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Hawaii lawmakers and Gov. Josh Green’s administration shouldn’t expect a rise or fall in tax revenue flowing into the state’s general fund next fiscal year compared with a projection made four months ago.
The state Council on Revenues on Thursday issued a forecast for such revenue, about $10.4 billion for the fiscal year beginning July 1, unchanged from the assessment the seven-member panel made in September.
The new forecast limits how much spending
lawmakers and the governor can include in their budget plans, and is largely based on the council’s expectations for Hawaii’s economy.
A steady outlook isn’t bad, given much expectation for a coming U.S. recession and the recent spike in interest rates, which affect tourism, construction, home sales and other elements of the local economy amid easing inflation.
“I don’t feel like the outlook has changed very much,” Carl Bonham,
a council member and
executive director of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization,” said during the meeting. Fellow council member Wendell Lee said, “There are a lot of positives,” adding, “I remain
optimistic.”
For the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, Hawaii general fund tax revenue through December has been stronger than the council previously expected: up nearly 10% over the first half of the prior fiscal year. This led council members to substantially increase their revenue forecast for the current fiscal year.
“We had very strong collections year-to-date,” council member Kristi Maynard said at the meeting, where updated growth forecasts for this fiscal year and
the next one were made unanimously.
The council previously forecast 6.5% revenue growth for the current fiscal year. The updated growth forecast for this fiscal year equates to 9.1%.
On paper, however, the updated growth forecast for the current fiscal year is 5.5% because the council had to factor the loss of $335 million in tax revenue that got paid in recent months to Hawaii households as special tax rebates granted in 2022 by the Legislature and then-Gov.
David Ige.
The state Department of Taxation previously expected to account for the tax rebate expense in a different way, so the council in September did not factor it as a revenue loss.
In any case, if more tax revenue actually does flow into the general fund this fiscal year than previously expected, a bigger surplus will be left at the beginning of the next fiscal year and could lead to more proposed spending, tax rebates or both from lawmakers and Green.
Because of the accounting correction with the recent tax rebate expense, the council’s projected growth rate for general fund tax revenue next fiscal year rose to 5%, compared with 4% forecast in September. Still, the amount of revenue projected remains unchanged at roughly
$10.4 billion because the tax rebate cost was subtracted from the expected revenue total at the end of this fiscal year. | 2023-01-06T10:22:25+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/06/hawaii-news/state-council-updates-hawaii-tax-revenue-growth-projections/ |
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Niagara Falls police say a dead dog was found Monday morning in the area of Virginia Avenue and 17th Street.
A police officer and an SPCA investigator responded to the scene after the dog was found behind a tree. It was inside a clothing basket that was wrapped up with black garbage bags, police say.
According to the police report, the dog, which was not microchipped, appeared to have been dead “for more than a day.”
No charges related to this discovery have been announced. News 4 will provide more information as it becomes available.
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House Jan. 6 panel interviews Mnuchin, pursues Trump Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and is in negotiations to talk to several other former members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet as it scrutinizes the days after the Capitol insurrection and discussions about whether to try and remove the then-president from office.
The negotiations come as the committee was interviewing Trump’s onetime chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, on Thursday. The former South Carolina congressman held that job until 2020 and later was special envoy for Northern Ireland, a post he resigned immediately after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The interviews and negotiations were confirmed by three people familiar with the committee’s work who were not authorized to discuss the developments publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The committee asked Mnuchin about discussions among Cabinet secretaries to possibly invoke the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump after the attack on the Capitol, according to one of the people, and is in active talks to interview former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is likely to appear in the coming days, the person said.
The committee had already interviewed former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller as it focuses on Trump and what he was doing in the days before, during and after the riot.
Lawmakers also are in discussions with John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence, according to two of the people, and are seeking interviews with several senior intelligence officials who had contact with the White House around that time.
Ratcliffe delivered a classified briefing on election security in late December 2020 at the request of Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official who promoted Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
A person familiar with the matter said Ratcliffe summarized the findings of an election security report that said intelligence agencies had “no indications that any foreign actors attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 U.S. elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”
Trump and outside advisers who were pushing the false fraud claims had suggested that Venezuela had somehow tried to alter the count through voting machines.
The focus on the Cabinet is one of several threads the committee is pursuing after laying out much of its evidence in eight hearings this summer. After a yearlong investigation and more than 1,000 interviews, committee members say there is much more they want to learn.
The committee is expected to convene additional hearings in September.
Investigators have also reached out to former Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, who resigned in the days after the riot, and lawmakers could call in other Trump Cabinet officials.
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary at the time, previously told USA Today that she raised with Vice President Mike Pence the question of whether the Cabinet should consider invoking the 25th Amendment, which would have required the vice president and the majority of the Cabinet to agree that the president could no longer fulfill his duties.
DeVos resigned the day after the attack, blaming Trump for inciting the mob.
“There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” she wrote.
At a rally on the morning of Jan. 6, Trump had told a crowd of his supporters to “fight like hell” as Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, and the rioters were repeating Trump’s false claims as they broke into the Capitol and violently pushed past police.
Elaine Chao also quit as transportation secretary on Jan. 7. Chao, who is married to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the attack had “deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.”
Pompeo, who is now considering a 2024 presidential run, and Mnuchin were reported to have discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment, according to Jonathan Karl of ABC News in his book “Betrayal.”
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-28T19:47:45+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/07/28/house-jan-6-panel-interviews-mnuchin-pursues-trump-cabinet/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of BioLineRx Ltd. ("BioLineRx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BLRX). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether BioLineRx and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On September 15, 2022, BioLine announced entry into a loan agreement with Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSP ("Kreos"), under which Kreos "will provide the Company with access to term loans in an aggregate amount of up to $40 million." Then, on September 19, 2022, BioLine announced entry into definitive agreements with several institutional investors for the issuance and sale of 13,636,365 American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") and warrants to purchase up to 13,636,365 ADSs at a combined purchase price of $1.10 per ADS and associated warrant. BioLine stated that the offering's gross proceeds, expected to be $15 million, will be used to facilitate the commercial launch of the Company's Motixafortide product.
On this news, BioLine's stock price fell $0.52 per share, or 33.77%, to close at $1.02 per share on September 20, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. ("Vintage" or the "Company") (NYSE: VWE). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Vintage and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On September 13, 2022, Vintage disclosed that certain of the Company's previously issued financial statements should no longer be relied upon and should be restated due to the identification of an accounting error related to the treatment of interest rate swap agreements.
On this news, Vintage's stock price fell $2.23 per share, or 40.33%, to close at $3.30 per share on September 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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WASHINGTON – The White House has nominated a career air mobility pilot with key deployments in Afghanistan and Europe to serve as the Air Force’s next top general.
In a notice to Congress posted Wednesday, the White House nominated Gen. David W. Allvin to serve as the service’s next chief.
In his long career, which includes more than 4,600 hours flying military aircraft, Allvin has commanded units leading NATO’s air training and combat operations in Afghanistan, he’s led air strategy in Europe and he's overseen all global air mobility operations, responsible for a fleet of more than 1,000 aircraft that fuel, transport and supply troops around the globe.
If confirmed, Allvin would replace outgoing Gen. CQ Brown, who was tapped by the White House to serve as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Allvin was seen as a frontrunner for the position, having served most recently as the vice chief of staff of the Air Force.
Allvin's nomination joins hundreds of other top generals awaiting confirmation to move into their new military assignments; each of those posts are currently being held up by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who has put a hold on the confirmation process until DOD revises a policy allowing service members to travel and take time off for reproductive health care. | 2023-07-26T18:28:25+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/07/26/white-house-nominates-allvin-as-next-air-force-chief/ |
The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."
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The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-30T16:04:54+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/npr-breaking-news/2023-06-30/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-web-designer-who-refused-work-for-same-sex-weddings |
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until February 10, 2023 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Twist Bioscience Corporation (NasdaqGS: TWST), if they purchased the Company's shares between December 13, 2019 and November 14, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Twist Bioscience investors should visit us at https://claimsfiler.com/cases/nasdaq-twst/ or call toll-free (844) 367-9658. Lawyers at Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC are available to discuss your legal options.
About the Lawsuit
Twist Bioscience and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On November 15, 2022, Scorpion Capital reported that the Company is "operating a Ponzi-like scheme that will end in bankruptcy," that the Company's growth and revenues were unsustainable, and that the Company was perpetuating its fraud through false reporting of capital expenditures and gross margins, among other issues. On this news, shares of Twist Bioscience fell $7.57 per share, or nearly 20%, from a close of $38.00 per share on November 14, 2022, to close at $30.43 per share on November 15, 2022.
The case is Peters v. Twist Bioscience Corporation, et al., No. 22-cv-08168.
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Ohio State University and University of Alabama teams finish second and third at series finale in Arizona
PHOENIX, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Institute of Technology has been named The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Year Four champion, taking the lead in the premier four-year collegiate automotive engineering competition. Rounding out the top three are Ohio State in second place and University of Alabama in third place.
This marks the culmination of the series, which challenged 11 North American universities to improve the energy efficiency of a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer while balancing emissions, safety and consumer acceptability factors. Over the four-year competition which began in 2018, each team transformed its vehicle from a design concept into a reality. By applying advanced propulsion systems, electrification, SAE Level 2 automation, and vehicle connectivity, the teams built energy efficient, connected, and semi-automated vehicles. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors (GM) and MathWorks, The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge celebrated winners in more than 40 categories. In total, more than $100,000 in prize money was awarded to the participating universities. For jumping to the top of the leaderboard Georgia Tech will take home an extra $10,000 to further support its advanced vehicle technology program.
"EcoCAR exemplifies DOE's commitment to building a diverse, clean energy talent pipeline," said Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "Through programs like this one, we will strengthen our domestic manufacturing and our ability to compete globally, as we prepare this next generation of innovators."
The final year challenged teams to test, prove, and refine their work from the previous three years, mimicking a real-world automotive product development cycle. The teams applied advanced propulsion systems, electrification, SAE Level 2 automation, and vehicle connectivity to improve the energy efficiency of a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer. Each team was scored across multiple dynamic vehicle testing events ranging from energy consumption to acceleration and drive quality, as well as a 175-mile Over the Road Event through the Arizona desert, which tested each vehicle's thermal management, range, and overall durability. Teams also gave five scored presentations to more than 65 judges from government and industry, detailing vehicle designs and subsystems, team management and communications activities, and demonstrating the multidisciplinary aspect of their EcoCAR team.
"We continue to be impressed by the remarkable efforts and achievements of the EcoCAR students across the engineering, project management, business and communications disciplines," said Dan Nicholson, Vice President Global Electrification, Controls, SW & Electronics at GM. "Let's not only celebrate this years' winners, but all of the students for the hard work and dedication they have put into their Blazers over these last four years. These students are remarkably talented and will benefit the workforce in years to come."
Teams also participated in the Connected Mobility Challenge, which tested Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity capabilities of the Blazer. The vehicles navigated a connected signalized intersection while using real-time Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (I2V) information from the traffic lights.
"This competition brought unprecedented challenges for the students, which further showcased their talent, creativity and ability to innovate we are proud to be part of a partnership that makes this possible," said Lauren Tabolinsky, academic program manager, MathWorks. "The hard work and dedication during the program are a testament to what the next generation of mobility talent has to offer the industry."
Additional EcoCAR Mobility Challenge sponsors include NXP, National Science Foundation, Intel, American Axle & Manufacturing, Bosch, PACCAR, dSPACE, Siemens, Denso, AVL, Horiba, TRC, Borg Warner, Proterra, tesa tape, Vector, Magna, OXTS, Gage, Electric Power Research Institute, J.D. Power and Consumer Reports.
Last month, DOE, GM and MathWorks, launched the next Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, with the announcement of the 15 North American universities selected to participate. Beginning in the Fall 2022, EcoCAR EV will challenge participating students to develop and demonstrate technology that uses automation and vehicle-to-everything connectivity on a GM-provided 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ, the brand's first all-electric vehicle. For more information on the EcoCAR EV Challenge, visit ecocarevchallenge.org.
EcoCAR Mobility Challenge is a four-year collegiate engineering program that builds on the successful 34-year history of Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC) by giving engineering students the chance to design and build advanced vehicle technologies that explored affordable and highly efficient vehicle solutions. General Motors provided each of the 11 competing teams with a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer, as well as vehicle components, seed money, technical mentoring, and operational support. MathWorks provided teams with a full suite of software tools, simulation models, training, technical mentoring, and operational support. The U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory, provided competition management, team evaluation, and logistical support. Other sponsors provided hardware, software and training.
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- Latimpacto, the main promoter of social and environmental investment in Latin America, held its first event in Cartagena, Colombia.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Impact Minds: Standing Together included the participation of actors such as Larry Sacks, Mission Director at USAID Colombia; Juan Carlos Mora, president of Bancolombia; and Kai Grunauer, from UBS Family Advisory. Drawing from their leadership roles, they inspired more than 350 participants from 25 countries representing Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, including organizations such as impact funds, foundations, family offices, corporations, among others.
"This conference is the first of its type in Latin America. It was designed for these investors to connect with the reality of our cities and make progress in the creation of new partnerships. Latimpacto promotes more knowledge and connections in order to obtain better results by being more rigorous when investing, managing, measuring, and providing non-financial support," says Carolina Suárez, CEO of Latimpacto.
During the 3 and a half days of the event, participants visited more than 10 social and environmental projects. During the conferences, we delved into the factors that make Latin America fertile ground for impact investment: 11 sharing collectives on migration, gender, climate action, early childhood, and social-impact measurement; 7 workshops on impact investment and blended finance; 1 demo live with 11 presentations on education, ecosystem-development, and rural-development initiatives; and the launch of the report on climate and conservation.
"Historically, there have been no truly regional platforms in Latin America that could allow for dialogue among philanthropists. This is why UBS decided to support the efforts of Latimpacto from the start." Kai Grunauer, Executive Director, UBS Philanthropy Services LATAM.
The newly established connections are expected to bear fruit in the next few months, supported by the Latimpacto team, operating in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.
Go to www.latimpacto.org to find out more.
About Latimpacto
Organization that maximizes the impact of investments and initiatives in Latin America by means of collaboration between actors and financial instruments. Latimpacto leverages the knowledge of its sister networks with more than 17 years of experience and close to 1300 members investing in Europe (EVPA), Asia (AVPN), and Africa (AVPA).
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Labor Day forecast: Scorching temperatures, rain could bring sad end to summer for millions
It was bound to happen, America. Summer is coming to a close. But not before we get one more celebration in to hold onto the dog days of summer.
Millions of people will be hitting the roads and taking to the skies to celebrate Labor Day. But for millions of Americans, scorching temperatures and the risk of rain and thunderstorms could dampen those last cookouts, clambakes and afternoons at the beach.
Here's a closer look at the Labor Day holiday forecast from the FOX Forecast center.
TRAVELING THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND? WHETHER FLYING OR DRIVING, HERE'S WHAT TO EXPECT
Saturday
The national forecast on Saturday, Sept 3. (FOX Weather)
There will be a wide range of weather conditions across the Lower 48 on Saturday, from rain and thunderstorms along the Gulf Coast and Southeast to temperatures reaching the triple digits in parts of the Plains and western United States.
In the Southeast, the greatest chance of seeing rain and thunderstorms will be seen from Dallas and Houston, east through Louisiana, all the way through to Florida.
Temperatures will be in the 80s and 90s from Denver through Kansas City, Missouri, and into Atlanta and Miami.
In the Northeast, temperatures are expected to be in the 80s in places like New York City, Boston and Providence, with a mix of sun and clouds.
Temperatures in the West and Plains will be extremely hot.
Billings, Montana, is expected to reach a high temperate of about 101 degrees on Saturday with plenty of sunshine.
Seattle will be much cooler, with a forecast high of about 76 degrees with some clouds.
Temperatures will be in the mid- to upper 90s from Reno, Nevada, to Los Angeles, with bountiful sunshine.
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The best time to go outdoors during a hot summer day is in the early morning or late in the evening, when temperatures tend to be cooler than during the afternoon.
If you need to go outdoors during the heat of the day, experts advise you to wear loose, light-colored clothing and drink plenty of fluids.
The dangerous heat can make vehicles deadly for anyone left inside without air conditioning running. Make sure to "look before you lock" to ensure you have not left any children or pets unattended.
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The Atlantic tropical overview. (FOX Weather)
The FOX Forecast Center is also keeping an eye on several tropical disturbances that are brewing in the Atlantic Ocean, including Tropical Storm Danielle.
Tropical Storm Danielle is no threat to land, but the storm's formation is a sign that the tropical Atlantic may be coming to life after a quiet August.
HERE'S WHAT CAUSES TURBULENCE AND WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID OF IT
Forecasted airport delays on Saturday, Sept. 3. (FOX Weather)
The less-than-ideal weather conditions in the Southeast could also lead to some delays for those heading to the airport.
Some delays are possible in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Orlando.
Out west, some delays are possible in San Francisco with the marine layer fog.
As always - check with your airline for the latest information on your upcoming flight before heading off to the airport.
Sunday
The national forecast on Sunday, Sept. 4. (FOX Weather)
Heading into Sunday, the threat of rain and thunderstorms will shift a bit to the east.
The threat will linger for the Lone Star State and along the Gulf Coast, but chances for showers extend north through the Mississippi and Kentucky valleys, as well as the Great Lakes and into the Northeast.
Rain chances will also be seen in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Temperature-wise, the FOX Forecast Center is seeing another day of triple-digit temperatures in parts of the West and Southwest, while places around Atlanta will reach the 80s.
From the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, temperatures will also be in the mid- to upper 80s.
Seattle will again hover around the 80-degree mark as well, and Billings will be "slightly cooler" than Saturday with a forecast high of about 97 degrees.
And heads up, this has also been the summer of the shark along East Coast beaches.
Several shark attacks were reported in New Jersey and New York, putting beachgoers on edge.
And on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, at least 20 sharks were spotted in the water over the course of a week.
LIGHTNING STRIKES ON AIRPLANES CAN BE SCARY - JUST ASK MILEY CYRUS
Forecasted airport delays on Sunday, Sept. 4. (FOX Weather)
If you're going to the airport on Sunday, you may need to prepare for delays and cancelations depending on where you're catching a flight.
The FOX Forecast Center is expecting some issues at airports in Boston due to weather, and major airports in the South and Southeast are also at-risk of seeing some problems.
Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta and Orlando could all see some issues, so check with your airline directly for the latest information.
Monday
The national forecast on Monday, Sept. 5. (FOX Weather)
Monday – Labor Day. The unofficial end to summer.
The threat of sub-par weather will continue across the eastern half of the United States, with more chances of rain and thunderstorms across places from the Southwest, Midwest and Northeast.
There's a chance of rain from Norfolk, Virginia, north through the Big Apple and New England, but temperatures will range from the low to mid-80s across much of the region.
If you're looking for sunshine (like most people), you'll want to head west.
Denver will be very hot at 95 degrees with plenty of sun, and the heat will extend to Billings, where the area will likely see a high temperature of around 97 degrees.
Temperatures get hotter the further west you go, so places like Reno will see a high temperature of about 100 degrees on Labor Day.
Temperatures will remain on the cool side in the Seattle area, where the Emerald City will likely remain in the mid-70s.
If you've been meaning to get out to one of our country's beautiful national parks before the end of summer, you've got a lot of catching up to do if you want to be like this grandma-grandson duo.
Grandma Joy Ryan and her 41-year-old grandson have been crisscrossing the country on a mission to visit every single national park in the country, and they've only got one left to visit.
Their ambitious quest began with a road trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2015. In the past seven years, these intergenerational travelers have driven more than 50,000 miles to visit 62 out of 63 parks on their bucket lists.
7 FACTS ABOUT US NATIONAL PARKS
Forecasted airport delays on Monday, Sept. 5. (FOX Weather)
In terms of issues at the airports in the country, most of the problems will likely be in the same locations that could see delays and cancellations over the course of Labor Day weekend.
Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta and Orlando will likely see more issues, and passengers should arrive at the airport with plenty of time to space in order to get through security and check bags.
But, again, don't waste a trip to the airport if you don't have to - reach out to the airline directly to make sure things remain on the up and up. | 2022-09-02T13:24:27+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/labor-day-weather-forecast |
If you're looking for a way to make a difference in a child's life then head to your local McDonald's in Stark County.
On Thursday from 4-8 p.m., locations will be donating 25% of mobile orders and 10% of all other sales to the book-gifting program.
Participating locations include:
- Canal Fulton: 2151 Locust St. S
- Canton: 3101 Cleveland Ave. NW, 2331 Faircrest St. SW, 3700 Harmont Ave. NE, 3251 Mahoning Road NE
- Canton Township: 3713 17th St. SW, 3109 Cleveland Ave. SW, 4025 Lincoln St.
- Hartville: 868 W. Maple St.
- Jackson Township: 4643 Belden Village St. NW, 6855 Sunset Strip Ave. NW, 5554 Wales Ave. NW, 3439 Whipple Ave. NW
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One of Manhattan’s top outdoor restaurants is returning just in time for Earth Day.
Gallow Green, at the top of The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street), will celebrate the seasonal reopening of its rooftop garden bar and restaurant on Saturday, April 22. Each spring, this whimsical secret garden blossoms back to life with curated flowers, hanging vines and greenery, plus a menu to match.
The grand opening celebration will feature passed canapés, tasting stations highlighting new seasonal menu items, and beer, wine, or bubbly. Toki Japanese Whiskey highballs and Hornitos Tequila cocktails will also be available. And if the food, bev and ambiance puts a little pep in your step, you can dance to MK Groove Orchestra and Lisa McQuade, who will perform live during the event.
Tickets start from $65 per person for a two-hour seating at 5pm and $75 at 7:30pm, plus tax and gratuity.
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Executive Chef Pascal Le Seac’h, an alum of New York’s Balthazar, Pastis and Daniel, leads Gallow Green’s menu. This year’s seasonal menu offers globally-inspired cuisine. New dishes include oven-baked artichoke and crab dip, octopus piperade, and ribs served with potato salad. Sea Bream with Middle Eastern vegetables and a vegan Buddha bowl made with bulgur, red quinoa, kale, avocado, watermelon radish, sweet and sour shallots, and mint also debut as a lighter option this year. Returning favorites include chilled Beau Soleil Oysters and selection of Saxelby cheesemongers cheeses. Dessert highlights include orange panna cotta, seasonal strawberry shortcake, plus a selection of sorbets and ice cream.
To drink, craft cocktails inspired by the space. The Sleep No More is a refreshing purple treat with pea flower-infused vodka, elderflower, and rosé cider) and the namesake Gallow Green mixes bourbon, blue curaçao, citrus, and ginger. Wine by the glass or bottle, local beers, and seasonal ciders are also available.
Gallow Green also hosts weekly and seasonal events including Sunset Sundays featuring live music each week, plus weekend brunch service and family-friendly Potions and Planting tea parties begin on Saturday, May 13 for Mother’s Day Weekend. | 2023-04-20T14:24:15+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/gallow-greens-whimsical-secret-garden-rooftop-reopens-on-earth-day-041923 |
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of securities of Kornit Digital Ltd., (NASDAQ: KRNT) between February 17, 2021 and July 5, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than April 17, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Kornit securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Kornit class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12250 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than April 17, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Kornit and its senior executives knew or, at a minimum, recklessly disregarded, that the Company's digital printing business was beset by significant quality control problems and deficient customer service; (2) as a result, Kornit was more vulnerable to pressure from competitors than it had represented and lacked the competitive advantages it touted to investors; (3) as a result, problems and deficiencies caused Kornit to lose market share to competitors, which led to a decline in the Company's revenues, as Kornit's dissatisfied customers sought out alternative options for their digital printing needs; and (4) to the extent that the Company purported to warn of risks regarding quality and customer service issues as well as increased competition, Kornit failed to disclose that such risks had already materialized. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND)- Tributes are pouring in for a slain Springfield woman. The Sangamon County Coroner said 24-year-old Emma Shafer was stabbed to death in her home Tuesday night. Those who know Shafer best said her passion made a mark on everyone who knew her.
"She has an irresistible zest for life and for her calling- which was to promote social justice," Revered Martin Woulfe told WAND News.
Woulfe said he had the privilege of watching Emma grow up.
"She was the same age as my daughter and I saw her grow up, and I saw her on stage- and she had star quality," Rev. Wolfe explained.
He now serves on the board for the Faith Coalition for the Common Good, one of the many organizations Emma was working with.
"When she came back from college she had a burning desire to help facilitate positive change in Springfield and she was committing her life to that, it really was her mission," Rev. Woulfe added.
Emma was working alongside several Springfield churches, Resistor Sisterhood and other social justice organizations.
"They really respected her, they loved her, they felt her affection and they understand that she was truly a powerful force for good," Rev. Woulfe said.
She also worked at The Wakery, where a growing memorial of flowers is honoring her life.
"Its an unspeakable loss. Yesterday there was a sense of horror, there was a sense of profound grief," Rev. Woulfe explained.
Woulfe said the Springfield community is still shocked Emma was taken when her life was just beginning.
"The grief is palpable, you can really feel that in the larger community. I think it will really be a long time until this community heals and moves forward," Rev. Woulfe said.
Resistor Sisterhood shared the following statement about Emma's life: | 2023-07-14T16:09:04+00:00 | wandtv.com | https://www.wandtv.com/news/springfield-community-honors-slain-community-advocate/article_d089d2f8-21f0-11ee-8a20-ef69ec1b8dae.html |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — We love finding animals loving homes in our community and this week, we’d like to introduce you to Dom from Big Paws of the Ozarks in Fayetteville.
Dom is a 6-year-old pitbull-mix who came to the rescue center a couple of weeks ago. The shelter says he is very sweet and a bit of a goofball. He loves to be by people and snuggling on the couch.
Dom was previously at the Springdale Animal Shelter for six months but is now in a foster home.
He is very friendly and loves to play but because of his size, the shelter thinks he might be better for a family with older children. However, they said he is a “gentle giant.”
If you’re interested in adopting Dom, visit the Big Paws of the Ozarks website to submit an adoption application. | 2022-09-23T15:34:11+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/community/pet-of-the-week/purina-presents-meet-dom-in-pet-of-the-week/ |
BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy appears to have learned from its costly lessons after cramming too much new technology onto warships and speeding them into production as it embarks on building new destroyers, which are the backbone of the fleet.
Military officials say they’re slowing down the design and purchase of its next-generation destroyers to ensure new technology like powerful lasers and hypersonic missiles are mature before pressing ahead on construction.
The Navy has learned “sometimes the hard way, when we move too fast we make big mistakes,” said Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations.
“Let’s be deliberate. Let’s not have our eyes become bigger than our stomach and get too far ahead of ourselves,” Gilday said last week at an event for defense industry officials in San Diego.
The Navy wants to turn the page on recent shipbuilding blunders.
Several newer combat ships designed for speed are being retired early after being beset by problems. A $13.3 billion aircraft carrier experienced added costs from new catapults that launch airplanes. Workers completed construction of a stealth destroyer before its advanced gun system, already installed, was scrapped.
For the new ship, the Navy is reducing risk by conducting more land tests and borrowing the radar and targeting system from the latest destroyers that’ll soon join the fleet, said Lt. Cmdr. Javan Rasnake, spokesman for the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition.
It’s also working with shipbuilders and designers to refine the ship’s blueprint, cost estimates, and workforce and supply forecasts, Rasnake said.
The Navy still plans to field some new technologies on the destroyer.
Last week, it awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.2 billion contract for hypersonic missiles that travel at five times the speed of sound, and can be fired from destroyers. Last summer, it awarded the first design contract for the new ship outfitted with those missiles and lasers powerful enough to shoot down aircraft.
Matt Caris, a defense analyst with Avascent, said it’s important that the Navy gets it right by balancing the best technology that’s reliable, affordable and attainable.
“The Navy is trying to thread the needle with some potentially revolutionary capabilities in as low risk and evolutionary process as possible. This was a lesson learned by the Navy’s laundry list of shameful acquisition programs,” he said.
Some worry about history repeating itself.
There are new Navy leaders overseeing many programs and “it’s easy to imagine them making similar mistakes again with a new cast of characters,” said Loren Thompson from the Lexington Institute, a security think tank.
The Navy is in the midst of juggling its priorities as it seeks not just a new destroyer but also a new attack submarine and a replacement for the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet.
The Navy is in a difficult spot because the Biden administration is not interested in dramatically increasing the military budget, said Bryan Clark, a defense analyst at the Hudson Institute. Research and development alone would cost an extra $10 billion to $20 billion for the destroyer, submarine and jet, he said, representing a big chunk of the $220 billion Navy budget.
A series of speedy, coast-hugging warships embodied shipbuilding mistakes that the Navy is trying to avoid. Critics said early versions were too lightly armored to survive combat. One version of the craft, known as a littoral combat ship, had propulsion problems. Some of the ships broke down and had to be towed. Plans for a submarine detection system were scrapped.
Combined, the costs of the first ships in that program, the stealthy Zumwalt destroyer and Ford-class aircraft carrier grew by $6.8 billion in today’s dollars, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
“They’ve digested that lesson,” Clark said. “Part of what you’re seeing is a recognition that the underlying technologies are not ready yet. They don’t want to drive the program where the ship starts production before the technology is ready.”
Gilday, who is the Navy’s top officer, said the transition to the new destroyers will likely start in the “2032 time frame.” For now, top Navy leadership want to keep current production lines of destroyers humming until designs are ready.
That means shipyards in Maine and Mississippi will continue making existing Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. They hold the Navy’s record for longest production run for large surface warships.
At Maine’s Bath Iron Works, where the first Arleigh Burke was built starting in 1988, shipbuilders are happy to continue building the existing ships while new designs are tested out.
Charles Krugh, shipyard president, said shipbuilders prefer the approach of taking extra time to make sure the technology and design are right.
“If we get a fully designed ship, it’s obviously going to make us a whole lot more productive and efficient,” Krugh said.
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This story has been corrected to show construction on the Arleigh Burke started in 1988, not 1998. | 2023-02-25T15:41:28+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-us-navy-applies-lessons-from-costly-shipbuilding-mistakes/ |
AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) – An Alabama man arrested for criminal littering after putting flowers on his fiancee’s grave was found guilty by a municipal judge Thursday.
At the conclusion of the bench trial, the judge said he was tasked with following the law, not emotion, and the flowers were a clear violation based on testimony and evidence. The judge also offered his condolences to the defendant, Winchester Hagans, and the complainant, Dr. Tom Ford, for the loss of Hagans’ fiancee, Dr. Ford’s late daughter. Hagans intends to file an appeal, which could lead to a jury trial.
In January 2021, 27-year-old Hannah Ford was killed in a car crash the same day she picked out a wedding venue with her soon-to-be husband.
Hagans built a flower box covered with engagement pictures to place at Hannah’s grave in Auburn’s Memorial Park Cemetery. Hagans did not testify during Thursday’s trial but has said in the past the couple had a strained relationship with some members of Hannah’s family, and someone kept throwing the flowers away. Hagans kept rebuilding the box and putting the flowers back. Hagans says Hannah’s family never told him directly to stop leaving flowers.
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In January 2022, Hannah’s father, Dr. Tom Ford, signed a complaint against Hagans. Dr. Ford testified he did everything he could to keep the issue out of court. Dr. Ford testified that numerous flower boxes were placed on Hannah’s gravesite without his permission, and he located a camera in a nearby tree. Ford testified Hagans was advised not to place unauthorized items on the grave, but it didn’t stop.
A prosecutor with the city of Auburn showed the court the deed to the plot where Hannah rests belongs to her father, Dr. Tom Ford. They also presented evidence showing flower boxes were not allowed.
Sari Card, an administrative assistant with Auburn Parks and Rec responsible for maintaining the cemetery where Hannah is buried at Memorial Park, testified she informed Hagans on the phone that Dr. Ford wanted Hagans to stop putting the flower boxes on the grave. If Hagans did not, Card told him, she thought Dr. Ford would take legal action and have him arrested. Card testified Hagans told her he didn’t care and he would continue making them.
Sunday, January 24, Hagans was on his way to preach at an east Alabama church when police pulled him over for an expired tag. After running his tag, the officer came back and said there was a warrant out for Hagans’ arrest.
The complaint, dated January 4, reads: A person commits the crime of criminal littering if he or she engages in any of the following acts: (1) Knowingly deposits in any manner litter on any public or private property or in any public or private waters, having no permission to do so. Hayden Thomas Ford is the property owner of his daughter Hannah Ford’s cemetery plot located at Memorial Park in Auburn, Alabama. Winston has posted via social media “someone keeps throwing away the flowers I plant…but each time he throws them away, I’ll plant more.” The flower box contains photos of Winston Hagans and Hannah Ford attached around the box.
Hagans’ attorney Jeff Tickal asked the judge to dismiss the case, saying there were errors in the complaint and Criminal Littering was not an appropriate charge as flowers were not litter. The judge denied the defense’s request saying the flower box was a foreign object as defined in the code.
The judge ordered Hagans to pay a $50 fine and $251 in court costs. Hagans was not sentenced to jail. The judge also advised Hagans to find another location to honor his fiancee‘s memory that was not on somebody else’s property.
The city prosecutor could not comment because the case is under appeal. Dr. Tom Ford also declined to comment. Hagans and his attorney say they plan to appeal.
As for Hagans, he still visits Hannah’s grave often and prays better days are ahead for all who loved her. When asked what he would say to Hannah’s father, Hagans has said, “I just want to be able to put flowers on her grave.” | 2022-06-10T21:44:30+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-convicted-of-littering-for-flowers-on-fiancees-grave-after-father-told-him-to-stop/ |
Priscilla Presley made her first public appearance in nearly two months on Tuesday, when she came out to show her support for the animated Netflix series, Agent Elvis.
Priscilla walked the red carpet at the show's premiere, held at the Netflix Tudum Theater in Los Angeles, and posed for photos in front of posters for the series -- which she co-created and lent her voice to.
The appearance marked her first since the death of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, on January 12 -- which came just two days after Priscilla and Lisa Marie both attended the 80th Golden Globe Awards.
The show, Agent Elvis, stars the vocal talent of Matthew McConaughey as the King of Rock and Roll, after he is recruited by a secret government agency to battle the forces of darkness converging on America.
The comedy series also stars Kaitlin Olson, Don Cheadle, Johnny Knoxville, Tom Kenny, Jason Mantzoukas and Niecy Nash-Betts. Meanwhile, Priscilla voices a fictionalized version of herself.
After the premiere, Priscilla joined fellow co-creator John Eddie and showrunner Mike Arnold for a Q&A, and explained that she wanted to do the show as a way of "introducing Elvis to the youth today, wondering why he was so famous and to see him as a hero," per The Hollywood Reporter.
Priscilla's latest venture comes amid the battle over her late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley's, estate. Following Lisa Marie's death on Jan. 12, her rep confirmed to ET that Graceland would go to her three daughters: 33-year-old Riley Keough, and 14-year-old twins, Harper and Finley.
It later came to light that Riley and her brother, Benjamin (who died in 2020), were named co-trustees of Lisa Marie's trust in 2016. However, Priscilla is contesting "the authenticity and validity" of Riley's appointment, claiming that "there are many issues surrounding" it.
Later, a source told ET that Riley and her grandmother "aren't communicating at this time," adding that while "they are both gearing up for court, Riley would prefer to settle this dispute privately."
"She is heartbroken that this has turned into a public matter and knows her mother would never want this. Riley is very stressed at the moment and has been trying to keep a positive attitude and outlook ahead of her new series coming out," the source said. "Her daughter and husband have been keeping her in good spirits."
Agent Elvis will premiere March 17 on Netflix.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Pima County Sheriff's Department responded to reports of shots fired near Oracle Road.
The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the area of Rudasill Road and Oracle Road.
According to PCSD, all parties involved in the incident have been identified, and there is no threat to the public.
Stay with KGUN 9 for further updates.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Day 1 of HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 yesterday, Huawei, its partners, and representatives from public and private organizations held a session exploring how technology is vital to building a sustainable and inclusive world envisioned by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with case studies and analyses focusing on the Asia Pacific region.
As one of the most populous and diverse regions in the world, Asia Pacific is also set to be the fastest-growing economy across the globe, with COVID-19 accelerating digital transformation in Asia-Pacific faster than the global average.
"More and more governments and organizations are beginning to recognize the enabling role of technology in accelerating the achievement of SDGs goals", said Jeffrey Zhou, President of Huawei ICT marketing. "Under Huawei's vision and mission, we launched the TECH4ALL digital inclusion initiative in 2019 and with global partners' programs and projects are ongoing in different countries."
Zhou was followed by an opening statement from Richard Mahony, Global VP of Informa Tech, who shared how the traditional method of maintaining sustainability is not working and that technology-based solutions are now needed as an accelerator.
UNESCO's speaker then gave an overview of the objectives of the 17 SDGs and approaches to achieving them by the set goal of 2030. "While it is fundamentally up to governments to implement the SDG agenda, the simple fact is that it will not be realized without the private sector," said Mohamad Djelid, Director of UNESCO Office in Jakarta, Indonesia. "We all have a role to play in achieving the ambitious, but necessary, Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030."
Digital inclusion was a key area discussed during the session. While the digital divide is gradually shrinking, ITU recently reported that 2.7 billion people in the world still remain offline. Due to a lack of network connectivity, digital skills, affordable devices, or a combination of these factors, too many people remain unable to access the digital tools that are necessary in today's increasingly digital world. "No one should be left offline", said Atsuko Okuda, Director of the ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. "Digital technology and ICT development can accelerate the achievement of the SDGs."
Huawei' David Lu, President of Asia Pacific Strategy & Marketing Department, introduced the latest progress and the role of ICT in TECH4ALL projects globally, and especially in Asia Pacific, including the Digital Bus in Thailand, which is bringing connectivity and digital skills to rural children; the Digital Village program in Indonesia, which is providing affordable connectivity to rural communities via the RuralStar solution; and the introduction of remote 5G-powered healthcare for rural communities and information accessibility solutions for the elderly in Thailand. Mr. Lu mentioned, that through collaboration between technology companies and global organizations, the future for Asia Pacific will be bright and sustainable, achieving the goal of leaving no one behind.
Another key theme of the session covered how technology can boost nature conservation. Shawn Tan, Vice President of the leading green energy solutions provider, Sunseap, shared how the Singaporean company expects to offset 4,000 tons of CO2 per year with its innovative floating solar farm. The solution, which uses Huawei's smart PV solution, is deployed offshore in Singapore.
Continuing the theme of environmental-protection, Malaysia's Sarawak Forestry Corporation began the first pilot project with Huawei's TECH4ALL, in collaboration with Sarawak Multimedia Authority, Forest Department Sarawak and Rainforest Connection, designed to protect one of the world's oldest rainforests at 140 million years old, the Sarawak rainforests.
Huawei is running more than 45 TECH4ALL projects with more than 40 global partners, focusing on equitable and quality education, conserving nature with technology, developing inclusive healthcare, and achieving balanced development.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to sweep, clean and sanitize floors in a home without lifting a finger or thinking about cleaning spills and messes," said an inventor, from Statesville, N.C., "so I invented THE GINBOT. My fully customizable design would eliminate the most basic of our dreaded mundane daily tasks."
The invention provides an improved robotic-based sweeper and sanitizer/cleaner appliance for the home. In doing so, it can be used to effortlessly clean a wide range of spills, pet accidents, etc. As a result, it saves time and effort and it eliminates the need to manually clean messes. The invention features a multi-functional and hands-free design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-CNC-819, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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LITHIA, Fla. — Colton King is one step closer to recovery. The 12-year-old has now received a bone marrow transplant from his sister Kaylee.
For months, Colton has been battling childhood leukemia. Leukemia is the most common cancer in children and teens.
Due to a rare gene, treatment options were slim for Colton specifically. Doctors believe the bone marrow transplant could be key to saving his life.
“This is kind of the end game we are hoping this bone marrow will heal him and heal his body,” said their mom Stacy King.
Stacy says Kaylee was out of the hospital fairly quickly and is feeling healthy.
“She was just on a normal dose of Motrin and the next day even went to the gym,” she said.
Colton will be in the hospital for the next two months in Orlando. Stacy says his body is trying to adjust and build new cells.
“It’s a lot of up and down like a roller coaster where you feel okay and you feel terrible,” she explained.
The King family says they are leaning on each other and prayers to make it through what they hope is their final hurdle. | 2023-01-11T22:54:31+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/heartwarming/12-year-old-one-step-closer-recovery-bone-marrow-transplant/67-04ea62f2-220e-4b29-befa-ea6d80eef480 |
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave.
The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities warned residents over 60 and others suffering various maladies to stay indoors during the daytime.
All the fatalities in Uttar Pradesh, totaling 54, were reported in Ballia district, some 300 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Lucknow, the state capital. Authorities found out most of those who passed away were over 60 years old and had preexisting health conditions, which may have been exacerbated by the intense heat.
S. K. Yadav, a medical officer in Ballia, said in the past three days, some 300 patients were admitted to the district hospital for various ailments aggravated by heat.
Due to the gravity of the situation, authorities canceled leave applications of medical personnel in Ballia and provided additional hospital beds in the emergency ward to accommodate the influx of patients.
Officials said most of the admitted patients are aged 60 and above, exhibiting symptoms of high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, breathing difficulties and heart-related issues.
R.S. Pathak, a resident of Ballia who lost his father on Saturday, said that he witnessed an increased flow of patients at the hospital’s emergency ward while attending to his father.
“This has never happened in Ballia. I have never seen people dying because of the heat in such large numbers,” he said. “People fear venturing out. The roads and markets are largely deserted.”
Ballia, along with central and eastern Uttar Pradesh, is currently grappling with oppressive heat.
On Sunday, the district experienced a maximum temperature of 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit), surpassing the normal range by five degrees. The relative humidity was recorded at 25%, intensifying the effect of the heat.
Atul Kumar Singh, a scientist from the India Meteorological Department, or IMD, said temperatures across the state were presently above normal. He added, “no relief is expected in the next 24 hours.”
The IMD issued an alert saying heat wave conditions would last until June 19 in parts of Uttar Pradesh.
The state’s health minister, Brijesh Pathak, said that they have opened an investigation into the cause of death of “so many people” in Ballia.
In eastern Bihar, scorching heat has engulfed most of the state, leading to 42 deaths in the past two days. Among the fatalities, 35 occurred at two hospitals in the state capital of Patna where over 200 patients suffering from diarrhea and vomiting were being treated.
Patna recorded a maximum temperature of 44.7 C Celsius (113 F) on Saturday.
The main summer months — April, May and June — are generally the hottest in most of India, before monsoon rains bring in cooler temperatures.
But temperatures have become more intense in the past decade. During heat waves, the country usually suffers severe water shortages, with tens of millions of its 1.4 billion people lacking running water.
A study by World Weather Attribution, an academic group that examines the source of extreme heat, found that a searing heat wave in April that struck parts of South Asia was made at least 30 times more likely by climate change.
In April, the heat caused the death of 13 people at a government event in India’s financial capital of Mumbai and prompted some states to close all schools for a week.
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Associated Press writer Indrajit Singh in Patna, India contributed to this report. | 2023-06-19T11:43:59+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national/ap-international/nearly-100-die-as-india-struggles-with-a-sweltering-heatwave-in-2-most-populous-states/ |
Club Med Reveals All-New Brand Identity and Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives
MIAMI, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks a new chapter for Club Med, the pioneer of the all-inclusive concept with beach and mountain resorts worldwide, with the announcement of its all-new refreshed and modernized brand identity. Taking inspiration from the original Club Med philosophy – creating simple moments of happiness – the iconic lifestyle brand shares details about its evolution into providing a more premium, family-friendly, and eco-conscious experience. Continuing its strong ambition to be the most desirable lifestyle vacation brand, Club Med also shares details about its ongoing corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Introducing an Elevated Brand Identity
In 1950, Gérard Blitz founded the first Club Med resort in the Balearic Islands of Spain in an effort to give people a village to enjoy more moments of happiness and disconnect with an unlimited selection of outdoor activities, entertainment, and food & beverages. From there, Club Med's concept and signature pioneering spirit was born. Today, Club Med is taking elements from that original foundation, its French heritage, and its core essence – simplicity, epicureanism, nature and freedom – and using them to revive its personality into a premium all-inclusive brand that marries a luxury experience with simple moments.
Now, Club Med's brand identity offers a truly unique differentiation in the market and speaks to its history of offering ultimate disconnection with a new campaign coined: "That's L'Esprit Libre". The slogan renews and reaffirms the optimistic embrace of life that Club Med is famed for: the art of living a happy life.
"When the complexities of everyday life are removed so one can focus on special moments, like having ice cream for breakfast and putting on ski boots, or if your family vacation actually feels like a vacation – That's L'Esprit Libre," said Kevin Armstrong, Senior Director of Brand & Communications for Club Med North America and the Caribbean. "Our new brand positioning takes inspiration from our long-standing 73-year history and iconic advertising campaigns, reinforcing our pioneering essence as well as our forthcoming journey with simplicity, modernized luxury, and playfulness."
Club Med operates nearly 70 all-inclusive beach and mountain resorts worldwide and sees between three to five new resort openings or renovations per year that appeal to both luxury travel and family-friendly experiences. The brand's expansion has also continued to evolve into becoming more upscale with the recent launch of its Exclusive Collection portfolio, a collection of 5-star resorts, villas, chalets, spaces and a yacht around the world that include elements taking luxury to the next level, from artfully-crafted single plated dishes to larger high-design multi-bedroom suites. Looking ahead, Club Med is prioritizing expansion of its Exclusive Collection portfolio by opening more Exclusive Collection properties and including Exclusive Collection spaces within its four-star resorts.
"Throughout our 73-year history, we've watched our brand redefine the all-inclusive concept and evolve into a product that prioritizes simple luxuries that are ultimately the most meaningful for travelers," says Carolyne Doyon, President and CEO of Club Med North America and the Caribbean. "Therefore, we find it important to look back on our roots and pay homage to what has made Club Med what it is today: delivering unique experiences in desirable locations with moments of togetherness, personalization, and opportunities to create life long memories to ensure our guests enjoy the feeling of being completely carefree. That's L'Esprit Libre."
As part of this brand evolution, Club Med is enhancing all consumer communication touchpoints with refreshed logos, iconography, and color palette from its website and emails to the 'My Club Med' app and in-resort signage in order to reflect its new identity both in the resorts and outside.
For more information, please visit www.clubmed.us/anewchapter.
Pioneering Sustainable Tourism
In addition to its brand evolution, Club Med has also put significant focus on accelerating its ongoing sustainability efforts dedicated to responsible tourism like the elimination of single-use plastics, energy management, and cultural preservation. As part of their "Happy to Care" program, some of the commitments for 2023-2024 include:
- Prioritization of local sourcing like Club Med Québec, which sources 80% of its food products from Canada, and Club Med Cancun, which sources 65% from Mexico.
- Combatting food waste through the development of food waste programs, like a partnership with Solucycle at Club Med Québec, which converts organic waste into renewable energy sources.
- Creating the Club Med RecycleWear collection, a staff uniform as well as boutique products made from recycled plastic, which has recycled over 2 million plastic water bottles since its deployment in 2019.
- All North American, Caribbean, and Mexican resorts have eliminated all single-use plastic products, saving more than 60,000 plastic bottles each year in Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda alone.
- Green Globe re-certification for Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda, Club Med Punta Cana (reaching gold status with 5 consecutive years of certification), Club Med Turkoise, Club Med Ixtapa Pacific, Club Med Cancún, Club Med Québec with a new certification planned for Club Med Columbus this year.
- Turtle monitoring and protection program in Club Med Ixtapa, which has saved more than 13,000 baby turtles in the past year.
ABOUT CLUB MED
Club Med, founded in 1950 by Gérard Blitz, is the pioneer of the all-inclusive concept, offering nearly 70 premium resorts in stunning locations around the world including North and South America, Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean. Each Club Med resort features authentic local style and comfortably upscale accommodations, superior sports programming and activities, enriching children's programs, gourmet dining, and warm and friendly service by its world-renown staff with legendary hospitality skills, an all-encompassing energy and diverse backgrounds.
Club Med operates in more than 32 countries and continues to maintain its authentic Club Med spirit with an international staff of more than 23,000 employees from more than 110 different nationalities. Led by its pioneering spirit, Club Med continues to grow and adapt to each market with three to five new resort openings or renovations per year, including a new mountain resort annually.
For more information, visit www.clubmed.us, call 1-800-Club-Med (1-800-258-2633), or contact a preferred travel professional. For an inside look at Club Med, follow Club Med on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Does every party require a host gift or is your presence present enough?
QUESTION: Should I take a gift for the host to every party I attend during the holidays? Last year I noticed that many people brought along a bottle of wine or festive package, but I did not. Do people giving the party expect this lovely gesture every time?
CALLIE’S ANSWER: No, the host isn't expecting to receive a gift for the party. That being said, it is a very lovely gesture if you can remember.
LILLIE-BETH’S ANSWER: It’s a fun way to thank your host for his or her effort in throwing the party. I was always taught to not go empty handed for something like a private party, but whatever you bring can be small and doesn’t have to cost a lot. (If it’s a wedding or baby shower, you’re still not going empty handed but the recipient is the honoree and not the host.) However, if you don’t have a gift in hand, that is OK, too. Just write them a note later or call to thank them for a lovely event. However you do it, be sure to thank the host somehow, at least with a note.
HELEN’S ANSWER: A sincere thank-you, a thank-you card or a small hostess gift can be taken to all parties. The hosts are happy to receive you at their gathering most of all, so anything else is extra! During the holidays, it is always appropriate to bring a small Christmas ornament for the host. You also can arrive at the event without bringing anything. Cost and time contribute to the factors involved with party host gifting.
GUEST’S ANSWER: Devonne Carter, a licensed clinical social worker and owner of Betty Lou's Flowers and Gifts in Norman: It is always nice to take a gift when invited to someone's house for a party or holiday event. I would encourage it every time, but here is the caveat: the gift is about thanking the hostess, not about how much you spend or how large the gift is.
Wine has been a standard gift in movies and on TV shows. The problem with wine is some people might be alcohol-free, so wine is a very personal gift. You sure don't want to take alcohol into a home where they might be battling addictions. If you don't know the hostess well, I would encourage you to stay away from alcohol. Flowers are always a wonderful universal gift, and they can be a large gift or a very small gift. Since it is the Christmas season, there are so many affordable gifts readily available, for example: tree ornaments or a dreidel for your Jewish friends.
If you are a baker, or have a favorite bakery, consumable gifts are wonderful, since we all have too much STUFF these days! Of course if you like to craft, a homemade gift is always special, but if that isn't your thing, then look around and you will find all sorts of gift ideas! Remember: It is the thought that counts!
Since 2009, Callie, Lillie-Beth and Helen have written this generational etiquette column. They also include guest responses from a wide range of ages each week. So many years later, Callie is 20-plus; Lillie-Beth is 40-plus and Helen is 60-plus. To ask an etiquette question, email helen.wallace@cox.net. | 2022-12-05T13:22:13+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2022/12/05/reader-asks-if-gifts-for-holiday-party-hosts-are-required/69689939007/ |
The Miami Heat (40-35) will be playing on the road in Canada on Tuesday evening for a matchup against the Toronto Raptors (37-38) that is slated to tip off at 7:30 p.m. inside of Scotiabank Arena.
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Miami won back-to-back games — against the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knicks — before it suffered a 129-100 loss against the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday, Mar. 25. Mikal Bridges and Cameron Johnson were on fire for the Nets and combined for 50 points — Bridges had 27 and Johnson tallied 23 — in the nearly 30-point blowout.
Tyler Herro and Max Strus were the top performers for the Heat in that one. Both recorded 23 points apiece.
Toronto on the other hand is on a two-game winning streak since losing to Indiana on Mar. 22. During a 114-104 win in their last game against the Washington Wizards, the Raptors saw most of their production come from OG Anunoby and Fred VanVleet, who, combined, finished with 57 points.
Anunoby had 29 points, 8 rebounds and an assist; and VanVleet had 28 points, 7 assists and four boards.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Block, Inc. ("Block" or the "Company") (NYSE: SQ).
Class Period: November 4, 2021 – April 4, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: December 12, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Block investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the Company lacked adequate protocols restricting access to customer sensitive information; (2) that, as a result, a former employee was able to download certain reports of the Company's subsidiary, Cash App Investing, containing full customer names and brokerage account numbers, as well as brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity; (3) that, as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to suffer significant damage, including reputational harm; (4) and that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Bahrain sentences 3 for questioning Islamic teachings
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in the Arab Gulf nation of Bahrain have sentenced three people, each to a year in prison, for debating Islamic theology in a series of blog posts and online videos. The three are part of a local cultural society called Tajdeed, which is Arabic for Renewal. The society says it questions traditional Islamic scholarship and jurisprudence but not the religion itself. Critics, including prominent Shiite clerics in the kingdom, have accused the group of attacking Islam and have waged a campaign of incitement against them. The case has divided the majority Shiite community in Bahrain, which is ruled by a Sunni monarchy. | 2023-03-30T17:26:18+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/03/30/bahrain-sentences-3-for-questioning-islamic-teachings/ |
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Police in Muskogee, Oklahoma, confirmed Tuesday they are investigating the shooting deaths of three relatives of seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson.
The bodies of Jack Janway, 69; his wife Terry Janway, 68; and their grandson Dalton Janway, 11, were discovered Monday at a home in Muskogee, located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa, Muskogee police spokesperson Lynn Hamlin said. Hamlin said investigators believe Terry Janway shot and killed her husband and grandson before shooting herself.
Police responded to the home after a woman called 911 to report a disturbance with a gun before hanging up, Hamlin said.
When police arrived on the scene, they found one person near the front door of the home and then heard a gunshot from further inside, where officers later found two other people dead, Hamlin said. Hamlin confirmed the three are the parents and nephew of Johnson's wife, Chandra Janway.
Johnson's race team, Legacy Motor Club, announced on Twitter it was withdrawing his No. 84 Carvana Chevrolet from this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series event in Chicago. The team added: "The Johnson family has asked for privacy at this time and no further statements will be made."
"We are saddened by the tragic deaths of members of Chandra Johnson's family," NASCAR said in a statement. "The entire NASCAR family extends its deepest support and condolences during this difficult time to Chandra, Jimmie and the entire Johnson & Janway families."
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Sheetz vs. Wawa
Convenience store wars in this state tend to focus on two biggies: Sheetz and Wawa.
The suburban Philadelphia-based Wawa last year announced a massive expansion with 40 stores to come in central Pennsylvania. There are no Wawas in the Harrisburg area yet, but several are getting close. Sheetz, based in the Altoona area, has remained dominant in the Harrisburg region.
One of the Wawa stores is proposed for a Lower Swatara Township shopping center, not far from Harrisburg International Airport, that’s getting a complete redo. Right next door to the shopping center space is a Sheetz that’s been open for more than five years.
If those plans go through, you’d be able to grab both a hoagie and an MTO sub during one short walk and do your own taste test: Wawa or Sheetz?
Now, let’s take a look at this morning’s headlines.
Today’s talkers
Teens make more: Teenagers make up a small slice of the nation’s overall labor pool. However, since the pandemic, economists say, younger workers are benefitting from plentiful job opportunities and higher pay.
Homeless in Harrisburg: As debate and criticism continue to swirl around the marked increase in homeless camps along the Capital Area Greenbelt in South Harrisburg, advocates for the unhoused are asking a fundamental question: Where are they supposed to go?
Over-the-top house: With 28 rooms and so much gold leaf, a Cumberland County home has been featured on Zillow Gone Wild, a national site that showcases outrageous properties. It’s for sale at $1.1 million.
New Civil War museum: The Adams County Historical Society will soon open the Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum. It aims to tell the stories of people who lived in Gettysburg during and after the war.
Food & drink
Food truck to restaurant: A Harrisburg-area food truck known for its fresh-cut french fries is opening a sit-down restaurant. Potato Coop will open on May 6 in Susquehanna Township.
Chef signing: Celebrity chef Robert Irvine is returning to central Pa. for a bottle signing at one of the state liquor stores.
Cheap Blizzards: Through a special deal only on its app, Dairy Queen is selling Blizzards for 85 cents. The price represents the year the Blizzard was introduced: 1985.
Politics
Primary Election Day: Pennsylvanians soon will be voting in the primary election for a slew of local and judicial candidates. Whoever wins will face off in the November general election.
The emergency ends: The U.S. national emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic ended this week when President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years.
Shapiro on gun violence: Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro was on national television yesterday morning, discussing the Kentucky mass shooting, gun violence and abortion.
Updates
Chocolate company sued: A West Reading candy maker ignored warnings of a gas leak at its chocolate factory before an explosion that killed seven workers, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.
Man dies trimming tree: A 39-year-old Lancaster County man died over the weekend when one of the tree branches he was trimming touched a power line, electrocuting him, authorities said.
Sports
High school swimmers: The swimming season in Pennsylvania wrapped up last month with the PIAA Championships at Bucknell University. We have the girls and boys all stars, along with the top girl and top boy swimmers.
Penn State football: The Nittany Lions are getting ready for the blue-white game this weekend.
OTHER DON’T-MISS STORIES
- Fire watch issued across Pa. for Wednesday
- Rare hawk covered in oil rescued in Pennsylvania
- Pa. man pleads guilty to killing, dismembering wife
- Singer Beth Hart to perform at Hershey Theatre
- Social media claims of attempted child abductions are false: police
- ‘Zombie hunter’ found guilty in Pa. woman’s death 30 years ago
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(The Hill) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) fielded attacks from a number of candidates in the city’s crowded mayoral race during their first televised debate on Thursday evening, underscoring the challenges that lie ahead for the incumbent in her reelection bid.
All nine candidates, including Lightfoot, participated in a 90-minute televised debate hosted by ABC 7 Chicago, Univision Chicago and the Leagues of Women Voters of Chicago/Illinois in which the mayoral hopefuls discussed an array of issues, including crime and public safety, the opioid crisis, youth mental health and transportation accessibility.
Many of those candidates took jabs at the mayor, suggesting she did not work collaboratively with officials and was out of touch with the city and that the city was facing a “leadership crisis.”
“Many of us thought that this administration would raise the bar. But all we’ve seen is raise the bridges, attempt to raise taxes and to raise the murder rate. We have to do better,” said mayoral candidate and state Rep. Kam Buckner (D), referencing Lightfoot’s decision to raise the city’s bridges following protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Alderman Sophia King, another mayoral candidate, argued that the city needed a mayor who “attacks the city’s problems and not its people,” alluding to to Lightfoot’s confrontations with city and state officials.
Amid all the attacks against the mayor, which highlighted lingering tensions officials have had with Lightfoot’s leadership style and her handling of crises like the summer 2020 protests, candidates didn’t shy away from taking shots at other contenders, too.
Buckner targeted mayoral challenger Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D) several times, accusing the congressman and other members of Congress of not doing enough to assist migrants coming to the city.
“We have to ramp up our permanent supportive housing programs for these people,” Buckner said of migrants coming to Chicago. “And we also have to look at the fact that it takes 150 days for an asylum-seeker to get a work permit. The federal government is not doing enough. So Congressman García, we need you and your colleagues to step up, because this is a problem that falls on the laps of Washington, D.C.”
Meanwhile, mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, accused García of plagiarizing Lightfoot’s public safety plan.
Johnson also levied an accusation against fellow contender Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), saying that he “further stratified our school district, leaving our schools without the necessary support that they need.”
And the mayor took shots of her own, attempting to tie García to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in an echo of an ad her campaign rolled out trying to make the same connection between the two. Bankman-Fried had given nearly $3,000 to the congressman’s campaign, which García later donated. A super PAC associated with the FTX founder also spent more than $150,000 on boosting the congressman, though García has said “by law and by definition, I had nothing to do with” the money given and that it was spent independently outside his campaign.
Lightfoot also took jabs at Vallas. The former CPS CEO suggested at one point during the debate in a discussion over migrants coming to the city that Chicago was “baiting other governors.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), along with other governors of states near the country’s southern border, have sent thousands of migrants to Democratic-led northern cities such as Chicago in recent months.
“You can’t basically grandstand and say, ‘We’re a sanctuary city, we’re inviting everybody in,’ and then not have a plan for dealing with people when they do come in,” Vallas said.
“I just heard Paul Vallas say that we should not call out racist, xenophobic practices of governors like Greg Abbott, who are treating migrants like freight. Well, that may be your idea of a welcoming city. It’s not my idea,” the mayor later shot back.
The debate comes more than a month away from the Feb. 28 election. If no candidate gets more than half the vote during the race, the two top vote-getters will head into a runoff, which is scheduled for April 4. | 2023-01-20T19:52:32+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/lightfoot-fields-attacks-in-crowded-chicago-mayoral-debate/ |
MERIDIAN, Idaho — On Monday, the United States Golf Association will host the U.S. Adaptive Open at Pinehurst Golf Course in North Carolina, this three-day event is a new national championship for adaptive golfers and two of those competing are from Idaho.
Army veteran Chad Pfeifer lost his leg in an IED blast while deployed to Iraq in 2007, a year later as he started his rehabilitation Chad got introduced to the game of golf.
"You know I have had a crazy journey since, but then getting my leg amputated kind of was a blessing in disguise," said Pfeifer. "I’ve had so many great opportunities through the game of golf, met my wife and have three boys now so life is good."
Great tagging along with @idahodent in Caldwell, Idaho. We met @chadpfeifergolf as he prepares to play in the @USGA Adaptive Open next week. Chad lost his leg in Iraq in 2007 - took up golf in 2008. Story on @IdahoNews6 @EWScrippsCo pic.twitter.com/wNela54ZF7
— Chris Nagus (@ChrisNagusTV) July 13, 2022
Mike Madsen lost one of his legs in his twenties, he discovered golf because he got a job at a golf course during college, like Pfeifer, Mike told us golf helped a great deal with therapy both physically and mentally.
"There are a lot of limitations on what I could do and this was one thing I could go out there and compete with the best of them," said Madsen. "I can compete with able bodied individuals, it made me feel more normal."
96 players, 96 inspiring stories.
— USGA (@USGA) July 12, 2022
Go inside the field to learn more about who will be teeing it up at @PinehurstResort No. 6 in the inaugural #USAdaptiveOpen.
Both of these golfers will travel to North Carolina on Thursday so they can get some practice rounds and get used to the humidity on the east coast, it's also something both golfers are looking forward to.
"This inaugural adaptive open is going to be huge for a lot of different reasons," said Pfeifer. "I’m incredible grateful to be accepted to play in it and it is going to have a great impact on both adaptive golf and golf in general."
The tournament had 299 entries for 96 slots as golfers will come from 29 states and 12 countries to compete with ages ranging from 15-years-old to 80-years-old, Pfeifer is from Caldwell while Madsen lives in Meridian.
"To have enough people wanting to participate in this to where they are willing to put all the work and effort that goes into putting together a national championship, it means a lot," said Madsen.
"I would love to go down and compete and get the win," said Pfeifer. "That would be a dream come true to win the inaugural adaptive open."
Competition at the prestigious Pinehurst Golf Course starts on Monday and the event ends on Wednesday. | 2022-07-13T23:03:23+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/two-idaho-golfers-will-compete-in-the-first-ever-u-s-adaptive-open |
NEW YORK (AP) — This was a match that would not end. Should not end, one might say. Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, two of the brightest young stars of men’s tennis, traded shots of the highest quality and countless momentum swings across five sterling sets for 5 hours, 15 minutes until Alcaraz finally won the last point at 2:50 a.m. on Thursday, the latest finish in U.S. Open history.
It was “only” a quarterfinal, no trophy at stake, yet was as taut a thriller as this year’s tournament has produced or, likely, will, a tour de force of big cuts on the full sprint and plenty of guts, concluding as a 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-7 (0), 7-5, 6-3 victory for the No. 3-seeded Alcaraz, a 19-year-old from Spain.
“Honestly,” said Alcaraz, who saved a match point in the fourth set, “I still don’t know how I did it.”
He also used words such as “unbelievable” and “amazing.” No hyperbole there.
“This one will hurt for quite a while,” said No. 11 Sinner, a 21-year-old from Italy. “But tomorrow, I will wake up — or today, I will wake up — trying to somehow (take away) only the positives.”
When the 382nd, and final, point was over, Sinner and Alcaraz hugged each other. A handshake at the net would not suffice.
Alcaraz reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and is the youngest man to get that far at the U.S. Open since Pete Sampras won the title at 19 in 1990.
Alcaraz has a chance to move up to No. 1 in the rankings next week, and will face No. 22 Frances Tiafoe of the United States on Friday. The other men’s semifinal that day is No. 5 Casper Ruud of Norway vs. No. 27 Karen Khachanov of Russia.
This match began Wednesday evening at about 9:35 p.m. and easily surpassed the previous mark for latest time of finish at the U.S. Open, which had been 2:26 a.m., shared by three matches.
Alcaraz has been working overtime in New York: His five-set victory over 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in the fourth round wrapped up at 2:23 a.m. on Tuesday.
“I always say you have to believe in yourself all the time,” Alcaraz said. “The hope is the last thing that you lose.”
After his much more mundane, three-set victory over Andrey Rublev in a quarterfinal that finished at about 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Tiafoe was rather prescient when asked about Alcaraz and Sinner.
“I just hope they play a marathon match, super-long match,” Tiafoe said with a smile, “and they get really tired come Friday.”
Not only did this one run late, it ran long: Only a 5-hour, 26-minute match between Stefan Edberg and Michael Chang in 1992 took more time at the U.S. Open.
Asked afterward how he was feeling physically out there against Sinner, Alcaraz began with a quick response: “I felt great.”
Then he paused, and smiled, before continuing: “Well, probably at the end of the match, I was (at) my end.”
The clock already was past 2 a.m. when Coco Gauff, the 18-year-old American who was the runner-up at the French Open and bowed out in the U.S. Open quarterfinals on Tuesday, spoke for anyone paying attention to Alcaraz vs. Sinner when she tweeted: “this match is insane. I leave at 6am for the airport but I refuse to sleep and miss this. #Sinner #Alcaraz”
Still, even with thousands and thousands of empty seats, there were enough who remained on hand to make as much noise as a full house at times. Both players would wave their rackets or motion with their arms to encourage the fans to get even louder. And, naturally, the fans would oblige.
“Could have finished in three sets. Could have finished in four sets. Could have finished in five sets,” Sinner said. “We both wanted to win, for sure. We both tried our best.”
It was as back-and-forth as could be. The highlights were too many to list. Just one: Alcaraz won one point after extending a rally by wrapping his racket behind his back to make contact with the ball. One more: Alcaraz fell onto his backside, then sprung up to race to smack a backhand that won that point.
After taking the first set, Alcaraz held five set points in the second — but Sinner saved them all.
In the third, Alcaraz broke to lead 6-5 and served for that set — but Sinner broke to force a tiebreaker that he dominated.
In the fourth, it was Sinner who served for the match at 5-4, even coming within a point of victory there — but Alcaraz broke and wound up pushing what already was a masterpiece to a fifth.
And in the fifth, after another memorable shot — a running backhand passing winner that sailed just past Sinner’s outstretched arm — earned a break point and a chance for a 5-3 lead, Alcaraz put a finger to his ear.
He would convert that, then serve it out. When the end did arrive, Alcaraz dropped to his back, his chest heaving, and covered his face with his hand.
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More questions are answered about obtaining Driver Privilege Cards | Ask the RI DMV
Q: Regarding Driver Privilege Cards (DPCs), for people who already have an out-of-state license, do they have to retake the computerized permit exam again or will they just do a transfer?
A: DPCs can be transferred from out of state, but they need approval from the R.I. DMV Enforcement Office. Customers still need to make a DPC reservation, show two identity documents (from the DPC checklist in English, in Spanish), two proofs of residency and the tax verification letter from the Division of Taxation proving they filed taxes for the year preceding or are a dependent of someone who filed.
Q: Also, are people who have a Social Security card with an expired work permit eligible for the license?
A: The R.I. DMV Enforcement Office determines if the customer has lawful status and makes a determination on their DPC eligibility. If the customer no longer has lawful status as verified by the Enforcement Office through the Department of Homeland Security, they may be eligible for a DPC.
Ask the DMV:Undocumented RI residents can get Driver Privilege Cards starting July 3. Here's how.
Q: For those with expired licenses who don't have a Social Security card, are they eligible to renew their license?
A: Customers without lawful status (and without a Social Security number) cannot renew their (non-DPC) license but may be eligible for a DPC (they need to make a reservation, present the documents on the checklist, and receive Enforcement approval). These customers will have a lawful status denial letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Q: If someone is requesting a translated license from a certified translator, is there a list of certified translators? Or can a notary public translate it?
A: We do not have a list. They should contact their consulate if their license needs translating.
Chuck Hollis is assistant administrator of the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles. Please email your questions to cars@providencejournal.com with “Ask the DMV” in the subject field.http://www.dmv.ri.gov/ | 2023-07-28T12:29:22+00:00 | providencejournal.com | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/lifestyle/auto-guide/2023/07/28/more-questions-are-answered-on-driver-privilege-cards-ask-the-ri-dmv-chukck-hollis/70423576007/ |
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambium Networks Corporation ("Cambium Networks") (NASDAQ: CMBM), a leading provider of wireless networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that it plans to report financial results for the fourth quarter and full 2022 ended Dec. 31, 2022, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023.
Conference Call and Webcast
Cambium Networks will host a live webcast and conference call to discuss its financial results and Q&A at 4:30 p.m. ET, on Feb. 16, 2023. On the call will be Atul Bhatnagar, president and CEO, and Andrew Bronstein, CFO. The call will be moderated by Peter Schuman, VP of investor & industry analyst relations.
To join the financial results live webcast and view additional materials which will be posted to the investor website, listeners should access the investor page of Cambium Networks website https://investors.cambiumnetworks.com/. Following the live webcast, a replay will be available in the event archives at the same web address for a period of one year.
To access the live conference call by phone, listeners should register in advance at https://register.vevent.com/register/BIe42a17d8cf414d09a006e67a8b042659. Upon registration, telephone participants will receive a confirmation email detailing how to join the conference call, including the dial-in number and a unique passcode.
About Cambium Networks
Cambium Networks delivers wireless communications that work for businesses, communities, and cities worldwide. Millions of our radios are deployed to connect people, places and things with a unified wireless fabric that spans multiple standards and frequencies of fixed wireless and Wi-Fi, all managed centrally via the cloud. Our multi-gigabit wireless fabric offers a compelling value proposition over traditional fiber and alternative wireless solutions. We work with our Cambium certified ConnectedPartners to deliver purpose-built networks for service provider, enterprise, industrial, and government connectivity solutions in urban, suburban, and rural environments, with wireless that just works.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RQI) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on July 29, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2012, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES.
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2022 (January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2022. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending June 30, 2022 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2022. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
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Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
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Rebecca Thompson was about to sign a lease for an apartment with a friend in early 2020 when businesses started shutting down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So instead, the 34-year-old decided to stay with her parents to save money. But with home prices skyrocketing in Dallas, she thought she’d never be able to buy her own home.
That changed suddenly in July when her employer, the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, announced a new employee benefit: $13,500 in the form of a forgivable loan to help with a down payment or closing costs on a home.
“After that meeting, there was a buzz in the air,” Thompson says. “Everybody was so excited.”
Thompson, who works in the nonprofit’s fundraising office, expressed her interest right then and there. “I was literally the first person,” she says. “I don’t even think the slide had gone off the screen.”
To receive the down-payment assistance, Thompson is taking part in a program for first-time home buyers, just like the one Habitat offers to its clients. Counselors break down her finances to help her see what she can afford and how she can save. They explain down payments, closing costs, mortgage insurance, what to look for in a home inspection, and other costs and complexities of home buying and ownership.
Thompson hopes that with the down-payment assistance she can find a home with two bedrooms so she can have a home office. Plus, her cats and lizard could use some extra space. She loves growing her own food, so outdoor space for a garden is important, too.
Thompson is excited about the prospect of moving out of the cramped bedroom in her parents’ home. “It’s been hard for them to watch me struggle a little bit in this economy,” she says. “They’re excited that I’m going to be able to take this step.”
The Dallas Habitat received a $9 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in March. That sum of money — more than the $7 million in total contributions it raised in 2020 — allowed the group to think big and creatively, says CEO David Crawford.
The organization was developing a program for corporations that would enable them to refer employees to Habitat for counseling on home buying and, in some cases, down-payment assistance. The group decided to use some of the Scott gift to develop a similar program for its own employees. It will spend the rest to purchase land on which to build homes for its clients.
Crawford says that while employee turnover has not been unusually high, hiring new employees has been a challenge given very low unemployment rates. After years of increasing home prices and now higher interest rates and inflation, it was clear that homeownership was a challenge for many of the group’s staff. He hoped a program to help put homeownership in reach would make more employees want to stay and encourage new ones to join the organization.
While the program has costs, they are less than they seem. Recruiting a new employee can cost $7,500 to $12,500, he says. “If this helps us recruit someone and bring them in more rapidly and then keep them, it’s been money well spent,” he says.
The program is limited to employees who make less than 120% of the Dallas area median income — $116,800 a year for a family of four. Depending on employees’ income, they might qualify to buy a home built by the Dallas Habitat or a home on the open market. The loan is forgiven if the employee stays at the organization for five years. Each year, 20% of the total loan amount is forgiven; if the employee leaves Habitat in less than five years, that person must repay the remaining balance on the loan.
The group also works with lenders that provide home loans requiring down payments of 0 to 3.5% of the cost of the house. Some of the lenders also have their own down-payment assistance programs, says Blaine Cowart, the group’s vice president of homeowner services, who designed the employee benefit. Some staff may also be able to take advantage of programs that help them pay a lower interest rate on their home loan. So far, three employees are under contract to buy homes — two of them built by Dallas Habitat.
“There has been a ton of excitement about this program,” Cowart says. “I have had countless employees come and visit me personally and share their interest in it.”
It’s no surprise that employees are so interested. A July report from RE/MAX found that Dallas had the highest home appreciation in the country. With climbing interest rates, the housing market has slowed, but in Dallas home prices are still up 14% over September of last year.
Affordable homes have virtually disappeared from the market in the Dallas area. In the third quarter of 2017, 31.6% of homes sold for less than $200,000, according to data from the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University. In the third quarter of 2022, only 4.5% did.
Prices rose so fast because competition for homes was fierce, says Todd Luong, a realtor with RE/MAX DFW Associates. He says that since the pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, out-of-state buyers have flocked to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, drawn by the once-affordable housing market.
Investors also began buying up property, particularly big new firms like Opendoor Technologies and Offerpad, which make all-cash offers. Luong says last year 50% of Dallas home sales went to institutional buyers who fix up the homes and resell or rent them. But the swift increase in mortgage interest rates has caused investors to pull back, he says. Homes, particularly more affordable ones, are staying on the market longer, which gives buyers more choice — albeit at higher monthly costs, thanks to higher interest rates.
The Habitat program targets a persistent problem for people with low and moderate incomes — the difficulty of saving for a down payment, says Clare Losey, an assistant research economist at Texas A&M’s Texas Real Estate Research Center. She says the current housing market and the economy have only exacerbated the problem. People with the lowest incomes are often the most sensitive to interest rate increases because they cannot absorb higher monthly costs. But any additional financial help means a lot.
“A program like this that Habitat is providing for its employees is a huge benefit,” she says. “Saving $13,000 on a household income of, say, $50,000 is going to take years and years.”
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Jim Rendon is a senior writer at the Chronicle. Email: jim.rendon@philanthropy.com. The AP and the Chronicle receive support from the Lilly Endowment for coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits. The AP and the Chronicle are solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. | 2022-11-30T20:11:02+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/ap-dallas-habitat-for-humanity-helps-staff-purchase-homes/ |
Former Detroit lawmaker joins race for Michigan seat in US Senate
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former state. Rep. Leslie Love, a Democrat from Detroit, has announced she will seek Michigan’s open Senate seat next year. Love joins a small crowd of candidates vying for the Democratic nomination against Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, who raised $3 million in the first month of her campaign. On the Democratic side, businessman Nasser Beydoun and attorney Zack Burns have also announced campaigns. Republicans Michael Hoover and Nikki Snyder, a State Board of Education member, are also running for the seat, which will be vacated at the end of next year by retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Love announced her decision Monday. | 2023-05-15T22:28:51+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/05/15/former-detroit-lawmaker-joins-race-for-michigan-seat-in-us-senate/ |
Indiana doctor is reprimanded for providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. The Texas attorney general faces possible impeachment. Turkey's presidential runoff election is Sunday.
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Indiana doctor is reprimanded for providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. The Texas attorney general faces possible impeachment. Turkey's presidential runoff election is Sunday.
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Belmont Stakes could be in jeopardy as wildfire smoke shrouds US cities
By Ben Church, CNN
(CNN) — This year’s Belmont Stakes is under threat as wildfire smoke originating from Canada continues to spread across the US.
The iconic race is due to be held on Saturday in Elmont, New York but the event has already been impacted by the poor air quality.
The New York Racing Association (NYRA) postponed Thursday’s schedule at Belmont Park and said racing would only be authorised if conditions improved.
“Safety is paramount as we navigate this unprecedented situation,” said NYRA President and CEO David O’Rourke in a statement.
“NYRA will actively monitor all available data and weather information as we work toward the resumption of training and racing.
“Based on current forecast models and consultation with our external weather services, we remain optimistic that we will see an improvement in air quality on Friday.”
Millions across the US and Canada remain at risk of inhaling potentially harmful air as wildfire smoke continues to wreak havoc. Parts of the East Coast are expected to continue to suffer poor air quality until at least the weekend.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) – one of the largest animal rights organizations in the world – called for the race to be postponed earlier this week “due to smoke and the dangerous particulate level.”
“If the air in New York is unsafe for humans, it will be worse for horses running at top speed,” PETA said in a statement.
“The safety of the horses must come before profit and tradition, even if it means postponing the Belmont Stakes.”
Horse safety
New York’s governor Kathy Hochul told reporters that the race could be cancelled if the air quality index exceeds 200.
It was explained that if the air quality index was between 150-200, only horses that have passed a medical examination would be permitted to race.
“People come from all over the country. It’s huge for the local economy. And so we can hopefully can get this going,” Hochul said.
“But there’s no assurance of what the weather’s going to be. So it’s going to be a last-minute decision, I’m sure.”
Should the event go ahead as planned, all eyes will be on Belmont Park for the final leg of the coveted Triple Crown – a series which includes the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
This year’s races have already been marred by multiple horse deaths and questions about animal welfare in the sport but there are still nine horses set to compete for the prestigious prize.
How to watch
The Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
For the first time, Fox will broadcast all of Saturday’s races instead of its usual home on NBC.
The big race will start at 7.02 p.m. ET.
The lineup and odds
The odds are from the Belmont Stakes official website and are correct as of June 9 at 7 a.m ET
Tapit Shoes: 20-1
Tapit Trice: 3-1
Arcangelo: 8-1
National Treasure: 5-1
Il Miracolo: 30-1
Forte: 5-2
Hit Show: 10-1
Angel of Empire: 7-2
Red Route One: 15-1
Ones to watch
The Belmont will offer an opportunity of redemption for Forte, who was scratched from this year’s Kentucky Derby at the last minute.
The horse was forced to miss the first leg of the Triple Crown by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission state veterinarian due to a bruised right front foot but he heads into the Belmont as the heavy favourite.
His biggest competition will likely come from the likes of Tapit Trice, Angel of Empire and Bob Baffert’s National Treasure – which won the Preakness Stakes last month.
The win made Baffert the winningest trainer in Preakness Stakes history, having now had eight horses win the race.
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Casper Graphic Artist Reveals New Art and Creative Process
This is the first article in what will become a series of write-ups highlighting local talent in Natrona County.
I invited Glasgow to coffee at Scarlows, but incidentally opted for tea as it was after noon.
I always notice when someone orders something caffeinated past two.
Glasgow goes for espresso, so it comes as no surprise that he is a night-owl, and he creates much of his art when some of us (ahem) are headed to sleep.
For anyone who doesn't already know, he's a graphic artist, although he modestly calls himself a hobbyist, not an artist.
Townsquare Media wrote about his work in September after he released new pieces, and I was happy to sit with him and chat about his newest project, titled Ravenous Moon:
For Glasgow, making art is a passion, not a job.
He doesn't set a rigid timeline for art projects to be started or completed--he said the raven piece took about a week, but it's always different.
He starts something new when he's inspired, which he admitted is a little harder in the winter.
By day he works as an app developer.
Glasgow shared that he's an avid hiker and runner, which is a fuel for his creativity.
It's hard to miss the obvious influence the landscapes of Wyoming have had on his art as he often uses photographs he's taken of the outdoors to infuse into pictures and illustrations of wildlife.
We talk about the artist's block, akin to writer's block, and his trick-- "just go on a run and get it sorted out."
Music is also a big part of his creative process. Glasgow said he was listening to Waylon Jennings when the idea for the raven came to him, which makes sense.
Moody. Dark. Outlawish, for sure.
And while Glasgow has been dabbling in graphic art for about twenty years now, he said he believes his best work has come in the past few years.
He feels more focused than ever, and is feeling good about things moving right along in 2023.
You can find his artwork at www.307store.com. | 2023-01-22T22:11:54+00:00 | k2radio.com | https://k2radio.com/casper-graphic-artist-reveals-new-art-and-creative-process/ |
TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Info-Tech Research Group, one of the world's leading IT research and advisory firms, has published its newest industry resource, Identify and Manage Reputational Risk Impacts on Your Organization. This highly relevant research will assist organizational leaders in the ongoing monitoring of social media and the vendors associated with their brand as well as evolving organizational risk assessments to be more adaptive to respond to the rapid changes in online media. The research outlines that consistent monitoring of social media and the vendors tied to their company is imperative to achieving success and avoiding reputational disasters
"Social media, unprecedented access to good and bad information, and consumer reliance on online opinions have forced organizations to dedicate more resources to protecting their brand reputation than ever before," says Frank Sewell, research director of vendor management at Info-Tech Research Group. "Perceptions matter, and you should monitor and protect the perception of your organization with as much rigor as possible to ensure your brand remains recognizable and trusted."
In the digital economy, access to information about companies is more available to consumers than ever. Negative events, such as a data breach, service disruption, or customer complaint, are becoming increasingly common and could impact an organization's reputation at any time. Info-Tech's research points to the need to continuously monitor vendor actions in the market to help organizations address brand disasters before they occur. As such, organizations can and must implement mechanisms to monitor and manage how information is perceived to avoid potentially disastrous consequences to the brand's reputation.
The timely new research from Info-Tech Research Group highlights seven key steps for leaders to take in assessing reputational risk impacts to help streamline their risk identification, assessment, and management processes. Those steps are:
- Review Organizational Strategy – Leaders should review the organizational strategy to prepare for a "what if" exercise. This activity is recommended as a best practice and includes asking probing questions to draw out, understand, and eliminate possible negative outcomes.
- Identify & Understand Potential Risks – Execute the "what if" game with the right people at the table. As an example, this might include organizational leadership, the vendor management coordinator, operations experts (SMEs), marketing team members, and legal, compliance, and risk managers.
- Create a Risk Profile Packet for Leadership – Pull all the determined information together in a presentation document. This will act as a comprehensive reputational risk profile, including specific vendor solutions, for future reference.
- Validate the Risks – Collaboration across leadership throughout the organization is important to ensure that the proposed risks are in line with their thoughts and make a list of identified potential risk scenarios scored by likelihood and financial impact.
- Plan to Manage the Risks – Lower the overall risk potential by putting mitigations in place and creating a list of potential management of the scenarios to reduce the risk.
- Communicate the Plan – It is crucial to not only to have a plan but also to socialize it in the organization for awareness. A risk management plan is only as useful as it is understood, so organizational buy-in and comprehension are crucial to its success.
- Enact the Plan – Once the plan is finalized and socialized, it should be implemented in conjunction with continued monitoring for success.
"All we are at our core is our reputation and our brand, and they are intertwined," says Phil Bode, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group. "Organizational leadership is often caught unaware during crises, with response plans lacking the flexibility to adjust to significant market upheavals as a result. Vendor management practices serve to educate organizations and their leadership on the different potential risks to vendors in their respective markets, suggesting creative and alternative ways to both avoid and help manage them."
For organizational leaders seeking to minimize potential reputational risks to their brand, Identify and Manage Reputational Risk Impacts on Your Organization is now available to download.
To learn more about Info-Tech Research Group and to download the latest research, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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(The Hill) — On Monday, NASA plans to strike an asteroid about seven millions miles from Earth with a 1,000-pound spacecraft in an unprecedented planetary defense test.
If successful, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be the first-ever spacecraft to deflect an asteroid with a kinetic strike and adjust its speed and flight path.
Here’s what you need to know about DART, which is headed toward a collision with the asteroid Dimorphos.
NASA expects to strike Dimorphos around 7 p.m.
NASA will begin live coverage of the event around 6 p.m. EST on Monday. Video coverage will be available on NASA’s social media accounts, including its Youtube page.
DART is estimated to slam into Dimorphos around 7:14 p.m. at more than 14,000 miles per hour. NASA officials will be able to estimate the results of the strike by using ground-based telescopes.
Following the event, officials will hold a media briefing around 8 p.m. to discuss DART’s mission.
DART is a key test for future threats
NASA has repeatedly stressed that Dimorphos is not a threat to Earth, but the mission’s success is important for the space agency to develop an effective response to any future threats.
If DART is successful, it could shorten the orbital period of Dimorphos by several minutes. After the mission, NASA will apply any lessons learned to future tests designed to ward off a future asteroid from colliding with Earth.
No known asteroid larger than 140 meters in size has a significant chance to impact Earth in the next 100 years, but scientists have only found about 40 percent of those asteroids as of October 2021, according to Johns Hopkin’s Applied Physics Lab (APL), a partner in the DART mission.
DART was authorized after a meteor exploded in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, creating a shockwave that felt in six cities across the nation.
NASA has an entire office dedicated to defending the planet: the Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
DART launched in November
The DART spacecraft launched on Nov. 23, 2021, from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif.
The spacecraft weighs 1,345 pounds but consists of just one instrument: the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation system, known as DRACO, which will capture images of Dimorphos and its asteroid system.
DRACO also helps direct DART’s flight toward Dimorphos with the Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real Time Navigation (SMART Nav), an algorithm using images from DRACO to chart a direct path.
Dimorphos is part of an asteroid system
Dimorphos is part of the binary asteroid system Didymos, which means twin in Greek. The asteroid system is about seven million miles from Earth.
Technically, Dimorphos is a moonlet of Didymos, a larger asteroid that Dimorphous orbits in the system.
Dimorphos is 560 feet wide, weighs more than 5 billion kilograms and completes an orbit of its parent asteroid once every 11 hours and 55 minutes.
The two asteroids are about .73 miles apart.
A follow-up mission is planned
The European Space Agency (ESA) will send a spacecraft called Hera toward the Didymos asteroid system in 2024 to assess the impact of DART in greater detail.
In a report, ESA — which expects Hera to arrive at Didymos in 2026 — said the Hera spacecraft will also “provide significant insights into asteroid science and the evolutionary history of our solar system.” | 2022-09-26T20:02:24+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/five-things-to-know-about-nasas-mission-to-hit-an-asteroid/ |
Best colleges in big cities
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Best colleges in big cities
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Going to college in a big city can be the best of both worlds. Schools can provide a sense of community that supports students as they spread their wings to see what urban life has to offer.
Of course, attending college in a big city can be expensive, finding a decent place to live nightmarish, and the pace frenzied. But the payoff can be remarkable. Students gain real-life experience, professional contacts, internships, and job opportunities, or join community projects and inner-city activism, none of which could be found in a classroom or on a remote bucolic campus.
To make it work, schools play a critical role in exploring areas for involvement, designing partnerships, and encouraging students. Some schools arrange for students to work with residents who may be homeless or facing other challenges. Others help students become involved in politics, neighborhood empowerment, or extending a helping hand to schools.
There are schools that emphasize experiential learning, designing curriculums that send students into the big-city workforce to supplement their academics. Going to school in a big city can also mean laying the groundwork for work after graduation, maybe in tech startups or at Fortune 500 companies. Some big-city schools take great pride in how many of their students are employed or are in graduate or professional schools soon after graduation.
On a less academic note, students in big cities get to enjoy a wealth of restaurants, bars, brewpubs, art museums, and musical performances.
Stacker ranked the best colleges in big cities using 2023 data from Niche. Colleges in cities with populations of more than 300,000 were considered, drawing data from the Census Bureau. Niche ranks schools based on a variety of factors including academics, admissions, financial value, and student life. Niche’s methodology can be found here.
Read on to learn more about the best big-city schools in the country.
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#50. Rhodes College
– Location: Memphis, Tennessee
— Population: 628,118
– Students: 1,788
– Acceptance rate: 51%
– Graduation rate: 82%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $53,600
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
Rhodes College emphasizes service, and most of its students become involved in the Memphis community, supporting its residents and helping improve its neighborhoods. Living in Memphis means enjoying its blues and rock ‘n’ roll scene—and its renowned barbecue.
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#49. Point Loma Nazarene University
– Location: San Diego, California
— Population: 1,381,600
– Students: 2,543
– Acceptance rate: 84%
– Graduation rate: 72%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $50,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
Point Loma Nazarene University, known as PLNU, is located on a 90-acre San Diego campus that overlooks the Pacific Ocean, and it has graduate and adult education locations elsewhere in San Diego County and in Bakersfield. The Christian school encourages students to become involved in the local community through ministries that offer tutoring and aid the area’s homeless population.
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#48. University of Arizona
– Location: Tucson, Arizona
— Population: 543,215
– Students: 28,556
– Acceptance rate: 85%
– Graduation rate: 65%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $47,300
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
The University of Arizona gets rave reviews for its beautifully landscaped grounds in the heart of downtown Tucson. The city’s arts, music, and cultural scene are big draws for students.
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#47. California State University – Long Beach
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– Location: Long Beach, California
— Population: 456,063
– Students: 29,110
– Acceptance rate: 42%
– Graduation rate: 73%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 21:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $48,100
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
The state-funded art program at CSULB is one of the largest in the nation. Yearly, it organizes more than 500 events, such as performances, exhibits, screenings, and lectures. The university’s public event calendar is part of Long Beach’s many attractions. Oftentimes unjustly overshadowed by nearby Los Angeles, Long Beach’s waterfront playground offers a vibrant lifestyle for students and other residents alike.
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#46. University of Colorado Denver
University of Colorado Denver logo on a building.
– Location: Denver, Colorado
— Population: 711,463
– Students: 8,622
– Acceptance rate: 66%
– Graduation rate: 44%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $56,400
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 90%
Who wouldn’t want to live in a city with 300 days of sunshine? That is what the 19,000 students enrolled at UC Denver enjoy while attending college in the heart of the city’s downtown. The school offers an accessible and relevant education achieved through innovative research programs and flexible formats.
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#45. University of Portland
– Location: Portland, Oregon
— Population: 642,218
– Students: 3,456
– Acceptance rate: 77%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $58,800
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 96%
The University of Portland sits on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River on the outskirts of the city. The school encourages students to utilize the location for real-life opportunities such as teaching in Portland area classrooms and working in hospitals and medical clinics.
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#44. Yeshiva University
– Location: New York, New York
— Population: 8,467,513
– Students: 2,553
– Acceptance rate: 67%
– Graduation rate: 77%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $58,500
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 82%
At Yeshiva, the undergraduate curriculum combines Jewish studies with liberal arts and sciences. Students say the school provides a supportive religious setting amid the vast opportunities offered by New York City.
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#43. Creighton University
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– Location: Omaha, Nebraska
— Population: 487,299
– Students: 4,330
– Acceptance rate: 64%
– Graduation rate: 82%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $59,700
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 95%
The Jesuit Catholic institution offers over 140 programs in several health, arts, sciences, law, and business fields. Students may enrich their education through research, internships, and service-based learning opportunities sponsored by CU, while discovering each one of the historic, quirky, and unique entertaining neighborhoods that make up the city of Omaha.
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#42. American University
– Location: Washington, District of Columbia
— Population: 670,050
– Students: 7,453
– Acceptance rate: 39%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $61,000
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
American University students flock to its School of Public Affairs and its School of International Service, which is ranked one of the nation’s best international affairs schools. Students typically take advantage of their Washington D.C. surroundings, from attending congressional hearings to landing internships on Capitol Hill.
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#41. University of San Diego
– Location: San Diego, California
— Population: 1,381,600
– Students: 5,294
– Acceptance rate: 59%
– Graduation rate: 80%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $60,000
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
At the University of San Diego, most students participate in the school’s extensive study abroad programs, choosing from among 30 countries. The campus is just minutes from the city and the beach, where students can enjoy the surf and sun year-round.
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#40. Loyola Marymount University
– Location: Los Angeles, California
— Population: 3,849,306
– Students: 6,383
– Acceptance rate: 50%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $61,300
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
LMU is just minutes from Marina del Rey, Venice Beach, and Santa Monica. Its School of Film and Television gives students access to the entertainment industry, providing internships and work opportunities while drawing in award-winning directors, producers, and editors as faculty members.
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#39. University of Cincinnati
– Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
— Population: 308,913
– Students: 24,301
– Acceptance rate: 76%
– Graduation rate: 73%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $42,300
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
The University of Cincinnati is considered a leader in cooperative education, allowing students to alternate traditional academic semesters with semesters working at full-time, paid jobs. Students in the program graduate with significantly less debt than is typical, as well as getting business experience and making professional connections in some 1,300 participating companies. The city is known for its theater, ballet, museums, historic breweries, and its zoo.
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#38. Florida International University
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– Location: Miami, Florida
— Population: 439,906
– Students: 27,551
– Acceptance rate: 58%
– Graduation rate: 67%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 20:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $46,300
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 90%
FIU is a public university branded as R1 for very high research activity. Over 55,000 students attend classes on two campuses and multiple centers in the thriving metropolis—and tropical paradise—of Miami. The multicultural port city lies between Biscayne Bay, the Miami River, and branches of the Everglades, a matchless geographical placement that has made it a business, communication, and tourism epicenter.
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#37. Occidental College
– Location: Los Angeles, California
— Population: 3,849,306
– Students: 1,938
– Acceptance rate: 41%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $50,600
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 89%
Just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, the school known as Oxy takes advantage of the city’s possibilities with internships, professional opportunities, and community partnerships. Students might teach in city schools or conduct marine biology research in the ocean or explore desert geology. The Los Angeles area is rich with beaches, canyons, and mountain wilderness to explore.
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#36. The University of Tulsa
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– Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
— Population: 411,905
– Students: 2,819
– Acceptance rate: 69%
– Graduation rate: 73%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $48,500
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
The University of Tulsa’s Center for Career Development promises graduates placement in an entry-level job in the field in which they majored. The school is located in one of Oklahoma’s largest cities, a southern urban center that boasts a rich history. The town founded by the Lochapoka clan of Creek Native Americans is known for Western swing music and for holding the title of “oil capital of the world,” a sobriquet it bore during most of the 20th century.
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#35. University of Central Florida
UCF College of Medicine in Orlando.
– Location: Orlando, Florida
— Population: 309,193
– Students: 43,513
– Acceptance rate: 45%
– Graduation rate: 74%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 28:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $45,400
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
Ranked as a top university for innovation, UCF offers 220 degree programs. Currently, the school focuses on unleashing the potential of students, faculty, staff, and the community through a five-year strategic plan. Thanks to the “happiest place on Earth” and other theme parks, Orlando has established itself as a colorful, fun, modern city that has been attracting investments in recent decades to complement its unrivaled entertainment offerings.
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#34. Reed College
– Location: Portland, Oregon
— Population: 642,218
– Students: 1,492
– Acceptance rate: 42%
– Graduation rate: 77%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $42,200
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 88%
Reed College is unique, with no fraternities, sororities, or varsity sports. The academics are considered rigorous, and students are graded on a pass or no-pass basis. It’s 5 miles from downtown Portland, known for its cafe culture, artisans, breweries, and environmental activism.
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#33. Texas Christian University
– Location: Fort Worth, Texas
— Population: 940,437
– Students: 9,448
– Acceptance rate: 48%
– Graduation rate: 82%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $52,800
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
TCU has built a reputation for having many students employed soon after graduation, thanks in part to being in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, listed by Forbes as one of the best employment and career locations in the country. Fort Worth also offers a spirited nightlife, with honky-tonk bars, swing, two-stepping, and line dancing.
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#32. Colorado College
– Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
— Population: 483,969
– Students: 2,190
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $45,400
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
Colorado College’s acclaimed attraction is its block plan, in which students take one course at a time for several weeks. The plan allows for immersion into topics, unlike more typical course structures. Off-campus, there are historic neighborhoods like Old Colorado City and the Old North End and urban spots for hiking and biking like Palmer Park.
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#31. Trinity University
– Location: San Antonio, Texas
— Population: 1,451,863
– Students: 2,471
– Acceptance rate: 34%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $54,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
At Trinity University, students can participate in community-based work study where they are employed at local schools, nonprofits, and government agencies. Trinity’s Center for Experiential Learning and Career Success links academic learning, work in the community, and career planning. The Trinity University Volunteer Action Community, known as TUVAC, connects students to volunteer opportunities at the area’s community service programs.
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#30. University of South Florida
– Location: Tampa, Florida
— Population: 387,037
– Students: 29,650
– Acceptance rate: 49%
– Graduation rate: 74%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $43,500
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
At the University of South Florida, many students focus on nursing and medical studies, benefitting from the school’s partnerships with area hospitals. In the city of Tampa, there is the historic Ybor City neighborhood and miles of bayfront pathways for running, cycling, skating, and walking, while the Gulf Coast beaches are close by.
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#29. George Washington University
– Location: Washington, District of Columbia
— Population: 670,050
– Students: 10,141
– Acceptance rate: 43%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $69,600
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
George Washington University is just blocks from the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the White House, so it’s no wonder its students are drawn to studying politics and international affairs. The city offers a vast array of opportunities for students to get involved in government, nonprofits, and media.
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#28. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
– Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
— Population: 425,338
– Students: 28,989
– Acceptance rate: 70%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $51,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities has built a Center for Community-Engaged Learning that creates partnerships with area nonprofit groups, giving students opportunities to volunteer or become involved in civic programs. Students also can take advantage of the urban area’s cultural offerings such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Guthrie Theater, and Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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#27. University of Pittsburgh
– Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
— Population: 300,454
– Students: 18,298
– Acceptance rate: 64%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $53,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
The University of Pittsburgh is renowned for its research prowess, producing top-notch scientists and medical professionals and a legacy of award-winning scholarship. Pittsburgh’s fun spots include its green riverfront parks, industrial warehouse spaces in the Strip, and nightlife on the South Side.
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#26. Macalester College
– Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
— Population: 307,176
– Students: 2,207
– Acceptance rate: 39%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $47,600
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
At Macalester, more than 60 courses feature partnerships with organizations in St. Paul and Minneapolis, giving students hands-on experiences interning in the state legislature or accompanying community public-health workers conducting outreach. The Twin Cities are artsy and green-minded, with St. Paul considered to be a little quieter than Minneapolis.
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#25. North Carolina State University
– Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
— Population: 469,502
– Students: 22,929
– Acceptance rate: 46%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $52,500
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
Situated in North Carolina’s respected Research Triangle, NC State excels in sciences, technology, engineering, and math. It has built a Centennial Campus of public and private partnerships that involves students in accelerating startups. Raleigh is often cited as one of the best cities for young professionals and for finding jobs in technology and health care.
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#24. Southern Methodist University
– Location: Dallas, Texas
— Population: 1,288,441
– Students: 6,616
– Acceptance rate: 53%
– Graduation rate: 81%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $60,700
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
Southern Methodist University has a reputation for honoring long-held traditions and building alumni support, which for students means opportunities for internships and jobs. Popular majors are business, social sciences, engineering, and communication. Students tap into Dallas for its arts and culture, but the campus supplies plenty of social life, like celebrating its football games with its unique version of tailgating called boulevarding.
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#23. The Ohio State University
– Location: Columbus, Ohio
— Population: 907,310
– Students: 42,734
– Acceptance rate: 68%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $46,100
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
Students at The Ohio State University can choose from among more than 160 majors or design their own. Sports are popular, and the university’s powerhouse football team plays in the NCAA’s Big Ten Conference. The school is also a respected research institution.
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#22. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
– Location: New York, New York
— Population: 8,467,513
– Students: 802
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $64,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
Cooper Union is best known for its prestigious art, architecture, and engineering programs. Its campus is located in downtown Manhattan, in the city’s East Village, a neighborhood known for dive bars, traditional Ukrainian food, and community gardens.
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#21. University of Washington
– Location: Seattle, Washington
— Population: 733,904
– Students: 29,350
– Acceptance rate: 56%
– Graduation rate: 82%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $57,700
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
The University of Washington in Seattle is a large school, with a thriving Greek life and an extensive choice of clubs to join as well. Students often are attracted to the region’s outdoor activities, with hiking, skiing, and climbing in easy reach.
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#20. University of California – Irvine
Aldrich Hall on the campus of the University of California Irvine.
– Location: Irvine, California
— Population: 309,014
– Students: 28,990
– Acceptance rate: 30%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $58,400
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 90%
Over 37,000 students attend UC Irvine, one of the schools of the University of California public education system. Thanks to a strong research and academic program and a flourishing athletics department (which has won 28 national titles in nine different sports), the institution has a $7 billion impact in Orange County. Much like most Southern California cities, Irvine boasts perfect weather, multiethnic culture and cuisine, and the laid-back, healthy lifestyle of the West Coast.
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#19. Case Western Reserve University
– Location: Cleveland, Ohio
— Population: 368,006
– Students: 5,286
– Acceptance rate: 30%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $74,600
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
Many students go to Case Western Reserve because of its highly rated engineering programs. For entertainment in Cleveland, there are brew pubs, rock ‘n’ roll clubs, and beach parties on the shores of Lake Erie.
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#18. Tulane University
– Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
— Population: 376,971
– Students: 8,231
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $61,700
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
Tulane is known as a party school, but students steer toward serious-minded, practical majors like finance, business, and marketing. With an unrivaled music, bar, and restaurant scene, New Orleans can be summed up by its motto of “laissez les bon temps rouler”—let the good times roll.
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#17. New York University
– Location: New York, New York
— Population: 8,467,513
– Students: 25,854
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $61,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
Popular at New York University are the programs in acting, writing, film, and television at the Tisch School of the Arts. Tisch alumni include Alec Baldwin, Lady Gaga, Chandra Wilson, and Adam Sandler. NYU is located in historic Greenwich Village, famous for its brownstones, cobblestone streets, dining, and shopping.
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#16. Boston University
– Location: Boston, Massachusetts
— Population: 654,281
– Students: 16,026
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $65,300
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
Boston University is one of the country’s biggest schools, with more than 17,000 undergraduates and more than 35,000 students overall at its urban campus. With its size comes the chance to choose from more than 300 programs of study. The city of Boston is a mecca of activities like kayaking the Charles River, jogging the Esplanade, and cheering on the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
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#15. University of Texas – Austin
– Location: Austin, Texas
— Population: 964,000
– Students: 37,404
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $58,200
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 93%
Austin is UT’s main campus, and the advantages of the school are its opportunities to study almost any subject taught by top-ranked faculty. The city provides a medley of live music venues, vintage shops, block parties, and afternoons floating on Barton Creek.
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#14. Northeastern University
– Location: Boston, Massachusetts
— Population: 654,281
– Students: 15,131
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $67,400
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 95%
Northeastern focuses on experiential learning through its co-op program, in which students mix semesters of academics with semesters of full-time work. More than 2,000 employers have gotten involved in the program. Home to some three dozen colleges and universities, Boston is teeming with things to do for students who like sports, the arts, pubs, and cafes.
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#13. Emory University
– Location: Atlanta, Georgia
— Population: 496,480
– Students: 6,814
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $66,000
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
Besides having an interest in liberal arts, undergraduate students go to Emory for its well-respected Goizueta Business School and Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Emory’s campus lies in a wooded neighborhood of Atlanta, where students can get involved in programs affiliated with the Georgia Research Alliance and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Baseball’s Atlanta Braves and football’s Falcons games draw big crowds, and a 22-mile green pedestrian path called the BeltLine connects neighborhoods.
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#12. Barnard College
– Location: New York, New York
— Population: 8,467,513
– Students: 2,651
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $57,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 90%
Barnard College is a close-knit women’s school with small classes and access to the resources at its partner school, Columbia University. Barnard is located in Morningside Heights, a student-oriented neighborhood with easy access to all that New York City has to offer.
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#11. University of Southern California
– Location: Los Angeles, California
— Population: 3,849,306
– Students: 18,560
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $74,000
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
USC attracts students interested in the film industry, business, and aerospace engineering. It jointly runs a Quantum Computation Center with Lockheed Martin Corp., and its highly sophisticated research could be applied in the fields of aerospace, medical imaging, and robotics. Off-campus attractions for USC students are LA’s trendy clubs, bars, restaurants, and shops.
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#10. Georgia Institute of Technology
– Location: Atlanta, Georgia
— Population: 496,480
– Students: 14,485
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $79,100
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 95%
Georgia Tech is highly rated for its engineering program, and graduates say their degrees are highly valued in the job market. The campus is close to Atlanta’s arts venues, museums, parks, and business district of high-tech startups and international corporations.
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#9. University of California – Los Angeles
– Location: Los Angeles, California
— Population: 3,849,306
– Students: 31,068
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $60,700
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 89%
More students apply to UCLA than to any other school in the country. UCLA students favor majors in biology, business economics, political science, and psychology. The campus is bordered by the neighborhoods of Bel Air, Brentwood, and Beverly Hills, and students can be found hiking the area’s canyons, volunteering at a food bank, or auditioning for a role in a television show or movie.
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#8. Carnegie Mellon University
– Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
— Population: 300,454
– Students: 6,341
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $83,600
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
Carnegie Mellon is strong in sciences, engineering, and mathematics, and its architecture school is considered one of the best. Among Pittsburgh’s attractions are Pirates’ baseball games at PNC Park, where the view from center field is the skyline of the downtown cultural district, and boaters float on the Allegheny River with a view of the scoreboard. For football fans (and concertgoers), Acrisure Stadium is nearby, overlooking the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio River.
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#7. Johns Hopkins University
– Location: Baltimore, Maryland
— Population: 576,498
– Students: 5,766
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $73,200
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
Johns Hopkins is known worldwide for its medical programs, research, and hospitals. For undergraduates, it’s a good place to prepare for medical school. The school offers a pre-professional advising program to help both pre-med and pre-law students prepare for the real world. Bar crawling in Baltimore’s lively neighborhoods like Fells Point, Canton, and Brewers Hill offers a break from the books.
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#6. Georgetown University
– Location: Washington, District of Columbia
— Population: 670,050
– Students: 6,610
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $93,500
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
A big draw to Georgetown is the Walsh School of Foreign Service for graduate and undergraduate students. Its majors include international political economy, global business, and culture and politics. Off-campus, Georgetown’s riverfront neighborhood is lively, and Washington offers infinite options for students interested in domestic politics, international affairs, and law.
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#5. University of Chicago
– Location: Chicago, Illinois
— Population: 2,696,561
– Students: 7,020
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $68,100
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
The University of Chicago is considered one of the best schools in the country, and it is recognized especially for its economics, public policy, and political science courses. The school encourages students to utilize and support their urban surroundings with a multitude of programs in civic engagement, community service, and partnerships through Chicago’s South Side.
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#4. Vanderbilt University
– Location: Nashville, Tennessee
— Population: 678,845
– Students: 6,983
– Acceptance rate: 12%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $69,000
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 94%
Vanderbilt is strong in liberal arts, and students tend to pick majors in economics, humanities, and social sciences. Sororities and fraternities play a big role in campus life. But off campus, musicians, singers, songwriters, and artists make Nashville a popular place to live.
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#3. Columbia University
– Location: New York, New York
— Population: 8,467,513
– Students: 7,509
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $83,300
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 89%
Students at Columbia often major in economics and social sciences, and two big attractions are its film school and its journalism school, both of which send graduates to top jobs in their fields. Its historic campus is located just minutes from Central Park, Midtown Manhattan, Harlem, and the shores of the Hudson River.
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#2. University of Pennsylvania
– Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
— Population: 1,576,251
– Students: 9,960
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $85,900
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 91%
The University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school with a vast range of academic subjects to choose from. It’s in the heart of Philadelphia, a vibrant city known for its food, art museums, sports teams, and history.
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#1. Rice University
– Location: Houston, Texas
— Population: 2,287,047
– Students: 4,150
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Median earnings six years after graduation: $65,400
– Employment rate two years after graduation: 92%
Sports, especially baseball, are big at Rice, which has more than a dozen Division I varsity athletic teams. But the school is highly selective academically, especially in areas of computer and information sciences, chemical engineering, and economics. It offers one of the most valued MBA programs in the nation. Students are drawn to Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, for its Fortune 500 jobs and its startup possibilities.
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RENO, Nevada (AP) — Jeremy Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in a snow plow accident in Reno, Nevada, on Sunday, a representative for the actor said Monday, and remains in critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery.
A publicist for Renner said in a statement that the 51-year-old “Avengers” star is in an intensive care unit following surgery on Monday.
“Jeremy’s family would like to express their gratitude to the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him, Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue, Washoe County Sheriff, Reno City Mayor Hillary Schieve” and others, read the statement. “They are also tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support from his fans.”
Authorities and Renner’s representative haven’t said how the accident occurred. The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office said late Sunday that Renner had to be flown by helicopter to a hospital for treatment.
Renner was injured in an area near Mt. Rose Highway, a road linking Lake Tahoe, which straddles the Nevada-California border, and south Reno. Renner owns a home in Washoe County, which includes Reno, and told the Reno Gazette Journal in 2019 that he chose the area because Reno was the right-sized city for him, it has majestic scenery and it allowed him and his family to ski frequently.
Renner was the only person involved in Sunday’s accident, and the sheriff’s office said in a news release that it is investigating.
Renner plays Hawkeye, a sharp-shooting member of the superhero Avengers squad in Marvel’s sprawling movie and television universe.
He is a two-time acting Oscar nominee, scoring back-to-back nods for “The Hurt Locker” and “The Town.” Renner’s portrayal of a bomb disposal specialist in Iraq in 2009’s “The Hurt Locker” helped turn him into a household name.
“The Avengers” in 2012 cemented him as part of Marvel’s grand storytelling ambitions, with his character appearing in several sequels and getting its own Disney+ series, “Hawkeye.” | 2023-01-03T12:21:09+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/jeremy-renner-undergoes-surgery-after-snow-plow-accident/ |
NEW YORK, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovid Corp. (NYSE: CTV), an independent advertising platform for delivery, personalization and measurement of converged TV across linear, connected TV (CTV) and digital, today announced its participation in the following investor conferences:
- On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Tanya Andreev-Kaspin, Chief Financial Officer, and Dave Helmreich, Chief Commercial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at the 18th Annual Needham Technology & Media Conference in New York. The discussion will begin at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time and last for approximately 40 minutes. There will be a live audio webcast of the discussion, and a replay will be archived for 30 days at investors.innovid.com.
- On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, members of the company's management team will host 1x1 meetings at the 2nd Annual Evercore Diamonds in the Rough SMID-Cap Conference Conference in New York.
About Innovid
Innovid (NYSE:CTV) powers advertising delivery, personalization, measurement, and outcomes across linear, connected TV (CTV) and digital for the world's largest brands. Through a global infrastructure that enables cross-platform ad serving, data-driven creative, and measurement, Innovid offers its clients always-on intelligence to optimize advertising investment across channels, platforms, screens, and devices. Innovid is an independent platform that leads the market in converged TV innovation, through proprietary technology and exclusive partnerships designed to reimagine TV advertising. Headquartered in New York City, Innovid serves a global client base through offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
To learn more, visit innovid.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
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U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, center, helped secure nearly $4 billion in federal funding for New Mexicans who felt the effects of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire.
A year after the U.S. Forest Service started what became the largest wildfire in state history, U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján said families living in or near the vast Northern New Mexico burn scar are still hurting. But the nearly $4 billion in federal funding he and other members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation helped secure will go a long way in helping residents pick up the pieces, he said.
“We’re the only state and the only communities in America that have a package like this now; this is very unique to the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire,” Luján said in a telephone interview this week.
“The [claims] offices are slowly opening,” he said. “The office in Mora has opened up. The offices in Santa Fe and Las Vegas will open up later this month, and the reason that that’s important is it takes us to a new opportunity for families to work directly with [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] to be able to make these declarations.”
The slow rebuild comes after a staggering and swift disaster that began April 6, 2022, in San Miguel County, when a U.S. Forest Service crew started a prescribed burn near Hermits Peak that escaped control.
When that fire joined forces about two weeks later with the Calf Canyon Fire — also a prescribed Forest Service burn — the trio of drought, wind and fire helped birth a nightmare the state had never before seen. When it was over, months later, more than 341,000 acres and hundreds of homes had burned in San Miguel, Mora and Taos counties, though a veritable army of firefighters, often numbering near 2,000, often battled the blaze house to house and tree to tree.
The memories remain fresh, from Las Vegas to north of Mora. Some of those who escaped the fire’s wrath later in the summer of 2022 found a new enemy in the form of floods that washed down denuded hillsides and buried homes and property in debris and mud. There were human casualties: Three members of one Texas family were killed by floodwaters in Tecolote Canyon; three firefighters were injured, one severely, during a water drop on a hot spot.
On the week of the fire’s anniversary, Luján encouraged anyone who may be eligible for aid to submit a notice of loss form.
“That’s all the families that live up there that may be eligible,” he said.
The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act, signed into law in September, provided $2.5 billion in funding to compensate fire victims for financial, business and property losses. The bill, which established the Hermits Peak Claims Office within FEMA, also waived the cost share for state and local entities for all programs administered by FEMA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to Luján’s office.
In December, Luján and other members of the congressional delegation announced an additional $1.45 billion in available funding in the appropriations bill.
“This legislation shows that as a New Mexico delegation, we were able to earn the support of Democrat and Republican colleagues in all corners of America and earn the support of the president of the United States to sign that legislation,” Luján said. “I’m very proud to have been able to earn that support because not only did it require these offices to be open sooner, but it also expanded the programs that families would be eligible for. Without this particular legislation, many of the programs that will help make families as whole as possible would not be available to them today.”
Asked whether the process has been slow going, Luján said it generally takes FEMA a lot longer to get offices opened up.
“Language that was included in the legislation itself required an accelerated timeline for FEMA to open these offices up and to FEMA’s credit … they were able to meet the intent of what was included in the legislation,” he said.
Luján said he’s happy one office has opened and the two others will soon.
“I recognize the frustration that families are sharing every day, that time is not a luxury that they have,” he said.
While residents still need help, Luján said they are resilient.
“They were hit with some of the worst conditions and environments and situations that anyone could have to deal with, and the families from these communities are strong,” he said. “I know that there’s more that must be done.”
But Luján said it’s too soon to say whether supplemental appropriations will be necessary.
“We’ll closely watch where we are and make sure that this money is going to families,” he said. “I think that’s going to be incumbent on all of us, not just at the federal level but the work that the state will be doing through the Attorney General’s Office or through the Governor’s Office, wherever it may be, to ensure that this funding is going where it needs to be, which is to the impacted families.”
Asked whether the fire would prompt longtime residents to leave or sell their land to outsiders, Luján said he didn’t want to get in the way of decisions families will have to make.
“But I’m hopeful that this package [of federal funding] and this program will help make families as whole as they can possibly be made,” he said. “By the passage of this legislation and the creation of this package, I certainly hope that families in and around these communities know that people understand the challenges that they were faced with and that people want to help them.” | 2023-04-06T18:46:46+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/sen-luj-n-says-nearly-4-billion-in-funding-will-help-families-recover-from-wildfire/article_53626704-d3cb-11ed-aaa9-d715e0522458.html |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister urged President Joe Biden and Western powers to call off an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying that negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks and that an agreement would reward Israel’s enemies.
Yair Lapid called the emerging agreement a “bad deal” and suggested that Biden has failed to honor red lines he had previously promised to set.
“The countries of the West draw a red line, the Iranians ignore it, and the red line moves,” Lapid told reporters at a press conference in Jerusalem. An emerging deal, Lapid said, “does not meet the standards set by President Biden himself: preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear state.”
Biden has been eager to revive the 2015 deal, which offered sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. The original deal unraveled after then-President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, with strong encouragement from Israel.
It remains unclear whether the United States and Iran will be able to reach a new agreement. But the Biden administration is expected to weigh in on Iran’s latest offer in the coming days. With an agreement appearing close, Israel has stepped up its efforts to block it.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, though U.N. experts and Western intelligence agencies say Iran had an organized military nuclear program through 2003.
Nonproliferation experts warn Iran has enriched enough uranium up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90% — to make one nuclear weapon should it decide to do so. However, Iran still would need to design a bomb and a delivery system for it, likely a monthslong project.
Israel is widely believed to have acquired nuclear weapons decades ago, something it has neither confirmed nor denied in keeping with a policy of nuclear ambiguity.
Tehran has increasingly claimed that the Americans are now delaying the deal, even though Iran spent months in back-and-forth negotiations that previously stalled in both Vienna and Qatar.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said it has begun a “precise review “ of the U.S. response to a European proposal and would submit its own response to the Europeans, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Kanaani did not elaborate.
Lapid warned that Iran would divert billions of dollars in unfrozen funds to hostile militant groups, such as Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon, that threaten Israel.
“This money will fund the Revolutionary Guard,” Lapid said, adding later, “It will fund more attacks on American bases in the Middle East. It will be used to strengthen Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad.”
He stopped short of blaming any one power for the apparent progress of the talks, but he opened his statement Wednesday by singling out the European Union and suggesting that those nations and other negotiating powers are caving in to last-minute Iranian demands.
“The Iranians are making demands again. The negotiators are ready to make concessions, again,” Lapid said.
He was careful to repeat that Biden, who visited Israel last month during a trip through the Middle East, remains a strong ally.
Israel’s national security adviser, Eyal Hulata, is in Washington this week for talks with Biden administration officials, and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz will head to the U.S. on Thursday for meetings with the head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Lapid is serving as Israel’s caretaker prime minister until elections on Nov. 1, when he will face off against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other rivals. While the two men have deep differences, they hold virtually identical positions when it comes to Iran. In 2015, Netanyahu, now opposition leader, delivered a speech to Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to derail what would become President Barack Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement.
Israel has long said it would not allow its regional archrival Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, and that it was not bound by the agreements between world powers and Tehran. It also has called for diplomacy to be accompanied by a “credible” threat to take military action against Iran if needed.
“We are not prepared to live with a nuclear threat above our heads from an extremist, violent Islamist regime,” Lapid said Wednesday. “This will not happen. Because we will not let it happen.”
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Associated Press writers Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. — The Tennessee National Guard’s Stashed Away trailer offered some "eye opening" to visitors Wednesday.
The traveling trailer intended to teach adults how to detect hidden drug paraphernalia was set up at the YMCA of Bristol, along with other support groups. The trailer’s inside is designed to resemble a teenager’s bedroom and serves as the setting of a presentation given to inform parents about the many sneaky ways their kids may be hiding drugs or alcohol.
Dr. Kristie Coleman, student services supervisor for Bristol Tennessee City Schools, said the program showing parents how to detect paraphernalia revealed to attendees places they would never have thought to look.
“It was eye opening for me and for a lot of parents,” Coleman said.
The event was organized by the Sullivan County Anti-Drug Coalition in partnership with the school system, Frontier Health and other partners that helped inform the public of the resources available to prevent and address youth substance use.
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This week was the first time that the trailer has come to Bristol, according to Melony Ison, prevention coordinator at the Sullivan County Anti-Drug Coalition, who encourages parents that notice any major changes in their child’s behavior to be proactive about checking in on them immediately.
“If you suspect something’s happening, don’t wait,” Ison said. “Check it out, investigate and start asking questions.”
For Coleman, getting kids busy in extracurricular activities can be a useful tool in preventing drug use.
“Parents should be active and involved in their children’s lives,” Coleman said. “Find activities for them to participate in that they like, whether it's youth sports, athletic programs, clubs or band — whatever it is, the more involved they are in something positive, where they form relationships with others, the less likely they're going to be looking for other things or have time to do other things that are more risky.”
Ison also stressed the importance of parents being vocal early on with their kids about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
“A lot of people think that our kids don’t listen to us,” Ison said. “They do listen. They may not act like it, but they hear you.” | 2023-03-23T02:16:33+00:00 | heraldcourier.com | https://heraldcourier.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/stashed-away-trailer-provides-eye-opening-experience/article_9b7c385c-c8eb-11ed-a358-7b6a5a0a15e8.html |
(The Hill) – Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) announced Thursday evening that she has reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that could pave the way for Democrats to pass their budget reconciliation package.
The deal would remove a provision closing the so-called carried interest loophole from the package announced last week by Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
Sinema said she and Schumer have also reached agreement on protecting manufacturing from the impact of a proposed 15 percent corporate minimum tax, which business leaders in Arizona warned would dampen economic growth.
The announcement paves the way for Sinema to vote Saturday for a motion to proceed to a budget reconciliation package that would reform the tax code, tackle climate change, reduce the cost of prescription drugs and shrink the federal deficit.
“We have agreed to remove the carried interest tax provision, protect advanced manufacturing, and boost our clean energy economy in the Senate’s budget reconciliation legislation,” Sinema said, signaling that she plans to vote to begin debate on the bill.
“Subject to the parliamentarian’s review, I’ll move forward,” she said.
A Democratic source familiar with the agreement said it would include a new excise tax on stock buybacks that would bring in more than enough revenue to cover the removal of the carried interest provision.
The Democrat said the bill will still reduce the deficit by $300 billion, citing a number that Schumer and Manchin have touted over the past week.
Senate Democrats had waited anxiously for days for a positive sign from Sinema, whom they feared was angry after being left out of a final round of talks.
With Sinema’s vote, Democrats now have the support of all 50 members of their caucus to pass what would become President Biden’s biggest domestic legislative achievement. It would reduce the federal deficit by between $100 billion to $300 billion, according to various estimates, an accomplishment Democrats can pitch to voters at a time of 40-year-high inflation.
“I am pleased to report that we have reached an agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act that I believe will receive the support of the entire Senate Democratic conference,” Schumer said in a separate statement confirming the deal.
He said the agreement “preserves the major components” of the deal he announced with Manchin last week to lower drug costs, fight climate change, close tax loopholes and reduce the deficit.
“The final version of the reconciliation bill, to be introduced on Saturday, will reflect this work and put us one step closer to enacting this historic legislation into law,” Schumer said.
Biden called for Senate Democrats to pass the package as soon as possible following Sinema’s announcement.
“Tonight, we’ve taken another critical step toward reducing inflation and the cost of living for America’s families,” Biden said in a statement.
“The Inflation Reduction Act will help Americans save money on prescription drugs, health premiums and much more,” he continued.
Democrats expect to vote to begin debate on the more-than-700-page bill sometime Saturday afternoon.
That will begin up to 20 hours of floor debate followed by an open-ended series of amendment votes, known as a vote-a-rama, and then a vote on final passage of the legislation.
Sinema in her statement promised to work with colleagues to address the carried interest preferential tax rate, which allows asset managers to pay a 20 percent capital gains rate on income they earn from advising clients on profitable investments.
“Following this effort, I look forward to working with Sen. [Mark] Warner [D-Va.] to enact carried interest reforms, protecting investments in America’s economy and encouraging continued growth while closing the most egregious loopholes that some abuse to avoid paying taxes,” she pledged.
The announcement capped off several days of intense discussions between Sinema, Schumer and Manchin.
Democratic senators said Sinema wasn’t happy about being left out of the secret negotiations Schumer and Manchin held last month to add sweeping tax reform and climate provisions to the budget package.
The Arizona senator had previously made clear that she opposed eliminating the carried interest tax rate as well as reforms that would effectively raise corporate taxes and threaten economic growth. Those priorities appeared to be somewhat overlooked in the Schumer-Manchin deal.
Sinema held back her support for the legislation and insisted on changes to soften the tax hit on manufacturers from a 15 percent corporate minimum tax, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
Manchin held at least two long conversations with Sinema on the Senate floor in recent days to win her over.
Multiple people familiar with the issue said Sinema wanted to exempt U.S. manufacturing companies from the 15 percent corporate minimum tax that Schumer and Manchin inserted in the Inflation Reduction Act. That bill caught almost every senator — including Sinema — by surprise when it became public last week
Exempting manufacturing companies from the book minimum tax would cost about $45 billion over ten years, according to one Senate estimate floated this week.
Book is a tax accounting term that in effect would make it harder for companies to avoid declaring profit and therefore increase what they would pay in taxes.
Sinema also told colleagues that she opposed closing carried interest loophole, which critics say allows wealthy money managers to pay a lower effective tax rate than many middle-income Americans.
And the Arizona senator wanted $5 billion in drought resiliency funding for her home state, according to two Democratic senators.
The statements released by Sinema and Schumer Thursday evening made no mention of drought relief. However, her pledge to vote to move forward indicates her concerns on the corporate minimum tax structure, carried interest and drought have been satisfied.
Sinema declined to answer reporters’ questions when she emerged from her Capitol basement hideaway Thursday afternoon.
She came under heavy pressure from business leaders in Arizona to oppose the corporate minimum tax.
“In the face of record-high inflation, supply chain backlogs and a major labor crunch, now is not the time to hammer manufacturers with new taxes,” Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Danny Seiden said in a statement earlier Thursday.
“Arizona job creators will continue to urge lawmakers to reject this manufacturers tax and instead focus on policies that encourage job growth and strengthen our state and economic competitiveness,” he said.
The Schumer-Manchin deal would have established a 15 percent minimum tax for corporations with more than $1 billion in annual profits, though it exempted green-energy and microchip manufacturing tax credits from getting wiped out by that minimum tax threshold.
Republicans said that proposal would have hit manufacturing companies especially hard by superseding a key reform of former President Trump’s 2017 Tax Credits and Jobs Act allowing companies to fully expense capital expenditures for a given year.
Full expensing under the Tax Credits and Jobs Act is due to phase out over the next four years.
Sinema told the Arizona Chamber of Commerce in April that she would be “unwilling to support any tax policies that would put a break on … economic growth, or stall business and personal growth for America’s industries.”
She made clear to senior White House officials and Senate Democratic colleagues early during the negotiations over the budget reconciliation bill that she would not support increasing the 21 percent corporate tax rate, a key achievement of the 2017 tax reform law.
“The entire country knows that I am opposed to raising the corporate income tax. That was true yesterday and it is true today,” Sinema told the Arizona Chamber of Commerce earlier this year.
Republican critics of the Schumer-Manchin deal said that preventing full and immediate expensing of capital expenditures would effectively increase taxes on many corporations.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who worked closely with Sinema in drafting last year’s $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, warned in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that it would “essentially” place a “tax on manufacturing.”
He pointed out that the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that nearly 50 percent of the new tax would hit manufacturers.
“Imposing this new tax on U.S. companies, and restricting certain U.S. manufacturers from writing off investment costs immediately, would make America less competitive and drive investments and jobs overseas,” he warned.
Sinema’s request for $5 billion in drought resiliency funding also loomed as a potential problem, sources warned.
Guaranteeing access to more water to states lower in the Colorado River basin such as Arizona, Nevada and California may come at the expense of upper-basin states such as Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.
“We are facing historic drought in Colorado. The state has had the worst wildfires in our state’s history. There is very little water in the Colorado River. And I think it would be great if we could do something on drought, but it has to be something that meaningfully improves the situation in Colorado and in the upper basin of the Colorado River,” said Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who is up for reelection in November.
Bennet warned that any drought resiliency language must provide an “enduring solution to the problem, otherwise it’s not worth doing.” | 2022-08-05T11:53:23+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/sinema-announces-deal-with-schumer-on-taxes-and-climate/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico women are on a role Saturday, taking on the San Jose State Spartans.
The Lobos were in a dog-fight most of the day.
But the Lobos go on to win, 70-61.
Watch the video above for more. | 2023-02-19T03:20:58+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/sports-stories/new-mexico-sports/unm-women-get-third-win-in-a-row/ |
DETROIT – A police pursuit of a stolen vehicle ended with two crashes on Saturday, Jan. 7, in Detroit, officials said.
On Saturday, a Warren Police officer patrolling the area of 8 Mile and Dexter ran the license plate of a suspicious BMW and determined that it had been stolen from a Farmington Hills business during a breaking and entering, FOX 2 Detroit reports.
Officers attempted to make a traffic stop but the driver kept going, initiating a chase, the report said. During the chase, one of the patrol cars was involved in a crash with a civilian vehicle at the intersection of Outer Drive and Sherwood. The officer and civilian sustained minor injuries.
Shortly after the first crash, the driver of the BMW crashed into a cement barrier and was arrested, the report said.
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WASHINGTON — Nearly eight months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III will celebrate his coronation on Saturday, May 6.
While Charles officially became king the moment his mother died, and has already been formally proclaimed sovereign of the United Kingdom, he won't be crowned until his coronation on Saturday, May 6. It's during this ceremony that the new monarch takes a coronation oath and is anointed and blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Camilla, Britain's queen consort, will be crowned alongside her husband. Buckingham Palace’s official coronation invitations referred to her as “Queen Camilla” for the first time last month, marking another step in Camilla’s long road to rehabilitating her image.
What time is the coronation of King Charles?
The ceremony at Westminster Abbey is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. local time in London (6 a.m. Eastern/5 a.m. Central/3 a.m. Pacific) after Charles and Camilla ride in a 1.3 mile procession from Buckingham Palace.
How long is the coronation?
The coronation, which reportedly is codenamed Operation Golden Orb, is expected to be a shorter and less extravagant affair than the three-hour service that installed Elizabeth II during the first televised coronation 70 years ago. It is expected to last two hours, ending at 1 p.m. local time in London.
That won't be the end of the festivities, though. Charles and Camilla will return to Buckingham Palace in the half-hour 'Coronation Procession' and appear on the palace's balcony with members of the royal family to wave at spectators. Another day of events is scheduled for Sunday, including a concert headlined by Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie and other singers.
Who is attending the coronation?
As many as 2,800 attendees are expected, including many members of the royal family, key political figures and world leaders.
After months of speculation, it was announced that Prince Harry will attend the service but his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will remain in California with the couple’s two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The coronation date coincides with their son’s birthday.
President Joe Biden will not be at the ceremony, but first lady Jill Biden will represent the United States. No previous U.S. president has attended a British monarch's coronation.
How much does the coronation cost?
While there has been no official word on the expected total cost, some predictions suggest the weekend of festivities could cost between 50 and 100 million pounds. According to Sky News, the late Elizabeth II's coronation cost roughly 20.5 million pounds in today's money, while George VI's coronation in 1937 would've totaled nearly 25 million pounds in present day.
Unlike royal weddings, the bill for the coronation is paid by the British government. A recent poll from YouGov found about 51% of British adults think it shouldn't be publicly funded. | 2023-05-05T23:52:33+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/king-charles-coronation-ceremony-start-time/507-de7e4a02-6224-4c79-b420-065d4f4ea7c6 |
Born of a racing team, McLaren builds cars based on racing principles. In the name of speed, they are light and powerful, and McLaren goes one step further by making them fun and engaging. With the 2023 Artura, McLaren doubles down on both the fun and the race car engineering while adding a plug-in hybrid powertrain for the first time in one of its series production cars.
The result is a supercar with multiple personalities. It can be a relatively comfortable every day driver, an immensely capable track machine, or even an economy car with about as much power as a Smart ForTwo.
The next generation of McLaren
McLaren’s first next-generation car starts with a new carbon-fiber tub, the first since the brand was founded a decade ago. The so-called McLaren Carbon Lightweight Architecture (MCLA) incorporates a protection cell for the car’s 7.4-kwh battery. It’s built more efficiently from fewer pieces of carbon fiber, and it weighs about 10% less than the first-gen tub. It’s also stiffer, but McLaren isn’t saying by how much.
MCLA provides a home for a new plug-in hybrid powertrain that offers about three times as much electric power as the brand’s first attempt at electrification, the limited-edition, $1.15 million, 903-hp P1 hypercar from 2013.
A new 3.0-liter twin-turbo V-6 replaces the familiar twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 in McLaren’s other cars. The engine’s 120-degree V spreads it out wide and helps it sit about two inches lower than the V-8. With two fewer cylinders, it also stretches 7.5 inches shorter, and with a hot V design instead of outboard-mounted turbos, it’s 8.7 inches narrower. On its own, the engine makes 577 hp and 431 lb-ft of torque.
The V-6 also weighs about 110 pounds less than the V-8, and its low position, which is also aided by a dry-sump oiling system, helps keep the car’s center of gravity low.
The engine is mated to a new 8-speed dual-clutch transaxle that also incorporates an electronically controlled limited-slip differential. Sandwiched between the engine and transmission, the axial flux electric motor sits within the transmission housing. It produces 94 hp and 166 lb-ft of torque that can be accessed at any time.
94-hp economy car or 671-hp supercar
My test begins with a road drive from Las Vegas through the Valley of Fire state park to Boulder City, Nevada. It gives me a chance to test out the car’s four powertrain driving modes, which can turn the Artura into a 94-hp economy car or a 671-hp supercar.
In E-mode, the car runs only on the motor, and thus the Smart ForTwo power level. It has only 11 miles of range in this mode, according to the EPA (19 miles on the European WLTP cycle), and it dawdles along up to a speed of 81 mph. Standing on the throttle doesn’t start the engine, so E-mode is best for toddling through neighborhoods or sneaking out at night when you don’t want the family to know what you’re up to. Thanks to the electric motor, the Artura gets an EPA rating of 39 MPGe.
The battery, which charges to 80% in 2.5 hours on a 240-volt outlet, weighs 194 pounds and the motor 34 pounds. In total, the plug-in hybrid system adds 287 pounds, including the wiring for the 400-volt electrical system. The car tips the scales at a curb weight of just 3,303 pounds, though, less than a base BMW 3-Series, which is a tribute to McLaren’s pursuit of weight savings in every detail.
Next, I flick the toggle on the dash behind the right side of the steering wheel (rather than on the center console like in other McLarens) into Comfort mode. Here, it starts off with the electric motor as well, but the gas engines kicks in whenever it’s needed. The engine fires up smoothly enough and its throaty “whum” sound is pleasing to the ear, similar to a flat-6. The transmission grabs early shifts in Comfort mode and is occasionally tardy to downshift when the road opens up ahead and my foot digs deeper into the throttle. McLaren also programs the powertrain to keep a minimal charge in the battery in this mode, something around 5%.
Behind the left side of the steering wheel sits another mode selector, this one for the dampers. It has Comfort, Sport, and Track modes, and I spend the vast majority of my time in Comfort mode, which makes the car supple enough to drive on a regular basis. Sport mode and especially Track mode firm up the damping enough that bumps and ruts create abrupt up-and-down motions.
The powertrain’s Sport mode aims for about a 45% charge. The shifts come later in the rev range and become more responsive when it’s time to kick down to pass the masses in their transportation appliances.
My drive involves several miles of wide-open desert highways, and I find myself drawn to Track mode most often. It aims to keep the battery full, using extra engine revs to charge it. It also waits as long as possible on upshifts and quickens downshifts, though they can still dawdle a bit too much for my liking.
In Track especially, the plug-in hybrid powertrain provides willing power in large doses. It doesn’t feel like the wall of power you get with McLaren’s V-8, but that’s likely because it comes on more quickly, with the motor providing torque fill while the turbos spool up. It then just keeps revving willingly up to its 8,500-rpm redline in a relentless pursuit of speed. McLaren says it can launch from 0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds, and I believe it. If I wanted to, these open roads would provide enough room to test the car’s 205-mph top speed. I refrain from doing that. Honest. Speed runs have to wait for the track—well, most of them.
Super track car
The drive ends with a couple of sessions on a small road course at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It’s a tight, short nine-turn circuit, but a couple of the corners really test the car’s dynamic capabilities.
One grip of the small-diameter steering wheel and I’m in love. The Artura’s fantastic steering became evident on the road, but it really shines on the track. No variable assist, no variable ratios, just weighty, sharp hydraulic-assist power steering like sports cars and supercars had before the era of electric-assist power steering. It’s not too heavy for low-speed maneuvers, but its heft also makes it very stable mid-corner. If every car could have steering like this the world would be a better place.
The car reacts well to steering inputs, too. I run my first session in Sport mode, which firms up the adjustable dampers to make them a bit too stiff for everyday driving but great on this smooth track. There’s no slick hydraulic suspension here, like in the more expensive 720S. Instead, the Artura has a double-wishbone front suspension and a rear suspension with upper wishbones and two lower links. The suspension geometry works with the adjustable dampers to keep the wheels firmly planted on the ground. With its weight set so low and precious little ground clearance, the Artura has almost no lean in corners, and darts side to side like a great slot receiver.
The 180-degree Turn 2 is a tough challenge for any car. It requires patience as I try to carry as much speed as possible, and I feel a slight bit of push as I aim for the track-out point. Letting off the throttle helps the car tuck in and turn, and lifting abruptly can cause the rear end to go into a short slide. It’s a technique I might use to trigger a drift in the 15-setting Drift mode, but for this corner, I settle for the slight push in the interest of getting through the corner as fast as possible.
From corner to corner, the Artura’s hunkered down feeling inspires confidence. The 235/35R19 front and 295/35R20 rear Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires keep the car stuck to the pavement. McLaren says they have comparable grip to the extreme Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tires from the 600LT hypercar. The e-diff puts the power down efficiently, and the car builds speed quickly. The track is just 1.2 miles, but it accelerates to more than 130 mph on the front straight from turn 9 to turn 1, which just goes to show how powerful this hybrid system is.
I get so confident that I begin braking late for turn 1. That’s no problem, as the standard carbon-ceramic brakes (15.4-inch rotors up front with 6-piston calipers, 15.0-inch rotors out back with 4-piston calipers) offer a firm pedal and strong stopping power. Getting on them hard heats them enough to smoke after my first session, but I never detect any pedal fade or degradation of performance.
The pro driver in the passenger seat has me use the carbon-fiber shift paddles in my first run, and they are easy to access at all times because they are large and turn with the steering wheel. I shift mostly by ear, but the digital dash flashes red, then blue, and finally green accompanied by an audible beep at the shift point.
During my second session, I switch to the Track modes for the suspension and powertrain, and opt to let the transmission choose the shifts.
The car feels a little freer in Track mode, even without adjusting the stability control from its standard setting to Dynamic or off. I detect a bit more slip when I push the weight around too suddenly, but the car still feels rock steady in each corner.
Automatic mode for the transmission, however, isn’t ideal. The shifts sometimes bang into gear, even as I begin to steer into the next turn, and that upsets the car’s balance. It usually has the right gear to get the most power out of a corner, but those hard shifts spur me to go back to manual mode, which allows me to downshift in a straight line so as not to disrupt the car’s balance.
The track sessions end too soon, and I find myself thinking this is as much McLaren as anyone might need. However, the Artura slots in as the lesser of the brand’s two Super Series cars. While the 720S flirts with $300,000 right out of the box, the Artura starts at $237,500, including a steep $4,500 destination charge. The price includes new safety features, namely adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warnings, and traffic-sign recognition. It also includes a 10.0-inch digital instrument cluster, and an 8.0-inch portrait-style center touchscreen that now incorporates Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and can receive over-the-air updates.
The Artura represents the next generation of McLaren performance. Even though it adds weight through a plug-in hybrid powertrain, it sticks with the company’s race-bred principles. The result is an engaging street machine, a track car to chase faster and faster times, and an economy car all rolled into one. It’s proof that McLaren can expand the capabilities of its cars as it moves into the electric era without sacrificing its core ideals.
McLaren paid for travel, lodging, and track time for Motor Authority to bring you this firsthand report.
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Washington has become the latest state to officially abolish the death penalty nearly five years after a court ruled the practice is unconstitutional.
Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5807 on Thursday, officially marking the end of the death penalty in Washington. Inslee had issued a moratorium on capital punishment in 2014, four years before the Washington Supreme Court’s ruling.
Judges said in 2018 that Washington’s death penalty law was “arbitrary” and “racially biased.”
“This is a day to move forward with fairness in the state of Washington,” Inslee said as he signed the bill.
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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, executions were relatively rare in Washington prior to the moratorium. There were five reported after 1976, with the most recent coming in 2010.
Washington is among 23 states without the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Virginia joined the list in 2021, while Colorado abolished executions in 2020.
Among the 27 states where executions are legal, the governors of Oregon, California, Arizona and Pennsylvania have said in various public forums they would not allow executions. Ohio has effectively been unable to perform executions as the state looks for alternative drugs to perform lethal injections. Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine delayed three executions to 2026.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Top state prosecutors from across the country are again urging Congress to pass legislation allowing state prisons to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices the attorneys argue allow prisoners to plot violence and carry out crimes.
“Simply, we need Congress to pass legislation giving states the authority to implement a cell phone jamming system to protect inmates, guards, and the public at large,” the 22 prosecutors — all Republicans, led by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson — wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Wilson’s office said there are plans to reach out to Democratic state prosecutors, arguing the issue isn’t a partisan one.
The letter, provided to The Associated Press, cites a handful of criminal incidents the attorneys say were orchestrated by inmates using contraband cellphones, including a Tennessee drug conspiracy and a double homicide hit ordered by an Indiana inmate.
They also cited a 2018 gang-related siege that raged for more than seven hours at a South Carolina prison, killing seven inmates. One inmate described bodies “literally stacked on top of each other, like some macabre woodpile.” Corrections officials blamed the orchestrated violence — the worst U.S. prison riot in 25 years — in part on illegal cellphones.
“If inmates were blocked from using contraband cell phones, we could prevent serious levels of drug trafficking, deadly riots, and other crimes from happening,” the prosecutors wrote.
To be able to render the phones — smuggled inside hollowed-out footballs, whisked in by corrupt employees and sometimes even dropped by drone — worthless, prosecutors are calling for a change in a nearly century-old federal communications law that currently prevents state prisons from using jamming technology to nullify illicit cell signals.
The push to clamp down on illicit cellphones in state prisons has been ongoing for years, with South Carolina Corrections Director Bryan Stirling at the forefront of an effort by corrections directors across the country to call for the ability to use more technology to crack down on the contraband phones.
An incremental victory came in 2021, when the Federal Communications Commission adopted a ruling that would allow state prison systems to apply for permits to identify and turn off illegal cell signals, one by one, in collaboration with cellphone providers. South Carolina was the first state to apply to use this technology, but Stirling told AP on Tuesday that no action has been taken on the state's application.
Federal prisons are allowed to jam cell signals behind bars, although none currently do, Stirling said.
CTIA, a wireless industry group, opposes jamming, saying it could thwart legal calls. But, according to a 2020 FCC document, CTIA told the commission “it has been working successfully, along with its members companies” on “ceasing service to contraband devices pursuant to court orders they have obtained.”
CTIA and FCC officials did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on a renewed push for jamming.
Congress has previously considered jamming legislation, but no bills have been signed into law or even had a hearing. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., reintroduced such a measure in August in the previous Congress.
“We’re not going to stop advocating,” Wilson told AP on Tuesday. “I can only hope that at some point, Congress is going to take note.”
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ATLANTA, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta SkyMiles® Members can now get even more out of a dream trip with Delta Vacations thanks to major program enhancements that begin today:
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Tickets for each nominated film only $5 for Regal Crown Club members
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following this morning's announcement, Regal will showcase the best picture nominees at the Regal Best Picture Film Festival, taking place Friday, March 3, through Sunday, March 12. Tickets for each nominated title will be available for $6, with a special $5 price and $7 concession combo for Regal Crown Club members.
Nominated films for the Best Picture Oscar® showing at Regal during the festival are:
All Quiet on the Western Front (R)
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-13)
The Banshees of Inisherin (R)
Elvis (PG-13)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (R)
The Fabelmans (PG-13)
Tár (R)
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
Triangle of Sadness (R)
Women Talking (PG-13)
"To be nominated for best picture represents one of the most prestigious recognitions for the movie industry each year," said Andrew Turner, Head of Film at Regal. "We are proud to recognize this accomplishment with the Regal Best Picture Film Festival, giving moviegoers the opportunity to see all the nominated films on the big screen. At Regal, we are the best place to watch a movie and during the awards season, the ultimate destination for moviegoing."
Tickets for each film are $6 and will be available for purchase on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Members of the Regal Crown Club program will receive $1 off each ticket and will also receive a $7 small popcorn and drink offer with each visit. Membership is free for the industry-leading loyalty program. For a list of participating locations, to sign up for the Regal Crown Club or purchase tickets please, visit the Regal app or online at REGmovies.com.
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Serbia school shooter had list of students to target, police say
BELGRADE, Serbia - A teenager who opened fire Wednesday at a school in Serbia's capital drew sketches of classrooms and wrote a list of people he intended to target in a meticulously planned attack, police said. He killed eight fellow students and a school guard before being arrested.
The shooter first killed a guard at the school in central Belgrade and then three students in a hallway, according to senior police official Veselin Milic. He then entered a classroom — apparently choosing it simply because it was close to the entrance — and opened fire again, Milic said.
The assailant called police himself when the attack was over, though authorities had already been alerted to the shooting.
Police officers escort a minor who is suspected of firing several shots at a school in the capital Belgrade on May 3, 2023. (Photo by OLIVER BUNIC/AFP via Getty Images)
A father of a student said the shooter entered his daughter’s classroom, firing at her teacher and then her classmates as they ducked under their desks. Most students were able to flee through a back door, according to a local official.
Mass shootings are extremely rare in Serbia and in the wider Balkan region; none were reported at schools in recent years. In the last mass shooting, a Balkan war veteran in 2013 killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.
Experts, however, have repeatedly warned of the danger posed by the large number of weapons in the country after the wars of the 1990s. They also note that decades of instability stemming from the conflicts as well as the ongoing economic hardship could trigger such outbursts.
Police identified the shooter as Kosta Kecmanovic, a 13-year-old student at the Vladislav Ribnikar school, whose students would typically range in age from 6 to 15.
Police said Kecmanovic used his father’s handgun, which was licensed. Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said the gun was kept in a safe but the teen apparently knew the code. He said the father was also arrested.
Police showed reporters a sketch they said the shooter had drawn of classrooms and Milic said he also wrote out a list of children he planned to "liquidate" in the attack that he planned for a month.
In addition to the nine killed, six children and a teacher were also hospitalized.
Local media footage showed a commotion as police removed Kecmanovic, whose head was covered as officers led him to a car. Police sealed off the blocks around the school. Authorities later carried body bags to a waiting van.
Police said they received a call about the shooting at around 8:40 a.m. on the first day that classes resumed after a long weekend for the May 1 holiday.
"I was able to hear the shooting. It was nonstop," said a student who was in a sports class when gunfire erupted elsewhere in the building. Her mother asked that her name be withheld because of her age. "I didn’t know what was happening. We were receiving some messages on the phone."
The student described the shooter as a "quiet guy" who had good grades.
"He was not so open with everybody. Surely I wasn’t expecting this to happen," she said.
Milan Nedeljkovic, the mayor of the Belgrade area of Vracar where the shooting happened, said that most of the students were taken out a back door of the school.
"We have video surveillance, but now this is a lesson, we need metal detectors too," he said. "It is a huge tragedy ... something like this (happening) in Belgrade. Such a tragedy at an elementary school."
Four students and a teacher were sent to University hospital, according to the hospital's director, who said one child and the teacher were in serious condition.
Milan Milosevic, who said his daughter was in a history class when the shooting took place, told N1 television that he rushed to the school when he heard what had happened. He received a call from his daughter who had gotten out of the building and was unharmed.
"He (the shooter) fired first at the teacher and then the children who ducked under the desks," Milosevic said his daughter told him.
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An ongoing shortage of a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems is expected to get worse after a major supplier to US hospitals shut down last week.
Liquid albuterol has been in short supply since last summer, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. It has been on the US Food and Drug Administration's shortages list since October. The news of the plant shutdown worries some doctors who work with patients with breathing problems such as asthma.
"This is definitely concerning, especially as we are coming out of the respiratory season where we had a big demand with RSV, Covid-19 and flu, and are now heading into spring allergy season when a lot of kids and adults experience asthma symptoms," said Dr. Juanita Mora, a national volunteer medical spokesperson for the American Lung Association and an allergist/immunologist based in Chicago. "This is a life-saving drug and being able to breathe is vital for everyone."
The manufacturer that recently shut down, Akorn Operating Company LLC, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2020.
It was the only company to make certain albuterol products used for continuous nebulizer treatment. It's a staple in children's hospitals, but had been out of stock since last fall. Without that particular form of the product, hospitals have had to scramble to find alternatives.
"Members are either forced to compound it themselves to make the product or go to an outside third party source who is compounding the product," said Paula Gurz, senior director of pharmacy contracting with Premier Inc., a major group purchasing company for hospitals.
With the Akorn shutdown, Gurz said products from the one remaining major domestic source of liquid albuterol, Nephron Pharmacuticals, have been on back order. Nephron just started shipping albuterol last Friday, Gurz said, but to get back on track, "it's going to be an uphill climb."
Hospitals work around shortages
Hospitals around the country said they're watching the supply chain -- and their current stock -- closely. There's concern they might have to delay discharging patients because they don't have enough medicine, or that they may see more ER visits for people with breathing problems who don't have access to medicine.
Dr. Eryn Piper, a clinical pharmacist at Children's Hospital of New Orleans, said her hospital has been largely unaffected so far, but for months she has heard about retail pharmacies and other health systems that have had issues with albuterol shortages.
"The big problem we've been hearing about is inhalation solutions, not really the inhalers, it's more like the solutions that go into the nebulizer machines for inhalation that the patients breath in," said Piper.
Without the larger Akorn product, staff at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago had to squeeze out the albuterol contents from smaller packages.
It's "time-consuming and labor-intensive as it takes opening 40 containers to equal 20 mL (each patient on continuous albuterol requires 3-5 syringes per day)," said hospital spokesperson Julianne Bardele in an email.
When Nephron was unable to meet demand due to manufacturing issues, Bardele said Lurie had to make another temporary switch to a different concentration and use an alternative liquid bronchodilator, levalbuterol.
Most hospital pharmacies are aware of supply issues for many medicines, particularly pediatric medicines, said T.J. Grimm, the director of retail and ambulatory services at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and they try to keep a higher stock -- especially of the less expensive medicines like albuterol.
"Just so we can cover situations like this," Grimm said.
Grimm said his system has albuterol supply for a couple of months still, but he's frustrated and concerned about the supply chain.
"When you have supply chains that are just-in-time, it can create some issues with when something goes off," Grimm added. "There's the short-term crisis we all have to get through and then there's a longer term. We need to think about these things a little more strategically, especially with our kids."
Dr. Jerrod Milton, the chief clinical officer at Children's Hospital Colorado, said they've been paying close attention to the albuterol shortages for many months. The hospital has experienced shortages in the past, and has continued to implement protocols to conserve doses.
"Challenges are what we deal with when it comes to pediatric medicine. We consider most of the kids that we take care of as somewhat therapeutic orphans," Milton said. "It's just another one of the myriad of shortages that we have to deal with, I guess."
Supply chain concerns
Jessica Daley, the group vice president of strategic sourcing for Premier, said that she doesn't anticipate that the albuterol shortage will be an ongoing problem for years, but when the market has only a handful of suppliers, "it makes for a very tight market, a very concerning market right now."
Daley said there are things hospitals can do to help, such as protocol changes, making products on site and finding different suppliers.
The Children's Hospital Association stepped in to help when it heard from members having difficulty finding enough supply. The association worked with STAQ Pharma, a facility that provides compounded pediatric medication, to start production on batches of albuterol for children's hospitals in the sizes they needed.
"We've been creative and trying to work proactively. So when we think there's going to be a problem, we're trying to plan ahead," said Terri Lyle Wilson, director of supply chain services for the Children's Hospital Association.
STAQ should be at full production by May, so hospitals will have a steady, stable supply ahead of the next season in which respiratory viruses are in wide circulation, the association says.
Daley at Premier said that in an ideal world, there would be more suppliers of these products, particularly with generic drugs, so that when there is a problem with one, the market could handle it. When there is a concentration of manufacturing with a small number of suppliers, it is very hard to recover, she said.
"We really advocate for diversity and supply to prevent types these types of issues," Daley said. "Meaning at least three globally, geographically diverse suppliers that are supplying the market with sufficient products."
Guidance for patients
For patients, Piper at Children's Hospital of New Orleans said they are encouraging patients with breathing problems to take precautions and avoid asthma triggers if possible. She said if a patient's usual pharmacy runs out, it's also good to check with a doctor to see if there is another medication that's available.
Inhalers don't seem to be impacted by the shortage so far, but Daley said if people panic about the lack of albuterol for hospitals, that could change.
"Albuterol is one of those things that if there's a patient who needs it, you want to have it all the time. So there's always that potential for the market to respond and react in a way that that will then create downstream shortages of other sizes or presentations of a product," Daley said.
To avoid that problem, Milton at Children's Hospital Colorado said it's simple: "Talk to a provider and see if there are alternatives," Milton said. "And please don't hoard."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are built around their half-billion dollar All-Pro quarterback, and for the past five years, Super Bowl-bound Patrick Mahomes has made everyone else around him all the more valuable.
He’s taken marginal wide receivers and turned them into stars. Mediocre offensive linemen became stalwarts.
Finishing the second year of his mammoth 10-year contract, Mahomes soaks up more than a fifth of the Kansas City salary cap, and some would argue he’s still underpaid. Yet the deal nevertheless creates a challenge in filling out the roster around him, and it’s one that Chiefs general manager Brett Veach confronted with savvy business and creativity.
Their prime rusher is a seventh-round pick. Their touchdowns leader is a journeyman running back making $1,272,500 this season, while none of their wide receivers is making $5 million. Their top tackler is still on his paltry rookie deal.
“I would start with Brett and the way that he and his guys have gone about putting this thing together,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said, while also pointing to the latitude given to him by chairman Clark Hunt and team president Mark Donovan.
“They’re all part of that, giving us the opportunity to do what Brett can do by bringing these guys in,” Reid said. “But the process he goes through, he’s relentless. He’s committed. He’s got a great eye for talent. He’s fearless when it comes to the trades and drafts and all those things. It’s been fun for me to watch.”
Reid used to hold both titles of coach and general manager when he was with the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City’s opponent in the Super Bowl next weekend. But when he took over the Chiefs in 2013, he decided to step away from front-office work and focus solely on his first love: coaching.
The decision to draft Mahomes four years later got his blessing, of course, and it was then-GM John Dorsey who had the final say. But it was Veach, then the co-director of player personnel, who stood on the table and stumped for him.
Veach took over as general manager the following year and began putting his thumbprint on the rest of the team.
He invested heavily in defense, particularly when it comes to rushing the passer, and made sure veteran safeties could back up young cornerbacks acquired through the draft. On offense, he rebuilt the entire offensive line through free agency and the draft, then spread money around the skill positions without investing too heavily in any one player.
That led to Veach’s biggest decision since drafting Mahomes: trading Tyreek Hill to the Dolphins.
Veach could have given the All-Pro wide receiver a massive contract extension last offseason, but doing so would have hamstrung the team for years to come. So, Veach sent him to the Dolphins for draft picks and financial flexibility.
He used both to build a team that is heading back to the Super Bowl.
“I think it’s a confirmation that we have confidence in our process,” Veach said. “It just goes to show that I have a really talented staff and I think the hard work pays off. We have a process and we’re always going to be motivated to continue to add talent and depth to this roster and provide Coach and Pat what they need.”
OFFENSE
The Chiefs had to replenish at wide receiver after trading Hill and losing Byron Pringle and Demarcus Robinson in free agency. They signed JuJu Smith-Schuster to a one-year prove-it deal, Marquez Valdes-Scantling to a three-year contract and drafted Skyy Moore, who does many of the same jet sweeps that made Hill such a defensive terror.
Having tight end Travis Kelce, every bit as dangerous as the best wide receivers, helps the cause.
The Chiefs rebuilt their offensive line the previous year, and it returned largely intact, so the other focus was on the ground game. The Chiefs took a flier on running back Isiah Pacheco in the seventh round, and by the midpoint of the season, he had supplanted injury-prone former first-round pick Clyde Edwards-Helaire atop the depth chart.
DEFENSE
Besides the quarterback, the biggest contract on the books belongs to Chris Jones. And like Mahomes, there’s an argument to be made that the big defensive tackle, with 15 1/2 sacks this season, has vastly outperformed it.
Veach knows the value in pressuring the quarterback, though. It’s why the Chiefs traded for Frank Clark and gave him a big contract, signed veteran Carlos Dunlap this past offseason and used a first-round pick on George Karlaftis.
The Chiefs had to replace Tyrann Mathieu’s leadership on the back end of the defense, so they signed safety Justin Reid in free agency. Little did Reid know that he’d spend all season tutoring a quartet of rookie defensive backs — Trent McDuffie, Jaylen Watson, Joshua Williams and Bryan Cook — who came up huge in the AFC title game against the Bengals.
SPECIAL TEAMS
Harrison Butker has been one of the league’s best kickers going on six years, but an ankle injury sustained in the opener led to a shaky season. He came back to drive through the winning field goal in the final seconds against Cincinnati.
Tommy Townsend merely earned All-Pro honors while setting several franchise milestones for punting this season.
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- Suntec REIT emerges as the Global Sector Leader, while Peninsula Investment Partners, Redwood Japan Logistics Fund II LP, RJLF 3 Co-Investment Platform and ESR Kendall Square Development JV II are named as Regional Sector Leaders
HONG KONG, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ESR Group Limited ("ESR" or the "Company", together with its subsidiaries as the "Group"; SEHK Stock Code: 1821), APAC's largest real asset manager powered by the New Economy, has achieved outstanding results in the 2022 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark ("GRESB") Assessment. These results are a recognition of the Group's Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") leadership and commitment across business units.
Highlights include the following entities recognised as GRESB sector leaders and five Green Stars ratings:
- Redwood Japan Logistics Fund II LP, RJLF 3 Co-Investment Platform (Japan) and ESR Kendall Square Development JV II (Korea) emerged as Regional Sector Leaders in the "Asia, Industrial" category under the development benchmark.
- E-Shang Star Cayman (China) and ESR India Logistics Fund Pte Ltd. under the development benchmark; Fortune REIT (Hong Kong), Prosperity REIT (Hong Kong) and ESR Kendall Square REIT – Subsidiary REIT No. 1 Co., Ltd. (Korea) under the standing investments benchmark, all received five Green Stars ratings.
- Suntec REIT awarded GRESB's highest accolade as the Global Sector Leader in the "Global, Office – Listed" category for a second year under the standing investments benchmark.
- Peninsula Investment Partners clinched the Regional Sector Leader in the "Asia, Diversified: Office/Retail – Non-Listed" category under the standing investments benchmark.
Jeffrey Shen and Stuart Gibson, ESR Co-founders and Co-CEOs, said: "ESG is core to our business and a key driver of our next stage of growth. We are proud to have achieved another year of outstanding scores and thank GRESB for the strong recognition of our excellent ESG performance. The consistent recognition by international indices such as GRESB cements our position as an ESG leader in real estate. We will continue to advance our ESG priorities to deliver resilient and sustainable long-term value for our stakeholders."
ESR has actively participated in the GRESB since 2014, which is a world leading ESG benchmark for real assets with more than 1,800 participants globally. GRESB is often used by companies to compare ESG performance against their peers and show improvements. This year, ESR has a total of 37 listed REITs and private funds participated in the GRESB, representing approximately more than a third of the Group's portfolio.
Tang Boon Kang, ESR Group Head, Governance & Sustainability and Emma Larsson, ESR Group ESG Officer, said: "ESR has made great progress on our ESG efforts set out in our ESG 2025 Roadmap. We have continued to integrate ESG into all aspects of our business from financial management to operations and future planning, and sustainability features are increasingly being incorporated in the development of our assets. We will continue to accelerate best-in-class practices to drive ESG initiatives across the entire ESR Group."
ESR has made great strides towards accelerating its ESG efforts across multiple aspects of its business, including sustainable financing, green building certifications, renewable energy, diversity and inclusion, and community engagement. In September 2022, ESR closed its fifth sustainability-linked loan ("SLL"), representing a total of approximately US$3 billion in SLLs across the Group in 12 months, reinforcing the Group's leadership in sustainable financing. The Group also recently became a signatory to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment ("PRI"), affirming its commitment to adopt and promote responsible investment practices as part of its ongoing ESG efforts.
About ESR
ESR is APAC's largest real asset manager powered by the New Economy and the third largest listed real estate investment manager globally. With over US$140 billion in total assets under management (AUM), our fully integrated development and investment management platform extends across key APAC markets, including China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, India, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, representing over 95% of GDP in APAC, and also includes an expanding presence in Europe and the U.S. We provide a diverse range of real asset investment solutions and New Economy real estate development opportunities across our private funds business, which allow capital partners and customers to capitalise on the most significant secular trends in APAC. ESR is the largest sponsor and manager of REITs in APAC with a total AUM of US$45 billion. Our purpose – Space and Investment Solutions for a Sustainable Future – drives us to manage sustainably and impactfully and we consider the environment and the communities in which we operate as key stakeholders of our business. Listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, ESR is a constituent of the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (Large Cap), Hang Seng Composite Index and MSCI Hong Kong Index.
For more information on ESR, please visit www.esr.com.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump, who’s running to return to the White House in 2024, now leads Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a possible contender who hasn’t yet declared a 2024 bid, by 36 points in a new poll of Republican primary voters.
A CBS News-YouGov poll, released Monday, found Trump at the head of a hypothetical GOP primary field with 58% of the vote, followed by DeSantis with 22%.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) and conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, both of whom have launched official bids for the Republican nomination, earned just 4% and 5%, respectively. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who hasn’t yet said whether he’s running, also earned 5%.
DeSantis has polled as a top potential GOP contender and has been stoking speculation about a possible 2024 run, but Trump has pulled well ahead of the Florida governor in recent polling.
Among those in the CBS News poll who say they’re voting for the former president, three-quarters cite that “he actually won in 2020” as a reason they’re backing him again. More than 90% cite his performance as president, as well as that “he fights for people like me.”
Eighty-four percent of those backing Trump cited their belief that he would beat President Biden, who just launched his reelection bid, as a justification.
About a quarter of likely GOP primary voters said they’re considering only Trump for the 2024 nomination (24%), while roughly half say they’re considering Trump and other candidates (49%). Another 27% say they’re not considering the former president.
Among the Republicans who say they’re not voting for Trump in 2024, 65% say they like other candidates more. Fifty-four percent say they won’t back him because he’s “too controversial.”
The CBS News-YouGov poll surveyed 2,372 voters from April 27-29 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5.4 percentage points for likely Republican primary voters. | 2023-05-03T18:47:27+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/desantis-trails-trump-by-36-points-in-new-poll/ |
WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
303 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Hidalgo
County through 330 PM CDT...
At 302 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Carman Elementary School, or over San Juan, moving northwest at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, Weslaco, San Juan, Alamo, Donna, Mercedes,
Hidalgo and Elsa.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 2605 9807 2607 9813 2605 9815 2607 9818
2606 9820 2611 9829 2612 9827 2612 9830
2610 9830 2617 9834 2616 9839 2620 9844
2622 9846 2643 9818 2629 9786 2606 9788
2607 9803 2604 9807
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 142DEG 16KT 2617 9815
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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NEW YORK — The country’s next poet laureate, Ada Limón, has long thought of her work as a public art form.
“I grew up with poetry being in the community,” says Limón, a native of Sonoma, California. “It wasn’t supposed to just be something read on page; it was supposed be read out loud. I remember going to poetry readings at the bookstore where I worked when I was 16. It’s the oral tradition. That part of poetry has always remained true to me.”
On Tuesday, the Library of Congress announced that the 46-year-old Limón had been named the 24th U.S. poet laureate, officially called the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Her 1-year term begins Sept. 29 with the traditional reading at the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium, one of the laureate’s few formal obligations. Limón, who succeeds Joy Harjo, is an award-winning and unusually popular poet, her acclaimed collection “Bright Dead Things” selling more than 40,000 copies. She has published six books of poetry, most recently “The Hurting Kind,” which was published by Minneapolis-based Milkweed Editions, and also hosts the podcast “The Slowdown.”
“Ada Limón is a poet who connects,” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement. “Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.”
The position was established in 1985, with other laureates including Louise Glück, W.S. Merwin and Rita Dove. Laureates receive a $35,000 stipend, along with $5,000 for travel expenses, the funding originating not from the government, but from a private gift made decades ago by the philanthropist Archer M. Huntington.
While the job is officially based in Washington, D.C., the poets are not required to live there — Limón will mostly work from her home in Lexington, Kentucky — and are generally free to shape the position around their passions. “The Slowdown” podcast grew out of a project launched by Tracy K. Smith when she served as laureate from 2017-2019.
Limón is known in part for her poems about nature and hopes to give readings at parks and other settings that emphasize and celebrate our place in the world.
“Poetry is a way of to remember our relationship with the natural world is reciprocal,” she says. “It’s having a place to breathe and having a place to pay attention.” | 2022-07-12T19:36:48+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/07/12/ada-limn-named-the-24th-u-s-poet-laureate/ |
WASHINGTON — Powerball is offering its ninth largest jackpot ever for Monday night's drawing.
The jackpot prize surged to an estimated $675 million on Monday after strong ticket sales.
Powerball is one of two lottery games with a hefty prize on the line. A combined $1.1 billion is on the line between Monday night's Powerball jackpot and Tuesday night's Mega Millions jackpot, which is sitting at $480 million.
The last Mega Millions jackpot was won on April 18, and Powerball hasn't seen a grand prize winner since April 19.
Jackpot winners have the option to be paid out the full amount over 29 years, or choose the smaller cash option. The cash option for Monday's drawing is $340.9 million.
What were the winning Powerball numbers for 7/10/23?
The winning numbers were 34-58-24-2-53, Powerball 13 and Power Play 2.
What are my chances of winning the Powerball?
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes.
Powerball's biggest change came in 2021 when officials decided to add a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday evening drawings. At the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would lead to "larger, faster-growing jackpots."
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are the largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
- $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.35 billion Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California) | 2023-07-11T04:26:46+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/powerball-winning-numbers-monday-july-10-2023/507-bdb5150f-da38-4a27-b958-5c249407a66f |
Dear Cathy,
Why does my dog sniff everybody's crotch? And I mean everybody's. It's so embarrassing. No matter whom I am talking to, my dog will "goose" their crotch with his nose. What can I do to stop this behavior?
Pete
Dear Pete,
Sniffing is a normal canine behavior that is definitely embarrassing for pet owners when the nose goes to an inappropriate place on the body. Dogs use about 30 percent of their brain for olfactory purposes compared to humans, who only use 5 percent, so "scent" is essential to dogs. However, some dog breeds, like bloodhounds, basset hounds, German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois, are super sniffers of the dog world. So, you may have a dog breed dog that uses its olfactory skills to learn about the world more often than other breeds.
The good news is there are things you can do to deter your dog from this pastime.
First, teach him basic obedience commands. When you greet people, ask your dog to "sit" and "stay." This should prevent him from taking the initiative of welcoming your guests himself. Keep him on a leash the first few times to ensure he understands your request.
Second, train him to sniff your extended hand or fist. Once you teach him to sniff your hand, you can ask family and friends to extend their fists during a visit so he can sniff them. This allows your dog to still sniff something but gives him a more appropriate target.
Third, distract him with a toy or chewie when you have company to redirect that energy. Look for puzzle toys where you can put treats in a container that he has to figure out how to open to retrieve. Given the choice, he may choose treats over being part of the welcoming committee.
More Animals Matter: How to rehabilitate a shy and fearful dog
Dear Cathy,
I am mad. I just learned that the local shelters don't take feral cats anymore. What are we supposed to do with them? There are close to 10 in my neighborhood, and I want them gone.
Geraldine
Dear Geraldine,
If shelters took in every feral cat someone wanted off the street, they would be euthanizing tens of thousands of felines every year. The problem is not the cats but the people who dump these felines when they no longer want them. The solution, therefore, is not to gather up cats and kill them, but to educate cat owners to stop dumping and abandoning their cats and implement a trap-neuter-return (TNR) effort to get feral/community cats fixed.
When you feed them and halt mating behaviors by sterilizing them, they are generally no longer a bother to people. Please call the San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition at 210-877-9067 to learn how to provide TNR for your neighborhood.
Send your pet questions, tips and stories to cathy@petpundit.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @cathymrosenthal. | 2023-01-12T12:29:02+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/article/dog-sniffs-crotch-feral-cats-San-Antonio-17705363.php |
(WGN Radio) – A new drug that shows promising results of slowing memory decline recently received the Food and Drug Administration’s stamp of approval – but will anyone be able to afford it?
The FDA endorsed the IV drug, Leqembi, for patients with mild dementia and other symptoms caused by early Alzheimer’s disease. It works by clearing a sticky brain plaque linked to the disease, and it’s the first medicine that’s been convincingly shown to modestly slow the cognitive decline caused by Alzheimer’s.
But Leqembi doesn’t come cheap. It is priced at about $26,500 for a year’s supply of IVs every two weeks.
“If we had to pay out of pocket, you’d certainly have to have substantial funds to do this,” said Dr. Kevin Most, chief medical officer at Northwestern Central DuPage Hospital, in an interview with WGN Radio.
But the recent FDA approval paves the way for Medicare and other insurers to cover the drug.
Medicare administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, said the program will begin paying for the drug now that it has full FDA approval. But the government is also setting extra requirements, including enrollment in a federal registry to track the drug’s real-world safety and effectiveness.
“I look at it and say it’s our opportunity to prove that the drug is really working well. It will advance the other five, six, seven drugs that are in the pipeline right now that are doing similar things to remove that beta amyloid from the brain,” said Dr. Most.
Even ignoring cost or insurance coverage, not every person with Alzheimer’s will be able to get their hands on the drug. Doctors will need to confirm that patients have the brain plaque targeted by Leqembi before prescribing it.
“When you look at the 6.5 million people with Alzheimer’s, it’s going to come down to a classification of probably between 1 to 2 million individuals will be available – or will be allowed – to do it,” said Dr. Most. “Because we’re looking at those with the early stages of Alzheimer’s, the minor symptoms, to see if we can stop it in its tracks.”
Leqembi’s drugmaker Eisai has told investors that about 100,000 Americans could be diagnosed and eligible to receive Leqembi by 2026.
Eisai studied the drug in people with early or mild disease who were evaluated using a scale measuring memory, thinking and other basic skills. After 18 months, those who got Leqembi declined more slowly — a difference of less than half a point on the scale — than participants who received a dummy infusion. Some Alzheimer’s experts say that delay is likely too subtle for patients or their families to notice.
Hear more from Dr. Most in the audio player below:
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-07-16T15:21:53+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/fda-approves-pricy-new-treatment-for-alzheimers-what-you-need-to-know/ |
LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog filed its Opening Brief in a California Public Records Act ("CPRA") lawsuit against Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the Department of Insurance. The CPRA suit alleges that Lara and the Department of Insurance failed to search for and produce records related to a pay-to-play scandal involving insurance companies with business pending before the agency.
The trial will be held September 2, 2022. Download the brief here: https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/2022-07-05%20Brief%20Petitioner%27s%20Opening%20Brief%20and%20Exhibits%201-40%20%28stamped%29.pdf
As explained in the Opening Brief, though Commissioner Lara had previously pledged not to accept insurance company contributions, in 2019 individuals linked to workers' compensation insurer Applied Underwriters and another company, IHC, contributed $53,400 to Lara's 2022 re-election campaign fund. Some of the contributions were made in the name of relatives of insurance company executives, apparently to hide their true source. Shortly after, Applied's president, Steven Menzies, requested that Commissioner Lara intervene in proceedings at the Department involving Applied. Lara did so, overriding Administrative Law Judge orders in at least four proceedings. Menzies also stood to gain if Commissioner Lara approved his purchase of Applied's subsidiary, California Insurance Company ("CIC").
In the wake of statewide news reports Commissioner Lara apologized and promised "transparency."
Consumer Watchdog then filed two CPRA requests with the Department seeking communications and meeting records involving 13 named individuals and any other individuals "employed by or representing" the insurance companies involved in the scandal.
Several records the Department ultimately produced suggest that Menzies and others improperly discussed the sale of CIC with Commissioner Lara and Department staff simultaneous to campaign fundraising. The Department refused to produce other records and failed to provide an adequate explanation for withholding them.
Without recourse, Consumer Watchdog filed a public records lawsuit asking the court to require the Department to search for and produce all responsive records.
Following the filing of the lawsuit, discovery responses from the Department demonstrated that the Department failed to search for, perhaps intentionally so, records related to at least four individuals that the Department knew were "employed by or representing" Applied and IHC.
These individuals include a former New Mexico insurance regulator who left office following a different pay-to-play scandal, an insurance executive involved in the sale of CIC, and two former California legislators-turned lobbyists, Rusty Areias and Fabian Nunez.
As noted in the Opening Brief,
"During discovery, Respondents admitted that they had done nothing to determine who was 'employed by or representing' Applied or the other companies, or to search for records responsive to the second half of the CPRA Requests. After this litigation was filed, Petitioner uncovered evidence that Respondents were aware of other individuals who represented the companies, but still failed, perhaps intentionally, to include their names as search terms in order to identify other responsive documents. As a result, the universe of responsive documents remains unknown…. Respondents have a duty under the CPRA to establish search protocols and adopt search terms adequate to identify responsive records. Respondents violated this duty. . . . An agency fails to conduct an adequate search when it fails to pursue leads in response to a records request that, if followed, could reasonably lead to further responsive records."
The lawsuit, Consumer Watchdog v. Ricardo Lara et al. Case No. 20STCP00664, is being litigated in Los Angeles Superior Court. Consumer Watchdog is represented by attorneys for the group and Kelly Aviles, esq.
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SOURCE Consumer Watchdog | 2022-07-14T20:17:11+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/07/14/opening-brief-filed-public-records-lawsuit-against-insurance-commissioner-lara-amp-agency-over-pay-to-play-records-trial-set-september-2nd/ |
BERLIN – Germans are facing a new tax on natural gas use that could cost the average household several hundred euros a year and is aimed at rescuing importers slammed by Russian cutbacks tied to the war in Ukraine.
An association of gas pipeline operators on Monday set the level at 2.4 euro cents per kilowatt hour under legislation passed by the German parliament, which had an expected range of 1 to 5 cents. The tax on gas that is used to heat homes in winter and generate electricity is set to take effect in October and run through the beginning of April. It will not show up in utility bills until November or December.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has said the tax will mean added costs of several hundred euros per year for an average household. The government is seeking ways to soften the blow through financial assistance for poorer households and a proposed break on value-added tax. Chancellor Olaf Scholz tweeted Monday that “we will leave no one behind" amid the higher costs.
The gas tax will raise money to compensate importers of Russian gas whose contracts with city utilities do not permit them to pass on the costs of surging natural gas prices. Russia has sharply cut back supplies of natural gas that costs less under long-term contracts, forcing importers to purchase much more expensive gas on the spot market to fulfill their obligations.
The government has agreed to bail out the largest importer, Uniper. Habeck said that 12 importers have applied for help and would receive 34 billion euros ($34.7 billion), or about 90% of their exceptional costs, the dpa news agency reported.
Energy-intensive businesses urged the government to limit the burdens from the new tax. Steel producers said it would cost them 500 million euros annually, while the VDMA association of mechanical engineering firms — a pillar of Germany's export-oriented economy — warned that the tax was “a significant burden” on top of soaring natural gas prices.
Russia's state-owned gas exporter Gazprom has dialed back shipments to Europe, leading to charges the Kremlin is using the resulting gas shortage to drive up prices and pressure European Union governments over their support for Ukraine and over sanctions against Russia following the invasion. | 2022-08-15T14:05:49+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2022/08/15/germans-face-higher-bills-as-tax-aids-natural-gas-importers/ |
Waves broke softly on the body as it lay on the shore of Lake Michigan.
I stood over the lifeless form on the sand. I couldn’t just leave the body there, could I? Alone. No, not after it had died alone and scared in the waters of that very same lake.
The leash, still attached to a collar covered in seaweed, moved gently — almost hypnotically — as each impending wave came in and then receded back from where it came.
The sun had been down for close to an hour as I stood there, my eyes moving between the dead dog lying at my feet and the ever-darkening horizon that had shifted from a fiery bright orange to a deeply flushed red and purple.
About 45 minutes had passed since I called the police to alert them about what I’d tragically discovered while taking my own dog for a walk along the beach just south of Pentwater. I told the dispatch operator that I’d wait for authorities to arrive and that I would stay there with the body. Again, I couldn’t just leave the poor pup there alone.
That was somebody’s dog, somebody’s best friend, somebody’s constant source of unconditional love and acceptance. All lost to the unforgiving and uncaring waters of Lake Michigan.
I usually go for sunset swims on warm summer nights when I’m in Pentwater. Those moments in the water as the sun seemingly sinks into the lake are both peaceful and powerful, rejuvenating my soul.
But that night, I didn’t. I wasn’t feeling it for some reason.
And when I walk on that beach, I usually head north.
But that night, I went south. I don’t know why.
Myself, my girlfriend and my 8-month-old puppy began what I expected to be a fairly short walk. Just a barefoot stroll about 100 yards down the beach and then back to the cabin.
But as we made our way on the wet sand with the waves licking our feet, I noticed something on the shore ahead of us.
I was puzzled.
At first, I thought it was a dead fish. A few steps closer, I knew it was too big to be a fish. Was it a bag of garbage?
Another step closer. No, it’s a pillow. No, wait. It’s a jacket.
Two steps closer.
Oh, no! It’s a deer.
But the coloring of the fur was wrong. If it’s not a deer, then ...
“Don’t look!” I said to my girlfriend. “Take Saint and head back toward my parents. It’s a dog. ... It’s a dead dog.”
If you’ve read my past columns, you know how much I love my dogs and dogs in general. If you haven’t read my columns, trust me when I say my dogs are my life — and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
So finding that dog’s body shook me.
Everyone else headed back to the cabin while I waited alone on the beach, standing over the dog and thinking about the last moments of his life as he struggled to stay above water before giving in to the fate the universe wrote for him.
I assumed he fell out of a boat, and either his caretakers didn’t notice or couldn’t reach him and save him without risking — maybe evening sacrificing — their own lives.
But the heartbreak they must feel. The guilt that must eat at them. Simply tragic. There’s no other way to say it. Such a loss in such a fashion is a tragedy.
Darkness had settled over most of the beach by the time the animal control officer arrived. I told him I’d help get the body up the stairs, through the trees and to the road where his truck was parked.
I ran back to the cabin and grabbed a pair of long rubber gloves and a flashlight. By the time we got back to the beach, the last sliver of daylight had been consumed by the night.
When I shone my flashlight on the body, only then did I realize what I thought were his long floppy ears was actually the skin of his face. Fishes had eaten down to the bone on his snout and his front legs. The glaring light off the pure white of his bones was nearly blinding.
The officer wasn’t sure how to go about lifting the dog off the shore and onto the gurney/tarp with handles. I couldn’t bear to leave the dog in that state any longer. I put the flashlight in my mouth, waded into the shallow water, put my hands under the torso and lifted the dog — which probably weighed close to 80 pounds — out and then placed him down on the gurney.
Bloody water sloshed around as we each took one side of the gurney and began the walk back.
That’s when the smell hit.
Death and rot and decay. One of those odors that takes days to leave your nose and still randomly pops up in my olfactory memories.
When we got back to the road, we placed the body down and rolled him onto a tarp. I wrapped him up like a burrito and placed him as respectfully as I could in the refrigerated section of the truck.
Then I went back home. I showered. Didn’t say much. I mean, what was there to say?
When I tried to sleep, sleep wouldn’t come.
Sensing my unease, my girlfriend told me I was the one who was supposed to find that dog. That — because of my love for dogs — I would be the one to stay there and make sure he was taken care of even after he had died and spent days in Lake Michigan before his body washed up on the shore just south of Pentwater.
I don’t know why, but that did give me some comfort. Despite the sadness and the general unease of finding a dead body, if no one else was going to care for that creature, then I’m glad it was me who found it.
I’m glad I didn’t go for my sunset swim.
I’m glad I walked south instead of north.
Hopefully, the family of that dog now has some closure. As heartbreaking as that closure is, I hope they know that someone cared for their dog after he was gone. | 2022-09-04T15:35:36+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/brendan-quealy-a-short-walk-with-fate/article_22f4f0d6-28cd-11ed-b054-076d7f551afa.html |
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — President Kais Saied of Tunisia ordered Europe’s top trade union official to leave the North African country after she addressed protesters at a demonstration organized by an influential labor union.
Authorities accused Esther Lynch, the Irish general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, of making statements that “interfered with Tunisian internal affairs” during a Saturday protest against Saied in the port city of Sfax.
Tunisia’s General Labor Union, or UGTT, organized the demonstration to protest a crackdown on the increasingly authoritarian president’s political opponents and his critics in the media, judiciary, business community and trade unions.
In an address to the protesters, Lynch demanded the release of union leader Anis Kaabi, who was arrested by security forces last month.
She called on the Tunisian government to negotiate with the UGTT leadership and to improve the economy, which has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy amid political instability that deepened after a parliamentary election last month in which only 11% of voters cast ballots.
“By orders of the president, Tunisian authorities ordered Esther Lynch to leave the country within 24 hours, following statements made during the UGTT-led demonstration that interfered with Tunisian internal affairs,” said a statement by the Tunisian presidency that was posted on Twitter late Saturday.
The European Trade Union Confederation (or the ETUC confirmed that Lynch left Tunisia on Sunday.
The treatment of Lynch by the Tunisian authorities “is in line with the campaign of intimidation and harassment being waged against trade unions by President Kais Saied,” including “arrests, sacking of union officials (and) malicious lawsuits,” the ETUC said in a statement.
“These tactics are part of a campaign by President Saied to break the union’s resistance to policies which are making ordinary people pay for the country’s economic, social and constitutional crisis,” the statement said.
Saied won the presidency in a 2019 landslide on a promise to improve the country’s economy. Instead, the president appears determined to upend the country’s political system, threatening a democracy once seen as a model for the Arab world and sending the economy toward a tailspin.
In December, the International Monetary Fund froze an agreement on a $1.9 billion loan for Tunisia. The deeply indebted government needs the funds to pay UGTT-represented public sector salaries and to fill budget gaps aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In recent months, Tunisians have been hit with soaring food prices and shortages of fuel and basic staples like sugar and vegetable oil. | 2023-02-20T14:12:19+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-tunisia-orders-top-european-trade-union-official-expelled/ |
LAPEER, MI -- Lead has been found in 76% of water samples tested in the city of Lapeer since an Aug. 13 break in a Great Lakes Water Authority transmission line -- the second community in Michigan’s Thumb that’s seen an increased presence of lead after activating a back-up community water system.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services told MLive-The Flint Journal on Wednesday, Sept. 7, that lead was detected in 89 of 116 samples collected in Lapeer with 38 of those samples exceeding the federal action limit of 15 parts per billion of lead.
Last week, MDHHS said its testing also detected lead in 14 of 22 samples collected in Imlay City after that city -- like Lapeer -- started using well water to counteract dropping water supplies and pressure that accompanied the break in GLWA’s 120-inch transmission line that usually supplies the two cities.
Officials for the two community water systems said this week that a change in their water sources, pressure fluctuations within their distribution systems, or both have likely caused the spikes in lead, which they hope will dissipate after regular service is restored later this month.
State officials have said they do not have enough information to determine the cause of lead detections and are continuing to sample water.
Residents in both communities are being offered free faucet filters and bottled water in response to lead elevations.
An update from GLWA on Tuesday, Sept. 6, says the authority, which supplies pre-treated Lake Huron water to nearly 40 percent of all households in Michigan, estimates to return to normal operations by Sept. 21.
“In a short amount of time, things hopefully will be back in order,” Lapeer City Manager Dale Kerbyson said Wednesday.
Lapeer activated two of its four municipal water wells as pressure dropped in its distribution system following the GLWA line break, but the well water isn’t treated with any corrosion control inhibitors to protect lead or galvanized service lines or lead in home plumbing.
The back-up water supply also causes greater fluctuations in water system pressure, Kerbyson said, and pressure has also been inconsistent in the two weeks since GLWA reconnected the city to a secondary line, allowing it to discontinue the use of well water.
Lapeer is in the midst of a program to remove and replace service lines at 107 homes and to excavate service line connections at more than 500 other homes where some portions of the connection could be made of lead or galvanized material, according to the city manager.
Last week, the city distributed faucet filters to those 500-plus homes and the Lapeer County Health Department issued a recommendation that residents there use the devices.
In Imlay City, results from sampling at 23 addresses show at least some lead detected in 42 samples where results have been reported as of Wednesday. Four samples were taken from each address in Lapeer and Imlay City, DHHS said, and lead levels have ranged from non-detect to 19 ppb. No lead was detected in 50 of 92 total samples.
Imlay City Public Works Supervisor Ed Priehs said the city is still working to determine how many lead or galvanized service lines exist in the water system.
More than half of the connections in the city are confirmed to have neither lead nor galvanized steel lines, he said, but at a minimum, there are some goose-neck connections made of lead.
Like Lapeer, the city’s well water system isn’t equipped to add chemicals that would help prevent lead from leaching into the water system.
“GLWA has a corrosion-control inhibitor. When you introduce a new water, you take those inhibitors off the pipes,” Priehs said.
MDHHS spokeswoman Lynn Sutfin said in an email to The Journal that test results are not available for the village of Almont, a third community in southeast Michigan that also used a back-up municipal well system following the GLWA line break.
A boil water advisory has been lifted in Almont, according to the village’s website, but officials are asking residents to restrict water use by refraining from outside watering so that pressure can be maintained.
Water is being tested for lead and up to 11 additional water parameters, Sutfin said.
The Journal could not immediately reach a GLWA representative for comment on Wednesday.
The authority said in a message posted on its website that its Lake Huron Water Treatment Plant has begun producing the 81 million gallons of water needed to fill the 26 miles of water main before it can be returned to service. The authority’s message says it is working with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on a flushing and disinfection plan for the transmission main.
Read more at The Flint Journal:
Lead found at 14 of 22 homes tested in Imlay City after GLWA water line break
Imlay City offering filters, bottled water after testing shows lead in several homes
Consultant wants slide presentation from Flint kids in water crisis mistrial | 2022-09-07T23:19:24+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/09/lead-found-in-76-of-lapeer-water-samples-following-glwa-line-break.html |
A driver in Pacific Palisades crashed into several pedestrians and vehicles on Saturday morning killing one woman.
The driver was traveling east on PCH at around 12:45 a.m. when he hit several pedestrians and vehicles.
The driver crashed into multiple vehicles that were parked on the shoulder of PCH overlooking the beach, sending at least two vehicles down to the beach.
The driver also crashed into multiple pedestrians causing the death of a woman in her 30s. Six other pedestrians were hit and were rushed to local hospitals. One was found in severe critical condition, while the other five had moderate injuries.
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There is not other information on the condition of the other pedestrians.
According to an LAPD officer, an arrest has been made but there are no further details at this time.
Officers are looking into the incident to determine how and why this happened. | 2023-04-09T08:47:50+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/1-dead-several-injured-after-crash-involving-13-year-old-in-stolen-car-in-california-police-say/3115208/ |
2 arrested for stealing $1,200 worth of items from Dollar General, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – Two people were arrested for stealing $1,200 in merchandise from a Dollar General in Oklahoma, according to police.
The Tulsa Police Department said officers were called to the store for a theft Monday evening.
When officers arrived, they saw the suspect vehicle speeding out of the parking lot.
Police said the car failed to pull over and continued to flee officers.
Eventually, the car hit spike strips and pulled over to a gas station.
Tulsa police said the driver, Mark Burris, and the passenger, Tabitha Kelly, were taken into custody.
Burris was charged with grand larceny, driving with a suspended license, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, obstructing/interfering with a police officer, and an improper vehicle tag. Kelly is facing a grand larceny charge.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-09T22:49:18+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/11/09/2-arrested-stealing-1200-worth-items-dollar-general-police-say/ |
(NEXSTAR) – In addition to announcing widespread student loan forgiveness, the Biden administration says it is working to reform the way borrowers will repay their loans going forward.
As part of this, the Biden administration is proposing a rule that would create a new income-driven repayment plan intended to “substantially reduce future monthly payments for lower- and middle-income borrowers.”
There are four income-driven repayment plans: Pay as You Earn, Revised Pay as You Earn, Income-Based, and Income-Contingent. All four have monthly payments set at a level “intended to be affordable based on your income and family size,” according to the U.S. Department of Education.
For each plan, your payment is based on a different percentage of your discretionary income (the difference between your annual income and a certain percentage of the poverty guidelines based on your family size and where you live).
The newly proposed income-driven repayment (IDR) plan would drastically differ from the aforementioned plans.
According to data from the White House, borrowers would be required to pay no more than 5% of their discretionary income on undergraduate loans, down from the 10% rates available on the current IDR plans.
The amount of income considered non-discretionary income would also rise, meaning no borrowers earning under 225% of the federal poverty level ($30,577.50 for a single borrower) would owe a monthly payment.
Borrowers below that threshold could see payments as low as $0.
If, for example, you are making $44,000 a year, a current IDR plan could require you to make monthly payments of $197. Under the new plan, that would drop to $56 a month, saving you almost $1,700.
If you were making slightly less — let’s say $35,000 — your monthly payment would drop from the roughly $122 you’d pay under a current plan to $19. With an income of $77,000 a year, your payment drops from $294 to $61.
Here’s how you can calculate what your payment would be under the proposed plan:
- Determine your federal poverty guideline based on state and family size using this chart.
- Multiple that by 2.25. (This is the 225% rate mentioned above.)
- Subtract that number from your income.
- Multiple that by 0.05. (This is the 5% of your discretionary income mentioned above.)
- Divide that number by 12 for your monthly payment.
According to the White House, “no borrower’s loan balance will grow as long as they make their monthly payments—even when that monthly payment is $0 because their income is low.” This is not currently the case with other IDR plans.
Additionally, after 10 years of payments, borrowers with an initial loan balance of $12,000 or less will have their remaining debt forgiven.
Like other aspects of President Joe Biden’s Wednesday announcement, further details about this plan haven’t yet been released. We do know that monthly payments could change, primarily because of a change in your income or household size, and that there could be certain requirements you would have to meet to qualify for this plan.
The Education Department says the proposed regulation will be published soon on the Federal Register and the public will be invited to common on the draft rule for 30 days.
In addition to proposing a new income-driven repayment plan, the Biden administration announced widespread federal student loan forgiveness and proposed long-term changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. | 2022-08-26T15:50:18+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/your-monthly-student-loan-payments-could-be-drastically-reduced-under-a-new-plan-heres-what-we-know/ |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Aaron Judge has agreed to return to the New York Yankees on a $360 million, nine-year contract, according to a person familiar with the deal.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday because the deal had not been announced.
Judge will earn $40 million per season, the highest average annual payout for a position player. The contract trails only Mike Trout’s $426.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels and Mookie Betts’ $365 million pact with the Los Angeles Dodgers for biggest in baseball history.
Judge was offered a long-term deal by New York before last season that was worth $213.5 million over seven years from 2023-29. But he turned it down in the hours before opening day in April.
The 6-foot-7 Judge bet on himself — and won.
Judge set an American League record with 62 homers in 2022, powering the Yankees to the AL East title. He also tied for the major league lead with 131 RBIs and just missed a Triple Crown with a .311 batting average.
New York was swept by Houston in the AL Championship Series, but Judge became the first AL MVP for the Yankees since Alex Rodriguez in 2007.
Judge, 30, was selected by New York in the first round of the 2013 amateur draft and made his big league debut in 2016, homering in his first at-bat.
A year later, he was one of baseball’s breakout stars. He hit .284 with 52 homers and 114 RBIs in 2017, winning the AL Rookie of the Year award. The four-time All-Star has 220 homers and 497 RBIs in seven big league seasons.
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AP Baseball: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-07T14:31:54+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/sports/ap-ap-source-aaron-judge-yankees-reach-360m-9-year-deal/ |
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BOISE, Idaho — What a difference a year makes. 365 days ago, Boise State quarterback Taylen Green was leading the 'orange team,' which Bronco Nation may know better as the backups.
Firmly entrenched in his role as Boise State's starting gunslinger following a Mountain West Freshman of the Year campaign last fall, one of the most notable takeaways from spring football is Green's leadership – assertive and decisive.
Green said he is making big strides this spring, noting specifically his improved footwork. In addition to his bigger build, Green is also becoming more vocal, and finding his voice.
The sophomore-to-be's leadership has been on full display with the encouragement of new Boise State offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Bush Hamdan. In year No. 2 in the City of Trees, Green is finally finding his voice.
"Definitely the communication piece. He said it, at the start of spring, I was way too quiet. Just being more vocal and letting the bass drop in my voice. I wouldn't say I'm a quiet guy, but you're not gonna hear me 'hey, hey, hey,' you're not gonna hear me like that," Green said in a loud voice. "So, really just stepping in and finding my voice, and finding how my teammates respond to encouragement, respond to me getting on to them, and I'm excited about having a whole season to figure that out."
Coming up on Saturday, Bronco Nation will get their first look and the new and improved Green at the Broncos' annual spring scrimmage.
Green has a reputation of being one heck of a running quarterback, but with Hamdan behind the offensive wheel, he is focused on developing Green's game as a passer.
The Texas produce has learned to maximize his talents, and his goal is to use – not abuse – his ability to leave the pocket and run.
"You know, everybody – especially in the league – everybody runs 4.4, 4.5 [40-yard dash]. It's just trying not to rely on that – only when I have to – when a play breaks down, then use my running ability, or if the d-end crashes, then pull it and run and use it," Green said. "If I don't have to do it, just stay in the pocket, trust in my o-line and just give the ball to my playmakers."
The confidence Green has entering the 2023 campaign is obvious, and deservingly so. The Boise State offense welcomes back running backs George Holani and Ashton Jeanty, starting tight end Riley Smith, and productive wide receivers Stefan Cobbs, Latrell Caples, Billy Bowens and Eric McAlister – just to name a few.
"We definitely can improve from last year, just learning and building upon what we did. What we're emphasizing is we can only beat ourselves," Green said. "No matter what the defense is in, we know our job, we know our responsibility. Just focus on the pre-snap and do our 1/11. We can't be stopped. I believe we can be the best in the country."
Boise State's annual spring game kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Albertsons Stadium. Parking lots open at 11 a.m., gates open at 12:30 p.m. and the Bronco Walk is set for 12:30 p.m. For more information on Saturday's event, click here.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Another Indiana athlete is making sure kids get a positive start to the school year.
Reading is the mission of "KG's Kids," started by Colts tight end Kylen Granson.
He spent time with kids at the library downtown Saturday sharing the joy of reading that can last a lifetime.
"Reading is like something everyone can get into like all walks of life no matter what you want to do what career path you want to pursue. It definitely helped me in my pursuit of furthering my academics and then also pursuing my NFL career. I hope some of these kids can find their stride in whatever walk of life it is, and it allows them to find their passion and pursue it," Granson said.
Granson started his foundation in 2020.
It includes gifting books to students and raising money for classroom libraries. | 2022-07-27T20:27:50+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/colts-player-spends-time-with-kids-at-library-to-share-the-joy-of-reading-kylen-granson-indianapolis/531-bc3966aa-891e-484e-a1ae-e87901cdef63 |
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MADRID — Unai Emery’s unsuccessful run against Diego Simeone is finally over.
Yéremy Pino and Gerard Moreno scored second-half goals at the Metropolitano stadium as Villarreal picked up its second consecutive win to start the league.
Atlético had also opened with a win, but this time Álvaro Morata and João Félix struggled in attack and the hosts couldn’t find a way past Villarreal. Morata, back from on loan with Juventus, had scored twice in the 3-0 victory at Getafe, when Félix had three assists.
Villarreal had won 3-0 at Valladolid.
Atlético’s newly signed defender Nahuel Molina was sent off in stoppage time.
Atlético hadn’t lost in its last eight league matches against Villarreal.
GATTUSO FALLS
Coach Gennaro Gattuso endured his first defeat in the Spanish league this season when Valencia lost 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao.
Álex Berenguer scored the winner in the 42nd to give Bilbao its first win of the season after an opening draw at home against Mallorca.
Gattuso had made his debut with Valencia with a 1-0 win against Girona at home.
Bilbao forward Iñaki Williams had a goal disallowed for offside late in the game at San Mamés, while Valencia striker Marcos André nearly got the equalizer deep in stoppage time with an attempt that hit the woodwork.
Defending champion Real Madrid won 4-1 at Celta Vigo on Saturday for its second consecutive win to start the league.
Barcelona will try to win its first match this season when it visits Real Sociedad later Sunday.
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(NEXSTAR) — Several U.S. cities where home prices skyrocketed due to an influx of new residents during the pandemic are now seeing prices drop quickly. Real estate experts at Redfin looked at year-over-year data back in February and then again in October to find where the price per square foot dropped the most during that time period.
These are the U.S. metros where price growth is decelerating fastest, Redfin says:
As Redfin explains, these U.S. metros saw huge population growths as remote work became more common as a result of the pandemic. For the first time, perhaps ever, many American workers had the option to work virtually from less expensive cities than where their employers were located.
And although many corporations have begun pulling workers back into the office, Pew Research data from February showed about six in 10 U.S. workers who could work remotely were, at least most of the time.
But housing data indicates that a variety of factors are slowing things down.
“The forces slowing the housing market, such as high mortgage rates, are having an outsized impact on places like Austin and Boise that saw home prices skyrocket over the last few years,” said Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari. “Home prices can only rise by double digits for so long before the growth becomes unsustainable. High rates and stumbling tech stocks are making it unsustainable quite quickly, especially in destinations popular with tech workers. Plus, many of the out-of-towners with big budgets who wanted to move into those places already have.”
In Texas’ capitol city, where many major corporations relocated during the pandemic (including Tesla and Oracle), an overabundance of homes is becoming a big part of the problem.
“Inventory was about 1,500 [homes] at the beginning of the year,” Lisa Muñoz, a realtor with The Muñoz Group at Realty Austin told KXAN News. “We have almost 10,000 houses on the market right now, so more inventory means a big softening in prices.”
Muñoz said right now, at least in Austin, higher interest rates and supply of vacant homes makes the local market more suitable for buyers.
“It’s rare to see a multiple offer situation right now,” she said. “In fact, buyers are able to negotiate sometimes on the front end. Sellers are paying some closing costs. They’re buying interest rates down. This is a really great time to get into the real estate market.”
KXAN News’ Will DuPree contributed to this report. | 2022-12-03T19:21:49+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/home-price-growth-is-slowing-most-in-these-cities-data-shows/ |
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed government have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along their border amid a surge in militant attacks on security forces, officials said Monday.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, struck the deal Sunday in Islamabad, according to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry. The agreement is designed to improve bilateral trade, combat terrorism and boost bilateral ties.
Earlier, Bhutto Zardari and Muttaqi also held talks with China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang, a departure from recent years when such dialogue had been on hold, according to analysts, who say China is expanding its influence in the region. China also has played a role in the resumption of Saudi-Iran diplomatic ties.
In Pakistan, Beijing is bankrolling the so-called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC — a sprawling package that includes such projects as road and power plant construction and boosting agriculture production.
The package is considered a lifeline for this impoverished Islamic nation, which is currently facing one of its worst economic crises amid stalled talks on a bailout with the International Monetary Fund.
CPEC, also known as the One Road Project, is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a global endeavor aimed at reconstituting the ancient Silk Road and linking China to all corners of Asia.
Qin arrived in Islamabad on Friday and met with President Arif Alvi, Foreign Minister Bhutto Zardari and Pakistan's powerful army chief, Gen. Asim Munir. During these meetings, he was assured that Pakistan will boost security for all Chinese nationals who are working on multi-billion dollar projects in cash-strapped Pakistan.
China has been demanding more security from Pakistan for its nationals residing and working in the Islamic country since 2021, when a suicide bomber killed nine Chinese and four Pakistanis in an attack in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.
According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Bhutto Zardari and Muttaqi on Sunday “held a candid and in-depth exchange on key issues of mutual concern, including peace and security, as well as trade and connectivity." The two sides “reaffirmed their desire to pursue continuous and practical engagement," it said.
According to the Afghan embassy, Muttaqi and his delegation met with Bhutto Zardari and other officials. “During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, Afghan-Pak political, economic, and transit relations as well as challenges of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan have been discussed,” it said on Twitter early Monday.
Pakistan's military said Muttaqi also met with Munir, the army chief, to discuss "issues of mutual interest including aspects related to regional security, border management, and formalization of bilateral security mechanisms for improvement in the current security environment.” Munir sought enhanced cooperation to “effectively tackle the common challenges of terrorism and extremism," the statement added.
Relations between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban have featured ups and down in the past year.
In February, the two sides shut the main Afghan-Pakistan border crossing at Torkham, stranding people and trucks carrying food and essential items. After a Pakistani delegation traveled to Kabul for talks on the crisis, the border was reopened after a week and Muttaqi's visit to Islamabad was planned.
Afghanistan's Taliban have been shunned by most of the international community for harsh and restrictive measures they have imposed since seizing power in August 2021, when U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war. The Afghan Taliban has banned girls from education beyond the sixth grade and barred women from most jobs and public life.
Pakistan has lately expressed concern over a surge of deadly attacks across the country by the Pakistani Taliban — an independent militant group that is allied with and sheltered by the Afghan Taliban.
Islamabad has demanded from the Taliban in Kabul that they do more to rein in anti-Pakistani groups such as the Pakistani Taliban — also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP — which have stepped up attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent months. | 2023-05-08T05:51:50+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/pakistan-afghan-taliban-agree-to-boost-trade-18085009.php |
No OPEC+ oil shakeup as Russian price cap stirs uncertainty
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Saudi-led OPEC oil cartel and allied producers including Russia did not change their targets for shipping oil to the global economy amid uncertainty about the impact of new Western sanctions against Russia that could take significant amounts of oil off the market.
The decision at a meeting of oil ministers Sunday comes a day ahead of the planned start of two measures aimed at hitting Russia’s oil earnings in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Those are: a European Union boycott of most Russian oil and a price cap of $60 per barrel on Russian exports imposed by the EU and the Group of Seven democracies.
It is not yet clear how much Russian oil the two sanctions measures could take off the global market, which would tighten supply and drive up prices. The world’s No. 2 oil producer has been able to reroute much, but not all, of its former Europe shipments to customers in India, China and Turkey.
The impact of the price cap is also up in the air because Russia has said it could simply halt deliveries to countries that observe the limit. But analysts say the country would likely also find ways to evade the cap for some shipments.
On the other side, oil has been trading at lower prices on fears that coronavirus outbreaks and China’s strict zero-COVID restrictions would reduce demand for fuel in one of the world’s major economies. Concerns about recessions in the U.S. and Europe also raise the prospect of lower demand for gasoline and other fuel made from crude.
That uncertainty is the reason the OPEC+ alliance gave in October for a slashing production by 2 million barrels per day starting in November, a cut that remains in effect. Analysts say that took less than the full amount off the market because OPEC+ members already can’t meet their full production quotas.
An OPEC+ statement Sunday pushed back against criticism of that October decision in view of the recent weakness in oil prices, saying the cut had been “recognized in retrospect by the market participants to have been the necessary and the right course of action towards stabilizing global oil markets.”
The White House, which has pressed for more oil supply to keep gasoline costs down for U.S. drivers, at the time called the cut “shortsighted” and said the alliance was “aligning with Russia.”
With the global economy slowing, oil prices have been falling since summertime highs, with international benchmark Brent closing Friday at $85.42 per barrel, down from $98 a month ago. That has eased gasoline prices for drivers around the world.
Average gas prices have fallen for U.S. drivers in recent days to $3.41 per gallon, according to motoring club federation AAA.
While U.S., European and other allies seek to punish Russia for the war in Ukraine, they also want to prevent a sudden loss of Russian crude that could send oil and gasoline prices back up.
That is why the G-7 price cap allows shipping and insurance companies to transport Russian oil to non-Western nations at or below that threshold. Most of the globe’s tanker fleet is covered by insurers in the G-7 or EU.
Russia would likely try to evade the cap by organizing its own insurance and using the world’s shadowy fleet of off-the-books tankers, as Iran and Venezuela have done, but that would be costly and cumbersome, analysts say.
The cap of $60 a barrel is near the current price of Russian oil, meaning Moscow could continue to sell while rejecting the cap in principle. Oil use also declines in the winter, in part because fewer people are driving.
“If Russia ends up taking off more oil than about a million barrels per day, then the world becomes short on oil, and there would need to be an offset somewhere, whether that’s from OPEC or not,” said Jacques Rousseau, managing director at Clearview Energy Partners. “That’s going to be the key factor — is to figure out how much Russian oil is really leaving the market.”
The OPEC+ statement set its next meeting for June 4 but said the coalition could meet at any time to address market developments.
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AP Business Writer Cathy Bussewitz contributed from New York.
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PARIS (AP) — Milan Kundera, the renowned but reclusive author whose dissident writings transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism and explorer of identity and the human condition, has died in Paris. He was 94.
Kundera died Tuesday afternoon, his long-standing publishing house Gallimard said in a one-sentence statement on Wednesday. It confirmed that he died in Paris, where he has lived for decades, but provided no further information.
The European Parliament held a moment of silence upon news of his passing. Kundera held both French and Czech nationality, which he lost and then regained.
Kundera was a man of few words whose novels were translated into dozens of languages, but he abhorred the publicity that came with it, refusing interviews.
“I dream of a world where writers are obliged by law to keep their identity secret and use pseudonyms,” he wrote in the 1986 essay, “The Art of the Novel.” Kundera used the sentence to respond to questions put to him in 2011 by Le Monde des Livres, agreeing to an “interview” via responses from his works.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ Kundera’s best-known novel, opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that was the author’s home until he moved to France in 1975. Weaving together themes of love and exile, politics and the deeply personal, Kundera’s novel won critical acclaim, earning him a wide readership among Westerners who embraced both his anti-Soviet subversion and the eroticism threaded through many of his works.
“If someone had told me as a boy: One day you will see your nation vanish from the world, I would have considered it nonsense, something I couldn’t possibly imagine. A man knows he is mortal, but he takes it for granted that his nation possesses a kind of eternal life,” he told the author Philip Roth in a New York Times interview in 1980, the year before he became a naturalized French citizen.
In 1989, the Velvet Revolution pushed Communists from power and Kundera’s nation was reborn as the Czech Republic, but by then he had made a new life — and a complete identity — in his apartment on Paris’ Left Bank.
“Milan Kundera was a writer who was able to reach generations of readers across all continents with his work and achieved world fame …” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala tweeted in the Czech language. “He left behind not only a remarkable work of fiction, but also an important work of essays.”
He offered condolences to Kundera’s wife Věra, who guarded her reclusive husband from the intrusions of the world.
“His life symbolized the turbulent history of our country in the 20th century. Kundera’s legacy will stay alive in his works,” Czech President Petr Pavel said.
To say his relationship with the land of his birth was complex would be an understatement. He returned to the Czech Republic rarely and incognito, even after the fall of the Iron Curtain. His works, eventually written in French, were belatedly translated into Czech.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ which won him such acclaim and was made into a film in 1988, was not published in the Czech Republic until 2006, 17 years after the Velvet Revolution, although it was available in Czech since 1985 from a compatriot who founded a publishing house in exile in Canada. Kundera ultimately won the State Award for Literature for it.
Kundera’s wife, Vera, was an essential companion to the man who eschewed technology — his translator, his social secretary, and ultimately his buffer against the outside world. It was she who fostered his friendship with Roth by serving as their linguistic go-between, and — according to a 1985 profile of the couple — it was she who handled the inevitable demands on a world-famous author.
The writings of Kundera, whose first novel “The Joke’’ opens with a young man who is dispatched to the mines after making light of communist slogans, was banned in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, when he also lost his job as a professor of cinema. He had been writing novels and plays since 1953.
Kundera’s name was often floated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the honor eluded him.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” follows a dissident surgeon from Prague to exile in Geneva and back home again. For his refusal to bend to the Communist regime, the surgeon, Tomas, is forced to become a window washer, and uses his new profession to arrange sex with hundreds of female clients. Tomas ultimately lives out his final days in the countryside with his wife, Tereza, their lives becoming more dreamlike and more tangible as the days pass.
Jiri Srstka, Kundera’s Czech literary agent at the time the book was finally published in the Czech Republic, said the author himself delayed its release there for fears it would be badly edited.
“Kundera had to read the entire book again, rewrite sections, make additions and edit the entire text. So given his perfectionism, this was a long-term job, but now readers will get the book that Milan Kundera thinks should exist,” Ststka told Radio Praha at the time.
Kundera refused to appear on camera, rejected any annotation when his complete published works were released in 2011, and, earlier, would not allow any digital copies of his writing, reflecting his loyalty to the printed word. Today, however, a Kindle version of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is among his books offered on Amazon and Google Books.
In a June 2012 speech to the French National Library — re-read on French radio by a friend — he said he feared for the future of literature.
“It seems to me that time, which continues its march pitilessly, is beginning to endanger books. It’s because of this anguish that, for several years now, I have in all my contracts a clause stipulating that they must be published only in the traditional form of a book, that they be read only on paper and not on a screen,” he said. “People walk in the street, they no longer have contact with those around them, they don’t even see the homes they pass, they have wires hanging from their ears. They gesticulate, they should, they look at no one and no one looks at them. I ask myself, do they even read books anymore? It’s possible, but for how much longer?”
In 2021, Kundera donated his private library and archive to the public library in Brno, where he was born and spent his childhood. The Moravian Library holds a vast collection of Kundera’s works. Donated items include editions of Kundera’s books in Czech and some 40 other languages, articles written by and about him, published reviews and criticism of his work, authorized photographs and even drawings by the author.
Despite his fierce protection of his private life, Kundera was forced to revisit his past in 2008, when the Czech Republic’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes produced documentation indicating that in 1950, as a 21-year-old student, Kundera told police about someone in his dormitory. The man was ultimately convicted of espionage and sentenced to hard labor for 22 years.
The researcher who released the report, Adam Hradilek, defended it as the product of extensive research on Kundera.
“He has sworn his Czech friends to silence, so not even they are willing to speak to journalists about who Milan Kundera is and was,” Hradilek said at the time.
Kundera said the report was a lie, telling the Czech CTK news agency it amounted to “the assassination of an author.”
In a 1985 profile — which is among the longest and most detailed on record, and examines Kundera’s life in Paris — the author foreshadowed how much even that admission must have pained him.
“For me, indiscretion is a capital sin. Anyone who reveals someone else’s intimate life deserves to be whipped. We live in an age when private life is being destroyed. The police destroy it in Communist countries, journalists threaten it in democratic countries, and little by little the people themselves lose their taste for private life and their sense of it,” he told the writer Olga Carlisle. “Life when one can’t hide from the eyes of others — that is hell.”
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Associated Press journalists Karel Janicek in Prague, Czech Republic, Amer Cohadzik in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Raf Casert in Belgium contributed to this report. | 2023-07-13T07:14:15+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-milan-kundera-czech-writer-and-former-dissident-dies-in-paris-aged-94/ |
Hyundai Motor Group will invest more than $5.5 billion in a new U.S. plant for electric vehicles, which the automaker is calling a Metaplant.
The plant will be located in Bryan County, Georgia, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site on Wednesday, with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in attendance.
Rivian also announced plans for an EV plant in the state last December, but may lose some tax credits for the plant due to the usage restrictions of the land.
Production at the Hyundai plant is scheduled to start in the first half of 2025 and the initial capacity will be 300,000 units annually. Hyundai and its partners will also establish a local supply chain to include the production of batteries and other EV components. Altogether, more than 8,100 jobs are expected to be created by the initiative.
As part of Hyundai’s commitment to sustainability, the plant will primarily rely on renewable energy. Emission-reduction technologies will also be used at the site, the automaker said.
Hyundai plans to build vehicles from not only its own brand at the site, but also Genesis and Kia. An electric Genesis GV70 is already scheduled to start production in December at Hyundai’s current plant in Montgomery, Alabama.
EVs are also expected to be built at Kia’s current plant in West Point, Georgia, though details are yet to be finalized.
Hyundai’s plant announcement is the latest of several recent multibillion-dollar investments in U.S. EV production following the passing of legislation that encourages domestic production, specifically the Inflation Reduction Act and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. With these policies, automakers are able to avoid tariffs or qualify for financial incentives by producing domestically.
Shown above are three electric vehicles, the current Hyundai Ioniq 5 and upcoming Ioniq 6 electric sedan, plus a concept previewing an Ioniq 7 electric SUV due around 2024.
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Twist Bioscience and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On November 15, 2022, Scorpion Capital reported that the Company is "operating a Ponzi-like scheme that will end in bankruptcy," that the Company's growth and revenues were unsustainable, and that the Company was perpetuating its fraud through false reporting of capital expenditures and gross margins, among other issues. On this news, shares of Twist Bioscience fell $7.57 per share, or nearly 20%, from a close of $38.00 per share on November 14, 2022, to close at $30.43 per share on November 15, 2022.
The case is Peters v. Twist Bioscience Corporation, et al., No. 22-cv-08168.
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El Chapo sons among 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged by US
The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against 28 members of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.
The three Guzman sons charged — Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar — are known as the Chapitos, or little Chapos, and have earned a reputation as the more violent and aggressive faction of the cartel.
Of the three, only Guzmán López is in custody, in Mexico.
Attorney General Merrick Garland unveiled the three indictments aimed at hitting the cartel's global network, standing alongside Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram and other top federal prosecutors.
The defendants span a broad swath of a complex manufacturing and supply network. They include Chinese and Guatemalan citizens accused of supplying precursor chemicals required to make fentanyl.
Others are suspected of running drug labs in Mexico or accused of providing security, weapons and illicit financing for the drug trafficking operation.
The wide-ranging case comes as the U.S. remains in the grip of a devastating overdose crisis largely by fentanyl poisonings. Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021, a record-setting number.
Fentanyl seizures by U.S. Customs and Border Protection have increased by more than 400% since 2019, officials said, and this fiscal year's seizures have already surpassed the total for all of 2022.
Most of the fentanyl trafficked in the United States comes from the Sinaloa cartel, the Drug Enforcement Administration says.
"Families and communities across our country are being devastated by the fentanyl epidemic," Garland said. "We will never forget those who bear responsibility for this tragedy. And we will never stop working to hold them accountable for their crimes in the United States."
The Sinaloa cartel's notorious drug lord, known as El Chapo, was convicted in 2019 of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation. At Guzman's trial, prosecutors said evidence gathered since the late 1980s showed he and his murderous cartel made billions of dollars by smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U.S. A defiant Guzman accused the federal judge in his case of making a mockery of the U.S. justice system and claimed he was denied a fair trial.
In outlining the charges Friday, Garland described the violence of the Sinaloa cartel and how its members have tortured perceived enemies, including Mexican law enforcement officials. That has included people fed to tigers owned by Guzman's sons, sometimes while the victims were still alive, Garland said.
Eight of those charged have been arrested and remain in the custody of law enforcement officials in Colombia, Greece, Guatemala and the U.S., Milgram said. The U.S. government is offering rewards for several others charged in the case, including up to $10 million for Guzman's other two sons.
Friday's indictments were filed in New York, Illinois, and Washington, D.C.
Along with the five defendants from China and Guatemala accused of supplying the cartel with precursor chemicals, two Chinese firms were also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Friday.
U.S. government officials are pressing Chinese officials to do more to stem the shipment of those chemicals. With Washington-Beijing relations strained, the Biden administration says it has looked to allies in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere to make clear to China that the issue is a global problem, according to senior Biden administration officials who briefed reporters following the announcement of the indictment.
Ovidio Guzmán López, one of Guzmán's sons, was arrested in January in the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan. Ovidio Guzmán, nicknamed the Mouse, had not been one of El Chapo's better-known sons until an aborted operation to capture him three years earlier. This time Mexico successfully got Guzmán out of Culiacan. In 2019, authorities had him, but they released him after his gunmen began shooting up the city.
Some 30 people among authorities and suspected gunmen died in the operation, which unleashed hours of shootouts shutting down the city's airport. The U.S. government is currently awaiting the younger Guzmán's extradition.
Ovidio Guzmán López and another brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, allegedly helped move the Sinaloa cartel hard into methamphetamines, producing prodigious quantities in large labs. They were previously indicted in 2018 in Washington on drug trafficking charges.
The other two sons, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar, are believed to have been running cartel operations together with Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. They were previously also charged in the U.S. in Chicago and San Diego.
Zambada had been rumored to be in poor health and isolated in the mountains leading the sons to try to assert a stronger role to keep the cartel together.
The DEA said it investigated the case in 10 countries: Australia, Austria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Greece, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and the United States.
"Death and destruction are central to their whole operation," Milgram said of the cartel.
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Sherman reported from Mexico City. Associated Press writers Fatima Hussein and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this story. | 2023-04-14T20:48:11+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/el-chapo-sons-sinaloa-cartel-members-charged/43604210 |
How to Watch the Cubs vs. Reds Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for May 27
Published: May. 27, 2023 at 1:11 PM CDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
The Chicago Cubs and Christopher Morel will square off against the Cincinnati Reds and Spencer Steer at Wrigley Field on Saturday, with the first pitch at 7:15 PM ET.
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Cubs vs. Reds Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, May 27, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Wrigley Field
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Cubs Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Cubs are 10th-best in MLB play with 63 total home runs.
- Chicago's .420 slugging percentage is 10th-best in baseball.
- The Cubs' .257 batting average ranks 12th in the majors.
- Chicago has the No. 12 offense in baseball, scoring 4.6 runs per game (232 total runs).
- The Cubs' .335 on-base percentage ranks third-best in MLB.
- The Cubs strike out 9.2 times per game, the No. 22 average in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Chicago has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in MLB.
- Chicago's 4.16 team ERA ranks 15th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Cubs combine for the No. 10-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.262).
Reds Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Reds rank 28th in Major League Baseball with just 38 home runs as a team.
- Cincinnati ranks 24th in the majors with a .384 team slugging percentage.
- The Reds' .253 batting average ranks 14th in the league this season.
- Cincinnati ranks 18th in the majors with 226 total runs scored this season.
- The Reds are among the best in the league at getting on base, ranking ninth with an OBP of .329.
- The Reds rank 24th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 9.1 whiffs per contest.
- Cincinnati strikes out 9.3 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, sixth-best in MLB.
- Cincinnati pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.90 ERA this year, which ranks 27th in MLB.
- Reds pitchers have a 1.455 WHIP this season, fourth-worst in the majors.
Cubs Probable Starting Pitcher
- Jameson Taillon gets the start for the Cubs, his eighth of the season. He is 0-3 with a 7.76 ERA and 27 strikeouts through 26 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Saturday, the right-hander threw 2 1/3 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, allowing six earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- Taillon has not recorded a quality start so far this season.
- Taillon is looking to record his third start of five or more innings this season in this outing.
Reds Probable Starting Pitcher
- Brandon Williamson will get the start for the Reds, his third of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Monday against the St. Louis Cardinals, throwing 4 1/3 innings and giving up three earned runs.
- In two starts, Williamson has pitched through or past the fifth inning one time. He has a season average of five frames per outing.
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Perseid meteor shower peak: When and where you can see it
The show of the summer has arrived, but it's not at your local movie theater. The Perseid meteor shower returns every year between July and August, offering sky-gazers a chance to enjoy the last weeks of the sweltering season outside, looking up at the night sky.
According to NASA, the Perseids are most active from July 17 to Aug. 24. The peak this year, when the most meteors will shoot across the sky, is expected to be Aug. 11-13.
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Depending on where you are in the Northern Hemisphere, you could spot up to 40 meteors per hour during the peak.
The Perseid meteors are pieces of the comet Swift-Tuttle. When Earth passes the comet each summer, debris from Swift-Tuttle creates the shooting stars we see in the sky. According to NASA, there is no chance our planet will soon run into the comet.
Viewing tips
FILE - In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. (Bill Ingalls/ NASA via Getty Images)
The biggest thing you need to view the meteor shower is a clear sky above you. The second most crucial viewing condition you want is a dark sky away from light pollution. If you live in a big city, consider going to a state or national park that allows overnight camping. However, even if you can step outside wherever you live, let your eyes adjust to the darkness for a few minutes and then look up. This includes putting down your phone.
Linda Mazzu, with the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, says hands down Bryce Canyon National Park is the best dark sky park in the U.S.
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Unfortunately, the August full moon happens on Aug. 11, which could put a damper on the view.
"Sadly, this year’s Perseids peak will see the worst possible circumstances for spotters," NASA astronomer Bill Cooke said in a post. "Most of us in North America would normally see 50 or 60 meteors per hour," he said, "But this year, during the normal peak, the full Moon will reduce that to 10-20 per hour at best."
Another thing going against the Perseids this year and most summers is the active pattern of thunderstorms for the southwest and southeast, typical for this time of year.
Where is the best place to watch the Perseid meteor shower?
Looking at the cloud cover forecast through this week, parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic will have a hard time looking for shooting stars as cloud cover increases on Wednesday.
Throughout the week, the upper Midwest and Central Plains will have mostly cloudless skies for viewing the night sky.
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Friday is the predicted meteor shower peak. Montana, Idaho, North and South Dakota and Nebraska will have the best views of the meteor shower with clear sky and low light pollution.
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Overnight Friday and Saturday will continue to be a good time for sky gazers in Seattle with almost no cloud cover in the forecast.
Regardless of where you live, the Perseid Meteor Shower continues until Aug. 24, and there is plenty of time for the forecast to align in your sky-viewing favor.
If you plan to observe the meteor shower on a specific day, use the FOX Weather app "Plan" tab to add your dates and get updated forecasts leading up to your viewing event. | 2022-08-10T03:03:26+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/perseid-meteor-shower-peak-when-and-where-you-can-see-it |
Rescuers: Man pulled to safety after trapped in grain bin for hours
STURGIS, Ky. (WFIE/Gray News) - Rescuers were dealing with a person stuck in a grain bin in Kentucky for several hours on Wednesday.
WFIE reports fire officials said a man, later identified as Doug Omer, became trapped in one of his own farm bins at around noon.
Officials said he hit a hot spot, a pocket of air under the grain that can suck a person down, when he was inside.
Crews said they were initially planning to cut a hole in the bin, but instead, they used a vacuum to get the grain out from around Omer and eventually rescued him at about 4:30 p.m.
Omer’s daughter said her dad was conscious and breathing while crews worked to get him free. Omer was transported to a local hospital by a medical helicopter after the rescue.
Officials said another person was also briefly trapped up to his knees while trying to help Omer, but he had to be rescued as crews worked to get Omer.
Rescuers did not immediately share what injuries, if any, Omer suffered in Wednesday’s incident.
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(The Hill) — Steve Bannon, ex-President Donald Trump’s former White House strategist and campaign CEO, is headed to trial this week on two contempt of Congress charges, the first to result from a refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
The trial, which begins Monday morning with jury selection, falls amid the select panel’s series of public hearings, which have featured damning testimony and evidence about Trump and his inner circle during the riot and in the weeks leading up to it.
Bannon, who had vowed to turn the case into “a misdemeanor from hell” for Democrats, faces up to a year in jail on each count.
The trial will mark the first time a member of Trump’s inner circle has had to face a jury as a result of the Jan. 6 investigations. In a similar case, Trump’s former trade adviser, Peter Navarro, will go to trial in November.
The select committee had subpoenaed Bannon last year for documents and testimony as part of the investigation. When he refused to comply, the House voted to hold him in contempt, sending a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols twice rejected Bannon’s requests to delay the trial over concerns about potential juror bias amid the public attention on the Jan. 6 committee.
Bannon’s lawyers on Wednesday said in a renewed motion to delay the trial that an hourlong CNN documentary airing Sunday could prejudice potential jurors.
“The Special Report documentary, broadcast [on] this broadly disseminated network undoubtedly will be extraordinarily inflammatory and overwhelming prejudicial for a prospective juror, beginning service in this trial the following day,” they wrote in a court filing.
Nichols, a Trump appointee, disagreed, saying that any concerns about prejudice could be addressed during the jury selection process.
Federal prosecutors are hoping to make a straightforward case that Bannon did not comply with a lawful subpoena. They said they intend to call just two witnesses – Kristen Amerling, the select committee’s general counsel, and an FBI special agent named Stephen Hart – and reserved the possibility of calling a third, Sean Tonolli, another committee counsel.
Bannon’s defense team has pushed to include various arguments that could complicate the government’s case with mixed results in the pretrial proceedings.
Nichols has rejected the defense’s effort to mount a defense that Bannon was relying on the advice of his lawyers when declining to come forward with the information the select committee demanded.
The judge also said the defense would not be able to call Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) or other lawmakers to testify at trial.
At a pretrial hearing last week, David Schoen, one of Bannon’s attorneys, expressed frustration that Nichols had significantly limited how the defense team could proceed at trial.
“What’s the point of going to trial here if there are no defenses?” Schoen asked, according to The Associated Press.
“Agreed,” the judge responded.
But Nichols also denied the Justice Department’s effort to exclude any evidence related to Bannon’s recent and sudden offer to testify before the select committee. The judge said he would consider the issue during trial.
Bannon’s reversal came earlier this month, when his lawyer sent a letter to the select committee saying Trump had agreed to waive executive privilege and allow his outside adviser to testify.
But prosecutors said they had interviewed Trump’s own attorney in June, who told them that the former president had never even asserted executive privilege regarding Bannon in the first place.
“Even the Defendant’s claim that the reason he is now willing to testify is because the former President is ‘waiving’ executive privilege is subject to question given all of the evidence and law that has been addressed in this case, of which he must be aware, demonstrating that executive privilege never provided a basis for total noncompliance in the first place,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month.
The defense team has said they may call Bannon to the stand, but the decision likely won’t be made until the trial is underway.
Bannon and Trump have had an up-and-down relationship since the 68-year-old political strategist joined the 2016 campaign. Bannon briefly served as a White House political strategist in 2017 before apparently losing favor with Trump.
Still, the then-president pardoned Bannon on his last day in office, when his ally and still-vocal defender was facing fraud and money laundering charges related to a nonprofit that was fundraising off plans to privately finance the construction of a wall along the border with Mexico.
The select committee’s hearings have renewed interest in information that Bannon might possess. Last week, the panel presented White House records showing he spoke with Trump twice on the day before the attack.
They also played a clip of a Jan. 5 appearance Bannon made on a right-wing talk show after his first call with the then-president in which he predicted there would be mayhem the following day.
“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” Bannon said in the clip. “It’s all converging, and now we’re on, as they say, the point of attack.”
“I’ll tell you this: It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen,” he added. “It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different, and all I can say is strap in.” | 2022-07-18T11:50:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/steve-bannons-trial-over-defying-jan-6-committee-set-to-begin/ |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 25, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1209 AM PDT Thu Aug 25 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1215 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING
FOR SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY...
The heavy rain has ended. Flash flooding is no longer expected to
pose a threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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