he is concerned that the subpoenas are putting his own members at risk of the same requests if the GOP takes the majority, Hoyer said “I have no problem being subpoenaed.”
“Personally, you know, I’ll tell the truth. If I have information they need, that’s fine. I do not understand this extraordinary reaction to pursuing a legal, appropriate process.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declined to comment.
Emily Brooks contributed to this report. | 2022-05-12T19:17:43+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/jan-6-panel-issues-subpoenas-to-five-gop-lawmakers/ |
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The Philadelphia Eagles maintained their spot atop the NFL standings with Sunday’s 48-22 beatdown of the New York Giants.
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With the win, the Eagles (12-1) became the first team this season to clinch a playoff spot.
However the Giants (7-5-1) slid into the No. 7 seed in the NFC as the final wild card in the conference, just a half-game ahead of the Seattle Seahawks.
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The Eagles, who own the best record in the NFL this season, have improved to 12-1 for just the second time in franchise history, having previously done so during the 2004 campaign.
Nick Sirianni, who has recorded more wins (21-9, .700) than any other head coach in their first 30 games with the Eagles, is the fourth coach since the 1970 merger to start 12-1 or better in their first or second career season as a head coach, joining Jim Caldwell (2009 Colts), George Seifert (1990 49ers) and Red Miller (1977 Broncos).
Jalen Hurts (24 years, 126 days) is the second youngest QB to start 12-1 or better since the 1970 merger, behind Dan Marino in 1984 (23 years, 72 days).
With its victory over New York, Philadelphia has clinched a playoff berth for the fifth time in the last six seasons (2017-19, 2021-22), marking the Eagles’ best six-year span since making five consecutive postseason appearances from 2000-04. This is the first time Philadelphia clinched a trip to the playoffs as early as Week 14 since 2017 (also Week 14).
The Eagles have now earned postseason bids 17 times under Jeffrey Lurie’s ownership (1994-present). Since 2000, Philadelphia is tied for the 3rd-most playoff appearances (15) in the NFL, trailing only new England (18) and Green Bay (16) in that span.
Hurts completed 21-of-31 (67.7%) attempts for 217 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs and a 109.2 passer rating while adding 77 yards and 2 TDs on 7 rushing attempts (4 total TDs).
For the second consecutive season, Hurts tied the franchise QB record for rushing TDs in a season. He is the first QB in NFL history to post 10+ rushing TDs in back-to-back years and just the second QB with multiple 10+ rushing TD seasons, joining Cam Newton (3 times – 14 in 2011; 10 in 2015; 12 in 2020).
In addition, Hurts is just the third player in Eagles history to total 10+ rushing TDs in consecutive seasons, joining Ricky Watters (1995-96) and Steve Van Buren (1947-49).
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A.J. Brown finished with 4 catches for 70 yards and 1 TD, moving his season totals to 65 catches for 1,020 yards and 10 TDs.
Brown is the first Eagle to record 1,000+ receiving yards since Zach Ertz in 2018 (1,163). He is the first Eagles WR to do so since Jeremy Maclin in 2014 (1,318).
Miles Sanders totaled a career-high 144 yards rushing on 17 attempts (8.5 yards per carry) and 2 TDs. Sanders has rushed 204 times for 1,068 yards and 11 TDs on the season, all of which are career highs.
Sanders has eclipsed 1,000 rushing yards for the first time in his career. He is the first Eagles RB to reach the 1,000-yard mark since LeSean McCoy in 2014 (1,319).
A.J. Brown and Miles Sanders are the second Eagles duo to reach 1,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards with 10 TDs each, joining Ricky Watters (1,411 yards, 13 TDs) and Irving Fryar (1,195, 11 TDs) in 1996.
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Mike Rosenstein may be reached at mrosenstein@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-12-12T10:43:45+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/eagles/2022/12/eagles-are-playoff-bound-giants-in-trouble-photos.html |
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A downtown Knoxville business has closed its doors permanently. Blackhorse Pub and Brewery announced Sunday it was shutting down its Gay Street location for good.
Blackhorse Pub and Brewery Co-owner Jeff Robinson consider the pub a small family-owned operation.
“Ironically the past six months have been the best six months we’ve had there,” he said.
The Gay Street location has been open for the past five years. Back in 2020, like all businesses, Blackhorse struggled in the midst of the pandemic.
“It was pretty good for a while and then we went through COVID, and then we had the post-COVID hell of trying to restock and re-employ,” said Robinson.
Blackhorse survived those challenging times but now they have decided to close for a different reason.
“Our building got new ownership earlier or during the middle of last year. And there were some discussions about changing our concept or doing some things a little bit differently and we really didn’t want to change our concept. But the neighborhood is kind of changing and we had a limited time left on our lease. So basically we took that opportunity to sell the time, if you will, to somebody else, so we could take that money and apply that towards a severance and transition for our employees,” explained Robinson.
Downtown Knoxville Alliance Executive Director Michele Hummel said this closure is another part of the ever-changing development of downtown.
“You know, everyone’s got their favorite bartender, their favorite server, and you hate to see them leave but also I know that there’s going to be another concept going in there and it’s going to be a strong concept and unfortunately that’s just part of being a business,” said Hummel.
Robinson said the focus is now on their Clarksville and Alcoa locations along with their employees.
“We did the best we could with severance pay. It’s not an optimal situation so you just do the best you can and hope it works out.” Robinson adds, “we hope that people in the East Tennessee area will continue to come to see us in Alcoa.”
Robinson said Blackhorse offered some employees the chance to work at the Alcoa location. He adds they’re not looking at opening a new location in Knoxville at this time. | 2023-01-10T00:40:13+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/knox-county-news/blackhorse-co-owner-reflects-on-five-years-on-gay-street-in-downtown-knoxville/ |
(The HIll) – President Biden’s approval rating ticked up 3 percentage points in the past week, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday, as Democrats scored a major legislative win with the passage of their climate, health and tax reform package.
The poll showed that 42 percent of registered voters said they approve of the job Biden is doing as president. The same poll released last week showed Biden’s approval rating was at 39 percent.
At the same time the number of registered voters who said they disapproved of his job performance dropped from 59 to 56 percent.
The latest poll is likely welcome news for Democrats less than three months ahead of November’s midterms. Presidential approval ratings are considered one indication of how the president’s party will perform in elections, though Democrats still face other headwinds.
The survey was conducted in the days after House Democrats passed a sweeping health, tax reform and climate bill with every member of the caucus voting in favor. Senate Democrats had passed the bill through reconciliation the previous week.
Biden signed the measure Tuesday.
It was a key win for the president and his party after a year of trying to pass various versions of a larger climate and social spending bill and being stymied by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) because passing the measure through reconciliation required the support of all 50 Democrats.
The surprise deal between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was a slimmed down package but it still contained some of Biden’s campaign promises and significant climate investments.
The Politico-Morning Consult poll was conducted between Aug. 12 and Aug. 14 with 2,005 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points. | 2022-08-18T13:20:11+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/biden-approval-rating-ticks-up-3-points-in-past-week-poll/ |
DIX, N.Y. (WETM) – The NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International brings in thousands of fans and families from near and far every summer.
The atmosphere is never short of electric for Go Bowling at the Glen. Fans—with their earplugs ready—will eagerly watch to see if Chase Elliott can make his comeback after finishing behind Kyle Larson in 2021.
But people around the country are excited for NASCAR, too. According to Google Trends, earlier this week, several NASCAR-related questions were breakout searches, surging in popularity. On August 16, the top five states searching for NASCAR Cup Series were West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Iowa.
Here are the five most common NASCAR questions, according to Google:
- Who has the most NASCAR wins?
- According to NASCAR’s statistics, Kyle Busch has the most combined NASCAR national series wins with a total of 224 (60 Cup Series races, 102 Xfinity Series races, 62 Camping World Truck Series races)
- What engines do NASCAR use?
- HowStuffWorks says that all NASCAR engines are V-8 engines, no larger than 358 cubic inches made by either Chevrolet, Toyota, or Ford.
- How did NASCAR start?
- NASCAR began on the road when Bill France, Sr. organized a meeting in Florida on the future of stock car racing in 1947. The first race ran the next year.
- How fast do NASCAR cars go in a race?
- Fast. NASCAR drivers easily drive at speeds over 200 mph, and they can go from zero to 60 mph in about three seconds. In order to get up to speed that quickly, the cars have to apply over 2,500 pounds of force against the track, according to The Conversation.
- How do pit stops work in NASCAR?
- NASCAR allows only six mechanics into the pit for each pit stop (unlike the 12 allowed in Formula One). In a matter of seconds, these mechanics have to change tires, refill the fuel, and repair broken pieces.
- WIRED reports that the crew stands by with their tires and necessary tools at the ready. As the car approaches (in five seconds), they jump into the pit.
- Then, simultaneously, within two seconds, someone jacks up the far side of the car while someone else fuels up the car with a fresh can.
- In the next five to seven seconds, the wheels are removed with pneumatic air guns and the new wheel is screwed into place. Then the process is repeated for the other side of the car.
- If no one makes a mistake, WIRED said the pit stop should only last about 12 seconds. | 2022-08-18T21:02:36+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/the-glen-all-access/five-most-common-nascar-questions-according-to-google/ |
Forsyth County residents were grateful when the purple Novant Health pop-up tents sprang up near Hanes Mall in 2020. The tents served as surrogate COVID-19 test sites while larger plans were worked out; emergency rooms were overrun, and pandemic cases were on the rise.
The community can thank Renae Caldwell for her quick thinking. This nurse is laser focused on operational efficiencies; the first to rally on behalf of the patient experience. Her ingenuity and planning skills are just some of the reasons she was named a 2022 Nurse of Distinction.
“These clinics opened early and closed late, and Renae worked countless 15-hour shifts as the process evolved,” said her nomination submitted by Karen Cumbo, Eric Reuter and Anna Woodruff. “She’s a servant leader that has enjoyed working beside the clinical teams, administering vaccines and providing support.”
And that’s exactly what Caldwell did. Her scope of work expanded and from morning to night, she planned, coordinated and brainstormed. She led her team through the tides of the pandemic’s worst days and nights, the first to don PPE and administer tests; later the first to volunteer and administer jabs.
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She remained a positive force for her coworkers, and inspiration for her patients.
“While supporting COVID operations, we wanted to take care of the entire community during a time when fear and suffering were at its highest,” said Caldwell, who spent the first 21 years of her nursing career bedside.
“Providing reliable information on testing availability helped us to have a positive impact during a difficult time,” she said. “Administering vaccines and educating about the importance of vaccines made an impact that all of us will forever remember; teaching our community that getting vaccines is as much about taking care of our fellow community members as protecting ourselves.”
Caldwell said, “Working in patient experience allows me the opportunity to hear the voice of the patient from what they need, and the need for caregivers that are compassionate listeners is always the most vital need.”
Caldwell’s nominators praised her organizations skills as one of her strongest talents, and Caldwell leans into it. She was able to move nimbly into a support role that wound up being the heart of the organization.
“Honor is the feeling that initially comes to mind about being named a Nurse of Distinction,” she said. “There are so many who deserve this distinction; I would encourage everyone who knows a nurse to take the time to thank them and listen to why they chose this act of service to others. Personally, I want to tell my Novant Health nurse family that this is for all of them.”
“Working in patient experience allows me the opportunity to hear the voice of the patient from what they need."
Renea Caldwell | 2022-05-06T19:13:28+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/exclusive/nurses/renea-caldwell-novant-health/article_f1182d60-ba88-11ec-8788-9f90e4d3d333.html |
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Miami Heat-sters need to know that their fandom has a new must-have: beer.
The National Basketball Association is double-teaming with Michelob ULTRA for special-edition cans for 19 teams.
Because the cans were designed by artists, the launch took place on Dec. 1 during Art Basel — and the debut dunk in Wynwood featured a performance by Grammy Award-winning rapper 21 Savage. On hand were NBA legends and former Miami Heat players Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton, as well as NBA skills trainer Chris Brickley and Women’s National Basketball Association All-Star Nneka Ogwumike.
The can for the Magic City’s big ballers was designed by artist Jacob Rochester, who also used his signature collaged and scanned imagery on other cans, including for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks.
“Michelob Ultra is proud to partner with the NBA to bring fans a new way to support their favorite team and enjoy the game they love,” says Ricardo Marques, vice president of marketing for the beverage company.
Where:
A can at the soon-to-be-renamed FTX Arena is $15 for Miami Heat games and $17 during concerts/events.
Additionally, “fans should contact their local beverage distributor/retailer to find out where the cans will be available,” according to a representative.
There’s also a contest component. Fans may enter for a chance to win a can plus other “exciting prizes to show your team pride all season long” at MichelobUltra.com/nbacans. | 2022-12-13T18:38:01+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/drinking/fl-et-small-bites-miami-heat-michelob-beer-can-20221213-ffyihecoundn5i6nqmgzljndia-story.html |
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Mackenzie Holmes scored 25 points, Sydney Parrish added 24 and No. 5 Indiana hit 12 3-pointers to defeat No. 6 North Carolina 87-63 on Thursday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The battle of unbeatens had drastically different shooting nights. The Hoosiers got hot to improve to 8-0 and the Tar Heels did not to drop to 6-1. The Hoosiers hit eight 3s to build a 16-point lead by halftime. Parrish, a junior transfer starting for injured senior guard Grace Berger, hit four 3s as did senior guard Sara Scalia.
That opened up inside room for Holmes, the Big Ten Player of the Week. When the senior center wasn’t scoring, she was drawing Tar Heel fouls.
Indiana finished 12 of 22 from beyond the arc. The 12 3s tied a season high, the other dozen in a season-opening blowout of Vermont.
North Carolina was 7 of 14 from beyond the arc, but shot just 35.4% overall (23 of 65).
Tar Heels junior guard Kennedy Todd Williams had 20 points. Junior guard Deja Kelly added 11.
The game started in streaks as North Carolina scored the first seven points, then Indiana responded with the next 13. The Hoosiers went on a 10-0 run for a 34-21 advantage. The largest first-half edge was 49-33 at halftime after Indiana outscored North Carolina 22-12 in the second quarter.
BIG PICTURE
North Carolina: After winning back-to-back games against ranked foes, the Tar Heels took a step back due to shaky perimeter defense and cold shooting. But this team is talented so expect the players to use this humble road experience as motivation.
Indiana: After a series of double-digit wins against non-ranked opponents, the Hoosiers were quite impressive in what was supposed to be their first real test of the season. Excellent 3-point shooting and solid defense gave this team confidence early on and that momentum kept building.
UP NEXT
North Carolina: Host North Carolina-Wilmington on Wednesday.
Indiana: Host Illinois on Sunday. | 2022-12-02T03:14:53+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/ap-sports/no-5-indianas-3-point-barrage-buries-no-6-north-carolina/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after a day of listless trading on Wall Street in the absence of market-moving data.
China reported its exports fell 7.5% from a year earlier in May and imports were down 4.5%, adding to signs of a slowing of its economic recovery following the lifting in December of anti-virus controls that disrupted travel and commerce.
The decline in exports was the first year-on-year drop in in three months, with export volumes falling below their levels at the start of the year. “And with the worst yet to come for many developed economies, we think exports will decline further before bottoming out later this year,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a commentary.
The Shanghai Composite index was nearly unchanged at 3,195.88 while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong jumped 1% to 19,285.10.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index lost 0.8% to 32,234.21. In Seoul, the Kospi added 0.3% to 2,623.20 while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged 0.2% higher to 7,143.60. Shares fell in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% to 4,283.85. It’s just 0.2% away from finishing 20% above where it was in mid-October, as a long-predicted recession has yet to hit and excitement around artificial intelligence has helped a select group of stocks to soar.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up by less than 0.1% to 33,573.28, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.4%, to 13,276.42.
Gitlab soared 31.2% after the software development platform gave a revenue forecast for the fiscal year that topped analysts’ expectations.
Investors are watching to see which will happen first: a recession or inflation falling enough to get the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates, which have climbed so high they’ve hurt various parts of the economy.
Next week, the U.S. government will publish its latest monthly updates on inflation, and the Federal Reserve will meet on interest-rate policy. The bet on Wall Street is that the Fed may hold off on hiking rates, which would be the first time that’s happened in more than a year, but could resume raising rates in July.
Some of Tuesday’s strongest action was in the cryptocurrency world after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Coinbase with operating its trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker and clearing agency.
Shares of its parent, Coinbase Global, tumbled 12.1% after the SEC also accused it of being liable for some of Coinbase’s violations. Other charges focused on Coinbase’s staking-as-a-service program, where users get payments for their crypto almost like earning interest from a traditional bank savings account.
Coinbase criticized the SEC’s approach to crypto, saying “the solution is legislation that allows fair rules for the road to be developed transparently and applied equally, not litigation.”
A day earlier, the SEC filed 13 charges against another huge crypto trading platform, Binance, and its founder. Binance said it had been in discussions to reach a negotiated settlement to resolve the SEC’s investigations.
The frenzy around AI has helped a handful of stocks soar to immense gains this year, including Nvidia’s 164.5% surge. That’s helped drive much of the S&P 500’s gains in 2023, but it’s also caused critics to question whether a bubble is forming. They also say the furor around AI may be masking weakness underneath the S&P 500’s surface.
Even though the S&P 500 is nearing a bull market, almost as many stocks within it are down this year as up as worries remain about falling corporate profits, still-high inflation and much higher interest rates than a year ago.
In other trading Wednesday, a U.S. crude oil fell 31 cents to $71.43 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Tuesday, it lost 41 cents to $71.74 a barrel. A barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, sank 36 cents to $75.93.
Both were close to $120 a year ago but have fallen amid worries about a strapped global economy’s need for fuel.
The U.S. dollar bought 139.24 Japanese yen, down from 139.66 yen. The euro fell to $1.0690 from $1.0695.
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AP Business Writers Matt Ott, Stan Choe and Joe McDonald contributed. | 2023-06-07T05:18:06+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/stock-market-today-asian-stocks-mixed-after-wall-st-retreats-on-concern-economy-weakening/ |
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – According to El Paso County Jail Records and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, El Paso Police Department Sergeant and former president of the El Paso Municipal Police Officer’s Association, Ronald Martin was booked Thursday into the El Paso County jail.
Martin is charged with allegedly misusing money greater than or equal to $2,500 and less than $30,000, according to El Paso County jail records.
Martin posted bond the same day and has been released. The alleged offense took place on Oct. 16, 2019, while Martin was working for EPPD. This is an active story, and we’ll continue to follow it on-air and online. Tune in on-air or online at 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. | 2023-01-07T02:48:58+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/el-paso-police-sergeant-charged-with-allegedly-misusing-funds/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by another quarter point Wednesday, bringing it to the highest level in 15 years as part of an ongoing effort to ease inflation by making borrowing more expensive.
If you have money to save, you’ll probably earn a bit more interest on it, but the increase will make it even costlier to borrow for homes, autos and other purchases. The interest rate increase comes at a time when credit card debt is at record levels.
Here’s what the increase means for your credit card bill and what you can do if you’re carrying debt:
HOW DOES THE FED DECISION AFFECT CREDIT CARD DEBT?
The Federal Reserve doesn’t directly dictate how much interest you pay on your credit card debt. But the Fed’s rate is the basis for your bank’s “prime rate.” In combination with other factors, such as your credit score, the prime rate helps determine the Annual Percentage Rate, or APR, on your credit card.
The latest increase will likely raise the APR on your credit card 0.25%. So, if you have a 20.4% rate, which is the average according to Bankrate, it might increase to 20.65%.
If you don’t carry a balance from month to month, the APR is less important.
But if, for example, you have a $4,000 credit balance and your interest rate is 20%, if you only make a fixed payment of $110 per month, it would take you a bit under five years to pay off your credit card debt and you would pay approximately $2,200 in interest.
If your APR increases by a percentage point, paying off your balance would take two months longer and cost an additional $215.
HOW DO I FIND OUT THE APR ON MY CREDIT CARD?
Courtney Alev, consumer financial advocate at Credit Karma, said that knowing the Annual Percentage Rate, or APR, on your card is an important first step for anyone looking to get out of credit card debt.
“If you are carrying a balance month to month, that balance just got more expensive,” she said.
To figure out your APR, you can log in to your online banking account, look at your financial statement, or call the number on the back of your credit card, Alev says.
WHAT DO I DO IF MY APR IS HIGH?
After that, both Alev and analyst Greg McBride of Bankrate.com advise signing up for a credit card that offers a zero percent interest or low interest balance transfer promotion. These allow you to transfer your higher interest credit card debt to a low interest credit card, and some offer promotions up to 21 months.
Banks do sometimes charge a flat fee, such as 3% of the balance transferred.
“It doesn’t make sense to pay 20% in interest just to get 2% in cash back,” McBride said. “Put your interest rate first and pursue rewards once you’re debt-free.”
Other debt payoff strategies include taking a low-rate personal loan as a form of consolidation and pursuing a debt management plan offered by a reputable nonprofit credit counseling agency such as Money Management International, he said.
HOW CAN I REDUCE MY CREDIT CARD DEBT?
If your income just covers your necessities, reducing credit card debt can be challenging. Elena Pelayo, educator at How Money Works, a financial literacy organization, recommends that even if you live paycheck to paycheck, you might want to add at least $10 above the minimum payment of your credit card with the highest interest rate.
And if you can afford it, she recommends paying 10% more than the minimum payment per month.
A well-known payment method is the “ debt snowball ” where you pay down your debts from smallest to largest, to build momentum and good habits. Once the smaller debts are paid off and you have built a habit of paying off debt, the money you were used to putting aside every month can then go toward larger debts. NerdWallet offers a calculator to use this method.
Another small way to tackle debt is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ’s recommendation to “use cash when it’s under $20” to avoid overspending on your credit card.
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The Associated Press receives support from Charles Schwab Foundation for educational and explanatory reporting to improve financial literacy. The independent foundation is separate from Charles Schwab and Co. Inc. The AP is solely responsible for its journalism. | 2023-03-23T07:30:50+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/business-news/ap-business/what-the-fed-rate-increase-means-for-your-credit-card-bill/ |
RESTON, Va., Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) Chief Executive Officer Phebe Novakovic will speak at the Cowen 44th Annual Aerospace/Defense & Industrials Conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, February 15, at 10:00 a.m. EST.
A link to the live webcast of the presentation will be available at https://wsw.com/webcast/cowen131/gd/1657051.
General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $39.4 billion in revenue in 2022. More information is available at www.gd.com.
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New Mayo Clinic Diet
Published: Dec. 21, 2022 at 6:35 PM CST|Updated: 26 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) –Mayo Clinic Wellness Executive Chef Jen Welper comes back into the Midwest Access kitchen to tell us more about the New Mayo Clinic Diet.
Volume eating is a concept, strategy or method of eating that allows for large consumption of food while minimizing calorie intake. It’s a newer concept where you can eat large volumes of food for fewer the number of calories and lose weight.
Volume eating allows dieters to eat meals that aren’t restrictive when it comes to portion size.
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