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San Antonio Spurs win NBA draft lottery, chance to select Victor Wembanyama
CHICAGO (AP) — Victor Wembanyama is now set to begin his NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs, after they won the NBA draft lottery and the No. 1 overall pick on Tuesday night.
The Spurs were one of three teams with the best odds — 14% — to land the No. 1 pick, which they’ll almost certainly use on Wembanyama. The 7-foot-3 French 19-year-old is one of the most highly touted prospects in NBA history and will be expected to make an immediate impact on the league.
And he had a message for San Antonio.
“I’m trying to win a ring ASAP,” Wembanyama told ESPN after the lottery results. “So be ready.”
It’s the third time the Spurs have won the lottery, and on both previous occasions they made picks that paid off for decades. They chose David Robinson in 1987, Tim Duncan in 1997, and those selections were a major part of how the Spurs became a team that won five NBA titles under coach Gregg Popovich.
“Our future was already bright,” Spurs managing partner Peter J. Holt said. “Now, it’s going to be through the moon.”
Charlotte will pick second, Portland moved up to third, and Houston fell to fourth.
The Spurs were 22-60 this season, tied for the second-worst record in the NBA. Popovich and the Spurs have had incredible success with international players in the past — most notably, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker, who owns the French team that Wembanyama played for last season.
“He’s an incredible young man,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN as part of its draft lottery broadcast. “He’s 19 years old and I didn’t take out a yardstick or meter stick or whatever they use in France, but he seemed all of 7-4 to me. … He clearly appears to be a generational talent.”
Wembanyama finished his regular season with Boulogne-Levallois of France’s top pro league earlier Tuesday, his 22-point effort good enough for him to clinch the league’s scoring title. It was shortly past 2 a.m. Wednesday in Paris when the lottery results were revealed, and Wembanyama was gathered with family and friends for a celebration.
“Can’t really describe it,” Wembanyama said in his interview with ESPN, adding “it’s a really special moment.”
Finally, he knows where his NBA journey will begin. His agents did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Associated Press.
“I think the team that has the first choice isn’t going to get it wrong,” said Vincent Collet, Wembanyama’s coach in France and also the coach of the French national team — which Wembanyama is expected to play for this summer at the World Cup and next summer at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Detroit had the worst record in the NBA and was one of the three teams with the best odds of winning. The Pistons wound up falling all the way to fifth, the worst of their possible outcomes.
The rest of the lottery order: Orlando will pick sixth, Indiana seventh, Washington eighth, Utah ninth, Dallas 10th, Orlando (from Chicago as part of an earlier trade) in 11th, Oklahoma City 12th, Toronto 13th, and New Orleans 14th.
Wembanyama is wrapping up his third professional season in France and has been the consensus top pick for months. He has the height of a center, the shooting touch of a wing and the passing ability of a point guard.
He wasn’t at the lottery because of his game schedule in France. But many of the other top prospects — Scoot Henderson of the G League Ignite, Brandon Miller of Alabama, twin brothers Amen and Ausar Thompson of the Overtime Elite program — were in the room to watch the lottery results get unveiled and get a little better idea of where they may be heading to start their NBA careers.
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-17T01:03:40+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/05/17/san-antonio-spurs-win-nba-draft-lottery-chance-select-victor-wembanyama/ |
College news
Graduations
Eryn Albright, of Mount Joy, graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in public health on Dec. 18, 2022, from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Area students were among those who graduated in December 2022 from Lebanon Valley College. They are listed with their hometowns, degrees and honors. Columbia — Dustin Andrews, Master of Business Administration. Denver — Jacquelyn Lagaza, Bachelor of Arts in history. Elizabethtown — Kimberly Schmitkons, Master of Science in STEM education. Ephrata — Alexandria Lasher, Bachelor of Arts in creative arts. Kirkwood — Patrick Hodgson, Bachelor of Science in chemistry, summa cum laude. Lancaster — Jessica Lingenfelter, Bachelor of Science in exercise science, cum laude; Lindsey Ly, Bachelor of Science in business administration. Lititz — Olivia Gregory, Bachelor of Science in early childhood education and special education, magna cum laude. Mountville — Erin Buckwalter, Master of Business Administration. Narvon — Alyssa Yoder, Bachelor of Science in business administration, summa cum laude.
Dean’s list
Zachery Tomlinson, of Lancaster, earned the dean’s list for the fall 2022 semester at Westminster College, New Wilmington, where he is majoring in history.
Area students were among those who were named to the honors lists for the fall 2022 semester at Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina. Earning the president’s list with a 3.75 or higher GPA are Matthew Housenga, of Ephrata; and Jonathan Walters, of Lancaster. Earning the dean’s list with a 3.00-3.74 GPA are Daniel Crawford, of New Holland; Mark Fortney, of Gordonville; Susanna Horgen, of East Earl; Ivan Karpitskiy, of Denver; and Lianna Stewart, of Strasburg.
Honors
Two area Albright College students are studying abroad this Interim and spring 2023 semester. Elyssa Cheesman, of Lititz, is studying abroad this upcoming spring in Paris and Amsterdam. Cheesman, who is majoring in fashion: design and merchandising, is the beneficiary of a Marian Frances Wolbers Study Abroad Scholarship. Rachel Misciagna, of Columbia, studying abroad this upcoming spring semester in Costa Rica. Misciagna, who is majoring in sociology, family studies and Spanish, is the beneficiary of a $3,000 Beall Scholarship for Study Abroad.
Email college news items to collegenews@lnpnews.com. | 2023-01-25T05:45:50+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/regional/lancaster-county-college-news-jan-22-2023/article_8d0dda52-9c61-11ed-9acf-6776777389d5.html |
During the years of 1966 and 1967, I was a teacher at the Pumwani Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya.
Beyond the embassy and the Peace Corps, there was a small American expatriate community, which was led by Gordon and Gloria Hagberg.
Gordon ran The Institute for International Education, a nonprofit that placed qualified East African students in universities in the United States. We became very close and often gathered at the Hagbergs’ large home for meals and social events. One of the favorites was the occasional talent night.
On retiring, my wife and I joined the Peace Corps, spending two wonderful years in Lesotho, South Africa. On our way back to the United States, we stopped in Nairobi.
I wanted to show my wife the site of my first job after college. On asking around, I discovered Gloria Hagberg was alive, well and living at the United Kenya Club. Of course, we paid a visit, I was flattered she remembered me after 40 years. What follows was an unexpected conversation.
Gloria: Do you remember our cook?
Me: No, I do not.
Gloria: A tall, lean Luo man?
Me: Give me a hint.
Gloria: Do you remember the “Choo-Choo Song?”
Me: (The light went on) Yes. He would sing in his language and pump his arms like a railroad engine. Someone would put their hands on his hips and he would start around the room singing. We would all join in making a long train. Yes, I remember it was great fun.
Gloria: You don’t remember his name?
Me: No, I don’t remember.
Gloria: His name was Hussein Obama. He was President Barack Obama’s grandfather.
Of course, it made sense.
Gordon Hagberg would have recruited Barack Obama Sr. to go to the University of Hawaii. In the process, he met and hired his father.
Who knows what relatives of famous people we meet every day?
The author lives in Lititz. A decade ago, he wrote and published “The Ephrata Public Library: A History.”
If you know an interesting story, please write it in 600 words or less and send it to Mary Ellen Wright, LNP editorial department, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328, or email it to features@lnpnews.com. Please include your phone number and the name of the town you live in. | 2023-05-07T10:05:17+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/features/yesteryear/history/african-cook-had-unexpected-famous-family-ties-i-know-a-story-column/article_0ea1a9d0-eb8c-11ed-8fed-ff7039e863e3.html |
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers likely downshifted their pace of hiring in June, but to a level that remains solid despite fears that the economy faces the growing risk of a recession.
The unemployment rate in June is thought to have remained at 3.6% for a fourth straight month, just above a 50-year low reached in 2019.
If the projections prove accurate, it will underscore the U.S. economy’s unusual and seemingly contradictory circumstances. Growth has been negative for two straight quarters, consumers are slowing their spending with inflation at a four-decade high and home sales have fallen as the Federal Reserve has jacked up borrowing costs.
Yet many businesses are still scrambling to hire more people, with roughly two available jobs for every unemployed worker. And the number of people seeking unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs and an early indicator of a downturn — remains far below historic averages, although it has ticked up recently.
Still, hiring could weaken further in the coming months. The Fed wants job growth to slow, at least modestly, as part of its strenuous efforts to cool the economy and curb high inflation. The Biden administration, too, has sought to portray any pullback in hiring as part of a welcome transition to a more sustainable economy that will help keep inflation down.
Smaller monthly job increases “will be a sign that we are successfully moving into the next phase of recovery” that is “stable and steady,” a senior White House official said Thursday.
Yet the transition to a more sustainable pace of growth and hiring is likely to be a bumpy one. If, for example, the Fed’s rate cuts end up slowing growth too much, as many analysts fear, the economy could slide into a recession by next year. Already, signs of a slowdown are evident. In May, consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, fell for the first time since December. Sales of existing homes have fallen nearly 9% compared with a year ago.
And some companies are announcing layoffs, or have paused hiring. In particular, several large retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, have said they over-hired during the pandemic, with Walmart reducing its headcount by attrition.
Tesla is cutting about 3.5% of its total headcount. Netflix has laid off about 450 employees after it reported losing subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. The online automotive retailer Carvana and real estate companies Redfin and Compass have also announced job cuts.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has held out hope that the economy will continue to expand even as the central bank raises borrowing costs at its fastest pace since the late 1980s. But Powell has also acknowledged that overseas factors, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has elevated gas and food prices, will make it difficult to avoid a recession.
Last month, he conceded that a recession “is not our intended outcome but it’s certainly a possibility.”
The job market has recovered much more rapidly from the pandemic recession than it did after previous downturns. If forecasts for June employment prove correct, the economy will have recovered all the private-sector jobs lost to the pandemic, a little over two years after the recession. It took nearly five years to reach that level after the 2008-2009 downturn.
Friday’s jobs report for June will also provide an update on average wage growth. Pay increases have weakened in recent months but are still at far higher levels than before the pandemic.
Smaller pay gains could also help moderate inflation. It would reduce the pressure on companies — particularly small businesses, which typically have smaller profit margins — to raise prices to cover their higher labor costs. Over the past three months, average hourly pay has risen at about a 4.5% annual rate, down from a 6% pace at the end of last year.
Economists will also closely watch the proportion of Americans who were either working or looking for work in June. That figure has substantially increased from a year ago — from 61.6% to 62.3% — but is still a percentage point below its pre-pandemic level.
An increase in the number of people in the workforce would alleviate labor shortages and could make it easier for employers to fill jobs without having to offer significant pay increases. Any such trend would help ease inflationary pressures. | 2022-07-08T05:35:06+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-hiring-was-likely-solid-in-june-despite-recession-fears/2022/07/08/b3ba2562-fe72-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html |
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — British pop rock band The 1975 announced on Sunday it was canceling its shows in Jakarta and Taipei after the Malaysian government cut short a music festival in the wake of the band’s lead singer slamming the country’s anti-gay laws and kissing a male bandmate during their performance.
The 1975 was scheduled to have a performance at We The Fest, Indonesia’s annual summer music festival, in Jakarta on Sunday night, part of their 2023 Asia tour.
“The 1975 regret to announce that their forthcoming shows in Jakarta and Taipei will no longer be going ahead as planned,” the group said in a statement posted on We The Fest’s social media platforms on Sunday. They added that the decision was not made lightly “but unfortunately due to the current circumstances, it is impossible to proceed with the current shows.”
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, does not prohibit LGBTQ rights except in the conservative Aceh province.
Matt Healey, the lead vocal of The 1975, used profanity in his speech criticizing the government’s stance against homosexuality, before kissing bass player Ross MacDonald. Footage of the incident was posted on social media and sparked a backlash in predominantly Muslim Malaysia.
Malaysia’s Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil slammed Matty Healy’s conduct late Friday and said in a Facebook post that homosexuality is a crime in the country punishable by up to 20 years in prison and caning.
It wasn’t the first time that Healy used the stage to defend lesbian and gay rights. In 2019, he kissed a male fan during a concert in the United Arab Emirates, which also outlaws homosexual acts, according to media reports. | 2023-07-23T23:14:53+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/the-1975-cancels-shows-after-bands-same-sex-kiss-controversy/ |
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TORONTO (AP) — Kevin Gausman matched a season high with 10 strikeouts over seven innings, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit one of three Toronto home runs and the Blue Jays halted Boston's seven-game winning streak, beating the Red Sox 7-2 Monday night.
Guerrero hit a two-run home run, his 18th of the season, Matt Chapman also hit a two-run blast and George Springer added a solo shot as Toronto improved to 6-2 against Boston.
Gausman (6-6) snapped a four-start losing streak, winning for the first time since May 31 against the White Sox.. Three of the four hits Gausman allowed were singles.
Boston’s only runs came off newly promoted right-hander Shaun Anderson in the ninth, when Trevor Story hit a sacrifice fly and Bobby Dalbec added an RBI single that struck Anderson on the foot.
The Red Sox, who came in 7-14 against AL East opponents, lost the opener of a stretch in which they face Toronto, Tampa Bay and the Yankees 20 times in 23 games.
Only five of Boston’s previous 50 games had been against division foes, all of them against Baltimore. The Red Sox went 2-3 in those games, while going 31-14 against other opponents.
Boston hadn’t faced the Blue Jays, Rays or Yankees since losing three of four in Toronto from April 25-28.
The Red Sox have 16 games remaining against both the Rays and Yankees.
Making his first start of the season and the second of his big league career, Red Sox right-hander Connor Seabold (0-1) allowed seven runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Bo Bichette hit an RBI double in the first, and Springer made it 2-0 when he homered in the third, his 14th of the season.
BIchette followed with a single before Guerrero homered to center.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. drove in a run with a fielder’s choice in the fifth and Chapman made it 7-0 with a two-out homer to left, his 11th.
The Blue Jays are 21-10 when they hit two or more home runs.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: LHP Chris Sale threw a bullpen Monday and remains on track to make his second minor league rehab start at Double-A Portland on Thursday. … RHP Garrett Whitlock (right hip) threw a bullpen session in Toronto on Monday. … INF Kiké Hernández (right hip) played catch Monday but has yet to resume swinging, manager Alex Cora said.
Blue Jays: RHP Trevor Richards (strained neck) threw a live batting practice session to a group of hitters including C Danny Jansen (broken finger). Richards has been sidelined since June 18.
ROSTER MOVES
Red Sox: Boston put RHP Tanner Houck and OF Jarren Duran on the restricted list, recalled Seabold from Triple-A Worcester and selected INF Yolmer Sánchez from Triple-A.
Blue Jays: Toronto selected Anderson from Triple-A Buffalo and optioned RHP Jeremy Beasley to Triple-A. To make room on the 40-man roster, LHP Hyun Jin Ryu (shoulder) was transferred to the 60-day IL.
EXTRA BASE
Rafael Devers got the only extra-base hit off Gausman, a ball that bounced off the second base bag and into shallow left field.
WORK LOAD
Gausman threw a season-high 110 pitches, fanning Bobby Dalbec with his final pitch.
UP NEXT
Red Sox RHP Michael Wacha (6-1, 2.34) starts Tuesday against Blue Jays RHP Ross Stripling (4-2, 3.08). Wacha is 3-0 with a 2.19 ERA in four June starts. Stripling has a 6.52 ERA in seven career games against Boston.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-28T02:51:46+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Toronto-beats-Boston-7-2-Red-Sox-win-streak-ends-17269931.php |
Travis Pastrana and Jimmie Johnson both qualified for the 2023 Daytona 500 during a special qualifying shoot-out for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race, which was held on Wednesday at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway.
The two drivers, who have each recently announced plans to cut back on their respective racing programs, had the two fastest speeds among non-chartered cars.
Pastrana will drive a Toyota Camry for 23XI Racing, the team founded by NBA legend Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin back in 2020. The team currently fields two cars in the Cup Series, driven by Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick.
Johnson will drive a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Legacy Motor Club (formerly Petty GMS Motorsports), which he co-owns with Richard Petty and Maurice J. Gallagher Jr.
The 2023 Daytona 500 will take place on February 19.
Pastrana is probably most widely recognized for his recent “Gymkhana” videos, though he’s also a competitive driver in rally competition and has also seen success in motocross. He’s also a founder of the Nitro Rallycross series in which he currently competes. He announced earlier in February that he is cutting back his racing schedule to spend more time with family.
Johnson is a seven-time NASCAR champion. He’s returning to the series on a limited basis after two years in IndyCar. Like Pastrana, Johnson last year also announced plans to step back from a full racing schedule to spend more time with family and try out other endeavors. One of those endeavors will be driving a specially prepared NASCAR race car in this year’s 2024 Hours of Le Mans.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
6-5-6-5, SB: 2
(six, five, six, five; SB: two)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
6-5-6-5, SB: 2
(six, five, six, five; SB: two) | 2022-10-22T19:05:26+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17527236.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Wednesday following a rally that had sent it roaring 16% higher for the year so far.
The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in morning trading and edging down from its highest level since April 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 135 points, or 0.4%, at 34,282, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was virtually unchanged.
Other markets around the world fell more sharply following the latest discouraging signal from China’s economy. Growth in China’s services industry slowed by more than economists expected last month. It’s the latest evidence showing the world’s second-largest economy is stumbling in its recovery following the removal of anti-COVID restrictions.
The U.S. economy, meanwhile, has remained stronger than many investors feared. It’s defied predictions for a recession because of a job market that’s remained remarkably solid despite much higher interest rates meant to bring down inflation.
A report on Wednesday showed growth for U.S. factory orders held steady in May, though economists expected to see an acceleration.
Hope is rising that inflation is cooling enough to get the Federal Reserve to soon stop its hikes to rates, which undercut inflation by slowing the entire economy. The Fed may offer some clues about its next moves later this afternoon, when it releases the minutes from its latest meeting.
At that meeting, the Fed decided to hold rates steady. It was the first time in more than a year that it refrained from hiking rates, but it also hinted it may push through two more increases by the end of 2023.
Yields were mixed in the bond market ahead of the release of the minutes. The yield on the 10-year Treasury edged up to 3.87% from 3.86% Monday, when bond trading ended early ahead of the Independence Day holiday. The 10-year yield helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year Treasury yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, fell to 4.90% from 4.94%.
On Wall Street, shares of UPS fell 2.4% as the company tries to reach a deal with the Teamsters union representing about 340,000 of its workers. Their current contract expires at the end of the month, and Teamsters members last month voted in favor of a strike authorization.
Companies that do a lot of business in the China region were also weak. Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts, which get significant chunks of revenue from Macau, both fell at least 4%.
On the winning side was Meta Platforms. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp looks poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter. It rose 3%, adding to a stellar year where it’s already soared nearly 145%.
In stock markets abroad, indexes slumped 1.6% in Hong Kong and 0.7% in Shanghai following the discouraging economic data from China. That added to worries about high tensions between China and the United States, the world’s two largest economies.
Beijing this week announced restrictions on exports of gallium and germanium, two metals used in making semiconductors and solar panels. That came ahead of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit this week as part of U.S. efforts to restore strained relations.
Stocks fell 0.3% in Japan, 0.6% in South Korea, 0.9% in France and 0.8% in Germany.
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AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Joe McDonald contributed. | 2023-07-05T14:38:32+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-stock-market-today-asia-sinks-after-a-survey-shows-chinas-industrial-activity-is-weakening/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Scott Perry said his cellphone was seized Tuesday morning by FBI agents carrying a search warrant.
The circumstances surrounding the seizure were not immediately known. Perry, though, has been a figure in the congressional investigation into President Donald Trump's actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Former senior Justice Department officials have testified that Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, had "an important role" in Trump's effort to try to install Jeffrey Clark — a top Justice official who was pushing Trump's baseless claims of election fraud — as the acting attorney general.
In a statement Tuesday, Perry said three agents visited him while he was traveling Tuesday with his family and "seized my cell phone." He called the action "banana republic tactics."
"They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish," Perry said. "I'm outraged – though not surprised - that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland's DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress."
The lawmaker, representing Pennsylvania's 10th District, was cited more than 50 times in a Senate Judiciary report released in October 2021 outlining how Trump's effort to overturn his election defeat to Joe Biden brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos and prompted top officials there and at the White House to threaten to resign.
Perry, who has continuously disputed the validity of Biden's victory in Pennsylvania, has said he obliged Trump's request for an introduction to Clark, then an assistant attorney general whom Perry knew from unrelated legislative matters. The three men went on to discuss their shared concerns about the election, Perry has said.
The Justice Department found no evidence of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania or any other state, and senior Justice officials dismissed Perry's claims.
The Senate report outlined a call Perry made to then-acting Deputy Attorney General Rich Donoghue in December 2020 to say the department wasn't doing its job with respect to the elections. Perry encouraged Donoghue to elicit Clark's help because he's "the kind of guy who could really get in there and do something about this," the report said.
Perry has said his "official communications" with Justice Department officials were consistent with the law.
The Justice Department's inspector general conducted a search in June of Clark's Virginia home.
Perry slammed the Justice Department's decision to serve him with a warrant as an "unnecessary and aggressive action."
"My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends," Perry said. None of this is the government's business."
The seizure of Scott's cellphone was first reported by Fox News Channel. | 2022-08-10T01:35:13+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/rep-scott-perry-says-fbi-agents-seized-his-cellphone |
1 dead, 2 injured in Albany shooting, including 9-year-old, police say
May 13, 2023 7:11PM EDT
Multiple people were shot in a barbershop in Albany, New York, including a child, on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Police responded to reports of a shooting at 2:45 p.m. and found three males shot inside the shop, police said.
A 9-year-old boy was shot in the torso, one 19-year-old was shot in the shoulder and another man in the torso, police said.
One of the victims, a 47-year-old male, was taken to the Albany Medical Center Hospital where he died, police said. His name has not yet been released.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reported that it had also dispatched agents to the shooting to assist in the investigation. | 2023-05-14T03:09:43+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/1-dead-2-injured-in-albany-shooting-including-9-year-old-police-say/ |
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, today announced that R-evolution, the sustainable innovation and green-tech investment subsidiary of Hexagon, has been awarded a contract to supply multi-dimensional intelligent mapping services of The Bahamas' seabed. The services are part of a larger initiative to enable the island nation to protect, restore and activate its blue carbon ecosystems to invest in climate resilience and biodiversity initiatives.
Over 80% of the global carbon cycle is circulated through the oceans, with blue carbon emerging as a key nature-based solution to fighting climate change. Blue carbon ecosystems sequester greenhouse gases approximately thirty-five times faster than tropical rainforests and can store ten to fifteen times as much carbon as their terrestrial counterparts. The Bahamas seagrass meadows are estimated to be up to 92,000 square kilometres – 40% of the world's known seagrass habitat, storing hundreds of millions of tons of CO2.
R-evolution's first foray into blue carbon began in December of 2021 when it teamed up with Beneath The Waves to conduct an initial mapping pilot of the Little Bahama Banks' seabed. The goal was twofold: one, to validate Beneath The Waves' initial findings, which indicated The Bahamas had the largest seagrass bed in the world, and two, to provide an accurate, scalable solution for year-on-year change detection and health monitoring of the seagrass ecosystem.
An innovative collaboration combining sensor-tagged tiger sharks, marine vessel surveys, scuba diver surveys and aerial data captured by Hexagon's airborne bathymetric LiDAR technology led to the mapping of one of the world's largest seagrass meadows on The Bahama Banks. This mapping is vital to the protection of seagrass habitat across The Bahamas Banks and providing the foundation for a sovereign blue carbon exchange.
Following successful validation of Beneath The Waves' initial research, the Bahamian Government is preparing to issue blue carbon credits that are the first of their kind, with Beneath The Waves as the end-to-end science partner and R-evolution as the mapping supplier of superior point density and depth penetration for seagrass mapping and classification.
"Blue carbon habitats, such as seagrass and salt marsh habitats, are among the most productive natural solutions at fighting climate change. Degrading these millennia-old carbon sinks may cause irreversible harm to our planet," says Hexagon President and CEO Ola Rollén. "While blue carbon credits don't excuse industry from transitioning to carbon-free energy sources, they finance the prevention of new carbon release through the preservation of existing ecosystems as well as the absorption of additional carbon dioxide through the restoration of degraded habitats."
The structure developed by the Bahamian Government involves a partnership between Carbon Management Ltd. and Beneath the Waves to ensure all scientific services required by international registries are performed for successful accreditation of carbon credit.
R-evolution and Beneath The Waves' next commercial mapping expedition targets 1,100 square kilometres in The Exumas, Bahamas, expanding coverage to the Great Bahamas Bank.
Launched in mid-February 2021, R-evolution is focused on reinventing how industry addresses complex environmental challenges, profitably, using Hexagon's digital reality solutions. Learn more about R-evolution's ocean project helping to protect blue carbon ecosystems.
For further information, please contact:
Anton Heikenström, Investor Relations and Business Analyst, Hexagon AB, +46 8 601 26 26, ir@hexagon.com
Kristin Christensen, Chief Marketing Officer, Hexagon AB, +1 404 554 0972, media@hexagon.com
Erik Josefsson, CEO R-evolution, Hexagon AB, +46 70 857 64 70, erik.josefsson@hexagon.com
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Rep. Claudia Tenney has won the Republican primary for NY's 24th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press.
As of around 1 a.m. Wednesday with 74% of precincts reporting Tenney led with 53% of the vote (14,025) over Mario Fratto with 41% of the vote (10,801) and George Phillips with 6% of the vote (1,521).
Tenney, who currently serves the 22nd District, will face off against Democrat Steven Holden in November. | 2022-08-24T06:10:03+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/democracy-2022/ap-rep-claudia-tenney-wins-republican-primary-for-nys-24th-congressional-district |
COWLEY COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) – One or more arsonists are keeping busy in Cowley County.
Fire officials in Cowley County say they’ve seen more than a dozen intentional fires over the last couple of weeks.
Arkansas City Fire Marshal Chet Ranzau says there have been roughly 150 to 200 acres intentionally burnt over the last two weeks.
Fire officials are still trying to determine if the fires are connected.
Ranzau believes there are multiple arsonists in the county – which is unusual. He says they need people’s help to get to the bottom of it.
“Especially in the rural areas, watch out for any suspicious vehicles, vehicles that typically don’t belong in that area that they don’t ever notice before,” said Ranzau. “Find the description of them, which direction they were traveling, if they were occupied … if they can.”
Ranzau says among all the other issues these fires are causing, they’re using up resources – estimating about 6,000 gallons of water were used on Saturday alone.
He says that after the fires have been put out, there is still more work to do.
“Out of safety precaution because Sunday was supposed to be a bad fire weather, we did some back burns to try to prevent any further grass fires and put some homes in jeopardy,” said Ranzau.
Fire officials encourage the community to contact law enforcement if they have any information on the fires. | 2023-03-07T01:40:33+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/arson-cases-continue-in-cowley-county-fire-officials-ask-community-for-help/ |
Since 2021, PTS has committed to donating over three quarters of a million dollars to charitable causes, including Give Back a Smile, through its donor-advised fund
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Professional Transition Strategies (PTS), a company that represents dental practice buyers and sellers and offers brokerage practice consulting services, today announced that the organization's donor-advised fund for charitable giving reached $850,000 from its 2021 and 2022 efforts to be distributed to various local, national and global organizations. As a social impact organization, PTS makes charitable giving a team effort by funding and matching employee donations.
In 2022, the company gave each team member $1,000 to donate to the charity of their choice and provided employees with the opportunity to receive an additional $5,000 in matching donations from PTS. By providing employees with $1,000 that they can donate to the charitable organization of their choice and additional matching funds, PTS gives team members a way to express their deepest values.
Give Back a Smile, the charitable arm of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, is the largest recipient of PTS' donations. Its mission is to restore the smiles of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and its focus on dentistry makes it an important cause for PTS to support. The amount donated to Give Back a Smile was calculated as a percentage of the transactions completed in 2022 in the names of the doctors PTS worked with over the past year.
"We are incredibly grateful for the generosity of PTS and so value our partnership," said Lisa Fitch, director of the AACD Charitable Foundation. "Their dedication to philanthropy and help restoring smiles and lives for survivors of domestic violence through the Give Back a Smile program is unmatched."
In addition to its support of Give Back a Smile, PTS donated to almost 20 deserving organizations that are doing critical work in communities located in the United States and around the world, including another dental-focused charity Kinds in Need of Dentistry.
"Giving back and supporting communities in need is a defining value at PTS," said Kyle Francis, the company's president and founder. "I'm impressed by the broad variety of causes and interests our team members support, and as a group, we are honored to provide these worthy organizations with additional funding so that they can carry on their vital work in the year ahead."
To learn more about PTS, please visit professionaltransition.com.
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Professional Transition Strategies helps dentists buy, sell or start practices, move to new offices or expand at a current location. The company is committed to client success and provides expert consulting services to help dental professionals improve operations, marketing, accounting and other facets of practice management. PTS donates a percentage of its profits to Give Back a Smile, a cosmetic dentistry charitable foundation that restores the smiles of victims of violence. Find out more about PTS at www.professionaltransition.com.
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Pope Francis at Rome hospital for planned medical tests, Vatican says
Published: Mar. 29, 2023 at 9:18 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital on Wednesday for some scheduled tests, the Vatican said.
The Vatican provided no details other than to say the pontiff’s visit to the Gemelli hospital was “previously scheduled.”
The 86-year-old pope spent 10 days at the Gemelli hospital in July 2021 following surgery for an intestinal narrowing. He had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed.
He said soon after that he had recovered fully and could eat normally, but in a Jan. 24 interview with The Associated Press said the diverticulosis, or bulges in his intestinal wall, had “returned.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-29T15:37:51+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2023/03/29/pope-francis-rome-hospital-planned-medical-tests-vatican-says/ |
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India plane flying from New Delhi to San Francisco landed in Russia after it developed an engine problem, officials said on Wednesday.
The plane, a Boeing 777 carrying 216 passengers and 16 crew members, landed safely at Russia’s Magadan airport in Siberia in the country’s far east on Tuesday, Air India said in a statement.
The flight “developed a technical issue with one of its engines,” the statement said, adding that the aircraft was undergoing safety checks and the passengers were being provided support on the ground.
Vedant Patel, a U.S. State Department spokesman, said that American citizens were likely on the flight but could not immediately confirm how many. He said his understanding was that Air India would be sending a replacement aircraft to Russia so the passengers could continue their travel to the U.S.
“We are continuing to monitor the situation,” Patel said.
Girvaan Kaahma, 16, was traveling on the flight with his uncle and brother. He said they are barred from leaving the hostel where they are staying in Magadan and can’t use their credit cards to buy items from the vending machine because of sanctions over Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Kaahma said the airline told the passengers they would likely leave Russia for the U.S. on Thursday.
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Associated Press Writer Jerome Minerva contributed from the U.S and Krutika Pathi from New Delhi. | 2023-06-07T20:46:01+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/air-india-plane-flying-from-new-delhi-to-san-francisco-lands-in-russia-after-engine-problem/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gemini BioProducts Holding, Inc. ("GeminiBio" or the "Company"), a portfolio company of BelHealth Investment Partners, LLC ("BelHealth"), a Florida-based healthcare private equity firm, and BroadOak Capital Partners, a life science focused investment firm, announced today the appointment of Bryan Poltilove to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Poltilove is an operating partner at BroadOak Capital Partners and leads the firm's investments in cell and gene therapy, bioproduction, and cell biology. Previously, Bryan spent 12 years with Thermo Fisher Scientific, where he served as Vice President and General Manager. Bryan grew the company's cell-and-gene therapy business organically at 50%+ CAGR and through acquisitions, including Brammer Bio. Prior to Thermo Fisher, Bryan served as Director of Revenue Strategy & Operations at the Corporate Executive Board and held several commercial strategy roles with Johnson & Johnson. Bryan holds B.S. degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Brian Parker, CEO of GeminiBio added, "BroadOak has been a great partner and has supported GeminiBio as an investor with experience in our industry. Bryan's deep knowledge of the cell and gene therapy sector will provide a meaningful perspective to our company. I very much look forward to working with him as a member of our Board of Directors."
"I am excited to join the GeminiBio Board at such a pivotal time in the company's evolution," said Bryan Poltilove. "I look forward to working with the team to help execute on their growth plan."
About BelHealth Investment Partners
BelHealth Investment Partners, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a healthcare private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies. BelHealth has a unique combination of investing, executive management, and entrepreneurial experience. BelHealth acquires majority positions in entrepreneur-owned companies that it believes will benefit from its extensive operating and private equity investment expertise. For more information, visit www.belhealth.com.
About GeminiBio
Founded in 1985, GeminiBio serves the global biotechnology industry, from basic research to commercial production, with a focus on helping our customers accelerate the development of life enhancing biotherapeutics by streamlining and improving their cell culture and process liquid manufacturing workflows. The company's products are organized into two core verticals – Cell Culture Solutions and Process Liquid Solutions. Located in West Sacramento, California, GeminiBio has 57,000 square feet of cGMP manufacturing space that is segregated between animal origin free and animal component manufacturing. GeminiBio is an ISO 13485 certified, FDA registered Class 1 Medical Device Manufacturer, aligned with 21 CFR Part 820. For more information, visit www.geminibio.com.
About BroadOak Capital Partners
BroadOak Capital Partners is a life science focused, boutique financial institution that provides direct investment and investment banking services to companies in the research tools and consumables, diagnostics, and biopharma services sectors. BroadOak has led or participated in investments in over 60 companies across multiple funds and investment vehicles. For more information, visit broadoak.com
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SOURCE BelHealth Investment Partners | 2023-03-24T20:34:15+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/03/24/geminibio-strengthens-board-directors-with-addition-bryan-poltilove/ |
Company reports 3% growth across both Food and Animal Safety segments; 6% increase with neutral currency
Combination with 3M's Food Safety business closed on September 1; integration underway
LANSING, Mich., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today the results of the first quarter of its 2023 fiscal year, which ended August 31. Revenues for the first quarter were $132,349,000, compared to $128,305,000 in the prior year, an increase of 3%. Excluding unfavorable currency comparisons to the prior year, revenues increased 6% in the first quarter. On an organic basis, sales increased 4% with a neutral currency comparison.
The first quarter marked the 121st of the past 127 quarters that Neogen has reported revenue increases compared to the same quarter in the prior year.
"I'm proud of the Neogen team for delivering growth over the prior year in a challenging environment which included inflationary pressure, softening market conditions, and negative currency comparisons," said John Adent, Neogen's President and Chief Executive Officer. "In advance of the close of the 3M Food Safety transaction on September 1, the Neogen team showed remarkable dedication to integration planning for a business with $370 million in annual revenues while staying focused on our existing customers. We welcome our more than 400 new Neogen colleagues, and look forward to our shared future success as an innovative leader in food security."
Net income for the first quarter was $5,209,000, or $0.05 per share, adversely impacted by $13.7 million of professional fees and other deal-related expenses incurred in connection with Neogen's combination with 3M's Food Safety business, which closed on September 1, 2022. Excluding the 3M Food Safety deal-related costs, net income for the quarter would have been $15,891,000, or $0.15 per share, compared to the prior year's $17,077,000, or $0.16 per share.
Gross margins were 47.0% of sales in the first quarter of the fiscal year, compared to 46.8% in the prior year. The 20 basis point improvement is the result of a favorable product mix shift in the Animal Safety segment and price increases implemented to offset rising costs.
Excluding the 3M Food Safety deal-related costs, operating expenses rose by 11% in the first quarter, primarily due to $2.1 million of incremental costs from acquisitions completed in the last year, increased spending on customer-facing activities, and compensation. Adjusted operating income for the first quarter was $19,793,000, or 15% of sales, compared to $21,745,000, or 16.9% of sales in the first quarter of the company's 2022 fiscal year. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $27.0 million, compared to $28.9 million in the prior year, a decrease of 6%.
"During the first quarter of our 2023 fiscal year, we continued to be faced with challenging business conditions, both in terms of a slowing economy, inflationary raw material cost increases, and ongoing supply chain issues. Our results were also adversely impacted by currency headwinds, primarily in Europe, which resulted in $3.9 million of lower revenues in the first quarter on a comparative basis," said Steve Quinlan, Neogen's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. "Despite this, we continued to invest in the company, purchasing a small distributor in Thailand, ceremonially breaking ground on our new manufacturing facility in Lansing, and nearing completion on a distribution facility in Kentucky."
Revenues for Neogen's Food Safety segment were $64,643,000 in the first quarter, an increase of 3% compared to $62,722,000 in the prior year's first quarter; adjusting for the adverse currency impact, growth was 9%. This increase was led by a 25% increase in aflatoxin test kits, primarily from an aflatoxin outbreak in Brazil and new business in Mexico and Central America. Sales of food quality and nutritional analysis products increased by 9% over the prior year, as the products continued to be integrated into U.S. channels. This growth was offset by a significant decrease in Soleris equipment sales due to a difficult comparison to strong prior year placements, and a 9% decline across the company's allergen testing portfolio due to softening market conditions and supply disruptions for certain products.
The company's Soleris® product line recorded a 6% increase in consumables over the prior year, and the ANSR® pathogen detection product line grew 13% from new equipment placements and higher test kit sales. The recently introduced Neogen Analytics platform continued to make strong inroads in the market.
Revenues for the company's Animal Safety segment were $67,706,000 in the first quarter of the fiscal year, an increase of 3%, compared to $65,583,000 in the prior year's first quarter; the increase was 4% on a neutral currency basis. Sales of animal care products, including supplements, vitamin injectables, and companion animal parasiticides, increased 21% over the prior year, enhanced by the September 2021 acquisition of CAPInnoVet. This growth was also driven by increases across the company's biosecurity portfolio, including a 14% increase in insect control products and a 7% increase in cleaners and disinfectants over the same period in the prior year.
A 12% decrease in sales of rodent control products offset some of this growth, the result of diminished rodent pressure in the U.S. The company also recorded a 6% decrease in sales of veterinary instruments over the same period a year ago, as this category had increased by a strong 18% in the first quarter a year ago.
Neogen's genomics business reported through the Animal Safety segment recorded a 7% increase in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, with sales from the company's December 2021 acquisition of Genetic Veterinary Sciences partially offset by lower sample volumes in the porcine market and a difficult prior-year comparison due to a large research project.
The company reported an increase of 2% in its international revenues in the first quarter compared to the prior fiscal year; excluding the currency headwinds, the increase was 10%. International revenues represented 39.1% of overall sales, compared to 39.4% in the prior year.
Revenues at the company's UK operations increased 5% over the prior fiscal year (19% in pounds), led by a 31% increase in sales of cleaners and disinfectants, aided by the acquisition of Delf (UK) Ltd. in December 2021. In Brazil, revenues increased 13% (14% in Brazilian reals), driven by strong sales of the company's mycotoxin test kits, including aflatoxin and deoxynivalenol (DON), as well as increases in veterinary instruments and genomics testing. Revenues at Neogen's Latin America operations rose 19% (20% in Mexican pesos), led by increases across the company's diagnostic testing portfolio and culture media, as well as higher sales of rodent control products and cleaners and disinfectants.
Revenues at Neogen's Australasia operations decreased by 8% (-2% in local currency), as a large culture media order in the prior year was only partially offset by bovine genomic service increases. Revenues at Neogen's operations in China were down 18% (-14% in Chinese yuan) as the country's COVID-19-related lockdowns continued to negatively impact sales in the first quarter of the fiscal year.
Neogen Corporation develops and markets comprehensive solutions dedicated to food and animal safety, operating with the intention to "Every day, protect the people and animals we care about." The company's Food Safety segment markets dehydrated culture media and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases, and sanitation concerns. Neogen's Animal Safety segment is a leader in the development of genomic solutions along with the manufacturing and distribution of a variety of animal healthcare products, including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary instruments, wound care, and disinfectants, as well as rodent and insect control solutions.
Certain portions of this news release that do not relate to historical financial information constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Actual future results and trends may differ materially from historical results or those expected depending on a variety of factors listed in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in the company's most recently filed Form 10-K.
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Singer/Songwriter, Tony Zorc announces his run for President in 2024 to serve the American people as a peaceful Revolutionary in the position of President and advance the Upgrade My Country Movement's agenda to amend the US Constitution for Term Limits and Upgraded Elections.
ELLICOTT CITY, Md., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Upgrade My Country and Tony Zorc jointly announce that Mr. Zorc is the Movement's endorsed Independent Presidential candidate for 2024. Upgrade My Country is a plan for US Citizens to take back control of their country from what it frames as a corrupt duopoly aka; the Democratic-Republican Party or "the Beast" whose primary directive is to serve itself over the American people.
Zorc stated: "Real change in Washington has to come from outside our existing system of government. Change starts with an open mind, then follows hope, and if followed by action comes real change."
The Upgrade My Country Movement claims to have a unique approach to social change through the union of pop culture and politics. To support the Movement, Zorc has recorded a music catalog of 25 songs and is releasing one song each month prior to the 2024 election. Zorc's first song Beast Congressman was released on the day following the mid-term election on 11/9/2022 in coordination with the launch of the Upgrade My Country Movement. In just a few weeks, Zorc's song and its related social media music videos have had over 300,000 views, and his social media following has increased 59.6%.
Zorc further claims he is not running as a spoiler for either the Democratic or Republican party in 2024. He believes the American People will make history in the 2024 election cycle by unifying their support to send a Revolutionary to Washington to execute the Upgrade My Country plan. He believes this will result in the awarding of the required 270 electoral votes to the Revolutionary candidate.
Tony Zorc is an Entrepreneur, Author, Singer/Songwriter turned political activist. Visit tonyzorc.com to learn more.
Upgrade My Country is a nonprofit, mission-based organization to amend the US Constitution for Term Limits and Upgraded Elections by unifying America through pop culture, including; comics, music, and film. Visit upgrademycountry.org to learn more.
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President Biden on Tuesday responded to reports that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was possibly sending migrants from Texas to Delaware by quipping that the governor ought to stop by himself.
“He should come visit. We have a beautiful shoreline,” Biden told reporters.
The White House said earlier on Tuesday that the administration is coordinating with state officials and local service providers in Delaware to ensure they are prepared to welcome migrant families upon their arrival.
Biden noted differences between his and the previous administration’s strategy along the southern border in defending his policies.
“There are fewer and fewer immigrants coming from Central America and from Mexico. It’s a totally different circumstance. What’s on my watch now is Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, and the ability to send them back to those states is not rational,” Biden said when asked about the influx of migrants.
The president added that his administration is working with Mexico and other countries to see if they can stop the flow.
The number of arrests along the southwestern border in the past year recently hit 2 million, a new record, heating up the debate about the border.
In the president’s home state of Delaware, officials are bracing for the arrival of migrants after reports noted that the same type of plane DeSantis used to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., last week was also scheduled to depart from Texas on Tuesday. The flight appears to be delayed so far, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) have been flying and bussing migrants to sanctuary jurisdictions in cities run by Democrats. Last week, Abbott sent migrants to the doorstep of Vice President Harris’s home in Washington, D.C.
Updated at 1:57 p.m. | 2022-09-20T20:24:24+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/biden-on-reports-desantis-sending-migrants-to-delaware-he-should-come-visit/ |
If offense sells tickets and pitching wins championships, the Yankees might be headed for a sparsely-attended romp toward the World Series.
The team made one of the biggest plays of the offseason by signing left-handed pitcher Carlos Rodon to a six-year, $162 million contract. The move is many things. In terms of total money, it is the second-largest contract given to a pitcher this offseason, trailing only Jacob deGrom’s $185 million. It is also the second-largest contract the Yankees have ever given a pitcher, behind the $324 million for Gerrit Cole, which remains the largest contract ever given to a pitcher, period. And, as many fans have already taken note of, it is nearly 14 years to the day since the Yankees went all in on CC Sabathia, whose total payout from the Yankees was one million dollars short of Rodon’s and also led to a ring.
Most importantly, though, this is the move that finally makes the Yankees better than they were last year. The theme of their offseason up to this point had been retention. As the top external free agents flocked elsewhere, the Yankees looked to be in danger of stagnating. All of that went out the window on Thursday night. This is not some anodyne agreement with a middle reliever or feel-good deal for a grizzled but respected clubhouse presence. This is a pitcher who strikes fear in the heart of anyone who faces him.
In Rodon, the Yankees are getting a guy who ranks first among lefties in Wins Above Replacement, strikeouts per nine innings, opponents’ batting average and opponents’ OPS over the last two seasons (min. 200 innings). His 33.9% strikeout rate during that time is also first among all starting pitchers who have pitched that much. Second on that list is Cole, his new wingman.
Rodon is coming off career highs in innings pitched and called + swinging strike percentage, meaning in the biggest sample size of his career, he was creating strikes at a higher clip than ever before. His ERA for each of the last two seasons has also sat below 3.00. This is a true strikeout artist, and one who’s held his walks in check over the last two star-making seasons as well. None of those statistics (put up in 2021 with the White Sox and 2022 with the Giants) will matter once Rodon dons a Yankee uniform, though. His job is simple: to be one of the players that ends the team’s long World Series absence.
One thing that should help, at least on paper, is that the Yankees now have a rotation that more than stacks up with Houston’s. As the Astros lose Justin Verlander and the Yankees gain Rodon, the gulf between the two American League teams has evaporated significantly. Though Houston’s duo of Framber Valdez and Cristian Javier have proven to be postseason warlocks, Rodon and Cole are a better one-two punch in terms of raw pitching ability. Remember how Rodon has the lowest opponents’ batting average among all lefties since 2021? He’s only narrowly ahead of Nestor Cortes, who is now a wildly overqualified third starter.
The “bottom” of the Yankees’ starting staff is now Luis Severino and Frankie Montas. At the end of last season, Severino looked an awful lot like the unhittable pitcher of yore and less like the erratic, injury-prone hurler that many feared would be his new permanent state. Let’s also not forget that Montas was considered the second-best pitcher available at the trade deadline and that his struggles in the Bronx have been injury-related, which should be a non-issue by the time spring training gets here.
Another way of looking at this is that the Yankees began last year with Jordan Montgomery and Jameson Taillon — fine pitchers in their own right — but have now replaced them with Rodon and Montas, who each have top-six Cy Young finishes in their very recent past. That is a major upgrade, and even if the Yankees should still avoid complacency and try to add a corner outfielder, they are now in much better shape when it comes to achieving their ultimate goal. No team has a more talented top-to-bottom rotation, including the pitching factory in Houston.
The knock on Rodon during his career has never been skill-related. It’s been all about health. He’s yet to reach 180 innings in a season, let alone 200. His list of maladies involves all the problem areas for a pitcher: elbow, shoulder and even the wrist. His 2019 and 2020 seasons were mostly lost to Tommy John surgery, which led to the White Sox non-tendering him after the COVID season, an unthinkable decision now that they and the baseball world have seen what a fully healthy Rodon is capable of. His well-timed breakout in San Francisco was injury-free and led to him crossing the 30-start threshold for the first time, but as recently as August 2021 the White Sox sent him to the injured list with shoulder fatigue.
There’s no sense in predicting whether or not he’ll get injured as a Yankee, but the point is that his prized left arm has been through a lot. As such, the two things that could conspire together to ruin this Yankee experiment are health and offense. While every team has to worry about keeping their guys out of the trainer’s room, the Yankees have famously struggled with that lately. The offense is a whole other thing — and that could also get better before offseason activity comes to a close — but they might only need one three-run homer from Aaron Judge or Giancarlo Stanton to win on most nights.
Give the much-maligned front office credit for identifying a player that raises their collective ceiling and fits their plan for the next half-decade, and then going out and actually getting him. All the clamoring from fans who wanted to find a Carlos Correa or Trea Turner under the Christmas tree was met with constant reminders that the Yankees like their internal middle infield options. While the suits didn’t see any of the sexy shortstops as a logical addition, they certainly viewed Rodon in that light, and signing him for the next six years is the exact type of swing that needed to be made.
The Yankees could not simply put their tail between their legs and sell fans on the idea that they were in on these discussions and fell short, or that they didn’t want to meet Rodon’s financial demands. While visions of Carl Pavano and Kei Igawa will always get conjured up when the Yankees devote themselves to a free agent pitcher, Rodon represents something that neither of those gentlemen did.
Those signings reeked of desperation. At the time of those ill-fated transactions, the Yankees needed an ace to assert themselves after Roger Clemens bolted for Houston and Mike Mussina neared his forties. These current Yankees already had four ace or ace-adjacent pitchers, and by throwing one more into the mix, they stand to be one of the toughest outs in the AL playoff bracket.
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Superhero day to kick off in September hosted by Athens-Limestone Tourism
ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - Every child wishes they could be a superhero, right? On September 9, kids will have the opportunity to take part in the action, as part of Eli’s Block Party.
Children can be inspired and have some fun with superhero characters all over the place for the free family-friendly event hosted by Athens-Limestone Tourism.
Eli’s Block Party was established in 2011 for Eli Williams, who fought medulloblastoma for almost six years. In 2017 Williams passed away and his mother, Kristie Williams remains a vital part of keeping his memory alive through Eli’s Block Party.
“The goal for superhero day is to honor this decade-long annual event by preserving it and continuing it.,” said Tina Morrison, Athens-Limestone County Tourism Association Event Coordinator. “This kids event, makes a positive change for children by providing a fun, free environment for all kids of all economic backgrounds. While having fun, they will also learn the importance of serving in their community, the importance of saving and donating money and the opportunity to inquire with caring, professional adults about becoming community leaders when they grow up.”
The event hopes to honor Eli and his family by raising funds for childhood cancer research and encouraging donations to Eli’s Block Party 501c3.
Gear up to see the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man and countless other superheroes at Athens Big Spring Memorial Park, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
To kick off the superhero-filled day, there will be a superhero parade to Big Spring Park. Immediately following will be a walking adventure of community heroes and of course, the main attraction; superheroes.
There will be no short of fun, with carnival rides, bouncy houses, giant inflatable slides and many other fun games and activities.
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President Biden and his Cabinet have been directly involved in trying to broker an agreement between rail companies and worker unions, seeking to avert a strike that could severely affect commuter rail services and consumer prices.
Administration officials confirmed that Biden and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh have reached out to both sides of the dispute, hoping to broker an agreement and avoid a shutdown.
A White House official said Biden was involved Monday in outreach to unions and freight rail companies and was updated again Tuesday on the situation.
A Department of Labor spokesperson said Walsh reached out Monday night “to push the parties to reach a resolution that averts any shutdown of our rail system.”
“All parties need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” the spokesperson said. “The fact that we are already seeing some impacts of contingency planning by railways again demonstrates that a shutdown of our freight rail system is an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people, and all parties must work to avoid that.”
The companies that operate railways for freight trains and the unions who work those rails have until Friday to agree to a new contract. Without a deal, workers could go on strike, crippling supply chains that depend on freight trains.
A strike could also impact passenger rail service. Amtrak does not own the railways where its trains operate in certain parts of the country but instead operates on railways owned by freight companies. Amtrak on Monday canceled some long-distance routes in anticipation of a potential strike.
Biden earlier this year created a Presidential Emergency Board to try and broker a compromise between the two parties, and his involvement in the latest round of talks further heightens his political risk should talks break down.
Five of the 12 unions representing rail workers have reached tentative agreements with railroads to enact the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations, which call for 24 percent pay raises, back pay and cash bonuses.
But the bulk of rail workers belong to unions that haven’t yet struck a deal with companies.
Should the workers vote to strike, Congress could intervene to halt it. | 2022-09-20T20:55:48+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/hill-politics/biden-white-house-officials-get-involved-in-railway-talks-in-bid-to-avert-strike/ |
The family of Formula One great Michael Schumacher plans to take legal action against a German magazine for publishing what it claimed to be an artificial intelligence-generated interview with Schumacher.
Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm confirmed to The Associated Press by email on Thursday that legal action is being planned over a “fake artificial intelligence interview by German outlet Die Aktuelle.”
The magazine printed a photo of the 54-year-old Schumacher on its front page last weekend along with the words: “Michael Schumacher, the first interview!”
The magazine also wrote “it sounds deceptively real” with the supposed quotes attributed to Schumacher generated by AI. Die Aktuelle is one of many tabloid celebrity magazines in Germany.
It was while skiing in the French Alps at Meribel that Schumacher fell in December 2013 and suffered a near-fatal brain injury. His head hit a rock which split open his helmet. Doctors removed blood clots but others were left untouched because they were too deeply embedded in his brain.
Since being transferred from hospital in September 2014, the seven-time F1 champion continues to be cared for privately at a family home in Switzerland.
Schumacher shares the record for most F1 titles with British driver Lewis Hamilton, who drives for Mercedes. Schumacher retired from F1 in 2012 after three seasons with Mercedes and was replaced on the team by Hamilton.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-21T13:52:14+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/sports/ap-sports/schumachers-family-plans-legal-action-over-fake-interview/ |
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said they conducted a search on Friday at the home of a man suspected of threatening a doctor whose death shocked neighboring Austria.
The body of Dr. Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, a general practitioner who had reported receiving death threats from opponents of COVID-19 restrictions and vaccinations, was found at her practice in a rural area of northern Austria a week ago. Austrian authorities say she took her own life.
Kellermayr announced in late June that she was closing the practice temporarily after more than seven months of receiving death threats. She said she had spent over 100,000 euros ($102,000) on security.
In mid-July, Kellermayr said was closing the practice permanently because she couldn’t “offer any perspective for whether or when it will be possible for us to work under ‘normal’ circumstances.” Her death shocked Austrian political leaders, while local authorities’ handling of the threats has drawn critical scrutiny.
Prosecutors in Munich who investigate extremism took over an investigation of a suspect in Germany this week. On Friday, they said police had raided the home of a 59-year-old from the Starnberg area, near the Bavarian capital, who is suspected of threatening the doctor on social media.
One tweet said that “we are watching you and we will bring such creatures before the people’s tribunals to be set up in the future,” they said. The suspect was cooperative during Friday’s raid and investigators are evaluating material that they seized, prosecutors said.
The lead came from prosecutors in Wels, Austria. They had dropped an investigation of their own on the grounds that the suspect and the alleged crime were in Germany and German authorities were responsible for the case, but said Friday they have reopened it, the Austria Press Agency reported.
They said the doctor’s death put the case back in their jurisdiction and they were working with German prosecutors. | 2022-08-05T15:03:10+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/health-news/ap-health/german-police-raid-home-over-threats-made-to-austrian-doctor/ |
Cleveland Guardians (7-12, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Oakland Athletics (10-9, fourth in the AL West)
Oakland, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Aaron Civale (0-2, 9.58 ERA, 1.94 WHIP, 11 strikeouts); Athletics: Frankie Montas (2-2, 3.28 ERA, .81 WHIP, 25 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Athletics -138, Guardians +117; over/under is 6 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians, on a seven-game losing streak, take on the Oakland Athletics.
Oakland is 10-9 overall and 4-3 at home. The Athletics are 6-1 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.
Cleveland is 7-12 overall and 3-3 at home. Guardians hitters are batting a collective .247, the sixth-best team batting average in MLB play.
The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.
TOP PERFORMERS: Sean Murphy has seven doubles, a triple and three home runs while hitting .219 for the Athletics. Stephen Vogt is 1-for-5 with a home run over the past 10 games.
Jose Ramirez has six doubles, a triple and six home runs while hitting .347 for the Guardians. Franmil Reyes is 4-for-29 with two home runs over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 5-5, .187 batting average, 2.66 ERA, outscored by seven runs
Guardians: 3-7, .219 batting average, 4.23 ERA, outscored by 11 runs
INJURIES: Athletics: Drew Jackson: 10-Day IL (covid-19), Stephen Vogt: 10-Day IL (undisclosed), Kevin Smith: 10-Day IL (ankle), Lou Trivino: 10-Day IL (covid-19), Jed Lowrie: 10-Day IL (covid-19), Deolis Guerra: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brent Honeywell Jr.: 60-Day IL (elbow), Skye Bolt: 10-Day IL (oblique), James Kaprielian: 10-Day IL (shoulder)
Guardians: Steven Kwan: day-to-day (hamstring), Yu Chang: 10-Day IL (covid-19), Anthony Castro: 10-Day IL (covid-19), James Karinchak: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Vargas: 60-Day IL (undisclosed), Cody Morris: 60-Day IL (shoulder)
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Employees cite culture, leadership, flexible work environment as key advantages
HORSHAM, Pa., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company (Penn Mutual), a Fortune 1000 company, is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® on its first submission for consideration. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Penn Mutual. This year, 93% of Penn Mutual employees said it's a great place to work – 36 points higher than the average U.S.-based company.
Employees shared insight that Penn Mutual's healthy culture demonstrates a strong commitment to its values of care, respect and belonging. They commented that recent decisions to transition indefinitely to a flexible work approach are empowering people to do their best work, while enabling greater productivity and wellbeing. And employees cited that throughout this transition, leadership remains supportive, accessible and provides recognition for great work.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.
"This certification is meaningful recognition for our longstanding focus on our people and culture," said Dave O'Malley, president and chief executive officer. "Our employee engagement continues to be strong because our people are focused on serving the long-term best interests of our policyholders. Our dedication to our financial professionals and their clients is the foundation of our success."
"Penn Mutual's strategic decision to support flexibility in where people work was informed by our people's input, coupled with the outstanding results we achieved working remotely over these last few years," said Liz Heitner, chief human resources officer. "We've empowered our people to work from where they work best. Our culture of care, respect and belonging continues to thrive and serves as a key advantage in recruiting and retaining top talent across the country."
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Penn Mutual is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace and employees are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work.
For more than 175 years, Penn Mutual has been helping people get stronger. Our expertly crafted life insurance is vital to long-term financial health and strengthens people's ability to enjoy every day. Working with our trusted network of financial professionals, we take the long view, building customized solutions for individuals, their families, and their businesses. Penn Mutual supports its financial professionals with retirement and investment services through its wholly-owned subsidiary Hornor, Townsend & Kent, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Visit Penn Mutual at www.pennmutual.com.
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
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Late-night storm causes damage in Greenwood County
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A late-night storm in Greenwood County, about an hour north of Wichita, caused downed tree limbs and reported roof damage.
The storm prompted a flood warning, with excessive runoff from heavy rainfall causing flooding problems for rural roads. At around 11:40 Wednesday night, law enforcement reported flooding of some rural roads. The town of Madison and rural areas in the northern part of Greenwood County are the most concerning areas for flooding.
City officials for Madison are scheduled to meet with the Greenwood County emergency manager Thursday morning to evaluate the damage and determine the cause.
A tornado warning was briefly issued for Olpe in Lyon County Wednesday night, but it was downgraded to a severe thunderstorm warning.
Copyright 2022 KWCH. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-16T10:20:24+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/06/16/late-night-storm-causes-damage-greenwood-county/ |
The United Nations’ refugee agency says more than 5 million people have left Ukraine since Russian troops invaded the country almost eight weeks ago.
The Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Wednesday that data from official border crossing points put the total number of war refugees at 5.03 million. About half are believed to be children.
The exodus started with wrenching goodbyes soon after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. With most men prohibited from leaving so they would be available to fight, fathers put their young families on trains, and sons packed up the cars of older relatives, none knowing when they would see each other next.
European Union countries welcomed the arrivals from Ukraine with sympathy, soup, baby strollers and blankets. More than half of the total number of refugees, over 2.8 million, arrived first in Poland.
Although many have stayed there, an unknown number have traveled on to other European countries. After reaching 4 million on March 30, the tide of people leaving Ukraine has slowed somewhat in recent weeks. Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine this week may cause more to flee.
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Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-04-20T13:02:12+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/AP-Photos-Eyes-of-Ukraine-refugees-reflect-war-17098648.php |
HOUSTON (AP) — Nijel Pack might need to up his shoe game.
The Miami guard was relegated to the bench for part of the second half of the Hurricanes’ Final Four loss to UConn on Saturday night after busting a sneaker.
“One of my shoes that I was wearing, it ended up breaking where I couldn’t tie my shoe,” he said.
Pack left the game with about 14 minutes left and was seen on the bench holding some sneakers and talking to staff as they scrambled to find a replacement.
Soon, multiple members of Miami’s staff could be seen sprinting to the bench with different shoes for him to try.
Finally they found a winner and he returned to action with just under 10 minutes remaining.
Though he looked antsy on the bench as they found him a new pair, Pack said he wasn’t upset with the delay.
“They were running their butts off from the locker room to the court — and we know how far of a run that is — to grab the right shoes and things like that,” he said. “So I appreciate their effort.”
Pack finished with eight points and three rebounds in 31 minutes. ___
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What’s also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released Tuesday by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates points, in particular, to a breakthrough he calls “magic seeds,” crops engineered to adapt to climate change and resist agricultural pests. The Gates Foundation on Tuesday also released a map that models how climate change will likely affect growing conditions for crops in various countries to highlight the urgent need for action.
In assigning technology a pre-eminent role in addressing the world’s food crisis, Gates puts himself at odds with critics who say his ideas conflict with worldwide efforts to protect the environment. They note that such seeds generally need pesticides and fossil fuel-based fertilizers to grow.
Critics also contend that Gates’ approach doesn’t address the urgency of the crisis. Developing “magic seeds” takes years and won’t immediately deliver relief to countries currently enduring widespread suffering because they rely on food imports or are experiencing historic droughts.
It’s a debate that could intensify international pressure to meet the shared goals for global prosperity and peace, known as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, ahead of a 2030 deadline. The 17 goals include ending poverty and hunger, battling climate change, providing access to clean water, working toward gender equality and reducing economic inequality.
“It’s pretty bleak relative to our hopes for 2030,” Gates, 66, said in an interview with The Associated Press. He added, though, “I’m optimistic that we can get back on track.”
Gates pointed to the war in Ukraine and the pandemic as the main causes for the worsening hunger crisis. But his message to other donors and world leaders convening for the U.N. General Assembly this September is that food aid won’t be enough.
“It’s good that people want to prevent their fellow human beings from starving when conflicts like Ukraine interrupt the food supply,” Gates writes in the new report. But the real problem, he says, is that many food insecure countries don’t produce enough of their own food — a problem sure to be exacerbated by the consequences of climate change.
“Temperature keeps going up,” Gates said. “There is no way, without innovation, to come even close to feeding Africa. I mean, it just doesn’t work.”
As he has for more than 15 years, Gates called for investment in agricultural research, highlighting corn seeds that thrive at higher temperatures and in drier conditions than other varieties. Those seeds were developed under a program of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation to which the foundation has given $131 million since 2008.
Since then, the Gates Foundation has spent $1.5 billion on grants focused on agriculture in Africa, according to Candid, a nonprofit that researches philanthropic giving. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is by some measures the largest private foundation in the world and is best known for its work on global health, including vaccines. It began in its current form in 2000, after Gates left his CEO position at Microsoft, the tech giant he co-founded. Forbes estimates his net worth to be around $129 billion.
The foundation’s spending on agricultural development is why Gates’ view on how countries should respond to food insecurity has taken on heightened importance in a year when a record 345 million people around the world are acutely hungry. The World Food Program said in July that tally represents an increase of 25% from before Russia invaded Ukraine in February and a 150% jump from before the pandemic struck in the spring of 2020.
In Ghana, field trials for four varieties of modified seeds began in 2013. But only this past summer has one been approved for commercialization, said Joeva Rock of the University of Cambridge. Activists there, she said, have asked whether those resources could have been better spent elsewhere.
“What would happen if those went into increasing funds to the national research centers in Ghana, to building roads, to building storage, to building silos or helping to build markets?” said Rock, who has written a book about food sovereignty in the country.
When asked, Gates acknowledged the importance of infrastructure like roads and other transportation systems.
“If you want your inputs like fertilizer to come in, if you want your output to go out, it’s just too expensive in Africa without that infrastructure,” he said, adding that building and maintaining roads is highly expensive.
Some researchers question the wisdom of pursuing the fundamental premise that Gates has embraced: Increasing agricultural production through the use of modified seeds along with fertilizers and pesticides. They point to the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture, including the use of fossil fuel-based fertilizers, the degradation of soil quality and the diminishing of biodiversity.
Alternatives could include agroecological interventions, like developing locally managed seed banks, composting systems to promote soil health and pesticide interventions that don’t rely on chemicals, experts said. Over time, those approaches can reduce the need for food aid and build more resilient farming systems, according to Rachel Bezner Kerr, a professor of global development at Cornell University.
Kerr, a lead author of the food chapter of the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, said that while the panel doesn’t make recommendations, “overall, the kind of focus on a few technologies and reliance on fossil fuel-based inputs isn’t in line with ecosystem-based adaptation” or a biodiverse future.
Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation, defends its approach warning that limiting access to fertilizers means farmers cannot increase their yields.
“Fertilizer is necessary. You simply cannot meet the overall productivity gains without it,” Suzman said, speaking on a call with reporters.
In his interview with the AP, Gates himself dismissed criticisms of the foundation’s emphasis on modified seeds.
“If there’s some non-innovation solution, you know, like singing ‘Kumbaya,’ I’ll put money behind it,” Gates said. “But if you don’t have those seeds, the numbers just don’t work.” He added, “If somebody says we’re ignoring some solution, I don’t think they’re looking at what we’re doing.”
Another project the foundation has funded is the development of computer models that try to measure crop loss caused by disease or pests. The idea is to direct research and responses to where they are needed most.
“It’s not just, how do we get through this crisis and get back to normal? It’s, what does the future normal look like?” said Cambria Finegold, the director of digital development for CABI, an intergovernmental nonprofit that is developing the models.
Melinda French Gates, the other co-chair of the Gates Foundation, highlighted in a separate letter the halting progress toward gender equity worldwide. Since January, the foundation has expanded its board, adding six new members to help direct its work, a move that followed the announcement of the Gateses’ divorce last summer.
French Gates has agreed to step down after two years if the two decided they could not continue to work together. French Gates, who also founded an investment organization called Pivotal Ventures, was not available for an interview.
Gates said he is lucky that his former wife has continued to put her time and energy into the foundation. In July, Gates said he would contribute $20 billion to the foundation in response to the significant setbacks caused by the pandemic, raising its endowment to approximately $70 billion.
Through his giving, investments and public speaking, Gates has held the spotlight in recent years, especially on the topics of vaccines and climate change. But he has also been the subject of conspiracy theories that play off his role as a developer of new technologies and his place among the highest echelons of the wealthy and powerful.
Gates said he does not spend time thinking about conspiracies and that his foundation’s work has nothing to do with his personal reputation.
“If you go into these countries, they’ve never heard of me or the foundation,” Gates said. “Maybe in the rich world somebody is reading some internet thing, but the people we care about have never, will never, and it’s not important that they ever know who I am.”
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Wrought-iron pitching was the order of the day when Quincy Notre Dame stopped Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin to the tune of a 10-0 shutout at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin High on April 17 in Illinois softball action.
In recent action on April 12, Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin faced off against Chatham Glenwood.
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WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
1031 AM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT
SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot daily high temperatures between 100 and
115 degrees Fahrenheit for the valleys, 90 to 100 degrees at
mid elevations, and 80 to 90 degrees in the mountains.
Overnight lows will also be much warmer than normal, mostly in
the mid 60s to mid 70s.
* WHERE...Most of Josephine and Jackson counties in southern
Oregon and most of Siskiyou County in Northern California.
This includes the Rogue, Illinois, Applegate, Lower Klamath
River, Scott, and Shasta Valleys as well as surrounding areas.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The duration of this heat wave will be
particularly long and is likely to be a top 5 event in the
climate record for duration. Take advantage of the cooler
overnight and morning periods if you want to beat the heat.
* View the hazard area in detail at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot daily high temperatures between 90 and
100 degrees Fahrenheit for the valleys and 85 to 105 degrees
for mid elevations up to 6000 feet. Overnight lows will also
be warmer than normal, mainly in the 60s.
* WHERE...In California, northeastern Siskiyou County including
Macdoel and Dorris and all of Modoc County except the lakes
and higher portions of the Warner Mountains. In Oregon,
Klamath County and Lake County including all areas except the
higher mountains and lakes.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Neymar's goal was not enough as powerful Brazil crashed out of the World Cup, 4-2, on penalties against Croatia in the quarterfinals on Friday. Rodrygo and Marquinhos missed from the spot for Brazil, while Nikola Vlasic, Lovro Majer, captain Luka Modric and Mislav Orsic converted all four penalties taken by Croatia following a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes.
Argentina 2, Netherlands 2
LUSAIL, Qatar — Lionel Messi's World Cup hopes are still alive, but Tuesday's quarterfinal win over the Netherlands didn't come easily and it didn't come quickly — nor did Messi do it alone. Goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez made two saves in a five-round penalty-kick shootout to lift Argentina past the Netherlands following a game that ended in a 2-2 draw. | 2022-12-10T00:17:17+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/croatia-stuns-brazil-at-world-cup/article_2c4093ea-781c-11ed-b828-671f8d43fb68.html |
The New Disinfectant Brand from SC Johnson Offers Families Funds to Create a Dedicated Play Zone + Declares May 26 National YES, PLAY! Day to Inspire and Celebrate Play
RACINE, Wis., May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The FamilyGuard™ Brand, a new lineup of disinfectant products from SC Johnson created to help protect families against germs, recently launched YES, PLAY!: an initiative that highlights the importance of having a dedicated, clean play space in the home, while giving parents the tools they need to be successful in today's state of family play.
To shine a spotlight on the YES, PLAY! program, the FamilyGuard™ Brand has teamed up with Kelly Rowland, mother, singer, actress, author and television personality who rose to fame as a member of Destiny's Child. The partnership with Rowland continues a series of programming from the FamilyGuard™ Brand that is giving resources and inspiring new activities from coast-to-coast so families can say YES to play and the moments that matter. Programming includes:
- Hosting the FamilyGuard™ Brand Play Zone contest that will give away a total of $50,000 divided among 100 families to create or update an existing dedicated play space in their home to ensure kids have a space to call their own. Beginning today, parents can go to FamilyGuardUSA.com for the entry form and official rules, where they will be asked to share more about their families, how they plan to create or update existing dedicated play spaces, what winning the prize would mean to them and upload photos of the spaces they plan to update or create. The FamilyGuard™ Brand Play Zone contest is open now through June 30, with winners announced in August1.
- Declaring May 26 the first-ever National YES, PLAY! Day – a day dedicated to celebrating and encouraging play, and families engaging in play time together. Whether it's playing ball, completing a puzzle or building a fort, no activity is too small for family playtime this summer season.
"Being a mom is truly the most important thing to me. Playing with my boys makes me so happy. Whether it's coloring or building with blocks, when I'm with them, I'm just me. I know the impact that play has on their development and how important it is to have a dedicated and clean play area to explore," said Kelly Rowland. "People may not know that I love to clean! After I put my kids down for the night, I do my cleaning routine and feel confident knowing that I've disinfected their play space, so it is ready for what the next day brings. I'm proud to team up with the FamilyGuard™ Brand to help families provide their kids with a space where they can thrive."
More About the YES, PLAY! Initiative + Resources for Families
According to a recent study, due to COVID, kids are redefining the way they want to play, including seeking a safe space to play and the permission to say YES to play more. Yet where kids see fun, and an opportunity to explore, parents can look at the same thing and see dirty surfaces, which may lead to limiting kids' freedom to play. This gap between the way kids want to play and how parents are helping to facilitate it, is what inspired the FamilyGuard™ Brand YES, PLAY! initiative, knowing that play is central to children's physical and social development.
Ahead of the first National YES, PLAY! Day on May 26, the FamilyGuard™ Brand has partnered with Dr. Tanya Altmann, FAAP, a UCLA-trained pediatrician and working mom of three children, to provide families with tips about how they can encourage play and maximize the benefits of a dedicated play zone:
- Offer choices. Sometimes kids need choices to encourage them to begin playing, or to discourage non-play activities such as screen time. Offering two choices also means you will hear fewer "Nos" because they will have to choose one option. "Would you like to play catch or do a puzzle with Daddy?"
- Ask your child and listen. "What do you want to do today?" Based on how they respond, help create an environment where they can explore their interest. For example, if they want to build a fort, you can give support by providing blankets and pillows. Don't be afraid to get creative!
- Invite friends. Encourage your kids to play with others. Whether siblings, friends, relatives, or neighbors, they will learn how to communicate, share, trust and problem-solve when other children are around.
"Experts agree that play is an integral component to a child's development, as it builds important social and emotional skills. Try to set aside time every day to engage and play with your child. A child's development is affected positively by consistent and loving relationships with parents as they interact through play." said Dr. Altmann, FAAP. "The bonds between parent and child are built and made stronger when playing together."
More About the FamilyGuard™ Brand Products
The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Spray (EPA Registration # 4822-548) is designed for use on 100+ surfaces₺, including where kids and pets play, and the FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Cleaner (EPA Registration # 4822-613) is expertly formulated for use in homes with children and pets. These new FamilyGuard™ Brand products kill 99.9% of germs, including the virus that may cause COVID-19 and the H1N1 virus.* The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Cleaner cuts through dirt, dust, grease and grime while the Disinfectant Spray fights tough odors and disinfects with a pleasant scent. FamilyGuard™ Brand products are available to purchase in-store and online at major retailers, including Amazon, Target and select Walmart locations.
To learn more about National YES, PLAY! Day, how to enter the FamilyGuard™ Brand Play Zone contest, view more of Dr. Altmann's tips and find retail availability for the FamilyGuard™ Brand, visit FamilyGuardUSA.com.
₺ See FamilyGuardUSA.com for full list of approved and prohibited surfaces.
* Use as directed on hard, non-porous surfaces. See label for details.
1 All eligible entries received during the FamilyGuard™ Brand Play Zone contest period will be judged by the FamilyGuard™ Brand, which will select winners based on expression of importance of having a dedicated play space, appropriateness of response related to the Play Zone contest, creativity/originality and overall quality of entry. Winners will be notified via email.
About FamilyGuard™ Brand
Say YES to the moments that matter without the worry of germs with the FamilyGuard™ Brand. These formulas help protect families against germs by disinfecting the hard, non-porous surfaces that loved ones touch most. See FamilyGuardUSA.com for a full list of approved and prohibited surfaces. FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Sprays and Cleaners comes in two pleasant scents—Citrus and Fresh. These new FamilyGuard™ Brand products kill 99.9% of germs, including the virus that may cause COVID-19 and the H1N1 virus when used as directed. See label for details.
ABOUT SC JOHNSON
Founded in 1886 and headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin USA, SC Johnson believes that a more sustainable, healthier and transparent world that inspires people and creates opportunities isn't just possible – it's our responsibility. A heritage of innovation and bold, transparent decisions is why our high-quality products and iconic brands – including OFF!®, Raid®, Glade®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Ziploc®, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day®, method®, Autan®, Baygon®, Mr Muscle®, Duck®, Lysoform®, FamilyGuard™ Brand and more – are in homes, schools and businesses in virtually every country worldwide.
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When the JYNNEOS vaccine for mpox rolled out last summer, health officials believed it would work. It was an educated guess, at the height of a public health emergency, based mostly on data from animal studies.
Now, after 1.2 million doses have been given in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has real-world evidence that the mpox vaccines are working to prevent disease.
Three new studies show that two doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine are somewhere between 66% and 86% effective at preventing mpox among people at risk. The research was published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine and the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly,
"Two doses of vaccine offer the best protection against mpox disease," says Leora Feldstein, an epidemiologist at the CDC. "We really recommend staying up to date on vaccination going into the summer and into pride season."
The new data come as health officials are working to stave off a possible summer wave of mpox.
The CDC's concern about a resurgence of mpox is based on a recent cluster of cases found in Chicago. In the past month, 21 people there were diagnosed with mpox, according to Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy director for the White House National Monkeypox Response, who spoke at a press briefing on Thursday.
The cluster of cases breaks a three-month streak where almost no cases were found in Chicago. Daily cases remain low across the U.S. Many of the people who caught mpox in Chicago had been fully vaccinated; none were hospitalized.
"Even if it doesn't prevent infection...vaccination makes getting and spreading impacts less likely, and may decrease the chances of severe illness, hospitalization and death," says Daskalakis.
Mpox is a disease that causes rashes and lesions and is primarily spreading through sexual contact. Most of the cases in the U.S. have been detected in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, with multiple partners.
The CDC estimates about 1.7 million people are at high risk of contracting mpox, but, so far, only a quarter are fully vaccinated – meaning they've received two doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine.
"If you didn't get your first dose, get it. And if you didn't get your second dose, get that. Seek healthcare and get tested if you have a rash, even if you've been previously vaccinated or had mpox in the past," Daskalakis says. "We need to be ready to use all the tools in the prevention toolkit – that includes vaccines, testing and importantly, education – so that people can make informed decisions about their sex lives to halt the spread."
Daskalakis says they're working with local health authorities and organizers to provide vaccines and good health information at upcoming Pride events. The CDC has also created a database of health centers offering free mpox vaccines.
While the U.S. ended the public health emergency for mpox in January, the CDC says these recent cases show that the outbreak is not over, and that the disease continues to circulate.
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What is the best dog harness?
Going on walks is your dog’s favorite thing to do with you. However, traditional collars can be uncomfortable. Many owners have made the switch to a harness in order to prevent choking and minimize pulling for dogs still in the leash training stage. Dog harnesses let you and your best friend take relaxing walks that you can both enjoy. There are various harnesses expertly designed to suit the unique needs of you and your dog.
Best no-pull harness
This type of harness is designed to prevent your dog from pulling you when on a leash. They have rings in the front that are strategically placed to discourage this behavior. Unlike some other options, no-pull leashes help teach your dog not to pull without choking it.
Top no-pull harness
2 Hounds Design Freedom No Pull Dog Harness and Leash
What you need to know: This is a comfortable, well-fitted dog harness that prevents your dog from pulling, and it comes with a matching leash.
What you’ll love: The placement of the leash and structure of the harness keep your dog from being able to pull you when walking. It is stitched to prevent rubbing or calluses for ultimate comfort for your dog and comes in multiple colors.
What you should consider: It may be harder to use on dogs with longer hair, as a couple of customers said their dog’s long hair became tangled or snagged.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top no-pull harness for the money
Kurgo Tru-Fit No Pull Dog Harness
What you need to know: This is an affordable and adjustable no-pull harness for small, medium and large dogs.
What you’ll love: This lightweight harness is for everyday use. It has five points of adjustment to fit snuggly on your dog. It has a front D-ring to hook the leash onto and includes a dog seat belt to keep your dog safe when in the car.
What you should consider: It may not be suitable for smaller dogs or those with a narrow chest, as the padded chest plate is bulky and may not be comfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best padded harness
Padded harnesses are designed to provide extra comfort for your dog when walking or jogging. They include padding that is resistant to causing any rubbing, calluses or loss of fur.
Top padded harness
Chai’s Choice 3M Reflective Dog Harness
What you need to know: This fully padded harness has a front clip and adjustable straps for a perfect fit.
What you’ll love: This harness is made for comfort and is easy to put on your dog. It has an ergonomic design with padded back and chest pieces. It is lightweight, durable and adjustable to fit your dog perfectly.
What you should consider: Elastic strapping helps the harness fit snuggly to your pet’s chest, but it can be overstretched by some stronger dogs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top padded harness for the money
What you need to know: With an over-the-head design, this padded harness is great for small, medium or large dogs.
What you’ll love: In addition to multiple sizes, this harness also comes in four colors to uniquely suit your dog. It includes an O-ring on the chest plate and a D-ring on the back for a traditional leash hold.
What you should consider: A few customers reported issues with adjustments holding in place, so be sure to properly measure your dog before choosing a size.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Best reflective harness
This harness style is great for night hikes, inclement weather and any other situation where you want your dog to be seen well. They catch the light and reflect it, letting you and your pet take walks without fear.
Top reflective harness
Chai Outdoor Adventure Dog Harness
What you need to know: Extra-small to extra-large dogs and their owners can benefit from this adjustable, reflective harness.
What you’ll love: This harness is made with a mesh, lightweight design to give your dog maximum comfort while keeping them safe. It has two rings for leash attachment on the front or back and comes in 11 colors.
What you should consider: A couple of customers reported that the harness arrived stiff and needed to be broken in.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top reflective harness for the money
Rabbitgoo No Pull Harness Vest For Outdoor Walking
What you need to know: This reflective, padded harness has a no-pull feature and an easy control handle.
What you’ll love: Both the chest and back pieces are padded in this harness. It has a front and back leash clip for correcting pulling or a traditional leash hold. There are also four adjustable points to provide the ideal fit for your dog. It’s available in 14 colors.
What you should consider: A few customers had trouble with the straps coming unclipped.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best support harness
Unlike the other harnesses listed, these support harnesses are specially designed for injured and elderly dogs. They offer a comfortable hold for dogs with hip issues to let you assist them when using the bathroom outside.
Top support harness
Loobani Portable Dog Sling for Back Legs and Hip Support
What you need to know: This support harness for injured or elderly dogs allows their owner to easily help them get from place to place.
What you’ll love: The sling has a heavy-duty design with adjustable straps, making it suitable for people of most heights with large, medium or small dogs. It is easy to use, is machine washable and comes with a storage bag.
What you should consider: Breed may determine the comfort of this harness, as a few owners have complained it doesn’t sit where they would like on their dog.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top support harness for the money
Gingerlead Dog Support and Rehabilitation Harness
What you need to know: This is a padded support harness with padded straps for a comfortable grip for dogs recovering from injury or hip issues.
What you’ll love: There are multiple size options and unique styles to suit the needs of any dog. Available in male, female or unisex, it is padded for comfort and commonly used by veterinary offices. It is also durable and can be machine washed or dried.
What you should consider: A few customers had trouble with the harness staying in place when their dog positions itself to urinate.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Man drowns after getting stuck in waist-deep mud flats in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said.
Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, was submerged Sunday evening as the tide came in, and his body was recovered Monday morning, Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniel told The Associated Press.
A member of Porter's group called 911 when they couldn't get him out, but it was too late, authorities said.
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The accident was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long (77-kilometer-long) estuary carved out long ago by glaciers that travels southeast from the Anchorage area and parallels a major highway.
At low tide, the estuary is known for its dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks. At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years. Many more have been rescued, including someone who was fishing there last month.
"It’s big, it’s amazing, it’s beautiful, and it’s overwhelming," Kristy Peterson, the administrator and lead EMT for the Hope-Sunrise Volunteer Fire Department, said of Alaska. "But you have to remember that it’s Mother Nature, and she has no mercy for humanity."
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Peterson, who responded to the call, spoke with others in Porter's party but didn’t talk to him during the desperate rescue attempt.
"When we respond, we respond with the utmost of good intentions and as mothers and fathers and uncles and brothers," she said. "We respond with as much passion and vigor as we can."
The volunteer members of the department will gather later in the week for a debriefing, she said.
"I have been in contact with all my members, and they’re all heartbroken," Peterson said. "This is a hard situation."
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The accident occurred near the community of Hope, a quaint community of about 80 people. It lies across Turnagain Arm just 22 miles — but a 90-minute drive — from Anchorage.
The estuary travels southeast from the Anchorage area and parallels the Seward Highway, the only highway that goes south and delivers tourists from Anchorage to the sportsman’s paradise of the Kenai Peninsula.
At low tide, Turnagain Arm is known for its mud flats that "can suck you down," Peterson said. "It looks like it’s solid, but it’s not."
When the tide comes back in, the silt gets wet from the bottom, loosens up and can create a vacuum if a person walks on it.
Signs are posted warning people of hazardous waters and mud flats.
"I’ve really got to warn people against playing the mud," Peterson said. "It’s dangerous."
Some people attempt to walk across Turnagain Arm or walk the 9 miles (14 kilometers) from Anchorage to Fire Island during low tide, sometimes prompting rescue efforts.
There have been other deaths on the mud flats. In 1988, newlyweds Adeana and Jay Dickison were gold dredging on the eastern end of the arm when her ATV got stuck in the mud, the Anchorage Daily News reported. She then became stuck when trying to push it out and drowned with the incoming tide.
In 1978, an unnamed Air Force sergeant attempting to cross Turnagain Arm was swept away with the leading edge of the tide. His body was never found, the Anchorage newspaper reported. In 2013, Army Capt. Joseph Eros died while trying to cross from Fire Island back to Anchorage.
Earlier this month, a man was rescued from the mud flats after one leg became stuck, and he sank to his waist while fishing in Turnagain Arm.
Peterson said they got the rescue call after Porter was in serious trouble, and it takes time to mobilize. Another department — about an hour’s drive away — also responded.
Peterson urged people to call 911 as soon as possible.
"If you think that there’s an issue, if you think that there even might be an issue, call," she said. "Because we can get resources moving, and we would rather turn around and go home then it would be a disaster." | 2023-05-23T16:03:20+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-drowns-mud-flats-alaska |
Updated June 22, 2023 at 12:02 PM ET
Rescue teams hunting for a missing Titanic-touring submersible have uncovered a field of debris near the site of the wrecked ocean liner, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday.
"Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information," the Coast Guard said, implying that more information would be shared at a media briefing today at 3 p.m. ET.
Remote-operated vehicles were searching for the sub, called Titan, near the site where a surveillance aircraft first detected "underwater noises" late Tuesday.
Here's a guide to what we know.
Have officials discovered the source of the "underwater noises"?
The U.S. Coast Guard said that maritime surveillance planes operated by Canada detected underwater sounds late Tuesday, then again on Wednesday.
Various underwater search efforts had been moved to the location of the noise to discover its source, but that so far, underwater drones operated remotely had "yielded negative results," the Coast Guard said.
Underwater acoustic experts from the Navy are analyzing the sounds, which one expert described as "banging noises," but the Coast Guard and other experts with knowledge of the search are warning that the sounds may not necessarily be proof of life.
"You have to remember that it's the wreck site of the Titanic, so there is a lot of metal and different objects in the water around the site," Rear Adm. John Mauger said in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday morning.
Where and how is the search unfolding today?
The U.S. Coast Guard says that the data from the Canadian aircraft, known as a P-3 Orion, is nevertheless serving as a focus point for its unified search efforts.
The remoteness of the location and the size of the search area — extending 10,000 miles on the surface and 2.4 miles down to the ocean floor — has complicated efforts to locate the vessel and its passengers. Thursday's weather, at least, may prove more favorable to search crews, with winds slowing to 14 mph and wave swells dropping around 4 to 5 feet.
At least one remote-operated vehicle, deployed by the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic, reached the sea floor on Thursday, and another, the French vessel L'Atalante, is expected to deploy on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Multiple maritime surveillance planes from U.S. and Canadian armed forces have flown over the site and dropped sonar buoys in the area.
Also en route is the U.S. Navy's Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS), a motion-compensated lift system which can lift heavy undersea objects.
The design of the Titan means that only those outside the vessel can unseal it, so regardless of whether it rises to the surface or not, the passengers will require outside help to escape.
The Canadian ship Glace Bay, which contains a mobile decompression chamber and is staffed with medical personnel, is also expected to arrive Thursday morning.
The unified search command led by the U.S. Coast Guard has been criticized by industry experts and U.S. lawmakers who say the teams didn't send equipment to the site early enough.
Richard Garriott de Cayeux, president of the Explorers Club, tweeted that members of the research group continually offered their expertise and equipment — including a deep-diving ROV with the ability to attach a lift cable to the Titan — but were not approved to send the equipment until Wednesday, putting the estimated arrival time hours behind when the Titan's emergency oxygen supply is due to expire.
When will the sub's oxygen supply run out?
At the beginning of the search on Sunday, officials estimated the submersible, if still fully functional, contained about 96 hours of reserve oxygen. At a 1 p.m. ET press conference on Wednesday, the Coast Guard estimated that supply was down to about 20 hours.
That means the the oxygen on board the Titan could run out early Thursday morning.
But U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said that's only "one factor" in what is still "a search-and-rescue operation, 100 percent."
"We need to have hope," he said in a Wednesday media briefing. He added that he wasn't ready to speculate about when the search efforts might end.
On Thursday morning, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said that crews would continue their efforts throughout the day on the assumption that the people on board are still alive.
"In all of our search and rescue efforts that the Coast Guard does every day, we use all available data and information to prosecute those searches," Mauger said in an interview with NBC. "But we continue to find, especially in complex cases, that people's will to live needs to be accounted for as well."
Rear Adm. John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard speaks to TODAY about the latest efforts to rescue the five people on board the missing submersible Titan as it runs low on oxygen.
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 22, 2023
“People’s will to live really needs to be accounted for, as well,” he says. pic.twitter.com/6FJ3w1Z0Ty
When and where did the sub go missing?
Titan lost contact with its support ship — a Canadian research vessel called Polar Prince — an hour and 45 minutes after it first entered the water on Sunday around 8 a.m. ET.
At that point, it was already more than halfway down to the Titanic's wreck on the Atlantic's ocean bed, roughly 900 miles east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
The Coast Guard said it was first notified of the missing vessel at 5:40 p.m. ET, nearly three hours after the Titan was expected to resurface at 3 p.m. ET.
Who was on board?
The people on board Titan include pilot Stockton Rush, the head of OceanGate, the company that developed the submersible; Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French underwater wreck expert who has written about the Titanic and visited the wreck dozens of times; a British entrepreneur Hamish Harding; and father-son Pakistani nationals Shahzada and Suleman Dawood.
A former passenger of the Titan described the vessel as like being in a "minivan without seats" and says its interior design relies on "off-the-shelf parts," including a video game controller for steering.
What was the sub's mission?
The missing vessel is owned by OceanGate, a company based in Washington that's become a major chronicler of the Titanic's decay.
In May, OceanGate shared the first-ever full-size digital scan of the wreck site, which is slowly succumbing to a metal-eating bacteria and at risk of disintegrating in a matter of decades.
For $250,000 a person, the company promises tourists an underwater voyage to explore the remains of the Titanic from the seafloor. From St. John's in Newfoundland, Canada, explorers travel 380 miles offshore and 2.4 miles below the surface. A full trip can take eight days and include multiple dives.
If successful, the dives offer a glimpse of what's left of the 1912 crash into an iceberg, which took the lives of all but 700 of the Titanic's 2,200 passengers and crew.
Did anyone warn OceanGate that the Titan wasn't safe?
Years before the Titan went missing, OceanGate faced several complaints and warnings about the safety of its submersible vessels.
Records from a 2018 lawsuit show that the company's former director of marine operations, David Lochridge, flagged potential safety issues with the Titan as it was under development in 2015.
Lochridge was particularly concerned about the company's lack of testing on the Titan's 5-inch-thick carbon fiber hull, which employed an experimental design developed in collaboration with NASA. He also said that the Titan's port window was only designed to withstand depths of about 4,200 feet — far shallower than the 13,000-foot depth of the Titanic.
OceanGate responded in legal filings by saying it relied on acoustic testing "better suited" to detect safety issues. The company fired and sued Lochridge, accusing him of breaching his contract.
Separately, but in the same year the lawsuit was settled, the chairman of the Marine Technology Society's Submarine Group wrote a letter to OceanGate saying 38 industry experts had "unanimous concern" about the Titan's lack of adherence to industry standards.
"We have submarines all over the world diving at 12,000 to 20,000 feet every day of the year, for research. We know very well how to design these machines and operate them safely," the chairman, Will Kohnen, told NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday.
How did OceanGate respond to warnings about Titan's safety?
OceanGate has seen at least two documented safety incidents with the Titan after these warnings.
During a 2022 expedition, OceanGate reported that its sub had experienced a battery issue during a dive and had to be manually reattached to its lifting platform, court filings show.
In the same year, the vessel lost contact with its surface crew for nearly five hours during a dive, according to CBS correspondent David Pogue, who was observing the mission for a journalistic report on the company.
Pogue reported that a waiver for passengers of the Titan clearly states the vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body.
OceanGate's founder, who is reportedly on board the missing Titan, said in a 2019 interview that the commercial submarine industry's regulations stood in the way of progress.
"It's obscenely safe because they have all these regulations," Rush told The Smithsonian Magazine. "But it also hasn't innovated or grown."
NPR's Willem Marx, Ayana Archie and Juliana Kim contributed reporting.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-22T16:25:56+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-06-22/teams-searching-for-the-titan-sub-are-analyzing-a-debris-field-near-the-titanic-wreck |
MADRID (AP) — More favorable weather conditions have helped firefighters slow down the advance of a wildfire on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands that has forced the evacuation of more than 4,000 residents, authorities said Sunday.
The blaze, which started Saturday, has affected an area of about 4,600 hectares (11,300 acres) and burned some 20 houses and buildings.
Authorities urged people not to go near the area on the northwest side of the island.
Tourism Minister Héctor Gómez told reporters that thanks to the efforts to combat the blaze overnight, the outlook for bringing it under control had improved.
More than 300 firefighters have been deployed and nine water-carrying helicopters and two planes are being used to try to extinguish the fire. A further 86 members of the army’s Military Emergency Unit were flown to the island on Sunday.
The fire coincides with a heat wave that is hitting southern Europe.
Temperatures in the Canary Islands, located off the northwest coast of Africa, soared last week as Spain experienced a second summer heat wave. The weather has cooled a little since Friday but the country is expected to suffer another heat wave this week.
Vicente Rodríguez, mayor of Puntagorda town close to where the fire started, said Saturday that the area has seen below-average rainfall in recent years, just like large parts of the drought-stricken mainland Spain, because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change.
The drought has left the wooded, hilly terrain tinder-dry.
The wildfire and evacuations come nearly two years after a three-month volcanic eruption caused devastation on La Palma. While nobody was killed, around 3,000 buildings were buried along with many banana plantations, roads and irrigation systems.
Spain saw record high temperatures in 2022 and this spring as it endures a prolonged drought. Authorities and forestry experts are concerned that the conditions are ripe for a difficult wildfire campaign after seeing virulent fires as early as March.
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Follow AP’s climate and environment coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment | 2023-07-17T09:44:51+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/world-news/ap-better-weather-conditions-help-slow-down-la-palma-wildfire-spanish-authorities-say/ |
Utah’s ban on transgender kids in youth sports put on hold
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender kids in Utah will be not be subjected to sports participation limits at the start of the upcoming school year after a judge delayed the implementation of a statewide ban passed earlier this year.
Judge Keith Kelly’s decision Friday to put the law on hold until a legal challenges is resolved came after he recently rejected a request by Utah state attorneys to dismiss the case. Most Utah schools students head back to classes this month.
Attorneys representing the families of three transgender student-athletes filed the lawsuit challenging the ban last May, contending it violates the Utah Constitution’s guarantees of equal rights and due process.
Similar cases are underway in states such as Idaho, West Virginia and Indiana.
The issue of whether transgender girls should be allowed to participate in female sports has become flashpoint across the U.S. with Republican lawmakers passing legislation to block them based on the premise it gives them an unfair competitive advantage.
Transgender rights advocates counter that the rules aren’t just about sports but another way to demean and attack transgender youth.
As of March, the Utah High School Activities Association knew of only one transgender girl playing in K-12 sports who would be affected by the ban.
The association, which organizes leagues for 85,000 students, has said there have been no publicly made allegations of competitive advantage concerning any of the state’s four transgender youth athletes.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-19T17:41:30+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/08/19/utahs-ban-transgender-kids-youth-sports-put-hold/ |
Tech's Ludvig Aberg ties for 24th at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Fla. — Texas Tech golfer Ludvig Aberg finished tied for 24th in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, shooting 1-over-par 73 for the second day in a row in Sunday's final round.
Aberg comfortably made it to the weekend at Bay Hill by shooting 2-under 70 in the first two rounds Thursday and Friday. In the group with Aberg who finished 2-under were 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson and 2022 Kory Ferry Tour champion Justin Suh.
The tournament was one of three pro events Aberg is playing in the early part of 2023. In late January, he made the cut and finished 3-under at the Dubai Desert Classic. He's also scheduled to play in the Valspar Championship March 13-19 in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Golf
CABO SAN LUCAS, Baja California Sur — Texas Tech senior Jack Wall and freshman Matthew Comegys both shot 1-under-par 70 in Sunday's first round of the Cabo Collegiate Invitational, putting them in group tied for fourth place.
Calum Scott with a 72 and Baard Skogen with a 76 had the other counting scorecards toward Tech's team total of 4-over 288. Tyran Snyders' 77 was the Red Raiders' discard score.
Top-ranked Vanderbilt leads the 15-team field at 4-under with Mississippi next at even par and No. 2 Texas Tech, No. 3 Arizona State and No. 23 Baylor at 4-over. The individual leaderboard has Arkansas' Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira at 4-under 67 and Vanderbilt teammates Matthew Riedel and Gordon Sargent at 68 and 69.
Arkansas is the tournament host at Twin Dolphin Golf Club. Tech players tee off in the second round at 10 a.m. CST Monday. | 2023-03-06T08:23:30+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2023/03/06/tech-roundup-ludvig-aberg-ties-for-24th-at-bay-hill/69975043007/ |
The mayor of Austin, Texas, responded to mounting criticism and apologized Friday for a lack of communication with residents as a winter storm coated the city in ice and cut power — and heat — to thousands of residents for days.
The weather finally started to moderate Friday and bring some relief to frustrated Texans, particularly in Austin, where at any given time 30% of customers in the city of nearly a million were without electricity since the storm hit early this week.
“The city let its citizens down. The situation is unacceptable to the community, and it’s unacceptable to me,” Mayor Kirk Watson, a Democrat, said at a news conference. “And I’m sorry.”
Nearly 122,000 customers remained without power late Friday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
Meanwhile, a new wave of frigid weather that forecasters warned could be the coldest in decades began rolling into the Northeast, leading communities to close schools and open warming centers. Wind chills in some higher elevations could punch below minus 50 (minus 45 Celsius).
In Texas, Austin officials compared damage from fallen trees and iced-over power lines to tornadoes as they came under criticism for slow repairs and shifting timelines to restore power. Nearly 240,000 customers across the state lacked power early Friday, down from 430,000 on Thursday, according to PowerOutage.us.
“Our heat source is our fireplace … and we’ve been in bed, snuggled up under like five or six blankets,” Edward Dahlke, of Spring Branch, southwest of Austin, told KSAT-TV. “Just think that our utility companies need to do a better job making sure our infrastructure is maintained properly.”
Thursday night, officials in Austin backtracked on early estimates that power would be fully restored by Friday evening. Damage was worse than originally calculated, they said, and they could no longer provide an estimate.
The outages recalled the 2021 blackouts in Texas, when hundreds of people died after the state’s power grid was pushed to the brink of total failure because of a lack of generation. There have been no reports of deaths from this week’s power outages, though the storm and freeze have been blamed for at least 12 traffic fatalities on slick roads in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Two fatal crashes occurred in Fort Worth as streets refroze overnight. Lows on Friday night could reach freezing again and potentially glaze over the streets again.
In New England, temperatures began plunging Friday morning.
“The worst part of the upcoming cold snap is going to be the wind,” which has already topped 80 mph (129 kph) in higher elevations, said National Weather Service lead forecaster Bob Oravec. Frigid wind chills — the combined effect of wind and cold air on exposed skin — are expected Saturday.
The worst wind chills in the populated areas of the Northeast shouldn’t go lower than minus 40 (minus 40 Celsius), he said.
Wind gusts began cutting power Friday to some homes in New England, and many communities opened warming shelters, including in Maine and Connecticut.
Some ski areas in the two states scaled back operations, eliminating night skiing or reducing lift operations. In Maine, a popular weekend pond hockey tournament was postponed, and the National Toboggan Championship pushed Saturday’s races back by a day.
Schools closed Friday in Boston and in Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city. “In these conditions, frostbite can develop in as little as 30 minutes,” an announcement on the Manchester district’s website read. “This is simply too cold for students who walk home.”
Some of the most extreme weather was expected atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, the Northeast’s highest peak and home to a weather observatory, where winds gusted to nearly 100 mph (160 kph) and wind chills could reach minus 100 (minus 73 Celsius).
The system is expected to move out of the region Sunday.
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Associated Press writers Kathy McCormack, Paul Weber and David Collins contributed to this report. For more AP weather coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/weather | 2023-02-03T19:22:28+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-texas-power-woes-linger-as-arctic-air-heads-for-new-england/ |
This week’s new streaming options include rapper Jack Harlow’s acting debut, the return of Kesha and new projects for an heart-warming HGTV show.
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM
— Three decades after Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson mixed it up on the black top, a new “White Men Can’t Jump” has next. A remake of that 1992 film teams Sinqua Walls and rapper Jack Harlow as a pair of basketball players who hustle hoops for money and compete in a lucrative three-on-three tournament. The film, which debuts Friday on Hulu, is directed by Calmatic and co-written by Kenya Barris (“black-ish”). In it, Harlow makes his acting debut. (Read AP’s review. )
— Anna Nicole Smith gets the Netflix documentary treatment in “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.” The film, debuting Tuesday, chronicles Smith’s life as a model, Playboy playmate and reality star. Smith died in 2007 at the age of 39 from an accidental overdose. “You Don’t Know Me” includes home video of Smith, whose birth name was Vickie Lynn Hogan.
— Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.” is one of the cinematic highlights of the first half of 2023. The latest from the acclaimed Romanian filmmaker (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”) is a powerful microcosm of a migrant drama that has played out all around the world. A mountainous Transylvania village is increasingly torn apart by violent nationalist impulses that course through the town’s civic life in response to a handful of foreign workers. Mungiu, the pioneering filmmaker of the Romanian New Wave, crafts an unflinching societal portrait both gripping and grim. Currently playing in theaters, “R.M.N.” is available on-demand beginning Friday.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
NEW MUSIC TO STREAM
— Check out Kesha’s new album for what “post-pop” sounds like. That’s what the ever-changing pop star is calling her Rick Rubin-produced record “Gag Order.” Single “Fine Line” is an introspective, beatless ballad with the lyric “Am I bigger than Jesus/Or better off dead?/There’s a fine line between genius and crazy.” There’s also “Eat the Acid,” an experimental, mournful number. Her team says the album excavates “the deepest recesses of her soul to date.”
— Def Leppard are following in the footsteps of Metallica, the Scorpions and Bring Me the Horizon with an orchestral reworking of their catalogue. “Drastic Symphonies,” features their greatest tracks reimagined by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Fifteen of the hard rockers’ hits like “Animal,” “Love Bites,” “Hysteria” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me” have a new sound. Some songs — “Rock of Ages,” “Photograph” and “Let’s Get Rocked” — didn’t work and were left off.
— May turns out to be a great month for 11-time Grammy-nominated singer- songwriter Brandy Clark. Her Broadway musical “Shucked” was nominated for best original score and she’s got a new self-titled album out Friday. Produced by Brandi Carlile, the album showcases Clark’s tenderness, with the 11 songs including the heartbreaking “Buried,” a celebration of her home in “Northwest” and a loving tribute to her grandma with “She Smoked in the House.”
— Ahead of their first post-pandemic album, Dave Matthews Band has released two strong singles, including the nostalgia-drenched “Monsters,” with the lyrics “Chutes and ladders/Pick up sticks/Counting cards and counting bricks/Driving past that old five and dime/Can’t get nothing for a nickel since a long long time.” The first single, “Madman’s Eyes,” leans into Middle Eastern rhythms for a darker song about the madness of violence. Both songs will be on the album “Walk Around the Moon,” out Friday and the band says it “is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
NEW SERIES TO STREAM
— Stock up on tissues because home renovation twins Drew and Jonathan Scott’s series “Celebrity IOU” is back with new episodes on HGTV. Each episode features a Hollywood star who dreams up a home renovation project for someone they want to give back to. Enter the Scott brothers who use their knowledge of construction to make it happen. The episodes follow each project from start to finish with a heart-warming, emotional presentation at the end. This batch of eight episodes features Heidi Klum, Kristin Chenoweth, Glenn Close, Taraji P. Henson, Emma Roberts, Jay Leno, Derek Hough, Kristin Davis and Emma Roberts. “Celebrity IOU” returns Monday.
— If you watched the “To All the Boys” movies, you probably remember scene-stealer Anna Cathcart as the confident, chatty kid sister, Kitty, to Lana Condor’s Lara Jean. Cathcart has landed her own spinoff series called “XO, Kitty.” Created by “To All the Boys” author Jenny Han, Kitty travels to Korea to attend an elite boarding school that her long-distance boyfriend is a student at. It’s also the same school where her late mother went as a teen. Kitty imagines a seamless transition to a new school in a new country and a romantic reunion with her boyfriend but quickly realizes life doesn’t always go as planned. All 10 episodes drop Thursday on Netflix.
— Wilderness expert and adventure-seeker Bear Grylls has never encountered a mountain he won’t climb or a random creature he won’t eat for fuel. We’ve seen him on TV venture into the great outdoors with celebrities but now he’s taking everyday people out of their comfort zone in a new show, “I Survived Bear Grylls.” With the help of comedian co-host Jordan Conley, Grylls uses simulated challenges to test contestants on their survival skills, physicality, and gross-out tolerance. Get ready for the hardest, the dirtiest, the most disgusting day of your life,” Grylls says in the trailer. “I Survived Bear Grylls” debuts Thursday on TBS.
— Alicia Rancilio
NEW VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY
— The Lego brand encompasses all sorts of pop culture icons, from “Star Wars” to “Seinfeld.” But sometimes you just want to build a Lego car and take it for a spin. In 2K Games’ Lego 2K Drive, you can assemble a high-speed racer brick-by-brick, then compete against your friends to find out who’s got the zippiest monster on the track. If you want to go off-road, you can turn your car into an all-terrain vehicle, a boat or even an aircraft. Visual Concepts, the studio behind the NBA 2K franchise, is promising a huge open world in which you can you take your driver from rookie to world champion — or just tool around smashing into things. Your Lego garage opens for business Friday on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
— “I awoke one morning to find I was a dog” is a heck of a way to open a video game. Humanity gets weirder from there. The dog is a glowing Shiba Inu, and his mission is to guide the human masses toward salvation at the end of the world. Sounds heavy, but the result is the sort of hypnotic puzzle game you’d expect from Enhance, the developers responsible for Tetris Effect and Rez Infinite. It’s reminiscent of the 1990s classic Lemmings in that you’re trying to steer crowds of mindless creatures away from a gruesome demise, but once the hordes start fighting each other, this pup’s got a whole new set of problems. With 90-plus levels and the tools for users to build their own, Humanity could last for an eternity. The herding begins Tuesday on PlayStation 5/4 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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Catch up on AP’s entertainment coverage here: https://apnews.com/apf-entertainment. | 2023-05-19T23:27:06+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/tech-news/ap-what-to-stream-this-weekend-jack-harlows-acting-debut-kesha-scott-brothers-on-hgtv/ |
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – City Council on Tuesday approved spending an additional $4 million for migrant busing, as the number of individuals released from federal immigration custody in El Paso surpasses 800 per day.
The council two weeks ago approved a $2 million on-call bus services contract, which is proving insufficient as the city already shelled out $1.8 million for 81 charter bus departures as of September 21.
The bus money, just like the $17,790 the city is spending every night in hotel rooms and the 22,245 meals served to migrants so far, is coming from the city’s general fund. In addition, the city has committed 125 municipal employees to address the crisis, including 50 who are “embedded” at immigrant advocacy nonprofits that cannot find enough volunteers.
The city’s total expenses on migrants stand at $250,000 a day now.
Mayor Oscar Leeser and the city manager’s office emphasized they expect the Biden administration to fully reimburse the city.
“I tell Washington they’re not helping us; we’re helping them. This is not an issue of the City of El Paso, it’s a federal issue and we need their help. We need funding and we need to get reimbursed,” Leeser said at Tuesday’s council session.
The motion passed on a 6-2 vote, with City Reps. Claudia Rodriguez and Isabel Salcido saying El Paso needs to issue a disaster declaration so it can receive state funding.
“Hearing these numbers today, this is not sustainable for the taxpayer. It isn’t,” Salcido said. “You’re talking about $250,000 a day; if this goes on for another year, that’s like $89 million. I know we’re getting refunded but we’re playing catch-up.”
City staff said El Paso has received reimbursements of $482,000 for migrant expenses incurred last year and $237,000 for the first two quarters of 2022. Mayor Leeser also said it’s a matter of time before the city has in hand a $2 million advance that the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved.
But with migrant expenses expected to top $4 million in September, the city has asked for larger advance ($10 million) and for the federal government to reimburse it on a monthly, instead of a quarterly basis.
Even some who voted for the additional money expressed concerns about the Biden administration fully refunding the city’s migrant costs.
“The notion that it’s not being supported by (local) taxpayers is false, because we are, and also we don’t have anything in writing to pay back. We are at the whim of hopes and promises,” City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez said. “So, while I recognize that we have to do this, I also don’t want to mislead the public. We are using our funding we are utilizing our public finance system to fund this operations and there is a potential we may not be reimbursed for these costs if some dramatic things happen at the federal government. […] We have seen that before time and time again that policies change.”
El Paso went into crisis mode late last month, after the U.S. Border Patrol began releasing paroled migrants onto Downtown streets because shelters were full. That was followed by the increasing arrival of Venezuelan nationals without sponsors nor the means to purchase bus or plane tickets.
The Border Patrol says it’s averaging 1,560 migrant apprehensions per day in the El Paso Sector, with 650 of those being Venezuelans.
Leeser said border agents have not released any migrants onto the street in more than a week, and he credited that to “decompression” efforts at immigration processing centers as well as the city providing meals, hotel rooms and charter buses for the migrants.
The city is paying for an average of 150 hotel rooms that shelter more than 300 migrants each night. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is flying six plane-loads of migrants for processing in other cities daily, and sending others away on buses, Leeser said.
“The way to keep a crisis from our community is not to have any street releases, and we haven’t had them in eight days,” he said.
The mayor added his staff has been told by top federal officials that, if the city follows federal guidelines, it will be reimbursed. Also, he said there’s no need for a disaster declaration now because migrants are no longer on the streets and CBP is successfully decompressing its processing facilities.
City staff said the demand for buses out of El Paso is such that migrants often cannot purchase same-day tickets, so they are sent to hotels if shelters are full. The cost of a hotel averages $118 per migrant, which is cheaper than having them at an emergency sheltering facility where the costs add up to $167 per day when services staff, security and other expenses are taken into account.
Leeser said city staff is committed to treating the migrants with dignity and respect, and compared their work to travel agents.
“We don’t want them to go to D.C., we don’t want them to go to Martha’s Vineyard,” he said, referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant rides approach. “We don’t send people to the White House or (Vice President) Kamala’s (Harris) house. We send them where they want to go.”
Most charter buses out of El Paso have gone to New York City and Chicago, with some going to Dallas and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Leeser said many Venezuelans who crossed the border from Juarez, Mexico, don’t even know they are in a city called El Paso. They’re just here until they can get to their destinations. He said when staff asked a young migrant girl where she wanted to go, she said, “Disneyland.” | 2022-09-28T11:05:42+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/border-report-tour/el-paso-to-spend-additional-4-million-for-migrant-busing/ |
Products available from AW2024–2025 for a long-term partnership
YAMAGATA, Japan, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ferney Spinning Mills, a global spinning mill based in Mauritius, together with sister knitwear company Floreal Knitwear Ltd., based in Mauritius and Madagascar, have launched "Otenya", a new yarn collection made from Spiber's Brewed Protein fibers. Ferney Spinning Mills and Floreal Knitwear Ltd. are both owned by CIEL Textile, and are known for supplying premium woolen yarns and products to esteemed international brands. This launch marks an important milestone as Ferney Spinning Mills becomes the first international spinning mill to introduce yarn collections incorporating Brewed Protein fibers.
Inspired by the Spanish word for "protein," the name "Otenya" perfectly represents Spiber's Brewed Protein fibers, a new class of lab-grown, plant-based, circular protein materials manufactured through a proprietary fermentation process utilizing plant-derived sugars as a primary raw feedstock for microbes.
"Our development work on both spinning and knitting yarns with Brewed Protein fibers is only just beginning, but we already consider Otenya products to be particularly innovative and promising as a sustainable alternative to cashmere, ultrafine, and superfine micron merino fibers for use in woolen spun yarns. We are working together with our partner Spiber to develop a 100% Brewed Protein yarn to assess this new material's look, handfeel, and performance compared to cashmere." −Max Li Ying, Design & Product Executive of FLOREAL
The inaugural Otenya collections feature a harmonious blend of RWS (Responsible Wool Standard) certified ultrafine merino wool and Brewed Protein fibers, showcasing the synergy between Spiber and Ferney Spinning Mills. The series will be unveiled at Ferney Spinning Mills' booth (G12) during the prestigious Pitti Filati event in Florence, Italy, from June 28 to 30. Starting from AW2024–2025, customers will be able to purchase these exceptional yarns.
Together, the two companies remain committed to expanding their collaborative efforts and developing a diverse array of future products.
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Dearborn Heights police reportedly shot man who drove toward officer
Michigan State Police are investigating a shooting in Dearborn Heights early Monday morning in which an officer reportedly shot twice at a vehicle, apparently injuring the driver, who was later arrested.
Dearborn Heights Police Department declined to discuss the case with the Free Press.
At about 6:30 a.m. Monday, Dearborn Heights officers patrolling the 8600 block of Evangeline Street saw what they thought was an unoccupied vehicle involved in flee-and-elude incidents in Dearborn Heights and Centerline, WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) reported.
The officers, the news station added, were reportedly speaking with someone when they spied movement in the vehicle, which police said had tinted windows. The vehicle started, and a driver revved the engine and headed toward one of the officers.
The officer reportedly fired two shots and the vehicle sped away.
A 27-year-old Dearborn Heights resident was later arrested at a relative’s home, according to WXYZ. He reportedly had a gunshot wound, but refused medical treatment.
More:Civilian injured in shooting during Michigan police training exercise
More:Records, interviews reveal Patrick Lyoya's complicated life before Grand Rapids shooting
Interest in officer-involved shootings and the issue of excessive force has intensified after an April 4 incident in Grand Rapids in which Patrick Lyoya, a refugee from the Congo, was stopped and later shot in the back of the head and killed by a police officer.
Lyoya's funeral was Friday.
His death has reignited tensions about policing and led to protests nationwide in 2020 after George Floyd, was arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill, and killed by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on Floyd's neck.
That officer was fired and jury convicted him of murder.
Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com. | 2022-04-25T19:22:52+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2022/04/25/dearborn-heights-police-shoots-driver/7440096001/ |
Voting is done for the so-called referendums in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Preliminary results show a landslide victory for Moscow. Ukraine and its allies have dismissed the voting as a sham.
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Voting is done for the so-called referendums in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Preliminary results show a landslide victory for Moscow. Ukraine and its allies have dismissed the voting as a sham.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) — The Taxi and Limousine Commission recorded over 2,500 cellphones, wallets, purses and other items were accidentally left in taxi cabs last year alone. However, one thing that virtually never makes the list of items left behind is someone’s ashes.
Family members and friends of a New York City businessman reported the loss and ended up appreciating what happened next. They called it a posthumous gift from their loved one, given in a way only he could.
“Absolutely humorous for dad’s ashes to go missing,” said the man’s son, who requested that his father’s identity not be revealed.
His dad’s final New York City cab ride began last Saturday and didn’t end until Monday when the cab driver was notified about the unusual cargo he’d been carrying for days.
The cremains of the man — who had passed away three weeks before — were in a ceremonial wooden box, which was in a bag that was supposed to be transported by cab to a friend’s home in Harlem. A doorman at the destination forgot to unload the bag from the cab’s trunk and off the ashes went all over the five boroughs.
“I think he prided himself on kind of being a prankster and definitely wanted to have the last word,” his son said. “And honestly, this felt very like him.”
Ousmane Keita, one of the man’s best friends, agreed.
“If you had to write a story, this is the ending he would have chosen,” Keita said.
Keita said he, the family, and other friends feel as though they received a gift by permanently having the story of their loved one riding around the city that he loved, one to last a long time.
They also said they were grateful that the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s protocol for finding lost items worked in this case.
They contacted the TLC with the cab driver’s medallion number. The agency contacted the driver, who made sure to get the ashes to their rightful destination. They arrived 48 hours after they’d first taken the ride.
“Everyone, yeah, A-plus job,” said the man’s son about what had happened with his father’s cremains.
The man’s close friend specifically praised the cab driver.
“He’s a hero, he’s a hero,” Keita said and added one thing about his fallen friend: “The missing guy is also a hero.”
For his part, the cab driver said he was just practicing lessons he’s learned growing up in an observant Muslim family in West Africa.
“If I’m able to find you, I give it to you,” said cabbie Omar Nyass.
He said he’s turned in all other items he found in his cab over the years to the police.
In this case, Nyass said, he was living by a code he follows all of the time.
“What goes around comes around,” he said. “Whatever you do is going to come back to you, good or bad.”
For its part, the TLC praised Nyass, who will receive a letter of commendation from the agency’s external affairs unit.
The TLC’s press secretary also commended cabbies systemwide.
“Our TLC drivers are the best in the business,” said Jason Kersten. “And always go above and beyond to ensure New Yorkers – and their belongings – get where they need to go safely.” | 2023-07-20T17:44:45+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/mans-ashes-left-in-nyc-taxi-for-2-days-before-being-returned-to-family/ |
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp’s liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.
The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, which was under the occupation of German forces during World War II and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.
In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.
Today the site, with its barracks and barbed wire and the ruins of gas chambers, stands as one of the world’s most recognized symbols of evil and a site of pilgrimage for millions from around the world.
Jewish and Christian prayers for the dead were recited at the memorial site, which lies only 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Ukraine, where Russian aggression is creating unthinkable death and destruction — a conflict on the minds of many this year.
“Standing here today at this place of remembrance, Birkenau, I follow with horror the news from the east that the Russian army, which liberated us here, is waging a war there in Ukraine. Why? Why?” lamented survivor Zdzisława Włodarczyk during observances Friday.
Piotr Cywinski, Auschwitz state museum director, compared Nazi crimes to those the Russians have committed in Ukrainian towns like Bucha and Mariupol. He said they were inspired by a “similar sick megalomania” and that free people must not remain indifferent.
“Being silent means giving voice to the perpetrators,” Cywinski said. “Remaining indifferent is tantamount to condoning murder.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin attended observances marking the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in 2005. This year, no Russian official at all was invited due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the event in a social media post, alluding to his own country’s situation.
“We know and remember that indifference kills along with hatred,” he said.
“Indifference and hatred are always capable of creating evil together only. That is why it is so important that everyone who values life should show determination when it comes to saving those whom hatred seeks to destroy.”
An Israeli teacher, Yossi Michal, paying tribute to the victims with a teachers union delegation, said it was important to remember the past, and while he said what is happening in Ukraine is terrible, he felt each case is unique and they shouldn’t be compared.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party has its roots in the post-Word War II neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, called the Holocaust “the abyss of humanity. An evil that touched also our country with the infamy of the racial laws of 1938.”
Bogdan Bartnikowski, a Pole who was 12 years old when he was transported to Auschwitz, said the first images he saw on television last February of refugees fleeing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered traumatic memories.
He was stunned seeing a little girl in a large crowd of refugees holding her mother with one hand and grasping a teddy bear in the other.
“It was literally a blow to the head for me because I suddenly saw, after almost 80 years, what I had seen in a freight car when I was being transported to Auschwitz. A little girl was sitting next to me, hugging a dollto her chest,” Bartnikowski, now 91, said.
Bartnikowski was among several survivors of Auschwitz who spoke about their experiences to journalists Thursday.
Another, Stefania Wernik, who was born at Auschwitz in November 1944, less than three months before its liberation, spoke of Auschwitz being a “hell on earth.”
She said when she was born she was so tiny that the Nazis tattooed her number — 89136 — on her thigh. She was washed in cold water, wrapped in rags and subjected to medical experiments.
And yet her mother had abundant milk, and they both survived. After the war, her mother returned home and reunited with her husband, and “the whole village came to look at us and said it’s a miracle.”
She appealed for “no more fascism, which brings death, genocide, crimes, slaughter and loss of human dignity.”
Among those who attended Friday’s commemorations was Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Emhoff, the first Jewish person to be married to one of the top two nationally elected U.S. officials, bowed his head at an execution wall at Auschwitz, where he left a wreath of flowers in the U.S. flag’s colors and the words: “From the people of the United States of America.”
The Germans established Auschwitz in 1940 for Polish prisoners; later they expanded the complex, building death chambers and crematoria where Jews from across Europe were brought by train to be murdered.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said “the suffering of 6 million innocently murdered Jews remains unforgotten — as does the suffering of the survivors.”
“We recall our historic responsibility on Holocaust Memorial Day so that our Never Again endures in future,” he wrote on Twitter.
The German parliament was holding a memorial event focused this year on those who were persecuted for their sexual orientation. Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people were incarcerated and killed by the Nazis. Their fate was only publicly recognized decades after the end of World War II.
Elsewhere in the world on Friday events were planned to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration established by a United Nations resolution in 2005.
In Britain, candles were lit to remember victims of genocide in homes and public buildings, including Buckingham Palace.
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Frank Jordans in Berlin and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report. | 2023-01-27T16:21:42+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-auschwitz-anniversary-marked-as-peace-again-shattered-by-war/ |
This summer, buildings in Holyoke, Chicopee and Florence, Massachusetts, are sporting freshly-painted murals by local and international artists. Some of this public art reflects the communities where they are seen.
In Holyoke, a new mural, stretched across the side of the YMCA building, depicts a pair of brightly-colored hands reaching towards the sky. The artist, who goes by the name, Repoe9, explained what the hands hold for him.
"Giving hope for people that just going through the struggle basically. You know let the colors just uplift them," he said.
Repoe, who usually does graffiti art, said he went through a boat-load of paint for this 38 by 23 foot mural — using several bright hues.
"The color pattern just brings out the vibes. It just brings out good energy," he said.
This is one of 18 murals going up this summer in Holyoke and Chicopee. Most of the artists are from other countries such as Portugal, Poland and the Dominican Republic. Organized by the Lynn-based nonprofit "Beyond Walls," CEO Al Wilson said the work "activates" spaces, drawing people to the art and he hopes local businesses.
"How do we get more people walking around downtown Holyoke and South Holyoke taking in the art? [If you can] get people doing that, maybe they'll stop and grab a cup of coffee, maybe they'll meet up and then grab a lunch," he said.
On Friday, in Florence, artist Rochelle Shicoff, instructed volunteers on how to apply paint to a 20 foot wide mural on the wall of a paint store, next to a bike path. On that day, it was mostly in pencil, and was just getting painted.
"If it needs a double coat, let it dry. Don't keep going over it because you're just smushing around the paint," she said.
The mural is called "Action: A History of Florence." It traces the history of Florence, a village of Northampton, from the time when only Indigenous people lived here, to the 19th century when abolitionists were active and mills dominated the economy, to today's Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity and the Cloverdale Cooperative Preschool.
Shicoff points out that it features key historical figures, such as Sojourner Truth and Lydia Maria Child.
"Four portraits of abolitionists, who used to speak in, what was called, 'the grove.' So Deb, who's sitting on the ground, is putting in all the pine trees."
A design team of volunteers and artists from the region researched the history last summer.
Nancy Meagher, of Amherst, a member of the design team, points out a chair in the mural. It survived the 1874 flood, caused by a failed dam. A torrent of water poured down from Williamsburg, killing nearly 140 people, depositing all kinds of things in Florence.
"There's a famous historic photograph of people holding up this chair that made it through and landed in the Florence meadows," said Meagher. "I love that chair. "
About nine volunteers faced the wall painting, including Jonathan Weil and his 11-year-old daughter, Maddie Weil. They were focused on a ribbon of green that winds through the mural. It's the Mill River where they sometimes swim — and which once powered the local economy.
"The idea of being part of a mural that captures some of that history seemed like a cool summer thing to do," Jonathan Weil said. "The fact that we'll ride or walk by on the path and see this and recognize that we were a part of it — it just seemed like a cool thing to do."
Cool, but also hot this steamy season — and wet. Painting was cancelled at least one day because of rain. But there's still time to grab a paint brush. The work continues into next week. | 2023-07-11T15:14:37+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2023-07-11/new-murals-in-holyoke-northampton-reflect-local-communities |
Police look for help solving a cold case murder
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Wichita Falls Crime Stoppers needs your help solving a cold case homicide
According to a Crime Stoppers media release:
On May 22, officers responded to the 1000 block of Covington Street for a check welfare. They found the victim, Andrew Lopez, deceased.
More:Police investigate deceased man on Covington as a homicide
Detectives are investigating this as a homicide and could use any information you may know. If you have any information about this case or any other felony crime, call 322-9888. | 2022-06-16T01:56:19+00:00 | timesrecordnews.com | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/15/police-look-help-solving-cold-case-murder/7638899001/ |
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion.
Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
“Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today’s culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said.
The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires.
“You have been asked to not have other priorities, not to ‘look back’ to miss your former life, your former freedom, with its deceptive illusions,” he said.
Francis has strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion, equating it to “hiring a hitman to solve a problem.” At the same time, he has expressed sympathy for women who had abortions and made it easier for them to be absolved of the sin of undergoing the procedure.
The Catholic Church holds that life begins at conception and must be protected and defended until natural death.
Francis delivered his homily in a packed St. Peter’s Square at the end of the World Meeting of Families, a four-day conference held every few years aimed at helping church workers provide better pastoral care for families, especially those in difficulty.
The head of the Vatican’s laity office, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, celebrated the closing Mass before tens of thousands of people given Francis has a bad knee that makes it difficult for him to stand for long periods of time.
The pope instead sat to the side of the altar and delivered the homily seated, though he was able to stand up easily for the reading of the Gospel and other moments with the help of a cane.
The Vatican welcomed Friday’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that provided constitutional protections for abortion in the U.S. The move opens the doors for individual states to ban or restrict abortion access, with bans now expected in about half the U.S. states.
The Holy See’s main bioethics body, the Pontifical Academy for Life, said it “challenges the whole world” to reopen debate about the need to protect life. Abortion is legal in Italy and most of Europe.
In an editorial Saturday entitled “For Life, Always,” the Vatican’s editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, called for that debate to move away from polarized ideology to a dialogue that takes into account concerns about maternal mortality rates and helping women, especially poor ones, with paid parental leave and other assistance when they bring children into the world .
“Being for life, always, also means defending it against the threat of firearms, which unfortunately have become a leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the U.S.,” Tornielli wrote.
Farrell, in his closing remarks at the end of the Mass, thanked Francis for his many initiatives in favor of families, citing in particular his teaching on the value of grandparents and his “many pronouncements in defense of life.” | 2022-06-26T17:54:37+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/pope-hails-families-blasts-culture-of-waste-after-roe/ |
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital denouncing France, the country’s former colonial power, waving Russian flags, and setting a door at the French Embassy ablaze on Sunday before the army broke up the crowd.
Demonstrators in Niger are openly resentful of France, and Russia is seen by some as a powerful alternative. The nature of Russia’s involvement in the rallies, if any, isn’t clear but some protesters have carried Russian flags, along with signs reading “Down with France” and supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian mercenary group Wagner is operating in neighboring Mali, and under Putin Russia has expanded its influence in West Africa. The new junta’s leaders have not said whether they intend to ally themselves with Moscow or stick with Niger’s Western partners.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that attacks on France and its interests would not be tolerated and anyone who attacks French citizens will see an immediate response.
Niger, a French colony until 1960, had been seen as the West’s last reliable partner battling jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region. France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with the Nigeriens. The United States and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
At an emergency meeting Sunday, the West African bloc known as ECOWAS said that it was suspending relations with Niger, and authorized the use of force if President Mohamed Bazoum is not reinstated within a week. The African Union has issued its own 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the democratically elected government.
Shortly after the ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Chadian President Mahamat Deby arrived in Niger to lead mediation efforts, according to the Chad state radio station.
ECOWAS has struggled to make a definitive impact on the region’s political crises in the past but Bazoum was democratically elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence from France in 1960.
Members of the Niger military announced on Wednesday that they had deposed Bazoum and on Friday named Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani as the country’s new leader, adding Niger to a growing list of military regimes in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Some leaders of the mutiny said they overthrew Bazoum because he wasn’t able to secure the nation against growing jihadi violence. But some analysts and Nigeriens say that was a pretext for a takeover driven by internal power struggles.
“We couldn’t expect a coup in Niger because there’s no social, political or security situation that would justify that the military take the power,” Prof. Amad Hassane Boubacar, who teaches at the University of Niamey, told The Associated Press.
He said Bazoum wanted to replace the head of the presidential guard, Tchiani. Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, was loyal to Bazoum’s predecessor, and that sparked the problems, Boubacar said.
Niger’s dire security situation is not as bad as that in neighboring Burkina Faso or Mali, which have also been battling an Islamic insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Last year, Niger was the only one of the three to see a decline in violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Some taking part in Sunday’s rally warned outside bodies to stay away.
“I would like also to say to the European Union, African Union and ECOWAS, please, please stay out of our business,” Oumar Barou Moussa said at the demonstration. “It’s time for us to take our lives, to work for ourselves. It’s time for us to talk about our freedom and liberty.”
Niger has the most at stake of any country in the Sahel if it turns away from the West, given the millions of dollars of military assistance it has received from abroad.
On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the continued security and economic cooperation with the U.S. hinges on the release of Bazoum — who remains under house arrest — and “the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger.”
Macron said he’d spoken to Bazoum and his predecessor on Sunday. On Saturday France suspended all development and financial aid to Niger.
The 15-nation ECOWAS bloc has unsuccessfully tried to restore democracies in nations where the military took power in recent years. Four nations are run by military regimes in West and Central Africa, where there have been nine successful or attempted coups since 2020.
While the bloc has struggled to have much impact, the measures placed on Niger Sunday show the gravity of the situation, said Andrew Lebovich, a research fellow with the Clingendael Institute.
“The strenuous measures they have put in place or threatened to put in place show not only how seriously they are taking this crisis, but also the urgency the regional body and larger international community feel in trying to force a return to normal that will likely prove elusive,” he said.
The response from the bloc towards Niger differs from how it dealt with recent coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, which did not involve the threat of force if constitutional rule wasn’t reinstated.
In the last few decades it has sent troops into member countries a handful of times.
In the 1990s, ECOWAS intervened in Liberia during its civil war. In 2017 it intervened in The Gambia to prevent the new president’s predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, from disrupting the handover of power. Approximately 7,000 troops from Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal entered, according to the Global Observatory, which provides analysis on peace and security issues.
Economic sanctions could have a deep impact on Nigeriens, who live in the third-poorest country in the world, according to the latest U.N. data. The country relies on imports from Nigeria for up to 90% of its power, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. The sanctions would suspend all commercial and financial transactions between ECOWAS member states and Niger.
In a televised address Saturday, Col. Major Amadou Abdramane, one of the soldiers who ousted Bazoum, accused the meeting of making a “plan of aggression” against Niger and said the country would defend itself.
“Tensions with the military are still ongoing. There could be another coup after this one, or a stronger intervention from ECOWAS, potentially military force,” said Tatiana Smirnova, a researcher in conflict resolution and peace missions at the Centre FrancoPaix. “Many actors are also trying to negotiate, but the outcome is unclear.”
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Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria and Edouard Takadji in N’Djamena, Chad contributed. | 2023-07-30T20:09:09+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-as-regional-and-global-powers-decry-nigers-coup-the-countrys-future-remains-uncertain/ |
Extreme heat at IHSAA boys golf state finals tested limits for Bloomington South
CARMEL, Ind. — Jacob Paine finished day one of the IHSAA boys golf state finals tied for 14th place at four strokes over par.
And then a bigger battle began.
The Bloomington South senior, and everyone in attendance at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel, endured one of the hottest days of the year on Tuesday. Temperatures reached the mid-90s, with the heat index over 100 degrees.
Paine was fine when he got off the course, but his body struggled to cool down in the following hours.
Then he landed in a hospital to receive treatment.
"He was drenched. He wasn't sweating anymore. He got sick, threw up a couple times. And that's when we decided to take him there and get an IV in him," South head coach Dustin Carver said. "It was a long night. It was a long evening for us. But I'm just glad that he's OK."
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The team was staying in Carmel throughout the state finals, so Paine was taken to Ascension St. Vincent Emergency. He was there for a few hours Tuesday evening receiving fluids.
It was scary for Paine, but he knew he wasn't the only one dealing with the extreme temperatures.
"It's hard for everyone," Paine said. "It's unfortunate that it fell on these two days, hottest days of the year, but you've just got to deal with it."
Paine never considered sitting out because of the situation. He was intent on playing Wednesday, no matter what.
But Carver made it clear that he didn't have to if he wasn't feeling up to it.
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"He didn't have to play. It's not even about winning. Down the road, I want to go to that kid's wedding one day. So I gave him the option of playing or not. And that was the battle that he wanted to face," Carver said. "If I didn't feel that he could do it, or if he told me, 'Coach, I can't do it,' I wouldn't have batted an eye to substitute him out."
Understandably, Paine made some adjustments on Wednesday. He paid even closer attention to his hydration, attached an umbrella to his golf bag to provide some shade, and wore a cooling towel when he wasn't playing. He said he didn't do all of those things on Tuesday, and knew he needed to be more careful Wednesday.
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This wasn't even Paine's first instance of dealing with a health incident at Prairie View. During last year's state finals, he broke out in hives and needed immediate treatment for that, as well.
A lot of fluids
Carver ensured his team would be prepared for the difficult weather conditions in Carmel.
He knew the forecast looked hot well ahead of the tournament. He had his team start hydrating and preparing on Saturday and Sunday before going to Prairie View on Monday for a practice round.
"(The heat) was pretty bad," sophomore Landon "Happy" Gilmore said. "We knew, luckily, in advance, that it was going to be hot. So I prepared myself Sunday. I drank a lot of water and tried to stay indoors. And when I was out here, I just drank as much as I could."
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For Gilmore, 'as much as he could' meant about one water bottle for roughly every two holes (so around nine to 10 bottles throughout the round). He drank water, liquid IVs, and Propel.
Carver came prepared. He kept a cooler in his golf cart for the team. He brought a large amount of fluids, but still found himself short on Tuesday. On day one, he had two 48-packs of water bottles, plus a case and a half of Bodyarmor, along with some Gatorade. And the Panthers went through everything in the cooler.
"In fact, (on Tuesday), we drank so much water, that I was actually using their empties to fill them up on the course because I didn't have any more here on the bus," Carver said. "So that's how much water we drank."
On Wednesday, Carver reloaded with three cases of water. It was a big concern for him, especially after seeing what Paine went through.
Gilmore said all of the heat precautions didn't impact how he went about his business on the course. He said it's going to be hot just about anywhere at this time of year, and he's used to it by now.
Carver reiterated that it's something that all 15 teams in the field had to deal with, and that it doesn't account for the way the Panthers played in Carmel.
"It was rough. The weather was rough," Carver said. "But no excuse on our part. That's just part of it."
Follow Herald-Times sports reporter Seth Tow on Twitter @SethTow, or email him at stow@heraldt.com. | 2022-06-17T12:25:14+00:00 | heraldtimesonline.com | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/sports/high-school/golf/2022/06/17/extreme-heat-state-finals-tested-limits-bloomington-south/7643297001/ |
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – A Freeborn County stabbing is sending a man to prison for over a year.
Rio Santiago Acosta, 25 of Albert Lea, was accused of stabbing his mother’s boyfriend.
Albert Lea police say Acosta approached the victim while the man was sitting in the kitchen and preparing a sandwich on November 9, 2022. Investigators say Acosta stabbed his mother’s boyfriend in the neck, then Acosta’s brother intervened and took a hunting knife with a blade of about 3 to 3 ½ inches long away from Acosta.
Court documents state the victim had a cut on the right side of his neck and blood was found in the kitchen.
Acosta pleaded guilty to second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced Wednesday to one year and nine months behind bars, with credit for 238 days already served. | 2023-07-06T02:17:24+00:00 | kimt.com | https://www.kimt.com/news/albert-lea-man-sentenced-for-stabbing-his-mothers-boyfriend/article_3e6a68d0-1b9f-11ee-9fff-4b90ec5cd91f.html |
(The Conversation) – Hot summer days can mean high electricity bills. People want to stay comfortable without wasting energy and money. Maybe your household has fought over the best strategy for cooling your space. Which is more efficient: running the air conditioning all summer long without break, or turning it off during the day when you’re not there to enjoy it?
We are a team of architectural and building systems engineers who used energy models that simulate heat transfer and A/C system performance to tackle this perennial question: Will you need to remove more heat from your home by continuously removing heat throughout the day or removing excess heat only at the end of the day?
The answer boils down to how energy intensive it is to remove heat from your home. It’s influenced by many factors such as how well your house is insulated, the size and type of your air conditioner and outdoor temperature and humidity.
According to our unpublished calculations, letting your home heat up while you’re out at work and cooling it when you get home can use less energy than keeping it consistently cool – but it depends.
Blast A/C all day, even when you’re away?
First, think about how heat accumulates in the first place. It flows into your home when the building has less stored heat than outside. If the amount of heat flowing into your home is given by a rate of “1 unit per hour,” your A/C will always have 1 unit of heat to remove every hour. If you turn off your A/C and let the heat accumulate, you could have up to eight hours’ worth of heat at the end of the day.
It’s often less than that, though – homes have a limit to how much heat they can store. And the amount of heat that enters your home depends on how hot the building was to begin with. For example, if your home can only store 5 units of thermal energy before coming to an equilibrium with the outdoor air temperature, then at the end of the day you will only ever have to remove 5 units of heat at most.
Additionally, as your home heats up, the process of heat transfer slows down; eventually it reaches zero heat transfer at equilibrium, when the temperature inside is the same as the temperature outside. Your A/C also cools less effectively in extreme heat, so keeping it off during the hottest parts of the day can increase overall efficiency of the system. These effects mean there’s no one straightforward answer to whether you should blast the A/C all day or wait until you get back home in the evening.
Energy used by different A/C strategies
Consider a test case of a small home with typical insulation in two warm climates: dry (Arizona) and humid (Georgia). Using energy modeling software created by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory for analyzing energy use in residential buildings, we looked at multiple test cases for energy use in this hypothetical 1,200 square-foot (110 square-meter) home.
We considered three temperature strategy scenarios. One has the indoor temperature set to a constant 76 degrees Fahrenheit (24.4 degrees Celsius). A second lets the temperature float up to 89 F (31.6 C) during an eight-hour workday – a “setback.” The last uses a temperature setback to 89 F (31.6 C) for a short four-hour workday.
Within these three scenarios, we looked at three different A/C technologies: a single stage central A/C, a central air source heat pump (ASHP) and minisplit heat pump units. Central A/C units are typical of current residential buildings, while heat pumps are gaining popularity due to their improved efficiency. Central ASHPs are easily used in one-to-one replacements of central A/C units; minisplits are more efficient than central A/C but costly to set up.
We wanted to see how energy use from A/C varied across these cases. We knew that regardless of the HVAC technology used, the A/C system would surge when the thermostat setpoint returned to 76 F (24.4 C) and also for all three cases in the late afternoon when outdoor air temperatures are usually the highest. In the setback cases, we programmed the A/C to start cooling the space before the resident is back, ensuring thermal comfort by the time they get home.
What we found was that even when the A/C temporarily spikes to recover from the higher indoor temperatures, the overall energy consumption in the setback cases is still less than when maintaining a constant temperature throughout the day. On an annual scale with a conventional central A/C, this could result in energy savings of up to 11%.
However, the energy savings may decrease if the home is better insulated, the A/C is more efficient or the climate has less dramatic temperature swings.
The central air source heat pump and minisplit heat pump are more efficient overall but yield less savings from temperature setbacks. An eight-hour setback on weekdays provides savings regardless of the system type, while the benefits gleaned from a four-hour setback are less straightforward.
Aisling Pigott, Ph.D. Student in Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder; Jennifer Scheib, Assistant Teaching Professor of Building Systems Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, and Kyri Baker, Assistant Professor of Building Systems Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. | 2023-07-09T15:56:52+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/does-turning-the-air-conditioning-off-when-youre-not-home-save-energy/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida utility has been fined $500,000 and placed on three years’ probation for a 2017 deadly explosion at a coal-fired power plant that killed five workers.
The U.S. Justice Department said in a news release Friday that Tampa Electric Co. also must adhere to a new safety compliance plan. The fine is the maximum allowed for willful Occupational Safety and Health Administration workplace rules violations such as this.
The explosion at TECO’s Big Bend plant near Tampa happened when an effort was made using high-pressure water to clear a slag byproduct that accumulates in tanks under the coal-fired furnaces. The workers died and several more were injured when they were sprayed with molten slag that came loose.
The sentencing came after TECO reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which the utility admitted it did not conduct any briefings for employees about the work, including the potential hazards and necessary safety precautions, prosecutors said.
“The department takes this conduct very seriously, and accordingly pursued the maximum remedy available under the law,” said Todd Kim, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
The agreement also notes that the company previously reached confidential civil settlements with the families of the victims and others injured by the explosion. | 2022-08-20T06:39:11+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/business/ap-business/florida-utility-gets-500k-fine-probation-for-fatal-blast/ |
‘This can’t be real’: Wallaby spotted wandering around neighborhood
GASTONIA, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - A possible wallaby was spotted in a North Carolina neighborhood on Monday.
A video sent to WBTV shows what looks like a wallaby or kangaroo hopping around a neighborhood in Gastonia.
Gaston County Animal Care and Enforcement responded to the neighborhood and found the person responsible for the animal, who says it is a wallaby.
Gaston County Captain Matt Hensley said specialists are making sure they get the animal to a place where it belongs and is taken care of.
Hensley says the animal didn’t cause any problems or trouble and was just hanging out in the yard.
Bryan Southers lives in the neighborhood where the wallaby was spotted.
“It was a daggone wallaby or kangaroo or whatever. It was sitting there and I just had to look at it, turn around real slow, and it looked back and I was like, ‘this can’t be real,’” he said. “And all the sudden it started hopping off, and I caught a bunch of live photos and videos of it. It was the trippiest thing I’ve seen.”
Copyright 2022 WBTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-12T18:37:55+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/07/12/this-cant-be-real-wallaby-spotted-wandering-around-neighborhood/ |
In the past few years, commercial space tourism companies owned by billionaires Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk have been making headlines for sending paying customers into space.
But until this week, few people were aware of another extreme adventure industry that is just getting started: deep-ocean exploration. OceanGate, the company whose Titan submersible went missing Sunday with five people aboard somewhere near the wreck of the Titanic, is on the cutting — and potentially dangerous — edge of this new tourism.
OceanGate on its website touts its "innovative use of materials and state-of-the-art technology" and its "patented launch and recovery platform" as making the deep ocean "more accessible for human exploration than ever before."
However, Jon Council, a submersible expert and president of the Historical Diving Society, cautions that "there are just a multitude of things that can go wrong."
Council says that while submersible tourism has been around for decades, taking thousands of paying customers into the depths of the ocean in piloted underwater vessels, OceanGate is in a league of its own. Not only is the price tag for its Titanic expedition reportedly a whopping $250,000, no other company has attempted to take customers down nearly as far as the Titanic wreck, which lies about 13,000 feet, or 2.4 miles, under the surface.
There's a huge difference in the pressure loads put on an ordinary tourism submersible, which might dive to a depth of around 1,500 feet vs. OceanGate's Titan, Council says.
"All of the challenges" inherent in submersibles "are exacerbated" in a vehicle, such as Titan, built for extreme depths.
"We signed waivers that would curl your toes"
OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who is reportedly aboard the missing submersible, studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. In 2019, he told the Princeton Alumni Weekly: "We don't take tourists."
"We like to refer to them as explorers because we go with a mission," he said.
"The difference between an explorer and an adventurer is an explorer documents what he does, and an adventurer just goes, pounds their chest and tells their friends," Rush said.
CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue traveled aboard the Titan submersible last year. He recalls "that when we boarded the surface vessel, we signed waivers that would curl your toes."
"It was basically a list of eight paragraphs describing ways that you could be permanently disabled or killed," he tells NPR's All Things Considered. "There's not much you can do if something goes wrong."
OceanGate declined a request for comment.
"This is not a tourist company or an airline for the masses. This is for rich, adrenaline junkie adventurers who thrive on the risk, who have been up on [Bezos'] Blue Origin rocket, many of them," Pogue says.
OceanGate has also offered less ambitious expeditions — and less expensive — than the dive to the Titanic, including off the West Coast, near Seattle; at the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary near San Francisco; and to the wreck of the Andrea Doria, an Italian-flagged passenger liner that sank in 1956 near Nantucket in 240 feet of water.
The Titanic sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,50o died. It went down about 400 miles from the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, at a point in the North Atlantic Ocean where the relatively shallow American continental shelf gives way to much deeper water. Pogue says since OceanGate's deep dives mostly occur in international waters, "there is no governing body" and therefore no regulation.
It has been compared to space tourism
Rush told the Princeton Alumni Weekly that as a child, he first dreamed of rocketing into space. "I was interested in exploration," he said. "I thought it was space exploration. I thought it was Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars ... and then I realized, it's all in the ocean."
In fact, Rush has compared what OceanGate does to space tourism. He believes that deep-sea tourism could be a first step toward using submersibles for more industrial ventures, such as inspecting and maintaining underwater oil rigs, according to The New York Times. In 2017, he told Fast Company that much like Branson's Virgin Galactic was able to parlay its credibility in space tourism into a satellite launch business, with commercial deep-sea exploration, "The long-term value is in the commercial side."
"Adventure tourism is a way to monetize the process of proving the technology," he said.
Meanwhile, as the search continues for the Titan, the clock is ticking — OceanGate's website says the 22-foot submersible comes equipped with 96 hours of life support.
"As long as there's still life support, there's always a chance. Everyone is crossing their fingers," Council says.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-21T13:55:39+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2023-06-21/oceangate-wants-to-change-deep-sea-tourism-but-its-missing-sub-highlights-the-risks |
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Tyler Reddick finally has his first Cup Series victory and probably a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs.
He is not letting off the gas now.
The Richard Childress Racing driver and his team have bigger goals than simply qualifying for the playoffs.
“We talk about being a contender for the championship, and I think we can. I truly think that we will be a contender for the championship when we get into it,” team owner Richard Childress said Sunday after Reddick’s win at Road America.
Strong statement for a team that only earned its first Cup win Sunday, in Reddick’s 92nd career start. But Reddick had come close enough before — five runner-up finishes before his win at Road America — and was reigning NASCAR champion Kyle Larson’s preseason pick as surprise driver of the year.
So it’s been a buildup to get to victory lane and now Reddick will try to carry his new momentum into Atlanta Motor Speedway, where NASCAR races this Sunday and Reddick was a contender in the spring until a late crash.
Reddick had acknowledged just one week before Road America how frustrating it has been to fall short of that breakthrough first Cup win. He’d been driving his partner, Alexa, crazy as he struggled to take the next step.
“I’d say I was pretty miserable,” Reddick said. “I don’t think Alexa enjoyed being around me when I’d run second place. Yeah, second place isn’t a bad place to finish. But we’re here to win races.”
His first victory came on the course where he experienced one of the low points of his career.
Reddick recalled a disastrous performance in a 2018 Xfinity Series race at Road America that had him questioning whether he had what it takes to make it as a driver at the highest level.
“It was about here that things could have went one of two ways,” Reddick said. “It could have went one way where I was pretty much giving up … I don’t think I had it. But I had a lot of good people around me that believed in me, got me back where I needed to be, and from that point on, things have been a lot better.
“It’s really crazy that this is the place I got my first win because this place four years ago had me questioning everything.”
The win showed how far Reddick has come as a road-course driver since the early stages of his career.
“He was like: ‘Man, I hate road course racing. I’m not very good at it,’” crew chief Randall Burnett recalled. “He’s pretty good at everything he does, so for him to say that, it was a little bit of a challenge.”
Burnett credited Reddick for working tirelessly to make himself more comfortable on road courses.
“I think that’s a nice little cherry on top, for him to know that he’s worked that hard to get as good as he has on these places,” Burnett said. “So I think it’s pretty special for him to actually win on a road course for the first time.”
Reddick generally had many more good days than bad days while racing in the Xfinity Series, where he won consecutive Xfinity titles in 2018 and 2019 and earned the seat in the No. 8 Chevrolet driving for Childress. He was surprised in the significant leap in competition when he got his Cup ride.
“We got slapped in the face with the reality of what Cup racing is like,” Reddick said. “I’ve had to learn a lot over the course of these last three years in the Cup Series as a driver.”
That also meant making sure he didn’t stew too much over his second-place finishes and instead figured out how the experiences could make him a better drive. Reddick didn’t even cast blame over his heartbreaking finish at Bristol this year, when he led until Chase Briscoe tried to slide past him in a move that caused both of their cars to spin out of control. Kyle Busch passed both to earn the victory.
“Yeah, it eats away at you a little bit, but again, I try and look at it, ‘How can I learn from this? How can I learn from Bristol?’” Reddick said. “Yeah, I got wrecked, but I had a gap and I let him run me back down and get there. I gave him an opportunity.”
Reddick’s team made sure frustrations never boiled over. They all knew a victory would come sooner or later.
“It wasn’t a matter of if he was going to do it, it was when they were going to win,” Childress said. “That’s what we kept telling them.”
Now they’re ready for more.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-05T03:54:36+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/reddicks-team-confident-after-breakthrough-cup-series-win/ |
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On Monday, March 6 the City of Bentonville is hosting a public input meeting to craft its plan to tackle homelessness and housing needs for low-income families.
After a decade without using a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant program for low-income families, the city now qualifies for around $320,000 a year.
Christopher Hyatt with the city’s planning department said the money will go towards revitalizing low-income areas of the city determined by census data. This could include projects to add sidewalks, parks, and public transportation.
He said the city can also divvy some of the grant money to nonprofits to help kickstart programs helping low-income families with housing funds, child care, and homeless shelters.
“So once we have this meeting, we can begin to lay the framework of what we really need to be looking at, and what projects we could potentially tackle,” said Hyatt.
HUD considers low-income individuals as those who make 80% or less of the city’s median income, which in Bentonville would equate to those making around $70,000 or less per year.
Hyatt said the meeting will help outline which needs are most urgent for those currently living in the city and those moving in each day, especially with developments, such as the new Walmart Home Office.
“We will work to plan for that and hopefully get ahead of as much as we can. It will be a major growth and we’re ready for the challenge,” said Hyatt.
After taking the housing and homelessness concerns discussed at the public input meeting into account, Hyatt said they would lay out a five-year plan and host another public input meeting.
Then once approved by HUD, Hyatt said the city plans to start work on this year’s projects in July. | 2023-03-06T14:30:34+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/northwest-arkansas-news/bentonville-seeks-input-in-plan-to-use-hud-grant-funds/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.
The Paramount Pictures debut was boosted by strong overseas sales of $155 million from 70 markets. But while a $235 million worldwide launch marked one of the best global openings of the year, “Dead Reckoning” couldn’t approach the high-speed velocity of last summer’s top film, “Top Gun: Maverick.”
“Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh film in the 27-year-old series, had been forecast to better the franchise high of the previous installment, “Fallout,” which opened with $61 million domestically in 2018. Instead, it also fell short of the $57.8 million “Mission: Impossible II” debuted with in 2000.
That puts the film’s opening-weekend tally very close to the tepid launch of Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which opened in U.S. and Canadian theaters with $82 million over five days and $60 million over the three-day weekend. Paramount and Skydance had higher hopes for the action extravaganza of “Dead Reckoning,” which cost $290 million to make, not counting marketing expenses.
Those costs were inflated, in part, by the pandemic. “Dead Reckoning,” directed by Christopher McQuarrie, was among the first major productions shut down by COVID-19. It was preparing to shoot in Italy in March 2020. When the film got back on track, McQuarrie and Cruise helped lead the industry-wide recovery back to film sets – albeit with some well-publicized friction over protocols along the way.
Still, “Dead Reckoning” was hailed as a high point in the franchise. Critics (96% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and fans (an “A” CinemaScore) alike came away awed by the stunts and chases of the latest “Mission: Impossible” film. Though the coming competition of “Barbenheimer” — the much-anticipated debuts of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” — looms, “Mission: Impossible” should play well for weeks to come.
“This is a global franchise. It’s going gangbusters and its going to play for a long time. Quality always wins in the end,” said Chris Aronson, distribution chief for Paramount.
“Dead Reckoning,” Aronson said, met or exceeded the studio’s expectations.
“In international markets, in like-for-like markets, we’re 15% ahead of ‘Fallout,’ and that’s taking China out,” added Aronson. “Domestically, we’re over 3% ahead of ‘Fallout’ for the first five days. To beat its predecessor is phenomenal, especially in this environment.”
Cruise, the so-called savior of movie theaters last year, traveled tirelessly to again pump life back into a summer box office that’s been sluggish. After a splashy world premiere in Rome with a red-carpet on the Spanish Steps, Cruise and McQuarrie surprised theaters in Atlanta, Miami, Toronto and Washington D.C. in the days ahead of opening.
“Dead Reckoning” hit theaters at a crucial mid-summer period for Hollywood, and not just because of the SAG-AFTRA strike which began Thursday. “Mission: Impossible” launched a week before one of the biggest box-office showdowns of the year.
Though “Dead Reckoning” and “Oppenheimer” have vied for some of the same IMAX screens, each film has publicly endorsed the idea that a rising tide lifts all blockbusters. Cruise and McQuarrie in early July even bought opening-weekend tickets to both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig and “Oppenheimer” filmmaker Christopher Nolan reciprocated with their own gestures of support.
However that trio of films performs over the next few weeks will do a lot to determine the fate of the summer box office.
“These are a crucial couple of weeks for the industry starting this weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore. “I think it’s going to be a fun reinvigoration of the box office because we have had a few films underperforming. Really, the summer movie season restarts this week with ‘Mission’ leading into ‘Barbenheimer.’”
No other new wide release challenged “Mission: Impossible” over the weekend. Second place went to Angel Studios’ faith-based political thriller “Sound of Freedom” which increased 37% in its second with $27 million. Jim Caveziel stars in the child trafficking drama.
Last week’s top film, “ Insidious: The Red Door ” slid to third with $13 million in its second weekend. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is dropping quickly with $12 million its third weekend, with a domestical total so far of $145.4 million.
In limited release, the Searchlight Pictures’ mockumentary “Theater Camp” opened to $270,000 from six theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” $56.2 million.
2. “Sound of Freedom,” $27 million.
3. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $13 million.
4. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $12 million.
5. “Elemental,” $8.7 million.
6. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” $6.1 million.
7. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” $3.4 million.
8. “No Hard Feelings,” $3.3 million.
9. “Joy Ride,” $2.6 million.
10. “The Little Mermaid,” $2.4 million.
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Which L-theanine is best?
If you are looking for a natural way to relieve stress and increase focus, consider an L-theanine supplement. According to PubMed, this amino acid is naturally found in tea leaves and certain types of mushrooms and is often taken to reduce the symptoms of anxiety and increase performance when paired with caffeine.
L-theanine supplements can appear in pill, capsule and even gummy form. Now Foods Double Strength L-theanine Capsules are the top pick because they are vegan with a high dosage.
What to know before you buy L-theanine
What is L-theanine?
If you have ever felt both relaxed and focused after drinking a cup of green tea, then you have probably experienced the benefits of L-theanine. While most prevalent in green tea leaves, this amino acid can also be found in black tea, white tea and certain species of mushroom. It is a nonessential amino acid, which means your body doesn’t require it to function.
In its natural state, L-theanine has a distinct flavor and is thought to be responsible for the savory, umami taste found in certain varieties of green tea. There is also a closely-related amino acid named D-theanine that does not appear to have the same health benefits when ingested.
Benefits
Like other stress support supplements, L-theanine works best when combined with healthy lifestyle choices like regular exercise and avoiding alcohol and nicotine. When taken alone, studies have indicated that L-theanine supplements can be used to promote relaxation, relieve stress and might even treat sleep issues like insomnia. The amino acid can also improve focus and task switching abilities when combined with caffeine.
Additionally, when ingested alongside the natural catechins found in green tea, L-theanine might also boost your immune system and fend off against common illnesses like the flu. The amino acid could help treat individuals who live with high blood pressure, and one study showed that L-theanine could be helpful for kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Risks
L-theanine is generally considered safe for daily consumption, particularly in supplement form. That being said, there is little research on long-term usage, and individuals with low blood pressure should talk with their doctor before starting an L-theanine supplement regimen. If you choose to consume L-theanine through green tea, the caffeine found in that beverage could have its own side effects, including an upset stomach or nausea.
What to look for in quality L-theanine
Form
Like most supplements, L-theanine can appear in a wide variety of different forms, including capsules, pills and fruit-flavored gummies. This last form is particularly convenient for people who don’t like swallowing pills.
Dietary restrictions and certifications
Individuals that follow a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle should look closely at the packaging to make sure that the supplement will work with their dietary restrictions. Avoid any L-theanine products that contain gelatin or magnesium stearate, as these are animal byproducts. You can also look for a supplement that has been certified by a third-party organization like Vegan Action or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Similarly, you can look for an L-theanine supplement that has been certified organic and free of gluten and genetically modified organisms.
Dosage
Most L-theanine supplements contain a dosage of 100-200 milligrams with suggestions to take the supplement once or twice a day. For reference, a single 8-ounce cup of green tea contains around 25 milligrams of the amino acid.
How much you can expect to spend on L-theanine
The cost of L-theanine supplements can vary depending on the dosage and size of the container. Most people can expect to spend around $10-$25 for a bottle of 60-100 pills.
L-theanine FAQ
Does L-theanine have a negative interaction with any other drugs?
A. Because L-theanine lowers blood pressure, combining it with another medication that has the same effect could potentially make your blood pressure too low. If you take any prescription medications, talk with your doctor before taking L-theanine supplements.
Can you take L-theanine every day?
A. While L-theanine is generally considered safe to take every day, research has only been conducted for up to 8-week periods. This means that long-term safety is technically unknown beyond that length of time.
What’s the best L-theanine to buy?
Top L-theanine
Now Foods Double Strength L-Theanine Capsules
What you need to know: These L-theanine capsules are vegan with a reasonable price tag and high dosage.
What you’ll love: One of these vegan L-theanine capsules contains a considerably large dosage of 200 milligrams. In addition to being vegan and kosher, the supplement is free of GMOs and gluten. Users report that the calming effect occurs quickly.
What you should consider: The double-strength capsules have the potential to make the user feel sleepy instead of relaxed.
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Lake Avenue Nutrition L-Theanine Capsules
What you need to know: If you are looking to try an L-theanine supplement without breaking the bank, these vegan capsules are a good deal.
What you’ll love: Each L-theanine capsule contains a dose of 100 milligrams, making it a mild introductory supplement. One container contains 180 vegan capsules and the formula contains no soy, gluten or GMOs.
What you should consider: Some users felt that these capsules were not strong enough.
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L-theanine worth checking out
Sports Research L-Theanine with Caffeine Softgels
What you need to know: This supplement has a formula that contains generous doses of both L-theanine and caffeine.
What you’ll love: One softgel pill contains 200 milligrams of L-theanine and 100 milligrams of caffeine, thereby giving the user both energy and calm focus. The supplements are also formulated with medium chain triglyceride oil derived from coconuts. MCT oil is purported to promote weight loss.
What you should consider: These softgels are more expensive than other supplements, and some users may experience negative side effects because of the caffeine content.
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Provides a business update on deployments and progress of its upcoming listing on NASDAQ
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUB Cyber Security (Israel) Limited (TASE: HUB), a developer of Confidential Computing cybersecurity solutions and services ("HUB" or the "Company"), is updating its shareholders today on the following progress:
- Progressing as planned following the recent F-4 registration statement submission to the SEC, with an anticipated listing before year-end 2022.
- A tender contract was won with the Israeli Department of Defense for the provisioning of NIS 4.2 million worth of HUB's products and services over the next 3 years.
- Receipt of first orders to deploy HUB's Confidential Computing solutions for a Swiss corporation in the total expected amount of USD 18 million over 3 years (in context with TASE report Ref#: 2022-01-061507).
About HUB Cyber Security (Israel) Limited
HUB Cyber Security (Israel) Limited ("HUB") was established in 2017 by veterans of the 8200 and 81 elite intelligence units of the Israeli Defense Forces. The company specializes in unique Cyber Security solutions protecting sensitive commercial and government information. The company debuted an advanced encrypted computing solution aimed at preventing hostile intrusions at the hardware level while introducing a novel set of data theft prevention solutions. HUB operates in over 30 countries and provides innovative cybersecurity computing appliances as well as a wide range of cybersecurity services worldwide.
About Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp.
Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company sponsored by DC Rainier SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company managed by Dominion Capital LLC, whose business purpose is to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or HUB's or RNER's future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "should", "would", "seem", "expect", "intend", "will", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "future", "predict", "potential," "forecast" or "continue", or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by HUB and its management, and RNER and its management, as the case may be, are inherently uncertain. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and may differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of HUB or RNER. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: (i) expectations regarding HUB's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and HUB's ability to invest in growth initiatives and pursue acquisition opportunities; (ii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of negotiations and any subsequent definitive agreements with respect to the proposed transactions; (iii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against RNER, HUB, the Combined Company or others following the announcement of the proposed transactions and any definitive agreements with respect thereto; (iv) the inability to complete the proposed transactions due to, among other things, the failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of RNER or HUB, to obtain certain governmental and regulatory approvals or to satisfy other conditions to closing, including delays in obtaining, adverse conditions contained in, or the inability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals or complete regulatory reviews required to complete the proposed transactions; (v) the inability to obtain the financing necessary to consummate the proposed transactions; (vi) changes to the proposed structure of the proposed transactions that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations or as a condition to obtaining regulatory approval of the proposed transactions; (vii) the ability to meet stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the proposed transactions; (viii) the risk that the announcement and consummation of the proposed transactions disrupts HUB's current plans and operations; (ix) the lack of a third party valuation in determining whether or not to pursue the proposed transactions; (x) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed transactions, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the Combined Company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; (xi) costs related to the proposed transactions; (xii) the amount of any redemptions by existing holders of RNER's common stock being greater than expected; (xiii) limited liquidity and trading of RNER's and HUB's securities; (xiv) geopolitical risk, including military action and related sanctions, and changes in applicable laws or regulations; (xv) geopolitical risk, including military action and related sanctions, and changes in applicable laws or regulations; (xvi) the possibility that RNER, HUB or the Combined Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (xvii) inaccuracies for any reason in the estimates of expenses and profitability and projected financial information for HUB; and (xviii) other risks and uncertainties set forth in the section entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in RNER's final prospectus relating to its initial public offering dated October 4, 2021.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Nothing in this press release should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Neither HUB nor RNER undertakes any duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Additional Information About the Transaction and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed transaction, HUB has filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-4 containing a proxy statement/prospectus, and after the registration statement is declared effective by the SEC, RNER will mail a definitive proxy statement/prospectus relating to the Proposed Business Combination to its stockholders. This press release does not contain all the information that should be considered concerning the proposed transaction and is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or any other decision in respect of the proposed transaction. This press release is not a substitute for any registration statement or for any other document that HUB or RNER may file with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders are advised to read, when available, the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus and the amendments thereto and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed in connection with the proposed transaction, as these materials will contain important information about HUB, RNER and the proposed transaction.
When available, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for the proposed transaction will be mailed to stockholders of RNER as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed transaction. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC, without charge, once available, through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.
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TALLADEGA — Kyle Busch used miscommunication with his Richard Childress Racing crew to win at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday in double overtime and under caution.
It was the second win of the season for Busch in his new No. 8 Chevrolet and second career victory at Talladega — 15 years apart. The two-time Cup champion didn't even lead his first laps of the race until the start of second overtime.
It was the 13th win for RCR at Talladega, and team owner Richard Childress entered the post-race news conference carrying an open bottle of champagne from his vineyard.
But as the race headed toward additional laps, Busch's crew chief made a late call for Busch to come in for some gas. The message was received too late and Busch had to save fuel just to ensure he could complete another two-lap sprint.
Bubba Wallace surged past him into the lead from the outside line but was turned by Ryan Blaney to trigger a multi-car crash that automatically ended the race.
“Sometimes you’ve got to be lucky. Some of these races come down to that," Busch said. "You’ve got to take them when they come to your way. The seas kind of parted there when they went up the race track. I saw (Wallace) turn just a little bit sideways and I was like, ‘Get out of the way! Just miss it and try to see if I was ahead of (Blaney) by the time it was called.’”
Busch still had to make it all the way around the track to take the checkered flag, with his crew urging him to “Save! Save! Save!” his fuel.
He finally seemed out of gas when he attempted to do a victory burnout.
“We were sweating it being close ... and I’m like, ‘We’ve got to gamble. We’re up here.’ You’ve got to take the track position when you have it and go get what you can on the restarts and see what happens. And lo and behold, it worked out. So knock on wood for this one.”
NASCAR had to examine the final finishing order as Busch celebrated at the finish line. There were 57 lead changes.
Blaney for Team Penske was scored second and seemed frustrated with Wallace, his close friend, for blocking him on the final lap.
“In my mind you kind of triple move like that, triple block, and you can’t block three times,” Blaney said. “Runs are just so big, and as the leader with Bubba, he’s trying to block which is the right thing to do, but I think he kind of moved three times. You don’t really get a lot of those. I’ve got to go somewhere.”
Wallace, who had team owner Michael Jordan watching from his pit stand, accepted responsibility.
“Close, close, close block,” he said. “Not (Blaney's) fault. I honestly thought that he would leave me high and dry coming back around. Hate it I caused that one. Man, I thought it would play out a little different, obviously not getting wrecked.”
Chase Briscoe from Stewart-Haas Racing was third, followed by Chris Buescher and Brad Keselowski of RFK Racing as Ford drivers were second through fifth.
Erik Jones of Legacy Motor Club was sixth in a Chevrolet, followed by William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports and finally Christopher Bell, the highest-finishing Toyota driver at eighth.
The race was far tamer than the Xfinity Series race on Saturday, when two cars went airborne and Blaine Perkins remained hospitalized Sunday after his car barrel-rolled at least six times in a crash-fest.
The Cup stars were much cleaner Sunday and the first multi-car accident didn’t occur until 48 laps remaining when Noah Gragson ran into the back of Harrison Burton, the leader at the time, to trigger a five-car crash.
The next caution was with five laps remaining when Daytona 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr. gave Corey Lajoie a big push that rammed Lajoie into Joey Logano and sent Logano spinning into the wall. That sent the race to its first overtime, which was an immediate disaster.
Ross Chastain shoved his car into the middle for a third lane and his car bounced off Gragson, who hit the wall to trigger the crash. Kyle Larson was knocked into the grass and his car shot back into the middle of traffic for a full-contact hit of Ryan Preece.
That seventh caution sent Kevin Harvick, pole-sitter Denny Hamlin and Chastain to pit road for fuel to ensure they could compete in second overtime. As the cars rolled around the 2.66-mile speedway under caution, Blaney radioed his Team Penske crew he didn’t think he had enough gas to make it to the finish.
But when the race went green, it was Ty Gibbs who was out of gas and he immediately pulled out of line. Busch surged into the lead. Wallace briefly pushed ahead until he was spun by Blaney.
NASCAR races next Sunday at Dover International Speedway. Chase Elliott is the defending race winner.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Josh Allen was the last player off Jacksonville’s practice field Wednesday. The fourth-year pro spent extra time working through pass-rush drills and then a few more minutes chatting with a coach — an offensive coach.
Allen has started getting technique tips from Jaguars assistant offensive line coach Todd Washington. The recent tweak may have aided in Allen’s late-season surge.
The Jacksonville linebacker has 23 quarterback pressures in his last five games. He also returned a fumble 37 yards for a touchdown in the closing minutes to beat Tennessee 20-16 last Saturday and secure the franchise’s second AFC South championship.
It was just the latest game-altering play for Allen, who has half his six sacks during Jacksonville’s five-game winning streak and was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week on Wednesday. He’s essentially been the dominant force the Jaguars (9-8) thought they had when they drafted him with the seventh overall pick four years ago and watched him make the Pro Bowl as a rookie.
Allen had been admittedly disappointing since, even going eight consecutive games this season without a sack. But he’s taken his play to another level since mid-December, and the Jaguars are counting on him to continue his hot streak when they host the Los Angeles Chargers (10-7) in a wild-card game Saturday night.
“We’re ready to take over,” Allen said. “We’re not in (the playoffs) for no reason. We worked our butts off to get to this point.”
Allen maybe as much as anyone.
He was seemingly slow to adjust to the team’s new 3-4 defensive scheme, one that sometimes requires him to drop into coverage. It was a somewhat uncomfortable spot even though it was role he handled well in college at Kentucky.
But Allen looked right at home off the ball against the Titans, especially when he scooped up Joshua Dobbs’ fumble in full stride and went untouched the other way for the go-ahead score. He added a strip-sack on the ensuing possession that helped Jacksonville close it out.
“I think it’s just being patient,” Allen said. “I’ve always worked hard. It’s just letting those opportunities come. I’ve been dialed in with myself a little bit more. …
“Me working hard before and after practice and doing what I need to do and being where I need to be. I knew when the moment comes, when the opportunity comes, if I keep at it, good things are going to come.”
Although Allen’s sack totals are down, his 64 quarterback pressures this season rank fourth in the NFL, according to the league’s Next Gen stats. More than a third of those have come in the last five weeks.
“I think it’s Josh. He’s made his mind up that it’s the time of the season for him to turn it on, and he’s turned it on,” defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell said. “He’s picked his game up, and he’s doing a good job for us.”
The O-line assistant might deserve an assist. Allen approached Washington last month and started asking a series of questions about how to approach trying to beat certain offensive tackles.
“Really just getting an extra set of ears, extra set of eyes, extra input,” Allen said. “Just to hear something different. … He kind of helped me find myself, just talking to me, sitting down, writing down, just casual conversation that I have with him, and we get things going.”
Allen and his fellow defenders have things going right now. The Jaguars have allowed a combined 22 points in their last three games and essentially won two games with takeaways: Rayshawn Jenkins’ interception return for a TD to beat Dallas in overtime and then Jenkins’ strip-sack that led to Allen’s scoop-and-score against the Titans.
“You have to find a way to win, and right now we’re finding multiple ways to win,” Allen said.
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COLUMBUS, Mont. (AP) — A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed early Saturday, plunging portions of a freight train carrying hazardous materials into the rushing water below.
The train cars were carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur, Stillwater County Disaster and Emergency Services said. Officials shut down drinking water intakes downstream while they evaluated the danger after the 6 a.m. accident. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a yellow substance coming out of some of the tank cars.
David Stamey, the county's chief of emergency services, said there was no immediate danger for the crews working at the site, and the hazardous material was being diluted by the swollen river. There were three asphalt cars and four sulfur cars in the river.
The train crew was safe and no injuries were reported, Montana Rail Link spokesman Andy Garland said in a statement. The asphalt and sulfur both solidify quickly when exposed to cooler temperatures, he said.
Railroad crews were at the scene in Stillwater County, near the town of Columbus, about 40 miles (about 64 kilometers) west of Billings. The area is in a sparsely populated section of the Yellowstone River Valley, surrounded by ranch and farmland. The river there flows away from Yellowstone National Park, which is about 110 miles (177 kilometers) southwest.
“We are committed to addressing any potential impacts to the area as a result of this incident and working to understand the reasons behind the accident,” Garland said.
In neighboring Yellowstone County, officials said they instituted emergency measures at water treatment plants due to the “potential hazmat spill” and asked residents to conserve water.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation. The river was swollen with recent heavy rains, but it's unclear whether that was a factor.
The Yellowstone saw record flooding in 2022 that caused extensive damage to Yellowstone National Park and adjacent towns in Montana. Robert Bea, a retired engineering professor at the University of California Berkeley who has analyzed the causes of hundreds of major disasters, said repeated years of heavy river flows provided a clue to the possible cause.
“The high water flow translates to high forces acting directly on the pier and, importantly, on the river bottom,” Bea said. “You can have erosion or scour that removes support from the foundation. High forces translate to a high likelihood of a structural or foundation failure that could act as a trigger to initiate the accident.”
Bea said investigators would also want to look at whether there was wear or rust in bridge components as well as a record of maintenance, repair and inspections.
Federal Railroad Administration officials were at the scene.
Kelly Hitchcock of the Columbus Water Users shut off the flow of river water into an irrigation ditch downstream from the collapsed bridge to prevent contents from the tank cars from reaching nearby farmland. The Stillwater County Sheriff’s Office called the group Saturday morning to warn it about the collapse, Hitchcock said.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes that sulfur is a common element used as a fertilizer as well as an insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide.
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Johnson reported from Seattle.
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How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state’s far-right shift
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By Casey Tolan, Matthew Reynard, Will Simon and Ed Lavandera, CNN
Gun owners allowed to carry handguns without permits or training. Parents of transgender children facing investigation by state officials. Women forced to drive hours out-of-state to access abortion.
This is Texas now: While the Lone Star State has long been a bastion of Republican politics, new laws and policies have taken Texas further to the right in recent years than it has been in decades.
Elected officials and political observers in the state say a major factor in the transformation can be traced back to West Texas. Two billionaire oil and fracking magnates from the region, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, have quietly bankrolled some of Texas’ most far-right political candidates — helping reshape the state’s Republican Party in their worldview.
Over the last decade, Dunn and his wife, Terri, have contributed more than $18 million to state candidates and political action committees, while Wilks and his wife, Jo Ann, have given more than $11 million, putting them among the top donors in the state.
The beneficiaries of the energy tycoons’ combined spending include the farthest-right members of the legislature and authors of the most high-profile conservative bills passed in recent years, according to a CNN analysis of Texas Ethics Commission data. Dunn and Wilks also hold sway over the state’s legislative agenda through a network of non-profits and advocacy groups that push conservative policy issues.
Critics, and even some former associates, say that Dunn and Wilks demand loyalty from the candidates they back, punishing even deeply conservative legislators who cross them by bankrolling primary challengers. Kel Seliger, a longtime Republican state senator from Amarillo who has clashed with the billionaires, said their influence has made Austin feel a little like Moscow.
“It is a Russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple,” Seliger said. “Really, really wealthy people who are willing to spend a lot of money to get policy made the way they want it — and they get it.”
Dragged to the ‘hard right’
Dunn and Wilks did not respond to repeated requests for comment. In past interviews and opinion pieces, Dunn has argued that his political spending is focused on making Texas’ state government more accountable to its voters, while Wilks has described his donations as aimed at electing principled conservative leaders.
Former associates of Dunn and Wilks who spoke to CNN said the billionaires are both especially focused on education issues, and their ultimate goal is to replace public education with private, Christian schooling. Wilks is a pastor at the church his father founded, and Dunn preaches at the church his family attends. In their sermons, they paint a picture of a nation under siege from liberal ideas.
“The cornerstones of our government are crumbling and starting to come apart,” Wilks declared in a 2014 sermon at his insular church, the Assembly of Yahweh 7th Day. “And it’s because of the lack of morality, the lack of belief in our heavenly Father.”
Texas’ far-right shift has national implications: The candidates Dunn and Wilks have supported have turned the state legislature into a laboratory for far-right policy that’s starting to gain traction across the US.
Dunn and Wilks have been less successful in the 2022 primary elections than in past years: Almost all of the GOP legislative incumbents opposed by Defend Texas Liberty, a political action committee primarily funded by the duo, won their primaries this spring, and the group spent millions of dollars supporting a far-right opponent to Gov. Greg Abbott who lost by a wide margin.
But experts say the billionaires’ recent struggles are in part a symptom of their past success: Many of the candidates they’re challenging from the right, from Abbott down, have embraced more and more conservative positions, on issues from transgender rights to guns to voting.
“They dragged all the moderate candidates to the hard right in order to keep from losing,” said Bud Kennedy, a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper who’s covered 18 sessions of the Texas legislature.
“I don’t think regular Texans are as conservative as their elected officials,” Kennedy said. “The reason that Texas has moved to the right is because the money’s there.”
Political investments paying off
Over the last decade, many of the most conservative bills in the Texas legislature, on topics from LGBT rights to guns to private school vouchers, were killed by the moderate Republicans who held sway in the state House. That changed last year, thanks to people like Valoree Swanson.
Swanson was a Sunday school teacher and political activist when she challenged a 14-year incumbent Republican, Debbie Riddle, in 2016 in a district covering Houston’s Republican-dominated northern suburbs.
Swanson, who ran to Riddle’s right, shocked political observers by outraising the incumbent — an unusual feat for a first-time candidate. Her largest donor: Empower Texans, a political action committee created by Dunn and largely funded by him and Wilks. She defeated Riddle in the Republican primary by more than 10 percentage points and went on to easily win the general election.
Last year, Swanson won a major legislative victory: She authored the transgender sports bill, which blocks trans students from playing on K-12 school sports teams that aren’t aligned with their genders at birth. While other bills about transgender issues had failed in previous years, the sports bill was approved by a legislature now firmly controlled by the GOP’s right flank after the moderate former House speaker retired. Observers saw it as a validation of the billionaires’ early investments in Swanson’s first campaign, paying off years later.
“They’re effectively investing their money and they’re moving the needle on policy in Austin,” said Scott Braddock, the editor of Quorum Report, a publication that’s been covering the legislature for decades, referring to Dunn and Wilks. “These are extreme people investing a lot of money in our politics to reshape Texas, such that it matches up with their vision.”
Swanson is hardly an outlier: All 18 of the current Republican members of the Texas Senate, and almost half of the Republican members of the Texas House, have taken at least some money from Dunn, Wilks or organizations that they fund. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton have also been major beneficiaries of the billionaires’ spending.
Texas is one of just 10 states that allow individuals to make unlimited contributions to state political candidates, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures — letting Dunn and Wilks have more influence than they might elsewhere in the country.
While Dunn and Wilks focus on state politics, they’ve also gotten involved in national races. Wilks, his brother Dan and their wives were among the largest donors to super PACs supporting GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz in 2016, contributing a total of $15 million. And Dunn has given millions of dollars to super PACs supporting former President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in recent years.
In a statement to CNN, Cruz called the Wilks brothers “the epitome of the American dream” and “fearless champions of conservative causes, much to the consternation of the corrupt corporate media.”
So far in 2022, Dunn’s and Wilks’ political investments haven’t been as successful as in past years. Defend Texas Liberty, the group they fund, gave more than $3 million to Don Huffines, a former state senator who challenged Abbott in his Republican primary and won just 12% of the vote. Despite his loss, experts pointed out, over the course of the campaign Abbott embraced some of the positions Huffines had staked out, including strong opposition to transgender rights and support for deploying National Guard members to the US-Mexican border.
Defend Texas Liberty’s second-largest beneficiary this year has been Shelley Luther, an unsuccessful far-right legislative candidate who attracted national attention after she was arrested for refusing to shut down her Dallas hair salon to comply with coronavirus restrictions.
In an interview with CNN, Luther — who proposed banning Chinese students from Texas universities and declared she is “not comfortable with the transgenders” — said that Dunn and Wilks had been integral to her campaign.
“Without them, I couldn’t have even run,” Luther said. But she added that the spending wouldn’t have given the billionaires influence over her votes or decisions: “He wants me to do what I say that I represent,” she said of Dunn.
Enforcing the ‘law of the jungle’
Dunn and Wilks don’t just use campaign donations to play a role in state politics. They also fund a network of organizations that have been influential at boosting conservative causes.
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, a non-profit chaired by Dunn, has released a “Fiscal Responsibility Index” each legislative session grading state lawmakers based on their stances on conservative bills. The scorecard, which is often cited in election ads that show up in voters’ mailboxes, is known in Texas political circles for its ability to make and break Republican primary campaigns.
“If you don’t show up well on the scorecard, you’re going to have a lot of money spent against you,” Seliger said.
Texas Republicans say that even a deeply conservative record doesn’t protect someone from a primary challenge funded by Dunn, Wilks and groups they bankroll.
State Sen. Bob Deuell had won elections for years in his northeast Texas district and racked up a conservative record — including co-authoring a 2013 abortion bill that was considered among the strictest in the country at the time, and was struck down by the US Supreme Court.
But in 2013, Deuell, a doctor, supported a bill that overhauled Texas’ end-of-life procedures. Texas Right to Life, a group whose largest donor over its history is Wilks, falsely claimed the bill would “strengthen Texas’ death panels.” The following year, Deuell was challenged by Bob Hall, a tea party activist.
Texas Right to Life spent more than $150,000 on mailers, voter guides and political consultants for Hall and other candidates in 2014, airing a barrage of ads claiming Deuell had “turned his back on life and on disabled patients.” Hall won the Republican primary in a runoff by 300 votes. Since that first campaign, Hall has received more than $900,000 from Dunn, Wilks, and groups that they are major funders of — about a third of his total donations.
“All this West Texas money is what made him into a viable candidate,” Deuell said of Hall, who did not respond to requests for comment from CNN.
Seliger, Deuell’s former colleague in the Senate, has also staked out conservative positions on many issues, and Dunn gave his campaign $1,000 during his first year in office in 2004.
But after Seliger decided he couldn’t support efforts to divert funding from public schools to private school vouchers, Dunn turned on him, he said. In the decade since, he’s found himself repeatedly running against a challenger backed by groups funded by Dunn and Wilks.
“That’s the law of the jungle now in Texas,” Seliger said. “The majority of Republican Senate members just dance to whatever tune Tim Dunn wants to play.”
Dunn has defended his spending and his group’s campaign tactics.
“Empower Texans remains outside the swamp, and the group informs voters who want their representatives to do in Austin what they promised during election season,” he wrote in a 2018 op-ed in The Dallas Morning News, responding to criticism of the group’s tactics. “If all of us outsiders stick together, we can drain the Austin Swamp.”
Zachary Maxwell has had an inside view of the billionaires’ influence. He worked for Empower Texans, Dunn’s PAC, and served as campaign manager and chief of staff for then-state Rep. Mike Lang, who received more than 60% of his campaign donations from Wilks and PACs he and Dunn were major funders of.
Maxwell told CNN in an interview that there was “no way” Lang could have gotten elected without Wilks’ money. At one campaign fundraiser, he said, Jo Ann Wilks handed Maxwell a check for more than $100,000.
“I was like, ‘Can you even write a check that big?’ ” Maxwell remembered. “I about had a heart attack.”
Huge sums like that helped buy Wilks influence once Lang took office, Maxwell said. “Whenever (Farris Wilks) called, he answered,” Maxwell said of Lang. “There was a lot of control.”
Lang did not respond to requests for comment from CNN.
West Texas upbringings
Texas has a long tradition of oil and gas magnates using their fortunes to shape politics. Hugh Roy Cullen, one of Houston’s wealthiest philanthropists, supported the pro-segregation Dixiecrat movement in the 1940s, and H.L. Hunt, who owned a vast swath of the East Texas Oil Field, funded a conservative radio program that aired across the US in the ’50s and ’60s.
What sets Dunn and Wilks apart, political observers say, is how they’ve spent so much money pushing not just business-friendly policies that boost their bottom line but also socially conservative bills that seem designed to reshape Texas in the image of their far-right Christian values.
Both are products of humble West Texas upbringings who earned huge fortunes in Texas’ energy industry.
Dunn, 66, lives in Midland, the childhood home of George W. Bush and a center of the state’s oil industry. He grew up in nearby Big Spring, the son of a farm and factory worker, and studied chemical engineering at Texas Tech before working for Exxon and other oil and banking companies.
He started his own oil company, now named CrownQuest Operating, in 1996. The firm operates oil wells around West Texas’ Permian Oil Basin and beyond, and pumped 31 million barrels of oil in Texas in 2021, making it the state’s 12th largest oil producer, according to government records.
Dunn became more involved in Texas politics in 2006, when he opposed a tax measure that included a new tax on business partnerships — including some that fund oil wells, Texas Monthly reported. He started an organization to oppose the measure, Empower Texans, which continued to fund conservative causes even after the tax legislation passed. The group’s PAC shut down in 2020, and the billionaires more recently pivoted to funding Defend Texas Liberty.
Wilks, 70, grew up in a converted goat shed in Cisco, Texas, a town of 3,700 where sleepy streets are dotted with more than a dozen churches. He and his younger brother Dan were the sons of a bricklayer and started their careers as apprentice masons.
After several other business ventures, in 2002 they founded Frac Tech Services, a company that provided trucking services for fracking operators. It was perfect timing: Fracking was about to take off in Texas and elsewhere in the US amid a boom in shale gas.
Less than a decade later, in 2011, the Wilkses sold their majority share of the company for more than $3 billion to a group that included international investors. Since then, they’ve been buying up land in Texas and around the Western US, joining the ranks of America’s largest landowners — and getting involved in politics.
Farris Wilks is the pastor of the Assembly of Yahweh 7th Day Church, which operates a sprawling compound outside of Cisco and was founded by his father. In sermons, he has denounced homosexuality and abortion rights in vitriolic terms.
“A male on male or a female on female is against nature,” Wilks declared in a 2013 recording of one sermon posted on his church’s website, which is no longer publicly available. “This lifestyle is the predatorial lifestyle in that they need your children. … They want your children.”
Dunn also preaches at his church, the Midland Bible Church, where he serves as a member of the congregation’s “pulpit team.”
“No matter what rules you grew up with, none of them are enforceable in God’s kingdom,” he declared in one 2018 sermon.
In a 2004 interview with The Times of London, Dunn told a reporter he believed that, as the newspaper put it, “his oil has existed for only 4,000 years, the time decreed by Genesis, not 200 million years as his geologists know.”
That religious fervor has influenced Dunn’s and Wilks’ political moves. In a meeting with former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, who is Jewish, Dunn declared that only Christians should hold leadership positions in the chamber, Texas Monthly reported. Straus declined an interview request with CNN.
And both Wilks brothers have donated millions of dollars through their personal foundations to conservative Christian groups, including crisis pregnancy centers, according to IRS records, which work to dissuade women from abortion and in some cases share misleading medical information.
‘The goal is to tear up, tear down’
People who’ve worked with Wilks and Dunn say they share an ultimate goal: replacing much of public education in Texas with private Christian schools. Now, educators and students are feeling the impact of that conservative ideology on the state’s school system.
Dorothy Burton, a former GOP activist and religious scholar, joined Farris Wilks on a 2015 Christian speaking tour organized by his brother-in-law and said she spoke at events he attended. She described the fracking magnate as “very quiet” but approachable: “You would look at him and you would never think that he was a billionaire,” she said.
But Burton said that after a year of hearing Wilks’ ideology on the speaking circuit, she became disillusioned by the single-mindedness of his conservatism.
“The goal is to tear up, tear down public education to nothing and rebuild it,” she said of Wilks. “And rebuild it the way God intended education to be.”
In sermons, Dunn and Wilks have advocated for religious influence in schooling. “When the Bible plainly teaches one thing and our culture teaches another, what do our children need to know what to do?” Wilks asks in one sermon from 2013.
Dunn, Wilks and the groups and politicians they both fund have been raising alarms about liberal ideas in the classroom, targeting teachers and school administrators they see as too progressive. The billionaires have especially focused on critical race theory, in what critics see as an attempt to use it as a scapegoat to break voters’ trust in public schooling.
In the summer of 2020, James Whitfield, the first Black principal of the mostly White Colleyville Heritage High School in the Dallas suburbs, penned a heartfelt, early-morning email in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, encouraging his school to “not grow weary in the battle against systemic racism.”
The backlash came months later. Stetson Clark, a former school board candidate whose campaign had been backed by a group that received its largest donations from Dunn and organizations he funded, accused Whitfield during a school board meeting last year of “encouraging all members of our community to become revolutionaries” and “encouraging the destruction and disruption of our district.” The board placed Whitfield on leave, and later voted not to renew his contract. He agreed to resign after coming to a settlement with the district. Clark did not respond to a request for comment.
Whitfield said he saw the rhetoric pushed by Dunn and Wilks as a major cause of his being pushed out.
“They want to disrupt and destroy public schools, because they would much rather have schools that are faith-based,” Whitfield said. “We know what has happened over the course of history in our country, and if we can’t teach that, then what do you want me to do?”
Meanwhile, the legislature has also been taking on the discussion of race in classrooms, passing a bill last year that bans schools from making teachers “discuss a widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs.” The legislation was designed to keep critical race theory out of the classroom, according to Abbott, who signed the bill into law.
Some of the co-authors and sponsors of the bill and previous versions of the legislation received significant funding from Dunn and Wilks.
The billionaires “want to destroy the public school system as we know it and, in its place, see more home-schooling and more private Christian schools,” said Deuell, the former senator.
The Texans feeling the impact include Libby Gonzales, an 11-year-old transgender girl living in the Dallas suburbs. She and her family say they feel like targets after the new law restricting trans students’ participation in school sports went into effect last year — passed by Swanson and other legislators bankrolled by Dunn and Wilks. Now, Libby won’t be able to play for the girls’ soccer team that she’d like to join.
“We don’t have issues in our neighborhood, among our friends,” said her mother, Rachel Gonzales. “It’s when our legislators meet and decide that they’re going to leverage their political power against some of the most marginalized kids in our state.”
Gonzales has started volunteering for political campaigns in an attempt to turn the tide on anti-trans policies. Libby said she’s been following the news about Texas’ conservative turn — and worrying what’s coming next.
Last month, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a think tank that Dunn serves on the board of, called on the legislature to ban the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors.
“I’m under attack,” Libby said. “I have no idea why people don’t understand that I’m just a girl: an 11-year-old girl living in Texas — with amazing hair.”
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — General Motors says it will spend more than $900 million to update four factories, with the bulk going to an engine plant in Flint, Michigan, to build the next-generation V8 for big pickup trucks and SUVs.
Factories in Rochester, New York; Defiance, Ohio; and Bay City, Michigan; also will see investments, some to make V8 engine components as well as parts for future electric vehicles, the company said Friday.
The investments won’t create any new jobs, but they will preserve about 2,400 hourly and salaried positions positions at the four sites, the company said.
The investments “provide job security at these plants for years to come,” Gerald Johnson, GM’s manufacturing chief, said in a statement.
Much of the money, $579 million, will go to Flint Engine Operations for equipment to build the sixth-generation small-block V8 that will go into the next round of big pickup trucks and SUVs. The plant now employs about 700 people who also will keep making their current product, a diesel engine used in light trucks.
GM, like other automakers, is facing stricter government fuel economy standards and pollution limits starting in the 2024 model year. New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026, up from about 28 mpg, under new Biden administration rules that undo a rollback of standards enacted under former President Donald Trump.
That means the new V8 will have to be more efficient than the current versions, but GM said it’s not ready to release details yet.
In addition to Flint, GM’s engine components plant in Bay City, Michigan, will get $216 million to build camshafts and connecting rods, and to machine engine blocks and heads for the new V8 being built in Flint. The plant now employs about 425.
The Defiance, Ohio, foundry will get $55 million to build a variety of block castings for the new V8. Included is $8 million for castings to support future electric vehicles, the company said. The plant has about 530 employees.
And GM’s operations in Rochester, New York, will get $68 million, with $56 million to produce battery pack cooling lines for electric vehicles. The rest will go for tools to make intake manifolds and fuel injection rails for the new V8. About 745 people work at the Rochester facility, GM said. | 2023-01-20T17:35:44+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/gm-to-sink-over-900m-into-4-plants-flint-to-get-new-engine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi protesters, many of them followers of an influential cleric, storm parliament building in Baghdad.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The spokesman for Tigray forces in Ethiopia says they have handed over heavy weapons as a key part of the agreement signed with Ethiopia’s government late last year to end a two-year conflict.
Getachew Reda tweeted early Wednesday that an African Union monitoring team confirmed the handover. He expressed hope it would “go a long way in expediting the full implementation of the agreement.”
The Tigray forces especially seek the withdrawal of troops from neighboring Eritrea, which has fought alongside Ethiopian forces but was not a party to the agreement. Witnesses have told The Associated Press that Eritrean fighters remain in some communities.
The United States and United Nations, citing the work of academics, have estimated that hundreds of thousands of people died in the conflict in Africa’s second most populous country.
Basic services, flights and humanitarian aid have begun to resume to the long cut-off Tigray region of more than 5 million people. | 2023-01-11T06:34:15+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Ethiopia-s-Tigray-forces-say-they-hand-over-heavy-17709708.php |
Sheriff: Vandalism cuts power across North Carolina county
CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Multiple power substations in a North Carolina county were vandalized in what appeared to be a criminal act, leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity, a sheriff said.
The mass power outage across Moore County that began just after 7 p.m. Saturday “is being investigated as a criminal occurrence,” Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said in a Facebook post. More than 40,000 electric customers in the county remained without power on Sunday morning, according to poweroutage.us.
“As utility companies began responding to the different substations, evidence was discovered that indicated that intentional vandalism had occurred at multiple sites,” the sheriff said.
Moore County deputies and other law enforcement responded and were providing security at the affected sites, the sheriff’s office said.
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said the company experienced “multiple equipment failures” at substations and the power company was “investigating signs of potential vandalism related to the outages.”
Duke Energy said power was expected to be restored by Sunday evening.
The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines reported that one of its journalists saw a gate to one of the substations had been damaged and was lying in an access road.
“A pole holding up the gate had clearly been snapped off where it meets the ground. The substation’s infrastructure was heavily damaged,” the newspaper reported.
The newspaper reported that Moore County Regional Hospital was operating on generator power.
Southern Pines Fire and Rescue reported the town’s water and sewer services are also operating on backup generators. Authorities in the area asked people to stay off the roads if possible or proceed with caution because traffic lights were out of service.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said in a message posted to Twitter that the state was providing resources to investigators and power crews.
“I have spoken with Duke Energy and state law enforcement officials about the power outages in Moore County. They are investigating and working to return electricity to those impacted,” he said.
The county of approximately 100,000 people lies about an hour’s drive southwest of Raleigh and is known for golf resorts in Pinehurst and other communities.
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St. Louis Cardinals slugger Paul Goldschmidt has been voted the National League MVP, beating out teammate Nolan Arenado and San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado.
Goldschmidt, 35, takes home his first MVP honor, receiving 22 of 30 first-place votes and eight seconds for 380 points from a Baseball Writers' Association of America panel. Machado (seven first-place votes) was second with 291 points, and Arenado (one first-place vote) was third with 232 points.
It's the sixth time in Goldschmidt's 12-year career that he has finished in the top six in voting for the award. He is the fifth player to win his first career MVP at age 35 or older and the first since Dennis Eckersley in 1992.
Goldschmidt led the NL in slugging (.578) and OPS (.981) while compiling the highest OPS-plus (180) of his career. Along with Arenado, he helped lead the Cardinals to an NL Central division title.
For the season, he hit .317 with 35 home runs and 115 RBIs, ranking third in the NL in batting average, fifth in home runs and second in RBIs. Goldschmidt's sabermetric stats also ranked high, as he ranked first in WOBA (weighted on-base average), first in WRC+ (weighted runs created plus) and third in ISO (isolated power). He also ranked second in WAR among position players, just behind Arenado.
Goldschmidt's MVP was fueled by his first five months of the season when he hit .332 with an OPS over 1.000. He slumped some in September, hitting just .245 with two home runs. He also went 0-for-7 in the Cardinals' wild-card loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Arenado, 31, finished in the top six in voting for the fifth time in his career after hitting .293 with 30 home runs. He also won his 10th consecutive gold glove award.
Machado, 30, carried the Padres to a wild-card berth after hitting 32 home runs while compiling a .898 OPS. With star shortstop Fernando Tatis missing the entire season due to an injury and then a suspension for PED use and with newcomer Juan Soto struggling, Machado was the main source of offensive production for San Diego. According to ESPN Stats and Information, he accounted for 20 percent of his team's home runs, third among NL players, while recording the highest percentage of his team's extra base hits.
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Charges were dropped against a self-professing Christian "street preacher" who was arrested while citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Damon Atkins was arrested June 6 for"disorderly conduct, engaged in fighting," but the charges were dropped after an official review of video evidence, the Berks County District Attorney's Office said in a press release.
"The charges were withdrawn after the District Attorney’s Office reviewed the videos of the incident along with applicable case law," the statement said.
Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach had told The Lancaster Patriot that he believed the arrest of Atkins was "unlawful" and "could open the City of Reading and their police department to legal action."
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A video of Atkins' encounter with the police officer and his arrest was caught on video by Matthew Wear, a resident of the Pennsylvania city.
In the YouTube video, Atkins is seen talking with Sgt. Bradley McClure as he cites Bible verses to the attendees of the event, which reportedly included drag queens and children.
"This is public property," Atkins said in an exchange with McClure, in which the officer agreed.
Atkins later shouted, "God cares!" the video shows.
"Let them have their day," McClure replied, according to the footage.
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The officer tells the street preacher he should respect attendees. Atkins held a sign that said "Jesus said go and sin no more."
"Oh, I'm respecting," Atkins replied while pointing to his sign.
After Atkins is told to respect the attendees again, he asks the officer, "You know who's cheering for us?"
"The people that are in hell," Atkins said, according to the video. "So you do you, and I'm going to do me."
McClure briefly walks away, the video shows, but he looks back at Atkins, who then begins to cite a Bible verse.
"That's it, you're done," the officer said and walked over to handcuff him.
Atkins is seen handing over his sign to a fellow protester and is told he cannot give his bag to another man, the video shows. Attendees of the pride event appear to applaud the arrest.
"I cannot believe I'm watching this," Wear said on camera.
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"God is not the author of…" Atkins shouted, but was cut off a second time as McClure escorted him away.
Atkins was reportedly trying to cite 1 Corinthians 14:33, "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints."
The officer wrote in an affidavit in the police complaint that Atkins allegedly "began to yell to the people at the event," and McClure "immediately approached him and told him that, while he was free to stand on that side of the street and hold his sign, he could not cross the street nor yell comments intended to disrupt the event. Atkins said he understood."
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McClure added that "less than a minute later he resumed yelling derogatory comments to the people at the event. Because I had already given him a warning, I immediately told him he was being arrested for disorderly conduct."
An officer from the Reading Police Department told Fox News Digital that there was a "good hour interaction" between Atkins and the officer before the video was taken and that "there’s more to the story here."
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In an interview with CBN News, following the pride march and arrest, Atkins said his comment about people cheering them on from hell was in reference to a parable that Jesus tells in Luke 16:19-31, which is a story about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus.
He ended the interview thanking those who have supported him and expressed that he was anxious for what had occurred.
"I don't want anyone to think – please don't think that I hate anyone," he said in the interview. "I love my neighbor as Lord Jesus has taught me to love myself. That's why I was there." | 2023-06-11T15:18:34+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/man-arrested-while-citing-bible-verse-in-protest-of-pride-event-then-video-evidence-sinks/article_acfcddbf-adc4-5cc1-b1a5-5cd1c82046fc.html |
OSU baseball evens series with Tech
LUBBOCK, Texas – Oklahoma State evened its series with No. 12 Texas Tech Saturday at Rip Griffin Park as the 12th-ranked Cowboys posted a 9-4 win.
With the victory, OSU improved to 16-4, while TTU is now 17-4. Sunday’s series rubber game is scheduled for 2 p.m.
The Cowboys smacked four home runs on the day, as Tyler Wulfert homered twice and Nolan McLean and Roc Riggio also went deep.
Ben Abram, making his second start of the week, was outstanding on the mound to earn the win and improve to 3-0. The right-hander allowed just one run in six innings while striking out six.
OSU took the game’s initial lead when Wulfert led off the second with an opposite field home run to right field, his second round tripper of the season.
The Red Raiders tied things up in the third on a solo homer of their own as Damian Bravo delivered an Abram pitch over the wall in left-center field.
Wulfert struck again in the fourth, this time with two outs, as he blasted his second homer of the game to right-center field to put the Pokes up 2-1.
OSU extended their lead again the fifth. Riggio walked and advanced to third on a wild pitch and a groundout before David Mendham brought him home with an RBI infield single to give the Cowboys a 3-1 advantage.
Abram came up big in the fifth. After TTU loaded the bases with two outs following a single, double and walk, he struck out cleanup hitter Austin Green to get out of the jam unscathed.
In the sixth, Carson Benge came off the bench and delivered a pinch-hit double to set up Marcus Brown, who singled Benge home for a 4-1 lead.
The three-run lead held until the seventh when the Red Raiders cut the OSU lead in half on a two-out RBI by Green.
But in the eighth, the Cowboys would add plenty of insurance, rallying for five runs on four hits to take a 9- 2 lead.
McLean got things started when he led off the inning with his fifth homer of the season. Four batters later, Brown collected his second RBI of the contest with a triple.
Riggio provided the big blow in the frame when he smashed a three-run homer to center field to all but seal the win.
The Red Raiders got solo homers in both the eighth and ninth innings, but Gabe Davis finished out the win with a strikeout, one of his three over the final two frames.
OSU softball blanks Gophers
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State’s softball team posted its third shutout of the weekend with a 6-0 victory over Minnesota at Cowgirl Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
With the win, OSU improved to 24-2, while Minnesota fell to 19-4.
For the seventh time this season, senior righty Lexi Kilfoyl was the starter for Oklahoma State. In her complete game performance, she struck out nine Golden Gophers’ batters.
The Cowgirls were first to score, bringing across a single run in the bottom of the second courtesy of a Chyenne Factor RBI base hit that scored Katelynn Carwile.
The Cowgirls have now scored first in 19 of their 26 games this season; in those games, OSU is 18-1.
Oklahoma State’s offense busted the game wide open with a five-run fifth inning, headlined by a pinch-hit RBI base knock from Katie Lott and a three-run home run from Micaela Wark.
The scoring outburst gave the Cowgirls a 6-0 lead they would not relinquish.
The Cowgirls’ shutout victory over the Golden Gophers marks their third in a row, a feat they last accomplished when they recorded four consecutive shutout wins in 2021.
The OSU Mizuno Classic finale takes place tomorrow as Oklahoma State takes on UCF; first pitch is set for 12 p.m. CT.
CU Sports Information | 2023-03-19T06:45:08+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/sports/college-sports-briefs/article_93de677c-729a-505b-abb6-8fa3ba1caddd.html |
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YORK, Pa., Aug 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D. F. Stauffer Biscuit Co., Inc. is voluntarily recalling 44 oz Market Pantry White Fudge Animal Cookies because they may contain metal. The product comes in a clear plastic jug formed to a bear shape. The recall affects only the following Best By Date, Lot Numbers, and time stamps, printed on the back side of the bear jug on the product label, below the nutritional panel.
Best By Date: 21FEB2023 UPC code:
Jug Lot Numbers: Y052722
Case Lot Number: Y052722 085239817698
Time Stamp: From 15:00 to 23:00
The products were distributed to Target stores nationwide. No other lots or products are affected.
The recall was initiated when metal (wire) was found inside a portion of the cookies. Foodborne foreign objects that are hard, sharp, and large are more likely to cause serious injury or dental injury. Foodborne foreign objects that are flexible, not sharp, and smaller in length are more likely to cause minor injuries such as transient choking or small lacerations in the gastrointestinal system.
Consumers who have purchased the recalled product are urged to stop consuming the product and return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Co., Inc. at 888-480-1988, Mon-Fri, 8am to 5pm EST.
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(NEXSTAR) – Like a handful of other subscription-based services, Sam’s Club is raising its membership fee, marking the first time in nearly a decade that the wholesale retailer has increased its fee.
In a letter addressed to members that was shared with Nexstar in August, Sam’s Club President and CEO Kathryn McLay said the fees for Club members and Plus members will rise on Monday, October 17. The announcement came just weeks after Sam’s Club reduced its Club membership fee for a limited time to $8 for new members.
For Club members, annual fees will increase by $5, from $45 to $50 per year. The Club membership fee has been the same for nine years, according to McLay. For Plus members, who will see their first price change since 1999, the fee will rise from $100 to $110 per year.
“We are mindful of the financial pressure on wallets right now,” McLay wrote in August. “So, this year’s renewal is on us. We’re giving back $5 in Sam’s Cash to Club members and $10 in Sam’s Cash to Plus members shortly after renewal.”
The Sam’s Cash offset may be limited to one per member if you have multiple memberships. This offer is valid from October 17 until October 16, 2023.
Sam’s Club is just the latest fee-based service to increase its membership costs this year.
In February, Amazon Prime’s annual cost jumped, impacting streaming through its platform. Netflix raised its monthly costs in January, with prices rising by about $1 to $2, depending on the plan. ESPN+ and Hulu subscribers recently saw an increase in their fees, with Disney+ set to do the same soon.
Sam’s Club competitor Costco could see a price increase as well. In March, CFO Richard Galanti discussed the possibility of a membership hike in the near future, “especially in light of companies like Amazon and Netflix raising their fees” earlier in the year. | 2022-10-15T19:17:47+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/your-money-matters/sams-club-membership-fees-are-about-to-go-up-heres-what-to-know/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-5-6
(six, five, six)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-5-6
(six, five, six) | 2022-10-30T20:42:16+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17545300.php |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blimpie® (www.Blimpie.com), America's Sub Shop®, is introducing a new Cuban Pulled Pork sub and welcoming the return of the Spicy Pork Sub, both available for a limited time. Beginning July 5, guests can try the two pulled pork subs at Blimpie locations nationwide.
- Cuban Pulled Pork: Tender pulled pork and ham, topped with Swiss cheese, pickles, and stone-ground mustard
- Spicy Pork: Tender pulled pork drizzled with Hot Sauce and Sweet Baby Rays® BBQ sauce, topped with cheddar cheese and bacon ranch slaw
"Blimpie is excited to introduce our brand new Cuban Pulled Pork sub and bring back a fan favorite, the Spicy Pork sub," said Sam Carity, director of marketing for Kahala Brands™, parent company of Blimpie. "We are thrilled to offer pulled pork two ways, each with its own unique and mouthwatering flavor combination that our guests are sure to love!"
The Pulled Pork sandwiches will be available on Blimpie menus until October 2, 2022.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Blimpie® serves sub sandwiches prepared with quality ingredients along with delicious soups and salads. Founded in 1964, Blimpie has grown to approximately 200 franchised restaurants across the U.S. and abroad. In 2006, Blimpie became part of the Kahala Brands family, one of the fastest growing franchising companies in the world with a portfolio of nearly 30 fast-casual and quick-service restaurant brands with approximately 3,000 locations in 35 countries, and with MTY Food Group's purchase of Kahala Brands Blimpie is now also a part of the MTY Food Group family.
For more information about Blimpie, visit: www.Blimpie.com.
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LOS ANGELES – “The residuals are out there,” read a picket sign held by actor David Duchovny, echoing the tagline of his TV series, “The X Files.”
Residuals are a central issue of the current simultaneous strikes of Hollywood actors and screenwriters, and a subject of constant comment on picket lines. While they once handsomely rewarded stars with rewatchable hits like Duchovny, union members say they've since diminished to a trickle as the industry has shifted to streaming. Here's a look at how the system works and the experience of those who receive them — or don't.
WHAT ARE RESIDUALS?
Residuals are long-term payments to those who worked on films and television shows, negotiated by unions, for reruns and other airings after the initial release. The basic pay structure was developed in 1960, the last time writers and actors were on strike together.
Traditionally, actors and writers are paid for each time a show runs on broadcast or cable television, or when someone buys a DVD, a Blu-ray disc or (long ago) a VHS tape.
The payments, which decline over time, are pegged to several factors including the length of a movie or show, the size of a role, the budget of a production, and where the film or show is offered.
While streaming companies technically pay residuals, both unions and their members say the amounts and pay timelines leave actors and writers with a pittance of what they once received — and those who were once paid for reruns of network shows often get nothing now.
“I did an episode of ‘Criminal Minds’ and was getting residuals,” said actor Whitney Morgan Cox, who has a handful of credits for small roles. “And then ‘Criminal Minds’ moved to Netflix and those checks stopped coming. And then it did a resurgence on cable TV, I got a couple more checks. It went to streaming, the checks stopped coming.”
HOW MUCH ARE THEY WORTH?
Like all money in Hollywood, the amounts run the gamut. More than a decade after the show ended, the cast of “Friends” was still making millions annually.
But residual payments can easily amount to just a few cents. Some actors are sharing their residuals on social media, including Kimiko Glenn of Netflix's "Orange Is The New Black, who made a TikTok video of a statement showing only $27 in total for foreign residuals earned over the decade since the show began.
“I’m always like, ‘But why even cut it?’” actor Zoe Lister-Jones said of cashing residual checks.
“It's not worth the paper it's printed on,” actor and writer Paul Scheer added.
Getting paid pennies is so common that there's even a bar in Studio City that offers free drinks for actors and writers who show they received a check for less than a dollar.
But even modest payments can be essential to a lower-tier performer's livelihood.
“Residuals, that’s how we live,” Cox said. “There are our initial paychecks, which helps, but then there are our residuals which help us with our groceries and our day-to-day lives.”
The lack of such a steady income can mean the loss of union health insurance for members, who are required to earn $27,000 annually to qualify for coverage. The vast majority don't qualify.
WHAT'S THE POPULARITY PROBLEM?
Streaming residuals are largely untethered from the popularity of the movie or show they are tied to. Most streaming services are loath to release specific viewership figures at all. Performers say being part of a hit now has little meaning.
Actor Chris Browning appeared in the movie “Bright” with Will Smith, which Netflix touted as a heavily watched hit.
“If it was back in the old DVD residuals days, I would have got a $25,000 residual check,” Browning said. "I got $271 from Netflix."
David Denman, who appeared on 31 episodes of “The Office," which aired on NBC, said “it doesn’t matter if you watch that show once or you watch it 100 times, you’re not going to get any more money because more people watch it.”
“When it was the Number 1 show on Netflix, they are able to make a significant profit off of that, but that doesn’t trickle down to the blue-collar actors like me,” Denman said. "We’re just asking to share in the profit when the show is successful, that’s it."
Quinta Brunson, creator and star of “Abbott Elementary” on traditional broadcast network ABC, said she has had a far better experience in many ways than friends who have had similar roles on streamers.
“I think that ... streamers could learn from what networks had done in the past right now," Brunson said. “I think there’s a lot of benefit to the way network TV works.”
WHAT WAS ON THE NEGOTIATING TABLE?
While little has been publicly revealed about the details of writers' contract negotiations, which ended May 2, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Monday released an outline of the negotiations when talks broke off July 12.
The union said negotiators asked studios to consider a "comprehensive plan for actors to participate in streaming revenue, since the current business model has eroded our residuals income." The answer, the union said, was simply ”no."
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the employers, said in response that SAG-AFTRA's public descriptions “mischaracterize” and “deliberately distort” the negotiations.
SAG-AFTRA said the AMPTP rejected outright its residual proposals for lower budget productions. They included requiring residual payments for the ongoing showing of movies on streaming services, regardless of specific budget or length, and paying for shows that stream first and later air on TV at the same rate as shows that aired first on TV. They also proposed an increase in the residuals that apply when a traditional media production then airs on a free streaming platform like Amazon Freevee.
On higher budget productions, the union said it sought improved residuals for the continued availability of movies and shows on subscription streaming services. SAG-AFTRA said there was progress in negotiations on this issue, but that “significant gaps” remain between the two sides.
The AMPTP released far fewer specifics on its take on negotiations. But the group said it included a 76% hike in residuals on overseas streaming video for high budget productions.
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Associated Press Writers Krysta Fauria and Leslie Ambriz contributed. | 2023-07-19T19:39:42+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2023/07/19/what-residuals-are-and-why-hollywood-actors-and-writers-are-striking-over-them/ |
HONOLULU (KHON) — World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma traveled on a famous voyaging canoe and brought music to Native Hawaiian practitioners and researchers and students at the University of Hawaii’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
The trip off of the Big Island aboard the Hokulea featured a musical performance and conversation about the uniqueness of whales in Hawaii and their connection to nature and music.
UH Marine Mammal Research Program Director Lars Bejder and Faculty/Researcher Aude Pacini sailed onboard the Hokulea with their crew.
“We discussed how humans impact the world’s oceans and how we can raise awareness about the plight of the health of the oceans through music and whales—both of which allow us to draw in many people to convey important messages about how we need to protect the oceans,” said Bejder.
Once they reached their destination, Yo-Yo Ma performed the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Pacini had a hydrophone underwater and recorded the sounds from the hull of the Hokulea.
When the song was playing, a humpback whale breached in the distance.
“Yo-Yo Ma’s team chose to work with HIMB because of our mutual interest and experience in making connections across art and science,” said HIMB Director Eleanor Sterling. “We hope that these kinds of immersive cultural experiences can help foster our sense of stewardship of the Earth’s amazing resources, in Hawaii and around the world.” | 2023-01-23T16:34:48+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/yo-yo-ma-plays-music-for-whales-off-of-hawaii/ |
(WHNT) — Millions of American families utilize the convenience of the superstore’s online grocery shopping pickup and delivery during their hectic lives, but an upcoming change is expected to affect those orders.
On Thursday, June 1, Walmart announced plans to eliminate over 2,000 tons of plastic by transitioning from single-use plastic bags to paper bag mailers — but is leaving the decision in the hands of customers.
According to the chain, cutting down on waste is an effort to help create a more sustainable “omnichannel fulfillment network,” and will give customers the option to opt-out of plastic bags for online orders.
Customers will have the option to choose from recyclable paper mailers, right-sizing cardboard box packaging, which Walmart says will consolidate shipping on eCommerce orders and reduce mileage and delivery times.
Right-size packaging is an approach Walmart is taking advantage of that helps create a package custom fitted to a customer’s order, eliminating any unused space in the box. The technology will reduce the need for filler by 60% while reducing waste caused by oversized boxes by as much as 26%, making a “better unboxing experience for customers.”
Shoppers will also be able to request for multiple items to be consolidated into fewer boxes, which is expected to reduce waste and the number of shipments.
“Moving forward, nearly all orders shipped in plastic mailers from fulfillment centers, stores and marketplace items shipped with Walmart Fulfillment Services, will arrive in recyclable paper bag mailers,” the company said. “This transition is expected to eliminate 65 million plastic bag mailers or more than 2,000 tons of plastic from circulation in the U.S. by the end of the current fiscal year.”
The big-box chain says that early testing of this measure showed “promising adoption rates” in its goal to eliminate millions of plastic bags each year.
AI technology will also be used to identify when an item bought online can be fulfilled from a store rather than a fulfillment center, which is also expected to reduce the number of miles driven and boxes used for shipping.
Walmart expects to put the plan into effect at every store across the nation by the end of 2023. | 2023-06-02T01:56:53+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/paper-or-plastic-major-change-will-affect-all-online-walmart-orders/ |
What do we know about the new omicron mutant?
It’s a descendent of the earlier super-contagious “stealth omicron” and has quickly gained ground in the United States.
BA.2.12.1 was responsible for 29% of new COVID-19 infections nationally last week, according to data reported Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it caused 58% of reported infections in the New York region.
The variant has been detected in at least 13 other countries, but the U.S. has the highest levels of it so far. Scientists say it spreads even faster than stealth omicron.
Cases are rising in places with increasing levels of the BA.2.12.1 variant, such as central New York, suggesting something about it is causing it to out-compete others, says Eli Rosenberg of New York state’s health department.
It appears a similar pattern will likely play out nationally, says Kirsten St. George, director of virology at New York state’s Wadsworth Center Laboratory.
Scientists are trying to figure out other aspects of BA.2.12.1, including whether vaccines are as effective against it as previous variants.
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Can your pet get COVID-19? | 2022-04-26T17:55:59+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/what-do-we-know-about-the-new-omicron-mutant/ |
Jazz has long been a staple of European television programming. American musicians on tour frequently turn up on the tube, caught live or in a studio. That's partly because such shows are relatively cheap to produce, and because jazz makes for good cultural programming.
On two energetic sets with Art Taylor on drums, you can watch amazing tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin do two things he loved: playing at a crazy fast tempo, and then quoting a nursery rhyme as if it's all child's play. Griffin was on a festival stage in Provence at the time, wearing a stylish paisley sorta-dashiki — stylish for 1971. It's in a new box set in the Jazz Icons series: six DVDs shot for French TV between 1959 and '73, mostly in black and white. The John Coltrane and Art Blakey volumes are kinescopes: filmed images taken from video monitors. The rest were transferred directly from video.
John Coltrane headlines the new Jazz Icons DVD release, with a 1965 appearance by his classic quartet on the Riviera. If it doesn't seem so explosive, that's partly because Coltrane didn't move much when he played, no matter how passionate the music, and because his mid-'60s activities are so extensively documented. But you do get abridged live versions of music from Coltrane's then-recent albums A Love Supreme and Ascension.
For visual thrills, nothing in the new batch beats Rahsaan Roland Kirk's 1972 museum gig. It's fascinating to see the logistics of his playing several horns at the same time. He'll blow three saxes or two flutes at once, or play recorder with his nose and panpipes with his mouth. He'll finger tenor sax with one hand while clamping hi-hat cymbals with the other, or play two saxes while circular breathing so he doesn't have to come up for air. He can sound a little wheezy, like a bagpipe running down. But Kirk gets some wonderful frictive sounds, all the spectacle aside.
Some jazz people still detest the 1970s, when electric instruments became common and established stars began or kept on getting funky. But even skeptics might want to look at trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's 1973 French concert, with George Cables on electric piano and a little boogaloo in the beat. This tough quintet is a perfect setting for the trumpeter's swagger. You have to keep reminding yourself that this stuff was supposed to be destroying jazz.
The new Jazz Icons DVDs also include Art Blakey in 1959 with young lions Lee Morgan on trumpet and Wayne Shorter on saxophone, and Thelonious Monk playing a rare solo piano gig in 1969. Those two are notable not just for the music, but for bonus interview segments shot for French TV. The raw footage of Monk's interview is excruciatingly priceless: The pianist is in a cooperative mood, but the host keeps interrupting him, making him repeat his answers over and over, until he tells his interrogator exactly what he wants to hear; it's a mini Samuel Beckett play. It's always great to see Monk at work, with his idiosyncratic hands-low-to-the-keyboard attack — even if the camera is always pointed elsewhere when he miraculously bends notes on piano, just when you want to study his fingers. Eh, that's a quibble. There's plenty of good music in the new Jazz Icons box — good music to see and hear.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | 2022-08-27T19:11:30+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/2011-12-06/thelonious-monk-and-more-jazz-icons-on-screen |
BEIJING (AP) — China says it will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to its newly completed orbiting space station.
Long a source of national pride and symbol of technological advancement, the Chinese space program is taking on a new diplomatic and political role, much in the way the United States and former Soviet Union leveraged theirs.
Multiple countries have asked for rides to the Tiangong station, program official Chen Shanguang said in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV that aired Saturday.
“We will soon begin to select candidates from those nations for joint flights to our space station, and they will be able to work with our astronauts to carry out scientific tasks in space,” Chen, deputy chief planner of China’s manned space programs, said in the interview that was republished late Monday by the official China Daily newspaper.
Candidates will undergo an initial selection process before being brought to China for intensive training on how to operate China’s Shenzhou spaceships and live and work aboard the station, Chen said.
“We also hope that the foreign candidates can gain some knowledge about Chinese culture because they will be onboard a Chinese space station,” he said.
Chen did not say whether proficiency in Chinese would be required, although experts interviewed by China Daily said they expected China’s national tongue to be the working language aboard the station.
China completed Tiangong in November with the addition of the third of three modules, centered on the Tianhe living and command module.
China built its own station after it was excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to U.S. objections over the Chinese space programs’ intimate ties to the People’s Liberation Army, the military wing of the ruling Communist Party.
While NASA is barred by law from most interactions with the Chinese program, Beijing has cooperated with the European Space Agency and individual nations on space projects.
However, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher said in January that the International Space Station was the agency’s priority and “we have neither the budgetary nor political greenlight or intention to engage in a second space station — that is, participating in the Chinese Space Station.”
At about 66 tons, Tiangong is a fraction of the size of the 465-ton ISS. It can accommodate up to six astronauts, though only three are on board for each six-month mission.
With a lifespan of 10 to 15 years, Tiangong could one day be the only space station still up and running if the ISS retires around the end of the decade as expected.
China in 2003 became the third government to send an astronaut into orbit on its own after the former Soviet Union and the United States. The country has also chalked up uncrewed mission successes: Its Yutu-2 rover was the first to explore the little-known far side of the moon; its Chang’e 5 probe returned lunar rocks to Earth in December 2020 for the first time since the 1970s; and another Chinese rover is searching for evidence of life on Mars.
An eventual crewed mission to the moon is also under consideration. | 2023-02-28T12:43:13+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/china-says-will-train-foreign-astronauts-for-space-station/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Merck sues federal government, calling plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices ‘extortion’
(AP) - Merck is suing the federal government over a plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices, calling the program a sham equivalent to extortion.
The drugmaker is seeking to halt the program, which was laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act and is expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars in the coming years.
Merck said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the program does not involve genuine negotiation. Instead, it said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selects drugs to be included and then dictates the price, threatening drugmakers with “a ruinous daily excise tax” if they decline to agree.
“It is tantamount to extortion,” the drugmaker said in the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The Rahway, New Jersey-based drugmaker added that it expects its diabetes treatment Januvia to be part of “the IRA’s scheme” starting later this year.
Representatives of the federal agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Merck said in the complaint that the plan laid out in the IRA suggests that federal officials will sit down with drugmakers and negotiate voluntary price agreements.
But the drugmaker said the program doesn’t involve actual negotiations or agreements. It said HHS picks the drugs to be included and then leans on the drugmakers to provide steep discounts under the tax threat.
Merck says the program violates the U.S. Constitution in a couple ways. They include the Fifth Amendment’s requirement that the government pays “‘just compensation’ if it takes ‘property’ for public use,” according to the complaint.
The drugmaker noted that Congress could have simply allowed HHS to state a maximum price it would pay for a drug or use its leverage to negotiate, but that would have enabled drugmakers to walk away from talks.
Instead, Merck said the government uses the threat of severe penalties to requisition drugs and refuses to pay fair value, forcing drugmakers “to smile, play along, and pretend it is all part of a ‘fair’ and voluntary exchange.”
“This is political Kabuki theater,” the complaint states.
Republican lawmakers also have criticized President Joe Biden’s administration over the plan, noting that it could compel drugmakers to pull back on introducing new drugs that could be subjected to haggling.
The federal government is expected to soon release rules for negotiating drug prices and then will publish in September a list of 10 drugs that it will start price negotiations on next year.
The plan marks the first time ever that the federal government will bargain directly with drug companies over the price they charge for some of Medicare’s costliest drugs.
Negotiated prices won’t take hold until 2026.
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Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz contributed to this report.
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CINCINNATI, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co.'s (NYSE: KR) Board of Directors approved a dividend increase from $1.04 to $1.16 per year. The next quarterly dividend of 29 cents per share will be paid on September 1, 2023, to shareholders of record as of close of business on August 15, 2023.
Kroger's quarterly dividend has grown at a 13.7% compounded annual growth rate since it was reinstated in 2006. This marks the 17th consecutive year of dividend increases. The company continues to expect, subject to board approval, an increasing dividend over time.
"This dividend increase reflects the Board of Directors' confidence in our strategy of Leading with Fresh, Accelerating with Digital," said Rodney McMullen, Kroger's Chairman and CEO. "Our business continues to generate strong and consistent free cash flow and has proven to be resilient in a variety of operating environments. The strength of our balance sheet provides significant financial flexibility to continue to invest in our business to drive growth."
Capital Allocation Strategy
Kroger's capital allocation strategy is to use its free cash flow to invest in the business to drive long-term sustainable net earnings growth while also maintaining its current investment grade debt rating and returning capital to shareholders. The company actively balances the use of its free cash flow to achieve these goals.
About Kroger
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: to Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies, nearly half a million associates who serve over nine million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and 2,800 retail food stores under a variety of banner names, serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
This press release contains certain statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" about the future performance of the company. These statements are based on management's assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it. Such statements are indicated by words or phrases such as, "committed," "continue," " "expect," " and "strategy". Various uncertainties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. These include the specific risk factors identified in "Risk Factors" in our annual report on Form 10-K for our last fiscal year and any subsequent filings, as well as the following:
Kroger's ability to achieve sales, earnings, incremental FIFO operating profit, and adjusted free cash flow goals may be affected by: the risks relating to or arising from our proposed transaction with Albertsons announced in October 2022, including, among others, our ability to consummate the proposed transaction, including on the terms of the merger agreement, on the anticipated timeline, and/or with the required regulatory approvals; COVID-19 pandemic related factors, risks and challenges; labor negotiations; potential work stoppages; changes in the unemployment rate; pressures in the labor market; changes in government-funded benefit programs; changes in the types and numbers of businesses that compete with Kroger; pricing and promotional activities of existing and new competitors, including non-traditional competitors, and the aggressiveness of that competition; Kroger's response to these actions; the state of the economy, including interest rates, the current inflationary environment and future potential inflationary and/or deflationary trends and such trends in certain commodities, products and/or operating costs; the geopolitical environment including the war in Ukraine; unstable political situations and social unrest; changes in tariffs; the effect that fuel costs have on consumer spending; volatility of fuel margins; manufacturing commodity costs; supply constraints; diesel fuel costs related to Kroger's logistics operations; trends in consumer spending; the extent to which Kroger's customers exercise caution in their purchasing in response to economic conditions; the uncertainty of economic growth or recession; stock repurchases; changes in the regulatory environment in which Kroger operates; Kroger's ability to retain pharmacy sales from third party payors; consolidation in the healthcare industry, including pharmacy benefit managers; Kroger's ability to negotiate modifications to multi-employer pension plans; natural disasters or adverse weather conditions; the effect of public health crises or other significant catastrophic events; the potential costs and risks associated with potential cyber-attacks or data security breaches; the success of Kroger's future growth plans; the ability to execute our growth strategy and value creation model, including continued cost savings, growth of our alternative profit businesses, and our ability to better serve our customers and to generate customer loyalty and sustainable growth through our strategic pillars of fresh, our brands, personalization, and seamless; and the successful integration of merged companies and new partnerships. Our ability to achieve these goals may also be affected by our ability to manage the factors identified above. Our ability to execute our financial strategy may be affected by our ability to generate cash flow.
Kroger assumes no obligation to update the information contained herein unless required by applicable law. Please refer to Kroger's reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a further discussion of these risks and uncertainties.
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Republicans on Saturday picked Rudy Yakym to replace U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski on the November ballot, after Yakym won the endorsement of the late Indiana congresswoman’s husband.
Yakym will be a heavy favorite in the November election against Democrat Paul Steury, a high school science teacher from Goshen, and Libertarian William Henry. He will run both to complete Walorski’s term that ends this year and for a full two-year term. Both elections will be on the November ballot.
Yakym received the most votes Saturday from Republican precinct committee members for their party’s nomination in northern Indiana’s solidly GOP 2nd Congressional District. He won the general election ballot vacancy through the balloting process and the special election ballot vacancy via acclamation, Indiana Republican Party spokesman Luke Thomas said in an email.
Yakym, 38, is an executive with Elkhart distribution company Kem Krest and was a longtime political ally of Walorski, including working as finance director for her first winning congressional campaign in 2012.
He overcame a field of a dozen candidates, including derailing a political comeback bid by former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose 2020 reelection bid failed after he faced allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a party.
Walorski’s husband, Dean Swihart, endorsed Yakym this past week for the Republican nomination, calling him “a political outsider who has what it takes to stand up to the Pelosi-Biden agenda.”
About 500 Republican activists were eligible to vote in the caucus Saturday.
Democrats now hold a narrow 220-210 majority in the U.S. House, with Walorski’s death giving it five vacancies.
Walorski, 58, was a passenger in an SUV with two members of her congressional office staff when it crossed the centerline of a northern Indiana state highway and collided with an oncoming vehicle on Aug. 3, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said. The two staff members and the other driver were also killed.
Yakym portrayed himself as someone who would continue Walorski’s work on conservative causes.
He overcame criticism over his ties to Indiana’s Republican establishment, including work as a member of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 2016 gubernatorial transition team and with Sen. Todd Young’s 2022 campaign finance committee. Holcomb also appointed Yakym to the state Judicial Nominating Commission, which selects finalists for appointments to the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Others in the Republican field to replace Walorski included former state Rep. Christy Stutzman, the wife of former U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, and state Rep. Curt Nisly, a hardline conservative who lost his reelection campaign in the May Republican primary. | 2022-08-21T19:56:31+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/rudy-yakym-gets-gop-nod-to-replace-late-us-rep-walorski/ |
LONDON, UK — Police say the death of the gifted Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor is not being treated as suspicious.
O'Connor was found unresponsive shortly before noon Wednesday at her home in southeast London and pronounced dead at the scene, the Met Police said. They did not say how she died but said her death was not considered suspicious.
No cause of death has been released and the coroner told the BBC an autopsy will be conducted with results taking up to "several weeks."
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” the singer's family announced Wednesday in a statement reported by the BBC and RTE.
O'Connor became a superstar in her mid-20s and was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music.
She was public about her mental illness, saying that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. O’Connor posted a Facebook video in 2017 from a New Jersey motel where she had been living, saying that she was staying alive for the sake of others and that if it were up to her, she’d be “gone.”
When her teenage son Shane died by suicide last year, O’Connor tweeted there was “no point living without him” and she was soon hospitalized. Her final tweet, sent July 17, read: “For all mothers of Suicided children,” and linked to a Tibetan compassion mantra.
Recognizable by her shaved head and with a multi-octave mezzo soprano of extraordinary emotional range, O’Connor began her career singing on the streets of Dublin and soon rose to international fame.
She was a star from her 1987 debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” and became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a seething, shattering performance that topped charts from Europe to Australia and was heightened by a promotional video featuring the gray-eyed O’Connor in intense close-up.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. The U.S. suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. | 2023-07-27T14:43:52+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/sinead-o-connor-death-police-statement/507-ea5b80a6-0831-4c6c-a681-34f13603bdb5 |
Christian Arroyo Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Rangers - July 4
Published: Jul. 4, 2023 at 12:30 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Boston Red Sox, including Christian Arroyo (hitting .243 in his past 10 games, with two doubles, a home run, a walk and five RBI), battle starter Dane Dunning and the Texas Rangers at Fenway Park, Tuesday at 1:35 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his previous game (1-for-4) against the Blue Jays.
Christian Arroyo Game Info & Props vs. the Rangers
- Game Day: Tuesday, July 4, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Fenway Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rangers Starter: Dane Dunning
- TV Channel: NESN
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +155)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +130)
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Christian Arroyo At The Plate
- Arroyo is hitting .234 with 11 doubles, three home runs and six walks.
- In 48.9% of his games this season (22 of 45), Arroyo has picked up at least one hit, and in eight of those games (17.8%) he recorded more than one.
- Looking at the 45 games he has played this season, he's hit a long ball in three of them (6.7%), and in 1.9% of his trips to the plate.
- Arroyo has driven home a run in 11 games this year (24.4%), including more than one RBI in 11.1% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on one occasion..
- He has scored in 16 of 45 games this year, and more than once 3 times.
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Rangers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Rangers pitching staff ranks 24th in the league.
- The Rangers have a 3.93 team ERA that ranks eighth among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Rangers surrender the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (90 total, 1.1 per game).
- The Rangers will send Dunning (7-1) out to make his 11th start of the season. He is 7-1 with a 2.80 ERA and 51 strikeouts through 80 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Thursday, the righty threw 8 2/3 innings against the Detroit Tigers, giving up two earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- The 28-year-old has amassed an ERA of 2.80, with 5.7 strikeouts per nine innings, in 18 games this season. Opponents are hitting .228 against him.
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From Boise to Bhutan: Here are the top travel destinations of 2023
Lonely Planet’s “Best in Travel 2023” features 30 destinations that are sorted by 5 of the best types of experiences you can have there: eating, journeys, connecting, learning and unwinding.
Lonely Planet released their "Best in Travel 2023," which provides a diverse range of destinations to sate any traveler’s sense of wanderlust.
From Boise to Bhutan, the list includes 30 destinations around the world, and each location comes with curated itineraries shaped by expert local perspectives.
TOP 10 TRAVEL MUST-HAVES, ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS
"We really try to think about this list as a range of destinations to consider, places that you may not have thought of for reasons you might not have considered, but really told through the voice of local people and local expertise who call the places home," said Nitya Chambers, senior VP and spokesperson of Lonely Planet.
For example, a week-long itinerary for a trip to Alaska weaves together the landscapes and the local indigenous culture, according to Chambers.
For people considering where to travel in the new year, Chambers recommends asking yourself one important question: What are the things that your heart will not rest until you see them and experience them?
"There's a sense of really looking deep into yourself to understand the things that you really want to see – that you know are going to restore you, that you know are going to give you a greater sense of connection and appreciation to the life that you live every day – that you can take something from that experience back with you that gives you a sense of peace," she said.
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To help whittle down the infinite litany of experiences in the world, Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2023 has sorted its top 30 destinations by 5 types of experiences that would be most meaningful for travelers: eating, journeys, unwinding, connecting and learning.
Eat
This category is for the foodies. It features destinations that offer a wide range of activities centered on culinary exploration.
One of the destinations is Lima, the capital of Peru, where travelers can experience the culinary offerings of chef Ricardo Martins.
- Lima, Peru
- Umbria, Italy
- Fukuoka, Japan
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- South Africa
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Journey
Travelers can experience intrepid journeys – be they by car, train or hiking trails – by visiting the countries on this list.
For example, Bhutan offers a unique perspective of the countryside by way of a 250-mile footpath that was historically used as a pilgrimage route.
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Bhutan
- Parques Nacionales Naturales Colombia
- Istanbul to Sofia Train
- Western Australia
- Zambia
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Unwind
These destinations are where you will relax and rebalance, according to Lonely Planet.
Travelers can help find their center in Jordan, where they can learn about the country's history from local expert Tania George.
- Dominica
- Halkidiki, Greece
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Malta
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Connect
Immerse yourself in the local culture and community by checking out the destinations in the "Connect" category.
One of those destination is Boise, Idaho, a community which Chambers says has grown but still retains its small town feel.
- Accra, Ghana
- Albania
- Sydney, Australia
- Guyana
- Boise, USA
- Alaska, USA
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Learn
If visiting museums, historical landmarks and ancient sites is how you most enjoy experiencing new places, then these destinations may be just for you.
Dresden in eastern Germany, for example, had many of its iconic, 18th-century buildings destroyed during World War II; today, the city has been rebuilt and shines in tremendous splendor.
- New Mexico, USA
- El Salvador
- Dresden, Germany
- Marseille, France
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Southern Scotland | 2022-12-31T15:23:41+00:00 | foxweather.com | https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/top-travel-destinations-2023-lonely-planet |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) has entered into a new commercial partnership with News Corp UK & Ireland Limited. News UK serves millions of online readers through its premium media websites, The Sun and talkSPORT.
GiG and News UK will join forces to deliver sports betting and casino content, and exclusive offers to users in the UK market. The content and exclusive offers will be featured on a special section of The Sun and talkSPORT's websites, making it easy for readers to find everything related to betting in one separate hub. The deal's key drivers are the combination of News UK's large user base and premium content, partnered with GiG's unique technology and specialised iGaming marketing knowledge.
GiG expects to go live on The Sun and talkSPORT's websites shortly, to take advantage of the remaining period of the FIFA World Cup.
Tim Reynolds, Director of Betting & Gaming at The Sun, said: "The partnership and new betting hub adds to The Sun's growing digital portfolio, and bolsters our suite of betting products. The collaboration with GiG will increase our content output and support The Sun in continually delivering excellent results for our bookmaker partners."
Gareth Williams, Director of Betting & Gaming at talkSPORT, added: "We are delighted to be partnering with GiG to help grow our iGaming affiliate business. GiG's expertise combined with talkSPORT's wall-to-wall sports coverage is a compelling proposition."
Jonas Warrer, Chief Marketing Officer at GiG, added, "A collaboration of this magnitude will allow us to provide added value to our partners in the sports betting and casino sphere, reaching new heights while showcasing our abilities to operate at a top-tier level."
For more information please contact:
Jonas Warrer, Chief Marketing Officer,
Gaming Innovation Group
jonas.warrer@gig.com /
+45 30788450
Libby Darcy, External Communications Manager,
News UK
libby.darcy@news.co.uk /
+442077821010
About Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)
Gaming Innovation Group is a leading iGaming technology company, providing solutions, products and services to iGaming Operators. Founded in 2012, Gaming Innovation Group's vision is 'To be the industry-leading platform, sportsbook and media provider delivering world-class solutions to our iGaming partners and their customers. GiG's mission is to drive sustainable growth and profitability of our partners through product innovation, scalable technology and quality of service. Gaming Innovation Group operates out of Malta and is dual-listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GIG and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker symbol GIGSEK. www.gig.com
About News UK
One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp. News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV)
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