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MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia Monday, killing 13 people, including seven children, and wounding 21 others.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said the shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. It identified the wounded as 14 children and seven adults.
The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the gunman shot himself.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the shooting as “a terrorist act” and said that President Vladimir Putin has given all the necessary orders to the relevant authorities.
“President Putin deeply mourns deaths of people and children in the school, where a terrorist act took place,” Peskov told reporters Monday.
The school educates children between grades 1 and 11. It has been evacuated and the area around it has been cordoned off, the governor said.
The Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the same school. It said in a statement that Kazantsev wore a black t-shirt bearing “Nazi symbols.” No details about his motives have been released.
Russia’s National Guard said Kazantsev used two non-lethal handguns adapted to fire real bullets.
A criminal probe into the incident has been launched on charges of multiple murder and illegal possession of firearms.
Izhevsk, a city of 640,000, is located west of the Ural mountains in central Russia. | 2022-09-26T12:40:16+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/death-toll-in-school-shooting-in-russia-rises-to-13-including-7-children/ |
Current President Joe Biden announced this morning via Twitter that he will be running for reelection in 2024.
You can watch his announcement video by clicking the link above.
If you want the cliff notes, here is the quote to focus on. “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America. And we still are. The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer,” he said, adding, “This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I’m running for re-election.”
He is running on the idea that, “MAGA extremists are lining up.” He is telling people that they are lining up to take their rights away.
“Cutting Social Security that you’ve paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy. Dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books, and telling people who they can love. All while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote,” he said.
President Joe Biden is going to try and capitalize on democrats’ fears of Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters.
This election is going to be ugly. Tony Katz has more on Joe Biden’s announcement. Click the link below to hear his thoughts. | 2023-04-25T15:52:56+00:00 | wibc.com | https://wibc.com/150042/joe-biden-is-running-for-reelection/ |
Evening Also Celebrates the Top Pop Songs, Songwriters and Music Publishers on
Tuesday, May 9th in Beverly Hills, CA
NEW YORK, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) is excited to announce that global superstar Khalid will be honored with the BMI Champion Award at the 71st Annual BMI Pop Awards. The multiple platinum-selling recording artist and songwriter will be celebrated for his exceptional artistry and philanthropic efforts which have touched the lives of many. BMI's Pop Song of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Publisher of the Year and BMI's top 50 most-performed pop songs in the U.S. of the previous year will also be named. The private event, hosted by BMI President and CEO Mike O'Neill and Vice President Worldwide Creative Barbara Cane, will be held on Tuesday, May 9th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.
"Khalid exemplifies the true spirit of a Champion as one who believes, one who does and one who generously gives back," said Cane. "In addition to recognizing him for his many creative accomplishments, we're honoring Khalid for his dedication to charitable causes, community, education, and his commitment to supporting the next generation of songwriters and music makers. We're looking forward to celebrating our BMI family of award-winning songwriters and publishers with a fantastic night of music."
Khalid, who was named one of Time's Most Influential People of 2019, has taken the world by storm since his first single "Location" exploded onto the charts in 2017, right before his high school graduation. The massive hit from his 4x platinum debut album American Teen went on to be certified diamond by the RIAA in 2022. In 2019, Khalid released his sophomore LP Free Spirit, with the lead single "Talk" becoming Khalid's fifth top 10 hit and the highest-charting single as a solo artist in the US, peaking at number three on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
His music has been streamed worldwide more than 30 billion times across all digital platforms and he's won many accolades and awards over his career. Khalid has been nominated for seven GRAMMY Awards and has won six Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, a Teen Choice Award, an MTV Video Music Award, and an MTV Woody Award. Khalid has also previously received 20 BMI Awards, including being named 2019 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, and his hit track "Talk" from his sophomore LP Free Spirit was named 2019 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Song of the Year.
In addition to his music, Khalid, alongside his mother, created The Great Khalid Foundation in 2020 to bridge education, innovation and music. The Foundation advocates the power of music not only to build camaraderie, but also positively impact social change for children, families and communities. The Great Khalid Foundation offers music education programs, scholarship awards, community partnerships and gift giveaways to support and nurture children and their future to dream big.
In receiving this honor, Khalid joins previous BMI Champion Award recipients including producer, artist, songwriter and DJ Mark Ronson, GRAMMY Award-winning singer/songwriter/rapper Residente, producer/engineer Sebastian Krys, Country superstar Keith Urban and singer/songwriter and activist Lee Thomas Miller, who were honored for their commitment and efforts supporting the next generation of songwriters and music makers.
For more information on the BMI Pop Awards, visit www.bmi.com/genres/pop and use hashtag #BMIPopAwards on social.
Press credentials will be very limited due to capacity. To apply for red carpet credentials, please go to www.bmi.com/press/credential/2023-bmi-pop-awards.
A post event press release, photos and video will be serviced after the event.
ABOUT BMI:
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January, 1990. As singer Sawyer Brown said, “…I was 18 and wild and free, and a wonderin’,” when we moved north from Saginaw shortly after Christmas. Fishing was relegated to bass on a local farm pond or braving the tepid, murky waters of our home river, the Tittabawassee, where I actually (gulp) ate a walleye in 1988.
That first June, my brother and I snuck through a stand of dark cedars that led to a quiet bend in a river called the Boardman, below the old Brown Bridge Pond dam. Crouching on the bank, listening, we saw our first trout repeatedly dimple the surface at an endless barrage of small insects. We were hooked.
Over the next 33 years, my love for fly fishing grew immeasurably, along with a propensity to rip waders, miss work, and lose sleep. These days, I go to the river more for catharsis than before, though fly rod and vest come along for a reason: few things satisfy like the pull of a decent trout on a favorite bamboo rod. But therein lies the problem, which many local fly fishermen are experiencing. Catching trout on flies is more difficult than it used to be, at least according to me and a handful of fellow disgruntled buddies. Curious if it’s us or the river, I started poking around. Heather Hettinger, a fisheries management biologist with the Traverse City Field Office, shed some light on the matter.
For starters, Heather, said that by and large, anecdotal comments were 50/50 among anglers, with some finding success worse and some better than a few years ago. Fish shocking surveys for population estimates at four sites — Forks, Ranch Rudolf, Brown Bridge, and Shumsky — offered a more in-depth look.
While data from Forks wasn’t plentiful, they have “seen a significant increase in brook trout, while brown trout have stayed the same. Reverse but similar thing at Shumsky — similar numbers and sizes of brook trout, but far more (and a little larger) browns.” Ranch Rudolph is a three years on, three years off survey, with the next sampling beginning in 2023. But the data from the last three-year sampling shows brook trout down somewhat but browns up.
The Brown Bridge station has provided the longest running set of data because of continued monitoring due to the removal of the dam in 2012. Anyone who fishes that area of the Boardman is well aware of the old dam and pond. Its silt offered excellent habitat for a variety of mayflies, specifically the larger Hexagenia, which has since nearly vanished in that area. But Heather noted that post-dam data showed brookies and browns really evened out in the new stretch when it cooled, becoming “much better thermally for the brook trout, and they are utilizing it far more than then they did prior to 2012.”
The concept of “fly” fishing involves mimicking insects, baitfish, or other food that trout feed on with natural and artificial materials, so we’re always looking up (and down, subsurface in some cases), to see what’s going on. There’s been a change in insect activity, or at least in surface activity of rising trout, which in the areas I fish, has become nearly non-existent, especially for anything over about seven inches. While Heather’s job doesn’t cover macroinvertebrate work, she did comment on a trending problem, still in its early stages, of the effects of didymo, commonly called “rock snot,” on the Boardman.
“Didymo is a bit of a mystery to us yet — it thrives in low nutrient, cold water systems.” She added that it comes and goes, too. “You may fish a spot in May and not see it, return to that spot in early July only to find it covered in didymo, then come back again in August to find it gone or in very low levels.” It’s a tiny algae that occurs in thick mats and “can displace aquatic invertebrates easily,” so by all accounts, it’s not helping.
Dusting off my old Fisheries and Wildlife degree, it seems like a good shot of nutrients by allowing a few historic migratory species of the Boardman, such as white and longnose suckers, to pass upstream once again would certainly help with the didymo problem, which in turn could only help insect activity. But that’s a topic for another conversation from an old biologist who wants to catch more fish.
I’ll close by raining on my little fly fishing pity party with a poignant conversation with a friend whose name rhymes with Richard, offering the other side of the conversation. Richard, for starters, ain’t a fly guy. He wants to catch fish, and it’s bait, lures, or bust. Though some of his friends fly fish, he’s just being realistic, something fly fishermen can get their nose out of whack about even though the words are, as the present generation says, “facts.”
Richard has lived on the Boardman and fished its waters since 2007, and seen the changes, especially after the dam removal. His claims that there are just as many fish in the river as before might be met with skepticism by some of us devotees, but the proof is in the pudding, and he has experienced no change in numbers, size, or quality of trout through the years. He chuckles when seeing fly fishermen doing the same things at the same times on the same days and expecting different results. Plain and simple, he admits that “fly fishing is hard!” And to that, I can attest. Not a purist, I just prefer the art of fly fishing with a hand-made rod, using flies tied by my brother and a couple of good buddies with materials gathered from various critters we’ve shot through the hunting season. But if you held a gun to my head and asked me what I’d use to survive, it’d be bait and lures every time.
His advice to a stubborn fly fisherman who doesn’t want to throw a nightcrawler or shiny spinner is to “change tactics and change times,” meaning that what you used to be able to do might not be working now, so adapt. Duh.
Any good scientific test requires no bias. I am searching for answers to corroborate why I think Boardman River trout are tougher to catch on flies than they used to, but if shocking surveys and angler reports reveal that the fishery is doing better than expected, than perhaps something else is going on. Trout-rising activity has diminished, something that Heather, Richard, and everyone else I’ve spoken with has agreed to, so that’s confusing. But maybe things are better than they seem. I guess I’ll just have to conduct more field research … the sacrifices I make for science. | 2023-06-08T18:38:30+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/go/christopher-smith-fly-fishing-the-boardman-is-tough/article_b4cd110c-03ea-11ee-a13d-7f554b42b3bb.html |
(Motor Authority) — The DeLorean has finally returned, but instead of a flux capacitor the reborn icon is battery-powered.
On Monday, the DeLorean Alpha5 broke cover in its production design ahead of the car’s formal online debut set for May 31. With gullwing doors, seating for four, and lots of LED lighting, the car features a few nods to the past while firmly planting itself in the electric era.
Not going back to the future
Like the DMC-12 of the late 1970s, the Alpha5 was penned by Italdesign. However, it’s not a throwback or typical reimagination of a cult classic, and the body is not made of stainless steel. The clean-sheet design features horizontal LED headlights and taillights, a fan-like wheel design, massive gullwing doors, gullwing outlines in the lower front grille and rear valence, a louver-like design on the rear window, and the world DeLorean on the left side of the rear bumper, but the nods to the past seem to stop there.DeLorean Alpha5
The cabin appears to be completely modern with an almost Porsche Taycan-like design. A digital gauge cluster and floating touchscreen infotainment system grab the eyes, and the climate controls are set low behind the touchscreen infotainment system. Based on photos, the four seats are upholstered in a wool-like material, possibly with some leather portions. The rear seats are full size, but they may lack much leg room, possibly making the car a 2+2 rather than a true four seater.
DeLorean Alpha5
This baby is electric
Initial specs revealed align with what DeLorean Motor Company CEO Joost DeVries told Motor Authority in March.
The Alpha5’s battery pack is larger 100 kWh and can fast charge at a rate of about 150 kw. DeLorean says the range will exceed 300 miles thanks in part to an estimated 0.23 coefficient of drag.
DeLorean hasn’t talked about the Alpha5’s motors yet, but Chief Marketing Officer Troy Beetz told MA “You could assume that with most EV sports cars, the all-wheel drive would be a must as would a flat floor battery.” We take that to mean there will be a motor up front and one in the back.
DeLorean said the Alpha5 has an estimated top speed of 155 mph, sprints from 0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds, and hits 88 mph in 4.4 seconds. Any speculation that it travels back in time at that speed is purely conjecture.
Beetz told MA the new DeLorean will “be a driver’s car, bringing back the joy of driving.” De Vries followed with, “in other words, it’s not an iPad on wheels.”
DeLorean Alpha5
The original DeLorean DMC-12 was 168.0 inches long and 78.3-inches wide, with a 95.0-inch wheelbase. The Alpha5 is larger in every way, at 196.7-inches long, 80.5-inches wide, and a 90.6-inch wheelbase.
DeVries told MA the reborn DeLorean will be based on a new chassis structure with a carbon-fiber tub.
The Alpha5 will make its public debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d ‘Elegance Award ramp on Aug. 18 and appear on the Concept Lawn during Monterey Car Week on Aug. 21.
DeLorean Alpha5
More to come
DeVries told MA DeLorean can’t survive as a company with just a coupe as it’s a niche market. Other models are set to augment the Alpha5. Quietly placed on the Alpha5 microsite are the graphics for an Alpha, Alpha2, and Alpha3. Curiously absent is an Alpha4. No information on these other models has been shared or teased, but DeVries told MA these other vehicles will represent larger segments in the marketplace and each will feature its own platform. | 2022-08-20T15:03:14+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/automotive/delorean-alpha5-reimagines-icon-for-electric-era-hits-88-mph-in-4-4-seconds/ |
Toddler gets cake pan stuck on her head
LEWISTOWN, Pa. (WGAL) - Firefighters in Pennsylvania freed a 2-year-old girl after she got her head stuck in an angel food cake pan she was playing with.
Mother Erin Meixel called 911 Monday after her 2-year-old daughter, Quinnley, got her head stuck in an angel food cake pan with its middle section removed. The toddler had been playing with the pan.
“She wore it kind of like a shawl around her shoulders until the firemen got there. She was a trooper. She was still able to eat and drink while she had this tin around her,” Meixel said.
Firefighters used tin snips to cut the pan in two places, allowing them to get Quinnley’s head out.
The toddler is just fine, and her mom is thanking firefighters for doing such a great job.
Meixel joked this kind of thing runs in the family, as she got her legs stuck in a plastic chair when she was a child.
Copyright 2023 WGAL via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-08T10:00:52+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/02/08/toddler-gets-cake-pan-stuck-her-head/ |
Judge to weigh whether Trump’s New York criminal case should be moved to federal court
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to move his criminal case in New York out of the state court, where he was indicted, to a federal court where he could potentially try to get the case dismissed.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will listen to the afternoon arguments, though he isn’t expected to immediately rule.
Trump’s lawyers sought to move the case to Manhattan federal court soon after Trump pleaded not guilty in April to charges that he falsified his company’s business records to hide hush money payouts aimed at burying allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
While requests to move criminal cases from state to federal court are rarely granted, the prosecution of Trump is unprecedented.
The Republican’s lawyers say the charges, while related to his private company’s records, involve things he did while he was president. U.S. law allows criminal prosecutions to be removed from state court if they involve actions taken by federal government officials as part of their official duties.
Trump is alleged to have falsified records to cover up payments made in 2017 to his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to compensate him for orchestrating payouts in 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Trump has denied having had affairs with either woman.
Trump’s lawyers have said those payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses and not part of any cover-up.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which brought the case, has argued that nothing about the payoffs to either Cohen or the women involved Trump’s official duties as president.
If a judge agrees to move the case to federal court, Trump’s lawyers could then try to get the case dismissed on the grounds that federal officials are immune from criminal prosecution over actions they take as part of their official job duties.
Moving the case to federal court would also mean that jurors would potentially be drawn not only from Manhattan, where Trump is wildly unpopular, but also a handful of suburban counties north of the city where he has more political support.
In state court, a criminal trial was set for March 25 in the thick of the primary season before next year’s November presidential election.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg pursued the case after Trump left office. Trump is the first former president ever charged with a crime.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-27T10:44:16+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2023/06/27/judge-weigh-whether-trumps-new-york-criminal-case-should-be-moved-federal-court/ |
When Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News over the lies the conservative cable network had broadcast in 2020 about the election tech company, the enormous $1.6 billion damage claim jumped out.
The trial begins next week in Delaware and two of the biggest questions facing the jurors will be whether Fox and its executives are liable for broadcasting the lies and, if so, whether $1.6 billion is a remotely realistic amount to ask for.
Denver-based Dominion said that it went to herculean efforts to make Fox News aware of both the falseness of what was being said on air and the damage it did to Dominion.
"The evidence will show that Dominion was a valuable, rapidly growing business that was executing on its plan to expand prior to the time that Fox began endorsing baseless lies about Dominion voting machines," said a Dominion spokesperson in a statement. "Following Fox's defamatory statements, Dominion's business suffered enormously, and its claim for compensatory damages is based on industry-standard valuation metrics and conservative methodologies. We look forward to proving this aspect of our case at trial."
The company says its employees and offices have faced years of violent threats due to baseless conspiracy theories that Dominion's equipment changed votes for then-President Donald Trump to his opponent, Joe Biden in 2020.
Fox's legal filings have pushed back against Dominion's damage claims, arguing "that figure has no connection to Dominion's financial value as a company." A 2018 estimate by the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania put the privately-held company's annual revenues at about $100 million.
Damages often 'can't be proven with mathematical precision'
If the jury finds Fox liable in the case, the jury can award compensatory damages for actual losses suffered by Dominion - including reputational harm and loss of value to the privately-held company. (The jury could also award Dominion punitive damages to punish Fox for its behavior.)
Dominion will also have to show the comments were made with "actual malice." Under that standard, Dominion's attorneys will have to convince a jury that Fox either knowingly broadcasting something false and damaging to the election tech firm's reputation - or willfully disregarded facts it should have known disproving those statements.
"You're talking about economic damages and economic disturbance, and so emotional feelings, hurt feelings, emotional damages, those kinds of things typically are not going to enter into the calculation," said Len Niehoff, a professor at the University of Michigan 's law school.
A report commissioned by Dominion and filed with the court laid out about a billion dollars worth of damages the company says it has experienced. Dominion says it has lost $16 million in profits, more than $70 million in potential business, $14 million in legal, security and other expenses and more than $900 million in value due to the conspiracy theories tied to the 2020 election.
But Niehoff says making the case for monetary damages can be challenging because of the complexity in connecting the dots between a business loss and why the loss happened.
"These are things that very often can't be proven with mathematical precision. It can be very hard to show that people who didn't do business with you didn't do it for this reason as opposed to for some other reason," he said.
For Dominion that means demonstrating that state and local governments aren't using its equipment specifically because of lies and conspiracy theories and not other business factors.
A mixed picture for the impact on Dominion
The company is sure to point to the recent actions by Shasta County's Board of Supervisors in northern California, which recently cited baseless conspiracy theories in canceling its contract with Dominion.
Shasta County supervisor Patrick Henry Jones, who brought forward the motion to cancel the contract, said he researched Dominion's machines and said he couldn't rely on the mainstream media for information about their accuracy.
"When anyone comes forward and says there is no election fraud, the mainstream media supports those claims."
Jones said trust in the company "doesn't exist within Shasta County."
In an interview with NPR, Joanna Francescut, the assistant county clerk who runs the Shasta county elections office, said many voters in the rural and heavily pro-Trump county easily accepted the lies about Dominion. "After they realized, you know, Trump lost, it was blamed on the voting system."
Dominion's legal filings lay out multiple instances in which it says its contracts across the country were canceled or not renewed that it blames on the lies that circulated after the 2020 election.
Still, it's unclear whether what's happening in places like Shasta is the tip of the iceberg for Dominion or an outlier.
According to an analysis provided to NPR by the election security group, Verified Voting, Dominion has actually seen a net increase in jurisdictions using Dominion equipment since 2020. The nonprofit monitors election equipment contracts around the country.
For example in 2020, 1,161 jurisdictions used Dominion election day tabulation equipment. Verified Voting's analysis says 1,861 jurisdictions will use Dominion equipment in 2024. That said, there's been a net loss in the total number of registered voters who will vote with Dominion's machines in upcoming elections.
"So I think what's notable is that you can have many jurisdictions, some of which are quite small," said Verified Voting CEO Pamela Smith about the discrepancy.
She said it's not necessarily surprising that jurisdictions have stayed with the company despite the false claims.
"Most jurisdictions don't change their voting systems like every couple of years, right? They change them 10 years, 15 years." She said a lot of that is due to the huge cost and administrative challenges of switching election equipment vendors.
But she said it is very difficult to predict what could happen to Dominion's business years into the future, for instance if a jurisdiction shuts Dominion out of the bidding process.
"Where previously they had an okay relationship, or a state might say, 'well, we're gonna go with this brand and then find out, oh, on second thought, we're not because the pushback is really hard.' I suspect there's a lot of that and more than what actually shows on the surface," said Smith.
While an increase in business is to some degree at odds with seeking monetary damages, Dominion can still make the case that its growth has been thwarted, Niehoff said
"Dominion could have an argument that, although their business statements have gone up, it hasn't gone up as much as it would've gone up, but for the defamatory statements."
Fox says the damage claims are a money grab
For its part, Fox News calls Dominion's claims nothing more than a money grab by its private equity owners, State Street Capital Partners. It contends that its reporting is protected by the First Amendment, and Fox News was reporting on newsworthy utterances by the president of the United States and members of his team.
Fox News said in recent court filings that Dominion could not possibly suffer the damage amount it is requesting.
"Staple Street Capital Partners paid a small fraction of that amount to acquire a controlling interest in Dominion only four years ago. And even under the most optimistic projections, Staple Street has never estimated Dominion's value as a business to be anywhere near $1.6 billion."
Fox has asked the court not to award any damages to Dominion and said the claims are not based on any financial metrics, but instead on the assumption it will be completely out of business by 2031.
Dominion's damage claims assume that it "is not going to gain any new customers, not a single new customer is going to walk in the door. In addition, for the existing customers, they are not going to get any new business from existing customers after 2024," said Scott Ahmad, an attorney representing Fox News, in a recent court appearance.
Citing Dominion financial records it has received, Fox also says that 2022 was Dominion's second strongest year in terms of revenues.
Breaking up with an election vendor isn't easy
In a sign that Shasta County might be an outlier, many other conservative jurisdictions around the country are sticking with Dominion, despite voter distrust.
In rural Fremont County, Colorado, Justin Grantham recently renewed his country's contract with Dominion. Grantham is a Republican and leads the Colorado County Clerks Association. He said audits consistently show that the Dominion machines accurately count ballots, and the cost and training to switch just wouldn't be feasible.
"You're talking about learning how to use the system, learning how to program the ballots in the election, learning how to just figure out the tabulation and the software and the hardware," he said.
Grantham said training election judges and staff on new equipment would be another huge undertaking.
"You're talking massive training requirements for something that's used, oh gosh, once a year in the odd years and two to three times in the even years."
Grantham and other election professionals say the true impacts of the 2020 conspiracy theories on Dominion's business may not be known for years when current voting machine contracts come due, and if officials in conservative counties face political pressure to look elsewhere for their equipment.
Copyright 2023 CPR News | 2023-04-14T13:18:14+00:00 | kanw.com | https://www.kanw.com/npr-news/2023-04-14/the-math-behind-dominion-voting-systems-1-6-billion-lawsuit-against-fox-news |
When it comes to decorating, there is no wrong time for anything. It all comes down to personal comfort, taste and needs — ultimately what brings you joy. That being said, decorating for a holiday too early can sometimes draw unwanted glares from the neighbors.
While it’s far from time to start throwing up those Christmas lights, fall is right around the corner. That means that Halloween decor is going to start making its way onto front porches any day now. With that in mind, experts are not quite giving the green light to go ahead and set up all of the sticky spiderwebs and scary skeletons you’ve got.
“There is no right or wrong time to start decorating for Halloween,” Dayna Isom Johnson, Etsy’s trend expert and judge on NBC’s series “Making It,” told marthastewart.com. “But I personally like to bust out the cobwebs and pumpkins when the air starts to feel a little cooler and crisper.”
According to a YouGov survey of 1,500 U.S. adults, as reported by Better Homes and Gardens, only 5% of respondents said that it is acceptable to put up Halloween decorations before Labor Day. Another 16% said it is OK to put up decorations between Labor Day and Sept. 30. A total of 47% of survey takers, however, said they will not be putting up their holiday decorations until sometime between Oct. 1 and Oct. 15.
Lynn Lilly, a Michaels Maker and the founder of Craft Box Girls, told marthastewart.com that Oct. 1 is when she generally brings out the Halloween decor.
“Some people say anytime is the right time to start decorating for Halloween, but if you are like me and decorate for every holiday and season, the timing can be tricky,” Lilly said. “My rule of thumb is as soon as October 1 rolls around, I pack away the fall harvest decorations, put on my witch’s hat, stretch out the spiderwebs and start planning my annual Halloween hunt.”
For people living in hotter climates, she said to consider holding off on the pumpkin carving until later in the season.
“If you live in a warm climate like me, start your Halloween decorating with faux pumpkins and get the real pumpkins mid-month when it is a little cooler outside,” she said. “Nothing is worse than a sunburned, stinky pumpkin.” | 2022-09-26T14:05:57+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/at-home/heres-when-to-start-decorating-for-halloween-this-year-according-to-the-experts/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s top court on Friday ruled that the son of a Russian businessman close to President Vladimir Putin violated a law that bars Russians from flying drones when he flew drones over the Arctic last year.
The Supreme Court’s decision overturned a lower court’s ruling, saying said that “the flight ban for Russian citizens includes drone flights,” making it illegal for Russian companies or citizens “to land on, take off from or fly over Norwegian territory” as the Scandinavian country’s law states.
Norway, like the European Union, decided on the ban in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine.
Last year, a Norwegian district court had ruled that flying a hobby drone was not covered by the sanction regulations.
Andrey Yakunin, who holds both a Russian and a British passport and who lives in Italy, was arrested in Hammerfest, in Arctic Norway, on Oct. 17, after he had sailed around the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard and along the coast of Norway.
Yakunin is the son of Russian businessman Vladimir Yakunin, a longtime acquaintance of Putin, who was placed on the U.S. State Department’s sanctions list of Russian officials and businessmen following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
While circling Svalbard, Yakunin was responsible for two drones that he owned, and which were used several times for flights over the archipelago which sits more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of the Norwegian mainland. Yakunin had been filming with the drone while mountaineering, glacier walking and sailing.
His lawyer, John Christian Elden, noted that two of five Supreme Court judges had disagreed and didn’t decide whether drones had to be considered aircraft.
“That says something about how difficult this question is. Can one reasonably expect that an ordinary tourist would be able to understand this,” Elden said in a statement. He added that the Supreme Court only considered whether hobby drones are covered by the sanctions regulations and not, for instance, whether the rules apply to persons with dual citizenship.
The case now would be sent back to the district court. | 2023-06-30T12:57:40+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-putin-allys-son-who-flew-drone-over-the-arctic-violated-law-norway-supreme-court-says/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats displayed a newfound sense of optimism about the election-year political climate Wednesday after voters in traditionally conservative Kansas overwhelmingly backed a measure protecting abortion rights.
At the White House, President Joe Biden hailed the vote in Kansas as the direct result of outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision in June to repeal a woman’s constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
Republicans and the high court “don’t have a clue about the power of American women,” Biden said. “Last night in Kansas, they found out.”
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., boasted of the political winds “blowing at Democrats.”
“Last night in the American heartland, the people of Kansas sent an unmistakable message to the Republican extremists,” he said. “If it’s going to happen in Kansas, it’s going to happen in a whole lot of states.”
With three months until the November election, the optimism may be premature. But it represents a much-needed break for a party that has spent the better part of the past year reeling from crisis to crisis, including the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and rising prices for gasoline and other goods. Those developments have contributed to Biden’s low approval ratings, leaving Democrats without a unifying leader in a position to rally voters before the election, with control of Congress at stake.
The Kansas vote, however, suggests that threats to abortion rights may energize Democrats in a way few political leaders can. And it comes at a moment when the party is gaining momentum on other fronts, including a legislative package to reduce prescription drug prices, combat climate change and raise taxes on corporations.
The challenge for Democrats will be to maintain the energy for several more months and defy trends that typically trip up the party in power.
In recent history, the party controlling the White House almost always suffers deep losses in the first midterm election of a new presidency. Also, an overwhelming majority of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction amid inflation and other economic concerns.
Even with abortion-related momentum, many Democratic strategists privately expect to lose the House majority and believe the Senate is essentially a coin flip.
The day after the Kansas vote, Democratic strategists on the front lines of key midterm contests described a complicated political reality on abortion.
Abortion rights supporters surged to the polls in Kansas, where abortion was quite literally on the ballot. By a roughly 20-percentage point margin, they rejected a measure that would have changed the state constitution to allow state lawmakers to impose restrictions on abortion — or even a ban. The early August primary turnout was on par with a governor’s general election contest.
But few elections this fall will feature such clear stakes for abortion rights. Just four states — California, Michigan, Vermont and Kentucky — are expected to feature a Kansas-style abortion referendum on the November ballot, according to the pro-Democratic group EMILY’s List.
In the majority of states, Democrats must convince voters they can protect abortion access only by defeating anti-abortion Republican candidates at the state and federal level. While that is true in most cases, it’s much more complicated to run against a candidate than a single-issue ballot measure, according to Democratic pollster Molly Murphy.
“The optimist would say, when voters know that abortion is on the ballot, they are motivated to turn out,” Murphy said. “That’s the messaging challenge that we are going to face. Will voters believe that a legal right to abortion is at stake here in this country in their vote for Congress, Senate, governor, state house — all of those things — and be as motivated to show up to vote?”
“Republicans are going to do everything they can to deflect and not engage on this,” she added, noting the GOP’s heavy focus on inflation, gas prices and immigration.
Indeed, as Democrats celebrated on Wednesday, the Republican reaction to the abortion vote was decidedly muted.
The Kansas vote was “a huge disappointment for pro-life Kansans and Americans nationwide,” said Mallory Carroll, of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Republican strategist Christine Matthews warned that the Kansas vote could have “an energizing effect for abortion rights supporters.”
“Success breeds success,” she said. “It will encourage the belief that turning out and activating can make a difference and that is particularly important with younger voters and those less inclined to participate. It’s a momentum-shifter.”
Democrats have long tried without much success to energize supporters by focusing on abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision clarified the stakes as never before. Absent a new federal law, abortion rights now fall to the states, and in 12 states led by Republicans, abortion has already been banned or heavily restricted. Many more are expected to follow.
Republican strategists acknowledge that swing state candidates will have to tread carefully on the issue.
In Georgia, GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker, for example, worried some Washington Republicans by quickly declaring his opposition to abortion rights even in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother. Such a position, thought to be extreme in past years, is somewhat common among Republican candidates in 2022.
Republicans in other states have largely sought to avoid clarifying their position.
The Senate Democrats campaign arm recently established a website, GOPOnAbortion.com, to highlight Republican candidates’ outspoken opposition to abortion rights. While Democratic candidates from New York to Washington state are already running ads on abortion, the issue is expected to play a bigger role in some races than others.
Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who leads the group dedicated to protecting the Senate’s Democratic majority, predicted that abortion would likely matter most as a political issue in Senate races in Nevada, New Hampshire and Arizona — all states in which polling suggests strong support for abortion rights. Suburban women and younger voters are most likely to be motivated by the issue.
“There’s a great deal of anger,” Peters said of the backlash against the Roe reversal. “There’s an energy I haven’t seen before.”
The Kansas vote suggests that such energy could extend well beyond a handful of states.
Polling shows that relatively few Americans wanted to see Roe overturned.
More Americans disapprove than approve of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 53% to 30%, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from July conducted about three weeks after the ruling. Just over half of those surveyed said they felt angry or sad about the ruling, the poll found.
In Wisconsin, the leading Democratic Senate candidate, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, noted that the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe was the biggest fundraising day of his entire campaign.
“People are motivated and energetic in ways that I’ve never seen before,” he said in an interview. “I can only assume that that intensity will increase all the way to November.”
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Chris Megerian in Washington and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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Biden to nominate Julie Su as next US labor secretary
President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California’s labor department, was central to negotiations between labor and freight rail companies late last year, working to avert an economically debilitating strike. She also has worked to broaden employee training programs and crack down on wage theft. If confirmed by the Senate, Su would also be the first Asian-American in the Biden administration to serve in the Cabinet at the secretary level.
Biden, in a statement on Tuesday, called her a “champion for workers.”
“Julie is a tested and experienced leader, who will continue to build a stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive economy that provides Americans a fair return for their work and an equal chance to get ahead,” he said. “She helped avert a national rail shutdown, improved access to good jobs free from discrimination through my Good Jobs Initiative, and is ensuring that the jobs we create in critical sectors like semiconductor manufacturing, broadband and healthcare are good-paying, stable and accessible jobs for all.”
Su was considered to lead the department when Biden won the White House but instead became the department’s deputy. Walsh announced his intention to leave the administration earlier this month to lead the National Hockey League Players’ Association. Su will serve as the acting secretary until the Senate acts on her nomination.
Biden had been under pressure from the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and other Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates to select Su to head the department. This administration was the first in more than two decades to not have a Cabinet secretary of AAPI descent, despite its regular declarations that it was the most diverse in history. Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai are of AAPI descent but don’t lead a Cabinet department.
Su, if confirmed, would also expand the majority of women serving in the president’s Cabinet. She was confirmed by the Senate to her current role in 2021 by a 50–47 vote.
Su’s nomination drew swift support from Democrats on Capitol Hill, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer saying she would be “phenomenal” in the job.
“The president couldn’t have picked a better nominee,” he told reporters. “I’m really excited about her, and we’re going to move to consider her nomination very, very quickly.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who will preside over Su’s confirmation hearing as chair of the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee, praised the selection. Sanders had urged consideration of Sara Nelson, the president of the flight attendants union, but made clear Su had his strong support.
“I’m confident Julie Su will be an excellent Secretary of Labor,” he tweeted. “I look forward to working with her to protect workers’ rights and build the trade union movement in this country.”
In a tweet, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, praised the selection and thanked Biden for “nominating your first AAPI Cabinet Secretary!”
“I am elated that President Biden is nominating Julie Su to be our nation’s next Labor Secretary,” Chu wrote. “She’s eminently qualified to lead the Department and will successfully deliver results for our workers on Day 1.”
Her nomination also comes at a key moment for labor unions, which have been facing a decline in membership for decades. Unions gained some momentum as workers at major employers such as Amazon and Starbucks pushed to unionize. But Biden — an avowed pro-union president — had to work with Congress to impose a contract on rail workers last year to avoid a possible strike.
The Labor Department said just 10.1% of workers last year were union members. That figure has been cut nearly in half since 1983 and could fall further, as younger workers are less likely to belong to unions.
“There’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people than Julie Su,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “It’s her life’s work.”
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Associated Press writers Josh Boak, Mary Clare Jalonick and Hope Yen in Washington contributed to this report.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — As part of a campaign dubbed “Your State Sucks,” popular party game Cards Against Humanity says it is donating 100% of its profits from orders placed in 22 states to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
The game designers announced the campaign early last month following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June.
On its website, Cards Against Humanity said all of its profits from these 22 “nightmare-states” will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds, which distributes money to local groups focused on helping those who can’t afford an abortion to obtain one.
People in the same 22 states who place an order will be greeted with a message like the one seen below, which reads “****! You live in South Carolina, a theocratic hellscape where human beings are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies by threat of imprisonment.”
Under the message, buyers can either acknowledge the message or chip in an extra $5, which the company will match. There’s also a third option that states, “What!? I’m pro-life! I didn’t agree to this.”
Buyers who click that button are greeted with a second message that reads, “So you don’t want us using your money to pay for abortions? You know, sometimes people have values imposed upon them by bigger, more powerful entities, and they are forced to do things they don’t want to do, like carry an unwanted pregnancy. For example, we just added an extra $5 donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds to your cart.”
The 22 states Cards Against Humanity is donating the profits from have restricted access to abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming will also be donated.
If you don’t live in one of these states, you still have the option to make a $5 donation while making a purchase on Cards Against Humanity’s website, which the company says it will match.
Cards Against Humanity is a popular party game in which players play cards in order to make jokes, often crude and vulgar. | 2022-09-21T10:41:39+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/money-matters/cards-against-humanity-donating-profits-from-orders-in-22-states-to-abortion-fund/ |
Lamborghini on Tuesday revealed the new Urus Performante Special Edition, a visually enhanced Urus SUV inspired by the Aventador-based Essenza SCV12 track car introduced in 2020.
Just 40 examples are planned, matching the production run of the Essenza SCV12, and build slots are reserved exclusively for owners of the track car.
The special edition is based on the Urus Performante, which is the current range-topper. Performance upgrades are limited to reduced weight. While it doesn’t actually add more power than the Urus’ 657-hp stock rating, it accelerates 0.2 of a second quicker to 60 mph, needing just 3.3 seconds to achieve the feat.
The focus of the Urus Performante Special Edition was on color schemes designed to match individual examples of the Essenza SCV12. Each race car’s number is also included on the doors.
An additional touch is the exposed carbon fiber. It’s used for the hood, roof, rocker covers, side mirrors, and a trim piece on the tailgate.
Lamborghini includes a few upgrades inside as well, including more carbon fiber and dashboard and side sill plaques with an “Essenza SCV12” script and a silhouette of the track car.
Lamborghini’s Centro Stile design house and Ad Personam personalization department were responsible for the designs.
The Urus Performante Special Edition is possibly the last version of the current Urus as Lamborghini is working on an updated version that will feature a plug-in hybrid powertrain. It’s due next year and is likely to pair the Urus’ current turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 with an electric motor integrated in the transmission.
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4.4M Americans roll up sleeves for omicron-targeted boosters
(AP) - U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the count Thursday as public health experts bemoaned President Joe Biden’s recent remark that “the pandemic is over.”
The White House said more than 5 million people received the new boosters by its own estimate that accounts for reporting lags in states.
Health experts said it is too early to predict whether demand would match up with the 171 million doses of the new boosters the U.S. ordered for the fall.
“No one would go looking at our flu shot uptake at this point and be like, ‘Oh, what a disaster,’” said Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “If we start to see a large uptick in cases, I think we’re going to see a lot of people getting the (new COVID) vaccine.”
A temporary shortage of Moderna vaccine caused some pharmacies to cancel appointments while encouraging people to reschedule for a Pfizer vaccine. The issue was expected to resolve as government regulators wrapped up an inspection and cleared batches of vaccine doses for distribution.
“I do expect this to pick up in the weeks ahead,” said White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. “We’ve been thinking and talking about this as an annual vaccine like the flu vaccine. Flu vaccine season picks up in late September and early October. We’re just getting our education campaign going. So we expect to see, despite the fact that this was a strong start, we actually expect this to ramp up stronger.”
Some Americans who plan to get the shot, designed to target the most common omicron strains, said they are waiting because they either had COVID-19 recently or another booster. They are following public health advice to wait several months to get the full benefit of their existing virus-fighting antibodies.
Others are scheduling shots closer to holiday gatherings and winter months when respiratory viruses spread more easily.
Retired hospital chaplain Jeanie Murphy, 69, of Shawnee, Kansas, plans to get the new booster in a couple of weeks after she has some minor knee surgery. Interest is high among her neighbors from what she sees on the Nextdoor app.
“There’s quite a bit of discussion happening among people who are ready to make appointments,” Murphy said. “I found that encouraging. For every one naysayer there will be 10 or 12 people who jump in and say, ‘You’re crazy. You just need to go get the shot.’”
Biden later acknowledged criticism of his remark about the pandemic being over and clarified the pandemic is “not where it was.” The initial comment didn’t bother Murphy. She believes the disease has entered a steady state when “we’ll get COVID shots in the fall the same as we do flu shots.”
Experts hope she’s right, but are waiting to see what levels of infection winter brings. The summer ebb in case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths may be followed by another surge, Dowdy said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, asked Thursday by a panel of biodefense experts what still keeps him up at night, noted that half of vaccinated Americans never got an initial booster dose.
“We have a vulnerability in our population that will continue to have us in a mode of potential disruption of our social order,” Fauci said. “I think that we have to do better as a nation.”
Some Americans who got the new shots said they are excited about the idea of targeting the vaccine to the variants circulating now.
“Give me all the science you can,” said Jeff Westling, 30, an attorney in Washington, D.C., who got the new booster and a flu shot on Tuesday, one in each arm. He participates in the combat sport jujitsu, so wants to protect himself from infections that may come with close contact. “I have no issue trusting folks whose job it is to look at the evidence.”
Meanwhile, Biden’s pronouncement in a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast Sunday echoed through social media.
“We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,” Biden said while walking through the Detroit auto show. “If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing.”
By Wednesday on Facebook, when a Kansas health department posted where residents could find the new booster shots, the first commenter remarked snidely:
“But Biden says the pandemic is over.”
The president’s statement, despite his attempts to clarify it, adds to public confusion, said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington.
“People aren’t sure when is the right time to get boosted. ‘Am I eligible?’ People are often confused about what the right choice is for them, even where to search for that information,” Michaud said.
“Any time you have mixed messages, it’s detrimental to the public health effort,” Michaud said. “Having the mixed messages from the president’s remarks, makes that job that much harder.”
University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi said he’s worried the president’s pronouncement has taken on a life of its own and may stall prevention efforts.
“That soundbite is there for a while now, and it’s going to spread like wildfire. And it’s going to give the impression that ‘Oh, there’s nothing more we need to do,’” Salemi said.
“If we’re happy with 400 or 500 people dying every single day from COVID, there’s a problem with that,” Salemi said. “We can absolutely do better because most of those deaths, if not all of them, are absolutely preventable with the tools that we have.”
New York City photographer Vivienne Gucwa, 44, got the new booster Monday. She’s had COVID twice, once before vaccines were available and again in May. She was vaccinated with two Moderna shots, but never got the original boosters.
“When I saw the new booster was able to tackle omicron variant I thought, ‘I’m doing that,’” Gucwa said.
“I don’t want to deal with omicron again. I was kind of thrilled to see the boosters were updated.”
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AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard and AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed. ___
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ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are attacking a special grand jury and prosecutors who investigated him in Georgia, asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to investigate or prosecute Trump.
Lawyers Jennifer Little and Drew Findling wrote in the Monday filing that the special grand jury “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
Jeff DiSantis, a spokesperson for Willis, said the prosecutor would answer the claims in court, but declined further comment.
The filing is an effort by Trump to escape one of the multiple legal challenges he faces. Trump said Saturday that he expects his indictment and arrest within days in a New York grand jury probe into hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently offered Trump a chance to testify before the grand jury.
Trump also faces twin U.S. Justice Department criminal investigations. One, paralleling the Georgia inquiry, is examining his efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election.
A Justice Department special counsel has also been presenting evidence before a grand jury investigating Trump’s possession of hundreds of classified documents at his Florida estate.
If successful, the Georgia challenge could wipe out the entire investigation, requiring a new prosecutor who couldn’t use any of the information Willis’ team has gathered.
The Georgia filing argues that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney misinterpreted Georgia law to declare that the special purpose grand jury could run a criminal investigation with resulting stronger subpoena powers, allowing it to compel Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and out-of-state witnesses to testify.
“This erroneous decision had vast constitutional and procedurals implications, and the resulting taint invalidates the constitutionality and validity of the entire proceeding,” the lawyers wrote.
The lawyers also argue that the grand jury didn’t sufficiently protect the due process rights of witnesses, who couldn’t be forced to testify in Georgia before a regular grand jury that was considering indicting them.
Trump’s lawyers asked for another judge besides McBurney to hear their claims. The arguments about violating precedent could also signal that appeals are likely, which could bog down the Georgia proceedings after Willis said in a January hearing that decisions on whether to seek indictments were “imminent.”
On a call with reporters discussing the various legal cases involving Trump, Norm Eisen — who co-wrote a Brookings Institution report analyzing the Fulton County investigation — called the filings “invalid” and “borderline frivolous.”
“These don’t make sense,” Eisen said. “They challenge the legality of special grand juries in Georgia. … it would be like standing up at the United States Supreme Court and saying, ‘This is an illegal body.’”
The filing also claims that McBurney erred by not disqualifying Willis and her office from the entire probe when he ruled in July that Willis could not pursue charges against Burt Jones, now Georgia’s lieutenant governor. Jones, then a state senator, was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. McBurney disqualified Willis because she hosted a fundraiser for Jones’ unsuccessful Democratic opponent in the lieutenant governor’s race, creating a conflict of interest.
“The rights of President Trump, as well as others impacted by this investigation, are now subject to the prosecutorial discretion and decision-making of a prosecuting body that even the supervising judge acknowledged has an actual, disqualifying conflict,” the lawyers wrote. “This is simply untenable.”
They also faulted Willis for granting repeated news interviews, citing a list of 39 media appearances and saying her comments cast ”a shadow of bias over her office and the entire investigation.”
Trump’s lawyers similarly argued that interviews that the foreperson and other grand jurors have given should undermine the case. The Associated Press first interviewed foreperson Emily Kohrs, a story that was followed by interviews with news outlets. She said the panel recommended that numerous people be indicted, but she declined to say who. Other grand jurors who declined to be named later spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The lawyers said those interviews would taint future jury pools and “violate notions of fundamental fairness and due process,” while showing that jurors wrongly faulted witnesses for invoking their Fifth Amendment right to avoid self incrimination.
It’s ultimately up to Willis to decide whether to go to a regular grand jury to seek one or more indictments in the case. She opened the Georgia investigation in early 2021, shortly after a recording of a phone call between Trump and a top state official was made public. During that Jan. 2, 2021, phone call, Trump suggested that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to reverse his narrow loss in the state.
The special grand jury, which was seated in May 2022, heard from about 75 witnesses and considered other evidence before wrapping up its work in December. It did not have the authority to issue indictments but instead produced a report with recommendations for Willis. McBurney ordered most of that report to remain under seal.
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Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report. | 2023-03-21T14:05:37+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-lawyers-attack-georgia-grand-jury-and-prosecutor/ |
WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, May 6, 2023
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* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches,
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Northern Sierra Nevada Counties, including portions of
Interstate 80 and Highway 50.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be difficult at times.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heaviest snow expected this morning
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A former executive fired from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance made a raft of accusations against the tech giant Friday, including that it stole content from competitors like Instagram and Snapchat, and served as a “propaganda tool” for the Chinese government by suppressing or promoting content favorable to the country’s interests.
The allegations were made in a complaint Friday by Yintao Yu, the head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. operations from August 2017 to November 2018, as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this month in San Francisco Superior Court. Yu claims he was fired for disclosing “wrongful conduct” he saw at the company.
In the complaint, Yu alleges the Chinese government monitored ByteDance’s work from within its Beijing headquarters and provided guidance on advancing “core communist values.”
Yu said government officials had the ability to turn off the Chinese version of ByteDance’s apps, and maintained access to all company data, including information stored in the United States.
ByteDance did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The allegations come as TikTok – one of the most popular social media apps in the U.S. — faces heighted scrutiny in Washington and some states about whether it can keep American data safe from the Chinese government. The Biden administration has threatened to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell their stakes.
TikTok maintains it never gave U.S. user data to China’s government and wouldn’t do so if it was asked. In an effort to avoid a ban, it also wants to store U.S. user data on servers operated by the software giant Oracle.
In another attention-grabbing part of the lawsuit, Yu alleges he observed ByteDance promoting content that expressed hatred for Japan on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. At another time, he said the company demoted content that showed support for the protests in Hong Kong while promoting content that expressed criticism of the protests.
Yu said ByteDance developed software that would scrape user content from competitors’ websites without permission. He alleges the company would then repost the content on its own websites – including TikTok – to attract more engagement from users.
Yu said a fellow TikTok executive in charge of the video-sharing app’s algorithm waved off his concerns. At some point, Yu said the company modified the program, but continued to scrape data from U.S. users when they were abroad.
The former executive also alleges the company created fake users to boost its engagement metrics, including by programming them to “like” and “follow” real accounts.
Yu is seeking punitive damage, lost earnings and 220,000 ByteDance shares that had not vested by the time he was fired. | 2023-05-13T14:00:07+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/executive-fired-from-tiktoks-chinese-owner-says-beijing-had-access-to-app-data-in-termination-suit/ |
RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin missed a deadline Friday for evaluating state employees’ requests to work remotely, feeding consternation over stricter telework policies that the Republican billed as a way to boost efficiency in government.
“While we continue working through the telework requests as expeditiously as possible, we are informing you we will not have all of them returned to agencies by the June 3 date as previously anticipated,” Goettman wrote in the email, which the governor’s office provided to The Washington Post.
A former private equity executive who vowed during last year’s campaign to make government work at “the speed of business,” Youngkin has moved slowly in some areas, most notably as he assembled his Cabinet.
The governor announced a month ago that he was ending the liberal telework policies that have been in place for much of the state workforce since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, calling the move a way to make state government more customer-friendly, efficient and innovative.
Exceptions will be made for health or personal reasons, but senior administration officials must sign off. Only an agency head can approve any request to telework one day per week. A Cabinet secretary must sign off for two days per week. Three or more days a week require approval from Goettman.
Unless an exception is granted, all employees are expected to work in person by July 5. Youngkin set a May 20 deadline for workers to apply for a waiver and promised their applications would be reviewed by Friday.
Two weeks ago, eight Democrats in the General Assembly urged Youngkin to reverse the new policy, arguing in a letter that the move goes against a trend in the private sector that allows more flexibility for hybrid work schedules.
Critics seized on the missed deadline as a sign of mismanagement.
“Glenn Youngkin’s incompetence is on full display with the disaster of his telework ‘policy,’ ” the Arlington Democratic Party tweeted. “He creates unrealistic timelines and his Chief of Staff micro-manages individual telework requests. This is no way to run a government and shows the Governor doesn’t know what he is doing.”
Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said administration officials did not receive some requests in a timely manner, leading to delays in evaluating them. “We’re processing them as we get them,” she said.
In his email announcing the delay, Goettman said the administration only needs a few more days to wrap things up.
“Every effort is being made to process the requests in a timely manner and anticipate completion of this step in the process by early next week,” he wrote. “Thank you for your efforts in making a best-in-class government serving all Virginians.”
Youngkin has often accused Democrats of going overboard with pandemic restrictions, including mask mandates, extended schools closures and the suspension of walk-in services at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
But his action on remote work is in line with Virginia’s more liberal neighbors. Public employees in Maryland and D.C. have been back to in-person work for nearly a year. | 2022-06-03T21:18:24+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/03/glenn-youngkin-telework-virginia-governor-deadline/ |
BLADENSBURG, Md. (AP) — Five people leaving a cemetery after a funeral were shot and wounded Friday by someone firing into their car from a second vehicle in a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital, police said.
No arrests were immediately made, and the five victims were all taken to area hospitals as authorities pleaded for the help of passing motorists in identifying suspects from the brazen daylight attack in busy traffic.
The shooting site is near a bridge that crosses the Anacostia River in Bladensburg, about a mile (.6 kilometer) east of the Maryland border with Washington, D.C.
Bladensburg Police Chief Tyrone Collington Sr. said at an afternoon news conference that he did not know the conditions of the wounded. He said none of those in the targeted car had fired any shots.
“There was not an exchange (of gunfire) between the two vehicles. It was one vehicle that was shot at and struck multiple victims within that vehicle,” Collington said.
“At this time, I can’t confirm that it was road rage or not,” he said. “We are still working through it.”
Detectives haven’t determined a motive, and Collington said police where checking for surveillance video and other evidence while searching for anyone involved in the shooting, which happened just before 12:30 p.m.
“What I do want to say is that this is uncommon in our community,” Collington said. “This was an unnecessary, senseless act of violence. As a result, multiple people were injured.”
Collington said detectives are working to identify a suspect or suspects. He said police do not know if more than one person fired shots. He said all they know now is that a dark-colored vehicle was involved.
He urged witnesses to contact police.
Officials with the neighboring Edmonston Police Department were assisting with the investigation and said the shooting was an isolated incident and didn’t pose an ongoing threat to public safety.
Bladensburg, a town of about 9,400 people, is home to a World War I memorial known as the Peace Cross situated on a median near the bridge. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in connection with a lawsuit that the 40-foot (12-meter) cross on public land didn’t violate the Constitution’s prohibition on the government favoring one religion over others. | 2023-07-15T13:31:18+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-5-leaving-cemetery-funeral-near-nations-capital-wounded-by-gunfire-from-another-car-police-say/ |
(The Conversation) – Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds and flooding are likely to bring long-lasting power outages to large parts of Florida. The storm is the latest in a line of hurricanes and extreme heat and cold events that have knocked out power to millions of Americans in recent years for days at a time.
In many disaster- and outage-prone areas, people are starting to ask whether investing in rooftop solar and battery storage systems can keep the lights on and the air conditioner running when the power grid can’t.
When the grid goes down, most solar systems that lack a battery will also shut down. But with batteries, a home can disconnect from the grid. Each day, the sun powers the home and charges up the batteries, which provide power through the night.
Our team at Berkeley Lab explored what it would take for homes and commercial buildings to ride out long power outages, of three days or more, with solar and batteries.
How much can solar + storage do?
For a new report, we modeled a generic power outage for every county in the U.S., testing whether a rooftop solar system combined with a 10- or 30-kilowatt-hour battery could power critical loads, like refrigeration, lighting, internet service and well pumps; if it could go further and also power heating and air conditioning; or if it could even power a whole home.
To put that into perspective, the most popular battery on the market, the Tesla Powerwall, has just over 13 kWh of storage.
In general, we found that even a modest system of solar plus one battery can power critical loads in a home for days at a time, practically anywhere in the country.
But our maps show that providing backup for cooling and heat can be a challenge, though not an insurmountable one. Homes in the Southeast and Pacific Northwest often have power-hogging electric resistance heaters, exceeding the capability of solar and storage during winter outages. Homes with efficient heat pumps performed better. Summer air conditioning load can be heavy in the Southwest, making it harder to meet all cooling needs with solar and storage in a summer blackout.
Larger solar and battery systems can help, but meeting demand during outages still depends on the weather, how energy efficient the home is and other factors. For example, simple thermostat adjustments during power outages reduce heating and cooling needs and allow solar with storage to maintain backup power over longer periods.
The ability to power commercial buildings varies widely, depending on the building type. Schools and big-box retail stores, with sufficient roof space for solar relative to building power demand, fare much better than multistory, energy-intensive buildings like hospitals.
How solar would have handled 10 past disasters
We also looked at 10 real-world outage events from 2017 to 2020, including hurricanes, wildfires and storms, and modeled building performance for specific locations and real weather patterns during and after the outages.
We found that in seven of the outages, most homes would have been able to maintain critical loads plus heating and cooling using solar with 30 kWh of storage, or just over two Powerwalls.
But the weather around the outage can have a big impact, especially for hurricanes. After Hurricane Florence knocked out power in North Carolina in 2018, cloudy skies hung around for three days, dimming or even stopping solar panels’ output.
Hurricane Harvey, on the other hand, slammed the Texas coast in August 2017 but moved on to cause widespread damage elsewhere in Texas. The skies over Corpus Christi cleared even as it took a week or more to get power restored. Solar and storage would have been a big help in that case, providing virtually all power needs for a typical single-family home, once the skies cleared.
Similarly, we found solar can do well in less cloudy events, like wildfire prevention shutoffs in California, or after the 2020 derecho windstorm in Iowa.
The heat source in a home is also a key factor. In a five-to-10-day outage following an ice storm in Oklahoma in 2020, we found that solar plus a 30-kWh battery could have supplied nearly all the critical power and heat needed for homes with natural gas heaters or heat pumps. But homes with electric resistance heating would have fallen short.
In Texas, over half of homes are heated with electricity, primarily resistance heaters. Energy Star-rated heat pumps – which provide both heating and cooling – use half as much electricity per unit of heat output as electric resistance heaters and are also more efficient at cooling than the average new air conditioner. Converting older resistance heaters to new heat pumps can not only save money and reduce peak demand but also increase resilience during outages.
New forms of backup
Setting up solar and storage to provide backup power in a home or building takes extra work and it costs more – just one Powerwall can run from US$12,000 to $16,500 for a full system installation, before incentives and taxes. That’s as much as a fair-sized solar system. Nevertheless, a growing number of homeowners are installing both.
Over 90% of new solar installations in Hawaii in 2021 were paired with batteries after a regulation change. Now these distributed power plants are helping power the grid as coal plants are retired.
California has over 1.5 million rooftop solar systems. A growing number of customers are retrofitting batteries on their systems, or adding new solar plus storage, in part because utilities have resorted to “public safety power shutoffs” to lower the risk of wildfires sparked by power lines during dry, windy days.
And new forms of backup power are emerging, especially from electric cars. Ford is partnering with SunRun to combine its new F150 Lightning electric pickup truck with solar and a two-way charger that can use the truck’s battery to power a house. The standard version of the truck comes with a 98-kWh battery, the equivalent of more than seven Tesla Powerwall stationary batteries.
Critical power for critical services
A fire station in Puerto Rico offers a glimpse of what solar and storage can do. After Hurricane Maria cut power for months in 2017, over 40,000 solar systems were installed on the island, often paired with battery storage. One of those is at the fire station in the town of Guánica, which had been unable to receive emergency calls in previous outages.
When Hurricane Fiona’s wind and flooding again knocked out power to most of Puerto Rico in September 2022, the fire station was still operating.
“The solar system is working beautifully!” Sgt. Luis Saez told Canary Media the day after Fiona knocked out power. “We did not lose power all throughout the hurricane.” | 2022-09-28T20:41:13+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/weather/hurricane-ian-when-the-power-grid-goes-out-could-solar-and-batteries-power-your-home/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping Friday as a swirl of competing forces spins Wall Street, from strong profits for financial giants to worries about interest rates and the economy’s strength.
The S&P 500 was 0.6% lower in afternoon trading after giving up an early morning gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 217 points, or 0.6%, at 33,810, as of 1:24 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.9% lower.
Stocks are still on track for a weekly gain, built in part on hopes the Federal Reserve may soon end its barrage of rate hikes as inflation cools. High interest rates can stifle inflation but only by hurting the economy, raising the risk of a recession and dragging on prices for investments.
A top Fed official dampened those hopes Friday after saying inflation remains far too high and more hikes to interest rates may be needed. Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s governing board, also said that even after hikes end, rates will likely need to stay high for longer than markets expect.
After his comments, traders built bets that the Fed will raise rates at its next meeting in May, instead of taking its first pause in more than a year. Some even began betting the Fed may hike rates again in June, according to data from CME Group.
High-growth stocks tend to be among the most hurt by high rates, and several Big Tech stocks were among the heaviest weights on the S&P 500. Microsoft fell 1.8%.
Swaths of the economy have already begun slowing under the weight of higher interest rates, raising worries that a recession may be likely. A report on Friday showed U.S. shoppers cut their spending at retailers by more last month than expected. Much of that was due to falling gasoline prices, and the drop for what economists call “core retail sales” wasn’t as bad as forecast.
“The Fed’s challenge has been to cool inflation without putting the economy into a deep freeze in the process,” said Mike Loewengart, head of model portfolio construction at Morgan Stanley Global Investment Office. “The dynamic is still playing out in the markets, and we could see more choppy price action as a result.”
Potentially making things more difficult for the Fed was another report Friday that said U.S. households are girding for higher inflation. Consumers are expecting inflation over the next year of 4.6%, up from expectations for 3.6% a month earlier, according to a preliminary survey by the University of Michigan.
That could be troublesome, as the Fed has long feared entrenched expectations of high inflation could lead to a vicious cycle that keeps it high. Longer-term expectations for inflation, though, remain stable and clocked in at 2.9% for a fifth straight month, according to the survey.
All the worries helped push Treasury yields higher. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 3.52% from 3.45% late Thursday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, rose to 4.11% from 3.97%.
Helping to offset some of the worries were big gains by several of the nation’s biggest banks. They reported profits for the first three months of the year that blew past expectations.
They helped kick off the reporting season for big U.S. companies, where expectations are mostly dismal. Despite such worries, JPMorgan jumped 7.1% after its profit surged by more than half from a year earlier.
It benefited from the strains unearthed in the banking system last month that shook global markets. Those worries pushed some customers to pull cash from smaller banks and move it to bigger ones.
Citigroup rose 4.5% after it also reported stronger profit than expected. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, rose 2.7% after its earnings likewise topped forecasts.
Boeing was one of the heaviest weights on Wall Street. Its stock slid 6% after the aircraft maker said Thursday that production and delivery of a “significant number” of its 737 Max planes could be delayed because of questions about a supplier’s work on the fuselages.
Boeing said the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, used a “non-standard manufacturing process” during installation of fittings near the rear of some 737s. Boeing said the situation is not an immediate safety issue and planes already flying “can continue operating safely.”
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AP Business Writers Joe McDonald and Matt Ott contributed. | 2023-04-14T19:16:11+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/business-news/ap-business/asian-stocks-follow-wall-st-higher-as-us-inflation-cools/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norway on Wednesday joined fellow Scandinavian countries in offering a second booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine to some of its population, to be available from July 1 to people aged 75 and over, because of a rise in infections.
“There is a need to vaccinate our most vulnerable citizens,” Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol said, adding that vaccination remains “the cornerstone of the government’s preparedness.”
Nursing home residents and people over 80 should be first in line, Kjerkol said, adding that the summer holidays could be “demanding” for some municipalities — which in Norway are responsible for handling vaccinations.
“I would therefore like to emphasize that the pace of vaccination must be adapted to the municipalities’ capacity,” she said.
Denmark has offered a second booster shot to nursing home residents and people aged 50 and over, while Sweden recommended a third booster shot for people with an increased risk of becoming seriously ill and anyone aged 65 and over. | 2022-06-29T15:51:38+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/norway-joins-neighbors-offers-extra-booster-shot-to-elderly/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
A 31-year-old Buffalo man is listed in stable condition in Erie County Medical Center after a shooting incident about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Buffalo police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge reported.
According to the report, the shooting took place in the 900 block of Northampton Street.
Detectives said the man was struck in arm area and was taken by ambulance to ECMC.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call or text the Buffalo police confidential Tipcall line at 716-847-2255.
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BOISE, Idaho — U.S. officials are taking a big step involving a 1,200-mile hiking trail stretching from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean.
The U.S. Forest Service is accepting comments through Oct. 30 on a comprehensive plan for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, which starts in Glacier National Park in Montana, crosses through northern Idaho and finishes in Olympic National Park in Washington.
The Forest Service wants to complete the plan by late 2023. It’s a key document that will give state, federal and tribal land managers a guide for developing the nonmotorized trail throughout its entire length. Currently, about a third of the trail is on roads and some portions in remote areas require bushwhacking with no trail.
“I love what it could be,” said Jeff Kish, executive director for the Pacific Northwest Trail Association. “The bones are there, but we still have to flesh it out.”
The comprehensive plan, he said, “gives us the opportunity to preserve what makes the trail so special.”
The trail was first proposed and crossed in the 1970s, with a handful of additional early adventurers making the trek in following years.
Congress approved the trail as the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail in 2009, making it the 11th trail added to the National Trails System that includes the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail and Continental Divide Trail.
Kish, who completed the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail in 2014, estimates that fewer than 1,000 hikers have finished the route that includes significant elevation gain and loss when going through mountainous areas. In recent years, he said, about 75 people annually have attempted to complete the route, though not all are able to finish.
Completion and approval of the comprehensive plan and potential changes along the trail as a result could boost hiker numbers. The plan would look at how many hikers the trail can handle and such things as locating campgrounds.
Kish noted that, currently, many hikers might choose not to try the trail because so much of it is along roads.
The Forest Service will use the comments to develop a draft comprehensive plan and environmental assessment this winter that will be made public in the summer of 2023. The agency by December 2023 wants to sign a decision notice for the trail and implement the comprehensive plan. The comments will also help the agency determine what type of experience hikers want, trail conditions and future management.
Portions of the hiking trail are also open to cycling and the use of pack and saddle animals.
According to the Forest Service, the trail now includes 576 miles crossing land it manages, 237 miles of private land, 217 miles of National Park Service land and 89 miles of state land.
The private land poses a challenge because private land can change owners, and landowners can cut off access.
About 700 miles of the trail are cross-country on hiking trails or walking along beaches. The trail uses 438 miles of existing road, with 135 miles of that on paved roads. But the road sections would have to be replaced with nonmotorized trails to meet the goals for a national scenic trail. With a finished comprehensive plan, land managers would have a document aiding in that process.
In northern Idaho, there’s a 7-mile gap where hikers have to bushwhack across Forest Service land and land managed by the Idaho Department of Lands. The comprehensive plan could also help with those types of areas.
Among the objectives, the Forest Service said in its scoping document for the comprehensive plan, is to complete and maintain a nonmotorized trail along the entire length that will “maximize the outdoor recreation potential of the Pacific Northwest Trail by providing premier settings and a nationally significant opportunity for long-distance hiking that complement or enhance opportunities for other compatible trail uses, particularly pack and saddle stock use and bicycling, where appropriate.”
In all, the trail crosses seven national forests, three national parks and portions of the Colville Reservation and Swinomish Reservation in Washington.
From the Continental Divide in Montana, hikers who manage to finish eventually end up on the beach in Olympic National Park.
“You spend the summer walking west until you literally can’t take one more step west,” Kish said. | 2022-10-07T23:04:37+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/u-s-officials-seek-public-comment-on-pacific-northwest-trail/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
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PITTSBURGH (AP)Carlos Santana tugged at his new Pittsburgh Pirates cap, pulled at his jersey and broke into an impromptu dance.
Cities change. Circumstances change. Expectations change. The urge to get loose whenever the moment strikes the veteran first baseman/designated hitter does not.
”That’s who I am, just a really happy person,” Santana said through a translator Tuesday after signing a one-year, $6.75-million deal to give Pittsburgh’s young group an elder statesman of sorts. ”I really like to have a good time.”
A vibe that’s been in short supply for the Pirates during the organization’s methodical and bumpy bottom-up remodel under general manager Ben Cherington. While Cherington has spent the last three years trying to stack the team’s minor league system with as many prospects as possible, the major league product has suffered.
The Pirates have finished with at least a share of last place in the NL Central in each of Cherington’s three seasons. Adding Santana and fellow first baseman Ji-Man Choi – acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay on Nov. 10 – is part of a plan to make the major league club more competitive next summer.
”I think what it signals is we want to get better and we want to get better in 2023,” Cherington said. ”We think we’ve got a group of young players that has a chance to help us get better and continue to get better and we’ll try to add to that group in the way that makes the most sense.”
Pittsburgh struggled to hit with power consistently while finishing 62-100 in 2022. The Pirates finished near the bottom of the majors in runs (27th), on-base percentage (28th) and slugging (27th).
While Santana hit just .202 last season, he posted a .316 on-base percentage, which would have been good enough for third on the Pirates. The switch-hitter also mashed 19 home runs, 15 of them for the Mariners, who acquired Santana in late June to help fuel the team’s first playoff berth since 2001.
The inviting presence of the short porch over the Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park and the MLB’s decision to ban the shift in 2023 could help Santana provide some protection in the lineup for star center fielder Bryan Reynolds and young shortstop Oneil Cruz, among others.
”You could look back at the last two or three seasons, and you could see I’m probably one of the players most affected by a shift,” Santana said. ”I think now that it will be banned, it’s going to help me greatly getting on base.”
Santana also knows what it’s like to be on a young team in a smaller market trying to find its footing. He reached the postseason four times while spending a decade in Cleveland at the start of his career and his experience helped calm an upstart Mariners clubhouse as the team surged to an improbable playoff berth.
While Pittsburgh may still be a year or two away from truly contending, Santana is high on the group’s potential and eager to be a mentor.
”I will try to help out in two ways,” Santana said. ”One, with my performance and the work that I put out. Also just hoping to be a role model with the way I carry myself as a good teammate. Not just on the field but being a good person off the field around them as well.”
Cherington said it will be up to manager Derek Shelton to figure out whether Choi or Santana play first base or serve as the designated hitter on a given day. Both remain capable defenders and give the Pirates options with legitimate experience at a position that was a serious weakness in 2022.
Santana joked he may need a new glove to deal with the fastballs Cruz will fire from shortstop. He’s happy to chip in any way he can for a team that could benefit from a player who has been where it is trying to go.
”I’ve been in this situation before,” Santana said. ”I’ve been in a clubhouse with a lot of young talent. I can bring my experience and be there for them.”
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Saudi Arabia is spending billions to become a global gaming hub. Some fans don’t want to play
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, the new home of some of soccer’s biggest stars and a co-owner of professional golf, is proving to be no less ambitious when it comes to another global pastime – the $180 billion-a-year video game industry.
Last September, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund earmarked nearly $40 billion for a new conglomerate aimed at transforming the kingdom into the “ultimate global hub” for games and esports by 2030. In February, the Saudi fund became the biggest outside investor in Nintendo, and just this month the kingdom hosted a major gaming tournament with a record $45 million prize pool.
That’s made Saudi Arabia an increasingly important player in the industry and contributed to its breakneck transformation from an insular kingdom best known for oil and ultraconservative Islam into an emerging sports and entertainment powerhouse.
The move into gaming has sparked the same kind of backlash seen in soccer and golf, where critics accuse the Saudis of “sportswashing” human rights abuses, including the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident.
With gaming, a kingdom that sentences people to decades in prison over a few tweets is joining a worldwide community dominated by the young and very online.
“It’s the Romans and the Colosseum all over again, and you have countries at the top layer using sports as a theater to display their wealth and their power,” said Joost van Dreunen, a professor at New York University who has written a book about the business of video games.
“You have to ask the question: Who is the architect behind this, and what are the intentions of these architects?” he said.
Saudi Arabia’s 37-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reportedly an avid gamer himself, sees the foray into gaming as part of Vision 2030, his ambitious plan to overhaul the kingdom’s economy, reduce its reliance on oil and provide jobs and entertainment for its youthful population.
“We are harnessing the untapped potential across the esports and games sector to diversify our economy,” he said last September, when he announced the establishment of the Savvy Games Group.
Owned by Saudi Arabia’s $700 billion Public Investment Fund and led by CEO Brian Ward, an industry veteran, Savvy aims to invest $39 billion in the gaming industry. It hopes to establish 250 local companies and create 39,000 jobs in the next seven years.
Earlier this month, it completed the $4.9 billion purchase of Scopely, the creator of “Monopoly Go,” “Star Trek Fleet Command” and “Marvel Strike Force.”
Gaming is a massive and fast-growing industry. Market research firm Newzoo says an estimated 3.2 billion people play games on PCs, consoles, mobile devices or cloud gaming services, with the industry generating $184.4 billion in revenues in 2022. Gaming brings in more money than the combined earnings of the global box office, music streaming and album sales, and the top five wealthiest sports leagues, according to a 2021 report by the Boston Consulting Group.
The kingdom is also breaking into the world of esports, competitions pitting the world’s top players against one another in games ranging from battle royales and first-person shooters to “FIFA” soccer and “Madden NFL.”
To the uninitiated, the prospect of watching other people play video games may seem unappealing, but it’s a huge business with millions of fans, celebrity players and corporate sponsors. A 2021 esports tournament in Singapore drew 5.4 million concurrent viewers.
“When you invest in esports you are getting prime advertising opportunities, and of course, you are promoting the brand of your country as a cool, forward-thinking, interesting place to go on holiday,” said Christopher Davidson, a Gulf expert at the European Center for International Affairs, a Brussels-based think tank.
“(Esports) is far younger and more global than any other sport,” he added. “English soccer is popular everywhere in the West, but not really in an average-sized Chinese city. But these esports are.”
Last summer, Saudi Arabia hosted Gamers8, a weekslong tournament with a $15 million prize pool. The event returned this month with a prize pool three times as large.
Saudi Arabia’s wealthy Gulf neighbors are also looking to get in on the action. Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, hosted a five-day esports festival last month. The Qatar Investment Authority recently purchased a minority stake in Monument Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Washington Wizards and Capitals, as well as esport holdings.
The growing involvement of autocratic Gulf states has sparked debate within the gaming community.
Riot Games, the developer of the popular “League of Legends,” a multiplayer battle game, and Danish tournament organizer Blast Premier both canceled partnerships with Saudi Arabia in 2020 following an outcry from fans. Blast went on to hold its world finals in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, where it faced similar criticism.
Team Liquid, an esports organization that represents 60 champion players across 14 games, announced in December that it would donate half its winnings from recent competitions in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to an organization that helps LGBTQ+ individuals escape violence and persecution.
Homosexuality is considered taboo in most of the Middle East and is criminalized in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, though prosecutions are rare. Both countries also outlaw any form of LGBTQ+ advocacy.
The Team Liquid statement acknowledged the financial and ethical trade-offs of accepting sponsorship from such countries.
“These events present real opportunities for our players, many of whom may have short careers with few guarantees,” it said. “An outright boycott might not only end careers, it could end our involvement in some esports entirely.”
Stanis Elsborg, a senior analyst at Play the Game, an international initiative that aims to promote ethics in sports, and who has written extensively on the intersection of esports and the Gulf’s ambitions, says it’s a dilemma that is likely to recur.
“Money talks,” he said. “I think the esports scene will be following the same trajectory as we have seen in other sports, forming significant partnerships with state-owned companies from autocratic states.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-07-26T06:48:41+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/business-news/saudi-arabia-is-spending-billions-to-become-a-global-gaming-hub-some-fans-dont-want-to-play/ |
Florida police looking for missing 2-year-old after mom found dead
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Authorities are looking for a 2-year-old boy after his mother was found dead in her St. Petersburg apartment Thursday.According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the body of 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery was discovered at the Lincoln Shores Apts., located at 11601 4th Street North. around 2:30 p.m.Her 2-year-old son Taylen Mosley is missing. An Amber Alert was issued for the toddler minutes after authorities first reported him missing.“The child could be in danger and a search is underway for his whereabouts,” the police department said in a news alert.Anyone with information is asked to contact St. Petersburg Police.
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Authorities are looking for a 2-year-old boy after his mother was found dead in her St. Petersburg apartment Thursday.
According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the body of 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery was discovered at the Lincoln Shores Apts., located at 11601 4th Street North. around 2:30 p.m.
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Her 2-year-old son Taylen Mosley is missing. An Amber Alert was issued for the toddler minutes after authorities first reported him missing.
“The child could be in danger and a search is underway for his whereabouts,” the police department said in a news alert.
Anyone with information is asked to contact St. Petersburg Police. | 2023-03-30T21:54:10+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/missing-child-mom-dead-florida/43471886 |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Danielle Patterson and Kadaja Bailey each scored 20 points and St. John's beat No. 4 UConn 69-64 in Hartford on Tuesday night.
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Jayla Everett added 17 points for St. John's (20-7, 11-7 Big East), which added a huge win to its NCAA Tournament resume, beating UConn for the first time in 11 years.
Lou Lopez Senechal scored 18 points while Dorka Juhasz and Aaliyah Edwards each had 14 for UConn (24-5, 16-2), which was looking to secure a share of its 29th regular-season conference title.
St. John's led the game for more than 28 minutes and by as much as nine points in the first half.
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UConn had a chance to tie it late, but Caroline Ducharme missed her short jumper badly and Jayla Everett hit a baseline jumper to extend the lead to four points.
UConn was then forced to foul and Bailey hit four key free throws down the stretch to secure the win.
St. John’s held UConn to 35.5% shooting and outrebounded the Huskies 42-37.
The Red Storm led 35-30 at the half.
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But Nika Muhl’s 3-pointer to open the third quarter triggered an 13-0 run, giving the Huskies a 43-35 lead, their first advantage since it was 7-5 in the first quarter.
A foul on an offensive rebound and a subsequent technical foul on Aaliyah Edwards after the call, led to a 4-point possession for St. John’s, which tied the game at 43.
A conventional 3-point play by Jayla Everett gave St. John’s a 51-48 lead heading into the fourth and they pushed the lead to six points with six minutes to play.
UConn won the first meeting between the two teams by 30 points in January,
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St. John's: The Red Storm extended their lead to a game over Seton Hall for the fifth seed in the conference tournament. The top five seeds receive a first-round bye. St. John's last beat UConn on Feb. 18, 2012 ending the Huskies 99-game home winning streak.
UConn: The Huskies are still without star Azzi Fudd, who re-injured her right knee a game after returning from injury and scoring 14 points in the Huskies meeting with St. John's in January. Fudd, who has missed a total of 20 games this season, is hoping to return in time to help UConn make a run next month at a 12th national title. ... UConn needs one win in its final two games to secure the top seed in the conference tournament.
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St. Johns: The Red Storm return to Queens for their final regular-season home game on Friday night against Georgetown.
UConn: The Huskies travel to Chicago for a game Saturday at DePaul.
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DANVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) — The Music Program at Danville Area Community College is getting a major enhancement. Two donors are gifting more than $20,000 worth of instruments the college.
Daniel Applegate, an LCPC at true North Counseling Center in Champaign, donated multiple drum sets and other percussion instruments worth over $10,000. He said that he didn’t want the instruments to “gather dust,” and reached out to Michael “Guido” Esteves, DACC Coordinator of Community Engagement and co-director of the DACC pep band. Having spent time at DACC, Applegate said he “wished to provide more available tools for students in their musical education endeavors.”
Stefanie Pratt, broker at The Stephanie Pratt Team Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group in Champaign, donated a Yamaha piano also valued at more than $10,000. Pratt, known for her involvement in charities and her avid appreciation for rock music, said she chose to donate to DACC in support of Esteves’ music program.
“Stefanie’s motto is ‘Realty That Rocks!’ and she rocks beyond her business savy,” Esteves said. “Stefanie and Daniel are rockstars for their support of DACC.” | 2022-08-26T04:36:04+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/education/music-program-at-dacc-receives-instrument-donations/ |
MIAMI (AP) — MIAMI (AP) — World Fuel Services Corp. (INT) on Thursday reported earnings of $22.8 million in its first quarter.
The Miami-based company said it had net income of 36 cents per share.
The company that services ships, jets and trucks posted revenue of $12.48 billion in the period.
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Trial to start for sailor accused of igniting Navy warship
SAN DIEGO (AP) — According to prosecutors, Ryan Sawyer Mays was a young, arrogant sailor angry about being assigned to deck duty after failing to become a Navy SEAL — and he made the Navy pay in a big way.
But the prosecution has presented no physical evidence proving that Mays, 21, set the USS Bonhomme Richard on fire, a fact defense lawyers plan to highlight at the sailor’s court martial that is scheduled to start Monday at Naval Base San Diego.
The July 2020 blaze burned for nearly five days and sent an acrid smoke over San Diego, damaging the amphibious assault ship so badly that it had to be scuttled. It marked one of the worst noncombat warship disasters in recent memory.
Mays is charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Gary Barthel, a civilian lawyer who represented Mays at a preliminary hearing to determine if there was probable cause to send the case to trial, said the Navy judge overseeing that process recommended the case not go to court martial. But Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, the former commander of the San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet, who had the final say, ordered the court martial.
Barthel said the Navy’s case relies largely on the account of a fellow sailor who has acknowledged changing it repeatedly. He said investigators brushed aside the fact that lithium batteries were stored next to highly combustible material such as cardboard boxes, in violation of ship protocol.
Barthel said he offered his services pro bono because he thought Mays would not be court martialed, but he does not have time with his full-time practice to continue to represent the sailor, who is using military counsel. Still, he said he is speaking out because the Navy case is unjust.
“I think there’s some real questions as to whether or not the fire was an arson,” Barthel said. “And if it were deemed an arson, there are questions about whether Ryan Mays started this fire.”
The prosecution’s witness, Petty Officer 3rd Class Kenji Velasco, blamed his nervousness for the changes to his story and said during the preliminary hearing that he was now “100 percent” sure that he saw Mays descend to the ship’s lower vehicle storage area on the day of the fire.
Neither military defense counsel nor the prosecution could be reached for comment.
Barthel believes the Navy is using Mays as a scapegoat rather than admit it was solely the mismanagement by senior officers that led to the loss of the billion-dollar vessel, or acknowledge that they pinned the blame on the wrong guy.
While investigators said Mays set the fire, a Navy report last year concluded that the inferno was preventable and unacceptable, and that there were lapses in training, coordination, communications, fire preparedness, equipment maintenance and overall command and control.
Navy leaders disciplined more than 20 senior officers and sailors in connection with what it described as widespread leadership failures that contributed to the disaster. The Navy spread blame across a wide range of ranks and responsibilities and directly faulted the ship’s three top officers.
The ship was undergoing a two-year, $250 million upgrade pierside in San Diego when the fire broke out. About 115 sailors were on board, and nearly 60 were treated for heat exhaustion, smoke inhalation and minor injuries. The failure to extinguish or contain the fire led to temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas, melting sections of the ship into molten metal that flowed into other parts of the ship.
Retired Navy Capt. Lawrence B. Brennan, an adjunct professor at Admiralty and International Maritime Law Fordham Law School, said the prosecution has its work cut out for it.
“There are questions about identification of the people in the vicinity of the fire and possible causes other than arson,” he said in an email to The Associated Press. “Moreover, the conflagration and firefighting efforts damaged, if not destroyed, the crime scene and crucial evidence.”
The court martial is scheduled to last two weeks.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-19T14:57:32+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/09/19/trial-start-sailor-accused-igniting-navy-warship/ |
Auburn basketball score vs. Vanderbilt: Live updates as Tigers aim to make it two straight
AUBURN — Auburn basketball is looking to score its second straight win Saturday night.
The Tigers, who defeated Missouri by 33 points Tuesday, head to Memorial Gymnasium for a matchup with Vanderbilt (14-12, 7-6 SEC). The Commodores have won four straight games, including a thrilling 66-65 victory over Tennessee on Feb. 8.
Auburn's win over Missouri snapped a three-game losing slide for the Tigers (18-8, 8-5). Auburn has lost five of its last seven games, but four of those defeats have been by single digits. Johni Broome led all scorers with 20 points against Missouri. He also added 10 rebounds to secure his ninth double-double of the season.
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Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. | 2023-02-19T01:39:16+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2023/02/18/auburn-basketball-score-vs-vanderbilt-live-updates/69894354007/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — He’s been the face of Mexico internationally for nearly five years and often the country’s leading voice in negotiations with top world leaders — including volatile ones, like former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Now Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard is testing whether his work on the world stage will translate into votes in Mexico as he competes for the leftist ruling party nomination for next year’s presidential elections.
The 63-year-old is in the thick of a three-way race with other members of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s inner circle, including Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and Interior Minister Adán Augusto López.
López Obrador's Morena party, which he created as a vehicle to secure the presidency, remains an extension of the highly popular leader, so his words, actions and even body language are being closely watched for signs of a favorite.
Among the hurdles Ebrard must overcome are a perception he doesn't connect with the party's base like the folksy López Obrador, and criticism that the U.S. government imposed its immigration policy on Mexico, making it do its dirty work on Ebrard's watch.
Ebrard has responded with humorous TikTok videos aimed at connecting with voters, including one of himself in a designer suit eating tacos at a street stand with his wife or turning a stumble into a repeatedly played dance move to a Bad Bunny song. He recently published an autobiography that frames his immigration negotiations with the Trump administration as a diplomatic victory because Mexico avoided threatened tariffs — and it could have been worse.
In an interview with the AP, Ebrard described himself as a nationalist and a progressive who promises to maintain López Obrador’s signature social programs “to create a society where inequality is shrinking.”
In an administration that insists helping the poor is the priority — about 40% of Mexicans live in poverty — Ebrard says his objective as president would be to grow the relatively small middle class, if he wins the ruling party nomination later this year.
He has more middle-class support than other leading contenders, experts say, but swaying the party’s low-income base — the voters most enamored of López Obrador — could be the deciding factor. Ebrard insists he has that support.
Ebrard narrowly lost his first attempt to be the left’s presidential candidate to López Obrador in 2012. Before that he had various roles in López Obrador’s Mexico City mayoral administration and later became mayor himself in 2006.
While some peg Ebrard as a centrist, he points to passage of legalized abortion and same-sex marriage while he was Mexico City mayor a decade ago as evidence of his support for progressive policies.
Still, there are doubts about the extent to which his achievements as the top diplomat for a president who prioritized all things domestic will be present in voters’ minds.
Ebrard led Mexico’s effort to obtain COVID-19 vaccines, working with vaccine producers and pushing multilateral initiatives, but Mexican governors and mayors like Sheinbaum were the ones present when the vaccines were given out.
“Mexicans aren’t interested in foreign policy beyond when it has to do with the United States and is going to impact the price of the dollar,” said Ana Vanessa Cárdenas, a Mexican international analyst now with Finis Terrae University in Chile.
On the country's pervasive violence — Mexicans' top priority according to polls — Ebrard has led so far unsuccessful efforts to sue U.S. gun manufacturers and gun shops for supplying weapons smuggled into Mexico. But as president, like López Obrador, Ebrard says he would rely on the military-controlled National Guard to secure communities rather than rebuilding civilian police capacity.
During Ebrard’s tenure, Mexico successfully negotiated a new trade framework with the United States and Canada to replace the outdated North American Free Trade Agreement. The new accord is critical to his pledge to double Mexico’s annual economic growth if he is elected president in June next year.
Mexico’s proximity to the United States is its greatest advantage as the world emerges from the supply chain interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ebrard told the AP. Factories and assembly plants are already beginning to move from China to Mexico to be closer to the U.S. market, he said.
But that long shared border with the United States has also created some of Ebrard’s greatest challenges.
Shortly after López Obrador took office in December 2018, the Trump administration implemented the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program that forced asylum seekers to wait out their U.S. asylum requests in Mexico. Asylum seekers were concentrated in northern border cities largely controlled by organized crime, exposing the migrants to endless kidnappings.
In May 2019, Trump threatened crippling tariffs on all Mexican imports if Mexico's government did not slow the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.
Ebrard immediately flew to Washington, heading off the tariffs and what he said was the Trump administration’s real goal: a safe third-country agreement. Under such a deal, any asylum seekers crossing Mexico would first have to request asylum there rather than in the U.S.
Instead, Mexico offered to deploy its newly created National Guard in a strategy to contain migrants in southern Mexico, far from the U.S. border.
The number of migrants intercepted at the U.S. border dropped in the short term, but Mexico faced criticism from within and abroad that it had allowed the U.S. government to export its immigration policy south.
“The United States won the battle” over immigration policy, said Silvia Núñez García, a researcher specializing in the bilateral relationship at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. The tariff threat “was when Mexico decided to accept and manage these irregular migrant flows inside our territory.”
Ebrard said the U.S. returning asylum seekers to Mexico under a COVID-19 health rule known as Title 42, set to expire May 11, was a unilateral move that Mexico has never approved.
It leaves Mexico two options: deport the returnees to their countries or let them enter Mexico, he told the AP. “We usually do the second and the U.S. knows it."
The Biden administration scrapped Remain in Mexico, but in February announced that it would generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. border without first seeking protection in a country they passed through — a policy critics say is different in name-only from the safe third country agreement.
If Ebrard "hasn’t been able to stand out in foreign policy, which has been his portfolio, then I don’t think his prospects are very favorable,” said Núñez, noting that López Obrador’s disinterest in foreign affairs limited Ebrard’s room to maneuver.
Martha Bárcena, a career diplomat who served as Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S. during the first two years of López Obrador’s presidency, overlapping with Trump, believes Ebrard's priority was not foreign policy either.
“He’s a politician and the only thing he has really dreamed of all his life is to become president," she said. “There were many areas in which he could have been much more creative and advanced an agenda that was even more linked to the priorities of the Mexican government, which was to fight poverty, to fight inequality.”
Ebrard has accused Bárcena of “obsessive rancor” since she left the post. He says that he will fight poverty and inequality if he is elected president.
“For any leftist government, your objective has to be that the middle class is the majority of the population,” Ebrard said. “In 10 years we need poverty to be much less than it is today. ... If not, what would be the point of everything we're doing?” | 2023-04-16T17:48:53+00:00 | hjnews.com | https://www.hjnews.com/world/hes-been-mexicos-voice-abroad-now-he-wants-the-presidency/article_9ec2109a-93ef-5687-a9a1-8bc66757cb2a.html |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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(zero, zero, six)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-0-6
(zero, zero, six) | 2022-09-13T19:44:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17438906.php |
Hutchinson's guarantee: Why does Minnesota law give disgraced elected officials their old jobs back?
(FOX 9) - No matter how much trouble he got into, former Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson had a six-figure job waiting for him after he left the sheriff's office thanks to Minnesota law.
That 1977 law guarantees city and county elected officials the public-sector jobs they left after winning office, like Hutchinson's position as Metro Transit Police sergeant. It forces employers to bring the politician back at the same pay and seniority as he or she left. Hutchinson actually got a raise, to $114,000, because of a union agreement while he was away, though he's now on administrative leave because of an internal complaint.
This week, Republican state Sen. Warren Limmer said he would introduce legislation softening up the ironclad guarantee that Hutchinson benefited from.
"There should be some type of review or reapplication. Your job should not be absolutely guaranteed to have again once you leave public office," Limmer, R-Maple Grove, said in an interview. "That doesn’t happen anywhere except government, and I think that’s wrong."
The 1977 law
So why does Minnesota have a law that guarantees employment for former politicians? The answer required trips to two libraries on Friday because legislative records from the 1970s exist only on paper.
The story starts in 1974,when lawmakers gave themselves a special perk that allowed them to get their public- or private-sector jobs back after leaving the Legislature. That measure also guaranteed employment for three years, during which time an employer couldn't fire the former politician except for cause. There wasn't much naysaying: the House passed the bill, 114-8, and the Senate approved it unanimously.
Three years later, it seems local officials asked for a similar perk -- and lawmakers were feeling generous. Committee meeting minutes from the era weren't detailed, but those that exist reflect how supporters made a parity argument between lawmakers and local officials.
Ultimately, the Legislature added city and county officials but gave them a smaller guarantee: only if they came from government jobs could they get their old gig back automatically.
State Sen. Jerome Hughes was the chief author of the 1977 legislation. Hughes, who went on to become president of the Senate, was a public school teacher. But it doesn't appear Hughes benefited from the law he wrote because he didn't run for city or county office. Hughes died in 2015.
The 1977 law passed with only slightly more opposition than the earlier 1974 measure. The vote was 125-1 in the House and 41-18 in the Senate. Neither the votes nor Gov. Rudy Perpich's signature attracted press coverage because the end of that year's session was dominated by other issues, according to news reports from the era held at the Legislative Reference Library in St. Paul.
It's not clear how intense the lobbying was. No audio exists of committee hearings prior to 1991, so there's no record of testimony for or against the bill.
Hutchinson's benefit
Hutchinson returned to Metro Transit Police on Jan. 2 but immediately went on administrative leave because of an internal complaint that stems from his behavior as sheriff, FOX 9 reported this week.
Hutchinson was censured by the Hennepin County Board after an outside investigation found he harassed and bullied coworkers. The state police standards board suspended his law enforcement license after a high-speed drunk driving crash in December 2021. He didn't run for re-election in 2022.
Without the 1977 law, it seems unlikely that Metro Transit would've re-hired Hutchinson. Sources within the agency told FOX 9's Tom Lyden this week that people were "furious" about the requirement. | 2023-01-14T03:25:16+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/hutchinsons-guarantee-why-does-minnesota-law-give-disgraced-elected-officials-their-old-jobs-back |
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LONDON (AP) — A defiant British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling to stay in power on Wednesday after his government was rocked by the resignation of two top ministers, who said they could no longer serve under his scandal-tarred leadership.
His first challenge is getting through Wednesday, where he faces tough questions at the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament, and a long-scheduled grilling by a committee of senior lawmakers.
Months of discontent over Johnson’s judgment and ethics within the governing Conservative Party erupted with the resignations of Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid within minutes of each other on Tuesday evening. In a scathing resignation letter, Sunak said “the public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. … I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.”
Javid said the party needed “humility, grip and a new direction” but “it is clear this situation will not change under your leadership.”
Johnson quickly replaced the two ministers, promoting Nadhim Zahawi from the education department to the Treasury and installing his chief of staff, Steve Barclay, as health secretary.
But a string of resignations late Tuesday from more junior ministers — from both the liberal and right-wing branches of the Conservative Party — showed that danger to Johnson was far from over.
In the past few months, Johnson has been fined by police and slammed by an investigator’s report over lockdown-breaching parties in government during the pandemic; survived a no-confidence vote by his party in which 41% of Conservative lawmakers voted to oust him; and has seen formerly loyal lieutenants urge him to resign.
Through it all, he has vowed to carry on governing — even suggesting he wanted to stay in office until the 2030s.
The final straw for Sunak and Javid was the prime minister’s shifting explanations about his handling of a sexual misconduct scandal.
The latest scandal began last week when lawmaker Chris Pincher resigned as Conservative deputy chief whip amid complaints that he groped two men at a private club. That triggered a series of reports about past allegations leveled against Pincher and questions about why Johnson promoted him to a senior job enforcing party discipline.
Johnson’s office initially said he wasn’t aware of the previous accusations when he promoted Pincher in February. By Monday, a spokesman said Johnson knew of allegations that were “either resolved or did not progress to a formal complaint.”
When a former top civil servant in the Foreign Office said Johnson had been briefed about an allegation against Pincher in 2019, Johnson’s office changed its story again, saying the prime minister had forgotten that Pincher was the subject of an official complaint.
It was all too much for ministers who have been sent onto radio and TV to defend the government's position, only to find the position changing by the hour.
Bim Afolami, who quit as Conservative Party vice-chairman on Tuesday, said he had been willing to give Johnson the benefit of the doubt, “but I think that in the last few weeks we’ve seen that things haven’t improved. They’ve got a lot worse.”
“I think the behavior of Downing Street over the Chris Pincher affair was really appalling. And I, personally, just couldn’t think I could defend that sort of behavior any longer,” he told the BBC.
Johnson’s opponents in the party hope more Cabinet ministers will follow Sunak and Javid, though for now other top officials — including Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel — are staying put.
Opponents are also trying to force another no-confidence vote over the prime minister. The existing rules require 12 months between such votes, but the rules are made by a powerful party committee — and elections for its executive are due in the next few weeks.
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From an Expert at Candor Health Education
HINSDALE, Ill., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Here in In Illinois, unlike some surrounding states, state law requires that students be provided sexual health education in school. Controversy has swirled around just exactly what that content should be. However, there is one thing parents can agree on: it's important to properly prepare kids for puberty and body changes, and to create an open dialog with an adult.
While experts differ on the 'right' age to start conversations about changing bodies and how babies are made, most agree that 9 - 11 are good ages to start talking about puberty. Studies show that having honest, early dialog helps a child develop a healthy attitude and will feel comfortable asking questions, even if parents aren't comfortable answering them!
Here are some tips for parents from Katie Gallagher, Director of Education, Candor Health Education:
Tips for talking to your kids about puberty
- Recognize when it's time. If your child is asking questions or has been exposed to media or information from another child, don't wait.
- Ask them what they already know. Start with where they are and don't dive in too deep.
- Answer questions thoughtfully. It's OK to explain that you want to answer, but later is better. You'll have time to research and formulate your answers.
- Fill in gaps and debunk myths. It's important to give them the real facts. Always use the correct terms for body parts.
- Admit discomfort and stay calm. Let him/her know that this is an important topic that may make both of you a bit uncomfortable.
- Talk about your family's values. Share your beliefs and encourage kids to follow the same path. Explain the 'other side,' but why you chose your values.
- Don't overshare your personal experiences. If asked directly, say, 'that is a private matter that I'm not prepared to talk about right now.'
- Lean on resources available. Search online for starter questions or topics. Visit www.candorhealthed.org.
- Check their understanding. Ask for a little summary and clarify anything that they are still wondering about.
- Keep the conversation going. Remind them that there is more to learn, and you are always available.
For more information, visit www.candorhealthed.org. To schedule a Candor Health Education puberty presentation in school or virtually, call 630-325-1900.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Atatiana Jefferson was holding a gun but never raised it to point at the white police officer who fatally shot her through a rear window of her Texas home, the Black woman’s 11-year-old nephew testified at the officer’s murder trial Monday. Defense attorneys contended that the child said otherwise immediately after the shooting.
The child's testimony touched on an issue at the heart of the long-delayed case charging Aaron Dean with Jefferson's killing: whether the Fort Worth officer saw Jefferson's gun before he shot her.
Dean quit and was charged with murder two days after killing the 28-year-old while responding to a call about an open front door on Oct. 12, 2019.
Body-camera footage showed that neither Dean nor the other responding officer identified themselves as police at the house. Dean’s attorney, Miles Brissette, said the officer opened fire after seeing the silhouette of Jefferson with a gun in the window and a green laser sight pointed at him. Prosecutors told the jurors that the evidence would show otherwise.
That night, Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew, Zion Carr, who told a court Monday that his aunt pulled out a gun after hearing suspicious noises behind the house. Zion, then 8, said the gun was only ever pointed "down" but he acknowledged not remembering parts of what happened.
“She just held it next to her side, she just like, she didn’t point it up, she just kept it next to her,” he told prosecutors, who said the child previously said his aunt had pulled the gun up “a little bit.”
On cross-examination in the overflowing courtroom, Dean's defense said Zion told a specialized interviewer in a recorded session after the shooting that Jefferson had raised the gun. The child denied this.
In 2019, the case was unusual for the relative speed with which, amid public outrage, the Fort Worth Police Department released the video and arrested Dean. Since then, it has been repeatedly postponed amid lawyerly wrangling, the terminal illness of Dean's lead attorney and the COVID-19 pandemic.
By contrast, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went on trial and was convicted of murdering George Floyd more than 1 1/2 years ago. Floyd was killed seven months after Jefferson, in a case that sparked global protests over racial injustice.
Dean, who has pleaded not guilty, has been free on $200,000 bond. Now 38, he is charged with killing Jefferson after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson’s home was open.
Bodycam video showed Dean approaching the door of the home where Jefferson was caring for her nephew. He then walked around the side of the house, pushed through a gate into the fenced-off backyard and fired through the glass a split-second after shouting at Jefferson, who was inside, to show her hands.
Assistant District Attorney Ashlea Deener said during opening statements that Jefferson believed the officers were intruders. Dean opened fire without giving her time to comply with commands and never said he saw a gun, Deener said, adding “the evidence will support, he did not see the gun in her hands.”
The home's front and side doors were open to vent smoke from hamburgers that Zion said he burned while cooking with Jefferson. The child later recalled his aunt falling to the floor, crying and shaking.
“I was thinking: Is it a dream?” he said.
At one point, District Judge George Gallagher stopped Zion's testimony and asked a woman to leave the courtroom, saying she’d been gesturing to the child.
Brissette argued that the officers were following protocol in treating the call as a potential burglary. He said they saw a living room that appeared to have been “ransacked" and circled the house looking for signs of forced entry. Brissette said evidence would show the officer’s actions were reasonable and the shooting was “a tragic accident.”
Jefferson's killing shattered the trust police had been trying to build with communities of color in Fort Worth, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Dallas. The city of 935,000 has long had complaints of racially unequal policing and excessive force.
The shooting drew swift rebuke from the then-police chief and Republican mayor, who at the time called the circumstances "unthinkable" and said Jefferson having a gun was "irrelevant."
Dean's legal team used those comments repeatedly to try to move the case from Fort Worth, claiming the statements and news media attention would bias the jury pool.
Gallagher rejected their request again Monday before the jury of eight men and six women entered. The judge ended trial’s opening day before noon for the funeral of lawyer, Jim Lane, who had been Dean’s lead defense attorney.
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The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline.
However, for people who do still attend religious services, they say they're optimistic about the future of their house of worship. Those are among the findings of a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
Just 16% of Americans surveyed said religion is the most important thing in their lives, according to the PRRI study, down from 20% a decade ago.
Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, says that this data reflects another trend in American religious life. "Americans," she says, "are becoming increasingly likely to become religiously unaffiliated."
For Catholics and mainline Protestants, the importance of religion has declined somewhat in the last decade, according to Deckman. The drop isn't as steep, though, once broken down by other demographics. For example, 38% of Black Protestants and 42% of white evangelical Protestants say religion is most important.
Deckman isn't surprised that religious salience is highest among those groups. "But certainly it's less than 50%," she says. "And that's a change from perhaps earlier decades of findings."
The report, titled "Religion and Congregations in a Time of Social Upheaval," surveyed more than 6,600 adults from all 50 states. Despite the deep political divides in the U.S., the majority of churchgoers — 56% — do not believe their own church is more politically divided than five years ago.
Deckman says that this could be due to sorting that has already taken place: People tend to affiliate with congregations that align with their political beliefs, in part to avoid conflicts they experience in broader society.
The research also shows that Black Protestants are the only Christian group in which a majority — 63% — believes that congregations should get involved in social issues even if doing so means having difficult conversations.
Deckman says that this comparatively higher percentage is likely due to the historic connection between Black churches and the Civil Rights Movement. "And so," she says, "Black churches are more open to having these conversations in their pews."
Deckman credits the racial justice movement over the last several years as fortifying the resolve of some congregations to preach, "Black Lives Matter," even if it upsets some people. That message has long been heard from pulpits in many predominantly Black congregations.
PRRI found that Christian congregations are still largely racially segregated. Even though the U.S. as a whole is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, the vast majority of Christian churchgoers report that their congregations are "mostly monoracial." Eighty percent of white mainline Protestants, such as Episcopalians and Presbyterians, say their churches are mostly white. The same is true for 77% of white Catholics and 75% of white evangelical Protestants.
The research also found that religious Americans are on the move.
Twenty-four percent of respondents said they previously followed a different faith tradition from the one they practice now, mostly leaving Christianity or religion altogether. That figure is up significantly from just a couple of years ago. In 2021, only 16% said they had changed religions.
Among those who've left a religion, more than one-third say they were formerly Catholic.
Participation in houses of worship continues to decline, according to the study. Twenty-eight percent of respondents said they "seldom" attend religious services, and 29% of respondents said they "never" attend religious services. A decade ago, those figures were 22% and 21%, respectively.
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have influenced a larger trend. In 2019, 19% of Americans said they attended a religious service once a week. That percentage has now dropped to 16% attending weekly and 13% saying they attend "a few times a year."
Yet despite the downward trends in overall church attendance, PRRI found that those still going are happy. Eight-two percent say they're optimistic about the future of their church.
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MS. NORRIS: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Michele Norris. I’m an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, and today we’re going to talk about a series that looks at the effects of climate change. As you saw there, it appears on Apple TV+, and it’s called “Extrapolations.”
MR. BURNS: Thank you.
MS. NORRIS: So let's just dive right in. Scott, I want to begin with you, if I can. You have said that you can't change people's attitudes unless you can also entertain them. Can you talk about how--talk briefly about the plot of the show and how you decided to lay out these eight varying stories and how you also balance those two things, trying to awaken people but also entertain them.
MR. BURNS: Yeah. I mean, I think I started from a place, you know, which is a documentary. It's a bit of a self-sorting organism, and that's changing a little bit. But we've seen a lot of docs that have been made--and some are really wonderful--that try and talk about the risks of climate change.
We've also seen some stories that are scripted that deal with the possible outcomes, and there's a natural tendency, I think, on the part of a dramatist to look at the end of that story. And that, you know, has been covered, I think, very well by a lot of different people in literature, in film. So I was sort of interested in the messy middle because, in the messy middle, we all still have agency. And cutting to the end may have certain dramatic opportunities, but it sort of limits the opportunities for human behavior to be explored. And so that was--that was the opening premise for this is between now and however the climate crisis is resolved, we all are going to see this show up in our lives in very, very different ways, depending on who we are, where we live, what our resources are. And so I wanted to do a survey of all of that, and that's sort of where I started with this.
MS. NORRIS: You know, it is--we see the cataclysmic things that happen, fires all the time. The hurricane season that begins in April instead of August. But it's the smaller things that often are so telling, that when people go to synagogue, they have to wear galoshes because there's just water, you know, on the floor all the time, that the fires that are always burning in the background, you know, this--as you say, the slow burn that leads up to this.
You also wrote the screenplay for "Contagion," which was eerily and scarily predictive of what would happen when we actually faced a global pandemic. Three years ago when that hit, right around now actually, for those of us who saw "Contagion," we were wondering, did he look into a crystal ball? Did he really understand with that great of accuracy what was going to happen? If you could just briefly also explain sort of the predictive journalism that you do, research that you do, that you put into this film. So what we're looking at is not just sort of a--it is, in some ways, an extrapolation of what might happen if current trends continue.
MR. BURNS: Yeah. I mean, "Contagion" could have been named "Extrapolations" as well. The similarity is in process. You know, I wanted to write a movie about viruses and how, as we encroached more and more on nature, we were going to come in contact with viruses that our bodies had maybe never met and that we hadn't had an opportunity to develop natural immunity to and that they will, as we've seen, jump into the human species.
It was something my father was, frankly, obsessed with. So he and I spent a lot of time towards the end of his life talking about it, and I thought, oh, wow, I wonder if I can turn it into sort of an almost '70s style, you know, disaster movie. And Steven Soderbergh liked the idea, so we started doing that.
What I learned from all those experts is really similar to what I learned talking to the experts in climate, which is it was never an issue of, you know, will another pandemic happen. It was always just an issue of when. Now, nobody told me it would happen when it did.
You know, it's funny because Anthony Fauci actually came to the premiere of "Contagion," and his biggest quibble with me was he didn't think there would be any way that we would get a vaccine that quickly. I haven't spoken to him since, but I think we actually did a pretty good job of predicting that as well.
You know, I think on "Extrapolations," what I learned was a little different, which is it isn't an issue of, you know, whether or not these things are going to happen. They already are happening. You know, when we started on the pilot, we consciously chose things that are already going on. There are already floods and fires and famines linked to drought. So we're already seeing this.
The question I wanted to explore and that the scientists who I spoke to, you know, opined on with our writers group was, how far does it go before we decide to meet climate change with human change and stop it? How many--how many species are we going to say goodbye to? How many cities are we going to lose to sea-level change? How many of the people in the Global South are we going to lose? What are we going to do with, you know, climate-driven displacement of people? All of those things, those were the more human issues that we wanted to tackle here.
MS. NORRIS: Let's bring Edward into the conversation. I've been doing interviews a long time, and I have always wanted to talk to you. This is such--I'm excited about the opportunity to have a conversation.
MR. NORTON: Thanks. Happy to be here.
MS. NORRIS: Was this also an opportunity for you of sorts, you know, not just to take on an interesting role, but to, in some ways, act your values, live your values, do something that aligned with your core values in life when you decided to play a character who is a scientist who is trying to save the world, in part, by preventing this thing called "solar geoengineering?" which many people might not know what that is, but I assume that in coming years, we're going to learn a lot more about that. What did this role mean to you?
MR. NORTON: Sure. Although, you know, one of the things I like most about what Scott and his team did with the text of this whole series is that it's not a "Jeremiah." It's not sort of a soapbox with an assertion of values. It actually really is a meditation on how much uncertainty is intrinsically embedded within these scientific questions, ethical questions, societal questions.
And to the degree--you say like was it a chance to act my values. It's like, well, yes and no. Like it's not an assertion of a position, but I think that simply being a part of an imaginative provocation, I think it's healthy. Without taking a position, I think--I don't even think you have to take a position for it to be healthy, to get people to put their minds toward the contemplation of what the implications of this particular set of challenges are. We need to be--we need to be meditating on it. We need to be--we need to be thinking ahead more. We need to be--we need to be grappling with the quotidian details of life that could be altered and as a result of what's coming. And I guess I feel--sometimes I think the best thing art can do is kind of get us to reflect on who we are and where we are.
You know, Spike Lee used to always say to me like, you know, a great film asks a lot more questions than it answers, and I think that's very--that that's a very rich component of this series as ways. It provokes a lot of questions. It provokes a lot of contemplation, meditation. I don't think that--I don't think it's a lecture at all, and I think--and I love that. I've always loved to be a part of drama that provokes questions and leaves people to contemplate what they think the answers might be.
MS. NORRIS: You know, it's interesting because there are questions that are actually built into the script at several points where people are asking why is this happening, or what can we do, or, you know, that--and they're asking that of another character. But I can see in the way that this is constructed that you're really asking that question of the audience. Where am I in this? If I'm alive in 2047, what will I have done to prevent what I'm seeing on the screen right now?
There's a clip that I want to introduce.
MR. NORTON: Yeah.
MS. NORRIS: It has Edward, your character, Jonathan Chopin. He is talking to his ex-wife, Gita, who is on a mission that seemed like it was a groundbreaking mission, and it turns out to be something quite different. And this is where in the series we're introduced to this idea of geoengineering. Let's listen to the clip, and then we'll come right back.
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MS. NORRIS: The character, Gita, is trying to engage in something akin to cloud seeding, and that line is incredible. That line in the script that the sky is easier to engineer than the human brain. What do you want audiences to take from that exchange, in particular? Because that seem to be really key to that particular episode.
MR. BURNS: It's interesting because what happens next in that scene is, you know, we get to meet Edward's son, and to me, writing this, again, going back to trying to take something big and make it more relatable, you know, you learn about his relationship with his son and how, you know, Jonathan's character, you know, changes his relationship to the science of geoengineering, which is a tricky thing because, like a lot of technology, it's very hard to imagine human beings foregoing a quick and easy fix. We seem to like those, and we might be able to slow the temperature from getting warmer.
But I think what's interesting is--as this episode goes on is to hear the dynamic between a father and a son about, you know, how do we manage this. How does an adult change their mind about an issue in front of their child? So, you know, it's interesting watching that scene because it's probably the biggest confrontation maybe in the whole series about our reliance on technology, yet I don't even know that I can take credit for that line, that Edward may have actually improved that. I'm not sure.
MR. NORTON: [Laughs]
MS. NORRIS: And, Edward, there's a scene also where you sit down, and you're on the phone, and at this point in the future, it's almost like this Alvin Toffler thing where we're looking at what our technology will look like in the future, and everything is a hologram, and you're able to immediately call up an experiment that your son did. And you realize that this has been living in his brain for some time, this idea of this geoengineering. Was part of the message in that particular scene and your whole relationship with your son to send a message that our children are watching us? Edward, was that one of the things that was present in your mind as you're playing this role?
MR. NORTON: I--yeah. I thought--I thought, again, Scott and his team--I thought, not just in that episode, but I think weaving--it's woven all through the anthology is the idea that, you know, the question of who should be making these decisions, in some sense, and I think it's--you know, you look at incredibly passionate young activists like Greta Thunberg and others who catch so much shade from older generations for being loud, for being fierce, for being insistent. And, you know, it's kind of--I think the--I think the series has woven into it that tension to a high degree, the idea that younger people waiting on the incremental moves of older people is a--there's something wrong with that, that there's a--and I like--you know, in the human drama of it, I like that the character I play is affected. He's affected by that idea that maybe at the end of the day, it's not--it's something that has to be granted to a younger generation that they--that right or wrong, risky or not, they ultimately, it's right that they call the shot in a situation of uncertainty.
And I think--I think that, you know, if one thing--if one thing comes through the series that I think is really disturbing, it's that as you see the years marching on, as you imagine the future unfolding, and you realize that there's a lot of goodwill, there's a lot of attention being paid, but that incremental--increment--you know, that this is ramping so fast on us that we don't have the time for incrementalism, and that incrementalism will--is not going to win.
It becomes a--it kind of creates a knot in your stomach because you look around, and you realize that in our social challenges, there are many things that we can afford. We can afford the timeline of incrementalism. You could say that in, you know, social justice and civil rights, right, everybody wants things to move faster. Everybody wants to achieve equity and justice. There isn't an intrinsic catastrophic effect, as Martin Luther King said, to the arc being long but bending toward justice. Where the climate is concerned and where the environment is concerned, you don't have infinite timelines, and incrementalism literally may actually, unfortunately, fate us to the more catastrophic outcomes.
And I think--and that's tough because you realize--I think the series deals with the fact that our social structures don't favor boldness. You know, we don't--we don't tend to--we don't tend to--I mean, barring cataclysmic events like fascism and World Wars, you know, we struggle to get together around things, especially when it's at odds with our short-term interests. And as my character says it, the monkey brain--the monkey brain that just wants to maximal-ize all the time is really short-circuiting our own ability to move boldly. And it's kind of a dire conundrum that our makeup versus the needs of the moment.
MS. NORRIS: You know, there's a whole interesting body of research on risk aversion, you know, and how people just will do things that are not in their best interest, because risk is just too scary for them.
You mentioned that famous Dr. King quote. You know, our former attorney general, Eric Holder, has added an addendum to that, that I actually rather quite like, that the mark--the arc of moral justice--the arc of the universe bends toward justice but only if we reach out and grab it. It is not guaranteed that it will bend without--
MR. NORTON: Right.
MS. NORRIS: --without human action. Let's bring in a listener. We love our viewers and our listeners because they're very interactive, and we have a question from a gentleman, from Walter. His name is Walter. He lives in Virginia, and he asks, "How does the show address the climate equity problem? The people least responsible for causing climate change will likely suffer the most from its consequences."
MR. BURNS: I will go first. Please watch this Friday's episode because what it explores is exactly what happens in the Oval Office. There's a decision that's made at the end of Edward's episode, and we see the ramifications of that played out in the Global South. And when you watch these negotiations unfold, you very--you know, look, you can take whatever position you want on someone like Modi, but, you know, India has the opportunity to be an economic powerhouse if they burn a lot of coal. So when we ask them to forego that, how does that feel that we had 150-year head start with cheap energy to build our economies, and we're just supposed to say, "Hey, sorry. That was unfortunate on our part, but you can't do that"?
And so I think we do really take that part of the problem very seriously because we are now going to have to all work together, even though exactly, as you point out, this problem hasn't visited all of us equally. And unfortunately, a lot of these issues, you know, sea-level change, in particular, drought, these are going to be visited on the Global South and on people who do not have the economic resources. There's a line in that episode where Indira Varma, who plays Gita, says, you know, "I'm imagining you're all sitting in an air-conditioned room right now." So that is a huge part of the story, and I'm grateful for your question.
MS. NORRIS: Edward, did you want to answer Walter also?
MR. NORTON: No. I agreed. I think that the--is that the fifth episode that follows on mine?
MR. BURNS: Yeah.
MR. NORTON: Yeah. That whole episode takes place in India, and it's incredibly vivid. I thought--that was one of my favorite episodes, honestly, is the imagining of the impacts of conversations in one place being really physically imagined and realized in another, and it's very gripping, that episode.
MS. NORRIS: At last year's World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit, Edward, you said that the challenge of our air is climate change and sustainability, and as we noted, you are you are now a UN Ambassador for Biodiversity. In a film like this, you're taking on the kind of topics that are the subject of white papers and diplomatic roundtables, and you're taking this and interpreting it in a way that an audience that is watching this for entertainment on a Friday night, watching it with their kids, watching it on a little device while they're on a plane can take it in and understand it. What role does that--how does your role as a biodiversity ambassador mesh with your role as an entertainer, as an actor in Hollywood? Is it a challenge to bridge those two things, or does it enrich what you do in some ways and give you a second sight?
MR. NORTON: I think that narrative and storytelling are, you know, components of a lot of--a lot of this work. Biodiversity, in particular, is a very, by definition, sort of scientific, academic idea. A lot of people in modern life, certainly in modern urban life, don't experience their--you know, a sense of connectivity to biodiversity in their daily lives.
And I think in the first hundred years of environmental advocacy, biodiversity concerns were expressed as like elephant extinction or lion extinction, you know, the World Wildlife Fund's panda, kind of iconic macrofauna species, and the idea that there would be a spiritual sort of intrinsic loss if we lost those species.
I think that in the 21st century, we've got to understand biodiversity in a more sophisticated way. We've got to understand biodiversity as intrinsically intertwined with our entire global economy.
I like the example of pollinators. If you take--if you--there is no technology that can replicate what bees do for our agricultural industry. With a trillion dollars, you couldn't replicate what pollinators do, and the impact to not just what you would see on the grocery store shelves but literally the viability of our agricultural system if we lose--if we experience ongoing collapse of pollinators is--you know, is really catastrophic.
So I think whether as a narrative, dramatic storyteller or within the context of trying to help talk about biodiversity in ways that illuminate it, I think a lot of it is just narrative. It's about--that's what I think is compelling about--I'm not a scientist. I'm not--I've been--I've got a longstanding immersion in environmental issues. But I think sometimes these complicated issues need people to articulate them in accessible ways. They need--you need to draw mental pictures for people. You need to create lines of--you know, create consciousness of the lines that connect you to these academic ideas, and a lot of that is just about framing it in a narrative sense.
MS. NORRIS: You know, and it happens in such subtle ways in this series. There's a character played by Sienna Miller who notes in one of the early episodes, the bees are all gone. I mean, it's not like a thunderbolt or anything. It's just like it happened. They were here.
The pollinators are all gone. Scott, when you produced this film, was there any discussion about having some sort of warning attached to it? Because it is--I mean, it's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen, and often when I say that, the next question is don't go see it. But in this case, it's one of the most disturbing things I've seen, and I want everybody to see it because I think that people need to see and respond to this. So I guess it's two-part question. Should there have been a warning, and what do you want people to do on the other side of viewing this?
MR. BURNS: Oh, wow. That's a lot. You know, we do have a website at the end of the show that you can go where we offer, you know, people who are affected by climate-related anxiety. It's become a whole field.
You know, I can tell you that, in my experience--and, you know, I'm someone who has spent a fair amount of time immersed in not only the science but imagining what the science portends, like the best I've felt in the last few years is going to work every day with a bunch of people who talked about and focused on these problems. And so I think, like any movement, community and company and storytelling are what galvanize us and protect us.
When people talk about, well, geez, what about hope, you know, to me you just got to start replacing the word "hope" with the word "courage" and find characters and examples of people who had courage in the face of difficulty.
And that circles back to storytelling. People may not think of "Erin Brockovich" as a, you know, climate or environmental film, and yet it really is because we met someone who is from a certain background who made a series of choices and took on, you know, a big bad company. So, you know, that's the first part is I think, you know, you do have the power against this. You really do. And the narrative that you've been fed, sadly, is very similar to the narrative that, you know, we're watching again, you know, that we can't have--you know, we can't do anything about assault rifles. We can't do anything about racism. We're hopelessly divided over abortion. And so all of these things somehow are supposed to be taken away from me as a storyteller, and I really--I really wonder where that leads us as a society, because I learned a lot about the world around me from a movie like "Serpico." I learned about corruption. All of the movies that I've learned, you know--Edward's movie that took on white supremacy was incredibly interesting to me and helped illuminate that.
If we make everything that's challenging, something that needs to have a warning label, I really worry about the future of storytelling. I don't think that it exists merely as escapism, because if we keep using it just as escapism, the place that we have to return to afterwards is just going to get worse and worse.
MS. NORRIS: And, Edward, since this is essentially your hometown news organization, since you were--you grew up in Columbia, Maryland, we're going to claim you. Do you want to have the last word?
MR. NORTON: Baltimore might have something to say about that, but--
MS. NORRIS: Oh, okay. All right. Well, you know, I'm not going to wade in that water, but I'm just going to claim you.
MR. NORTON: I grew up with The Post on my doorstep.
MS. NORRIS: Do you want to have the last word and what you hope people will do after seeing this film?
MR. NORTON: I think that, you know, there are always those--there's those kind of bromides of like what are the little things each of us can do. I hate to say it, but I just--I personally hope that people will vote this issue more. I think that we--the place that we see real incrementalism, real dangerous incrementalism is in the sphere of national and international policy.
We continue to see attempts to roll back environmental regulation, and frankly, the incentive structures to move beyond carbon-based economy are just still not what they ought to be. And, you know, I want using LED light bulbs instead of incandescent to be what tips the balance, but it isn't. It's we need political will, and I think that we need--we need to continually make it a priority to bring political leadership to bear on these--you know, bring in political leadership that takes this stuff seriously. And maybe that's a generational shift. I don't know.
But also, I really do think there's value. Nothing moves as fast as we want, but I think there's value in more and more people absorbing that this is the moment that we're living in, you know, this--this is going to define the way people look at us in the future. The decisions are going to eclipse all of our geopolitical squabbles, all of our social squabbles about what are American values. Like, it will all look like idle dinner table chat while a house was burning if we don't--if we don't prioritize this discussion. And so I--to me, every measure--every measure of provocation, whether it's that documentary or dramatic, I think will--thinking in a dynamic way about what's coming for us and what we ought to do about it is healthy right now.
MS. NORRIS: That's an important point, the notion that this is happening right now. The very definition of extrapolation is the action of estimating or concluding or making some sort of conclusion based on existing trends, based on things that are actually happening right now.
Thank you so much for your work on this. Edward Norton, Scott Z. Burns, appreciate that you took time to talk for us--talk to us. The show is "Extrapolations." You can find it on Apple TV+, and I do hope you find it. Thanks to both of you.
MR. BURNS: Thank you.
MR. NORTON: Thanks so much.
MS. NORRIS: And to check out what interviews we have coming up, please go to WashingtonPostLive.com. You’ll find a full schedule there.
I'm Michele Norris. Thanks for being with us.
[End recorded session] | 2023-03-29T23:27:54+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2023/03/29/transcript-extrapolations-with-director-scott-z-burns-actor-edward-norton/ |
WAYNE COUNTY, Ind. — Every business selling food in Indiana gets inspected to make sure it is following the state’s food safety regulations. The inspection reports are available to the public.
However, getting access to those reports can be difficult to impossible depending on where you live.
For example; Marion, Hamilton and Madison Counties have restaurant inspection reports available online with the ability to look at past inspections. But in fast-growing Boone County, inspection reports are only available if you call or visit the health department.
Along the Ohio border, Wayne County has come up with a cheap, low-tech solution to place inspection reports right where restaurant-goers can easily see them. Every food service establishment is required to post its most recent routine inspection report right by the main entrance.
Executive Director Christine Stinson, “We just don’t have that ability to post inspection reports online, at this time. So, how do I make the public have easy access to it?”
So, Stinson pitched the idea of a report posting requirement to the county commissioners, who approved a new ordinance in September 2021.
“We spent the first year basically educating our establishments on where they need to post it, that it has to be posted, and it has to be the routine inspection report,” said Stinson.
There are other areas around the country where there is a posting requirement for restaurants. In New York City, and across the state of South Carolina, restaurants are required to post their grade from their most recent inspection.
In Wayne County, the entire report, including details on health code violations, gets posted.
Moises Zacatelco, co-owner of Little Sheba’s in Richmond, said the posting requirement keeps his restaurant’s management and staff on their toes.
“I believe it’s a great idea that it is on the door. It just reminds you and it reminds our crew, please, do your thing.”
Stinson said she’s gotten no pushback from restaurants or members of the public. In fact, she said people have come to depend on the posted reports.
“They appreciate that it’s there and they read it, and when it’s not posted, they ask. ‘Hey, where’s your most recent inspection report?’ ”
FOX59 did not contact every Indiana county to see if others have also moved to an inspection report posting requirement, but it appears Wayne County is the only one in Central Indiana to do so. | 2023-02-24T17:40:34+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/restaurant-inspection-reports-are-posted-right-by-the-front-door-in-wayne-county/ |
EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - Spider-Man, unicorns, or Mario — choosing a swimsuit for your child is tough. Now though, a recent viral post is showing parents how the color of the swimsuit matters more than the print.
The graphic, created by Alive Solutions, shows how visible different color swimsuits are under water. Colors like orange or neon yellow can be seen better underwater than the blues and greens.
Christine Mohr with the Eau Claire Parks Department said this was not something she had considered before, but thinks it is a genius idea, and just another way for parents to keep their children safe while swimming.
Mohr said that while swimsuit color is one way to help keep kids safe, when it comes to swim safety, nothing trumps adult supervision.
"So supervising your kids, staying within an arms reach, because even one little trip one little fall can cause them to fall face first so nothing is going to trump staying within an arms reach and staying and supervising the child," she said.
Mohr said other things parents can do is make sure kids are coming out of the water about once an hour to relax, rehydrate and have sun screen re-applied. And having your kids go through swimming lessons is another way to keep them safe around the water. | 2022-05-21T01:28:16+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/townnews/swimming/viral-graphic-shows-how-different-swimsuit-colors-look-under-water/article_5a4a3bee-d88d-11ec-ab10-c7cdf2212d0b.html |
TORONTO and CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CIBC announced today it is donating US$100,000 to support Hurricane Ian relief efforts.
"We join our clients and team members across North America in supporting efforts to help those affected by Hurricane Ian, the worst storm to impact Florida in decades, which has caused devastation," says Michael Capatides, CIBC Group Head, U.S. Region, and President & CEO, CIBC Bank USA. "Our thoughts are with everyone impacted, and our gratitude and appreciation goes out to first responders and others who are providing help at this difficult time."
Individuals and companies that want to help with the disaster relief efforts are invited to donate to the American Red Cross. Money raised will enable the Red Cross to provide immediate and ongoing relief activities in response to the disaster.
CIBC is a leading North American financial institution with 13 million personal banking, business, public sector and institutional clients. Across Personal and Business Banking, Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets businesses, CIBC offers a full range of advice, solutions and services through its leading digital banking network and locations across Canada, with offices in the United States and around the world. Ongoing news releases and more information about CIBC can be found at www.cibc.com/en/about-cibc/media-centre.html.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge will let House Republicans question a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump, ruling Wednesday that there is no legal basis to block the Judiciary Committee’s subpoena.
U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil rejected Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s request for a temporary restraining order, finding that committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, had a valid legislative purpose in issuing the subpoena to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.
“It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection,” Vyskocil wrote in a 25-page opinion. “Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law.”
Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, ruled two hours after a hearing in which she peppered lawyers on both sides with questions, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from the historic indictment.
Acknowledging the “political dogfights” surrounding the case, the judge said in her ruling that she “does not endorse either side’s agenda.” She encouraged both sides to speak and “reach a mutually agreeable compromise” on how Pomerantz’s deposition will proceed. Jordan is seeking to question him Thursday morning in Washington.
“Today’s decision shows that Congress has the ability to conduct oversight and issue subpoenas to people like Mark Pomerantz, and we look forward to his deposition before the Judiciary Committee,” Jordan’s spokesperson, Russell Dye, said in a statement.
Bragg’s office appealed the decision to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan and was seeking a stay to halt enforcement of the subpoena.
Pomerantz once oversaw the yearslong Trump investigation but left the job after clashing with Bragg over the direction of the case. He recently wrote a book about his work pursuing Trump and discussed the investigation in interviews on “60 Minutes” and other shows.
Bragg, a Democrat, sued Jordan and the Judiciary Committee last week seeking to block the subpoena. His lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, argued that seeking Pomerantz’s testimony was part of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” Bragg and that Congress was “invading a state” to investigate a local prosecutor when it had no authority to do so.
Boutrous said House Republicans’ interest in Bragg amounted to Congress “jumping in and haranguing the D.A. while the prosecution is ongoing.”
The Judiciary Committee started scrutinizing Bragg’s investigation of the former president in the weeks that preceded his indictment. Jordan sent letters seeking interviews with Bragg and documents before subpoenaing Pomerantz. In her ruling, Vyskocil said she would handle any legal fights that may arise from other subpoenas in the committee’s investigation of Bragg.
A committee lawyer, Matthew Berry, countered that Congress has legitimate legislative reasons for wanting to question Pomerantz and examine Bragg’s prosecution of Trump, citing the office’s use of $5,000 in federal funds to pay for Trump-related investigations.
Congress is also considering legislation, offered by Republicans in the wake of Trump’s indictment, to change how criminal cases against former presidents unfold, Berry said. One bill would prohibit prosecutors from using federal funds to investigate presidents, and another would require any criminal cases involving a former president be resolved in federal court instead of at the state level.
House Republicans, Berry said, want to protect the sovereignty and autonomy of the presidency, envisioning a scenario where the commander in chief could feel obligated to make certain decisions to avoid having local prosecutors in politically unfavorable jurisdictions charge them with crimes after they leave office.
For those reasons, Berry argued, Congress is immune from judicial intervention, citing the speech and debate clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Vyskocil presided over the hearing in a Manhattan courtroom that offered sweeping, high-level views that of the New York City skyline that Trump helped shape as a real estate developer, the courthouse where he was arraigned April 3, and the federal building where Jordan continued his war on Bragg by convening a hearing Monday on the prosecutor’s handing of violent crime.
Pomerantz declined comment as he walked out of the hearing holding a stack of papers with his book, “People vs. Donald Trump,” on top. His lawyer, Ted Wells, said he would accompany Pomerantz if he is made to testify. Neither Pomerantz nor his lawyers spoke during the hearing. But in a court filing, he aligned himself with Bragg’s position and maintained he should not be questioned by the committee.
Berry, the committee lawyer, argued that Pomerantz has already shared lots of information with the public about his work on the Trump investigation and the Judiciary Committee has the right to question him about it, too.
“I don’t think this is either rational or reasonable behavior that somehow the House Judiciary Committee committee ranks below ’60 Minutes,'” Berry argued.
Pomerantz can refuse to answer certain questions, citing legal privilege and ethical obligations, and Jordan would rule on those assertions on a case-by-case basis, Berry said, but he shouldn’t be exempt from showing up. If Jordan overrules Pomerantz and he still refuses to answer, he could then face a criminal referral to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress, but that wouldn’t happen immediately, Berry said.
Trump was indicted last month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty at an arraignment last week.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man during a raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.
The PA said the man, Ahmad Oweidat, was shot in the head. The army confirmed it carried out an arrest raid overnight at the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho. It said troops opened fire after dozens of Palestinians threw rocks and firebombs at soldiers.
In a separate statement, the army said 11 Palestinians suspected of militant activity were arrested in the West Bank.
The shooting came after days of rising tensions between Israel and the Palestinians following a string of deadly attacks inside Israel, arrest raids in the West Bank, clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, and the heaviest fighting along the Gaza frontier since a war last year.
Israel captured east Jerusalem — which includes major holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims — along with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories to form their future state. | 2022-04-26T11:34:23+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Palestinians-say-man-killed-in-Israeli-West-Bank-17126886.php |
The blue check mark on Twitter has long conferred status. Only certain accounts — typically those of public figures whose identities were confirmed — have been bestowed the symbol.
That’s changing.
Starting Saturday, many Twitter accounts will lose the check mark under modifications being made by Elon Musk, the social media company’s owner. Individual users must buy a subscription to Twitter’s Blue service, which costs $8 a month, to obtain the badge. Businesses that are currently unverified will have to pay $1,000 a month if they want a gold check mark verifying their account.
The move, which will help Twitter generate revenue by making certain features exclusive to subscribers, has implications for a range of users on the platform. Here’s what to know.
What does the change mean for Twitter users?
For those of you who primarily use Twitter to follow celebrities and news sites, this policy change will affect what you see and read on the service.
You may see fewer tweets from accounts you care about in your timeline, for instance, because individuals who choose not to pay for Twitter Blue will become less visible on the site.
It may become harder for most users to discern real people from phony accounts. If check marks are removed from the accounts of celebrities who are unwilling to pay for Blue, for example, it could become difficult to distinguish their accounts from impersonators.
Musk has said only posts from paid accounts with blue checks will be visible in Twitter’s “For You” tab, the default timeline of tweets that the platform shows you based on your interests. The only exception, he later said, will be posts from nonverified accounts that you already follow, which will continue showing up in your timeline.
All of this means it is likely to become tougher to discover posts from accounts without the blue check marks. For example, if you follow lots of news about sports and a nonverified account tweets some sports-related news, you won’t see it in your timeline unless you already follow that account. In the past, you may have found that content purely because it went viral.
One caveat to these likely changes is that Musk is not known for always following through on his public intentions. So parts of the check-mark policy could change as Twitter rolls it out.
Will people start paying for the check marks?
That all depends on whether the account holder derives enough value from having a blue check mark to justify paying for it.
Celebrities and institutions might choose not to pay because they already have large numbers of followers who will continue to see their posts.
News organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have said they won’t pay for verification. The New York Times said there might be some rare exceptions when necessary for reporting.
But other types of Twitter users might choose to pay for the check marks. Those include some small businesses that use Twitter to market their services and want their content to reach broader audiences. In this scenario, paying for verification will essentially be an advertising expense.
Twitter is set to make some exceptions regarding which companies get to retain their check marks without paying. In an internal document, the company said it would let the 10,000 most-followed organizations, and the top 500 advertisers, that have already been verified keep their status.
What’s going to happen to Twitter?
Among social media companies such as Meta and Snap, Twitter is the smallest social network, and the company continues to shrink in size and relevance.
Musk has shed much of Twitter’s staff, leaving the company with fewer than 2,000 employees, down from 7,500 when he took over in October. The site still has problems with bots posting spam and impostor accounts impersonating public figures. Security issues, glitches and bugs are piling up. And some influencers and journalists are migrating to other platforms, including Mastodon, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Information on news organiztions opting out of verification was added from Seattle Times wire services. | 2023-03-31T22:49:59+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/twitters-blue-check-apocalypse-is-upon-us-heres-what-to-know/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
The study of the origin, formation, development, as well as the characteristics, mechanisms, and traits of Chinese civilization attracts great attention worldwide.
BEIJING, June 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For a long time, some people held a skeptical attitude toward China's 5,000 years of civilization due to a lack of systematic data. Since its launch in 2001, the project to trace the origins of Chinese civilization has made significant achievements in restoring historical truth, countering skepticism, and presenting new evidence from archaeological excavations and scientific research.
The project has demonstrated how China developed its own unique path toward civilization through its unyielding determination and willpower. Studies have shown that around 5,800 years ago, the development in the complexity of prehistoric societies in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River and the west of Liaohe River basin accelerated, showing signs of the origin of civilization. For example, the Hongshan Culture in the west of Liaohe River basin formed a ceremonial and sacrificial center with stone altars, temples, and tombs, showing clear social differentiation and a theocracy-dominated regional civilization.
Starting 5,300 years ago, various regions in ancient China successively formed early states and entered the first stages of civilization. For example, the Liangzhu culture was characterized by mature rice farming, large-scale construction projects, exquisite pottery, jade wares, ivory scepters and textiles. The vast area had common spiritual beliefs, economic forms and a unified society, which formed the centralized social structure and the initial form of a "monarchy state."
About 4,300 years ago, due to environmental changes and social evolution, the once-prosperous regional civilizations in the Yangtze River and Liaohe River basin declined, while the civilizations in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, like the one around the Taosi site in North China's Shanxi Province, embraced diversified culture and continued to develop, opening a new historical chapter led by the Central Plains. The Taosi site is a large-scale city site with a magnificent palace as well as unearthed cultural relics such as pottery dragon plates, drums, special chimes, jade wares, copper bells, and painted wooden wares. Some researchers theorize that the Taosi site was "Pingyang, the capital of the legendary Chinese Emperor Yao" recorded in ancient books.
Around 3,800 years ago, civilization in the Central Plains region further developed, becoming the core and leader of the overall process of Chinese civilization.
The Erlitou site in Central China's Henan Province revealed a palace foundation composed of halls, courtyards, corridors, and gates. The site is believed to have been the capital of the middle and late Xia Dynasty (c.2070BC-c.1600BC). It is worth noting that the unearthed ritual wares of the Erlitou culture, such as jade wares, pottery wares, and turquoise-inlaid bronze ornaments show that Chinese civilization was entering a dynastic era in which Central Plains region dominated historical development while absorbing and integrating civilizations from all over.
The project has shown that early regional civilizations in China communicated with each other and gradually merged to form a common cultural gene, laying the foundation for the birth of a unified multi-ethnic country. About 6,000 years ago, the spread of painted pottery from the Yangshao Culture, the first culture in China discovered by modern archaeology, throughout the Central Plains shows that vast areas of eastern China had close cultural exchanges.
About 4,500 years ago, the Central Plains region actively absorbed beneficial cultural factors, allowing it to take the lead in cultural development. Wheat, cattle, sheep, and metallurgy native to West Asia were introduced into ancient China, greatly enriching Chinese civilization. About 3,800 years ago, a broad monarchy state centered around the Erlitou culture became the "earliest China," and this influential culture was later inherited by the Shang (c.1600BC-1046BC) and Zhou (1046BC-256BC) dynasties.
The project has raised the definition of civilization and recognized the Chinese approach to decide the standard of a civilized society, namely the development of agriculture and handicraft production, clear class differentiation, the appearance of cities with a formalized hierarchical social order, an increase in population and the emergence of urban centers, and the existence of public power (monarchy) with strong organizational and mobilizing capabilities. This standard is consistent with the characteristics of other civilizations worldwide, making a contribution to the study of world civilization.
In the future, the project will continue to explore unknowns, solve more historical mysteries, and showcase the development path of the Chinese nation and its significant contributions to world civilization, by organizing interdisciplinary efforts, broadening its temporal and spatial scope and deepening international cooperation and comparative research.
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Three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, Russian authorities said, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure of traffic in and out of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district.
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Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the airspace over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed to all aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street to traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
The attack follows a night of reported drone skirmishes between Russia and Ukraine. Moscow announced Sunday that it had foiled a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea, shooting down 16 drones and neutralizing eight more with an electronic jamming system. There were no casualties, officials said.
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The Ukrainian air force reported that it had destroyed four Russian drones above the country’s Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Information on the attacks could not be independently verified.
Meanwhile, two people were killed and 20 wounded by a Russian missile strike late Saturday evening on the city of Sumy in northeast Ukraine. A four-story building belonging to a vocational college was hit, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said. Local authorities said that dormitories and teaching buildings were damaged in the blast and the fire that followed.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Four days earlier, two drones struck the Russian capital, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-07-30T11:25:49+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/30/nation/an-overnight-drone-attack-moscow-injures-1-temporarily-closes-an-airport/ |
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Twist Bioscience Corporation ("Twist" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TWST).
Class Period: December 13, 2019 – November 14, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: February 10, 2023
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Twist lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/twist-bioscience-corporation/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants: (1) overstated the commercial viability of Twist's synthetic DNA manufacturing technology while engaging in accounting fraud and using unsustainable pricing to inflate the Company's true financial condition and prospects; and (2) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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Ugaaso Abukar Boocow has become an Instagram sensation by sending out stunning visual messages from an unlikely place: poor, suffering Somalia.
She was just a toddler when her grandmother fled with her to Canada to escape Somalia's civil war, leaving her mother behind.
Then last year, she decided to go back, moving to the capital, Mogadishu, and reuniting with her mother, whom she hadn't seen in over two decades.
And she didn't want her relatives in North America to worry. "When I was posting these pictures, it was just to let my family back in Toronto know that, hey, I'm safe. It's not, you know, all bad. It's not all blood and gore," she told Morning Edition's Renee Montagne.
It turns out that her family wasn't the only audience.
"I did not know that there were so many other people who were hungry for those positive pictures, those beautiful pictures, those random sometimes irrelevant pictures of everyday life in Somalia," says Boocow, now 27. "So now it's become a responsibility to continue showing the world the beauty Somalia is."
Her Instagram feed — full of selfies, pictures of friends, the beach — has nearly 60,000 followers and shows a side of Somalia not often see in the media.
She'll sometimes use the label #viewsfromthe252 — a tribute to Somalia's dialing code and to rapper Drake's album Views from the 6 (referring to his native Toronto's "416" and "647" area codes).
Among Boocow's Instagram highlights are pictures of the "exquisite" ruins of Somalia — "it's nostalgic for [Somalis] because they look at it and they say, 'This was an edifice that was properly built. And now look at it, it's just hauntingly beautiful."
She also features funny videos — monologues and skits in a mixture of Somali and English. She says she uses humor to poke fun at old traditions.
But she's also carrying on the country's tradition of storytelling via social media: "You need new forms to keep the old alive," she says, "and that's what I'm doing."
Reaction from Somalis has been positive. "I think they're really surprised that a young woman who grew up in Canada can speak her language fluently," she says, "so I am looked upon with awestruck faces and huge smiles."
She even gets recognized on the street: "I can tell you that I'm a prominent person in the city now. People actually get, you know, out of their seats to say 'hi' to me."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-11T07:31:16+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2015-03-27/her-instagram-feed-finds-the-fun-in-long-suffering-somalia |
M-25 resurfacing in Huron Co. starts Aug. 22
Published: Aug. 16, 2022 at 11:52 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
HURON CO., Mich. (WNEM) - The state transportation department is investing $3.3 million to resurface more than 16 miles of M-25 in Huron County.
The roadway will be resurfaced from the north city limit of Caseville to Larned Road. Work includes concrete sidewalk and pavement markings.
When construction work starts on Monday, Aug. 22, traffic will be maintained with lane closures and traffic regulators during the day. All closures will be removed at the end of each workday.
Based on economic modeling, the investment is expected to directly and indirectly support 42 jobs, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Copyright 2022 WNEM. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-16T17:24:33+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2022/08/16/m-25-resurfacing-huron-co-starts-aug-22/ |
Jackie Miller and panel of Bennett Day School faculty members to share insights on collaborative, child-centered design during the IDC'23 opening keynote address.
CHICAGO, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bennett Day School, a PreK-12 school in Chicago's Fulton Market/West Loop neighborhood, is thrilled to announce that Jackie Miller, Principal, has been selected as the opening keynote speaker at the 22nd annual ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference. She will be joined by five panelists, and fellow Bennett faculty members, Andy Rodgers, Emily Fields, Lisa Kennedy, Molly Simmons, and Zak Thompson.
The conference will take place from June 19 to June 23 at Northwestern University in Chicago. Hosted by Northwestern's Center for Computer Science and Learning Sciences, the IDC conference is widely recognized as the premier international gathering for researchers, educators, and practitioners in the fields of inclusive child-centered design, learning, and interaction.
"With over a decade of educational leadership in Chicago independent schools, Jackie's selection as the keynote speaker is a testament to her dedication to fostering collaborative and forward-thinking communities," says Cameron Smith, CEO, Co-Founder, and a school parent at Bennett. "Her commitment to student-centered learning and innovative educational practices aligns seamlessly with the conference's objectives, and we are immensely proud that she and other Bennett faculty members will be representing our school at IDC'23."
Combining their various areas of expertise and understanding of the Reggio Emilia approach, project-based learning, accessibility, and thoughtful co-design, Miller and the five Bennett panelists will share insights and tangible examples that aim to inspire and advance the future of inclusive and impactful educational practices.
The theme for this year's conference asks attendees to "rediscover childhood" after the pandemic as we re-engage and reconnect with one another. IDC'23 will serve as a vital platform for researchers, educators, and practitioners to exchange the latest research findings, innovative methodologies, and emerging technologies.
"We couldn't imagine a better opening keynote for our conference than Jackie," says Dr. Michael Horn, general chair for the conference and Northwestern Professor of Computer Science and Learning Sciences. "Attendees will gain unique insights from Bennett's innovation in student-engaged technology design and their application of the Reggio Emilia approach from early childhood through high school."
Since 2017, Bennett and Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) have collaborated together in a lab school partnership to inspire innovation among young students. The partnership is led by Bennett Early Childhood teacher Frances Judd and Northwestern's TIDAL Lab, a group that researches innovative, technology-based education.
For more information about the ACM IDC'23 Conference, please visit their official website at https://idc.acm.org/2023/.
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BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government said Monday it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet Union republics after Beijing’s ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they aren’t sovereign nations.
The governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rejected Ambassador Lu Shaye’s comment to a French broadcaster. While answering a question about the status of Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, Lu said there was no agreement to “solidify their status as a sovereign country.”
Beijing declared it had a “no-limits friendship” with Moscow before its 2022 invasion of Ukraine but has tried to appear neutral, calling for a cease-fire and peace talks. China has repeated Russian justifications for the invasion.
“China respects the sovereign status of the former soviet countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union,” said foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning. Mao said Beijing’s position is “consistent and clear” but gave no indication whether Lu’s comment was considered incorrect.
The ambassador drew a parallel with the Baltic nations and other former soviet republics that declared independence from Moscow when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
“With regards to international law, even these ex-Soviet Union countries, they do not, they do not have the status — how to say it? — that’s effective in international law, because there is no international agreement to solidify their status as a sovereign country,” Lu told news channel LCI.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he doesn’t recognize Ukraine’s sovereignty. The Kremlin has made clear that it sees the independence of the Baltic States and their role in NATO and the European Union as threats to Russian security.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government sees Moscow as a partner in opposing U.S. domination of global affairs.
Beijing has said it wants to act as a peace mediator, but governments including the United States say a cease-fire would legitimize Putin’s territorial gains.
“If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic States don’t trust China to ‘broker peace in Ukraine,’ here’s a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our countries’ borders have no legal basis,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Twitter.
The French foreign ministry noted that governments including China recognized Ukraine’s borders, including Crimea, when it declared independence in 1991. | 2023-04-24T11:20:52+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/china-affirms-ex-soviet-nations-sovereignty-after-uproar/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
This week's Miami food and drink events include a 44th anniversary special from Perry's Steakhouse, Nossa Omakase's dry-aged Japanese nigiri experience, Shokudo's anniversary celebration, Tacombi's new happy hour, and beer specials from Wynwood Brewing Co. for national IPA day and international beer day.
Know of any events that aren't on our list? Email [email protected].
click to enlarge Today is the last chance to indulge in Perry's 44th birthday special.
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Perry's Steakhouse & Grill Four-Course Birthday Special
Today is the last day to celebrate a special deal at Perry's Steakhouse & Grille in Coral Gables in celebration of the restaurant's 44th birthday. The four-course meal for $44 includes a starter, soup or salad, entrée, and a dessert. Featured choices include Perry's famous pork chop, chargrilled salmon, and (for non-meat eaters) the vegan skillet chopped steak.
4 p.m. to close, Monday, July 31, at 4251 Salzedo St., Coral Gables; perryssteakhouse.com.
click to enlarge Nossa Omakase's nigiri experience is available Tuesday through Thursday.
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Japanese Nigiri Experience
Nossa Omakase has extended its weekly nigiri experience. The special dining options continue Tuesday through Thursday when guests enjoy a 16-course omakase that features dry-aged Japanese bluefin tuna, dry-aged Japanese salmon, king salmon belly, and dry-aged blue nose medai (Japanese butterfish). The experience offers an intimate setting for up to 14 people per seating, with only one seating per day.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, at 1600 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. Dinner cost $185 per person via exploretok.com.
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Shokudo's $11 Anniversary Menu
Shokudo in Miami is celebrating its 11th anniversary with a special $11 menu. Throughout August, selected dishes will be available for $11 apiece, including the Shokudo roll (shrimp tempura, imitation crab, spicy tuna, avocado, kewpie mayo, and truffle eel sauce), the New York spicy tuna roll made with a spicy sesame oil, pork belly buns, and orange chicken. Four drinks are featured on the menu, allowing guests to opt for the "Otoko Highball" made with Truman vodka, ghee black pepper, blackberry, and Topo Chico sparkling water.
5 to 10 p. m. every day through August, at 4740 NE Second Ave, Miami; shokudomiami.com.
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Happy Hour Two-for-One Tacos at Tacombi
Tacombi has launched an all-new happy hour, and while you could always find deals like the $9 margaritas and $5 micheladas, now you can pair them with tacos. The offer includes two-for-one tacos like the Baja crispy fish taco, al pastor, vegetarian-friendly black bean and sweet potato, and the "Pollo Yucateco" marinated chicken tacos, all under $7 each.
4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the Miami Beach and Design District locations; tacombi.com.
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National IPA and International Beer Day
For all the craft beer fans, this week is time to celebrate — especially at Wynwood Brewing Co. The brewery offers two days of beer specials this week only, beginning Thursday, August 3, with national IPA day. Guests are invited to compete in a "Fool's Flight" game — if you guess the names of the IPAs correctly, you win a free beer flight. On Friday, in celebration of international beer day, to-go beer purchases are 20 percent off.
Thursday, August 3, and Friday, August 4, at 565 NW 24th St., Miami; wynwoodbrewing.com. | 2023-07-31T19:23:40+00:00 | miaminewtimes.com | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/things-to-do-in-miami-this-week-food-and-drink-events-july-31-august-4-2023-17509487 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Officers with the Albuquerque Police Department responded to a two vehicle crash in the area of Osuna Rd. NE and Wyoming Rd. NE around midnight Thursday into Friday. APD says one person died on scene from their injuries and another person was taken to a local hospital.
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Police say the condition of the person taken to the hospital is unknown. APD’s motors unit will be investigating the crash. No other details are available, KRQE News 13 will provide updates when more information is available. | 2022-06-03T15:38:53+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/apd-investigating-fatal-crash-in-northeast-albuquerque-2/ |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A judge Friday overturned a Washington state rule prohibiting insurers from using credit scoring to set rates for auto, homeowner and renter insurance.
Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler adopted the rule in February, immediately drawing a legal challenge from insurer groups. The rule, which was set to take effect March 4, was paused while the legal proceedings continued.
In her oral ruling invalidating the rule, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Indu Thomas said that Kreidler exceeded his statutory authority. Kreidler spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis said in an email that a written ruling from the court wasn’t expected until next week.
“We will consult with our assistant attorney general on next steps and whether to appeal the decision,” Marquis wrote.
Earlier this year, Kreidler’s office started the process of implementing the permanent policy after an emergency rule the commissioner issued last year was struck down by a court, which found there was no justification to bypass normal rule-making procedures.
Kreidler had argued that people who have struggled financially during the pandemic are at risk of having delinquencies show up on their credit reports, and has said insurers charge good drivers with low credit scores nearly 80% more for mandatory auto insurance.
Republicans, insurers and others decried the move at the time, saying that it would add costs to people on fixed incomes, like the elderly, who have benefited from reduced insurance rates because of their good credit scores.
“Today’s decision is a win for Washington consumers, especially seniors, who will be able to continue paying lower insurance rates that more accurately reflect their risk,” Erin Collins, senior vice president of state and policy affairs for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, said in a statement. | 2022-07-29T22:40:33+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-judge-overturns-new-insurance-rate-rule/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
MIDDLEBURY, Vt., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TIM TAM TUMMY proudly introduces the first and only kids kombucha. Committed to transforming the billion-dollar children's beverage category, TIM TAM TUMMY aims to outshine juice boxes and other old school options by providing families with an alternative that leads with probiotics to address the functional health benefits parents care about most.
"When it comes to better-for-you beverages, the kids' aisle has been largely left behind," says Mary Alice Greco, Chief Marketing Officer, TIM TAM TUMMY. "As a new parent, I am searching for organic options that bring nutrition, function, and kid-friendly flavor to the forefront. It's a joy to launch TIM TAM TUMMY, filling the gap with a product that addresses parents' and kids' top priorities – digestive health, immune function, convenience, and fun!"
TIM TAM TUMMY offers several unique benefits for kids' daily enjoyment:
- Children's Gut Health: TIM TAM TUMMY is the only kids beverage that offers 3 billion live probiotics and a daily dose of superfruit Vitamin C.
- Quality & Simplicity: TIM TAM TUMMY contains only five organic ingredients, free from artificial additives and alternative sweeteners.
- Super Tasty: TIM TAM TUMMY offers four fruit-forward flavors with gentle carbonation – Apple Happy Dance, Grape Day to Shine, Mango For It!, and Pineapple Party.
- Powering Adventures with Convenience: TIM TAM TUMMY comes in kid-sized self-stable cans, making them ideal for lunchboxes, after-school, and on-the-go adventures.
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TIM TAM TUMMY is trailblazing better for kids beverages with the first and only kids kombucha. Committing to sharing probiotics and positivity, TIM TAM TUMMY brings a one-of-a-kind duo of functional benefits to the juice aisle, without forfeiting flavor or fun. Each small yet mighty can delivers a daily dose of superfruit vitamin C + billions of live probiotics – proven to support digestive and immune health in young children. Made with as many ingredients as kids can count on one hand, TIM TAM TUMMY is lunchbox ready (shelf stable), super tasty, organic, and positively good for kids. Find this superhero of the tummy at select retailers including Hannaford, Fresh Thyme, and select North Atlantic Whole Foods Markets, as well as online at Thrive.com (starting August 2023) and timtamtummyforkids.com. Also available for wholesale at https://faire.com/direct/timtamtummy.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities on Sunday investigated a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35 people the previous day. In both cases, first responders tending to earlier collisions were among the dead.
Saturday's tragedies happened just 250 kilometers (155 miles) apart in southern Turkey. The first happened on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip when a passenger bus collided with emergency teams that had responded to a crash in Mardin Province, west of Derik.
Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were among the 15 people killed, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, Eight of the victims were from the bus, he said.
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The Ilhas News Agency said two of its journalists were killed after pulling over to offer help to people involved in the initial accident, in which a car came off the highway and slid down an embankment.
Television footage showed an ambulance with severe rear damage and the bus turned on its side along the highway. Gaziantep Gov. Davut Gul said 22 people were injured in the secondary crash.
The other incident happened late Saturday afternoon in Derik after the brakes of an articulated truck failed, causing it to crash into two other vehicles near a gas station.
As first responders worked at the scene and crowds gathered to watch, another truck lost control and ploughed into them.
Speaking from the site, Soylu said 20 people were killed and 26 injured. A police officer was among the victims, and two drivers were detained as an investigation was launched, he said.
Turkey has a poor record of road safety. Some 5,362 people died in traffic incidents last year, according to the government. | 2022-08-21T08:42:41+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/21/world/turkey-crashes-emergency-sites-kill-least-35-people/ |
Residents travel to find clean water to bring home
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The city has been under a boil water notice for more than a month. During that time, residents have had to boil their water before using it.
As a result, cases of bottled water have now become hot commodities in Jackson. Residents lined up one by one at distribution sites trying to get their hands on a case.
“I’ve been in line maybe for almost an hour. There are other things I could be doing,” said Patricia Watkins, who lives in Jackson.
Watkins was one of the hundreds in line. She said the water woes have caused a big inconvenience in her day-to-day routine.
She’s currently seeing low water pressure inside her South Jackson home.
“It’s been hard, especially when you have a family,” Watkins expressed. “Like right now, we just got one case. I mean, I am thankful, but you could have three or four or five people in your family,” Watkins said.
The latest round of water woes is due to a failure at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city’s main treatment facility.
Residents have been told their water isn’t safe to drink or give to their pets.
They’re also being told to only use bottled or boiled water just to brush their teeth.
However, some residents tell us they’ve been dealing with water woes in Jackson for decades.
“This has been an issue for me since I came down here to Tougaloo College in 1991, I was always told not to drink that water,” said Danyelle Holmes, who’s a national social justice organizer and a Jackson resident.
Holmes spent the day lending a hand at the different water giveaways, helping residents get safe drinkable water during this ongoing crisis.
She believes politics are being placed over people, which is contributing to this current problem.
She also believes Governor Tate Reeves should’ve acted sooner to help fix this issue.
“If we were talking about Madison County or if we were talking about Rankin county, we would not see these issues,” Holmes said. “The extreme racist politics that are being played, placing politics before people, it has to stop.”
There were two common sites at the bottled water giveaways. One site was hundreds of cars lining up to get the water. The second site was the demand being so high that the cases of water ran out, and man residents had to be turned around, leaving empty-handed. If you were not able to get your hands on any water today, the water giveaways will take place again tomorrow.
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Copyright 2022 WLBT. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-31T04:26:39+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/08/31/residents-travel-find-clean-water-bring-home/ |
District of Columbia Officer Michael Fanone and the others who responded to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, held the line in more ways than one. Sometimes that line can be convoluted and complicated and sometimes it is pretty straightforward.
I just finished reading “Hold the Line. The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul” by Fanone and John Shiffman, which recounts Fanone’s career and the events surrounding the insurrection.
My first takeaway was how just grateful I was for Fanone’s bravery in holding the line and for speaking out in defense of our democracy ever since. My second thought was just how complicated, nuanced and spot on Fanone’s thoughts on law enforcement and accountability are.
On Jan. 6, Fanone suffered a concussion, fell unconscious, and his heart briefly stopped. Rioters ripped his badge off, took his radio and tried to seize his weapons. One could be heard shouting, “Kill him with his own gun!”
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Fanone sums up the moral and professional dichotomy well with: “What happened to me on Jan. 6th is important. But my experiences before and after that day are equally relevant. They represent two of the most pressing issues we have as a nation: what police reform should look like, and how we choose to remember an attempted coup d’état.”
In our current tribal and hyperpartisan milieu, you can believe one of those ideas, but not both.
Fanone declared that he voted for Donald Trump with enthusiasm in 2016, saying Trump had great timing for launching his campaign in 2015 about the same time that racial justice protests grew into a national movement. “Most cops, reeling from the new dynamic, including demonizing and degrading rhetoric level against police, turned to the comfort food offered by Donald Trump and Fox News.”
Fanone describes his subtle transformation and explains the complex issues of policing in America: the consequences of race, drugs, guns and poverty that officers must face every day. But the trauma of Jan. 6 is woven throughout.
Fanone notes, “I don’t believe that police officers are above reproach, but I also don’t believe that all police officers are evil. In fact, I think it’s one of society’s most honorable, selfless professions. Some of the ‘Defund the Police!’ rhetoric on the left is moronic. At the same time, I see people on the right saying ‘We love the police, we just don’t love the police who responded on Jan. 6th.’ ”
Fanone isn’t alone. Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger rejected the comparison between the Jan. 6 insurrection and the urban riots and looting of 2020. As an Air National Guardsman, Kinzinger was deployed for the summer riots. Kinzinger noted, “Not once did I ever feel that the future of self-governance was threatened like I did on Jan. 6th. There is a difference between breaking the law and rejecting the rule of law, between a crime, even grave crimes, and a coup.”
The book begins with Fanone’s account of meeting House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in his office several months after the insurrection. Fanone was accompanied by Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Gladys Sicknick, the mother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died of wounds sustained on Jan. 6. Fanone told McCarthy that his Metropolitan Police Department partner, Jeff Leslie, narrowly escaped a Black Lives Matter protest over the summer, after someone placed a Molotov cocktail under his squad car.
Fanone described how those protests created “incredibly difficult challenges” for the police but went on to tell McCarthy that no one from the Black Lives Matter movement engaged in sedition. “Trying to overthrow the U.S. Capitol and trying to overthrow a CVS are two different things. My partner understands that, and most police officers, and most Americans understand that, too.”
It turns out that Fanone was right about that.
Polling before the midterm election showed that both crime and democracy were top concerns for voters. In a Pew Research poll in November, respondents were most concerned about the economy, followed by the future of democracy in the country. Violent crime came in fifth, tied with energy policy.
And when it came down to actual election results, there were two big takeaways from the midterms. Voters overwhelmingly rejected election deniers. Nearly every single candidate in battleground state races who denied or questioned the results of the 2020 election was defeated for elective offices that oversee, defend and certify elections. Voters also split their tickets, supporting a Democrat in one race and a Republican in another. These actions matter because even in this hyperpartisan era, the quality of individual candidates clearly still matters, and the Jan. 6 Select Committee Hearings, which included the testimony of Fanone, did resonate with voters. | 2023-01-05T11:48:29+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/lynn-schmidt-those-who-hold-the-line-deserve-respect-not-derision/article_c03b0bd2-8c5a-11ed-8b94-73114f4e43ea.html |
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I needed a better way to prevent painful calluses between my small toe and next toe," said an inventor, from Tuskegee, Ala., "so I invented the TOE SLEEVE SPACER. My design helps to separate the toes to prevent rubbing and without the need for foot surgery or callus removal procedures."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved way to separate the toes. In doing so, it helps prevent rubbing that could lead to the formation of calluses. As a result, it increases comfort and it allows the toes to breathe. The invention features a lightweight design that is easy to position and remove so it is ideal for individuals who experience calluses and other foot problems due to pressure, friction or rubbing of the toes. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Birmingham sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-BRK-4203, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The fight over IndyCar champion Alex Palou is headed to court as Chip Ganassi Racing filed a civil lawsuit in Indiana against the Spanish driver who is attempting to leave the team at the end of the season.
Palou is in his second season driving for Ganassi. The team owner said he picked up the exclusive option he held on Palou for the 2023 season. Palou, meanwhile, says he informed CGR he does not intend to return for a third season, and McLaren Racing said it has signed the driver for next year.
The lawsuit filed in Marion County Superior Court in Indianapolis names both Palou and ALPA Racing, which is listed as Palou’s “racing entity” as defendants.
“Alex Palou is under contract with Chip Ganassi Racing through the end of the 2023 season,” the team said in a Wednesday statement. “He is a valued member of our team, and we will continue to support him in chasing wins, podiums, and IndyCar championships.
“As the result of a competing racing team improperly attempting to contract with him notwithstanding the clear terms of our contract, we are proceeding to legal process pursuant to the contract. Any and all inquiries on the matter will be handled by our legal counsel.”
McLaren Racing head Zak Brown has repeatedly told The Associated Press that he signed Palou under the representation that Palou is a free agent. Brown has not decided where he’d use Palou, and the options range from a third seat in the IndyCar Series, a possible shot at a Formula One seat or even the new Formula E team it plans to launch next year.
Palou spent his first IndyCar season driving for Dale Coyne Racing in 2020 and then moved last year to Ganassi, where he won the championship and became the first driver since Dario Franchitti in 2012 to win races in Ganassi’s No. 10 car.
Ganassi on July 12 said he’d exercised the option on 2023 for Palou. Hours later, Palou issued a series of tweets stating he had no intention of returning to the team next year.
Minutes after Palou’s tweets, McLaren said it had signed the driver.
Palou has come under heavy scrutiny in the IndyCar paddock as the drama unfolds, with teammate Scott Dixon among those most critical of the way he’s handled the situation. Palou one month earlier had insisted he was not interested in leaving Ganassi, and now maintains his June statements were not a lie.
Palou is currently ranked sixth in the IndyCar standings, 44 points behind Indianapolis 500 winner and Ganassi teammate Marcus Ericsson. There are five races remaining in the season.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-27T20:52:03+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ganassi-sues-indycar-champion-palou-over-contract-disupte/ |
Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to relieve pressure on its border cities.
In the week since Washington dropped pandemic-era restrictions on seeking asylum at its border, U.S. authorities report a dramatic drop in illegal crossing attempts. In Mexico, officials are generally trying to keep migrants south away from that border, a strategy that could reduce crossing temporarily, but experts say is not sustainable.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported Friday that in the week since the policy change, Border Patrol averaged 4,000 encounters a day with people crossing between ports of entry. That was down dramatically from the more than 10,000 daily average immediately before.
Between the migrants who rushed to cross the border in the days before the U.S. policy change and Mexico’s efforts to move others to the country’s interior, shelters in northern border cities currently find themselves below capacity.
In southern Mexico, however, shelters for migrants are full and the government is busing hundreds of migrants more than 200 miles north to relieve pressure in Tapachula near Guatemala. The government has also said it deployed hundreds of additional National Guard troops to the south last week.
Segismundo Doguín, Mexico’s top immigration official in the border state of Tamaulipas, across from Texas, said last week that the government would fly as many migrants away from border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros as necessary.
The transfers were “lateral movements to other parts of the country” where there were not so many migrants, Doguín said. He called them “voluntary humanitarian transfers.”
The Associated Press confirmed Mexican flights from Matamoros, Reynosa and Piedras Negras carrying migrants to the interior over the past week. A Mexican federal official, who was not authorized to speak publicly but agreed to discuss the matter if not quoted by name, said approximately 300 migrants were being transferred south each day.
Among them were at least some of the 1,100 migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti and Cuba that the U.S. returned to Mexico in the week since the policy change.
“So the northern part of the migrant route is emptied out a bit, but the southern and middle parts remain extremely full and filling up all the time,” said Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight and a close observer of the border at WOLA, a Washington-based human rights organization. “Obviously, that’s an equilibrium that can’t hold for very long.”
Mexico has moved migrants south in the past when there was concern about northern border cities’ capacity, but this time there are additional factors.
While the country’s shelters for migrants in the south are full, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute has closed its smaller migrant detention centers around the country and has undertaken a review of its large ones after 40 migrants died in a fire at a small detention facility in the border city of Ciudad Juarez in March.
The federal official said Mexico’s largest immigration detention centers are mostly empty. Two other federal officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said Friday that “Siglo XXI,” Mexico’s largest detention center, was empty.
Tonatiuh Guillén, former head of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, said Mexico’s actions are contradictory — on one hand telling the United States it will contain migrants in the south, but on the other detaining fewer.
One morning this week, several hundred migrants waited on the outskirts of the southern city of Tapachula for government buses that would carry them to Tuxtla Gutierrez some 230 miles north.
Guillén said the document Mexico is issuing now to some migrants in Tuxtla Gutierrez — an expulsion order that gives migrants days or a couple of weeks to leave the country — does not give them other options, making it harder for them to seek international protection.
Edwin Flores of Guatemala had been trying to get to the U.S. on his own, but when he heard about the government buses from Tapachula he decided to give it a try.
“They haven’t told us exactly what permit they’re going to give us, only that we have to continue the paperwork process there in Tuxtla Gutierrez,” Flores said. Other migrants reported arriving there, but not receiving any document.
“We have heard on the news about all the changes to the law they have made, and the massive deportations from the United States,” Flores said. But it didn’t change his plans, “because the goal is to arrive and see for yourself what is happening.”
He said he wanted to get an appointment with U.S. authorities to make his case for asylum. He said he was a private security guard in Guatemala and gangs tried to recruit him as their eyes in the street.
On Wednesday, the United Nations refugee agency in Mexico said it was worried about the pressure on migrant shelters in southern Mexico and Mexico City. “In addition to the people arriving from the south, some shelters have already received Venezuelans deported from the U.S,” the agency said via Twitter.
A Venezuelan, who gave only his first name, Pedro, to avoid repercussions, said this week that he had entered the U.S. illegally last week just before the policy change, but was returned back to Mexico at Piedras Negras.
“They put us on a bus, gave us a snack and took us to the airport,” said the 43-year-old, who had previously obtained legal residency in Mexico. He spoke from a migrant shelter known as “The 72” in Tenosique near the Guatemalan border. “They left us in an industrial area of Villahermosa. There they let us go and I came here defeated.”
Amid all of the movement, migrants are easy targets. Gangs have kidnapped them from the streets of border cities and entire busloads in north-central Mexico.
This week, a busload of migrants disappeared near the border of San Luis Potosi and Nuevo Leon states. The migrants said a drug cartel abducted them when their bus stopped at a gas station. They had been travelling from the southern state of Chiapas.
Bus company officials first reported the abduction on Tuesday, and told local media they had received demands for $1,500 apiece to release the migrants.
In the days after their abduction, 49 were found — Hondurans, Haitians, Venezuelans, Salvadorans and Brazilians among them — but authorities weren’t entirely sure how many of them had been on the bus to begin with.
“In whose hands are the people migrating?” asked Alejandra Conde, who works at “The 72” migrant shelter in Tenosique, one of the largest in southeast Mexico. It’s like “a Machiavellian strategy between authorities and organized crime.”
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Clemente reported from Tapachula, Mexico. Associated Press writer Christopher Sherman in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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‘Dahmer’ becomes third series to pass 1 billion hours viewed on Netflix
Posted/updated on: December 5, 2022 at 3:01 pmThere’s a new addition to the 1 billion hours viewed club over on Netflix.
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is now the third series to have passed the milestone in its first 60 days while on the streaming service, joining popular titles Squid Game and Stranger Things 4.
The series, from creator Ryan Murphy, stars Evan Peters as the titular serial killer. It spent seven weeks on the Netflix Global Top 10, appearing on the list in over 90 countries.
In November, Netflix renewed Monster for two more seasons, guaranteeing the franchise will return with two installments that will “tell the stories of other monstrous figures who have impacted society.”
Dahmer is second-most-popular English language Netflix series of all time, following only Stranger Things 4.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Evening" game were:
01-04-05-08-14-16-23-27-34-36-40-42-44-48-49-56-60-64-73-76, BE: 1
(one, four, five, eight, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-four, thirty-six, forty, forty-two, forty-four, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty-six, sixty, sixty-four, seventy-three, seventy-six; BE: one) | 2022-12-21T05:15:47+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Evening-game-17668295.php |
LONDON , Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MUSO, a London-based data company that provides a complete and trusted view of global piracy and unlicensed media consumption, announced today that it has received a £3.2M investment from Puma Private Equity, a leading provider of growth capital to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) across all sectors and regions of the UK.
MUSO has seen a 25% increase in general digital piracy year-on-year, when comparing H1 of 2021 to H1 of 2022. Its unique and transformative data is fast becoming a must have data-currency for entertainment companies and is already used by the likes of Amazon Studios, National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), NOS, Lionsgate, MNRK (formally eOne Music), Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe, and more. MUSO's technology measures hundreds of billions of visits to Piracy websites each year and provides unrivaled consumption and audience data that allows rights holders to better protect their content from Piracy but also increase their revenues.
This investment showcases Puma Private Equity's commitment to supporting growing SMEs in their ambitions to scale, the £3.2M investment will support the establishment of MUSO's marketing function and larger build out of its sales teams in both the United Kingdom and United States.
"Piracy remains a significant issue for the entertainment industry, but MUSO's data enables companies to use it to discover vast, valuable as up to now, unseen audiences' said Andy Chatterley, Chief Executive Officer of MUSO. "Our customers are using our data to acquire and commission content, unlock new marketing opportunities, leverage value in licensing negotiations, maximize and optimize windowing strategies. MUSO is a game-changer to the entertainment industry's approach to piracy. We are turning the tables on two decades of losses and creating value-driven opportunities from this challenging inevitability of digital consumption.
He added, "This investment from Puma Private Equity comes at an incredibly transformative time for MUSO. Piracy continues to be a major problem for rights holders and we are committed to implementing new strategies that allow us to not only protect content but to provide increased commercial value by measuring understanding and activating our audience data. We will be deploying this investment into expanding our sales and marketing teams and activities to highlight MUSO's valuable products and data to the global entertainment industries."
Puma Private Equity offers growth capital and expertise to best-in-class, ambitious businesses across the UK, irrespective of sector, and works in partnership with management to help businesses scale and create long-term value. It aims to deliver insight, expertise, and a fresh perspective to the portfolio companies it partners with. Having invested in and worked with more than 35 organizations across a breadth of sectors from consumer e-commerce to fleet transport safety and influencer marketing, Puma Private Equity has deep insights and experience in scaling businesses for growth and where desired, successful sale and exit.
"We're pleased to have completed our investment in MUSO, as we believe the business shows significant growth potential," said Harriet Rosethorn, Investment Manager at Puma Private Equity. "As on-demand streaming platforms grow and drive a fragmentation of content distribution, global firms like MUSO will play an increasingly important role in monitoring and tackling piracy. This deal is just the latest example of Puma Private Equity's long track record of supporting companies with untapped growth potential. We look forward to working closely with the team to achieve their goals."
MUSO engaged M&A Advisor Lazarus Consulting to find and secure the right investor for the company.
ABOUT MUSO
MUSO's unique datasets shine a light on audiences that are not revealed through traditional panel-based measurement. MUSO is the first data company to directly and comprehensively measure audiences across both streaming and P2P sites. The growth of on-demand streaming platforms is driving fragmentation of content distribution, but content is increasingly gated whilst audience demand for unlicensed digital content grows.
From May 2021-2022, MUSO measured more than 201 billion visits to digital piracy websites. This is a vast audience that is not influenced by licensing restrictions or platform bias, making MUSO's data uniquely valuable to digital rights-holders. For more information, visit www.muso.com.
ABOUT PUMA PRIVATE EQUITY
Puma Private Equity is a leading provider of growth capital to SMEs across all sectors and regions of the UK, delivering investments between £2 million to £10 million and partnering with management teams to accelerate growth and help businesses achieve their potential. Further information on Puma Private Equity can be found at www.PumaPE.co.uk. Puma Private Equity is the private equity division of Puma Investments.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight out of Los Angeles International Airport was detained for triggering the plane’s emergency slide prior to takeoff, authorities said.
The passenger opened an emergency exit door around 10 a.m. Saturday, causing the emergency slide to deploy as the plane was pushing away from the gate, according to Los Angeles Airport Police.
The aircraft returned to a gate and passengers were put on another plane, said airport police Captain Karla Rodriguez.
Rodriguez said the person was not arrested, but "transported to a local hospital for mental evaluation.”
The FBI was notified, she said.
Delta didn't immediately respond Sunday to a request for more information.
The flight was heading from LAX to Seattle. | 2023-03-26T15:57:20+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/police-passenger-pulled-jet-s-emergency-slide-at-17860880.php |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sporadic armed clashes between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and government forces are straining peace efforts, and the rivals are now also battling over revenue from ports, trade, banking and natural resources, the country’s U.N. envoy said Monday.
Special Representative Hans Grundberg told the U.N. Security Council that the fight over economic wealth “has become inseparable from the political and military conflict.”
While fighting has decreased markedly in Yemen since a truce in April 2022, he said, “continued sparks of violence alongside public threats to return to large-scale fighting increase fear and tensions.”
Grundberg said Yemenis have enjoyed the longest period of relative calm since the civil war erupted in 2014, but “the situation on the ground remains fragile and challenging.” He pointed to clashes in five frontline areas, including Hodeida where Yemen’s main port is and the oil-rich eastern province of Marib which Iran-backed Houthi rebels attempted to seize in 2021.
Yemen’s conflict began when the Houthis swept down from their northern stronghold and chased the internationally recognized government from the capital of Sanaa. A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year on behalf of the government and in time the conflict turned into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The war has devastated Yemen, already the Arab region’s poorest country, and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. More than 150,000 people, including fighters and civilians, have been killed.
The restoration of Saudi-Iran ties in April has raised hopes of progress in ending the conflict.
Grundberg said that although the truce was not renewed when it expired last October, the lessening of combat has opened the door for serious discussions with the parties on ending the war. He urged both sides to take “bold steps” toward peace.
“This means an end to the conflict that promises accountable national and local governance, economic and environmental justice, and guarantees of equal citizenship for all Yemenis, regardless of gender, faith, background or race,” he said.
On the economic front, Grundberg said, the value of the Yemeni riyal has dropped more than 25% against the U.S. dollar in the past 12 months in the southern port city of Aden, which is now the seat of the internationally recognized government. Conflict-related road closures have more than doubled the cost of transporting goods, he said.
Joyce Msuya, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said 17.3 million of Yemen’s 21.6 million people need aid. She said one of the main reasons for the immense level of humanitarian needs is the deteriorating economy.
“Only by stabilizing the economy can we reduce the staggering number of people in need,” she said. She said that includes “the long overdue resumption of oil exports from government-held areas” and an end to the “obstruction to the transport of commercial goods from government- to Houthi-controlled areas.”
Halfway through the year, Msuya said, the $4.3 billion U.N. appeal for Yemen is only 29% funded and the World Food Program’s operation to help the severely malnourished is reaching just 40% of needs. Without more funding by September, she said WFP “may be forced to cut as many as five million people from food assistance.”
U.N. humanitarian coordinator David Gressly reported a key step in efforts to avoid an environmental disaster in the Red Sea, telling the council that the Houthis provided authorization Monday for the transfer of 1.1 million barrels of crude oil from the Safer, a rusting tanker moored 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeida.
The Yemeni government bought the tanker in the 1980s to store up to 3 million barrels of oil pumped from the Marib oil fields. Because of the war, the tanker was not maintained since 2015, with seawater seeping into the hull causing damage that increased the risk of sinking and a major oil spill.
Gressly said that since the salvage ship Ndeavor arrived at the Safer site May 30 it has stabilized the tanker so its oil can be transferred. He said the tanker Nautica is preparing to sail from Djibouti and should start taking on oil from the Safer by early next week. The operation will take about two weeks, he said.
“The completion of the ship-to-ship transfer of the oil will be a moment when the whole world can heave a sign of relief,” Gressly said. | 2023-07-11T15:56:10+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-yemens-rivals-are-not-only-clashing-on-the-ground-but-battling-economically-for-revenue-from-ports/ |
CUSTOMERS ARE PROVING TO MAKE STILLY THE SIGNATURE COCKTAIL OF SUMMER 2022
STILLWATER, Minn., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STILLY, the new brand of ready-to-drink cocktails in a can that was released to liquor stores across Minnesota earlier this month, is already making a big splash among consumers.
STILLY beverages are NOT seltzers, and they're not your ordinary cocktails in a can; they're an all-new category of unique adult beverages called a "stilly." A "stilly" is a light and refreshing cocktail made with premium vodka or other distilled spirits, fine bubbles, a squeeze of natural juices, and natural flavors. The exact ingredients and processes used to make a "stilly" are a closely guarded secret, but consumers are proving to love the taste of this unique and naturally refreshing beverage.
STILLY branded beverages hit liquor stores throughout Minnesota days before the 4th of July holiday. A little over two weeks later, consumers can find them in over 300 liquor stores across Minnesota. New stores are being added daily.
"We have been overwhelmed by the demand and could not be more excited for what's ahead," said Nick Barthelemy, CEO and Co-founder of STILLY SPIRITS, LLC., based out of Stillwater, MN. "We are already selling through supply into late summer and fall. We are thrilled people love our product as much as we do."
The company introduced three distinctly delicious flavors of the "vodka stilly" in a variety pack (6 cans/3 flavors) of 12 oz slim cans for $14.99. The three varieties available now include "Partymaker+" (cranberry lime), "Vibe Machine" (grapefruit), and "The Fuzz" (peach). More flavors will hit the market soon.
"We rarely see a launch this successful. Customers are buying out the product within days of it reaching stores," said Keith Donovan, general sales manager for Bellboy Corporation, the distributor of STILLY branded beverages. "We pre-sold the entire first run before it even hit the production line, and the demand from our customers continues to grow with every person who tastes it."
What started as an idea less than a year ago, with the support of family and friends, has turned into not only a new product line but a lifestyle brand. "We all live for the enjoyable moments in life. So we want to inspire people to take a moment, crack a STILLY and a smile, relax, have fun, and enjoy the STILLY Life, all while making memories together," said Barthelemy.
Later this summer, the company will launch a line of merchandise, including hats, T-shirts, coolers, golf accessories, boat flags, etc., to be sold on Stilly.com.
About STILLY™:
STILLY™ beverages are NOT seltzers, and they're not your ordinary cocktails in a can; they're an all-new category of unique adult beverages called a "stilly." A "stilly" is a light and refreshing cocktail made with premium vodka or other distilled spirits, fine bubbles, a squeeze of natural juices, and natural flavors. The exact ingredients and processes used to make a "stilly" are a closely guarded secret, but consumers are proving to love the taste of this unique and naturally refreshing beverage.
The company introduced three distinctly delicious flavors of the "vodka stilly" in a variety pack (6 cans/3 flavors) of 12 oz slim cans for $14.99, with more to be launched in the fall. The three varieties available now include "Partymaker+" (cranberry lime), "Vibe Machine" (grapefruit), and "The Fuzz" (peach). STILLY branded beverages can be found at more than 300 liquor stores throughout Minnesota.
STILLY™ is owned by STILLY SPIRITS LLC, based out of Stillwater, MN. For more information, go to Stilly.com and follow on social media @drinkstilly.
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Keith Donovan
General Sales Manager
Bellboy Corporation
Kdonovan@bellboycorp.com
(612) 615-1412
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NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyfebulb, a patient-empowerment platform that bridges patients with industry to support user-driven innovation, education and connectivity, is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 "Addressing Unmet Needs in IBD" Innovation Challenge in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb.
The finalists, who were co-selected by the Lyfebulb and Bristol Myers Squibb teams, are ten inspirational innovators showing great promise of improving unmet needs of the IBD community for better disease management and care. The potential impact on patients and their loved ones, as well as the feasibility and sustainability of innovations in the market, were considerations in the selection of the following finalists:
For-profit:
- Alex Menys, PhD, CEO, Motilent
- Avi Dukler, PhD, Managing Member, Glycominds
- Kari Furu, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Genetic Analysis
- Kishore Pardasani, President, MK Tech LLC (OstoBuddy)
- Sam Jactel, Founder & CEO, Ayble Health
- Sriram Muthukumar, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO, EnLiSense
- Tim Rudolphi, CEO, metaMe Health
Not-for-profit:
- Eric Zuckerman, DO, Board Chair, Pediatric IBD Foundation
- Majdi Osman, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, OpenBiome
- Manda Barger, Director of Development, Girls With Guts
"It is promising to see so many strong innovators working to solve the unmet needs of the inflammatory bowel disease community." said Karin Hehenberger, MD, PhD, founder, and CEO at Lyfebulb. "There is certainly a great need for innovation in this field, and we are excited to be showcasing and promoting global entrepreneurs and advocates through this innovation challenge and beyond."
The finalists will be joined by industry leaders spanning business, venture capital, and health care industries for a summit at BMS' offices in Princeton, New Jersey on January 25, 2023. Each finalist will present their solutions to an expert panel of judges, which includes:
- Greg Lewis, President & Managing Partner, Calcium
- Jackie Zimmerman, IBD Patient Ambassador
- Russell J. Wyborski, PhD, Director of IBD Ventures Investments, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
- Sophie Balzora, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Stephen Squinto, PhD, Chief Investment Officer, J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital
The judges will select a winner in each category of finalists. The Innovation Award, with a $25,000 monetary award, will be presented to a for-profit company to further the growth of their solution. The Impact Award will be presented to a not-for-profit company and also includes a $25,000 monetary award.
To learn more about the Innovation Challenge, visit Lyfebulb.com.
Lyfebulb empowers people living with chronic illnesses to thrive through education, innovation and connectivity. The company bridges the gap between patient communities and the healthcare industry by working directly with patients and care partners to generate insights and build new solutions to reduce the burden of living with chronic disease. The company operates three digital patient communities, TransplantLyfe, IBDLyfe, and RareCancerLyfe. For more information, visit Lyfebulb.com, TransplantLyfe.com, IBDLyfe.com, RareCancerLyfe.com, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Karin Hehenberger's personal LinkedIn.
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CEO & Founder, Lyfebulb
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HOUSTON — Texas plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions early this year in violation of state law, three death row inmates allege in a lawsuit.
Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Balentine and Ruiz, who are both set for execution in February, criticized Texas’ secrecy in matters related to its execution procedures.
State lawmakers banned the disclosure of drug suppliers for executions starting in 2015. The Texas Supreme Court upheld the law in 2019.
“Texas continues to just really rely on secrecy in these executions and that’s why they’re trying to do an end run around this lawsuit because they don’t want to tell anybody that these drugs are expired,” Nolan said.
Attorneys for the inmates have asked for an evidentiary hearing to determine if prisoners are at “serious risk of pain and suffering in the execution process,” Nolan said.
There has been a history of problems with lethal injections since Texas became the first state to use this execution method in 1982. Some problems have included difficulty finding usable veins, needles becoming disengaged or issues with the drugs.
Like other states in recent years, Texas has turned to compounding pharmacies to obtain pentobarbital, which it uses for executions, after traditional drugmakers refused to sell their products to prison agencies in the U.S.
“All lethal injection drugs are within their use dates and have been appropriately tested,” Amanda Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, said in an email Tuesday.
But in a 15-page declaration submitted in support of the death row inmates’ lawsuit, Michaela Almgren, a pharmacology professor at the University of South Carolina, said she concluded after reviewing state records that “all the pentobarbital in TDCJ’s possession is expired, as it is far beyond” the specified beyond use date.
“A drug that has surpassed its (beyond use date) is at risk of stability and sterility failings and may not retain sufficient potency, thus it must not be used,” Almgren wrote.
She found that some vials of pentobarbital were more than 630 days old while others were more than 1,300 days old, well over their beyond use date limit of 24 hours when stored at room temperature. If such compounded drugs are frozen, their beyond use date limit is 45 days.
Department records obtained by attorneys for the inmates showed that prison officials did potency testing of their supply of pentobarbital that extended its beyond use date to September and November.
But Almgren called the state’s testing “completely unscientific and incorrect, and therefore the results are invalid.”
Nolan said that using expired drugs would violate several state laws, including the Texas Pharmacy Act and the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
Fratta joined the lawsuit after it was filed. Lawyers for all three inmates say they not trying to stop the state from “carrying out lawful executions.”
“If the state wants to go forward with these executions, they can do that. They just need to get non-expired drugs,” Nolan said.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 2023-01-03T22:53:50+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/inmates-allege-texas-to-use-unsafe-drugs-for-executions/2023/01/03/59707744-8bb4-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html |
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban firefighters were joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela on Sunday as they battled for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm in the western province of Matanzas.
The blaze began Friday night when lightning struck a storage tank during a thunder storm, and the fire spread to a second tank early Saturday, triggering a series of explosions, officials have said.
Authorities said Sunday that a body found at the site had been identified as firefighter Juan Carlos Santana, 60. Officials previously said a group of 17 firefighters had gone missing while trying to quell flames, but there was no word if he was one of those.
A total of 122 people had been treated for injuries, including five in critical condition, officials said.
Provincial Gov. Mario Sabines said Sunday that 4,946 people had been evacuated, mostly from the Dubrocq neighborhood, which is next to the Matanzas Supertanker Base in Matanzas city. The facility’s eight huge storage tanks hold oil used to fuel electricity generation.
Dense black smoke billowed up from the tank farm and spread westward more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) to Havana. The Ministry of Science and Technology said Sunday that the cloud contained sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and other toxic substances.
The disaster comes as Cuba struggles with a severe economic and energy crisis, with frequent power blackouts hitting during a torrid summer. It was unknown how much fuel had been lost to the flames.
Cuba’s government had appealed for help Saturday from oil nations, and specialized firefighting teams began arriving with their equipment from Mexico and Venezuela late Saturday.
“The support (is) in the prevention of risks and also help to quell the fire by means of cooling based on water and foam,” Mexican Brig. Gen. Juan Bravo said upon arrival. “We hope that more support will arrive soon, such as chemical material.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said Saturday evening that the U.S. government had offered technical help. On his Twitter account, he said the “proposal is in the hands of specialists for the due coordination.”
Minutes later, President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked Mexico , Venezuela, Russia, Nicaragua, Argentina and Chile for their offers of help.
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Andrea Rodríguez on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ARodriguezAP | 2022-08-07T15:49:57+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/firefighters-battle-blaze-at-oil-storage-site-for-2nd-day/ |
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ifeoma C. Udoh as its new Executive Vice President of Policy, Advocacy and Science. In this role, Dr. Udoh will lead the organization's efforts to develop policy strategy, advance advocacy initiatives and lead research that promotes the organization's mission and values.
Dr. Udoh is a highly accomplished health scientific leader with nearly 20 years of experience in implementing science-driven and community-based solutions towards the advancement of health equity. Prior to joining BWHI, Dr. Udoh served as Senior Research Scientist and Managing Director at ETR, a non-profit organization committed to improving health outcomes and advancing health equity for youth, families, and communities. There she was pivotal in shaping the organization's impact in health education and the well-being of individuals and communities.
As Executive Vice President of Policy, Advocacy and Science, Dr. Udoh will lead BWHI's work to engage with key stakeholders, including policymakers, government officials and other organizations, to advance its policy and advocacy objectives.
"The Black Women's Health Imperative policy efforts center Black women in legislation.
The problems Black women face are complex and influenced by multiple societal, political, and economic factors. Dr Udoh will lead a team to mobilize the legislative community to ensure reproductive justice for Black women; that they have access to quality care and are included in clinical research. And, she will ensure Black women's voices are heard in the halls of Congress at the Federal level and in State Houses across the nation. As we build the future for Black women's health, we strive to bring data, science, and evidence to address our most pressing issues. We couldn't be more pleased to have Dr Udoh bring her considerable skills and expertise to this work." said Linda Goler Blount, MPH, President of BWHI.
Dr. Udoh earned her Bachelor of Science degrees in Microbiology and Molecular genetics from the University of California Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley. She has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is a recognized expert in healthcare programming, policy, and practice.
"I am filled with honor and joy to join the ranks of an organization with the history and impact that BWHI has in the uplifting of health equity needs of Black women and girls. We are at a critical crossroads in the health policy and health access needs in this country for women, and I am honored that I will get to work with dedicated partners and team members who are driven to improve the outcomes on Black women's health by driving forward evidence and science into policy and practice," said Dr. Udoh.
Dr. Udoh will represent BWHI at the National Urban League's 2023 Legislative Policy Conference as a panelist during the session entitled "Protecting Black Women's Health" for Women's History Month.
This event will be live and in person and will take place on Tuesday, March 7th, 2023, from 11:00am EST to 12:30pm EST.
About BWHI:
Established originally as the National Black Women's Health Project in 1983, the BWHI is the oldest national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and wellness of our nation's 21 million Black women and girls — physically, emotionally, and financially. Our core mission is advancing health equity and social justice for Black women, across the lifespan, through policy, advocacy, education, research, and leadership development. https://bwhi.org/
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Kate Krauss, Executive Director & COO, will take the helm in January 2023 as Oran B. Hesterman steps into new role as Founder & Resident Champion
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Food Network, a national nonprofit and investor, announced today that Kate Krauss, current Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer, will become Chief Executive Officer in January 2023 as Oran B. Hesterman transitions into a supporting role as Founder & Resident Champion.
Since 2009, Fair Food Network has transformed the way resources flow through the food economy in service of its mission: to grow community health and wealth through food. The organization's nutrition incentive work expands healthy food access, sparking opportunities for local farmers, food entrepreneurs, and retailers; its investments in local food businesses bring nourishment to their communities and strengthen local economies.
Fair Food Network's signature program, Double Up Food Bucks, matches SNAP benefits (formerly known as food stamps) spent on fruits and vegetables; its national model has been adopted by partners in 28 states. The organization also leads technical assistance and innovation for the Nutrition Incentive Hub, a USDA-supported center launched in partnership with Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. Fair Food Network's impact investing work fuels the success of food entrepreneurs by providing catalytic capital, wrap-around business services, and a commitment to place-based investing collectives.
"Oran has planted the seeds for sustainable agriculture and food systems that have grown into a national movement; I feel honored to be able to call him a mentor. And I am honored to assume this new role, and lead such an incredible team in our next chapter of work," says Kate, who was identified as Fair Food Network's next successor after seven years of expanding and strengthening the organization. "I love that food can be both a source of joy and a path to justice," she continues. "It can also bring people together to take collective action. We're living through a time that demands systemic change, and I'm thrilled to further explore how food can act as a starting point for transformation."
In his new role as Founder & Resident Champion, Oran will continue to promote food-centric solutions, mentor the next generation of leaders, and collaborate with partners, funders, and policymakers to create positive change.
"Founding and fostering the growth of Fair Food Network has been an incredible honor. I am beyond grateful to our team, partners, and supporters who have believed in us and made our work possible," says Oran. "The journey continues, and I'll be here to support Kate, the rest of our dedicated team at Fair Food Network, our communities, and our wider society as our organization evolves."
Today, Fair Food Network is broadening its mission with a new focus on environmental stewardship, a definitive commitment to equity and justice, and stronger systems for learning and accountability across all programmatic work.
"Oran and Kate have worked together to build a strong foundation for growth at Fair Food Network," says Gary Appel, Chairman of the Board of Fair Food Network. "Kate's appointment as the next CEO is a natural evolution of leadership that benefits the organization and the good food movement as a whole—one that is unanimously and enthusiastically supported by the Fair Food Network board."
Learn more about Fair Food Network's CEO transition at FairFoodNetwork.org.
About Oran B. Hesterman, PhD
With more than 40 years of experience as a scientist, farmer, philanthropist, businessman, educator, and passionate advocate, Oran is a pioneer of the good food movement. He founded Fair Food Network in 2009; under his leadership, the organization has seeded and scaled food-based solutions that improve healthy food access for families and economic equity for farmers and food businesses, both in Michigan and nationwide. Working at the intersection of food, health, and economic justice, Oran ushered Fair Food Network into impact investing, fueling the success of food entrepreneurs through catalytic capital, wrap-around business services, and a commitment to place-based impact investing collectives. He is the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All, an inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, and sold.
About Kate Krauss
As Fair Food Network's Executive Director since 2019 and Chief Operating Officer since 2015, Kate has significantly expanded Fair Food Network's impact. Under her leadership, Fair Food Network's signature Double Up Food Bucks program amplified its reach in Michigan from farmers markets and a small grocery pilot to a presence in more than 250 retail outlets statewide—translating into a tenfold increase in families served. Kate elevated Fair Food Network's impact investing work from its initial focus on small, regional farms to a national effort to redress racial and gender-based inequities, supporting entrepreneurs who are often overlooked by traditional investors. She also led the organization in its work providing technical assistance and innovation for the Nutrition Incentive Hub, a USDA-supported coalition, launched in partnership with Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, which supports nutrition incentive programs and produce-prescription projects across the country.
About Fair Food Network
Fair Food Network is a national nonprofit and investor that grows community health and wealth through food. We transform how resources flow through the food economy for a more fair and resilient future. Our approach integrates policy advocacy that brings proven solutions to scale, partnerships that increase our collective impact, and investments in food organizations and businesses that serve their communities. We're building a world in which everyone has access to healthy choices, economic opportunity, and a resilient environment. When we start with food, everything else is possible. Join us at FairFoodNetwork.org.
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SHANGHAI, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LovelyWholesale ("LW" or "the Company"), an international quick-to-market online women's fashion brand, has become one of the most popular fashion brands in Temu in half a year as over 10,000 followers and 11,000 shop reviews of the LovelyWholesale Temu store have been received in the past 5 months.
The most popular item of the LovelyWholesale Temu store is a two-piece set, with 65,000 sold so far. 85% of customers who have bought this set rated it 5 stars. Many customers wrote reviews saying, "great quality, great material, and great price". "A customer left us a message saying that she bought LovelyWholesale in Temu. The clothes are of the same quality as the ones she bought from the LovelyWholesale website," said Jovan, the CMO of LW. "We are glad to see this feedback. And we hope to see more feedback like that. It means that customers have the awareness of the LW brand. It is a manifestation of brand power. We'll keep going."
Temu's growth is surging, and so is LovelyWholesale. Over 20,000 pieces of the LW Basic collection have been sold every day this Spring. The sales of plus-size clothing is growing rapidly, too.
"I absolutely love LovelyWholesale! You guys make clothes for the plus-size and trendy girls like me. My confidence has definitely been boosted." Said Jasmine Kyaira, a LovelyWholesale customer. "We are so touched by this feedback. It gives us guidance and meaning in all that we are and all we do." Jovan said.
The company invests 80% of sales generated on Temu in fabric research and improvement, to keep making affordable and high-quality fashion accessories for trendy women, curvy & plus-size, and men. With the help of Temu's huge traffic, LovelyWholesale hopes to bring more consumers affordable trendy clothing in the future.
About LovelyWholesale:
Founded in 2010, LovelyWholesale supplies more than 10 thousand types of fashionable clothing, shoes, sexy lingerie, and accessories. The company focuses on providing higher-quality products at competitive prices to customers all over the world. LovelyWholesale customers know they can trust us for everything they need from the latest trend-led pieces and celebrity inspired looks, to the everyday wardrobe staples and that ultimate party piece. LovelyWholesale expects every customer can find their loved style and enjoy shopping here.
LovelyWholesale has factories and warehouses all around the world. With the great advantage of fabric resources and hundreds of fashion buyers, LovelyWholesale can provide customers with the latest fashion trends and affordable prices for the first time. Over the past 12 years of operation, LovelyWholesale has become one of the most popular online fashion stores in North America.
To learn more about LovelyWholesale, follow us at lovelywholesale.com and instagram.com/lovelywholesale_online
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Hospital Achieves Honor Roll Status in U.S. News & World Report's Annual Survey
SAN DIEGO, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in its history, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego has been named by U.S. News & World Report to its 2023-2024 Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll, a distinction awarded to only 10 children's hospitals nationwide.
Rady Children's had five specialties rank among the top 10 in the nation (Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery #3; Orthopedics #6; Neonatology #7; Neurology & Neurosurgery #8; Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders #8) and maintained its seven-year streak of achieving rankings in all 10 specialties surveyed. Only 23 hospitals nationwide were ranked in all 10 specialties.
Rady Children's 2023–2024 complete rankings are as follows:
"I'm so proud of our incredible nurses, doctors, researchers and team members from every department and division across Rady Children's and the UC San Diego School of Medicine," said Patrick Frias, MD, President and CEO of Rady Children's. "Achieving Honor Roll status is a tribute to their unwavering dedication to providing the highest level of care to our patients and families."
U.S. News, together with RTI International, a North Carolina-based research and consulting firm, collected and analyzed data from 199 children's hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists. One hundred twenty-two children's hospitals completed the comprehensive survey comprised of more than 2,000 questions. Those awarded a "Best" designation excelled at factors such as clinical outcomes, level and quality of hospital resources directly related to patient care and expert opinion among pediatric specialists.
"For 17 years, U.S. News has provided comprehensive information to help parents of sick children and their doctors find the best children's hospital to treat their illness or condition," said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. "Children's hospitals that are on the Honor Roll transcend in providing exceptional specialized care."
The rankings are the most comprehensive source of quality-related information on U.S. pediatric hospitals
For more information on the U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals, explore Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #BestHospitals.
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School district in Texas approves move to 4-day schedule: ‘Needed to be done’
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (CNN) - The Crosby Independent School District approved moving to a four-day instructional week starting next school year.
When the 2023-2024 school year begins, Fridays will be considered student holidays. Teachers and staff will work one Friday each month for staff development days.
Officials said an additional 20 to 25 minutes will be added to school days to make up for the three-day weekend.
The district superintendent said they hope the move to a four-day school week will attract more teachers to the area. School officials said they started this year down 40 teachers and expect that number to get worse next year.
“We’re going to have a lot fewer days if we don’t have teachers in the classroom,” Angela Hayes, parent of a student in the district, said. “So, four good days are better than five days where teachers are absent. This is something that just needed to be done to help the district.”
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-05T00:23:48+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/03/04/school-district-texas-approves-move-4-day-schedule-needed-be-done/ |
Martin Truex Jr. is back on top of NASCAR's top series. Truex got his first victory in 30 tries in New Hampshire and passed William Byron for the points lead. The victory was the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver and his second on a Monday this season. All three NASCAR series will race at Pocono this weekend. Max Verstappen will try for his seventh straight victory in Formula One in Hungary. He won 33 of the last 55 races. The IndyCar Series is in Iowa with a doubleheader weekend.
All Times Central
NASCAR CUP SERIES
HighPoint.com 400
Site: Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
Schedule: Saturday, practice, 1:35 p.m., and qualifying, 2:20 p.m.; Sunday, race, 1:30 p.m. (USA).
Track: Pocono Raceway.
Race distance: 160 laps, 400 miles.
Last year: Chase Elliott won after starting third when apparent winner Denny Hamlin and apparent runner-up Kyle Busch were disqualified for failing inspections.
Last race: Martin Truex Jr. won on Monday in New Hampshire, his third victory of the season.
Fast facts: Truex has won twice on Monday this season and four times in his career. The victory was his first in 30 races in New Hampshire. ... Truex also regained the points lead by 17 over William Byron. ... Joey Logano finished second, followed by Kyle Larson, Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski. ... Kyle Busch finished last in a backup car after finishing just 71 of the 301 laps, ending a streak of seven consecutive top 10 finishes.
Next race: July 30, Richmond, Virginia.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
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NASCAR XFINITY SERIES
Explore the Pocono Mountains 225
Site: Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
Schedule: Friday, practice, 2:35 p.m., and qualifying, 3:05 p.m.; Saturday, race, 4:30 p.m. (USA).
Track: Pocono Raceway.
Race distance: 90 laps, 225 miles.
Last year: Noah Gragson won after starting ninth.
Last race: John Hunter Nemechek won in overtime in New Hampshire, his second consecutive victory and fourth of this season.
Fast facts: Nemechek's points lead grew to 33 over Austin Hill. The race ended under the white flag after the 10th caution. ... Chandler Smith finished second, followed by Hill, Daniel Hemric and Sammy Smith. ... Nemechek led 137 of 206 laps and gave Joe Gibbs Racing its 196th NASCAR Xfinity Series victory.
Next race: July 28, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
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NASCAR TRUCK SERIES
CRC Brakleen 150
Site: Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
Schedule: Friday, practice, 12:35 p.m., and qualifying, 1:05 p.m.; Saturday, race, 11 a.m. (FS1).
Track: Pocono Raceway.
Race distance: 60 laps, 150 miles.
Last year: Chandler Smith won after starting second.
Last race: Points leader Corey Heim passed Ty Majeski with 26 laps to go and never relinquished the top spot at Mid-Ohio, winning for the second time this season and for the first time on a road course.
Fast facts: Heim, with one fewer start than the rest of the contenders, leads defending series champion Zane Smith by 26 points and Majeski by 51 through 14 of 23 races. ... Heim is one of five drivers with two victories and has a series-best 11 top 10 finishes in 13 starts.
Next race: July 29, Richmond, Virginia.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
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FORMULA ONE
Hungarian Grand Prix
Site: Budapest, Hungary.
Schedule: Friday, practice, 6:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.; Saturday, practice, 5:30 a.m., and qualifying, 9 a.m.; Sunday, race, 8 a.m. (ESPN).
Track: Hungaroring.
Race distance: 70 laps, 190.531 miles.
Last year: Max Verstappen won after starting 10th.
Last race: Verstappen recovered from a slow start on the pole to win the British Grand Prix, his sixth consecutive victory.
Fast facts: Verstappen, the two-time defending champion, has won 33 of 55 races over the past three seasons. ... He and Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez (two wins) have combined to win all 10 races this season. ... Verstappen has led 467 of the 610 laps run this year and Perez has led 113. No one else has led more than 12.
Next race: July 30, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.
Online: http://www.formula1.com
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INDYCAR
Hy-Vee Homefront 250 & Hy-Vee One Step 250
Site: Newton, Iowa.
Schedule: Friday, qualifying, 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 8:30 a.m., and race 1, 2 p.m. (NBC), Sunday, race 2, 1 p.m. (NBC).
Track: Iowa Speedway.
Race distance: 250 laps, 223.5 miles.
Last year: Josef Newgarden won after starting second and Pato O'Ward won after starting seventh.
Last race: Christian Lundgaard won from the pole in Toronto.
Fast facts: Alex Palou's three-race winning streak ended in Toronto, but he rallied after starting 15th to finish second. His lead is 117 points over Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon. ... Lundgaard led the race for 53 of the 85 laps. ... Colton Herta finished third, his first podium of the season.
Next race: Aug. 6, Nashville, Tennessee.
Online: http://www.indycar.com
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NHRA DRAG RACING
Last event: Clay Millican won in Top Fuel and Matt Hagan won in Funny Car in Colorado.
Next event: July 23, Kent, Washington.
Online: http://www.nhra.com
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WORLD OF OUTLAWS
Next events: July 22, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. | 2023-07-20T21:42:13+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/auto-racing-glance-truex-back-on-top-in-nascars-cup-series-verstappen-seeks-7th-straight/article_7c16c1cc-26b4-11ee-a7f3-cb405b81d37d.html |
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapper, singer, songwriter and viral phenomenon, Lil Nas X, has revealed his new wax figure for the world's greatest wax museum, Madame Tussauds Hollywood. In just a few short years, Lil Nas X has reached undeniable global fame through his internet mastery, iconic fashion sense and his steady stream of #1 hits including "Old Town Road" feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)," "INDUSTRY BABY" feat. Jack Harlow and "THAT'S WHAT I WANT." He revealed his wax figure in an unforgettable side-by-side moment. The striking figure is wearing a replication of his iconic gold Versace suit armor worn at the 2021 Met Gala. Intricately detailed, Madame Tussauds artists also replicated the Versace earring, choker and nail art from the custom look. Not to mention Lil Nas X is the first wax figure to have a grill!
By boldly and unapologetically expressing himself online and in his music, Lil Nas X has become a role model for promoting progression and acceptance across the music industry. At just 23 years old, the 2x Grammy-winning sensation has an extensive list of accomplishments, including becoming the first openly gay rapper nominated in top categories at the Grammys. He released his critically acclaimed debut album MONTERO in 2021 and is currently on his first ever world tour. The latest addition to his legacy comes in the form of a wax twin - and according to Lil Nas X, it's the best one he has ever seen. "Are we twins or what? I knew this was going to be good but this is like, scary amazing," said Lil Nas X.
"We're thrilled to welcome Lil Nas X into the Madame Tussauds Hollywood family. As a musical, social and fashion icon, this figure marks an extraordinary addition to our museum. We're excited for his fans to interact with the star's identical twin!" said Madame Tussauds Hollywood General Manager Therese Alvich.
More exciting news for Lil Nas X fans this week as the artist is also set to release "STAR WALKIN'" this Friday, September 23, a collaboration with Riot Games and the anthem of the League of Legends' 2022 Worlds Tournament. Unique, direct access to A-List celebrities allows Madame Tussauds to create the best wax figures in the world. Madame Tussauds Hollywood continues to highlight each city's heroes and icons in mind-blowing accurate detail in a life-like persona. Guests are encouraged to visit https://www.madametussauds.com/hollywood/en/ to plan their A-list experience.
About Madame Tussauds Hollywood
Madame Tussauds delivers the ultimate fame experience. With more than 24 unique locations around the globe and a 250+ year history, Madame Tussauds has brought to life thousands of celebs, stars and heroes - in mind-blowingly accurate detail – giving visitors the chance to interact with their favorite stars creating an otherwise impossible moment. Located next to the TCL Chinese Theater, Madame Tussauds Hollywood is the only place you can rub shoulders with more than 125 stars from the celebrity worlds of film and television without velvet ropes or barriers. Jump right on set with all your favorite A-listers including new fan favorites, Lil Nas X, Angela Bassett and Danny Trejo.
About Merlin Entertainments plc
Merlin Entertainments plc is a global leader in location-based, family entertainment. As Europe's number one and the world's second-largest visitor attraction operator, Merlin now operates more than 130 attractions, 19 hotels and 6 holiday villages in 25 countries across four continents. Merlin's purpose is to deliver memorable experiences to its 67 million guests around the world, through its iconic brands and multiple attraction formats, and the commitment and passion of its 28,000 employees (peak season). See www.merlinentertainments.biz for more information and follow on Twitter @MerlinEntsNews
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HOUSTON , June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Frontline Road Safety ("Frontline"), a portfolio company of The Sterling Group ("Sterling"), today announced the acquisition of the pavement marking contracting operations of Ozark Striping Company, LLC. ("Ozark"). Frontline's operating companies provide pavement marking and ancillary services to a variety of end markets and customers.
The Ozark transaction marks Frontline's eighth acquisition since the platform was established in July 2020. Headquartered in Ozark, Alabama, Ozark Striping Company is a pavement marking contractor known across the industry as one of the leading firms in the nation.
"We are excited to expand our footprint in the Southeast region by partnering with this best-in-class pavement marking firm and look forward to working with the outstanding team at Ozark," said Mitch Williams, CEO of Frontline Road Safety. "Ozark has a strong presence in Alabama and is a great addition to the Frontline family."
"We have built a premier pavement marking contractor of considerable scale and believe Frontline is the ideal partner for Ozark going forward," said Lee Gross, President of Ozark Striping Company.
Over the last several years, Sterling has executed on its investment thesis to build a leader in the road safety and infrastructure maintenance industry. Through organic growth and further acquisitions, Sterling intends to continue building Frontline into the leading platform for road safety solutions with best-in-class local execution capabilities. Sterling has a long history of partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to support the growth of their businesses.
About The Sterling Group
Founded in 1982, The Sterling Group is a private equity investment firm that targets controlling interests in basic manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services companies. Typical enterprise values of these companies at initial formation range from $100 million to $750 million. Sterling has sponsored the buyout of 62 platform companies and numerous add-on acquisitions for a total transaction value of over $14.0 billion. Sterling recently closed its fifth investment fund with $2.0 billion in commitments and currently has over $5.7 billion of assets under management. For further information, please visit sterling-group.com.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results and all investments are subject to loss.
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SOURCE Frontline Road Safety | 2022-06-02T15:03:10+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/06/02/frontline-road-safety-portfolio-company-sterling-group-completes-acquisition-ozark-striping-company-llc/ |
Teachers make Clear the List campaign for school supplies
VERNON, Texas (KAUZ) - Vernon ISD is only two days into the school year and teachers felt a strain in their wallets paying for school supplies once again. This is a problem teachers everywhere have been facing.
It’s guaranteed that teachers will spend money out of pocket for school supplies every school year and though some are able to get reimbursed, it doesn’t always cover the total amount spent.
Vernon ISD school board member Taylor Craighead said she wants to spread information about a way teachers can lessen the economic burden as they head back into the classroom. Clear the List is a campaign made as a fundraising effort that consists of a wish list on Amazon.
“Instead of adding an item to their cart, they add an item to a wish list. You can go browse each teacher’s list by the link and again you can check out and put every item in their list in your cart or you can just add one single item to your cart. When you check out, you pay for it and it sends it directly to the teacher,” Craighead said.
Craighead said all wish lists contain different supplies to accommodate each classroom and student.
Vernon ISD has a link with a spreadsheet of the teacher’s wish lists on their Facebook page.
Any individual or business who has an interest in contributing or clearing a list may reach Taylor Craighead directly at taylor.craighead@visdtx.org.
Copyright 2022 KAUZ. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-17T00:15:08+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/08/16/teachers-make-clear-list-campaign-school-supplies/ |
BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government said Wednesday it has granted a credit line of 2 billion euros (dollars) to financially distressed energy supplier Wien Energie.
Austria’s largest regional energy supplier, which has 2 million customers and belongs to the city of Vienna, has run into massive financial problems due to the turbulence on the electricity and gas markets triggered by Russia's war on Ukraine.
“I am pleased to inform you that today the loan agreement between the Province of Vienna and the Federal Government has been signed,” Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer told reporters in Vienna.
The Austrian government has asked the city to pay back the loan by next April. | 2022-08-31T11:03:12+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Austria-grants-2-billion-loan-to-struggling-17409415.php |
82-year-old Lovington man dies in semi-truck crash
MIDLAND, Texas (KCBD) - Granvil Lee Oden, 82, died in a crash involving three vehicles, including two semi-trucks.
The Lovington, New Mexico, native was driving west on IH-20 in Midland County on Aug 12 just before 4 p.m., according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report.
Jesus Gertrudis Castanon of Laredo was traveling east on IH-20 when he lost control of his semi-truck, according to the report. The 32-year-old crossed over the center median and into the westbound lane. The report states the semi-truck hit Oden’s Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo head-on.
Oden died from his injuries at the scene of the crash, the report stated. Castanon was treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital and was later released.
A second semi-truck traveling east on IH-20 was able to avoid Castanon’s vehicle, but was hit by debris from the crash. The driver, 34-year-old Jesus Lorenzo Lopez-Diaz of Gardendale, was not injured from the crash.
The crash is still being investigated.
Copyright 2022 KCBD. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-13T17:57:02+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/08/13/82-year-old-lovington-man-dies-semi-truck-crash/ |
DALLAS (AP) _ American Realty Investors Inc. (ARL) on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of $302.3 million.
The Dallas-based company said it had profit of $18.72 per share.
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The real estate investment company posted revenue of $8.3 million in the period.
ARL shares have climbed 52% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $19.26, an increase of 61% in the last 12 months.
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Top Players to Watch: UCLA vs. Gonzaga - Sweet 16
On Thursday at T-Mobile Arena, the UCLA Bruins (31-5) and the Gonzaga Bulldogs (30-5) collide at 9:45 PM ET for their Sweet 16 matchup. The Bruins' Jaime Jaquez Jr. and the Bulldogs' Drew Timme are two players to watch in this contest.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to keep your eye on in this matchup on CBS.
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- Game Day: Thursday, March 23
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Arena: T-Mobile Arena
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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UCLA's Last Game
UCLA won its most recent game versus Northwestern, 68-63, on Saturday. Jaquez starred with 24 points, and also had eight rebounds and four assists.
Gonzaga's Last Game
On Sunday, in its most recent game, Gonzaga topped TCU 84-81. With 28 points, Timme was its high scorer.
UCLA Players to Watch
Jaquez puts up 17.5 points and 8.1 rebounds per contest -- both team highs. He is also putting up 2.3 assists, shooting 48.1% from the field.
Tyger Campbell is tops on the Bruins at 4.8 assists per contest, while also putting up 2.6 rebounds and 13.4 points.
Jaylen Clark puts up 13 points, 6 rebounds and 1.9 assists per contest. Defensively, he delivers 2.6 steals (fifth in the country) and 0.3 blocked shots.
Adem Bona puts up 7.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 0.7 assists per contest. Defensively, he delivers 0.6 steals and 1.7 blocked shots.
David Singleton is posting 9.1 points, 1.1 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game.
Gonzaga Players to Watch
Timme tops the Bulldogs in scoring (21.1 points per game), rebounding (7.3) and assists (3.1), shooting 62.1% from the field. He also delivers 0.7 steals and 1 block.
Anton Watson gives the Bulldogs 11.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. He also averages 1.9 steals and 0.7 blocked shots.
Julian Strawther gets the Bulldogs 15.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game. He also delivers 0.9 steals and 0.4 blocked shots.
The Bulldogs receive 10.5 points, 1.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game from Rasir Bolton.
Nolan Hickman tops the Bulldogs in assists (3.1 per game), and produces 8.2 points and 2.5 rebounds. He also posts 1 steal and 0.3 blocked shots.
UCLA Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
Gonzaga Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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DALLAS, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) today reported year-end 2022 results and provided its 2023 outlook.
Executive Summary
- Fourth quarter 2022 net sales of $5.0 billion, even with the year-ago period, including organic sales growth of 5 percent. Full-year 2022 net sales of $20.2 billion increased 4 percent, with organic sales up 7 percent.
- Diluted net income per share for the fourth quarter was $1.50 in 2022 and $1.06 in 2021. Full-year diluted net income per share was $5.72 in 2022 and $5.35 in 2021.
- Fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share were $1.54 in 2022, up 18 percent compared to $1.30 in 2021. Adjusted earnings per share exclude certain items described later in this news release.
- Full-year adjusted earnings per share were $5.63 in 2022, down 9 percent compared to $6.18 in 2021.
- Net sales in 2023 are expected to increase 0 to 2 percent, including organic sales growth of 2 to 4 percent. Diluted earnings per share is expected to increase 2 to 6 percent, driven by an operating profit increase in the mid-to-high single digits, both versus adjusted results in 2022.
- The company's Board of Directors has approved a 1.7 percent increase in the quarterly dividend, the 51st consecutive annual increase.
"Kimberly-Clark delivered 7 percent organic growth in 2022 and an average of 4 percent organic growth on a three-year basis," said Chairman and CEO Mike Hsu. "Our growth strategy is working with the support of excellent execution by our teams around the world and investments in our strong brands and commercial capabilities."
Hsu continued, "I'm especially proud of how our teams navigated in what continues to be a dynamic operating environment. We mitigated inflationary pressures with successful revenue growth management initiatives and maintained cost discipline while continuing to invest in our business."
"In 2022, we also marked Kimberly-Clark's 150th anniversary – a significant milestone for the company. We're proud of our heritage of category defining innovation rooted in providing care for our consumers. As we look to the future, we will continue to drive our strategy to deliver profitable growth for long-term value creation as we fulfill our purpose of Better Care for a Better World."
Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Results
Sales of $5.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022 were even with the year-ago period. Organic sales increased 5 percent as net selling prices rose approximately 10 percent and product mix increased sales 1 percent while volumes declined 7 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced sales 5 percent. In North America, organic sales increased 1 percent in consumer products and increased 18 percent in K-C Professional. Outside North America, organic sales rose 3 percent in developing and emerging (D&E) markets and 11 percent in developed markets.
Fourth quarter operating profit was $712 million in 2022 and $521 million in 2021. Excluding the charges related to the 2018 Global Restructuring Program, 2021 adjusted operating profit was $611 million.
Results benefited from higher net selling prices, favorable product mix and $115 million of cost savings from the company's FORCE (Focused On Reducing Costs Everywhere) program. The comparison was impacted by $245 million of higher input costs as well as lower volumes and the associated fixed cost under absorption. Unfavorable foreign currency effects and higher marketing, research and general expense also reduced operating profit in the quarter.
The fourth quarter effective tax rate was 22.5 percent in 2022 and 20.9 percent in 2021. The fourth quarter adjusted effective tax rate was 22.6 percent in 2022 and 21.9 percent in 2021. Kimberly-Clark's share of net income of equity companies in the fourth quarter was $35 million in 2022 and $10 million in 2021.
Cash Flow and Balance Sheet
Cash provided by operations in the fourth quarter was $991 million in 2022 and $1,062 million in 2021. Full-year cash provided by operations was $2,733 million in 2022 compared to $2,730 million in 2021. Capital spending for the fourth quarter was $197 million in 2022 and $273 million in 2021. Full-year capital spending was $876 million in 2022 and $1,007 million in 2021.
Fourth quarter share repurchases were 0.2 million shares at a cost of $25 million, bringing full-year repurchases to 0.8 million shares at a cost of $100 million. Total debt was $8.4 billion at the end of 2022 and $8.6 billion at the end of 2021.
Fourth Quarter 2022 Business Segment Results
Personal Care Segment
Fourth quarter sales of $2.6 billion decreased 3 percent, including organic sales growth of 2 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced sales by 5 percent. Net selling prices increased 7 percent and product mix improved 2 points while volumes declined 7 percent. The planned exit of a private label contract earlier this year and retailer inventory changes accounted for a 2 point headwind to global Personal Care sales.
Fourth quarter operating profit of $423 million was even with year-ago. Results benefited from higher net selling prices, favorable product mix and cost savings. The comparison was impacted by input cost inflation, lower volumes and associated fixed cost under absorption, higher marketing, research and general spending as well as unfavorable foreign currency effects.
Sales in North America were even with year-ago. Net selling prices increased 5 percent and product mix improved 1 percent while volume declined approximately 6 percent, reflecting the planned exit of a private label contract earlier in the year as well as retailer inventory changes. The Thinx acquisition increased sales 1 point and changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales approximately 1 percent.
Sales in D&E markets decreased 6 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales 8 percent. Net selling prices increased sales 10 percent and product mix improved 3 points while volumes declined 11 percent. Organic sales growth was primarily driven by Latin America and China, offset by declines in Southeast Asia.
Sales in developed markets outside North America (Australia, South Korea and Western/Central Europe) decreased 4 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced sales 14 percent. Net selling prices increased sales 6 percent while volumes and product mix each contributed 2 points of sales growth.
Consumer Tissue Segment
Fourth quarter sales of $1.6 billion was even with year-ago with organic sales up 5 percent. Net selling prices increased sales 11 percent while volumes declined 6 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced sales 5 percent. Fourth quarter operating profit of $239 million increased 19 percent. Results benefited from higher net selling prices and cost savings. The comparison was impacted by input cost inflation, lower volumes and the associated fixed cost under absorption, as well as unfavorable foreign currency effects.
Sales in North America increased 2 percent. Net selling prices rose 8 percent while volumes declined 6 percent.
Sales in D&E markets decreased 1 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales 6 percent. Net selling prices rose 13 percent and product mix improved 1 point, while volumes were down 9 percent.
Sales in developed markets outside North America decreased 3 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales 14 percent. Net selling prices rose approximately 16 percent, with strong pricing gains across all markets, while volumes declined 5 points.
K-C Professional (KCP) Segment
Fourth quarter sales of $0.8 billion increased 11 percent, including organic sales growth of 16 percent. Net selling prices rose 20 percent, product mix improved sales 1 point while volumes declined 5 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales 5 percent. Fourth quarter operating profit of $163 million increased 126 percent. Results benefited from higher net selling prices, favorable product mix and cost savings. The comparison was impacted by input cost inflation, lower volumes as well as unfavorable foreign currency effects.
Sales in North America increased 17 percent. Net selling prices rose 19 percent, product mix increased sales 1 point while volumes declined 2 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales 1 percent. Washroom products and wipers sales were up double-digits while the sale of safety products normalized following elevated demand throughout 2021.
Sales in D&E markets increased 3 percent. Net selling prices increased 11 percent and product mix increased sales 2 points while volumes declined 3 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales 7 percent.
Sales in developed markets outside North America increased 1 percent. Net selling prices increased 30 percent and product mix improved sales 3 points while volumes declined 17 percent, primarily driven by Western Europe. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced sales 15 percent.
Full Year 2022 Results
Sales of $20.2 billion increased 4 percent. Organic sales increased 7 percent, as net selling prices rose 9 percent, product mix increased sales 1 point and volumes declined 3 percent. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased sales by approximately 4 percent.
Operating profit was $2,681 million in 2022 and $2,561 million in 2021. Results in 2022 include the net benefit of the acquisition of a controlling interest of Thinx and 2021 results include charges related to the 2018 Global Restructuring Program.
Adjusted operating profit was $2,617 million in 2022 and $2,836 million in 2021. Results were impacted by $1.5 billion of higher input costs, higher marketing, research and general spending and unfavorable foreign currency effects. Results benefited from organic sales growth and $290 million of FORCE savings.
Diluted net income per share was $5.72 in 2022 and $5.35 in 2021. Adjusted earnings per share of $5.63 decreased 9 percent compared to $6.18 in 2021.
2023 Outlook and Key Planning Assumptions
The company issued key planning and guidance assumptions for full-year 2023. The outlook reflects assumptions subject to change given the high level of volatility in the macro environment. This outlook does not reflect the impact of the sale of our Brazil tissue business which is pending customary conditions and regulatory approval.
- Net sales increase 0 to 2 percent.
- Operating profit up mid-to-high single digits versus adjusted operating profit in 2022.
- Nonoperating expense expected to increase approximately $40 million versus adjusted nonoperating expense in 2022, primarily related to interest rate driven employee postretirement benefit expense.
- Net interest expense expected to increase high-single digits year-over-year.
- Effective tax rate 23 to 25 percent.
- Net income from equity companies similar to prior year.
- Earnings per share increase 2 to 6 percent versus adjusted earnings per share in 2022.
- Capital spending of $800 to $900 million.
- The Board of Directors approved to increase the dividend by 1.7 percent to $1.18 per share, up from $1.16 per share in 2022. The first dividend will be payable on April 4, 2023 to stockholders of record on March 10, 2023.
- Share repurchases of $100 to $150 million, subject to market conditions.
Supplemental Materials and Live Webcast
At approximately 7:00 a.m. (CST) on January 25, 2023, the company will post supplemental materials regarding its full-year 2022 results and 2023 outlook at www.kimberly-clark.com.
At 9:00 a.m. (CST) on January 25, 2023, the company will host a live conference call with investors and analysts. Stockholders and others are invited to listen to the live broadcast or a playback, which will be accessible on the company's website at www.kimberly-clark.com.
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we're committed to our purpose of Better Care for a Better World. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, holds No. 1 or No. 2 share positions in approximately 80 countries. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build strong communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To keep up with the latest news and to learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit www.kimberly-clark.com.
Copies of Kimberly-Clark's Annual Report to Stockholders and its proxy statements and other SEC filings, including Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, are made available free of charge on the company's website on the same day they are filed with the SEC. To view these filings, visit the Investors section of the company's website.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain matters contained in this news release concerning the outlook, anticipated financial and operating results, raw material, energy and other input costs, anticipated currency rates and exchange risks, including in Argentina and Turkey, net income from equity companies, sources and uses of cash, the effective tax rate, the anticipated cost savings from the company's FORCE program, growth initiatives, product innovations, contingencies and anticipated transactions of the company constitute forward-looking statements and are based upon management's expectations and beliefs concerning future events impacting the company. In addition, many factors outside our control, including the war in Ukraine (including the related responses of consumers, customers and suppliers as well as sanctions issued by the U.S., the European Union, Russia or other countries), pandemics (including the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and the related responses of governments, consumers, customers, suppliers and employees), epidemics, the prices and availability of our raw materials, supply chain disruptions, failure to realize the expected benefits or synergies from our acquisition and disposition activity (including our pending agreement to sell our Neve tissue brand and associated assets in Brazil), changes in customer preferences, severe weather conditions, government trade or similar regulatory actions, potential competitive pressures on selling prices for our products, energy costs, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, our ability to maintain key customer relationships, as well as general economic and political conditions globally and in the markets in which we do business, could affect the realization of these estimates.
There can be no assurance that these future events will occur as anticipated or that the company's results will be as estimated. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they were made, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update them. For a description of certain factors that could cause the company's future results to differ from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements, see Item 1A entitled "Risk Factors" in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This news release and the accompanying tables include the following financial measures that have not been calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S., or GAAP, and are therefore referred to as non-GAAP financial measures:
- Adjusted earnings and earnings per share
- Adjusted gross and operating profit
- Adjusted effective tax rate
These non-GAAP financial measures exclude the following items for the relevant time periods as indicated in the accompanying non-GAAP reconciliations to the comparable GAAP financial measures:
- Pension settlements. In 2022, the company recognized pension settlement charges related to lump-sum distributions from pension plan assets exceeding the total of annual service and interest costs resulting in a recognition of deferred actuarial losses.
- Acquisition of controlling interest in Thinx. In the first quarter of 2022, the company completed the acquisition of a majority and controlling share of Thinx. As a result of this transaction, a net benefit was recognized primarily due to the nonrecurring, non-cash gain recognized related to the remeasurement of the carrying value of previously held equity investment to fair value partially offset by transaction and integration costs.
- 2018 Global Restructuring Program. In 2018, the company initiated a restructuring program to reduce our structural cost base by streamlining and simplifying our manufacturing supply chain and overhead organization. Restructuring charges were incurred in 2018 through 2021. The restructuring actions were completed by the end of 2021.
The company provides these non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental information to our GAAP financial measures. Management and the company's Board of Directors use adjusted earnings, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted gross and operating profit to (a) evaluate the company's historical and prospective financial performance and its performance relative to its competitors, (b) allocate resources and (c) measure the operational performance of the company's business units and their managers. Management also believes that the use of an adjusted effective tax rate provides improved insight into the tax effects of our ongoing business operations.
Additionally, the Management Development and Compensation Committee of the company's Board of Directors has used certain of the non-GAAP financial measures when setting and assessing achievement of incentive compensation goals. These goals are based, in part, on the company's adjusted earnings per share and improvement in the company's adjusted return on invested capital determined by excluding certain of the adjustments that are used in calculating these non-GAAP financial measures.
This news release includes information regarding organic sales growth, which describes the impact of changes in volume, net selling prices and product mix on net sales. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates, acquisitions and exited businesses also impact the year-over-year change in net sales.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo has a perfect game through six innings against the Colorado Rockies.
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Castillo retired the first 18 batters in order Sunday with eight strikeouts. He struck out the side in the second inning, and most of the contact off Castillo has been weak. Brian Serven and Jurickson Profar both had hard-hit lineouts to right field that were tracked down by Jarred Kelenic.
Castillo has thrown 76 pitches, 56 for strikes. The game is scoreless.
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Donald Trump's legal problems appear to have escalated significantly on Thursday with federal charges over the retention of top secret documents, but investigators aren't done yet.
The former president faces a string of inquiries in various states and venues as he campaigns for a second term in the White House. He's already been charged in a 34-count indictment in New York in a hush money case. The others include federal and state investigations into his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and a civil case that threatens his ability to ever again do business in New York.
Trump, a Republican, has denied any wrongdoing and says he is being targeted by Democrats trying to keep him from reclaiming the presidency in 2024.
Here's a look at the top probes:
HUSH MONEY SCHEME
Trump became the first former U.S. president in history to face criminal charges when he was indicted in New York in March on state charges stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters.
He pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Each count is punishable by up to four years in prison, though it’s not clear if a judge would impose any prison time if Trump is convicted.
The counts are linked to a series of checks that were written to his lawyer Michael Cohen to reimburse him for his role in paying off porn actor Stormy Daniels, who alleged a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, not long after Melania Trump gave birth to their son, Barron. Those payments were recorded in various internal company documents as being for a legal retainer that prosecutors say didn’t exist.
The former president is next set to appear in court on Dec. 4, two months before Republicans begin their nominating process in earnest.
GEORGIA
For over two years, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia.
She wrote in a letter to the county sheriff that she expects to announce any charging decisions between July 11 and Sept. 1. In a separate letter to a county Superior Court judge, she suggested that any indictments would likely come in August.
The Democratic district attorney’s investigation began shortly after the release of a recording of a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the then-president suggested that Raffensperger could “find 11,780 votes” — just enough to overtake Democrat Joe Biden and overturn Trump’s narrow loss in the state.
But the investigation’s scope broadened considerably after that, and Willis convened a special grand jury to hear testimony from witnesses including high-profile Trump allies, such as attorney Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and high-ranking Georgia officials, such as Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp.
Prosecutors advised Giuliani and Georgia Republicans who served as fake electors that they were at risk of being indicted. The fake electors signed a certificate asserting Trump had won the election and declaring themselves the state’s electors, even though Biden had won the state and Democratic electors had already been certified.
A court filing in early May indicated that Willis had reached immunity deals with at least eight fake electors, suggesting they may be cooperating with authorities.
The foreperson on the special grand jury indicated publicly that the panel had recommended multiple indictments. It’s now up to Willis to decide whether to convene a regular grand jury and pursue criminal charges in the case.
Trump and his allies have denied wrongdoing, and he has repeatedly described his phone call to Raffensperger as “perfect.”
2020 ELECTION AND CAPITOL RIOT
Special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump's handling of classified documents, has also been leading a team probing efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election that he falsely claimed was stolen.
Federal prosecutors have been especially focused on a scheme by Trump allies to put forth a slate of fake presidential electors in key battleground states who falsely declared that Trump, not Biden, had won the 2020 election. They have issued subpoenas to a number of state Republican Party chairs.
Federal prosecutors have brought multiple Trump administration officials before that grand jury for questioning, including former Vice President Mike Pence.
In a sign of the wide-ranging nature of the investigation, election officials in multiple states whose results were disputed by Trump have received subpoenas asking for past communications with or involving Trump and his campaign aides.
A House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol recommended that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against Trump and associates who helped him launch a wide-ranging pressure campaign to try to overturn his 2020 election loss.
NEW YORK CIVIL CASES
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Trump and the Trump Organization, alleging they misled banks and tax authorities about the value of assets including golf courses and skyscrapers to get loans and tax benefits.
That lawsuit could lead to civil penalties against the company if James, a Democrat, prevails. She is seeking a $250 million fine and a ban on Trump doing business in New York. Manhattan prosecutors investigated the same alleged conduct but did not pursue criminal charges.
A civil trial is scheduled in state court for October.
In a separate civil case in federal court in New York, Trump was found liable in May of sexually abusing and defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. The jury rejected Carroll's claim that Trump had raped her in a dressing room.
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becoming 60 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in
the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Windy, colder. Lows
23 to 33. Snow level 2500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60 in the western valleys
to 52 to 57 near the foothills.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 30 to 38.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 66 in the western valleys to 59 to
64 near the foothills.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 63 to 68.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 36 to 45.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 61 in the western valleys
to 55 to 60 near the foothills.
$$
CAZ048-272230-
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire-
Including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario,
Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Corona
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain this morning,
then cloudy with a chance of rain this afternoon. Highs 49 to 54.
Areas of winds southeast 10 mph becoming southwest with gusts to
25 mph this afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Lows 33 to 40. Areas of winds south 10 to
15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs 51 to 56.
Areas of winds west 10 to 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows 35 to 44. Areas of winds southwest
15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 40 mph overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain, mainly in the morning. Rain may be heavy at
times in the morning. Highs 48 to 54. Areas of winds west 20 to
30 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...becoming 45 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Colder. Lows 22 to 32.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 37.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 66.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 63 to 67.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 36 to 43.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
$$
CAZ057-272230-
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills-
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain this morning, then
cloudy with rain likely this afternoon. Areas of fog. Highs 46 to
53. Snow level 4000 feet...becoming 4500 feet this afternoon.
Areas of winds south 10 to 20 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 35
mph this afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Areas of fog. Lows 31 to 41. Snow level
4000 feet. Areas of winds southwest 10 to 20 mph. Gusts to
30 mph...becoming 25 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Areas of fog.
Highs 48 to 54. Snow level 4000 feet. Areas of winds west 10 to
20 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 35 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain. Areas of fog. Lows 32 to 42. Snow level
4000 feet. Areas of winds southwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
40 mph...becoming west 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 55 mph
overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain in the morning, then rain and snow likely in
the afternoon. Areas of fog. Highs 45 to 52. Snow level
3500 feet...becoming 3000 feet in the afternoon. Areas of winds
west 25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 55 mph...becoming 60 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Areas of fog in the evening. Windy, colder. Lows 25 to 34.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 57.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 39.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 63.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 58 to 63.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 33 to 43.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 52 to 58.
$$
CAZ055-272230-
San Bernardino County Mountains-
Including the cities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear City,
Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, and Wrightwood
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 4 PM PST
TUESDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow this morning, then
mostly cloudy with rain and snow likely this afternoon. Areas of
fog. Not as cool. Highs 30 to 40 above 6000 feet to 35 to 44 below
6000 feet. Local snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Snow level
4500 feet this afternoon. Areas of winds southwest 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with snow likely. Areas of fog. Lows
12 to 22 above 6000 feet to 22 to 31 below 6000 feet. Local snow
accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Areas of winds southwest 30 to
40 mph with gusts to 65 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Areas of fog.
Highs 28 to 38 above 6000 feet to 35 to 43 below 6000 feet. Local
snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Areas of winds southwest
25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow. Areas of fog. Lows 15 to 25 above
6000 feet to 25 to 33 below 6000 feet. Areas of winds southwest
30 to 40 mph with gusts to 65 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow. Areas of fog. Highs 27 to 35 above 6000 feet
to 34 to 41 below 6000 feet. Areas of winds west 30 to 40 mph.
Gusts to 70 mph...becoming 65 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Areas of fog in the evening. Partly cloudy
with a slight chance of snow in the evening, then mostly clear
overnight. Very windy. Colder. Lows 9 to 19.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Blustery. Not as cool. Highs 34 to
42 above 6000 feet to 40 to 49 below 6000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 17 to 27.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs 38 to 47 above
6000 feet to 45 to 54 below 6000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 20 to 30.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 41 to 49 above 6000 feet to 49 to 56 below 6000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 23 to 33.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 37 to 46 above 6000 feet to 43 to
51 below 6000 feet.
$$
CAZ056-272230-
Riverside County Mountains-
Including the city of Idyllwild-Pine Cove
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
4 PM PST TUESDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow this morning,
then mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow this afternoon.
Areas of fog. Not as cool. Highs 39 to 49. Local snow
accumulation around 1 inch. Snow level 4500 feet this afternoon.
Areas of winds west 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph...becoming
25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph this afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Snow and rain. Areas of fog. Lows 19 to 29. Local snow
accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Snow level 4500 feet...becoming
4000 feet. Areas of winds west 30 to 40 mph with gusts to 65 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Areas of
fog. Highs 38 to 48. Local snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches.
Snow level 4000 feet...becoming 4500 feet in the afternoon. Areas
of winds west 25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 60 mph...becoming 65 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain. Areas of fog. Lows 21 to 31. Snow
level 4500 feet. Areas of winds west 30 to 40 mph. Gusts to
65 mph...becoming 70 mph overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain in the morning. Snow. Areas of fog. Highs 36 to
44. Snow level 4000 feet in the morning. Areas of winds west
35 to 45 mph. Gusts to 70 mph...becoming 75 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Areas of fog in the evening. Mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of snow in the evening, then mostly clear
overnight. Very windy. Colder. Lows 11 to 21.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs 44 to 51.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 19 to 29.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 55.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 23 to 33.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 52 to 59.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 25 to 35.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 47 to 55.
$$
CAZ058-272230-
San Diego County Mountains-
Including the cities of Julian and Pine Valley
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
4 PM PST TUESDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain this afternoon. Areas of fog. Not as cool.
Highs 41 to 49. Snow level 5000 feet this afternoon. Areas of
winds west 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 to
35 mph with gusts to 55 mph this afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain with snow likely. Areas of
fog. Lows 28 to 36. Local snow accumulation around 1 inch. Snow
level 4500 feet...becoming 4000 feet. Areas of winds west 25 to
35 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the morning, then
rain and snow likely in the afternoon. Areas of fog. Highs 40 to
48. Local snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Snow level
4500 feet. Areas of winds west 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...
becoming 55 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow, rain. Areas of fog. Lows 28 to 37. Snow
level 4500 feet. Areas of winds west 35 to 45 mph. Gusts to
70 mph...becoming 75 mph overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Snow, rain. Areas of fog. Highs 39 to 45. Snow level
4500 feet...becoming 3500 feet in the afternoon. Areas of winds
west 40 to 50 mph. Gusts to 75 mph...becoming 85 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Areas of fog in the evening. Mostly cloudy
with a chance of snow in the evening, then mostly clear
overnight. Strong winds. Colder. Lows 17 to 25.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 52.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 25 to 33.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 58.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to 37.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 54 to 61.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 31 to 38.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 48 to 55.
$$
CAZ060-272230-
Apple and Lucerne Valleys-
Including the cities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley,
and Lucerne Valley
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain this afternoon.
Not as cool. Highs 49 to 59. Areas of winds south 20 to 30 mph.
Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 45 mph this afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. A slight
chance of snow overnight. Lows 28 to 35. Snow level 4000 feet...
becoming 3500 feet. Areas of winds southwest 20 to 30 mph. Gusts
to 50 mph...becoming 45 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 58. Areas of winds
southwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows 33 to 36. Snow level 4000 feet.
Areas of winds southwest 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 45 mph...becoming
50 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. A chance of snow. Highs
43 to 52. Snow level 3000 feet in the morning. Areas of winds
west 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 55 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Windy, colder. Lows 21 to 27.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 56.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 24 to 31.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 55 to 61.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 34.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 59 to 66.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 37.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 55 to 65.
$$
CAZ065-272230-
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning-
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain this afternoon.
Highs around 52 through the pass to 59 to 63 in the northern
Coachella Valley. Areas of winds west 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to
45 mph...becoming 55 mph this afternoon. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows around
39 through the pass to 44 in the northern Coachella Valley. Areas
of winds west 30 to 40 mph. Gusts to 65 mph...becoming 60 mph
overnight. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs around
51 through the pass to 58 to 62 in the northern Coachella Valley.
Areas of winds west 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows 39 to 42 through the pass to 45 in
the northern Coachella Valley. Areas of winds west 20 to 30 mph.
Gusts to 50 mph...becoming 55 mph overnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely, mainly in the morning.
Highs around 47 through the pass to 54 to 58 in the northern
Coachella Valley. Areas of winds west 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to
55 mph...becoming 50 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming clear.
Breezy, colder. Lows 27 to 37.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 56 through the pass to 62 to
65 in the northern Coachella Valley.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 44.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 61 through the pass to 65 to 68 in
the northern Coachella Valley.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 63 through the pass to 70 in the northern Coachella
Valley.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 41 to 48.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 58 through the pass to
65 to 68 in the northern Coachella Valley.
$$
CAZ061-272230-
Coachella Valley-
Including the cities of Indio, Palm Springs, Cathedral City,
Palm Desert, Palm Desert Country, La Quinta, and Coachella
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 64 to 68. Areas of winds northwest
10 to 20 mph. Gusts to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 44. Areas of winds north
10 to 20 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 30 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 63 to 68. Areas of winds
northwest 10 to 20 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain
overnight. Lows 40 to 46. Areas of winds west 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs 60 to 65.
Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming clear.
Colder. Lows 32 to 39.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 46.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 70 to 73.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 40 to 48.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 69 to 73.
$$
CAZ062-272230-
San Diego County Deserts-
Including the city of Borrego Springs
232 AM PST Mon Feb 27 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 63 to 68. Areas of winds west 10 to
15 mph with gusts to 25 mph...becoming 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
40 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 40 to 48. Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to
45 mph...becoming 35 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs 61 to 66. Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph.
Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 40 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening, then a chance of rain overnight. Lows 42 to 50. Areas of
winds west 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain likely. Highs 58 to 63. Areas of winds west
30 to 40 mph. Gusts to 60 mph...becoming 65 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in
the evening, then clear overnight. Very windy. Colder. Lows 31 to
39. Snow level 2500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 67.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 45.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 40 to 48.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 70 to 73.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 43 to 51.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 68 to 73.
$$
Moede
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All major distributions of Linux covered in new exam
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, today announced the worldwide release of a new CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, the market's only job-focused Linux certification covering the latest foundational skills demanded by hiring managers.
The new CompTIA Linux+ exam validates the skills technology professionals need to secure the enterprise, power the cloud and keep today's tech systems running.
"As organizations opt for Linux-based solutions to automate and orchestrate critical processes to scale and improve operations," said Teresa Sears, vice president for certification product management at CompTIA. "This creates a demand for technology professionals with the ability and skill to manage, secure, optimize and troubleshoot enterprise-level Linux systems. We are addressing this demand through greater emphasis in the new exam on how Linux powers the cloud."
The exam covers tasks associated with all major distributions of Linux, including configuration and management of Linux systems; operation of on premise and cloud-based distributions; containerization and automation; and scripting. With these skills established as a foundation, CompTIA Linux+ certified professionals are prepared for advanced vendor- and distributor-specific knowledge.
U.S. employers posted more than 570,000 job openings requiring Linux skills in the 12 months between June 2021 and May 2022, according to CompTIA's analysis of data from Lightcast. About one-half of the positions advertised were in the in the 0-2 years or 3-5 years of experience range.
Employers that rely on CompTIA Linux+ for their technology staffs include organizations in aerospace and defense, aviation, government, health care, insurance, IT consulting, technology and other industries.
CompTIA Linux+ stands apart from other credentials because it is job-focused and addresses the foundational skills sought by hiring managers. Unlike other certifications, the CompTIA Linux+ exam includes performance-based and multiple-choice questions to identify the employees who can do the job.
"For the individual IT pro, becoming CompTIA Linux+ certified opens doors to new career pathways in areas such as cybersecurity, the cloud and DevOps, all of which rely on Linux," Sears said.
CompTIA also announced that a comprehensive selection of learning content for the new CompTIA Linux+ exam is also available. These resources include:
- CompTIA CertMaster Learn, a comprehensive, self-paced eLearning environment that uses videos, assessment and performance-based questions to prepare candidates for the CompTIA certification exam.
- CompTIA CertMaster Labs, which help learners gain hands-on experience configuring a wide range of technologies in a self-paced, pre-configured browser-based environment in order to prepare for practical aspects of CompTIA certification exams.
- CompTIA CertMaster Practice, an adaptive knowledge assessment tool that determines what a learner has already mastered and what they still need to learn to improve confidence and increase retention before a CompTIA certification exam.
- Books and other Official CompTIA Content designed to help the learner learn and master the material for their certification exam. Self-paced CompTIA study guides are clearly written, structured and flexible so the learner can study at any pace.
For comprehensive information on CompTIA Linux+, including exam objectives, learning resources and testing options visit https://www.comptia.org/certifications/linux.
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world's economy. Through education, training, certifications, advocacy, philanthropy, and market research, CompTIA is the hub for unlocking the potential of the tech industry and its workforce. https://www.comptia.org/
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Search continues for 7-year-old boy who went missing during family fishing trip
DAYTON, Ohio (Gray News) – Authorities are searching for a 7-year-old boy who went missing on a fishing trip nearly two weeks ago.
Dayton Police & Fire said that Lucas Rosales was fishing with his family near Eastwood MetroPark and was last seen around 6:40 p.m. on April 29.
Authorities said Lucas is 3 feet tall, weighs about 60 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white shirt with black sleeves, black pants and black Converse shoes.
First responders have provided numerous updates since Lucas went missing, saying multiple agencies are continuing the search.
Decreasing water levels gave officials the opportunity to create a temporary dam on a portion of the Mad River to aid the search.
Searchers are using multiple boats, thermal imaging devices, underwater drones, aerial drones, and SONAR devices to find Lucas. K-9s have also been brought in.
Police said at this time, they have no reason to suspect foul play and that the boy’s family has been fully cooperating with the investigation.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 3, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
523 PM PDT Sat Sep 3 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM PDT THIS
EVENING FOR CENTRAL INYO COUNTY...
At 523 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms had ended just
east of Furnace Creek. However, very heavy rain fell into washes
which flow down to Highway 190 on both sides of Furnace Creek. Flash
flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life-threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing
flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life-threatening flash flooding of low-water crossings,
creeks, normally dry washes and roads.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Highway 190, Furnace Creek and Texas Springs Campground.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central Los
Angeles County through 630 PM PDT...
At 523 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Elizabeth Lake, or 12 miles west of Lancaster, moving west at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Lancaster...
Quartz Hill...
Elizabeth Lake...
Lake Hughes...
Highway 138 between Quail Lake and Lancaster...
and Castaic Lake.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3466 11821 3457 11867 3482 11883 3482 11822
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 088DEG 17KT 3475 11839
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are ‘spam bots’ or real people.
The billionaire and Tesla CEO has been trying to back out of his April agreement to buy the social media company, leading Twitter to sue him last month to complete the acquisition. Musk countersued, accusing Twitter of misleading his team about the true size of its user base and other problems he said amounted to fraud and breach of contract.
Both sides are headed toward an October trial in a Delaware court.
“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms,” Musk tweeted early Saturday. “However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not.”
Musk, who has more than 100 million Twitter followers, went on to challenge Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a “public debate about the Twitter bot percentage.”
Twitter declined comment Saturday. The company has repeatedly disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission an estimate that fewer than 5% of user accounts are fake or spam, with a disclaimer that it could be higher. Musk waived his right to further due diligence when he signed the April merger agreement.
Twitter has argued in court that Musk is deliberately trying to tank the deal and using the bot question as an excuse because market conditions have deteriorated and the acquisition no longer serves his interests. In a court filing Thursday, it describes his counterclaims as an imagined story “contradicted by the evidence and common sense.”
“Musk invents representations Twitter never made and then tries to wield, selectively, the extensive confidential data Twitter provided him to conjure a breach of those purported representations,” company attorneys wrote.
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ARLINGTON, Va., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) ("AES" or the "Company") announced today its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, senior notes (the "Notes") in a registered public offering.
AES intends to allocate an amount equal to the net proceeds from this offering to one or more eligible green projects, which may include the development or redevelopment of such projects. Pending such allocation, AES intends to use the net proceeds from the proposed offering to refinance existing indebtedness, fund investments in the Company's renewables strategic business unit, fund investments in its U.S. utilities businesses or for general corporate purposes.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Barclays Capital Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers of the proposed offering.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor does it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. An effective shelf registration statement related to the Notes has previously been filed by AES with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The offering and sale of the Notes are being made only by means of a prospectus supplement dated May 15, 2023 and an accompanying base prospectus dated March 2, 2022 related to the offering. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement in that registration statement and other documents AES has filed with the SEC for more complete information about AES and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the prospectus supplement and related base prospectus related to this offering may be obtained from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by calling (866) 803-9204, or from Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: (888) 603-5847, or by emailing barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com.
About AES
The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) is a Fortune 500 global energy company accelerating the future of energy. Together with our many stakeholders, we're improving lives by delivering the greener, smarter energy solutions the world needs. Our diverse workforce is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence, while partnering with our customers on their strategic energy transitions and continuing to meet their energy needs today. For more information, visit www.aes.com.
Safe Harbor Disclosure
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, our financing plans, including the offering of the Notes and the details thereof, the proposed use of proceeds therefrom, the ultimate allocation of amounts relating to the offering of the Notes to eligible green projects, and other expected effects of the offering of the Notes, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as our ability to market and sell the Notes, our continued eligibility to use the shelf registration statement, general economic conditions and other risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are not intended to be a guarantee of future results, but instead constitute AES' current expectations based on reasonable assumptions.
Actual results could differ materially from those projected in AES' forward-looking statements due to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Important factors that could affect actual results are discussed in the prospectus supplement related to the offering and AES' filings with the SEC, including, but not limited to, the risks discussed under Item 1A: "Risk Factors" and Item 7: "Management's Discussion & Analysis" in AES' 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K and in subsequent reports filed with the SEC. Potential investors are encouraged to read AES' filings to learn more about the risk factors associated with AES' business. AES undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except where required by law.
Investor Contact: Susan Harcourt 703-682-1204
Media Contact: Amy Ackerman 703-682-6399
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SOURCE The AES Corporation | 2023-05-15T14:12:16+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/05/15/aes-announces-public-offering-senior-notes/ |
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