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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers ace Jacob deGrom was placed on the 15-day injured list Saturday with right elbow inflammation after early exits in two of his last three starts.
While his departures from those games were attributed to right wrist soreness and forearm tightness, general manager Chris Young said an MRI showed some inflammation in his elbow.
“There’s no need to push him,” Young said. “He came in today and felt OK, which is a positive, but given how important he is to us and our season, we’re going to play this very cautiously and see how he responds over the next several days to treatment.”
Young said the Rangers should have a pretty good idea in 7-10 days on what the next steps would be for the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner. DeGrom was coming off two injury-plagued seasons with the New York Mets when he signed a $185 million, five-year contract with Texas last December.
The AL West-leading Rangers recalled right-handed pitcher Yerry Rodríguez from Triple-A Round Rock.
When deGrom left a game in Kansas City after four hitless innings on April 17, the Rangers said the move was precautionary because of wrist soreness.
After the right-hander left his start against the New York Yankees with two outs in the fourth inning Friday night, manager Bruce Bochy said the move was again precautionary, and that deGrom had forearm tightness. Before Saturday’s game, and Young’s announcement, Bochy said the “same thing cramped up on” deGrom.
Young said he felt the wrist issue was different and under control.
“But was there some compensation from the wrist that maybe irritated this? Perhaps, but I can’t say for certain,” said Young, a former big league pitcher.
Texas has won all six games started by deGrom (2-0), but he has been limited to 30 1/3 innings. He has a 2.67 ERA with 45 strikeouts and four walks.
“He’s being very smart about it. He’s making us aware of how he’s feeling,” Young said. “He wants to be out there as much as anybody. He was very disappointed last night to have to come out of the game, but he felt like he shouldn’t push through and potentially make something worse than maybe it is. And I think today’s information confirms that he made the right decision.”
In between the two starts he left early over injury concerns, deGrom struck out 11 batters and allowed one earned run over six innings in a win against Oakland last Sunday.
DeGrom played his first nine big league seasons with the New York Mets. He waslimited to 156 1/3 innings over 26 starts the past two years.
Before missing the final three months of the 2021 season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, deGrom had a career-low 1.08 ERA over 92 innings. He was then shut down late in spring training in 2022 year because of a stress reaction in his right scapula and didn’t make his first big-league start until Aug. 2.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the beginning of August 2022, Stena Polaris participated in US Air Force's annual re-supply mission Pacer Goose. The purpose of the mission is to re-supply the US Thule Air Base in the northwest corner of Greenland with life-sustaining supplies, i.e. fuels, building materials, vehicles and other types of heavier supplies. The operation is carried out every year in July or August, the only time of year weather conditions permit and when the ice is at its thinnest.
The Thule Air Base is operated by the US Air Force Space Command. The base was established in the 1940s and houses around 600 military personnel.
The Stena Polaris was used for the transport of 230,000 barrels of jet fuel. The journey from the port in Athens, Greece, through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic and up through the Labrador Sea went well. The weather was good and the sea mostly ice-free. Stena Polaris was escorted into port by the two icebreakers Des Groseilliers and Ocean Gladiator.
Stena Polaris is since the beginning of 2022 contracted by Crowley Government Services Inc. Crowley in turn leases the vessel to the US Military Sealift Command, who use her for transportation of fuels to bases around the globe.
The Stena Polaris has been converted to meet requirements posed by the U.S. Department of Defense. Among other things, the ship has received equipment for bunkering military ships while at sea. Stena Polaris sails under the flag of United States and is manned by an American crew.
About Stena Polaris
Behind the concept, which was developed together with close partners Stena Bulk and Stena Teknik, is a need to operate in shallow waters and ports with more cargo than corresponding vessels of the same size class. To make this possible, the P-MAX tankers are considerably wider than traditional MR tankers. The increased volume means that they are able to transport up to 30 percent more cargo.
The P-MAX concept takes safety into a new dimension. The vessels are built with double systems for propulsion and manoeuvring, engines, shafts, generators, control and fuel systems, rudders and propellers. The engine rooms are separated by fireproof and watertight bulkheads and the bridge is equipped with a co-pilot system.
Stena Polaris is built with the second highest ice classification, 1A. The enhanced ice capacity enables transport in seas with difficult ice conditions. In 2013, for example, she sailed the Northeast Passage, the sea route north of Europe and Asia.
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183 m LOA, 40 m beam, Ice class 1A, buildt 2010 Split, DWT 65,200
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Concordia Maritime is an international tanker shipping company. We focus on safe, sustainable, and reliable transportation of refined oil products, chemicals, and vegetable oils. The Company's B shares were first listed on Nasdaq Stockholm in 1984.
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The guardians of Champagne will let no one take the name of the bubbly beverage in vain, not even a U.S. beer behemoth.
For years, Miller High Life has used the “Champagne of Beers” slogan. This week, that appropriation became impossible to swallow.
At the request of the trade body defending the interests of houses and growers of the northeastern French sparkling wine, Belgian customs crushed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life advertised as such.
The Comité Champagne asked for the destruction of a shipment of 2,352 cans on the grounds that the century-old motto used by the American brewery infringes the protected designation of origin “Champagne.”
The consignment was intercepted in the Belgian port of Antwerp in early February, a spokesperson at the Belgian Customs Administration said on Friday, and was destined for Germany.
Molson Coors Beverage Co., which owns the Miller High Life brand, does not currently export it to the EU, and Belgian customs declined to say who had ordered the beers.
The buyer in Germany “was informed and did not contest the decision,” the trade organization said in a statement.
Frederick Miller, a German immigrant to the US, founded the Miller Brewing Company in the 1850s. Miller High Life, its oldest brand, was launched as its flagship in 1903.
According to the Milwaukee-based brand’s website, the company started to use the “Champagne of Bottle Beers” nickname three years later. It was shortened to “The Champagne of Beers” in 1969. The beer has also been available in champagne-style 750-milliliter bottles during festive seasons.
“With its elegant, clear-glass bottle and crisp taste, Miller High Life has proudly worn the nickname ‘The Champagne of Beers’ for almost 120 years,” Molson Coors Beverage Co. said in a statement to The Associated Press.
No matter how popular the slogan is in the United States, it is incompatible with European Union rules which make clear that goods infringing a protected designation of origin can be treated as counterfeit.
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The 27-nation bloc has a system of protected geographical designations created to guarantee the true origin and quality of artisanal food, wine and spirits, and protect them from imitation. That market is worth nearly 75 billion euros ($87 billion) annually — half of it in wines, according to a 2020 study by the EU’s executive arm.
Charles Goemaere, the managing director of the Comité Champagne, said the destruction of the beers “confirms the importance that the European Union attaches to designations of origin and rewards the determination of the Champagne producers to protect their designation.”
Molson Coors Beverage Co. said it “respects local restrictions” around the word Champagne.
“But we remain proud of Miller High Life, its nickname and its Milwaukee, Wisconsin provenance,” the company said. “We invite our friends in Europe to the U.S. any time to toast the High Life together.”
Belgian customs said the destruction of the cans was paid for by the Comité Champagne. According to their joint statement, it was carried out “with the utmost respect for environmental concerns by ensuring that the entire batch, both contents and container, was recycled in an environmentally responsible manner.”
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Mark D. Carlson contributed from Brussels. | 2023-04-22T20:18:07+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-miller-high-life-cans-destroyed-20230422-755su4yemzbg7hcjp4sjppc2ny-story.html |
When two tech-linked U.S. banks failed this month, among the investors who lost millions were public-sector pension funds responsible for ensuring the retirements of teachers, firefighters and other government workers.
The pension funds, like others, have reaped the benefits of bull markets and, like many investors, have suffered when investments soured.
Last year, many lost value when their investments in Russian assets became nearly worthless after most of the world froze out that nation’s economy following its invasion of Ukraine. Some held stock in cryptocurrency-related businesses that have sputtered amid the downfall of FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Since the pension funds are diversified investors whose holdings in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were small portions of their portfolios, experts aren’t overly concerned about losses for relatively small holdings.
But the losses show how pensions are exposed to risk as they try to reduce funding gaps.
Here’s a look at where the status of public pensions and the risks they take on.
WHICH FUNDS TOOK LOSSES WITH INVESTMENTS IN FAILED BANKS?
Equable, a privately funded nonprofit that researches public pensions and advocates for their security, has identified more than two dozen public-sector pension funds with direct holdings in Silicon Valley or Signature Bank, or both.
In every case, the banks’ stocks represented no more than a few dollars out of every $10,000 in assets in the fund.
The fund with the largest stake in Silicon Valley Bank was CalPERS, a fund serving public employees in California that is valued at $443 billion. It reported it owned $67 million in SVB stock and $11 million in Signature Bank. Combined, that amounts to .02% of the fund’s assets.
The Ohio State Teachers’ Retirement System, New York State Common Fund and State Teachers’ Retirement Fund and Washington State Investment Board were among those that had stock in one or both banks.
Trading on both stocks was halted this month. SVB’s shares were trading at more than $700 at the start of 2022 and Signature Bank’s were around $300.
It’s likely that many pension systems also owned shares of the banks as part of index-fund investments. It’s hard to know for certain because most funds do not make their complete holdings public in real time.
WHAT DO THE LOSSES MEAN?
They’re not helping the pensions, but experts do not see these investment losses as alarming.
Pension funds are big investors that seek to spread around their holdings. And while there were some signs of trouble for the banks that failed, they were still considered significant U.S. banks.
“It’s a mistake to say that an investment in Silicon Valley Bank stock alone is risky,” said Anthony Randazzo, executive director of Equable.
HOW ARE PUBLIC PENSIONS DOING?
They’ve improved in recent years, but most are still short of enough assets to pay for their promised benefits.
Most plans were fully funded in 2000. But around that time, many pension plans increased benefits, reduced contributions from the governments — or both. Those decisions amplified the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the funds, with market losses widening their funding gaps. By 2016, the Pew Charitable Trusts found that the state-run funds had only two-thirds of what they needed to cover their obligations.
With mostly strong markets, bigger government contributions and benefit changes — including reducing the retirement promises for newly hired workers and requiring employees to contribute more — the funds’ conditions have improved. By 2021, after a year of massive market growth, Pew estimated that state pensions were 84% funded, the highest level since before the Great Recession started in 2008.
David Draine, who studies public-sector retirement systems at Pew, said the funding gaps are probably now about where they were before the market shockwaves during the coronavirus pandemic.
But he said the greater government contributions — including higher than required in states including California and Connecticut — and other changes have increased their likelihood of withstanding future market declines.
“It’s a low bar,” Draine said, “but they’re better prepared than they were proceeding the Great Recession.”
ARE PENSION FUNDS MAKING RISKY INVESTMENTS?
Stocks and fixed-asset investments still make up the majority of the holdings of public-sector pension funds tracked by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
But the portion of assets in other — and often more volatile — investments such as real estate and hedge funds has grown over the last two decades. Investment in private equity, for example, nearly quadrupled, going from 2.3% of funds’ holdings in 2001 to 8.7% in 2021.
“They’re being asked to earn somewhere between 6.5% and 7.5% a year on average,” Equable Institute’s Randazzo said. “And the only way that’s possible is by taking some significant risk.”
Randazzo said that if governments want pension funds to play it safer, they can raise their contributions. But the more taxpayer money goes into retirement funds, the less there is for other priorities such as schools, roads and tax cuts.
Keith Brainard, the research director for the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, notes the stock market downturn in 2001 hit pensions hard because their holdings were mostly stocks.
Investing in other assets can help mitigate stock losses, he said.
“Some people cynically call it ‘chasing returns,’” Brainard said. “I think ‘diversifying’ is a better description.” ___ | 2023-03-21T23:31:52+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/business/public-pension-plan-losses-from-bank-failures-seen-as-minor/ |
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Rescuers on Saturday found the bodies of nine more workers in a collapsed tunnel in Indian-controlled Kashmir, taking the death toll to 10.
The tunnel is part of a mountainous highway tunnel system that was under construction in the Himalayan region when it collapsed Thursday night. The body of one worker was recovered Friday.
Aamir Ali, an official at the government’s disaster management department, said Saturday that the bodies of all missing workers were recovered. Emergency crews used heavy machinery to clear the wreckage at the site of the collapse in southern Ramban district.
Officials said the section that collapsed was an approach tunnel used for ventilation and moving supplies and equipment to the main, under-construction tunnel.
The tunnel is part of a vast network of bridges and tunnels on the strategic highway that connects two key cities of Srinagar and Jammu in the disputed region. | 2022-05-21T17:21:31+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/8-more-bodies-found-in-kashmir-tunnel-collapse-toll-at-9/ |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar plans to send 10,000 cabins and caravans from last year’s World Cup to provide shelter for survivors of the Turkish earthquakes, officials said.
The gas-rich Gulf nation says it had always planned to donate the mobile homes. They were needed to help house some of the 1.4 million fans who descended on the small country during soccer’s biggest tournament.
An initial batch of 350 structures was shipped out on Sunday, the Qatar Fund for Development said.
The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart on Feb. 6 killed more than 35,000 people in southeastern Turkey and war-torn northern Syria. The toll is expected to climb even further as search and rescue teams find more bodies.
Tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed or severely damaged, leaving millions homeless. As shelters filled up in the days after the quake many were forced to sleep outside in wet, wintry weather.
Qatar and other wealthy Gulf countries have joined the global effort to send rescuers and aid to the stricken region. The United Arab Emirates has pledged $100 million for relief efforts. Saudi Arabia has dispatched eight planes loaded with supplies to Turkey and Syria.
The eighth Saudi flight landed in government-held Aleppo, in northern Syria, on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia was a strong supporter of the opposition at the height of Syria’s civil war and — unlike other Arab countries — has shown little interest in any rapprochement with President Bashar Assad. | 2023-02-15T03:58:45+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-qatar-donates-world-cup-mobile-homes-to-earthquake-survivors/ |
Creating a Minnesota Healthcare Learning Cohort to advance upstream investment in social determinants of health and affordable housing.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greater Minnesota Housing Fund's (GMHF's) Housing & Health Equity Initiative (H&HE) today announced the launch of a Minnesota Healthcare Fellows Program starting in 2023. The application invitation to join this Minnesota Healthcare Learning Cohort was released today to healthcare institutions, leaders, and innovators interested in shifting more of their investments and practices to address social determinants of health (SDOH) through housing. The Minnesota Healthcare Learning Cohort will focus on ways to utilize investment resources to achieve both financial and social returns to impact community health, housing, and equity.
This is the first and only state focused Healthcare Learning Cohort, replicating efforts at the national level like Center for Community Investment's Accelerating Investments for Healthy Communities Initiative. (The link is to the American Hospital Association Evaluation of the initiative). This year-long fellows program has been developed through partnerships between Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, Minnesota Housing, and Center for Community Investment, a national leader in expanding community investment practices that link housing, health, and equity outcomes.
Research shows that 80% of health happens outside a doctor's office or hospital, yet only 4% of healthcare resources in the healthcare system are used to address SDOH, like affordable housing and other social and economic factors.
Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, which finances affordable housing across Minnesota, has long believed that housing is the number one SDOH and has the largest health impacts. "We have seen through our work how a stable home is the key multiplier for outcomes that improve family and community health including education, income security, safety, connectivity, and even mental health," says Warren Hanson, President, and CEO of Greater Minnesota Housing Fund.
Jennifer Ho, Commissioner of Minnesota Housing, was an early adopter in building linkages with healthcare organizations in her many roles in the affordable housing field including her focus on homelessness solutions. Minnesota Housing views housing as the foundation for success. Commissioner Ho believes, "Healthcare institutions can be transformative partners when paired with housing. Together we can address the intertwined issues of housing, health and equity by working across silos and fostering innovation."
The Housing and Health Equity Fellows Program will convene between six and eight healthcare institutions which nominate small teams of fellows to participate in the learning cohort. The Learning Cohort will be a neutral space for healthcare leaders to advance their innovative ideas and practical actions that live at the intersection of health, housing, and equity. According to Robin Hacke, Co-Founder of Center for Community Investment, "health institutions have the potential to be hugely valuable actors in the community investment system," although "adoption of an investment strategy by health institutions is still at an early stage."
In the wake of COVID and the racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd, hospitals, and health systems around Minnesota and across the U.S. have shown increasing interest and actions to address SDOH and, in particular, housing and health equity has become a priority. The Minnesota Healthcare Learning cohort will have training, coaching, technical assistance, and other support to advance innovative practices around community investments that impact community health.
The group of Minnesota Healthcare Learning Cohort Fellows will be announced in February 2023 and meet throughout the year to advance their institutional visions, goals, and strategies in addressing SDOH through housing.
For Further information visit the GMHF website: https://gmhf.com/. Read about the Program Invitation on the program webpages: https://gmhf.com/health-fellows. And/or contact the director of the Housing & Health Equity Initiative at emuschler@gmhf.com.
About Greater Minnesota Housing Fund: GMHF has over 25 years of experience in connecting affordable housing and health outcomes through financing of housing developments which have created and preserved over 18,000 units of affordable housing and 3,600 units of either permanent supportive housing (PSH) or services enriched housing (representing about 20% of all housing financed by GMHF). GMHF is also a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) which finances affordable housing and community development activities. GMHF created the Housing & Health Equity Initiative in 2021 to adapt to changing circumstances and create new partnerships across healthcare and housing to advance fields of practice in addressing SDOH.
About Center for Community Investment (CCI): CCI works to ensure all communities, especially those which have suffered from structural racism and policies that have left them economically and socially isolated, can unlock the capital they need to thrive. CCI has a well-established framework and approach which community partnerships can use to mobilize investment capital to create opportunities for affordable housing, jobs, fresh foods, and other drivers of economic well-being
About Minnesota Housing: Minnesota Housing is the state's housing finance agency. For more than 50 years, they have worked to provide access to safe, decent, and affordable housing to build stronger communities across the state. In 2021, they distributed $1.92 billion in resources and served more than 93,504 households.
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Officials: Man arrested after house fire kills adult, 2 kids
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Officials say a Kansas man has been arrested on murder and arson charges in relation to a house fire that killed three people, including two children.
The Topeka Fire Department said in a release Saturday that a Friday morning fire that killed three people has been determined by investigators to have been intentionally set. Officials say the incident is being investigated as a homicide that is domestic in nature.
The deceased were identified as Genny L. Fitzpatrick, 30, Peyton L. Tyler, 9, and Kourtney K. Tyler, 1.
Officials say 32-year-old Kyle J. Tyler was released Saturday from the hospital then transported for an interview. He was later arrested and booked for first-degree murder in the commission of a felony, aggravated arson, and aggravated child endangerment.
The suspect is being held at the Shawnee County Department of Corrections. There is no bond listed for him, WIBW reports.
Fire crews responded to a home in central Topeka around 5 a.m. Friday morning. When they arrived, they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the two-story home. The fire also spread to a house south of the home where the fire originated.
A total of four people were inside the home when the fire broke out.
Crews pulled an adult and child from the structure and immediately started life-saving measures. Both were rushed to the hospital, where the child was later pronounced dead.
Officials say another adult and child were found unresponsive inside the home and later pronounced dead at the scene.
Topeka Public Schools confirmed later in the day that one of the children killed was Peyton Tyler, a fourth-grader at Lowman Hill Elementary.
“Peyton was a student that had many friends, and she is known for her positivity and her joyful spirit. She was loved by many and will be missed by all of the Lowman Hill students and staff,” said the school district in part in a letter to parents.
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Medical debt is a burden for more than 100 million Americans.
According to a report from the Urban Institute, those Americans either have past-due bills or have elected to pay the balances off over time.
The study says more than 70% of people reported having bills directly from hospitals. Researchers say that's notable because hospital bills tend to be higher than bills for other services in the health care industry.
SEE MORE: Changes to medical debt reporting could improve your credit score
More than half of the adults with past-due hospital bills reported that they've been contacted by a collection agency. However, only 5% said the hospital filed a lawsuit to collect the money. Even fewer said they've been subjected to garnished wages or having funds seized from their bank accounts.
There are options for people who have medical debt. Many hospitals will offer a payment plan, and some will even negotiate a lower balance. The study notes that more than 20% of people reported receiving some kind of discounted care in which the hospital reduced the amount they owed.
The researchers say the study highlights gaps in health insurance coverage, financial assistance policies, and government protections. They are asking for stakeholders to take a wide-ranging approach to reducing the burden of medical debut. That includes expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which was signed 13 years ago. | 2023-03-23T20:37:19+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/report-more-than-100-million-adults-are-paying-off-medical-bills |
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (TSX: CMMC) (ASX: C6C) (the "Company" or "Copper Mountain") announces that the Company has terminated the employment of Rodney A. Shier as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Bradley Bolger, currently the Company's Vice President, Finance, will become interim Chief Financial Officer.
Copper Mountain's flagship asset is the 75% owned Copper Mountain Mine located in southern British Columbia near the town of Princeton. The Copper Mountain Mine currently produces approximately 100 million pounds of copper equivalent per year. Copper Mountain also has the 100% owned development-stage Eva Copper Project in Queensland, Australia and an extensive 2,100 km2 highly prospective land package in the Mount Isa area. Copper Mountain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CMMC" and Australian Stock Exchange under the symbol "C6C".
Additional information is available on the Company's web page at www.CuMtn.com.
On behalf of the Board of
COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CORPORATION
"Gil Clausen"
Gil Clausen, P.Eng.
President and Chief Executive Officer
This document may contain "forward looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this document and Copper Mountain does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities legislation.
All statements, other than statements of historical facts, are forward-looking statements. Generally, forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect our expectations or beliefs regarding future events.
In certain circumstances, forward-looking statements can be identified, but are not limited to, statements which use terminology such as "plans", "expects", "estimates", "intends", "anticipates", "believes", "forecasts", "guidance", scheduled", "target" or variations of such words, or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative of these terms or comparable terminology. In this document, certain forward-looking statements are identified, including production and cost guidance, anticipated production at the Copper Mountain Mine, expectations regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations, financial condition and prospects, anticipated metals prices and the anticipated sensitivity of the Company's financial performance to metals prices, the timing and results of the Company's exploration and development programs, the timing of the Company's plant improvement and optimization projects at the Copper Mountain Mine, the timing of commissioning the first four Trolley Assist haul trucks at the Copper Mountain Mine, the timing of the Company's updated mineral reserves and mineral resources estimate and new life of mine plan for the Copper Mountain Mine, the timing for the completion of detailed engineering for the Eva Project, the timing of studies, announcements, and analysis, events that may affect its operations and development projects, anticipated cash flows from operations and related liquidity requirements, the anticipated effect of external factors on revenue, such as commodity prices, estimation of mineral reserves and resources, mine life projections, reclamation costs, economic outlook, the impact of inflation, government regulation of mining operations, and business and acquisition strategies. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, achievements and opportunities to differ materially from those implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, among others, the successful exploration of the Company's properties in Canada and Australia, market price, continued availability of capital and financing and general economic, market or business conditions, extreme weather events, material and labour shortages, the reliability of the historical data referenced in this document and risks set out in Copper Mountain's public documents, including in each management's discussion and analysis, filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Copper Mountain's business and operations are unknown at this time, including Copper Mountain's ability to manage challenges and restrictions arising from COVID-19 in the communities in which Copper Mountain operates and its ability to continue to safely operate and to safely return the business to normal operations. The impact of COVID-19 is dependent on a number of factors outside of the Company's control and knowledge, including the effectiveness of the measures taken by public health and governmental authorities to combat the spread of the disease, global economic uncertainties and outlook due to the disease, and the evolving restrictions relating to mining activities and to travel in certain jurisdictions in which Copper Mountain operates. Although Copper Mountain has attempted to identify important factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance, achievements and opportunities to differ materially from those described in its forward looking statements, there may be other factors that cause the Company's results, performance, achievements and opportunities not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. While the Company believes that the information and assumptions used in preparing the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94.
Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Moore, who held a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, made his famous observation — now known as “Moore's Law” — three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It appeared among a number of articles about the future written for the now-defunct Electronics magazine by experts in various fields.
The prediction, which Moore said he plotted out on graph paper based on what had been happening with chips at the time, said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.
Strictly speaking, Moore’s observation referred to the doubling of transistors on a semiconductor. But over the years, it has been applied to hard drives, computer monitors and other electronic devices, holding that roughly every 18 months a new generation of products makes their predecessors obsolete.
It became a standard for the tech industry’s progress and innovation.
“It's the human spirit. It's what made Silicon Valley,” Carver Mead, a retired California Institute of Technology computer scientist who coined the term "Moore's Law" in the early 1970s, said in 2005. "It's the real thing."
Moore later became known for his philanthropy when he and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which focuses on environmental conservation, science, patient care and projects in the San Francisco Bay area. It has donated more than $5.1 billion to charitable causes since its founding in 2000.
“Those of us who have met and worked with Gordon will forever be inspired by his wisdom, humility and generosity,” foundation president Harvey Fineberg said in a statement.
Moore was born in California in 1929. As a boy, he took a liking to chemistry sets.
After getting his Ph.D. from the California University of Technology in 1954, he worked briefly as a researcher at Johns Hopkins University.
His entry into microchips began when he went to work for William Shockley, who in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize for physics for his work inventing the transistor. Less than two years later, Moore and seven colleagues left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory after growing tired of its namesake's management practices.
The defection by the "traitorous eight," as the group came to be called, planted the seeds for Silicon Valley's renegade culture, in which engineers who disagreed with their colleagues didn't hesitate to become competitors.
The Shockley defectors in 1957 created Fairchild Semiconductor, which became one of the first companies to manufacture the integrated circuit, a refinement of the transistor.
Fairchild supplied the chips that went into the first computers that astronauts used aboard spacecraft.
In 1968, Moore and Robert Noyce, one of the eight engineers who left Shockley, again struck out on their own. With $500,000 of their own money and the backing of venture capitalist Arthur Rock, they founded Intel, a name based on joining the words "integrated" and “electronics.”
Moore became Intel's chief executive in 1975. His tenure as CEO ended in 1987, thought he remained chairman for another 10 years. He was chairman emeritus from 1997 to 2006.
He received the National Medal of Technology from President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2002.
Despite his wealth and acclaim, Moore remained known for his modesty. In 2005, he referred to Moore's Law as “a lucky guess that got a lot more publicity than it deserved.”
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Betty, sons Kenneth and Steven, and four grandchildren. | 2023-03-25T13:42:07+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/intel-co-founder-gordon-moore-dies/507-94178272-94a4-4151-8e00-a5b609f4a110 |
The news of a possible defection by Pac-12 stalwarts USC and UCLA to the Big Ten Thursday sent shock waves throughout the college landscape. It’s the latest realignment move that could drastically change the look of college football in the future and it’s most likely not the last.
Here are how several of the conferences stand after the latest round of realignment news:
BIG TEN
USC and UCLA could join the Big Ten by 2024, expanding the conference to 16 members and creating a footprint that extends from New Jersey to California. It includes lucrative television markets in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. But some don’t believe the league is finished.
With a new media rights deal in the works, now may be the time for the Big Ten to look to expand to 20 members. If so, there are a few choices, perhaps other Pac-12 schools like Oregon, Washington and Stanford or maybe the ultimate piece in Notre Dame. The school has relished its independence but could forgo it and join a conference.
BIG 12
When Thursday’s news broke, the ink hadn’t even dried on new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark’s contract. Yormark won’t have long to get settled in before he faces more concerns over realignment. The DNA of the league is changing with the addition of four new schools in BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF in 2023, even as the league is about to lose blue blood programs in Texas and Oklahoma in 2025.
With a new media rights deal on the horizon, perhaps now is the time to get aggressive. The Pac-12 is on shaky ground at best and the Big 12 could provide more value to television partners by adding schools like Arizona and Arizona State.
Or Yormark could shoot higher and propose a merger with the remaining Pac-12 members, forming a super conference with 20 or 22 members.
SEC
The SEC started this process by inviting Texas and Oklahoma to join the league in 2025. It’s a move projected to pay each league member $117 million of revenue by 2029. That would be most in the Power Five conferences, ahead of the Big Ten’s projected $100 million.
If the SEC wanted to continue to grow, it could look toward the ACC, where schools like Clemson, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina would fit its southern footprint. The only catch would be the ACC’s Grant of Rights, which runs through 2036. Although if eager to leave, the schools could try their luck through legal challenges.
ACC
Realignment hasn’t been as real as it is now for the ACC. The league has several attractive member schools (See SEC) and if its Grant of Rights is nullified through the courts, it’s anybody’s guess what could happen.
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That doesn’t mean the ACC could choose to stay pat. The league could pursue Notre Dame, trying to convince the school to join as a full-fledged member instead of just a partial member. The addition of the Fighting Irish football program could go far in solidifying the conference.
If the ACC chooses to expand, it runs the risk of nullifying its Grant of Rights deal, which would open the door for schools to leave without penalty.
PAC-12
Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff thought forming the Alliance between the Big Ten and ACC would help solidify his conference standing. That’s clearly out the window with Thursday’s news.
Barring a last-second Hail Mary by Kliavkoff to convince USC and UCLA to have a change of heart, the league’s standing is tenuous at best. Even with the two L.A. schools, the league was only projected to see its revenue per school grow to $62 million by 2029, and without them, that figure would surely be much less.
The Pac-12 could stay put with its remaining 10 member schools, or it can add new schools like Boise State, Fresno State or San Diego State. But those wouldn’t provide enough cache to convince the other schools not to look elsewhere. If schools like Oregon, Washington and Stanford are convinced to join a league like the Big Ten, then all bets are off.
GROUP OF FIVE
It’s safe to say that the five non-autonomous conferences are playing the waiting game. What inevitably happens to the Pac-12 would have a ripple effect that could stretch into the G5 landscape.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Matt Murschel at mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osmattmurschel. | 2022-06-30T22:01:25+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/os-sp-conference-realignment-big-ten-sec-acc-whats-next-20220630-cy4kpeyk4ndwnop7uuwb37cfw4-story.html |
Conference Call Scheduled for November 29, 2022 at 9:00am ET
HAIFA, Israel, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESLT) (TASE: ESLT) ("Elbit Systems" or the "Company") announced today that it will be releasing its third quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
Results Conference Call
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About Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems Ltd. is an international high technology company engaged in a wide range of defense, homeland security and commercial programs throughout the world. The Company, which includes Elbit Systems and its subsidiaries, operates in the areas of aerospace, land and naval systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance ("C4ISR"), unmanned aircraft systems, advanced electro-optics, electro-optic space systems, EW suites, signal intelligence systems, data links and communications systems, radios, cyber-based systems and munitions. The Company also focuses on the upgrading of existing platforms, developing new technologies for defense, homeland security and commercial applications and providing a range of support services, including training and simulation systems.
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When I first moved to Indiana seven months ago from St. Petersburg, Florida, I asked locals what would be considered “Hoosier food.” Although the answers varied a bit, most people told me pork tenderloin sandwiches or chicken and noodles.
I had managed to put off the Hoosier delicacies for more than half a year, usually opting to cook my own meals at home.
It wasn’t out of pickiness that I had avoided the Hoosier food, though. I consider myself a fairly adventurous eater; Having tried escargot, fish eyeballs and eel, there are few ingredients left that intimidate me. I suppose my hesitancy had more to do with stubbornness.
But working on the Howard County Fair preview story, I figured it was time to give the state’s fair food a shot.
Indiana Sweet Corn
I wanted to start small, initially setting out to find corn in a cup. The closest I could find, though, was a B&P Produce stand selling ears of Indiana Sweet Corn.
Sitting under a tent by the pioneer village, I tried an ear topped with melted margarine and hot chili powder.
It was my first time trying chili powder on corn, which I would recommend. I also learned fairly quickly you’ve got to be careful where you aim your bites — the corn was juicier than I had expected and kernels were prone to popping. Other than those small surprises, it was regular, good ol’ corn.
Patty Bauer, one of the folks running the stand, said the stand sells out every year. Sometimes, she said, the line nearly reaches the fair’s parking lot. People wait all year for their fix of Indiana Sweet Corn, she explained, and it’s harvested right around fair season.
“Everybody in Indiana likes Indiana Sweet Corn,” Bauer said. “It’s got a good flavor from the ground we raise it in.”
Chicken and Noodles
Nearby, Morning Star Church was serving chicken and noodles.
Explaining it would be my first time trying chicken and noodles, the cafeteria-style line of servers seemed a bit shocked. One of the servers even went about telling the others.
I was told Hoosiers normally plop the chicken and noodles on top of the mashed potatoes, so that’s what I went with.
I was fairly surprised to see what chicken and noodles actually looked like. For some reason, I had been expecting something closer to linguine topped with roast chicken.
Instead, the dish resembled Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup that had been reduced over medium-low heat. Sitting on top of mashed potatoes, the mushy yellow-beige dish looked a bit boring.
Taking my first bites, I could understand why people claim to enjoy the dish. It’s inoffensive and seems like something you could serve to a sick child. It almost tasted like someone had replaced the salty broth in Campbell’s soup with butter.
The uniform texture and lack of seasonings wasn’t for me. It tasted the way I imagine the color beige would. I got through half of the dish before adding black pepper. Really, though, I wish I had several tablespoons of Tabasco sauce.
Larry Taylor, one of the Morning Star members who was working the makeshift kitchen, explained the church had made 400 pounds of egg noodles for the occasion. They also served roughly 150 oven steaks each day.
The noodles are homemade, Taylor added. Mostly made by hand, the organization has been making the noodles since the mid-1940s.
“I think everyone in Indiana knows about our noodles,” Taylor said. He added some members of the church even ship bags to Florida. Profits from the noodles, which are made year-round, go to oversea missionaries.
This year marked the first time Morning Star participated in the county fair since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. The church was assisted by roughly 400 Borg Warner employees, Taylor said.
Lemon Shake Up
Having worked my way through the first couple of Indiana staples, I moved on to lemon shake ups. Although shake ups aren’t a strictly Hoosier treat, I wasn’t familiar with them until I moved to Kokomo.
I’ve heard some arguments about whether lemon shake ups are the same as lemonade. When I asked a couple of shake up stands to weigh in, they said it was different from lemonade.
The best explanation I received, coming from Grandma Diane’s Original Lemonade Shake Up stand, was “shake ups are fresh.”
Although the ingredients are identical, I suppose the sediments of loose sugar and lemon pulp might warrant a differentiation. Really, though, it seemed like homemade lemonade served shaken, not stirred.
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
Stuffed full of heavy fair food, it was time for the Hoosier dish to top all others — the notorious pork tenderloin sandwich.
I searched the entire fair looking for the most comically sized sandwich. In the best case scenario, I hoped to find a tenderloin larger than my head with a bun smaller than a dinner roll.
The best match I found came from Bennett Concessions (no relation.)
Jesse Bennett said the stand travels to fairs in the South, but has a difficult time selling the Tenderloins. He added tenderloin sandwiches are “undeniably the most Indiana thing people can get.”
I topped the sandwich with lettuce, onions, pickles and mustard. But when I went to eat it, I realized there wasn’t much of a point to adding toppings. The sheer size of the sandwich makes it difficult to maneuver, and all the toppings fell off.
I had been expecting something similar to schnitzel.
Instead, the sandwich had the texture of a nature valley bar but tasted like a McChicken crossed with French’s Crispy Fried Onions. The toppings I did manage to eat overpowered the taste of the sandwich.
Very full, I felt a sense of pride having run the gauntlet of Hoosier necessities. I might try the corn or tenderloin again in the future, but they’ll never be as good as blackened alligator. | 2022-07-14T10:15:16+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/howard_county_fair/florida-man-tries-hoosier-food-for-the-first-time/article_48d468c0-02eb-11ed-9266-5f4880cc4df1.html |
Less than 10 minutes into the first episode of “Break Point,” the Netflix docuseries about professional tennis that launches Friday, Nick Kyrgios is seen practicing before last year’s Australian Open and is heard contemplating aloud whether he ever will appear again at the tournament.
“I don’t know if this is going to be the last time,” Kyrgios says. “Nothing good lasts forever, though, yeah?”
That captures the vibe around tennis lately, what with the retirements of Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Ash Barty all arriving in 2022. It also helps open a window onto the tumult and pressure — a word invoked repeatedly during the series’ first five episodes — that are constant factors for the WTA and ATP athletes who will be back on the Grand Slam stage when plays begins at Melbourne Park on Monday (Sunday night EST).
This is not the first time Kyrgios, who wound up reaching his first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon in July, has voiced questions about his future and, indeed, there are not a ton of outright surprises for those who follow the sport closely. That said, there are occasional unexpected moments during the first half of Season 1’s 10 episodes (the rest are scheduled for release in June), such as when Kyrgios discusses his drinking habit with his manager or when Maria Sakkari says in Episode 3 that she “retired for four days” after blowing a match point and losing in the 2021 French Open semifinals.
“Break Point” is, in some ways, an advertisement for tennis, introducing casual fans — or folks who really haven’t been fans at all — to some of the on-court characters, laying out basic rules and formats, and offering limited recaps on last season’s events.
There is not an effort to completely cover what went on in the sport. One example of something only briefly addressed: an unvaccinated Novak Djokovic’s will-he-or-won’t-he-play-in-Australia saga that fascinated the world for more than a week. Barty’s historic championship at the Australian Open and stunning retirement soon after are left unexplored.
“At the end of the day, the show is about the human condition, and what this particular sport does to the human condition and how people respond to being in this place and this time. And it’s very relatable,” said executive producer James Gay-Rees, who also is one of the people behind “Formula 1: Drive to Survive.”
“They’re human beings that potentially we can all relate to,” Gay-Rees said in a video interview. “If that is the case, then anybody can watch it and find something.”
There is a mix of recent and archival footage. There are interviews with coaches, agents, family members, significant others, journalists and former players such as Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Andy Roddick and Maria Sharapova.
The emphasis is on current players’ tales and travails, although do not expect a ton of gossip or infighting. There are tears. There is frankness, particularly in the “confessional”-style, look-straight-into-the-camera sessions so popular on reality TV.
Paula Badosa, a Spaniard once ranked No. 2, talks in Episode 4 about dealing with depression. Taylor Fritz, the highest-ranked American man, gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look in Episode 3 at a player dealing with an injury before the biggest match of his career. Ajla Tomljanovic, an Australian player who beat Williams at the U.S. Open in the 23-time major champion’s final match, offers insight into the grind of the job.
“If you’re not winning the event, you’re a loser every week,” says Tomljanovic, whose since-ended relationship with 2021 Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini occupies much of Episode 2. “That’s why I think tennis is really brutal.”
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NEOM, Saudi Arabia, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NEOM, the sustainable regional development in northwest Saudi Arabia, announced today the appointment of Dr. Andreas Cangellaris as the Founding President of NEOM U – NEOM's first university. Dr. Cangellaris is joining NEOM from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is the M. E. Van Valkenburg Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has been serving as Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost since 2018.
Education is central to the well-being of societies and the development of vibrant ecosystems. NEOM aims to establish a world-class Education, Research and Innovation (ERI) hub that empowers future generations while using technology to engender new ways of learning from early years on, through primary, secondary, post-secondary education and beyond. These goals support the transformation of Saudi Arabia's educational sector. NEOM U, as one of the key pillars of NEOM's vision for its education sector, will contribute to this endeavor by creating a nexus of innovation and knowledge that will attract students from all over the Kingdom and the world.
Dr. Cangellaris will lead the development of NEOM U on its journey to become a pre-eminent knowledge institution that supports NEOM's vision as an innovation hub and a society enhanced by the opportunities of new technology. It will be a university without boundaries, leveraging next-generation educational technologies with both on-site and online learning. Its graduates will be known for digital/technological thinking and the ability to design innovative solutions in context. The development of NEOM's different sectors will provide a unique living laboratory for immersive ERI. Initial academic and research programs will cover computer science, engineering and design, media, art and entertainment, as well as business. One common theme will be a CS+X undergraduate core curriculum rooted in the natural sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences.
Dr. Cangellaris has overseen the academic and research programs of a highly regarded US academic institution with over 50,000 students, 15 colleges and 150+ programs of study and in excess of USD 600 million in annual research expenditures. A distinguished scholar in the fields of computational electromagnetics and electronic design automation, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece and his graduate degrees, a Master of Science and Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Commenting on the new appointment, Nadhmi Al-Nasr, CEO of NEOM, said: "Education is central to achieving NEOM's vision and ambitious goals. I am delighted that we have attracted a person of the caliber of Dr. Cangellaris to lead one of the critical pillars of our education sector. NEOM U is our first step toward developing a postsecondary education that is accessible to all, attracting the brightest students from all over Kingdom and the world. We want it to be a differentiator and a powerful signal of NEOM's commitment to pioneering ideas in a world inspired by innovation."
Commenting on his appointment, Dr. Cangellaris said: "I am thrilled and honored to have been given the opportunity to be the Founding President of NEOM U, to help build it and to lead it in its quest to inspire, catalyze, foster and enable the positive change NEOM aspires to bring to the world. To change the world for the better, you need everyone to become a change agent. And this is what NEOM U will do, by bringing together learners from the Kingdom and the world in NEOM's living laboratory and immersing them in the learning of how the deliberate, responsible, innovative use of technology can improve our world and the human condition."
Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, the chair of the International Steering Council (a council composed of world leaders in education and research that advise NEOM in matters pertaining to the Education, Research and Innovation sector), added, "Dr. Cangellaris, a distinguished scholar and teacher with extensive experience in academic leadership, brings a world-class perspective to NEOM U. The ISC and I were impressed by his vision and ideas for higher education and research: He can drive NEOM U's efforts to become a destination as a global university for the best scholars and students as well as foster new pathways to academic degrees."
About NEOM
NEOM is an accelerator of human progress and a vision of what a New Future might look like. It is a region in northwest Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea being built from the ground up as a living laboratory – a place where entrepreneurship will chart the course for this New Future. It will be a destination and a home for people who dream big and want to be part of building a new model for exceptional livability, creating thriving businesses and reinventing environmental conservation.
NEOM will include hyperconnected, cognitive towns and cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues and tourist destinations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, business leaders and companies will come to research, incubate and commercialize new technologies and enterprises in groundbreaking ways. Residents of NEOM will embody an international ethos and embrace a culture of exploration, risk-taking and diversity.
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WOODBRIDGE, N.J., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph M. Lucosky, founder and managing partner of Lucosky Brookman LLP (www.lucbro.com), a leading corporate finance and securities law firm, has been honored as a "2022 Leader in Law " by NJBIZ.
The "Leader in Law" honor recognizes professionals with substantial expertise and commitment to their profession and community. Chosen by an unbiased panel of independent judges, recipients of this award are selected for their outstanding dedication to their occupation. The award is presented to New Jersey-based law professionals who have demonstrated exceptional overall performance during the past year, as well as exceptional efforts and achievements. The 2022 list of honorees includes other prominent and distinguished New Jersey attorneys.
Partner Seth Brookman commented, "The firm and I congratulate Joe for this tremendous accomplishment. After almost 13 years, we have grown to counsel dozens of NASDAQ and NYSE listed companies, over a dozen investment banks, and hosts of private equity funds and ultra-high net worth investors. This honor could not be more well-deserved. From humble beginnings to now employing over 40 attorneys, the success of the Firm under your leadership is truly remarkable. On behalf of all the attorneys at the Firm, we look forward to the next 13 years and beyond as we help small and medium-sized businesses get to the next level."
Joseph Lucosky remarked, "This recognition is truly an honor, however, this award is not solely my honor. It is earned on behalf of all of our attorneys and staff who work tirelessly on behalf of our clients' day in and day out year after year. Thank you to NJBIZ for the acknowledgement and thank you to all of our clients, colleagues, and friends who nominated us for the award."
Lucosky Brookman is a corporate finance and securities law firm with offices in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania representing both domestic and international clients in sophisticated corporate and securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions, secured and unsecured lending transactions, PIPEs, commercial and securities litigation, intellectual property, insurance coverage and defense, and general corporate matters. The Firm provides a broad range of legal services within each of its Corporate, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, Corporate Tax, Intellectual Property, and Litigation & Arbitration practice areas.
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MIAMI (AP)LaMelo Ball is finally back with the Charlotte Hornets.
The Hornets’ point guard – an All-Star a year ago – made his season debut Saturday night at Miami and was in the starting lineup. He was inactive for each of Charlotte’s first 13 games because of a sprained left ankle, an injury that occurred in the preseason.
Ball averaged 20.1 points and 7.6 assists last season for Charlotte, becoming an All-Star in just his second NBA season. A season earlier, he averaged 15.7 points and 6.1 assists on his way to winning rookie of the year.
”You’ve just got to let him play,” Hornets coach Steve Clifford said pregame, cautioning that Ball wasn’t expected to be getting his regular minutes.
The Hornets entered Saturday with a league-worst seven-game losing streak and have been gutted by injuries. Ball had yet to play this season, and Saturday’s game was the sixth consecutive contest that forward Gordon Hayward was missing with a left shoulder contusion.
Forward Cody Martin played 56 seconds in the season-opener against San Antonio, left that game with a quadriceps injury, hasn’t played since and likely won’t play for at least another month following arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Friday.
And Ball returned as the Hornets lost another point guard. Dennis Smith Jr., who started in Ball’s spot for 11 of Charlotte’s first 13 games, was sidelined on Saturday with a sprained left ankle. Smith got hurt in the overtime session against Miami on Thursday night; Clifford said he wasn’t expected to miss significant time.
But Clifford said simply having Ball at shootaround Saturday morning provided a lift.
”When a player of his caliber comes back, it makes the game easier for everybody,” Clifford said.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — A trial opened in Sweden Friday for two Iranian-born Swedish brothers charged with spying for Russia and its military intelligence service GRU for a decade.
Peyman Kia, 42, and Payam Kia, 35, appeared before the Stockholm District Court to face charges of having worked jointly to pass information to Russia between Sept. 28, 2011, and Sept. 20, 2021.
Between 2014 and 2015, Peyman Kia worked for Sweden’s domestic intelligence agency but also for the country’s armed forces. Swedish prosecutors allege that the data they gave the Russians originated from several authorities within the Swedish security and intelligence service, known by its acronym SAPO.
Swedish media reported that Peyman Kia worked for the armed forces’ foreign defense intelligence agency, known in Sweden by its acronym MUST, and worked with a top secret unit within the agency that dealt with Swedish spies abroad.
Intelligence expert Joakim von Braun told Swedish broadcaster SVT that even though many details remain unknown, it appeared to be one of most damaging cases of espionage in Sweden’s history because the men compiled a list of all the employees within SAPO.
“That alone is a big problem because Russian intelligence focuses on human sources,” von Braun said.
“The material is the absolute most secret material available,” prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told court. “It is an unusual trial in that a similar case has not appeared in Sweden in over 20 years.”
One of Sweden’s largest spy scandals took place during the Cold War when Stig Bergling, a Swedish security officer who worked for both SAPO and the armed forces, sold secrets to the Soviet Union. He was sentenced in 1979 to life imprisonment on similar charges and later escaped while serving his time, returned voluntarily to Sweden in 1994. He died in his native country in January 2015.
Peyman Kia was arrested in September 2021 and his brother in November 2021. Both denied any wrongdoing, their defense lawyers told the court.
Payam Kia, 35, helped his brother and “dismantled and broke a hard drive which was later found in a trash can” when his brother was arrested, according to charge sheet obtained by The Associated Press.
The naturalized Swedish citizens face sentences up to life imprisonment if convicted.
In a separate, unrelated case, Swedish authorities on Thursday released one of two people arrested this week on suspicion of spying against Sweden and another, unnamed foreign power.
The released individual remains a suspect and authorities didn’t explain why the other person was kept in custody.
The two were arrested Tuesday in a predawn operation in the Stockholm area. Authorities have given few details about the case, but Swedish media cited witnesses who described elite police rappelling from two Black Hawk helicopters to arrest them.
According to Swedish reports, the two are a couple and are both Russians who arrived in Sweden in the late 1990s. The AP could not independently confirm these reports. | 2022-11-25T13:56:35+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/two-swedish-men-charged-with-spying-for-russia-go-on-trial/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says 'gender identity is real'
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Saying gender identity is real, a federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment.
Judge Robert Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction, saying three transgender children can continue receiving treatment. The lawsuit challenges the law Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed shortly before he announced a run for president.
"The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear," Hinkle said, adding that even a witness for the state agreed.
Transgender medical treatment for minors is increasingly under attack in many states and has been subject to restrictions or outright bans. But it has been available in the United States for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations.
Hinkle's ruling was narrowly focused on the three children whose parents brought the suit.
Attention on the new law has focused on language involving minors, and Hinkle's ruling focuses on the use of GnRH agonists, known as puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones. The lawsuit doesn't address other language that makes it difficult to near impossible for adults to receive or continue gender-affirming care.
Hinkle said people who mistakenly believe gender identity is a choice also "tend to disapprove all things transgender and so oppose medical care that supports a person's transgender existence."
Banning treatment for minors ignores risks patients might face, Hinkle said.
Research suggests that transgender youth and adults are prone to stress, depression and suicidal thoughts, and the evidence is mixed on whether treatment with hormones or surgery resolves those issues.
Even ahead of contemplating medical treatment, experts agree, allowing children to express their gender in a way that matches their identity is beneficial, such as letting children assigned male at birth wear clothing or hairstyles usually associated with girls, if that is their wish.
"There are risks attendant to not using these treatments, including the risk - in some instances, the near certainty - of anxiety and depression and even suicidal ideation. The challenged statute ignores the benefits that many patients realize from these treatments and the substantial risk posed by foregoing the treatments," Hinkle said.
He also noted that hormone treatments and puberty blockers are often used to treat non-transgender children for other conditions, so the law makes their use legal for some, but not for others.
The three children in the lawsuit will "suffer irreparable harm" if they cannot begin puberty blockers, Hinkle said.
"The treatment will affect the patients themselves, nobody else, and will cause the defendants no harm," Hinkle said.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WXIN) – The company behind TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods has agreed to pay $13 million to settle charges that they sold products from 21 recalls, including those recalled due to the risk of infant death.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that The TJX Companies, Inc. agreed to pay the civil penalty for selling and distributing the previously recalled items.
In total, TJX had sold, distributed, or offered approximately 1,200 units of recalled products, the CSPC said.
For more than five years, TJX knowingly sold, offered for sale, and distributed dangerous recalled products through its website and its retail stores. These sales were illegal and put hazardous products into the hands and homes of unsuspecting consumers. Hundreds of inclined sleepers that pose a suffocation risk to infants as well as a wide range of other products that present choking hazards, laceration hazards and fire risks were sold after their recall date, in violation of federal law.
Alexander Hoehn-Saric, CSPC Chair
The products were sold at TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods locations, as well as online. Most of these items had been recalled “due to the risk of infant suffocation and death,” the CPSC said.
Other recalled products included a portable speaker model that posed an explosion hazard, hoverboards linked to 16 reports of burn injuries and knives that broke and caused multiple lacerations requiring stitches.
TJX acknowledged the sale of these items in November 2019 in a joint news release with the CPSC. At the time, TJX said it had become aware of the sale of 19 different products that had been recalled between 2014 and 2019. The company later reported finding additional recalled products for sale during that time.
Alexander Hoehn-Saric, chair of the CPSC, said the $13 million penalty is “near the statutory maximum” that the CPSC agency would have been able to ask for in court. Still, Hoehn-Saric worried the fine would not be enough to deter other companies from avoiding similar mistakes.
“With the market capitalization of the largest retailers calculated in the billions, a penalty of $13 million or even $100 million could easily become a cost of doing businesses,” wrote Hoehn-Saric in a statement issued Tuesday. “In order to best protect the public, I urge Congress to remove or dramatically increase the existing limits on CPSC’s civil penalty authority.”
As part of the settlement, TJX will also be maintaining a compliance program to make sure the company follows the proper protocol for recalled items, and file annual reports regarding the compliance program for the next five years. | 2022-08-03T18:40:12+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/tj-maxx-parent-company-agrees-to-13-million-penalty-for-selling-recalled-products/ |
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For more on Rand Paul's candidacy, joining us now is NPR political editor Domenico Montanaro. Welcome to the studio.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Thank you very much for having me.
CORNISH: So at today's announcement, there were actually plenty of young people in the crowd. And help us understand why that is. What is Rand Paul's appeal to young voters?
MONTANARO: And there always are at all of these Paul events; something you saw with his father, Ron, who's in his 70s and, ironically, inspired a lot of young, in particular, libertarian men. For Rand Paul, his streak of libertarianism is getting its moment now, especially because of the Edward Snowden revelations with the breadth and depth of the NSA program to track phone calls of Americans to try and detect terrorist activity. And you can hear that in the audience. When Rand Paul had that line about cell phones today, it was the largest applause line that he had. And, you know, it really resonates with young libertarians and millennials who say that they're far more alarmed by government surveillance than older voters.
CORNISH: OK, now that he's in, one of the big questions people probably have is what kind of money can he raise, right? I mean, that's been the conversation the last couple of weeks with all of these potential candidates.
MONTANARO: And we've seen so much money come into the system after the 2010 Citizens United ruling. A lot of people really wonder if Rand Paul can stack up. I have a feeling he's going to do pretty well because he has a very deep, devoted following that his father was able to capitalize on. You saw a lot of these 2008 and 2012 money bombs, as they called it, were just able to raise a million dollars in less than a day, or $2 million. And I think you're going to see a lot of those. You already saw it this morning, him raising money even before he got in.
CORNISH: OK, Domenico, you are painting a pretty strong picture here for Rand Paul. Help us understand, you know, is he a real contender in a primary?
MONTANARO: The fact is though there's a reality check a little bit for Rand Paul. I mean, his father was able to get 20 to 23 percent of the vote, especially New Hampshire, where he was able to finish in second place. But the libertarian wing only about 20 to 25 percent of the vote, and it's tough to see how Rand Paul gets above that. And the big obstacle for him really is foreign policy. When you think about what's been in the news lately - the Iran framework deal, the Islamic State militant group kind of having this rise to power in Iraq - now the hawks are back. And it's hard for Rand Paul to have his politics of peace and negotiation and somewhat of a nonintervention to really take center stage whereas it had had a little bit of a moment a year or two ago. That's very much changed this time around.
Now, when it comes to a general election, he has some other kinds of difficulties, not necessarily foreign policy, but it would be more so on fiscal policy. When he talks about the debt and bringing down the debt numbers, well, that's going to start Democrats asking questions like, well, what would you cut? And we've seen other times when Republicans have had some difficulty having to explain what they would cut, and it's not very easy to sell.
CORNISH: That's NPR's political editor, Domenico Montanaro. Domenico, thanks so much.
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Virtual Clinic For Women Focused On Menopause; Collaboration With Nationally Recognized Physicians in Women's Health; Partnering With Major Healthcare Systems
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midi Health, a virtual care clinic making expert care accessible and affordable for all women experiencing the hormonal changes of midlife, today announced the completion of a $14 million seed investment co-led by Felicis and SemperVirens. Additional investment comes from leading women's health investors including Emerson Collective, Icon Ventures, Operator Collective, Muse Capital, Steel Sky Ventures and Anne and Susan Wojcicki. Currently providing insurance covered care for patients in California, Midi will leverage the new capital to expand operations nationwide and launch partnerships with some of the largest hospital systems in the country, as well as major U.S. employers.
Hormonal changes through the menopause transition cause life-altering symptoms for 57 million American women, yet 75% of those who seek care don't get the advice and treatment they need. Many women struggle to find any support at all due to a worsening shortage of OB/GYNs and lack of even the most basic menopause training across all specialties.
Midi closes this midlife care gap with virtual care guided by nationally recognized physicians and researchers who oversee a network of nurse practitioners trained in women's midlife health. Midi offers evidence-based interventions ranging from lifestyle coaching and supplements to prescription medications, all covered by major insurance providers, including Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Cigna, Health Net and UnitedHealthcare.
"There's a huge unmet need in our healthcare system for women at this stage in life. Many practitioners lack the training to manage menopausal symptoms and specialists have nine to 12-month waiting lists," said Joanna Strober, CEO and co-founder of Midi Health. "We provide access to the most skilled professionals in female health".
Midi's funding news coincides with the addition of several clinical hires with national prominence: Chief Clinical Officer Mindy Goldman, MD, who has practiced as an OB/GYN at UCSF for three decades and served as the Director of the UCSF Gynecology Center for Cancer Survivors and At-Risk Women; and National Medical Director Heather Hirsch, MD MS NCMP, former lead physician at the Menopause and Midlife Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. They join Chief Medical Officer and Midi co-founder Kathleen Jordan, MD, former SVP of Tia women's health clinics, in guiding Midi's protocols, clinician training, and integration with hospital systems.
"SemperVirens is proud to be partnering with Midi Health as they expand nationally," said Allison Baum Gates, General Partner at SemperVirens "One million women reach menopause each year with little to no preparation for the hormonal changes which can significantly disrupt sleep, mood, energy levels and many other fundamental aspects of health. Midi has assembled the best team of experts to dramatically improve the current standard of care."
"Healthcare for women aged 40+ is one of the largest segments of healthcare that has not been transformed by digital health. The power of Midi's B2B2C model is that by partnering with health systems and employers, Midi can reach tens of thousands of women at scale in rural and urban geographies. We are thrilled to back the Midi team as they expand access to healthcare for women in mid-life," said Victoria Treyger, General Partner at Felicis.
Midi Health is the only comprehensive virtual care clinic for women navigating midlife hormonal transition. Midi supports women with expert care and hormonal and non-hormonal medications, supplements, lifestyle coaching, and vital preventative health guidance. All services are covered by insurance, and conveniently accessible through telehealth visits and 24/7 messaging. With care designed by experts, scaled by technology, and delivered by compassionate clinicians, Midi fills an immense gap in the healthcare system, and unlocks women's potential at midlife. To learn more, visit www.joinmidi.com.
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DJ Betto Arcos — host of KPFK's Global Village, L.A. man about town, and intrepid traveler — joins NPR's Arun Rath from time to time to share music from around the world. This time around, Arcos brings All Things Considered four songs from Mexico, including tracks from a contemporary singer-songwriter who blends styles from all across Latin and Central America with poetic lyrics and an 11-member fusion group from Xalapa, invested both in promoting peace and spreading "son jarocho," the traditional roots music of Veracruz. Hear their conversation at the audio link and listen to the music below.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Years before people in Jackson were recently left without running water for several days, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves claimed to have helped block money to fund water system repairs in the capital city.
Reeves, a Republican, blames Jackson's water crisis on mismanagement at the city level. The city’s latest water troubles are far from its first, and they have stemmed from decaying infrastructure beyond one water treatment plant. The EPA said 300 boil water notices have been issued over the past two years in the city.
As Reeves climbed Mississippi's political ladder, he cited his opposition to financially helping the capital as evidence of his fiscal conservatism. Jackson-area lawmakers say the troubled water system is one example of Jackson’s status as a political punching bag for Republican officials, who control the Legislature and the state Bond Commission.
“We operate under the golden rule here,” said Democratic Sen. John Horhn of Jackson. “And the golden rule is: He who has the gold makes the rules.”
In Jackson, 80% of residents are Black, and 25% live in poverty. Repeated breakdowns made it unsafe for people to drink from their tap, brush their teeth and wash their dishes without boiling the water first. At a September news conference, Reeves said water service was restored to most of the city only after the state “stepped in” to provide emergency repairs. He also said that he didn't anticipate a need for the Legislature to approve more debt for Jackson's water system.
The specter of another weather-induced water stoppage looms large for some Jackson residents. “Winter is coming,” said Brooke Floyd, a local activist. “He's saying it's fixed. But it's not fixed.”
Water service was also cut off in parts of the city due to a winter storm in 2010. By June 2011, Reeves was locked in a Republican primary campaign for lieutenant governor. As the tea party movement thrust government spending to the center of political debate, his opponent lambasted him for signing off on bond debt increases.
With election day just weeks away, Reeves — who was the state treasurer — appeared on a conservative talk radio show to push his track record as a tightfisted “watchdog” over state legislators eager to borrow. The host, Paul Gallo, wanted to know why Reeves had voted to approve most bond projects as a member of the state Bond Commission. His voting record didn’t tell the whole story, Reeves said. For instance, take the millions in bonds the city had requested to repair its crumbling water and sewer infrastructure.
“I’ve never voted against that because it’s never gotten to the Bond Commission. We are talking to the city of Jackson,” Reeves said. “If we are not comfortable, we never bring it up for a vote.”
The Bond Commission decided not to consider issuing bonds for Jackson water projects that had been authorized by the Legislature, Reeves said.
“Let's just say there is an economic development in a town that doesn't have a lot of political power,” Gallo responded. “The Bond Commission can just refuse to take it up? ... Isn't that the same thing as a negative vote?”
“It is the same thing as a negative vote,” Reeves said.
Most years, the Legislature authorizes projects in one king-sized measure, known in legislators' parlance as “the big bond bill.” Then, the Bond Commission — made up of the governor, attorney general and state treasurer — votes on whether to issue the bonds.
The commission issues most bonds that come up for a vote. In 2011, Reeves' primary opponent said Reeves voted during his two terms as state treasurer to approve too much debt. But some bonds aren't brought to a vote or are delayed, such as those proposed for Jackson water and sewer improvements.
In response to questions at a September news conference, Reeves said his recollection of what happened in 2010 is that the city never prepared the necessary paperwork to receive water bonds authorized by the Legislature. A document obtained by The Associated Press shows city leaders prepared a proposal in 2010 asking the state for $13.5 million in bonds for water system upgrades downtown. The Legislature later approved a dwarfed bond proposal for $6 million.
But after the Legislature's approval, Reeves and Republican Gov. Haley Barbour initially failed to include the city’s water project in the state bonds to be issued in the fall of 2010.
The Legislature added an application requirement for the bond, which former Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration spokeswoman Kym Wiggins told the Jackson Free Press was “exclusive” to Jackson at the time. In order to have its application approved, Reeves said the city would need to answer a number of questions about how the money would be spent.
Barbour and Reeves later relented and voted to approve the bond after city officials made commitments that included funding projects through low-interest loans, rather than the interest-free loans outlined in the legislation.
The governor's office told the AP that as state treasurer, Reeves ultimately voted to approve the bonds. But in the June 2011 interview with Gallo, he said the Bond Commission had refused to put Jackson water bonds on its agenda.
“We make the decision prior to it being on the agenda such that there is not an actual vote,” Reeves said.
Before the Bond Commission gets involved, bond bills proposed by Jackson-area lawmakers frequently fail to make it out of the Legislature.
In the 2022 legislative session, a bill that would have authorized $4 million in bonds for Jackson water and sewer improvements died in committee. Another would have appropriated money to construct a separate water system for Jackson State University, which had to bring in temporary restrooms and portable showers in August as discolored water flowed through dorm faucets.
At another September news conference, Reeves said the state gave Jackson $200 million over the last several years to address its water problems. But the numbers Reeves' office gave Jackson television station WLBT-TV include revenue generated from measures like a 1% sales tax paid only by people who shop in Jackson.
“That is not money that comes from the state of Mississippi,” said Democratic state Rep. Earle Banks of Jackson. “That is money that comes from the citizens of Jackson and people who do business in the city of Jackson.”
With population decline eroding Jackson’s tax base, voters in 2014 overwhelmingly approved a 1% local sales tax for infrastructure repairs. The Jackson city council asked for legislative approval for another election to double that local tax to 2 cents on the dollar. A bill to increase the sales tax died in the 2021 legislative session.
Reeves said Jackson needed to fix its problems with its billing system before “asking everyone else to pony up more money.”
Efforts to attract private investment by keeping taxes low have long been central to Reeves’ economic thinking.
The government does not create jobs; it simply “creates an environment which encourages the private sector to invest capital,” Reeves said in the 2011 interview with Gallo. “And the infrastructure around that is a function of government.”
Reeves said government has a role to play in building infrastructure to hasten development. Those economic principles have not been applied to Jackson, some officials said.
“Look, we can we can bury our heads in the sand and say, ‘Jackson’s problem is not our problem,’” Horhn said. “But when you hear there ain’t no water, and you can’t brush your teeth or take a crap, you strike Mississippi from the list.”
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Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mikergoldberg. | 2022-09-27T15:59:29+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Jackson-s-water-system-at-the-mercy-of-spending-17469750.php |
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. June 16, 2023.
Editorial: In defense of Trump, Vance targets the Justice Department
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance wants the wheels of justice to turn even slower.
Strike that.
The Cincinnati Republican, in a fit of pique against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, said he would “grind his department to a halt.”
Vance announced Tuesday that he would place a “hold” on Department of Justice nominations to protest what he described as “the DOJ improperly targeting conservatives.” (He excluded nominations for the U.S. Marshals Service.)
This was Vance’s unfortunate revenge for what he sees as the Justice Department caring “more about politics than law enforcement” and the indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges last week. Trump, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of improperly retaining classified documents and refusing to return them despite being given multiple opportunities to do so.
Before the indictment had even been unsealed last week, Vance had made up his mind about the case.
“We live in a third world country with a two-tiered justice system,” Vance said in a statement sent out at 9:37 p.m. last Thursday, the day the indictment became public knowledge, but before the details of the charges had been released.
He continued: “The actions of the corrupt Department of Justice should stand as a warning to all Americans: if the leader of our great nation could fall victim to such an injustice the same could happen for anybody.”
Let’s pause for a moment to remember that Trump is no longer “the leader of our great nation,” which is why he’s in trouble for hoarding classified documents. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, however much he falsely claims that he didn’t.
Nor are most Americans in danger of being charged with illegally making off with classified documents. When those who have access to government secrets willfully break the laws governing such documents, they are generally charged.
For example, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Birchum was recently sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing and retaining hundreds of classified national security documents.
Conservatives are quick to point out that both President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence also were found to have improperly retained classified documents after departing government service. The difference is that, unlike Trump, both returned the documents when they were discovered.
The Justice Department has notified Pence — who, it must be noted, is a conservative and a GOP presidential candidate like Trump, albeit one with a low chance of winning — that he won’t be charged.
Biden’s possession of classified documents is being reviewed by a special counsel. It’s a good bet that Republican outrage if Biden were to be charged would be muted, to say the least.
None of that appears to matter much to Vance and Trump’s other stalwart defenders in the GOP.
Bernie Moreno, a Republican vying to challenge U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, next year, was likewise dismissive of the charges against Trump.
In a new release sent out at 9:05 p.m. last Thursday, again before the indictment’s details were made public, Moreno dismissed the charges as more than “just blatant election interference.” They were, he said, “a miscarriage of justice.”
Nor is Vance the only Republican looking for ways to gum up the works at the Justice Department.
The Washington Post reported this week that U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, who represented Lorain County in Congress until his district was redrawn last year, was looking into creating a list of “policy riders” to attach to bills to restrict Justice Department and FBI funding.
Among the potential targets for Republicans is funding for a new FBI headquarters and the special counsel’s office.
How successful those efforts would be is questionable given that Democrats still control the Senate and that some Republicans would prefer not to be called out in campaign ads for defunding law enforcement.
Nor can Vance by himself prevent Justice Department nominees from being confirmed. At most he’ll be able to slow the process, which he, for all his bluster, seemed to realize.
“Let’s make this department work a little bit more slowly until Merrick Garland changes course and actually does his job the right way,” Vance was quoted as saying by NBC News.
The “right way” apparently involves ignoring alleged lawbreaking by Vance’s political allies.
Talk about politicizing the justice system.
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Youngstown Vindicator. June 18, 2023.
Editorial: Ohio deserves hub for nation’s Space Command
Ohio’s pivotal role in rocketing the U.S. to the pinnacle of world leadership in space exploration and research cannot be minimized.
Consider John Glenn, a Cambridge native, who marveled America by becoming the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962 in NASA’s inaugural Mercury mission. Consider Neil Armstrong, a Wapakoneta native, who seven years later “took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” as the first human to walk on the moon. Or consider, from our perspective in the Mahoning Valley, Warren native Ron Parise, who spent more than 25 days on two space shuttle missions and who was instrumental in bringing amateur radio equipment to shuttle flights.
Collectively, 25 Ohioans have served as NASA astronauts, logging more than 22,000 hours in space on more than 80 flights into outer space.
That robust history of space travel, coupled with the state’s leadership in aviation and space research, has sparked a growing chorus of movers and shakers to urge the administration of President Joe Biden to locate headquarters of the U.S. Space Command in the Buckeye State, specifically at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton with auxiliary NASA facilities in Cleveland and Sandusky.
To date, among those who have made that appeal include a bipartisan coalition of congressional representatives, including U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican Congressman David Joyce; a collection of economic development advocates, including the Youngstown / Warren Regional Chamber; and the Ohio Mayors Alliance, including Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown.
We add our voice today to that call for Ohio’s selection as the permanent hub of the Space Command, the nation’s newest military branch.
Reaching that lofty outcome, however, will not be easy. Competition is stiff for the headquarters. Space centers in Alabama and Colorado have been leading contenders, and at least three other states have been jockeying for the facility as well.
But Brown, who has taken a leading role in advocacy for this project, makes a strong case. Not only is Ohio rich in aviation and space firsts, it also is home to some of the most sophisticated space research and testing centers as well as to a growing network of technology-based industries, he argues.
Brown also makes the point that despite its recent successes, Ohio has continued to be hit hard by the lingering effects of the decline of steel and other traditional manufacturing industries in recent decades, and the federal government has not provided significant help.
In return for Ohio’s contributions to the nation’s military might and space prowess, the state has not received its fair share of federal investments, particularly in military infrastructure, many argue. Compare for example, Ohio’s paltry $2,750 federal funding per resident to Virginia’s $10,301 per capita rate, according to 2023 data from the World Population Review.
As the Ohio congressional representatives wrote in their letter to the president, “For generations, service members from the Midwest have answered the call of duty and served in our nation’s military. Yet, the Midwest is home to few active-duty military installations. The result is that while the region provides our nation with soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, few serve in the region they call home.”
In making the final selection, expected sometime later this year, we also urge decisionmakers to keep politics out of the mix. An initial decision in 2020 to locate the hub in Huntsville, Ala., reportedly was canceled over some displeasure over the Southern state’s tough anti-abortion laws in the face of a pro-choice administration. Social policy and any political debates for that matter have no place in military and national defense decision-making.
What must matter, however, is ensuring the selection of the best site for the strength of the Space Command in particular and the national defense in general. Given Ohio’s legacy of aviation expertise, its growing base of research and technology centers and its rich human and capital resources, the Biden Administration would be remiss in not giving Ohio a fighting chance at showing the world its legacy of space leadership can continue and thrive for decades to come.
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Toledo Blade. June 18, 2023.
Editorial: Ohio rich & poor
The best of times-worst of times dichotomy made famous by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities is alive and well in Ohio.
The best of times is illustrated by Ohio State University’s status as the total revenue leader in college athletics.
According to NCAA data for 2022, OSU has the only college sports program in the nation to bring in revenue of more than a quarter-billion dollars. Buckeye athletics spent more than $225 million with about 10% left as a reserve.
The worst of times is demonstrated by a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, revealing a large and growing gap between hourly wages and monthly rent.
The NLIHC report says it takes $19.09 an hour for a full-time worker to afford the average two-bedroom apartment in Ohio.
Seven of the top 10 job categories in Ohio pay less than $19 an hour and make it difficult for workers to pay the $993 monthly rent here. Registered nurses, truck drivers, and managers are the only widely sought Ohio job categories that pay enough to keep housing costs to a third of monthly income.
The sports programs at the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University can relate to the problem of too little money and too many costs.
The NCAA statistics show UT as 97th in revenue with $35.6 million coming in, and the exact same amount being spent on Rocket athletics. BGSU has it much worse: 130th in athletic revenue with nearly $25.6 million trailing all Mid-American Conference schools, except Northern Illinois. Both universities get more than half their athletic revenue through mandated fees paid by students. Ohio State is 100% self-funded.
Sports gambling in Ohio covers college athletics, and bettors watch more game broadcasts, driving up the ratings and that increases the rights TV must pay the college conferences for their games.
The universities will all get some of that money, much more to Ohio State than UT and BGSU, but they will all get something.
The low-pay Ohio work force has no one helping them make a decent living. In fact, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and NFIB-Ohio are working against them through support for State Issue 1.
The business groups want to make it hard to amend the Ohio Constitution because they fear a citizen-driven ballot issue to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour.
For the many Ohio businesses who cannot find entry-level workers at any price, day-to-day operations are as challenging as running the athletic programs at UT or BGSU. A high-profile campaign by state business groups to keep Ohio wages low will be counterproductive to economic success.
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Columbus Dispatch. June 15, 2023.
Editorial: Anti-American bills will enslave minds of Ohio students
Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, news of freedom reached still-enslaved Black people in Galveston,Texas, on June 19, 1865.
That critical and complicated moment in American history will be celebrated Monday during Juneteenth, a holiday celebrated in the Lone Star State since June 19, 1866, and one that drew national attention during calls for justice and unrest sparked by the slaying of George Floyd in 2020 and several other Black Americans at the hands of police.
Two years after President Joe Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday, truths at the center of the holiday’s existence are disturbingly under attack around the union on nearly every level of education.
Much attention has been placed on Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade against so-called wokeness, but Ohio has more than its share of anti-knowledge bills pending at our Statehouse.
They masquerade as attempts to protect the minds of vulnerable Ohio children, but these democracy- corroding bills seek to erase historical facts. Moreover, they would open the doors for the furtherance of the racism and white supremacy that fueled America’s original sin and continues to divide far too many who should be united.
Intellectual shackles will be forced on Ohio’s future leaders as their minds are enslaved with lies and/or incomplete truths.
As philosopher George Santayana wrote in 1905, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Sinister bills proposed for Ohio’s future.
Proponents of these deceptive bills say they want to save students from “indoctrination” or any shame that would come with learning harsh historical facts.
Their truth is the direct opposite. These bills will blind our children to history and fire holes into democracy and true patriotism. House Bill 103 and Senate Bill 83 are prime examples.
Approved in May, Senate Bill 83 — the disingenuously named "Enact Ohio Higher Education Enhancement Act" — takes aim at academic freedom, how so-called controversial topics like "climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage or abortion" are discussed, and the anti-racism efforts sparked by the 2020 protests and unrest that led to the federal Juneteenth holiday.
Unapproved by the House, the sweeping education reform package was added Wednesday to the Ohio Senate’s version of the state’s two-year budget.
Titled Establish Ohio Social Studies Standards Task Force, House Bill 103 would have a committee rewrite the state's K-12 social studies standards, replacing them with the American Birthright model from The Civics Alliance, a coalition of right-wing and conservative groups. The standards emphasize Western history, American exceptionalism, patriotism and Christianity over civic engagement.
The National Council for the Social Studies, which represents over 10,000 social studies educators, has raised the red flag about the standards.
"If implemented in schools, these suggested standards would have damaging and lasting effects on the civic knowledge of students and their capacity to engage in civic reasoning and deliberation," a statement from the council reads.
Demand emancipation in Ohio
As with other “emancipation day” celebrations, Juneteenth comes with picnics, festivals and other events.
But with the wave of book banning and legislative attacks on honesty, we must recognize Juneteenth as a reminder of where we’ve been as a nation. It is a call for freedom and justice.
The truth of America’s rich and complicated history will be distorted in Ohio if these anti-American bills are approved by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
Ohio’s students deserve truthful examinations and discussion of the complex events and people who make us who we are. We cannot condemn them to repeat the past when it is very possible for them to create a future that benefits all Ohioans.
The truth does not imprison the mind. It liberates it.
The minds of Ohio’s students must be emancipated if we are to be truly free.
END | 2023-06-19T19:20:51+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/editorial-roundup-ohio/ACGCOAD2RJDLFIUMV6TYS3LNQQ/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A defense mental health expert in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz can pinpoint when he realized the 23-year-old mass murderer still has "irrational thoughts" — the two were making small talk when Cruz began describing plans for an eventual life outside prison.
Wesley Center, a Texas counselor, said that happened last year at the Broward County jail as he fitted Cruz's scalp with probes for a scan to map his brain. The defense at hearings this week will try to convince Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer that Center and other experts should be allowed to testify at Cruz's ongoing trial about what their tests showed, something the prosecution wants barred.
“He had some sort of epiphany while he was in (jail) that would focus his thoughts on being able to help people,” transcripts show Center told prosecutors during a pretrial interview this year. “His life's purpose was to be helping others.”
Cruz, of course, will never be free. Since his arrest about an hour after he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, there has never been any doubt his remaining years would be behind bars, sentenced to death or life without parole. Surveillance video shows him mowing down his victims with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle and he confessed, eventually pleading guilty in October.
Prosecutors made their argument for death to the seven-man, five-woman jury and 10 alternates over three weeks, resting their case Aug. 4 after the panel toured the still-bloodstained, bullet-pocked classroom building where the massacre happened.
The jurors also watched graphic surveillance videos; saw gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos; received emotional testimony from teachers and students who witnessed others die; and heard from tearful and angry parents, spouses and other family members about the victims and how their loved one's death impacted their lives. They watched video of the former Stoneman Douglas student calmly ordering an Icee minutes after the shooting and, nine months later, attacking a jail guard.
Soon, it will be Cruz's attorneys arguing why he should be spared, hoping to convince at least one juror their mitigating factors outweigh the prosecution's aggravating circumstances — a death sentence must be unanimous.
But first, the trial took last week off to accommodate some jurors' requests to deal with personal matters. The jury will also be absent this week as the sides argue before Scherer, who will decide whether brain scans, tests and other evidence the defense wants to present starting Aug. 22 is scientifically valid or junk, as the prosecution contends.
Center's test and its findings will be subject to contentious debate. Called a “quantitative electroencephalogram” or “qEEG," its backers say it provides useful support to such diagnoses as fetal alcohol syndrome, which Cruz's attorneys contend created his lifelong mental and emotional problems.
EEGs have been common in medicine for a century, measuring brainwaves to help doctors diagnose epilepsy and other brain ailments. But the qEEG analysis, which has been around since the 1970s, goes a step farther — a patient's EEG results are compared to a database of brainwaves taken from normal or “neurotypical” people. While qEEG findings cannot be used to make a diagnosis, they can support findings based on the patient's history, examination, behavior and other tests, supporters contend.
A “qEEG can confirm what you already know, but you can't create new knowledge," Center told prosecutors in his interview.
Dr. Charles Epstein, an Emory University neurology professor, reviewed Center's findings for the prosecution. In a written statement to Scherer, he said EEGs using only external scalp probes like the one given Cruz are imprecise, making Center's qEEG results worthless.
“Garbage in, garbage out,” he wrote.
Florida judges have given mixed rulings about allowing qEEGs since 2010, when the test helped a Miami-area man escape a death sentence for fatally stabbing his wife and severely wounding her mentally disabled 11-year-old daughter. Some judges have since allowed their admission, while others barred them. Scherer, who is overseeing her first death penalty trial, has never had a case where the defense tried to present a qEEG report.
Even if Scherer bars the test, lead defense attorney Melisa McNeill and her team still have evidence that Cruz's brain likely suffered damage in the womb, including statements by his late birth mother that she abused alcohol and cocaine during pregnancy.
They also have reports giving circumstantial evidence of his mental illness. Cruz got kicked out of preschool for hurting other children. During his years in public school, he spent significant time at a center for students with emotional issues. He also received years of mental health treatment.
Then there are his life circumstances. Cruz's adoptive father died in front of him when he was 5; he was bullied by his younger brother and his brother's friends; he was allegedly abused sexually by a “trusted peer;” he cut himself and abused animals; and his adoptive mother died less than four months before the shooting.
His youth will also be an issue — he was 19 when the shooting happened.
Attorneys not involved in the case say if Scherer wants to avoid having a possible death sentence overturned on appeal, she should give the defense wide latitude on what it presents so jurors can fully assess his life and mental health.
“If it's a close call, I think she is going to bend to the defense — and the prosecution is not going to be happy,” said David S. Weinstein, a Miami criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor.
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Credit: Mike Stocker | 2022-08-14T15:07:33+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/school-shooters-brain-exams-to-be-subject-of-court-hearing/PICHIGINLJDM5BOOQPWZ6LUEQA/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — Deputies arrested a Florida man after they said he tried to bring a gun and extra magazines into Disney Springs on May 27. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said they were called to Disney Springs after they got a call about someone carrying a gun.
When deputies arrived, they said they took a black and bronze 9 millimeter Glock 19 with no assigned serial number, two extra magazines loaded with 17 rounds of ammo each, a small box with 14 more rounds of ammo inside and a waistband holster.
OCSO said they then took 35-year-old Aaron Josue Lopez into custody.
An arrest affidavit said Disney’s security system alerted staff when Lopez walked through it. He was taken to a bag checkpoint where he told security he had a folding knife in his bag.
After security told him they would still need to search his bag, he allegedly told them, “Oh there’s something else in here besides a knife that I want to put back in my car,” and tried to walk away.
The document states a Disney cast member stopped him and took him to an Orange County deputy. The guns and ammo were found in Lopez’s backpack.
Deputies said Lopez told them the gun didn’t have a serial number because he didn’t submit the paperwork to get one assigned yet. Deputies also could not find a valid conceal firearm license in any databases, though Lopez claimed he had one.
Lopez was charged with carrying a concealed firearm without a license. He was also trespassed from all Disney properties. | 2022-06-24T03:41:43+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/florida-man-tried-to-bring-gun-extra-ammo-into-disney-deputies-say/ |
An Oklahoma school board has approved what would be the first taxpayer-funded religious school. It's a virtual school and opponents say they'll take legal action against it.
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An Oklahoma school board has approved what would be the first taxpayer-funded religious school. It's a virtual school and opponents say they'll take legal action against it.
Copyright 2023 KOSU | 2023-06-07T09:18:53+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-06-07/oklahoma-oks-what-would-be-the-nations-first-publicly-funded-religious-school |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Retired Air Force Col. Joseph Kittinger, whose 1960 parachute jump from almost 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth stood as a world record for more than 50 years, died Friday in Florida. He was 94.
His death was announced by former U.S. Rep. John Mica and other friends. The cause was lung cancer.
Kittinger, then an Air Force captain and pilot, gained worldwide fame when he completed three jumps over 10 months from a gondola that was hoisted into the stratosphere by large helium balloons. Project Excelsior was aimed at helping design ejection systems for military pilots flying high-altitude missions.
Wearing a pressure suit and 60 pounds of equipment, Kittinger almost died during the project’s first jump in November 1959 when his gear malfunctioned after he jumped from 14.5 miles (23 kilometers). He lost consciousness as he went into a spin that was 22 times the force of gravity. He was saved when his automatic chute opened.
Four weeks later, Kittinger made his second jump from just over 14 miles (22 kilometers) above the surface. This time, there were no problems.
Kittinger’s record jump came on Aug. 16, 1960, in the New Mexico desert. His pressure suit malfunctioned as he rose, failing to seal off his right hand, which swelled to twice normal size before he jumped from 102,800 feet — more than 19 miles (31.3 kilometers) above the surface.
Free falling in the thin atmosphere, the Tampa native exceeded 600 mph (965 kph) before the gradually thickening air slowed his fall to about 150 mph (241 kph) when his parachute deployed at 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers).
“There’s no way you can visualize the speed,” Kittinger told Florida Trend magazine in 2011. “There’s nothing you can see to see how fast you’re going. You have no depth perception. If you’re in a car driving down the road and you close your eyes, you have no idea what your speed is. It’s the same thing if you’re free falling from space. There are no signposts. You know you are going very fast, but you don’t feel it. You don’t have a 614-mph (988-kph) wind blowing on you. I could only hear myself breathing in the helmet.”
His record stood until 2012, when Austrian Felix Baumgartner jumped from 24 miles (38.6 kilometers) above the New Mexico desert, reaching the supersonic speed of 844 mph (1,360 kph). Kittinger served as an adviser.
Kittinger stayed in the Air Force after his jumps, serving three tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was shot down over North Vietnam in May 1972, but ejected and parachuted to Earth. He was captured and spent 11 months in a Hanoi prisoner of war camp, undergoing torture.
He retired from the Air Force in 1978 and settled in the Orlando area, where he became a local icon. A park is named there is named after him.
He is survived by his wife, Sherri. | 2022-12-10T19:34:48+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-joseph-kittinger-who-set-longtime-parachute-record-dies/ |
MULBERRY, Ark. — Two Crawford County Deputies were suspended and a Mulberry Police Officer is on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing a violent arrest, causing outrage on social media.
In the video, the three law enforcement officers are seen on top of the suspect, allegedly using excessive force, at a convenience store in Mulberry, Arkansas on Sunday, Aug. 21. The suspect is identified as Randall Worcester, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina.
According to Sheriff Jimmy Damante with the Crawford County Sheriff's Office (CCSO), around 10 a.m. Sunday, Alma police officers were called about a man making terroristic threats to a convenience store employee. Worcester allegedly spit on the employee and threatened to "cut off their face."
Sheriff Damante says Worcester then traveled on a bike to Mulberry, near Exit 20, where the Mulberry officer and the deputies met with him. The conversation began calm, but the sheriff says Worcester then began attacking one of the deputies by pushing him to the ground and punching the back of his head, leading to what was seen in the video.
In the video, the deputies and the officer are seen holding Worcester down on the ground, kneeling on him and slamming his face to the ground.
WARNING: Video below contains graphic content some may find disturbing:
Arkansas State Police are now investigating the incident while CCSO holds an internal investigation.
The CCSO released the following statement on Facebook:
"In reference to the video circulating social media involving two Crawford County Deputies, we have requested that Arkansas State Police conduct the investigation and the Deputies have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter."
Sheriff Damante says the deputy was told to go to the hospital to get checked for their injuries.
The man, whose identity has not been released at this time, was booked into jail and then taken to an area hospital. The extent of his injuries is not known at this time. He faces charges of terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, 2nd-degree battery, trespassing, aggravated assault and being in possession of an instrument of crime, according to Sheriff Damante.
The Mulberry Police Department released the following statement regarding the incident:
"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department is aware of the video circulating on social media involving one of our officers. The Arkansas State Police have been asked to investigate the incident. The officer is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions. We will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of the investigation."
As of Sunday night, the video has been shared on social media thousands of times.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson released the following statement on Twitter regarding the incident:
The Mulberry Mayor, Gary Baxter, released the following statement:
To the Citizens of Mulberry,
I was contacted by Mulberry Police Chief Shannon Greggory around 1:30 p.m. this afternoon making me aware of an incident with one of our officers that took place around 11 a.m. this morning. I was also made aware of a video taken by a bystander showing the incident that was circulating social media.
I, like many of you, was shocked and sickened by what I saw. I immediately coordinated with our police chief to ensure appropriate policy was followed resulting in the officer being placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation and requesting investigation by the Arkansas State Police as an outside agency. I then coordinated a response with Chief Greggory to inform the media and our citizens, via social media, to make them aware of city actions. The Arkansas State Police are investigating the incident and will provide the results when completed. I have been coordinating all afternoon with appropriate individuals and agencies ensuring the City of Mulberry is taking the proper actions. Once the investigation by the Arkansas State Police is completed, we will take the results of the investigations very seriously and take any actions necessary to ensure this never happens again. We have continually instructed our officers to respond professionally in all situations. I want to assure you, the citizens of Mulberry, and those who visit our city, that Mulberry Police Officers will treat all people with dignity and respect. Should this ever show not to be the case action will be immediate and decisive. Our officers are trained and briefed on how to respond appropriately to any incident. The safety and security of all who come in contact with our officers is our top priority and will endeavor to the best of my ability to make sure this is always the case.
No further details have been released at this time. We will update you with more information as it becomes available.
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Former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro arrived back in Brazil on Thursday after three months in Florida.
Hundreds of supporters had gathered in Brasília, the capital city, to greet Bolsonaro when he landed, but he was escorted out a side exit. Bolsonaro went directly to his Liberal Party's headquarters and was greeted by more supporters to chants of "the captain has returned."
While in Florida, Bolsonaro frequently met with supporters, largely Brazilian expats, and conservative groups.
Bolsonaro narrowly lost his bid for reelection last October to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He never conceded defeat and left Brazil for Florida just days before Lula's inauguration.
Echoing election denial claims in the U.S., Bolsonaro claimed that Brazil's electronic voting system was prone to fraud, and his supporters have claimed the election was rigged.
On Jan. 8, his supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential office. Bolsonaro condemned the attacks on Twitter and denied bearing any responsibility for them.
In Brazil, the former army captain faces more than a dozen investigations, six of which are criminal probes, complicating his political future and possible run for president.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-30T18:43:57+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/world-news/news/2023-03-30/former-president-bolsonaro-returns-to-brazil-after-three-months-in-florida |
TAMPA, Fla, (AP)The New Orleans Saints were five minutes away from moving within a half-game of NFC South-leading Tampa Bay when the bottom fell out of the game, and most likely the season.
Tom Brady threw a pair of touchdown passes in the final three minutes Monday night as the Buccaneers rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat the Saints 17-16.
”It’s frustrating to not come out with the win when you’re up 16-3 in the fourth and you lose,” Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan said. ”That’s sort of been the story of the year, and that’s not winning football.”
The loss guarantees a losing season for the Saints (4-9), while Tampa Bay (6-6) tops the division.
Brady tossed a one-yard TD pass to rookie Cade Otton, finishing a 91-yard drive to pull within 16-10 with three minutes remaining. He got the ball back with 2:29 to go and won it with a 6-yard scoring pass Rachaad White with three seconds left.
”It makes it tough because I felt like we had an opportunity really to win this game,” New Orleans coach Dennis Allen said. ”And we didn’t finish, and we didn’t get it done.”
Andy Dalton threw for 229 yards and a touchdown without an interception for New Orleans, but the Saints failed to take advantage of opportunities to put the score out of reach by settling for three short field goals.
”There’s only four games left and it’s unfortunate that we keep having to say the same thing over and over again,” Dalton said. ”The missed opportunities have hurt us. We’ve had chances in a lot of games this year. We haven’t made plays when we needed to. It has affected the game and it’s been the same outcome.”
Dalton threw an incomplete pass intended for Marquez Callaway on a 3rd-on-1 at the Tampa Bay 44 with the Saints up 13 and 5:34 to play.
”It was 1-on-1 over there and I tried to give him a chance,” Dalton said.
The Saints took a 10-3 halftime lead on Dalton’s 30-yard scoring pass to Taysom Hill and a 38-yard field goal set up by Demario Davis’ interception. It was also only the eighth takeaway for New Orleans’ defense in 13 games.
Jordan forced a fumble that led into a 12-play drive that Wil Lutz finished with a 21-yard field goal to make it 13-3 late in the third.
The Saints were without cornerback Marshon Lattimore (abdomen) for the eighth consecutive game. Safety P.J. Williams also sat out with a knee injury.
Linebacker Zack Baun left in the third quarter with a ankle injury.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL | 2022-12-06T23:15:44+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/nfl-football/saints-allow-2-late-tds-in-frustrating-17-16-loss-to-bucs/ |
Tiger Woods visits Augusta National on Sunday
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Tiger Woods is on the grounds at Augusta National.
The five-time Masters winner was on-site Sunday, shaking hands and sharing laughs with Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley and longtime TOUR peer Jason Day. Woods has not officially announced his intention to play in the coming week’s Masters, but he was included on the pre-tournament press conference schedule (11 a.m. ET Tuesday), providing a clue. He is also included in the main portion of the Masters website’s invitee list, above the “Past Champions Not Playing” section.
Woods last competed on TOUR at The Genesis Invitational in February, making the cut and finishing T45. He carded 4-under 67 in the third round at Riviera CC, his lowest score in competition since returning from his 2021 car crash.
The lack of a formal announcement from Woods seems to imply that his recovery from competing at Riviera has gone as planned and that he will be ready to compete Thursday. Woods, 47, made his competitive return from the 2021 car crash at last year’s Masters, making the cut and finishing solo 47th.
Woods also competed at last year’s PGA Championship (made cut, WD after 54 holes) and The Open Championship (missed cut), in addition to the PNC Championship in December alongside son Charlie.
Following the final round at Riviera, Woods made clear his intention to compete in all four major championships this year if his body allowed.
“I’m not going to play any more than probably the majors and a couple more … that’s it, that’s all my body will allow me to do,” Woods said at Riviera. “My back the way it is, all the surgeries I had on my back, my leg the way it is. I just can’t. That’s just going to be my future.
“So my intent last year was to play in all four majors, I got three of the four. Hopefully this year I can get all four and maybe sprinkle in a few here and there. But that's it for the rest of my career. I know that and I understand that. That's just my reality.”
For the golf world at large, any reality that includes Woods at the Masters is an appreciative one. | 2023-04-03T19:34:43+00:00 | pgatour.com | https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2023/04/02/tiger-woods-visits-augusta-national-on-sunday |
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Bills players and coach Sean McDermott expressed heartfelt emotions about Damar Hamlin on Thursday when speaking publicly for the first time since their teammate collapsed and went into cardiac arrest during Monday night’s football game in Cincinnati.
The Bills were encouraged by uplifting news on Hamlin’s health earlier on Thursday. You can watch video of the press conference featuring McDermott, quarterback Josh Allen, center Mitch Morse, and defensive back Dane Jackson.
“This press conference is about Damar Hamlin whom we love,” McDermott said. “It’s about his parents, Mario and Nina and their extended family. We continue to pray for them during this time and Damar is and remains our No. 1 concern.”
Allen and McDermott both got choked up with emotion while sharing their feelings.
“Being on that field,” Allen said before an extended pause. “You lose sleep. You’re hurt for your brother. A lot of shared grief.”
Allen said that hearing positive updates on Thursday, “eases so much of that pain and that tension that you feel.”
“We heard that news this morning and there’s nothing that could have been told to us to bring our day down,” Allen added. “We’re extremely happy for him and his family. You know, we just want to love up on him. The next chance we get, I don’t know when it’s going to be, hopefully if we get to see him anytime soon, it’s going to be awesome.”
The sentiment was shared by many around the country, including President Joe Biden, who said in a tweet: “Great news. Damar, like I told your mom and dad yesterday, Jill and I – along with all of America – are praying for you and your family.”
Hamlin’s closest teammate
“It’s a huge relief,” said Jackson, a childhood friend and college teammate of Hamlin’s at Pitt. “I think the worst part about everything is the unknown, like us not knowing his status or anything like that.”
“But just as a player, as that being our brother and him being so close, you’re just wondering is he going to be all right in the end,” Jackson continued. “So once we got updates and once we got feedback, it just started to make us feel a little better.”
Jackson recalled Hamlin’s words of encouragement when he was being loaded into an ambulance with a neck injury during a Monday night Bills game earlier this season.
“Him saying, ‘I love you, D-Jack,’ I just remember that distinct voice,” Jackson said. “The whole team was saying it. But I just remember that distinct voice in my head, and that replayed with me on the whole way to the hospital. So just the bond that we have. … I look at pictures today and I see him standing right there, literally hovering over me as I’m getting carted off. So that goes to show you the type of bond me and him have and how we’re always there for each other.”
Jackson was not surprised to learn that Hamlin asked doctors if the Bills won the game shortly after he awakened and was able to communicate in writing.
“I really wouldn’t expect him to say anything else, honestly,” Jackson said. “I just know what type of person he is. He’s a true warrior. He’s a fighter. He’s always going to come out with some type of joke or whatever. It doesn’t matter how severe the situation is. He always has a joke. Or I know the first thing he’ll say to me when he’ll get back is something crazy. I just know it. I can’t wait for it, honestly. That’s what I’m really waiting for. But that’s just the type of person he is, man. He always wants to win. He’s a true fighter. And he’s a winner.”
Compassionate coach
Allen praised McDermott’s leadership during the harrowing hour after Hamlin collapsed on the field.
“The way he handled it, he was the perfect man in that situation to handle that.” Allen said. “That type of situation. I can’t say enough about what he did, what he said to us in the locker room. Obviously, just a dire circumstance that nobody’s expecting. Nobody’s ready for, there’s nothing that you can train about. You can never put yourself in that situation until it happens.”
Morse described the scene in the Bills locker room Monday night, when players were discussing whether to go back on the field, and McDermott deferred that decision to them.
“There was no way in hell that we were ready to go out there and play a game,” Morse said. “To play this game, as you know, where you have to be mentally to be on the field, not only for yourself and your well-being, but for others around you, it just would’ve done a disservice for everyone. And there was just no chance. So we’re very thankful for that opportunity, and to kind of collectively come together and do that.” | 2023-01-10T22:39:59+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/josh-allen-says-damar-hamlins-progress-eases-so-much-of-that-pain-for-bills-teammates/ |
CALGARY, AB, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL) (NYSE: PBA) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a common share cash dividend for September 2022 of $0.2175 per share to be paid, subject to applicable law, on October 14, 2022, to shareholders of record on September 23, 2022. As previously announced, Pembina's Board of Directors approved a $0.0075 per common share increase to its monthly common share dividend rate to $0.2175 in connection with the closing of the Pembina Gas Infrastructure transaction. The common share dividends are designated "eligible dividends" for Canadian income tax purposes. For non-resident shareholders, Pembina's common share dividends should be considered "qualified dividends" and may be subject to Canadian withholding tax.
For shareholders receiving their common share dividends in U.S. funds, the September 2022 cash dividend is expected to be approximately U.S. $0.1655 per share (before deduction of any applicable Canadian withholding tax) based on a currency exchange rate of 0.7611. The actual U.S. dollar dividend will depend on the Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange rate on the payment date and will be subject to applicable withholding taxes.
Pembina pays cash dividends on its common shares in Canadian dollars on a monthly basis to shareholders of record on the 25th day of each month (except for the December record date, which is December 31st), if, as and when determined by the Board of Directors. Should the record date fall on a weekend or a statutory holiday, the effective record date will be the previous business day. The dividend payment date is the 15th day of the month following the record date. Should the payment date fall on a weekend or on a statutory holiday, the business day prior to the weekend or statutory holiday becomes the payment date.
Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a leading energy transportation and midstream service provider that has served North America's energy industry for more than 65 years. Pembina owns an integrated network of hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas pipelines, gas gathering and processing facilities, oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics services, and a growing export terminals business. Through our integrated value chain, we seek to provide safe and reliable infrastructure solutions which connect producers and consumers of energy across the world, support a more sustainable future and benefit our customers, investors, employees and communities. For more information, please visit pembina.com.
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To be the leader in delivering integrated infrastructure solutions connecting global markets:
- Customers choose us first for reliable and value-added services;
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- Communities welcome us and recognize the net positive impact of our social and environmental commitment.
Pembina is structured into three Divisions: Pipelines Division, Facilities Division and Marketing & New Ventures Division.
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In particular, this news release contains forward-looking statements relating to: future dividends which may be declared on Pembina's common shares; the timing and the amount of such dividend payments; and the expected tax treatment thereof. The forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that Pembina has made in respect thereof as at the date of this news release regarding, among other things: the success of Pembina's operations and growth projects; prevailing commodity prices, margins, volumes and exchange rates; that Pembina's future results of operations will be consistent with past performance and management expectations in relation thereto; the availability of capital to fund future capital requirements relating to existing assets and projects; future operating costs; that all required regulatory and environmental approvals can be obtained on the necessary terms in a timely manner; prevailing regulatory, tax and environmental laws and regulations; maintenance of operating margins; and the availability of coverage under Pembina's insurance policies (including in respect of Pembina's business interruption insurance policy).
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eight employees were indicted last month on accusations of patient abuse and evidence tampering at a state-run facility for adults with intellectual disabilities.
One man is accused of striking the face of a 19-year-old patient at Warrensville Developmental Center in Highland Hills, leaving him with marks the next day. A female employee allegedly dragged a patient into his room by his shirt.
Another woman allegedly pushed that same 19-year-old away when he tried to reach for an item she held. He became upset and another employee “aggressively restrained him.” And another male employee is accused of physically assaulting another victim during his shift.
All told, eight employees were charged Nov. 3 in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas with 17 counts of patient abuse, tampering with evidence, and falsification. Patient abuse is a fourth-degree felony in Ohio, punishable by between six and 18 months in prison. Evidence tampering is a third-degree felony, punishable by nine to 36 months.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol originally investigated an allegation into one worker at the facility, but a grand jury in 2019 declined to indict him. The state attorney general’s office later picked up the case, leading to a range of indictments alleging abuse that occurred between 2018 and 2020. It’s unclear how and why the investigation snowballed over time.
In a statement, Ohio Department of Disabilities spokeswoman Allie Dumski said the department prioritizes the health and safety of residents at its facilities and has a robust system in place to report and investigate allegations of abuse. Five of the workers have been terminated, and three more (including one accused of patient abuse) are on paid administrative leave.
“When allegations of abuse arise, DODD immediately places staff on leave while conducting an internal investigation,” she said. “DODD moves to separate with employees when serious allegations are substantiated and refers suspected criminal activity to law enforcement. Employees who are indicted on criminal counts must report to DODD for review.”
Warrensville is one of eight facilities operated by the department serving 630 adults around the state with intellectual disabilities. They provide a range of programmatic, medical, behavioral, and residential services.
The initial allegations
What follows are allegations derived from investigatory documents provided by the OSHP, and information from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office, which took up the case after investigation by the state attorney general’s office.
The investigation started after an alleged incident on Oct. 24, 2018. Terrance Shambley was providing one-on-one care to a 19-year-old man, according to documents, and the two didn’t know one another.
Video footage cited in the OSHP report only captures part of the interaction between the two but shows the victim’s feet “go airborne” before he’s pulled back into his room. The victim later exits the room, the report said, the left side of his face red.
Shambley initially told an OSHP investigator that nothing happened. He later said he remembered that the victim tried to run out of the room, so he grabbed his shirt, causing the man to fall.
Another patient at the facility who witnessed the incident struggled to communicate with the OSHP investigator. But when asked what happened, he made a hand gesture of two fists hitting one another.
The OSHP declined to interview other patients who may have witnessed the event, determining them not “functional” enough to provide evidence.
Prosecutors presented evidence to a grand jury in January 2019 on a potential charge of patient abuse and neglect. The grand jury declined to indict Shambley. State payroll records indicate he kept receiving paychecks through March 16, 2019.
After the renewed investigation, however, he faces charges of patient abuse and evidence tampering after additional evidence was submitted to a grand jury. An attorney for Shambley declined comment.
Further investigation
Based on the expanded investigation from the attorney general, the prosecutors alleged a broader range of patient abuse as well as lying to investigators about what happened.
About a month after the Shambley incident, two care workers engaged in a similar scuffle with the same 19-year-old patient. Monique Williams allegedly pushed him away from her when he tried to reach an item she held. The patient became upset, at which point Michael Webb, another care worker, “aggressively restrained” him, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office.
They’re both accused of patient abuse and evidence tampering. Payroll records indicate Williams is still employed at the facility. Webb’s last pay period ended Feb. 2, 2019.
An attorney for Williams did not respond to an inquiry. Court records indicate Webb has not yet retained counsel.
Two other employees are accused of abusing two other patients.
Michelle Starr allegedly dragged a patient by his shirt into his room during her shift on Nov. 18, 2018 and later “tackled” him in the hallway. She faces charges of patient abuse and tampering with evidence, and also of falsification, a misdemeanor.
Payroll records show her last pay period ended Feb. 6, 2019. Gary Levine, an attorney for Starr, said given the physical sizes of his client and the alleged victim that it’s a “physical impossibility” for the abuse to have occurred.
“It seems rather curious that this is alleged to have occurred four years ago,” he said. “Why are they bringing this now?”
Christopher Collier, another care worker, allegedly physically assaulted a 31-year-old female resident during his April 1, 2020, shift. He’s charged with patient abuse, tampering with evidence and falsification.
Payroll records indicate his last pay period ended July 4, 2020.
Three employees who witnessed the incident – Ryan Robinson, Tawanna Jordan, and Leyland Walker – are accused of tampering with evidence and falsification (not patient abuse) for allegedly falsifying statements to investigators.
Payroll records indicate Jordan and Robinson still work at the facility. Walker’s last pay period was in May 2022. An attorney for Jordan noted that she kept her job, and that she was neither present for nor a participant in the alleged abuse.
Jake Zuckerman covers state politics and policy for Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. Read more of his work here. | 2022-12-02T21:48:09+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/open/2022/12/eight-charged-with-patient-abuse-evidence-tampering-at-state-hospital-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities-in-cleveland.html |
As Russian President Vladimir Putin massed his military on Ukraine's border in late 2021, many analysts doubted Putin would actually invade.
But not Dmitri Alperovitch.
"He was seeing Ukraine slip away from his orbit. And when he saw that he could no longer control it, it was pretty clear to me that he was going to try to move in and attempt a regime change," said Alperovitch.
Americans and others who closely studied the Communist leadership of the Soviet Union used to be called "Kremlinologists." Now there's a new generation of analysts who could be called "Putinologists," those seeking to understand Russia today by deconstructing its leader and the war he's waging in Ukraine.
Alperovitch was born in Moscow and came to the U.S. at age 13 in 1994. He's never returned to Russia, though that country — and Putin — have shaped his life.
He was a founder of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which often investigated Russian computer hacks, like the 2016 breach of the Democratic National Committee.
Here's how he describes the Russian leader: "I've always viewed him as a gambler. Most of the time he's gotten lucky. (Ukraine) is the one gamble that's probably his biggest, which has not worked out well so far."
Alperovitch now heads Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think tank with a strong focus on Russia and Putin.
"I think 'Putinologist' is a good tag line," said Alperovitch. "He sees himself as a new czar, that he has more power today as a Russian leader than really anyone has since (Soviet dictator Josef) Stalin."
From Kremlinology to Putinology
Kremlinolgists tried to interpret the Soviet Union from fragmentary information coming out of highly secretive Communist leadership, which often consisted of multiple factions.
Some analysts argue against Putinology, saying it's too simplistic to interpret a sprawling country like Russia through the study of one man. Some say the notion of an all-powerful leader also plays into the hands of Putin, who would like Russian citizens and the wider world to believe he has control over all aspects of Russia.
Yet Putin has consolidated his hold on Russia throughout his more than two decades in power, and critical decisions — like invading Ukraine — are widely seen as the work of Putin alone.
This has created a demand for Putinologists — like Julia Ioffe — who accepts the label with some reluctance.
"It's something I fought for a long time," said Ioffe, who writes for Puck News and is often interviewed by other news organizations. "But at the same time, people in the West have a really hard time understanding him. Somebody needs to translate him for the West. So OK, I'll do it."
She left Moscow for the U.S. with her family at age 7 in 1990. In college at Princeton, she initially planned to be a doctor.
"But I couldn't resist Soviet history and switched tracks," she noted. "I kept trying to do something else and kept getting sucked in professionally. So I've basically been doing this, in one form or another, my whole professional life."
That included a three-year stint in Moscow a decade ago. Her editor at the time suggested she write a column called "Kremlinology 2012."
"It was supposed to be a kind of tongue-in-cheek thing because it was like, 'Who does Kremlinology anymore?'" she recalled. "But the system was becoming more and more and more Soviet, and there were fewer and fewer ways to get into it, to understand it. So, it's back."
Ioffe traveled to Russia until a few years ago. She often writes about the way Putin shaped Russian society and prepared it for his military adventures.
"He created this cult around World War II. That glorifies war. That sanctifies war. And then once a war starts, it's pretty easy to convince Russians that this is a war just like that and that they need to go in and do it," she said.
A specialty that nearly disappeared
Michael Kofman says emphatically he should not be called a Putinologist. He's an expert on Russia's military — a specialty that nearly vanished when the Soviet Union collapsed.
"The field of Russian military studies had almost died or was on life support," he said. "So I found myself in many respects trying to work to help revive the field."
Kofman does this with his work at the Center for Naval Analyses, a government-funded research group. He's also a regular on podcasts, including appearances with Alperovitch.
He was born in Ukraine when it was still part of the Soviet Union and left at age 10, just before the 1991 Soviet breakup.
Kofman often returns to Ukraine and was there last October for a close-up view of the war. Despite his deep knowledge, he's wary of making predictions.
"Military analysts like myself thought the war was going to come, but got the initial period of war — how the Russian military was going to actually invade and how those early weeks were likely to shake out — wrong ourselves. So I spent time updating my views," he said.
He expects to go back to Ukraine. But none of these analysts plan to visit Russia in the near term.
"I would love to go back and see, and just feel how the city and the country are experiencing this war, just to get a pulse, just to get a temperature check," said Ioffe.
But she adds, "You can go to jail for spreading 'fakes about the Russian army.' It feels incredibly risky to go."
Dmitri Alperovitch knows he would not be welcome.
"One of the most bizarre things that's happened to me last year is getting sanctioned by Russia, the country that I was born in," he said. "It is somewhat of a badge of honor, but nevertheless there's certainly a bittersweet feeling about it."
Putinologists may now be in great demand, but incurring the wrath of the Kremlin is an occupational hazard.
Greg Myre is an NPR national security correspondent. He has covered the war in Ukraine and was based in Moscow from 1996-99 with The Associated Press. Follow him @gregmyre1.
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"The T stands for transgender,” a teacher explains in a video on a Maine Department of Education website launched during the coronavirus pandemic.
“A transgender person is someone who the doctors made a mistake about when they were born,” the teacher says in the lesson plan targeted at kindergartners. “But some people, when they get a little bit older, realize what the doctors said was not right.”
Republicans later produced an ad accusing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who is running for reelection against GOP former Gov. Paul LePage, of using state money to create “radical school lessons.” Within hours, the lesson disappeared from the website, and Mills’ spokesperson said the governor was on board with its removal.
While most Democrats support the rights, safety and visibility of LGBTQ adults and children, they're struggling to counter a barrage of GOP attacks on LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people. With measured responses and occasional capitulation, Democrats like Mills are aiming to avoid getting sucked further into culture wars that serve mostly to galvanize the Republican base.
But as Democrats largely avoid direct confrontations, some LGBTQ people say they feel abandoned.
“Our lives and our existence are being used as political fodder to ramp up the GOP base, and they’re not coming to our defense,” said Deja Alvarez, a transgender woman who finished third in the Democratic primary in a heavily LGBTQ state legislative district in Philadelphia. “They’re not rallying the troops and saying, ‘Hey, we can’t stand for this.’”
Democrats are hardly silent on LGBTQ issues.
As Pride month began this week, President Joe Biden tweeted his support for LGBTQ rights. He recently named Karine Jean-Pierre as the first openly gay White House press secretary and was critical of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this year after he signed legislation to ban the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
Even after she distanced herself from the Department of Education video, Mills released a statement this week ticking through LGBTQ-friendly legislation she has signed. She insisted that if she is reelected, Maine "will remain a safe and welcoming place to live for LGBTQ people.”
And in Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers warned that if he loses in November, Republicans will take steps to ban books, especially those with LGBTQ themes.
Evers' approach is one activists say more Democrats should embrace this election year. They want to see candidates go beyond prepared statements celebrating Pride month and instead place LGBTQ issues more at the center of the campaign while warning of the specific consequences of Republican victories.
“These are the kinds of actions we need people to take," Alvarez said, “but not just because it's Pride month.”
The problem may be that even allies are not prepared to speak on the issues, which allowed the framing of LGBTQ people as a threat to catch on, said Fran Hutchins, executive director of the advocacy group Equality Federation.
In this election cycle, Republicans have zeroed in on the discussions banned by the Florida bill dubbed by opponents as “Don't Say Gay”; the participation of transgender students in competitive sports, even though such conflicts are rare; and gender-affirming care for children.
“The root of why this is happening is a real lack of familiarity with and lack of understanding for trans folks and what it’s like to be transgender,” Hutchins said.
One notable exception has been Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic state senator from Michigan who gave an impassioned speech in response to an invocation from a Republican lawmaker who claimed McMorrow, who is running for reelection, wanted to “groom” and “sexualize” kindergarteners.
The video of McMorrow’s reaction speech and a related Twitter thread were widely celebrated, but there remains a sense — even by McMorrow — that she fell on a sword other Democrats are dodging.
“There is a difference between politics and outright hate,” she said in April, pondering the reaction to her speech. “I think people are frustrated that elected officials haven’t done enough to call that out, that maybe Democrats are afraid of talking about religion and faith openly and honestly and calling hate what it is."
Labeling education about sexual orientation and gender identity as “grooming” connotes the methods sex offenders use to molest children, and is part of a push by conservatives to speak to parents' fears by equating such education with pornography and pedophilia.
The teacher in the Maine video, Kailina Mills — no relation to the governor — said in a Facebook post that she has taught transgender and nonbinary preschoolers and that they deserve to be represented in the curriculum, the Portland Press Herald reported.
“Public schools are for everyone and should, therefore, include everyone,” the teacher said.
When the narrative that such issues are inappropriate or dangerous becomes embedded in the minds of voters, pushing back can indeed be politically problematic. But activists said there are larger issues to consider.
“It goes well for candidates when they stand up and say what their real values are and say what they believe about what’s really going on with legislation,” said Liz Seaton, policy director for the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund. “When they speak the truth from values, they will be speaking from their heart, and their constituents will respond.”
Annise Parker, a former Houston mayor who is now CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund and Institute, a nonpartisan organization that works on behalf of LGBTQ candidates, agreed that LGBTQ allies running for office have a responsibility to “stand up and speak out when any of those marginalized communities are attacked.”
Political observers and activists noted parallels in today’s rhetoric with that around same-sex marriage in the 1990s and 2000s.
It was only 10 years ago that former President Barack Obama — on the heels of Biden, his vice president — endorsed same-sex marriage. That was 16 years after another Democratic president, Bill Clinton, signed the law that blocked it.
Both presidents were running for reelection and may have been hostages to public opinion, which by Obama’s time had swung the other way. Same-sex marriage soon became legal throughout the United States, and the public now sees the sky didn’t fall as predicted, advocates said.
But now “conservative forces are using the tactics of ‘othering’ us very effectively again ... and they are making trans activists look radical when all they’re looking for is the right to exist,” said Jonathan Lovitz, a gay man who ran against Alvarez and other candidates in last month’s Democratic primary in Philadelphia and placed second.
A poll released in April by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that overall, Americans lean slightly toward expanding discussions of sexuality in K-12 classrooms. And some observers say it’s only a matter of time before today’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric stops working in Republicans’ favor.
Lovitz encouraged Democrats to set aside political concerns as LGBTQ people feel increasingly targeted.
“Be a vocal and visible ally even if it costs you endorsements and donations. Stand up for what you believe in; otherwise you’re not an elected official, you’re just a weather vane,” he said. “We don’t need fair-weather friends right now.”
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Follow Jeff McMillan at http://twitter.com/jeffmcmillanpa. | 2022-06-04T06:18:43+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/LGBTQ-people-urge-Democrats-to-forcefully-reject-17219242.php |
WASHINGTON – The House Jan. 6 committee may have outlined a potential criminal case against Donald Trump, but it doesn't actually bring the former president any closer to prosecution.
The Justice Department already has been conducting its own wide-ranging investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The special counsel overseeing that inquiry has given no indication of what charges he might bring, but he's under no obligation to take the committee's criminal referral into account or to follow the prosecution roadmap laid out by the panel.
“This is historic, that a Congressional committee has recommended criminal charges against a former president, but it does not change the fundamental fact that the Justice Department gets to decide who should be charged with crimes,” said Ronald Weich, the dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law and the department's former assistant attorney general for legislative affairs.
“The Justice Department,” he added, “should not be influenced by another branch of government.”
The panel referred Trump for possible prosecution for four separate criminal offenses, related both to the riot itself and his efforts to cling to power. Those include allegations he aided the insurrection, conspired to defraud the United States by trying to prevent the transfer of power, conspired to make a false statement through an alleged scheme involving so-called “fake electors” and obstructed an official proceeding — the counting by Congress of electoral votes.
At least some of those potential charges cover general areas the Justice Department is known to already be investigating.
Prosecutors in June, for instance, issued a flurry of subpoenas to Republicans who served as “fake electors” in battleground states won by Trump. Trump and allies pressured authorities in those states to replace Biden’s electors with ones for him on specious or nonexistent allegations that his victory was stolen.
Easily the most consequential statute invoked by the committee is one that makes it a crime to either incite or aid an insurrection or rebellion against the government. The statute bars anyone convicted of it from holding future office.
It's unclear how seriously the Justice Department might consider such a statute, which has not been used in any of the more than 900 federal prosecutions of the Capitol rioters themselves.
In the executive summary of the report, the committee says Trump was directly responsible for summoning to Washington supporters who later stormed the Capitol, and notes how a federal judge earlier this year — in refusing to dismiss lawsuits against Trump by Democratic lawmakers — held that Trump's speech to a crowd of loyalists that day “plausibly” led to the riot.
But the committee's suggestion that Trump could be held accountable for his inaction during the riot, including by not dispatching the military to the Capitol or by waiting hours to tell the crowd to disperse, may make sense on a “gut level” but is a theory the Justice Department is likely to be wary of, said Rory Little, a professor at UC Hastings Law in San Francisco.
“The danger of that idea, that standing by and watching an insurrection happen, when you might be able to do something about it, that’s a pretty dangerous precedent to set,” he said. “American criminal law doesn’t generally punish people who just stand by and watch.”
Still, the criminal referrals will almost certainly accelerate demands for action by Attorney General Merrick Garland from Democrats and members of the public who regard the referral, and the accompanying evidence being transmitted to the Justice Department, as a template for prosecution.
And the committee — whose chief investigative counsel is a former U.S. attorney — also has earned broad credibility for its information-packed public hearings and for a sprawling investigation that included interviews with more than 1,000 people.
There have also been instances in which judges have agreed that there is basis to suspect Trump of wrongdoing.
In March, a federal judge in California, in authorizing the release to the House committee of more than 100 emails from conservative lawyer and Trump adviser John Eastman, asserted that it was “more likely than not” that Trump had committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the election. The judge, David Carter, cited in his ruling two of the same statutes — conspiring to defraud the U.S. and obstructing an official proceeding — as the committee did in its report Monday.
The committee has already made multiple referrals for contempt of Congress that the Justice Department has taken up. Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was convicted in July of defying a congressional subpoena, and former adviser Peter Navarro is awaiting trial on similar allegations.
But there’s a distinction between the Trump referrals on Monday and those involving Bannon and Navarro, Weich said. Under the contempt of Congress law, Congress is itself the victim and the Justice Department is obligated to present the case to a grand jury, he said.
That’s different from the Trump referral, where Congress is reporting a broader crime, one they’ve framed as an attack on democracy.
And more broadly, the burden of proof faced by the committee -- which did not need to cross-examine witnesses or test evidence before a jury -- is vastly different from what the Justice Department would have to establish in court.
“It’s a completely different judgment,” said Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor in Washington who teaches law at George Washington University.
“Congress is making a political judgment. They’re not prosecutors, it’s not their role to make those decisions, and they’re not trying to prove these allegations beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury.” | 2022-12-20T22:13:48+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/12/20/trumps-fate-in-hands-of-justice-dept-after-jan-6-report/ |
Third Annual Event Invites Entrepreneurs, Investors and Startups to Join the Discussion on Innovating for a Better Life
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics announces the return of the LG NOVA Innovation Festival, Oct 25 - 26, 2023 at the historic Hibernia in San Francisco. Hosted by LG NOVA, LG Electronics' North America Center for Innovation. The two-day event invites startups, entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders and the broader innovation ecosystem to come to learn, engage in discussions and interactive idea sharing, and connect with their peers in person.
The festival, which celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit, is an annual gathering of innovators working on big ideas, such as next-generation technologies in digital health, immersive AI and metaverse, cleantech, sustainability, mobility, smart life solutions and other emerging areas. This year's event will be focused on "growth through innovation" and taking the next steps toward achieving the vision of a better, more sustainable future. The focus on growth builds upon the momentum from last year's event, which brought together innovators from around the world to initiate collaborations on building for a better tomorrow.
The festival will also center on LG NOVA's "Mission for the Future" initiative, a purpose-driven effort to stimulate collaboration and create momentum across the ecosystem to develop viable solutions for the challenges facing people and the planet today.
The Innovation Festival program will feature thoughtful keynotes, presentations from tech luminaries and ample opportunities for attendees to actively participate in interactive sessions, including:
- Startup pitch competition - Fifteen selected startups will compete to win cash prizes and recognition in front of a judging panel of corporate executives, investors and industry veterans. Interested startups can submit their companies for consideration at www.lgnova.com/innofest/call-for-startups.
- Session lead, discussion facilitator and idea presenter - Apply to speak, present an idea, or lead an interactive discussion at the Innovation Festival. Speaking and moderating opportunities are available. Learn more at www.lgnova.com/innofest/call-for-speakers.
- Interactive sessions - The festival will host ad-hoc presentation opportunities, interactive discussions and workshops, and audience engagement sessions. Come ready to participate and share ideas and stories.
"LG NOVA is committed to working with trailblazing startups to co-create truly innovative businesses that will lead us to a better tomorrow. We have a unique approach to doing this; we're bringing various innovation stakeholders together for thoughtful, proactive discussions on how to best solve the challenges in front of us. And we're offering attendees the opportunity to build meaningful relationships that can help fuel their business growth and success," said Dr. Sokwoo Rhee, LG Electronics, senior vice president of innovation and head of LG NOVA. "Our goal is for the Innovation Festival to create energy and excitement for the work we need to do together to create a better future."
At the 2023 Innovation Festival, startups, entrepreneurs and businesses will also have the opportunity to network with LG NOVA's team of entrepreneurs-in-residences and learn about the LG NOVA program and how to collaborate with LG to accelerate business growth. Learn more at www.lgnova.com.
Registration for the Innovation Festival is now open at innofest.lgnova.com.
About LG NOVA
LG NOVA, the North American Innovation Center for global innovation leader LG Electronics, is a team focused on bringing innovation from the outside to LG. LG NOVA is based in Santa Clara, Calif. The center's mission is to build, nurture and grow innovations that impact the future. Learn more about LG NOVA at www.lgnova.com.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $68 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, solar energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is a ten-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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CHAMPAIGN — The Braggin’ Rights memories abound whenever Illinois and Missouri are about to tip off.
Like they are at 8 p.m. Thursday in the 53rd installment of the series.
Sold-out arenas in downtown St. Louis, with a chill in the air when fans head inside.
Whether it was at the Checkerdome, the old Arena or at the various versions of the current Enterprise Center (previously the Kiel Center, Savvis Center and Scottrade Center).
Team colors split down the middle.
Orange and blue on one half. Black and gold on the other half.
Cheering one second, jeering the next.
The really big trophy. Like taller than Kofi Cockburn, Brian Cook, Lowell Hamilton, Jeremiah Tilmon, Doug Smith and Steve Stipanovich. Combined (only slightly exaggerating here).
Guards have thrived, too, in this pre-Christmas environment (only three games in the series history have happened after Dec. 25 and none, thankfully, since 1996) that sees players scatter back to their respective homes once the game ends.
Rayvonte Rice’s buzzer-beater in 2014, Tracy Abrams’ late free throws in 2013 and Dee Brown’s four straight wins from 2002-05 (the one-man fast break averaged 16.8 points, 6.3 assists and 4.8 assists in never losing to the Tigers) stand out this century.
Folks who were in attendance the night of Dec. 19, 1988, won’t forget Kenny Battle’s high-flying dunks and jump-shooting ability en route to 28 points as the sixth-ranked Illini downed the 10th-ranked Tigers 87-84 in arguably one of the best Braggin’ Rights games of the 52 played so far between the two programs.
They won’t forget, either, the sight of Illinois guard Kiwane Garris missing two free throws at the end of the second overtime on Dec. 22, 1993, during the final Braggin’ Rights game at the Arena. Garris did finish with 31 points, but the 108-107 triple-overtime thriller went in favor of Missouri in the highest-scoring game in the history of the series.
Legendary coaches Lou Henson and Norm Stewart made the series what it is, moving the games away from campus sites to its rightful home in St. Louis.
Henson compiled a 12-7 record against Stewart, winning his last Braggin’ Rights game and doing so fittingly with an 96-85 overtime triumph on Dec. 20, 1995 (Garris redeemed himself with 23 points, eight rebounds and eight assists). Conversely, Stewart won his final Braggin’ Rights game, with the Tigers earning a 67-62 win on Dec. 22, 1998.
Five different Illini coaches have roamed the sidelines in the Braggin’ Rights since Henson, each to varying degrees of success. Lon Kruger won his first one, but then dropped his final three games. Bill Self (no surprise here) won all three of his games against the Tigers and Bruce Weber started fast with six straight wins before Illinois lost its final three games with him in charge. John Groce only secured one NCAA tournament win in his five seasons with the Illini, but he went a sterling 4-1 in Braggin’ Rights games. Brad Underwood needs to win Thursday night’s game to get to .500 in the series, with Missouri winning three straight against the current Illini coach from 2018 through 2020.
Missouri has gone through six coaches since Stewart stepped away in 1999, with Quin Snyder never beating the Illini in seven tries. Mike Anderson and Frank Haith had a bit more luck in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but Kim Anderson did not celebrate a win against Illinois during his three forgettable seasons in charge of the Tigers. Cuonzo Martin went 3-2 against the Illini in his five seasons, but couldn’t sustain consistent success, meaning Dennis Gates gets his first crack at the rivalry on Thursday night.
Good news if you’re an Illini fan: Illinois leads the all-time series 33-19. Bad news if you’re an Illini fan: Illinois is 5-7 when the game is played on Dec. 22.
Regardless, if you’re going to the game, good luck getting there and safe travels. A massive winter storm is set to drop on the area at some point Thursday.
If you’re staying home or watching the game at your favorite spot (here’s your warning: find the SEC Network now instead of searching in vain at 8 p.m. Thursday), bust out the Christmas cookies, wrap some last-minute gifts and enjoy.
Braggin’ Rights is one of the most established nonconference rivalries in college basketball these days. With even more memories sure to unfold.
Matt Daniels is the sports editor at The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-373-7422 or at mdaniels@news-gazette.com. | 2022-12-22T11:37:07+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/sports/daniels-braggin-rights-means-only-one-thing-joy/article_504c10f8-e300-5761-8fc3-bc7a7a8dbce6.html |
MANLY MAN CO. OFFERS TO 'TAKE THE HEAT' FOR YOUR FATHER'S DAY FUMBLE
VISTA, Calif., June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In direct response to a recent and shocking survey revealing that 26% of Americans are forgetting Father's Day gifts, Manly Man Co. (America's provider of intriguing, never-boring gifts for men,) is offering to take the heat this year for forgetful Americans.
The first of its kind 'alibi' concept is that Manly Man Co. will take the heat from the Dads of absent minded Americans who have left Father's Day until the last minute. The reality is that If you haven't bought a Father's Day gift by yesterday, it's probably not going to make it on time.
How does it work?
Americans can visit Manly Man Co. at manlymanco.com/alibi and purchase their alibi for $1 to send along with their late gift. They can enter their Dad's name along with the chosen alibi. They will have the option of choosing between serious or mostly humorous excuses such as:
2023 ALIBIS:
Sorry [RECIPIENT FIRST NAME] It's totally our fault, your package is arriving late. [CUSTOMER FIRST NAME] had reserved your [OCCASION] gift months ago. But [ALIBI]
- It was intercepted by a drug sniffing dog who ate it…. so we had to make another.
- Murder hornets and train derailments caused some unforeseen delays.
- We gave it to the mailman (Steve), he thought it was a gift for him and ate it…. so we had to make another.
- As I'm sure you've heard, there's been a lot of 'must see tv' on the last few weeks, so we're a little behind on shipping.
- We spent some additional time making it 'extra manly for you' and that (of course) takes a few more days.
- Turns out carrier pigeons are not as reliable as they used to be, which burned a few days before we tried using FedEx.
- The record setting ice storm in the Midwest this week got in the way.
- Adam from our shipping team was playing hide and seek with your package, and we couldn't find it for a few days.
- Someone keeps pranking us by changing the dates on our calendars so everything is late now. We think it's Adam from the warehouse.
- Unforeseen national shipping delays delayed it several days
- As I'm sure that you have heard, there's another ship blocking the port near your city so it's been unavoidably delayed.
Men seem (mostly) okay with Dad's Day deceptions:
In a Manly Man Co. survey of 1000 Americans, asked if they 'would pay for an airtight late Father's Day excuse,' 69.5% of Men said 'yes' vs. only 53.0% of women.
Overall, 9.5% of Americans said 'yes' and 5.8% said 'yes if they didn't get caught.'
Who do Americans usually blame for late Father's Day Gifts?
asked who they blame when a Father's Day gift is late, COVID topped the list at 10.7%, followed by US Mail/Couriers 9.3%, undefined 'global shortages' (7.9%), Kids (5.9%), Porch pirates (5.7%) and 'vendors who they bought a present from' (5.3%).
American Men are much more likely to blame 'porch pirates' (62.0%) than women (38.0%).
See the full survey results here
PLEASE ATTRIBUTE THIS AS A SURVEY BY MANLY MAN CO. IN ALL MEDIA COVERAGE
All is not lost, for Americans looking to up their Father's Day gift game, Manly Man Co. has some interesting and innovative options.
Manly Man Co's Father's Day gift line-up:
What says you love your 'manly man' Dad more than a dozen beef jerky 'flowers' in a handsome bouquet delivered in a pint glass vase?
Ditch the pretty flowers for the perfect meat-based manly version.
$69.00 for 8, $89.00 for a full dozen, available in 3 flavors.
The perfect flowers for Dad are edible! This arrangement includes an assortment of individually packaged thick-cut slices of gourmet bacon... not the regular grocery store stuff, this is cooked in mama's kitchen. Each bouquet is delivered ready to enjoy and includes:
(5x) Smokehouse - Sweet & Spicy, (5x) Smokehouse - Sweet, (5x) Smokehouse - Habanero Heat,
and (5x) Smokehouse - Thai Curry.
$69.00
Based on our extremely popular Original Meathearts, Carnivores can now enjoy packs of mini laser-etched beef jerky hearts, laser engraved with Father's Day sentiments such as "#1 Dad" and "My Hero. " Each beef Jerky Father's Day heart is made in the USA at The Manly Man Co.'s Southern California headquarters.
$24.50
- Laser-Etched Heart Shapes
- Laser-Engraved Slogans & Designs
- Slogans: #1 Dad®, My Hero, Best Friend, Pop U Rock!
The Valentine's edition Meathearts famously sold out in one hour, broke Manly Man Co's servers due to so much traffic and shattered daily sales records! We're expecting the same with the brand new Father's Day Edition Meathearts.
Why would any man want a boring cardboard card when they could get a custom card laser-etched on beef jerky? Customers are encouraged to print whatever message they want to deliver directly to their 'manly man' Dad. (We don't judge.)
$23.99 for 100 custom characters laser engraved on a card-sized (4"x9") sheet of delicious beef jerky.
Here's another radically superior beefy bouquet choice for Dad. It's a tasty and tasteful arrangement of gourmet beef sticks in multiple flavors.
$59.00
(includes 5x smokehouse beef sticks, 5x Teriyaki Beef Sticks and 5x smokehouse hot and spicy sticks.)
Sure, you want to gift Dad a King of the remote, Free Movie Night (Dad's Choice,) Free Day of No Kids Whining' and Free Car Wash coupon book … but what if dad could have his coupons and eat them too? Manly Man Co. has invented the world's first 'Carnivore friendly' Father's Day coupon book made of original smokehouse flavour beef jerky laser-etched with coupons of your choice.
Dad gets something to chew on and must rip out the beef jerky coupon and eat it to redeem.
Each book has your choice of our favourite coupons or it can be customized on demand. The cover page is customizable with up to 4 kids' names.
$69.00 for 6 pages
$89.00 for 8 pages
Available for purchase as of June 1st, 2023.
Cheekily based on traditional ties (the most predictable of Father's Day gifts), the 'Manly Man' version lets you gift your tie and eat it too. Crafted in delicious beef jerky and laser cut in the shape of a tie, the Meat-tie gives Dad something to talk about (and chew on.)
The 'ties' feature Father's Day sentiments such as 'My Hero,' and '#1 Dad.'
$23.50
Available for purchase as of June 1st, 2023.
About Manly Man Co.
Manly Man Co. was born out of a desire to revolutionize gifting for men. Founder Greg Murray recognized the need for unique and captivating gifts that cater to men's interests and preferences. With a commitment to quality, craftsmanship, and innovative designs, Manly Man Co. continues to redefine the gifting experience for men across the country.
Manly Man Co. is A Veteran-Owned Business
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MEXICO CITY, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V. ("Grupo Bimbo" or the "Company") announces the successful issuance in the Mexican market of Sustainability-linked Bonds (Certificados Bursátiles) for a total amount of approx. $850 million dollars, which represents the largest corporate Sustainability-linked Bond (SLB) in the history of the Mexican market, and the largest transaction so far during the year.
The issuance included two series: the first series of approx. $680 million dollars, with a 10- year maturity and a 9.24% annual fixed rate; the second series of approx. $170 million dollars, with a 3-year maturity and an annual floating rate of 28-day TIIE +0.10%.
The Company will use the proceeds from this offering primarily to repay bank debt, to continue strengthening its financial flexibility.
The bonds are linked to Sustainability Performance Targets aligned to the net zero-carbon emission strategy of Scope 3, which accounts approximately for 90% of Grupo Bimbo's carbon footprint. The Company obtained a second- party opinion (SPO), who rated the Sustainability Performance Targets of this issuance as material and relevant, according to market standards.
"We tapped the Mexican market once again, this time through our first ESG- labelled bond, ranking the fifth SLB for Scope 3 globally and the first in Latin America, in line with our ambitious global long-term sustainability strategy. This transaction strengthens our financial position while reaffirming our sustainability commitments, specifically our undertaking to become a net zero-carbon Company by 2050", said Diego Gaxiola, CFO of Grupo Bimbo.
The Sustainability Linked Bond Framework is available at: https://www.grupobimbo.com/en/sustainable-financing-framework.
Grupo Bimbo once again recognizes and acknowledges the support of investors and BBVA, HSBC and Santander, the financial institutions that acted as joint bookrunners.
ABOUT GRUPO BIMBO
Grupo Bimbo is the leader and largest baking Company in the world and a relevant participant in snacks. Grupo Bimbo has 215 bakeries and plants and more than 1,600 sales centers strategically located in 34 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Its main product lines include sliced bread, buns & rolls, pastries, cakes, cookies, toast, English muffins, bagels, tortillas & flatbreads, salty snacks and confectionery products, among others. Grupo Bimbo produces over 9,000 products and has one of the largest direct distribution networks in the world, with more than 3.4 million points of sale, more than 56,000 routes and over 143,000 associates. Its shares trade on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) under the ticker symbol BIMBO, and in the over-the-counter market in the United States with a Level 1 ADR, under the ticker symbol BMBOY.
Contact: ir@grupobimbo.com
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A majority of Americans have felt the long reach of the nation's gun violence epidemic in one way or another.
That's one of the takeaways from a national poll released on Tuesday by KFF, a nonprofit that focuses on health care research.
Specifically, the poll found about one in five people report having a family member who was fatally shot. The same share say they have been threatened with a gun. One in six said they have personally witnessed a shooting.
The findings give a sense how gun violence pervades the daily lives of millions in the U.S. and shapes everyday decisions. The majority of respondents said they take at least one precaution to stay safe from the possibility of gun violence. About a third said they avoid crowded venues like music festivals and bars. More than 40% said they had sought out weapons to protect themselves or had tried to learn how to handle a gun or shoot a gun.
Of those who live in a home with a gun, a startling three in four report at least one gun is either unlocked, loaded or stored with ammunition, according to the survey.
The results come from a nationally representative sample of 1,271 adults.
NPR spoke to Ashley Kirzinger, KFF's director of survey methodology, about what the data show about public perceptions of gun-related violence.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Selena Simmons-Duffin: I was just looking at President Biden's statement about Monday's shooting in Louisville. He wrote about those killed and injured and "the survivors who will carry grief and trauma for the rest of their lives." That struck me in the context of what your new poll has found: The majority of people in the U.S. say they are worried at least sometimes about gun violence. And about 10 percent say they worry daily.
Ashley Kirzinger: Yes, These experiences have led to real worry among American families and also have changed how we act in the world. That is one of the things that's striking to me.
I have reported on life expectancy in this country, and the availability of guns is part of the reason why U.S. life expectancy lags behind similar wealthy, developed countries. And gun deaths encompass not just interpersonal violence, but also suicide and injuries.
There are accidental shootings, or instances of children getting access to guns because guns aren't stored safely. One of the things that was most shocking to me from the poll findings was the share of parents with guns in their homes that are either storing them not locked or with the ammunition or loaded.
And we know that guns are now the leading cause of death among people under the age of 20 [in the U.S.]. We hear a lot about mass shootings — and not to negate what happens in a mass shooting — but the majority of gun incidents in this country are not mass shootings. They are domestic incidents. What we sought to do in this project was to try to better capture the pervasiveness of gun violence in this country.
One in five have had a family member who's been killed by a gun. One in five have witnessed a shooting. Nearly one in five have been threatened with a gun. You put it all together and a majority of adults in this country have either personally experienced or had a family member experience one of these incidents of gun violence.
I can relate to the fears about gun violence. I live in Washington D.C. There have been daytime shootings within blocks of my house, including at the park where my kids play. It's interesting that the survey showed more than eight in ten people have changed something in their lives to protect themselves or a loved one from the possibility of gun violence.
It's impacting all of our decisions – decisions to take public transit, to go out at night, to go to festivals. One in five parents have either thought about changing where their kid goes to school or have. So it's not just the horrible news about another mass shooting, but the long tail that this has on all aspects of our lives. We're a nation living in fear.
This constant stress and worry affects people's health, too – that's another layer.
We know that one of the other major epidemics that's happening in this country is mental health. We've done a lot of polling around mental health and we know parents are more stressed out than anybody, and one of the reasons why they're stressed is because of their kids' safety.
One of the reasons why we want to embark on this type of research is because you hear a lot about gun violence, but there are really no national surveys measuring it at the individual incidence level to really understand how commonplace it is.
What [this polling] allows us to also do is to look at the disparities. One in three Black adults have had a family member who's been killed by a gun in this country. That is really upsetting. They're also, understandably, more worried – more likely to say it's a constant threat that they're worried about. Then, of course, it's going to lead to more chronic mental health issues and more stress.
I was also interested in the findings about public awareness. Only half of people surveyed knew that in the U.S. more than half of gun deaths are from suicide and that guns are now the leading cause of death for people under age 20. What are the ramifications of that limited public awareness?
[Many people] think of gun violence as these mass shootings, and they don't think of the guns in their homes as the types that would be used in mass shootings. And there's a lack of awareness that most gun-related incidents are accidents or suicides or something that's taking place in the home.
Very few gun owners say that they've had a doctor even ask them if they have a gun in their home. And if they have, even fewer say that they've spoken to them about storing that gun safely – either in locked locations or unloaded or at least away from the ammunition. This shows an opportunity for doctors and pediatricians to have conversations about gun safety with their patients.
There's so many things in this country that are polarizing, [including] which sources people trust. But, as we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic – on most health care issues, including gun violence, people trust their doctors and their pediatricians. That's the reason why they go to them. And so normalizing those conversations really is an opportunity for health practitioners to get involved.
Edited by: Will Stone contributed to this story
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-11T11:50:48+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2023-04-11/more-than-half-of-americans-have-dealt-with-gun-violence-in-their-personal-lives |
BALTIMORE, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, emocha Health, the leading digital medication adherence platform, announced that it has been recognized for Medication Adherence Management in three 2022 Gartner Hype Cycles: Digital Care Delivery; Life Science Commercial Operations; and Consumer Engagement and Experience in Healthcare and Life Sciences.
emocha Health, with its proven 360° video-based Directly Observed Therapy technology, has already cemented itself as an industry leader. emocha Health is the top provider in medication adherence within the public health market, with more than 400 health department partners and additional customers across Medicaid health plans, health systems, clinical trials, and academic research programs.
"These reports offer valuable insight into the market saturation and perceived value of medication adherence management," said Sebastian Seiguier, CEO of emocha Health. "Even more, we're thrilled to see innovative medication adherence solutions featured as valuable resources in reducing health inequities and creating positive outcomes for historically underserved populations."
All three Gartner Hype Cycles show Medication Adherence Management sliding into the "Trough of Disillusionment," the stage of an innovation where interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. emocha Health's video-based approach is uniquely poised to weather the "Trough of Disillusionment," and help Medication Adherence Management move towards the "Slope of Enlightenment" where understanding, stability, and usability grows as more enterprises adopt the innovation.
As a path forward, the Gartner Hype Cycle reports identified several obstacles and recommendations for the industry. emocha Health addresses all of these through its highly personalized and comprehensive medication adherence program. Through daily asynchronous video check-ins with an engaged care team, emocha Health addresses a broad range of medication adherence issues while delivering a convenient experience for patients — making it simple for any patient to learn and embrace healthy behaviors. In addition, emocha Health's history of working closely with underserved populations and addressing social determinants of health, perpetuates a unique and science-backed ability to bridge healthcare inequity gaps.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
emocha Health's 360° model of care builds on Directly Observed Therapy by combining technology and personalized video coaching to engage patients with diabetes, opioid use disorder, asthma, COPD, hepatitis C, and other chronic and infectious conditions. emocha Health has partnered with health plans, hospitals, health centers, and managed care organizations to improve adherence rates for vulnerable populations across the globe. Learn more at www.emocha.com.
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BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) – Jack Rabbit, a popular restaurant and bar in the Elmwood Village wants to be able to have two concerts annually starting next year, in their parking lot, but there’s been some opposition to those events from residents in the area.
Last year, Jack Rabbit had concerts here, which were met with some complaints on noise and congestion and trash.
At a public hearing Tuesday, one resident said that she felt her windows and walls shaking and had to leave her home due to the concerts.
Jack Rabbit is requesting a special use permit to host their anniversary celebration concert with live music through the day and night ending at 10 p.m., the second concert would be their end of the summer bash also ending at 10 p.m., with as many as 1,400 people attending both events.
“Live, local musicians who have been supporting us since we were open and we’d like to continue that we’ve had hundreds of Buffalo musicians come through and play our stage and they are all chomping at the bit, in the parking lot, because it’s such a great time for the community,” said Kevin Sampson of Jack Rabbit.
Jack Rabbit says that these events will be safe and secure with security personnel on site and the restaurant would work with the community to minimize unnecessary noise.
“The windows of my house, every single one of them shook the entire time I had to leave my home and I could still hear it a half mile away I can provide the recording for you it was loud enough to hear the lyrics,” one resident said at the public hearing in opposition to the idea.
It’s possible that council members could approve one concert and then see about allowing two, council will address this permit at a later date.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
518 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of west central Starr
and south central Zapata Counties through 545 PM CDT...
At 518 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Lopeno to near Falcon Heights. Movement
was west at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Lopeno, Falcon Heights, New Falcon, Falcon State Park, Falcon Dam and
Salineno.
This includes US Highway 83 between mile markers 784 and 800.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
If on or near Falcon Lake, get out of the water and move indoors or
inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 2677 9924 2679 9916 2658 9899 2647 9909
2650 9910 2652 9913 2654 9917 2657 9917
2662 9918 2666 9920 2669 9921 2672 9921
2675 9924
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 085DEG 16KT 2674 9920 2657 9907
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Glasscock, northeastern Midland, southeastern Martin and southwestern
Howard Counties through 545 PM CDT...
At 519 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Stanton, or 11 miles northeast of Greenwood, moving southwest at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Greenwood, Stanton, Courtney and Stanton Municipal Aiport.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 146 and 160.
Very heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead
to localized flooding adn low visibility. Do not drive your vehicle
through flooded roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
LAT...LON 3190 10188 3218 10204 3223 10179 3208 10168
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 065DEG 16KT 3215 10175
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
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Most major healthcare and hospital systems across Massachusetts will end or substantially modify their required masking policies next week, on May 12, as the federal public health emergency for COVID-19 officially comes to a close.
The news, announced Thursday by several organizations, worries some health advocates and lawmakers who say it leaves older people and those with compromised immune systems vulnerable to severe complications if they’re infected, and they are urging state health officials to stand firm on required masking in health care settings.
The end of the nation’s public health emergency will also herald a substantial reduction in federal requirements for tracking COVID infections in hospitals making it more challenging to measure the true impact on infection rates from lifting masking rules.
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A bulletin from the American Hospital Association last week said federal regulators shortly after May 11 plan to reduce by nearly a third the amount of COVID-related data hospitals must report and the reporting frequency will move from daily to weekly. Among the data that will become optional, the association said, are the total number of adult intensive care patients with COVID and the total number of patients who acquire the infection within two or more weeks of admission.
Among the Massachusetts health systems announcing Thursday they will end masking May 12 are: Mass General Brigham, the state’s largest healthcare system; Boston Medical Center, Tufts Medicine; and UMass Memorial Health, the largest system in central Massachusetts.
“If not now, when? Then it’s forever,” said Dr. Shira Doron, Tuft’s chief infection control officer.
“I will acknowledge there are infectious disease experts who have come down on the side of forever,” Doron said. “What I am hearing from colleagues who have dropped masking in hospitals is that the human connection can not be overstated. When you take care of a patient and you see their faces ...it makes a difference and it improves the communication and care and it improves the morale of health care staffers.”
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In a notice to all of its employees Thursday, Mass General Brigham said it, along with many other facilities across Massachusetts and New Hampshire, will end universal masking at all of its hospitals, clinics, other facilities and programs.
“Due to a combination of factors, including widespread immunity against severe disease, available vaccines and therapeutics, and less virulent variants, we are moving towards treating COVID-19 the way we do many respiratory viruses,” the statement said.
The move by many hospitals to drop masking is concerning, said Carlene Pavlos, executive director of the Massachusetts Public Health Association.
“Simply put, masking increases safe access to life saving care for those with health conditions that make them more vulnerable to COVID,” she siad. “We know hospitals are a place where those with COVID seek care. People who are more vulnerable will be put at greater risk, which undermines our shared goal of health equity.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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South Korea says North Korea fired missile into sea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said North Korea on Saturday fired at least one ballistic missile into the sea, a day after it threatened to take strong measures against South Korea and the U.S. over their joint military exercises.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul didn’t immediately say what type of missile was launched or how far it flew. It was the North’s first known weapons test since a short-range missile was fired on Jan. 1.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Friday threatened with “unprecedently” strong action against its rivals, after South Korea announced a series of planned military exercises with the United States aimed at sharpening their response to the North’s growing threats.
North Korea is coming off a record year in weapons demonstrations with more than 70 ballistic missiles fired, including intercontinental ballistic missiles with potential range to reach the U.S. mainland. The North also conducted a slew of launches it described as simulated nuclear attacks against South Korean and U.S. targets in response to the allies’ resumption of large-scale joint military exercise that had been downsized for years.
North Korea’s missile tests have been punctuated by threats of preemptive nuclear attacks against South Korea or the United States over what it perceives as a broad range of scenarios that put its leadership under threat.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doubled down on his nuclear push entering 2023, calling for an “exponential increase” in the country’s nuclear warheads, mass production of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons targeting “enemy” South Korea and the development of more advanced ICBMs.
He showcased more than a dozen ICBMs last week during a massive military parade in the capital, Pyongyang. The unprecedented number of missiles underscored a continuation of expansion of his country’s military capabilities despite limited resources while negotiations with Washington remain stalemated.
Those missiles included a new system experts say is possibly linked to the North’s stated desire to acquire a solid-fuel ICBM. North Korea’s existing ICBMs, including Hwasong-17s, use liquid propellants that require pre-launch injections and cannot remain fueled for prolonged periods. A solid-fuel alternative would take less time to prepare and is easier to move around on vehicles, providing less opportunity to be spotted.
The North Korean statement on Friday accused Washington and Seoul of planning more than 20 rounds of military drills this year, including large-scale field exercises, and described its rivals as “the arch-criminals deliberately disrupting regional peace and stability.”
The statement came hours after South Korea’s Defense Ministry officials told lawmakers that Seoul and Washington will hold an annual computer-simulated combined training in mid-March. The 11-day training would reflect North Korea’s nuclear threats, as well as unspecified lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war, according to Heo Tae-keun, South Korea’s deputy minister of national defense policy.
Heo said the two countries will also conduct joint field exercises in mid-March that would be bigger than those held in the past few years.
South Korea and the U.S. will also hold a one-day tabletop exercise next week at the Pentagon to sharpen a response to a potential use of nuclear weapons by North Korea.
The exercise, scheduled for Wednesday, would set up possible scenarios where North Korea uses nuclear weapons, explore how to cope with them militarily and formulate crisis management plans, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said.
North Korea has traditionally described U.S.-South Korea military exercises as rehearsals for a potential invasion, while the allies insist that their drills are defensive in nature.
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Man accused of stealing from, living with dead roommate for the past 4 years, DA says
CHICO, Calif. (Gray News) – A man in California accused of living with the body of his dead roommate for the past four years was charged with identity theft in connection to writing forged checks from his account.
According to the Burke County District Attorney’s Office, family members reported to police in August that they had not seen or heard from Kevin Olson, 64, in about four years.
District Attorney Mike Ramsey said Olson’s relatives reported they had reached out to his roommate, Darren Pritle, 57, several times over the years, but Pritle always gave various excuses as to Olson’s absences.
From a series of interviews, officers determined Olson was last seen in October 2018.
According to bank records obtained by detectives, United States Navy retirement checks were deposited directly into Olson’s accounts each month, and the mortgage for his home continued to be paid.
Further investigation revealed about 50 checks had been written to Pirtle from the account since July 2019.
Ramsey said detectives compared the writing and signatures on the checks and determined they were forged.
Detectives searched Pritle’s home last week and found Olson’s body on the floor of what had been his back bedroom.
Based on the condition of the body, Ramsey said officers requested the assistance of the Department of Justice Crime Lab in Chico and anthropologists.
Investigators believe Olson died in late 2018. An autopsy to determine the cause of death is pending.
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Last December, thousands of Colorado families received an unpleasant early gift for the holidays: an energy bill that was, in many cases, hundreds of dollars more expensive than normal.
Many reacted in shock, and our offices were flooded with emails and phone calls from constituents asking for help: Surely, this must be some sort of mistake? I don’t remember using twice as much energy this month; why is my bill twice as expensive? Isn’t there something someone can do to help?
Unfortunately, the answer to the first question is no, there was no mistake. Customers really were expected to pay hundreds more than they’re used to for the same exact service. Although it was a colder winter than the previous, that fact alone doesn’t account for the huge increase in costs. The reasons why are as complex as they are infuriating, but the result is the same: an enormous burden on Colorado families and businesses.
The answer to the second and third questions is a bit more complicated. Some of the factors driving price spikes, like volatile natural gas prices due to Putin’s war in Ukraine and record cold snaps, are outside of anyone’s control.
But luckily, there are things we can do to help.
We formed a Joint Select Committee on Rising Utility Rates to investigate the root causes of the recent energy bill spikes, and to consider potential policy measures to mitigate those increases and stop the seemingly never ending rise in your utility bills.
We asked hard questions and sought answers from expert witnesses, including regulators, consumer advocates, policy experts and the utilities themselves to better understand the impact of volatility in natural gas markets and the frequency and justification for rate increases sought by utilities.
Now, we’re taking what we’ve learned and applying it through a new bill – Senate Bill 291 – that has one simple goal: improving accountability for utilities in order to save people money on their energy bills.
That goal will be accomplished through a number of provisions that rebalance the types of expenses that are paid by utility shareholders vs. ratepayers, better align incentives to control fuel costs, and level the playing field at Public Utilities Commission (PUC) proceedings, where infrastructure plans – which make up the basis of utility profits – are proposed and approved.
Right now, nothing in state law prevents utilities from charging their customers for their lobbying and advertising expenses. That’s not right, which is why our bill will prohibit charging customers for those expenses, and limit the utilities’ ability to pass along the cost of expensive attorneys and consultants who argue on behalf of raising rates on those very ratepayers. This change will yield immediate savings by removing those costs from utility bills and, perhaps more importantly, create a fairer process where utilities cannot utilize superior resources – paid for by ratepayers – to overwhelm the system and get their rate hikes approved.
Another cost that utilities pass on to consumers is the price of fuel; while they don’t profit from high prices, they have little business incentive to purchase fuel at a reasonable price or find cost savings for their ratepayers. Our bill requires utilities to cover a portion of fuel costs themselves. Skin in the game will motivate utilities to control fuel costs, providing savings that will be passed along directly to consumers on their bills.
In addition, the bill will allow the PUC to create a mechanism to smooth out monthly bills and avoid sudden price shocks, insulating consumers so they aren’t caught off guard by unexpectedly high bills. It also simplifies the process to disconnect from the gas system by prohibiting utilities from imposing large fees on customers who do so.
Finally, the bill requires utilities to provide more detailed justification for their plans when requesting a rate increase, which will help regulators and watchdogs better evaluate energy generation and transmission plans and make sure proposed investments are truly in the public interest.
These are common sense reforms, but more importantly, they’re necessary ones. Coloradans have spoken loud and clear: they’re sick and tired of being squeezed by high energy bills while utilities boast record profits. Our people and our communities deserve better.
Action is clearly needed, and this bill will help us hold utilities accountable to consumers so that every Coloradan can afford the energy they need to power their homes, keep the lights on, and live their Colorado dream.
Steve Fenberg is president of the Colorado Senate. Lisa Cutter is a Colorado state senator. Chris deGruy Kennedy is House speaker pro tempore. Matt Martinez is a Colorado state representive.
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CHICAGO, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JLL Income Property Trust, an institutionally managed daily NAV REIT (NASDAQ: ZIPTAX; ZIPTMX; ZIPIAX; ZIPIMX) with approximately $6.5 billion in portfolio assets announced today the acquisition of Flagstaff Medical Center, a newly constructed, state-of-the-art medical office building in Flagstaff, Arizona. The single-story, 26,400-square-foot property was acquired for $17.2 million.
"Healthcare-oriented properties continue to be a focus of ours given the favorable underlying fundamentals driving long-term tenant demand and higher tenant retention," said JLL Income Property Trust President and CEO Allan Swaringen. "Flagstaff Medical Center fits squarely within our thesis of investing in well-located, state-of-the-art medical office buildings with excellent tenants that have long-term commitments to the property through their buildouts and leases. The shift towards outpatient, standalone surgery centers as an alternative to traditional hospital settings, combined with the continued aging of our population positions healthcare-oriented real estate as an attractive addition to our stable value, income-oriented portfolio."
Flagstaff Medical Center is fully leased to a leading healthcare provider in the Northern Arizona area. The newly constructed property includes a surgery and imaging center, and a full diagnostic suite including the newest MRI, CT, ultrasound and X-Ray machines. The tenant has invested heavily in these upgrades and has signed a long-term commitment through a 15-year lease. The weighted average lease term of the property is greater than nine years.
JLL Income Property Trust is an institutionally managed, daily NAV REIT that brings to investors a growing portfolio of commercial real estate investments selected by an institutional investment management team and sponsored by one of the world's leading real estate services firms.
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Jones Lang LaSalle Income Property Trust, Inc. is a daily NAV REIT that owns and manages a diversified portfolio of high quality, income-producing residential, industrial, grocery-anchored retail, healthcare and office properties located in the United States. JLL Income Property Trust expects to further diversify its real estate portfolio over time, including on a global basis. For more information, visit www.jllipt.com.
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LaSalle Investment Management is one of the world's leading real estate investment managers. On a global basis, LaSalle manages approximately $78 billion of assets in private and public real estate property and debt investments as of Q4 2021. LaSalle's diverse client base includes public and private pension funds, insurance companies, governments, corporations, endowments and private individuals from across the globe. LaSalle sponsors a complete range of investment vehicles including separate accounts, open- and closed-end funds, public securities and entity-level investments. For more information, please visit http://www.lasalle.com.
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Vegas attraction closes after 3rd dolphin dies in 5 months: ‘All of us are heartbroken’
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A dolphin died over the weekend at an attraction on the Las Vegas Strip.
MGM Resorts International announced that an 11-year-old dolphin named K2 died on Sept. 24 at The Mirage Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat.
KVVU reports that the dolphin was receiving treatment for a respiratory illness.
The death of K2 marks the third dolphin to die at the facility since April. A 19-year-old dolphin named Maverick died earlier this month and a 13-year-old dolphin named Bella died in April.
“All of us are heartbroken over this tragic loss, especially our amazing animal health and care teams who love and care for our animals on a daily basis,” said Mirage Interim President Franz Kallao.
Kallao said that K2 was a joy to be around after being born at the facility. He said staff watched the dolphin grow and learn, from an infant to an adolescent and finally to an adult.
According to MGM, the attraction is currently closed until further notice after these recent deaths.
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Kanye West is receiving backlash over his latest fashion statement.
On Monday, West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, wore a shirt with an image of Pope John Paul II on it. The words "White Lives Matter" were written on the back in large lettering.
The Anti-Defamation League categorizes the phrase as a "hate slogan" used by White supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
West also dressed several Black models in clothing with the same phrase at his YZY runway show during Paris fashion week. Conservative commentator Candace Owens was a guest at the event and wore the same shirt.
After images and video of the show surfaced, criticism of West was swift.
Jaden Smith took to Twitter to write, "Black Lives Matter" and "True Leaders Lead." He added, "I Don't Care Who's It Is If I Don't Feel The Message I'm Out."
Professor Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University wrote on Twitter, "Kanye West decision to wear a 'White Lives Matter' shirt is disgusting, dangerous, and irresponsible. Some of y'all will rush to defend him. You should ask yourselves why..."
Another commenter wrote, "Phrases like 'WLM' and 'Blue Lives Matter' are reactionary responses in an attempt to silence the affirmation of Black lives. What Kanye West is doing is dangerous and only promotes further harm against the community he claims to care about."
On Tuesday, West did not retreat from nor apologize for his use of the slogan.
"Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam," he wrote on Instagram, seemingly referencing recent stories about the group's financial management. "Now its over You're welcome."
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The board’s split 4-3 decision provided an average of about $9,200 in additional compensation to 206 managers across the EvergreenHealth system, officials said, at a time when the facility has since reported millions of dollars in operating losses.
While EvergreenHealth had nearly $12 million in net income in 2021, including more than $6 million in federal stimulus funding, hospital officials have sounded an alarm in recent months that they could lose twice that this year.
“We’re losing money,” Commissioner Minerva Butler said later, “that’s one of the big reasons I voted no.”
The EvergreenHealth commissioners did not receive any additional pay as a result of the June vote, but the bonus payouts seem to fall in a legal gray area on pandemic aid. Some hospitals count it as revenue. Others don’t. Across the state, administrators at Prosser Memorial Health, another publicly funded hospital that received federal relief, decided in 2021 to exclude those dollars from their revenue calculation for bonuses.
A spokesperson for Prosser Memorial told Crosscut its leadership took a cautious approach to approving performance bonuses — ultimately declining to count federal aid as earned revenue.
“COVID relief funds aren’t part of our bottom line,” chief communications officer Shannon Hitchcock said. “So it didn't seem like a very logical way to take credit for this money that wasn't generated through our traditional way.”
Bonuses tied to financials
EvergreenHealth, or King County Public Hospital District No. 2, provides “leadership at-risk compensation” (LARC) as one part of its overall management compensation package. Commission Chair Tim McLaughlin said managers and above are assessed on their performance in a range of areas such as quality of care and patient satisfaction.
But they are eligible for LARC compensation only if the entire health system meets a certain threshold related to budgeted net operating income — the money left over after operating expenses are subtracted from operating revenue.
This story is a part of Crosscut’s WA Recovery Watch, an investigative project tracking federal dollars in Washington state.
The federal CARES Act Provider Relief Fund helped health care providers offset unanticipated costs during the pandemic, with grants distributed starting in 2020. EvergreenHealth received over $43 million in 2020 and 2021. Government entities exclude such federal grants from net operating income totals.
In June, the hospital’s chief financial officer and chief human resources officer proposed, and the commissioners voted in favor of, allowing federal relief grants to be included in operating revenue for the purposes of the LARC trigger.
McLaughlin explained these CARES Act grants were meant to be matched against additional operating expenses and lost revenue due to COVID-19.
“That is essentially the rationale for why … this exception was presented to the board,” he said, “and sort of the rationale for why it made sense.”
The board’s decision to include the CARES funding in the calculation pushed operating income past the threshold to trigger management bonuses. EvergreenHealth spokesperson Kayse Dahl said the bonuses amount to $1.9 million across 206 positions systemwide, but did not provide a breakdown of specific payouts.
McLaughlin wanted to make clear that EvergreenHealth “did not divert CARES money to line the pockets of executives or anything like that.”
In the wake of the bonus decision, a “concerned employee” sent a letter about the vote to at least two people, one of whom shared it with Crosscut. Redmond blogger Bob Yoder first covered this issue in July.
“The hospital is struggling to keep nurses and other key staff to serve its patients,” the anonymous letter stated, “and those funds could have been used to serve the community and not line the pockets of the administrators."
Benchmarks vary by hospital
McLaughlin said the board and administrators consulted with their advisors, Mercer and KPMG, about what other hospitals were doing. They said that many organizations in the past few years have made exceptions and changes to leadership compensation to reflect the exceptional conditions caused by COVID-19.
Crosscut’s sampling of a few hospitals around the state found mixed results. At Prosser Memorial Health, spokesperson Hitchcock said the financial uncertainty of the pandemic led them to make a different decision in 2021: They explicitly ignored the effects of pandemic relief funds on the hospital’s net income when considering bonuses. They have continued using that approach since.
At nonprofit Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, spokesperson MaryBeth Dagg said that during the pandemic, the goals within their leadership incentive compensation program have deemphasized financial targets. They instead have focused on a range of other targets, such as patient experience and employee engagement.
At the University of Washington’s Valley Medical Center — another large public hospital in the Puget Sound region — financial targets are part of at-risk compensation. Spokesperson Liz Nolan said that they have been including federal grants in net income.
Government entities in Washington state are subject to specific guidelines about retroactive pay and incentive programs. The Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington advises that in order to comply with the state constitution and court interpretation, incentive programs’ performance standards should be “established before the period covered by the program.”
That guidance is for cities and towns, not for a public hospital district like EvergreenHealth. The State Auditor’s Office would not comment on EvergreenHealth because the office needs to maintain independence should this specific issue arise during an audit.
As chair of EvergreenHealth’s finance committee, Commissioner Butler said she voted against the bonus exception for a variety of reasons, in part because the money just isn’t there this year. The hospital’s unaudited financials for the first half of 2022 show a net loss of $29 million. According to annual audited financial statements, the district hasn’t had a net loss in at least the past five years.
And accounting standards for government entities are very clear that federal payments are excluded from operating revenue, Butler said. If they want to consider changing the LARC trigger for the following year, that is a different question.
“We know that at the beginning of the year,” she said. “We know the rules of the game. And so for me to change the rules of the game — that's a pretty substantial change mid-game, mid-stream — that, I say no to that.” | 2022-11-23T04:14:15+00:00 | crosscut.com | https://crosscut.com/news/2022/11/kirkland-hospital-uses-covid-aid-trigger-19m-admin-bonuses |
Diverging Diamond Interchange now open at Abernathy Road, GA 400
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The new Diverging Diamond Interchange is officially open at Abernathy Road and Georgia 400.
All weekend, contractors had the intersection closed as they worked on the finishing touches, putting the concrete barrier walls in place and installing new striping and new signage. And as of early Monday, it’s officially open.
The diverging diamond concept is becoming a popular way to reconfigure interchanges. The traffic pattern allows drivers to briefly cross over to the opposite side of the roadway while in a high-volume interchange. It’s a concept that’s getting popular because it’s shown to relieve congestion and cut down on the number of accidents.
The concept can be confusing for drivers not accustomed to it.
“You’re on the other side of the road, and it makes you feel like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know if the car is coming my way,’ and ‘Should I go this way?’ It is very confusing,” driver Ciera Hudson said.
Several other interchanges in Georgia already use Diverging Diamond traffic pattern. The one at Ashford Dunwoody Road and I-285 has been functioning now for more than a decade. This one is different because the diverging diamond takes place under the freeway.
“What we’re asking everyone to do is just pay attention,” said Sandy Springs Police Sgt. Matt McGinnis. “Put your phones down, slow down, watch for traffic direction, and stay with the flow of traffic. It will be marked; it will be ready for you. You just have to be ready for it.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2022, Los Angeles police shot and killed 14 people — 60% of everyone who was struck by officers' bullets — according to a report released Wednesday.
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LAPD officers opened fire 31 times last year, striking 23 people and missing their target in eight other situations, the department's annual Use of Force report shows.
The statistics show decreases in police shootings since 2021, when officers fired their weapons 37 times. In 2021, 31 people were struck, and 17 of those were killed.
In eight of the 31 events of 2022, the person opened fire at the officers or bystanders, according to the report. The suspect had a gun in 10 other situations but did not shoot. In five instances, officers believed the person had a gun but none was ultimately found.
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Officers also opened fire eight times when the suspect had a weapon other than a gun, the report said.
Although the agency is routinely criticized for its violence, figures from the last five years show that police shootings are significantly down from the early-to-mid 1990s. Officers opened fire 115 times in 1990, and 108 times in 1992 before decreasing later in the decade.
But Los Angeles police fatally shot more people in 2021 and 2022 — 17 and 14 people respectively — than comparable law enforcement agencies, including the New York Police Department and the Chicago Police Department. | 2023-04-05T20:31:42+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/report-los-angeles-police-killed-14-people-in-17880698.php |
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Florida National at Bethune-Cookman, 7 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Georgia, 7 p.m.
NC Central at Liberty, 7 p.m.
Richmond at Coll. of Charleston, 7 p.m.
Stetson at South Florida, 7 p.m.
Troy at Florida St., 7 p.m.
Va. Wesleyan at Old Dominion, 7 p.m.
W. Illinois at UCF, 7 p.m.
Central Baptist at Louisiana-Monroe, 7:30 p.m.
Belmont at Lipscomb, 8 p.m.
Loyola (NO) at Southern Miss., 8 p.m.
Milligan at Austin Peay, 8 p.m.
N. Iowa at Virginia, 8 p.m.
Alabama A&M at Tennessee St., 9 p.m.
Campbellsville at Bellarmine, 6 p.m.
DePaul at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Manchester at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.
Portland at Kent St., 7 p.m.
Jacksonville St. at Ill.-Chicago, 8 p.m.
Purdue-Northwest at N. Illinois, 8 p.m.
Wofford at Drake, 8 p.m.
Holy Cross at Creighton, 9 p.m.
Monmouth (NJ) at Illinois, 9 p.m.
LeTourneau at Sam Houston St., 7:30 p.m.
Champion Christian at Houston Christian, 8 p.m.
Huston at Lamar, 8 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.
Lyon College at Arkansas St., 8 p.m.
N. Colorado at Baylor, 8 p.m.
Northwestern St. at TCU, 8 p.m.
Oral Roberts at Houston, 8 p.m.
St. Mary's (Texas) at UTSA, 8 p.m.
Trinity (Texas) at Texas A&M-CC, 8 p.m.
UALR at Cent. Arkansas, 8 p.m.
St. Francis (Ill.) at Texas Rio Grande Valley, 7:30 p.m.
Calvary at UMKC, 8 p.m.
IUPUI at Chicago St., 8 p.m.
Idaho St. at Utah, 8 p.m.
Bethesda at S. Utah, 9 p.m.
Sacramento St. at Denver, 9 p.m.
Santa Clara at Utah St., 9 p.m.
Texas A&M Commerce at Air Force, 9 p.m.
Weber St. at Colorado St., 9 p.m.
E. Washington vs. MVSU at Honolulu, 9:30 p.m.
Norfolk St. at UCLA, 10 p.m.
Utah Tech at Washington, 10 p.m.
Stonehill at Providence, 5 p.m.
Northwestern at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m.
Binghamton at Maryland, 7 p.m.
Bucknell at St. Peter's, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at UConn, 7 p.m.
CCSU at St. John's, 7 p.m.
Colgate at Syracuse, 7 p.m.
Dartmouth at Quinnipiac, 7 p.m.
James Madison at Howard, 7 p.m.
McDaniel at Mount St. Mary's, 7 p.m.
Morehead St. at West Virginia, 7 p.m.
New Hampshire at Fordham, 7 p.m.
Penn at Drexel, 7 p.m.
Queens (NC) at La Salle, 7 p.m.
Stony Brook at Rhode Island, 7 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Temple, 7 p.m.
Appalachian St. at Louisville, 6 p.m.
Florida A&M at Miami, 7 p.m.
Harris-Stowe at UT Martin, 7 p.m.
Lees-Mcrae at High Point, 7 p.m.
Mercer at Georgia St., 7 p.m.
Morris at The Citadel, 7 p.m.
Rice at Middle Tennessee, 7 p.m.
SC-Upstate at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Utah Valley St. at Wake Forest, 7 p.m.
Winthrop at Auburn, 7 p.m.
Chattanooga at Mississippi, 7:30 p.m.
Gardner-Webb at North Carolina, 8 p.m.
Indianapolis at W. Kentucky, 8 p.m.
FIU at NC State, 9 p.m.
Alabama at South Alabama, 10 p.m.
Grace Bible at Youngstown St., 11 a.m.
Bowling Green at Wright St., 7 p.m.
Kentucky vs. Michigan St. at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.
Morgan St. at Akron, 7 p.m.
E. Michigan at Bradley, 8 p.m.
Pacific at North Dakota, 8 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Missouri, 8 p.m.
St. Bonaventure vs. S. Dakota St. at Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 p.m.
Marquette at Purdue, 8:30 p.m.
Fairfield at Xavier, 9 p.m.
Green Bay at Wisconsin, 9 p.m.
Memphis at Saint Louis, 9 p.m.
Duke vs. Kansas at Indianapolis, 9:30 p.m.
Washington St. at Prairie View, 7 p.m.
Alcorn St. at Stephen F. Austin, 7:30 p.m.
Texas Lutheran at Incarnate Word, 7:30 p.m.
Hardin-Simmons at Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m.
McMurry at Abilene Christian, 8 p.m.
New Mexico at SMU, 8 p.m.
Oral Roberts at Texas Southern, 8 p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.
Sul Ross St. at UTEP, 9 p.m.
Yale at Hawaii, 12 a.m.
Benedictine Mesa at N. Arizona, 8 p.m.
Montana St. at Oregon, 9 p.m.
San Diego St. at Stanford, 9 p.m.
Alabama St. at San Jose St., 10 p.m.
CS Northridge at Cal Baptist, 10 p.m.
California at UC San Diego, 10 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at UC Irvine, 10 p.m.
Vanguard at Pepperdine, 10 p.m.
William Jessup at Nevada, 10 p.m.
Bushnell at Oregon St., 11 p.m.
Dayton at UNLV, 11 p.m.
Vermont at Southern Cal, 11 p.m.
Sacred Heart at Mass.-Lowell, 4 p.m.
Michigan vs. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, N.Y., 6 p.m.
Army at Siena, 7 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Canisius, 7 p.m.
Delaware St. at Columbia, 7 p.m.
Harvard at Northeastern, 7 p.m.
Marist at Lehigh, 7 p.m.
WV Wesleyan at Robert Morris, 7 p.m.
William & Mary at American, 7 p.m.
Iowa at Seton Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Averett at Radford, 7 p.m.
Charleston Southern at Tulane, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at N. Kentucky, 7 p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast at Tennessee, 7 p.m.
Hampton at East Carolina, 7 p.m.
Mid-Atlantic Christian at NC Central, 7 p.m.
Trinity Baptist at Bethune-Cookman, 7 p.m.
Presbyterian at UAB, 7:30 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Kent St., 11 a.m.
E. Illinois at Ohio St., 7 p.m.
Oakland at Toledo, 7 p.m.
Ohio at Detroit, 7 p.m.
S. Indiana at Notre Dame, 8 p.m.
SE Missouri at Evansville, 8 p.m.
Ball St. at Omaha, 8:37 p.m.
S. Dakota St. at Arkansas, 8 p.m.
Texas Southern at Houston, 8 p.m.
Gonzaga at Texas, 9:30 p.m.
Valparaiso at Chicago St., 8 p.m.
Southern U. at Saint Mary's (Cal.), 8:30 p.m.
VCU vs. Arizona St. at Brooklyn, N.Y., 8:30 p.m.
CS Bakersfield at Idaho, 9 p.m.
Missouri St. at BYU, 9 p.m.
Evergreen St. at Portland St., 10 p.m.
San Francisco at Fresno St., 10 p.m.
Nebraska at St. John's, 6:30 p.m.
Albany (NY) at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m.
Hartford at Boston U., 7 p.m.
Norfolk St. at Monmouth (NJ), 7 p.m.
Stony Brook at Brown, 7 p.m.
Washington College (Md.) at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m.
Furman vs. Penn St. at Charleston, S.C., 11:30 a.m.
Colorado vs. UMass at Conway, S.C., 1:30 p.m.
Old Dominion vs. Virginia Tech at Charleston, S.C., 2 p.m.
Murray St. vs. Texas A&M at Conway, S.C., 4 p.m.
Colorado St. vs. South Carolina at Charleston, S.C., 5 p.m.
Austin Peay at South Florida, 7 p.m.
Boise St. vs. Charlotte at Conway, S.C., 7 p.m.
Bryant at FAU, 7 p.m.
North Dakota at Elon, 7 p.m.
SC State at Kentucky, 7 p.m.
Towson at UNC-Greensboro, 7 p.m.
UALR at ETSU, 7 p.m.
Wichita St. at Richmond, 7 p.m.
Davidson at Coll. of Charleston, 7:30 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at Louisiana-Lafayette, 8 p.m.
N. Illinois at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at LSU, 8 p.m.
Samford at Alabama A&M, 8 p.m.
Coppin St. at Tennessee Tech, 8:30 p.m.
South Dakota at Mississippi St., 9 p.m.
Loyola Chicago vs. Tulsa at Conway, S.C., 9:30 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at Butler, 6:30 p.m.
UMKC at Kansas St., 6:30 p.m.
Defiance at Wright St., 7 p.m.
Marshall at Miami (Ohio), 7 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at Indiana St., 7 p.m.
Northwestern St. at Illinois St., 8 p.m.
Tennessee St. at S. Illinois, 8 p.m.
LIU at Marquette, 8:30 p.m.
UC Riverside at Creighton, 8:30 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at Minnesota, 9 p.m.
Louisiana-Monroe at TCU, 8 p.m.
Texas Rio Grande Valley at Texas A&M-CC, 8 p.m.
Texas St. at UTSA, 8 p.m.
Merrimack vs. Troy at Missoula, Mont., 5 p.m.
Portland at Air Force, 9 p.m.
Sam Houston St. at Utah, 9 p.m.
Utah Tech at Arizona, 9 p.m.
St. Thomas (MN) at Montana, 9:30 p.m.
Hofstra at San Jose St., 10 p.m.
Utah St. at San Diego, 10 p.m.
Cal Baptist at Washington, 11 p.m.
Lafayette at UMBC, 2 p.m.
Albertus Magnus at Quinnipiac, 4 p.m.
Loyola Marymount vs. Georgetown at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 4:30 p.m.
Temple vs. Rutgers at Uncasville, Conn., 5 p.m.
Arcadia at Drexel, 6 p.m.
Colgate vs. Duquesne at Akron, Ohio, 6 p.m.
Columbia at Maine, 7 p.m.
Fairfield at Wagner, 7 p.m.
Fredonia St. at Canisius, 7 p.m.
Ithaca at Cornell, 7 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at George Washington, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Vincent at Manhattan, 7 p.m.
Penn at West Virginia, 7 p.m.
UC San Diego at Navy, 7 p.m.
Utah Valley St. vs. Morgan St. at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 7 p.m.
Vermont vs. Iona at Uncasville, Conn., 7:30 p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at UConn, 8:30 p.m.
Rider vs. Stetson at Dublin, 5 a.m.
La Salle vs. Wake Forest at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 p.m.
Lamar vs. Lindenwood (Mo.) at Lake Charles, La., 3 p.m.
Kennesaw St. vs. SE Louisiana at Boone, N.C., 4 p.m.
VMI at Longwood, 5 p.m.
W. Carolina at McNeese St., 5 p.m.
Tarleton St. vs. Belmont at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S., 5:45 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Georgia St., 6 p.m.
Baylor vs. Virginia at Paradise, Nev., 7 p.m.
Bellarmine at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Bucknell at Georgia, 7 p.m.
Campbell at Appalachian St., 7 p.m.
Delaware at Duke, 7 p.m.
Gardner-Webb at Wofford, 7 p.m.
Morehead St. at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma St. vs. UCF at Nassau, Bahamas, 7 p.m.
Southern Miss. at Liberty, 7 p.m.
Coastal Carolina at SC-Upstate, 7:30 p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson vs. SIU-Edwardsville at Portsmouth, Va., 7:30 p.m.
UT Martin at Mississippi, 7:30 p.m.
Boston College vs. George Mason at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S., 8 p.m.
Carver at Alabama St., 8 p.m.
Florida at Florida St., 8 p.m.
North Alabama at MVSU, 8 p.m.
Texas Southern at Auburn, 8 p.m.
UNC-Asheville vs. Texas A&M Commerce at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m.
Jacksonville St. at Alabama, 9 p.m.
Queens (NC) vs. Green Bay at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 11:30 a.m.
Buffalo vs. Drake at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S., 1 p.m.
Indiana at Xavier, 6 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Cleveland St., 7 p.m.
Lipscomb at Notre Dame, 7 p.m.
Fort Wayne at Northwestern, 8 p.m.
Loras at S. Indiana, 8 p.m.
S. Utah at Kansas, 8 p.m.
Villanova at Michigan St., 8 p.m.
UCLA vs. Illinois at Paradise, Nev., 9:30 p.m.
Niagara vs. Cent. Arkansas at Dublin, 11 a.m.
Georgia Southern at Rice, 7 p.m.
Nevada at Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m.
South Alabama at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.
W. Michigan at Houston Christian, 8 p.m.
UC Merced at Sacramento St., 3 p.m.
Howard vs. Wyoming at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S., 3:15 p.m.
Troy vs. St. Thomas (MN) at Missoula, Mont., 7 p.m.
Warner Pacific at Montana St., 7:30 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at N. Arizona, 8 p.m.
Arkansas St. at UC Davis, 9 p.m.
Denver at Idaho St., 9 p.m.
Grambling St. at Grand Canyon, 9 p.m.
Southern U. at California, 9 p.m.
DePaul vs. Santa Clara at Nassau, Bahamas, 9:30 p.m.
Merrimack at Montana, 9:30 p.m.
Cal St.-Fullerton at Pacific, 10 p.m.
High Point at UNLV, 10 p.m.
Cal Poly at Stanford, 11 p.m.
Mount St. Mary's at Southern Cal, 11 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas vs. Rider at Dublin, 6 a.m.
Lafayette vs. CCSU at Baltimore, Noon
Stetson vs. Niagara at Dublin, Noon
Bowling Green at St. Bonaventure, 2 p.m.
Houghton at Hartford, 2 p.m.
John Jay at Yale, 2 p.m.
Northeastern at Syracuse, 2 p.m.
Sacred Heart at Binghamton, 2 p.m.
St. Peter's at St. Francis (NY), 2 p.m.
American at NJIT, 4 p.m.
Emerson at Mass.-Lowell, 5 p.m.
Ill.-Chicago at Fordham, 5 p.m.
Youngstown St. vs. UC San Diego at Annapolis, Md., 6 p.m.
Coppin St. at Marshall, 7 p.m.
Princeton at Marist, 7 p.m.
Stonehill vs. Holy Cross at Bronx, N.Y., 7:30 p.m.
W. Carolina vs. Lamar at Lake Charles, La., Noon
Elon at NC State, 1 p.m.
Covenant at Chattanooga, 2 p.m.
Winthrop at Mercer, 2 p.m.
Lindenwood (Mo.) at McNeese St., 2:30 p.m.
Texas A&M Commerce at Georgia St., 3 p.m.
Army at William & Mary, 4 p.m.
Providence vs. Miami at Uncasville, Conn., 4 p.m.
SE Louisiana vs. Campbell at Boone, N.C., 4 p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson at Longwood, 5 p.m.
NC A&T vs. Gardner-Webb at Spartanburg, S.C., 5 p.m.
SC State at North Florida, 5 p.m.
E. Kentucky vs. UNC-Asheville at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.
Detroit at FAU, 6 p.m.
Bryant at FIU, 7 p.m.
Kennesaw St. at Appalachian St., 7 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville vs. VMI at Portsmouth, Va., 7:30 p.m.
Alabama A&M vs. Norfolk St. at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Franklin at IUPUI, Noon
Maryland vs. Saint Louis at Uncasville, Conn., 1 p.m.
Robert Morris at Dayton, 1 p.m.
Chicago St. at Kent St., 2 p.m.
Indiana-South Bend at Ball St., 2 p.m.
E. Michigan at Oakland, 3 p.m.
Middle Tennessee at Missouri St., 3 p.m.
SE Missouri at Bradley, 4 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin at S. Dakota St., 7 p.m.
The Citadel at Butler, 7 p.m.
Incarnate Word at Valparaiso, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma Baptist at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m.
Evansville at SMU, 3 p.m.
Fresno St. at North Texas, 6 p.m.
W. Michigan at Rice, 6 p.m.
Georgia Southern at Houston Christian, 8 p.m.
San Jose St. at N. Colorado, 4 p.m.
Hawaii Pacific at Hawaii, 5 p.m.
Utah Tech at Idaho, 5 p.m.
Merrimack vs. St. Thomas (MN) at Missoula, Mont., 7 p.m.
New Mexico St. at New Mexico, 7 p.m.
Occidental at UC Riverside, 7 p.m.
Saint Katherine at Long Beach St., 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.
UC Irvine at Pepperdine, 8 p.m.
Hofstra at Saint Mary's (Cal.), 8:30 p.m.
Nicholls at BYU, 9 p.m.
Troy at Montana, 9:30 p.m.
Portland St. at Oregon St., 10 p.m.
Boston U. at New Hampshire, 1 p.m.
CCSU at UMBC, 1 p.m.
SUNY Maritime at Columbia, 1 p.m.
Alabama St. at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.
Siena at Harvard, 2 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Navy, 2 p.m.
Wagner at Seton Hall, 3 p.m.
Delaware St. at UConn, 5 p.m.
James Madison at North Carolina, Noon
Kennesaw St. vs. Campbell at Boone, N.C., Noon
Lindenwood (Mo.) vs. W. Carolina at Lake Charles, La., Noon
Texas A&M Commerce vs. E. Kentucky at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Longwood, 1:30 p.m.
Radford vs. Army at Williamsburg, Va., 2 p.m.
Voorhees at Jacksonville, 2 p.m.
Lamar at McNeese St., 2:30 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Appalachian St., 2:30 p.m.
Prairie View at UT Martin, 3 p.m.
Texas Southern at Samford, 3 p.m.
UNC-Asheville at Georgia St., 3:30 p.m.
ETSU at Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.
VMI vs. Fairleigh Dickinson at Portsmouth, Va., 4 p.m.
NC A&T at Wofford, 5 p.m.
VCU at Memphis, 5 p.m.
Crown (Minn.) at N. Dakota St., 2 p.m.
Montana St. at North Dakota, 2 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Nebraska, 3:30 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) vs. Indiana at Indianapolis, 5:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Iowa St., 6 p.m.
MVSU at Missouri, 7:30 p.m.
Ohio at Michigan, 7:30 p.m.
Georgia Southern vs. W. Michigan at Houston, 1 p.m.
Jackson St. at UALR, 7:30 p.m.
Kentucky vs. Gonzaga at Spokane, Wash., 7:30 p.m.
Houston at Oregon, 9:30 p.m.
Mount St. Mary's at Cal Poly, 10 p.m.
Austin Peay vs. Albany (NY) at Daytona Beach, Fla., Noon
Stonehill vs. Ill.-Chicago at Bronx, N.Y., 4 p.m.
Chicago St. at Marshall, 7 p.m.
Holy Cross at Fordham, 7 p.m.
Lehigh at St. Francis (Pa.), 7 p.m.
Monmouth (NJ) at Colgate, 7 p.m.
North Florida at Duquesne, 7 p.m.
Georgia vs. Saint Joseph's at Daytona Beach, Fla., 8:30 p.m.
St. John's vs. Temple at Brooklyn, N.Y., 9:30 p.m.
Illinois St. vs. LSU at George Town, Cayman Islands, 11 a.m.
Detroit vs. Bryant at Boca Raton, Fla., Noon
Akron vs. W. Kentucky at George Town, Cayman Islands, 1:30 p.m.
Bucknell vs. Presbyterian at Daytona Beach, Fla., 2:30 p.m.
CS Northridge vs. Tennessee St. at San Juan Capistrano, Calif., 3 p.m.
Nevada vs. Tulane at George Town, Cayman Islands, 5 p.m.
Cent. Michigan vs. High Point at San Juan Capistrano, Calif., 5:30 p.m.
UAB vs. South Florida at Daytona Beach, Fla., 6 p.m.
Mercer at Florida St., 6:30 p.m.
Albany St. (Ga.) at Florida A&M, 7 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Charleston Southern, 7 p.m.
Louisiana-Monroe at Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.
Loyola (Md.) at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Mount Olive at UNC-Wilmington, 7 p.m.
Syracuse vs. Richmond at Brooklyn, N.Y., 7 p.m.
N. Kentucky vs. Florida Gulf Coast at Estero, Fla., 7:30 p.m.
Covenant at Lipscomb, 8 p.m.
Bellarmine at Duke, 8:30 p.m.
Saint Mary of the Woods at E. Illinois, 1 p.m.
East Carolina vs. Indiana St. at Estero, Fla., 1:30 p.m.
Texas Tech vs. Creighton at Maui, Hawaii, 2:30 p.m.
Grand Canyon vs. Wichita St. at Kansas City, Mo., 3 p.m.
Rhode Island vs. Kansas St. at George Town, Cayman Islands, 7:30 p.m.
Omaha at Iowa, 8 p.m.
Mississippi St. vs. Marquette at Fort Myers, Fla., 8:30 p.m.
Cal Baptist vs. Minnesota at San Juan Capistrano, Calif., 10:30 p.m.
Drexel vs. Texas-Arlington at Estero, Fla., 5 p.m.
Louisville vs. Arkansas at Maui, Hawaii, 5 p.m.
Wright St. vs. Abilene Christian at Henderson, Nev., 7:30 p.m.
Houston Christian at Rice, 8 p.m.
N. Arizona vs. Texas at Edinburg, Texas, 8:30 p.m.
Toledo vs. UMKC at Estero, Fla., 11 a.m.
N. Iowa vs. San Francisco at Kansas City, Mo., 12:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech vs. Utah at Fort Myers, Fla., 6 p.m.
W. Illinois at Texas Rio Grande Valley, 6 p.m.
Hampton at UC Santa Barbara, 9 p.m.
Ohio St. vs. San Diego St. at Maui, Hawaii, 9 p.m.
SC-Upstate at Air Force, 9 p.m.
Washington St. vs. E. Washington at Spokane, Wash., 9 p.m.
Life Pacific at UC Irvine, 10 p.m.
San Diego Christian at San Diego, 10 p.m.
Texas St. at California, 10 p.m.
Weber St. vs. UC Riverside at Henderson, Nev., 10 p.m.
Cincinnati vs. Arizona at Maui, Hawaii, 11:30 p.m.
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SHANGHAI, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 11th China Elderly Design&Innovation Competition announcement is officially released, with the aim of collecting entries from the whole society from today to June 30th this year. The competition is hosted by Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau and organized by Shanghai Intex Exhibition.
China Elderly Design&Innovation Competition has been successfully held for ten years, continuously optimizing and improving the design of the competition. A number of experts in this field are invited as judges and mentors of the competition, and the school system is included. The competition also expands support resources through multiple platforms and channels.
After more than ten years of accumulation and cultivation, the competition has achieved good results in the following aspects. From the pre-contest planning, the professional guidance during the contest, to the post-contest support, the competition has constituted a well-formed operation process in the whole society. Besides, the competition has enhanced the understanding of the younger generation on the well-being of the elderly and the elderly industry, and the previous competition has also attracted a group of primary and secondary school students, which shows that the influence of the competition and the concept of well-being are giving a vibrant life; the competition has now covered more than 10 countries, collecting more than 4,000 excellent works and projects, and has become a brand of senior well-being with international influence.
Among the previous collections, the electronic wheelchair K163N of Kangni Smart, which won the silver prize in the 9th Elderly Design&Innovation Competition. Originally engaging in the urban rail transportation industry, this company has developed wheelchair products by integrating high-speed rail technology. By penetrating into the elderly industry, this company has now become a supplier of community rental products for rehabilitation and assistive in Shanghai, and its brand influence is continuing to expand.
The 11th China Elderly Design&Innovation Competition will further optimize the competition system, schedule and other aspects. The following points of the competition can help companies get more involved into Chinese market. Firstly, the competition will strengthen resource supports for companies, including policy resource links, priority promotion within one year, free display in specific areas, media publicity support, financial services, capital matching support, intellectual property services, quality certification services, special support for implementation, and transformation for commercial use, etc.; secondly, the outstanding works of the competition will be selected and promoted professionally, which help enlarge the influence of both the works and companies.
Interested participants can read the announcement of this year's competition in detail, choose the appropriate category, and register for the competition. This year's competition is divided into two categories: design and innovation, to collect original and unique works from the whole society. The competition is led by Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, aiming to build a bridge between the government and the market, promote the upgrading of the elderly industry, and inject new energy for the welfare of the whole society. For more information, participants can log in the website of Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau.
Holding kindness within our hearts, taking participation with creativity, we hope that this will benefit the elderly and lead the future. The well-being competition will rely on the advantages of innovation, deploy resources around the elderly industry and the assistive device industry, enhance people's sense of achievement and happiness, and move forward with perseverance.
About China Elderly Design&Innovation Competition
China Elderly Design&Innovation Competition is a public welfare event sponsored by the government and operated socially. They have been successfully held for ten years since 2012, and have been influential both at home and abroad in terms of the number of participants, scale of the competition and the range of influence. This year's competition will collect entries from the whole society from now until June 30th.
This year's competition will rely on a team of professional mentors to provide ten resource support to the finalist works. The competition will continue to play a role in launching the creativity of all people, encouraging innovation and helping entrepreneurship, further stimulating market vitality and promoting the well-being of the elderly.
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SOURCE Shanghai Intex Exhibition Co., Ltd. | 2023-04-27T12:27:34+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/04/27/benefit-elderly-lead-future-11th-china-elderly-designampinnovation-competition-call-entries-announced/ |
LAS VEGAS — A late addition to Thursday's itinerary at Mountain West football media days was a midday gathering of the conference's 12 head coaches for a group photo.
A conference photographer was quickly surrounded by several media members eager to get a shot of coaches wearing something other than a sideline scowl.
The coaches were all smiles when someone in the audience stopped to do the math: "Hey, there's only 11 guys up there."
Uh-oh.
A new development for a conference coming off a month-long membership dispute?
Just a day earlier MW Commissioner Gloria Nevarez stood on the same stage as the coaches and said: "San Diego State will continue to be a member in good standing."
Now what?
It seems Hawaii coach Timmy Chang was polishing off the last couple bites of his pasta and chicken in the lunch room.
Chang was applauded by his peers when he appeared, then joined them on stage.
SDSU coach Brady Hoke was standing at the far left of the photo, looking quite pleased that the spotlight finally had shifted to someone else.
Three hours earlier, Hoke was seated in the media room for a 75-minute session with print and local TV reporters. The focus often turned to San Diego State's future in the league.
The first question Hoke heard was: "Let me be the most recent person to ask you about the fact that you guys are now back in good standing in the conference. How in the dark were you and the players vs. being at the forefront of what was going on between the conference and the school?"
Hoke's response was prefaced with praise for SDSU President Adela de la Torre and athletic director John David Wicker.
"They do a great job in the leadership of where we are," he said. "They're always going (to do) what's best for San Diego State.
"As far as how much we knew, we didn't know very much. Part of that is our jobs are different. That's not my job to get into conference realignment. My job is to help develop young men, help develop a really good football team."
Reporters work the room at media days, coming and going among coaches. Someone from Fresno is asking you a question. Then it's someone from Boise. Or Fort Collins. Or Honolulu. Or Colorado Springs. Or Reno. Or Laramie.
Hoke heard the SDSU/Mountain West/Pac-12 subject raised in various ways nearly a dozen times in just over an hour. Actual football questions were sprinkled in between pondering SDSU's Pac-12 possibilities.
A reporter asked: "To follow up on an earlier comment, you said you didn't know much, but you didn't say you didn't know anything. Can I ask what you did know and when you might have known it?"
Hoke: "I knew there were things in the paper that would come out. Talking with JD, there wasn't a whole lot of information that we were sharing with anybody."
Hoke addressed the subject with his players occasionally, like after a story would appear in the newspaper or on social media.
On Nov. 7, "The Dan Patrick Show" account tweeted: "Source: San Diego State is expected to join the Pac 12. Announcement could be made as early as this week."
A potential move was incorporated into SDSU's sales pitch to recruits — although, Hoke said, the prospects and their parents often were first to broach the topic.
SDSU coaches would say: "I can't tell you that, but that's the rumor."
"That was the standard line because that's exactly where we were with it," Hoke said Thursday. "I think it helped, to be honest with you."
The message was muted as the Pac-12's media rights deal dragged on and on. And on.
"We pumped the brakes probably about three months ago," Hoke said.
A national reporter who was late to the interview session said: "I know you've been asked this, but as you said, I just got here. I'm not going to ask you about the specifics, but now that there's a resolution with your school and the conference, you're staying put, Kumbaya, and all that, how did that feel to have that behind you?"
Hoke: "Is it a monkey off our back or anything like that? I don't think so. It might be more for the players than it is for us as a staff because we can only control, as you know, certain things. Well, our control is how our guys are in the weight room, how they're conditioning, how they're preparing for next (Friday) and the start of camp.
"From that standpoint, there's not a big difference. It really isn't."
Reporter: "Did it ever reach a point with that back and forth where you ever thought you are going to the Pac-12?
Hoke: "Not really. I didn't know enough. And I'm glad, because I didn't need to know. That's past us and we have moved on to things we can control."
Like the start of preseason camp, which begins July 28, four weeks and a day before the season opener against Ohio.
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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Finn Sullivan scored 17 points as Vermont beat Merrimack 66-43 on Sunday.
Jordan Minor led the Warriors (1-9) in scoring, finishing with 25 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks. Merrimack also got seven points and two steals from Jordan Derkack. In addition, Jordan McKoy finished with five points. The Warriors extended their losing streak to eight straight.
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New data from the Capital One Insights Center uncovers a new understanding of the conditions required for business ownership to serve as a vehicle of personal wealth creation
McLEAN, Va., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Capital One Insights Center has released new research that sheds light on how business ownership can drive personal wealth creation for Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs and their communities – and ultimately close the racial wealth gap.
"For many Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs, owning a business can be a tremendous opportunity to build wealth and narrow the racial wealth gap," said Shena Ashley, President, Capital One Insights Center and Vice President, Community Impact and Investment. "In Richmond, about 35% of Black and Hispanic business owners saw at least $188,000 in personal wealth growth over the course of their business ownership, the same as the median wealth for white U.S. households. With the support of a coordinated business ecosystem, sustained funding, and educational resources, these businesses were able to make a real difference in closing the racial wealth gap for themselves."
The study, conducted in partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), surveyed more than 1,000 business owners and residents in Richmond, Virginia, along with 21 interviews with community organizations, and found unlocking wealth is possible – but under the right conditions.
The report's key findings include:
- Successful businesses have shown that it is possible to unlock wealth under the right conditions. Approximately one-third of Black and Hispanic business owners in Richmond experienced personal wealth growth of at least $188,000 over the course of their business ownership.
- Wealth growth is not a guarantee. Wealth growth by Black and Hispanic business owners was roughly half of non-business owners from 2017/18 to 2022.
- Size and scale matter for long-term personal wealth and business success. Businesses that survive the initial start-up years or grow to greater than $500,000 in annual revenue generate greater wealth.
- Business success depends on three critical conditions. Access to and acumen around initial and growth funding, right-sized skills and capabilities, and a supportive business ecosystem are key variables to business success and personal wealth generation.
Based on these findings, the research highlights potential levers that could help entrepreneurs, financial institutions, business and community organizations, and policymakers close the racial wealth gap.
"Working to level the playing field for all small businesses in Richmond requires a multi-faceted and long-term strategy that consists of dedicated investments, available resources, and policy," said Andy Navarette, Executive Vice President, Head of External Affairs, Capital One. "Public, private, nonprofit, and government sectors must come together to explore innovative ways to increase Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs' access to capital and make concerted, harmonized efforts to level the playing field for diverse business owners, in Richmond and around the country."
In order to unlock personal wealth creation for Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs at scale, the report recommends 1) continued exploration of innovative ways to increase capital; 2) public, private, and nonprofit support; 3) financial management and digital tools; 4) collaboration among organizations within the business ecosystem; and 5) trust-building between funders and communities of color.
"Being a small business owner in any community is a challenge. When it comes to minority small business owners and closing the staggering racial wealth gap, challenges such as unequal access to capital and business support systems often make their journey even tougher," said Kedra Newsom Reeves, Managing Director and Partner at BCG and Co-Lead for The Center for Inclusion and Equity. "This research makes clear that while wealth growth through business ownership is achievable, public and private organizations play an integral role in supporting underserved communities and the budding entrepreneurs within them."
Methodology:
From August to October 2022, we surveyed 1,015 current and former business owners and residents of Richmond, Virginia, and conducted interviews with 21 community organizations that provide support to local business owners. We focused on businesses in Richmond, Virginia, using wealth creation rather than longevity as a measure of success.
Our survey covered current and past business owners from Black or Hispanic backgrounds, against the general population in Richmond. Responses include active businesses started between 1970 and 2021; former businesses started between 1974 and 2022; businesses up to $10 million in annual revenue, with a sample average revenue of $2.9M; and businesses from service, retail, and manufacturing industries. Nearly all the owners surveyed launched their business before 2020, meaning they survived the economic impact of the pandemic.
About Capital One Insights Center
The Capital One Insights Center combines Capital One research and partnerships to produce insights that advance equity and inclusion. As a nascent platform for data and dialogue, the Center strives to help changemakers create an inclusive society, build thriving communities and develop financial tools that enrich lives. The Center draws on Capital One's deep market expertise and legacy of revolutionizing the credit system through the application of data, information and technology.
Learn more about the Insights Center here.
About Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.
Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.
The North America Center for Inclusion and Equity (CIE) works with organizations to help build inclusive cultures, deliver social impact, create business value, and drive measurable change for all underserved groups. We serve as the home for diversity, equity, and inclusion thought leadership, partnerships, and engagements for BCG's North America region. The CIE brings together more than 250 DEI experts covering the full range of industries and across all core business functions. We support companies to eliminate systemic bias, spark broader social transformations, and generate a competitive advantage.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Saints have scratched top running back Alvin Kamara from Sunday’s lineup against Tampa Bay because of a rib injury that has bothered him since New Orleans’ Week 1 victory at Atlanta.
Kamara, who was listed as questionable on Friday’s injury report, is one of the New Orleans’ most productive players as both a runner and receiver.
Kamara left the Saints’ Sept. 11 game in the fourth quarter but initially said afterward that he believed he would be fine. After practicing on a limited basis on Wednesday, he sat out practices on Thursday and Friday.
With Kamara out, veteran Mark Ingram is expected to get the bulk of the work at running back, backed up by Dwayne Washington and Tony Jones Jr.
Kamara is among several established skill players ruled out for the game, including Tampa Bay receivers Julio Jones (knee) and Chris Godwin (hamstring), as well as Saints receiver Tre’Quan Smith (shoulder), who returned to practice this week after sitting out in Week 1.
New Orleans also scratched second-year defensive end Payton Turner, a 2021 first-round draft choice who blocked the Falcon’s 63-yard field goal attempted at the end of regulation in Week 1. He was not on this week’s injury report.
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With the pending arrival of the 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric truck, joining the market alongside the Ford F-150 Lightning, Chevy Silverado EV, GMC Silverado EV, and Rivian R1T, there will be no shortage of fully electric full-size truck offerings.
But is there a future for compact or mid-size electric trucks, in the form of a small electric pickup, in the U.S.?
A range of brands—including Nissan, Kia, GM, and Volkswagen—have pondered this out loud, either by announcing it’s a possibility or by showing a concept. A Toyota electric pickup has been confirmed, but it hasn’t revealed its size—or if it’s the long-desired Toyota Tacoma EV—yet. And there might be a pickup variant of the more affordable Rivian R2 lineup.
All of these brands have fallen short of actually confirming such a smaller electric truck specifically for the U.S. When Green Car Reports discussed the possibility with Ram Brand CEO Mike Koval Jr. last week at the New York auto show, that appeared to be where Ram is with the idea.
Koval confirmed that Ram shared a mid-size, all-electric pickup concept at its recent dealer convention. The concept is reportedly about the size of the current Ford Ranger—or where the Dodge Dakota left off when it was discontinued in 2011.
“I had 6,000 of my best friends in the arenas, and I was looking for the thumbs up or the thumbs down,” he said. “And they would have to tell you but I think it’s overwhelmingly positive.”
Of course, Green Car Reports asked if there might be a range-extended XR version of this mid-size truck, as was announced for the Ram 1500 REV, and whether the mid-size truck might look more like the Ram Revolution concept if it were to be produced. But Koval wouldn’t yet budge on either topic.
“It’s too early,” he said. “It’s not completely defined yet because this was just a concept.”
Koval followed this with a hint, suggesting that if such a truck were a global model, then the product might be more viable. While 95% of Ram volume has historically been in North America, Koval explained that South America, parts of the Middle East (Gulf states), and Australia have all become important markets for the brand.
“More and more, I am looking at our business as a global business,” Koval said. “So I’m looking at all opportunities, whether it’s compact pickup, mid-size, and where I can sell them and what they need to have—metric-ton, rear-wheel drive.”
Still on the subject of the mid-size truck, Koval summed: “Could I have an ICE and a BEV, because I need ICE in South America? Yeah, it’s possible, and it’s all back to STLA Frame and the flexibility that’s in there. We could do it.“
So… what about Ram compact pickups?
When Green Car Reports pivoted the question to simple compact trucks—with a level of electrification, specifically, Koval shifted gears to price concerns.
“We have some awesome stuff in South America, we have some compact pickups, but these things are never easy—compliance, safety, homologation,” he said. “And profitability is the question right now.”
“If I could bring a compact, a Ram version of a compact pickup, I’d do it today. I see an opportunity there for sure,” he summed.
An impending EV price war
And then, what do you do when there’s a multitude of electric-truck entries, and an EV price war?
“That’s the elephant in the room,” Koval said, with an exhale. “And the answer to that question, the way you keep that scale and equilibrium today is by keeping cost out.”
“I’m already dealing with downward pressure on my ICE portfolio today: Inflation’s up, interest rates are through the roof, gas prices are back up. I feel that now,” he said. “Everyone knows how expensive electrification is, but at the end of the day if we’re not making EVs, pickup trucks included, that are accessible to the mainstream, then I’m not sure what the hell we’re doing.”
Koval sees the costs leveling off over time, with some technologies like solid-state battery cells helping. “Some of the raw material stuff is coming down, it’s not all doom and gloom, but we’ve got a long way to go,” he said.
Electrifying heavy-duty trucks!
With the compact and mid-size trucks at an idea stage, what’s next?
“Heavy-duty trucks present an entirely different set of challenges. We’re looking at a lot of fuel-cell type technologies, which would make a lot of sense in that space.”
According to Koval, that could also potentially jump off the STLA Frame hardware, although the challenge would be in the tanks.
“We have nothing to announce today, but fuel cell could be an interesting option for the use case—yes, towing and hauling big, big loads,” he said. “Ram just delivered its first hydrogen fuel-cell vans in Europe at the end of last year, so we have that subject-matter expertise.”
Ram ProMaster electric van demand is strong
Ram doesn’t actually have a battery electric model in its lineup, presently. The first is a version of the ProMaster, arriving later this fall.
As Koval explained, the fleet market has been open-minded about the possibility and locked onto the total cost of ownership and route predictability—to the extent that electric-van demand is pushing the capacity of the Saltillo, Mexico, plant.
“The demand is insane…I don’t know what I’m gonna do with that,” he said.
Pickups will be a big part of EV sales, too
While Koval made clear that the brand is planning to make the Ram 1500 REV available in a base Tradesman build that won’t be fleet-only, he emphasized that the electric truck won’t be a limited offering.
Ram wouldn’t disclose official numbers, but it suggested affordability has to be a part of this. It sees electric trucks as at least a quarter of its mix by then—a heavy lift for a brand that revolves around towing, hauling, and work.
“We know that truck intenders are more open now to the idea, and we have a very, very bullish forecast for our EV mix through the end of the decade.”
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), provider of a leading modern database for enterprise applications, today announced it was named among this year's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in the Bay Area by Great Place to Work and Fortune Magazine. Couchbase placed 72nd in this prestigious list, which is based on employee feedback collected through America's largest ongoing annual workforce study of over one million employee survey responses. In the survey, 93% of Couchbase employees said it is a great place to work, compared to an average of 57% at a typical U.S. company.
"This recognition validates how Team Couchbase both creates value and in turn is valued, no matter what comes our way," said Matt Cain, president and CEO of Couchbase. "I'm proud of our team for living our values to make tomorrow better than today for customers, partners and each other. I believe this will be a landmark year for Couchbase and look forward to continually growing our organization globally while sustaining our world class culture."
The Best Workplaces in the Bay Area list is highly competitive. Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback. Companies are only considered if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization headquartered in the Bay Area.
Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is.
"As employee demands and expectations have dramatically changed over the past year, these companies have risen to the occasion—and it's not been easy," says Kim Peters, executive vice president of global recognition, research & strategic partnerships at Great Place to Work. "Their hard work and dedication to listen to and care for the well-being of every employee, and support them in a way that's meaningful to all, is the standard all organizations will be held to."
Couchbase is currently hiring globally. For more information about career opportunities, please visit https://www.couchbase.com/careers.
About Couchbase
At Couchbase, we believe data is at the heart of the enterprise. We empower developers and architects to build, deploy, and run their most mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers a high-performance, flexible, and scalable modern database that runs across the data center and any cloud. Many of the world's largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com.
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Great Place to Work selected the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area by gathering and analyzing confidential survey responses from its study of thousands of companies representing more than 6.1 million U.S. employees at Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. Companies must be headquartered in the Bay Area to be eligible. Company rankings are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place to Work Trust Index™ survey. Read the full methodology.
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Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, it has surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Its employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything it does is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — An armed man approached the visitor screening area at the FBI's Cincinnati office, fled when confronted by agents and later exchanged gunfire with police, authorities said Thursday.
After fleeing the FBI office, the man was chased onto Interstate 71, which was then closed in both directions. The man, wearing body armor, exchanged gunfire with police, according to the Clinton County Emergency Management Agency.
The episode came a day after the FBI director warned against threats circulating online against agents and the Justice Department in the wake of the agency’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
“Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday in Omaha.
Officials locked down a mile radius near the interstate and urged residents and business owners to lock doors and stay inside.
An FBI evidence team has arrived at the office to investigate, according to multiple media reports. | 2022-08-11T16:38:56+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Armed-man-approaches-FBI-office-exchanges-17367039.php |
Tiffany Haddish is opening up about her fertility journey.
The comedian recently got candid on experiencing her eighth miscarriage, recalling a conversation she had with a nurse not too long ago.
"Well I'm going to be honest with you," Haddish recounted her response in an interview with The Washington Post published July 24, "this would be my eighth miscarriage."
The 43-year-old said she decided to keep her experiences with miscarriages mostly private so that the news wouldn't affect how people treated her.
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"I've got a uterus shaped like a heart. It just won't keep anything in," she continued. "I didn't want people saying: ‘Are you OK? Are you alright?' Like a wounded animal, I just rather go in a cave by myself. Lick my wounds."
However, this isn't the first time Haddish has opened up about her fertility struggles.
"I had a lot of miscarriages," she shared Rachel Bilson's "Broad Ideas" podcast earlier this month. "That has a lot to do with the endometriosis and misdiagnosis and all that stuff."
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Giving details about what she went through, the "Girls Trip" actress added, "Those miscarriages were as painful as a motherf-----."
"I feel like a piece of my soul died every time," she shared. "I don't know if I am capable and I feel like that was God's birth control telling me, ‘He is not the one. That is not who you are supposed to be having a baby with.'"
But Haddish — who split with Common in 2021 — has explored other avenues to motherhood, telling E! News' "Daily Pop" host Justin Sylvester in January 2022 that she could be ready to start the paperwork for adoption, "maybe at the end of the year, beginning of next year."
She has also previously taken parenting classes to prepare.
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The Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports has ordered schools across the country to end the school year early in order to prevent the further spread of Ebola among schoolchildren.
Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola on Sept. 20 of this year, and since then has reported 135 cases and 53 deaths due to the disease across seven districts of the country.
Among those cases, 23 children have been infected and eight have died.
The growing outbreak has prompted Uganda's minister of education and first lady, Janet Kataha Museveni, to shorten the third and final school term for the year by two weeks, now officially ending on Nov. 25.
"Closing schools earlier will reduce areas of concentration where children are in daily close contact with fellow children, teachers and other staff who could potentially spread the virus," said Museveni in a statement according to reports.
The closing of schools was suggested earlier this month by Ugandan Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, but was initially met with pushback from the Ugandan National Teachers' Union.
The shortening of the school year comes on the heels of an unprecedented two-year school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has significantly impacted learning for the country's schoolchildren.
The growing outbreak of Ebola is "worrisome"
Ebola is one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet. An infection results in a hemorrhagic fever and mortality rates for the disease are on average about 50%, according to the World Health Organization. The mortality rate for this outbreak in Uganda is closer to 30%.
Nearly all Ebola outbreaks have occurred in Africa and transmission of the virus typically occurs when a person comes into contact with the bodily fluids of another infected individual.
The current spread of the virus has government officials, emergency responders and health care workers preparing for the worst.
"We find the current situation increasingly alarming," says Cathy Janssens, an emergency medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders stationed in Uganda.
Much of that alarm has to do with where the virus has spread. "The signs are worrisome. The outbreak has now extended to a major metropolitan community, and that's not a good thing," says Mark Feinberg, the CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
This current outbreak of Ebola in Uganda is a bit different than most previous outbreaks. It's caused by a different species of Ebola, Sudan ebolavirus, for which there is no approved vaccine. Most previous outbreaks were caused by Zaire ebolavirus, for which an effective vaccine was developed in 2018. That vaccine won't work in this outbreak.
Three experimental vaccines for Sudan ebolavirus are in development and could be used in Uganda, but they have yet to be tested in an outbreak scenario. Of these vaccines, one was developed by Oxford, another by the Sabin Institute, and the third by IAVI and manufactured by Merck.
Recent reports have stated that 100,000 doses of the IAVI and Merck vaccine are in the process of being released to Uganda for clinical trials. However, that vaccine exists in bulk form and needs to be allocated into doses before it can be used.
Even though the vaccines haven't yet been tested for efficacy in humans, there's confidence that they'll be as effective as the vaccines for Zaire ebolavirus. "The diseases are similar, the vaccines are similar, we expect the performance will be similar, but obviously we still have to prove that," says Feinberg about the vaccine that IAVI developed.
The WHO released a statement on Nov. 3 outlining its plans to begin clinical trials of the candidate vaccines. Makerere University Lung Institute in Kampala, Uganda, will conduct the trials with support from WHO, CEPI, and GAVI.
Vaccines may not be necessary for this outbreak
There is, however, hope that those clinical trials won't be necessary. Feinberg says, "the best case scenario here is that the outbreak will be contained by public health measures and there won't actually be an opportunity to test the vaccines for efficacy."
Janssens affirmed that statement, saying that Doctors Without Borders has "huge experience in responding to Ebola outbreaks, even when there's no vaccine available."
It wasn't until the end of a 2018 outbreak of Zaire ebolavirus in the Democratic Republic of Congo that vaccines for that kind of Ebola became available. "For us, [the lack of vaccines] has not made any change in how we respond," Janssens says.
That response includes public health measures instituted by the Ministry of Health, including lockdowns, restricted travel for close contacts of infected individuals, and the training of village health workers in risk communication and community engagement.
The recently announced school closures are another one of the public health measures being implemented, specifically to prevent spread among children and school workers.
Despite the high mortality rates, all is not lost for those who do get infected. Many recover, including 7-month-old Matthew and his mother.
Janssens described how the mother and son duo were able to successfully recover with treatment. "His mother was the first one to be confirmed [with an Ebola infection]," she says. "Matthew became confirmed a couple of days after, but both of them have been discharged."
Treatment for those infected includes intravenous fluids, drugs and monoclonal antibodies. Proper diagnosis and treatment during the early stages of an infection lead to the most positive outcomes.
Stories of recovery, like those of Matthew and his mother, are why emergency responders like Janssens put themselves at risk to help make a difference. "This is also why we're doing it. To see the big smile of the mother and just the fact how Matthew was so eager to eat and was moving. I mean, those are all good signs of a healthy newborn of 7 months, right?" she says.
"They were so happy to be able to go back home. I'm very thankful."
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Former Gamecock standout Bride earns major league call-up to Oakland
Bride has hit .347 this season between Double-A and Triple-A for the A's organization
Bride has hit .347 this season between Double-A and Triple-A for the A's organization
(GamecocksOnline) University of South Carolina alum Jonah Bride (2016-18) has been called up by the Oakland Athletics and will be on the active roster with the club in Boston, the organization announced today (Monday, June 13). Bride becomes the 56th Gamecock to reach the Major Leagues.
Bride has played in both Double-A (Midland) and Triple-A (Las Vegas) in the Athletics' organization this season. He is hitting .347 between the two organizations with five home runs and 29 RBI. Bride, who is on Oakland's 40-man roster, was drafted by the A's in the 23rd round in 2018 and has a .283 career batting average in the organization with 27 home runs and 170 RBI.
Bride was a three-year letterwinner at South Carolina, starting in 186 career games. The Owasso, Okla., native hit .289 with 36 doubles, three triples, 11 home runs and 95 RBI while helping the Gamecocks to Super Regional appearances in 2016 and 2018. During his senior season, Bride hit .301 with 12 doubles and 31 RBI. He was a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member and a two-time SEC Community Service Team honoree.
Bride and the A's have a series with the Red Sox, featuring Jackie Bradley Jr., from Tuesday-Thursday and then head home to start a series with Whit Merrifield and the Kansas City Royals this weekend. | 2022-06-14T02:31:03+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/former-gamecock-standout-bride-earns-major-league-call-up-to-oakland/40279758 |
PITTSBURGH, Aug 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accion Labs ("Accion"), a digital-focused software product engineering company specializing in emerging technologies, announced the appointment of Tom Collins as Chief Operating Officer.
Tom is a successful executive with demonstrated experience leading successful sales, consulting, product development, account management, and professional services units. He builds strong client relationships, assembles high-performing teams, and delivers results.
Kinesh Doshi, Founder & CEO of Accion Labs says, "Tom is a leader who brings a wealth of experience in the technology and innovation space. Over 25 years of his career, Tom has founded multiple companies and has run tech services organizations in leading firms such as Atos, Accenture, and Globallogic. With his deep experience in scaling organizations, and as our COO, Tom is going to partner with me and our business unit leaders in taking Accion to the next level."
Prior to joining Accion Labs, Tom has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of GlobalLogic. As the business unit leader for Financial Services and Consumer Business, Tom was instrumental in shaping the vertical go-to-market strategy, winning new marquee clients, and setting up a hyper-growth organization.
"In a world where enterprise survival and competitiveness are going to be shaped by the extent of their innovation ability and digital embrace, Accion Labs is in a unique and exciting position to help companies transform themselves with technology. I am excited to be a part of Accion Labs' growth journey and look forward to helping clients take their next step in digital innovation," said Tom Collins.
Having held multiple leadership positions, Tom is also an entrepreneur — co-founder of appiLog and Customer Experts. Tom has studied at the University of Munich and holds a diploma from the Munich School of Management and a degree in "Leading in the Digital Age" from the INSEAD Business School.
About Accion
Founded in Pittsburgh, PA in 2011, Accion is a leader in helping technology companies and enterprises leverage the power of emerging technologies. Accion's expertise ranges across advanced UX, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big-data/analytics, migration to cloud/SaaS and re-engineering of legacy platforms, process automation, mobility, augmented reality, and IoT. The company's clients include software product companies, e-SaaS firms, e-business organizations, and enterprises undergoing a digital transformation across a range of industries such as healthcare, financial services, technology, and fintech. Accion has more than 4,000 engineers across the globe with offices in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Romania, Mexico, India, and Asia-Pacific.
Contact:
Rishab Nathan
rishab.nathan@accionlabs.com
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If a steaming cup of hot cocoa is one of your favorite parts of the holiday season, we have found the perfect Christmas sweater for all of your get-togethers and parties.
The Swiss Miss 2022 Ugly Christmas Sweater not only has a festive design that’ll remind you of a box of Swiss Miss hot cocoa, but it is also scented so you can smell like hot chocolate!
Other features include a reversible sequin pattern that you can swipe to say either “I am hot” or “I am sweet.” The sweater also includes an insulated zipper pouch to keep your cocoa warm (if it’s in a proper container, of course) or store Swiss Miss packets to pass out to fellow holiday party-goers.
The Swiss Miss hot cocoa-scented holiday sweater is available only on UglyChristmasSweater.com for $60. The sweater comes in sizes from S-3XL and is available in limited quantities, while supplies last.
While there don’t appear to be any other scented Christmas sweaters, you’ll find dozens of other sweaters from UglyChristmasSweater.com, Tipsy Elves and even Sam’s Club.
A few of the other fun sweaters from UglyChristmasSweater.com include one that says “Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal” from “Home Alone,” one that says “Santa! I know him!” from “Elf” and for fans of “The Office,” a Dunder Mifflin print.
Tipsy Elves has more than 100 sweaters, including a light-up gingerbread house, a drinking game and a stocking sweater that holds an entire bottle of wine. At Sam’s Club, you can order a customized sweater with fun sayings or your name.
If you love ugly Christmas sweater-style graphics, you can even order a giant blanket that features Santa Claus riding a unicorn. The blanket measures 10 feet by 10 feet and weighs 10 pounds. It can be found exclusively on Big Blanket Co’s website for $229.
Will you be ordering a new ugly Christmas sweater for this holiday season?
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Nexstar investigates after Michigan news station told to ‘get both sides’ of Pride event
By Liam Reily, CNN
New York (CNN) — Nexstar, the nation’s largest operator of local TV stations, said Thursday it is conducting an investigation after a news director at a Michigan station told its journalists to scale back its Pride Month coverage and “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, saying their “polarizing” nature had upset some of its conservative viewers.
“We’re looking into the situation at WOOD-TV, as the communication regarding the station’s coverage of PRIDE month activities in the area is not consistent with Nexstar’s values, the way we cover the news, or the respect we have for our viewers,” the company said in a statement to CNN.
Nexstar added that it will “take appropriate action as necessary to address this situation” and said that it “apologize[s] for offending members of the LGBTQ community and WOOD-TV’s viewers.”
The investigation comes after news staff at the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based NBC affiliate received a memo on Tuesday from the assistant news director, Amy Fox, titled “June Pride Month,” that said the station had received pushback from viewers “who are not happy to see those Pride-related stories.”
“We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are going to be controversial and polarizing in our community,” Fox wrote. “While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions and they are our viewers.”
“If we are covering Pride events we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue,” she added.
Fox further emphasized the need to examine the “newsworthy-ness” of Pride events before covering them, saying that the station doesn’t “cover every event or festival that happens in West Michigan.”
Fox did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
The memo came days after the station covered an inaugural Pride festival in the city of Grand Haven that drew thousands of attendees. While events recognizing Pride Month are underway across the nation, right-wing media figures and outlets have launched a series of attacks on the celebrations and companies that support LGBTQ causes, including Bud Light and Target, portraying them as “woke” and falsely claiming they are “grooming” children with radical ideology.
A journalist at the station, who asked not to be identified, told CNN that several employees responded to the memo via email to voice their disapproval.
“Our newsroom immediately stood up to the 2 managers who wrote a memo mandating that we cover ‘the other side’ of Pride events,” WOOD-TV anchor Michele DeSelms wrote on Twitter. “Essentially requiring us to give equal time to hate and discrimination.”
“We said no, and will continue to fight for our LGBTQ colleagues, family members, friends and the community,” she continued. “This fight is not over. Please know we are standing up for what’s right, standing strong together and we will not let hate win.”
Luke Stier and Madeline Odle, executive producers at the station, also publicly expressed outrage over the directive.
“The guidance is not being followed,” Stier tweeted. “The only two people involved in its creation have been removed from any discussions surrounding @WOODTV Pride coverage as our corporation conducts a thorough investigation.”
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SINGAPORE – China's new defense minister made his first international appearance on Sunday at an annual defense summit, where he delivered a speech full of thinly-veiled barbs at the U.S., calling on it to "mind your own business" after two close encounters between the country's militaries.
"The best way to prevent this from happening is that military vessels and aircraft not come close to our waters and airspace," Li said. "Watch out for your own territorial waters and airspace, then there will not be any problems."
His remarks highlight how mounting U.S.-China military tensions have dominated the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, spilling out into the open with dueling speeches delivered by their respective defense chiefs over the weekend.
Here's what that means for the power dynamics in the region.
China tried to blame the US for a near miss in the Taiwan straight.
On Saturday, U.S. defense secretary Lloyd Austin rebuked China's unwillingness to sit down for talks in his keynote speech – the same day that two warships from the U.S. and Canada jointly sailed through the Taiwan Strait after transiting through the South China Sea.
Canada's navy said a Chinese navy warship aggressively cut in front of the convoy and came within 150 meters of crashing into the American ship the USS Chung-Hoon. Earlier this month, the Pentagon said a Chinese fighter jet cut dangerously close in front of an American surveillance plane in international airspace above the South China Sea.
"Why does this all happen near China's sovereign waters and airspace? Chinese ships and aircraft never go near other countries' airspace and waters," said China's defense chief Li.
The US and China are competing for influence in the Asia Pacific.
The U.S. and China have also both been boosting their military activity and arms build-up in the Asia Pacific region.
Austin touted expanded military exercises with allies and partners, including Japan, Australia, the Philippines and Indonesia. The U.S. is also increasing the sharing of military technology with India, creating interoperability between its military systems with Japan, and is currently building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines with Australia.
Li countered in his remarks Sunday, offering to partner militarily with Southeast Asian countries on the basis of "mutual respect."
However, the response to Li's remarks from various Southeast Asian delegations gave the impression that this "family" is very much divided. Some said that while China talks about co-operation, its actions have a different message.
"When president Marcos and president Xi met in Beijing, they agreed to manage differences through peaceful means and to promote freedom of navigation... While China is talking about dialogue, it's actions show confrontation," Jay Tristan Tarriela, the Philippines deputy chief of coast guard staff said at one of the summit's events. Earlier this year, the Philippines accused a Chinese coast guard vessel of blinding the crew of a fishing vessel with a military grade laser.
Both the U.S. and China want a "thaw" in relations, but on their own terms.
China's defense chief Li said China wanted cooperation with the U.S., but delegations from each side presented drastically different interpretations of how to mend bilateral relations.
Li argued that the two countries should seek "common ground". "It is undeniable that a severe conflict or confrontation between China and the U.S. will be an unbearable disaster for the world" he said.
The U.S. has been stepping up congressional visits and weapons sales to Taiwan, an island China considers its own. Meanwhile, China wants the U.S. to first drop its sanctions on Li, which the U.S. imposed in 2018 when Li, as then-head of the military's equipment division, purchased Russian weapons.
"If a collision were to happen in the future, responsibility would entire lie with the U.S.," He Lei, deputy director of the People Liberation Army's Academy of Military Sciences in Beijing, told NPR. "If only the U.S. to forever to halt such transits, there would not be any more incidents."
He claimed that the fact the boats had not collided showed skill on the part of the navy. "The close distance between the two ships shows the utmost professionalism! To come so close and not collide shows their professional ability" he said.
China's military had sent naval and air forces to monitor the convoy, the country's eastern command force said. "Relevant countries deliberately create troubles in the Taiwan Strait region, deliberately provoke risks, maliciously undermine regional peace and stability, and send wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" forces," Colonel Shi Yi, a military spokesperson, said in a statement.
A hemisphere away, the war in Ukraine is an issue of contention in Asia.
Political heavy-hitters from the European Union and Ukraine also traveled to Singapore to rally support for Ukraine in its fight to expel Russian troops from its territory.
"There's many countries who are doing a very important contribution to Ukraine. But I think we also, at the same time, should be humble about the need also to have a strategic dialogue with the Global South," Pål Jonson, Sweden's defense minister, said in an interview with NPR." Sweden is increasing its defense budget this year and has applied to join NATO, the security alliance, breaking away from its history of neutrality.
Southeast Asian nations are not entirely swayed by the arguments for Ukraine however. Countries like Thailand and Malaysia have either withheld condemnation of Russia's invasion or, like Indonesia, have continued to openly court Russia.
Indonesia's defense minister Prabowo Subianto proposed a plan to create a demilitarized zone between Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories and the rest of Ukraine, a proposal that immediately received pushback from Ukraine's defense minister, Olekseii Reznikov.
"I will try to be polite. It sounds like a Russian plan," Reznikov said on a panel later.
The proposal was treated with cautious curiosity from Southeast Asian delegates, however. Cambodia's defense minister later also pushed for a negotiated end to the war.
"As soon as you say you want to negotiate for peace in Ukraine, you are cast aside as 'pro-Russia.' It really constrains our options," said a senior Indonesian diplomat. He declined to be named as he was not authorized to take media interviews.
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CLEVELAND, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Age discrimination has long been a part of the landscape of the U.S. workplace, with countless studies examining the problem over the decades. Hiring managers consistently regard older job seekers less favorably, despite their on-the-job performance being strong. Even with measures in place such as The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the issue remains.
E3 (Encore Employment Enterprise, Inc.), a program which assists workers over 50 to find meaningful employment and works to eliminate ageism in hiring, has advanced from a grant-funded program to an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Formerly known as Encore Staffing Network, the program first lived under the non-profit, Vantage Aging. In 2021, Fairhill Partners was awarded the grant funding for the Encore Engagement Enterprise pilot program (E3). E3 and Fairhill Partners had a shared vision and incorporated E3 to be its own Ohio non-profit.
Simone Mcnitt, who has led the program since 2018 from the beginning, serves as executive director.
Stephanie Fallcreek, CEO at Fairhill Partners says, "Simone McNitt and E3 are a welcome and terrific addition to NE Ohio's menu of organizations promoting employment for older adults and fighting agism wherever it lurks."
McNitt, E3's Executive Director, partnered with The Cleveland Foundation and legal consultants to complete the application process and to ensure that the funding would remain secure through the transition. Simone says, "I believe that seniors can be the answer to some of the gaps that exist in the workforce today. As for tomorrow, I haven't met anyone that's getting younger; and people are living longer. As a society, we should treat ageing like the invaluable resource it is. It's an honor for E3 to be the connector for encores and employers creating an intergenerational workforce."
Kathleen Hallissey, program director at The Cleveland Foundation says, "E3 is an important resource in our community, supporting older adults to find meaningful work. Executive Director Simone McNitt brings her years of expertise, commitment and passion to support older workers on their employment journey."
The people helped through E3 find the services valuable as well. As one beneficiary wrote, "It just goes to show how much one person who cares can impact another person's life. Thanks to Simone's motivation, my passion for writing has been renewed. I will forever be grateful for her help."
E3 envisions a community that thrives from the rewards of lifelong work experiences gained by individuals 50+, respectfully referred to as Encores. This vision inspires society to embrace aging and see the limitless potential of having a collaborative intergenerational workforce. E3 stands firm in their commitment to speak out on ageism, and to building a community where marginalization doesn't occur. They are committed to using their human resources to advance inclusive, equitable, and holistic-based workforce strategies for all. E3 is located in the Cleveland area and is currently serving the counties of Cuyatoga, Geauga and Lake, OH. To learn more, visit https://www.e3encore.org/.
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MAPLE CITY — Make that a cool 400 victories for soon-to-be Hall of Famer Kris Herman.
The 18-year Glen Lake varsity baseball head coach notched wins 399 and 400 in a doubleheader sweep of Elk Rapids at home Saturday.
A convincing 12-1 decision in the first game of the twin bill put Herman at 399. The win to get to 400 was much closer.
The Lakers trailed the Elks 5-3 going into the bottom of the fifth, but Glen Lake plated three on a double from Aiden Gokey, an Elk Rapids error and a squeeze bunt from Griffin Middleton to take the lead.
Mateo Gokey induced a groundout and two popouts in a 1-2-3 top of the sixth inning to lock down No. 400.
“Until the game was done, I hadn’t given it a ton of thought,” Herman said. “It’s in the back of your mind, but you’re so focused on the task at hand that you’re not really thinking about it.”
Herman said he shook hands with Elk Rapids head coach Tim Barber and then turned around to see a crowd had gathered. Dozens of Glen Lake supporters were holding a sign to congratulate Herman and commemorate the milestone moment.
“I was like, ‘Oh yeah, right. That’s today,’” Herman said. “It was a very nice surprise. They did a really nice ceremony for me. It was really cool.”
But for Herman, the 400 wins pale in comparison to the friendships he’s built and maintained throughout his tenure at Glen Lake.
“The memories you get from the relationships with the guys, that is what stands out,” he said. “They continue to email as alumni and call and see how you’re doing. When I’m long gone, that’s going to matter a lot more than the other stuff.”
When asked if he plans on staying around long enough to reach 500 wins, Herman said he will coach as long as he is healthy enough to do it and — most importantly — as long as he has his wife’s blessing to be in the dugout.
“None of this happens without her. She doesn’t get the credit she deserves for this,” Herman said of his wife, Becky. “I’ve chosen to be away a lot, and she’s had to put up with a lot for a number of years to the point where she’s been a single parent for most of it.”
Although Herman will go down in the record books with at least 400 wins to his name, he said he would not have reached the mark without the players on the field.
“These wins don’t belong to me,” he said. “They belong to the guys. All the guys over the years, they belong to them.”
Herman is set to be inducted into the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in June.
BASEBALL
TC West 6, 4
FH Northern 5, 4
Traverse City West: Tristan Simrau (W) 5.1 IP, 4 HA, ER, 2 K; David Dimondo 3 H, 2 R; Wyatt Danilowicz 4 H, 2 R, RBI; Quinten Gillespie 3 H, 3 RBI; Gavin Brown H, R, RBI; Sam Reynolds RBI, R.
Trojans earn split in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS — Traverse City Central went 1-1 at the Gainey Athletic Complex in Grand Rapids on Saturday.
The Trojans (8-5) dropped their morning game to Grandville 7-5, but they rebounded with a 13-6 win over Haslett in the afternoon.
Stats: Matt Reed (W) 3 IP, 5 HA, ER; Ben Van Nes 2 H, 2 RBI; Josh Klug 3 H, 3 R, RBI; Will Dawson 3 H, 2 R, 4 RBI; Owen Dawson 2 H, 2 R, 4 RBI; Mike Booher H, R, 2 RBI; Carson Bourdo H, R, RBI.
Kingsley tops St. Francis, Mesick
TRAVERSE CITY — Evan Douglass dazzled on the mound for Kingsley, tossing a complete-game two-hitter against Traverse City St. Francis while walking none and striking out six in a 12-0 victory.
The Stags (7-3) then went on to defeat Mesick 7-2 in the second game of a round-robin tournament at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Middle School.
Stats: Douglass 4 H, 5 R, 4 RBI; Eli Graves 4 H, 4 R, 4 RBI; Justin Grahn (W) 4 IP, 1 HA, ER, 7 K; Zach Middleton H, 3 RBI; Philip Brown 2 H, 2 R, 2 RBI; Riley Pierce H, 2R, RBI.
Grayling 10
Mio-Au Sable 6
Grayling: Ben Gonzales (W) 3 IP 2 HA, ER, 5 K; Jake Huspen 2 H, 2 R, 2 RBI; Trevor Cvitkovich H, R, 2 RBI; Cole Dickey 2 H, R, RBI; Logan Malonen 3 RBI.
Manistee picks up 2 Ws
Scores: Manistee 5, Mason County Eastern 1; Manistee 11, Bear Lake 1.
Stats: Eli Workman (W) 6 IP, 5 HA, ER, 7 K; Jeffrey Huber H, R, RBI; Mason Robinson 2 H, R; Adam Workman 2 R, 4 RBI; Donavyn Kirchinger 2 R, RBI; Jaret Edmondson (W) 5 IP, 3 HA, ER, 9 K; Ethan Edmondson 2 H, 4 R, RBI; Caine Weed H, R, 2 RBI.
SOFTBALL
Grand Haven 14, 19
TC West 0, 2
Traverse City West: Kaci Sowers 2 H; Brynn Smith H, R; Mallory Smith H, RBI; Lauren Tkach 2 H, R; Alyssa Dahl RBI.
Glads win 2nd annual Mike Doriot Tournament
TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse City St. Francis varsity softball team hosted and won the second annual Mike Doriot Tournament on Saturday, defeating Lake Leelanau St. Mary 10-0 and Petoskey 19-6.
The fourth-ranked Glads remain undefeated, improving to 11-0-1.
Junior Gladiator Brooke Meeker continued to destroy the softball, collecting five hits and crushing a grand slam en route to a seven-RBI effort against Petoskey. Freshman Zoey Jetter had four hits and also homered for St. Francis, the first of her high school career.
Stephanie Schichtel, Allee Shepherd and Sophie Hardy all had three hits apiece for St. Francis. Shepherd took to the circle and earned the win over Lake Leelanau, tossing five scoreless innings. Kensley Thorpe toed the rubber against Petoskey and got the win.
Blazers win home tournament
KALKASKA — Winning three games and taking home a tournament title is not a bad way to spend a Saturday.
The Kalkaska Blazers improved to 8-3 on the season after beating Ishpeming 8-1, Fruitport 5-3, and Adrian 11-3 to win their home tourney.
Stats: Mia Miller (2W) 12 IP, 8 HA, 4 ER, 24 K; Michelle Michelin (W) 5.2 IP 7 HA, ER, 6 K; Mia Miller 10 H, 5 R, 4 RBI, 2 SB; Violet Porter 3H, 2 2B, 4 R, 4 RBI; Alyssa Colvin 4 H, 3B, 4 R, 4 RBI, SB; Jaycee Mitchell 5 H, 3 R, 2 RBI; Keanna Eiseler 4 H, 4 R, RBI.
Stags go 1-2 in tourney play
MIDLAND — The Kingsley offense exploded for 16 runs in its last of three games Saturday, defeating Vassar 16-1.
The Stags (7-3-1) avoided going winless on the day after losing to Mount Pleasant 9-3 in the morning contest and Beaverton 11-4 in the middle game.
Stats: Maddy Chappel (W) 3 IP, 1 HA, 0 ER, 4 K; Katelyn Lyon 4 H, 2 R, RBI; Allie Hawkins 4 H, 2 R, 2 RBI; Leslie Hamilton 3 H, 5 R, RBI; Grace Lewis 3 H, 3 R, 5 RBI; Hannah Grahn 3 H, 2 R, 3 RBI; Sierra Billiau 2 H, 2R, 2 RBI; Alexa Sweat 4 H, 3 R, 5 RBI; Alyssa Hamilton 2 H, 3 R; Ashley Folkersma 2 H, R, 2 RBI; Jaden Sinkes H, 2 RBI
Elks takes 1st at Laker tourney
MAPLE CITY — A red-hot offense and shutdown pitching led Elk Rapids to a pair of blowout victories and a championship in the Glen Lake tournament on Saturday. The Elks defeated the host Lakers 17-1 and then toppled Onaway 19-0.
Stats: Regann Merchant (2W) 4 K, 3 H, 2 RBI; Morgan Wirtz 6 H, 2B, 5 RBI; Haleigh Yocom 3 H, 2B, 4 RBI; Ryleigh Yocom 7 H, 2 RBI; Nevada Molby 3H, B, 5 RBI; Violet Sumerix 2B, 3 RBI; Abby Platt 4 H, 2B, 4 RBI; Emma Eckerdt 2 H; Brianna Pemberton 2 H, 2B, 2 RBI.
Mesick beats Frankfort, falls to Marion
Scores: Mesick 4, Frankfort 0; Marion 6, Mesick 1.
Stats: Kelsey Quiggin (W) 6 IP, 2 HA, 9 K, 2 H, 3 R; Mattie Akom 3 H, 2 RBI; Rylee Blach H, RBI, R.
Joburg Cardinals win tournament
Scores: Johannesburg-Lewiston def. Constantine 3-2, def. Roscommon 10-1.
Stats: Jayden Marlatt (W) 7 IP, 14 K, 4 HA, 2ER, 5H, 3 R, 2 RBI, 2 SB; Autumn Vermilya (W) 7 IP, 6 K, 6 HA, ER; Cassie Tallman 2 H, 2 R, RBI 2 SB; Emily Crandell 2 H, R, RBI, SB.
SOCCER
TC Central 4
Holland 3
Traverse City Central (3-3-3): Madison Bartlett goal; Elizabeth Thaxton 2 goals, assist; Addison Booher goal; Iali Rodenroth assist; Amelia Jordan 4 saves.
TC West 6
Ludington 1
Traverse City West: Quinn Disbrow 2 goals, assist; Ally Jo McKenna 2 goals; Amelia Blume goal; Kaylee Niezgoda goal; Jae Habich assist; Audrey Wolff assist; Gwen Allore 2 saves.
GOLF
Trojans compete back-to-back days
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Central took advantage of some fairly decent weather Friday and Saturday to get on the golf course for consecutive days during a season marred by inclement weather.
The Trojans finished tied for fifth in the Corporal B meet that includes teams from all over Michigan and is played at the American Dunes in Grand Haven. Central carded a 323, placing 20 strokes behind winner Muskegon Mona Shores. Shea Harmeson was the Trojans’ top finisher, tying for sixth place with a 76. Boston Price (81), Michael Beattie (82), Cam Peters (84) and Cameron Mansfield (92) were Central’s other varsity one finishers. On the varsity two squad, Mack Shane was tops with an 85 followed by EJ Maitland (92), Joe Rosingana (100), Grant Neuhardt (104) and Joseph Kratovil (106).
The Trojans followed up Friday’s showing with a Big North Conference win at Interlochen, finishing with a 323 to Traverse City West’s 326, Alpena’s 353, Cadillac’s 356, Gaylord’s 379 and Petoskey’s 383.
BNC meet top 10: Harmeson (TCC) 77; Tyler Frechette (TCW) 78; Kole Putnam (GYD) 79; Winslow Robinson (TCW) 80; Isaac Shapiro (TCW) 80; Shane (TCC) 80; Price (TCC) 81; Harry Chipman (CAD) 81; Easton Schultz (ALP) 83; Gavin Hamp (ALP) 83.
TENNIS
Trojans best Grand Blanc, Okemos
GRAND BLANC — The Traverse City Central varsity girls tennis team continued its winning streak after sweeping crosstown rival Traverse City West on Thursday. The Trojans defeated host Grand Blanc 5-3 and Okemos 7-1.
Those getting two wins on the day included: 1S — Phoebe Walker 6-1, 6-3 over GB, 6-1, 6-1 over Okemos; 1D — Kerri Berkey/Isabella Fochtman 6-0, 6-4 over GB, 6-2, 7-6 (1) over Okemos; 2D — Natalie Bourdo/Carly Galsterer 6-0, 6-2 over GB, 7-5, 6-0 over Okemos; 3D — Sophia Hagerty/Wren Walker 6-2, 6-3 over GB, 6-2, 6-1 over Okemos.
Those getting one win included: 2S — Alexis Smith 6-2, 6-2 over Okemos; 3S — Maria Linck- 6-0, 6-0 over Okemos; 4S — Aili Brockmiller 6-3, 6-0 over Okemos; 4D — Zoe Galan/Audrey Parker 6-3, 6-1 over GB.
Glads finish 2nd at Clarkston quad
Team scores: 1. Clarkston 26; 2. Traverse City St. Francis 14; 3. Clarkston Everest 8; 4. Royal Oak Shrine 6.
Results: 1S — Mary Chittle def. Shrine (3,1), def. Everest (0,1), lost to Clarkston (0,0); 2S — Sage Lambdin def. Shrine (1,1), def. Everest (0,1), lost to Clarkston (0,0); 3S — Ava Pomaranski def. Shrine (4,5), def. Everest (0,0), lost to Clarkston (0,0); 4S — Audrey Lee def. Shrine (0,0), def. Everest (0,1), lost to Clarkston (0,0); 1D — Michelle Xia/Alyssa Corpus lost to Shrine (6-3, 3-6, 10-8), lost to Everest (0,0), lost to Clarkston (0,0); 2D — Sarah David/Lily Lurvey def. Shrine (5,1), def. Everest (5,0), lost to Clarkston (3,2); 3D — Christina Piche/Sarah Elshaw def. Shrine (3,5), def. Everest (4-6, 6-3, 10-7), lost to Clarkston (1,3); 4D — Lizzie Frederick/Caroline Knox def. Shrine (2,1), def. Everest (0,0), lost to Clarkston (0,4); 5D — Maggie Puetz/Walker lost to Shrine (0,1), def. Everest (1,1), lost to Clarkston (0,1).
LACROSSE
TC United beats Reeths-Puffer, Lowell
TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse City United remain on a roll as they’ve now collected seven consecutive victories after winning twice Saturday.
The United (8-2) topped Reeths-Puffer 16-2 and Lowell 11-6 on their home turf at Thirlby Field. They’ll battle Big North Conference opponent Petoskey, which they’ve beaten four straight times, on the road Wednesday before hosting their final home game on Saturday.
Stats: Jackson Dobreff 5 goals, 3 assists; Matt Ochoa 2 goals, 6 assists; Kyle McCrumb 9 goals, 2 assists; Aiden Lewandowski 2 goals, 3 assists; Remy Soper goal; Austin Sill 2 goals, 2 assists; Gabe Sheahen goal; Griffin Arends 5 goals, assist; Keegan Opper 13 saves; Ethan Gerber 8 saves; Jake Morgan, Ben Schollett and Taj Hood led on defense.
TRACK & FIELD
Stags and Glads go 1, 2 at Reed City Invitational
REED CITY — Traverse City St. Francis and Kingsley each left Reed City with a first-place and second-place team finish in the Coyote Invitational on Saturday.
The Gladiators won the boys division over Kingsley by a score of 191-157, while the Stags won the girls division over St. Francis by a thinner margin, 180-173.
Area boys winners: 100M — Burke Flowers (SF) 12.13; 200M — Gage Hessem (KNG) 24.04; 400M — Hessem 53.18; 1600M — Josh Kerr (SF) 4:47.31; 3200M — Kerr 10:29.99; 300M hurdles — Connor Johnson (KNG) 43.5; 4x100M — Johnson, Connor Schueller, Aidan Shier, Trevor Lewis (KNG) 47.05; 4x200M — Cam Sellers, Brenden Endres, Flowers, Joey Andrews (SF) 1:36.13; 4x400M — Thomas Richards, Sellers, Jacob Heeringa, Judge Morgan (SF) 3:40.12; 4x800M — Richards, Connor Donahue, Tucker Krumm, Heeringa (SF) 8:35.47; Shot put — Riley Brock (KNG) 46-9.5; Discus — Brock 141-0; High jump — Hessem 6-0; Pole vault — Endres 14-0; Long jump — Andrews 21-3.5.
Area girls winners: 800M — Mary Masserant (SF) 2:40.01; 100M hurdles — Helen Ludka (SF) 17.98; 300M hurdles — Lauren Wooer (KNG) 51.66; 4x100M — Maya Padisak, Kate Jensen, Gwyneth Passinault, Sophia Ellalasingham (SF) 54.44; 4x200M — Padisak, Jensen, Megan Arntz, Ellalasingham (SF) 1:52.98; 4x400M — Montana Timmer, Grace Hillier, Chloe Morgan, Wooer (KNG) 4:32.42; 4x800M — Masserant, Rylee Duffing, Margot Hagerty, Sophia Rhein (SF) 10:51.58; High jump — Gwyneth Bramer (SF) 4-8; Pole vault — Kelsey Saxton (KNG) 9-5; Long jump — Bramer 15-4.75.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Nelly Korda
Nelly Korda is in the field at Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France for the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship, taking place from July 27-30.
Looking to place a bet on Korda at the Amundi Evian Championship this week? Keep reading for the betting trends you need to know before you make your picks.
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Nelly Korda Insights
- Over her last 16 rounds, Korda has shot under par seven times, while also carding 11 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded a top-five score twice and a top-10 score three times in her last 16 rounds.
- Korda has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in three of her last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day nine times.
- In her past five tournaments, Korda has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes.
- She has made three cuts in her past five tournaments.
- In her past five appearances, Korda has finished within three shots of the leader twice and posted a score better than average twice.
Over the last year
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- Courses on the Tour have been an average length of 7,017 yards in the past year. This tournament will take place on a par 71 that's 6,527 yards.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Evian Resort Golf Club has a recent scoring average of -6.
- The average course Korda has played in the past year (6,548 yards) is 21 yards longer than the course she'll be playing this week (6,527).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -6.
Korda's Last Time Out
- Korda finished in the 44th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of 3.19 strokes.
- Her 4.30-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open ranked in the 30th percentile of the field (the tournament average was 4.22).
- On the 16 par-5 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, Korda shot better than 74% of the golfers (averaging 4.88 strokes).
- Korda fared better on par 3s than most players her last time out, carding a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the field averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Korda had five bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 3.0).
- Korda recorded the same number of birdies or better (three) as the field average on par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open.
- At that most recent outing, Korda's par-4 performance (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse 13 times (worse than the field average, 8.4).
- Korda ended the U.S. Women’s Open outperforming the field average of birdies or better on par-5s (2.8) with five on the 16 par-5 holes.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Korda carded two bogeys or worse, fewer than the field average of 2.6.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Korda Odds to Win: +1600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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(The Hill) — Amazon sold more items for its Prime Day sales this year than last, making it the “biggest” one ever, with Prime members buying more than 375 million items throughout the world during the two-day event on Tuesday and Wednesday.
That figure is up from the 300 million items sold during last year’s Prime Day, which had been the largest such event at the time.
Tuesday, the first day of Prime Day, was Amazon’s largest sales day yet, the company announced in a release on Thursday. Prime members also saved more money than during any other Prime Day, it said, saving $2.5 billion.
“Prime is an incredible value, and we’re proud to offer additional value for members through exclusive deals events like Prime Day,” Amazon Stores CEO Doug Herrington said.
The release states that Amazon offered more deals this year than in any previous year, and home, fashion and beauty were the top-selling categories of products.
This year’s Prime Day was also the largest for independent sellers, most of which are small- or medium-sized businesses. Amazon also offered more deals on products from small businesses than ever before.
The best-selling product worldwide was the Fire TV Stick third generation with Alexa Voice Remote, and consumers bought millions of other Alexa-enabled devices.
Prime members were also able to shop beyond the Amazon store using the company’s Buy with Prime feature, which allows U.S.-based members to have access to the same benefits when they shop directly on certain brands’ websites.
The release states that merchants who participated in Prime Day activities had an increase in daily Buy with Prime orders in aggregate 10 times more during Prime Day than during the month before this year’s Prime Day was announced. They also experienced an increase in daily revenue from these orders of 8 times more during Prime Day than the month before the event was announced. | 2023-07-13T16:39:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/amazon-more-prime-day-items-sold-this-year-than-last/ |
NPR's Rachel Martin talks Billy Kobin of the Courier Journal in Louisville about a former detective pleading guilty to a federal charge for her role in the deadly police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks Billy Kobin of the Courier Journal in Louisville about a former detective pleading guilty to a federal charge for her role in the deadly police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
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Air Force to review base where airman leaked sensitive documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has opened its own investigation into how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, top Air Force leaders told Congress on Tuesday.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he has directed the Air Force inspector general to go look at the Air National Guard unit based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira served and “anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong” and allowed the leak to happen.
Teixeira, 21, was charged Friday in the U.S. District Court in Boston with unauthorized removal and retention of classified and national defense information. He is expected back in court for a hearing Wednesday.
The leaks have raised questions as to how a single airman could have removed so many documents without being detected, why there were not safety checks in place and how the documents could have lingered online undetected for months.
“How could this guardsman take this information and distribute it electronically for weeks, if not months, and nobody knew about it?” Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana asked the Air Force leaders testifying before a Senate defense appropriations subcommittee.
In addition, the Air Force is conducting a service-wide review of how each command handles classified information, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown told committee members.
The Air Force’s own reviews are on top of a military-wide review directed on Monday by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Austin has ordered that all military facilities that handle classified information report to him within 45 days on how they access, share, store and destroy the nation’s secrets following the leaks.
The leaked documents exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments on the war in Ukraine, the capabilities and geopolitical interests of other nations and other national security issues.
Teixeira posted the highly classified material in a geopolitical chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers.
“He had access to some aspects based on his job as a cyber administrator. He took advantage of that access,” Brown said.
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In 1970, Alan Ayers was jumping from a plane to skydive when his boot caught on a seatbelt, pinning him outside the aircraft. The only person who could save his life was the 23-year-old pilot.
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In 1970, Alan Ayers was jumping from a plane to skydive when his boot caught on a seatbelt, pinning him outside the aircraft. The only person who could save his life was the 23-year-old pilot.
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- New Funding Follows Rapid Growth of Enterprise-focused AI Tools, with 1,100+ Customers Using FLUX Products -
TOKYO, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FLUX Inc., Japan's leading AI platform developer, announced 4.4 billion JPY (approximately US$32 million) in Series B funding led by DNX Ventures, and including existing investor Archetype Ventures and new investors Japan Co-Investment, Aozora Corporate Investments, Salesforce Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, SMBC Nikko Securities, and NTT Docomo Ventures.
This additional funding brings FLUX's total funds raised to 5.6 billion JPY (approximately US$40 million), and accelerates FLUX's continued development of FLUX AI -- a no-coding AI platform.
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Market Overview
FLUX AI allows businesses to easily leverage AI technologies such as predictive analytics, natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs), without requiring any prior coding skills or knowledge.
In recent years, the business environment has been rapidly changing due to the emergence of AI technologies such as LLMs and generative AI. Despite these advancements, many companies in Japan struggle to adopt AI technologies into their businesses due to a lack of expertise and talent needed to understand and implement them. In order to tackle these challenges, FLUX has formed a team of experts to carry out in-depth research and service development within the AI technology field.
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No-code AI platform FLUX AI
FLUX AI is an AI platform that underpins several no-code solutions that allow businesses to easily incorporate AI technologies into their operations.
When developing solutions that include optimization or predictive analytics capabilities, it generally takes a significant amount of time and development cost to structure the available data in a way that the AI can use it. FLUX is able to efficiently develop AI-based solutions because every solution is built on the same FLUX AI architecture.
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FLUX collects over 100TB of data each month across its services, which are stored in a common database. Those data are used to train its models to increase performance for each service, while maintaining compliance with data governance best practices and privacy regulations.
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Over 1,100 publishers and advertisers are using FLUX services, with enterprise customers making up the largest customer segment. Throughout the past few years of rapid growth, the churn rate across FLUX services has stayed low at 0.2%, indicating strong customer satisfaction.
Growth strategy and use of funds
FLUX will leverage the funds raised for three primary purposes to fuel its continued growth in the Japanese B2B software market.
1. Enhancement of current products
FLUX AI's applications today focus on digital advertising and marketing, with solutions for optimizing ad revenue, ad operations, and online audiences. Development will continue on each of these services to further improve their effectiveness and maximize ROI to customers. New features in development include the use of generative AI for marketing applications such as generating ad creatives and content. FLUX will continue to provide a range of services that help to solve various challenges within the advertising and marketing industry.
2. Horizontal expansion
FLUX aims to leverage the FLUX AI platform to bring the benefits of AI to functions beyond advertising and marketing. There are many other business functions which could be made simpler or more efficient through leveraging AI, and FLUX will continue to develop simple solutions for its clients to increase productivity and decrease operational costs.
3. AI research
Since its founding, FLUX has conducted research on AI technologies ranging from predictive analytics to NLP and LLMs. The Series B funding will accelerate these research efforts as well as enabling hiring of more AI engineers.
Series B participants
- Existing investors : DNX Ventures, Archetype Ventures
- New investors: Japan Co-Investment, Aozora Corporate Investments, Salesforce Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, SMBC Nikko Securities, and NTT Docomo Ventures
- Debt financing: Resona Bank, Shoko Chukin Bank
About FLUX
FLUX is a venture-backed startup which develops no-code AI platform FLUX AI. Several no-code solutions are based on FLUX AI, each of which enables businesses to leverage AI in their operations. FLUX's mission is to maximize ROI for its clients by simplifying technology.
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PlayAGS, Incorporated (NYSE: AGS) ("AGS" or the "Company") today announced it will now release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 after the market close on Monday, August 8, 2022. The Company will host an investor conference call and live webcast the same day at 5 p.m. EDT to further discuss its second quarter 2022 financial performance and current business outlook.
The Company encourages participants to pre-register for the conference call by using the following link: AGS Q2 2022 Earnings Call. Callers who pre-register will be given a conference passcode and unique PIN to gain immediate access to the call and bypass the live operator. Participants may pre-register at any time, including up to the call start time.
To pre-register, please click here: AGS Q2 2022 Earnings Call
Investor Conference Call
Monday, August 8, 2022
5 p.m. EDT/ 2 p.m. PDT
Those unable to pre-register may participate by calling:
U.S. Participants: +1 (844) 200-6205 or +1 (646) 904-5544
International Participants: +1 (929) 526-1599
Conference Access Code: 403415
Webcast
To access the live webcast of the call, please visit the Company's website at http://investors.playags.com and click on "Events". A replay of the webcast will be available approximately one hour after the webcast and will be archived on the Company's website for 30 days.
About AGS
AGS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Our roots are firmly planted in the Class II Native American gaming market, but our customer-centric culture and growth have helped us branch out to become a leading all-inclusive commercial gaming supplier. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an expansive table products portfolio, highly rated social casino solutions for players and operators, and best-in-class service, we offer an unmatched value proposition for our casino partners. Learn more at www.playags.com.
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This press release contains, and oral statements made from time to time by our representatives may contain, forward-looking statements based on management's current expectations and projections, which are intended to qualify for the safe harbor of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements identified by words such as "believe," "will," "may," "might," "likely," "expect," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "seeks," "estimates," "believes," "continues," "projects" and similar references to future periods, or by the inclusion of forecasts or projections. All forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections of future events.
These forward-looking statements reflect the current views, models, and assumptions of AGS, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or qualified and could cause actual results in AGS's performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of AGS to maintain strategic alliances, unit placements or installations, grow revenue, garner new market share, secure new licenses in new jurisdictions, successfully develop or place proprietary product, comply with regulations, have its games approved by relevant jurisdictions and other factors set forth under the section entitled "Risk Factors" its annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as such factors may be updated from time to time in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements made herein are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements and there can be no assurance that the actual results, events or developments referenced herein will occur or be realized. Readers are cautioned that all forward-looking statements speak only to the facts and circumstances present as of the date of this press release. AGS expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
02-09-15-16-18-21-24-37-38-42-44-45-46-47-50-51-53-56-68-72-73-80
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5 ways consumer spending & saving habits are shifting, new data reveals
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. consumers are feeling the squeeze of record-setting inflation, market volatility and a looming recession – and it's taking a toll. Over half (56%) of Americans say their standard of living is declining, and nearly 4 in 10 (38%) are feeling financially unhealthy, according to a new Personal Capital and Empower survey*, fielded by The Harris Poll.
With a vast majority concerned about rising inflation (85%) and a potential recession (74%) knocking their financial stability, those worries are showing up in consumers' spending, saving and investing actions. Read the full report here.
In uneasy times, Craig Birk, Chief Investment Officer at Personal Capital, advises to take the long view. "It is human nature to compare portfolio values to their all-time high, but a wider lens is usually more constructive. In a choppy market, there are plenty of opportunities to take control of your money. Knowing your net worth puts you in the driver's seat because you need a real-time measure of your financial health to make smart moves."
Bracing for the storm: as worry increases, 73% of people are taking financial action to prepare.
Americans are battening down the hatches by paying off debt more aggressively than they would otherwise (56%); socking away more in short-term (58%) and retirement savings (52%); and exploring alternative housing options (37%). To hedge against inflation, nearly half (49%) say they'll change their risk tolerance/investment approach.
Some 71% say they're cutting back on daily expenses, reining in entertainment (41%), dining out (40%), and travel (40%). But, not so fast when it comes to their favorite things: 33% say they "won't be switching to cheaper brands than I normally buy."
Consumer spending is focused on experiences, with 55% of Millennials saying they spend more time planning for vacations than retirement.
Despite their worries, many are living it up when it comes to travel – especially Millennials. They're also the generation least likely to cut back on travel in light of inflation (35% versus 40% general population). In May, the average Personal Capital user spent** $1,304 on travel. That's 227% more than the pandemic low of April 2020 at $399 and 28% more than pre-pandemic levels of $1,017 in February 2020.
Cryptocurrency remains a gamble: crypto owners are more concerned about market volatility than those who don't own any (79% vs 68% non-owners).
Nevertheless, they're significantly more confident in their investment portfolios (81% vs 67%). As many investors grapple with how – or whether – to incorporate crypto assets, Millennials (50%) and Gen Z (49%) are disproportionately worried about its impact on their financial health, compared to the general population (33%).
Great reset…or regret? Financial confidence wavers at work.
Over half of Americans (54%) say anxiety about the current environment has impacted their work performance, and 32% are worried about the impact of returning to the office on their finances. More than half (56%) of respondents are opting for a side hustle or another alternative income stream in light of inflation, and 61% of Millennials are concerned about a possible job loss impacting their finances.
An uneasy financial climate has dulled people's salary expectations; the average salary needed to feel financially healthy dropped 13% from six months ago to $107.8K. However, the ideal income still remains higher among men ($129.5K) than women ($83.9K). Millennials and Gen Z have higher-than-average salary expectations ($133.7K and $171.6K, respectively).
Got advice? Nearly half (46%) of Americans confess they don't know how to invest.
A majority (54%) feel they're not financially optimized, agreeing, "I feel like I am losing money with it in a savings account versus being invested" and 54% say "I wish I'd gotten financial advice earlier."
Birk advises not to make any rash decisions. "Don't sell your investments in a panic. Stocks can be a secret weapon because they offer you one of the best chances to mitigate the impact of inflation and, in the long run, you're well-positioned to beat it several times over," he says.
Over the past 30 years, the average annual inflation rate has sat around 2.31%. (Current U.S. inflation is at 8.6%.) But the average historical return of the stock market over time is about 10%.
"Looking ahead, there's no crystal ball," Birk says. "History suggests equity prices are quite likely to be higher again three years from now while bonds are highly likely to provide better returns than cash. Those invested in thoughtful, diversified strategies should remain invested and focused on avoiding emotional mistakes."
Additional Findings
- There is a significant uptick in the percentage who feel "very unhealthy" financially, especially among women (26%) and those who have changed jobs in the last year (27%).
- 69% think their income isn't keeping up with inflation, but less than half (41%) are asking for a raise at work.
- The average savings needed to feel financially healthy spiked 17% in the past six months to $529.9K. Savings expectations are higher for men ($584.6K) than women ($468.7K). Men are also contributing more frequently (82%) than women (63%) to employer-sponsored retirement accounts.
Analyze your investments and track your retirement savings and net worth with Personal Capital's free financial tools, available at personalcapital.com.
*Methodology: This survey of 2,000 U.S. citizens ages 18+ was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Personal Capital and Empower from April 19 to April 23, 2022. This report also references data from a study conducted from November 25 to December 11, 2021 among 2,008 adults.
**Anonymized Personal Capital dashboard data among free tools users from February 2020, April 2020, and May 2022.
About Personal Capital, an Empower Company
Personal Capital is a remote-delivery, industry-leading digital wealth management company that helps people transform their financial lives through technology and advisory services. The company's state-of-the-art technology provides consumers with a holistic financial picture and is used by over 3 million people to track $1.3 trillion in account assets (as of 1/31/22). Its wealth management advisors provide expert guidance, and customized strategies, based on a personal understanding of an investor's financial picture and goals. For more information, please visit personalcapital.com or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram.
Advisory services are offered for a fee by Personal Capital Advisors Corporation ("PCAC"), a registered investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. You may lose money. PCAC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Personal Capital Corporation ("PCC"), an Empower company. PCC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Empower Holdings, LLC. © 2021 Personal Capital Corporation. All rights reserved.
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UNC basketball transfer tracker: Tyler Nickel, Justin McKoy enter portal
The NCAA Tournament starts Tuesday, but college basketball’s transfer portal opened Monday and North Carolina basketball players are jumping in.
Following a season that saw the Tar Heels (20-13) go from preseason No. 1 to becoming the first top-ranked team to miss March Madness since the field expanded in 1985, changes are coming in Chapel Hill.
UNC announced the end of its season Sunday night, deciding not to play in the NIT. According to multiple reports, Justin McKoy and Tyler Nickel on Monday became the first Tar Heels to enter the portal.
Here's a look at who has announced they will enter the portal, with the latest announcements at the top of the list.
Who's leaving UNC basketball?
Tyler Nickel
The 6-foot-7 freshman wing appeared in 25 games, averaging 2.1 points and 0.6 rebounds per game. The Virginia native flashed potential with a career-high 16 points against The Citadel in December. Overall, Nickel played 152 minutes as a Tar Heel. He is the Virginia High School League’s all-time leading scorer with 2,909 points in 102 games.
Justin McKoy
A senior who spent two seasons at UNC after making the move from ACC foe Virginia, the 6-foot-8 Raleigh native will use his bonus COVID season elsewhere. McKoy averaged 1.2 points and 1.3 rebounds in 6.6 minutes per game in two seasons with the Tar Heels. He played in 41 games, including 11 in 2022-23.
Staff writer Rodd Baxley can be reached at rbaxley@fayobserver.com or @RoddBaxley on Twitter. | 2023-03-14T01:02:23+00:00 | fayobserver.com | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/college/acc/2023/03/13/unc-basketball-transfer-portal-tracker-tar-heels-tyler-nickel-justin-mckoy-hubert-davis/70005787007/ |
BLACK HAWK- Rodney O. Seals, 52, died Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
Services will be at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at Calvary Lutheran Church.
Immediately following the service there will be a gathering at the VFW Post 1273 (420 Main St.) where all are welcome to continue celebrating Rod's life.
Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements. | 2023-04-01T05:45:30+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/obituaries/rodney-o-seals/article_648900e7-4b50-55e7-8ccb-5636fe2d8aad.html |
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Catholic devotees in Bolivia prepared for one of the country’s biggest religious celebrations this weekend at a time when the church in this Andean country has been rocked by an increasing number of sex abuse scandals.
The faithful who were gearing up for the Jesus of the Great Power festival Saturday insisted that cases of abuse that have come to light in recent weeks would not affect the folk-religious festival in La Paz, which fuses together Catholic and local Indigenous traditions.
Tens of thousands of people will descend on the capital Saturday wearing colorful garb to dance to the beat of thousands of musicians playing traditional Indigenous music in a demonstration of their faith.
What started out as a small celebration in the Great Power neighborhood a century ago now takes over much of the capital.
Leaders of the Catholic Church acknowledged this week that the church had been “deaf” to the suffering of victims of sexual abuse amid fallout from the case involving a late Spanish Jesuit priest, Alfonso Pedrajas.
According to a private diary accessed by the Spanish newspaper El País, Pedrajas allegedly abused dozens of minors in Catholic boarding schools in Bolivia in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of cancer in 2009.
“My faith remains intact because it is not with the clergy but with the higher power,” said Marco Villca, a resident of the Great Power neighborhood, which bustles with activity ahead of the lavish festival presided over by the city’s mayor.
The parish priest of the neighborhood church, Marcelo Ramírez, expressed confidence “that faith will not be lost due to these tragic things that have happened in the country.”
The church houses the representation of Jesus that is worshipped during the massive festival and serves as the starting point of the parade that will continue into Sunday morning.
Jordi Bertomeu, a Spanish Priest who is one of the Vatican’s top sex crimes investigators, visited Bolivia for a few days at least in part to deal with the fallout from the growing sex abuse scandals. He had previously led investigations into priest abuses in Chile.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation and has asked victims to come forward. Attorney General Wilfredo Chávez said last month that around 23 priests have been implicated in alleged pedophilia cases.
Isolated protests at Catholic schools around the country have led parents of students there to complain of a hostile environment for their children. Catholic schools make up 19% of the country’s educational institutions, according to Bolivia's Catholic Church.
Although evangelical Protestant churches have made big inroads in Bolivia, and much of Latin America, a majority of Bolivians still claim to profess the Catholic faith.
“My faith is stronger than ever... crimes are committed by individuals,” said Marquin Silva as he prepared to honor Jesus of the Great Power.
Nearby, Angélica Álvarez, who was also getting an early start to celebrations also characterized the scandals as the work of a few.
“There are people who claim to be Catholic and sometimes become corrupt,” she said, adding that for those preparing for the festival, "everything is faith.” | 2023-06-02T22:16:36+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/bolivian-catholics-unfazed-by-sex-scandals-as-18132831.php |
HNRC ENGAGES INTERCAPITAL ENERGY
HOUSTON, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Houston Natural Resources Corp. (OTC: HNRC) ("HNR or the Company") announced today that InterCapital Energy LLC ("InterCapital") has been retained to provide financing on the company's projects.
InterCapital has thirty years of experience in the oil and gas industry and has selected a number of assets with growth opportunities in production and reserves. They have a multidisciplinary team of experts working as one for generating integrated solutions with high value. They have been partners in projects of up to $250 million and have experience managing lump sum turn key projects of more than $1 Billion.
The company is currently negotiating joint venture agreements with InterCapital to provide capital for the development of its oil and gas fields in Texas. They expected to be operational in the next sixty days. InterCapital will also provide joint venture opportunities to fund the company's future acquisitions.
About Houston Natural Resources Corp
Houston Natural Resources Corp (www.hnrcholdings.com) (OTC:HNRC). The company is a diversified holding company with business operations and investments. The portfolio companies include investments in energy, information technology and healthcare.
About InterCapital Energy LLC
InterCapital Energy LLC (www.intercapitalenergy.com) is a creative private equity boutique firm that specializes in funding oil and gas U.S. projects. Their main objective is to provide funding to small and medium size operator, that are looking to expand production or to acquire producing assets in the oil and gas space in the United States.
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A Minneapolis performance venue abruptly canceled a scheduled performance by Dave Chappelle after facing backlash for the initial booking.
In a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday, just hours before the planned show, the First Avenue venue announced that it would no longer be hosting the 48-year-old comedian and that the performance would instead be held at the nearby Varsity Theater, where Chappelle was already slated to perform on Thursday and Friday.
"To staff, artists, and our community, we hear you and we are sorry," First Avenue wrote in a statement via Instagram. "We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down. We are not just a black box with people in it, and we understand that First Ave is not just a room, but meaningful beyond our walls."
"The First Avenue team and you have worked hard to make our venues the safest spaces in the country, and we will continue with that mission," the statement continued. "We believe in diverse voices and the freedom of artistic expression, but in honoring that, we lost sight of the impact this would have."
Chappelle has faced a great deal of criticism over the past year for jokes he made regarding the LGBTQ+ community -- particularly the trans community. The comedian and Netflix, which produced the controversial stand-up special, have both faced public protest and high-profile criticism.
In that special, Chappelle said that "gender is a fact," adding, "Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth." Chappelle also identified himself as "Team TERF," which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, an ideology that excludes trans women as women.
The special sparked outrage, protests and even employee walkouts at the streaming giant. Chappelle would ultimately say he's willing to meet with the trans community, but only under certain conditions.
Last month, he declined to have a high school theater named after him at his alma mater, as he didn't want his name to serve as a distraction to students' creative work.
In May, he was attacked and tackled onstage as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl arena as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Festival. His attacker was later charged with attempted murder in a separate case and in a jailhouse interview with The New York Post, claimed that he felt "triggered" by the comedian's jokes about the LGBTQ+ community and unhoused people.
"I identify as bisexual … and I wanted him to know what he said was triggering," Isaiah Lee told the publication. "I wanted him to know that next time, he should consider first running his material by people it could affect."
Addressing the backlash with his jokes during a subsequent performance, Chappelle said: "For the record, and I need you to know this. Everyone I know from that community has been nothing but loving and supporting. ... So I don't know what all this nonsense is about."
In confirming that it would host Chappelle's planned performance on Wednesday night, Minneapolis' Varsity Theater shared on Twitter that it would be a "phone-free experience."
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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WFXR) — Animal shelters across southwest and central Virginia are full of adoptable pets, which is why WFXR News is highlighting those pets during our Furry Friends segment.
Emily Witt from the Franklin County Humane Society Planned Pethood Clinic and Adoption Center stopped by “Good Day Virginia” on Tuesday, January 24th, with the chillest pup around — Chilly!
Chilly is a Shar-Pei mix, around 7 years old and 38 lbs. He arrived at the shelter on Christmas Eve after being found as a stray. As an older fellow, he’s not really playful. Chilly is very tolerant of other dogs and takes corrections well. Witt says he has a wonderful personality but does bark when left alone. Chilly wants a warm loving home to call his own and is great with kids.
Witt says Chilly does have a heart murmur and takes medicine for it.
Franklin County Humane Society Planned Pethood Clinic and Adoption Center is also searching for fosters puppies. Witts says they have a lot of puppies right now and the shelter is full.
Anyone interested in adopting Chilly or fostering a puppy should fill out an application on the shelter’s website.
The Franklin County Humane Society Planned Pethood Clinic and Adoption Center is currently open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, with the dog area closing at 2 p.m. However, if your adoption application is approved, other times can be arranged.
If you want to learn more about Lilo or any of the other adoptable pets at the Franklin County Humane Society Planned Pethood Clinic and Adoption Center, follow this link. | 2023-01-25T01:00:09+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/furry-friends-chilly-is-one-chill-pup-looking-for-his-forever-home/ |
Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison (R) said in an interview on Monday that the reason he was jeered at a political event was due to the “stranglehold” former President Trump has on his party.
Hutchinson, who announced his candidacy in April, was greeted by boos and chants of “Trump” when he appeared on stage to speak at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
“Well, it’s a different day in time, and that reflects Trump’s stranglehold on a certain element of the party,” Hutchison told host Leland Vittert on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” “But what you saw in that audience were thousands of young people who I was speaking to, and they were listing.”
He added that “it’s important for me to speak my message about where this country needs to go, and different policies for what President Biden is bringing, from energy to too much federal spending, so I gave that message, and that’s important for me to be there.”
“And I loved the young people and their engagement and we had a good good time mixing with them after the event.”
Other GOP presidential candidates including Trump and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez also spoke at the Turning Point conference.
Trump has shown little sign of weakness in GOP primary polls, leading Hutchinson and all other candidates by significant margins.
Hutchinson has called for the former president to drop out of the race, previously telling The Hill, “The last thing that we need is another Joe Biden-Donald Trump race in 2024.” | 2023-07-18T16:33:06+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/your-local-election-hq/hutchison-i-got-booed-because-of-trump-stranglehold-on-gop/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The jury has received the case and are set to begin deliberations Friday afternoon in the Los Angeles trial of Harvey Weinstein.
Jurors will have to decide on two rape counts and five other sexual assault counts after hearing more than four weeks of evidence in the trial of the 70-year-old former movie mogul.
Weinstein is already serving a 23-year sentence for a conviction in New York and could be sentenced to more than 60 years in prison in California if convicted on all counts.
After the prosecution gave its rebuttal to the defense’s closing argument on Friday morning, the jurors received their final instructions from Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench before leaving on a lunch break.
They will have just a few hours to deliberate before a weekend break.
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For more on the Harvey Weinstein trial, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/harvey-weinstein | 2022-12-02T22:58:47+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-jury-to-begin-deliberations-at-harvey-weinstein-rape-trial/ |
You could get a glimpse of Walking Man almost any day in Chicago: a tall, lean man with long, bushy hair, sharp features, and a wide moustache, who wore a blazer to stride, more than stroll, along downtown streets and bridges.
Walking Man once peddled jewelry, then made his life on the streets after he lost his rented room a decade ago. But he was never seen to hold his hand out and ask for money or food. What he mostly did was walk.
And walk.
"Up this street, across, diagonal, and back and down." David Jones, who tried to make a documentary film about Walking Man, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There didn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason, to us. But to him I think it made perfect sense."
Walking Man, whose given name was Joseph Kromelis, died this week at the age of 75 of injuries he suffered back in May. He was asleep under blankets on a street below a downtown bridge. A man poured a flammable liquid over him, and started a fire.
The man told police he was angry, and didn't know there was a human being bundled below the blankets. He has been charged.
Joseph Kromelis had also been attacked in 2016, by a man with a baseball bat, on a street below another bridge nearby.
Those attacks may remind us of the dangers of life on the streets: cold, hunger, and fear; and the challenge just to sleep safely for a little while. Joseph Kromelis had family in small-town Michigan, who say they tried to persuade him to stay with them. But he chose to live on his own, as Walking Man.
"There's nothing wrong with him," his sister-in-law, Linda Kromelis, told the Sun-Times in 2016. "He's not mentally ill. He just likes walking. It's that simple."
"He had spirit," Scott Marvel told us. He runs a video production company, and organized fund-raising efforts to help Walking Man with medical bills after his attacks. "There are people who live outside the normal path of society," he said. "And they deserve our respect, dignity, and compassion."
It may be a natural reflex of the heart to feel pity for Joseph Kromelis. But everything I saw in his stride the times I glimpsed him strutting across the Michigan Avenue bridge, looking poised, urbane, and elegant, tells me that Walking Man would prefer to be remembered for making his own way through life. He cut a vivid figure against a great skyline.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-17T14:07:26+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/2022-12-17/opinion-remembering-chicagos-famed-walking-man |
PHILADELPHIA – Kyle Schwarber crushed a 98 mph slider beyond the center field fence and the ball disappeared into a thicket of English ivy, Arborvitae, Holly, and other evergreen flourishing as the greenery backdrop at Citizens Bank Park.
Most of Schwarber’s homers land -- and yes, they do land even as some he hits might best be viewed through the Hubble once they reach orbit — in easy to track spots.
This particular ball, hit against San Diego during Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, almost needed a search party to locate. The area was swept, not by the grounds crew as might be the assumption, but by the team in charge of collecting game-used memorabilia. Schwarber doesn’t make it easy; he hit two into the bushes in one game this year and it couldn’t be verified which ball was which.
The NLCS ball was, indeed, found (though the authenticator was careful not to disturb one worn ball resting in a bird’s nest).
“Trees and shrubs, you’ve got to really look through,” said John Hollinger, who runs the authentication program. “Balls do get wedged in different spots.”
Schwarber will say there is no spinach that fuels his muscle -- even as his mammoth shots through the years have sunk into ivy or even smashed car windshields as he did in college -- and that he’s just a slugger who happens to have a little extra oomph in his swing.
Let everyone else stand in awe of Schwarber’s prodigious blasts, that include the NL-best 46 he hit this season and three more in the NLCS. The Philadelphia Phillies slugger only counts the runs that each homer scores, not the distant distance.
“Everyone likes to talk about the far homers,” Schwarber said Wednesday. “I really don’t care how far they go for me. It’s more about getting a run on the board.”
Schwarber has bashed and mashed baseballs his entire career and his power surge in the first season of his $79 million, four-year contract with the Phillies has fueled their run to the World Series. Schwarber took his hacks during Wednesday’s workout at the ballpark before the team left for Houston. The Phillies will start right-hander Aaron Nola in Game 1 and right-handed ace Zack Wheeler in Game 2.
Schwarber has done the bulk of his damage from the leadoff spot, as the game moves far away from the days of speedy table-setters such as Vince Coleman or Rickey Henderson at the top of the lineup. Schwarber struck out 200 times and hit only .218 but had a knack for hitting some of the memorable homers of Philadelphia’s surprising run at the pennant.
Schwarber slammed a homer off the second-deck facade on opening day in his first at-bat with the Phillies. He led off Game 3 of the NLCS with a homer off Padres ace Joe Musgrove. And the capper, so far, of all the Schwarbombs -- as they’re affectionately known in Philly -- the 488-foot blast in Game 1 against the Padres that had an exit velocity of 120 mph.
That homer — the second longest overall in the postseason since Statcast started tracking distance in 2015 — launched 1,001 memes thanks to teammate Bryce Harper’s bug-eyed, mouth-agape reaction in the dugout.
“I thought it got pretty small pretty fast,” Harper said after the game.
The 29-year-old Schwarber simply remembered the homer came in a postseason win. It’s a run no matter that Schwarber turns into some sort of Paul Bunyan mythical figure that can scare the leather off the ball with each colossal moon shot.
“Who cares about distance?” he asked. “I think it’s more about trying to impact a game in any way that you can, especially in important times, too.”
Schwarber made big October games a habit since he broke into the big leagues with the Chicago Cubs in 2015 and hit five homers in the postseason. The next year, Schwarber tore two ligaments in his left knee after a frightening collision with outfielder Dexter Fowler while chasing down a flyball. It was only the third game of the season and Schwarber about figured his year was over.
But 201 days later, and following months of relentless rehab, Schwarber returned to help the Cubs break the curse and win the 2016 World Series. He hit .412 with seven hits, one double and two RBIs in five World Series games.
He had a brief 72-game stint last season with Washington before he was traded to Boston. Naturally, Schwarber had a grand slam for the Red Sox in the AL Championship Series.
It's certainly not his first postseason rodeo — Schwarber's popularity soared like one of his homers after he rode a mechanical bull at the Phillies' NLCS party at a bar across the street from the ballpark.
“He’s done it in a lot of different places, and when that usually happens, that tends to not be an accident,” Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins said. “Some guys just have that knack. They know what it takes to win. They know how to bring guys together, which I think has probably been some of the most important stuff he’s done in a Phillies uniform.”
Phillies manager Rob Thomson lauded Schwarber’s clubhouse contributions on Wednesday and noted how the slugger has seemed to enjoy holding court in front of his locker with younger teammates.
“He’s very outgoing and very honest with people,” Thomson said. “He jokes around about himself a lot which makes people feel comfortable to approach him. He helps the veterans, he helps the kids. And he goes through slumps, too, or periods of time when he’s not swinging the bat particularly well. Even though he’s trying to fix his own stuff, he’s still trying to help other people. That’s a great sign of a great teammate.”
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-27T00:50:22+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/10/26/schwarber-powers-phillies-in-postseason-with-mythical-homers/ |
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE: UEC), (the "Company" or "UEC") is pleased to report, in accordance with NYSE American requirements, the filing of the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the nine months ended April 30, 2022 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). This Form 10-Q filing, which includes the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements, related notes thereto and management's discussion and analysis, is available for viewing on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml or on the Company's website at www.uraniumenergy.com.
About Uranium Energy Corp
Uranium Energy Corp is America's leading, fastest growing, uranium mining company listed on the NYSE American. UEC is a pure play uranium company and is advancing the next generation of low-cost, environmentally friendly ISR mining uranium projects. The Company has two production ready ISR hub and spoke platforms in South Texas and Wyoming, anchored by fully licensed and operational processing capacity at the Hobson and Irigaray Processing Plants. UEC also has seven U.S. ISR uranium projects with all of their major permits in place. Additionally, the Company has other diversified holdings of uranium assets, including: 1) one of the largest physical uranium portfolios of U.S. warehoused U3O8; 2) a major equity stake in the only royalty company in the sector, Uranium Royalty Corp; and 3) a pipeline of resource-stage uranium projects in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Paraguay. The Company's operations are managed by professionals with a recognized profile for excellence in their industry, a profile based on many decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Venus Williams will be back in the U.S. Open this year after being given a wild card on Wednesday into what could be younger sister Serena’s final tournament.
Venus Williams won back-to-back U.S. Opens in 2000 and 2001, and this year marks 25 years since she reached the 1997 final in Flushing Meadows as a 17-year-old in her first full season on tour.
Now 42, Williams did not play in the U.S. Open last year because of injury, but the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion recently returned to tour after missing nearly a year.
Serena Williams, 40, recently said she is preparing to leave tennis, though she did not specify it would come after the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 29.
Dominic Thiem, the 2020 U.S. Open men’s champion who has since dealt with injuries and fallen to No. 228 in the world ranking, also was granted a wild card by the U.S. Tennis Association.
The USTA also gave a wild card to Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion who didn’t compete in New York last year because of injury, along with fellow Americans CoCo Vandeweghe, Elizabeth Mandlik, Peyton Stearns and Eleana Yu.
Harmony Tan of France — who beat Serena Williams during a run to the fourth round at Wimbledon — and Australian Jaimee Fourlis also received wild cards.
Mandlik, the daughter of past U.S. Open champion Hana Mandlikova, earned hers by winning the U.S. Open wild-card challenge.
On the men’s side, wild cards went to Americans Sam Querrey, Emilio Nava, JJ Wolf, Ben Shelton and Learner Tien, along with Ugo Humbert of France and Australian Rinky Hijikata.
Also Wednesday, 2016 U.S. Open semifinalist Gael Monfils withdrew because of an injury to his right foot sustained last week during his match against Jack Draper in Montreal. Monfils, who missed time earlier this season after a procedure on his right heel, announced he needed further treatment for the injury.
Taro Daniel of Japan moved into the main draw.
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Wyllow Elizabeth started making bars of soap when she found that her skin was sensitive to many store-bought ones. She made soaps for her own use, and only ventured into her local farmers' markets, in Nova Scotia, Canada, to sell the extras.
Demand there was so strong, however, that she switched approaches, and now just keeps the “extras” and undersize bars for herself.
Elizabeth uses oils like olive, coconut, castor and hemp, as well as shea butter. “The hemp oil makes a lovely lather, and doesn’t build up on hair,” she says.
Hers are among many new bars that look, feel and smell different than traditional, mass-produced soaps. In supermarkets, beauty stores or at farmer’s markets, you’ll see an array of bar soaps that are, or have the look and feel of, the handmade, with natural and unusual ingredients.
They might be infused with bits of tangy orange. Sea kelp. Lilac. Or even volcanic ash. Everything from carrots to coffee to clay are used to color the bars, and added scents are derived from plants, herbs and essential oils.
Although bar soap lost a lot of shelf space in recent decades to liquid soap, many people are rediscovering its virtues.
For one thing, it doesn't come in a plastic bottle. When a bar of soap is used up, it’s well and truly GONE. It's often wrapped in paper, and takes less energy to ship than liquids. Compared to its liquid counterpart, it travels through airport security without a fuss.
“Fortunately, hotels never fell out of love with the bar soap,” says Andrew Goetz, who together with partner Matthew Malin founded the personal-care brand Malin and Goetz in New York. Their soaps can now be found in restaurants, hotels, salons and fitness centers around the world; Goetz says their Dark Rum and Lime bars are especially popular.
John and Linda Meyer, founders of Wary Meyers, are married interior designers in Maine who created their own line of glycerin soaps, candles and modernist jewelry to echo their aesthetic.
“We thought the bar of soap was something that could use a refresh – colored stripes, gradients, speckles – so we treated it like a little design object,” says Linda Meyer.
One of their playful soaps is the “Virgo Cluster.”
“We were inspired by those clear rubber balls with glitter inside that everybody had as kids. But instead of glitter, we embed the bars with pieces of multicolored striped soap.” she says.
If you’ve ever rubbed the leaf of a tomato plant, you’ll know how fresh the scent is. That was the inspiration for Wary Meyers’ Italian Tomato Leaf bar. The red, green and white colors were “inspired by Gucci, the Italian flag, and of course tomatoes,” Meyer says.
They have a Pink Champagne soap bar made to look like the fizzy drink sitting in a flute, and some combos that sound good enough to eat: cucumber and cilantro, or grapefruit and clementine.
Icelandic company Kalastyle’s Hallo bars are derived from unusual ingredients like Arctic birch, moss and volcanic ash. The creamy-hued, round bars are smoky and herbaceous.
Popular bars in Wyllow Elizabeth's lineup include Mint Ripple, with cocoa powder and peppermint essential oil.
And when a friend found his grandfather’s old shaving cup, Elizabeth started experimenting until she found a formula for a toast-colored shaving bar that smells like bay spice.
She has her trusted playbook of ingredients now, but there’s still room for surprises.
“For instance, I use yellow dock plants in my Lemongrass Summer soap for their soothing properties. I thought they’d make yellow soap, but they came out rosy pink!," she says. "Another surprise was when I used lemon peel powder in my Under the Sun soap – it starts out bright yellow, but as it cures it becomes a beautiful creamy color.”
Along with the pleasure she gets from soap crafting, Elizabeth loves naming the finished products, and engages her customers at markets in the process.
“I share the scents and colors, and they enter a contest to name the soap," she says.
“My favorite winner was a girl about 9 years old. She named the Lime Squeeze soap, and was so excited to win her very own bar of it; a simple prize.”
Lime Squeeze became the signature scent for Elizabeth’s line of “toy surprise” soaps. As each bar is used, a small treasure is revealed — a wee farm animal, a marble, a tiny Pegasus.
There's a version for grownups too. Elizabeth's Gems soaps might hold a carnelian, an amethyst or a piece of rose quartz. Good clean fun, in bar form.
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New York-based writer Kim Cook covers design and decor topics regularly for The AP. Follow her on Instagram at @kimcookhome.
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For more AP Lifestyles stories, go to https://apnews.com/hub/lifestyle. | 2023-04-17T18:00:53+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/living/article/raising-the-bar-soap-gets-a-refresh-no-bottle-17901905.php |
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