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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican-controlled South Carolina House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow lawful firearm owners to carry handguns openly or concealed without a state permit.
The 90-30 vote brings the conservative state one step closer to joining 25 others with some form of so-called “constitutional carry” laws. The fate of the state's latest effort to loosen gun restrictions once more falls to the Senate, where lawmakers rejected a similar proposal two years ago.
“This will open up options for families to protect themselves without a permit,” said Republican Rep. Bobby Cox, the bill's leading sponsor. “South Carolinians can still get the training they need. But they don’t need a permission slip to exercise that right.”
Republicans passed the bill over the strong objections of many Democrats who said the move would decrease public safety in communities already ravaged by gun deaths. Opponents included one lawmaker whose sister was one of the nine Black churchgoers killed by an avowed white supremacist in a 2015 mass shooting at the South's oldest African Methodist Episcopal church.
Rep. JA Moore accused Republicans of publicly supporting a measure privately acknowledged by some as a “bad bill."
“My sister was murdered by a legal gun that a white supremacist terrorist should not have had," Moore said. “So shame on y’all for playing politics with people’s lives.”
The measure would restrict people from bringing guns into detention centers, courthouses, polling places, government offices, school athletic events, schools, religious sanctuaries and doctor's offices, among other locations.
On-duty law enforcement, Armed Forces, National Guard, state militia and members of the judiciary are exempt from those restrictions. After some discussion, lawmakers added public defenders and county clerks of court to the list but explicitly barred them from carrying concealed weapons into correctional facilities.
The measure would effectively lower the age at which South Carolinians can carry a concealed gun. State law allows anyone 18 or older to purchase a gun. But concealed weapons permits have only been available to people over 21 years old.
The process for obtaining a concealed weapons permit in South Carolina currently requires about eight hours of training. Another failed amendment sought to add language encouraging citizens to complete a “firearm education course.”
Several amendments made strange bedfellows of Democrats and the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus. One successful change added language explicitly stating that the open carry of a weapon “does not give a law enforcement officer reasonable suspicion or probable cause to search, detain, or arrest the person.” Some Black lawmakers expressed concerns that police officers would treat African American gunowners differently than others.
One particular section similarly drew opposition from the two typically opposing groups.
In addition to allowing permitless carry, the bill would bar people convicted of most felonies from firearm possession and align state penalties with federal law. Violations would draw prison terms up to five years for a first offense, five to 20 years for a second offense and ten to 30 years for a subsequent offense. There are also exemptions for those convicted of business crimes such as antitrust violations or unfair trade practices. It also would exempt anyone convicted of a misdemeanor punishable by five years imprisonment or less.
Republican Rep. Thomas Beach said the section amounted to a “gun grab” consistent with President Joe Biden’s “anti-2nd Amendment agenda.” Democrats also criticized their counterparts for creating a new criminal law restricting firearm ownership within this supposed expansion of gun rights.
Democratic Rep. Seth Rose charged Republicans with squeezing two measures into one bill in a “bait-and-switch” that bypassed the necessary committee process, where law enforcement officials have previously expressed opposition to similar permitless carry proposals.
“When you show up to a crime scene and everyone’s carrying guns on their hip, guess what, that’s dangerous,” Rose said. "Law enforcement doesn’t know who the good guys are and the bad guys are. And a lot of times we don’t want good guys acting like law enforcement and making a bad situation worse.”
Cox supported the effort he said both protects law abiding gun owners and targets violent criminals. Cox said lawmakers worked extensively on the bill with the National Rifle Association, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and local sheriffs.
Republican Rep. Weston Newton suggested the additional “felon-in-possession statute” was necessary to secure support from law enforcement groups who wanted more tools to crack down on repeat offenders charged with misdemeanor gun possession.
“This language needs to stay in this bill or law enforcement is against this bill," Netwon said. "This was part of the arrangement when it went in.”
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. (PCRX) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $19.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Tampa, Florida-based company said it had net income of 40 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 51 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 81 cents per share.
The specialty drugmaker posted revenue of $169.4 million in the period, also missing Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $169.5 million.
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How to Watch the Belmont vs. Drake Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the MVC Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 12, 2023 at 8:11 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The MVC conference champion will be crowned on Sunday when the No. 2 seed Belmont Bruins (23-10) and the No. 4 Drake Bulldogs (21-9) play at 2:00 PM.
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Belmont vs. Drake Scoring Comparison
- The Bulldogs score an average of 78.8 points per game, 13.3 more points than the 65.5 the Bruins allow.
- Drake is 18-6 when it scores more than 65.5 points.
- Belmont is 20-7 when it allows fewer than 78.8 points.
- The Bruins score 71.2 points per game, 5.9 more points than the 65.3 the Bulldogs give up.
- Belmont has an 18-2 record when scoring more than 65.3 points.
- Drake has an 18-4 record when allowing fewer than 71.2 points.
- The Bruins are making 45.3% of their shots from the field, 7.5% higher than the Bulldogs concede to opponents (37.8%).
- The Bulldogs shoot 50.9% from the field, 5% higher than the Bruins allow.
Belmont Schedule
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ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Andor Health, the company that provides world-renowned healthcare organizations a better way to connect and collaborate, partners with TriHealth to enable ThinkAndor® Virtual Patient Monitoring (VPM) as part of an enterprise-wide virtual care collaboration platform.
More healthcare institutions are aligning their virtual strategies to be a single platform allowing for consistent virtual experiences whether the patient needing care is remote, in the hospital, or at home. TriHealth is taking transformative strides to achieve that model and support its populations more efficiently. ThinkAndor® leverages AI across tailored workflows to virtualize care across all settings. For VPM, ThinkAndor® provides real-time alerts, automated notifications, and analytics and reporting on clinical data & trends at a patient level and cohort level. ThinkAndor® VPM drives greater efficiency for the care team and improves patient responsiveness by collecting data from biometric devices and patient self-reported assessments. Then, ThinkAndor® leverages AI-powered workflows and next-best actions that empower clinicians and care teams to track patient progress. ThinkAndor® VPM enables clinical staff to intervene swiftly – improving outcomes and lowering readmission rates.
ThinkAndor® VPM includes the ability to monitor patients against tailored care plans and virtually connect with patients directly from a unified care team dashboard to reduce reporting time. ThinkAndor's AI-powered virtual assistant guides patients across configurable care plans relevant to the patient's diagnosis with timely questions. ThinkAndor® also removes the traditional barriers of device connectivity and simplifies patient experience by allowing devices to connect and send data without requiring Wi-Fi or cellular connections. Andor's no-app approach allows patients to share feedback in real-time with the care team, receive alerts and prompts, and manage their condition. ThinkAndor's approach and AI-driven technology creates many efficiencies:
- Eliminates patient device setup and training
- Allows for variable and timely questions with configurable care plans
- Simplifies reporting with automated time capture from review, analysis, and interactions
- Eliminates billing administrator efforts with automated reports
- Captures time from all care team members, including pharmacists, nutritionists, nurses, and counselors, leading to more comprehensive billing for CPT codes
"At TriHealth, we are constantly looking to evolve our telehealth eco-system into a more streamlined, versatile, and intuitive offering which will position us to build out programs and services that align with our strategy and the future of healthcare. ThinkAndor's AI-driven technology puts us on that path," explained Nick Kostoff, senior manager, telehealth, at TriHealth. "We started with Andor by building our Remote Patient Care service which helps us care for patients managing chronic conditions in-between office visits. Next up – modernizing the way we offer scheduled and on-demand telehealth visits. Efficiency, ease of use, and quality reporting are critical aspects for those who use or support these care models. The ThinkAndor® partnership/platform will help us better deliver on these crucial components, as we strive to create operationally excellent telehealth programs that are highly adoptable for our patients and providers."
"As health systems continue to move to value-based care models, it is paramount to look at a unified platform approach for virtual care, including monitoring patients at home. ThinkAndor® leverages AI and event-driven signaling to streamline workflows across the health system to combat staffing shortages by optimizing clinical staff efficiency," stated Srini Surendranath, chief product & strategy officer, of Andor Health.
To learn how you can Achieve More with AI-Powered Virtual Care Experiences™, visit Andor Health booth number 1527 at HLTH in Las Vegas on Nov. 13-16.
At Andor Health, our mission is to change the way care teams connect and collaborate. By harnessing machine and human intelligence, our cloud-based platform unlocks data stored in electronic medical records to deliver real-time actionable intelligence to care teams inside and outside their enterprise. By optimizing communication workflows, our solutions accelerate time to treatment, decrease clinician burnout, and drive better patient outcomes. For more information, visit Andor Health or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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- Benign Paranoia Shares Secrets From Over a Dozen Thought Leaders
- Tips From Thomas Von Hessen (NYC fire Commissioner on 9/11), Don Hayden (Former President of Global Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb), and Jack Welch (Former CEO of G.E.), Among Others
NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Best-selling author and marketing icon Sander A. Flaum has just released his latest book, Benign Paranoia: The Sixth Sense That Keeps Leaders Ahead of the Pack https://amzn.to/39fgAZZ. After rising to the top in the business world, Sander saw (early in 2022) that there were common traits that successful business people shared. These traits all neatly fell under the umbrella term best described as Benign Paranoia (BP). For example, if you possess Benign Paranoia, you are always worried about the future, and do what you can to plan for it. In addition to advice and case studies, each chapter of Benign Paranoia concludes with a BP quiz allowing readers to rate their own BP IQ.
"To write the book I spoke to over a dozen friends and close colleagues (all acknowledged thought leaders) who shared their secrets for employing Benign Paranoia, and how using it helped determine their success. Even though they worked in different areas (e.g., public service, big pharma, entrepreneurial start-ups and professional services) they all embrace Benign Paranoia," says Sander.
Five Tips From Benign Paranoia Leaders
- You can never just rest.
- You need to be unsatisfied with the status quo.
- You must be able to pivot in a nanosecond.
- You must always be scanning ahead for trouble.
- Fear is a great motivator.
Sander A. Flaum is a pharmaceutical marketing icon who introduced six blockbuster brands to the market, including Aleve and Flomax. Each exceeded $2 billion in sales. He founded and runs the award-winning NYC branding consultancy Flaum Navigators https://flaumnavigators.com/ and is a best-selling author whose book The 100 Mile Walk recounts his journey with his Buddhist entrepreneur son Jonathan and how he saw business differently than his big pharma marketing father. Other business and personal growth books penned by Sander Flaum include: The Stutter Steps; Boost Your Career; Big Shoes: How Successful Leaders Grow into New Roles, and The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen To You.
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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Pets Alive! is celebrating National Dog Day with free adoptions for all four-legged friends.
San Antonio Pets Alive! is a last-chance rescue organization that takes in animals that are at risk of euthanasia at San Antonio’s Animal Care Services.
From 1-6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, cat and dog adoptions at the Animal Care Services Annex Building, located at 4710 Highway 151, will be free.
JDog Junk Removal & Hauling is helping cover the costs, allowing all adoptions to take place at no cost to new pet owners.
Foster animals that are currently in foster care will also be present and available for adoption.
Spurs tickets and a free junk removal voucher will be raffled off at the event, according to San Antonio Pets Alive! spokesperson Stephanie Paz Perez.
San Antonio Pets Alive! has issued a “Code Red” several times throughout the summer — meaning that 25 or more dogs and puppies were to be released by Animal Care Services for possible euthanasia due to lack of space.
San Antonio Pets Alive! shelters were often too full to take in any more pets.
The organization sent a press release yesterday that stated 85 dogs and puppies were on the City of San Antonio’s euthanasia list this week alone.
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San Antonio animal shelter says dogs, puppies at risk of euthanasia due to ‘Code Red’
‘We need a miracle’: Two San Antonio animal shelters out of space, in dire need of foster families | 2022-08-25T18:33:20+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/08/25/free-dog-and-cat-adoptions-will-take-place-on-national-dog-day-at-san-antonio-pets-alive/ |
Prices at the grocery store have been increasing significantly since the start of the COVID pandemic. USDA predicts they will continue to rise, with food prices going up between 3% and 4% in 2023. With a significant portion of the average income going to groceries, nobody wants to throw food away because it has gotten stale.
Keeping food from going stale requires taking a few proactive steps. It all starts with proper storage and packaging, from chip clips to the best cereal containers, to keep the food out of contact with air and moisture-proofing for foods prone to spoilage.
Fortunately, you’re just a few simple steps away from maximizing the shelf life of your pantry staples.
Keep Them Dry
Store items such as cereals, grains and flour in airtight containers or jars with tight-fitting lids to help prevent moisture from entering. Choose airtight containers designed to protect the food while providing convenient access.
For instance, the best cereal containers hold an entire box of cereal, keeping it from going stale but also making it easy to dispense. Rotate items regularly so that older items are used first and fresher products are stocked last to reduce waste.
Mark The Date
Labeling containers with a date will help you know when the food was packaged and identify whether or not it should still be consumed. In addition, this can help remind you to use up food before it goes stale.
You can label each container with a permanent marker for easy identification. Alternatively, you can use stickers or other marking materials to mark expiration dates on any containers clearly.
Keep Them Cool—Or Even Frozen
When storing pantry staples, be mindful of temperature and humidity. For example, high temperatures can cause the oil in food such as nuts and seeds to turn rancid quickly. If you live in a warm climate, consider storing these items in the refrigerator or freezer to extend their shelf life.
You can also keep other pantry items in the freezer, particularly if you don’t plan to use them right away. Things such as yeast, whole-grain flour, bread and even potato chips will keep in the freezer for months.
Consider A Vacuum Sealer
Vacuum sealing can be an effective way to extend the shelf-life of pantry staples. Choose a good quality, BPA-free vacuum sealer designed to work with the best vacuum sealer bags or containers.
Label each sealed item with its contents and date so you can quickly identify what’s inside and how long you can keep it before it goes bad. Keep sealed items in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and high temperatures to ensure maximum freshness.
Be Attentive
Once you have properly stored your pantry staples, remember to check on them at regular intervals. Make sure that there is no evidence of spoilage, such as discoloration, mold or a strange odor.
If any of these signs are present, it’s best to discard the item right away and replace it with a fresh one. Additionally, inspect boxes and bags for any possible leaks which can lead to rapid deterioration of food.
Ultimately, the key to keeping pantry staples fresh is prevention. With a few simple steps, you can keep your pantry staples fresher for longer and avoid tossing money in the trash.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2023-01-19T13:14:03+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/how-to-keep-chips-cereal-from-going-stale |
We're continuing to get you and your kids ready to head back to school, and we know there's a lot to buy.
From backpacks to Chromebooks, school supplies and clothes, the National Retail Federation estimates families will spend around $864 on school supplies this year.
College students and their families plan to spend an average of $1,199 for the upcoming semester. So, how do you not break the bank? Here are the top five ways to save on back-to-school shopping from an expert.
Kristin McGrath, the editor of The Real Deal blog for RetailMeNot, said the number one tip she has to go in with a coupon.
1. Check for promo codes and coupons
McGrath said to check before you start buying so you'll know where you want to shop first.
2. Sign up for retailers' rewards programs
Some of those programs allow you to earn points or money back to apply towards future purchases.
“We've seen some retailers this year offering special promo codes and deals that are only valid for their rewards club members. So, it's really important to make sure you're getting all the savings that are coming to you," McGrath said.
3. Review weekly ads and gift cards with purchase offers
Target offers a free $15 gift card when you spend $50 on select household essentials, but make sure you're using the gift card so you're not wasting your money.
4. Utilize cash-back shopping
RetailMeNot features hundreds of offers from dozens of retailers, or you can sign up direct with your favorite stores.
5. Wait for Labor Day deals to buy most of the clothes
"Retailers know that people are out shopping and they want to offload a lot of that warmer weather stuff to make way for fall and winter," McGrath said.
There are usually even bigger clearance deals after Labor Day, so if you can wait that long, it will really pay off.
The bottom line – stores are competing for your business right now, and they know many people have been struggling with high grocery and gas bills, so the deals are out there.
This article was written by Alicia Smith for WXYZ. | 2022-08-18T15:21:24+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/education/back-to-school/the-top-5-ways-to-save-on-back-to-school-supplies |
TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Board of Directors of TMX Group Limited today declared a dividend of $0.83 on each common share outstanding. This dividend is payable on November 24, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 10, 2022.
TMX Group hereby advises that this dividend is designated as an "eligible dividend" for Canadian income tax purposes.
For the results of the quarter ended September 30, 2022 for TMX Group, please click on the following link: http://www.tmx.com/investor-relations/.
TMX Group operates global markets, and builds digital communities and analytic solutions that facilitate the funding, growth and success of businesses, traders and investors. TMX Group's key operations include Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montréal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, and Trayport which provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, technology solutions, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across North America (Montréal, Calgary, Vancouver and New York), as well as in key international markets including London and Singapore. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on Twitter: @TMXGroup.
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Deputy shot, killed by suspect in Arizona
PHOENIX (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) - Officials confirmed a Yavapai County deputy has died after he was shot by a suspect in Cordes Lakes on Tuesday afternoon.
Police say the suspect is now in custody after an hours-long standoff.
Dozens of law enforcement were at HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center in Phoenix to honor the deputy.
Motorcycles were lined up outside the emergency room entrance of the hospital. Officials confirmed the deputy died surrounded by his family.
A spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s office said around 2 p.m., the suspect was barricaded and SWAT teams were called to the area.
Cordes Lakes residents were asked to remain out of the area. Stagecoach Trail and Red Rock Road are closed, according to the office.
The deputy’s name has not been released.
This is the 19th officer-involved shooting outside of Maricopa County and the 50th overall in the state in 2022.
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NFL analyst claims the Bears should trade Roquan Smith originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
The Roquan Smith fiasco has quickly tumbled into a nightmare for the Chicago Bears front office.
All seemed fine and well at Halas Hall. Smith was conducting a casual, nothing-to-worry-about "hold in" while the negotiations between him and the new regime continued.
In a heartbeat, Smith delivered a two-page note claiming the Bears have handled his negotiations poorly and not in "good faith." He pulled on Bears fans' heart strings by mentioning the past linebacker legends, claiming he wanted to join them. Smith ended the note with a cry for help from the McCaskey family and saying he doesn't see a "path back" to the team.
The Bears fired back by claiming they offered him record-breaking parts of a contract that would be competitive with the deals Smith's counterparts, Fred Warner and Shaquille Leonard, signed with their respective teams. The front office and coaching staff have repeated their desire to keep Smith. They already designated him the WILL linebacker for head coach Matt Eberflus' 4-3 defense.
As the situation gets uglier and nastier by the day, the Bears have to consider giving Smith what he wants, according to one NFL analyst.
"It is time to do what the Warriors did and pivot off a really good player who's got a market," NFL analyst Colin Cowherd said.
Cowherd compares the Smith situation to the Monta Ellis-Steph Curry situation back in 2012. In a move to commit to their young guard (Curry), the Warriors traded Ellis to the Bucks in return for Andrew Bogut. Ellis had requested a trade from the Warriors and the team needed frontcourt help. Hence, the trade for Bogut from Ellis.
In comparison, the Bears need everything-offense help. The Bears lack wide receivers, an offensive line and potentially a running back if David Montgomery and the Bears can't make a deal next offseason. The focus and money need to switch over to the offense in Cowherd's eyes.
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Cowherd makes the argument the Bears need to concentrate on building around quarterback Justin Fields. He claims the NFL is heading into a quarterback mindset with offensive-driven goals. In his eyes, giving Smith $20 million per year would be a mistake. The Bears should use Smith as bait to help rebuild their poorly constructed offense.
"The Bears are broken. Stuck in the past. Too much 1975 football ideology," Cowherd said. "The game is changing. This is the moment. Pivot."
The Bears have the most leverage in Smith's situation. Smith is under contract for next season with $9.7 million to his name. The team has not allowed Smith permission to seek out a trade from the league. The linebacker already got in trouble by having an uncertified agent contact other teams in hopes of constructing a trade behind the scenes.
While the team has leverage, some issues arise with trying to trade Smith. The market for inside linebackers is niche. It's a position not a lot of teams rely on to have star players. Some game changers get paid, like Leonard and Warner. But others, like Zach Cunningham and C.J Mosely, are left with average NFL contracts. The trade value for Smith is likely worse than a first-round pick, considering his position's demand and the idea that any team who wants him will have to pay him $20 million per year.
Nevertheless, Cowherd urges the Bears to cut their losses and focus on offense.
"This is your Monta Ellis-Steph Curry moment. Be the Warriors, not the Bears," Cowherd said. | 2022-08-17T23:38:50+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/nfl-analyst-claims-the-bears-should-trade-roquan-smith/2917416/ |
DETROIT, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective Dec. 31, 2022, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, a Detroit-area firm with more than 120 attorneys representing over 25 practice areas, joined Taft.
With this addition, Taft is now comprised of more than 800 attorneys in eight primary Midwest markets and the District of Columbia.
First announced in September 2022, the combination of Jaffe and Taft will offer greater benefits to their clients, bringing together two firms that value a client-first approach, commitment to culture, and collaborative mindset. Founded 54 years ago in 1968, Jaffe has established itself as one of the most respected full-service law firms in Michigan — representing public and private clients throughout the Midwest and United States, and internationally, with a Midwestern rate structure. This expansion not only welcomes new talent and resources to both firms, but it also creates a stronger overall presence across markets and further strengthens Taft's position as the modern law firm.
"The Jaffe team is excited to embark on this journey, joining with Taft to expand our offering in the Detroit market," said Mark Cooper, Taft Detroit's partner-in-charge. "We've been working collaboratively as Team Taft to create a seamless transition for our clients, attorneys, and staff while bringing significant enhancements to our current capabilities in the region. We look forward to starting this new, modern chapter."
Taft operates under a "One Taft" leadership mentality — a structure that offers balanced representation across Taft markets and practice areas in all firm-wide, executive-level decisions. With this combination, Taft Detroit will have four seats on the firm's executive committee. Each Taft market is empowered to make decisions locally while being supported by the Taft brand, vision, and firm-wide resources.
"At Taft, we are extremely pleased to welcome such incredible talent to our team — sharing a strong commitment to our clients, while also enhancing the way we operate and deliver services as a modern law firm. As a united front, we look forward to continuing to grow, engage, and support the Detroit community," said Robert J. Hicks, Taft's chairman and managing partner.
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Rep. Greg Markkanen introduced a resolution that seeks to use a portion of the Upper Peninsula’s wolf population to re-establish a self-sustaining population in the Lower Peninsula, he announced Thursday.
The resolution is tie-barred to Markkanen’s House Bill 4102.
“Public support for wolves has historically been high among Michigan’s Lower Peninsula residents,” said Markkanen, R-Hancock. “I’ve heard it from Lower Peninsula residents themselves – they often express envy in the UP’s privilege to live side-by-side with wolves. I urge the DNR to re-establish a viable and self-sustaining wolf population in the Lower Peninsula by re-locating as many wolves as possible from the UP’s thriving population.”
Gray wolves in Michigan have been protected under the federal Endangered Species Act since 1974, leading to their comeback over the years, which led to their delisting from the federal Endangered Species list several times, most recently in January 2021.
A viable and self-sustaining wolf population, currently estimated at approximately 700 animals, has been re-established in the Upper Peninsula since 2007. However, no such sustainable wolf population has been re-established in the Lower Peninsula.
House Concurrent Resolution 2 states the following: “Re-establishment of gray wolves in the Lower Peninsula could be achieved by translocating wolves from the recovered and established U.P. wolf population. Translocation has been used for decades as an effective method to re-establish rare and endangered species around the world.” | 2023-02-16T22:02:26+00:00 | 9and10news.com | https://www.9and10news.com/2023/02/16/rep-markkanen-urges-dnr-to-use-up-wolves-to-re-establish-population-in-lower-peninsula/ |
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MCKINNEY, Texas, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Life Inc. (NYSE: GL) will release Second Quarter 2023 earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. At that time, a copy of the Company's Second Quarter - 2023 earnings press release and any other financial and statistical information about the quarter will be available on the Company's website at https://investors.globelifeinsurance.com/ under Financial Reports and Other Financial Information. In conjunction with the Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Release of Globe Life Inc., you are invited to listen to a conference call broadcast live over the Internet on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 12:00pm Eastern (11:00am Central).
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Child headed to Orlando cheer competition with family run over during attempted carjacking: Police
A 9-year-old girl was run over by a truck driven by two men who were attempting to carjack the family who was headed to a cheer competition in Orlando.
The attempted carjacking happened on Tuesday morning in Minden, Louisiana when a father traveling with his three daughters made a pit stop at a Love's gas station on Highway 131, police said.
Shortly after midnight, the family stopped for a restroom break and two of the teenage daughters went back to the car as their father and 9-year-old sister were still inside the store. The father told police as he was checking out, he saw a truck pull up in front of his car and two passengers jump out.
The father ran out of the store to confront the alleged carjackers and didn't realize his 9-year-old daughter followed him out. The carjacker who was driving the car sped off and ran the child over, police said.
The child suffered some broken bones and is likely to be released from the hospital on Monday.
The two suspects were driving a stolen U-Haul pickup truck out of Shreveport, Louisiana.
One of the suspects, a juvenile, was arrested and is being held on a $2.5 million bond. Police said they are close to identifying the driver who hit the girl. | 2023-05-04T22:18:17+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/child-headed-to-orlando-cheer-competition-with-family-run-over-during-attempted-car-jacking-police |
LONDON — Britain's governing Conservative Party suffered two thumping defeats Friday in a trio of special elections but avoided a drubbing after holding onto former premier Boris Johnson's seat in suburban London.
Though the main opposition Labour Party and the smaller centrist Liberal Democrats overturned massive Conservative majorities to win a seat apiece, the Conservatives found some crumbs of comfort in their narrow success in Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London.
Still, the results of Thursday's elections, if replicated at a likely general election next year, would certainly see Labour emerge as the biggest single party, possibly with a sizable overall majority. Despite holding onto Johnson's former seat by just 495 votes, the three election results show the Conservatives losing ground across a broad range of voters: suburban Londoners, small-town-dwellers in the north of England and rural residents in the southwest.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak headed straight off to the scene of his party's sole electoral success and noted that governments often find midterm elections difficult.
"The message I take away is that we've got to double down, stick to our plan and deliver for people," he said in a cafe in Ruislip.
Labour's leader Keir Starmer is also heading off to Selby and Ainsty in northern England, where 25-year-old candidate Keir Mather managed to secure the party's second largest swing at a special election since 1945.
"This is a historic result that shows that people are looking at Labour and seeing a changed party that is focused entirely on the priorities of working people with an ambitious, practical plan to deliver," Starmer said after the result was announced.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats took Somerton and Frome in southwest England on a similarly large swing away from the Conservatives.
"The people of Somerton and Frome have spoken for the rest of the country who are fed up with Rishi Sunak's out-of-touch Conservative government," Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said.
What is clear about those two elections was that voters from both opposition parties clearly backed the party most likely to defeat the Conservative candidate. Facing this level of tactical voting, the defeats will likely leave many Conservative lawmakers rattled ahead of the likely national vote next year.
The defeats don't mean a change of government, since the Conservatives still have a chunky majority in the House of Commons.
For months, opinion polls have been giving Labour a double-digit lead — sometimes up to 20% — nationwide over the Conservatives, who have been in power since 2010.
The party has been plagued by the fallout from the tumultuous terms of Johnson and his successor as prime minister, Liz Truss, who quit within weeks after her plan for unfunded tax cuts alarmed financial markets, which accentuated a a cost-of-living crisis and saw mortgage costs soar.
Johnson, who stood down as premier last September, quit Parliament last month after being accused of misleading the House of Commons over statements he made regarding the lockdown breaches. The former lawmaker in Selby, an ally of Johnson's, followed him out the door while the member of parliament in Somerton and Frome resigned amid sex and drugs allegations.
In light of those bruising defeats, there is speculation that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has to call a general election by January 2025, could look to shake up his government with a Cabinet shuffle as early as Friday.
While Sunak mulls his options, much of the spotlight will turn on Labour leader Starmer, who has been cautious in laying out his plans for government.
The party's failure to secure victory in Johnson's former seat will likely some concern over London Mayor Sadiq Khan's plan to expand an anti-pollution zone to all outer boroughs of the capital, a move that will see many older cars and diesel vehicles face a daily emissions charge.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-21T15:08:12+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-07-21/british-pm-rishi-sunak-suffers-2-big-defeats-in-u-k-special-elections |
SEATTLE (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates selected hard-throwing LSU right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes with the top pick in baseball’s amateur draft on Sunday night, with teammate Dylan Crews going No. 2 to the Washington Nationals.
Skenes went 12-3 with 209 strikeouts in 122 innings in helping lead the Tigers to the College World Series championship. The pick was announced by Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr., the top pick of the 1987 draft by the Seattle Mariners.
Skenes was the first college pitcher selected No. 1 overall since Casey Mize by Detroit in 2018.
For the second time in three years, the Pirates held the top overall selection after picking catcher Henry Davis at the top of the 2021 draft. Davis made his major league debut last month for Pittsburgh.
Skenes’ slot value is expected to be about $9.7 million.
It seemed to be a debate between Skenes and Crews for the top pick. It didn’t take long for Crews to come off the board after hitting .426 with 18 home runs while playing center field for the Tigers. Crews had a 26-game hitting streak as part of his standout season for the Tigers and finished his career at LSU by reaching base in each of his final 75 college games.
Skenes and Crews are the first pair of teammates to go 1-2 in draft history.
Detroit selected high school outfielder Max Clark from Franklin, Indiana, at No. 3. Clark was the Gatorade national player of the year after hitting .646 with six homers and 33 RBIs during his high school season.
Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford went No. 4 to Texas, and high school outfielder Walker Jenkins, from Oak Island, North Carolina, went fifth to Minnesota.
Oakland took college shortstop Jacob Wilson, the son of former major league shortstop Jack Wilson, from Grand Canyon at No. 6.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-10T00:05:35+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-pittsburgh-selects-hard-throwing-lsu-pitcher-paul-skenes-with-top-pick-of-amateur-draft/ |
Home Model Showcases How Off-Site Built Housing Offers an Attainable Solution
ELKHART, Ind., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Clayton CrossMod® home on display at the RV/MH Hall of Fame is now open to visitors. The home represents a modern housing solution for individuals and families amid the ever growing affordable housing crisis. Clayton, a national home builder, offers beautiful, attainable homes, like the one on display, that feature a variety of unique styles and energy-saving home options.
The Clayton CrossMod home, along with two other off-site built houses, are part of a new 21,000 square foot Manufactured Home Museum expansion. The new wing is dedicated to showcasing the industry's history and the innovations yet to come. It features interactive displays and the opportunity to tour three off-site built homes.
"CrossMod homes are built off-site like manufactured homes and are an affordable, sustainable solution to today's housing crisis and can be built more efficiently than traditional site-built homes," said Kevin Clayton, CEO. "More consumers, lenders, appraisers, and zoning officials are realizing the benefits of building a home indoors – and when visitors walk through this CrossMod home they will see just how indistinguishable it is from any other beautiful, modern house."
The CrossMod home on display is the Hawthorne floor plan. CrossMod homes blend off-site construction methods with on-site features and design to produce an affordable home on a permanent foundation that looks and performs like a site-built house. In addition, CrossMod homes can be financed like a site-built home and appraised using site-built comps. These new homes can help expand zoning opportunities, where manufactured housing has not been previously allowed as a housing solution, mostly due to outdated stigmas. They are an example of how the industry continues innovating the building process to help even more individuals and families achieve the dream of homeownership.
Following the grand opening, Tim Williams, President and CEO of 21st Mortgage®, a subsidiary of Clayton, was inducted into the 2022 RV/MH Hall of Fame, which recognizes outstanding careers of those in the industry. Williams has served as CEO since the mortgage company opened for business in 1995.
Founded in 1956, Clayton is committed to opening doors to a better life and building happyness® through homeownership. As a diverse builder committed to quality and durability, Clayton offers traditional site-built homes and off-site built housing – including modular homes, manufactured homes, CrossMod® homes, tiny homes, college dormitories, military barracks and apartments. All Clayton Built® homes are proudly designed, engineered and assembled in America. In 2021, Clayton built 60,701 homes across the country. Clayton is a Berkshire Hathaway company. For more information, visit claytonhomes.com.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that it has priced a public underwritten offering of 1,170,000 shares of its common stock. Pricing was set at $42.85 per share, and net proceeds from the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by Main Street, are expected to be approximately $47.9 million. Main Street has also granted the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to 175,500 additional shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
Main Street intends to initially use the net proceeds from this offering, including the net proceeds from any exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares, to repay outstanding debt borrowed under its credit facility and then, through re-borrowing under the credit facility, to make investments in accordance with its investment objective and strategies, to make investments in marketable securities and idle funds investments, to pay operating expenses and other cash obligations, and for general corporate purposes.
The underwriters of this offering are RBC Capital Markets, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities (as joint bookrunners) and Hovde Group, LLC and Oppenheimer & Co. (as co-managers). The shares will be sold pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form N-2 that has been filed with, and has been declared effective by, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The offering is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close on August 15, 2022.
Investors should carefully consider, among other things, Main Street's investment objective and strategies and the risks related to Main Street and the offering before investing. The final prospectus supplement dated August 11, 2022, the accompanying prospectus dated March 3, 2022, any related free writing prospectus, and any information incorporated by reference in each, contain this and other information about Main Street.
The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and an accompanying prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from RBC Capital Markets, LLC, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10281, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by telephone at (877) 822-4089, UBS Securities LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, telephone: (888) 827-7275 or email: ol-prospectusrequest@ubs.com and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 30 Hudson Yards, New York, NY, 10001, by telephone: (800) 326-5897 or by email at cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor will there be any sale of the shares referred to in this press release, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
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Main Street (www.mainstcapital.com) is a principal investment firm that primarily provides long-term debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies and debt capital to middle market companies. Main Street's portfolio investments are typically made to support management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, refinancings and acquisitions of companies that operate in diverse industry sectors. Main Street seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides "one stop" financing alternatives within its lower middle market investment strategy. Main Street's lower middle market companies generally have annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. Main Street's private loan and middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies.
Main Street, through its wholly owned portfolio company MSC Adviser I, LLC ("MSC Adviser"), also maintains an asset management business through which it manages investments for external parties. MSC Adviser is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A bus carrying 28 migrants from Texas arrived in Philadelphia on Wednesday, including a 10-year-old girl suffering from dehydration and a high fever who was whisked to a hospital for treatment.
Advocates who welcomed them with coats and blankets as they arrived before dawn on a cold, drizzly morning said the families and individuals came from Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The city and several nonprofit groups were ready to provide food, temporary housing and other services.
“In general, people feel relieved. We want them to know that they have a home here,” said Philadelphia City Council member Helen Gym, who accompanied several of the migrants onto a second bus taking them to a site where their needs could be assessed.
“There’s a 10-year-old who’s completely dehydrated. It’s one of the more inhumane aspects that they would put a child who was dehydrated with a fever now, a very high fever (on the bus),” Gym said. “It’s a terrible situation.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that Philadelphia would be the next destination for migrants the state is transporting from the U.S.-Mexico border by the thousands to Democratic-led locales, putting a new bus on the road a week after the Republican easily won reelection.
U.S. officials stopped more than 2 million illegal border crossings in the last fiscal year, a record high that reflects the deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries, along with the relative strength of the U.S. economy and uneven enforcement of Trump-era asylum restrictions.
In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, migrants at the U.S. border were stopped 2.38 million times, up 37% from 1.73 million times the year before.
Advocates who greeted the group in Philadelphia, which included 21 adults, said it was not clear how long the bus journey took, but one said it would typically take about 40 hours.
“The important thing is they got to Philadelphia, and they were received with open arms,” said Emilio Buitrago of the nonprofit Casa de Venezuela.
“The kids are frightened, they’re exhausted, they’re tired,” he said. “They’re going to go to a place … where they’re going to have comfy, warm beds with a blanket, and warm food. From there, we’re going to work on relocation.”
Some of the families hope to unite with relatives or friends in other locations, Gym said.
Other buses have suddenly turned up in recent months in New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
Texas has transported more than 13,000 migrants to those cities since April. Abbott has sent the buses to Democratic-led cities as a way to maximize exposure over what he says is inaction by the Biden administration over high numbers of migrants crossing on the southern border.
Critics have waved off the buses as a political stunt, but voters rewarded Abbott last week with a record-tying third term as Texas governor in his race against Democrat Beto O’Rourke. Abbott made a series of hardline immigration measures the centerpiece of his campaign.
Nearly 6 in 10 Texas voters favored Abbott’s decision to send migrants to northern cities, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of almost 3,400 voters in the state.
In a statement announcing the bus trips to Philadelphia, Abbott’s office said Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney “has long-celebrated and fought for sanctuary city status, making the city an ideal addition to Texas’ list of drop-off locations.”
In a statement, Kenney said: “It is truly disgusting to hear today that Governor Abbott and his Administration continue to implement their purposefully cruel policy using immigrant families — including women and children — as pawns to shamelessly push his warped political agenda.”
Kenney said the city had been working with more than a dozen local organizations to provide the migrants with shelter space, emergency health screening, food, water, language interpretation and more. Some will likely make their way to other states.
Arizona and Florida have also sent migrants to northern U.S. cities. | 2022-11-16T18:41:29+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-sick-child-treated-after-migrant-bus-arrives-in-philadelphia/ |
Voting fraud claims spread ahead of Spanish election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before Spain holds a pivotal election, misleading claims about mail ballots and election fraud are spreading on social media and casting doubts about the results even before the votes have been counted.
The allegations, amplified by supporters of the center-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox Party, bear striking similarities to the baseless claims spread by then-President Donald Trump ahead of his 2020 U.S. election defeat, and offer a reminder that the distrust of elections that has marred U.S. politics has taken root in Europe, too.
Sunday’s general election could tilt Spain in favor of the populist right, as the Popular Party looks to take power away from the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party and its far-left coalition partner, Unidas Podemos (“United We Can”).
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his left-leaning coalition lost big in this year’s local and regional elections that were also marked by online misinformation about voting, as well as a surge in hateful content about Muslims and immigrants.
Most polls favor the Popular Party, but it will likely need the support of the Vox to form a governing majority.
In recent weeks, debunked videos claiming to show election workers stuffing the ballot box have circulated widely on Facebook and Twitter; Facebook labeled the videos as false while Twitter has taken no action. Other videos spreading on Facebook and TikTok allege Sanchez’s party will steal the election to prevent a defeat. Many bear the hashtag #pucherazo, a Spanish term for electoral fraud.
As in the United States, the use of mail ballots is a particular focus of election conspiracy theories, with some far-right voters suggesting the post office would be used to throw the election to Sanchez. It’s a narrative that Alberto Feijoo, the Popular Party leader, has helped to amplify. At a rally last week, he urged Spain’s postal employees to remain independent.
“I ask the postmen in Spain to work to the maximum, morning, afternoon and night,” Feijóo said during a campaign rally in Murcia on Wednesday. “Regardless of your bosses, I urge you to distribute all the mail-in ballots on time.”
Feijoo later said he was not trying to suggest the postal service would try to steal the election but was instead referring to the challenges of handling so many mail ballots.
“Nobody here is talking about pucherazo,“ Feijoo said.
Social media researchers at the nonprofit Reset identified numerous examples of election-related misinformation spreading on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. While the specific kinds of content varies by platform — anti-Muslim hate is particularly prevalant on Twitter, for instance — election denialism was found wherever the researchers looked.
Some of the accounts spreading disinformation about the Spanish election have enormous and growing reach. Analysts at Reset identified 88 social media accounts that have repeatedly spread extremist content in Spain that have more than 14 million followers, including about a million recent ones. Posts flagged by Reset for containing hate or election conspiracy theories have been seen nearly 100 million times since January.
“Election fraud narratives that undermine trust in democratic processes – and which also dominated the regional elections in Spain – are spread across platforms,” concluded the researchers at Reset, who shared their findings with The Associated Press. Reset is based in London and studies the ways social media affects democracies around the globe.
Spain’s contentious election comes amid a recent uptick in online hate speech directed at the country’s immigrants and Muslim residents. Some election ads run by the far-right Vox Party strike a similarly anti-immigrant chord, highlighting a conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement, which suggests that democratic leaders in nations including Spain and the U.S. are trying to replace white residents with non-white immigrants.
“In 2070, there will be no Spanish families,” claims one online ad from Vox.
Like in the U.S., Spain has laws, audits and independent checks-and-balances designed to ferret out electoral fraud. And just as in the U.S., the cases of actual fraud that are identified and exposed are often exaggerated and taken out of context to suggest far wider problems.
In May, police arrested 10 people in the city of Melilla, a small Spanish enclave on the African coast, after investigators turned up suspected election fraud. Even though the alleged attempt to cheat was uncovered and stopped, it’s being held up on social media as evidence of far more widespread fraud.
When it comes to identifying and removing false claims, Reset’s report faulted tech platforms for inconsistency, noting that conspiracy theories or misleading claims about the election may be labeled or removed from one platform and left alone on another.
Marc Esteve Del Valle, professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, said the amount of false and misleading information about the Spanish election, and the many platforms spreading it, can make it difficult for voters to know what to believe. Esteve Del Valle is Spanish and has researched the far-right’s use of anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“The further we go, the more difficult it is to differentiate reliable information from mis/disinformation,” he said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-07-19T04:31:41+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/political-news/voting-fraud-claims-spread-ahead-of-spanish-election/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
1-7-6, Fireball: 7
(one, seven, six; Fireball: seven)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
1-7-6, Fireball: 7
(one, seven, six; Fireball: seven) | 2022-12-13T04:13:07+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17649791.php |
83-year-old abortion doctor says he’s focused on patients and his purpose
DENVER (KUSA) – Many eyes are on the Supreme Court after news broke that it could strike down Roe v. Wade, which would overturn the federal constitutional right to an abortion.
Dr. Warren Hern said he’s focused on his patients and his purpose. He worked at Colorado’s first abortion clinic in 1973 and continues to practice nearly 50 years later.
Despite threats made by those opposing abortions, Hern has continued in his profession and has shared many stories about his life calling.
“This is my work. This is what I do,” Hern said, adding he’s had stones thrown at him at the clinic.
He said he remembers threats made towards his clinic in Boulder, Colorado, in the 1980s and the five bullets fired through the front door.
Hern said he kept coming back so he could help his patients.
Before Roe v. Wade, he thought too many women were dying because of unsafe, illegal abortions, which is why he started his practice.
“I started performing abortions the safest way I could,” Hern explained.
He’s worried history will repeat itself and more women will die trying to get illegal abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
“I have always found this is an extremely important service, and there’s never been a time when it’s less important,” Hern said.
His clinic is a refuge for women who are seeking a procedure that may be banned in other states.
At 83 years old, Hern feels called to help more people.
“This is a major component and essential component of women’s healthcare. And it’s being threatened now,” Hern said.
The Supreme Court’s final opinion on Roe v. Wade hasn’t been formally released, and votes, along with language, can change before then.
Copyright 2022 KUSA via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-05T16:12:52+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2022/05/05/83-year-old-abortion-doctor-says-hes-focused-patients-his-purpose/ |
Scrutinized FBI informant in Whitmer kidnap plot: I didn't do it for the money
GRAND RAPIDS – "Big Dan," a key witness and undercover FBI informant who infiltrated a group of militia members accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, pushed back during cross-examination Tuesday against the notion he worked for the agency to boost his own profile.
"I wanted to protect lives," Big Dan said. "I never asked for money. I never expected money. I wanted to prevent bad people from doing bad things."
Big Dan, a 35-year-old postal contractor and U.S. Army veteran, gathered evidence for the FBI through secret audio recording devices and photographs at meetings and events held throughout the summer of 2020. His testimony is vital to the government's case against Adam Fox and Barry Croft, whom prosecutors have described as the ringleaders in a plot to kidnap Whitmer in 2020.
Fox and Croft are being retried in federal court here after a jury earlier this year couldn't reach a verdict in their case. Two codefendants were acquitted during that trial.
More:Informant 'Big Dan' returns in Whitmer kidnapping retrial as feds fight entrapment claim
More:Juror's daughter-in-law got high with kidnap defendant Fox near Whitmer cottage
What the FBI paid for
During cross-examination, defense attorneys noted that Dan was paid by the FBI — about $54,000 for his work from March-December 2020.
"You earned as much as you do hauling mail," said Joshua Blanchard, one of the defense attorneys, during Big Dan's cross-examination.
Big Dan fired back, saying he begrudgingly accepted to work undercover for the FBI after he became concerned that the militia group was plotting and training to kill police officers. The money he received was to reimburse expenses for attending events, buying meals and at one point moving to a new home after a militia member learned his previous address.
Blanchard continued to scrutinize Dan's finances, showing the jury a receipt for a $3,399.99 Surface Book 3 laptop Dan purchased, along with a $199.99 docking station — both of which were reimbursed by the FBI.
Dan said the FBI agents he corresponded with, Special Agents Jayson Chambers and Henrik "Hank" Impola, had taken an interest in his personal life after he began working as an informant. It was the FBI who pushed for reimbursing the hardware, Dan testified, adding that he planned on using the laptop once he went back to college.
Cross-examination at times became combative, as Dan pushed against claims made by Blanchard, who is representing Croft in the case, and fellow defense attorney Christopher Gibbons, who is representing suspected plot leader Fox.
Setting up the arrests
Gibbons highlighted text messages exchanged between Dan and his FBI handling agent, including one where the handler instructed Dan to "have (Fox) post his pictures" of Whitmer's vacation home in Elk Rapids after Fox, Dan and one other individual visited the home in August 2020.
In another message, the FBI handler told Dan to "start talking details of the night op with Adam," referring to the group scouting the vacation home the night of Sept. 12.
On Sept. 26, the handler texted Dan "We are good to start talking to Adam about the ruse for October 7."
The ruse to which Chambers referred was a sting operation conducted when Dan led the group to a warehouse in Ypsilanti. The men thought they were meeting a contact for free tactical gear, like bulletproof vests, tactical belts and a Kevlar helmet, but were instead met by FBI agents.
Gibbons noted that the gear wasn't a sign of any conspiracy, saying none of the men expected to obtain explosives at the warehouse. Gibbons also said that Dan was the one who organized the warehouse trip, not Fox.
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The attorney also highlighted Dan's previous testimony that the group was supposed to meet at Buffalo Wild Wings for a meal after grabbing the fake gear. Dan had testified he had gone to the restaurant with others in the militia previously; Gibbons pointed out that Fox had been left out of those meetings to that point.
"Adam and I had been to the tavern in Luther," Dan said.
"But not with the other guys, just you," Gibbons replied. When Dan tried to explain why Fox hadn't joined the group at Buffalo Wild Wings, Gibbons interjected.
"If you answered the questions I asked you to answer, we'd go a lot faster," Gibbons said.
Defense attorneys have long argued Fox and Croft were entrapped by the FBI to create a plan to kidnap Whitmer. Both parties have said their clients are merely tough talkers who were frustrated by COVID-19 restrictions before they were pushed by overzealous FBI informants and undercover agents.
Fox, of Potterville, and Croft, of Bear, Delaware, were initially tried along with Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, but a jury was unable to deliver a verdict for them after finding Harris and Caserta not guilty. Two others, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy.
Garbin was among the government witnesses to follow Dan on the stand Tuesday. Trial will resume Wednesday morning with his continued direct examination. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler said Franks is expected to follow Garbin's testimony.
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Slipping into Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction is as comforting as it is disquieting. The tender consideration lavished on her characters, especially the women and girls her novels revolve around, is immediately tangible, and yet their worlds, glimpsed as through a gauzy, fractured filter, quiver with unease.
And in every case, desire vies with constraint, with the latter largely motivating both her spectacular 2018 debut, “The Water Cure,” where three sisters grow up on an island with no men except for their father, who indoctrinates them in extreme methods of stifling their bodies’ energy; and 2020′s “Blue Ticket,” where only women who win a lottery are permitted to become pregnant. In her deliciously ardent new novel, “Cursed Bread,” men again take steps to proscribe women’s actions, but their restrictions are subordinate to women insistently exploring the transformative potential of desire — both carnal and emotional — even when it is realized by domination, submission, and surrender. As the book’s narrator, Elodie, declares early on, “Nobody, at the beginning, believes they will debase themselves for love. Nobody believes in anything else but joy.”
The novel is inspired by real-life events in the summer of 1951, when the French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit “succumbed to a mass poisoning,” leading to death, madness, and violence. As Mackintosh continues in a brief concluding note: “There are many theories regarding the source of this catastrophe. None have ever been proved.” One of the most widely reported possibilities is that the CIA dosed the town’s food with LSD as part of a mind control experiment. Other potential culprits, including ergot (a fungus commonly found on rye) and mercury, have also been debated over the years.
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“Cursed Bread” nods at all these options as it builds a tidy theory of the case, but is more concerned with the power dynamics among several possible instigators and victims of what is still referred to in France as “Le Pain Maudit.” For most residents in the novel’s unnamed “town of no importance,” the arrival of Violet and her husband for “a government project, a kind of survey,” is a curiosity, but Elodie’s life is reinvigorated. At the time, she is running the town bakery and married to its baker, but as she tells her story more than a year after the fact, she is in a different location, a “convalescent place by the sea,” where she is doing “penance” of a sort. She recalls the events leading up to the poisoning and writes letters to Violet reflecting on their relationship, and though she feels safe in her new space, she is regularly questioned by two local policemen. Elodie assures Violet that she “won’t talk, because the only real truth I could tell them is that sometimes there is a switch, and the world is turned upside down.”
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Elodie slews between desperate, unrestrained longing and wicked, malicious aggression. She feels guilty of “murdering [her] marriage with familiarity,” but continues to pine for the baker’s touch. She tries to get him to make love to her, or even simply react to her, threatening at one point “perhaps I’ll throw myself off the bridge or bake myself into a pie,” all the while fantasizing about Violet’s American husband, known as the ambassador, and especially Violet herself.
Her attempts to attract Violet’s affections are muted at first, but Elodie is the town’s laical confessor, its eyes and ears, as well as a voyeur, a skulker in shadows, and her fantasies and fascination quickly intensify. At a party thrown by the new couple, Elodie spies on the ambassador and Violet kissing in the kitchen, sensing for a moment that he is strangling her. She follows the couple when they go upstairs to their bedroom, and watches trembling “unseen in the darkness,” as Violet promises to do anything her kneeling husband asks of her, before he adds, “more like a caress than a threat,” that if she eats the bread, she’ll die.
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Spurred by the couple’s passionate and at times kinky interplay, Elodie’s daydreams rage wildly. She is conscious of her lived limits but eager to surmount them, or to have them surmounted. She accepts humiliation, as when Violet balances a jug on her head so she can sketch her, but nevertheless craves a reward when she fails to sit still enough. Alone with the ambassador, who is inquiring about her husband, Elodie realizes “that he could easily turn and press me up against the damp stone wall, while he unbuckled his expensive belt, pulled up my skirt, and no one would ever know.” She waits to be acted upon, but also takes ever more daring steps to provoke what she wants, though she doesn’t always get it.
At times, it all feels like an exhilaratingly wicked game, though the devastating potential for Elodie and the town is clear from start, accentuated throughout by insinuations of violence, even in casual observations — olives are “rammed on sticks” at Violet’s party, crabs lie “smashed” on the concrete seafront by seagulls, the wind is in her face “like a slap.” Looking back, Elodie admits that she is scared of “the possibilities of what I remember opening up in a way I know could destroy me.”
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Such destruction is a distinct possibility for the novel’s readers as well, but it’s a real comfort to feel that no matter how much pain Elodie’s vulnerability may cause her, Mackintosh cares for her as much as we do.
CURSED BREAD: A Novel
By Sophie Mackintosh
Doubleday, 208 pages, $27
Cory Oldweiler is a freelance writer. | 2023-04-12T22:09:31+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/12/arts/sophie-mackintoshs-cursed-bread-desire-unleashes-death-madness-upon-french-village/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa task force has completed its search for survivors at the site of a partially collapsed Davenport apartment building and is moving ahead to shore up the structure so recovery efforts can begin, authorities said Friday.
Three people remain missing and are feared dead after the six-story apartment building crumbled on Sunday. Authorities said Friday that the building has remained dangerous, and was shifting in the first 24 to 36 hours — posing a danger to rescuers who were trying to find people.
“We do what the building tells us to do,” Rick Halleran, the task force’s Cedar Rapids division chief, said of the delay in searching the building.
The state task force was mobilized and on site to first search for survivors and then secure the structure, Halleran said. He said the search for survivors was completed Thursday evening after electrical equipment connected to the building were controlled.
Recovery efforts have been difficult because officials have said the remains of the building have continued to shift since part of the structure sheared off on Sunday, leaving an unstable building that eventually will collapse on its own. Adding to the challenge is a giant pile of brick and steel at the base of the building that is helping to hold up the structure but also may contain the remains of people killed in the collapse.
Mayor Mike Matson has said the debris pile “could be a place of rest for some of the unaccounted” and insisted the city would be sensitive about those remains, comparing work at the site to an archeological dig.
Work to bring down the building comes amid questions about why neither the owner nor city officials warned residents even after a structural engineer’s report issued last week indicated a wall of the century-old apartment building was at imminent risk of crumbling.
The revelation was the latest flashpoint following the partial collapse that has left some residents upset with city leaders over what they see as an inept response.
“Do I have regrets about this tragedy and about people potentially losing their lives? Hell yeah. Do I think about this every moment? Hell yeah.” Matson said Thursday. “I have regrets about a lot of things. Believe me, we’re going to look at that.”
City officials said Thursday that they did not order an evacuation because they relied on the engineer’s assurances that the building remained safe.
The state’s search and rescue team, search dogs and cameras were used Thursday to continue combing the building for missing people.
The building collapsed shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. Rescue crews pulled seven people from the building in their initial response and escorted out 12 others who could walk on their own. Later, two more people were rescued, including a woman who was removed from the fourth floor hours after authorities said they were going to begin setting up for demolition.
Earlier this week, authorities said five people were missing. But Davenport Police Chief Jeff Bladel said during a media briefing Thursday morning that two of them have since been accounted for and are safe.
City officials named those unaccounted for as Brandon Colvin, Ryan Hitchcock and Daniel Prien. The city said all three “have high probability of being home at the time of the collapse, and their apartments were located in the collapse zone.”
Bladel said transient people also often enter the building but there was no indication anyone else was inside and missing.
People living in the building will be eligible for $6,000 payments from the city and those meeting certain income requirements could get state payments of $5,000. Businesses near the collapsed building will also be eligible to receive payments.
City Administrator Corri Spiegel said the building likely is “filled with asbestos” given its age, and the city will develop a plan to ensure workers and people in the area are protected when the remaining structure is demolished.
The city on Wednesday night released documents, including structural engineering reports, that show city officials and the building’s owner were warned that the parts of the building were unstable.
A report dated May 24, just four days before the collapse, suggested patches in the west side of the building’s brick façade “appear ready to fall imminently” and could be a safety hazard to cars or passersby.
The report also detailed that window openings, some filled and some unfilled, were insecure. In one case, the openings were “bulging outward” and looked “poised to fall.” Inside the first floor, unsupported window openings help “explain why the façade is currently about to topple outward.”
Despite the warnings, city officials did not order that the estimated 50 tenants leave.
Rich Oswald, the city’s director of development and neighborhood services, said officials relied on assurances from the structural engineer hired by the building owner. The engineer said the building wasn’t in imminent danger of collapsing.
Andrew Wold, the building’s owner, released a statement dated Tuesday saying “our thoughts and prayers are with our tenants” and that his company, Davenport Hotel L.L.C., is working with agencies to help them.
County records show Davenport Hotel L.L.C. acquired the building in a 2021 deal worth $4.2 million.
Tenants had complained to the city in recent years about a host of other problems they say were ignored by property managers, including no heat or hot water for weeks or even months at a time, as well as mold and water that leaked through ceilings and toilets. City officials gave orders to vacate some individual apartments and tried to address other complaints, but a broader evacuation was never ordered, records show.
City officials ordered repairs after they found seven fire code violations on Feb. 6. They were told three weeks later by building maintenance officials that “none of the work was completed,” records show.
Assistant City Attorney Brian Heyer said he is unaware whether the city had considered earlier civil enforcement action to protect residents. Only after the collapse did the city file a civil infraction seeking a $300 fine against Wold for failing to maintain the structure in a safe manner. He will be required to pay for the cost of demolition, Heyer said.
Emails and calls to an attorney believed to be representing Wold have not been returned.
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Foley reported from Iowa City. Associated Press reporter Summer Ballentine contributed from Jefferson City, Missouri. | 2023-06-02T16:24:26+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2023/06/02/iowa-officials-expected-to-detail-demolition-plans-for-partially-collapsed-building/ |
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Woman, 28 dogs dead after house fire in north Phoenix
Published: Oct. 23, 2022 at 8:39 PM PDT|Updated: 12 hours ago
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - An elderly woman and 28 dogs are dead after a house caught on fire in north Phoenix Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday, around 12:45 p.m., Phoenix fire officials responded to the report of a house fire near 39th Ave and Bell Road. Firefighters rescued an 86-year-old woman from home and took her to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries. Phoenix police investigators say an estimated 37 dogs were found in the home, many of them inside metal cages.
Firefighters were able to save nine dogs and took them to the humane society for care. The rest of the 28 dogs didn’t make it. Fire officials still investigating to find out what caused the fire.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. - Cloudy is a gray and white cat at the Brandywine Valley SPCA Georgetown Campus. She is just shy of two years old.
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DALLAS — A destructive storm marched across the United States, spawning tornadoes that touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, where two deaths were reported, and it delivered blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains and threatened more severe weather Wednesday in the South.
In northern Louisiana, a young boy was found dead in a wooded area more than a half-mile from his home in the Keithville area, just south of Shreveport, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator said. The child’s mother was later found dead one street over from her home, he said.
The child’s father reported them missing from their home, which the sheriff said was demolished in the storm.
“We couldn’t even find the house that he was describing with the address. Everything was gone,” Prator told Shreveport TV station KSLA.
In Farmerville, Louisiana, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the east of Keithville, about 20 people were taken to a hospital, some with critical injuries, after a tornado caused major damage to mobile homes and an apartment complex, the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office told Monroe TV station KNOE.
Wednesday’s forecast calls for more severe storms and potentially additional tornadoes along the central Gulf Coast, including New Orleans and southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle,
Earlier Tuesday, five tornadoes were confirmed across north Texas based on video and eyewitness reports, but potentially a dozen may have occurred, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas, reported.
Dozens of homes and businesses were damaged by the line of thunderstorms, and several people were injured in the suburbs and counties stretching north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. More than 1,000 flights into and out of area airports were delayed, and over 100 were canceled Tuesday, according to the tracking service FlightAware.
Blizzard warnings stretched from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado, and the National Weather Service said as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible in some areas of western South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Winds of more than 50 mph (80 kph) at times will make it impossible to see outdoors in Nebraska, officials said.
“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” said Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska.
Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. Residents from West Virginia to Vermont were told to watch out for a possible significant mix of snow, ice and sleet, and the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon, depending on the timing of the storm.
In the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, police spokesperson Amanda McNew reported five confirmed injuries Tuesday.
A possible tornado blew the roof off the city’s service center — a municipal facility — and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines, said Trent Kelley, deputy director of Grapevine Parks and Recreation.
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It was also trash day, so the storm picked up and scattered garbage all over, he said.
In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state. The severe weather in the ranching region could also threaten livestock. Extreme winds can push livestock through fences as they follow the gale’s direction, said Jim Santomaso, a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.
“If this keeps up,” said Santomaso, “cattle could drift miles.”
A blizzard warning has been issued on Minnesota’s north shore, as some areas are expecting up to 24 inches of snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph. And in the south of the state, winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) had reduced visibility.
National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.
The same weather system dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and western U.S. in recent days.
Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press writers Ken Miller in Oklahoma City; Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sam Metz in Salt Lake City; Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis; Jesse Bedayn in Denver; Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report. | 2022-12-14T14:48:28+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-us-storm-deaths-20221214-kd2gfecg4ref3c6ixbkuojdme4-story.html |
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New research paints the clearest picture yet of just how much learning students missed during the pandemic, and what it may take to help children in the hardest hit districts to make up ground.
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TEMPE, Ariz., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MaxorPlus has been named a Top Workplace for 2022 by The Arizona Top Workplaces for the second year in a row. Top Workplace winners are based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.
"Companies need to authentically represent their brand to job-seekers," said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. "The employee experience needs to be on the mission-critical list. Leaders who embrace a people-first culture will benefit greatly. By giving employees a voice and showcasing your authentic culture through employer branding, organizations can attract those job seekers who complement their culture. Culture drives performance."
"From the day we opened the Tempe office, we invested heavily in our people's satisfaction and success while building a strong culture. We understand the importance of employee recognition and how that relates to satisfaction; however, we also realize that building detailed career plans and helping our team members grow in their careers is equally important – we place significant focus on culture, recognition and career development. I'm thrilled to lead this incredible team, and we are honored to be recognized again as a Top Workplace," Mitch Mann, Vice President, Member Services.
The MaxorPlus Tempe office opened in 2019 and serves as an operational base for parent company Maxor National Pharmacy Services. The Member Services team is the largest group of employees based in the Tempe office, and they provide excellent service daily to members and clients, continuing Maxor's legacy of first-class care.
At MaxorPlus, we make pharmacy benefits work better for all…leading to lower costs, better health and increased satisfaction. Our solutions deliver improved outcomes to our clients and members by building stronger connections, creating personalized health experiences and providing award-winning service. You can be confident that you've chosen the best pharmacy benefits partner for your business and for your members. www.maxorplus.com
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Energage is a purpose-driven company that helps organizations turn employee feedback into useful business intelligence and credible employer recognition through Top Workplaces. Built on 14 years of culture research and the results from 23 million employees surveyed across more than 70,000 organizations, Energage delivers the most accurate competitive benchmark available. With access to a unique combination of patented analytic tools and expert guidance, Energage customers lead the competition with an engaged workforce and an opportunity to gain recognition for their people-first approach to culture. For more information or to nominate your organization, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com.
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Feds cite efforts to 'obstruct' probe of docs at Trump home
The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified records at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
The assertion was made in a court filing Tuesday night that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the presence of the documents at Mar-a-Lago.
In the filing, the Justice Department said FBI agents had “uncovered multiple sources of evidence” indicating that Trump and his representatives had failed to fully comply with a subpoena to turn over classified records and that additional classified documents remained at Mar-a-Lago.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
The Justice Department is set to respond Tuesday to the Trump legal team's request for a special master to review the documents seized during an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago this month.
The filing is due ahead of a Thursday hearing in which U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to hear arguments on the matter.
Trump's lawyers last week asked for the appointment of a special master who'd be tasked with reviewing the records taken during the Aug. 8 search of Trump's Florida property and setting aside documents protected by claims of legal privilege. Cannon on Saturday said it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint such a person but also gave the Justice Department an opportunity to respond.
On Monday, the department said it had already completed its review of potentially privileged documents and identified a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.”
In a separate development, the Trump legal team has grown with the addition of another attorney. Chris Kise, Florida's former solicitor general, has joined the team of lawyers representing Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. Kise did not return messages seeking comment. | 2022-08-31T04:06:09+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/feds-cite-efforts-obstruct-probe-docs-trump-home/41035847 |
Animal Shelters, Rescue Groups, and Happy Adopters, Nationally and Internationally, Encouraged to Celebrate the Role Adopted Dogs Play in Our Lives
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuesday, August 1st is DOGust 1ST ®– the official birthday for all rescue dogs – and North Shore Animal League America is encouraging animal lovers around the country and globe to join them in celebrating the incredible meaning our adopted animals add to our lives.
Since the actual dates of birth for most rescued dogs are unknown, Animal League America created DOGust 1st to celebrate rescue dogs (those adopted and those awaiting loving homes.) Since 2008, these "Mutt-i-grees" have had this day designated to honor the incredible impact they make on our lives.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate rescue dogs and the invaluable role they play in our lives, while raising awareness about the importance of rescue and adoption," said Joanne Yohannan, Senior Vice President, Operations, North Shore Animal League America.
In honor of DOGust 1st, North Shore Animal League America, and many of their shelter partners across the country, will be participating in DOGust 1st festivities throughout the week (August 1 – 7.) By encouraging adoption specials, birthday themed activities, and local media opportunities, even more rescue dogs are expected to find loving, responsible homes.
To find an adoptable pet at a shelter or rescue group in your area go to www.animalleague.org.
To find a participating DOGust 1st group near you visit www.animalleague.org/dogust1st.
For video highlights of DOGust 1st, visit: DOGUST 1ST ASSETS
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told The New York Times.
That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop Salvador Ramos before the May 24 rampage inside the school that killed 19 children and two teachers. Officials previously said that another officer, with the school district’s police, had driven past Ramos without seeing him in the school parking lot.
The unidentified Uvalde city officers, one of whom was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, said they feared hitting children playing in the line of fire outside the school, Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios of nearby Zavalla County told the newspaper.
The officers’ chance of stopping Ramos passed quickly, perhaps in seconds, Rios said.
Messages from The Associated Press to Rios and the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office have not been returned. The Zavala County sheriff’s officials responded to the shooting in support of Uvalde and Uvalde County officers.
Rios said he had shared the information with a special Test House committee investigating the school massacre.
Uvalde police officials agreed Friday to speak to the committee investigating, according to a Republican lawmaker leading the probe who had begun to publicly question why the officers were not cooperating sooner.
“Took a little bit longer than we initially had expected,” state Rep. Dustin Burrows said.
On Thursday, Burrows signaled impatience with Uvalde police, tweeting that most people had fully cooperated with their investigation “to help determine the facts” and that he didn’t understand why the city’s police force “would not want the same.” He did not say which members of the department will meet with the committee, which is set to continue questioning witnesses in Uvalde on Monday about the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers.
Uvalde police did not reply to messages seeking comment.
Weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, law enforcement officials have stopped providing updates about what they’ve learned about the shooting and the police response. Their silence comes after authorities gave conflicting and incorrect accounts in the days after the shooting, sometimes withdrawing statements hours after making them.
Officials also haven’t released records sought under public information laws to media outlets, including The Associated Press, often citing broad exemptions and the ongoing investigation. It has raised concerns about whether such records will be released, even to victims’ families.
The state House committee has interviewed more than a dozen witnesses behind closed doors so far, including state police, school staff and school district police. The list of witnesses provided by the committee so far has not included Pete Arrendondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, who has faced criticism over his actions during the attack.
Burrows defended the committee interviewing witnesses in private and not revealing their findings so far, saying its members want an accurate account before issuing a report.
“One person’s truth may be different than another person’s truth,” Burrows said Friday.
Since the shooting, Republican leaders in Texas have called for more mental health funding but not new gun restrictions. Authorities say the 18-year-old gunman used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle. Police did not confront he gunman for more than an hour, even as anguished parents outside the school urged officers to go in. | 2022-06-18T17:15:48+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/deputy-2-officers-had-chance-to-shoot-uvalde-school-gunman/ |
Toyota to invest billions for EV battery production in N.C., Japan
Tokyo — Toyota is investing 730 billion yen ($5.6 billion) in Japan and the U.S. to boost production of batteries for electric vehicles, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday.
Production is set to start between 2024 and 2026. In Japan, 400 billion yen ($3 billion) will go into the Himeji Plant of Prime Planet Energy & Solutions Co. in Japan, as well as in Toyota plants and property. In the U.S., about 325 billion yen ($2.5 billion) will be invested in Toyota Battery Manufacturing in North Carolina, Toyota Motor Corp. said.
Toyota has scored success with the Prius and other hybrid models, which have an engine as well as a battery-driven electric motor, and so the company has at times been seen as a laggard on electric vehicles. But the global demand for electric vehicles is expected to grow in coming years as gas prices rise and concerns grow about the environment.
Earlier this week, Japanese rival Honda Motor Co. announced with major South Korean battery maker LG that they were investing $4.4 billion in a joint venture in the United States to produce batteries for Honda electric vehicles in the North American market, with mass production of advanced lithium-ion battery cells to start by the end of 2025.
Toyota reiterated its position that “there is more than one option for achieving carbon neutrality,” highlighting how its efforts with hybrids and fuel cells run on hydrogen can also be solutions. The options may depend on where a customer lives, according to the manufacturer, based in the city of Toyota in central Japan.
“This investment is aimed at enabling Toyota to flexibly meet the needs of its various customers in all countries and regions by offering multiple powertrains and providing as many options as possible,” it said in a statement.
Other automakers, including Ford Motor Co., General Motors, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for U.S. battery plants, most of them outside Michigan.
The state that is home to the Detroit Three automakers has one operating battery plant, run by LG Energy Solutions, which announced plans in March to quintuple production at the site. GM and LG plan a battery plant in Delta Township near Lansing.
A new U.S. law offers an incentive to build batteries in North America, including a tax credit of up to $7,500 that could be used to defray the cost of buying an electric vehicle. To qualify for the full credit, the electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with 40% of the metals mined or recycled on the continent. | 2022-08-31T16:48:32+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2022/08/31/toyota-invest-billions-ev-battery-production-n-c-japan/7949961001/ |
Amber Alert issued for 2 missing girls in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (Gray News) - An Amber Alert was issued for two endangered girls missing in North Carolina.
The Durham Police Department is searching for 7-year-old Makayla Grace Gnije Hatch and 8-year-old Kaylee Amira Grace Hatch. The two girls were last seen July 28 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Makayla is described to be 4 feet and 3 inches tall and weighs about 41 pounds. She has black braided hair with clear beads and brown eyes. Makayla was last seen wearing a pink and coral lace dress, white ruffle socks and black shoes.
Kaylee is described to be 4 feet and 8 inches tall and weighs about 105 pounds. She has black braided hair with clear beads and brown eyes. Kaylee was last seen wearing a lavender, pink and white floral dress with a silver belt and white sandals.
The girls may be traveling with 34-year-old Garrett Hatch. He is described to be 5 feet and 3 inches and weighs about 230 pounds. He has black hair styled in long dreads and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a pink, black and white block shirt with white pants and black shoes.
Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Durham Police Department 919-560-4440.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who heads a small hard-right Republican group said he’s offered to pay the expected $229,000 cost of a hand recount of votes from every Kansas county after a decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights.
Mark Gietzen, who leads the group Kansas Republican Assembly, told the Kansas City Star he wants to pay for the recount that Melissa Leavitt, of Colby, requested because he believes it could change the outcome. The 165,000-vote difference in the election makes that unlikely, however.
Gietzen said fundraising and his own money would be used. The Kansas Republican Assembly is significantly to the right of the state Republican Party and isn't affiliated with the GOP-led legislature.
There has been no evidence of significant problems with the election. Baseless election conspiracies have circulated widely in the U.S., particularly among supporters of former President Donald Trump, who has repeated false claims that he lost the 2020 election through fraud.
Kansas law requires that a bond be posted to cover the cost of the recount and if the recount changes the outcome, the money will be refunded.
A spokeswoman for the Kansas Secretary of State's Office, Whitney Tempel, said Friday that Leavitt had posted a $200,000 bond, but Leavitt said in updates posed to TikTok over the weekend that the bond had not been paid yet and fundraising was ongoing. Tempel didn't immediately respond to messages from the newspaper and The Associated Press.
Leavitt said in a video posted to TikTok on Sunday morning that there was 24 hours left to raise money for the effort.
Earlier this month, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have allowed the conservative Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion. It failed by 18 percentage points and was the first test of voter sentiment after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June that overturned the constitutional right to abortion. | 2022-08-14T19:14:35+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Activist-offers-to-pay-for-Kansas-recount-of-17372770.php |
Minnesota Receives $15M to Boost Meat and Poultry Processing
Published 6:23 pm Friday, November 11, 2022
The State of Minnesota is receiving $15 million from the United States Department of Agriculture to establish a revolving loan program that will support small and medium-sized meat and poultry processors. The new Meat and Poultry Revolving Loan Fund will be available through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) Rural Finance Authority.
“Local meat processing benefits farmers, our urban and rural economies, and consumers throughout the state,” said Governor Tim Walz. “This loan program will help processors increase their capacity to better serve Minnesotans and ease supply chain disruptions we’ve witnessed over the past several years.”
The fund will offer low-interest loans for the start-up, expansion, or operation of slaughter and value-added meat and poultry processing. Loans of up to $10 million will be available at a 3% fixed interest rate with a term of up to 10 years. Funds can be used to purchase land or equipment, cover start-up costs, and make other business investments. Returned funds will be available to new borrowers.
“This loan program acts as a catalyst for rural prosperity by opening opportunities to expand local and regional processing capacity and increase competition within the meat industry. It creates new markets, new jobs, and builds our economy,” said USDA Rural Development Minnesota State Director Colleen Landkamer. “Minnesota Rural Development is proud to partner with the State of Minnesota. This is a clear example of how the Biden Administration is building our economy from the bottom up and middle out, investing in meat and poultry processing facilities that know how to serve their community’s unique needs.”
Minnesota was awarded the maximum of $15 million in grant money targeting meat and poultry processing from the USDA Minnesota Rural Development Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program. The USDA will be investing a total of $200 million across the nation through two rounds of program grants.
“The MDA’s Rural Finance Authority already oversees over $96 million in loans and is well qualified to manage and administer this money,” said MDA Commissioner Thom Petersen. “We are grateful for this award from USDA and look forward to its positive impact on the meat and poultry processing industry across Minnesota.”
“Minnesota Farmers Union members have championed increased investment in small and medium-sized meat and poultry processors at the state and federal level for several years and are elated to see the establishment of a revolving loan program at Minnesota’s Rural Finance Authority,” said MFU President Gary Wertish. “These funds will assist rural entrepreneurs in expanding their businesses, which is welcome news for livestock farmers. We are grateful to USDA for making this investment in a more resilient food system, and we are appreciative of the leadership of Gov. Walz and his administration as they pursued this funding to strengthen rural Minnesota’s economy.”
Loan applications will be available in early 2023. | 2022-11-12T04:40:30+00:00 | austindailyherald.com | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2022/11/minnesota-receives-15m-to-boost-meat-and-poultry-processing/ |
DALLAS, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashland Greene Capital, a Dallas-based multifamily real estate investment firm, is poised to continue building on its success and its portfolio in 2023 given the firm's impressive 2022 track record. Ashland Greene Capital is a vertically integrated real estate company that currently owns and operates more than 5,400 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, facilitating over $1 billion in real estate transactions. Ashland Greene's growth has been accelerated through exceptional returns on investments – returning over $90 million to investors.
The Jaxon Apartments exit is a prime example of the high level of investment performance delivered by the firm. Ashland Greene achieved twice the projected average annual return (43.1 percent versus projected 20 percent) within a shorter hold period than anticipated (30 months versus projected 60 months) on the Jaxon exit.
"Jaxon is a great example of the level of high performance we strive for," said Shakti C'Ganti, the firm's CEO and founder. "Similarly, the Parkwyn Townhomes exit yielded an ARR of 30.6 percent against a projected 14.8 percent, also in a shorter than projected hold period. Results like these illustrate to our investors and prospective investors a proven strategy for value-add properties that generate tremendous returns, and quite simply that's what it's all about. With an uncertain economy tainted by high inflation and diminishing stock market returns, it's no wonder more investors are turning to tangible assets like multifamily real estate to invest their money."
These numbers only tell part of the 2022 success story. By year-end, Ashland Greene exited or recapped a total of six multifamily deals. The average annualized returns (AAR) averaged 28.15 percent (min. of 19.60 and a max of 43.17) with an average equity multiple of 1.92 times on an average hold period of 38 months. By contrast, from January 1, 2018, to October 31, 2022, the average annual return of the S&P was 9.75 percent. Ashland Greene returns were 2.88 times higher in that same period along with greater tax benefits for investors.
"At Ashland Greene, we're experts on the Dallas-Fort Worth market because we live and work where we invest," said C'Ganti. "Our efforts are focused on establishing a major footprint in the metro area by leveraging North Texas' ongoing population boom and the resulting need for housing by the many who continue to move to Texas for jobs."
C'Ganti agrees with other experts in the real estate industry who report that DFW is the fastest growing metro in the U.S., and the expansion is not slowing down. A recent article on the topic cites that while DFW is still smaller than New York City and Los Angeles metros, it surpassed both cities in percentage of jobs added. Because of the job growth and DFW's proven resiliency in past downturns, C'Ganti says it is well positioned to weather the looming recession that economists are forecasting for 2023.
2022 also introduced the firm's first 506C fund. Value-Add Fund V provided a unique investment opportunity for accredited investors, consisting of two off-market properties located in Garland and Forney, Texas. The Garland property, Esencia Apartment Homes, has 200 units, while the Forney location, The Preserve at Gateway, is an active adult living community with 120 units. The Preserve at Gateway represented another first for Ashland Greene – the acquisition of a 55+ property for active adults. Like other cities in Texas, Forney is a city located in the outer reaches of DFW experiencing a population boom. Its population grew 86% between 2010 and 2021 according to the census bureau.
ABOUT ASHLAND GREENE
Ashland Greene is a vertically integrated real estate company which seeks to identify and reposition undervalued multifamily investments in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Our local focus, dedication to trustworthy, long-term relationship building, and commitment to community, enable Ashland Greene to create a unique investment experience which delivers long-term value for its investors, residents, and communities. For more information, visit ashlandgreenecapital.com/.
Past performance is not indicative of comparable future results. Market and economic conditions may change in the future producing materially different results than those shown here. All investments have inherent risks. Targeted returns are based on five-year hold for Class A & B Limited Partner Investment.
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Puppet Compliance Enforcement Modules now include support for DISA STIGs, enabling U.S. federal agencies to achieve and continuously maintain compliance and security audit readiness
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Puppet by Perforce, the leader in infrastructure automation, has deepened its commitment to U.S. federal government agencies with the latest release of Compliance Enforcement Modules (CEM). The new update directly supports U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). With Compliance Enforcement Modules, federal IT teams can automate continuous DISA STIGs compliance without the delays, risk, and costs associated with traditional, manual approaches. Compliance Enforcement Modules work natively with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Comply to help users find and fix compliance issues across their enterprise. Federal IT teams receive real-time visibility into the status of their overall compliance posture and can quickly find and fix DISA STIGs compliance issues while continually enforcing desired state compliance.
DISA STIGs are configuration-level cybersecurity best practices and principles created by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). They are designed to safeguard and secure DoD IT networks and systems. To date, DISA has released over 700 STIGs, with more coming each quarter as cyber threats and common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) continue to mount.
Maintaining continuous compliance with relevant STIGs is a requirment for many government agencies and their contractors and is monitored by regular government audits for compliance. For many organizations, this is a painful and challenging process. The current manual approach to managing STIGs compliance produces inconsistent implementations across the enterprise, creating security exposures and driving up maintenance costs. This approach leads to delayed deployment of new technologies and security updates, leaving systems vulnerable and shelving innovation for months or even years.
"As agencies continue to face cyberthreats daily, it is critical that their vulnerable systems are continuously monitored and bulletproof from malicious attacks," said Nick Shuart who leads the Puppet Team at Carahsoft. "Puppet by Perforce's latest Compliance Enforcement Modules automate compliance to ensure agencies are running in a safe and secure environment. Carahsoft and our resellers look forward to providing these tools to the Federal market to help agencies advance their security compliance management."
The latest update to Compliance Enforcement Modules allows U.S. federal agencies to scan and remediate compliance issues easily in accordance with DISA STIGs, without the time-intensive costs, risks, or errors. It will enable organizations and institutions to safely deploy new technologies and security updates in minutes and days vs. months and years.
"Federal IT teams need modern tools to help maintain a proactive security and compliance posture across complex, diverse infrastructure," said Chris Ganacoplos, Head of Public Sector Sales at Puppet by Perforce. "Infrastructure automation is a cornerstone to allow agencies to do more with less. This new release of Compliance Enforcement Modules eliminates the manual work of STIGs compliance management, saving time when adding new systems and more rapidly deploying hardened systems without increasing compliance risk. It frees up government teams to focus on accelerating the time to value for key new systems."
As STIGs are updated or changed, the Compliance Enforcement Modules will be amended to ensure that agency IT staff can easily maintain continuous compliance across their entire enterprise.
Federal agencies can access Puppet Enterprise and the updated Compliance Enforcement Modules through Carahsoft GSA Schedule and authorized reseller partners. The first phase of STIGs support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 is available now. STIGs support for additional operating systems will be available starting in 2023.
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BETHESDA, Md., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empower Energies has executed over 24 MW of renewable energy contracts for a Fortune 100 client. These projects will be built throughout Texas, Delaware, Arizona and Ohio and include solar parking canopies and rooftop solar projects. This portfolio is in addition to 18 projects that are in various stages of construction across the US with this client totaling over 60 MW. The new projects represent a continuation of this relationship that spans the nation as more markets become viable.
"We're excited to execute this additional 24 MW of projects," said Michael Belko, CEO of Empower Energies. "Empower Energies takes our mission to address climate change very seriously and this is a significant step toward that end. We strive to earn the trust of our clients every day and this portfolio demonstrates our client's confidence in Empower's ability to build beautiful, and critical, renewable energy projects."
Empower Energies specializes in a portfolio approach. For clients with multiple facilities, this model involves assessing these sites simultaneously to determine a priority of execution based on a client's unique finance and energy savings goals. Empower Energies' in-house finance, engineering, procurement, construction, and asset management teams ensure quality at every step of a project's lifecycle.
"Empower Energies continues to be the choice for Fortune 500 clients seeking national clean energy solutions to address ESG goals, and for those with more regional portfolios as well," said Patrick Corr, Chief Strategy Officer of Empower Energies. "I'm proud of this team's continual commitment to excellence from design and diligence though finance, construction, and operations of these projects. We are excited to continue to grow and execute on our clean energy mission."
Empower Energies has completed over 200 MW of clean energy projects nationwide, with over 800 MW of solar and storage projects currently in development. These include some of the largest commercial solar canopies on the planet for its Fortune 100 clients. Their leadership team, which include alumni of SunEdison, SolarCity, NRG and Tesla, represent a combined 1.7 GW in clean energy project experience.
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Megan McPherson
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XIAMEN, China, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 21, Xiamen Airlines and Airbus announced a strategic partnership focused on sustainable development during the Paris Air Show. The partnership aims to enhance collaboration in advancing sustainability within the civil aviation sector. Both parties are committed to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fostering the long-term growth of the aviation industry.
The partnership was initially discussed at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. During the meeting, Xiamen Airlines chairman Zhao Dong and Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer engaged in discussions leading to the concept of forming the partnership. Subsequently, the two companies signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to solidify their intentions, which had been earlier established at the 14th Airshow China held in Zhuhai in 2022.
The MoC encompasses several areas of collaboration, including the expanded adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) across test, freight, and commercial flights, exploration of innovative solutions and technologies to enhance fleet fuel efficiency, reduction of emissions, and mitigation of noise levels, collaborative implementation of eco-friendly travel initiatives to encourage low-carbon transportation, fulfillment of corporate social responsibilities, nurturing of talent development in emerging technologies and sustainability expertise, and strengthening of cooperation in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) realm.
"Sustainability has not only become a global consensus but has also emerged as a new trend in the aviation industry, presenting both opportunities and challenges for the sector," said Xiamen Airlines chairman Mr. Zhao. "Over the years, Xiamen Airlines has consistently pursued sustainability with a particular focus on green development, social responsibility, and corporate governance. We look forward to deepening our partnership with Airbus to advance the industry's green, low-carbon transition."
"We are thrilled with the prospect of collaborating with Xiamen Airlines in creating a sustainable future for the aviation industry," stated Xu Gang, global executive vice president of Airbus and CEO of Airbus China. "Although the airline just joined the Airbus fleet family earlier this year, we share a vision and ambition for spearheading sustainability in the aviation sector, making us crucial strategic partners."
Xiamen Airlines has consistently demonstrated its active participation in and support of the UN SDGs. The airline's commitment to the SDGs was highlighted when it became the sole Chinese airline to join the UN Global Compact in late 2022. This significant milestone followed an agreement signed with the UN in 2017, affirming their dedication in promoting the SDGs on a global scale. In May 2023, the airline successfully accomplished mainland China's inaugural commercial A321neo flight utilizing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in collaboration with Airbus and China Aviation Oil. The milestone marked an important step towards promoting sustainability within the aviation sector. Building upon this achievement, the company aims to further develop its sustainability alliance, fostering a more environmentally friendly and promising future for the entire industry.
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- Shopping trends among global fashion consumers will shift in favor of buying decisions that favor more sustainable practices, report finds
- 65% of consumers say they care about the environment. But while only with some 15% consistently make buying decisions to lower their environmental impact, this proportion is set to climb to 50%, the analysis concludes
- The shift will create important opportunities as well as challenges for global fashion brands, manufacturers and retailers
MILAN, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopping and purchasing trends among global fashion consumers are set to move sharply towards favoring more sustainable practices in the coming years, creating important new opportunities as well as challenges for fashion brands, new research released today by Bain & Company and the WWF Italy concludes.
In a new report, How Brands Can Embrace the Sustainable Fashion Opportunity, Bain and WWF find that currently some 15% of global fashion consumers are already highly concerned about sustainability and consistently make purchasing decisions to lower their impact. But the report concludes that this percentage is likely to increase sharply, to more than half of fashion consumers as more shoppers gravitate toward sustainable practices.
The report, which examines consumer behaviors related to sustainability and fashion, shows that of the nearly 5,900 fashion consumers across six countries (China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States) that Bain surveyed, approximately 65% said they care about the environment, but only some regularly prioritize sustainability in their shopping.
"Sustainable shopping is an inevitable change. Concern for sustainability is strong among younger generations – and growing overall. Hence, fashion brands need to embrace the sustainability conversation and make sustainable purchasing easier for all consumers. Brands that proactively design sustainability into their strategy and operations will cement their relevance and capture a windfall of unmet demand, now and into the future," said Claudia D'Arpizio, a Bain & Company senior partner in Milan and the firm's global head of Fashion & Luxury. "In fact, everyone will benefit from a commitment to sustainability from the fashion industry".
"The fashion industry is highly dependent on nature and biodiversity. A great deal of the raw materials used in fashion and to make textiles come from nature, and the production and processing of these materials wouldn't be possible without natural resources like water. But despite all of these dependencies, the industry's practices are responsible for many damaging impacts to nature that put the sector's survival at risk," said Payal Luthra, Global Apparel and Textiles Lead at WWF. "The time is now for brands to take action on sustainability – they'll not only benefit from enhanced resilience but will have incredible opportunity to build brand loyalty with increasingly conscious consumers."
Five sustainability personas for global fashion consumers
Bain and WWF have identified five personas of global fashion consumers with well-defined socio-demographic profiles and behaviors. The personas exist along a spectrum that measures consumers' concern about sustainability, their willingness to take action, and their actual behavior.
- Sustainability Champions: Highly concerned about the environment and regularly buy sustainable apparel. Their intentions and actions are aligned, and those consumers are willing to pay a very significant premium price (84%) to access sustainable products.
- Idealists: They mainly belong to the millennial generation. They show a high level of concern for the environment but hardly ever purchase sustainable fashion goods.
- Good citizens: This category mainly consists of millennials and Gen Z consumers, who usually gather information from in-store displays, social media, and brand websites. They are willing to pay a less significant premium price (64%) for sustainable products.
- Shoppers: Gen X and older consumers. They usually acquire their information from in-store displays and word of mouth. They are willing (sometimes) to engage in sustainable behavior.
- Indifferent consumers: These consumers are not concerned about sustainability and seldom factor it into their purchasing decisions.
Despite being among the top six purchase drivers for most global fashion customers, sustainability is an explicitly lower priority than other, more tangible factors closely related to sustainability, such as product quality and durability.
The report also examines obstacles that consumers face if they wish to purchase sustainably: assortments are often limited, and it can be difficult to distinguish between sustainable and non-sustainable items, a challenge which increases with age. These barriers were consistent among every generation of fashion consumer. Younger consumers said that higher prices were a deterrent, too.
"One can easily see that the fashion industry is very closely linked to nature loss and degradation across its value chain, but this is also what makes it a sector that can lead in bringing about change and sustainability. Our planet will benefit greatly if brands take action and the fashion industry transitions from a polluting, overly-consumptive linear path to a circular one," said Benedetta Flammini, Marketing and Communication Director at WWF Italy.
"Fashion brands are on the cusp of a great opportunity but are often overwhelmed by complexity, especially along lengthy supply chains. Brands have a social role in this epoch-making change: they are called to address the information gap, engage consumers on product durability and impact; and make sustainable purchases more convenient and appealing. This will make them successful, while help shifting consumers toward more sustainable consumption,", concluded Federica Levato, senior partner at Milan's office and EMEA Leader of Fashion & Luxury at Bain.
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OAKLAND, Calif., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) will issue its fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2023 results on Aug. 2, 2023. Timing for the announcement will be as follows:
- 1:15 p.m. PT/4:15 p.m. ET: Press release and prepared management remarks posted on the company's website
- 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET: Live Q&A audio webcast for analysts with Chief Executive Officer Linda Rendle and Chief Financial Officer Kevin Jacobsen
Links to the webcast, press release and prepared remarks can be found at Clorox quarterly results.
About The Clorox Company
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St. John’s earned its first ranking in seven years after matching the best start in school history, entering The Associated Press women’s basketball poll at No. 25 on Monday.
The Red Storm (11-0) equaled the 2004-05 team that also won its first 11 games with Sunday’s win over Providence. St. John’s had a victory over then-No. 13 Creighton on Dec. 4, helping coach Joe Tartamella’s squad earn its first appearance in the poll since Dec. 14, 2015.
“It’s great to be recognized and I’m proud for our kids,” he said. “We know we have a long way to go in the year. Obviously to be recognized nationally, you can’t take that for granted. It’s been a while and to know this group got us back in is pretty cool.”
South Carolina remained the top team in the poll, receiving all 28 first-place votes from a national media panel. The top five was unchanged with Stanford, Ohio State, Indiana and Notre Dame following the Gamecocks. The Irish won a showdown with then-No. 6 Virginia Tech 63-52 on Sunday. The Hokies fell to eighth. North Carolina and North Carolina State were sixth and seventh. UConn and LSU rounded out the top 10.
LSU (12-0) finished its non-conference schedule unbeaten for the first time since the 2002-03 season. The Tigers played their first Power Five opponent on Sunday, routing Oregon State by 32 points.
“We just have a confident bunch right now,” LSU coach Kim Mulkey said. “I wish we didn’t have to go home for the break. I wish we could go on and start some SEC play because that’s what builds a team.”
FEAST WEEK
There are some strong early week matchups with No. 3 Ohio State, No. 16 Oregon, No. 21 Arkansas and South Florida playing in a tournament in San Diego on Tuesday and Wednesday. No. 6 North Carolina plays No. 19 Michigan in the Jumpman Invitational on Tuesday.
HOLIDAY SEASON
It’s a short week with no teams playing Saturday or Sunday. There are only four games on Friday with Stanford-California the lone ranked game that day.
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AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-12-20T16:48:36+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/ap-st-johns-cracks-womens-ap-top-25-for-1st-time-since-2015/ |
NEW YORK — The 76th Annual Tony Awards are just a few days away.
Broadway's biggest night will be split into two parts. Like last year, the Tonys will kick off with a live preshow before the main event. The telecast will be hosted by Julianne Hough and Skylar Astin, who will present the first round of awards.
Broadway star Ariana DeBose will host part two, the primetime awards show, for the second year in a row.
Here's how to watch both parts of the show.
When are the Tony Awards?
The Tony Awards are Sunday, June 11.
The live preshow, The Tony Awards: Act One, runs from 6:30 p.m. ET (3:30 PM PT) to 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT) on PlutoTV.
Immediately following the live preshow, the 76th Annual Tony Awards begin at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+. It runs for about three hours.
How to watch the Tony Awards
The Tony Awards: Act One will air free for all viewers on PlutoTV. To access The Tony Awards: Act One, viewers can use the app on their smart TV, streaming device, mobile device or online by going to Pluto TV and clicking on the “Pluto TV Celebrity” channel. There is no payment, registration or sign-in required.
The 76th Annual Tony Awards primetime show will air live on CBS and stream live on Paramount+ for premium subscribers. Streaming services like YouTube TV or Hulu + Live TV may carry local CBS affiliates.
Paramount+ essential tier users will be able to watch the show on-demand the day after it airs. | 2023-06-08T12:33:19+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/nation-world/2023-tony-awards-how-to-watch/507-34b03597-2d1a-415f-ae81-50187695ff38 |
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TKO Miller is pleased to announce the sale of Howard Precision Metals, Inc. (Howard), a value-added distributor of high-quality, precision-cut aluminum plate and extruded bar products, to Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. (Ryerson), a U.S. distributor of industrial metal products.
Founded in 1928, Howard is a third-generation, family-owned, distributor of high-quality aluminum products cut at extraordinarily tight tolerances. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Howard distributes aluminum mill products with a focus on plate, bar, and custom extrusions for a broad and diversified customer base across numerous attractive and growing end markets, including aerospace, robotics, pneumatics, machinery, and tool and die.
Ryerson is a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Founded in 1842, Ryerson has around 4,000 employees in approximately 100 locations.
TKO Miller, LLC is an independent, advisory-focused, middle-market investment bank. With over 130 years of collective transaction experience, TKO Miller provides merger and acquisition and financial advisory services for privately held and private equity-owned businesses nationwide, with a special focus on family- and founder-held businesses.
TKO Miller aims to bring value to clients by combining outstanding people with a results-oriented, flexible approach to transactions. Our services include company sales, recapitalizations, asset divestitures, and management buyouts. TKO Miller has a generalist focus but has served clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, business services, consumer products, and industrial products and services. For more information, visit our website www.tkomiller.com
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After months of planning led to a strategy that would keep the field clear of unwanted substances, and after trial runs analyzed the viscosity required for a perfect pour, the final stages of preparation could begin. While a pair of football teams clashed through the fourth quarter of a bowl game, several staffers headed away from the action so they could squeeze and shake four gallons of mayonnaise into a Duke’s-branded cooler.
In the hearts of fans who love the quirky and sometimes absurd side of college football, this endeavor turned into the main event at the 2021 Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte. Allie Mowbray, who works at the marketing agency that serves Duke’s as a client, took turns with others rigorously stirring the massive serving of mayonnaise. They whipped it with a flagpole because normal kitchen utensils weren’t big enough for the job, then stirred more just before the dump. After his team won, South Carolina Coach Shane Beamer sat in a folding chair with a hat as his only protection, and mayonnaise rained down from above.
Inspired by fellow bowl games that reward winning coaches with celebratory baths not of Gatorade but of the food of sponsors — including french fries, Cheez-Its and a kale smoothie — Duke’s Mayo joined in on the chaos. The company first sponsored the bowl game in 2020, then unveiled what became a high-profile mayo dump last year. With this season’s edition of the bowl Friday, Maryland’s Michael Locksley and North Carolina State’s Dave Doeren will compete on the field and for the opportunity to be doused with the creamy condiment made of oil and eggs.
“We realize that Duke’s mayonnaise sponsoring a bowl is weird,” said Joe Tuza, president of Duke’s. “We get that. It’s not a traditional bowl sponsorship.”
And Miller Yoho, director of communications and marketing for the Charlotte Sports Foundation, which organizes the bowl game, understands this is not the College Football Playoff. Teams don’t start the season aspiring for a mid-tier bowl.
So the Mayo Bowl embraces the silliness, trying to “become a part of the fabric of college football,” Yoho said. If Duke’s took itself too seriously with this sponsorship, Tuza said, “the reality is we would just fall in line with the rest of the bowls.” But with its engaging Twitter account and a dump that turns into a viral video, the Mayo Bowl has managed to stand out.
Duke’s wanted to have a mayonnaise dump in 2020, but officials at Bank of America Stadium bucked at the possibility of mayonnaise splattering on the playing surface. Mowbray, who works at Bespoke Sports & Entertainment, said the idea of mayonnaise packets dumped on the winning coach was also vetoed. The risk of a packet getting stomped and squirting was too much to overcome.
Instead, the Mayo Bowl generated buzz by teasing a dump with coolers fashioned to look like mayonnaise jars stationed on each sideline. But after Wisconsin won the game and players lifted the cooler over their coach’s head, white Gatorade streamed out.
Yoho told a team of staffers: “That was awesome. We can never fake people out again because they will never forgive us.”
That started the months-long process to find a solution. Mowbray and a colleague hauled batches of mayonnaise to a field to experiment with water-to-mayonnaise ratios. The first attempt was so watery that it no longer looked like mayonnaise. After trying several versions, they landed on whipped mayonnaise without water. (Beamer’s dump has been reported as slightly watered-down mayonnaise, but Mowbray — who ran the tests, then stirred the concoction on game day and was one of two dumpers — said no water was added. Intense stirring made the mayo look runny.)
The Mayo Bowl asks for someone associated with the university to participate. But in the dump’s two-year history, it has a perfect record of getting coaches to agree, and Duke’s donates $10,000 to the coach’s charity of choice.
The mayo dump takes place in a stadium tunnel near a drain. The controlled environment eliminates the spontaneity of other celebratory showers, but mayonnaise compensates with its sloppiness. One tweeted video of last year’s messy scene accumulated 2.7 million views.
MAYO BATH pic.twitter.com/GQh03Beue1
— Duke's Mayo Bowl (@DukesMayoBowl) December 30, 2021
It went well with just one mishap: The cooler hit Beamer in the head.
The Mayo Bowl leaned in to the mistake, similar to when Wisconsin broke the trophy in 2020, then replaced the shattered crystal football with a mayonnaise bottle. The Mayo Bowl ran with it, depicting the makeshift trophy on T-shirts. A year later, Duke’s sent Beamer a care package with a hard hat and Tylenol. Tuza calls moments like these “a forward fumble.”
In response to the Beamer mishap, the Mayo Bowl announced in November that it would launch a “national search” for new dumpers. A group dubbed as the selection committee landed on Kevin DeValk and Allison Vick, who will be tasked with dumping the mayo and keeping the cooler away from the coach’s head.
DeValk, a 35-year-old engineer for a heavy truck manufacturer, has photos saved on his phone featuring last season’s mayo dump. He bought a water cooler the day the Mayo Bowl announced that fans were candidates to be chosen.
“I didn’t know how much chance I was going to have,” DeValk said. “I saw people with blue check marks out there throwing their hat in the ring.”
DeValk, who lives in Winston-Salem, N.C., and grew up a Wisconsin fan, delivered an extensive submission via social media. He drank mayo-nog and baked a chocolate cake with mayonnaise. He printed a yard sign — “Vote Klurt for Mayo Dumper” — using a nickname that stuck among the online community of college football fans who rallied behind his campaign. And he made a “Rocky”-inspired training montage to prove he could lift the cooler.
Vick, an N.C. State graduate, is a baker in Raleigh, and she owns Little Blue Bakehouse, where she sells her macarons and provides space for other bakers to sell their goods. She loves Duke’s Mayo, especially on both sides of the bread of grilled cheese. When Duke’s offered free mayo-themed tattoos in Richmond, she nearly traveled to get one.
Vick doesn’t have a Twitter account but heard about the mayo dumper search process through a friend. Vick was making Duke’s-themed macarons for a mayo-loving restaurant owner. She incorporated mayonnaise in the ganache, which didn’t change the taste but added a glossy look. Vick filmed the process and let that double as her submission.
Duke’s looked for fans who loved its brand and college football, and DeValk and Vick won the job. Now they’ll be responsible for performing a perfect dump. Vick feels comfortable with the dumping motion because she often lifts and pours giant bags of ingredients in the kitchen, and at 5-foot-3, she often has to throw trash bags into a large dumpster.
They’ll get a practice run the day before the game — first the dumping motion, then with mayo. An additional person will stand behind the cooler to support if needed, because as much as the Mayo Bowl joked about the knock to Beamer’s head, nobody involved wants a repeat showing.
The mayonnaise that landed on Beamer “came out in little spurts,” Mowbray said, so she has considered adding cooking spray to the jug this year, but that might be a game-time decision. In the ideal dump, she said, “The mayo just comes right out — like a flood.” | 2022-12-29T14:24:54+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/12/29/dukes-mayo-bowl-mayonnaise-bath/ |
Official: Man who made synagogue threat has been identified
(AP) - A law enforcement official says that federal agents have identified the man they believe posted a broad online threat against synagogues in New Jersey but that they do not believe he was planning to carry out a specific plot.
The official said Friday that the man was questioned by law enforcement and told agents he had been bullied in the past and harbored anger toward Jewish people.
His name has not been released.
The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity and could not discuss details of the investigation publicly.
The FBI on Thursday said it had received credible information about a “broad” threat to synagogues in New Jersey.
The warning prompted some municipalities to send extra police officers to guard houses of worship.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-04T15:27:50+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/11/04/official-man-who-made-synagogue-threat-has-been-identified/ |
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) threatened Monday to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for what he claims is the agency’s “wholly inadequate” compliance with two subpoenas issued earlier this year.
“We write to notify you that if the FBI does not improve its compliance substantially, the Committee will take action — such as the initiation of content of Congress proceedings – to obtain compliance with these subpoenas,” Jordan said in a letter to Wray, giving the FBI a deadline of July 25 at 12 p.m. to hand over the documents before the committee will “take action.”
The chairman claimed this comes after “several accommodations, months of persistent outreach by the Committee, and attempts to negotiate and work with the FBI in good faith.”
In February, Wray, along with Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, were issued subpoenas following a memo from Garland that noted a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.”
Jordan has previously claimed the memo raises concerns over First Amendment rights. In Monday’s letter, he described the subpoena as connected to “the FBI’s targeting of concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings.”
Jordan said the FBI failed to “sufficiently comply on a voluntary basis,” stating the FBI turned in only four redacted pages of school board-related documents by the March 1 deadline. The committee agreed to accept documents on a rolling basis as an accommodation to the FBI, according to Jordan.
Jordan said the committee later received only ten more pages on March 8 and accommodated the FBI’s request to view an additional 346 pages in camera instead.
“The FBI’s productions to date have not included material the Committee knows is, or has reason to believe may be, in the FBI’s possession and that is responsive to the subpoena,” Jordan wrote, listing off types of documents the FBI “might possess.”
Later in April, Jordan issued a second subpoena to Wray in connection with accusations that the FBI had developed an anti-Catholic bias after a now-withdrawn memo out of the Richmond, Va., field office described an increasing overlap in white nationalist groups and “Radical Traditionalist Catholics.”
The Hill has reached out to the FBI for comment.
Wray, a registered Republican and Trump appointee, has increasingly had to defend himself against GOP accusations of politicization at the bureau, including before Jordan’s committee last week.
“We opened 25 assessments into reports that were tagged, but none of those involved incidents at school board meetings and, to my knowledge, FBI has not opened investigations on any parent for exercising speech at school,” Wray said.
Of the Richmond Catholic memo, he added, “That product is not something that I will defend or excuse. It’s something that I thought was appalling and removed it.”
Jordan’s letter comes follows House Oversight James Comer’s recent efforts to bring contempt of Congress proceedings against Wray to force the agency to hand over a document that Comer claimed contained allegations then-Vice President Biden accepted a bribe, which the White House has denied.
On the eve of the vote, the FBI agreed to grant committee members access, and Comer canceled the vote.
—Updated at 9:35 p.m. | 2023-07-18T02:37:11+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/hill-politics/jordan-floats-contempt-of-congress-for-fbis-wray/ |
(iSeeCars) — SUVs have steadily grown in popularity to become the nation’s most popular vehicle type. But how popular are SUVs compared to other vehicle categories across the country? Or do some states prefer pickup trucks or traditional passenger cars?
- SUVs are the most popular vehicle type in 46 of 50 states, while cars account for the remaining four states.
- Pickup trucks are not the most popular vehicle type in any state and have the highest share in Wyoming at 37.1 percent.
- New York has the highest share of SUVs, which comprise 54.2 percent of the state’s vehicle share.
- Passenger cars are the most popular vehicle type in states with temperate climates
- California has the highest share of cars at 47.2 percent.
- Hawaii is the state that has the lowest share of SUVs, but the vehicle still accounts for more than one-third of the state’s vehicles.
- Hawaii and Nebraska tie for the highest share of minivans, at 4.5 percent.
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iSeeCars.com analyzed over 21 million used car sales from April 2022 through March 2023. The shares of trucks, SUVs, passenger cars (defined as sedans, coupes, convertibles, hatchbacks, and wagons), and minivans within each US state were calculated and used as ranking metrics across states.
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iSeeCars.com is a data-driven car search and research company that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, including the iSeeCars VIN Check report and Best Cars Rankings. iSeeCars.com has saved users over $382 million so far by applying big data analytics powered by over 25 billion (and growing) data points and using proprietary algorithms to objectively analyze, score and rank millions of new cars and used cars.
This article, Which Vehicle Type is the Most Popular in Each State?, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com. | 2023-05-07T15:54:10+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/which-vehicle-type-is-the-most-popular-in-each-state/ |
ATLANTA, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Revenue Analytics, a provider of Pricing SaaS products to the travel and hospitality, media, and manufacturing/distribution industries, announced a strategic growth investment from Lead Edge Capital, a technology-focused investment fund that has invested in companies like Duo Security, Toast, Spotify, Wise, Alibaba Group, and Grafana.
Revenue Analytics is a pioneer in Pricing and Revenue Management software, providing cloud-native SaaS applications for the most complex pricing challenges. By leveraging powerful analytics and intuitive user interfaces, Revenue Analytics offers next-generation software to help customers perfect their pricing and reclaim missed revenue.
"We invented Revenue Management, and now we are re-inventing it," said Dax Cross, the co-founder and CEO of Revenue Analytics. "This investment is a milestone in our journey to modernize pricing software. It provides tremendous resources to continue to serve our amazing customers while driving innovation in advanced pricing analytics and automation that grow our customers' revenue and save them time."
Pricing has become increasingly complex and dynamic in many industries. Yet it remains highly manual. Legacy pricing software is known for its "black box" analytics and highly complex user interfaces. In the last two years, Revenue Analytics has launched new, cloud-native solutions like N2Pricing™ in Hospitality, RateOptics™ in Media, and Price+™ in Manufacturing & Distribution. These products package proven analytics with intuitive user interfaces that drive trust and adoption. That adoption enables pricing automation at scale.
"Lead Edge prides itself on being the best partner for market-leading businesses," said Dan Lynn, Partner at Lead Edge Capital. "Revenue Analytics is unmatched in Pricing and Revenue Management expertise, and they have built that expertise into modern software that drives incredible ROI for their customers. We're thrilled to bring our deep experience in scaling leading tech companies to help Revenue Analytics further accelerate growth."
The investment continues significant momentum for Revenue Analytics, which has achieved record revenue growth over the past year. Dan Lynn will join the Revenue Analytics board along with Lead Edge Operating Partners Jim Cyb (former SVP of WW Sales and BD at Duo Security) and Paul Bell (former President of Dell's Public and Large Enterprise division).
Lincoln International served as financial advisor and Morris, Manning & Martin acted as legal counsel to Revenue Analytics. Goodwin Proctor served as legal counsel to Lead Edge.
A pioneer of Revenue Management, Revenue Analytics is an enterprise SaaS company that partners with hospitality, media, passenger rail, manufacturing, and distribution companies to solve their most complex pricing challenges. By leveraging powerful analytics and deep strategic experience, Revenue Analytics' next-generation software delivers intuitive answers to help companies perfect their pricing, reclaim missed revenue, and take back their time. To learn more about how Revenue Analytics is recreating Revenue Management, visit revenueanalytics.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Lead Edge Capital is a growth stage investment fund with $5 billion of capital raised since inception, and portfolio companies across the internet, software, consumer, and tech-enabled services sectors. The firm has invested in market leading businesses including Alibaba Group, Asana, Bazaarvoice, Benchling, Duo Security, Grafana, Spotify, Toast, and Wise. Lead Edge Capital offers its entrepreneurs flexible capital and extensive domain expertise via its robust Limited Partner Network, a global advisory group of leading executives, entrepreneurs, and dealmakers who have built and run some of the world's most successful companies. Lead Edge Capital leverages its LPs to connect companies with the customers, partners, talent, and advisors needed to accelerate success. Lead Edge Capital was founded in 2009 and has offices in New York City and Santa Barbara, California.
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Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State were chosen Sunday to play in the College Football Playoff, giving the Big Ten multiple teams in the four-team field for the first time.
The defending national champion and top-ranked Bulldogs and fourth-seeded Buckeyes will meet Dec. 31 at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. The second-seeded Wolverines and third-ranked Horned Frogs, the lone first-timer in the final four, will play at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, the same day.
The national championship game is scheduled for Jan. 10 at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and it could a rematch of Big Ten rivals Ohio State and Michigan. The rivalry dates to 1902, but the Buckeyes and Wolverines have never played outside of their annual regular-season game.
With some drama, but not much controversy, the CFP selection committee’s top four fell into place over the championship weekend. The most interesting part of the unveiling was whether the committee would pair Michigan and Ohio State in the semifinals and if Alabama might be able to slip in as the first two-loss playoff team.
In the end, the committee sprung no surprises.
Georgia (13-0) won the Southeastern Conference championship game in a rout and coach Michigan (13-0) similar took the the Big Ten title.
TCU (12-1) suffered is first loss of the season in the Big 12 championship, falling in overtime to Kansas State. The loss made it an uneasy night for Heisman Trophy contender Max Duggan and the Horned Frogs, but in the end they had already built enough equity during their improbable season to stay in the top four.
Ohio State (11-1) was given a second life in the playoff race when Southern California lost the Pac-12 championship game Friday night. A week after star quarterback C.J. Stroud and the Buckeyes lost at home to coach Jim Harbaugh and Michigan, they slipped into the final playoff spot, the best of a flawed batch of contenders.
Alabama (10-2) was fifth in the committee rankings, missing the CFP for just the second time in its nine-year history. The Crimson Tide, with a little lobbying from coach Nick Saban, were hoping to become the first team to lose two games and make the playoff.
The committee instead simply moved Ohio State from fifth last week to fourth this week, setting up just the second matchup ever between the Bulldogs and Buckeyes. The only time Georgia and Ohio State have played was in the 1992 Citrus Bowl, a Buckeyes’ victory.
For Georgia, it is the second straight CFP appearance and third overall. This time, though, coach Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs enter as the No. 1 team and clear favorite after following up last season’s national title with a perfect season.
Stetson Bennett and the ‘Dawgs will try to become the first team to repeat as College Football Playoff champions.
Ohio State is making its fifth playoff appearance. The last time the Buckeyes were the fourth seed was 2014, when they won their last national title.
Michigan is in for the second time, again as the second seed after losing to Georgia in the Orange Bowl last season.
TCU becomes just the 13th different school make the field in nine years. That lack of variety is one of the main reasons the CFP will be expanding to 12 teams in the 2024 season.
The Horned Frogs, whose only national title came in 1938, have never played Michigan. | 2022-12-04T18:18:52+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/college-sports/playoff-field-set-georgia-vs-ohio-state-michigan-vs-tcu/ |
New self-bag drop solution significantly speeds time passengers need to check bags
PARIS, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SITA today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Alstef Group, an established baggage handling specialist, to launch Swift Drop, a new self-bag drop solution that significantly speeds up the experience of checking your own bag.
Mexico City's brand new Felipe Ángeles International Airport, opened in late March, has become the first airport globally to install 20 Swift Drop units.
The fast, intuitive interface means passengers can quickly check their bags, avoiding long queues at traditional check-in points. This will give passengers more time to spend airside, providing a boost to airports' retail revenues. Passengers simply print their own bag tags without need for assistance and load their baggage directly onto the accessible conveyor.
Part of SITA's awarding-winning Smart Path passenger processing portfolio, Swift Drop is comprised of SITA's TS6 Kiosk and Alstef Group's fully integrated bag processing solution. For airports and airlines, Swift Drop dramatically improves baggage handling from the minute a bag is put on the conveyor belt, identifying overweight and oversized bags in seconds. Advanced camera tag-reading technology ensures baggage will also be processed faster, with an average first-time tag read rate of 95%.
Drew Griffiths, Head of SITA AT AIRPORTS, said: "In airports globally, our Smart Path passenger solution has delivered faster, automated passenger experiences. The partnership with Alstef Group – leveraging their significant baggage handling portfolio – enriches our end-to-end offering with a fast, convenient, and reliable self-bag drop solution. This solution has the added benefit of being easily biometrically enabled."
Philippe Hamon, Sales Director, Airport Solutions, Alstef Group, said: "Taking the stress out of baggage is fundamental to any passenger's journey. Our baggage processing solutions have been successfully implemented in hundreds of airports globally to do exactly that. It is therefore pleasing that we can extend these benefits to the whole passenger journey through our partnership with SITA."
SITA photos available here: http://www.sita.aero/pressroom/image-gallery and videos and info graphics here: http://www.sita.aero/pressroom
SITA is the air transport industry's IT provider, delivering solutions for airlines, airports, aircraft and governments. Our technology powers more seamless, safe and sustainable air travel.
With around 2,500 customers, SITA's solutions drive operational efficiencies at more than 1,000 airports while delivering the promise of the connected aircraft to customers of 17,000 aircraft globally. SITA also provides technology solutions that help more than 70 governments strike the balance of secure borders and seamless travel. Our communications network connects every corner of the globe and bridges 60% of the air transport community's data exchange.
In 2021, SITA became a certified CarbonNeutral® company in accordance with The CarbonNeutral Protocol – the leading global standard for carbon neutral programs. We are reducing our greenhouse gas emissions for all our operations through our UN recognized Planet+ program, while also developing solutions to help the aviation industry meet its carbon reduction objectives, including reduced fuel burn and greater operational efficiencies. In 2022, we announced our commitment to setting science-based emission reduction targets aligned to the Science Based Targets initiative Net-Zero Standard.
SITA is 100% owned by the industry and driven by its needs. It is one of the most internationally diverse companies, providing services in over 200 countries and territories.
For further information, go to www.sita.aero
Alstef Group designs, integrates and supports automated turnkey solutions for the airport, intralogistics and parcel markets. Its mission is to create intelligent solutions that not only meet the needs of its customers, but also provide them with the long-term benefits of a tailor-made automated system that is efficient, scalable and innovative.
With offices across more than 10 countries and with installed systems on all five continents, Alstef Group has around than 800 employees within its three business units: Alstef Automation, BA Systèmes and Glidepath. The group generated revenue of €140 million in 2020.
For further information, go to www.alstefgroup.com
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Some of the biggest names in the game won't be playing in the Women's World Cup because of what feels like an epidemic of ACL injuries — and players are asking why.
Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema, England's Leah Williamson and Beth Mead, Canada's Janine Beckie and rising U.S. star Catarina Macario are among those sidelined for the tournament starting July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
“I think it’s a multifaceted issue. I don’t know if I’m the expert in it, even though I’ve experienced it,” said U.S. midfielder Andi Sullivan, who tore her ACL in college at Stanford.
“There’s so many different factors that could contribute to that and I think we are a little bit behind on the research as to why, so hopefully now the prevalence will kind of wake people up,” Sullivan added. “This is an issue we need to pay attention to and look more into preventing and how to handle it better.”
Last year it was estimated that nearly 60 players in the world's top professional women's leagues were sidelined because of anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Among them was Spain's Alexia Putellas, who injured her ACL just before the Euros last July.
Putellas, who will play for Spain at the World Cup, partnered with FIFPRO, the international players' union, to call attention to the outbreak of ACL injuries and demand a closer look at possible contributing factors including workload, medical care, field conditions and even equity.
Studies have shown women are up to eight times more likely to suffer ACL injuries in sports involving sudden changes of direction, like soccer and basketball, than their male counterparts. Dr. Mark Cullen, the team physician for the University of New Hampshire who specializes in orthopedic surgery, says women have wider hips which impacts knee mechanics.
“They also tend to land a little bit more stiff-legged and don’t absorb the forces as well as their male counterparts, and that puts more force on the ACL and contributes to the tears,” Cullen said.
Katie Rood, who plays professionally in Scotland, was hoping to make New Zealand's roster and play in soccer's biggest tournament on home soil. But she recently announced that she had joined the "ever-growing ACL club."
“It’s been an interesting process so far and one I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from, especially as it’s a serious issue in the women’s game. What’s hit me quite hard in this situation is just how many times I’ve been asked ‘Is the club looking after you?’” she wrote. “It’s a reminder that health care and medical treatment isn’t often the norm in the women’s game and we all know of players being left to fend for themselves after getting seriously injured with their clubs.”
Rood, however, praised her team for their support.
Miedema won’t be ready in time to help the Netherlands when it returns to the Women's World Cup after finishing as runner-up to the United States four years ago in France. She is one of four players from Arsenal in the Women’s Super League currently sidelined by ACL injuries. The list includes Williamson, who tore her ACL in April.
When Arsenal's Laura Wienroither tore her ACL earlier this month, Miedema posted on social media: "At least we will all be in the gym together. PS. ACL group is full now. Please no more."
Five of the nominees the 2022 women's Ballon d’Or — Putellas, Miedema, Macario, Mead and France’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto — all sustained ACL injuries last year.
Mead, who won the Golden Boot at the Women's Euros last year, was left off England's 23-player roster for the World Cup.
“We have to take care of players and do what’s smart, and not do what’s a little bit naive,” England coach Sarina Wiegman said.
Having already lost Katoto, France was dealt another ACL blow when Delphine Cascarino tore her ACL while playing for Lyon.
Lyon teammate Macario, one of the most promising young U.S. attackers, tore her ACL last June. Macario rehabbed at Aspetar, a specialized sports medicine facility in Qatar, but announced in May that she wouldn't make it back in time for the World Cup.
Aside from the mechanics, there's an emotional toll that such long-term injuries take on athletes. For some, it means the loss of a paycheck, for others it may be that their careers stall or are cut short.
Others miss out on chances to play in the World Cup.
Tierna Davidson, who plays for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League, tore her ACL last March. She said the injury and the rehab helped her appreciate her career.
“At the beginning, I felt like I was impatient and I was frustrated. When is this going to be over?” Davidson said. “But I think throughout the process, I really learned how to be patient and how to listen to myself and allow myself the space to enjoy the good things, which is important when you’re going through something like that.”
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Almost four weeks after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, the town of Uvalde, Texas has begun to quiet down, and its residents have been left with their grief and in search of a way forward.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest banks appear to be weathering the current turmoil in their industry just fine.
Despite a pair of historical failures last month that put the nation’s banking industry into crisis mode, the nation’s biggest banks posted strong profits last quarter, helped by higher interest rates and a U.S. economy that keeps growing and adding jobs even as the Federal Reserve attempts to curb inflation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a 52% jump in its first-quarter profits. The bank saw deposits grow noticeably, as businesses and customers flocked to the banking titan after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank last month. Wells Fargo said that it earned $5 billion, or $1.23 per share, in the three months ended March 31, beating analyst projections by 10 cents a share. Revenue also topped Wall Street’s forecast.
Meanwhile Citigroup also beat analysts’ estimates on revenue, although its bottom line was impacted by one-time losses on some investments.
“These were the most watched bank earnings announcements in over a decade, with market participants scouring the results looking for signs of cracks in the US banking sector. Those analysts looking for signs of the banking crisis were greatly relieved to not find any,” said Octavio Marenzi, CEO of the consulting firm Opimas LLC, in an email.
“What crisis?,” analysts at UBS titled a report after JPMorgan, Wells and PNC Financial reported their results.
Investors have been deeply concerned about the banks going into this earnings season after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. While banks have benefitted from being able to charge customers more for loans in a higher interest rate environment, banks have also accumulated billions of dollars in paper losses on bonds and other securities bought when interest rates were lower.
The biggest banks have been the least of investors’ worries because the size of their massive balance sheets and diversity of their businesses — business loans, credit cards, trading, investment banking, etc. — allow them to hold a variety of securities. But more notably, the largest banks have long carried an implicit government backstop as being “too big to fail” since the 2008 financial crisis.
This backstop has attracted billions of deposits to the largest banks since Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. JPMorgan grew deposits by $37 billion during the quarter, up to $2.4 trillion. Deposits at big banks had been falling for several quarters as consumers spent down their pandemic savings and businesses tapped into their stored cash to pay bills. But following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, some businesses withdrew their funds from smaller banks and moved them into the larger banks.
With midsize banks facing potential runs on their deposits, regulators again turned to the larger institutions for help, particularly JPMorgan and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, which have been the industry’s go-to problem solvers for banking issues for years now.
After Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed, JPMorgan helped put together a consortium of other big banks to keep First Republic Bank from being next to collapse. The group of banks put $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic, a move that appears to have at least bought the midsize bank some time to repair its balance sheet and maybe find a buyer.
“The U.S. economy continues to be on generally healthy footings — consumers are still spending and have strong balance sheets, and businesses are in good shape. However, the storm clouds that we have been monitoring for the past year remain on the horizon, and the banking industry turmoil adds to these risks,” Dimon said in a statement.
In a call with reporters, JPMorgan executives said they saw roughly $50 billion come into the bank after SVB failed. They aren’t sure how long those deposits will stay with the bank, however, as depositors have been broadly looking for higher yielding bank accounts and could choose to move their money elsewhere.
While the biggest banks seem fine, it’s the midsize banks that report next week that will attract more attention than usual. Banks such as KeyCorp, Zions Bank, Comerica and others saw their stocks get hit hard due to being similar in business and size to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
While the biggest banks reported strong results, most banks on their calls with investors still expect some sort of slowdown in the U.S. economy later this year. Citigroup’s CEO Jane Fraser told investors that the bank now expects a “mild” recession at the end of the year, saying there are signs that consumer spending is slowing down. A report Friday showing shoppers pulled back on spending at retail stores supported that analysis.
The big banks also said they haven’t tightened their lending since the two banks’ failures as well, one thing economists and investors had been concerned about as banks typically try to protect their balance sheets during times of turmoil. | 2023-04-15T19:23:45+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/business-news/profits-at-big-us-banks-show-few-signs-of-industry-distress/ |
In 2013, German carmakers got their hands on Tesla Model S luxury five-door hatchbacks and tore them apart. An industry insider in that country reported the Model S was a massive shock to Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz—but perhaps even more so to Porsche, which had been hugely successful with its fast, sporty Panamera five-door.
The Porsche product team had to grapple with the arrival of an electric car, from a highly unlikely company, that was as quick, smoother, and equally as desirable as their prime offering. Moreover, that EV had already lured away some of their most tech-forward customers.
Their response, the electric Porsche Taycan that arrived in late 2020, was sleek, enormously fast, and the first production EV with an 800-volt battery pack. It has been a sales success, with 100,000 sold over three years. But the EV transition is accelerating, and Porsche has many more EVs to launch. The first will be the 2024 Porsche Macan Electric, which sports a new PPE platform and related technology the company previewed last week at a media briefing in Franciacorta, Italy.
The day included the chance to hustle a current Taycan around the hilly, twisty roads of Lombardy, competing with Fiat 500s and local garbage trucks in equal measure. The Taycan clearly had better acceleration and far more grip, but it was a big car on very small roads. We spent lots of time listening to proximity warning alarms as we flew past sheer stone walls just inches away.
Back in the conference rooms, we asked Porsche executives what lessons they had taken away from the Taycan. Their answers were often circumspect, but the briefings suggested lots of knowledge gained between the Taycan and electric Macan.
That Taycan was first shown as the Porsche Mission E concept at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, and seven years is a long while in “EV time.” Here’s our rundown of what Porsche has learned from the Taycan since then:
Batteries held up better than expected
“We had a very steep learning curve, so we were quite conservative,” said Antoon Janssen, manager of powertrain for the Macan Electric. “But the [Taycan] batteries are in better shape than we expected. So we can expand the window of charging, temperature, and so forth.” That can be seen in the Macan Electric, which will have only a 2-4% battery reserve above its 98-kwh usable capacity—a lower margin than in the Taycan.
800-volt batteries were the right decision
It’s debatable whether “800 volts is now seen as the standard” for EVs, as Michael Steiner, a member of the executive board for R&D, said at the start of the day. But the Taycan’s 800-volt battery, which both reduces internal heat from resistance and allows faster charging at 270 kw or more, set it apart in several ways—and has been adopted wholesale for the Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture that underpins the coming Macan Electric and other models from Audi and Bentley.
Among other benefits, 800 volts offered the promise of an 80% recharge in only 20 to 25 minutes under the right circumstances. That’s a sufficiently powerful fact that even GM has worked out a way to allow its larger Ultium-based EV models to charge at 800 volts despite a battery architecture that operates at 400 volts. “In the future,” Steiner said, “800 volts will be profitable”—suggesting the Taycan may not have been up to Porsche’s historically lavish profit margins.
Boosting efficiency demands lots of small improvements
A key improvement from the Taycan’s J1 platform to the electric Macan’s PPE architecture is better and more efficient cooling of the battery, motors, and power electronics. Porsche has used silicon carbide, rather than silicon, in the rear-axle power inverter. This proves to cut electrical losses and allows power switching at higher frequencies.
Powertrain manager Janssen summed it up: “We had many small learnings” about where energy was lost in the Taycan that allowed better efficiency for the Macan Electric when added together. The electric SUV’s range, with only a slightly larger battery in a much bulkier and less aerodynamic vehicle, will be “a lot more than the Taycan.”
Major software updates make customers happy
Rather than do a series of smaller updates to the car’s operating software, as Tesla does, Porsche chose to batch a large group of changes into a single update it launched this past June. More than 50% of the 75,000 Taycans then on the road have received the update, despite the fact it takes almost an entire day and requires a dealer visit. (Taycans built since then have the new features uploaded at the factory.)
Among the benefits was a boost to the car’s rated range by allowing the front motor to shut off entirely at times when the rear motor alone was enough to power an all-wheel-drive Taycan version.
To make a difference, EVs must sell in volume at lower prices
Porsche CEO Oliver Blume pledged in March that 80% of all Porsches sold will be battery-electric by 2030. At our briefing, several Porsche executives intoned that pledge almost verbatim. To get there will require lots of EV sales, fast. The current gasoline Macan is the brand’s bestseller, the one luring in younger buyers new to the brand. It represents 80,000 sales a year, more than double those of the surprisingly successful Taycan—and its successor will become the second Porsche EV.
The Macan Electric will cost less than the Taycan when it launches in 2024, and it will be followed by an all-electric sports car replacing today’s 718 Boxster and Cayman. The Macan, Boxster, and Cayman are Porsche’s least expensive models, and they’ll drive big volumes—though a larger “sporty” electric three-row luxury SUV is in the cards as well, to boost profit margins.
Plug-in hybrids won’t stick around forever
The Taycan gave the sports-car brand confidence it could make a compelling Porsche that happened to be electric. But before Blume’s March pledge, Porsche’s goal was to have 80 percent of its sales be “electrified” vehicles by 2030. Electrified doesn’t mean electric; it means any vehicle with an electric motor somewhere in the powertrain, including plain old hybrids without a plug.
So his more recent promise—80 percent of sales being battery-electric by that same year—indicates plug-in hybrids will fade away after this decade. There may be more in the short term, however. The other half of his pledge was that 50% of Porsche’s 2025 sales would be “electrified,” which includes PHEV versions of the Cayenne large SUV and the Panamera large luxury sedan. As noted when the latest 911 generation was launched, the rear-engine sports coupe and convertible will likely remain the last Porsche with a combustion engine, into at least the 2030s—but it too will have a regular hybrid version, and may get a PHEV variant as well.
Porsche provided airfare, lodging, and meals to enable Green Car Reports to bring you this first-person report.
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Months of planning and days of secrecy led to Joe Biden’s historic trip to Kyiv
By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN
Around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night, President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine’s week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House.
The next time he was seen in public was 36 hours later, striding out of St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv into a bright winter day, air raid sirens wailing a reminder of both the risks and reason for visiting Ukraine as it nears a second year of war.
Cloaked in secrecy and weighted with history, Biden’s trip was the work of months of planning by only a small handful of his senior-most aides, who recognized long ago the symbolic importance of visiting the Ukrainian capital a year after Russia tried to capture it.
“One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden declared Monday. “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands.”
Yet it was more than symbolism that drove Biden to endure the significant risk of visiting an active war zone without significant US military assets on the ground.
In conversations behind closed doors at the Mariinsky Palace on Monday, Biden sought to engage President Volodymyr Zelensky in a detailed and urgent discussion about the next phase of the war, which US officials describe as having arrived at a critical juncture.
How the war advances in the coming months will depend in large part on the continued support of the United States, which Biden pledged Monday would be unceasing. If his message was meant as a reassuring one for Ukrainians, it was also intended as a reminder to Americans that the stakes of the conflict extend well beyond Ukraine’s borders.
“This is so much larger than just Ukraine. It’s about freedom of democracy in Europe, it’s about freedom and democracy at large,” he said, his blue-and-yellow tie an overt nod to his Ukrainian hosts.
A secret until the last minute
Keeping Biden’s plans secret required extraordinary measures on the part of the White House. In the weeks leading up to Biden’s travel, he and top aides repeatedly shot down the possibility of a trip to Ukraine. Every effort was made to maintain that position in the hour leading up to Biden’s surprise arrival in Kyiv.
That was in part due to the fluid nature of the trip itself. Even as the small circle of White House officials looped in on the planning grew confident it was an achievable undertaking, the realities of sending a president into a war zone where the US had no control over the air space were daunting.
The final decision was made in an Oval Office meeting on Friday evening, when Biden gave the final green light. Once the trip was on, US officials took steps to notify Moscow of their plans, an attempt at “deconfliction” meant to avoid unthinkable disaster while Biden was on the ground.
In Washington, however, the secrecy had to be maintained to actually pull it all off.
No notice was given to reporters on Sunday that Biden was no longer in Washington. The official White House schedule, released Sunday evening, still listed his departure for Poland at 7 p.m. ET on Monday.
His top national security spokesman denied there was a possibility the president would visit Ukraine in an interview that aired Sunday morning.
“We’re going to continue to use our convening power, to marshal the world, to galvanize support for Ukraine, but there are no plans for the president to enter Ukraine on this trip,” NSC spokesman John Kirby said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.”
But at that point, Biden had already lifted off from Joint Base Andrews hours before, not in the usual plane that is synonymous with Air Force One, but instead in a smaller Air Force C-32.
Aboard was only a small clutch of senior advisers, one reporter and one photographer — whose electronic devices were taken from them before departure.
A 10-hour train ride through Ukraine
There would be a stop to refuel at a US base in Germany before continuing the flight into Poland. As he jetted eastward, Biden’s focus was plotting out his conversations with Zelensky, hoping to use his limited time wisely in discussing the coming months of fighting.
Biden landed in Rzeszow, the Polish town where he’d stopped in March of last year to visit US troops deployed near the Ukrainian border and humanitarian efforts supporting Ukrainian refugees. During that visit 11 months ago, he alluded to what became a long-running desire to extend his journey just a little further into Ukraine.
“I’m here in Poland to see firsthand the humanitarian crisis and quite frankly, part of my disappointment is that I can’t see it firsthand like I have in other places,” Biden said then. “They will not let me — understandably, I guess — cross the border and take a look at what’s going on in Ukraine.”
This time around, with an expanded set of US air assets overhead keeping close watch at the Polish border, he would make the trip. Biden, his small contingent of advisers and Secret Service that traveled with him boarded the train to Kyiv for the roughly 10-hour trip to the center of the war-torn country.
It was the culmination of a process that began months earlier, as Biden watched as a parade of his foreign counterparts each made the journey into Ukraine.
They first began visiting Kyiv in March 2022, when the prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic all arrived by train. Then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited April 9, followed by visits from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and then-Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Kyiv on April 25 to meet Zelensky, at that point the top US officials to visit. Even first lady Dr. Jill Biden paid a surprise visit on Mother’s Day last year to a small city in the far southwestern corner of Ukraine. She met with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska.
A risk Biden ‘wanted to take’
In the planning stages for this trip, Biden was presented with a range of options for a visit to Ukraine but decided that only the capital Kyiv made sense as a venue, a person familiar with the matter said.
The President never seriously considered any other locations — if he was going to go to Ukraine, he wanted to go to Kyiv.
As Biden was briefed over several months on the planning for a potential visit, the person said that Biden only once expressed concern about the risk of a visit to Ukraine — but that was about the extent to which his visit could endanger others, rather than about his own safety. Other officials were extremely concerned about Biden’s own safety and prepared a series of security contingency plans for the trip.
“This was a risk that Joe Biden wanted to take,” said White House communications director Kate Bedingfield. “It’s important to him to show up, even when it’s hard, and he directed his team to make it happen, no matter how challenging the logistics.”
On Monday, after the trip concluded, national security adviser Jake Sullivan declined to say whether Biden had to overrule Secret Service or military officials in order to proceed with the trip.
“He got a full presentation of a very good and very effective operational security plan. He heard that presentation, he was satisfied that the risk was manageable and he ultimately made a determination (to go),” Sullivan said.
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PONTIAC, Mich. — Dodge announced the end of an era at the M1 Concourse Monday night as they revealed that its Charger and Challenger production would end in 2023.
The announcement was also streamed on Dodge's YouTube channel.
The Stellantis subsidiary is holding Dodge Speed Week at the Pontiac facility, with three days of announcements ahead of this weekend's Woodward Dream Cruise.
The company says the current production of the two muscle cars will end at the Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, in December of next year.
“We are celebrating the end of an era — and the start of a bright new electrified future — by staying true to our brand,” said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis, in a news release. “At Dodge, we never lift, and the brand will mark the last of our iconic Charger and Challenger nameplates in their current form in the same way that got us here, with a passion both for our products and our enthusiasts that drives us to create as much uniqueness in the muscle car community and marketplace as possible.”
Dodge is sending the Charger and Challenger out in style, 7 special-edition models, each of which will have a special "Last Call" plaque under the hood. Six of the new models will pay homage to the heritage of Dodge muscle cars and the Demon, Hellcat, Redeye, Scat Pack, Shaker, and Jailbreak models. Details and specific information on six of the vehicles will be released later this year.
The seventh is being touted as the last of its kind. It will be unveiled at the Las Vegas Specialty Equipment Market Association show.
That show is scheduled for Nov. 1-4.
The new models will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis at top-selling Dodge dealerships. The allocation of all 2023 Charger and Challenger models will take place at one time, allowing customers to decide which dealer to go to.
The list of dealerships will be shared on DodgeGarage.com, which will include information on all 2023 Charger and Challenger inventory at each Dodge dealership.
While Dodge hasn't announced what will be taking the place of the Charger and Challenger in the automaker's lineup, they did tease ahead to Tuesday's announcement, which they said would be about the "first new electrified Dodge." They also teased ahead to Wednesday, when they would announce "something totally new."
Ordering and pricing information for the 2023 Dodge Charger and Challenger will be announced closer to the on-sale date, which is expected to be in October.
Many industry news outlets say Dodge is ready to announce an electric muscle car soon. Motortrend posted an article on the possible car in July. | 2022-08-16T19:38:07+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/last-call-dodge-announces-production-for-charger-challenger-ending-in-2023 |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Neymar is planning a World Cup comeback despite posting a photo of his ankle still looking very swollen on Saturday.
Neymar is undergoing treatment for damaged ligaments in his right ankle after getting hurt in Brazil’s 2-0 opening win over Serbia on Thursday. Team doctors said Neymar will miss Monday’s match against Switzerland but did not elaborate on a timetable for his return — or say whether he will be able to return at all.
Neymar wrote on Instagram he was enduring “one of the most difficult moments” of his career, but seemed optimistic about his chances of returning. He showed two photos of his swollen ankle in an Instagram story.
“I’m injured, yes, and it’s a pain, and it will hurt,” he said. “But I’m sure that I’ll have the chance to return, because I’ll do anything possible to help my country, my teammates and myself.”
He said he’s been waiting too long for this World Cup to go out like this.
“Nothing in my life was easy or given to me,” Neymar said. “I’ve had always had to go after my dreams and my objectives.”
Neymar also got hurt at the 2014 World Cup, when a back injury sustained in the quarterfinals against Colombia took him out of the tournament his country hosted. Brazil ended up losing to Germany 7-1 in the semifinals.
The Paris Saint-Germain forward has been undergoing physiotherapy treatment since getting injured. He also had a small bone trauma in the same foot after being roughed up by the Serbia defense from the start. He was fouled nine times, the most by any player at the World Cup in the first set of matches in the group stage.
The 30-year-old Neymar is second on Brazil’s scoring list with 75 goals, two behind Pelé’s record with the national team. He helped the “Seleção” win the 2013 Confederations Cup and its first Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, but has yet to win a major title with Brazil.
Brazil coach Tite has yet to announce who will replace Neymar while he is unavailable. Tite also will miss right back Danilo, who hurt his ankle against Serbia.
Brazil, seeking its first World Cup title in two decades, faces Cameroon in its last group match. It can reach the round of 16 with a win on Monday if Cameroon doesn’t defeat Serbia in the other group match.
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In the thousands of messages, photos, videos and songs posted online by Robert Crimo III, the 21-year-old suspected of opening fire on a Fourth of July parade in suburban Illinois, one conclusion is clear: Crimo was unusually interested in violence.
At least two of his music videos depicted some kind of shooting. On Discord, he shared a photo of Budd Dwyer, a politician who killed himself during a live press conference. And he apparently posted thousands of times to an online forum dedicated to sharing violent photos and videos of people dying.
"It was pretty clear that this suspect had a history online of glorifying and fantasizing about violence, and to me that sends a red flag on top of a red flag," said Jared Holt, a fellow at the Atlantic Council who researches domestic extremism.
Officials are reviewing Crimo's online activity, said Chris Covelli from the Lake County Sheriff's Office at a Tuesday press conference. Asked if anyone had ever called local police with concerns about Crimo's online content, Covelli said no.
Crimo's music had been listened to millions of times
Under variations on the name "Awake" – the same word tattooed above his left eye – Crimo posted regularly to YouTube.
On Spotify, Crimo's music had been listened to millions of times before the service removed it after the shooting. For fans of his music, he hosted a Discord server, where followers shared memes and links to his songs.
Holt described Crimo's online footprint as in line with movements that try "to make themselves seem very intense and very violent to accumulate a certain amount of perverted clout among other people in the same online spaces."
"There are portions of the internet that pride themselves on this fetishization of violence, of being as offensive as humanly possible," he said.
Crimo apparently posted in an online forum for sharing graphic photos
Among the most disturbing is what appears to be Crimo's activity on a forum called Documenting Reality, where people share graphic photos and videos that show the aftermath of violence.
There, a user named "Awake47" shared photos of Crimo and posted a 21st birthday message that matches information released by the FBI. The user regularly passed footage of shootings and other real-life violence.
He posted there so often that other forum users recognized his face when police published a photo during the manhunt on Monday. "I always knew there was at least one murderer on this site, and I'm not convinced he's the only one. But Awake? Wow," wrote one user.
Crimo's fascination with violence also appeared in his music, which he published on Spotify and YouTube under the name Awake the Rapper.
One crudely animated video depicts a young man with tactical gear and an assault-style rifle shooting people before police appear to apprehend and shoot him – all while a refrain is repeated: "Living the dream, nothing's real. I just want to scream 'fuck this world.'"
And another music video opens with Crimo sitting alone in a classroom. Halfway through the song, he reaches into a backpack – then the video cuts to Crimo wearing a helmet and tactical vest.
Any ideological motivation by Crimo is unclear
One thing that is difficult to ascertain from Crimo's online footprint is whether the shooting may have been ideologically motivated. Authorities say they have no indication that the shooting was racially or religiously motivated.
After the shooting Monday, some images of Crimo spread rapidly on social media, including a photo in which he wore a Trump flag across his shoulders and another at a Trump rally. A video posted by Crimo shows him among a crowd waiting outside an airport for Trump to land nearby in Air Force One.
But Holt says a handful of photos are not enough to indicate some sort of political leaning or right-wing extremism. "I haven't seen anything that really definitively places this in the politically motivated violence bucket just yet," he said.
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GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl’s family — another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial reasons.
Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said at a news conference Wednesday that his department and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Regional Fugitive Task Force were conducting a broad search for 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary, who fled after the Tuesday night shootings near Gastonia, a city of roughly 80,000 people west of Charlotte.
Singletary, who has been out on bond in an December attack in which authorities say he assaulted a woman with a hammer, is wanted in Tuesday’s shootings on four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Singletary remained at large Thursday, county spokesman Adam Gaub said in an email.
Zill declined to say what sparked the attack, explaining that the investigation was ongoing.
However, neighbor Jonathan Robertson said the attack happened after some neighborhood children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into Singletary’s yard. He said Singletary, who had yelled at the children on several occasions since moving to the neighborhood, went inside his home, came back out with a gun and began shooting as parents frantically tried to get their kids to safety.
“As soon as I saw him coming out shooting, I was hollering at everybody to get down and get inside,” Robertson said.
A 6-year-old girl, Kinsley White, was grazed by a bullet in the left cheek and was treated at a hospital and released, she and her family said. Her father, Jamie White, who had run to her aid, was shot in the back. He remained hospitalized Wednesday with serious wounds, including liver damage, according to Kinsley’s grandfather and neighbor, Carl Hilderbrand. The girl’s mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, was grazed in the elbow. Authorities say Singletary also shot at another man but missed.
“It was very scary,” Ashley Hilderbrand said Wednesday. “My daughter actually got to come home last night. She just had a bullet fragment in her cheek.”
It is the latest in a string of recent U.S. shootings that occurred for apparently trivial reasons, including the wounding of a Black teenage honors student in Missouri who went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers, the killing of a woman who was in a car that pulled into the wrong upstate New York driveway, and the wounding of two Texas cheerleaders after one apparently mistakenly got into a car that she thought was her own. | 2023-04-20T16:24:18+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/neighbor-girl-6-and-parents-shot-wounded-over-stray-ball/ |
Candid Monty Williams 'can't even fathom' Bill Russell being first African-American NBA head coach
The struggle was real for Monty Williams, but he knows Bill Russell had it much, much tougher when becoming the first African-American head coach in the NBA.
“It’s hard to put into words,” Williams said earlier this season. “I know how hard it was for me to get in this position and I know the people that gave me a chance. I can’t imagine what he went through, what his family went through in that climate, in that city back when he was working as a player and then as a coach.”
Russell replaced Red Auerbach as Celtics’ head coach in 1966 while still playing for Boston. So he was a player-coach from 1966-69 in leading Boston to two more NBA titles (1968, 1969) in that dual role.
“I’m not quite sure if I can even fathom what he was thinking,” Williams continued. “I’m not sure if he even thought about guys like me. I think he just thought about the future guys that looked like him, who in turn are guys like me."
Russell passed away July 31 at the age of 88. The 11-time NBA champion was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1975 and as a coach in 2021.
"If there's no Bill Russell, there's no Doc Rivers, there's no Monty Williams, there's none of us,” said 76ers coach Doc Rivers in a TNT interview as the Celtics had a special pregame tribute to Russell before their season opener Oct. 18 against Philadelphia.
The NBA has 15 Black head coaches, the most in league history that currently has 30 teams.
And Russell started it all.
“How do you quantify that?” Williams said. “How you even try to pay that back? You can’t. The thing that you do for me is you respect the position, you do your best to make opportunities and experiences viable for everyone and I think that’s what he was striving for.”
Williams hired Willie Green as a lead assistant when taking the Phoenix job in 2019. Two years later, Green, an African-American, became head coach in New Orleans.
“Really grateful for the opportunity to be here under Monty and having a relationship with all of the guys here,” Green said before Friday’s game in Phoenix. “And then being able to be blessed to go to New Orleans and start to build a program there, it’s a lot of similarities with the way we play.”
After Green left, Kevin Young was elevated to Suns associate head coach. Young, who is Caucasian, interviewed for the Jazz position this past summer.
Utah hired Will Hardy to replace Quin Snyder.
Having an influence on Green and Young can be viewed as Williams’ way to paying forward what he believes Russell did when breaking down barriers.
“I think so much is made of Mr. Russell’s platform that he was only for Blacks, I don’t believe that,” Williams said. “I think he just wanted everybody to have an even playing field and in that, that’s where there’s a level of humility and reverence for me for a guy like that because he didn’t have to.”
Russell finished his coaching career with a 341-290 record in eight NBA seasons.
“The greatest winner of our time, he was going to make money for the rest of his life speaking, cards, whatever, but he chose to use his platform to make it better for everybody and I can’t even fathom that,” Williams said.
“It’s shameful that I can’t, but it’s just hard to even quantify that 'cause I don’t know what that’s like. I live in an economy where it’s been much easier for me than it was for him. So I can’t even imagine what he went through, but it does allow for me to be more grateful to the people that have given me opportunities and I hope to do the same for others.”
The NBA retired Russell’s uniform No. 6 throughout the league. Every NBA team is wearing a commemorative No. 6 patch on the right shoulder of their jerseys this season in tribute to Russell.
“Bill Russell is one of a kind,” Suns All-Star point guard Chris Paul said. “One of a kind. It was seamless for the (NBPA) union and the league to decide to put that number on everybody’s jersey because of not only what he meant to the league, but what he just meant to people.”
Players currently wearing No. 6 like LeBron James (Lakers), Kristaps Porzingis (Wizards), Alex Caruso (Bulls) and Kenyon Martin Jr. (Rockets) were grandfathered, meaning they can continue to wear the number, but no new NBA player will be able to wear it again.
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After performing across Europe, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, an ad hoc ensemble of musicians from Ukraine, complete their tour with stops in New York and Washington.
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After performing across Europe, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, an ad hoc ensemble of musicians from Ukraine, complete their tour with stops in New York and Washington.
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Some consider private charters amid holiday flight cancellations
ORLANDO, Fla. - After dealing with cancellations and delays for the past week, some flyers are considering taking extreme measures to get to their destination.
"We are going to be home in the next 12 hours," said Allie Carter, while looking at the board showing delays at Orlando International Airport.
After seeing so many flights have issues this week, Carter is considering all options.
"Plan B was book a secondary flight with another airline," Carter said. "Our plan C is we’ve got a couple of different options for private jets."
Almost a week later, Marco Villalobos had to book a much more expensive flight to his destination.
"We were planning on being with our family in Las Vegas Christmas day, we’ll be there by tomorrow," Villalobos said.
That's why some are opting to just get their own plane.
"We were pretty successful this past couple of days to step in and help people get to their Christmas destination," said Joel Thomas, the CEO of Orlando-based Stratos Jet Charters.
Thomas says they have gained 17 new clients since the 24th, because of all the problems with commercial flights.
It can cost thousands of dollars more per seat, but the company says it has worked for people who really needed to get somewhere.
"It’s more expensive still than commercial, but it’s a valuable resource to people who really want to get to their destination, or especially for businesses at this time," Thomas said. | 2022-12-30T07:36:39+00:00 | wogx.com | https://www.wogx.com/news/some-consider-turning-to-private-charters-amid-holiday-flight-cancelations |
After tapping into the horrors lurking beneath the surface of American life in Get Out and Us, writer-director Peele ventures into alien sci-fi territory with his new thriller, Nope.
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After tapping into the horrors lurking beneath the surface of American life in Get Out and Us, writer-director Peele ventures into alien sci-fi territory with his new thriller, Nope.
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Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has withdrawn from the clay-court French Open, organizers said Sunday.
The 36-year-old British player lost in the 2016 final to Novak Djokovic and reached four other semifinals at Roland Garros in western Paris.
Play begins there May 28 and the tournament will also be without record 14-time champion Rafael Nadal. The 36-year-old Spaniard announced on Thursday that his lingering hip injury still has not healed properly.
An earlier report from British broadcaster BBC said Murray is skipping the French Open to prioritize Wimbledon, where he was won two of his majors on grass.
Murray lost in the first round of the Italian Open last week and was then beaten 6-3, 6-0 by fellow veteran Stan Wawrinka at an ATP Challenger event in Bordeaux on Wednesday.
Wimbledon begins on July 3.
Murray reached the No. 1-ranking in late 2016. That stellar year he reached three major finals — winning Wimbledon for the second time — clinched his second Olympic gold medal in singles, and beat Djokovic to win the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.
Murray, who had hip operations in 2018 and 2019 — with a metal implant inserted the second time — won an ATP Challenger event in Aix-en-Provence in early May for his first tournament trophy since 2019.
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White House: New rule will show ‘true cost’ of plane tickets
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced a new initiative Monday that would eventually allow consumers to see a more complete price on airline tickets — including baggage and change fees — before they buy, as the White House continues to search for ways to lower costs for Americans amid persistently high inflation.
The White House says the proposed rule from the Transportation Department will prevent airlines from hiding the “true cost” of airline tickets, which would help consumers save money up front and encourage more competition among airlines to offer better fares. The requirement will apply not only to airlines directly but also to third-party search sites such as Kayak and Expedia.
“You should know the full cost of your ticket right when you’re comparison shopping,” Biden said Monday, citing fees charged by airlines to check luggage or to seat families together. The new rule, the president said, will help consumers “pick the ticket that actually is the best deal for you.”
Airlines made nearly $5.3 billion in baggage fees and nearly $700 million on cancellation and change fees last year, according to Transportation Department figures. Airlines charge a variety of other fees for extra legroom and other perks that are not tracked by the government.
A trade group for the largest U.S. airlines said carriers already disclose terms and the total cost of a ticket. “This includes transparency regarding taxes and government fees on airline tickets, which account for more than 20% of many domestic one-stop, roundtrip tickets,” said Katherine Estep, a spokeswoman for Airlines for America.
The proposed rule seeks to target a typical situation faced by consumers where a ticket price is listed on an airline or search website, but with information often listed elsewhere about any additional airline fees, such as for checking or carrying on a bag, getting a guaranteed seat next to your child or changing or canceling a flight — fees that vary widely by airline and could quickly tack on up to hundreds of dollars more to a price of a ticket after the initial purchase. Under the proposal, that information would be made available upfront when the quoted airfare is first displayed.
The fare information would be required for all commercial flights to, within, and from the United States.
The proposal dates back to the Obama administration and was scrapped in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump after airlines complained that it was unnecessary and would incur significant costs. It must now go through a 60-day comment period before final approval.
The proposed rule comes as tension grows between the Biden administration and the airlines, with each blaming the other for an increase in canceled and delayed flights this summer.
The Transportation Department also began posting information to help consumers learn what each airline provides when flights are canceled or delayed for reasons within the airline’s control. That prompted several airlines to update policies around finding a new flight and covering hotel and meal expenses for stranded travelers.
Biden made the announcement on Monday afternoon at a meeting of the White House Competition Council, established last year as a way for his administration to find cost-saving measures for consumers. It was the third meeting of the group, chaired by National Economic Council director Brian Deese.
“Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” Biden said at the event, held in the State Dining Room at the White House. “It’s exploitation.”
At the meeting, Biden also pushed other federal agencies to take similar cost-saving actions, particularly by increasing transparency on hidden fees that can balloon the true cost of goods and services.
One example is a proposal from the Federal Communications Commission that would require internet service providers to better outline fees and charges on what the administration calls a “broadband nutrition label.” And the Agriculture Department on Monday will also unveil new actions meant to encourage competition in various agricultural markets.
The administration has taken similar actions when it comes to bank and credit card fees, which the White House says have saved consumers $3 billion annually compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Koenig reported from Dallas. Associated Press writer Hope Yen contributed to this report.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ryan Busse about how he went from being a high-level gun industry executive to an outspoken critic of the National Rifle Association.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ryan Busse about how he went from being a high-level gun industry executive to an outspoken critic of the National Rifle Association.
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Where’s Shane? Flying Monkey Con
Published: Sep. 21, 2022 at 10:09 AM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Today we’re headed out to Wizard’s Asylum to get a look at the upcoming Flying Monkey Con! This event is for Warhammer players from around the region looking to test their skills! It’s all going down Sept. 23-25, and you can find more information at www.flyingmonkeycon.com.
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York County Bar Association urges county to recognize Juneteenth holiday
Members of the York County legal community are urging York County and York City to officially acknowledge Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of African Americans.
On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas were told they were free — two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In 2021, President Joe Biden formally declared Juneteenth a federal holiday. In Pennsylvania, some county and state government workers are given the day as a floating holiday.
Most York County government entities, however, have not followed suit, although a number of institutions postponed events or closed offices for the day.
The York County Bar Association and Bar Foundation released a joint resolution urging the county and city to take measures, including adopting it as an official holiday.
"The recognition of Juneteenth is not just a celebration of emancipation from enslavement, it is a celebration and testament to the enduring spirit and resilience of formerly enslaved people," the resolution, signed by Bar Association president Lynnore Seaton and Bar Foundation president Christy Fawcett, reads. "The faith and strength of character demonstrated by the former enslaved and their descendants remain an example for all people, regardless of background, religion, or race."
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The resolution's requests include recognizing Juneteenth as an official holiday and closing offices on that day.
Reached Friday, York City Mayor Michael Helfrich said during contract negotiations, the county had offered Juneteenth as a paid holiday in exchange for another holiday — like Good Friday — to be removed from the labor agreements. That had been denied, he said.
The mayor added that he doesn't believe it's fair for some employees to have Juneteenth off while taxpayers pay others to work.
"At this time, it’s not a fiscally responsible idea," he said, "and we didn’t have agreement from the unions to do it."
A number of county officials, including President Commissioner Julie Wheeler and Commissioners Ron Smith and Doug Hoke, did not respond to requests for comment Nor did York City Council President Sandie Walker.
The city, however, does host a public Juneteenth celebration in collaboration with the YMCA.
Juneteenth has been celebrated since June 19, 1865. That's the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced the more than 250,000 Black slaves in the state were free by executive order.
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In recent years, the holiday has become officially recognized across the country. Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed a proclamation in 2019 designating Juneteenth as a statewide holiday, closing state government offices; President Joe Biden signed a proclamation in 2021 designating Juneteenth as a national holiday.
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When asked, York County Chief Clerk Greg Monskie said he had no specific comment and that he hadn't spoken to the commissioners about it.
While the county frequently presents proclamations at its Board of Commissioners meetings, it did not dedicate a proclamation to Juneteenth in 2022. It did not do so at its June 7 meeting this year; however, there is another meeting before June ends, though the agenda for that has not been released as of Friday.
York City Council meetings in 2022 and 2023 have not featured Juneteenth in any formal proclamation.
"The recognition of Juneteenth as a National and State holiday reminds us of our incredible capacity to heal, hope, and emerge from our darkest moments with purpose and resolve," the bar and Bar Foundation's resolution, signed June 14, reads.
Several Juneteenth events will be held around York County in the coming days, including:
- Hanover Jubilee, hosted by Hanover Area Diversity Alliance & YWCA Hanover, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. June 17 at Wirt Park, Hanover.
- We Are Family, hosted by the City of York from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. June 18 at Penn Park, York.
- 2nd Annual Juneteenth Cultural Mixer, hosted by the Crispus Attucks Community Center from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. June 18 at the center, 60 Duke St., York.
- Juneteenth Block Party, hosted by Union Lutheran Church from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. June 19 at the church, 408 West Market St., York.
— Reach Matt Enright via email at menright@yorkdispatch.com or via Twitter at @Matthew_Enright. | 2023-06-16T18:09:30+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/york-county/2023/06/16/york-county-bar-association-urges-county-to-recognize-juneteenth-holiday/70329304007/ |
Update: The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch that is in effect for ALL of the ArkLaTex until 7 pm. Storms are entering the northwestern edge of the area and will continue to slowly increase during the afternoon. Large hail, damaging wind, and a few tornadoes will be possible.
Friday storms: Thunderstorms moved into the northwest corner of the ArkLaTex Friday morning. Storms that develop further south during the day will begin to increase Friday afternoon as they move from west to east. Above is the latest radar snapshot that contains the latest watches and warnings. Below is the latest outlook from the Storm Prediction Center. Not much has changed from yesterday. Today’s severe weather risk will be highest over the eastern edge of the area as the storms move out of our area. This is where the chance of seeing a few tornadoes will be highest. Damaging wind will likely be the biggest threat for our area along with a few reports of large hail. Notice the level 4 moderate risk over SE AR and NE LA. This is where the more widespread severe weather issues will develop Friday evening and Friday night.
Futurecast storm outlook: Futurecast shows the eastward progress of the storms during the rest of the day and tonight. Below the loop from Futurecast, you can see two snapshots of rotation potential. Futurecast shows the best potential will develop east of Shreveport and Texarkana. The HRRR model shows rotating storms could develop further west. Both models have trended further west since yesterday. We will likely see the storms exit the ArkLaTex early Friday evening. Clouds will decrease from west to east Friday night. Sunshine will return to all of the area Saturday. It should be a great day for the Defenders of Liberty air show at Barksdale. We will see a partly cloudy sky Saturday night with clouds increasing over the southern half of the area. Some rain will likely develop over the southern half of the area Sunday.
Rain potential: Most of our area will likely see rainfall totals of ¼ to 1/2”. We will likely see scattered areas that receive up to 1” of rain where the stronger storms track.
Long-range outlook: Once the late weekend rain departs the area Sunday night, we will see several days of quiet weather to begin next week. That will be followed by a potentially extended period of wet weather that will begin Thursday. It is possible that we could see scattered showers and thunderstorms stay in the forecast through next weekend and into the following week. Temperatures next week will stay rather pleasant with highs in the 70s and low 80s. Overnight lows will mainly be in the 50s.
Get daily forecasts and exclusive severe weather details on storms as they approach your area by downloading the Your Weather Authority app now available in the App Store and Google Play | 2023-03-24T18:34:19+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/weather/severe-weather-threat-will-increase-friday-afternoon/ |
SAN DIEGO — Punk rock band Blink-182 is getting back together with founding member Tom DeLonge and announced a world tour — plus new music.
The band said "Edging," its first single in a decade with the lineup of DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker, will drop Friday. That's not all for the influential band's plans together: Blink-182 said a new album is coming in 2023.
"With Delonge back after nearly a decade, fans can expect that electric on stage magic that the trio has delivered over the years," a press release announcing the tour said Tuesday. "With their new album due in 2023, ‘blink-182’ is stoked to be facing their future together."
The world tour starts in March 2023 in Tijuana, with several stops in South America before heading to America with punk band Turnstile.
The first U.S. stop is May 2023 in St. Paul, heading through numerous other US cities through July before the band leaves for Europe. The tour announcement includes 2023 festival appearances at Lollapalooza and When We Were Young.
"We’re coming. Tour’s coming. Album’s coming. Tom’s coming," the band said in a social media announcement.
DeLonge co-founded the band in 1992 but left in 2015. The band had previously gone on hiatus in the early 2000s, during which time DeLonge formed rock band Angels & Airwaves.
You can find a full list of North American tour dates on Blink-182's website and below. Tickets go on sale on Oct. 17.
- May 4 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
- May 6 – Chicago, IL – United Center
- May 9 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
- May 11 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
- May 12 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
- May 16 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
- May 17 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
- May 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
- May 20 – Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena
- May 21 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
- May 23 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
- May 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
- May 26 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Arena
- May 27 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
- Jun 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
- Jun 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Banc of California Stadium
- Jun 20 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena
- Jun 22 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center
- Jun 23 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
- Jun 25 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
- Jun 27 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
- Jun 39 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
- Jun 30 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
- Jul 3 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
- Jul 5 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
- Jul 7 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
- Jul 8 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
- Jul 10 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
- Jul 11 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – FLA Live Arena
- Jul 13 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
- Jul 14 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
- Jul 16 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena | 2022-10-11T17:34:35+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/entertainment/music/blink-182-tour-music/507-87764bb5-1246-4f22-922f-b5551f2c3190 |
Pence says Trump ‘endangered my family’ on Jan. 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday harshly criticized former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, widening the rift between the two men as they prepare to battle over the Republican nomination in next year’s election.
“President Trump was wrong,” Pence said during remarks at the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner attended by politicians and journalists. “I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”
Pence’s remarks were the sharpest condemnation yet from the once-loyal lieutenant who has often shied away from confronting his former boss. Trump has already declared his candidacy. Pence has not, but he’s been laying the groundwork to run.
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Trump pressured Pence to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory as he presided over the ceremonial certification of the results. Pence refused, and when rioters stormed the Capitol, some chanted that they wanted to “hang Mike Pence.”
The House committee that investigated the attack said in its final report that “the President of the United States had riled up a mob that hunted his own Vice President.”
With his remarks, Pence solidified his place in a broader debate within the Republican Party over how to view the attack. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for example, recently provided Tucker Carlson with an archive of security camera footage from Jan. 6, which the Fox News host has used to downplay the day’s events and promote conspiracy theories.
“Make no mistake about it, what happened that day was a disgrace,” Pence said in his Gridiron Dinner remarks. “And it mocks decency to portray it any other way.”
Trump, meanwhile, has continued to spread lies about his election loss. He’s even spoken in support of the rioters and said he would consider pardoning them if he was reelected.
Speeches at the Gridiron Dinner are usually humorous affairs, where politicians poke fun at each other, and Pence did plenty of that as well.
He joked that Trump’s ego was so fragile, he wanted his vice president to sing “Wind Beneath My Wings” — one of the lines is “did you ever know that you’re my hero?” — during their weekly lunches.
He took another shot at Trump over classified documents.
“I read that some of those classified documents they found at Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president’s Bible,” Pence said. “Which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.”
Even before the dinner was over, Pence was facing criticism for his jokes about Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history.
Pence mentioned that, despite travel problems that were plaguing Americans, Buttigieg took “maternity leave” after he and his husband adopted newborn twins.
“Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression,” Pence said.
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Megerian reported from Wilmington, Delaware.
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Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | French Open
In the French Open quarterfinals on Wednesday, Iga Swiatek faces Cori Gauff.
With -1100 odds, Swiatek is the favorite against Gauff (+650) for this matchup.
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Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff Match Information
- Tournament: The French Open
- Round: Quarterfinals
- Date: Wednesday, June 7
- TV Channel: Tennis Channel
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Iga Swiatek has a 91.7% chance to win.
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Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff Trends and Insights
- Swiatek made it past Lesia Tsurenko 5-1 (retired) in the Round of 16.
- Gauff was victorious 7-5, 6-2 versus Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova in the Round of 16 on Monday.
- Swiatek has played 61 matches over the past year (across all court types), and 18.5 games per match.
- Swiatek has played 17 matches on clay over the past year, and 18.4 games per match.
- Gauff has played 53 matches in the past 12 months across all court surfaces, averaging 20.2 games per match and winning 55.4% of those games.
- On clay, Gauff has played six matches and averaged 19.8 games per match and 8.5 games per set.
- In six head-to-head matches dating back to 2015, Swiatek holds a 6-0 record versus Gauff. Their most recent match, at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on February 24, 2023, went to Swiatek 6-4, 6-2.
- In terms of sets, Swiatek has taken 12 against Gauff (100.0%), while Gauff has captured zero.
- Swiatek and Gauff have matched up for 102 total games, and Swiatek has won more often, securing 73 of them.
- Swiatek and Gauff have played six times, averaging 17.0 games and 2.0 sets per match.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
624 PM CDT Tue Jun 28 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest Texas, including the following
county, Reeves.
* WHEN...Until 930 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 624 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Flooding may be occurring over portions of Ranch Road 2119
and Highway 285 between Pecos and Orla.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of West Central Reeves County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY...
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
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Man seen at Takeoff’s fatal shooting facing weapons charge
HOUSTON (AP) — A man who has been accused of illegally having a gun at the time that rapper Takeoff was fatally shot last month following a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley has been charged in connection with the case, authorities said Wednesday.
But during a court hearing, prosecutors said the suspect, Cameron Joshua, 22, is not believed to have fired a weapon during Takeoff’s shooting. Joshua is facing a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon for allegedly having a handgun when the rapper was killed around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 1 as gunfire erupted outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling following a private party.
Takeoff, whose off-stage name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, formed one-third of the Grammy Award-nominated rap trio Migos with uncle Quavo and cousin Offset from suburban Atlanta.
“We believe Cameron Joshua has been appropriately charged in this case and we’re continuing our investigation into the death of Takeoff,” Matt Gilliam, a prosecutor with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, told reporters in a brief statement after Wednesday’s hearing.
Christopher Downey, Joshua’s attorney, told reporters that he has not seen anything to suggest that his client fired a weapon or had anything to do with Takeoff’s shooting.
“The bottom line is ... Cameron Joshua did not shoot Takeoff,” Downey said.
When asked if Joshua knows who shot Takeoff, Downey said, “We will discuss that with the DA’s office if we decide to. Right now, we’re charged with offenses and we’re not saying anything.”
During the hearing, a judge decided to keep Joshua in custody until a bond hearing set for next week.
Joshua is also facing a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon for allegedly having a weapon when he was arrested on Nov. 22. He had already been out on bond after being charged in Harris County with having a fake ID in September 2021 and with burglary of a vehicle in April. He had also been convicted in October in Los Angeles County of grand theft.
Houston police have said that least two people discharged firearms when Takeoff was killed. Takeoff’s primary cause of death was listed as “penetrating gunshot wounds of head and torso into arm,” according to an autopsy.
Two others were hit by gunfire but had non-life-threatening wounds.
After the shooting, investigators sought to speak with the 40 people who attended the party and fled after the gunfire.
Migos first broke through with the massive hit “Versace” in 2013. They had four Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, though Takeoff was not on their multi-week No. 1 hit “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert. They put out a trilogy of albums called “Culture,” “Culture II” and “Culture III,” with the first two hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
At a memorial service earlier this month in Atlanta, fans as well as recording artists such as Justin Bieber and Drake celebrated Takeoff’s musical legacy.
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For the first time, a group will be testing Casco Bay for “forever chemicals.”
The Friends of Casco Bay, along with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, will be testing water quality at 20 locations across Casco Bay.
The group has spent 30 years gathering data about temperature changes, dissolved oxygen, pH, total nitrogen, water clarity, salinity and the abundance of phytoplankton in Casco Bay. This year will mark the first time when it has collected data about potential contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds, also known as PFAS.
“There is an important gap in PFAS testing in Maine,” Casco Baykeeper Ivy Frignoca said Tuesday morning. “Current monitoring for contamination in sources like drinking water, fish tissues, and wastewater appropriately focus on public health. However, we don’t know how PFAS pollution is affecting water quality and the environment more broadly, especially in tidal waters like Casco Bay.”
PFAS first came into use in the 1940s, and were widely used for their water-, grease- and stain-resistant properties. But the chemicals are not easily broken down in either the environment or human body, which is why they are often referred to as “forever chemicals.”
Exposure to them is linked to increased risk of health problems and certain cancers.
The extent of PFAS contamination has prompted the state to place “do not eat” orders on deer and turkey in the Fairfield area, as well as caution Mainers against eating fish from many ponds, lakes and rivers. | 2023-06-06T15:50:32+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/06/news/portland/casco-bay-pfas-testing/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana agency confirmed Tuesday that the state’s gasoline tax will go up by one cent this summer under an annual increase that Republican legislators voted recently to extend by three years.
The inflation-related increase for the fuel tax the goes toward infrastructure projects currently rings in at 33 cents a gallon. That will go up the maximum of a penny to 34 cents a gallon on July 1, the Indiana Department of Revenue said.
That increase has been allowed each July since 2017 when a Republican-sponsored plan boosted it to 28 cents from 18 cents. The annual increase was set to expire in 2024, but it was extended until 2027 with a little-discussed provision included in the state budget bill approved by GOP-dominated Legislature in late April and signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb.
Republicans rebuffed calls from Democrats last year to suspend state gasoline taxes when pump prices jumped after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The state gas levy also includes a 7% sales tax that will stand at 20.3 cents a gallon during May.
Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jeff Thompson called extending the annual increase a “reasonable” step amid rising construction costs.
“It was just a compromise to look at those increased costs,” Thompson said during the last day of the legislative session “Also, as you see the amount of collections are going down, with better mileage and other types of vehicles, it’s just to keep the revenue kind of where it’s at.” | 2023-05-10T13:19:25+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-indiana-gas-tax-hike-20230510-23lfo3aor5hjtikk7hex5ux6i4-story.html |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed on Friday to import more oil and natural gas from energy-rich Gulf Arab states while not interfering in their affairs, likely seeking to cast Beijing in a more favorable light than Washington as America’s attention in the region wanes.
Xi also urged the Arab countries to conduct energy sales in the Chinese yuan, potentially divorcing the U.S. dollar from transactions in a region where the United States still stations thousands of troops across a network of local bases as a hedge against Iran.
China’s hands-off approach could appeal to leaders such as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who stands ready to rule the oil-rich kingdom for possibly decades, even after facing widespread international criticism over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the still-raging war in Yemen.
During Xi’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week, the prince himself welcomed him to a meeting of the clubby Gulf Cooperation Council, and later to a wider summit of Mideast leaders.
“Standing at the crossroads of history, we must renew the tradition of friendship between China and the GCC,” Xi said.
Xi’s visit comes as China relies on the Gulf Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia, for billions of dollars in crude oil imports to power his country’s economy as it tries to slowly ease out of its strict anti-coronavirus policy. Xi faced protests at home just before his arrival in Riyadh that represent the most-serious challenge to his rule after being awarded a third five-year term as the Communist party leader.
“The kingdom believes that hydrocarbon energy sources will remain an important resource to meet the needs of the world for the coming decades,” Prince Mohammed said.
Brent crude traded Friday around $76 a barrel — down from highs of $122 in June. Higher prices could see the prince’s dreams of a $500 billion futuristic city of Neom on the Red Sea to overhaul the Saudi economy come true. But rising costs at the pump months earlier further alienated the administration of President Joe Biden from Riyadh — something the prince likely kept in mind during Xi’s visit.
Xi praised the GCC countries — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — as they “actively sought political solutions to regional hotspots” and invited their astronauts to China’s new Tiangong space station.
Xi also said China plans to build a joint China-GCC Nuclear Security Demonstration Center that will train 300 personnel on nuclear safety and technology. Already, the UAE has the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, built with South Korea under a strict agreement that it will not enrich uranium — a possible pathway to a nuclear weapon.
But perhaps most importantly for the Gulf states, Xi stressed his nation will keep being a major buyer of their oil.
“China will continue to import a large amount of crude oil from the GCC countries, expand imports of liquefied natural gas, strengthen the engineering services in oil and gas upstream development and the cooperation in storage, transportation and refining,” Xi said.
He also called on the GCC to use yuan to settle transactions.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict came up as Xi spoke with the Arab leaders, especially Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Xi said China remains committed to an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 boundaries of Israel.
“The Palestine issue is vital to the peace and stability in the Middle East,” Xi said. “The historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people cannot continue indefinitely. The legitimate national interests cannot be traded. The demand for an independent state cannot be vetoed.”
Xi also called for nations to “strengthen exchanges among civilizations.”
“We need to jointly oppose Islamophobia, carry out cooperation in deradicalization, and oppose linking terrorism with specific ethnic groups and specific religions,” he said.
However, Xi made no mention his nation’s harsh policies toward Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. More than a million have been sent to detention centers, forced to denounce Islam and swear fealty to Xi and the party. Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, also has provided political cover to China amid the crackdown.
Xi also did not mention Iran, a rival repeatedly brought up by Prince Mohammed in his remarks. Iran is currently enriching uranium at its closest-ever levels to weapons-grade material — even as it faces nationwide protests challenging its theocratic government. Also, Tehran backs regional militias, including Yemen’s Houthi rebels with whom Saudi Arabia is fighting a war.
Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, whose country has largely restored ties to its Arab neighbors after a yearslong boycott, was also at the summit. Prince Mohammed made a point in his opening remarks, aired on state television, to applaud Qatar for its hosting of the World Cup. He also could be seen warmly greeting Sheikh Tamim before the meeting, something unthinkable only two years earlier, amid the boycott.
Gulf Arab nations want to maintain close relations with China even as U.S. officials believe they face a growing threat from China in Asia, and also Russia, which is waging a monthslong war on Ukraine.
During Xi’s visit, Saudi officials said deals were signed between Riyadh and Beijing, including some involving the Chinese technology company Huawei on cloud-computing, data centers and other high-tech ventures. The U.S. has already has warned its Gulf Arab allies about working with Huawei over spying concerns.
In China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported that Xi and King Salman agreed to hold meetings between the two countries’ leaders every two years.
On Friday, Xi held one-on-one meetings with Tunisian President Kais Saied, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Sheikh Tamim of Qatar.
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Associated Press video producer Olivia Zhang in Beijing contributed to this report.
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BONN, Germany, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The new demo app for the Scanbot Document Scanner SDK is now available on the App Store and Play Store. The "Scanbot SDK: Document Scanning" app can be downloaded for free to test the SDK's reliable and easy-to-use scanning features.
The Scanbot Document Scanner SDK adds enterprise-grade document scanning to any smartphone, tablet, or wearable device. With the SDK, enterprises enable their users to easily create high-quality images of physical documents and turn them into digital input for their backend systems within just 2 seconds.
"Our Document Scanner SDK is especially popular with our customers in the insurance industry. Thanks to the sophisticated machine learning and computer vision technology powering our scanning modules, these insurers have been able to drastically increase their automated processing rates," says Christoph Wagner, CEO at Scanbot SDK. "A big advantage of our solution is its intuitive interface, which we recently refined even further and are now presenting for the first time in the demo app. It allows even less tech-savvy users to capture flawless document scans on their first try."
With the app, users can either scan a document with their camera or import an existing image file. Thanks to edge detection, documents are then scanned and cropped automatically. In the editing view, users can rotate the scan, reorder multiple pages, and apply image filters. These range from color enhancement and low-light filters to various binarization options. This ensures that results fit the requirements of any backend system. The images are then saved locally and can be exported as a PDF, JPG, PNG, or TIFF file.
The "Scanbot SDK: Document Scanning" app is now available for iOS and Android. Additionally, a demo app for the Barcode Scanner SDK is available on the App Store and Play Store, with a new demo app for the Data Capture SDK to be released later this year. More information is available at scanbot.io.
About Scanbot SDK
Scanbot SDK offers quick, reliable, and accurate mobile data capture solutions for iOS, Android, cross-platform frameworks, Windows, and Web, helping companies reduce costs by eliminating slow and error-prone manual data entry. More than 200 enterprises worldwide use Scanbot SDK's products for billions of scans every year.
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2 dead in helicopter crash on interstate in Charlotte
Published: Nov. 22, 2022 at 11:57 AM CST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
CHARLOTTE (WBTV/Gray News) - Crews have responded to a deadly helicopter crash in the southbound lanes of Interstate 77 in south Charlotte.
Two people were pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Mecklenburg EMS Agency. They did not state whether the two killed were onboard the helicopter or if there were other injuries.
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President Biden and his Cabinet have been directly involved in trying to broker an agreement between rail companies and worker unions, seeking to avert a strike that could severely affect commuter rail services and consumer prices.
Administration officials confirmed that Biden and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh have reached out to both sides of the dispute, hoping to broker an agreement and avoid a shutdown.
A White House official said Biden was involved Monday in outreach to unions and freight rail companies and was updated again Tuesday on the situation.
A Department of Labor spokesperson said Walsh reached out Monday night “to push the parties to reach a resolution that averts any shutdown of our rail system.”
“All parties need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” the spokesperson said. “The fact that we are already seeing some impacts of contingency planning by railways again demonstrates that a shutdown of our freight rail system is an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people, and all parties must work to avoid that.”
The companies that operate railways for freight trains and the unions who work those rails have until Friday to agree to a new contract. Without a deal, workers could go on strike, crippling supply chains that depend on freight trains.
A strike could also impact passenger rail service. Amtrak does not own the railways where its trains operate in certain parts of the country but instead operates on railways owned by freight companies. Amtrak on Monday canceled some long-distance routes in anticipation of a potential strike.
Biden earlier this year created a Presidential Emergency Board to try and broker a compromise between the two parties, and his involvement in the latest round of talks further heightens his political risk should talks break down.
Five of the 12 unions representing rail workers have reached tentative agreements with railroads to enact the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations, which call for 24 percent pay raises, back pay and cash bonuses.
But the bulk of rail workers belong to unions that haven’t yet struck a deal with companies.
Should the workers vote to strike, Congress could intervene to halt it. | 2022-09-14T14:09:07+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/biden-white-house-officials-get-involved-in-railway-talks-in-bid-to-avert-strike/ |
LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Times recognized Equinox Strategy Partners' Managing Partner Jonathan R. Fitzgarrald earlier this week as a "Business Visionary" in its annual C-Suite issue. The feature states, "For a CEO to transcend his or her post and become a visionary leader takes something even more – a blend of creativity, empathy and willingness to take certain risks." According to the publication, this recognition highlights CEOs "who are forging new paths and delivering phenomenal results for their organizations."
The feature begins by explaining how "Jonathan Fitzgarrald looks to undervalued professionals, untapping their potential to grow revenue, market visibility and their practices." His "proprietary approach adapts a Moneyball strategy by recognizing and coaching traditionally overlooked, highly skilled professionals in legal, financial, accounting and professional services firms," the feature continues. "Jonathan's personalized business strategies lead clients to discover their own business motivations," adds the publication.
In 2015, Fitzgarrald established Equinox Strategy Partners to advise professionals nationwide to tap into their own potential to generate revenue. A Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, Fitzgarrald addresses the issues that professionals talk about. His keynote, retreat and leadership programs cover such topics as the cross-generational tension, succession planning from the Next Gen's perspective, using culture to manage teams better, partner compensation and connecting emotionally with clients.
Fitzgarrald is a longtime leader of the Legal Marketing Association, and he served on the board of advisors of the Legal Sales and Service Organization, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Raise A Child, a non-profit devoted to preparing prospective parents for the foster-to-adopt process.
EQUINOX STRATEGY PARTNERS provides service professionals in law, accounting and business management firms with strategies for growth. With offices in Los Angeles and in New York, their professionals provide firms nationwide with strategies for driving revenue and boosting market visibility. For more information, visit: EquinoxStrategy.com.
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- Revenue increases by 28% , EBITDA by 17% on year till date (YTD) basis
- 73% revenue growth in global markets on YTD basis
- Optical business revenues zoom 1.8X, EBITDA 3X on YoY basis
FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- STL (NSE: STLTECH), a leading optical and digital solutions company, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended 31 December 2022. STL demonstrated sharp focus on growth areas, operational efficiencies and strategic capital allocation resulting in strong financial performance. Company revenues grew by 46% on YoY basis and 28% on YTD (year till date) basis and EBITDA increased by 17% on YTD basis.
Fibre dense networks have become absolutely critical for both digital inclusion and advanced use cases. Service providers across the globe want to take more fibre, faster to their customers. In India, the 5G rollout is in full steam and presents the need for rapid fiberisation. STL is constantly investing in fundamental capabilities and R&D to pack in more capacity and innovation into these optical network builds. The company is driving towards scalable growth in the Optical business and sustainable revenue streams in the Global Services business.
Here are some key performance highlights:
- 73% revenue growth in global markets (YTD) - With integrated value chain and capabilities on optical side, STL continued to win in its focus markets of US and Europe. STL's fibre manufacturing facility in China and cable facility in the US have begun commercial operations and will help the company capture new demand
- Robust order book of 1514 USD Mn - On the back of its capability to engineer unique solutions for service providers, the company signed multi-million, multi-year contracts with top-tier service providers
- Greater traction on optical interconnect - Supporting FTTx rollouts, STL won a multi-million dollar deal for optical interconnect - which comprises of plug and play FTTx accessories and connectorised solutions - with a leading European telecom service provider
- Fiberisation orders in India on the back of 5G roll outs - The company partnered with Indian service providers for their pan-India fibre roll out plans with orders worth ~63 USD Mn
- Progress on Net Zero goals - Keeping a close eye on its ambition to become Net-zero by 2030, STL concerted its efforts on sustainable operations by reducing its carbon emissions by 6,400 tCO2e, and diverting 33,000+ MT of waste from landfills. It also continued to press forward on water stewardship initiatives by harvesting and recycling of more than 125,000 m3 of water
Key financial highlights
STL continued the positive momentum while focusing on prudent capital allocation and profitability. Specifically on the optical business, the company recorded a 78% YoY increase in revenue on the back of customer wins and better realisations
Commenting about the company's performance, Ankit Agarwal, Managing Director, STL said, "Our performance this quarter has been strong. Sharp focus on cash and profitability, and calibrated exits from sub-scale businesses have poised us for long-term growth. I am excited about the market momentum and the pace of customer wins in our key markets. As we look ahead, I see technology innovation and R&D playing a pivotal role in our journey to become one of the top 3 optical players in the world. Quarter four and beyond, we will continue to prioritise growth areas, optimise our capital structure, and execute with discipline.
About STL - Sterlite Technologies Ltd
STL is a leading global optical and digital solutions company providing advanced offerings to build 5G, Rural, FTTx, Enterprise and Data Centre networks. The company, driven by its purpose of 'Transforming Billions of Lives by Connecting the World', designs and manufactures in 4 continents with customers in more than 100 countries. Telecom operators, cloud companies, citizen networks, and large enterprises recognize and rely on STL for advanced capabilities in Optical Connectivity, Global Services, and Digital and Technology solutions to build ubiquitous and future-ready digital networks. STL's business goals are driven by customer-centricity, R&D and sustainability.
Championing sustainable manufacturing, the company has committed to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2030. With top talent from 30+ nationalities, STL has earned numerous 'Great Place to Work' awards and been voted as the 'Best Organisation for Women'. Read more, Contact us. stl.tech | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dick Hamilton, the lead organizer of a memorial to New Hampshire’s fallen Old Man of the Mountain, has died. He was 86.
Hamilton, who spent more than 50 years in the state's travel and tourism industry, died Tuesday, said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the state Department of Business and Economic Affairs.
Hamilton became chairperson of the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund after the granite rock formation resembling the profile of an old man fell off a mountain cliff in Franconia Notch State Park and crumbled in May 2003.
The image of the Old Man has been a symbol of New Hampshire and a tourist attraction for generations, appearing on the state quarter, highway signs and license plates. The stone profile was first discovered in 1805.
Hamilton helped plan and raise money for a memorial at Franconia Notch State Park that includes a plaza with seven steel “profilers” that recreate the Old Man’s image. There's also a fishing platform at Profile Lake and a 600-foot-long (182.8 meters) pathway at the lake’s north end.
Money was raised through donations and the sale of granite stone pavers at the plaza, engraved with names and messages of individuals, families, organizations, and businesses.
Hamilton's paver says “Good Night Boss,” which he used to say to the Old Man many nights driving home from work.
“From his early days in the industry, Dick’s mantra was ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’ and we seek to embody that standard today in a sector that may otherwise be full of competitors — instead uniting and working together in promoting the entire region," Caswell said in a statement.
“Because of those alliances and relationships, the tourism industry — critical in the region — was able to withstand challenges such as the energy crisis in the 1970s, years when it didn’t snow and leaves may not have been that colorful, up to the fall of the Old Man of the Mountains in 2003." | 2022-07-20T20:00:07+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Old-Man-of-the-Mountain-memorial-advocate-dies-17317747.php |
A 30-year-old armed robbery suspect was taken into custody after he was allegedly found naked in a vehicle, according to an Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
Keenan Tyree Dibble, of 2642 Lakeside Drive, Orangeburg, is charged with strong-arm robbery.
The incident began when a man entered the En Market, located at 2083 St. Matthews Road, in Orangeburg on Sunday.
The man pretended to have an injury, the clerk said.
The clerk told the man to have a seat in the dining area, but he wanted to sit near the ice bins close to the checkout counter.
After the business was clear of customers, the man allegedly jumped up, grabbed a plastic bag and ran behind the checkout counter.
He allegedly told the clerk, “If you cooperate, you will not get hurt.”
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She claims the man attempted to pry open the cash register, but wasn’t successful.
When the clerk yelled out, “Someone call 911,” the man left the store. The report said.
The incident was recorded by surveillance cameras.
Deputies claim they found a naked Dibble in a car at the QuickTrip gas station on Five Chop Road at 5:20 a.m. Monday.
When deputies attempted to approach him, he allegedly drove away.
A while later, deputies spotted the car at a gas pump of the Pilot gas station on Homestead Road near Bowman.
Dibble was inside the business and he was taken into custody without incident, the report said.
Orangeburg County Magistrate James Rickenbacker set Dibble’s bond at $40,000.
As of Thursday afternoon, he’d not yet posted bond.
If convicted, Dibble faces up to 15 years in prison. | 2023-06-17T11:24:29+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/orangeburg-county-sheriff-s-office-robbery-suspect-found-naked-in-vehicle/article_3e555768-0af8-11ee-9cee-3b3a597158bd.html |
Man dead after falling from NYC skyscraper reportedly ID’d as Bed, Bath & Beyond CFO
NEW YORK - A man died after falling from a Manhattan building Friday.
Police responded about 12:30 p.m. to reports of an unconscious person in the area of Leonard Street and West Broadway. When they arrived, they found a man unresponsive with injuries "indicative from a fall from an elevated position," NYPD told FOX Television Stations.
NYPD identified the man as 52-year-old Gustavo Arnal.
Several reports identify Arnal as the chief financial officer of struggling retailer Bed, Bath and Beyond. The company’s corporate website lists a man with the same name as their executive vice president and CFO.
FOX Television Stations has reached out to Bed, Bath & Beyond for more information.
NYPD said the investigation into Arnal’s death is ongoing.
On Wednesday, Bed Bath & Beyond said it will shutter stores and lay off workers in a bid to turn around its beleaguered business.
An image of the sign for a Bed Bath & Beyond store as photographed on March 18, 2020 in Plainview, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
The home goods retailer based in Union, New Jersey, said it will close about 150 of its namesakes stores and slash its workforce by 20%. It estimated those cuts would save $250 million in the company's current fiscal year. It also said it is considering selling more of its stock to shore up its finances and had lined up more than $500 million of new financing.
Bed Bath & Beyond's stock fell more than 21% Wednesday and is down 65% in the last 12 months.
As of May, the retailer operated a total of 955 stores, including 769 Bed Bath & Beyond stores, 135 buybuy Baby stores and 51 stores under the names Harmon, Harmon Face Values or Face Values. As of February, it had roughly 32,000 employees.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-09-04T17:34:25+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/gustavo-arnold-bed-bath-beyond-death-manhattan-jenga-building |
"I'm thrilled that our new facility will accommodate the growing musical ambitions of our rapidly expanding body of students, provide musicians an intimate space to perform, and serve as a gathering place for the community."
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Jason Sagebiel, the renowned founder of Sage Music, (https://www.sagemusic.co/) announced the planned opening of their new San Antonio music school and live music facility in midtown San Antonio.
As Sagebiel points out, "we recently purchased the property at 209 W. Poplar St. in Tobin Hill and began construction to convert it into a music school, community space, and performance venue. I'm thrilled that our new facility will accommodate the growing musical ambitions of our rapidly expanding body of students, provide musicians an intimate space to perform, and serve as a gathering place for the community."
Sage Music®, founded in 2012, is the only music school in the United States or abroad, that instructs aspiring and established musicians on how to master and increase their musical skills, practice, and learning - via the scientifically developed ARPEGGIO® lesson system, which is producing spectacular results and has students everywhere raving.
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Wall Street tipped lower in premarket trading Thursday as anxiety over the stability of regional banks dragged on a day after the Federal Reserve announced another interest rate hike.
Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrials fell 0.3%.
Concerns about a rush of withdrawals by customers of regional banks continues to roil the financial sector. PacWest Bancorp attempted to calm investors investors overnight as its shares plunged 45%. First Horizon shares tumbled 42% before the bell after it called off its acquisition by TD Bank, citing regulatory hurdles.
PacWest said it’s been approached by several potential partners about a deal and that talks are ongoing. It also said that it has not experienced out-of-the-ordinary deposit flows following the failure and sale of First Republic Bank after a modern day bank run. First Republic’s failure last weekend follows the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March.
The anxiety over stability and possible flight of depositors wracked other regional banks early Thursday. Zions Bancorp slumped 10%, Comerica fell 7%, and KeyCorp fell 5%.
A U.S. recession is widely expected this year as the Fed and other central banks in Europe and Asia try to extinguish inflation through economy-slowing interest rate hikes.
Jitters increased after the three high-profile U.S. bank failures and one in Switzerland blamed on strain from higher interest rates. Central banks have tried to reassure investors by pledging steps including additional lending if needed.
Some banks invested heavily in traditionally safe bonds, but the value of those bonds are tied to interest rates, which have been hiked aggressively. That means the value of the bonds on bank books slide in value if they are sold, which some banks have been forced to as depositors flee.
After the Fed’s quarter-point rate hike on Wednesday — its 10th straight increase in just over a year — traders expect the central bank to start cutting rates as early as this year to prop up weakening economic growth. But Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he doesn’t expect rate cuts that soon.
The Fed dropped a reference to “additional policy firming” in its statement but stopped short of declaring an end to rate hikes.
“The key takeaway, in my view, is that we are likely at or very near the end of the rate hike cycle,” Kristina Hooper of Invesco said in a report.
Still, data from CME Group indicates traders see an 89% changes of a cut of 0.25 percentage points at the Fed’s September meeting.
Traders worry industry turmoil might prompt banks to reduce lending, worsening downward pressure on economic activity. Powell mentioned a survey that is yet to be released and will show how much loan officers at banks say they are tightening lending standards.
At midday in Europe, the FTSE 100 in London and Frankfurt’s DAX each shed 0.8% and the CAC 40 in Paris retreated 1%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.8% to 3,350.45 as trading resumed following a holiday. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong surged 1.4% to 19,969.40.
The Kospi in Seoul lost less than 0.1% to 2,500.94 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 fell less than 0.1% to 7,193.10.
India’s Sensex gained 0.5% to 61,500.18. New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets advanced.
Shares in Shopify jumped nearly 17% in premarket after the e-commerce company said it is selling the two biggest pieces of its fulfillment network and abandoning its logistics ambitions. It’s a remarkable reversal from the Canadian company’s multiyear effort to build its own warehousing and delivery services.
Profits for most U.S. companies during the latest reporting season are better than feared but are expected to reflect declines.
A report Wednesday suggested the job market may be in better shape than expected. ADP, a payroll processor, said hiring by private employers accelerated much more last month than forecast. That could raise expectations for the federal government’s hiring report on Friday.
Coming later Thursday is the government’s weekly report on unemployment claims, which have inched higher in recent weeks.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude was essentially unchanged early Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract plunged $3.06 on Wednesday to $68.60. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, gained 21 cents to $72.54 per barrel in London. It fell $2.99 the previous session to $72.33.
The dollar fell to 134.44 yen from Wednesday’s 135.46 yen. The euro edged up to $1.1071 from $1.1058.
On Wednesday, the Dow fell 0.8% and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.5%. | 2023-05-04T12:50:05+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/stock-market-today-asian-markets-higher-after-us-rate-hike/ |
Since May, the number of monkeypox cases has grown to more than 16,000 across 75 countries and territories. The World Health Organization is worried about how quickly the virus is spreading among men who have sex with men — the group experiencing the vast majority of cases.
And there are no signs that the outbreak is slowing down. The overall numbers are now doubling every two to three weeks, with cases climbing a little faster in the U.S.
Over the weekend, WHO elevated monkeypox to its highest level of alert — a public health emergency of international concern. "We must act now," said Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program. "Like every effort in human science and human health, there are times when you must accelerate that effort."
It's a decision that some public health experts say should have come weeks ago — when cases were already surging and spreading in numerous countries — to encourage international coordination and accelerate the distribution of vaccines and treatments.
"Making the designation now is essentially a situation of better late than never," says Dr. Boghuma Titanji, an infectious disease physician at Emory University. "It's important [to] galvanize people [in] a coordinated global response [and] in a timely fashion to actually curtail a problem that has the potential to expand."
The WHO announcement and the virus itself raise a number of pressing questions. Here's what we know so far, based on interviews with global health experts and infectious disease physicians.
How does issuing a public health emergency of international concern help?
The primary function of this declaration is to sound a worldwide alarm, says Alexandra Phelan, a global health lawyer at Georgetown University. Health issues don't always cross the desks of governments and politicians with enough urgency, she adds, "There is a lot of value in bringing global political attention and ideally governments will perhaps provide money to WHO or directly to affected countries. Or even if it's happening in their own country, provide that financial and technical response."
Titanji says the WHO alert helps mobilize the tools necessary to address the outbreak. "And by that," she says, "I mean vaccinations, antiviral therapies, and availability and access to testing strategies to actually identify cases and promptly treat and contact trace."
So how will this play out in the real world?
"The declaration itself won't help contain the virus," says Dr. Preeti Malani, an infectious disease physician at the University of Michigan. But if the right resources are marshaled, she says, "there are procedures that can be put into place in terms of how are we taking care of patients, how the testing's being done, how the contact tracing [is] being done. We're still at a point where we can contain this and and get it to where it's not spreading out of control. And I would have hoped that we learned this in the last two years [with COVID] that we are all connected. What's happening in Europe, what's happening in Africa is very relevant to us here [in the U.S.]"
"It's not a magic wand," adds Titanji. "The WHO doesn't make this designation and then all of a sudden everything falls into place and it's guaranteed that the outbreak will be contained. It has to be backed by action — a concerted global response that is centered on equity. You cannot have a response that is dominated by wealthier countries essentially hoarding all the resources that are available to target the outbreak [because that would leave] a majority of the global population behind. If you don't address the problem simultaneously everywhere. then we are not going to be able to contain this."
How are things looking in the U.S.?
The outbreak is growing quickly. The CDC says there are nearly 3,000 confirmed cases, though Malani says many cases are likely unreported due to mild illness or lack of testing.
Testing has become more available in the U.S. since several commercial laboratories started testing for monkeypox this month. And last week, the CDC made it easier for doctors to prescribe TPOXX, the pills to treat monkeypox, by reducing some of the paperwork associated with it.
As for vaccines, the U.S. government has shipped over 300,000 doses and will be routing more to places where the most cases are being found. The Department of Health and Human Services says millions more are scheduled for delivery by the middle of next year.
Nonetheless, there are supply issues at present. In Washington, D.C. and New York City, instead of administering both doses of the vaccine to those who are interested, they're only offering a single dose and reserving the double dose for those at highest risk, such as the immuno-compromised.
"So things are getting better in the U.S.," acknowledges Titanji, "but there's still a lot to be done to actually get to where we need to be to make sure that we're making the best use of the tools that we have."
How contagious is monkeypox?
"Monkeypox is transmitted by close intimate contact with a person who is infected and has the classic rash on their body," says Titanji. "When outbreaks have happened in parts of west and central Africa, it was always thought that this was a virus that didn't transmit very well between humans." Indeed, a range of rodents and non-human primates serve as animal hosts to the virus.
"However, in the current outbreak, we know that close intimate contact facilitated through sexual networks and sexual activity appears to give the virus an ease of transmissibility that we were not aware of before. And as a result, we are seeing more cases of transmission from person to person. So it is transmissible, but it requires close intimate contact with someone who is infected.
"And besides the close contact, you can also get infected through droplets, as well as prolonged contact with contaminated objects [like] bedding, clothes and shared utensils."
"If traveling," Malani says, "use common sense. Sheets [and] towels should be clean. Don't share towels with others." She says it's reasonable to launder linens if you're unsure that they're clean. "As far as furniture goes, if [infected] people are sitting [on it] without clothing and then someone uninfected comes along later," she supposes infection is possible. But she underscores that these forms of exposure are lower risk than skin-to-skin contact.
If I do get monkeypox, how bad is it?
"I really think it's critical that we don't dismiss the pain and suffering that people who are experiencing this are actually going through," says Phelan. "This isn't just a rash. This can be an incredibly debilitating and painful disease. And I think that in of itself is an ethical duty to prevent that from occurring. And then when it is occurring, giving people access to appropriate treatments and medications."
How worried should I be?
"I think we should generally be worried," says Phelan, "whenever there are communities that are experiencing a disease that is causing them pain and suffering."
Malani says that she thinks people "should be aware more so than worried. I think they should know how to prevent infection. If you think may have monkeypox, isolate yourself from others (including pets). Keep the skin lesions covered to avoid contact with other people or surfaces." And go to your health care provider or an urgent care if you are concerned about exposure to monkeypox or signs of infection, she says.
Do I need to be concerned about asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread?
"Based on previous outbreaks," says Titanji, "generally people are most contagious when they have symptoms and when they have an active rash. And you would not expect that the highest period of contagion would be when people are completely asymptomatic and don't have any symptoms at all. But," she adds, "I think that there is a lot of research that is needed to clarify when exactly people become infectious after they have been exposed to the virus."
What do we know about potential risk to women and children?
"The overall risk of monkeypox to the general population remains low," Titanji emphasizes. And that's because "most spread is going to occur due to intimate contact," says Malani. "Thankfully, the risk of serious complications is low in most people."
However, "there are people who may be more vulnerable to develop complications if they do in fact develop the infection." These include "children under the age of eight, pregnant women and individuals who may be living with other immunocompromising conditions. We know that these individuals, if they are infected with monkeypox, are at a higher risk of developing complications and also at a higher risk of potentially fatal complications."
As for pregnant women, Titanji explains that transmission between a mother and fetus is possible and that the virus "can lead to miscarriages as well as other pregnancy-related complications. If we do not act quickly and contain it, we will see a spread of infection to other risk groups such as children."
If I have the smallpox vaccine, will I be protected?
The answer appears to be ... perhaps, but not as much as you might hope for.
"Monkeypox is a close relative of the virus that causes the now-eradicated smallpox," says Titanji. "The vaccines that we have at our disposal to protect against monkeypox are actually vaccines that were developed to prevent smallpox. So if you had been vaccinated against smallpox in the past, then that vaccination could provide a certain degree of protection against you acquiring monkeypox [now]."
However, since smallpox was eradicated in 1980, the bulk of the population under age 50 in the U.S. has never received a smallpox vaccine — and those who are vaccinated received their inoculation decades ago. It's unclear, says Titanji, just how long you're protected. "These are some of the research questions that we really need answers for," she says.
What are the biggest misconceptions about this outbreak?
"There's so many," says Titanji. She says one is that if you've had chickenpox, you're protected against monkeypox. That's not true, she says.
Malani says that "the biggest misconception is that this is only a risk for men who have sex with men And that's clearly not the case. The virus doesn't care. And so we do need to battle that misconception while also taking care of a very vulnerable group of individuals. There may also be stigma that's preventing people from getting the care they need.
"We should all remember that the virus doesn't care who you are, and monkeypox can infect any of us."
"I think threading that needle," adds Phelan, "between communicating to at-risk populations whilst not stigmatizing or discriminating against them" is especially important.
"Some misinformation has emerged that some of the monkeypox outbreaks that we see may be associated with some of the vaccines that have been used for COVID," adds Tintaji. "Again, no relationship whatsoever — completely separate viruses. COVID vaccination does not cause monkeypox. We know what causes monkeypox. It's a virus that we've been aware of for over 50 years."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-26T23:03:44+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/health/health/2022-07-25/monkeypox-faq-how-contagious-are-kids-at-risk-if-you-had-chickenpox-are-you-safe |
Nike makes full exit from Russia after suspending operations
Published: Jun. 23, 2022 at 12:45 PM CDT|Updated: 12 minutes ago
(AP) - Nike will fully shut down its operations in Russia, joining other international companies that have withdrawn from the country after its brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Nike Inc. suspended operations three months ago at all of its company-owned and operated stores in Russia but like other major corporations, has attempted to avoid exposing employees to hardship as it does so.
”Our priority is to ensure we are fully supporting our employees while we responsibly scale down our operations over the coming months,” the sports apparel maker said Thursday.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-23T17:58:28+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2022/06/23/nike-makes-full-exit-russia-after-suspending-operations/ |
By ADRIANA GOMEZ-LICON
Associated Press
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark.
The devastation began to come into focus a day after Ian made landfall in Florida as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. The storm flooded homes on both the state’s coasts, cut off the only bridge to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electricity to 2.67 million Florida homes and businesses — nearly a quarter of utility customers. At least one man was confirmed dead.
Aerial photos from the Fort Myers area, a few miles west of where Ian struck land, showed homes ripped from their slabs and deposited among shredded wreckage. Businesses near the beach were completely razed, leaving just twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats, and fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood.
“We’ve never seen storm surge of this magnitude,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a news conference. “The amount of water that’s been rising, and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flooding event.”
Though downgraded to a tropical storm by Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said storm surge and flooding rains remained a threat as Ian crept across the Florida peninsula and emerged in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Canaveral. Forecasters predicted Ian would regain strength while turning northward.
A hurricane warning was issued for the South Carolina coast, where the storm was expected to again make landfall.
Sheriffs in southwest Florida said 911 centers were inundated by thousands of stranded callers, some with life-threatening emergencies. The U.S. Coast Guard began rescue efforts hours before daybreak on barrier islands near where Ian struck, DeSantis said. More than 800 members of federal urban search-and-rescue teams were also in the area.
In the Orlando area, Orange County firefighters used boats to reach people in a flooded neighborhood. A photo the department posted on Twitter showed one firefighter carrying someone in his arms through knee-deep water. At an area nursing home, patients were carried on stretchers across floodwaters to a waiting bus.
Among those rescued was Joseph Agboona. “We were happy to get out,” he said after grabbing two bags of possessions when water rose to the windows in his Orlando home. “It was very, very bad.”
In Fort Myers, Valerie Bartley’s family spent desperate hours holding a dining room table against their patio door, fearing the storm raging outside “was tearing our house apart.”
“I was terrified,” Bartley said. “What we heard was the shingles and debris from everything in the neighborhood hitting our house.”
The storm ripped away patio screens and snapped a palm tree in the yard, Bartley said, but left the roof intact and her family unharmed.
Despite utter devastation in parts of Fort Myers, some people left shelters to return home Thursday afternoon. Long lines formed at gas stations and a Home Depot opened, letting in a few customers at a time.
Frank Pino was near the back of the line, with about 100 people in front of him.
“I hope they leave something,” Pino said, “because I need almost everything.”
Authorities confirmed at least one Florida death — a 72-year-old man in Deltona who fell into a canal while using a hose to drain his pool in the heavy rain, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. Two other storm deaths were reported in Cuba.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said his office was scrambling to respond to thousands of 911 calls in the Fort Myers area, but many roads and bridges were impassable.
“We still cannot access many of the people that are in need,” Marceno told ABC’s “Good Morning America.
Emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach stranded people. Many in the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for help because of electrical and cellular outages.
Christine Bomlitz was unable to reach her mother by phone after the storm made landfall south of Englewood, where the 84-year-old woman lives in a retirement community. Bomlitz said her mother was supposed to evacuate but wasn’t picked up, so the anxious daughter from Las Vegas posted a plea for help on social media.
Some Good Samaritans came to her aid Thursday, one of them wading in chest-deep floodwaters to perform a welfare check. Relieved that her mother had weathered the storm, Bomlitz was working to arrange a boat rescue.
“I’m thankful for this stranger, a total stranger,” Bomlitz said.
A chunk of the Sanibel Causeway fell into the sea, cutting off access to the barrier island where 6,300 people live. It was unknown how many heeded orders to evacuate, but Charlotte County Emergency Management Director Patrick Fuller expressed cautious optimism.
No deaths or injuries have been confirmed in the county, and flyovers of barrier islands show “the integrity of the homes is far better than we anticipated,” Fuller said.
South of Sanibel Island, the historic beachfront pier in Naples was destroyed, with even the pilings underneath torn out. “Right now, there is no pier,” said Penny Taylor, a Collier County commissioner.
In Port Charlotte, a hospital’s emergency room flooded and fierce winds ripped away part of the roof, sending water gushing into the intensive care unit. The sickest patients — some on ventilators — were crowded into the middle two floors as the staff prepared for storm victims to arrive, said Dr. Birgit Bodine of HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital.
Ian struck Florida as a monstrous Category 4 storm, with 150 mph (241 kph) winds that tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane ever to hit the U.S.
While scientists generally avoid blaming climate change for specific storms without detailed analysis, Ian’s watery destruction fits what scientists have predicted for a warmer world: stronger and wetter hurricanes, though not necessarily more of them.
“This business about very, very heavy rain is something we’ve expected to see because of climate change,” said MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel. “We’ll see more storms like Ian.”
Even after weakening, Ian’s tropical storm-force winds still reached 415 miles (667 kilometers) from its center. Forecasters predicted the Atlantic waters would strengthen it to a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall Friday in South Carolina.
The National Hurricane Center warned storm surge of 6 feet (1.83 meters) or more was possible from Daytona Beach, Florida, to north of Charleston, South Carolina. Rainfall of up to 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) threatened flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia.
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Associated Press contributors include Cody Jackson in Tampa, Florida; Freida Frisaro in Miami; Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida; Tim Reynolds in Fort Myers, Florida; Seth Borenstein in Washington; and Bobby Caina Calvan in New York.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A reggaeton song by Puerto Rican artist Daddy Yankee is blasting through the Arena Ciudad de México with the lights out while fans wave their cell phones and dance to the rhythm of the music.
Then comes a drumbeat followed by a loud “Ca-pi-ta-nes, Ca-pi-ta-nes” chant.
Welcome to NBA G League action in Mexico City. And if fans get their wish, the atmosphere at Capitanes’ games will become the staple for home games of an actual NBA team in the city. It’s a longshot but that hasn’t dampened the optimism.
When NBA Commissioner Adam Silver visited Mexico in December, he said the Capitanes would give the league a great opportunity to see if Mexico could be considered for a franchise in the future.
So far, it appears the organization is on the right path.
Though the Capitanes lost a three-way tiebreaker and missed the G League playoffs — the finals begin Tuesday — they provided some answers to off-court concerns in their first season in Mexico City.
Following their inaugural G League season in Fort Worth, Texas, due to the pandemic, the Capitanes settled into the state-of-the-art Arena Ciudad de Mexico — a glass-clad facility located in the north part of the city that cost $300 million to build and opened in 2012.
Attendance was a concern, but team president Rodrigo Serratos said the Capitanes top the G League in selling individual tickets and rank fifth in total attendance despite their home arena not being located near downtown Mexico City.
“We have a big arena, so we are working with a small set-up, but we have been averaging around 65% of its capacity,” Serratos told The Associated Press. “So far, it´s been pure magic.”
There also are safety concerns about having a permanent team in Mexico City. As recently as Monday, four people were killed in what is believed to have been drug gang-related violence. The killings came less than a week after a U.S. tourist was shot in the leg in the nearby town of Puerto Morelos.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert last month warning travelers to “exercise increased caution,” especially after dark, at Mexico’s Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which have been plagued by drug gang violence in the past.
Alfonzo McKinnie, who played for four NBA teams before coming to the Capitanes, had said before the season ended that he feels comfortable in the city.
“Everybody I know from players to family and friends asked me about safety, but we live in Polanco one of the nicest parts of Mexico City and I tell them we are as safe as one can be,” McKinnie said.
Several players live in Polanco, one the wealthiest neighborhoods in Mexico City with some of the best restaurants, luxury hotels and expensive condos. The area is also one of the safest in the capital, with a strong police presence day and night. It is where NFL, MLB and NBA teams stay whenever they visit Mexico to play regular season games.
Serratos said McKinnie, along with Kenneth Faried and Gary Clark, are enjoying their experience with the Capitanes while hoping for another NBA opportunity.
“All the American players said that they did not expect to find a country like this. The feedback that we are getting from them is that they are very happy and want to keep playing here,” said Rodrigo Serratos, the team president. “The city offers a lot of things; we are a rich country in experiences for foreigners.”
Since 1992, when the Houston Rockets played the Dallas Mavericks, Mexico has hosted 30 NBA games out the 117 that the NBA has played outside of the U.S. and Canada in its history.
Silver has said having a G League team in Mexico City gives the league an opportunity to better understand the challenges that come with dealing with the local culture, a different language and all the other circumstances around possibly having an NBA franchise in the city one day.
Soccer is still king among sports in the country, but there are more basketball courts than soccer fields in Mexico and the fans have shown in the past how loyal they are. Before the Capitanes, the Mexico City Aztecs played in the defunct Continental Basketball Association in 1994 and averaged 9,000 fans a game.
“You can call it love, passion or solidarity — any of those adjectives describe what the basketball culture in this country is, and that is what the NBA has found here,” said Raul Zarraga, the director of the NBA office in Mexico.
Besides the reggaeton music that booms during game breaks, there is a fan who brings a drum to cheer for the Capitanes. “The Mexicans are very passionate with sports; they are very involved and noisy,” Serratos said, adding that the team had to get a special permit from the NBA for the fan’s drum. “It is a different atmosphere here than in any other G League venue.”
Despite the early success of the Capitanes, fans should not expect to see an NBA expansion team in Mexico City anytime soon. The last time the league expanded was in 2004 with a franchise in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before that, the league expanded in 1995 with two teams in Canada.
Other cities, including Las Vegas and Seattle, also could be ahead of Mexico City when and if the NBA considers an expansion in the future.
Until then, fans can continue to party with the Capitanes.
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The partnership brings added flexibility and performance to e-commerce supply chains at a time when brands and retailers need it most
SEATTLE, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Shipium, the premier shipping platform for e-commerce, today announced a partnership with Quiet Platforms, the collaborative commerce network for brands and retailers. Quiet Platforms is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO) that provides an expansive national delivery service that enables retailers and brands to gain instant nationwide coverage through a trusted portfolio of carriers using a universal delivery label, eliminating the need for multiple integrations, complex invoicing and lengthy contract negotiations. The network dynamically manages performance at the shipment level, ensuring the best decision is made for every parcel to be shipped, based on delivery commitment, quality of service and delivery cost.
Shipium is the leading e-commerce shipping platform that helps Quiet Platforms' customers solve "the Prime problem" with modern parcel management software. Customers turn to Shipium when fast, affordable and on-time delivery becomes a business priority and change is blocked by inflexible legacy software.
E-commerce businesses that use both Shipium and Quiet Platforms will see an improvement in delivery speed, cost and accuracy. Reliably fast two to three day shipping is the immediate result, combined with reduced shipping costs. "Evolving the fulfillment approach from centralized, out-of-market distribution centers to a nimble network of in-market centers enhances our ability to meet our customers' needs faster and at a lower total cost of operations," said Charles Griffith, CTO of Quiet Platforms. "We're pleased to partner with Shipium to ease the integration challenges for all shippers and ensure our retail and brand customers achieve the speed, efficiency and quality our edge network is designed to deliver."
"Brands and retailers need innovators like Quiet Platforms to help reduce the complexity of their supply chains," said Jason Murray, CEO of Shipium. "We are excited to complement their ecosystem with logistics technology that ensures customers are happy and operations are optimized."
Mr. Murray and Charles Griffith, CTO of Quiet Platforms, will be co-presenting a panel discussion titled "A Tech-Driven Supply Chain Ecosystem – Addressing the Cultural Evolution" at the 2023 Manifest conference. Attendees and media representatives can connect with the partners before or after the panel presentation at 11:30 am local time.
ABOUT SHIPIUM
Shipium is the premium shipping platform for ecommerce. It coordinates previously disconnected steps of the supply chain to help improve delivery speed and accuracy, while reducing shipping costs 12% on average. Retailers turn to Shipium when they want to make a promise they can keep with accurate delivery dates, then keep the promise that they made with modern shipping software. Learn more at shipium.com.
ABOUT QUIET PLATFORMS
By creating interoperable open and sharing supply chain platforms powered by an intelligent and unified orchestration layer, Quiet Platforms helps companies collaborate to drive scale efficiencies and sustainability. The plug-and-play, open-sharing platform is enabling globally renowned retailers such as Peloton, Steve Madden, Li & Fung and more than 60 others to optimize their inventory and access digital capabilities such as track and trace to increase efficiency and improve margins. A wholly owned subsidiary of American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (NYSE: AEO), Quiet Platforms levels the playing field for small and midsized retailers by providing access to shared supply chain assets and relationships across every link of the chain—so they can ship less and operate more sustainably.
Media Contacts
For Quiet Platforms:
Michael McMullan / Felicia Kane
Berns Communications Group
mmcmullan@bcg-pr.com / fkane@bcg-pr.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Tuya Inc. ("Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Tuya investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TUYA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Tuya during the relevant time frame, you have until October 11, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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